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"Word"-Speaking

'Word'-Thoughts


Chapter 6: Return and Departure Again

On the Moby Dick

"Oyaji, Marco, Thatchty, Haruta, Izo, Teach, everybody!" Yelled Luffy as he was running towards the deck where the commanders and part of the crew were currently located, he then jumped up to Whitebeard's shoulder.

"Hello my son" said Whitebeard with a smile as he had finally been able to see his youngest after 2 years.

"How was the trip yoi?" asked Marco with a smile on his face happy that his little brother had finally came back as it hadn't been as fun and lively around the ship without him.

"I missed you, now we can prank the rest of the crew again" said Thatch as he and Luffy were the pranksters of the crew.

"Don't even think about it, you have already messed up more than enough of my kimonos!" yelled Izo.

"Our little brother is finally back," said Teach with a smile. "But Red-Haired said you ate a devil fruit when you were away, which one was it?" he asked with a stern gaze which none of the commanders noticed as they were curious themselves.

"I ate the Gura Gura no Mi, I been trying to get better with it, but I could only do so much on the island without someone strong enough to watch over so I only trained when Shanks and grandpa were there, and he also gave me his hat which he said was his treasure" he said.

When he finished Teach had an evil grin on his face that went unnoticed. 'Now if I can just get my hands on the Yami Yami no Mi the power to destroy the world would be right there for the easy taking' he thought to himself.

"I also made new brothers and a big sister" Luffy finished. "But can I go see mom, and my little sister now, Oyaji? I want to spend time with them as I know we're probably going to have to leave soon". As everybody heard this, they all put their head down as they didn't know how he was going to react.

"I have to tell you something son, so sit down" Whitebeard finished and so Luffy hopped down and crossed his legs and sat down. "Neptune died protecting your mother. She was in a deep depression afterwards causing her to leave the kingdom afterwards, and nobody has found her". When Luffy heard this, he felt wave of guilt wash over, and was now worried.

"Oyaji what happened?" Luffy fiercely asked. "She wouldn't have left us alone, she loved and cared for us she would have taken care of Shira and the others", Luffy said while tears came from his eyes.

"You have to understand she feels responsible for her husband's death so she probably felt like she couldn't stay. She did leave a note saying she will be back so you don't have to worry too much" Whitebeard added.

"She probably wanted to get stronger so she could protect what she cares about, yoi". Luffy just nodded, and asked Marco if he could take him to Neptune's grave.

{III}

Sea Forest

When Luffy saw the memorial and the picture of Neptune on top of the tombstone he dropped to his knees, and let out a wailed cry while holding his straw hat over his eyes openly sobbing. He kept hitting the ground to the point his knuckles started to bleed. "Oi Marco why did he have to die? He was family, he was a good king, there's not a lot like those around. Maybe if I was here, I could have protected mom and he would be here with Shira".

"I don't know Luffy, but it's not your fault you couldn't have done anything he died protecting family and that's what matters". That only made Luffy's heartbreak even more as he walked up to the tombstone.

"He died protecting mom with a smile on his face" came a voice from behind which was the first prince Fukaboshi."Mom was always talking about your return, and how she missed you and looked forward to seeing her beloved son. She was always counting down the days; you were always the person she talked about in her campaigns where fishman and humans could co-exist." He said with a tear escaping his eye.

Luffy just felt like his heart kept getting twisted, and shattered, he felt guilty that he wasn't there to protect his mom and his other family or at least be there in Neptune's last moment thanking the man. "She also said for me to tell you that she was sorry for not being here when you returned ".

Luffy just bowed down in front of the stone and stayed there for 5 minutes. "I'm sorry I was not here to protect mother, and I'm sorry I was not here for my little sister. Thank you for saving them and taking me into your family and accepting me as your own" he said before getting up and walking away. "Where is Shirahoshi? I promised my mother and Neptune I would always protect her and be there for her and I already failed for not being there for her when her father died. I don't plan on breaking my promise more than I already have." he asked, his hand balled up in a fist his straw hat shadowing his eyes.

"She's in the palace Luffy. She now has to stay in there permanently as she is being targeted by Vander Decken IX for her hand in marriage and cannot leave without her life being in danger, she couldn't even come to her father's funeral, and to this day hasn't even seen the memorial and tombstone." Fukaboshi said which made Luffy even more pissed as his little sister was now trapped and could not get out of her room as some asshole kept endangering her life and even dared ask for her hand in marriage Luffy would rather die than give her over to whoever that pedophile was she was barely 6 years old right now.

{III}

Ryugu Palace

Luffy was now standing outside Shirahoshi's room, he looked at the walls and noticed multiple axes and swords all over the wall. 'Damn that pedophile!' He opened the doors, and just sighed as he couldn't even see as it was so dark, but he walked forward nonetheless.

As he got on the bed, he noticed his sister was asleep but was startled when the lights suddenly turned on, and an unfamiliar shark was in front of him. The shark then started growling at him, which woke Shirahoshi up knocking Luffy off the bed and onto the ground on accident. "Who's there? Are you here to hurt me?". Luffy was seeing stars as he had fallen head first from the bed potentially causing head damage.

"It's just me, Shira," Luffy said, rubbing his head.

"Onii-sama" she said with tears in her eyes. Luffy just raised his eyebrow as to why she used that honorific for him.

"Yes, it's me, but just call me Luffy. That honorific is weird," he said, getting back to his feet and jumping to the top of the bed. "I'm sorry for not being here for you Shira, and I'm sorry I cannot stay here for long as I have to go with Oyaji, because I have to train to become stronger," he said looking down. "But once I find whoever is keeping you here, I'll beat him up so you can be free again and I'll take you to see your dad's memorial".

"It's ok mother and father said you were going to protect me, and you have to be strong for that and you have to follow your dream like her, but you have to spend time with me whenever you are here".

"Of course, that's what big brothers are for, shishishi" Luffy said wiping the water from his eyes. "I will protect you no matter what happens and be by your side even if the entire World Government is against you".

{III}

2 weeks later on the Moby Dick

"Oi Marco, when are you going to start training me in armament haki? I need it to be a swordsman and be stronger so I can protect mother and everybody else when she returns. I already have a decent grip on observation" Luffy said, still dodging the hits with the blindfold on.

"Soon yoi. Me, Jozu will start training you in armament and later when you have a good grip on it Vista, and Haruta will help you imbue haki on your weapons. There you're done with observation training for today you finally managed to dodge 2,000 hits yoi".

"Sometimes when we went to hunt on the Island, I put a blindfold on so I wouldn't lose the progress I have made".

"Oi Marco you said there was an advanced version of all the types of Haki. What were the ones for Observation and Armament?".

"For Observation it is that you can see some time into the future and increase the area of how far your observation can reach yoi. The 1st commander for the Big Mom pirates has the ability and can see 5 seconds into the future although you can go further. The advanced version of Armament is a little bit more complicated as it basically just increases your power, and if you clash with somebody and your haki is that much stronger it will hurt them and their haki essentially over powering them and hurting them. You can take it even further by expanding the aura of your haki and imbuing objects you're not even touching, but there is also the way people from Wano Kuni use it.

They call it Ryuo and it acts a little differently, the former 2nd division commander used it and you basically allow it to flow through your body which makes it more powerful and you can essentially hit somebody and instead of being a normal hit with haki it will affect the enemy's interior and effect your enemy from inside and even affect them without even hitting them physically if you get good enough. You would also be able to move the aura of your haki outward into a little blast and destroy objects like cuffs, collars, and doors or whatever you choose and if it's strong enough sea prism stone even if you have a devil fruit, and of course it works as an aura and armor around your body or wherever you choose it even to protect your organs the only person who can use it on the ship is Oyaji, and of course he can use advanced Conquerors, but that's even harder to advance and he is the only one here who can tell you to advance that in the crew if you even have it, because Teach and I haven't even been able to get close to advance it, you can always train for it to get better but remember Haki is always going to get stronger in intense fights and moments the stronger opponents you fight the stronger it will get."

"That's a lot of things so basically what I have to do is fight strong people and my haki will get stronger and develop".

"Yes, but don't be an idiot and go picking a fight with Kaido or another emperor by yourself because you want your haki to get stronger there can't be that major of a gap it doesn't work as some ass pull yoi. It comes from your spiritual energy, will, and understanding of it, you can learn the advanced types from Oyaji even though it will take a long time".

"Ok, I understand I'm going to try and train it, but when I have the chance, I'm going to fight people stronger and stronger until I master them both and if I have conquerors, I'll advance that too so I can do all the cool stuff Oyaji does. But you have to spar with me and when you do, I don't want you going easy on me, if tough fights and near-death situations is the way for it to get stronger, I don't want any shortcuts'' Luffy said while looking at Marco.

"Whatever you say yoi, so let's get to work on bringing forth and training your armament".

{III}

Couple Weeks Later

"You need to be quicker Luffy, being a swordsman requires good footwork, quickness, speed and power otherwise you are going to have good sword techniques but be a sitting duck and get picked off by faster opponents coming from different directions" Vista said on the offensive while Luffy just kept blocking on the defense with both of his swords.

"I'm using two swords. I'm not used to it twirly mustache."

Luffy was still on the defensive trying to find a way to go on the offensive but still having trouble until Vista brought both his swords down on a slash and Luffy brought one of his up but didn't try to block just parry and push it off to the side. As Vista's sword went down, he went with the momentum and now had his right sword in a reverse grip and quickly went on the offensive and slashed at Vista who quickly jumped back.

Luffy quickly followed suit still with different grips on his swords and tried to get a hit on him trying to win in speed as he knew he would for sure lose in power. He tried to attack with a horizontal slash which easily got blocked and Vista threw him off to the side throwing him off to the floor and his swords off to the side as he had lost the grip on them. Vista was quickly on top of him and about to give him a shallow slash to the back marking the end of the match when Luffy suddenly turned around facing forward receiving the slash across his chest which confused him, the commanders, and Whitebeard who were all watching.

"Why did you that yoi?" asked Marco, eyes twitching as what Luffy had just done had thrown Vista off and made the slash a little deeper than it was supposed to be.

"I'm not going to get slashed across my back Vista, and Haruta said that scars on the back are a swordsman's shame".

"It wasn't going to leave a scar you idiot it was supposed to draw little to no blood at all" yelled Thatch.

"I don't care I'm still not getting slashed across my back but most importantly is that my back is where I'm going to put my tattoo at and just like Oyaji I'm not going to have scars on it that's his mark and when I get it, I'm going to make sure it doesn't get damaged or run away from a fight ever!" He finished, which made the commanders smile with pride a little bit, but still annoyed at the stupid move that he had just pulled off.

Whitebeard was also smiling with pride looking at his youngest son, but spoke as he wanted to make something clear to him. "I am grateful you want to protect my pride son, but remember if it is to protect one of the people you care about or love do not hesitate to let them damage your back. Also running away is not always being a coward if it is to protect somebody like your brothers or loved one, it is completely fine running away when you know you cannot win".

Luffy just looked at him confused. "But you have never ran away from a fight so why should I".

"Because I have never needed to back when I fought most of my fights, I had no family the only thing I had was my pride so I never ran away from a fight to protect it, and if I died than that would be my destiny, but as time went on, I started my own crew and had a family I now have sons, and daughters and if it meant getting a scar across my back to protect even one of them I would do it. Also, there are going to be people stronger than you that you will not be able to beat no matter how much you try at that point in time so in order for you to survive and fulfil your dreams and be there to protect the ones you care about you have to be alive, but you can also not be a coward".

"But what happens if when I run away, and they call you a coward that would be insulting you" Luffy responded with some anger in his voice.

"GURARARA, then the snot nosed brat can come and say it to my face, and if he doesn't then you know what he is made of". Luffy just smiled somewhat understanding, but he still didn't completely agree with running away from a fight as he thought he would be strong enough to fight and beat whoever it was as long as he tried hard enough.

"Oyaji, I have been meaning to ask. How am I going to train my devil fruit? I mean it's not really the type of where I can train it everywhere without destroying everything".

"There's actually a person I know that called and wanted to meet you. He even said he would train you for a year if you wanted".

"Who is it and what would he train me in?" asked Luffy, skeptical as to who it could be and train him better than his brothers who were training him right now.

"His name is Rayleigh".

"The guy from Sabaody who coats the ship when we stop there. He's just an old man." says Luffy now really not liking the idea of an old man training him.

"GURARA, if he's an old man then so am I brat" Whitebeard said with a grin. "He's also not weak I mean he was the right-hand man of Roger'' when he heard this it got all of Luffy's attention and interest.

"Why would he want to train me?".

"Apparently the Red-Haired brat told him about you and since then he's wanted to meet you".

"Shanks huh I still don't want to go so soon I barely got back maybe in a year when I'm 10 if he still wants to see me, he can train me".

"He barely got back and is already planning to go away in less than a year" Thatch says head down.

{III}

Weeks Later on an Island in the New World

The Whitebeard pirates were currently off on an island in the New World collecting supplies and as usual Luffy went exploring the town along with Izo. "Why do I have to go shopping with you".

"Because you need better fashion sense" Izo answered.

"Whatever, I don't even know if I'm going to wear a shirt after I get my tattoo shirts are overrated either way". Izo just had a tick mark on his forehead at the statement.

"You really have no sense in anything". Izo replied to which Luffy just stuck his tongue out and went to sit down.

As they walked outside, they suddenly saw people running away,

"Oi what's wrong?" asked Izo.

"You have to run. The Beast Pirates are here and they started fighting people back at the bar". As soon as Izo and Luffy heard this they used their observation taking off to where they felt most the most people at.

When they got there, they saw people fighting and a Triceratops just destroying the buildings around and hitting his own crew and enemies alike. "What the hell happened?" Luffy asked.

"No time to find out it's an all-out fight now" Izo said and shot his guns coated in a little bit of haki at the zoan user hitting him and getting his attention.

"I guess so," Luffy said before pulling out the swords he carried and jumping into the fight, slashing 2 people from the back. Luffy kept moving around beating around cannon fodder while protecting the other Whitebeard pirates back trying to protect most from not getting a fatal injury.

With Izo

Izo was currently shooting the zoan user moving around, staying at a distance knowing if he got close it would be over as he was supporting a long-range type. "I might as well pick up a sword, it's not my specialty, but I can use it well enough" he said as he picked up a sword from the ground and the suddenly had to jump away from where he currently was and as he did the tail from the zoan user had crashed into the building.

"You really picked a fight with us do you even know who we are, you stupid little pirate crew" he said while looking at Izo not knowing who's crew they were a part of.

"I feel like I should ask you the same thing. Kaido wouldn't really be happy if one of his subordinates picked a fight at his own will" he said before firing more shots off.

"He won't have to know as you're all going to be dead along with the rest of the people of this island" he said arrogantly blocking Izo's shots.

Izo coated the sword in haki as his gun was not really going to do anything and jumped up running on top of a building and was about to slash the zoan user until he got hit in shoulder by an arrow imbued with some haki from the sky and he fell to the ground. "Kikiki, did you really think I would let you damage Sasaki-sama" said a man with bat ears, curved fangs, and bat wings with a bow in his hands.

The now identified Sasaki turned around and picked Izo as he turned into his hybrid form. "Now your life is in my control. Are you from Wano? You look like a samurai from there just that you use guns" he said with a smirk. Izo just grit his teeth knowing what had happened in Wano and to his former comrades and lord. As Sasaki was about to kill Izo, a wave of power washed over the battlefield knocking people from both groups out.

With Luffy

Luffy was fighting what seemed to be a person with a lion coming out of his waist and was having an annoying time. He was currently not using his devil fruit as he wanted to get better with haki and did not want to cause too much more damage to the town they were fighting in.

What he didn't understand was how the hell the lion could produce fire which forced him to dodge a lot more than he wanted to. Suddenly he brought out his sword which suddenly broke out into parts which looked more like a sharp whip instead of a sword. The lion man suddenly whipped it towards Luffy forcing him to bring up his sword to block it but unfortunately wrapped around his sword and while Luffy was trying to get it back the lion suddenly breathed fire on sword whip on fire forcing Luffy to leap back and leave his sword.

"Damn it you annoying lion man or whatever you are".

"My name is Holdem and-".

"I didn't ask and I don't care you're just weird and annoying with your stupid face and fire breathing lion" Interrupted Luffy as he imbued his arms in his haki, he knew it was still relatively weak but the only way to get better was fight with it.

He jumped forward and dodged the hit Holdem threw and quickly went for a kick with his legs trying to throw the bigger man off balance which ended up working until the man lion sent a punch forcing Luffy to cross his arms and block. Luffy kept trying to use his superior and agility to fight the man but every time he was about to land a serious punch the lion would counter. As he was about to rush back in, he saw Izo get shot by an arrow by what seemed like a half bat half fat man.

Luffy quickly took off to try and help Izo as the triceratops was moving towards him until observation haki picked up something from behind him and was forced to dodge. "You're fighting me brat". Luffy just gritted his teeth before quickly rushing towards the man making a fist, and when he got close enough threw a punch activating as much of his devil fruit as he could forming cracks in the air surprising the man and sending him flying back.

As the man quickly went flying back Luffy turned around running towards where Izo was but noticed he was wrapped around in a tail and he knew he would not make it in a desperate call he yelled out "LET HIM GO!" unknowingly releasing a wave of conquerors haki that was felt all the way at coast and knocking out the weak-willed people out, shocking the people who were still up and momentarily stopping Sasaki from squishing Izo. Izo just looked on shocked as Luffy had used conquerors haki at such a young age.

Sasaki just grit his teeth and was about to squish Izo, but was then kicked across the face by a man with blue wings making him release Izo from his grip. "What do you think you are doing yoi'' Marco said with narrowed eyes holding Izo up with his phoenix talons. When Sasaki got back up and saw Marco, he suddenly realized who it was and started sweating

'Shit don't tell me those stupid pirates were part of Whitebeard's crew'.

"Batman, Holdem go back to the ship immediately we have to get out of here now!" he said in an urgent voice, causing the people who were up to start running back to the coast where their ship was located. Marco decided to let them go as he would rather take care of Izo, and check up on the rest of his brothers.

Putting Izo down Luffy quickly came up "Izo are you ok?" he asked in a panicked voice.

"I'm fine stupid bat man caught me off guard. I don't even know how that bastard looked like that".

"What happened yoi?"

"Me and Izo were buying things and as we came out a villager quickly came running screaming that the Beast Pirates started fighting with another crew which we knew was us so we came here to help".

"You were lucky a villager reached the shore panicking and I had made my way here by then if not I wouldn't have made it in time yoi. Although Luffy do you know what you just did?".

"No why I was just fighting."

"When dinosaur guy was about to squish me, you used conquerors haki" answered Izo looking at Luffy shocking him.

"I didn't even know I just wanted to save you".

"Conquerors usually comes out it in a stressful time when your emotions are tense yoi. Well, we better pick up and check up on our guys and see that they're ok, and also tie up the people from Kaido's crew and take them to pops and see what he wants to do with them. The others are most likely on the way since they probably felt that wave of Haki so I'll take Izo to the infirmary, and you start helping the people here Luffy".

A couple of minutes later they had finally helped the injured back to the Moby to get them treated and had tied up and brought the other subordinates to the beach. "So, what happened and who are they?" asked Whitebeard as Marco had only told them that they had fought another pirate crew just not which one.

"There Kaido's subordinates pops" answered Marco.

"So, their part of the overgrown fish's crew," Whitebeard said in a sort of mocking tone.

"Overgrown fish?" Luffy asked, confused.

"It's just what pops calls him for some reason" answered Thatch.

"But more importantly who released that wave of haki?" Whitebeard asked now in a more serious voice.

"Luffy yoi".

"GURARA so he does have it. But what caused you to use it" Whitebeard asked.

"I was in trouble and was about to get squished by some dinosaur and Luffy saw, and he just used it without knowing".

Whitebeard understood and just frowned that his son almost died. "Just make it quick" he said before walking away. The crew who was there understood and told Luffy to go with Whitebeard as they still didn't want their little brother to see what was going to happen.

{III}

Couple of Months Later- Luffy 10

"I can't believe he's already going away for a year it feels like he barely came back" cried both Thatch and Haruta on the deck seeing Luffy go off with Rayleigh.

"You sound like moms yoi".

"Shut up you stupid blue turkey before I paint your room a hot pink!" responded Thatch.

"Do it and that's the last thing you'll ever do yoi".

"Bye again guys take care" Luffy said waving back at the ship, while he was on a rowboat with Rayleigh about to enter the Calm belt.

As soon as they crossed into the calm belt a huge sea king came out which Rayleigh just cut the head off. "I guess it's going to be a rough trip," Rayleigh said laughing.

"Why are we going to train the calm belt?".

"Because we are going to also be training your devil fruit which is destructive so it would be best if there was nobody around and the island where we are going to have strong animals that you can train your haki and also the weather changes so you are also going to learn to survive out in the extreme wild".

Luffy just nodded at the potential of exploring the full access he has of his devil fruit and making his haki stronger. "But we are going to stop at another island before and the people there are going to give us a ride on their ship".

"Who lives out in the calm belt?" Luffy asked curious as to who could live out on this ocean.

"The Kujas."

"My son is also going to train you with swordsmanship".

Luffy just raised an eyebrow as he did not think Rayleigh had a son. "You have a son?".

"Well, he's not my blood son, but Shakky and I found him when we were still pirates which caused her to stop living a life of piracy so she could raise him and when my time came, I also raised him and taught him how to be a swordsman".

"Oh, of course Shakky would raise a child she is nice after all. Is he a better swordsman than you?".

"Hahaha, I'm an old man now and he's in his prime so what would you say."

{III}

1 day later

"We're coming up on the island now, let's just hope they don't attack us first" Rayleigh said.

"Why would they attack us?"

"The Kuja are a woman only tribe, and they don't allow men on the island, but the former and current pirate empress and her sisters owe me favors and when I asked for their help to get to Rusukaina they agreed."

Couple of minutes later they docked on the island and they both got off. "Luffy-kun you might want to protect yourself seems like some warriors are coming and I don't think Hancock is with them so they might be aggressive."

Luffy just nodded and pulled both of swords out. "

Who are you and why are you here?" came a voice from the bushes.

"I'm Rayleigh and we are here as the pirate empress is supposed to take us to the next island".

After he finished talking there was mumbling behind them. "We'll let her know that a man by the name of Rayleigh is here, but if she doesn't know who you are you will die" the woman spoke before she left along with the rest of the warriors.

Rayleigh and Luffy were waiting there for around 30 minutes until they both felt a strong presence heading their way. "Rayleigh so you actually made it here" the tall woman spoke.

"It was just a nice stroll through the calm belt, nothing more". Rayleigh said making Luffy's eye twitch as he remembered all the times, they were attacked by sea kings and Rayleigh had made him use his devil fruit to attack them.

"So, this is the child which you are going to train on that horrific island" she said while looking at Luffy.

"Yes, he has a lot of potential and special in a lot of ways''.

"Whatever you say Rayleigh maybe if the shrimp survives the year of training there".

"Oi who are you calling a shrimp!" Luffy answered teeth sharp showing his annoyance at being called a shrimp. Hancock just ignored him and told Rayleigh to follow her to the ship so they could get ready to set off as the Island was 3 days away from Amazon Lily.

{III}

3 days later

"You better take care of him Rayleigh or I'll kill you myself" said Hancock while pulling him by the nose being a little over protective of Luffy since they had gotten close and became friends on the ship when Luffy accidentally saw Hancock's back and did not just her for being a former slave.

"Nothing will happen to him. I don't want Whitebeard coming after me either" Rayleigh said trying to break away.

"Bye Hancock take care" Luffy said waving from the beach as the ship was pulling away.

As soon as the ship was out of sight Rayleigh and Luffy started walking to the center of the island when they reached a clearing with a giant tree with rocks surrounding it. "This is a safe place so if you want to put any of your belongings here so they can be safe you can, but we're not coming back here until we finish the year of training" Rayleigh added.

Luffy just nodded and put his straw hat on top of the rock with his necklaces tugged under the ribbon. "Let's go train," Luffy said excitingly.

Luffy was now sitting on a rock while Rayleigh was standing. "So, I'm guessing you know what haki is".

"Marco explained what Armament was and Observation and the advanced versions like seeing into the future and expanding how far you can feel presences and advanced armament and Advanced Ryuo".

"I see that is basically it for the most part of course a person can develop their haki and come up with different techniques for how they use it and they have the one which they prefer but I'm going to make sure you excel in both and not just fall to one".

"Also, there is the thing for Conqueror's haki which you have the luck of having. The good thing about that is that Conquerors haki can make the other 2 stronger although it works best for armament. As haki is essentially spiritual energy and conquerors is your will you can focus your conquerors into your armament to make it stronger and more effective by controlling how much escapes out because armament does run out although if you used it for observation, it would just increase the range temporarily but not let you look into the future as for that you need to be calm. Advanced conquerors will also let you have protective armor around yourself just like armament and the waves you release will also even affect objects from the pressure of it, and you can also coat your attacks in it like you can with Armament. That's mostly the reason the sky splits when people at that level clash. It can happen if the armament is strong enough but it wouldn't be as major and there are other things that you will discover on your own but I'm not going to tell you as that would take away from your adventure".

Luffy just nodded at the new information trying to take everything in so he can get a better understanding. "Well let's get to training your armament until my son gets here as I heard you want to be a swordsman and armament is going to be important" Luffy immediately stood up excited to start training.

{III}

A week later

Luffy was panting on the ground after just having finished his devil fruit training. "How am I supposed to train to be a better swordsman with only one sword?" Luffy asked as on the 3rd day of training with Rayleigh one of his swords had broken.

"Well, it is your fault for using low graded swords well the one that broke wasn't even graded and the one you have now is in the lowest class of the graded classes".

"It's not particularly easy to find graded swords you know" Luffy retorted and was about to say something else until his observation haki picked up a powerful presence which got him on his feet immediately. "Oi Rayleigh do you feel that".

"Yeah, I guess he is finally here." he simply answered.

Luffy and Rayleigh walked to the coast and when they got there, they saw a little boat on it which looked like a coffin with green candles on the side and the mass which resembled a large crucifix.

"So, this is the boy which you want me to train?" spoke the man with yellow hawk like eyes and a large sword on his back still sitting down when Luffy saw the man his eyes widened.

"Hawkeyes" he said to himself in a low voice.

"Yes, although it will be difficult now that he broke one of his swords". Mihawk simply scoffed and reached down and threw the boy a sword.

Luffy quickly caught the sword which was in a white scabbard with koi fish on it with a white tsuba, and when he unsheathed it, he saw it had a gold habaki and the blade was a grayish white on the bottom with a deep-sea blue on the top in a wave like pattern. * (You can search up true katana white wakizashi and it should be one of the first things that pop up the one Luffy got is a katana not a wakizashi it just looks like that *Wakizashis are shorter than Katanas, I will try to link it in my profile but I don't know if it will let me).

"It's a calm obedient sword that obeys its master, but is still ruthless and deadly in battle it is called Sulu. Also, it won't break as easily as it's part of the 21 O-Wazamono grade swords and can be part of the Saijo O-Wazamono if you make it into a black blade" Mihawk simply said.

"And you would just give it to me?" Luffy asked.

"I will not train somebody with a weak sword as it would just break, the sword a person wields partly defines the swordsman" he simply said.

"And you just have this lying around?" Luffy said, still trying to wrap his mind around how he just simply gave it to him.

"It was from a fool who challenged me and he was not worthy of wielding the blade so I took it from him after he was defeated. I only came here because father asked me to train you and from what Red-Haired said about you having potential so hopefully you don't disappoint ".