Note: This fanfic is a series of short stories about each of the characters' childhoods. There really isn't that much of a plot. If this fic looks familiar to you, that's because it is! This is a repost that is hopefully less typo-rific. Now with Quick-Edit crappyness!

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece. One Piece was created by Oda Echirro who probably wouldn't like Quick-Edit either.

Childhood Memories
CHAPTER ONE
Luffy: Where Babies Come From
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Somewhere in East Blue, in a small village named Fusha, there was a tavern where some pirates were eating a lot. These pirates were also getting rather drunk, which made them eat more. Then they'd pass out and wake up an hour later, forgetting they had already eaten, and eat even more.

The bar owner, Makino, would fill up their drinks over and over till they exploded. None of them had ever done that, so they figured they had better keep drinking. Exploding people were cool, after all.

The happy drunken pirates were captained by a man named Shanks.

Shanks was one of the most dangerous pirates in East Blue and probably the whole world. His red hair constantly hung over his eyes, allowing him to look dangerous and wild at a moment's notice. Shanks had visited places others have only dreamed about; all while wearing a strawhat that would have made most men looked like a crazed hillbilly. His happy go lucky exterior hid the immense power he could dish out. Countless sea-hardened pirates feared him, and wished down to their brightly colored sashes that they would never incur his wrath. Shanks was one badass guy.

And his current favorite pastime was messing with an eight year old boy's mind.

"Oh come on! I'm a man now! Tell me!" Eight year old Luffy jumped up and down on his bar stool. His unruly short black hair swept across his forehead as he waved his arms around. A plate of fried meat sat in front of him, temporarily forgotten in his excitement to know... THE TRUTH.

"Eh, well you can't be a man if ya don't know..." An evil grin crossed Shank's face, unnoticed by the hyper Luffy.

"Now this is just between you and me..." Shanks leaned in close, as if what he was about to say was a closely guarded secret that had been passed down through the ages.

"So? Where DO babies really come from!" Luffy asked, a bit too loudly, making Makino knock down a glass she had been putting away. As Luffy turned around at the noise, Shanks put a conspiratory finger to his lips. Makino rolled her eyes and went to serve more alcohol.

Shanks leaned down, and whispered into Luffy's ear...

"So babies are delivered by giant birds from an island made out of beef jerky? And the kids that cry too much get eaten on the way there!"

Shanks brought his bear mug up to his face, almost bursting with surrpressed laughter. He removed it a second later, completley straight faced. "Yep."

"Wow." Luffy swung his sandaled feet in the air thoughtfully.

Shank's grin turned eviler as he leaned down again. "Yeah, and ya know the secret about marriage?"

Luffy shook his head.

"It's a trick by women who then suck their husband's brains out with a straw so they will do lawn work for them FOREVER."

Luffy gasped.

Shanks figured he may be traumatizing Luffy for life, but who cares! This was fun!

"But how do people tell the island they want a kid?"

"Uh..." Shanks scratched his head. "There's a kid catalog. People order them by mail. They're very expensive."

"Wow!" The gullible eight year old paused and crinkled up his eyebrows. "But, then how do poor people get kids?"

Shanks rolled his eyes and took a swig of his mug. "Why do you think they're poor? Haven't you ever noticed the poorest people have the most kids?"

"Oooooooh." This was more fun than the time he had landed on that cannibal island.

"And kissin will uh..." Shanks glanced over at his crew mates for an idea, his gaze settling on Lucky Roo. Lucky Roo sat across the room scratching his enormous stomache while ale dripped down his chin. Shanks smirked inwardly as an idea formed inside his head. "Kissing will make you fat!"

"Really?" Luffy's eyes widened even further.

"Hey, Roo!" Shanks called across the room.

Lucky Roo looked up.

"You get losta women right?"

Lucky Roo gave him the thumbs up. "Damn straight!" Lucky Roo then went back to trying to find out if he could explode.

Shanks turned back to Luffy and lowered his voice again. "See?"

"Woooooooooooooow." Luffy looked up at him with big, awestruck eyes. "That's the truth, really?"

"Oh Yeah." Shanks patted him on the head, which was really a covert diversion to steal a piece of meat off his plate. "I wouldn't lie to my little buddy."

Shanks figured he should tell the kid the truth before he left for good. No one else would bother. Yeah, he'd tell him the truth later.

"Little buddy who can't swim! Hahahahaha!"

"Grrr."

Unfortunately, Shanks was kinda drunk and he forgot...

Three years later...

Ace walked down the path to his boat with his younger brother Luffy. Today was the day that he would leave the village forever. One of the village girls that had a crush on him had gotten a bit too emotional and kissed him. He didn't really mind, but Luffy had an odd reaction to it...

"Man, don't you know kissing makes you fat?"

"Uh..." Ace raised his hands to correct him, then shrugged. Eh, explaining to him was too much work.

Seven years later...

The strawhat pirate crew lounged on the deck of their ship. It would be days before they got to the next island. There was nothing more to do now than just lay about and stare at the sky.

Luffy was doing just this next to Nami, who was sunning herself on a foldout chair. Usopp was working on some new ammunition. Sanji was hovering over Nami with a bottle of suntan lotion and a puppy dog expression. Zoro was sleeping. What else would Zoro be doing?

A large flock of birds flew overhead suddenly, nearly blocking out the sun.

"Wow." Nami shaded her eyes with the back of her hand. "Look at all those birds. Why are they this far out from land?"

In response, several birds dropped dead into the water.

"Don't take me literaly!" Nami growled and threw her sun visor over her face, anything to escape the insanity for a few moments. "Oh forget it."

Luffy pointed at the sky excitedly. "Someone must be having a lot of babies!"

Even Usop looked confused.

"I wonder which ones they're going to eat!" Luffy went up to the crows nest to get a better view.

"I'm not even going to try to explain," Nami muttered from behind her sun visor.

Usop pretended to look busy.

Sanji suddenly had to make brownies.

Zoro was asleep but if he had been awake... he would have went back to sleep.

"I wonder if we're close to beef jerky island?"

Hopefully someday, someone will tell Luffy the truth...

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