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Warning: Non-Canon

By now, Hibari had wandered for at least an hour. As Hibari took more steps into the woods she tied a piece of rope to a tree to help find her way back later. In succession, she also scattered coloured rice to leave a message to her allied shinobi.

As she wandered deeper into the woods she started to doubt herself until she felt a change in the air. "Wha?!"

The maliceweed started spewing toxic smoke. Hibari and her class knew that maliceweed was poisonous, but no one ever said it could spray the poisons. "Could Hebijo have created a modified strain?" she thought.

As the toxins surrounded her, panic seemed to set in as she fell to her knees. "What would Yagyu do?!"

"Wait! I know!" Hibari quickly took a bamboo pipe out of her back pocket and closed her mouth around it. She pointed it upwards and breathed in and out only taking in clean air.

As she traveled further past the maliceweed field, she came across a brutal wasteland. "Oh!" Hibari hid in a nearby tree to see her surroundings. Ahead she saw a group of Hebijo students, training brutally hard. A shinobi with green hair seemed to be overwatching them. "Isn't that the girl Katsuragi fought?... wait didn't I also see her on the television? I'm pretty sure her name is Hikage."

With her was another shinobi with blonde hair who seemed visibly upset about something. "I'm quite upset you know."

"Oh? What's wrong, Yomi?"

"The price of vegetables has been rising lately."

"Now that you mention it, yeah, I guess."

"If all those rich peoples' vegetables happened to go up in price, I've no issue with that."

"Ok..." Hikage didn't actually care, but just agreed.

"But even the beansprouts, a staple of the poor, went up as well. What's the meaning of that?"

"...No clue."

"Excuse me are you even listening?!" she shouted, annoyed.

"I'm listening."

The two continued to chat while Hibari watched from afar. "I found it. I really found it. This is Hebijo Academy. Now we don't just have to wait for them to attack. We can go on the offensive. I'll bet everyone will be glad to hear about this. I won't be a burden to them anymore!" she gingerly took a step back. "All I have to do is get out of here without being detected."

"You... You're a Hanzo shinobi aren't you?"

As Hibari slowly turned around she saw another Hebijo elite behind her. She tried to escape but in a flash was surrounded by lesser shinobi.

"Well, you made it through the maliceweed. Not bad." Mirai grinned.

"That was nothing!" she said, putting up the bravest face she could.

"But you don't really think you can get away from all of us, do you? You're just so careless Hibari."

"You know me?"

"Yeah. You seem to be Ms. Haruka's new favourite toy at the moment. but enough about that, you didn't really think you'd find the Hebijo stronghold that easily, did you, Ms. Careless?"

"Huh?! This isn't the stronghold?"

"It's our training ground. We also use it to catch rats like you," she sneered.

"Then...I..."

"Yep, you fell straight into it," she grinned.

"...N-No."

"I wonder what that Yagyu girl would do if I killed you slowly. Taking out her little beloved, THAT would get her attention. *Giggle* And it sounds fun too..."

As the Hebijo students closed in on her, Hibari shut her eyes in despair and began to tear up. "I'm sorry... Yagyu... everyone."

As she accepted her fate she heard a scream in the distance.

"Leave her alone!"

As Hibari opened her eyes she felt a cold chill down her spine. Mirai felt it even worse and almost choked. The lesser Hebijo students around her began to fall over, knocked out. "Wha-What just happened?!" both Mirai and Hibari shouted at once.

10 MINUTES AGO WITH LUFFY

"Hibariii! Hibariii! Where did you go!" Luffy yelled, wandering around the forest without any idea where he is. "Didn't I see that branch before?" he thought. As he walked he noticed some rice on the ground that seemed to lead somewhere. "Geez Hibari, so wasteful." He followed the trail, picking up the rice grains one by one and eating them."

Following and devouring the rice trail, he got to the field of maliceweed. "*Sniff* *Sniff* the air smells funny." Luffy just shrugged it off and kept walking. While the maliceweed would be trouble for any person with a normal immune system, Luffy's immune system after his encounter with Magellan and Ivankov could stand up to just about anything thrown its way.

Just like Hibari, Luffy made his way to the wasteland. He didn't have much time to look around however because in the corner of his eye he saw Hibari in danger. "Leave her alone!" Luffy sends a wave of conquerors haki to knock out all the lesser shinobi.

HIBARI AND MIRAI

"Screw it! I'll just kill you right here!" Mirai took the tip of her umbrella and charged at Hibari.

Hibari is caught off guard and closes her eyes. *Shing*

Hibari waited for the incoming attack but it didn't come. She slowly opened her eyes and in front of her was a familiar Strawhat.

"What the hell?! Where did you come from?!" Mirai screeched.

Luffy stood in front of Hibari and using his forehead with armament blocked the incoming attack. He in a literal sense went headfirst into the attack.

Yomi and Hikage watched from afar. "Is that Luffy-kun!? What is he doing here?" Yomi wondered.

"More importantly how is he blocking Mirai's umbrella with just his forehead?" Hikage questioned.

"Let's get over there," Yomi suggested.

Hikage nodded.

Mirai jumped back and prepared herself. Yomi and Hikage soon showed up beside her.

"Hibari... are you okay," Luffy muttered.

Hibari just shook her head rapidly but had no idea what was going on. "What was Luffy doing here and how did he not just die?" Hibari kept thinking in her mind.

Luffy looked ahead at the three. Immediately he recognized Hikage and Yomi. "Oi, Yomi, Hikage what the heck are you guys doing here!?"

"We could ask you the same thing Luffy-kun. What are you doing here?" asked Yomi.

"I saw my friend Hibari going into the woods. So I followed her," Luffy said honestly. "Anyways do you guys and the little girl know each other?"

"I'm not little! And it's Mirai!"

Ignoring Mirai, Yomi answered. "You could say that. We all work for the same school."

"Don't ignore me!" Mirai screeched.

"I doubt you came just because your friend wandered here, but I guess it doesn't really matter. This is actually really convenient for us. Yomi, want to tell him our proposition?" Hikage asked.

Yomi nodded. "Luffy-kun we want to give you an offer."

Luffy stared blankly at her.

"We would like you to join the elite class at Hebijo Academy. I promise we-"

"No," Luffy said calmly, interrupting her.

"W-Wait I'm not done yet we can-"

Luffy interrupted her again. "I said no! If I join you I'll lose my freedom! More importantly though," Luffy turned his head over to the shivering Hibari. "Hibari... did they hurt you?" Luffy said in a calm but intimidating way.

Hibari nodded her head in response to Luffy's question.

Luffy turned his head back and gave a death stare. "I don't join people who try to hurt my friends!" Luffy yelled.

Yomi looked back at him disappointingly. "It's too bad Luffy-kun," Yomi said, taking out her large broadsword. "I really thought we could be friends," she softly said.

"Huh, that's too bad. Looks like we'll have to kill you after all," Hikage took out her knives and licked her favourite on the edge with her tongue.

"I'll stab my umbrella right through your throat this time you rubber bastard!" screeched Mirai.

Luffy slowly approached but is stopped by someone.

"Luffy-san stop! Please run away! Those guys are shinobi, they'll kill you!"

"Ninjas?! Awesome! *Snap* Crack* These guys should give a good fight." Luffy said as he was stretching out his arms and neck.

"*Sniffle* Don't die because of me! Why are you doing this! This has nothing to do with you! Please Luffy I don't want a friend to die because of me." Hibari looked down at the ground and cried.

Luffy walked up slowly towards her, took his straw hat off his head and gently put it on Hibari's. She looked at him in confusion with tears still in her eyes. "You're my friend Hibari. Of course, it's my problem. That hat is my most precious treasure. Can you hold onto it for me?" Luffy asked.

Hibari nodded.

"Shi shi shi good." Luffy gave his iconic grin and turned around towards the three Hebijo shinobi.

"So cool!" Hibari thought.

"You seem overconfident. You may be strong but it's three versus one you know. There's no way you can beat all three of us Strawhat," Mirai gloated.

Let's not play around too much, said Hikage. All three girls took out their ninja scroll "Shinobi Tenshin!"

"Sugoi! That's so cool!"

"Don't think the praise will save you. This is the end of the line for you Strawhat!"

We'll see about that "Gomu Gomu No..."

"Here it comes!" Mirai warned.

"Pistol!" Luffy targeted Yomi with his fist. Thanks to Mirai's warning however Yomi was able to dodge the attack just fine.

"Oh my! He really can stretch his arms like that." Yomi said, astonished.

"Look at that. I thought it was all nuts when my gang first told me about it but here I am witnessing it for myself," said Hikage.

"Wha- WHAAAAAT!?" Hibari rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't going crazy. "Is Luffy a superhero!?" Hibari wondered.

Luffy got his leg ready and swung his outstretched leg to the side toward the Hebijo shinobi. "Gomu Gomu No Whip!"

They all jumped above Luffy's leg and as soon as they landed back on the ground Yomi and Hikage charged at him. Mirai stayed back to keep distance instead.

Hikage used her speed and attacked Luffy in a snake-like manner, the edge of her knives acting like the jaws of a black mamba.

For Luffy however, this was no problem as he danced around Hikage's attacks using his observation haki.

"You're quite fast," complimented Hikage.

"Thanks, you too," Luffy complimented back.

Luffy stretched his arms back to prepare his attack. "Gomu Gomu No..."

Hikage plunged her knife at his forehead, but similar to the fate of Mirai's attack was blocked by Luffy's forehead.

"Bazooka!" Luffy arms plunged his hands into Hikage's stomach and sent her flying into a large pile of rocks.

*Cough* *Cough* With some tears in her clothing Hikage slowly got up. "His forehead turned black when I struck it. What kind of shinobi ability is that?"

"Shi shi shi how's that? As Luffy bragged he felt the presence of an attack above him. Looking up he saw Yomi with her large sword with the tip of the blade pointing downwards to skewer him.

Luffy smiled and laid on his back. As the tip of Yomi's sword approached him he clamped the tip of the blade with his two feet stopping Yomi in her tracks. "Wha-what but how!?" Yomi said, stunned.

Luffy just smiled. "Gomu Gomu No Propeller Wind Down!" Luffy spun Yomi around like a cyclone, spinning Yomi around in one direction, and then in the opposite direction, disorienting her, before finally slamming her into the mountainside.

"H-how frightening," Hibari said on the side watching the rubber man that was Luffy.

"You damn rubber freak! Secret shinobi art! Valkyrie!" Revealing a long gun from her dress Mirai started shooting a row of purple bullets.

Luffy saw them ahead of time and just backhanded all of Mirai's shots with a large grin on his face.

"Don't get cocky. Secret shinobi art! Shank!" Hikage licked her main knife before she took out multiple smaller knives, putting them in between her fingers and one in her mouth. Then, without warning, she dashed forward and unleashed a fierce barrage of slashes towards Luffy.

Luffy covered his arms in armament and blocked all her slashes without issue. "*Tch* I'm not getting anywhere like this," Hikage stated while jumping back.

"I won't let you get away!" Luffy jumped into the air and pointed his legs at Hikage. Gomu Gomu No Spear!" with his toes connected together and aimed like a spearhead he launched his attack at Hikage. She avoided the full brunt of it but got slightly grazed by it while dodging on her left side. "Damn so close," said Luffy, disappointed.

Landing back to the ground he noticed something. On the ground are multiple explosives laid out by Yomi.

"Luffy noticed the spiky round explosives and picked one up. "Hmm what are these?" *BWOOOOOM* "Bwaaaagh!" the explosives went off and launched Luffy into the mountainside.

"Luffy!" Hibari shouted.

"Hahahahaha! How's that you rubber shithead," Mirai laughed with joy.

Luffy got up and stretched his neck out. "I guess I'll have to go on the offensive now."

In a blink of an eye, Luffy charged at Yomi. She saw him approaching and prepared herself.

"Gomu Gomu No..." Luffy bit into his arm and blew.

"Fight fire with fire I suppose. Secret shinobi art! Sigmund!" Yomi lifted her large sword overhead and charged energy into it. Her sword extended and became massive before she tilted it back and slammed it into the ground, creating a huge shockwave.

"Elephant gun!" Luffy's enlarged fist bulldozed through the shockwaves and Yomi. It was as seamless as a bulldozer running over a tin can.

Hibari watched in horror and amazement. "Go Luffy go!" Hibari cheered from the side.

Grrrrrr! "Secret shinobi Art! Wolfsschanze!" Mirai charged forward guns blazing.

"That move again!? Gomu Gomu No Gattling Gun!" Luffy used his stretching ability to bring his fists forward repeatedly in a blurry, rapid barrage of strong punches. Mirai was able to dodge the first few before she got pummeled by the onslaught of Luffy's fists. Mirai got launched to the rocky side of a mountain and kept getting pummeled with her back to the wall with nowhere for her to escape.

"Mirai!" Yomi yelled in panic for her fellow shinobi. She needed to get Mirai out of that situation quickly. She aimed her arm crossbow and fired at Luffy. This got him to stop his Gatling gun attack and jump backwards.

Hikage looked at him fiercely ready to attack again. "Time to hollow you out. Secret shinobi art! Frenzy!" A purple aura emanated around her and she began to take a predatory stance. Her voice changed from monotone to overtly expressive, and she began to laugh maniacally, her speed and power significantly increased.

Hikage beamed towards Luffy and began the onslaught of attacks.

"Holy crap! She's moving so fast!" Luffy was only just barely guarding her attacks. She was running circles around him and as she kept getting faster and faster her knife nicked the edge of Luffy's side.

Luffy somersaulted backwards and had a huge grin on his face. "Wow you guys are pretty tough," he complimented. "It looks like I'll have to get serious."

Luffy straightened his right arm and pumped it. "Gear Second"

"His body is pink and smoking," Yomi pointed out.

"Pink or not it won't stop my speed." Hikage rushed towards Luffy but just before she strikes...

"Gomu Gomu No Jet Pistol!" Luffy's fist piledrives into Hikage's stomach, sending her flying.

It happened so fast Hibari, Yomi and Mirai are still confused about what just happened. Hikage laid on the ground coughing up a little blood as she got back up.

"Hikage are you-!" before Yomi could finish, Luffy appeared right in front of her.

"Gomu Gomu No Jet Bullet!" Just like Hikage, Yomi is launched with great force, rolling across the ground.

"S-Stay away!" as Mirai ran away she felt her shoulders being grabbed. She tried to pull his hands off, but Luffy's grip was too strong.

"Gomu Gomu No Jet Rocket!" After grabbing onto Mirai with stretched out arms, Luffy instantly propelled himself forward with blinding speed. This knocked Mirai next to Hikage and Yomi. As they got up they only had a breather for a few seconds as Luffy prepared his next attack.

"Gomu Gomu No Jet Whip!" Luffy swung his leg parallel at blinding speeds that launched the three shinobi into the mountainside.

The three are still conscious but are struggling to get up. Their shinobi outfits are ripped and torn with smudges of blood in some areas.

"Dammit! If I'm going down... *looks at Hibari* then I'm taking her with me!" Mirai took aim and fired a bullet at her forehead.

Luffy detected the bullet with his observation and saw it heading towards Hibari. "Hibari jump left!"

"Huh!? Umm okay?" she did what she was told and the bullet flew past barely missing her.

"Fuck! How did I miss!" *Bang**Bang*

As the bullets flew Luffy kept giving Hibari instructions on where to dodge.

At the same time this was happening both Yomi and Hikage were trying to swing at Luffy while he was telling Hibari what to do.

"Left, jump, right, left *dodge* left, left again, right, duck *dodge*"

"How! *Bang* Are you!*Bang* *Bang* Predicting! *Bang* All! *Bang* *Bang* My Shots!"

"Luffy-san is doing everything for me and I'm just standing here watching him. Gathering up courage she charged at Mirai. "Luffy-san can you tell me where she's going to shoot!?"

"Oi! *dodge* Sure thing!" Luffy said as he danced around Yomi's and Hikage's attacks.

"Roll to your left! Slide to the right! Jump forward!"

As Luffy shouted instructions Hibari got closer eventually getting close enough to where she could do something.

"Secret shinobi art! Ninto!" Hibari called out for her rabbit guardian, who appeared driving a cloud. She jumped on top of the cloud and used the two control sticks at the front to pilot it. She then charged forward and crashed into Mirai, found in front of her as the cloud released lightning knocking Mirai unconscious on the ground in just her bare panties.

Luffy had stars in his eyes. "So cool! How did you do that!"

Hibari blushed at his comment. "Oh, I uh... Luffy watch out!"

While Luffy's back was turned Yomi slashed sideways. Luffy bent backwards and limboed under it.

"I guess I'll have to finish this first." Luffy planted his right leg into the ground and prepared his left. "Gomu Gomu No-"

"Not if we have anything to say about it! Hikage-san!"

"Got it." Hikage and Yomi prepare to do a shinobi art together.

"Secret shinobi art! Sigmund!

"Secret shinobi art! Shanking!

They both attacked Luffy at once hoping to overpower him with their combined efforts. Unfortunately, it was nowhere near enough.

"Jet Stamp Gatling Gun!" Luffy's leg swung around him creating after images all around him. Yomi and Hikage are taking attacks consecutively all around their body, faster than they can comprehend or react to it.

Yomi and Hikage are knocked out in no time. "The bean sprouts are flying around me!" Yomi sputters before falling down.

"Welp that's that!" as Luffy dusted himself off his attention was set on Hibari.

Hibari noticed his gaze towards her and got a bit nervous. "What's wrong Luffy-san?"

"You are a lot stronger than you look Hibari," a smiling Luffy said, complimenting Hibari for her great will and courage she showed in those last moments.

"T-Thank you... I've... never been complimented about my strength before," Hibari said blushing. For nearly all her time as a shinobi in training she had always been the weakest chain in the link. Yagyu would always compliment her, but Hibari felt it was more pity than anything else. But here Luffy, a man who she thought of as a superhero, called her strong. She couldn't stop smiling and blushing.

"Hmm let's get outta here," Luffy said.

"Oh ah sure but where do we... eep!" Before Hibari was able to ask where the exit was, Luffy picked her up and carried her.

"Let's go!"

"Luffy wait I have so many questions," but it was already too late as Luffy zoomed into and past the woods.

FRONT OF HIBARI'S HOUSE

Using Hibari's instructions on where she lived. Luffy eventually found his way to Hibari's state of residence. "Welp we're here," Luffy said letting her down.

"Holy crap it's late. I have to get going!" Just before Luffy scurried off, Hibari halted him.

"Wait Luffy-san I have so many questions."

"Oh, what do you want to ask?"

"How does your body stretch like that?"

"I ate a Devil Fruit. The one I ate was the Gomu Gomu Mi (Rubber Rubber) and now I'm a rubber man," Luffy said while pulling his mouth.

Hibari thought it was a bit nuts but she couldn't exactly refute what Luffy said since she couldn't prove what he said was false otherwise.

"Next question. How did you predict those bullets and how did you turn some of your body parts into a black tough material. Is that also power from a devil fruit?"

Luffy shook his head. "Nope, that's my observation and armament haki," Luffy took his right hand and covered it in armament haki. Hibari looked flabbergasted.

"How do you do that?"

"Lots and lots of training and willpower," Luffy simply responded.

"Can you train me on how to use haki?!"

Luffy thought about it for a bit. "Hmm I don't know," he said with a thumb on his chin.

"Please! Please! Please!" she begged.

"Hmmm."

Flashback

RUSUKAINA

Seen on the deadly island in the calm belt were two men chowing on some meat after taking down a massive beast. These two are Luffy and Rayleigh who sat by the fire talking about various things.

As the two laid down and looked at the stars Luffy had something on his mind. "Hey Rayleigh."

"Yes Luffy, what is it?"

"The training you're doing for me. I really appreciate it, but are you sure you want to spend your time training me for two years?"

"I have my reasons but I'll tell you one of them. Because of teaching you I have learned many things myself Luffy. Lessons that I now cherish very much."

"What kind of things gramps?"

Rayleigh just smiled. "Maybe teach a student yourself one day and you'll find that answer yourself. Not right now though, of course."

"Huh… me teaching." Luffy pondered.

Present

"Okay. I'll teach you haki!"

Hibari jumped in joy. "Hurrah hurrah! Thank you! Thank you!"

"I have to warn you. It's really really tough," Luffy warned.

Hibari nodded at Luffy's words.

"I'll meet you in that forest again early morning, '' Luffy said.

"Got it! Oh ya, Luffy-sensei can you not bring this up ever in front of anyone? I'll be in huge trouble if my peers find out about this."

"Sure thing! Anyway, I have to get going."

"Wait! Sorry, just one more thing. Wait here for a bit." Hibari ran into her house to grab something. When she came back out she had one of her stuffed bunny rabbits in her hands. "Luffy-sensei, if it's not too much trouble can you hug this stuffed plushie for me?"

Luffy didn't think too much of it and did it anyways. He hugged it for a few seconds and gave it back. Luffy noticed she looked very happy. He didn't understand why but as long as she was happy that was enough for him.

Hibari and Luffy finally went their separate ways and as Hibari laid down on her bed to get some needed rest, she kept the plush rabbit with Luffy's scent close.

TO BE CONTINUED

The longest chapter in a while.

So to be honest, I'm not 100% sure what Luffy would do in a situation like this. I feel like if a friend of his did harm to another friend and saw it himself. He would lash towards that person. I remember in Whisky's peak where he did lash at Zoro because he thought Zoro harmed the townspeople there so I don't think what I did in this story is completely out of character but that's what I think.

So about the harem thing. I think I will add the team leaders. Asuka, Yumi, Homura and Miyabi but I don't think it will be everyone. It might just be those four and six other girls. Which ones? I don't know yet. I might pick three I like myself and then leave the rest to a vote. I'm still thinking about it though.

Thanks for all the reviews, votes, favourites and Kudos lads. It means a lot to me and drives me to write more for this fanfic. Thank you.