a/n: Hey guys. I want to apologize beforehand if these chapters are a little too short of your expectations. I promise they will be longer as the story goes on. Also I tried a new style of writing in the second half. Please give me your opinion of it. Is it better than my normal work? Worse? Just tell me what you think, I can take it. Oh, and if text is in between ~text~ that means it is a dream.

So, without further ado, sit back, enjoy the story, and don't forget to R&R!

Luffy's eyes flew open. Where am I? Where did that jackass go? Luffy looked around. It looked like the hull of a ship. Slowly he crawled out making sure he didn't injure his already sore head. Opening the trapdoor he cam out onto the main deck. Looking around he saw all his nakama moping around. Zoro was sitting against a railing, his brow furrowed. Sanji was sitting next to Nami, his hand around her shoulder while she wept into his arm. And Usopp hanging his arms over the railing looking out over the ocean.

"Oi! What are you guys moping around for? Get moving! We're probably way off course!" Luffy yelled at them. He slowly stood up and walked over to them. He was met with shocked faces. Everybody looked at him wide eyed. Suddenly Nami pounced on him.

"How... could... you... do... that... to... us!" she screamed at him, punching in the face with each word between choked sobs.

"Oi, oi, oi! Nami that hurts! Stop it!" Luffy grabbed her hands and pulled her off of him. Everybody was still looking at him strangely. "What? Do I have something on my face?" everybody deadpanned.

"How are you still here?" Sanji questioned. "Weren't you just taken by the Marines?"

"No."

"But, we all saw it."

"Nope don't remember any of that."

"How can you not remember! You sacrificed your own freedom for ours!"

"Don't remember it. But I do remember this one weird guy." Luffy said. He sat down on the deck and started telling them his tale.

xXx

4 days ago.

Luffy woke up in the middle of the night. He silently creeped out the door and headed towards the kitchen. As soon as he was done finishing all the meat in the refrigerator he headed back to the men's sleeping room. As he reached for the door knob a pair of hands from behind grabbed him, muffling his mouth. The hands dragged him down into the hull of the ship. He was turned around and saw that the person that dragged him down was himself! He was looking at a clone of himself!

"Look, I'm going to have to knock you out for a couple days okay? Just trust me. Something bad is going to happen and I need you to stay alive for this okay? You'll understand why I have to do this when you wake up." the clone said. Then he raised a cloth to Luffy's nose. The sweet scent flowed up his nose, shutting down his brain for the next several days.

xXx

"... and when I finally woke up and came up here you guys were all moping around. I guess that guy really did save me." Luffy finished as he looked up at the sky. Hopefully some day I can return the favor Luffy thought to himself with a grim smile.

xXx

4 years later.

A calm gentle breeze blew around the feet of the captain of the ship. The waves splashed against the hull, the sun throwing down its heat in waves. The sails were ridged, the wind was strong that day. A lone man stood on the ship's head, which looked like a lion. He had a red cloak/coat hanging around his shoulders and a scar underneath his left eye which enhanced the man's face even more so than the stubble on his chin. But what defined him the most was the straw hat that hung around his neck. He stood atop the head for hours, looking out across the ocean, searching for the island he was heading to. The wind blew through his dark hair, shadowing his eyes. On the ships main sail and flag was the most feared symbol in all the blues. A skull and crossbones wearing a straw hat. Any ship that even caught the slightest sight of it turned around in fear. The lone man on the ship was Monkey D. Luffy, Pirate King. There were tales told of how when his crew was too injured to fight, he stood up and walked across the battlefield upon Onee Pice, a hidden island on the Grand Line, deflecting both bullets and swords, before reaching One Piece. To everyone's eyes he now had everything. But the look in the Pirate King's eyes was not of joy, but of sorrow. He obtained his dream, but at the cost of his nakama. After he had become the Pirate King they all left their separate ways, chasing their own dreams. The Pirate King now sits all alone upon the ship where he used to share great memories with his nakama.

What will I do when I get there? What will I say to her? I wonder if she even remembers me at all? Will she even recognize me? Will she still see who I am, or will she see the powerful monster that I've become. Does she still love me? All of these questions were running through his mind as he docked at the harbor of the island. Not even bothering to disguise himself he stepped of his ship and walked through the town. Everybody ran away when they saw Straw-hat Luffy, the most powerful man in the world. He made his way across the island, walking on through the night.

He stopped in the morning in a ruin to rest. Drinking the last of the water he carried with him he fell asleep.

~ Luffy walked back down to the Thousand Sunny, that was docked at the beach of the island. In his hand he carried a large treasure chest made entirely of gold. His body was cut, bruised, full of bullet holes from sharpened bullets by the time got back up onto the deck. Chopper was running around tending to everyones injuries. But when he saw Luffy he quickly dropped what he was doing and ran over to help him lie down. He bandaged all of the wounds making Luffy look like a walking mummy.

xXx

The next day Luffy awoke to find no one was in his room. As he slowly walked out onto the front deck he saw everybody loading their belongings into separate boats.

"Oi, oi, oi! What are you doing?!" asked his crew. Nami was the first to speak up.

"You achieved your dream Luffy, now it's time for us to achieve our's. But we will never be able to do that on board a ship with the Pirate King. From now on all of the Marines will be after you. We all decided it was best for all of our sakes to follow our own path. Luffy suddenly collapsed from all the shock and strain of standing up. When he woke up he was in his room again. On the table beside his bed he saw a folded card. Inside there was a little goodbye note from all of his nakama and instructions from Chopper on how to treat his wounds until they heal. Luffy shot up out of bead and raced onto the main deck looking for his crew. All of their stuff was gone, as well as the smaller boats. Once again Luffy collapsed onto the deck.~

Luffy suddenly awoke from his nightmare. He realized he was crying. Quickly brushing away the tears, he crawled out from under the ruins to check outside. It was almost night. He slowly crawled out, stretched out, and kept on walking forward. As he finally entered the town, the townspeople all ran inside the houses, the town quickly becoming a ghost town. As the approached the building he wanted he heard her whisper from behind.

"Luffy?"

He turned around and faced her.

"I told you," he whispered quietly, "that I would come back for you. Vivi."

Hahahahaha! I surprised you guys there when it turned out to be Vivi! Yes, he was traveling across the deserts in Alabasta. I'm not sure what the pairings should be yet. I like both LuNa and LuVi, but I like LuVi a lot more. But we shall see how this all ends up.

I would also like to thank CB93 for being the first person to review that was thoughtfully written.

Please tell me if you like the style of writing in the second half (It starts with: "Four years later").

Next chapter will be up pretty soon seeing as I have a whole 9 days to do nothing over spring break at our school.

Till next time,

C Ya!