Chapter 3! YAY! Sorry fr you haters of time skips, I'll assure you though things will be back on track when Water 7 Arc comes up. I'll be going in slow, calm order not all time-skipping. Won't be till Chapter 5!
Warnings: Fem!Luffy, Marine!Sabo, change of events, swears, mis-use of spelling and grammer... raging!Ace
-2 Months Later-
"Where the heck is she!" yelled Nami. The Straw Hat crew was surrounded by buildings, looking for their Captain.
"She probably went the wrong direction?" suggested Sanji.
"Hell no!" Nami said," She's probably lost with that thick, gullible mind of hers." The crew silently agreed with her. Luffy had no sense in direction.
"Let's just go," Zoro grumbled," She'll catch up with us later."
The pirates headed out, knowing Luffy will run into them as usual. But they hoped she didn't bring some enemies with her remembering a certain visit to Lounge Town.
Meanwhile…
"Waaah!" Luffy yelled. She looked around the area startled. Sand… sands… more sand. And a big hot flaming sun way above. She was in the desert. "Where did everyone go!" she clutched her precious straw hat to her head and looked around till she finally saw a small smidge in the horizon what seemed to be a town. She looked a little longer at it.
'Looks like a town, so it is a town, right!' she thought joyfully. She took one step then another. Her stomach grumbled. "Well... where a town is, food ought to be there!" She then bolted off to the smidge of a town shape.
=With Ace=
Ace was sitting at a counter top talking to a guy after he woke up again from his nap. He showed him a picture of a wanted poster of Luffy. Oh he was pissed the day he got it.
-Flashback-
They were following a lead on Luffy when Ace got the wanted poster. He had been sitting on the deck thinking deeply when Thatch came to him and said in a panicked voice, shoving a paper into his face. "Is this your sister?"
Ace looked down at it and stared for a long time. A cute face, dark hair, a scar under her left eye. With a big cheeky grin along with that precious straw-hat she dipped 'Boshi'. Her hair... was short. SHORT. He looked down at her bounty and his eyes bulged.
Thirty million beli?!
Flames erupted around him and Thatch yelped in surprise. "LUUUUUUUFFY!" Ace screamed, "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
And at that moment, Ace's Den Den Mushi ringed, knowing who it was Ace screamed into it, "WHY THE HELL DOES LUFFY HAVE A BOUNTY ON HER HEAD NOW! IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A MONTH SINCE SHE RAN AWAY!"
"BECAUSE SHE DEFEATED SOME JACK-HEAD PIRATE NAMED ARLONG FOR MESSING WITH ONE OF HER CEWMATES APPARENTLY! SHE KILLED THE GUY! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIGHER BUT THIS IS THE EAST BLUE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT!" In the background you could hear more screams about Sabo being angry. A voice louder than the rest was crying about 'his precious princess' having a bounty on her head, 'forced to kill', 'kidnapped by evil pirates'.
Ace stared blankly at the phone and said, "Is that Jiji I hear in the back?"
"Sadly," Sabo muttered, "Yes. He had actually opened Sengoku's door for once and was crying that Luffy now has a bounty on her head. Sengoku had said that should be proud to have another law breaker in the family. And he privately told me he thought it was the end of the world when Garp actually opened the door instead of crashed through the wall."
"... So she's in the East Blue, now?"
"Most likely. But I doubt she'll stay long."
"..."
"..."
"I'M GOING TO KILL HER!"
-End Flashback-
The bartender responded 'no'.
"Now what does the commander of the Whitebeard Pirate Crew second corps want in this country," a voice asked from behind him. "Well, Portgas D. Ace?"
People cried out, "W-whitebeard?!"
"One of the Whitebeard Pirates...?!" Another exclaimed.
"I knew I'd seen that mark on his back before!"
"Why is he here?"
"..." Ace just looked at Smoker, bored.
"WHAT!" screamed the bartender.
Looking at the marine, Ace grinned slyly. "I'm on a search... for my little sister."
=With the others...=
"What should we do," Nami asked, "Nanohana is a large town."
"It will be very hard to search for Luffy-san, "Vivi whimpered, still worrying over Luffy.
"Don't worry, Vivi-Chan!" Sanji exclaimed, looking at some stands in the distant, "If we need to find her we just go to the nosiest spot in this town! She'll be there!"
"Ha-ha," Usoppp laughed, "You got that right!"
Nami was also still a bit worried over Luffy. "I just wish she would pay more attention to the bounty on her head. Especially in a big country like this that would want the money!"
Zoro just sighed; not at all worried for his female captain knowing full well she was capable of keeping care of herself. After all, he wouldn't settle for a weak captain! "Just leave her. Let's go eat; we can think things through after that. We'll find her there most likely too."
Vivi looked around towards the open water and saw a ship with an upside down, curly '3'. "WAIT! That's Mr. 3's ship!"
"Hold on... you mean he's not dead..?!" Usopp asked, sweating slightly.
The princess was also sweating, her partner quaking behind her. "That ship can only move through the power of the "Doru Doru no Mi"... He must be in the kingdom."
If Vivi had looked longer, she would have seen a large pirate ship with a dragon's head float by to dock.
=With Ace=
The customers around him were muttering, all sweating in fear and looking at Ace in awe.
"Did you hear that was one of the Whitebeard pirates...?"
"I've heard of that Marine, Smoker...!"
"So," Ace asked simply, turning in his seat and looking at the grey haired man. He leaned back again the counter, looking carefree and smirking slightly. "What should I do?"
Smoker growled. "Sit tight and let me arrest you."
"Re-jected," Ace said with a tone of amusement.
"I'm looking for a different pirate. And I'm not really interested in you," Smoker drawled.
"Then let me go."
"I can't do that." Smoker started to walk towards the second commander, "As long as I'm a marine... and you're a pirate...!"
Ace blunt out laughed, smirking. "What a dumb reason... Chill out, Smokie."
"ROCKET!" A female voice screamed.
Next thing Ace knew, Smoker was slammed into from behind who crashed into him.
"GWAAH!"
"HUH?!"
Ace had gone through who knows how many walls. Getting up with a pain in his back. "Who the hell was that," he muttered. Seeing a startled family, he bowed politely. "My apologies for disrupting your meal."
Grumbling, he marched through the many building. "Gimme a break..." He looked towards the area next to where he once sat and saw a person. The girl was very cute with soft skin, beautiful large eyes, and a vest of some sort that assented her large chest, shorts that were rolled up above her knees. A straw hat was on her shoulder length black hair.
Various emotions went through him of finally seeing his sister. Shock, happiness, anger. "L... HEY! LU-!" He shouted to the eating girl, but was cut off when Smoker pushed his head down and yelled, "STRAW-HAT CUTIE!"
Luffy looked up at the marine, still eating. Her cheeks were slightly poofed out from the amount of food in her mouth, but not grossly so. More in a cute way.
She ignored the smoker user and continued eating. Smoker just stared at the girl as she ate.
"So you're here, too...?" Smoker asked, looking down at her. Luffy swallowed a whole amount, along with the rest of the food much to an astonished crowd. "You know you could have finished first," he said.
Covering her mouth slightly as she talked with a mouth full of food, Smoker barely recognized the words. "Chur chwat Shmok-hi shguy!" (You're that Smokey guy!")
"Decided to turn yourself in, Miguwara Luffy?" Smoker asked, slightly sweat-dropping at the girl.
"SHNOPE!" She yelled, running away, yelling to the cook, "THANKS FOR THE FOOD!"
"OI! LUFFY!" Ace yelled, causing Luffy to stop and look around to him.
"A-ace!" She said with wide eyes. 'Now I have to grow my hair out! Not cool! Okay! No choice but to run away as far as possible!' Luffy sprinted off. "YOU WON'T CATCH ME ACE!"
Smoker went after the rubber-girl who dodged around his assistant Tashigi. "You won't escape! MIGIWURA-CUTIE!"
Ace ran after, already enraged yelling, "DON'T YOU LAY ON FINGER OR SMOKE ON HER, SMOKIE!" Pulling out his DenDenMushi he yelled into it, "I FOUND LUFFY, SABO! SHE'S HEADING...uh... South?"
"WHY DOES THAT SOUND LIKE AN 'I-DONT-KNOW' DIRECTION?"
'JUST FIND HER! LOOK FOR SMOKE, SHE'LL BE THERE! MARINES ARE HOT AFTER HER!"
"I'M USELESS THEN! WHO'S THE MARINE?"
"SMOKER!"
"... He never listens to the upper ranks... I'll try."
"TRY THEN," Ace shouted. He was not a happy man at the moment. A not happy Ace is a very bad Ace.
=With Luffy=
Luffy ran as fast as she could go, jumping out the way of smoke that went to grab her. Of Ace was here, and then Sabo was too. Which meant that... was Jiji here too?
Jumping onto a rooftop while throwing some random crates at Smoker, successfully distracting her, she fell onto the other side. Faintly she could hear him running back. Probably to Ace to kill him... Maybe.
However, Luffy landed on some group of marines that were responding to a call.
"Sorry!" she yelled from the flattened and spread out Marines who laid unconscious. She struggled to get up from underneath a rather heavy fat Marine. "Get off you fatty!" she yelled. He didn't budge. "Argh! Now of all times, too!" Luffy kept on punching the man on top of her with her small fists. She then noticed something. "Where the freak is my hat!" she yelled panicking as she started patting her head hard hoping to feel her precious straw hat, failing to notice a group of pirates looking at her in interest.
Red-haired Shanks had been walking through Alabasta with his crew and heard some bangs, yells, crashes and a girl's voice. He ran, followed by the rest of the Red-Haired Pirates, towards all the commotion.
What they found amused them greatly.
A group of knocked out Marines were scattered around and some in a big pile with a girl wide awake struggling to get out of from underneath an enormous marine.
"MY HAT!" she yelled, "Where the freak is my hat!" she pounded the man on top of her," Wake up! WAKE UP! GET OFF ME, FATTY! This is your entire fault! I lost my hat because I landed on you guys! Waa! WHY ARE GUYS EVEN HERE?" She paused a second and thought. One… Two… Three..."Oh... you guys are marines. Sowwy. NOW GET OFF!" She resumed her frantic pounding. "OFF! OFF! OFF!"
Shanks sweat-dropped at the girl's antics. He was about to step in and help the girl till she finally had enough. "I am very sorry I'm going to do this, Marine-san!" The man on top of her went flying into the air and vanished.
"What the-"was all the red-haired pirates could manage to say. Her leg was straight up, showing that she kicked him from below. The girl got up, dusting the dirt on her.
She had short black hair that went to her shoulders, a red vest, blue shorts and sandals. She had lovely eyes that were full of much laughter and joy in them and a scar underneath the left eye. She looked around her and yelled out, "Now where is my hat!" She looked around, and around. Till she came to an area stacked with brown crates. "Found you!" she yelled in triumph. She bent down and picked up a yellow straw hat with a red strip on it. She dusts it off and put it on her head.
"There we go! Now let's go look for the crew!" And started to run off till she was slammed into the wall by some smoke. "Ehhh! Already!"
Shanks however was in the clouds. It was Luffy! How she grown! And she looked just as-if not more- cute since he had last seen her when she was little. She had cut her hair. In his opinion she looked better with longer hair, but she was still adorable as ever. Shanks bet she had lots of tales already! Unable to contain himself any longer now that he was so close to the little girl, he yelled," Luffy!"
Luffy was upset. She spends most of her escape time underneath a fat Marine. And here Smoker got to her before she could even get twenty feet away!
"Luffy!"
Luffy heard the call, and froze. She knew that voice. She turned towards the source and went blank. There stood Shanks, smiling brightly. Yasopp was there beaming, waving wildly at her in greeting, Benn was slightly smiling, Lucky was grinning. Other pirates were there too, looking fierce strong and unique. Other main members of Shank's crew? She bounced, waving happily, hollering," SHANKS! Whoa!" She dodged another smoke hit from Smoker. She almost forgot about Smoker. "Rude..."
"KAGEROU!" Smoker yelled out as a stream of smoke went towards, only to be blocked by a person of fire. Luffy gulped. Ace looked ready to murder. "Cut it out, Smokie. You may be 'smoke', but I'm 'fire'. Your powers wouldn't stand a chance against mine. So give it up. I won't let you touch my little sister.
"A-ace...:
The mam looked over at Luffy, slightly grinning with dark eyes. "You don't change, Luffy. Sabo is on his way and we'll be- OI!"
"Didn't I say 'Catch me if you can' in the letter!" Luffy yelled back to him as she sprinted off.
"LUFFY!"
Shanks watched the scene in shock. Smoker was after her, but Ace was here as well. Wasn't he a Whitebeard commander pirate? Just then Ace shot fire at Smoker who jumped to the side, nearly hitting Shanks. Benn merely stepped aside as Shanks jumped out of the way, ramming into Yasopp who was still waving pointlessly to an out of site Luffy. "Oi! Watch where you aim that fire, Ace!"
Smoker and Ace stopped at the voice. Both turned steely towards him, both glaring daggers.
This was the guy who REALLY inspired and pushed Luffy to be a pirate.
"Another damn pirate!' Smoker said," How strange can this day get!"
Ace was in flames.
Shanks on the other hand said, "Uh oh, run for it!" He yelled to his crewmates that were confused. They could easily defeat them, but Shanks was freaked out. Yasopp, Lucky and Shanks were running for their life almost leaving the rest behind. "ACE IS GOING TO KILL ME!"
Luffy was running as fast as she could, clutching her hat to her head. Shanks was here! Oh how happy she was to see him, but so was Ace. And he ate a devil's fruit, and now had fire. This was just great! Now Ace knew she was defiantly a pirate, and is going to be after her soul. She had to get out of here! An Ace without a devil fruit was bad enough, but with one? She might as well surrender to Smoker or become a Marine! Then Sabo was here... She. Was. So. Dead.
The captain saw her crew and guests walking to Going Merry with bags, looking as though they were just chased. Nami saw her and screamed, "WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU! AND WHAT TROUBLE DID YOU CAUSE BECAUSE WE WERE BEING CHASED BY MARI-"
"START THE GOING MERRY!" Luffy shouted over the orangette, "Get on board!"
Nami stared at Luffy, "Why the rush, Luffy?" The rest of the straw hat pirates looked at her with the same question.
"Because, I'm being followed! LET US GO! NOW! NOW!"
Though wanting more answers, they started the ship onwards.
=With Ace=
Ace caused a distraction with his fire from seeing the sight of Shanks, the man you inspired both of them- Luffy and himself- into pirates. He was mixed between joy and anger. He watched as Shanks and his buddies run for it. Faintly he could hear Shanks scream, "HE'S GOING TO KILL ME!"
"NO DUH! JUST LOOK AT HIS EYES! I SEE DEATH TO COME!" He heard Yasopp cry out.
Good, they knew he'd try to kill them. But it was rather amusing such powerful men that could easily defeat him were afraid of him. Deciding he'd rather catch Luffy then attempt to kill Shanks, he ran after the girl, not after distracting Smoker by dueling him in the sky then adbonding him while the marine though he was still battling Ace.
The young adult snickered.
He heard Luffy's yells to her crew on a ship, and saw her jumping and yelling. She was so cute when she did that.
The ship began to move onwards into the open blue. Ace skidded to a halt on the dock, clutching his hat to his head. Damn it! He missed her!
"Monkey D. Luffy! I! AM! GOING! TO! GET! YOU!" He hollered after the ship.
He saw the figure of Luffy jump onto the highest pole and stick out her tongue at him. He was going to get her for that. Faintly he could sense that Sabo had finally managed to catch up with him along with Marco and Thatch who had occupied them in case things got out of hand.
Turning to them he said, "You guys took your sweet time."
=With Shanks=
Shanks and his pirate crew were running for their ship. They managed to lose some perusing marines back there without much a fight or cause much trouble.
"What a day," Shanks muttered.
Yasopp grinned next to him. "Luffy was as energetic as usual! Already has powerful marines after her head!"
The smoking man next to him chuckled, "She'll be in more trouble I bet."
Who knew they would run into Luffy and Ace in one day like this. Not the lovely hug Shanks had so dearly dreamed of being united once more. At least he didn't run into her grandfather or father at the very least, right? They'd try to kill him for sure. The red-haired man was sure her grandfather would want to kill him.
He sighed and thought of how much Ace and Luffy grew.
Smoker was pissed off. Three well known pirates right there. And they all got away! Red-head Shanks. Second Commander of White Pirates, Ace. And Straw Hat Luffy! Right there! They were gonna pay dearly! Especially Straw Hat cutie!
Luffy got down when Ace was out of sight, and sighed in relief. He almost, just almost got her.
However, now she was faced with another problem. She still had to beat Crocodile, and help out the Princess Vivi. And the fact that her crew now surrounded her like wolves, hungry for answers.
Zoro asked calmly as he leaned against the rail, "You the guy chasing you?" He tried hard to ignore Sanji who went on about that man was nothing compared to himself, Sanji. And that Sanji was more worthy of Luffy-Chan's affection.
"YES! WHO WAS IT, LUFFY YOU IDOIT!" Nami scolded," By the looks of it, he really, really wanted you! Called out your name meaning he knows you! Don't tell me-" Nami gasped, looking at the girl, "He's a debt collector!"
"Yes, yes! Tell us who it is or I'll use my thousands year gained moves of punches on you!" threatened Usopp doing a lousy 'crane' pose.
How gullible Luffy was, went back a little, hands out in front of her. Begging for mercy and looked at him in awe. Sanji merely kicked Usopp in the face. "Don't threaten a woman captain like that! You haven't even been alive for thousands of years!"
"Eh heh," Luffy laughed, scratching the back of her head. "That's my older brother."
"Orah?" The entire crew exclaimed.
"I didn't know you had an older brother," Nami said, "Why didn't you tell us?"
"You guys never asked," Luffy said sheepishly. "His name is Ace, and he's strong! Someday I'll beat him!"
"And just who-" a voice said from behind Luffy on the rail, "Do you plan to beat?"
Startled, Luffy toppled forward. Ace stood there on the rail, looking down with a very big smile that promised no mercy. Crossing her arms, she said, "I'm not going back."
"Yes you are!" Ace said, "Sabo is here and he'll take you somewhere safe! Back to the marine base!"
Zoro and Sanji got in front of their captain in a protective stance. "We won't let you take Luffy anywhere she doesn't want to go, bastard," Zoro growled, his swords up and ready to slice at the man.
"Luffy-Chan doesn't want to with strange men like you," Sanji shouted.
Ace glared at the intfering two. They were protective over Luffy, good friends? Or maybe suitors? Shit no. "Stay out of it! This is a family matter!"
"And families should be considerate of the other's wishes!" Nami yelled.
"YEAH!" Usopp and Chopper agreed, both hiding behind Nami.
"DON'T HIDE BEHIND ME!"
"Plus-" Nami continued, "Luffy is our family so what concerns her concerns us!"
The whitebeard pirate growled. He wasn't about to go down without a fight. Marco and Thatch had left when Whitebeard called them for an important matter; Sabo had gone to stop Smoker from sailing after Luffy. Ace gritted his teeth ready to shout at them.
A spark had actually appeared in Luffy's dense head, an idea ringing. Jumping onto Ace, wrapping her arms around his neck so that she was dangling, she pouted and said, "Pwease Ace-nii? You know this is my dream, I promise I won't die!"
The effect was immediate. Ace was visibly trembling under his sister's puppy eyes, sweat starting to drip from his head. 'Shit!' He thought panicking, 'Where's Sabo when you need him! I won't allow it! I won't! I won't! N-'
"You promise the next time I see you and we fight and you lose you'll go back?" Ace asked, giving into his sister's plea.
The Straw-hat pirates' swetdropped, jaw dropping that Luffy had such power over her older brother.
"Sure!" Luffy squealed hugging him tight. "Thank you Ace-nii!"
Ace simply looked to the side blushing brightly. "I-I'll tell Sabo." Ace was defeated so quickly. All that hard work to find his little sister and bring her back home was a waste. Sabo was going to be pissed, Marco and Thatch annoyed. Whitebeard and Garp would be laughing their asses off.
Luffy dragged Ace in, grinning brightly. "Come in Ace! I'll introduce to everyone and all!" The rest of the crew followed, bemused at this situation's result. Usopp slowly wormed his way after them, accidently getting slammed in the torso by Nami who slammed the door on him.
Some hours later, Ace had to leave Luffy for a few minutes and go some miles away from their ship, Going Merry, so they wouldn't have to listen to Sabo's yells.
'AND YOU PROMISED HER!?"
"WHAT DID YOU EXPECT ME TO DO? I'M NOT LIKE YOU WHO CAN FEND OFF LUFFY'S PUPPY FACE! AND SHE WAS DOING THE LITTLE 'I'M SO CUTE- CUTSIE' VOICE TOO!"
"..."
Luffy's 'I'm so cute-cutsie' voice was what made her puppy face the ultimate puppy face that could make even the toughest of marines give in. She had used it at least twenty times on Sengoku and at least twice on Akainu (but she was only eight when she used it against him, the last time she saw him). It has worked without fail so far. Luckily, she didn't use it too often. Sabo can be immune to just the puppy face, but the adding effect of Luffy's 'I'm so cute-cutsie' voice, he would have given in.
"..."
"... That must have damaged your pride."
"No kidding."
"And all that hard work. You know Smoker tried to strangle me when I stopped him from sailing off after Luffy," Sabo grumbled, ignoring the Thatch that was going on about Ace giving in. Marco was trying to calm the older man down. "Though... I think he really wanted to kill me was because I destro- eh hm," he coughed, trying to correct himself and said in a forcible voice, "I accidently sent his ship flying when I patted it. Yes."
"Smokie deserved it." Ace said, thinking back to when Smoker tried to catch Luffy. His loss.
"Whatever. Marco-san wants you over here. Says it's important. Involving, crew matters."
"On my way," Ace grumbled. He had a feeling this wasn't good.
Chapter 3 done, yayz! ousfghjsfg, this is the longest out of them all... lol. Onto next chapter!