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I could see the gears turn in Luffy's head trying to remember me. I was just about to say who I was when he looked at me and yelled/spitted: "SARA?" with his eyes wide open.

"Luffy!" I yelled in disgust. In his surprise he'd spit almost all of his food that he had in his mouth on me… Great… He eats my food and then spits it out on me… I like to chew my own food, thank you very much.

"What are you doing here?" he said with still his mouth full again, continuing with what seemed to be his own food festival.

I was about to answer when I heard a yell from the hole in the wall

"Strawhat!" I looked to see that brat. I was looking at him and he was looking at Luffy. "I've been looking for you, Strawhat! I knew you'd come here, to Arabasta!"

Luffy just sat there and continued to eat…

"STOP EATING" the brat yelled. Luffy, on the other hand, didn't do that and just went on it then became silent the only thing we could hear was Luffy's eating. I looked at him, I could see the gears turn in that little head of his again. Wait… If Luffy's going to react the same way he did with me then… Hahaha, just when I thought of it; Luffy spitted in the brat's face!

"You're that smoky guy! What are you doing here!"

"Punk…" the brat just mumbled angrily.

This is funny! I looked at the entire picture for a minute, but something didn't add up… It then hit me!

"Wait! You two know each other?" I yelled in surprise. Why does it seem that everyone I know knows everyone else I know…? But I didn't know that they knew eachother… Yeah, try and understand THAT! Luffy then put his hands in front of him.

"Wait a minute…" he then said.

In a matter of seconds, Luffy got off of his chair and put an arm around the food, which was enough to feed an army, and put ALL of it into his mouth in one go! Oh my god! I then remembered that Shanks told me he'd eaten his Devil's Fruit… Still that doesn't make it any less weird! He bowed politely with his hand on his mouth and mumbled a "thank you for the meal". He then grabbed my arm and started to run out of the bar! CAN YOU SEE A PATTERN HERE? I could see the brats face really fast, which turned into surprise and the bartender who started to yell "eat and run!".

At the end of all this mess, I was just happy I had reacted quickly and was able to grab my bag before Luffy dragged me out of the bar. We started to run, or actually Luffy was running while dragging me along. I could hear all kinds of yelling going on, not really following what to listen to. I looked at Luffy and I could see he had swallowed his food. Yeah, the Devil's Fruit excuse still doesn't satisfy me… it's still weird to me.

"Tashigi! I could hear the brat yellow. I saw her a bit ahead, a girl with blue hair, turned around and reacted to the name.

"Yes, what is it Captain Smoker? Would you like a towel? This country is so hot!" I could faintly hear her say.

"Catch them! It's Strawhat and an accomplice of his!" he yelled back.

"Strawhat?" she said.

She came running towards us with her katana… Was she going to try and cut us? IS SHE CRAZY? But still… So the brat's name is Smoker, huh… No comment. Luffy began to run faster, but just as previous events, my running skills aren't THAT great, so I was slightly slacking off… I looked behind us and saw the brat. But to my surprise he turned into smoke and started to gain on us! I then looked back at Luffy's back.

"What the hell did you do Luffy?" I said to him. He turned his head towards me. He had swallowed his food and gave me a sort of déjà vu moment… thing… I don't know why, but he gave me a big idiotic grin; which I could only translate as a Luffy grin.

"I've got no idea!" He then said.

I could see the reflection in Luffy's eyes that he saw the brat. He looked back at the girl that came towards us. She swiped once but missed both of us, don't ask me how I did it. But in a split second Luffy grabbed me around the waist and launched us both to the top of a roof. I quickly got over my surprise and we started to run over the roofs, jumping over the rigs. I was just happy that the gaps weren't that big, but this didn't help us since the brat had gained on us again.

"WHITE SNAKE!" I heard him scream, and all of a sudden there was a beam of white smoke coming towards us! White smoke… It wouldn't surprise me if he used it to get into saunas nowadays, huh… Aaaah! What am I thinking about at a moment like this? We started to run even faster, if that was possible…

"Strawhat, why did you come to this country? What are you after?" I could hear the brat say from behind us.

"What? I came here to beat the crap outta Crocodile!"

"What? Crocodile? What connection do you have to Crocodile?"

Then in another split second, Luffy lost his grip and slipped in between one of the gaps between the houses… To my 'luck', he was still having a firm hold on my arms, so we both fell of the building. The fall wasn't as bad I expected though, since I landed on Luffy, and well… He's made from rubber. Now that I think of it, it would be funny to think that if Luffy was bouncier than now, then he would've bounced me back up again. Hahaha, that would have been a funny sight to see, even for me, hahaha!

I noticed the brat didn't come after us immediately. I grabbed Luffy's arms and dragged him for a change, and started to run for it in the direction we just came from.

"Strawhat!" I heard again, and we started to run faster… AGAIN! WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?

Before we knew it, there were Marines running after us! We ran through all kinds of streets, trying to get rid of them, but only more people came! Even towns people decided to join the fun! I ran past a street when all of a sudden, Luffy stopped and went back.

"Yo! Zoro! Whoa, everyone's over there!"

Luffy then grabbed my arms again and we started to run towards him.

"IDIOT! Don't come here until you've lost them!"

I expected that we would make a slight change of pace when we would meet, what I assumed to be, his friends, but instead he just dragged me full-speed past them.

"What's taking you so long? Let's get going!" Luffy yelled.

"YOU MORON!" I could hear them yell. And I've got to say that I can't blame them. It does seem that compared to Ace, Luffy had changed little to nothing compared to when he was 7.

"Wait! Strawhat and that woman are mine!" The brat yelled.

Mine? What does he mean with mine?

"Ah! He caught up with us!" Luffy yelled. We were now running far in front of his friends.

"WHITE BLOW! You two won't escape!"

"Aw, shit!" I finally yelled out.

"KAGEROU!" I heard someone yell.

Then I saw that a fire beam thing hit the smoke and it started to mingle. We all slowed down and looked.

"You again…" I could hear the brat say. The fire started to subside, and I could see a guy standing there, on fire.

"Give it up. You may be smoke, but I am fire. With our abilities, a fight would be pointless." He said, and I then saw who it was.

"Ace!" Luffy said.

"You never change, Luffy." He answered.

"Ace… It's Ace! You ate a Devil's Fruit?" Luffy yelled back.

"Yeah, the Flame Flame Fruit." He said, answering Luffy

"Ace?" I whispered.

I was finally slightly regaining my breath from all the running. I looked at Ace; so that's why he wasn't bothered by the heat and the sun and didn't even notice that his jacket was missing. If you're made out of fire then that makes sense, but still… Wow… I could see that Ace looked at me and gave me a look I didn't really understand. I just slightly nodded in acknowledgement. He gave me a slight nod and looked at the brat again. The Marines were yelling all kinds of things.

"Anyway, we can't talk like this! I'll catch up later! You guys run for it! I'll keep these guys busy! GO!" He yelled.

"Let's GO!" Luffy yelled, turning around and starting to run. He and his friends started to run away while I stood still for a second.

"I'm going with them, I'll see you later!" I yelled.

"Yeah!" I hear him say, and I turned around and ran after all of them.

I was starting to gain on them… Man, I would think all this running is doing something to my endurance, haha, I'm not as tired as I would usually be.

"Brother?" I could hear all of the others scream all of a sudden.

"And that's Sara!" Luffy yelled after that.

I then finally completely caught up with them. I ran next to one of the girls; the one with red hair and they all sort of greeted me. I greeted them back and smiled at them.

"What's with me, you little squirt?" I said teasingly, with a big grin on my face and sticking out my tongue at Luffy.

"I'm not little anymore! And how come you're still the same?" He said in a confused voice. Wow, so even Luffy noticed apparently, he isn't as dense as I thought, haha.

"We'll talk later Luffy; just run!" I said back.

Luffy took a barrel from one of the guys and started to carry it. Then there was this big mingling of fire and smoke in the sky. It started to get really big and sort of exploded into each other… You could see it was having a conflict.

Everyone stopped again. All of the townspeople were looking at the fire and smoke in the sky. I then heard that the friends of Luffy were recapping on what just happened. Luffy confirmed that Ace was his brother, that they were both pirates, and that Ace left three years before Luffy, while I left ten years before THAT. I knew they all reacted somewhat confused; but I wasn't paying attention to all that… I just got the main lines, but I was distracted.

I noticed that the girl with blue hair in particular was looking weirdly at me. She looked kind of familiar, but she didn't say anything.

"A-anyway, let's hurry back to the ship. We should get out of here before they come after us." The girl with the orange hair said.

"Right Nami-san!" The blonde guy responded.

We then all started to run again, I just followed. Then there was this massive explosion behind us from the fight.

"I never thought I'd meet Ace in a place like this." I heard Luffy say in front of me. Nobody responded.

"Oi, the road splits up!" The guy with black curls yelled.

"Usopp, go left! Everyone agree?" I think it was Nami who yelled that.

"Yes, I'm with you no matter which way you choose, Nami-san!" The blonde guy said.

"Enough already, pervert-cook!" The green-haired guy said.

The two men kept on bickering until we arrived at a ship. I walked on board and helped the girls with their stuff. The blonde guy then came by.

"Leave it to me, gorgeous."

… Yeah… I don't know if I should be grateful or feel insulted by that… Ah well. Everyone started to run around, I tried to help where I could. Other than that, I just tried to stay out of the way, not wanting to hinder them. They were putting the sail down, raising the anchor, when I noticed someone was missing… Luffy!

I let everyone finish running around until they seemed ready and yelled to go for it. It seemed like they were waiting for something. I just sat on a barrel; bored and amused at their reaction upon noticing that Luffy was gone… Kind of mean, isn't it, just waiting them to notice it, and be bemused by it… Oh c'mon! Like you wouldn't do that!

"I feel like we're missing someone." The guy with the black curls mumbled.

"I feel that way too." The little animal said, he's so cute!

"And the one we're missing… Is the most important." Nami said.

"That… IDIOT!" The guy with green hair said.

Everybody started to moan and grunt at Luffy's ability to disappear like that.

"Let's sail out and look for that idiot." I heard Nami say.

I then thought of something. I stood up and bowed.

"I assume that Luffy's gets into trouble a lot, and is in your care. Thank you for looking out for him!" I said, bowing.

"Yeah, you're right." They all said, bowing back.

"Well, I'm Sara, nice to meet you all." I said with a smile.

"Nice to meet you." They all bowed and introduced themselves.

"So you're an old friend of Luffy's." Sanji said.

"Yeah, a really old one. But let's go find Luffy and we can all talk." I said with a smile.

"Sure Sara-chan." He said with a blush on his face. Guess he's one of a kind, isn't he?

In the meantime, most people had gone to do chores in search of Luffy. I was with Sanji and Chopper, looking through some binoculars.

"Ah, there he is! It's Luffy! I see Luffy!" I heard from above. Apparently Nami had gone into the crow's nest and saw Luffy.

"You sure?" Zoro asked. Sanji took my binoculars and looked at the shore.

"Yeah, no doubts about it, with that dumb look on his face… Uh!" All of a sudden Sanji dashed back a bit, as if the binoculars had burned him. And before we knew it…

"I'm…. back!" Luffy grabbed the railing of the ship and launched himself into us… Yeah, that actually hurts.

"Sanji! Sara! Tony!" Vivi yelled.

I heard the crew mumble some things and Luffy got up from us.

"Sorry about that!"

I groaned as he got off of me, and grunted. Then I heard a groan from above and from under me. Apparently I had landed right on Sanji, with Chopper on top of me… But I've got to admit, it was kind of uncomfortable. Chopper now also got off of me, and I then felt that Sanji sat up and took me with him.

"Are you OK, Sara-chan?" he said, his arms still holding my shoulder. I was now sitting in between his legs. I groaned and nodded, rubbing my head slightly.

Then with one hand, on my shoulder, with the other one he grabbed Luffy by his shirt.

"Bastard! Don't you know your own strength! I oughta throw you overboard!" He yelled at him. Luffy just looked dumbfounded.

"He's right! Do you know how much trouble you've caused us? Act a little more like a captain!" Nami said.

"Sorry." He answered, all shaken up. He then leaned backwards to see Nami.

"So, you lost Ace too?" I asked. Luffy then stood up.

"Oh yeah, Ace!" He said, and he walked over to the railing.

"Ace? Your brother was with you?" Zoro asked.

"You sure we should just leave him?" Usopp asked.

"Well, he'll be fine!" Luffy said, and he turned around to face us. "Ace is strong."

'I don't really have a doubt about that.'

"Is he really strong?" Chopper said.

"Yeah, even back before he ate that Flame Flame Fruit, no matter how much we fought, I never beat him once! Ace is really strong!" Luffy said.

"So you never beat him after all, huh." I said with a smile.

"Nope." He answered with a grin.

"You never won once? Against a normal human?" Nami asked.

"So the older brother of a monster turns out to be a SUPER monster." Usopp mumbled. I giggled at his comment.

"Yeah, even I had a tough time, haha! But if I fought him now, I'd win!" Luffy started to laugh really hard, brimming with overconfidence.

"That's a groundless statement." Zoro said. I then heard something from behind Luffy.

"And just…" I heard Ace's voice, and out of the blue, he jumped on the ship's railing, knocking Luffy over. "…who can you beat?" He then looked up, and looked straight at me. I was still sitting on the floor between Sanji's legs with my hands on his shoulder, and I could see Ace looking at him. He then stood up and offered his hand. I took it and he helped me up.

"Oh, Ace! These are the nakama I was telling you about!" Luffy said enthusiastically.

"Hello everyone, I trust my little brother has been in your care." Ace said with a smile.

"Yes, he has." They all said in unison, bowing.

"He has no manner, so he'll probably end up burning your hands a few times…" He continued.

"Yes, he has." They all said again.

"I'll entrust him to you." He finished, bowing his head. They all bowed again slightly in return.

"For now, you two probably have some small talk to share, wanna come inside? I'll make some tea." Sanji offered, taking out a cigarette. I wanted to say yes, but Ace cut me off before I could say anything.

"Oh no, don't worry about it. I appreciate your consideration, though." Ace said. He then lit up Sanji's cigarette with the tip of his finger. Sanji then looked at me.

"Yeah, sure." I smiled. Luffy's crew then started to mumble with each other.

"This sure is unexpected." Usopp said.

"It is." Zoro responded.

"I thought the guy Luffy described would be some selfish, arrogant jerk… And the girl, well, she's OK like he said." Usopp continued.

"You're right about her, but Ace… It has to be a lie! Someone this polite can't be Luffy's brother!" Nami said.

"He's such a better person than his brother!" Zoro said near tears.

"Brotherhood is a wonderful thing!" Chopper weeped.

"It just doesn't make sense. The sea is a mysterious place." Sanji said. I raised an eyebrow. 'C'mon, I know Ace is less dense than Luffy, but this kind of praising is ridiculous.'

"Now, now everyone!" Vivi said, trying to calm them all down a bit.

"See? Don't they crack you up?" Luffy said laughing. I then looked at Ace, my eyebrow still raised. He gave me the same sort of look back. I softly laughed with Luffy at his simpleness. Then the others noticed that all of a sudden, tons of ships were coming towards us.

"Baroque Works! That's the Billions' fleet!" Vivi said.

"Them again?" Luffy said.

"I'll clean them up." Ace said as he jumped overboard and into his small boat. I walked towards the railing.

"What's he planning to do?" Nami asked.

"What's with the tiny boat?" Usopp asked.

I looked over the rail and saw that Ace's feet were fire, and that made the boat go forward. Ace was heading straight for the fleet.

"Let's sit back and see how good the Second Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates really is." Zoro said. I just looked at Ace, who seemed to become smaller and smaller with the distance.

When Ace got closer to the ships, he jumped into the air; his ship going underwater. Thanks to his fire ability, he jumped over the ships. I thought he was about to 'land' into the water, but instead he landed on his boat again, which had appeared from the water. He then made a sharp turn and he pulled back, as if he were to punch somebody.

"HIKEN!" He yelled. His fist turned into flames, and a massive beam of fire came from it, destroying every ship.

I saw that he leaned back, the flames on his fist receding to only his finger. With that finger, he pushed up his hat and grinned.

"WOW!" Luffy screamed, just like me and the others, who were to say the least, surprised at Ace's power.

"Wow…" I softly mumbled… Ace then looked our way, I thought he was looking at me. I couldn't be certain because of the distance. But in any case, I looked at the sinking ships for a split second, and then back to him. I grinned and started to laugh.


Not a lot of action…or fun in this one. this chappy I just had to write to get the plot going but next one is going to be better…I've got some good idea's ^.^

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