A/N: This chappy is around 1k shorter but a lot of things have happened and I'm proud to say in around 3 or 4 more chapter we'll actually being starting canon!
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Disclaimer: I don't own one piece and if I did ace wouldn't have died!
Chapter 4: Siblings? A family?
Lambo sighed, how the hell did he get into this position?
He groaned-only one word.
Garp.
"Bwahahaha, I'm sure you'd like my grandson luffy! Took over me, he did! Bwahahahaha!" Garp chatted and snacked on some rice crackers, mouth open.
Lambo was disgusted.
Bloody mafia family's, can't you run away or something?
I try but he always seems to catch me and thinks it's a game. Then...
Lambo shivered- hands on the top of his head at the thought.
The 'fist of love' would even knock reborn down!
What about you, you're the new World's Greatest Hitman when reborn die-
-Those days are over lampo- please don't, the memories aren't very pleasant.
I understand but you can't avoid those days forever!
Oh I'm aware, but I can try.
Yeah yeah...and I thought I could avoid Giotto's intuition!
Both of the lightning users shivered at the the thought of hyper intuition-it was something deadly, and they were thankful it wasn't used against them!
...Well when they didn't eat a strawberry cake lying around.
They never did it again.
It was even worse when both of the users were angry because someone hid their strawberry cake(reborn/G) and the two lightning users usually get blamed.
"By the way, we're on our way to my hometown, it's too late to go back to your village." Garp randomly stated and lambo looked at him with an open mouth.
The mouth than turned into a snarl.
"I'm going to kill you!"
Sengoku felt very happy for some reason.
"Oh garp, what have you done now?" He questioned with a sigh. Sengoku then smirked."Although, I think I have another ally now!"
Wasn't garp very popular?
It's been a few weeks and lambo was not a happy man.
Not that he was a man in the first place...
Garp was getting on his nerves and forced him to help the other marines whenever there was a storm.
Lambo was five.
Five!
Not to mention, but they were also in the grandline, which was even worse!
Lambo sighed and flopped down on the deck. He was tired and frankly won't hesitate in electrocuting anyone.
Even if it was law.
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
No, that would be ace's job, and I'm too tired to deal with you lampo!
Well you seem fine enough if you can argue!
Lambo cut the bastard off.
"We're here!" Garp's booming voice echoed around the ship and lambo shifted and forced himself to get up.
"Gramps!" A childish voice called out and garp grabbed lambo, jumping onto the island.
"Bwahahaha did you miss your awesome granpa, luffy?" Garp asked with a grin, dangling a lambo who was done with life.
A pinky was stuck up a nose.
"Nope." Luffy replied bluntly.
Lambo shivered at the black aura that threatened to consume him.
"FIST OF LOVE!" Garp cried and punched luffy, tossing lambo after him.
Lambo adjusted the bandage on his head with a sigh.
Why did he attract such weirdo's?
It's not like you can chat!
Really Lampo, I'm completely normal!
You can control and produce lightning not to mention you are currently talking to a dead man.
I am sick and tired of your sass and lazy ass. Go die.(That rhymed!)
I am lazy, sass is one of my strong points and no, I'm already dead.
Lambo cut off the sarcastic lampo with an eyebrow twitching. There was no point arguing-you aren't going to win.
The only person who could win is Fran.
That boy is full of it!
"So who the hell are you?" Luffy asked.
"Lambo, nice to meet you." Lambo replied.
"I'm Monkey. D. Luffy !" Luffy exclaimed with a grin.
"OI,Luffy!" Garp shouted and both the boys winced."Take of him, he's your brother now so look after him!" Lambo gaped.
"...So, I'm not going back?!" Lambo mumbled disbelief on his face."OI OLD GEEZER, TAKE ME BACK!"
Garp was long gone.
And that was the start of a beautiful friendship/brotherhood...childhood?
"MEAT?!"
"Luffy, don't touch tha-"
"OW!"
"What would like today, lambo?" Makino asked with a sweet smile and to be honest she reminded lambo of mama.
It's been a year and lambo is proud to say that his afro is gone! Since he can't store things anymore, lambo keeps his box weapon in his pocket and ring on his finger. Leon likes staying with makino most of the time so he wasn't really with lambo. Garp has visited occasionally and each time lambo was in pain.
Reborn can't even come close to the geezer.
"I don't mind." Lambo replied and suddenly the bar door burst open and a huge group of pirates entered the bar. Lambo and luffy watched them curiously and lambo's eyes widened when he spotted a familiar strawhat with red hair underneath it.
"Yo!" Lambo whipped his head to find luffy already in front shanks with a grin."I'm Monkey. D. Luffy !" Despite the fact that luffy hadn't eaten the gum gum fruit yet, lambo found himself next to luffy somehow."And this is my little brother lambo, who the hell are you?!" Luffy carried on speaking.
Shanks grinned.
"I'm Shanks, nice to meet you luffy, lambo." Shanks said politely.
"So...you're real pirate?" Luffy asked excited and lambo shook his head with a small smile.
"Yep!" Shanks grinned and luffy was surrounded by sparkles."Want me to tell you kids some stories?" Shanks offered.
"Tell us, tell us!" Luffy shouted with a grin and lambo chuckled.
"Alright, just let me get some booze..."
Lambo yawned, feeling shanks tuck luffy and himself in the room they shared.
"Sweet dreams, anchor, lil' lamb!" Shanks slurred and practically fell asleep on them.
Lambo sighed and snuggled into the man for warmth.
Lambo was awoken by luffy shaking him and got up with a glare.
"You can stop shaking me, luffy." Lambo growled.
Not a morning person?
...Don't piss me off lampo. You've been with me long enough.
And I was with aluade even longer but I still don't know his favorite color.
...I'd be surprised if you did know.
"Oi, stop spacing out lambo!" Luffy cried waving his arms around in lambo's face.
"Yeah,yeah." Lambo grumbled and swatted the hands away.
"Well come on then, I need some booze!" A voice shouted and lambo denied that his mouth dropped to the floor.
"Shanks'!" Said man was lying on the bed and lambo wasn't sure how he missed the scarlet hair!"What are you doing here?" He asked in surprise.
"He fell asleep." Ben replied and ignored shanks' cries of how 'uncool' that was and how he was going to say something else.
"Oh." Lambo replied blinking."Yeah, I remember."
"Well come on then, I have breakfast ready!" Makino grinned and popped out from behind the door.
Lambo couldn't help but run like the child he is along with shanks and luffy.
You seem happy.
I don't know why, but I just feel like the atmosphere is so warm, like I belong here!
Like a family?
A soft smile blossomed on lambo's face.
"Yeah,"
The smile turned into a grin.
"Just like a family!"
"Wait, so you're both six?" Shanks asked randomly one time.
Luffy and Lambo nodded in response.
"When are you're birthdays?" Shanks asked.
"May 5!" Luffy replied with a grin and shanks looked at lambo.
"I'd rather not." Lambo grumbled, unwanted memories entering his mind.
"HUH! You're a kid! How do you not like your birthday!?" Shanks gaped and makino frowned.
"Last year we celebrate his birthday on New Years since we don't know." Makino gave a small sigh and lambo could feel the resistance wavering. Makino was like mama-his real one not nana.
"My birthday is in May." Lambo grumbled.
"Huh?" Came shanks intelligent reply.
"I said my birthday is in May." Lambo replied louder.
"EEH!" Luffy cried in surprise."What date!" He demanded and lambo shook his head.
"...Did you not hear what I just said?" He questioned.
"Tell me!" Luffy whined and ignored lambo.
I can see why you don't want to tell them your birthday, after all that shit when you was five back in our world and then the lammy thing.
My birthday has been shit, I guess...
The irony, you have pyrophobia(AN: Phobia of fire) yet you use dying will flames!
When life gives you grapes, you make grape sweets!
Only you would think that lambo...
Lambo gave a bark of laughter and ignored the looks of is-this-kid-okay? Why-is-he-laughing-by-himself?
Only lampo could make lambo laugh and want to kill him at the same time.
But their was reborn too...
"What's so funny?" Luffy asked.
"Nothing,nothing." Lambo replied and gazed fondly at the ring-though he will deny it later on.
BANG
The door opened with a bang and two boys came in with a small sack of gold.
Lambo's eyes bulged out of his eye sockets when he saw the top-hat and pipes.
"Oi, I want everything you can offer-food wise." Ace said to Makino and sat down on a stool.
Lambo had to control himself not to fling onto the boy.
Ace was his favorite character in ALL anime!
Every single one their was!
"You don't talk to people like that, ace." Sabo tutted, he face makino."We'd like a meal please, Ms." Makino gave her motherly smile and got right to it.
"Yo, I'm Monkey. D. Luffy , nice to meet you!" Lambo could feel himself being pulled into luffy's arms."This is my little brother lambo, who the hell are you?"
"I'm ace and this is sabo." Ace grumbled.
"So ace, sabo." Shanks spoke up."Wanna hear a story?"
And the children laughed and smiled until it was night.
Shanks had that kinda of effect on people.
Why on earth would Mihawk still stick around?
"What would you do, if Gold Roger had a child?" Ace asked one of the drunk red-hair pirates.
The man-although unknown, gave a laugh.
"Well the world would hate him or her, that's for sure!"
He didn't see ace's flinch.
"But"
Or the hopeful expression in his eyes, hidden by the self-hate, anger and confusion.
Why?
A small, five year old ace wondered.
Why?
The laughter and jeers thrown at him-not that they know it's him...
Why does the world hate me for being born?
"Shitty gramps do...do you think I should have been born?"
"Who knows...that's something you have to find out for yourself!"
I want to know!
Should I be living?
Should I exist, here and right now?!
Do I have the right to laugh and smile?
That's living, right?
But they said I'm a demon.
I am a demon.
But...
"The people that know him, the people who love him, the people who look at him with fondness in their eyes"
"They would protect that person-no matter what!"
So that's what it feels to be loved.
"And that's what it feels to be have a family."
Ace whirled around to see lambo standing behind him.
"Although just knowing us for a day, we're all just like family. Shanks is the childish dad who would carry you on you shoulders, makino is the lovable mom who will kiss you on the head and hug you. Luffy is the silly younger/older brother who will always give that adorable grin. Sabo is the smart older brother who will help you with things. Ben is the over-protective uncle, lucky roo is the uncle who will always give you food, yasopp is the other uncle who will do dangerous tricks and their are so much more but you ace,"
Lambo gave the widest smile he could, aware that he was now changing a future.
He was saving a man who would only live for one question.
Should I have been born?
No sin a father committed should be passed down to the child.
Lambo knows that feeling first-hand.
"You're the awesome, over-protective brother who, we all love so much so,"
Not to mention a tsundere
Lambo wiped away the tear the strayed down ace's face.
"We're thankful that you're born."
"DOG PILE!"
"I want to live."
Lambo heard the whisper in his a ear.
It was quiet.
But at least it was something.
Oh and,
Dammit luffy!
"So who wants Ice cream?"
It's been year. Ace and sabo have officially moved into makino's bar.
It took a lot of fists of love
A lot.
It's been at least a year now, they've all had a cup of sake to symbolize their brotherhood. The brothers occasionally visit Mt Colubo, and stay with dadan and the mountain bandits whenever shanks had to leave the island.
Lambo still doesn't know why half the bandits are scared of him when he first went.
All he did was smile!
Bruh...
Shut up lampo, I'm narrating!
They've all talked about their past, even lambo with lammy but he didn't mention any gruesome details.
Shanks comes and go's randomly but their was this one specific day that lambo remembered.
Well it's not like remembered it since it's happening right now.
Is this a story or something? You keep narrating your life.
Does my life look like a story? This isn't fanfiction lampo!
Lamb laughed at the notion of the thought.
If only they knew.
BANG
Goddammit, lambo hated the bandit scene.
Well too bad.
Shut up lampo.
Okay, afro.
That rhym-SHUT THE HELL UP!
"You're not a man!" Luffy cried.
When the hell did he miss the scene?
Luffy stormed off, along with ace and sabo. Shanks grabbed their arms(he'll be lacking in that department soon) and luffy's arms stretched whilst his hand phased through ace and sabo's.
"HUH!?"
Ace and sabo's hands look like fire, what the-
"-DON'T TELL ME YOU GUYS ATE THE FLAME FLAME AND GUM GUM FRUIT!"
Well at least lambo can pretend to have a devil fruit!
...That he found a few weeks ago?
...Conduct conduct fruit...?
Is that even possible?
Hey, from what you told me a gun ate the elephant elephant fruit.
Tou-damn-ché
Once again, I try.
"DON'T INSULT SHANKS!"
Why do I keep missing scenes?
Because you're so into me *insert smirk*
Bruh...did you take some of shanks booze when he wasn't looking?
You know me so well.
I try.
Lambo smelt some stinky food on his back and fell to the floor.
"You need to wash your feet!" Automatically came out of his mouth and their was an awkward silence before the bandit(forgot his name) started pressing down and hurling death threats.
"OI, leave lambo alone!"
"I'm gonna kick your ass!"
"Fight us fair and square!"
That does not help the situation, brothers.
"Please!" The mayor Chickenscratch err Woodslap went on the floor begging."Their just boys, surly you can spare them!"
"APOLOGIZE BASTARD!"
"...or not."
"Mayor." Their is a reason why people do what makino say.
Makino also had shanks whipped.
"We'll even pay you!"
"HAHAHAHA!" The bandit looked down at us with a sneer."I don't mind letting blondie go, but the others will die!"
"What do you think you're doing?" The voice was calm but chill went down everyone spine.
Apart from makino of course.
"I wondered why nobody was in the bar..." Shanks carried on speaking."Seems you guys got yourselves into trouble."
"Shanks." Luffy muttered.
"If it isn't the bandit before."
"Well, are you done cleaning up the village?" The bandit asked.
"Oooh, beef!" Lambo couldn't help but comment.
Really lambo.
Shut up, you want to join in too.
And there he goes, lucky roo shoots a bandit down while ben knocks them all out with the butt of his gun!
The red-hair pirates are clearly winning folks, so
Stay tuned for more!
I can't believe we just did that.
What has the one piece world done to us.
Can't beat 'em, join 'em!
Damn straight!
"You can pour drinks on me, you can throw food at me. You can even spit on me, I'll just laugh that stuff off! But...good reason or...not...nobody hurts a friend of mine!"
Lambo now understood why luffy admired shanks. Having someone like that stick up for you are call them your friend...
It was a great feeling and lambo wanted his own nakama to feel like that too!
To feel protected.
BAM!
Why must the bandit-he-did-not-know-his-name be so cowardly and run away?
"LUFFY!"
And there goes shanks!
So, it was official, shanks has only one arm, luffy has the gum gum fruit and sabo and ace, by eating at the same time, both share the flame flame fruit.
Lambo also told them that he ate a similar looking fruit a while ago and can produce lightning.
"It's time for me to go now, anchor."
Aah, here are the words that gave luffy the dream to be the pirate king!
"I'm not going to ask you to take me with you this time...I'm going to become my own pirate" Luffy said.
Shanks stuck his tongue."It's not like I was going to take with me even if you asked! Like you can become a pirate anyway!"
"I will!" Luffy shouted."I'll gather my own crew that'll beat yours and find the world's greatest treasure! No matter what, I will become the pirate king!"
"Oh, you're going to beat us...Then..." A strawhat plopped down onto ace's unsuspecting head.
"CAPTAIN, I KNEW IT WAS YOU!YOU'RE ALIVE!" Shanks shouted, tears streaming down his face as he jumped ace.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Lambo screeched.."THIS NEVER HAPPENED!"
ORIGINAL SCENE
"Oh, so you're going to beat us...Then..." A strawhat plopped down onto luffy head, albeit a bit big.
There was a silence as if the world knew that a legend was about to be born right here, right now!
"I'll let you take care of this hat. It's very important to me." Shanks patted the hat as the tears came down luffy's face." Take good care of it."
A hat plopped down onto ace's head.
A familiar orange one.
"Take good care of this too, become an awesome pirate! I expect to see your name and no matter what"
More tears fell.
"You'll be ace, son to me and older brother to sabo, luffy and lambo!"
"I'll have an awesome bounty, shanks!" Ace stammered, tears dropping down his face.
Sabo was next.
"I don't have a hat for you since you have one so..." Shanks brought out a journal." These are all of the adventures I've been through until and now and their instructions to navigate in the grandline!"
"I'll be the best navigator, shanks!" Sabo cried and hugged the book.
"Lambo." Shanks took out an earring.
It looked familiar.
Too familiar.
"So you've recognized it? A women called Bella told me to give it to a boy who looks like her and is called lambo."
Mama...
"She also said 'Ti amo mio agnello del bambino'!"
I love you my baby lamb!
The tears fell own hard.
Lambo...
J-jeez lampo, can't I enjoy a happy scene without you popping up all the time!
Lambo took the earing shaped like a rose and put it in his pierced ear.
The scent of a light pink rose.
Love, appreciation and gratitude.
"Shanks..." Lambo wept.
"Become awesome pirates, "freckles,"Ace chocked."Smarty-pants," Sabo snorted and cried harder,"anchor" Luffy clutched the strahat."And lil' lamb!" Lambo will remember this moment forever.
All of their teary faces looked up at shanks.
"I'll see you at the top!"
Shanks watched the island grow smaller and smaller, the children he dare call his sons, teary eyes in his memory.
Some day...you'll all become great pirates...and I'll be waiting for you! You might get lost on your path...but I'm not worried, because I know you guys will find trust-worthy nakama to guide you back!
"Hey, pops." Marco called his father.
"Yes, son?" Whitebeard answered.
"In a few months time, I want to go to this island in the east blue, my haki is itching to go there." Marco confessed.(AN: I'm not sure if haki can do that but...)
"Are you sure it isn't your mama bird intuition?" Thatch teased but was thrown overboard.
"Call me mama one more time!" Marco seethed.
"MAMA!" Haruta shouted from the other end of the deck and marco chased her.
SPLASH
Tis a normal day with the Whitebeard crew.
OMAKE-A Year Ago
Law looked around.
Law looked around everywhere.
Law looked around everywhere in the island.
Yes, including the toilets too!
"Where the hell is that afro idiot?" Law muttered. He was angry, but very concerned. Law would rather die then admit that, of course.
Not even under torture.
"Have you seen a boy with an afr-" Law the lady working at the store.
"You mean the kid Vice-admiral garp took with him?" The lady replied.
"...Vice-admiral?" Law muttered.
"Yep!" She replied.
"I'm gonna skin lambo alive!" Law growled and immediately found a fishing boat.
A few weeks later he came across a baby bear who wouldn't stop saying sorry.
"So, what is your name?"Law asked the bear.
"Bepo, sorry for not telling you!" Bepo replied.
"Stop apologizing." Law mumbled in annoyance.
"Sorry for saying sorry!" Bepo cried.
Law face-palmed.
"You know what, I trust you lambo so I won't look for you anymore but if I find you one day..." Law smirked, something glinting in the sunlight being taken out of his pocket.
Bepo inched away from the scalpel and preyed for the guy who got his future captain so worked up.