The first thing that happened after the tearful reunion was Luffy yelling for food, obviously. Laughter at the captain broke through the slight awkward tension that had fallen between the siblings and the rest of the crew. The crew had obviously tried to give them a semblance of privacy by turning away without leaving in case of a surprise attack.

Now they all sat around the kitchen table as Sanji layed down plates of amazing food. Luna felt out of place with all of the magnificent looking food as if she should be in a fancy restaurant instead of a pirate ship.

Well, at least she did feel out of place until Luffy was suddenly already stuffing his cheeks with food making her feel much more comfortable and somewhat normal. She watched with a smile as fights and yelling over food and manners started. She let her plate remain empty while everyone else fought Luffy and Ace to get some food before it was all gone.

This was a habit she had developed as a child. When she met new people like Dadan she didn't feel comfortable enough stealing the food. She would plan to wait until everyone was done getting their share and then get some but it was a fight for survival at Dadan's and she learned to live with rice as she wasn't strong enough to kill anything. At least she did until Luffy and later Ace realized she wasn't hardly eating when she ended up collapsing once. Since then, they made sure she ate enough.

This wasn't the case after she got more comfortable with the people around her. Once she grew closer to the bandits she would jump right into the fray, albeit she was better at sneaking food from others rather than the all out fist fight for food.

As it stood now she was more than happy to watch her brothers smiling and alive. She laughed as Ace stabbed Luffy with his fork and the sound drew Ace's gaze to her. He winked at her before glancing down and a frown took over. While everyone ate or fought and laughed, Ace took some of his food and put it on her plate before returning to the rest of his meal.

Luffy, after seeing what Ace had done, grabbed some of his own and filled the other half of her plate. Then there was an outraged cry as Luffy stole food to replace his off someone else's plate. It was a silent tradition started as children and one that she didn't think she would ever need again but here she was, grown, with her brothers still taking care of her. She smiled softly and dug in.

The others who had noticed this odd action stared in awe. Luffy was sharing food? Luna turned to Luffy on her right as he told her about his crew and their adventures. She was quickly drawn into his tales but on the other side of her, Ace noticed the looks of confusion.

"What was that about?" asked Nami quietly so as not to disturb Luna or Luffy. "Were we too rude about the food? Although with Luffy as a brother I expected her to be more like you two when it came to food."

Ace glanced at his sister seeing her giant smile before he was content enough to turn back to the others.

"No, it's not that. Don't worry about it," Ace said, stuffing his mouth once again.

"As a chef I can't stand by and let someone go hungry or unsatisfied if there's something I can do to help it," Sanji spoke seriously. It was his job, as the chef of this ship, to keep everyone fed and after realizing that a guest had been about to go without a meal he had to see if there was something he could do differently.

Ace swallowed and sighed when he realized he would have to say something to them. It didn't seem like a big deal but he could guess that seeing Luffy of all people sharing his food willingly it must have told them that something was up with what happened. He glanced back to Luffy and Luna, staying silent when he realized Luffy was in the process of finishing the food so he could show her around the ship. Luffy and Luna both stuffed the rest of their food in their mouth and he dragged her out of the room before Ace finally turned back to the others. They sure were determined too, or curious he supposed, seeing as they were all still staring at him waiting. Even the ones who were finished were just waiting.

"Ah. Well it's just that Luna has to get to know people first before she really opens up to them I guess you could say."

There were frowns all around the table. Sanji opened his mouth to respond but Nami spoke up before he could. "What does that have to do with the food?"

"Well," he sighed, "I bet Luffy hasn't told you anything about our childhood, right? He's the type that doesn't think to mention stuff like that."

"You got that right," Sanji grumbled. "We didn't even know he had such a beautiful sister until we went to Marineford. Ahh, beautiful Moon, to be cursed with such a numbskull brother! I'll take care of you Lunaa!"

Ace could clearly see the cook start to daydream about his precious little sister and glared fiercely, lighting his fist with fire. "What was that? I think I misheard you." Ace's hat was tilted down, casting a shadow over his face and Sanji finally snapped out of his daydream only to pale at the sight of an angry brother ready to fry him up like a piece of meat. This was the second commander of the Whitebeard pirates, after all, and he knew when he was beat.

"Yea, what was that, perv cook? Why don't you tell us what you're daydreaming about there," Zoro smirked.

"You wanna fight, moss head? Bring it on. I'll kick your ass!" shouted Sanji.

"You couldn't beat me even if I didn't use even a single sword, curly brows!" Zoro and Sanji were now standing close to headbutting each other, ready to fight.

"Sit down and shut up! Both of you!" Nami shouted.

Zoro scoffed but they both sat and everyone looked back at Ace...only to find his head down on the table.

"HE FELL ASLEEP!"

"Oh dear, I hope the excitement wasn't too much for his injuries."

"Robin, don't say stuff like that! Oh no, he's going to die! Wait, he doesn't have any major injuries!"

"Injuries? Oh no, we need a doctor! Doctor!"

"That's you!"

"Oh yea!"

"What are you guys arguing about?" a voice asked muffled from food.

"Ace is going to die," Usopp answered.

"I am? That sucks! Why am I dying?"

"Because you're-wait, ACE!"

"Oh, it seems he's fine."

"Don't sound so disappointed, Robin!" Usopp shouted.

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!"

…

"She's kind of scary," Ace mumbled, still eating. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"I'm surrounded by idiots," Nami massaged her head. "Ok! Ace could you finish what you were saying?"

"What was I saying?"

Nami growled.

"Something about Luffy as a brat," Zoro said boredly.

"That wasn't it at all!" shouted Nami and Usopp. Everyone else laughed.

"Oh right," Ace said blandly.

"Don't agree like he was right!" shouted Nami.

"Our friends are SUPER fired up!"

"Maybe they were 'DYING' to fight some more marines. Although (yohoho) I'm already dead!"

"IDIOTS!"

In fright everyone quieted down and stared at Nami. Everyone finally calmed down, mainly in an attempt to keep Nami appeased. In an attempt to regain a their serious topic of conversation, Nami tried to prod Ace back on track.

"You said Luna doesn't open up quickly to people she doesn't know and it must have something to do with what happened earlier. It has something to do with her childhood?" Nami asked.

"Ah," Ace sighed again getting serious. He was sighing a lot but he thought they would have forgot about this after all that. "Well, the old man Garp pretty much dropped us all with Dadan and the mountain bandits so that's who raised us. Whenever the old man came around it was only for a few hours maybe but he never really came by. Well the bandits didn't raise us either, we pretty much raised ourselves but Luffy and Luna didn't come to live with us at Dadan's until they were about five."

Ace stopped for a minute to get some stronger drink. Everyone looked at each other. That would probably explain a lot, they all thought.

"Well, people weren't exactly kind to people like us. Luffy and Luna had always been alone with only each other and well, you know how people are. To the village people Luna was always different, from her looks to her personality and Luffy had eaten the devil fruit already at age five and told everyone about how he would be a great pirate. So anyway, the attention they got wasn't the good kind. All of us were troublemakers of our own kind I guess.

Not that it matters. It wasn't any big deal and you know Luffy. I don't think he even noticed anything like that but Luna always seemed to get more and more aware of how people acted and treated her. With Luffy and me everyone would mostly be more laid back. I guess it was more of a 'boys will be boys' attitude but I noticed that they were different with Luna. I would actually catch villagers and even the damn old man, always trying to push crap on Luna. Always trying to teach her how to be a lady or some shit because they thought it wasn't good that she was running around with two boys and acting like a boy all the time."

Ace stopped as Sanji let out an outraged rant that he paid no attention to. After eyeing Sanji he continued. "Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's that she cares about any of that crap. That's not her at all and she doesn't care what people think or at least she is really good at hiding it if she does. But she seemed to develop this habit at first at Dadan's. She always had everyone trying to tell her how to act and what to do and at Dadan's the right to eat was a fight for survival. You fought for food and if you were too weak to get any then all you got was a bowl of rice a day."

Ace could see Sanji getting more angry as he talked although he guessed it was easy to see why. "That was fine for Luffy and me and Luffy just brushed everything right off but Luna was so used to being forced to practice manners or something by some shit villagers who pretended they were 'helping' her. I even caught some a time or two forcing her into shit like that. One time she was supposed to wait at the diner for this woman we knew to get off work and I was bored and decided to go by to see if she was still there. When I got there Makino was still working and Luna was out front at a booth where some old woman had decided to join her. Small areas so of course everyone knew each other.

Well, Makino had given Luna a plate of food of course but this old woman was talking shit about young ladies and manners and how she had to help teach her since she didn't have any parents to do it. The woman was lecturing about how to eat and what to do and she wouldn't let Luna eat until Luna learned how to do it perfectly. I tossed that fat old crones food right back in her face," Ace scowled.

"But it doesn't change the fact that stuff like that happened a lot I assume. I caught it a couple times and started keeping an eye out. I think that stopped it right there. Guess they didn't want to be beaten up just for an etiquette lesson," Ace smirked.

His face grew serious. "I think Luna unconsciously felt like it would cause problems if she acted out against it. Luffy has always been naturally troublesome, I guess you could say," Ace laughed.

"If Luffy didn't like something, he'd tell you and he didn't care or understand if it was rude. Luna is a different story though. She usually tries to be polite to people when she meets them. She seems naturally polite until she feels comfortable enough with you to open up so she developed that habit. For a long time at Dadan's when they moved in she would just eat rice because she would try to wait until everyone else ate first but of course there was nothing left and she didn't want to steal any."

Ace could see Sanji bite through his cigarette. Nami and Franky looked angry as well and the others looked a little sad. "Luffy and I would be so caught up in fighting to get food that we never noticed that all she'd eat is one bowl of rice a day until one day we had been running around the forest all day and she overworked herself with so little food and she collapsed. After we found out the reason was because she had been losing weight and not eating right, then we made sure to feed her. We would get some and fill her plate first. It wasn't bad for us since we would just fight someone else for more anyway. But after Luna started to fit in at Dadan's better, it got better and she would fight for her own. I guess she still does it though. Still falls into the habit with people she doesn't know."

Ace drank some more. He was more than a little put out by the topic. "So that's it. So you see, there's nothing wrong or anything like that. If she gets to know you guys better then she'll start eating just like normal."

Sanji was still furious. As a chef, the idea of withholding proper nourishing food like that, especially to children, was appalling and he couldn't stand the idea that such a beautiful young lady had gone through that. His hair hid his eyes from view as he lit another cigarette. "So what you're saying is if I just make separate plates of food she'll eat just fine?"

"Yep, that's about the jist of it. Dang, and with all that talking I should've just said that to start with."

Zoro snorted, "Some of these idiots would've been way too nosy to let it go."

"Who are you calling nosy, seaweed brain? In case you haven't noticed, you were still sitting here waiting on the story too!"

"Who are you calling seaweed brain, crappy cook? And I just didn't want to get up yet! I wanted more to drink!"

Everyone looked at Zoro plainly, "Of course that's why he's still here."

"Hey Sanji! We need food!" Luffy barged in.

"You just ate!"

Ace looked on with a smile as Luna trailed behind Luffy and sat beside Ace leaning her head against his shoulder.

"I forgot how much it wears me out to run around with Luffy," Luna laughed.

Ace laughed. "You've gotta get up your Luffy tolerance again," he teased.

"Gods help us all," she muttered good naturedly. "Ah, by the way, I forgot to ask but where are we heading? Are you going to go back to your crew right now?" She asked everyone but directed more towards Ace at the end.

Luffy cut in to the conversation. "Ah, we're going to the Sabaody Archipelago. We were heading there before we heard the news and we have a couple of friends who are supposed to meet us there to help show us around."

Ace smiled at his sister knowing she wanted more time with him and the feeling was mutual. "I already talked to Marco real quick on the way out of the battle and told him I would be coming with you guys until we got to an island. I'll get ahold of them at Sabaody and head off to meet them but until then you'll just have to put up with me, sis."

"How sad," she exclaimed but her grin about to break her face gave her away. She hugged him from the side. When he hugged her back, she squeezed tighter inciting a hug war like no other until she finally conceded defeat with a choked laugh. "I give, I give."

Luna turned to see Nami, Usopp, Chopper, and Franky looking at her. Sanji was making a snack for Luffy (who was drooling over food) and Zoro had predictably gone to nap after all the food while Robin read her book at the table. "Ah, so what has your dear captain told you about me?"

The others seemed to fidget for a minute. "We didn't even know he had a sister!" Nami finally burst out, glaring at Luffy.

Luna stared for a minute. "Wait, so when did he tell you he had a sister? Like, 'hey guys I have a sister who's about to be killed so let's go save her!'?"

Sanji scowled at the rubber man now eating again. "If only. We found out in the middle of the battle."

"Wait wait wait, so..let me get this straight," she said with a blank face, "Luffy says something like 'Hey we're going to save this random girl from being killed.' and everyone just goes 'Ok, lets kick Marine ass!' and that's it? No questions asked?" Luna starred.

"Yea, pretty much," Nami and Usopp muttered.

Luna's mouth opened slightly and then she collapsed against Ace in loud laughter. "Oh my god! That's great!" She giggled. "That's such a Luffy thing to do! HAHAHA. I can't believe you, Luffy!"

Luffy looked up, finally done with his food. "What? What's so funny?" he tilted his head in confusion.

Luna tried to control her laughter. "You really have found a great crew haven't you, Luffy?" She finally stopped her laughter and smiled at Luffy.

Luffy grinned back laughing, "Yep! Hey you're gonna be on my crew now right? It'll be great!"

Luna smiled sadly, "Sorry Luffy but I don't think so. They are great but they're your crew and this is your adventure. I need to find my own."

Luffy frowned. He didn't like it but he could understand what she meant so that was that. "Ok. But if you change your mind, come back! Don't go getting caught anymore, ok?"

Luna laughed. "Ok. You got it."

Ace looked at her seriously. Speaking of getting caught. He knew Luffy would overlook details but Ace wasn't nearly so negligible and he knew there must be more to the story. How had she gotten caught? If it was Luffy he would understand because Luffy might be more physically strong than Luna but he was also incredibly reckless and spontaneous much like him. Luna was completely different though. She didn't like being the center of attention too much and she was always more careful. He would get the story, eventually. Right now she was happy and it wasn't the time.

"Oh! That reminds me. Luna, your singing has gotten a lot stronger. You must've been practicing." Ace watched her expressions for answers.

"Oh! No, I haven't sang at all since I promised you," she murmured. He could tell she was a little worried about the promise. "I haven't sang since we were kids so I guess it just grew stronger like the rest of me. To be honest, I thought I could distract them enough for you guys but when I started I could feel it so much stronger and the music just took over. You know how I always get with music. I had no idea it would be so strong!" She was speaking quietly.

"Whoa whoa little sis," Ace soothed, "It's ok. You did great. I'm so proud of you for fighting back. I'm the one who should apologize," Ace spoke back softly. "I knew singing was an important part of you and I was selfish and asked you to hide it because I was worried for you. It must have hurt you to lock away your music for so long and not only that but I cut off part of your strength. I'm sorry. But now, everyone knows so you don't have to hide anymore. Everyone will know soon enough so you can train it and use it to be as strong as you can be. You know what can happen now so you have to be careful but you know the consequences now and I know you'll be fine now." Ace grinned as her face lit up.

"I'll get stronger! I'll get so strong that you and Luffy won't ever have to put yourselves in danger to save me ever again," she grinned.

"I'll drink to that!"

"Did someone say drink?"

"No one was talking to you, shitty moss head!"

"You wanna fight, curly brow?"