"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean."-Christopher Reeve
After spending time with Kaya, Nami had come to a nice conclusion, she liked the girl. Kaya was open-hearted, and truly intelligent which made Nami smile, a true smile for the girl. She listened to Kaya's tale about her parent's death and felt her heart go out for the girl. She also took in how Usopp had been coming over ever since it happened and trying his hardest to cheer her up with his wild stories.
"I know all Usopp told me was lies but…" Kaya felt tears forming in her eyes thinking about how harsh Usopp had been laying like that about her butler.
"People do crazy things to protect the ones they love." Nami said, her eyes distant thinking of the things she had done.
"I just wish he would be honest with me…" Kaya said taking a sip of her tea, looking down to the ground. Nami knew her job here was to keep Kaya away from as much trouble as possible, but she had decided that before Usopp went off with Luffy on his little adventure she'd make sure they set things all straight.
"When we get the chance I think we should talk more with him alright?" Nami asked picking her tea cup up, and sipping it.
"You're right Nami, I'm glad we're talking." Kaya smiled happy to have time with another girl for once.
"I am too," Nami replied hoping everything went alright with Luffy on his end.
"How long are you both going to sleep?!" Usopp asked, while Luffy, and Zoro who were both snoring away under a tree as if a crazy pirate crew wasn't making their way towards the island this very moment.
"It's not like I have to really fight hard, and if those guys know what's good for them they won't actually want to fight me." Luffy shrugged opening one eye and looked at Usopp who had his jaw slack slightly.
"Because you're strong?" He asked once he pulled himself together.
"Nope, because Marco will probably find out some way or another, and they won't like what he might do to them." Luffy laughed imagining his Ma all fired up, his blue eyes glaring down anyone who so much as touched Luffy.
"I keep forgetting there are people out there watching your back that are a lot stronger than you.." Usopp said rubbing his forehead with his thumb sighing.
"Shishishi, Pops will help if I need it, but I don't want to have them protect me anymore. It's time that I started to get strong for myself and my crew." Luffy said looking at Usopp while Zoro continued to sleep, but Luffy sensed that he was actually paying attention.
"You have one super cool family, Luffy…" Usopp mutter turning to look at the water knowing that soon a bunch of pirates would be here.
"You do to Usopp; your dad is pretty awesome!" Luffy exclaimed happily and Usopp blushed before rubbing his nose.
"Yeah I guess so; I must get my amazingness from my old man!" Usopp then took a pose, but Luffy just laughed it off before leaning back on the tree and closing his eyes again.
"The party should be here soon so rest while you can." Luffy encouraged, but Usopp shook his head.
"I'm alright; I'll keep watch for now." He then climbed the tree, and kept his eyes out on the open waters.
"Suit yourself." Luffy shrugged before falling asleep once again.
"I'll protect this village if it's the last thing I do…" Usopp muttered to himself as snoring began once again indicating that Luffy had fallen back to sleep.
When Kaya fell asleep, Nami opened her eyes sitting up slowly not to alert the girl she was moving.
"Luffy and Usopp say your butler is untrustworthy so I'm to guard you just in case." Nami whispered taking a seat by the door so she could listen to any movement in the dark house. Being a thief, and a really damn good one, Nami had learned to use observational skills to see her surroundings to help protect herself better, never once in her lifetime though did she ever think she'd use those skills to help another person.
"A pirate wants me to protect someone that has nothing really to do with his goal, what a weird man you are Luffy." Nami couldn't help but smile, because out of all the pirates she had met Luffy just appeared so different. It could be the fact that he was so open, and honest about what he was feeling and thinking, he didn't have any hidden agenda, or secrets so she couldn't help but trust him. Placing her hand over the covered tattoo on her shoulder she thought about what was happening back home.
"If only all pirates could be like you Luffy." She said sadly before looking up startled, because of a loud sound happening down the stairs.
She could wake Kaya but first it was time to check things out-carefully of course! There was no way Nami wanted to fight whoever was causing trouble in the house she was just on guard duty, Luffy was the one to kick people's asses. Listening harder Nami could hear someone coming up the stairs so she hid as best as she could in Kaya's closet. Hopefully whoever it was didn't see her, and even more so wasn't strong enough to sense her like Luffy could.
When the door opened it was the butler Usopp had told them about. Nami had to place a hand over her mouth to stop herself from shouting, or even from breathing to hard. She watched through the small crack in the closet as he walked over to Kaya and placed his bladed hands close to her throat. Nami felt herself beginning to shake so she stepped away from the wooden doors so she didn't make any sounds.
She knew it was her job to protect Kaya, and leaving the girl to die would be letting Luffy and the others down. Nami was now mentally preparing herself to jump out from the closet, and try and fight off the man, but heard his footsteps as he left the room leaving the door open. Nami looked over at Kaya's sleeping form, and sighed knowing things were going to go bad for the kind girl.
"Sorry Kaya, I need to go now Luffy is strong, but I want to be there to help where I can." Then she opened the window, and jumped out rushing to the place she knew Luffy and the others were hopefully waiting.
Usopp kept his eyes on the sea when his spy glass spotted a ship hiding off close to the island.
"They're here…" He whispered panic searing through his veins.
"Luffy! I spot a ship!" Usopp yelled down to his friends who were now stretching and yawning.
"'Bout time I thought they'd never get here." Luffy yawned, and Usopp scowled a tick on his forehead.
"We don't want pirates on this island, stupid!" He shouted at Luffy who just gave a small special laugh to his tone.
"But I'm a pirate, you don't want me here?" Luffy asked which just caused Usopp to sweat drop at Luffy, and his logic.
"That's not what I meant, and you know it!" Usopp snapped worry was getting the better of him now.
"Let them come, I'll take them all on myself." Zoro yawned standing up, and watching as the sun was coming up on the horizon now.
"Luffy!" Nami had raced from Kaya's house all the way to the cliff where she knew everyone would be.
"What are you doing here? Where's Kaya?!" Usopp asked even more worried now.
"She's sleeping. The butler guy did something in the house." Usopp just stared at Nami
"Then why are you here? You should be protecting her!" He didn't like the idea of Kaya being all alone in the house by herself.
"She'll be fine as long as we do our job here." Luffy sat up fully now his eyes on the ship that was sailing ever closer to the island.
"I'm not going to completely fight; I want to see how strong all of you have gotten since we last met." Luffy knew that should he need to he was to step in, and end the fight all together, but why get in the way of some needed training.
"But I don't want to fight all those pirates!" Nami freaked out, and Usopp nodded panicking hard.
"Usopp, Nami, if you guys can't handle these guys you'll never survive in the Grand Line." He needed to make it clear to them that the Grand Line, and New World were no joke. "Here you can make mistakes, but there one mistake could mean your life."
Zoro was stunned by Luffy's behaviour, normally Luffy was laid back, and laughter, but here he was acting more serious, and even finally taking on the role of captain.
"So all we need to do is kick these guy's asses?" He asked Luffy, and the straw hatted captain nodded crossing his arms looking at Zoro who was now tying his bandana on his head ready for battle.
"Should be pretty easy for you." Luffy smirked looking up at Zoro a sense of pride going between them, because Luffy knew Zoro would never lose, and Luffy would never let anyone touch his Nakama so long as he lived.
"They're here…" Nami whispered as pirates were beginning to jump to the shore from their ship.
"So it's time to begin is it?" The sun was up and the battle ready to begin.
"Luffy you wait here this will be over quickly." Zoro had touched the hilt of his blade smirking down the hill at the pirate crew.
"Right then we can go get Sanji." None of the people around Luffy knew who this Sanji guy was but if Luffy had said his name it meant he was one of them whether he liked it or not.
Walking into the group of pirates Zoro placed one of his swords into his mouth clutching the hilt tightly with his teeth. Pulling his other blades out he glared at the pirates before using all three swords in perfect unison slicing them before they even made it up the hill.
"He's so strong!" Usopp stuttered out as Luffy plopped himself down at the top of the hill.
"He's been training just like we have been Usopp. Zoro's going to need you to watch his back as he deals with all those in front of him." Luffy said but his eyes never left Zoro as he continued to butcher the weaklings one by one.
"Right." Putting his goggles over his eyes Usopp got his slingshot ready to attack should any poor sucker sneak past the swordsman.
"I'm going to rob that ship." Nami stated knowing that it was probably filled with treasures.
"Sure." Luffy was too preoccupied with the small fight happening in front of him to really listen right now. Nami being a capable thief knew how to sneak around dangerous situations even some like this one right now. She carefully snuck by the pirates catching Zoro's eye for a moment as he blocked another blade before breaking the weak metal under the pressure of his own strong ones.
"Luffy I'm getting bored." Zoro complained up at Luffy who laughed.
"Shishishi."
"The sun glows in the sky; Captain Kuro isn't a patient man." One of the guys said before looking around, and yelling at his beaten men on the ground. Zoro turned back to see them starting to get up, and gave them an almost bored expression.
"So you want to be beaten down again?" He scoffed at them as the leader of the group pulled out some circled knives dangling from a strong and swaying them back and forth.
"What are they doing down there?" Luffy stood up to take a better look and the sun caught off the circle blade catching Luffy's attention.
"Shiny." He muttered looking closer watching the blade swing back, and forth as the man said something and Luffy's mind went blank rage filling his very being.
"Luffy?" Usopp asked watching as Luffy began to growl like an animal before charging down the hill his fists blackened with Haki.
"What the-?" Zoro asked as Luffy ran right into the pile of growling pirates knocking them all down and even causing some to lose their anger and run back away from the boy.
"Where do you think you're going?!" The hypno guy freaked as a few of his crewmates ran past him in fear.
Luffy growling ran towards the leader who cowered in fear that the boy was going to send him flying as well but Luffy just ran past him and attacked the ship like it was nothing.
"Why is he attacking the ship!?" The man yelled which caused Zoro to have enough. Walking towards his rampaging captain-who was using enough Haki to cause a few of the weaker pirates to faint- Zoro was going to stop Luffy from making his job harder.
"Kill them, Meow bond Brothers!" The leader shouted, but Zoro was so angry to even pay any attention to them continuing his walk towards Luffy the brothers moved to attack Zoro from the air.
"Don't you dare even think about it!" Usopp shouted pulling his sling shot back and shooting the brothers from the sky.
"I'm the greatest sniper on Luffy's crew so it's my job to have their backs!" Usopp glared at the brothers as they moved away from Zoro and decided to fight against Usopp who kept stepping back.
"A sniper doesn't have to fight on the front lines as long as he's got his captain's back." Usopp had never felt this brave before but now he knew nothing would stop him.
Zoro walked right up to Luffy who was punching into the ship causing small fist shaped dents into the wood. Closing his eyes Zoro put his blades back into their proper sheathes before punching Luffy on the head not knowing that his fingers up to his knuckles had turned black with Haki.
"That hurt!" Luffy shouted grabbing his head before blinking his eyes confused as to why he was at the bottom of the hill.
"You tell us to handle these pirates ourselves then run down the hill like a maniac!" Zoro yelled at Luffy who was rubbing the back of his head apologizing.
"How'd this ship get so many holes in it? Don't these guys know that ships sink that way?" Luffy asked examining the broken parts of the ship he was standing by only for a few tick marks to appear on Zoro's head.
"You caused that damage idiot! I thought I was going to die in there!" Nami had come out of the ship just to punch Luffy in the back of the head for his reckless actions.
"Sorry, Sorry!" Luffy once again apologized.
Usopp was feeling quite proud of himself being able to take on two opponents at once with a relative ease it seemed.
"Why don't you let us see your little toy, hmm?" One of the brothers called to Usopp reaching for his weapon with one of their clawed hands.
"No thanks." Moving his hands quickly Usopp put in a new bit of ammunition to use and try out.
"Fire Bird Star!" Usopp shouted letting the flaming attack fly, and hit one of the brothers burning him enough for Usopp to climb into a tree.
"I'll use the leaves as cover for me." He whispered to himself. "Even if they block my vision slightly, Luffy is counting on me to win so I will!" He knew one of the brothers was down burnt so hopefully he wouldn't be getting back up so quickly.
"Here goes nothing." Usopp then pulled his sling shot back and shot at the other brother trying to get him to lose his footing.
"You can't hide from me!" The man yelled at the sniper before realizing Usopp was in a tree so he climbed it like a cat would to reach the boy, but Usopp could see his plan right before he did it.
"I'm faster than that guy since I'm smaller." Climbing swiftly through the branches, but still aiming at the guy was hard, but Usopp could do it.
"He doesn't get it; his stupid cow bell gives away his position every time." Usopp laughed quietly to himself as the man once again was hit by one of Usopp's attacks. For some reason or another Usopp felt like he could see each movement the man was making before he even made it.
"I only had one Fire Bird but my normal ammo isn't going to cut it…" He knew the sniper was only as good as the weapon he used and being around Luffy long enough taught him that it was okay to need help.
Looking around for anyone to help him as he moved through the trees his eyes spotted Zoro who was knocking a few more people off their feet while Luffy was protecting Nami and her treasure. Pulling his sling shot back he aimed it at Zoro's feet to get the swordsman's attention which worked quite easily.
"Zoro can you deal with these guys?" The swordsman was wondering why Usopp was in a tree in the first place and not on the ground but decided not to question him as Luffy laughed.
"Usopp you look like a monkey in that tree." He chuckled and pointed.
"I work better from a far!" He shouted in Luffy's direction which only caused the captain to laugh a bit more. "I'm not monsters like you guys, I've still got lots more training to do before I can match up to you!" Usopp shouted at them as Zoro moved into finish off the brothers.
"What's taking you so long?" Luffy turned his head towards the bottom of the beach where the main jerk had just arrived.
"We ran into some difficulties Captain Kuro." The hypno guy said to him and the man carefully pushed his glasses up his nose.
"I should have known that leaving this task to you was too much to ask for." He spat out at the man before turning his eyes to Usopp and smirking.
"Good job trying to warn the villagers, you made yourself look like a complete fool." Kuro mocked Usopp who was gritting his teeth at the sight of that man.
"What have you done to Kaya?" Usopp spoke through his teeth glaring at the butler
"Nothing…Yet." He smirked causing Luffy's eyes to narrow. Luffy wasn't one to interfere with another's battle, but this guy was pissing him off and he hadn't done much yet.
"So you're the captain." Luffy asked in an emotionless voice causing the man to turn his eyes away from Usopp and onto Luffy who was still sitting in the dirt.
"And who might you be little boy? The affairs of this village and all in it have nothing to do with you." He said back to Luffy how shook his head at the man as if calling him stupid.
"I'm Luffy and anything my crew decides to protect means I'll protect it as well." Luffy shrugged causing the butler to laugh at him.
"Well you are doing a poor job of protecting anything just sitting there. Can you really do anything at all?" He asked Luffy who just smirked, his hat shadowing his eyes slightly now.
"I don't need to move right now there's no need. And can I do anything? Well, I can kick your ass if I need to, but I did think Usopp might want a crack at ya first." He said as Kuro laughed loudly at his threat.
"Usopp? You mean that weakling, and liar?" Luffy really didn't like him, but honestly he had seen much worse people in the world to be fazed by much.
"He may be weak-." Luffy started "Oi!" Usopp cut in "But he's a lot more of a man than you'll ever be butler guy." Luffy said simply, but the man just turned away from him.
"It doesn't matter either way you'll all be dead shortly. Usopp, and his pirate blood is reason enough for him to never have been born." Kuro said before turning, and shouting at his men who were cowering as Zoro finished off the brothers easily.
Luffy stood up silently he was finished playing around now.
"Usopp!" All but Luffy turned around to see Kaya standing by the trees her face pale, and eyes sad.
"Kaya what are you doing here?" Usopp jumped down from the tree, and ran towards her wanting to push her as far away from this place as possible.
"I came to say I'm sorry! I was wrong…" Kaya had stumbled upon another of her house servants Merry, and heard the truth from him what had happened.
"Miss Kaya, this place isn't safe for a lady such as you." Kuro said to her taking back on his butler formalities.
"Klahadore why? If you want my fortune, my mansion you can have it, but please, don't hurt anyone else!" She cried to the man
"Oh, but I have to miss Kaya." He said before beginning to talk about why he was running from the sea.
"I don't care." Luffy said crossing his arms. Zoro gave Luffy a look wondering what he was up to.
"What did you say to me brat?" Kuro snarled so Luffy repeated himself.
"I don't care. I don't care about your backstory, and why you hate the sea. I don't care about what you want with that girl's life; I really don't care about all that at all. What I do care about is that you mocked, and harmed my friends, and for that I'm going to kick your ass." Luffy said before turning to look at Zoro who was still looking at Luffy waiting for orders. All Luffy did was nod in Usopp's direction, and Zoro grinned.
"I got it, captain." He said before turning and moving to guard the girl.
"Usopp, we're to protect this lady here." He said giving Usopp Luffy's orders.
"But shouldn't we be fighting Kuro?" Usopp was confused Luffy hadn't spoken any words to the swordsman at all.
"No need, this battle will be over soon." Zoro closed his eyes, and could feel the anger coming off of Luffy, that man was about to get what was coming to him.
"So you wish to fight me little boy?" Kuro mocked before beginning to sway back, and forth weirdly.
"Fine, I'll just have to kill you myself then." He then moved really quickly slicing everyone and everything in his path. Luffy was watching the butler guy, and the way he harmed the people who followed him pissed him off more. Winding back his fist he aimed it towards the butler hitting him easily.
"But how?!" Kuro exclaimed touching his face where Luffy had hit him.
"I'm not like you." Luffy whispered angrily.
"That's right; you're weak compared to me! You could never be half the man I am." Kuro said before stepping back into his attack causing his men to scream in terror at the thought of being killed by their captain.
"All that running around is really annoying!" Luffy shouted before grabbing the guy by his shirt holding him still long enough for Luffy to get a good punch into the man's face.
"But that's impossible!" He cried out "I'm Captain Kuro the man of a thousand plans!" He declared.
"I will not be defeated by a no name pirate on these seas!" He pointed at Luffy once he had got his footing back.
"I'm not some no name pirate. I'm Monkey D. Luffy the man who will become the king of the pirates!" He shouted glaring at the butler.
"No one's ever been able to even touch Captain Kuro before! How could this even be happening?!" The hypno guy cried out in fear, and Zoro smirked down at Luffy.
"What good is speed when your opponent can see your every move?" Zoro said softly knowing that Luffy's observation skills were too good to even let him get a scratch from that guy.
"But no one is faster than our captain!" One person shouted out before being taunted by said captain.
"You all had pretty bad Luck, running into Luffy." Zoro couldn't stop the excited feeling in his chest knowing Luffy was stronger than most people.
"That's right, Luffy isn't just anyone! He's the son of White Beard!" Usopp smiled his sling shot still pointed at anyone who dared move near Kaya-especially the hypno guy.
"A White Beard Pirate? Don't make me laugh! People like them never come to the East Blue." Kuro said not believing that Luffy was really anything other than a new rookie on the seas.
"You're right I'm not a White Beard Pirate, I'm my own captain now and don't need my pops to take care of me anymore." Luffy said to Kuro who stopped smiling.
"A White Beard Pirate but that's…Impossible..." Nami whispered her eyes wide really looking at Luffy now trying to see the title beyond the care free boy in front of her.
"Like I said pops is pops, and I'm me we're totally different crews now!" Luffy was starting to get annoyed knowing that this reaction might happen a lot by people.
"We can't touch him! If we do that old man will kill us all!" A few weaklings called out to Kuro who turned towards them and snarled.
"Weak people like all of you should just die then if you aren't here to fight." Kuro then went back into his attack moving quickly slicing many of his Nakama along the way.
"You know being from a large family, I hate people like you. People who misuse their crew, their Nakama, their own family don't deserve to be commanded like dogs." Luffy growled stretching his arm out and grabbing Kuro by the leg dragging him back towards Luffy around the fallen, and dead pirates.
"You think you can defeat me boy?!" Kuro shouted as Luffy then stretched his neck far back while holding Kuro by the shoulders.
"Of course!" Luffy then coated his forehead with Haki before shouting his attack.
"Gomu Gomu no… Bell!" Letting his neck snap back forward he hit Kuro in the head a loud ding could be heard from the move but Kuro fell to the ground completely unconscious blood trickling down his forehead by the force of Luffy's head on attack. Feeling slightly dizzy by the action he tried to regain himself before pulling Kuro up by the shirt and throwing him to his old crew.
"Take this man back with you, back to the sea he so hates, and never return to this island." Luffy looked up at them his eyes dark and angry as the men nodded sweating bullets before rushing back to their broken ship and setting sail away from the island.
The dizziness setting in fully now Luffy stumbled upon his feet as Nami caught him before he fell.
"Luffy, why did you get so upset at them?" She needed to know especially if Luffy had always been a pirate.
"Because they're wrong, Nakama-family shouldn't be treated like that ever." She helped steady him before smiling softly but sadly.
"Not every pirate thinks like you do." She truly believed in Luffy now even if what Usopp said was true about his family, Luffy was still Luffy.
"I'm hungry…" Luffy whined closing his eyes before falling on his back in the sand.
"We did it!" Usopp cried out happily before giving Kaya a hug in excitement. Kaya was laughing softly at Usopp as he blushed embarrassedly after letting her go.
"Thank you, all of you for saving me, and this village." She said walking towards Luffy, and bowing deeply to him, but he just laughed it off.
"It was Usopp, and his courage that made us want to help out." Luffy said truthfully.
"And I got a lot of treasure out of it." Nami winked to Kaya who smiled at her friend.
"But we still don't have a ship guys." Zoro reminded them and Nami sighed remembering their small problem.
"You need a ship?" She asked confused.
"Yeah that's what we came to ask you for last time." Luffy said leaning on his elbows in the sand looking up at the girl.
"I'm not sure what I can do, but please let me try!" She smiled to Luffy who cheered at her happy and tired but more importantly he was hungry.
"Usopp…Food…Now…" Luffy whined once again before falling back to the beach sand, and holding his stomach his tongue falling from his mouth to emphasize just how hungry he was.
"Alright, let's go eat." The small band of pirates were tired and hungry-especially Luffy- but it finally seemed things were looking up for them.
"Whoa! This is so cool!" Luffy shouted looking at the shiny brand new ship before them.
"Wow that's a caravel class!" Nami said happy to see such a beautiful ship.
"Merry here designed it." Kaya said happily her hands folded in front of her.
"It's an older model, but still a dream ship I like to call the Going Merry." He said happily to talk about it. Usopp was standing beside Luffy his back pack filled with everything he would need for the journey out at sea.
"It's going to be lonesome without your stories Usopp." Kaya said as Luffy, and the others jumped aboard to check out the new ship merry following behind to talk about each place.
"The next time we meet I'll have real stories to tell you so don't stay sick alright?" He asked her and she nodded.
"I as well will be different the next time we meet." She was planning to start studying to become a doctor.
"Oi Usopp, hurry up!" Luffy yelled leaning over the railing to yell at his sniper.
"Impatient as ever, I guess I'll see you around." Usopp waved before jumping to the ship as well.
"Goodbye everyone!" Kaya, and Merry called waving as the Merry sailed away from the island. Nami watched as Luffy finished waving goodbye before approaching Luffy.
"Is what Usopp said true? Are you really a White Beard pirate?" Nami wasn't stupid she knew of the big names in the pirating world.
"I grew up with pops, and the others so I guess I was part of that crew, but I'm not now. They're still my family, and I love them a lot, but I want to be strong on my own." He shrugged not understanding why it was such a big deal to everyone.
"Why didn't you tell me this when we met?" She knew fully if he had she would never have joined him-or maybe she would have but it doesn't really matter anymore.
"Because it's not a big deal. Pops, and the others won't get in our way of having an adventure." Luffy pouted annoyed that his pop's name was already starting to stick to him.
"Nami I'm me and pops is pops just like I said to that butler jerk so let's have fun alright?" Luffy gave Nami one of his trademark grins before running off to find Usopp to get the flag designed. Nami watched him leave before sighing, and putting her hand over her covered tattoo.
"Would you like these guys? Bellemere?"
Meanwhile a flirty cook was serving a sweet treat to a beautiful lady at a restaurant not far off. Looking at the waves through one of the windows in the dining room he couldn't help feel like something was about to happen.
"Sanji, stop dawdling around and serve those people their drinks already!" the Head Chef shouted at the teenager who glared at him before passing out the waters to the table of only men ignoring them as he walked back away.
"That boy should be back soon…" Zeff said to Sanji who looked confused for a moment before the memory of a loud straw hatted kid came to mind.
"Better let the cooks know he'll be back so they can prepare for his stomach." Sanji sighed rubbing his head, but really he was excited to see the boy again. Looking back out the window that strange feeling was returning once more taking a deep inhale of his cigarette, and blowing out the smoke he smiled.
"What trouble are you bringing with you this time, Luffy?"
Good morning? Well, it's morning for me now I guess :P So I have a chapter for all of you wonderful readers ^^ So where to start… I didn't add the three kids really because I know they played a good role in the anime but I wanted to more focus on Luffy and the group. Usopp is stronger but he still has a ways to go. A good Sniper watches his crews backs and I feel that's Usopp's style, he's still too much afraid to do up front battles yet. In the anime Zoro took on the brothers but this time I thought why not give them to Usopp for a while then pass the left overs to Zoro. Usopp used a fire Bird Star, when he wasn't training to get stronger he was creating new weapons. He only had one of them because they were newly invented.
So Luffy will be a bit (tad bit) smarter because he's been raised differently and has different experiances in this world being from the New World and all. I want to keep the clue less Luffy that I do love but his Observation Haki and other Haki's helps him read things better, also I've noticed that every time there is a battle Luffy becomes cool and serious with a bit of Luffy humor then when the battle ends he goes back to being goofy and the Luffy we love. We shall now be heading to Sanji and that means Mihawk :D Uncle Hawki returns so that will be interesting to write :P I'm still working out how Zoro will take this new situation.
I wanted Nami to find out about Luffy's family name because everyone else knows about it now, she took it well because she's now gotten to see the kind heart Luffy has. Luffy loves his crew and she can see that and his fight with Kuro proved that even more so now.
Any ways I'll now be focusing on this story since my other once has finished! My wonderful Beta is so amazingly patient with me so I'm more than thankful and grateful to have them helping me! Well I'm off Have a fantastic day all of you! Keep well DR
