I do not own One Piece but I do own this plot and Keiko!


Keiko peaked over the top of a trash heap looking at the small run down hut that the Bluejam pirates had taken Luffy. She was shaking, she had never been in a conflict before, Sabo and Ace usually dealt with those.

The young girl got closer peaking in through a window. She gasped in horror at the sight she witnessed. Luffy was hanging in the air with blood dripping off him and pooling at his feet.

Keiko shook her head. At the moment she truly disliked her brother. "Tell me where Ace is boy!"

She could hear him clearly but it sounded like Luffy had denied because Porchemy struck him with spiked gloves.

Keiko couldn't watch anymore of the boy being hurt. She jumped through the window tears in her eyes. "Stop it! Don't hurt him anymore! What your doing is inhumane! He's not going to tell you anything!"

The pirate's attention went to the small girl. Porchemy lowered his fists and nodded. "Your right girly he's not going to tell us anything, besides it's too late now anyways."

Porchemy grabbed a sword cutting the boy down. Keiko ignored her fear and rushed forward pulling the bloodied boy into her arms. Porchemy looked down at the two maliciously. "You both will pay for what the brat Ace did."

Keiko looked up at the pirate in fear. The man was obviously insane to kill someone because of money it was foolish to her. "N-NII-CHAN!"

Porchemy swung his hand down to end the two kids. "DON'T DO IT!" The wall was smashed to pieces and two boys barreled in looking panicked and worried.

Ace went to attack Porchemy while Sabo made his way to the two young kids. Sabo looked his sister over but was relieved to see she wasn't hurt. "Keiko can you carry Luffy out of here?"

She nodded putting the boy on her back. She stood dragging the boy out of the hut. She waited outside for her brother and Ace.

The two boys came out running. Ace grabbed Luffy off of Keiko and the group took off running. They came to a rocky clearing where they all stopped deciding they were safe.

Sabo handed a medical kit over to his blonde sister. Keiko set to work on the youngest first who was hurt the most. Luffy whimpered and whined the whole time she cleaned his wounds and bandaged him up.

Keiko moved onto the other boys. Once she was done Luffy started crying uncontrollably. "Ah that was so scary! I thought I was gonna die!"

Ace jumped down with his pipe glaring. "Ah so annoying! Shut up! How long are you going to keep crying for? I really hate weaklings and crybabies!"

Luffy instantly went tight lipped at Ace's yelling shocking the three kids. Luffy lowered his head slightly. "T-Thank you….for saving me." Luffy had started crying again pissing Ace off.

The raven growled. "Why you!" Sabo held the irate raven back from doing anything stupid.

Sabo tried calming the boy down. "Hey come on he's just trying to thank us so calm down." Luffy was shaking with silent sobs.

Ace looked troubled by something and Keiko didn't know what was bothering the freckled boy so much. "Why did you tell them? Those guys would kill women and children without even caring!"

Keiko knew then what was bothering the boy. He was feeling guilty about not going to save Luffy sooner. "B-Because if I would have told them Ace wouldn't have become my friend!"

Ace was momentarily shocked by those words. "Isn't that better than dying or getting hurt."

Luffy shook his head stubbornly. "No! Being alone is worse than getting hurt! I hate being alone! I have no one! I hate mountain bandits and I can't return to windmill village!"

Ace looked conflicted. "What about your parents?"

The smallest boy shook his head. "Only grampa no one else."

Ace looked the boy over. "It isn't so bad when I'm around?" Luffy nodded. Ace looked conflicted and worried. Keiko had seen the look many times in the boy's eyes.

"You…want me to live?"

Luffy looked shocked by the question but instantly answered without hesitating. "Of course I do!"

Ace kept his head down eyes shadowed. "I see…Ah but I still hate crybabies and weaklings."

Keiko shook her head laughing at the two boys as they fought. Sabo went over deciding to break up their little argument.

"Okay so now that we have that settled we have another problem, the Bluejam pirates are going to be looking for us and me and Keiko live close to their territory what would happen if one of them snuck up on us while we were sleeping?"

Both boys answered with obvious duh tones. "You'd die." Sabo got a tick mark on his head and nodded.

Keiko moved standing closer to the blonde. Luffy suddenly grinned having a great idea. "You two could come stay with us!"

Ace nodded his agreement. Sabo nodded liking the idea and they all turned to look at Keiko. She smiled nodding. "We could all be together like one big family right?"

The three boys grinned nodding and the group took off towards the bandit house.

-4 Months Later-

Keiko stood next to the tall figure of her brother and two friends. They were sneaking into Goa kingdom to eat something called ramen.

Sabo showed the waiter a golden watch with a crest. She narrowed her eyes at it curiously. The boys and her were lead up to a private room.

Luffy grinned. "What was that thing you showed them?" Ace looked over curious as well.

Sabo rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "No idea it was something I snagged from a noble but I'm glad it worked so well."

Keiko frowned noticing the slight crease in the blonde's forehead. Something he only ever got when he was lying. She decided to wait until later to confront her brother.

The waitress brought in four bowls of ramen. Keiko looked at it hesitantly. She looked over when she heard Ace and Luffy making noises of glee. Keiko decided to try it out.

She rose the chopsticks to her mouth and her eyes widened in shock. "Oh my gosh! This is so good!"

The brothers nodded in agreement calling out for more and more bowls of the delicious food.

It didn't take long for the four to get caught. Sabo cursed and Ace grabbed Keiko jumping out of the window. She squealed holding onto the raven for dear life.

The four were quick to run from the shop. Sabo grabbed his younger sisters hand keeping her level with them. "Sabo? Keiko! It's me!"

Ace paused looking back. Keiko was confused and looked back at the weird nobleman. Sabo lowered his head and pulled Keiko forward. "Hey Sabo that guys calling for you and Keiko you know him?"

Sabo shook his head and started running again. "I have no idea he must be mistaking us for someone else." Keiko looked at her brother worriedly but kept running with him.

The group quickly made it to the edge of the forest when the two boys rounded on the older blonde. "Alright Sabo spit it out who the hell was that?"

The three boys quickly started wrestling. Ace and Luffy choking Sabo. "Tell us already! I'm gonna kick your ass!"

Sabo pushed at them and nodded. "I'll tell!" The two boys released him looking at him expectantly.

The blonde lowered his head. "I'm the son of a noble and Keiko is the daughter of one as well."

The ravens looked confused. "Who is?"

Sabo glared at them. "I am!"

The two ravens shoved a finger up their nose looking bored. "So?" Keiko giggled at their behavior.

Sabo sighed shaking his head. "You two wanted to know!" Keiko walked over standing next to her brother.

Ace suddenly seemed to get a good idea. "You all wait here! I'll be back in a minute! Do not leave!"

The three kids waited for Ace for around thirty minutes before he reappeared with four small cups and a bottle of Sake. Ace distributed the cups to each of them.

"Did you know when you exchange cups of Sake you can become family with that person." Ace poured the liquid into the four different cups looking at the three expectantly.

Keiko's face lite up brightly at the words. "U-Um I would love to call you both brothers, i-if you don't mind having such a clumsy and useless sister that is."

Both raven grinned brightly. Ace thumped her on the head lightly. "I'm not very good with girls so be prepared for rough treatment!"

Keiko smiled nodding the four raised their cups clinking them together. "From today on wards we're family!"


Ages:

Sabo/Ace- 10

Keiko- 8

Luffy- 7