Warnings: possible OOC characters, fluff

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns everything belonging to One Piece. I own my words.

A Sleepover (Luffy 7, Ace and Sabo 4)

Luffy was jumping up and down as he waited at the door with his Mommy, holding her hand with an excited grin on his face.

The school year just one week from over and Shanks had invited Luffy, along with Ben, Yasopp, and Lucky Roo, to sleep over for the night. Luffy had never been to a sleepover or even to a friend's house, so he was happy beyond belief right now. His Mommy smiled down at him and pat him on the head as she heard someone approaching the door.

The door opened to a fifteen year old girl with dark green hair and dark purple eyes. She looked from Rouge to Luffy and smiled.

"You must be Luffy," The girl said, and Luffy agreed enthusiastically. She smiled, saying, "My name is Makino, and I'm Shanks' older sister. You can go change into your bathing suit and go to the backyard. They're in the pool right now."

Luffy nodded and hugged his Mommy one last time, saying his goodbyes and getting a kiss on his head, before running off and leaving the two to talk.

Luffy changed quickly and ran out to the backyard.

"Hi Shanks! Hi guys!" Luffy had shouted. They looked over and all of them grinned at Luffy, calling him over.

Luffy really looked like he wanted to get into the water, but he knew he couldn't swim. Shanks then got out of the pool and grabbed a tube that looked like a huge sea monster, bringing it over to Luffy.

"You can't swim, right? Use this, then!" He said with a grin. Luffy grinned up at him and nodded, jumping into the pool with the tube. Shanks jumped in after, and always stayed a little close to Luffy while they all swam around the pool.

Luffy couldn't play many of the games because of his inability to swim, but he still enjoyed watching. As he paddled around in his tube, he watched as they played Sharks and Minnows and even acted as a referee for them. He was able to play with the beach ball since they were just hitting it back and forth to each other.

When they were all tired of swimming, they got out of the pool and went for the water guns. Yasopp easily won, having the best aim out of all of them. When he got Shanks in the eyeball, Shanks dove at him and the two ended up wrestling while Luffy laughed, Roo grinned and shot his water gun at them, and Ben smirked.

In the middle of wrestling, Luffy giggled and smacked Shanks on the back.

"You're it!"

They all froze for a few seconds as Luffy ran away before Shanks stood and ran after Luffy, trying to catch the younger as it became a huge game of tag.

After hours of play, they all collapsed back onto the grass, staring up at the sky and laughing.

"That was really, really fun!" Luffy cheered, throwing his arms in the air.

"It was. Haha, I still can't believe you're so bad at swimming, Anchor," Shanks teased, making Luffy pout and yell "I'm not an anchor!" while the others laughed.

"Burgers," Makino suddenly shouted. All of the boys scrambled to their feet and ran and Makino was soon crowded by five starving children. She was glad she thought she overcooked, because by the end, all of the food was gone and they would have been hungry if she didn't.

Makino had to make sure that they all were cleaned before she sent them upstairs to change. She easily got all of the boys except Shanks to wash his hands. Shanks stubbornly stuck his tongue out and only did so when she calmly threatened no desert. She also had to wipe Luffy's face because of the ketchup and mustard on it, but she didn't mind having to do so – she babysat a lot of other kids and this was a little mess compared to what she normally dealt with.

The boys all headed upstairs just as Shanks' parent's returned from work. Shanks gave them a quick hello before he raced up with the rest of them. He had a small TV with an Xbox 360 in his room and he turned on the console, choosing the Lego Indiana Jones game for them all to take turns playing.

Luffy had no idea how to play the game, so it was fun for them to watch. Shanks had to sit next to him and help him whenever he played and Luffy would always cheer whenever he managed to do something correctly.

And that night, after stuffing their faces with chocolate ice cream and cookies, they all fell into a deep sleep on sheets spread out all over the floor.

It was the best time Luffy had ever had in his so far short life, and he hoped he would be able to experience it again.

The Last Day of School (Luffy 7, Ace and Sabo 4)

"I'm not gonna see you guys again?" Luffy looked up at his friends with a frown and slightly teary eyes. They all felt bad for having to leave the younger here, but they were going to the middle school now, moving up a grade. They also had sleep-over camp all summer. There wasn't really a choice.

"Not for a while, but we'll always be friends Luffy! Don't forget that! How about, so we remember to meet up again, I give you this," Shanks took off his straw hat and placed it on the younger boy's head with a huge grin. Luffy smiled widely up at him and hugged them all – Shanks the longest – before his bus arrived and he was ushered on so he wouldn't miss it. The whole ride home, he wondered what he would do the next school year. He'd have to find more friends.

When he got home he ran into the house, looking for Mommy to ask what they were going to do that day, but couldn't find her. Daddy was at work and his brothers weren't home either. He began to panic but he found a note on his bed from Mommy. He read it out loud to himself.

"Luffy, your brothers had a bad fall today and I had to bring them to the doctor. I'll be home as soon as I can be!

I love you Luffy!
-Mommy"

Luffy frowned and put the note back on his bed.

He was alone.

He really didn't like being alone, whether it was without his teddy bear, without friends, or in his house. It scared him.

Luffy decided to find something else to do and hopped down from his bed, looking for something fun. He tried to watch TV but the clicker battery was dead and he didn't know where to find batteries, he didn't know what the computer password was, and he had given most of his toys to his brothers and they were all broken due to age or lost.

With not much else to do, Luffy walked up to his bookshelf and pulled out some story books about pirates, reading their adventures and wishing he could go on some of his own.

AN: I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH! I never thought I was going to get 10 favs, so thank you to you guys and my followers and reviewers. I wouldn't be updating without you guys.

Now, moving on. There's a lil' fluff in here and a little lonely Luffy at the end. We're not going to be seeing Shanks for a while, but fear not! He will return! The next two or three chapters are probably gonna be fluff and then, the drama will kick start once more.

shadowmarialove: Hahaha, thank you very much :) and I try to update everyday, too, so hopefully there'll always be something new to read.

spoons-are-evil: hehehe, you'll find out who it is eventually. And good, I wasn't sure if I wrote Shanks well. Here's more of him, but now we won't be seeing him for a little while. The next one or two chapters will be ASL bonding (and about Shanks and drinking, don't worry, you'll see that at least once later on because it would be weird to not see Shanks drinking)

Sparrow1011: Thank you! Glad you liked it :)

Thank you so much for reviewing, following, fav-ing and whatnot. Please tell me what you think of the story or if you see any grammar errors, because so far, all of this is completely self-edited and I may have missed something!