Anniversary special.

It was eight years after Luffy's reincarnation, he got used to this childhood but he was growing impatient for him and his nakamas to grew up in order to be able to start adventures, when he was seven, he started to live in a bunk with the others kids of his generation as they were officially a cadets of the Horde, the pirate didn't really cared about the Horde but more about the fact it was almost a full year since he started to spend most of his time with his friends and yet they never had any birthday party.

After another training session, and the destruction of a lot of equipments because of their lack of resistance against Haki, they were all in their bunk, chatting about what to do when they will reach maturity, how to use haki or even stories about Luffy journey.

"And then he buried me under a ton of mochi, I had to eat to fight him." Luffy told to Rogelio, Kyle and Lonnie his fight against Katakuri while Adora was using a punching bag while Catra was observing her, the two girls were training their Haki, Adora wasn't good at busoshoku Haki while it was harder for Catra to learn Kenbunshoku Haki; they didn't minded about Luffy since they already heard the whole cake saga two years ago.

"Wow, she really wanted this cake." Lonnie was talking about big mom and the repercussion of his adventures, she started to believe in his stories when he showed her that Haki existed and it was incredible to hear how Luffy met monsters like a yonko, without fear.

"I think she was more angry that I trashed her party." Luffy answered as he remembered how everyone on hole cake talked about it, not realising the yonko was angry because he ruined her reputation by entering her territory and beating her two most powerful sons.

"Now that I think about it, it will be a year since I we became cadets but we never had a birthday party, are you all born the same week ?" Luffy asked them.

"Birthday have nothing to be proud of and we can says the same thing about you, you didn't think it was weird that no one cared about the day you were born." Lonnie answered, annoyed that Luffy was the strongest of them but also the most child-like.

"I forgot the date of my birth." Luffy laughed about it while everyone sweatdropped that he forgot it, he was the only one who cared about birthday and yet he was also the only one who forgot when he was born, the irony was a bit depressing if you didn't know Luffy.

"Well, tomorrow will be one year since we officially joined the Horde, you can count it at a special day." Kyle told him as he wanted his friend to have at least an important day to remember like them.

Then, Luffy face became blank before he just walked to bed, everyone stopped to act and stared in shock at this, it was nine p.m, he usually went to bed later than than.

Adora woke up like usually when Shadow Weaver came to their bunk, they all got up and waited in line but without Luffy (like always.)

"Adora ?" the witch asked.

"Yes Shadow weaver ?" the blond answered.

"Wake up Luffy." Shadow Weaver ordered, her ward came to Luffy bed but then she noticed that it was too quiet while Luffy usually snored loudly, when she got to the top of the double bed she saw it was empty.

"Luffy has been abducted !" Yelled Adora as everyone eyes widened at the new, even Shadow Weaver.

The sorceress ran to the empty bed and saw no trace of him, the magic around her began appear just like when Adora explored the black garnet room, the witch turned to the children after regaining her composure.

"I will take care of it, you, do your planning, the kidnapper won't target you while you will be under the watch of your teachers." Shadow Weaver declared as Adora noded.

When the kid got out, the sorceress ran to her quarter, she knew a lot of spells like how to track someone, she didn't really cared about Luffy at first but then she saw his will and even if she would never admit it, he also reminded her someone she loved.

She went to a large cup with a glowing green liquid inside, she raised her arms and creatures of Shadow came out of it.

"Find him." She said before they flew away.

meanwhile Luffy was in the desert near the Fright Zone, his friend never had a birthday party before so he was going to give them one but before that he needed to find meat so he woke up early in order to find food and prepare it, he already knew that something lived in the desert so it was a good start.

"Come here, come here." Luffy repeated a was shaking a grey ration bar, the ration bar was food while food attracts animals, so the ration attracts animals.

He did that for hours in this desert, the sun was rising while the sand was getting hotter but he just care of the time it would take to prepare a party for his friends, then he felt something, it was coming toward him, he turned his head and saw a weird creature that looked like Moria's doppelman.

"Moria ?" Luffy asked the creature, it didn't answered, arms came out of it, ready to grab Luffy but just when it was about to catch him, the former pirate just dodged and punched it with a haki infused punch, the monster disappeared at the impact.

It wasn't Moria, Luffy thought, it could have been nice if the former shichibukai had found a way to come in this new world or if he also got reborn since it would mean he could see his crew again, he missed them after eight years away, he liked his squad but it just wasn't like his nakamas, Sanji would have know how to prepare the food, Nami would have helped the children like she did for Momonosuke, Ussop would have been great at storytelling while everyone would have liked Franky but they weren't with him in this new world and he had to explore it without them, Luffy was still going to wait until his squad was ready since they needed him to learn how to use haki or protect them, now he knows how Ace and Sabo felt because of him.

"Grrrrr"

Luffy turned to the source of the growlings and saw a pack of coyotes, they were staring at Luffy, showings their fangs and getting their claws out whereas the conqueror of grandline was smiling.

"Finally, I found meat." Luffy declared as he punched his palm, he was ready to fight even in the body of a child his will and haki were the same.

Back in the Horde; Adora and her squad where in the training room while the sergeant explained to them the exercice for today, the blue ape was starting to getting bald as you could see hairs on the floor, funnily enough it started a week after Luffy's first session.

"Luffy isn't here ?" He asked with a bit of hope since this kid became the bane of his carriere.

"He disappeared this morning." Adora sadly declared, worried about her friend.

"I'm sure we will find him." The sergeant told her that but he would be glad to never see Luffy again, that kid never stopped to destroy everything during each session.

The children trained without Luffy but their session wasn't as good as the previous ones, their hearts weren't into it, they had no joy during the session as if something was missing, someone who always brought them joy

The training was quiet, they followed the instruction, tried to do their best and when it was over they came back to their bunk, but on the way back, Catra started to sniff.

"What is it ?" Kyle asked Catra while she started to look everywhere.

"I smell something …. blood and …. Luffy !" Catra yelled, their eyes widened at the new, was he hurt ? or worst, killed ? "Follow me !" the magicat ordered as she ran to its direction.

the scent of burned rubber that characterized the Fright Zone perturbed Catra's odora but they were skilled enough with haki to have clues the track lead them to an abandoned place, there was sand, a broken throne and paintings of people with scorpion features but they didn't cared at the moment, inside of the room they started to be overwhelmed by the scent of smoke.

"ho, you found me …. Could you go back to the bunk, I will join you later." It was Luffy, he was sitting in front of a fire with the bodies of three coyote above it, there was more of them behind him with the furrs.

"Where were you ? do you have any idea how much we were worried about you !" Catra shouted, she thought he was injured or death, only to find him in front of a nice fire !

"I was finding meat for a party." Luffy declared as he rubbed his head.

"What ?" Adora was stunned that Luffy has been missing for all day because he planned a party, that was unreal to anyone living in the Horde especially at his age.

"You never had a birthday party before so I wanted to make one for you." The D. was smiling at them

"Wait … are you sharing meat ?" Lonnie was puzzled that Luffy would share meat, she clearly remembered that every time someone asked Luffy if he wanted to become a hero he would answer no because 'heroes always share their meats.'; it was weird to see such a contradiction from him.

"Of course not, I'm preparing your meat so it's yours."

No one wanted to argue with his statement because they knew how stubborn he was, they decided to sit next to the fire and wait for their meal.

"Where did you find those animals ?" Rogelio growled, funny thing, Rogelio was probably the smartest among them at the time but because of his lack of vocal cord Luffy was the only one to understand him, the lizardman wasn't sure if it was because of his powers or because he just cared about his friends.

"I went to the desert." Luffy responded.

"You went to a desert without preparation." Catra stated as she knew that he wasn't the kind of guy to plan a travel.

"Eyup."

Just after that, the meat was ready, the only food they had in the Fright Zone was the ration bar, they knew how much Luffy loved it but after tasting it also became their favorite food, it was so much better than the ration bar.

"So GOOOOD" they said at the same time.

There was a cook at the Fright Zone who had to prepare the ration bar and porridge before giving them to everyone who come in the cafeteria; he also had a bane this bane was a eight years old boy who eated more than anyone and earned his food, a part of him wanted to say to Shadow Weaver that the kid shouldn't have to earn his food anymore but he was such a good worker that he tripled the production in the dock so getting him out of there was a no while the child had a perfect excuse for eating so much, just the fact he didn't came to his kitchen this morning was a bliss to him.

So imagine his surprise when he saw that child dropping dead coyotes in front of him, a lot of coyotes.

"Hie chief, there was too much meat for us so I was thinking that you could keep them in the freezer." Luffy was smiling at the cook while Adora explained to him why Luffy presented him dead animals, seriously even him though it was creepy.

"We don't have a freeze …" The cook declared.

"So cook them for the next soldiers who will eat there." Luffy declared.

the chief wanted to argue but then Shadow Weaver suddenly came out of nowhere, the sorceress had a gift for taking people by surprise.

"Luffy, where were you ?!" She was practically shouting and scared everyone in the cafeteria except Luffy.

"In the desert, I wanted to have meat because my friends never had a birthday before and since I didn't know when they were born I just decided to celebrate it the same day you decided we would be a squad." Then a took something out of his pocket. "Here is your part." Luffy said as he carelessly presented the food to the second in command of the Horde.

The sorceress was too puzzled to answer at that and no one could believe it, the worst part was that he cooked the meat since even Shadow Weaver didn't wanted to waste food and when other soldiers tasted it they loved it as it was far better than their ration bar, now because of Luffy, he received meat time to time and had more work than usually; he really hated that kid.

At night time, the children where in their bed, tired from the day, Luffy was sleeping upside down, at the top bunk; his eyes were closed but he wasn't asleep.

"Hey, Luffy." Catra whispered.

"Yes Catra."

"Do you understand that you missed a whole day ?" A day of work was serious in the Fright Zone, especially if you don't have much to do.

"Don't care." he responded.

"Why did you do that ?" the magicat liked Luffy as a friend but sometimes she couldn't understand him, he was acting without logic.

"Because you are my friend."

there was a brief silence after that, Catra always had some problems with her feelings and caring about someone else was quite rare there, she knew Luffy considered her as a friend but she didn't know he would got into trouble just to please his friends.

"Thanks you." Catra declared before sleeping.

WOW? I started this fanfic on year ago and it feels quite weird to realise that, so sorry for the time but I was lacking of inspiration for it while I planned other stories (also i'm a bit disappointed at the lack of answers to my challenge "Luffy in Etheria" but I will probably work on it)

I wanted to writte something special for the anniversary, I hope you enjoyed the anniversary special since I wanted to show more about Luffy childhood in the Horde and why he could eat

I watched the final of she-ra and I liked it, I don't want to spoil but Horde Prime never met someone like Luffy before and he will really be surprised