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Ace and Luffy looked, perplexed, at the kittens in the basket on a table in the tavern of Makino.

"What are those things ?" asked Ace, while Luffy pocked at them.

"Babies cats. It's called kittens, Ace," Sabo said, sitting at the table, looking at the two D with some amusement.

Both blackhaired kids watched the littles creatures with suspicion. It was almost funny to see.

"There are from the cat of the neighbor," explained Makino who was wiping a glass behind the counter. "And since you do not stop to request a pet to Silver-san, I thought of you when she told me about the kittens."

"But there are si small !" exclaimed both D. with a plaintive pout.

"Of course, they are kittens," Rayleigh replied without looking up from his newspaper.

"But we, we want a tiger ! Right, Luffy ?" Ace said.

"Hun !" Luffy nodded waving his arms in the air.

"You are crazy..." muttered Sabo at the edge of exasperation.

"It's just now that you realised it, Sabo-kun ?" Rayleigh chuckled.

"It will take me more than a year to get used to their madness," commented Sabo.

"I do not blame you ... after years of sailing with Roger, he always managed to surprise me and infuriate me."

"Why did you join him, if he exasperated you so much ?" asked Makino.

Rayleigh closed his newspaper and confessed with a smile :

"He did not really left me choice, and... the years I spent with him were funny and full of adventures. If it' was to repaet, I would do it again. The best years of my life, I think. And raising Ace and Luffy give me reminiscence of that time I was sailing with him."

"Ace and Luffy ressemble him that much ?" wondered Sabo.

"Especially Luffy. As airhead that his was, at times. But for the look, Ace is his perfect mirror, minor the freckles."

"Really... hmmmm ..."

Sabo began to stare openly at Ace.

"Anyway !" Ace announced by standing on his chair. "I don't want of this kittens !"

"It's you who wants a pet, with your brother, so why not kittens ?" Rayleigh sighed.

"We want a tiger."

"Ace, I said no. No tiger at home."

"But I'll take care well of it with Luffy ! Promise !"

"Ace... quick question ... you'll make it fit how in the house ? You showed me the tiger there six months ago, no ? You did well see its size, no ?"

"Yes !"

"He can't go through the door. It is too big. Also it's a wild animal."

"Pfff ... I'm sure that the pirates themselves, they have huge wild animals on their ships," Luffy muttered.

"If you are Edward Newgate, and your ship is huge Moby Dick, don't worry about it. But if not, out of the question. I said no, no tiger. So either you take the kittens, or no pet at home at all."

"Bad Ji-chan !" growled both D. with a pout.

Rayleigh looked over his glasses, but didn't have time to do more as a villager came in running, breathless.

"Kaizoku !" he exclaimed.

Ziiiiioooooon !

Ziiiiioooooon !

It was just two kids who had run to the port to see the pirates... well, Luffy achieve to fell with his face in the snow, but they arrived before that Rayleigh was even able to rise from his seat.

"Whouawe..." Sabo was surprised.

"And you still have not seen anything, just see," told Rayleigh.

He put his cloak over his shoulders and pulled the hood over his head. With Sabo, Makino and villagers, he went to the docks.


The ship was still far away, but one coul discerned the form of a Viking ship and a black flag.

"It will be a great big bonus entry when we will become pirates !" Luffy giggled.

"Of course , it kicks ass almost all the pirates who come here !" Ace snorted.

"We will be the most wanted of all East Blue's pirates !" The two brothers laughed loudly.

"Boys... remember me teach you the Haki", Rayleigh said by joining them.

"Why, Ji-chan ?" Ace asked , looking at him.

"Because this pirates have the level of someone who knows the Shin Sekai. Stay back."

Silver and put a hand on his sword, suspicious.

What did someone, of this level, was doing here in the East Blu , the lowest of the four oceans ?

The ship anchored in the harbor. Seeing the flag from more closer make Rayleigh relaxed somewhat. Two crossed swords under a skull with a scratch on a orbit. Maybe it does not explain why the pirates were there, but at least there will probably cause no trouble.

"We can't, really ?" Ace asked who was dying to go and fight.

"No, not those, Ace. The level is too high for both of you... one day, perhaps, but not now," Rayleigh said with a tender smile for the two small D. .

The two brothers sulk sightly and take a step back.

"Don't mourn on this, you'll have another day of glory," chuckled Sabo.

This does not console the two brothers.

Two pirates jumped ashore.

"We come in peace. We just want to replenish food and alcohol," assured one of them with black hair ponytail .

"Especially alcohol," said the other, a man with bright red hair with a straw hat, and scars, like the flag.

"You have the money for it, at least ?" Silver asked with a sly smile.

"Yes, we have the money, it's true, eh, Okashira ?" said the guy in ponytail.

The redhead looked Rayleigh and his jaw dropped in surprise.

"Silver-san ! It is ya !?" he said, recognizing the former pirate.

"Hisashiburi Shanks-kun. Glad to see you took in force !" Rayleigh chuckled, dropping his hood.

All the pirates now had their jaw dropping in surprise.

Holy shit ! What the Mei-Ô (that everybody thought dead) was doing in a remote island of East Blue ?

"Woop-san, I'll make sure my old aprentice and his crew behave correctly for the duration of their stay. I'll pay for the damage," assured Rayleigh.

Woop, who was with all the other villagers on the docks, looked with suspicion at all this, then shrugged, before retiring to his home, and find protection against the winter. All the villagers, except kids and Makino returned home, too.

"But what the heck are ya doing here ?" Shanks inquired at his former vice-captain.

"I can return you the question, Shanks-kun. The Shin Sekai is not next door. You're tired of getting your ass kicked by Newgate ?" Rayleigh chuckled. "Your men may land if they behaves. I would like to avoid attracting the attention of the Marine more than necessary."

"Speaking of attention, I'll go back home," muttered Sabo.

"Huh ? But... stay here ! Stay with us ! Oji-chan has already said he saw no problem with you living here, with us !" Ace begged.

"If I really disappear, my parents will engage men to find me, and Silver-san does not have enough money to buy them and keep it secret," Sabo explain to him. "See you tomorrow, anyway. Ja na, Ace ! Ja na, Luffy !"

"You want me to accompagn you, Sabo-kun ?" Makino proposed.

Even if the kid was not happy at home, he insisted on going back. He did not want Ace and Rayleigh to be found. If too many people came to know about them, Sengoku would be obliged to put them under arrest... or order a Buster Call.

"See you tomorrow, Sabo-kun. And do not forget that my door is always open. I would feel less alone in being the sane person, if you're there..." Silver said.

"I'll remember it" Sabo assurred before leaving with Makino.

Shanks finished telling his men to come on land and turned to Rayleigh.

"Seriously , what the fuck are ya doing here, Silver-san ? I went down to visit the place of execution of the senshô, but I didn't expect to see ya again, especially seeing that in the Shin Sekai, everybody say your pretty dead !"

"I refute, I and Marco exchange letters very often," smiled Rayleigh. "As for my presence here... I dedicated my life to the future. Boys, let me introduce you to your sempai."

Rayleigh turned around, smiling, to the D.'s brothers.

"Sempai ?" wondered Shanks.

"Ace, Luffy, this is Akagami no Shanks, a Yonkou. He was an apprentice on the Oro Jackson," presented Rayleigh.

"Hajimemashite," Ace bowed.

Luffy had stars in his eyes.

"Shanks-kun, let me introduce you to the two future oceans' terrors... Portgas D. Ace, the young boy with freckles, and Monkey D. Luffy, the smallest. I am their adoptive uncle."

"Monkey ... as ..." Shanks pipped.

"Luffy is the grandson of Garp, small world, indeed."

The name of Garp made the kids turned pale.

"Who would have thought he could have a child, and in addition to that, a grandson. I'm enchanted to know ya, kiddos !" Shanks greeted with a smile.

"How does the Shin Sekai looks like ?" asked the two boys immediately.

"If you are two true D. as was my senshô, well I can say that the Shin Sekai is just as crazy as ya should be ! You can call me Shanks-nii-san !"

"Ace ! Ace ! Ace !" Luffy called, pulling the sleeve of his elder brother.

"Nani, Lu ?" Ace asked looking at the small kid next to him.

"Shihihi ! I have an idea !"

Ace leaned forward to listen to the idea of his baby brother and slapped him behind the head growling :

"It's impossible ! You're just six years old, Lu ' ! Use your brain instead of saying such nonsense ! Come on, come, we'll catch cold if you stay in the snow to do nothing ! We are going to hunt something, Ji-chan !"

"Do not go too far, night falls quickly in the winter, you could lose yourself," Silver said, smiling.

Ace grabed his little brother by the collar of his coat and hauled behind him into the jungle.

"Real terrors that are barely six and nine years old... Well, almost ten for Ace, he will be it in two weeks," Rayleigh said with a proud smile.

"They seem to adore ya... who would have thought that the great Mei-Ô, will be in hiding just to raise children," smiled Shanks.

"Not many people. Sengoku had to wonder if he was dreaming when he heard it."

"Sengoku knows ya're there !?"

Shanks was surprised.

If Sengoku knew the island should not even exist anymore ! After all, Rayleigh was one person you could pretend of taking the place of Roger as Kaizoku-Ou and neither the Marine nor the World Government did not want this possibility to achieve.

"It is a menace hanging over my head and those of the children," Rayleigh sighed. "Do me a favor, Shanks -kun. If you cross Dragon, in open water, told him that if approach Luffy, I would make sure that his head will be sent as birthday gift to Sengoku."

"Why ?"

"The kid does not know it yet... he is his father. Dragon dropped him to Garp when he was a baby."

"USO !"

Shanks' jaw dropped in surprise.

After all, if Garp was the grandfather of the kid, it meant that the hero of the Marine was the father of one of the people considered the most dangerous of this world ! Garp father of a revolutionary and grandfather of a kid who would probably become a pirate.

Shanks closed his jaw with a small smile and tried not to laugh.

Oh, he really wish he was a little mouse to see how the old Garp live with all this...

"For Absolute Justice, the existence of Luffy is an abomination," Rayleigh growled.

"Not just him, ne... The little Ace... he looks exactely like the cap'tain..." muttered Shanks, losing his desire to laugh.

Absolute Justice.

Two words that can make him lose his good humor, even when he was far from sober.

"Shanks -kun ... it's a secret, okay ? Ace is perhaps Kaizoku Ouji, but if the news spreads, there will be many problems," Rayleigh asked softly.

"I understand... but to discover that the senshô had a son... Newgate'll cause a tsunami with laughter, had he learn it !" Shanks snort.

"You're not going to tell him, will you... ?"

"Ya have my word... however..."

Shanks took off his straw hat and looked at it.

"This hat rightful his, no... ? It was from his father, after all..." he said looking at the straw hat.

"Baka, keep it, this is a gift from Roger."

Rayleigh took the hat from his former apprentice hand and put it back on the head of Shanks .

"Maybe I'll stay a little longer than expected... promised, we will be discreet," assured Shanks. "Just to get an idea of the ferocity of the future."

"Beware , Shanks-kun, at this rate, when they succeed in Shin Sekai, they'll have a lot of power. At least, if they agree to follow my teaching until they have at least twenty years old."

"Do ya think they will accept to stay so long ?"

"I doubt it ! And Garp must also does not decide to remove them from me to make marines of them. If something happens to me, the boys will be under his responsibility, this is what has been agreed. And also remains the threat Sengoku represents. If he doessn't tolerate my presence anymore here, I would be forced to flee, and nothing says that I could take the boys with me."

"I never thought to see ya so attentive to brats, Silver-san !"

"I have developed what we call the paternal's instinct, Shanks-kun."


The three boys swallowed a last plate before getting up from the table of the restaurant they had infiltrated.
Ace hurried to open the window and with the other two, they jumped into the street, laughing, before the restaurant's owner came to them with the bill.

"I ate really well !" Luffy giggled.

"We will redo it !" Ace laughed. "You will still be with us on this one, Sabo ?"

"I hope so !" assured Sabo with a huge smile.

They plunged into the streets of Goa, causing disorder in their path. Until a hand seized them by the collar and lifted them all three off earth.

"I thought I told you not attracted attention," Rayleigh growled, quite upset. "You'll do what you want when you'll be pirates and revolutionaries, but as long as you are under my responsibility, you behaves yoursevles !"

"But Ji-chan !" protested both D. pleadingly.

The next moment , the three children were back on the ground, a nice bump on the head each. Ace and Luffy had one more for there intent to protest.

"We return to the village, now. And quickly, you three," demanded Rayleigh.

The kids bowed their heads, contrite, and took the way for exit the town, followed by Rayleigh.


Shanks raised an eyebrow seeing the three contrite kids enter the bar own by Makino, followed by Rayleigh.

"What did they do this time ?" Makino asked with a soft smile.

"They went in town to bring havoc there, and they have eaten in a restaurant without paying again. And I spend all my time to not to attract attention," Rayleigh sighed.

"Future little hooligans worthy of the name, from what I see", chuckled Shanks while Rayleigh sat at the counter next to him.

"Beware yourself, Shanks-kun. Ace and Luffy will spread choas in the Grand Line," warned the former pirate.

This made Shanks smile.

"And ya, kiddo, what's your name ?" he asked to Sabo.

"Sabo, Yonkou-san!" answered Sabo.

"And ya want to become what when you grow up ?"

"I would like to be a revolutionary ! Like Dragon-san !"

Rayleigh had a deep sigh. Bad start for what Sengoku destined the children... although the Gensui wasn't interest in Sabo that he did not know, and Garp either.

"Ji-chan ? Have you thought about the tiger ?" asked Luffy.

He and Ace offer to Rayleigh their cuttest and biggest puppy eyes.

"I speak for nothing," Rayleigh sighed. "I said no , no tiger at home, boys !"

Shanks chuckled into his glass and looked at the two brothers ewit the tavern, sulking.

"Benn, we will stay a little longer than expected, here", Shanks said to his second." I'm very interested about this future.'

"As you wish, Okashira" muttered Benn lighting a cigarette.

"Do not count on me to cover you with Garp, Shanks-kun" warned Rayleigh.

"Promise, we'll behave," assured Shanks with a smile.