Chapter 4

There was an eerie silence in the room. A pin dropping could be heard from a mile away. It seemed that time had frozen. Robin cleared her throat, causing

everyone to look at her.

"I think that he is afraid of the unknown," Robin started "He doesn't remember what happened, for all he knows we threw him over board. I think we just need

to let him warm up to us and not force it." Zoro stood up quickly ignoring the rest of the crew; he placed his swords back onto his hip, placed the straw hat on

his head and basically ran out the door towards the cliffs on the island.

"What is his deal, we all miss Luffy. He doesn't have to act like he just watched his family die." Usopp said crossing his arms with a sigh. Franky and Chopper

both smacked the long nosed man, who landed face first on the floor with a huff.

"He had a different relationship then we had with Luffy." Sanji said softly as he walked to the open window and lit his cigarette. Everyone looked at him with

confusion while Robin just chuckled.

"You mean that they were, in layman's term, dating." Robin said looking at Sanji. Sanji sighed and nodded. "Why didn't they say anything?"

"They didn't want a hassle us with their problems." Sanji said softly. Everyone exchanged looks, but everyone seemed lost in thought for the moment.

Luffy stopped walking when he reached the cliff that over looked to ocean. There was a cross with a pinwheel placed in the ground next it. Luffy sighed as he

walked over and sat on the ground at the end of the cliff, his feet dangling over the edge. He gazed out at the water with a pout on his face. What had he done

wrong? He didn't know these people; he just wanted to be left alone to warm up a little. These pirates could be bad people for all he knew.

Luffy went to stand up, but felt a horrible migraine coming. He held his head as his vision started to spot with black.


He saw a form slightly bigger then his own running through the forest in front of him laughing. The person in front of him had a newspaper hat on and was

swinging a cardboard sword back and forth.

"Come on Luffy, if you can't catch me, how are you going to be king of the pirates?" the boy in front of him laughed over his shoulder running faster. Luffy

laughed loudly and tried to keep up.

"ACE! Slow down, I'm going to get lost." Luffy yelled trying to grab the other boy's arm.

"No way Luffy!" Ace said as he took a quick turn and ran out of Luffy's sight.

"Ace!" Luffy yelled, he kept running after Ace only to trip over a root of a tree that was sticking up, Luffy landed face first into the dirt, while scrapping his knees

and an elbow. Luffy sat up slowly and looked at his cuts, they were bleeding a little. Luffy's eyes started to water from the sting of the cuts.

"OW!" Luffy yelped as he stood up and limped over towards the tree to lean against it. He sat there crying softly, in pain and fear of being left alone in the woods

as it started to get dark.

"LUFFY! Where are you?" Ace yelled through the woods. Luffy looked up to see the concerned face of the boy.

"There you are. I was getting worried baby brother." Ace said with a smile. He leaned down and pulled Luffy onto his back. He walked them towards their house

talking about random stuff as Luffy slowly started to drift to sleep on his older brother's shoulders.


Luffy opened his eyes to see the darkening sky above him. He was still alone sitting at the end of the cliff. He sighed, he would have to ask Nojiko about the Ace

person and see it was a memory or just some weird dream. Luffy scooted away from the cliff and then slowly stood up. He decided on his way house that he

would walk the long way and pick a few flowers to give to Nojiko to apologize for being rude.

As he got closer to the field that the flowers sat in he heard someone huffing and groaning. He stayed quiet and slowly walked through the woods trying to see

the person without the person seeing or hearing him.

As he got to the last tree he saw the green haired pirate from Nojiko's house swinging two swords elegantly as he held on in his mouth. Luffy watched in

amazement at how graceful but deadly this guy was. He was about to walk away, not to disturb the swords man, when he stepped on a fallen twig causing it to

snap under his feet, which caused the swordsman to stop in his track and look over his shoulder at Luffy.

"Luffy?" the swordsman asked confused, " What are you doing out here?" Luffy just looked at the man with indifference.

"I was walking home, if I'm aloud back in the door that it is." Luffy said crossing his arms trying to play it off as if this man didn't impress him at all. Zoro sighed

and put his swords back on his hips. He walked over towards Luffy, Luffy backed away slowly. Zoro chuckled and picked up the hat that was sitting on the ground

near his feet.

"Nojiko was right you really did change. The Luffy I knew would never back away from someone, especially me." Zoro said softly as he walked around the

younger man and headed towards the house that they were both staying at.

"Luffy, just know that if you have any questions about your past the crew and I are more then willing to help you remember things. You are important to us."

Zoro stated walking away slowly.

"WAIT! What's your name?" Luffy asked before the man was out of earshot.

"Roronoa Zoro." Zoro said looking back at the man. Luffy said the name slowly secretly enjoying the way it rolled off his tongue.


Shorter chapter, but more to come hope everyone is enjoying it :)