SailorStar9: Well, with Chapter 139 up, this is Chapter 140 this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Ace/Sasha, sibling Luffy/Sasha and Sabo/Sasha, Background Protector!Law/Sasha

Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC, the pairing and the fic idea.

Chapter 140: Arc 11: Leaving Dadan's Family To Escape Garp

Sometime later...

"Who did this?" Dadan demanded, falling into a pit-hole right in front of the house. "Who'd dig a hole right in front of the door?"

"It was Ace and the others." Magra replied as he and Dogra peered into the hole. "They said it was a trap for boars."

"This is my house!" Dadan argued. "Don't just let them do whatever they please! Those brats!"

That night...

"We're back!" Luffy declared.

"Welcome back." Sasha looked up from her medical book.

"Don't come back, you brats!" Dadan scolded.

"Here's dinner." Sabo tossed the deer at her.

"Roast it fast." Ace added.

"Food!" Luffy beamed.

"It's always the same huh, Dadan-kaa?" Sasha looked up at her second adaptive mother and giggled as yet another food fight broke out.

"Seriously..." Dadan muttered, sipping sake. "Don't waste food!" she fumed when a thrown sake cup smashed into her nose.

"One last round of training before we go to bed." Ace declared in the shared bedroom.

"Can the three of you just give it a rest?" Sasha was prepared for bed. "The floor won't be able to withstand your roughhousing."

"Sasha's got a point." Sabo conceded, giving the wooden floor a test thump with his foot. "This doesn't look very stable."

"Let's go to bed then." Ace shrugged.

The next morning...

"Hey!" Woop Slap cut of Dadan's ranting.

"Excuse me," Makino voiced. "But we heard that Luffy and Sasha are staying here."

"Makino!" Luffy ran out of the house to greet his visitors.

"You look like you're doing well." Woop Slap noted, seeing the two siblings. "It's been six months, we got worried and decided to see how you're doing."

"It's been a while, mayor." Sasha returned the greeting.

"Don't tell Garp-san about this." Makino winked.

"Still, it's hard to believe that you two are living with mountain bandits." Woop Slap mused.

"You got a problem with that?" Dadan retorted.

"Damn right, I do!" Woop Slap snapped. "Don't talk to me like that, you damn bandit!"

"I've got a present for you." Makino beamed. "I expect Garp-san didn't think about stuff like that. Some new clothes." she presented a T-shirt to Luffy. "I can adjust the size, too, so you two come over here." she turned to Ace and Sabo. "I heard that you were a naughty kid, Ace." she took Ace's measurements. "But you're surprisingly well-behaved."

"If you say so..." Ace blushed, looking away.

"He's embarrassed." Sabo teased and he and Luffy stifled their laughter.

"Ace, your face is all red." Luffy mocked.

"I'll get you for this later." Ace swore.

"Em, Makino-nee?" Sasha voiced, stepping out from the tree she had ducked under to change into the frock Makino had brought for her. "Is this alright?"

"It's perfect!" Makino gushed. "Sasha-chan, you look so pretty!"

Ace felt his cheeks burn when he caught sight of Sasha in her new dress.

"I hope you like it." Makino smiled brightly, having cooked up a feast of Dadan and her bandit group later that night.

"Delicious!" Luffy gushed, swallowing an ebi fry.

"It's hard to get good food like this on our voyage." Sabo remarked, chomping down on the plate of food in front of him. "When I got to sea, the first thing I'm going to do is add the greatest cook in the world to my crew."

"I'm gonna be a pirate first, so that'll be impossible." Ace fired back.

"That's not fair!" Luffy snapped. "I'm going to be a pirate before either of you!"

"Dadan-kaa?" Sasha blinked when she saw the bandits spit out their sake and slowly turned upon hearing the all-too-familiar cough at the door.

"You two are still going on at that?" Garp loomed over the door. "I'm telling you, you're gonna become Marines! Why is that so hard to understand? Dadan!" he called, slamming down a fist on her head after knocking out Ace and Luffy.

"Grandpa!" Sasha gasped.

"That's Garp?" Sabo looked at the younger girl. "This old guy is yours, Ace's and Luffy's grandfather?"

"Kid," Garp turned to Sabo. "You were talking about going out to sea too, right?"

"It's not 'kid'." Luffy defended. "His name is Sabo. We all shared a toast of brotherhood and promised to become pirates."

"You shouldn't have said that..." Ace muttered.

"Oh?" Garp crackled his knuckles. "So, in other words, now there are three little idiots who want me to give them a workout?"

"This is bad..." Sasha gulped. "RUN!"

"You're not getting away!" Garp yelled after the three boys, chasing them into the forest, Sasha taking off after her grandfather after grabbing her medical kit. "That's all for today." he declared, walking back after giving the three boys a thorough trashing. "Tomorrow, I'm going to give you an even harder workout. So don't die now."

"This always happens." Sasha bit back a resigned sigh and set to work patching up the boys.

"Dadan-kaa!" Sasha whispered in shock, the older woman having activated the trap Sabo had set earlier that day, the bandit gang having tracked down the ASL trio to their newly-built hideout.

"The trap just sprung!" Sabo sat up.

"Sabo-nii, this is your idea, isn't it?" Sasha pointed at the large mallet swinging from the roof.

"Sasha, is that you?" Ace awoke.

"You knocked Dadan-kaa out of the tree, just so you know." Sasha supplied.

"Oops." Ace grinned mischievously.

SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.