Luffy looked straight into the two pirates eyes and smirked not hiding a hint of his amusement. Ace and Sabo did what their bodies told them to do on instinct, they slowly started to back up before taking off on a dead sprint. Luffy's amused smirks are worse than his mischievous ones. ]

Thatch and Marco watched the two disappear in the trees and turned back to Luffy questioning him what happened with their eyes.

Luffy just shrugged, "Leave them,they'll come back around when they realize their bored." He explained.

Thatch rose a brow, "What don't you kids know how to entertain yourselves so that your not bored?" He asked.

Luffy snorted, "RRiightt, because we haven't tried." He looked at Thatch with a bored expression, "When you have two super genius' and a super smart kid join forces, nothing stays fun anymore just down right dangerous."

Thatch gulped. It didn't take a genius to tell that all three of them were smarter than he was. And the one standing in front of him seemed to be the smartest out of all of them. Just lazier than them. 'I wonder if he's stronger than them too?' He mused to himself.

Marco hit the back of Thatch's head with a sigh, "Don't even think about it." He warned.

Thatch turned his head and whistled innocently, "I've got know idea what your talking about."

Making Marco sweatdrop and Luffy's eye to twinkle slightly, "Think about what?" He asked.

Marco shook his head, "Nothing, yoi." He replied blankly.

Luffy sighed and sat back down on the tree stump, "You know you have two options in situations like these. One, you tell me what your talking about. Or two, you ignore me completely and I figure it out myself."

Thatch looked at Luffy with his eyes roaring of challenge, "I'm not telling. Dealing with an unhapp pineapple puts everyone in a bad mood."

A tick mark appeared on Marco's forehead, "I am not a pineapple, yoi." He said calmly.

Luffy looked at Thatch and then at Marco, "Then I'll let you choose. Would you like to listen to me make my deduction silently or out loud so you can hear that I am not guessing?"

"Aloud/yoi." They replied in unison.

Luffy nodded and moved his eyes calmly over their body, "Well, Thatch is interested in me and my brothers geniusness." He replied calmly and watched Thatch gulp proving his point. He tilted his head to the side questioning, "More afraid of me than my brothers, huh. Your curiosity is what was driving your thoughts so it was either you want to test who in fact was smarter... No, that's not it. Something else, personality's?... No, that;s not it either... Ahh. I know."

Marco and Thatch took in a gulp of oxygen.

"You want to know which one is stronger between us three and you think it's me because I said I was faster at processing information." Luffy replied.

"Damn." Thatch replied breathless, he had forgotten how to breathe after he took that gulp of air, "How the hell did you figure that out without asking anything?" He asked.

Marco nodded in agreement, he was about to ask the same thing.

"Deduction and by reading your body language and expression." He replied nonchalantly.

"A good judge of character aren't you, yoi?" Marco asked.

Luffy looked at him like he was stupid. Making Marco actually feel stupid. "Baka, anybody can be a good judge of character if they really put their minds to it. I simply do it a million times faster than they can. And I haven't judged your character, yet." He eyed them warily. "I'll read your character when I agree to actually trust you." He said as he turned away, "By the way, you both lied. I'm still not having fun and have become bored again."

They could only watch as he walked away. Almost completely frozen in their thoughts beside their steady breathing, after remembering how to breathe. Something happened to those damn brats that gave them trusting issue's. And they could kick themselves for not realizing that the kid had never taken his guard down at all since they saw him.

Marco sighed and rubbed his forehead, "We should call Pops and tell him that we found the brats, yoi."

Thatch nodded in agreement suppressing the shiver he felt in his back, "That's an idea. We still have to find them again though. I've got a feeling somethings going to happen." He warned slightly.

"It's a gut feeling isn't it, yoi?"

"Yeah."

"Then we should find them and find them fast. I hate to say it, but your gut feelings are accurate in a scary way, yoi."

Thatch shot Marco a dirty look and the two began hopping through the trees in the direction that Luffy went.

Ace and Sabo had rushed ahead to start emptying their treasure filled trees because they knew they were going to have to go with the pirates whether they wanted to or not. Besides Gramps said to go with him and there isn't better judge of character than him, beside them of course. They were better at most things. Scaringly so.

They had already emptied out the second filled tree when Luffy jumped beside them from inside the trees and started to help. He would carry the filled bags while they packed them.

Luffy currently had 7 full adult body size bags hanging over his shoulders. Make that 8 as Ace threw another one on top.

"You okay, Lu?" Ace asked concerned for his twin.

Luffy smiled up at his brother, "I'm good." He reassured.

Ace dimly nodded and went back to filling another bag. After they finished the last bag of the second tree they headed to the third which was by where they had all originally came from. Aka; the direction of Thatch and Marco.

Resolving themselves to have to show the pirates there stash they all sighed in unison and laughed at each other for it. It didn't take long for them to run into them as they were heading in the direction Luffy went using the trees like he did.

They stopped in front of them with Luffy still carrying the treasure filled bags. He guard was completely up even though he didn't look like it. His bored expression seemed real, but Marco could tell that this expression was being acted out by the ten year old right now. He was protecting his brothers indiscreetly. And most likely didn't care if they did or not.

They were his brothers and he would protect them, just like they would for him. They were all each other really had after all. And that bond was far stronger than any tie they could have with their parents or other adults, people in a whole together would never form such a strong bond between each other.

At least that's what they thought at first, but the group of pirates they were going to meet were all like them in different ways. Their situations might have been different, but in the end they all only wanted two things; freedom and family.

A want the boys thought they were the only ones to have. And it's very rare for the twins to make a mistake in calculations. A good miscalculation.

Next Chapter the twins and Sabo will meet Whitebeard.

... Sabo's still to be decided and I need to know before the next chapter or I'll just have to wing it. If anything, I could just make him devil fruitless and if I get an idea for a devil fruit for him I could just create a situation where he gets it.

No complaints on what I chose. I gave you guys a chance to help out and my pleas were ignored!

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