Ace woke up as the bell rang, it had been weeks since Shanks had come and gone, the tension in this teens body was so thick it rolled off him in waves as he thought about what his grandfather would say, or worse yet, do. He stood up and gathered his things together heading for the lunchroom, the day was already half done? Strange, he was sure he had just sat down at his desk and than...oh that's right, he had fallen asleep. He sighed and walked through the halls mindlessly since he had them memorized. As he entered the lunchroom he stopped, something was off, wrong. He scanned the room once, twice, a third time. No Luffy. Frowning he walked up to the usual table the group occupied and let his things drop to the table with a loud thud, everyone jumped and looked up at him. Instantly Zoro, Frankie, and Sanji stood knowing that there was something off about the older teen.
"Where's Lu?"
The group looked around and Zoro answered for them.
"We thought he was with you, that's where he usually is if he's not here."
Ace shook his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. This didn't feel right. Something was wrong.
"Zoro, check the office, Frankie, gym, Sanji, halls. I'll try his phone and the yards."
They all nodded, gathered their things and began their search. Ace plucked his phone from his pocket and punched in Luffy's number and felt his chest tighten as it went straight to his voice mail. Something was seriously wrong. Luffy always had his phone and always made sure it had a full battery just like Ace had taught him in case he needed to call for help. He grabbed his bag and spun around but stopped as he heard more chairs sliding across the floor and the rest of the group standing. Ussop, Nami, Robin had all stood up and nodded as he looked back at them.
"Just find him, please..."
They nodded again and took off in different directions, Ace's hand twitched, he needed a smoke so bad he could taste it. Bursting through the front doors he ran through the yards looking everywhere, up trees, in the bushes, under the buses. Nothing. His worry was starting to eat at him now and just as he was about to scream his phone went off, Phenomenon sounding off as Sanji's number popped up.
"Did you find him?!"
He blinked as Zoro's voice came through the receiver.
"No, but I did find something you might want to see."
"What is it?"
"The sign out sheet from the office. He was checked out but a person named Garp."
Ace froze and whirled around moving his legs and sprinting as fast as he could back to the small home him and his brother shared.
"What time?!"
"About 2 hours ago. Ace, what's going on?"
"I don't know but I'm going home!"
Snapping his phone shut he shoved it back into his pocket and doubled his efforts to get back to the house before his worst fear could come true. Turning the corner he saw Garp's car pull out of the drive way, swallowing the lump in his throat he threw a rock at the car, it didn't stop and he felt tears fill his eyes as the form of Luffy came up in the back window, tears streaming down his face as he called out silently for his brother.
"No! Luffy!"
Try as he might he couldn't keep up and soon kneeled in the middle of the street crying. Standing up he shuffled into the house, the empty feeling sinking into his very soul. All of Luffy's things were missing and a note on the kitchen counter caught his eye.

Ace,

I'm taking Luffy with me, by the reports I'm getting from his teachers he's still fighting and his grades are still suffering. You told me you could do this and we were both wrong. I'm enrolling him into a military school where your bad influence can't stunt his growth. Take care Ace.
Garp

Ace fell to the floor, his heart breaking, tears hitting the floor as if there were a leak in the roof during the rain. This couldn't be happening. It was unreal. No...Luffy was gone...
Luffy was....
Gone.
Ace bit his lip til he tasted blood and than stopped holding it in and let out an anguished scream slamming his fists on the floor. That was it...no more Luffy. If Garp had his way Luffy would never be back...
Ace curled up into the fetal postion on the floor still crying.
Luffy...
His little brother...
His Luffy...was gone.

Sorry it's so short everyone and so sorry for the wait. My life has been so hectic lately but I'm getting back into it and I'm hoping to get more chapters of this up sooner than later.