Chapter One: Brotherhood
Ace: 11
Zoro: 10
Luffy: 8
(A year after Luffy meets Zoro and the "Do you want me to live?" Conversation with Ace)
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Obnoxious.
~Grrrroooowwl~
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"Ace…'Ro…I'm gonna die! FEED ME." The voice and supposed owner of the familiar growls whined obnoxiously.
Ace scowled in annoyance, sending a look to Zoro. 'Get some grub', it ordered. Zoro caught the message and Ace watched his green-haired friend stared at him incredulously. 'Why me?' Zoro thought back. Ace just stared at Zoro with a stern look. Zoro rolled his eyes and glared right back.
"Zoro! Ace! I need meat!"
~Grrrroooowwl~
"Zoro's gonna get you meat." Ace declared. Zoro spluttered indignantly.
"But I always have to do it! It's about time you go too!"
"It's because you always do it that you should do it now!" Ace finalized. Zoro huffed. This wasn't going anywhere as Ace was really stubborn. He held out a fisted hand in response. Ace stared at it before deadpanning. "Janken…really?"
Zoro didn't respond, and Ace sighed. He always won at Janken (Rock-Paper-Scissors) anyways, largely due to Zoro's adamant belief that a scissors' blade could easily cut through rock if wielded properly. Unfortunately for Zoro, that's not how the game worked.
""Ichi! Ni! San!""
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"Dammit!" Zoro scowled. "Scissors can cut rock, Ace!"
"Not in this game."
"I don't wanna hunt."
"Neither do I."
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"Someone hunt. Me. Some. FOOD."
"We don't have to.." Zoro suddenly said. He dug around in his pockets and pulled out a small golden cross. "I actually had this for a long time. Even before I met Ace. My sensei gave it to me saying it was mine. I don't really know what it is, though. But with this, I'm sure we can dine and dash"
"Awesome! We haven't done that in so long!" Luffy exclaimed, just as his stomach growls. "…Hungry!"
A hooded figure walked slowly through the streets, unnoticed and slow. The figure didn't mind much, as that was what they were aiming for. They found a decent restaurant and waltzed in, immediately confronted by an overly dressed man, presumably the owner of the place.
"Sorry, but my diner does not accept terminal scum like you." The man answered in an annoyingly haughty voice. The figure wordlessly held out a golden cross pendant, and the noble's eyes widened.
"Th-This is…!" The nobleman glanced up in surprise. "Come in, come in! I'll show you to our best private suite!" The man smiled a fake smile. "Of course, wouldn't want to direct attention to yourself…" The last part went unheard, unfortunately.
The cloaked figure walked in as the man called a servant to serve them as he had some…business to attend to beforehand.
Once the troublesome trio left the vicinity of the restaurant and into the safety of the forest, it was time for them to hunt. No harm in having a second dinner with the bandits, right? Easily taking down two wild boars, Luffy, Zoro, and Ace headed towards the bandits' humble abode…
"The islands in the south~ are warm~
Paina-purupuru~ their heads get really hot~
And they're all idiots~!"
Ace's face hardened and Zoro sighed in resolution as Luffy continued his song.
"Second verse!
The islands in the north~ are cold~
Hyakkoi-koikoi~ their heads shiver all around~
And they're all idiots~!"
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On Whitebeard's ship, Trafalgar Law sneezed and suddenly has the sudden urge to dissect a rubber ball and set it on fire. Or anything rubber for that matter. For what reason he didn't know, but it would be better to quell this urge lest he lose his mind.
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On his way to the presumably safe East Blue, Sanji sneezed and his eyes darted around to see if anyone had heard. Being a stowaway was hard work. To his right on a shelf, he found a rubber band and had the sudden urge to snap it in half.
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"Third verse!
The islands in the east~"-""Shut up Luffy!"" Zoro and Ace whacked Luffy in the head, where it bounced back but still had two rather large bumps.
"Oww! Ace! 'Ro! That hurt!"
The three made their way back to the familiar clearing, to the bandit's home base. Luffy burst through the door as Zoro and Ace put down the animal meat.
"HEEEY! MAN-WOMAN! WE'RE BACK! MAKE DINNER!~" the youngest bellowed.
"Yeah—pfft—man-woman! Cook us some grub!" Ace smirked playfully. Zoro hadn't bothered restraining himself and outright howled in laughter.
"YOU BRATS!" The woman(?) roared, storming into the main room. Grabbing a hold of the two boars, she scowls at the boys. "Give me that."
Slightly strained but nevertheless undeterred, she picked up all three of the boys by the backs of their shirts and tossed them to the washroom.
"Don't come back out until you count to five thousand! You smell like shit!"
Zoro scowled at the man-woman's back for a minute before water splashed in his face. Sputtering in surprise, he swerves his head in the direction of the perpetrator. "Ace, what the hell?!"
"Aw, c'mon marimo! Don't you feel right at home?" He received a harsh spurt of water at his face. "Ow! That stung!"
"Hmph. You had it coming." Zoro huffed and splashed Ace again, resulting in an all-out water fight. Luffy, on the other hand couldn't join his brothers in the barrel to bathe lest he drown, so he settled with dumping himself with water in a bucket. Luffy glanced at his bickering friends and grinned. Things would never change!
The three of them were at their favorite spot in the woods, a cliffside right by the ocean. Mid-morning and it was incredibly peaceful.
"Ace. Luffy. Do you have anyone you want to meet out there one day? Somewhere on that ocean?"
"Hn? Why ask that, Zoro? You already know I wanna beat that Whitebeard so I can prove that I'm better than—"
"Better than who?" Luffy interrupted, curious. Ace froze. Zoro looked away. "Uh..oops?"
"Zoro! I'm gonna kill you!"
"I forgot he didn't know, okay?! We've been together for so long already anyways so does it really matter?" Zoro defended as Ace tackled him. "For all we know Luffy's dad could be the world's most wanted!"
"—But he is." Luffy put in his two cents. Zoro continued, using the sheathe of the Wadō to keep Ace at bay.
"See? Not to mention that that crazy old man Garp is his gra—wait, what?" Both older boys stared at Luffy, who blinked owlishly at them.
"Monkey D. Dragon is my dad."
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"God dammit, Lu." Ace sighed.
"What?"
"Idiot." Zoro facepalmed.
"What did I do?!"
Zoro's eyes found Ace's. "And here we were worried. I was gonna tell him anyway since it's obvious he wouldn't care and I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even know our dads. I just didn't expect a brat like him to be the son of Dragon. Leader of the Revolution."
"What about your dads?" Luffy whined. Ace scowled.
"Our real names are Dracule Zoro and Gol D. Ace. Our dads are Dracule Mihawk and Gol D. Roger respectively." Zoro deadpanned.
Ace held his breath and Zoro had never felt more exasperated in his life. Finally, Luffy spoke.
"…who?"
Ace bashed his head against a tree because now was a good time for his narcolepsy to kick in and Zoro was tempted to do the same. It was a sad world if he is supposedly the level-headed one out of the three. "The World's Greatest Swordsman and the Pirate King, Luffy."
Realization dawned on his face and he stared at Zoro in shock, who arched a brow.
"THE PIRATE KING IS A MOSSHEAD?!" Luffy screamed, eyes bulging.
"NO YOU IDIOT, THAT'S ACE'S DAD!" Zoro retaliated. He paused. "AND WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST CALL ME?"
"Oh." Luffy ignored the second question and walked over to Ace who glanced at him wearily.
"DOES THIS MAKE YOU THE PIRATE PRINCE?!" he practically screamed in his ear.
"Luffy! Stop YELLING IN OUR FACES!"
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"ITEEEEE!"
Zoro rubbed Luffy's head soothingly as it had two very noticeable bumps that the bandages refused to hold down. Ace said he would be back so in the meanwhile, Zoro tended to Luffy's bruises. Luffy had an uncharacteristic scowl on his face. No, actually, it was a pout.
"When I become a pirate, I'll be stronger than both of you! Our spars won't end in a tie anymore, Zoro, I'm 'Super Serious Luffy!'" the youngest declared, banging his fists on the tree stump they sat by. Zoro snorted.
"Of course, Lu."
"And you and Ace will join my crew!"
"Hell no! I'm going to be captain! I'm the oldest." Ace interrupted, bursting from the bushes.
"Oh, Ace, you're back." Zoro's gaze found the items Ace had brought and arched a brow. "Sake?"
"Sake?" Luffy asked, looking at the bottle. "That's what Shanks always drank.—And I'm the Captain, Ace."
"I'll tell you exactly why I'm going to be Captain after this…" Ace set down the items. "Did you know that if you exchange cups of sake, you become brothers…?"
"Brothers?" Zoro repeated.
"We're going to become brothers?!" Luffy asked, stars in his eyes and completely forgetting their earlier argument. Ace nodded, a fond smile on his face. He pours the sake into the cups and passes them out.
The three of them raise their glasses. """Brothers!""" and drank from the cup.
Luffy immediately gagged and entered a coughing fit. "BITTER!"
Ace tried to keep his breakfast down and inhaled as much air as he can to soothe the burn down his throat. Both of the D. brothers looked in the direction of the one voice missing from the coughing frenzy. "That's foul!"
Zoro was drinking straight out of the bottle. "Ah! That's some good stuff!" He noted the silence and looked at his new brothers. He stared at them, confused.
"What?"
"How are you drinking that stuff?!" Ace exclaimed. Just thinking of drinking as much as a hearty gulp made him pale. Luffy seemed to think the same.
"It's poison I tell you! poison!"
"It's perfectly fine! I don't get what you guys are talking about!" To prove this, Zoro took one more swing and let out a satisfied sigh after he finished the rest.
The two continued to stare wide-eyed at him
It comes to say that when Dadan discovers that Zoro was the source of her missing booze, she makes sure that he doesn't get ahold of them anymore. At least, by her hands. Garp would kill her if he found out-even is she wasn't the one who gave it to him.
SO IM SUDDENLY TYPING IN WINDINGS AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO STOP.. HOW DO I STOP?!
Oh, ok nvm. That was weird. I couldn't stop typing in WingDings for a moment there. Cool. Anyway, TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY! woot. I'm not into parties so my family and I are just going to eat out for Chicken Teriyaki~ Did I spell that right? I dunno but oh well.
REVIEWS!:
LaLuneWolf:
I am so hooked, I cannot wait until the next chapter. I really love hpw it is coming together, and how you are introducing each of them.
XD I don't think much on how, I just do, but it's nice to know that it's appreciated!
Black' Victor Cachat:
Good if depressing work depicting Law's mentality upon meeting Doflamingo. X-D for how Robin ends up aboard. Short but sweet account of her first year with them. Yes, it was a bit rushed, but optimistic for the rest
Iv'e seen your other reviews, don't worry! And thanks for the compliments about how I began this story with Zoro! The rest of this fic will be, for the most part, following Zoro and Luffy. Not their POV per say, but follow them around on their adventure.
Izzi22
I can't wait! Can't wait! Keep Writing! Keep Writ! Keep! Ke! Ke! Og, I sound like Mrs Merry Christmas now. Anyway! Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Wriiiiiiiiiiiiiitttingggggggg! (now I'm Mr. Four? What the heck?)
XD yo! yo! yo! your-enthusiasm-is-contagious! Glaaad yoooouuuu're enjooooyiiing thiiiiiiiiiiiiiis...!
Matt:
I can't seem to find Rogue IV is it a real story on this site? If so whose it's author?
I think I found it! "The Sun and Sea" by aslbrosyo Chapter eight! The link may or may not work, but I hoped they would continue, but they didn't, so I did this spinoff of it! There we go! CHAPTER ONE IS FINISHED!
Hint for next chappie: "FIST OF LOVE!"