luffy is me as a kid.
luffy blinked up at the towering figure before turning to his brother.
'ace, real question,' luffy gripped his shoulders, 'does he punch as hard as abuelo.'
ace glanced at his father and looked luffy straight in the eye, 'harder than abuelo.'
sparkles came into luffy's eyes as he started bouncing, unnerving the surrounding whitebeard pirates.
'do you think he'd-'
'you can ask, you know i never liked his punches,' ace cut the youngest off.
'oi old man, ace said i could ask you! can you punch me as hard as you can?!'
whitebeard laughed at the boy's request, 'and ace said it was okay?'
'yeah! gramps used to do it all the time! he was funny that way shishishi!'
ace felt eyes on him and turned around to face the crowd, 'what?'