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A/N: Luffy is hard to write! No kidding. He seems so simple but he's also so complex. I'm behind on writing ahead because of that. Why Luffy? Why?
Big thank you to Everlight18, Wordlet, and yggdrasil001 for Reviewing, to CharmyXcream14, Ghostunderasheet, Iviidiis, On Silver Wings, Taiyo-chan the Neko Writer, Yanagy, and laurie199609 for Favouriting, and to Because I can do it better, CharmyXcream14, ClearWolf, Ghostunderasheet, Iviidiis, Pikkelsson Prime, Yanagy, brt99 and laurie1990609 for Following. Here's the chapter.
Chapter 8-Luffy
Luffy didn't get why Usopp was scared of their family when they were younger. They were all really cool and nice! Even Nami with her painful punch that hurt as much as Grandpa's 'Fist of Love'. He thought they were all cool for different reasons of course; some were really obvious things too.
Brook played music, Binks' Brew is his favourite; he loved singing along to it once he could speak. He is also a skeleton with an afro that told really funny jokes. He could also wake him up in the middle of the night and he'd be happy to talk to him. Not to mention all his stories of when he was a pirate were really cool.
Jimbei was really strong and cool; he could shoot water and do those weird punches. He was also Fishman and looked really fearsome with his scar and tusks. He always makes sure to spend time with him too, even though he has a lot of stuff to do being in a soldier in Neptune's army. He did teach him how to punch too, not the awesome ones unfortunately, just normal ones.
Franky threw really fun parties and made really cool stuff that could run on cola; he said he has made something really super that he'll show off when the last person arrives and becomes old enough. That made Luffy really impatient for the next and last person to appear; he really wanted to see the super thing!
Robin was really smart and knew nearly everything, except about the Dream World and what happened in the Void Century thing. Sanji told him that's why she wants to know about them, so she can become All-Knowing. She also made funny comments that always seemed to freak the others out. She could also tell a lot about somethings past just from looking at it. Not the Sunny though, somehow it didn't have a past yet. He knew it was because Franky hadn't built it yet. He didn't point it out because he knew she could be scary though. She can get Franky to wear pants after all.
Sanji made him really yummy food, and it would be whatever he wanted as long as they had the stuff to make it and he had to make sure it was all eaten. He didn't mind, he always ate all of it anyway. The food made him once say that Sanji was his favourite sibling but he learned quickly not to get favourites because of Zoro. He can get really jealous, it was funny!
Zoro always let him sleep next to him, he let him play with all his things too, not his swords though, even if they were only sticks. Zoro had no problem whacking him in the head with them. He and Sanji always get into fights, it could be about anything, but they were slowly getting better at fighting because of the constant fights. He wanted to be stronger than them though, he wants to be able to protect them too.
Nami was both funny and scary; her eyes could turn into Beri symbols at the mention of it and her teeth could become like sharks if she was angry, it's always scary when she does it. She could also change the weather of what it's like in the dream world. One day he wished there was snow and then Nami said somethings he doesn't really remember but then it started snowing!
Usopp was his playmate, he could tell really good stories and could lie their way out of Sanji's wrath when they took some food out of the kitchen. Luffy knew he couldn't lie to save his life so he was lucky Usopp was willing to brave his fears for him. Most of the time anyway, Nami and Robin were scary when mad!
Christmas Eve had arrived, and Nami had made sure it was snowing lightly on the Sunny. Luffy had already made all his presents for them and as night time was approaching put them all under the trees of Nami's Tangerine Grove with all the others.
He really wanted the last family member to arrive already; he knew there was only one to come since there was only one more bed that was yet to be claimed. A thump behind him caused him to look behind him.
A baby reindeer was staring at him with its limbs spread out underneath it. A staring competition commenced for a long while before Luffy's eyes were starting to ache, the baby reindeer's eyes were starting to become unfocused as well. The victor was going to be decided soon.
A blink. A cheer. Luffy had won. The clapping was unexpected though.
Turns out the rest of his family came to see what was taking him so long. They witnessed most of the staring competition. He didn't mind though, he asked if Franky could finally show them the cool thing he had made was but he said no because they couldn't be sure the baby reindeer was going to be the last and he wasn't old enough to really remember later anyway.
Luffy wasn't really happy with that though but he then asked how long it would take the reindeer to grow up. Robin was too busy in thought while patting the reindeer to answer him.
When he finally managed to shake her out of it he didn't get what he asked for. Well, he found out that the reindeer is a boy and that Robin has decided to name him Tony Tony Chopper, something about a book too.
Luffy wasn't really that grumpy about not being told how long it was going to take. He was actually really happy and that made itself apparent on his face when it split in a big grin and he went and hugged the very fluffy Chopper.
Now not only was their family complete, but he was no longer the youngest. He wanted to be a pirate like Brook was with everyone here and he wanted to be the Captain! He couldn't be the captain if he was the youngest, they'd never listen to him!
Coming Up Next: Chopper
I'm going to have to slow down the updates starting after Chopper's Chapter, sorry. But School is starting to load on the homework and I've got an assignment due Friday. It'll be once every two days and I'm really sorry about doing this, but on the bright side the chapters will be longer so that's something right? Also I got a slightly different cover too, this one has Jimbei!
Responses to Reviews:
Yggdrasil001: I didn't realise I gave Usopp that ability until you pointed it out. Thanks! I got the idea for that situation with Zoro and the cuddling from all these reviews, just need to remember which ones specifically. Yeah, I want to cuddle Luffy too but I'm a huggy person so there's that. :)
I didn't really put any thing in there that would want to make them follow Luffy and his thoughts explain that. Would you really follow your younger brother? That's going to be a challenge to Luffy to make them want him to be captain. They'll join easy peasy but there's going to be a new struggle.
Everlight18: Thank you, I try.They are really close in age and that made me think about that, they are really close in the canon and they both know Yasopp. There was an opportunity and I took it.
I hoped it was! And don't die! ;D Sorry about the slowing down though, it takes me an hour to write the draft and the half an hour to finalise a single chapter and I'm not getting much time any more.
Haha, thanks. Jimbei apparently overloads himself to many with responsibilities and would most likely react in this manner in my head. Also Nami dying gives me a way to be a little lazy when putting Jimbei in before hand and do quicker updates, character development fixes everything!
I was stuck in a car for nine hours and was forced to watch educational videos about physics. It was not pleasant. And we arrived at home after midnight. But that's just me sulking, I hope you had a good time with your sister's birthday, and I hope she had a happy birthday too.
Wordlet: Yes, it was a big relief. He was still really hard without it but yeah. Haha, yeah I hope Zoro was. They may realise that Luffy is supposed to be the captain but they won't make accept it that easily. He's their little brother after all. If not for Chopper he would be their baby brother. So yeah.
