First I'd like to say I think I'll drop the romantic interest Luffy's cousin Shauna has with him, but I will bring in someone who has a crush on Luffy from his past. She'll be scarier than Shauna, but not quite at the level of his mom. I also want to ask that people provide more in depth reviews to motivate me to update the story at a regular basis. Also please tell me what you think of Shauna, Ren, and Luffy's mom. I'm curious. One more thing, please comment on chapter 2 I'd like to hear the feedback

Chapter 4

His Mom Revealed! Luffy's Demon appears!

Unaware that one of the most fearsome marine units in the organization were heading in their direction, the Strawhats were eating breakfast.

"Gotta say this is a really nice kitchen" Nami commented. "You have a surprising eye for detail, Franky."

"Thanks big sis!" Franky said happily. "But I guess some credit should go to those Galley-Law guys."

"Them too." Usopp agreed. "I'm sure with your skills the Sunny will never break."

"Can't say I hate the new kitchen." Sanji said cheerfully.

"And I can't disapprove of the training room." Zoro agreed.

"You know something's good, when Both Zoro and Sanji agree." said Chopper.

"It's a nice ship." said Robin.

By this point Franky was in tears and then broke out into his signature pose. "You guys are SUPER! I LOVE YOU!"

The only one who hadn't said anything was Luffy. Luffy was always one of the loudest Strawhats, but today he seemed… distracted. He was absentmindedly eating a plate of scrambled eggs, that were an unusually normal portion. He wasn't even trying to steal the others food.

They looked at him with worried expressions. Nami felt like it was her fault Luffy was acting like this. Maybe she had touched onto a sensitive topic that made Luffy uncomfortable, but still….

Luffy had finally finished his plate of eggs at a pace that he would usually finish 10 plates of food.

"Hey Luffy?" Sanji called. He was a little worried and frankly becoming a bit insecure that Luffy of all people wasn't digging into his food like usual, kind of hurt his cooks pride a bit.

Luffy didn't respond. "Luffy!"

Luffy jerked his head up. "What? Oh… uh yeah Sanji, you need something?"

"Not really," he replied. "You want seconds."

"No thanks I'm not that hungry," Luffy said.

Silence

'NOT HUNGRY!'Everyone thought in unison. Needles to say the Strawhats were more than shocked, they were horrified. Some of them even gasped while the others sat wide eyed. Even Robin was shocked at Luffy's answer. Luffy, there Luffy, had just said that he wasn't hungry. Luffy could eat a month's worth of food and still have room for another month's worth. That's it something was definitely wrong.

By that point Nami had practically jumped out of her seat and darted towards Luffy. "Luffy, can you and I talk?"

"Huh?... Woah!" Nami grabbed luffy by the arm and dragged him out of the kitchen without thinking. The rest of the Strawhats were left confused of what had just transpired.

"That was weird…," said Franky trying to sum up the situation as best he could.

"What was weird?" Usopp asked. "Nami dragging off Luffy or him saying he wasn't hungry?"

"I don't know," Franky said not able to process everything that had just happened.

"Where'd Nami take Luffy anyway?" Chopper asked.

"I don't know," Zoro said blankly. He grinned a second later. "Maybe she took him to the women's room to 'talk'." He said this to provoke the cook.

Sanji fell for the taunt. "How dare you even consider that my darling Nami would ever even look at that idiot captain, like that, you stupid moss head!"

"Don't shout at me, you stupid love cook!" Zoro shouted back. In under 5 seconds Zoro and Sanji began another of their infamous fights.

"You know I wonder if they do this just to annoy us at this point?" Usopp asked as he looked at

the swordsman and cook annoyingly.

"I doubt those two are that smart," said Franky.

"So what do you think Nami took Luffy to talk about?" Chopper asked his two friends, who shrugged. "Luffy was acting pretty strange too. I hope nothing's wrong.

"We should just let them be for now," said Robin, who had been silent for most of this. "Whatever is wrong I'm sure Nami will take care care of it."

"Yeah I guess you're right," said chopper. Franky and Usopp nodded in agreement.

Robin smiled at them, but she was kind of worried herself. She had a good idea, more or less, of what Nami and luffy were going to talk about, because she had listened in on The conversation they had had earlier in the morning. Being able to make your ears appear poof onto a distance, so you can hear your friends conversations is a handy skill.

While the other Strawhats contemplated Luffy and Nami's strange behavior, the latter had dragged the former to her map making room and then tossed him on the floor. Nami took a moment to contemplate what she would say as Luffy picked himself up. They stared at each other eye to eye.

"So want to talk ?" Nami asked.

"About what?" Luffy asked.

"Did what we talk about earlier bother you?" she asked.

"Well…" Luffy started to look uncomfortable. "It did get me thinking."

"Luffy I'm sorry I made you feel bad by asking those questions-"

"Nami don't appoli-."

"Let me finish!" the orange haired navigator barked, then subsequently took a deep breath. "I'm sorry I made you feel bad, but I don't regret asking."

"What?" Luffy was confused.

"The thing with Robin taught me something." Nami paused, having trouble finding the words. "We're cremates, what effects one of us will affect all of us. So I don't think we should keep secrets from each other."

"Nami, you're right but-"

"It's not like I'm the best example of an open book, after all I betrayed you guys, my friends, to save my village only to have you guys bail my sorry butt out of that jam and get badly injured in the process."

"Nami, none of us blame you for that. We're friends it's our job to do stuff like that."

"Well I blame myself for that. If I had trust you than we could have fought together to save Cocoyashi, but I was too stubborn to ask for help just like you are now."

"Me? I'm not being stubborn-"

"Yeah. Yeah. Whatever." Nami waved her right hand dismissively. "Just remember we're all here for you, I'm here for you... if you ever need to talk." she sad nervously not making eye-contact with Luffy.

Luffy smiled softly, "Nami... thanks for your concern..."

"But..."

Luffy shook his head, "No 'buts' just thank you. Something is bothering me, but do you mind if we leave it at that for now."

Nami sighed. "Fine." Her compliance surprised Luffy. He thought she would press forward.

"But!"she said sharply as she opened the door to leave. "We'll have another little talk the real soon. Got it!?"

"Got it!" Luffy squeaked. with that Nami left. Luffy lingered in the room laying flat on his back. Nami was right something was bothering him and that something was his mom.

While Luffy was thinking about his mom, his mom was thinking of him. The marine captain thought back to when Luffy was still a newborn. He was one of the most wild babies she had ever known. When she tried to give him bathes he'd shatter the container she'd bath him in. Even when he was in the womb he was wild. All ways kicking so much it hurt just to move. Ironically, the only time he over stood still was when she fed him. But she loved every moment of Luffy's life and she wished she'd been there more.

"Captain?" said Shauna in a concerned voice, breaking Lilia's train of thought.

"Yes, Shauna?" asked the captain maternally.

"I thought you should know that we should be reaching the Strawhats within the hour" she informed.

The She-Demon was practically shaking with excitement.

"Captain please don't lose control of your haki and knock everyone out again. The men just got up," groaned Shauna.

She giggled. "I said I was sorry."

Shauna's expression said she was annoyed with her, but then it changed to concern. "Thinking about Luffy?"

"Yes." she nodded and smiled absentmindedly. "Do you think he's eating well?"

Shauna shrugged, "Maybe. He can catch sea-kings, so he's not gonna starve."

"Are you worried about Luffy? Lilia asked.

"Why should I be worried about him," she said stubbornly.

"Because you like him," Lilia teased.

"Actually I stopped liking him," Shauna said certainly. "Now he's more like my little brother."

"Yeah I know." Lilia said bluntly.

"Y-you now!" said a surprised Shauna. "B-but why have you been teasing me all this time!?"

"Because it;s more fun to tease you than it is to tease Yuki." she explained.

"I'm going to kill you!" Shauna charged at her, but Lilia simply blocked by put her hand on her niece's head and making her run in place.

After a minute she gave up and just muttered curses. "Speaking of Yuki we should tell her that we found Luffy, shouldn't we?"

They both stared at each other and silently agreed not to in form her. Yuki was a member of the unit too and easily the strongest under Lilia, who had trained her. But more importantly she loved Luffy, like Shauna used to.

"If she did come then things would would get a bit too messy." said Shauna.

"Besides she's got that important job of ending the war Regalaton." said Lilia. "It's too important for her to just leave."

"So what are we talking about?" came Ren, who came out of nowhere making Shauna jump, but Lilia remain calm.

"Stop popping out of nowhere like that," Shauna shouted. "You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"Don't be so dramatic." said Ren calmly. "Your my tough twin, right? So a little thing like me appearing out- Ouch!"

Shauna smacked Ren over the head leaving a huge bump. "Next time I'll use finger pistol. Remember that."

Rubbing his bump Ren asked, "So, when are we gonna reach Luffy and his crew?"

"If all goes well, within the hour." answered his twin.

"Great!" said Ren. "So captain what's the-" Ren was silenced when he saw his commanding officers 'state'. The dark aura she emits was even more intense than it was usually, and she just stood there motionless and facing one direction: forward.

"Aunt Lily-"

"We don't need a plan" she said sternly. "This is my son we're talking about. He know's only one way to deal with a situation and that's head on."

Shauna smirked, "You're right. Luffy's all ways been that kind of guy. Honestly I don't think there's any better way to face him than to fight him head on. After all Luffy's spontaneous actions can botch plans on both ends."

Ren, on the other hand, was skeptical. For the most part, what they said made sense. He knew Luffy. Whatever the challenge, he wasn't the type to think things through, he was the type to rush into any situation, to any fight without hesitation, even if the opponent was an admiral or worse, Uncle Garp. But this was different. His opponents are his cousins and his mom. There's no way he could just shrug it off and just go charging in there like nobody's business, like he would anything else.

But that didn't matter. What did matter was that he was going to fight Luffy and he was gonna win.

"Someone's excited," Shauna said teasingly.

"Huh?" said Ren losing his train of thought.

"Your clenching your fists." Shauna pointed to Ren's fists. "You only do that when you're excited about something."

He laughed, "You're a pain in the butt, but you know me too well." He punched his hand and smirked. "What can I say Luffy and I have unfinished business."

"You two have always started fights like that ever since we first met Luffy."

"What can I say he's a strong opponent and don't pretend you don't enjoy a good fight as well."

"I don't want to fight my family."

"Yeah you do."

Shauna didn't respond. "So captain..." Lilia's dark aura reached an even higher level of scary. "It's probably better not to talk to her right now."

Ren nodded.

As the marine ship was creeping even closer, the Strawhats did their usual routines and antics. Zoro trained in the new training room. Usopp and Chopper were fishing for new fish to put in their aquarium. Sanji made a snack for Robin, who was reading a book. Franky was doing a maintenance check of the Sunny. Nami and Luffy were the only ones acting differently. Nami sat alone in the lounge thinking if she said the right things to Luffy. Luffy was still lying down in the room where Nami made maps, thinking about his mom and how guilty he felt about leaving her the way he did. They both felt unsure of themselves. But they both knew one thing...

This wasn't like them.

Nami jolted up from her seat in the lounge. Luffy jolted up from the floor of the room he was in.

'Luffy's like my little brother, so of course I want to know what's bothering him.'she thought with a smirk.

'Nami's right I need to talk to someone about this. Keeping my feeling bottled up like this is no good for everyone,' thought Luffy with a serious face.

Nami and Luffy left their respective places and left to find one another. The former to make the latter spill his guts and the latter to tell the former what was on his. They both ran into one another at the upper deck of the Thousand Sunny. Captain and navigator stared intently into each others eyes.

"Luffy-"

"Nami you're right something has been bothering me for awhile and I've just been too stubborn to admit what's bothering," said Luffy, who cut Nami off. "I'm Lucky to have crewmates who care, like you."

Nami slightly blushed a bit. "Well good. I'm glad you know how lucky you are to have someone like me on your crew."

Nami shook her head rapidly to regain her composure. "So, you want to talk in the lounge?"

"Yeah," Luffy said awkwardly. Things were starting to get uncomfortable. The two began to walk to the lounge when suddenly…

"Marine ship is approaching!" shouted Zoro from the lookout.

Luffy couldn't help grin at the irony of a marine ship approaching right when he was thinking about his mom. Suddenly an ominous chill went up his spine, like something bad was about to happen.

Nami, however, was annoyed at the bad timing and shouted, "How many are there!?"

"Just one," Zoro replied.

"Just one, huh?" Nami said in surprise. "Then they should be no problem, right?"

"Don't know," Zoro said with some concern. "Something about them feels… strange."

"Strange?" What do you mean?"

"Well… do marine ships usually have that on their sails?"

All the strawhats, minus Franky, who was below deck, looked where Zoro was looking. Initially. they saw the faint image of a ship in the distance, but as it sailed closer they could see the mark on its sail. A creepy looking grey faced, skull-like, thing with devil-like wings.

"Not exactly the prettiest thing on the sea, is it?" said Nami unnerved. "It kind of looks like a pirate flag.

"I think I know that flag." said Robin from the lower deck.

"You do?" said her shipmates in unison.

"Whose is it?" asked Sanji.

"It belongs to the Demon Unit," Robin stated.

"Demon Unit?" Luffy repeated. For some reason that sounded familiar.

"What's so special about them?" asked Usopp.

"They're regarded as one of the most fearsome group of marines in the World Government," Robin said in a grim voice causing Usopp and Chopper to scream.

"So what's up!?" shouted Franky, who came up from below deck.

"Marines are attacking, as usual," said Sanji nonchalantly, as he lit up a cigarette.

"They are? What are we gonna do?" asked Franky.

"We could run?" proposed Usopp.

"It's too late for that," Zoro stated, as he came down to the deck. "They're already too close. We'll have to fight."

"Hate to admit it, but-" Sanji went silent.

Chopper spoke, "Saji, are you-"

"Angels have come!" Sanji shouted startling Chopper and the rest of his crewmates. Sanji went into love mode and started twirling around the ship like a crazy ballerina. He broke out of love mode, when he saw something. "Who's that guy standing next to them."

"What are you talking about," Chopper asked.

"There are two beautiful ladies on that ship."

"Beautiful ladies?" repeated Luffy. Then he saw it. They all saw it. Standing prominently at the topmost part of the ship were 3 marines. One was a teenage girl, about Nami's age, with Long raven hair that stretched to her shoulders and pale pretty skin. Next was a messy raven haired teenage boy, the same age as the girl. They both were in standard soldiers uniforms, except the boys was unbuttoned. Finally there was a woman in a high ranking marines jacket stood with a very potent unexplainable aura. She had an expression that could kill the feint of heart. She was very beautiful and tall, with long raven hair, like her subordinates, that stretched all the way to her lower back. All three were staring directly at Luffy.

Luffy's heart raced and his hands shook uncontrollably and his face broke out in a cold sweat. Nami noticed Luffy's reaction and asked in a concerned voice, "Luffy what's wrong?"

Luffy didn't seem to hear her. He said in a volume just audible enough for the Strawhats to hear, "Mom..."

It was like the world stopped for the Strawhats, as their mouths hung open

I hope you all liked it. Should prove to be a real heart wrencher for them all, especially Sanji. Garp was one thing, but Luffy's mom is another story entirely. Also I'm doing a poll on who's your favorite OC, Lilia, Ren, Shauna, Yuki, or any other oc I decide to add on. I know Yuki hasn't made an appearance yet, but the results will be posted on July 3rd. Post your choice on the reviews. Also review on the story.