In reply to a fan: I'm sorry, there's going to be no Luffy x Nami, it all depends on the polls I've set up. It's going to be between Luffy x Robin and Luffy x Hancock.

In reply to LoveLifeForever: Ace and Sabo are still alive, I'm not that much of an asshole. Though, about Sabo getting a DF, that seems very interesting, I'll decide that soon, but which fruit, I'll figure that out. As for Aokiji, he's going to have a different fruit, which will be revealed soon enough. It's all going to be rather interesting.

'Thoughts'

"Speech"

Disclaimer:I don't own One Piece.

"Goddamn, I'm thirsty." Luffy complained, his hat shadowing his eyes and his hand on his sword.

Zoro grunted from the other side of the boat. "Yeah, too bad they didn't give us any saké. By the way, could I see your sword?"

Luffy looked at him questioningly, but gave it to him anyway.

Zoro grabbed the sword and pulled it from its sheath and looked impressed. "I think its a high quality one, it might be as good as your white sword there, but I need someone to price it for me." Luffy said, seeing his reaction.

"Where did you find this?" Zoro was swinging the sword around a bit.

Luffy grinned and scratched the back of his head. "Well, I got from the Grand Line when I was sailing through there." Zoro snapped around to him.

"You went to the Grand Line?" the green-haired swordsman asked, baffled. Luffy nodded his head saying 'yes'. "Why are you going again, then?" Zoro sheathed Luffy's blade and handed it back to him.

"The first time I went was a training trip, per se. This time, I'm going with my own crew, and becoming King of the Pirates." Luffy said, placing his sword back at his hip. He then looked over the edge of the boat and saw three people floating in the water, Zoro noticed and looked as well.

"Castaways." Zoro bluntly said, Luffy nodding in agreement.

The three people started waving their arms frantically, shouting. "OIIIIII, HELP US, PLEASE!"

"We're not stopping, so grab on!" Luffy shouted out, baffling the three floaters. They nearly missed their chance to grab the boat, it was so fast, but they got on the boat, albeit soaking wet, but got on nonetheless.

They were panting hard for a few seconds, before they looked up at the two pirates sitting there casually, as if they hadn't just nearly abandoned two people in need of help. The three pirates had clown makeup on their faces and sabers on their waist.

They drew their sabers and held them in front of themselves threateningly. "This boat is in control of the Buggy Pirates, put your hands up and drop your weapons." the middle clown said cockily. Luffy and Zoro looked at each other before smirking in a silent agreement.

"Y-y-you heard him didn't you?" the clown on the right stuttered. Zoro and Luffy stood up, a dark aura around them, simultaneously cracking their knuckles with wide grins on their faces, making them look like demons.

(one quick beat down later)

Luffy and Zoro were sitting in front of the three clown pirates that tried to steal their boat. "Hehehe, sorry we didn't know you were with Roronoa Zoro."

Luffy sighed. "What the hell were you doing out in the ocean, anyway? Are you guys idiots?" he bluntly asked, getting a small chuckle from his first mate.

The clowns spoke in order from left to right.

"We're not stupid!" left.

"Yeah! It's that red-head's fault!" middle.

"She was cute, though~." right.

"She tricked us into helping her." left.

"Yeah, she offered us treasure, and we all got into the boat." middle

"Then lightning struck the boat we were in." right

"Then she stole the boat we were using, then you came along and made us climb onto your boat." left.

Luffy and Zoro were both silent for a few moments before Luffy spoke up. "Did she know when the lightning would strike?"

The clown in the middle nodded. "It seemed she did."

Luffy smirked. "Sounds like a navigator, right Zoro?" said swordsman just nodded. "Now, you three," Luffy called out to the pirates, "you're going to row us to the island that girl went to." needless to say, they didn't hesitate to row their hardest.

(short skip)

As soon as the boat docked, the three Buggy Pirates ran off and Luffy immediately noticed one thing.

"Is the circus in town?" next to them, there was a large ship that looked to belong to a travelling circus, then he noticed the flag on top. "It must be Buggy's ship."

Zoro grunted. "Yeah, when are you gonna tell me about that thing you did at the Marine base?" Zoro side eyed Luffy.

"Hmmmm, let's find a building or somewhere private we can talk first. This isn't for too many ears in East Blue to hear." Luffy said seriously.

The small pirate crew walked aimlessly around until someone crashed into Luffy and fell while he stood tall and barely budged. They looked down and saw an orange haired woman wearing a short sleeved shirt, a yellow skirt with ring designs on the sides, and gladiator style sandals.

Behind the woman were three pirates that looked like the ones from the boat. Said woman looked up and Luffy immediately saw deviousness in her eyes and didn't like it. "Oh, boss! You're here, could you take care of these guys for me please?"

Luffy just raised an eyebrow at the woman that was dashing off. "We've been set up and left to deal with the bugs." he blandly stated, Zoro nodding with the statement.

"Hey, the girl said you're her boss, right? That means we don't even need her." the closest pirate smirked.

Luffy sighed and picked up his leg in a kicking position and brought it to the opposite hip. "Rankyaku." he boredly called out, swiping his leg across quickly, heel first, at the pirates creating a wind blade. It crashed into them, and launched them back 15 meters, knocking them out cold.

"How did you that?" Zoro asked surprised at this.

"Training, I'll tell you later, we seem to have an audience." he looked up at the building to their left, and a second after he said that, the woman appeared on the rooftop.

She smiled and spoke. "You seem strong to knock those guys out before I even got here, not a single scratch, too." Luffy took slight offense to the first comment, but shrugged it off.

"Based on your appearance, I'd have to say that you stole that small boat from some pirates." Luffy said, putting the pieces together.

"Of course I did, they were too stupid to realize the trap. What are your names, by the way?" the woman asked.

"My name is Monkey D. Luffy."

"Roronoa Zoro." at this, the woman's eyes widened at the name.

"Roronoa Zoro? Why are you with this guy, aren't you solo?" she asked, dumbfounded.

"That doesn't matter right now, what does though, is your name, miss." Luffy said, easily switching the topic.

"I'm Nami, I'm a master navigator and a pirate thief." Nami proudly said, smirking.

"Captain, what now?" Zoro whispered, discreetly moving his hand to his swords not taking his eyes off of Nami.

"Let's let things play out for now." Luffy whispered back. "How about we discuss why those pirates were chasing after you?" he asked Nami, who had jumped down from the roof.

"Why not? There's a house we could use." she said pointing to a house across the way. It looked abandoned.

They walked into the house and Luffy noticed it looked a bit rummaged through. "Do you live here?" he asked Nami.

"No I don't, just borrowing from it." she nonchalantly said, waving her hand as if to swat a fly.

"So, you're stealing from it." he stated blandly. "Whatever, as long as it's got booze, I'm parched."

"So am I, haven't had a drink in forever." Zoro said, looking around with Luffy for anything that indicated alcohol.

"Found some!" Luffy shouted in rapture. "There's a cabinet over here full of this shit!" Zoro dashed over and he and Luffy grabbed five bottles for themselves and sat down at the table Nami was.

"Anyway, what I stole from those clowns was this," Nami pulled a rolled up piece of parchment from behind her back and rolled it out on the table, "a map of the Grand Line." indeed, it was a map of the Grand Line.

"Why do you need a map of the Grand Line?" Luffy asked curiously, putting a bottle of saké to his lips, wondering why she would even try to go there solo. He went there himself, but he was with Shanks' crew then.

"I'm going there to get 10,000,000 beris from the pirates there to buy back a village." Nami said.

Luffy sighed, putting the bottle down with three of his empty ones. "Look, I'm gonna be blunt with ya," he adopted a serious face leaning on the table, "you won't even last five minutes out in that stretch of ocean, much less the pirates there."

Nami looked angrily at him. "What makes you think that?" she slammed her hand down on the table.

Luffy didn't flinch at all but smacked Zoro's hand away when he tried to take one of his still full bottles of saké. "Do you know how to navigate through the Grand Line?" he asked seriously, looking straight into her eyes.

"Isn't just like in any other ocean, just a compass and a map?" Nami asked inquisitively.

"No, that ocean doesn't follow logic at all, its weather patterns change dramatically, its magnetic field is crazy and that toy you have there won't work at all. As soon as you get into the Grand Line it might as well be a piece of shit on the ocean floor." Luffy said, leaning back and grabbing his mostly empty saké bottle and downing the rest before grabbing another.

"How do you know this, huh?" Nami asked, believing he was lying.

"I went through there and most of the New World when I was younger with my mentor."

'Might as well get this over with.' he sighed before continuing.

"Red-Haired Shanks." he dropped the bombshell, drinking more from his bottle.

"So that means you're a pirate?" the word was drowned in a venomous tone of voice, she reached behind her back for her staff but stopped when she was rammed by a strong pressure that sent a quake down her spine and could barely breath, she looked at Luffy and saw his concentrated expression, her eyes widened in terror. 'He's doing this, but he's not doing anything!'

Zoro was looking at Luffy curiously. 'This is just like the base. This is the same pressure, but it's just a constant wave other than a spike.'

"This is just the tip of the iceberg of what you might experience in the Grand Line, girl." Luffy was speaking like a mentor looking down on his student. "You wouldn't be able to touch a mass of the pirates in the Grand Line, they'd kill you in a second." Nami collapsed back in her seat, panting, as soon as Luffy let up on his haki. 'That took a lot of concentration to keep her conscious.'

As soon as Nami got her breath back, she saw Luffy and Zoro walking out with their saké bottles. She shot up and shakily rushed after them. "Wait!" Luffy smirked under his hat, knowing why she called out. "How about we make a deal?" she seemed slightly afraid and desperate.

"Alright, that sounds fun." Luffy agreed, but Zoro grunted next to him questioningly. "Of course we can trust her, Zoro." Luffy quietly assured. "So, what's the deal?" he asked Nami.

"If you can help me deal with the Buggy Pirates that are holed up in this town, I'll team up with you." Nami said, holding her hand out. "Do we have a deal?"

"Just one question. How good are your navigation skills?" the straw hatted captain asked.

Nami smirked. "I'll be the best damn navigator you'll be able to find." that was all Luffy needed to plant his hand in hers for handshake.

"You got yourself a deal, then." Luffy said, shaking her hand. "If we want to get rid of those clown pirates, we gotta hit 'em hard and fast. So, I say that Nami goes in first and gives up the map in a ploy, saying she'll join Buggy." Nami looked annoyed right here. "When they're all partying and distracted, I'll take out the weaklings of the crew, then me and Zoro will take out the remaining members." Zoro looked bummed that he couldn't fight a lot, but excited he could fight somebody strong.

"That's actually a good plan. I'm stealing all of his treasure, though." Nami said with a smirk and a matter-of-fact tone.

"Alright, let's get this underway." Luffy said, following Nami with Zoro to the pirate crew's hideout, ready to beat some pirate ass.

(ten minutes later)

Luffy and Zoro were on a rooftop not far from the bar the pirates were holding down at. Luffy sighed and spoke. "I guess now is a good time as any."

"Finally." Zoro grunted out from his left.

"What I did at the Marine base and in that house was something called haki. It's basically weaponizing your soul into fighting spirit, intimidation, or presence. The presence part is called Kenbunshoku Haki, I used that to cut all of the bullets in the execution yard. It let's you sense anything that is too far away to see or is unable to be seen, like it's behind something. When it's mastered, though you can use it to sense movements when they're about to be made or before they're made." Luffy explained. "Before you ask, yes it can be trained with one more."

Zoro grinned in excitement before getting a curious look in his eyes. "What about the other one that can be trained?" he asked his straw-hatted captain.

"The other trainable one is called Busoshoku Haki, this one is like putting on invisible armor, or putting visible armaments for offense. You can imbue this into weapons like your swords there," he nodded at Zoro's swords on his waist, "by doing this, you can bypass devil fruit defences and increase the strength of your attacks." Luffy explained.

"What about the other? Those two don't sound like what you've used before." Zoro said curiously.

"The third one is the rarest and the strongest if you can master it. It's called Haoshoku Haki, and only one in a million are born with it. When it's used, you're using your willpower as a weapon, when I used it at the Marine base, I overpowered the wills of the Marines there, though it was a weak pulse. I had to use a weaker wave, which is really hard to concentrate on, on Nami in that house to calm her down and show her what might be in the Grand Line." he explained again.

"One in a million, huh?" Zoro mused to himself. "Do you think I might have that?" he asked Luffy in genuine curiosity. Luffy just shrugged in response before turning to look at the bar Nami infiltrated.

"Let's go, I have a plan. As long as Buggy is as trigger happy as I'm told he is." Luffy muttered the last part under his breath, he and Zoro jumped down from the roof and landed in front of some stairs leading to the top of the bar.

"HAHAHAHA! Let's complete this celebration with firing a Buggy Ball into town!" Luffy heard a high pitched laughing accompanied with an annoying voice from the top of the bar's stairs that led to the roof, suddenly, Luffy jumped in the way of a large cannon on the roof.

The cannon fired when Luffy was at the crest of his jump. He put a hand in front of him, coated it in haki, turning it black, and catching the huge red cannonball that had Buggy's jolly roger painted on the front of it.

Luffy landed and called out. "Nami, get down here! I don't wanna hurt you with this cannonball I've got." after he said that, Nami came running down the stairs and stopped near Luffy and Zoro. Luffy started tossing the cannonball in his hand like a baseball for a few seconds before letting it rest on his palm.

By now, the Buggy Pirates were watching in shock at the spectacle before them, a scrawny looking teenager was tossing a Buggy Ball and catching it like it was nothing. "Hey, big nose!" everybody paled at what Luffy said, even Nami and Zoro looked shocked. "Have your toy back!"

Luffy cocked his hand back and threw it forward, launching the cannonball at the bar at least three times as fast as a battleship cannon. When it hit the building, there was a tremendous explosion.

The resulting shockwave would've knocked the three on the floor, if not for Luffy putting up an ice shield just tall enough, wide enough, and thick enough to cover them from the shockwave and enough to hold against it.

The two were shocked at the ice and looked to Luffy for an explanation. "I'll tell you guys later, right now Nami has some treasure to steal, I have got a red nosed clown to fight, and Zoro has two idiots to fight." Luffy said, dispelling the ice he put up, making it shatter into crystalline shards.

The three looked up and saw that Buggy and one of his crew covered themselves from injury by using crewmates. Buggy used two men and the man next to him used a large lion to block the explosion. "Using their own men as shields. That's despicable." Nami spat out quietly from next to Luffy.

Before Luffy could say anything, they heard a voice from the man holding up the unconscious lion. "Captain, this is a disgrace to us." the man that spoke had hair covering his right eye, was wearing a scarf, an open blue, sleeveless overcoat and had a sword on his hip.

"You're right, Cabaji, this infuriates me beyond words to describe it." Buggy growled out dropping his two meat shields.

"HEY, BIG NOSE GET YOUR ROUND RED NOSE DOWN HERE SO I CAN HONK IT!" Luffy shouted out, shocking Nami and Zoro with his choice of words. Buggy was practically glowing red with rage at what Luffy said.

"Bara bara ho!" Buggy shouted in outrage, launching his hand at Luffy at breakneck speeds. His hand had three large daggers in between his fingers. Luffy smirked under the shadow of his hat, and let the hand stab him in the chest.

Nami and Zoro's eyes went wide at this, and stared at the falling body of Luffy, while they heard Buggy's obnoxious laughter. Zoro's face grew dark in a second, he was pulling his blades out when he heard laughter from behind him. He turned around and saw Luffy's body shaking a bit.

Buggy was ranting and raving about how he was the strongest and how he was going to rule the Grand Line with his fruit powers, and Nami was still silent, shocked by the scene before her, she wasn't noticing anything else.

Luffy could barely hold in his laughter at everyone's reactions, but when Buggy calmed down, he laughed his usual laugh. "Shishishishi-, you're pretty stupid, Buggy." he started to get up, he still had the knives in his chest, but they were misting and looked frosted over, he stood up to his full height and started stretching his arms over his head, preparing to fight.

This shocked Nami out of her stupor. She rounded on the straw hat captain in anger and obvious confusion. "What the HELL! What just happened?" Luffy just shushed her with a raise of his hand.

"I might as well explain." Luffy said, pulling the daggers out of his chest, finally Buggy snapped, shouting out.

"WHAT THE HELL! Wait a second, you ate a devil fruit, didn't you, brat?" Buggy quickly calmed down after thinking for a second(shocking).

"That's right, I ate the Hyo-Hyo no mi, a logia class devil fruit. It allows me to turn my body into ice, control ice, and freeze almost anything at will." Luffy finished, drawing out his sword. "Let's have some fun, Buggy." he said with a wolfish grin on his face.

Cabaji jumped at Luffy, his swords drawn about to attack him, but Zoro blocked Cabaji's descent onto his captain. "If you're a swordsman, I'll gladly take ya on." he gave a wolfish smirk at the scarf-wearing swordsman.

Cabaji gave his own smirk. "I'd be honored to duel the great Roronoa Zoro." he cockily said, jumping back to get some space between the two, they lunged and the fight began.

Luffy turned away from the fight and paying attention to Buggy, knowing his first mate can handle himself.

"Who cares if you have a logia fruit, I'll still beat you, you little brat!" Buggy shouted cockily, getting more knives between his fingers and shooting his hand out at Luffy again. Luffy jumped up into the air to dodge it, Buggy smirked triumphantly. "You can't dodge so well in mid-air, can you?" he willed his hand to launch at Luffy, but he wasn't expecting Luffy to kick the air to dodge the blades.

Luffy landed on top of a nearby building and turned to Buggy, smirking. "It looks like I can dodge in mid-air, doesn't it rubber nose?" he mockingly asked the clown, enraging him.

Before Buggy ranted about being insulted, he noticed the straw hat hanging off of Luffy's neck. "That straw hat, it reminds me so much of that red-haired bastard." he growled out, Luffy tilted his head curiously.

"You know Shanks?" he asked interestedly. "He took me through Paradise and the New World when I was younger, but I don't remember him mentioning a clown before, though." Luffy mused out loud.

"No wonder you anger me so much, you act just like that bastard, Shanks, that idiotic hat just emphasizes the point!" Buggy yelled out, stomping his foot and pointing his reattached hand at Luffy like a child would to an older sibling that teased them.

"Don't insult Shanks, big nose, he gave me this hat, it's my treasure." Buggy got even more angry at the insult, Luffy jumped down from the roof, noticing that one of Buggy's hands were missing.

"If that hat is your treasure," Buggy started out menacingly and Luffy's haki flared up, warning him of an incoming object from behind him, but it was just too late.

SLASH!

Luffy's eyes widened in anger and resentment, he heard Buggy shout triumphantly. "PROTECT IT BETTER!" he started laughing his annoying laugh that further enraged Luffy. He had flashes of memories, Shanks giving him the hat, the promise they made on the hat, and they proud smile on Shanks' face when Luffy set off back to the East Blue.

Buggy noticed Luffy's expression shadowed by his hair. "What's wrong, little baby mad that he lost his little toy?" he mockingly asked, throwing the hat on the ground and grinding it into the dirt with his shoe. He failed to notice, though, Luffy sheathing his sword and the right side of Luffy's body started turning to pale blue ice with mist billowing off of it.

The ground within a 50 meter radius was suddenly frozen over, and a deathly chill settled over the area. This shut Buggy up immediately, as a quake of fear went up his spine at the suddenly oppressing aura of Luffy and his now dark voice.

"Buggy, I've had enough of your bullshit, this ends now." Luffy suddenly disappeared, making Buggy snap left and right looking for the teen that was now out for blood, his blood.

He suddenly felt an ice cold burning sensation on his side that instantly traveled lower down his legs and over his spine, he screamed out in pain and looked down. His lower body was frozen, but burning in unimaginable pain.

Buggy snapped his head up when he heard footsteps, he saw Luffy walking toward him with his sword drawn. The blade, though, was black along with his hand. He knew that it was coated in haki.

"You should be unable to move by now." Luffy's dark voice came out again, steam billowing out with every exhale. He was right though the ice had numbed his spinal cord, cutting off all movement to his lower body. "I'll end this now." Luffy got down into an iai stance.

"Ittoryu Iai: Tōketsu shi," Luffy dashed past Buggy, cutting him at unseen speeds, " jigoku fukushū!*" his sword was an inch out of the sheath, he slowly slid it back in, the sound of it somehow amplified.

SNAP! SLASH!

When the sword was fully sheathed, numerous slashes appeared on Buggy, blood spraying out like a fountain. Buggy collapsed forward with a wet smack on the frozen floor, blood splashing outward, unconscious and more blood pouring out from his mouth and chest, painting the ice below red with his blood.

Luffy sighed and looked around at the frozen earth, he spotted his hat by the downed clown, unstained but had three large gashes in it. He picked it up and sighed again. 'If Shanks gets it like this, he's going to be pissed off at me.'

"U-umm," Luffy turned and saw Nami looking nervous about something, "I can fix the hat for you." she said, pointing at the sliced hat.

Luffy was silent for a second before grinning his D grin. "Thanks Nami, it means a lot." he said. Luffy looked over at the treasure bag Nami had picked up. "How much treasure do you think is in here?" he asked Nami, who brightened up at the mention of the word, lifting the atmosphere greatly.

"There has to be 10,000,000 beri in here!" she squealed happily snuggling the bag.

"Maybe we should split this into two halves, it's gotta be heavy for you to drag it." Luffy said, looking at the large bag behind Nami.

"Yeah, you take one, I'll take the other." the red-headed navigator said, getting some cloth to make the two bags, and evenly splitting the treasure into both bags.

"We leavin', now?" Luffy grunted in affirmative, and started walking down the road with Nami and Zoro following.

Luffy and Nami were now both holding small bags of treasure over their shoulders, well, Luffy is. Nami is cuddling it like a teddy bear.

'She's really doing that?' he thought, a sweatdrop going down his head at Nami's behavior. His thoughts were cut off as they rounded a corner and saw a horde of villagers carrying pitchforks, and other dangerous or sharp things from their homes.

"Who are you people? What were those loud noises and explosions?" The man in front asked out. He was wearing what looked like leather armor on his body, exposing his bespectacled elderly face.

"We're just some travellers that docked here, we took care of your little pirate problem, as well, so you might wanna call the Marines." Luffy said to the old man, in response, he got a pitchfork shoved in his face by a villager.

"Who are you really?" Luffy took side glances at Nami and Zoro, they all seemed to silently agree on something for once.

'Tell, then run.'

"We're pirates." Luffy bluntly said, causing the villagers to go into outrage.

Without wasting another second, the three person pirate crew ran off away from the angry mob of villagers to the docks. Noticing that they were getting close, Luffy had an idea.

"Zoro," said man looked over, grunting questioningly, "hold my bag, I need both hands to do this." Zoro raised an eyebrow, but did it anyway, taking the small-ish bag over his shoulder.

Luffy grabbed Zoro and Nami by the scruffs of their necks and jumped, high. In one jump, Luffy was already 50 ft in the air.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Nami was screaming in terror, balling up around the treasure, Zoro looked shocked still, tightening his grip on the bog.

"Which way are the docks?" Luffy asked, lightly kicking the air to stay afloat. Nami pointed ahead of them and slightly to the left, Luffy gave a slightly harder kick below him to elevate and give him enough time to adjust for what he was about to do.

When he was starting to fall down he leaned forward, almost horizontal, and kicked the air again hard, launching him and his 'passengers' to the docks. They would've fallen in the ocean if Luffy didn't kick in front of him again to stop them from doing so.

"Get the bags in the boat, we're leaving." Luffy ordered the two. Nami put her bag in her small boat and Zoro got in his and Luffy's boat bringing the bag with him. Luffy untied the two boats from the dock and pushed off, leaving behind a large village of an angry mob yelling at them to never come back.

Luffy just smiled and turned to lay down to sleep, covering his eyes with his hat when he remembered it was ripped. "Nami, could you fix this, please?" he showed Nami his hat, she nodded and grabbed it from his hand.

"It'll only be at least thirty minutes, and it'll be done." Nami went inside her small boat and started working on Luffy's hat.

'Might as well sleep, I'm exhausted.' Luffy then remembered something. "Zoro, I'm going to train you and Nami in haki when we get a large enough ship." Zoro nodded and went to sleep, holding his sword to him. Luffy followed suit, laying his hand on the pommel of his sword.

Holy shit, I'm finally done. I'm deeply sorry about the slow update, I had school to deal with and that's never fun. Again, I am SO sorry, I hope you enjoyed reading, please leave a review if you like to. Flames will be ignored.

*(Tōketsu shi jigoku fukushū=Frozen Hell Vengeance)