Okay so this is my first One Piece fanfic that I am posting, I have plenty more that are WIP but I just wanted to get my feet wet with this one.

I caught up to the Wano arc in the anime and Otama is the cutest little thing and she must be PROTECTED! I watched all the Wano episodes up to 900 so far so I got this idea and decided to write on it.

Modern A.U. where Ace, Luffy, and Otama are all (adopted) siblings but they're so close and protective of each other that they put blood siblings to shame :)

Also little note: Tama is 8 , Luffy is 13 , and Ace is 16

Enjoy!

The 4 o'clock sunlight invaded through the open windows, illuminating the photo of the boy with the blonde curly hair. It brought out his loveable bright smile that his siblings would kill to see again. The scented smoke from the burning incense blew in front of Sabo's pictured face. His picture sat center on top of the living room stand, in honor of his memory.

The fragrance from the incense smoke made its way in the kitchen. The pleasant smell ran past Ace and Luffy's nose as they played a card game. The brothers were having their second UNO match since Luffy was in denial of his brutal loss the first round.

Luffy observed his deck then peaked behind his cards to look at his brother. Ace was busy concentrating on what move to use next. After a few seconds of contemplating he used his free hand to take out his next card. He playfully smirked and slapped his card on the table. The green skip card.

Luffy panicked as he saw that Ace only had one card left. That meant...

"No..."

"You're finished." Ace took his last card and slammed it on the table. Luffy choked up as he saw the green 7 card, representing his defeat.

"Noooooo!" Luffy bent back in his chair as he ran his fingers through his hair. His frustration almost made him fall off of his seat, causing Ace to burst out laughing.

"Looks like you lose again."

Luffy sat up and growled, "Another rematch!"

Ace sighed as he took all the cards, making sure to create two large decks and combine them to one large stack. "You're just going to lose again. Just admit that you can't beat me."

"No way!"

The front door opened; the brothers didn't bother looking to see who it was since they were too invested in their game. They probably figured it was their grandfather coming home early from work today.

Until they heard a high-voiced sob.

Ace and Luffy automatically knew who that was, instantly standing up from their chairs. They abandoned their gang of cards and rushed towards the living room. What they saw at the front door broke their hearts into tiny pieces. It was a sight they definitely didn't want to see.

It was their little sister, Otama. Crying on the floor.

Ace was the first to rush over to her, he bent down and placed his hand on her back. He brought her close to his chest and rubbed her back in circles, soothing her loud sobs. Otama began to calm down as she felt Ace rock her slowly while brushing her hair out of her face.

Luffy bent down to their level, he reached over and grabbed Otama's little hand and squeezed it softly.

The sobbing girl looked up to her freckled brother and saw the sympathetic and concerned look he wore on his face. Noticing that she had calmed down, he kept holding her and pushed her loose hair strands behind her ear.

"Tama." Ace called out.

The girl turned around to face her big brother, her plump cheeks stained with dried tears. "Ace..." she croaked out.

"What happened?" he asked in a calm yet worried tone.

His soothing voice made Otama feel comforted, sensing that Ace was willing to listen to her problems. Since he was a popular guy at his high school, he tends to be quite busy most of the time and hangs out with his friends and girlfriend a lot. These days he was in and out the house, so the fact that he still made time for her really meant a lot.

"Yeah, why are you crying?" Luffy asked, his brows upward with worry.

Otama sniffed back up the snot threatening to drip from her nose. "Th-These stupid mean boys in my class stole my lu-lunch and pushed me off the jungle gym. I think th-they made my ankle twist and I ha-have this bruise on my k-k-knee and I haven't eaten all day." On cue her stomach rumbled loudly, making her hold her belly as she kept sobbing.

Anger settled within the older brothers as they heard this information. Luffy's signature straw hat shadowed over his eyes. His fist balled up so tight that his fingernails almost drew blood from his skin. He wanted to punch the bastards that did this to his little sister.

Ace, on the other hand, blood was boiling. He knows that he has a nasty temper and a short fuse for an attitude, but he hasn't felt anger like this in a while. He was so upset that his entire body felt hot, like a raging house fire that started from a mere discarded cigarette. How dare someone do this to his baby sister. His sweet, adorable, hyperactive sister that means no harm to anyone. She was the last person to deserve this kind of treatment. Whoever did this to her was going to pay, big time. Ace swore on his life on that.

"Tama, do you know the boys who did this to you?" Luffy spoke in a dangerously low tone.

Otama reflected to when it all happened. She knew the two boys all too well, they were her classmates after all. And after what they did to her, there was no way she'll forget their faces.

...

Otama couldn't contain her excitement as she held the box of sticky sweets in her hands. The bell rung, letting everyone know that the school day was finally over. The third-grader smiled goofily as she stood up and ran out of the classroom. She waited all day to eat the dango she made for herself, even skipping lunchtime just to eat it at the end of the day.

Sitting alone on the jungle gym, she opened the box revealing the sweet dumplings. They were three each layered on four skewer sticks, decorated with sweet soy sauce. Otama felt her mouth start to water up so she wasted no time and grabbed one stick. But before she even took a bite, she heard two snickers coming from behind.

She turned around to see two boys from her class, Zion and Neil. Her knitted her brows in confusion, she never really spoke to them before so she wondered what did they want with her.

"What you got there Otama?" Neil, the redhead, asked.

"Uh...um..." She looked down at her lunch box "Just some dango." She answered truthfully. Even though she presented her usual kind nature, deep down she felt so confused and honestly wanted to eat her sweets in peace. For some reason, she didn't feel a good aura coming from them by the way they were smirking at her.

They stepped forward and the blonde one, Zion, got up to her face. "Give it to us."

Otama immediately stood up and held it close to her chest. "No way! I made this so it belongs to me. Now leave me alone!"

Zion turned to Neil and nodded his head towards her. "Take it." he ordered.

The redhead followed his command and yanked the box from her grasp. Otama gasped as she saw her rewarding dessert in his possession. Tears welled up in her eyes as she felt powerless against them. All she wanted to do was eat her dango in peace. What did she do to them to make them steal her long-awaited snack?

"Please..." Otama looked up at them with blurry wet eyes "Give it back."

She charged over to them and tried to take it back, but he just held it higher than her given height. The poor girl tried so hard to grab it back, even jumping up and down just to simply touch it. Zion was beginning to get sick of her frustration and constant weeping so he decided to push her off the edge.

It was so sudden that Otama didn't realize what force pushed her off the jungle gym. Those few seconds felt like it was going in slow motion as she saw her tears passing by in the air. When she fell to the ground something in her body moved out of place. A shot of pain rushed through her legs, making her wince and groan loudly.

When she looked down, she saw that her right ankle was twisted a little too far off from normal. Scratches and cuts were marked all over her legs from the playground wood chips. Her left knee felt pounding pain from the impact of the fall, coloring that part of her skin with a burning red. Her tears that were threatening to fall before trickled down her cheek, like a slow-flowing river. Otama began to sob as she couldn't bear the excruciating pain that was ringing all around her legs.

She looked up to see that the boys had already left with her box of dango. Using her left foot, she tried to sit up and hold herself on the jungle gym bars. More pain shot through her right ankle just by moving it, confirming that her ankle was sprained. Even though she was crying from the intense pain, she tried to find a way to walk. She didn't have a phone so she couldn't call her brothers to come to pick her up.

She had to get home, she couldn't just sit here and bear this pain alone. So she quickly wiped her rushing tears and sucked her snot back in her nostrils. Using her left foot, she hopped along, holding her right leg up so she wouldn't step on it. She made slow progress but she powered through and hopped towards the direction of her house that was about two blocks away.

She had to be a big girl, just until she got home. So that's what she's gonna do.

...

Tears fell slowly from the girl's glassy eyes as she recalled the horrible memory.

"It was two boys from my class, their names are Zion and Neil."

"Do you know what they look like?" Ace asked.

"Umm..." Otama looked down to the floor "One of them has curly red hair and the other has short blonde hair. They always around with each other and hang out at the park after school every day."

Luffy cracked his neck, "I see."

"Wait, what are you going to do?" Otama asked, her violet eyes shining with innocent concern.

Ace placed his hand on top of her head. Otama looked up to see her older brother's radiant smile shine down at her. "We'll just have them a little chat with them. As your brothers, we have to let them know not to mess with our little sister."

"He's right." Otama turned around to see Luffy's reassuring smile. His long arm reached out to wipe the rest of her tears away. "And when we come back, we'll take you to the doctor and go eat some delicious meat and dango afterward. Okay?"

Otama's frown immediately turned upwards, her eyes shining with pure joy. "Yeah!"

"So just lay down on the couch and take it easy. We'll be back before you know it. I promise."

Ace face turned serious as he stared at his brother. "Luffy."

Luffy looked from Otama and saw Ace's serious expression. As they stared in each other's eyes he already understood what he was silently telling him. Sometimes they didn't need words to tell each other what they were truly feeling.

Luffy nodded at him while pushing his straw hat backward. "Yeah."

ooo

Ace and Luffy walked along the grassy field of the local park. Barely any people were around since it was a busy weekday. In the distance stood two boys who were laughing obnoxiously and seemed to be joking around. From behind, one of them had short blonde hair and the other had curly red hair. They certainly matched Tama's description. As Luffy and Ace walked closer, they began to interpret their distant but loud conversation.

"Did you see her pathetic face when she kept jumping up to get her lunch back? Ha ha ha ha, it was priceless!"

"Ha ha, yeah! She was crying like a baby over some damn dango. It was hilarious!"

The brothers gave each other a look and nodded. These were the boys.

"Wah! Give me my lunch back!" The blonde boy mocked while rubbing his eyes with his fist. The redhead burst out laughing at his impression of Otama. Ace clenched his jaw due to his rising anger.

The brothers wasted no time and proceed on towards them.

"I can't wait to see the look on her face when we steal her lunch again tomorrow. But I just know that she'll be limping because we pushed her off the jungle gym."

"Heh, that'll be a sight to see. She's such a crybaby that she might not even come to school tomorrow."

"Well, that will just let us know that she knows not to mess with us."

"Hey!" A harsh voice shouted out.

The boys turned around to see two guys who looked considerably older than them. They saw the serious looks on their faces and their clenched fist. Nervousness settled within both of their stomachs but they didn't show it on their faces.

"What do you want?" The redhead spoke rudely. He hoped his tone would try to intimidate them, but it failed when they walked up closer, their serious faces never changing.

"Are you the assholes that took Tama's lunch?" Ace questioned, his face tight with pure rage.

"And caused her to have her ankle twisted?" Luffy added, his eyes peeking from the shadows of his straw hat.

The two boys stayed silent for a moment before Ace rushed over and grabbed the collar of the blonde boy's shirt. "Fucking answer me!"

"Y-Yeah we did. Wh-What about it?" The redhead answered for them. The blonde couldn't hide fear anymore, shivering a bit as he felt Ace clench the top part of his shirt in his fist. He can feel the anger coming from his very essence. He wondered who he was and what he had to do with Otama.

"That's our little sister."

That was all Luffy needed to say for the two boys to crap their pants. Realization and fear spread across their faces as they saw the two standing over them. Since they were older and taller, they almost seemed like angry giants ready to release their wrath.

Luffy cracked his fist and stared at them with such a serious expression that one who knows Luffy's goofy nature might think he was a totally different person. The veins in Ace's muscles appeared as he tightened his hands into a hard fist. Hatred, fury, and revenge were all in Ace's eyes right now. He wanted nothing more than to beat the hell out the both of them at this very moment. So much as though he didn't even want Luffy to have his share, because his share of vengeance was just that large.

"This is for Tama." Ace spoke before releasing his fist straight to the blonde's jaw. Luffy saw that the redhead was running away so he chased him down. It wasn't long before he caught up to him and punched him at the back of his head.

Thankfully, no one was around at that moment to see them beat the crap out of them. Which worked out in their favor from getting arrested for beating up a couple of nine-year-olds. The two boys groaned in pain as they felt punches come their way left and right with no time to recover. They never knew that Otama had brothers and scary older brothers at that. If they would have known that they would of never...

Ace and Luffy took a satisfying few minutes to let out all of their pent up fury that they have been feeling for the past hour. When they were done, they backed away a little, huffing out the last remnants of their ferocity.

The two boys were feeling mountains worth of pain as they laid on the dry grass. The blonde was unconscious from Ace hard punches so he was out of it all the while groaning. The redhead was conscious enough to still watch them from afar, aching from the splitting headache Luffy caused him. Each breath he took hurt like crazy and he just knew his body was going to be bruised and sore in the morning. Although his vision was blurry due to fatigue the last thing he saw was one last serious look from Otama's brothers before closing them shut.

Luffy and Ace smirked and turned around to walk back home. The two brothers gave each other a high-five for their accomplished revenge.

ooo

"Although your ankle is sprained, this temporary cast will allow you to walk until it heals back in place. Also, keep your bruise bandaged so that it can heal properly." The doctor told Otama. The eight-year-old nodded while eyeing the green cast that was on her right ankle.

"How long does she have to wear the cast?" Ace asked.

"For about two to possibly six weeks. If you try not to run and move it more than necessary then it will have a better chance to heal faster."

Luffy nodded, "Okay, thanks doctor lady."

"She has a name Luffy." Ace gave her a smile of gratitude. "Thank you so much, Dr. Araki."

"Anytime. Well Otama, I'll see you in a couple weeks for a checkup." With that, the doctor left the room, leaving the three siblings alone together.

Ace sat up from his chair and bent down in front of Otama. His back was facing her with his arms out backward, ready to catch her. "Here, Tama. You can ride on my back."

Otama face lit up and wasted no time to jump on her brother's back. The freckled teen didn't expect that much impact from her jump so he stepped forward a little. Luckily, he caught himself from falling forward to the floor.

Luffy stood up and stretched out his stiff muscles. His stomach rumbled loudly, causing him to whine while patting it helplessly. "I'm so hungry. Can we go eat now?"

"Yeah, you two promised me meat and dango! Let's go eat!" Otama shouted, patting her hands on Ace's back repeatedly. Ace pushed her up from falling and stood up straight. "Alright, alright. We'll go eat...but Tama you have to help us make the dango since you make them the best."

Otama nodded, "Oh wait, you guys are going to help me?"

"Why wouldn't we? This is your special treat so of course we'll have to help you out. Isn't that right Luffy?"

Luffy was busy picking his nose, staring off to space, letting them know that he tuned out moments ago. Once Luffy noticed them staring, he flicked his booger to the side and gave them a confused look. "Why are you two staring at me? Are we gonna go eat or not?"

Blank expressions plastered on Ace and Otama's faces. Luffy just turned his head to the side like a confused dog and shrugged. After that, he was the first to walk out of the patient room. The two just looked at each other and sighed.

"I'll just help you out and make sure Luffy doesn't burn the house down." Ace shook his head.

Otama made a nervous smile. "Yeah, that would be nice."

That night the three siblings ate meat and dango for dinner. Although Ace and Luffy can be literal vacuums cleaners when it comes to food, they remembered to save some food left for their sister since she tends to be a slow eater.

The family ate in peace and gluttony as they bonded together after a long and hard day. Sadly there were no leftovers for their grandfather when he came home late, even though Otama tried her best to leave some. Garp sulked in the kitchen as he heard his grandchildren's snores all the way from the living room. He swore he would have punched Ace and Luffy awake if it wasn't for Otama sleeping in between them.

He'll have to pocket his hungry revenge for now.

ooo

Otama slowly walked in her third-grade classroom with her green cast matching her green dress. If she had to wear a cast she at least wanted to match with it and be fashionable.

Some kids immediately noticed her with her crutches and rushed over to her with concern. Even though Otama appreciated her classmates worrying about her, she simply smiled and waved it off as no big deal. She didn't even tell them that Zion and Neil were the ones who do this to her. From what she heard from her brothers was that her mean classmates got the message to leave her alone. So it was no need to have her friends know what happened and get upset on her behalf too.

After all her friends signed her cast, she was finally able to sit down at her assigned desk. There was still a few minutes before her teacher would begin class so she just kept to herself and observed the classroom. At that moment, the two boys walked in, limping and struggling to walk to their assign seats. Most of the class started to whisper as they stole glances in their direction, wondering what happened to them.

Their seats were right next to Otama's so she tensed a bit as they approached her way. When they reached their seats, they sat down and avoided eye contact with the girl. She stole a peek and saw that they had band-aids and patches all over their face and arms. Whatever "talk" her older brothers gave them must have worked. Suddenly an imaginary light bulb popped above her head and she formed a little smirk.

She turned to her former bullies and saw that they were staring at her with scared looks on their faces. The truth was they weren't directly scared of Otama, but more so every time they looked at her, they sensed the distant yet strong wrath of her big brothers. Chills of fright ran through their sore bodies as they recalled the pain they experienced from those two.

Otama took her finger and pulled the bag under her eye down a little. She stuck out her tongue teasingly, causing the two bullies to clench their jaw in frustration.

"Don't mess with me, or I'll get my big brothers on you again." She loudly whispered before her teacher walked in.

Might (most likely will) make a part 2 if y'all really want one. Please review, favorite, all that good stuff :)

Daily reminder: Otama must be protected at all cost.

"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred." - Barbara De Angelis

-NinjaQueen33