(A/N: I own nothing, one piece is owned by whoever created one piece)
Summary: reunion between older brothers and reunion between other siblings apparently?!
list of charlottes in this chapter because there's a lot of them: smoothie, Flampe, Pudding, Brownie, Cracker, Amande, Katakuri, Brulee
previously:
"2 years"
"2 YEARS?!"
"we won't meet in 3 days, we will meet each other again in 2 years! everything else he did was an distraction to hide the real message from everyone else."
"this message was meant for us. It's the decision that Luffy made. There's no point in rushing, Luffy could take on the new world but us? we won't stand a chance there!"
Zoro narrowed his eyes as he continues on
"We'll stop here, and increase our strength. And then we'll set sail once more!"
PRESENT:
CHAPTER 6
(-AT THE PLACE WHERE WHITEBEARD WAS BURIED-)
When Luffy left, the whitebeard pirates were gonna stay a little longer before setting off too, Right now Ace was lying on the grass hill with a newspaper in hand while his hat was laying right next to him.
(Ne Sabo? would you look at that, Our Little brother is stronger than us as always, He even beat 3 admirals and castrated that Bastard who disrespected Oyaji.)
picking up his hat and standing up, he muttered to himself "Watch over him will you Sabo?"
"MARCO! There's a random person at Oyaji's grave" Ace tensed and was surprised, who the hell was here? did he come to pay respects? he ran towards his father's grave and saw a figure.
he was wearing a cloak that covered everything, he turned around noticing his presents, his cloak also obscuring his face.
Marco and the others had came towards him and were behind him, they were also tense and wary of the unknown man.
"Who Are you? What business do you have on this island?" Ace asks glaring at the figure with his guard up.
He took off his cloak and looked at ace with a soft smile "It's me, Ace"
Ace was surprised when he saw his face (No...It can't be... He Died!)
"We shared a Bottle of sake and we three became brothers"
Ace surprised but shook his head (It Can't be!) he now was narrowing his eyes at him "How do you know that?!"
"Of course I would know! I'm your brother after all!"
Ace had hope in his eyes, was it him?
"Sabo?"
"Yo ace!"
It was, with that Ace ran towards Sabo who opened his arms expecting a hug "It's been a long time has-*Bonk*"
but got punched in the face instead, his ship brothers went from stunned at the fact that Ace had a another brother besides Luffy, to Dumbstruck when he punched him.
Ace grabbed His collar and shake him furiously "LONG TIME NO SEE MY ASS! WHERE THE HELL HAVE YA BEEN THESE PAST YEARS?!"
Sabo started looking sheepish "Sorry! when that celestial dragon shot me I had amnesia." Ace stopped shaking him.
"Amnesia?" Ace tilted his head in confusion at that while sabo Nodded "Yeah, Amnesia"
Sabo noticing his confusion put it in more simpler terms "I lost all my memories until I heard about the war."
Ace let go of Sabo "Oh, but still.. Could you have Remembered me earlier?! Luffy Cried because of you because we..."
Ace started crying a bit which startled the whitebeards, they never seen him cry "we.. thought...you died" Sabo pulled him into a hug "Yeah, sorry... I'm back"
they stayed like that for a few moment's before Marco interrupted them "As much as heartwarming as this is, what the hell is going in on?! who are you?!"
they both let go of each other and Sabo turned and gave a two finger salute "I'm Sabo! The staff Chief of the revolutionary! nice to meet you!"
"Oh that's nice" Ace told Sabo said as if this was common sense.
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"STAFF CHIEF OF REVOLUTIONARY?!"
Sabo explained to the whitebeard pirates of his past, how he got shot by a celestial dragon and saved by dragon and got amnesia, how he joined the revolutionary, how he regained the memories.
"That must have been rough" Marco said to Sabo with his brothers also feeling sympathetic for Sabo who was presumed dead for so long, he only regained his memories because someone mentioned Ace.
if he hadn't he probably would have known later and they wouldn't have Ace Reunited with Sabo like this cause they would have sailed off by then.
Sabo nodded towards Marco "Yeah it was.." Sabo turned to Ace with a look of guilt "Sorry Ace...I wasn't there to save you with Luffy!"
Ace just chopped his head "Idiot! How could you do anything if you had no memories of us?! and besides...at least you're alive!
Sabo smiled at that "Yeah!" he then remembered and asked "Ne Ace where's Luffy?"
"Ah he went with Rayleigh, Kuma had separated him from his crew, when he freed me he decided that he would reunite with his crew in 2 years"
"2 years?!" "Yeah, so they could prepare themselves and train for the new world, Luffy could take it on, but his crew can't"
"that so...so do you know where he is"
"Amazon Lily"
Sabo smiled at this "Do you know where the place is?"
"Nope"
Sabo blinked "Eh? you don't?"
"nope"
Sabo now just deadpanned "Huh...…"
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"FUCK!"
"But I got Rayleigh's contact so we could contact him from the Den-Den Mushi where the island is" Ace said,
just as Luffy, Jinbe and Rayleigh were about to leave, Rayleigh gave him his contact in order to call him if he wanted to talk to Luffy to know how he was doing.
Sabo let out a Big sigh of relief at this, he didn't have to reunite with him after 2 years! that would have been real awkward.
"THANK FUCK!"
(-AT TOTTO LAND, BIG MOM'S OFFICE-)
Right now Big mom was in her Throne room going through Paperwork, being the queen and ruling over several islands was rough, fortunately due to her wanting to change for the better she had also started to collect the souls of only citizens who have committed a crime, she still had taken large amount of souls via foolish marines, pirates, criminals who dared and tried to attack her land, sending her children to deal with and bring back any survivors to drain them off their souls and sometimes going out herself.
She had also send her forces to claim Fish-man island, Since whitebeard's death this was the perfect opportunity to strike, she may have seen him as a drinking buddy, but she wasn't that close to him and besides.
she's a pirate
and speak of the devil as Tamago appeared before her, hopefully for what she wanted.
"Tamago I swear to god if it's something not related to Luffy or fish-man island" Big mom trailed off while looking at him that dared it to be not urgent or important, Paperwork was stressful as hell, especially with how many island's she had conquered and had to deal with.
Tamago gulped before speaking up "Straw-hat Luffy has been sighted in Marineford!"
Big mom Raised her eyebrow at that(why did he go to marineford?)
"Tamago where did you heard about this?"
"It's in today's newspaper on the front page!" Tamago said as he showed her the newspaper in front of her.
she took it and squinted her eyes and saw the picture of her son who seems to be showing respect.
"Tamago! gather all my children around the meeting room !" Big mom ordered
"Yes mama!"
(-AT TOTTO LAND, MEETING ROOM-)
Big Mom sat and waited for her children to come and whey they all came(Prim strolling praline in a giant bowl on a trolley) and settled down she immediately cut to the chase
"We have found a lead on Luffy, Tamago present the information!" the charlottes now shifted their interest towards said man.
"YES! In the newspaper today Straw-hat Luffy has appeared in Marine ford! he had appeared before them with the sea Knight, Jinbe! and along with the first-mate of Roger, dark king, Silvers Rayleigh"
"Why was roger's first-mate with Luffy?" Smoothie asked in widening her eyes at the mention of his name before narrowing, why was someone like him with his baby brother?
"It isn't stated anywhere for his reasonings! but when Luffy was there he had rang the Ox-bell and proceeded to throw a banquet of flowers and showed his respect which is the picture you see now" As Tamago said this an image of Luffy projected onto the screen.
he was standing with his eyes close holding his hat to the chest.
the siblings looked at it for a couple of seconds until pudding looked closely at the image with all 3 of her eyes, there was something on his arm
"3D2Y?..."She muttered, Flampe who was sitting next to her heard what she said and questioned her "You found something in the image?"
now all of her siblings were looking at her and she closed her 3rd eye at that, she turned and nodded at Flampe "Yeah!"
she looked at all of her siblings before pointing at Luffy's Right arm "his right arm has 3D2Y Tattooed on it!"
at this they followed where she was pointing and noticed it also.
"3D is crossed out...But 2Y isn't..." Amande muttered well rubbing her chin deep in thought along with her siblings.
"Hmmm...Tamago! are there any other leads?" Big mom asked him, they had been thinking and rubbing their heads for a while but couldn't come to a conclusion, when they get him back they will get him to explain.
"Yes! Our spy who was amongst the whitebeard's at his funeral had taken a submarine and observed Luffy when he later boarded the Warlord Boa Hancock's ship!"
"Boa Hancock?" when one the male siblings asked with a hint of jealousy, actually most of the males were jealous of hearing how it seemed their brother was acquainted with such a beauty.
Tamago nodded at that, Smoothie crossed her legs and came with the most reasonable conclusion possible "So he should be on Amazon Lily"
"The country of woman, Lucky..." Brownie muttered with jealousy, his brothers also thinking the same thing as him.
"It will take a while for us to reach there...Even so there's no guarantee.." Cracker trailed off.
"but It's our only lead" Big mom finished her son's sentence for him "But even so, we can't let this opportunity slip by!"
Big mom looked at at her children thinking about who would be best before she landed her eyes on 3 of her oldest children "Katakuri, Amande and Brulee! you will be tasked with bringing back Luffy!"
said individuals responded and smiled at this "YES, MAMA!"
"Good! All of you are dismissed! wait for them to report if they find your brother!"
"Yes MAMA!"
(-AT AMAZON LILY-)
Jinbe halfway through the journey had business to attend to, so with a hug and a farewell he left.
after docking, they took a stroll deep into the forest with Boa Hancock showing concern for her Love interest which Rayleigh waved off saying he would be fine.
Right now Rayleigh was walking with Luffy going deeper in the forest, while walking Rayleigh asked Luffy
"Luffy-kun, why is it that your observation is weak but your armament and conqueror's isn't?"
Luffy just shrugged at this "I didn't learn much about it except shanks told me you could detect attacks with it, and also I didn't know how to train it"
"Hmm, that's so"
after stopping after a couple minutes of walking, Rayleigh demonstrated what observation haki is when a giant red elephant came and swung at him but he dodged it.
after that he blindfolded Luffy and took a couple of swings at him, before his den-den Mushi started to Ring.
"Who is this?"
"Yo its me Ace!"
Rayleigh and Luffy peaked at this "Ace?"
"Why are you calling? Luffy is alright and is training right now if you're wondering" Rayleigh questioned him, he did say to call him if he wanted to know about Luffy's well-being.
"No, its nothing like that, actually There's a very important person that wants to meet him in person!" Rayleigh raised an eyebrow at that
"Ah is that so? you don't know where amazon lily is don't you." he noticed how the Mushi looked sheepish.
"Yeeaaah …."
After Rayleigh told him where amazon lily is at, Luffy training was paused so he could meet this "Important person" which Luffy was wondering who it was.
after waiting on the shore they saw a ship coming with ace waving at them and behind him was a figure wearing a cloak, after landing Ace greeted Luffy and asked him how he was doing, before remembering why he came here.
"Oh yeah! Luffy!"
"What?"
"The Person behind him! you should know him!"
at this Luffy looked behind ace and saw the figure approaching this, at this Ace move aside smiling.
Luffy tilted his hat at the person "I know you? who are you?"
the figure took off his cloth and raised his head smiling "It's me, Luffy"
at this Luffy was confused "What do you mean "It's me?"?!"
"can't you recognize your own brother?"
Luffy tilted his head at this "Brother?!"
"Listen the only who can call me brother is" he pointed at Ace "Ace"
"and the guy who died much earlier..." Sabo took off his hat so he could get a better look.
"D-Died..."
Luffy's eyes started to become watery, he let out a few tears before his eyes popped out and was gaping, it couldn't be he looked like...
he gasped "SABO!"
he moved backwards and hit a tree and slumped down before getting back up looking at him angrily "I don't believe you!"
at this Sabo closed one eye and smiled wider "We stole a bottle of Sake from Dadan and made a toast..."
Luffy was stunned, it had to be him, who else besides Sabo and Ace would know?
Looking at Ace for confirmation, he nodded while smiling.
he looked back at Sabo "SABO?!"
he stretched his arms and clung to him like a koala and cried, he was alive,
HE WAS ALIVE!
"What the...Where have you been all this time?! Ace and I thought you were dead!"
"I'm sorry Luffy, I had amnesia"
after crying for a bit and also bringing Ace to hug him also, he tilted his head at Sabo
"What's Amnesia? can I eat it?"
at this sabo snort(Same old Luffy)
Rayleigh coughed to get their attention "So who are you?"
Sabo looked at Rayleigh and smiled "I'm Sabo! Chief of staff of the revolutionaries! and also...
Ace and Luffy's brother!"
Luffy tilted his head at that "Chief of staff?"
"It means his really strong like me" Ace replied
"Oh Okay!"
Rayleigh widened his eyes "Really?!" he looked at Ace and Luffy who nodded "Why didn't you tell me"
"It's a long story" Ace said.
Rayleigh responded "I have the time to listen" and so Ace started to explain to Rayleigh about what happened
Rayleigh learned about who Sabo is and what had happened to him, he gave a sad smile towards Sabo "That must have been horrible"
Sabo nodded frowning "Yeah...I won't let it happen again!"
Sabo looked at Luffy sheepishly with guilt clear on his face "Also...sorry i wasn't there to help"
Luffy just blinked and beamed at him "it's Okay! Ace is alive! and besides.. You are here with us too!" Sabo smiled at Luffy for that, he was quick to forgive, and he was right! all 3 of them are alive!
"What are you going to do now?" Luffy asked him, apparently Sabo works for his father who told Sabo to say hi for him, which Luffy responded by saying say hi to Dad for me back to sabo which he nodded at,
"I'm going to stay in the Revolutionary to Rebel against the government" Sabo said
with that said all brothers gave one final group hug and waved farewell,
Ace sailed off with Sabo so he could get back to his boat to sail back to his base while he was going to sail with his ship brothers into the new world.
Sabo when he goes back to base was going to continue things as per normal and fight against the Government, He did leave feeling the guilt wash away as both of his brothers forgive him, although Luffy was quick to forgive people easily as long as he could see a shred of good in them.
Meanwhile Luffy will train with Rayleigh, mainly focusing on his weak point which is Observation Haki, he needed to be able to detect and predict attacks so someone like Kuma wouldn't blindside him again.
after going back to the forest, he put Luffy on blindfolds and made him fight a huge blue gorilla and the elephant that attack him.
"TWIN JET PISTOLS!"
leaping down he took off his blindfold and smiled
"All Right!"
turning to Rayleigh he asked "So, how was that, Rayleigh?"
"Don't get ahead of yourselves, you only just completed the first step"
he picked up a club and slumped it on his shoulder "Next, I'll be your opponent"
*WHACK*
"OUCH!"
after that he was relentlessly hit in the head at day, while meeting up with the animals and somehow communicating with them to also hit him with his blindfolds on to train even further, slowly he was improving
(-AFTER A FEW DAYS-)
Rayleigh was walking around Luffy with a blindfold on and several bumps on his head form hitting him with a haki coated Club.
when Rayleigh took a couple of swings, he was bale to dodge
"Are you able to sense things?"
"I don't quite get it..."
"You've dodged a consecutive 20 attacks now. You are learning fast but still got a while to go, Luffy" Rayleigh was surprised by the speed of how fast his learning.
*SNAP*
"Hmmm?"
*WHACK*
Rayleigh had took a snap on the twig, which got him distracted and a hit to the head
"You got distracted by the noise"
"Dammit!" Luffy was pretty infuriated, but he understood it wasn't going to be easy with how weak his observation was right now.
"I guess it'll still be a while until you can dodge 100 times.
*GROWL*
Rayleigh just laughed at Luffy's hunger "You better hurry up or you'll die of hunger." he motivated Luffy.
Luffy was drooling at the reminder of food "Don't remind me of food.."
"Alright let's continue yeah!"
"Yeah!"
Luffy trained by dodging hits from Rayleigh at day while dodging animals who also helped him train by night, he slowly was getting better at dodging his hits.
until one day, a ship that looked like cake came sailing towards them, three people were talking amongst themselves.
"You think our little brother is on this island?"
"Only one way to find out"
"wait for us, Luffy!"
Meanwhile with Rayleigh, with his observation haki he frowned at who he detected.
"Looks like we got company, what do the big mom pirates want?"
Luffy took of his blindfold off his and looked at Rayleigh "What's wrong?"
Rayleigh turned to Luffy with a serious look "Be on Guard! Big mom's children are coming!"
Luffy turned serious and tense "Enemies?" Rayleigh nodded "When we sailed with Roger, we snuck into Big mom's island and took a rubbing of her poneglyph, she did not like our Captain at all"
Rayleigh started walking out of the forest along with Luffy, He told him to Hide behind a bush or a tree while he dealt with them. Standing on shore arm's crossed glaring at the ship approaching he prepared(What do they want?)
when they dropped anchor, the 3 people came forward and walked up to Rayleigh
Rayleigh was on guard and wary "What do the big mom pirates want here?"
The man with the Scarf came forward "Relax, we aren't here to harm you, we are here to find Straw-hat Luffy, it's a Personal matter"
Rayleigh wasn't really convince by what this man was saying "Who are you anyway?"
"I'm Katakuri, these 2 are my sister's, Brulee and Amande"
"what personal matter do you have with Luffy-kun?!"
"Relax, when we mean personal, we mean family related matter."
At that Rayleigh raised an eyebrow, but before he could say anything Luffy had popped out of the bush tilting his head at them.
"Family? who are you guys?" Rayleigh mentally face-palmed, Luffy can be kind of a fool sometimes.
when they saw Luffy, They widen their eyes before giving a soft gentle look at him, finally
they found him.
Brulee, not able to stand still charged towards Luffy.
Rayleigh mentally cursed(SHIT!)
but before he could do anything, he was stunned, thinking she would attack him
she hugged him and cried.
"Thank god...You're Okay!" she cried while hugging him, Katakuri and Amande walked forward behind Brulee, Amande had tears in her eyes patting Brulee's shoulder to comfort her while getting a good look at him and smiling warmly while katakuri also did the same to her other shoulder and ruffled his hair, his eyes a bit watery, his expression hard to read properly with his scarf blocking his mouth.
Luffy confused pushed them away while raising his arms up "Who are you guys?!"
Brulee answered him smiling warmly while wiping the tears away "You probably don't remember us, you were just a new born baby at that time..."
Luffy tilted his head "You know me?"
"Of course we do after all..."
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"WE ARE YOUR OLDER SIBLINGS!"
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"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH?!"