A/N. Thanks for the reviews guys. I was worried that since the chapter was so short, shorter then most of my other fanfics, that it meant it wouldn't be any good. But I was appearently wrong. Anyways, time for review replies!

To Naomi-nami16: Thanks! I was worried nobody would like it. Well, Luffy was always tiny when compared to most of the other characters in canon, so it would make sense that a Fem!Luffy would be on the short side as well. Anyways, thanks for the review and enjoy!

To TheBlackSeaReaper: Thanks, i'll try to keep it interesting so please continue to read and enjoy!

To Rell: I actually can't picture Marco doing what Ace did when it came to Luffy. More like acting all mysterious about it and only telling everybody tidbits about her. You must have a seriously great imagination! Anyways, thanks for the review and please enjoy!

To Starbell Fairy: Thanks, and yes, Ace will be in this. His first appearence will be When Marco and Luffy meet the Whitebeard , and an added bonus is that Sabo is alive in this as well. Thanks for the review and enjoy!

To Alexsasha: Thanks! And here's what happens next! Enjoy!

To IndigoButterfly: Yep! But not impossible, heck I actually managed it while writing that prologue, and boy did I scare everybody when I did a squel that any fangirl would be jealous of. He was just so cute! Even with a pineapple head, and actually that made him look even cuter! *Getting stared at as she squels in adoration* Oh don't give me that look, you think he'd be cute too, Ace! Anyways, thanks for the review! Enjoy!

To Vampire Revan: Hey Shanks! They will. Anyways enjoy the chapter, thanks for the review, and hope you like it!...And how did Ace wind up in a hole?

To Aoi Usa: Thanks, and isn't it? Soo~Cute! Anyways, enjoy and thanks for the review!

Ok! Got that fun tidbit done! Now for summary and disclaimer!

Episode Summary: Marco meets Luffy, Luffy meets Marco. Luffy befriends Marco, and both learn that the other is a Devil Fruit user. Also, what's this? Another common link! They both agree (along with everybody else) That Marines stink!

Note: Sorry for the sucky summary, but I couldn't come up with anything better. Do better next time! Oh, and in the chapter, there is mention of a second scar that I just kinda decided to put in there despite it not being there during canon when Luffy was younger. It will be explained later on.

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece!


Episode 1: Contrary Things & Flaming Birds!


Makino's Party Bar-

He was laying on something comfy. Like really comfy, and his left arm hurt like hell. There was also an unfamiliar weight on his stomach, like sombeody decided to use him for a pillow. Kinda. He squinted his eyes open and was greeted with the sight of an unfamiliar roof. But then again, when he did manage to find nice people who would let him board for free, he would always wake up to an unfamiliar roof and comfy things. But he couldn't remember ever searching for such a place, and then there was that weight on his stomach.

That's when all of last night's events hit him. He refrained from sitting straight up, but he cursed audibly. He had gotten shot at by Marines, and what was worse was that they were using some type of bullet that kept him from using his regenerative abilities. And judging from the pain in his arm, it had been removed. But where was he now? Where ever he was, the people were really nice to have treated his injury and even remove that pesky bullet for him, though he bet there'd be a nasty scar later.

He remembered crashing onto sand, luckily he had been flying low enough that it hadn't killed him. And then the sound of feet approaching, mufffled slighty by the sand he was laying on. But after that, he must have blacked out, because he couldn't remember anything else. Which meant somebody had been on the beach when he crashed, and was especially nice to take him to their house for medical treatment.

He decided that it would be a good idea to get up, besides, he was curious about that foreign weight on his stomach. He heard a slight noise as he got up, and it wasn't from him. He looked down, only to have to blink to make sure he was seeing correctly. There was a little girl, couldn't be no older then six, who had appearently decided that his stomach made for a good pillow. Her hair was black, and short, barely reaching her shoulders in some places. She had a scar under her left eye, and one on the right side of her forehead. There was a straw hat laying against her back, obviously a well kept and personal treasure.

He turned toward one of the doors in the room, which on further inspection appeared to be a bar. Somebody had come in.

"Oh! You're up, that's great!" it was a woman, with green hair. He blinked, the woman was actually really pretty. "You must be confused. I'm Makino. I run this bar. The little girl who's decided that you make a splendid pillow is Luffy. She's the one that found you, though she got in trouble for sneaking out that late at night. But then again if she hadn't she'd have never found you." The boy looked back at the little girl who's head was now in his lap. She wasn't drooling on him, so he didn't mind her being there, but still, why was she still here? She could have been in her bed sleeping, not laying on top of him.

"She was worried about that wound on your arm, and refused to leave your side the whole night. Wound up falling asleep on you appearently." The woman, Makino, explained. The boy nodded as he found himself slowly patting her head. The girl, Luffy, moved a bit, but not much.

"So what's your name?" The boy looked back at Makino, before speaking.

"Marco." She smiled as she got closer, crouching down in front of him.

"Well, nice to meet you Marco." she gave him a friendly, almost motherly smile, one that Marco couldn't help but return. Makino was really nice, and kind, and friendly. She must have been well liked in this town. And her bar was probably really popular.

"The bar's not do to be opened in another hour. See if you can wake up Luffy, and I'll make the two of you some breakfast." Marco nodded as she headed for the kitchen. Marco set about his given task for the day, waking up the little girl who seemed perfectly content to sleep on top of him. It took a bit, but eventually she woke up, when Marco mentioned breakfast that it. She must really like food. Of course she immediately got distracted when she noticed that he was up,

"Oh hey! You're awake! I'm Luffy nice to meet you!" She was a ball of energy that was for sure, as she all but jumped when she stood from the chair she had been sitting in.

"Marco, and I already know your name, Miss Makino told me." Luffy smiled at the mention of the woman, beaming proudly.

"Yeah, Makino is really nice isn't she? She'd probably prefer it if you call her Makino, no miss. That makes her feel old." Luffy beamed as she stated the fact. Marco couldnt' help but blink at the girl. She was a happy child, or at least happy to see him. Which he didn't know why. He didn't even really know her. The only thing he knew about the girl was her name, and that she was the one who had found and saved him. That was it.

"Isn't that woman your mom?" he asked, as he had figured since the woman knew her, and they seemed to be living in the same house,t aht made Luffy her daughter. He was appearently wrong.

"Nu-un. Makino just lets me stay here. I don't have a mommy or a daddy. I have a grandfather, but I think he's crazy. Not much of a grandfather either. Yeah, more like a crazy old geezer." Marco gave another blink, his face maintaining a bored expression. She was like him, no real family to speak of, well except for that appearently crazy grandfather of hers. But the way she sounded when she talked about him, he couldn't really be considered family either.

"So you're basically alone?" Luffy nodded. She didn't seem to bothered by it, but that was just it. She only seemed, and if you didn't know exactly what to look for, you wouldn't have noticed the lonely gleam in the girl's eyes. It did bother her, she was just really good at hiding it, like himself. Marco decided that for now, while he was staying on this new island, he'd be nice to the girl. She must have been really lonely, so Marco would be her friend while he lived there.

"So where are you going to stay? You obviously don't live here." Marco thought for a moment. She was right, where was he going to stay? Luffy appearently had zero patience to wait for people to decide things, as she spoke up not five seconds later. Either that, or she was really good at assesing situations despite her age. "You know, Makino wouldn't mind if you stayed with her while you're here. She'd probably prefer it. What with your arm still injured and stuff." He could see it, she was hoping he'd stay with Makino. She wanted to have a friend, and it seemed that she thought he would make a great one. Marco sighed as he scratched the back of his head.

"Okay, I guess I can ask..." Her expression visibly brightened. Marco sighed, he was wondering if it was really a good idea, but then again, Luffy was like him, an orphan with no real family. Life could get really lonely, and sure you may have people near you, but then you saw them and their families, and you couldn't help but feel jealous. It made you feel even more lonely. Like you didn't matter, and liike nobody wanted or loved you.

"Luffy, Marco! Breakfast is ready!" Marco's feet never even touched the ground as Luffy grabbed him, and then took off for the kitchen.


In the kitchen-

Makino laughed as she saw Luffy drag Marco into the kitchen. The six year old always thought with her stomach, her actual brain and logic came afterwards when the first didn't work. That's how she'd wound up eating a Devil Fruit by accident, and judging from what Luffy had told her when she brought the boy in from the beach with an injured arm, so had he. Though what type he had no idea.

Marco had a shocked expression on his face, though you really couldn't blame him. You'd never expect a little girl, younger and smaller then you, to be able to drag you about, but Luffy wasn't your averadge little girl. She was stronger, and more capable of doing things that most girls couldn't. Most girls didn't like fighting, Luffy could beat every boy in town, and then some of the adult men at that. She was not to be taken lightly in a fight, and a lot of the people here had learned it the hard way when she first came to live here.

"So Luffy, guess what I made." it was a game that she played with Luffy during meal times. It was fun and kept Luffy from sneaking food from the surrounding area.

"Pancakes!" Makino smiled as she nodded,

"That's right! Marco you want some?" Maroc nodded shuffling in his seat slightly as the dizziness created from being dragged about wore off.

"Thank you Mi-oh!um...Makino..." He obviously wasn't used to not using the names of strangers with out proper honorifics such as Miss and Mr.. Makino smiled as she figured Luffy must have convinced him to forego the Miss. Luffy smiled as she gave him a reassuring pat on the back.

"Ok then." and Makino placed a small stack of pancakes on before the two of them, she gave a warning as Luffy began to dig-in to her food.

"I suggest you hurry up and eat, Luffy's got some sticky fingers when it comes to food." Marco nodded as he began eating as well. What was interesting to watch, was Marco letting Luffy swipe the occasional pancake when the girl reached toward his plate, when he obviously could have easily stopped her. Makino of course replaced the missing pancake of course, but still, most people objected at least a litte bit.

Makino was in for an even bigger shock when Marco finally swatted Luffy's hand away from his food. He'd finished though, which meant that his food should have been free and up for grabs.

"No more, you'll make yourself sick." he stated simply as Luffy pouted at him. Makino blinked even further when Luffy didn't make another attempt for the food. She just got up and followed Marco after he had thanked her for the food and left.

"Well now that was interesting."


Later that day-

Luffy had followed him to almost everywhere he went. Except for certain places, she was kinda like his shadow. She of course gave him his space when he needed it and went somewhere else to entertain herself until she felt he had had enough time to himself. He didn't know how he truly felt about the situation though.

Marco had asked about the scars, and Luffy's story for the one under her left eye was kinda funny and stupid, or rather Luffy had been stupid, seeing as the fact that she gave herself that scar by stabbing herself with a dagger. She wanted to be a pirate, and a pirate crew had been in town at the time. She had stabbed herself to prove she was brave and could handle the sea. She got herself in a lot of trouble the following week, and almost died.

The second scar was older, and had quite the different story to it. Appearently her grandfather was hell-bent on turning her into a marine, and the scar was a result of one of his more careless training sessions. The training session must have been dangerous, because when she let have a better look at it, it resembled a star, a very big star when compared to the size of her forehead. Marco didn't press, just decided that the man may need to be put away for child abuse. Any training session that left a scar that big really shouldn't have been performed in the first place. She told him the only thing it had affected her narcolypsy. It had just made the disease slightly worse, but that was it. Which explained why she had suddenly fallen asleep while walking earlier that day.

Marco knew the definition for narcolypsy, and knew it's affects, so he understood. What made for the interesting conversation was when Luffy asked him a question, instead of just silently following him about.

"Hey, those flames. How do you do that?" Marco figured she was talking about the flames that had sprouted up when he had accidently cut himself during dinner. He had hid it from Makino, but Luffy had noticed.

"I ate something called a Devil fruit. It lets me turn into something called a phoenix." Luffy eyes widened as she suddenly grabbed him and began dragging him to the beach.


At the Beach-

Luffy finally stopped and let Marco catch his breath. Luffy stood infront of him really excited as she looked about, making sure nobody was there to see. Then she turned to him,

"Can I see it? Please?" Marco couldn't find it in himself to say no to the spazstic six year old, and nodded.

"Sure, just give me some space." Luffy did so, and Marco transformed. His whole body caught fire, and before Luffy was standing a medium sized, but still quite large, blue, flaming bird. Luffy could only gape.

"Wow..." she stated as Marco changed back. He was suddenly found himself being hugged by Luffy, who quickly released him, stepping back as she also burst into flames. But her flames didn't burn, infract they gave off no heat what so ever. At least his were warm. Her's were ice cold. And whatever they touched froze over. The funny and contrary thing was that they were pure white. That should've meant that her flames were extremely hot, but they weren't they were freezing, literally, freezing cold. The flames became a bit more solid, and turned into someething that looked a lot like his phoenix form, only smaller.

She changed back when she spoke up,

"I ate one too. A mythical zoan. Same as you!" Marco blinked in shock, before finding himself smiling too. He had found someone else with a similar, though contrary ability. And he found himself liking Luffy a bit more. That was when Marco decided, it couldn't hurt after all, that he would stay a bit longer then originally intended. Who knows, maybe he might find out some more interesting things.


A/N. So what do you guys think? Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed it! Please review and thanks for reading! Bye!

Luffy & Marco: Bye!