Monkey D Luffy or rather Portgas D Ruffy, blinks as he glances around at his surrounding. He was in a warehouse of some sort, an abandoned warehouse, it was fallen to pieces and the smell of damp and ground was everywhere.

Luffy moves to sit up and turned to glance over his shoulder, his arms were tied behind his back at his wrists. It was a poor work, he been training since his childhood and getting out of tied ropes was one of the things he learnt. He wriggles slightly the hard ropes cut into his flesh but still he carries on, he was used to pain. Thanks to his grandfather he could cut off the feelings in his mind, numbing him and making him put up with almost anything.

The ropes dropped to the ground and he quickly got to his feet and turned around on the spot; as he did blood dripped off the ends of his fingers. Birds were heard outside the building but nothing else, he had no idea how long he was sleeping to know if he was still in the city.

Dully he began to walk, the place had old rusted machines over to one side, rotten boxes was piles on the other. Roots and vines had grown but the things that was there, making some things unrecognisable.

Luffy stops. Gazing over to some metal stairs leaning up to a hanging room to one side of the walls, notices there the vines and plant life that been rip and thrown to the ground. Walking towards he thinks he hears voices however he was not sure.

Frowning deeply he hurries over, the first thing he should have been was to get help from a adult or the police. Luffy felt that he could take on any adult himself, he was his grandfather's grandson after all and this kind of thing was what he had trained.

Carefully he climbed the stairs using his hands as he kneed low to them and slowly moved up. As he reached the landed he notices there was more rooms, it went on the length of the wall; it was the nearest room that he indeed heard voices.

Luffy glared as he kept himself low to the landing, the room that large windows. One above was cracked, this was where the sound was escaping from. Stopping he slowly lifts himself and peeks inside. What he sees shocks him.

There was Ace tied up, he was being held up by two men behind him and three other men were kneeing in front of him. He was wearing only his trousers, his chest, arms and face was covered in bruises. One men was touching his stomach laughing as did, another was holding a phone up high seemingly records all that they were doing.

Luffy hears a sound and turning his sees a blonde who's hair reminded him of pineapple; he too was tried with his hands behind his back. Whatever they tied him up with, it was not rope because it was far to easy to get out of the way their done Luffy's.

Luffy jerks his head back to Ace as he kicks out at one hitting him in the gut; he smiles at his new brother, pleased that he was fighting back even with the odds against him. The smile quickly faded as another came out smacked the older teen right around the face causing his head to turn with the force.

Surprisingly Luffy felt a growl at the back of his throat, he had only known the older for a week but he found that he liked him, even if the other did not like him back. Something snapped inside Luffy's brain when the men pushed Ace down to the ground, one licked the side of Ace's face and at last the freckled teen looked worried, also he began to shake all over as he came to realize that there was nothing that he could do to stop what was about to happen.

Luffy stood and marched to the door, lifting one feet up he kicked it as hard as he could; the old door broke off of it's hinges and sailed across the room. Dust covered Luffy hiding him from their view at first. As the dust cleared he slowly stepped forwards, trails of dust followed his form as he completely moved into the room glaring at the men.

"RUFFY!?" Ace cries out in shock as his eyes widen, he was the last person he thought would be behind the door.

"So the little boy woke up?" A tall man said as he stood and grinned at the younger, showing off yellow and broken teeth.

"I forgot about him!" Another said as he laughed loudly standing as well.

"What's Ruffy doing here?" Ace demanded as voice seemed to echo out of the room and over the warehouse.

"This little boy showed up after we caught you," The first man said as the others laughed, "We did not think he had any connection with you...but guess we were wrong."

Ace bite down on his lip at the man's words, turning to look at his new brother he saw that the younger teen was slowly moving towards the group, his face was down slightly but he could sees the rage there.

'Why be angry for me?' Ace thinks as he watches the smaller teen, 'After all what I done to him this week?!' he bite down hard, "Ruffy! Run away!"

Luffy stops dead. The two men come closer.

"What do you think you're doing to my brother?" Luffy hisses out darkly as he raises his head and show that his face fully, a small vein ran down one side of his temple.

"Brother?" The tall man laughed as he turned to grin at his mates, which was a mistake. Luffy darted forward and leaped into the air bringing his knees up under him, while he was in the air he bought out one leg and spin it around just as he reached the man; his foot hooked the man's neck and he was sent flying.

Luffy landed kneed to the ground. Slowly he glances towards the next man, his mouth had dropped open and he was staring at his fallen friend who was clearly out cold.

"You dare touch my brother?" Luffy hisses from his spot on the floor and slowly he stands, he faces the one before him. Somewhere in his mind's eye he was seeing someone else, a person he once called his brother; he was using that he fuel his lie. Something that he was taught while training for this mission.

Luffy watches as the man reaches in his pocket and ran at him screaming, at the last minute he pulls out a knife and aimed for the teen's heart. Luffy never moved, instead he let the knife go right through his left hand protecting his heart. With his right hand he punches out at the man's face so hard that teeth came out.

The three men on the ground now jumped back and the last one that was still in front of Ace pulls out a gun from his inside pocket and fires. Luffy leans slightly but once again takes a hit, this time one his right shoulder; the bullet going into his flesh caused him back slightly but before the man could fire again he was in front with his leg up in the air preparing for a kick.

The gun was sent scraping along the floor to the pineapple headed man, who just stared at it for a moment. Luffy did not pay any attention to this, he kicked out at the man's legs making him stubble, as he did he kicked upwards catching the man under his chin and sending him backwards.

The other to man had not made a long and now that he was closer Luffy could see that they were both young, about the same age as Ace was. The one closest to Luffy backed away and then made a run for the door, while the other ran at him while holding up his fist; the older teen however was running towards Luffy with his eyes closed.

Luffy quickly grabs the knife hands and rips in out, then turning sideways he hit out at the older teen using his own running speed against him rather than putting much power into his hurt hand. Luffy had hit the other teen right under his rib care in the centre, he double over and throw up all over the ground, then rolled up into a ball.

Luffy turns to Ace and moves around the fallen person, then looks down at his with dead eyes, the older was still shaking. Dropping down Luffy wraps his arms around his middle and pulls him close.

"Ace. Ace my brother." Luffy says in a dull lifeless voice, he closes his eyes and continues to tell himself that this was his brother and that he loved this person. This was the reason for helping, for saving him.

"Why are you here?" Ace breaths out in a low voice, he leaned against Luffy.

"I was following you," Luffy tells him as he pulls away a little, "Remember I asked for you to show me where the game centre was. You never came."

"Sorry." Ace says with a sigh as he drops his head on Luffy's shoulder, "Sorry." Ten minutes they stayed like that and the men around them began to waken. Also there was the sound of many feet running.

"ACE!" A loud voice shouted and both teens glanced around to see a group of men storming into the room. The stopped and stared at the scene. Then glared at Luffy, their raised their guns to him.

"Lower them!" Barked the blonde from the wall, "That kid saved Ace, yoi!"

Luffy blinks at the men, they seemed to be on Ace's side. But he could not help himself as he growls darkly as they come near, he wrapped his arms around Ace more pulling his head to his chest.

"We're his friend," The blonde said as he was finally freed, "No need to fear, yoi."

Luffy nods slightly then allows himself to fall into a deep sleep as blood lost began to take hold of him. He could hear Ace's voice shouting at him as he closed his eyes.

'What a day...' Luffy thinks numbly, he never even dreamed that Ace could be kidnapped like this. After the group of men knocked him out from before, Luffy had rushed to his aid but did not see some more and also gotten knocked out. '…...oh well...at least Ace is save...'