Warnings: hinted violence, fluff, implied drug abuse and testing
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece, Eiichiro Oda does. I own my words and the story plot only.
Lost (Luffy almost 8, Ace and Sabo 5)
They were lost. Luffy frowned as he held his baby brothers' hands tight in his own. They had been playing hide and seek with his brothers' friends while their parents talked, but somewhere they must've taken a wrong turn, because Luffy was clueless as to where they were. Yes, he did get lost easily, but he at least knew his own neighborhood, and this was not it.
"Luffy, where are we?" Sabo asked, pulling on his hand as Luffy pulled them over to sit on a bench and think.
"I don't know."
"Do you know how to get home?" Ace asked as Luffy helped him up.
"No."
Ace and Sabo both frowned. They wanted their Mommy and Daddy. Luffy noticed their sadness and tried to think of something to help cheer them up because they had to wait for an adult – that was what Mom said for whenever he got lost. He picked his nose while thinking for two seconds before smiling as an idea hit him.
"Do you guys wanna hear a story?"
"A story?"
"What about?"
"Pirates!"
"Yeah!" The twins cheered and Luffy grinned before retelling one of the books he had practically memorized. When the characters shouted, he shouted and when it was dangerous he made his voice all scary. When it was funny his voice was light and sometimes he would go quiet and then yell out something really loud, startling them. It successfully distracted the two and soon he saw their mom walking over.
"Hi Mom!" Luffy waved and she smiled down at the three of them.
"Did you guys get lost?"
"Yeah! Luffy was telling us a cool story though!"
"Really? What was it about?"
"Pirates!"
Mom took one of Ace's and one of Sabo's hands and began walking as they talked about the story Luffy had just told. She looked back and smiled at Luffy with happiness before turning back to her younger two sons. When she turned away, Luffy's smile slightly faded as he looked longingly at his Mom.
He wanted his hand to be held too.
Fingers tapped on the keyboard frantically, typing out a message that was new information, essential to his partner's understanding. They had just gotten more information of the drugs – Doflamingo was on the move again. They had one child who was exceptionally violent. He enjoyed tormenting and torturing people and would kill animals whenever he could.
The man spat in disgust at the man who wore a pink feather jacket.
He just hoped that Garp would be able to figure out who the child was before it was too late.
Snow Day (Luffy 8, Ace and Sabo 5)
Luffy threw a snowball, laughing when it got Ace in the face. Ace yelled at him before throwing one back, but Luffy easily dodged it. Luffy walked over through the knee-deep snow and picked up his little brother, who was screaming at him, before falling backwards purposefully. He laughed when Ace yelped. Luffy began to make snow angels while Sabo laughed at them. Luffy grinned and sat up, grabbing him by the arm, and pulling him down as well. Ace grunted and they both stared up at Luffy in annoyance. Luffy laughed and soon enough, all of them were laughing and rolling in the snow.
"Guys, do you wanna make a snowman?" Luffy asked them as he stood, letting them fall off of his legs and into the snow. They both grinned up at him, nodding their heads. "Yosh! I'll make the body, you guys can make the head!"
They all set to work, trying to roll a big ball for the snowman. In the end, the snowballs weren't the biggest or even very round, but they managed to make a snowman. They used tree branches for his arms, an old plastic cup for his nose, rocks for his eyes and a fruit rollup for his mouth. They gave him a big hat and a scarf, too.
"He looks good to me!" Luffy said, with snow collecting on his head. His nose and cheeks were red, much like his brother's were.
"Ace! Sabo! Luffy! Come on inside! I have some hot chocolate!"
The second their Mom said hot chocolate, they were sprinting as fast as they could through the snow, racing to get inside first. Luffy beat them and managed to get his boots, snow pants, gloves, hat, and jacket off in record time. His Mom had to help his brother's get the rest off. Once they were all out of their snow gear, she handed them all hot chocolate and brought them into the living room, putting in The Goonies for them to watch.
Luffy watched the whole time, bouncing in his seat throughout the whole adventure, grinning and giggling the whole time. When it was over, he turned to his brother's to talk about the movie and saw that they had fallen asleep on each other, tuckered out from the day. Luffy smiled at them before getting up and grabbing a blanket and putting it over them, so they wouldn't catch a cold. Then, Rouge played video games with him for a few hours, ranging from Mario Kart to the Lego games and games about pirates.
He thought it was the best snow day ever.
Uncle Rayleigh (Luffy 8 almost 9, Ace and Sabo almost 6)
"You're doing very good, Luffy," The gray haired man praised the boy, who grinned and laughed his signature laugh in response. Luffy threw back the baseball, which Rayleigh caught with ease.
Luffy's uncle – he wasn't really his uncle, but they called him that – Rayleigh was visiting them today and had offered to play catch with Luffy. Luffy was ecstatic. They had been playing for an hour and finally Luffy was getting his aim right.
Luffy suddenly sneezed and wiped at his nose. He wasn't liking the fall this year because of how often he had been sneezing lately.
He looked up, startled, when there was a hand on his head, and saw Rayleigh grinning down at him. Luffy grinned back up and was about to say something when a voice cut him off.
"Luffy!" The boy turned, blinking curiously, as his little brother's ran up to him. "Luffy, look at this!"
"Oooohhh! That's a big bug! Where did you find it?" Luffy grinned at his brother's as they showed him the bug – it was big and purple and as big as Ace's palm. Rayleigh chuckled at the boy's as they chatted over the bug until it flew away, causing them to whine slightly.
"Would you boys like me to take you to go see some other animals in the woods?"
"Yeah!"
"Can you do that uncle Rayleigh?"
"Please? I wanna do it!"
Rayleigh merely laughed.
"Sir, what are we going to do about the boy?"
The blond stared at the pictures of the boy who was positively determined to be Dragon's son. The boy was so happy…
It made him sick.
He picked up a knife and brought it down onto a picture, glaring.
"Make him suffer. Do you still have the other boy, our experiment?"
"Yes, sir. He's gotten progressively more violent, killing and maiming small animals, and there are no physical side affects. It is the best drug we have created yet and he is a very good vessel to test all of the drugs on."
"Good. Bring him to me. He will be key to the plan."
He stood and left the room. The curtains of the large wall-to-wall windows were drawn back, allowing the sun to shine down on the desk. There were several pictures, but only two where the man's workspace was. One was of Luffy – the picture was in perfect condition. The picture next to it of a tan, blond haired boy was stabbed in it's center, right over the boy's throat.
AN: So, this chapter has fluff and drama! I hope it's a good combination of the two. There's a lot of fluff next chapter for those of you who like fluff and then, hehehe, drama in abundance. I'm excited for the upcoming chapters. I hope you guys all enjoyed this chapter!
Yah!: Thank you! :) and I'm not going anywhere - I'm actually working on other stories too
Tsuki.d.14: Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed the story so far. And your English isn't bad at all! The only mistakes were grammar, which I get wrong and I speak English natively. I also know the difficulties of learning a new language, as well, so your English is really good. I hope you like the story as it continues to progress :)
spoons-are-evil: I love Shanks so much! This was the only way I could really fit him in the story. And I had sleepovers when I was little, around 7 or 8, but they were very, very bad. I wish I couldn't have had one until I was 13. And as for Luffy's friends, you'll be seeing some new faces coming up in future chapters. I can't leave Luffy alone - that would be way to mean of me considering...well...you'll understand as the story continues to move - I can't say more or there will be major spoilers. As for their fall, it was nothing mad. If you see kids perfectly fine while a parent freaks out, it was one of those situations. Those two are perfectly healthy.
Thank you for reading, following, fav-ing, etc. Please review, I would like to hear what you think! Oh, and if you see any grammar errors, please do tell! I won't bite! :)