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Ch 5

Luffy smiled as he wiped some grim from Ace's cheek. His time here was not pleasant. He could see that his brother hadn't been feed for a while just by the loss of weight. He took notice to Ace's dry lips and sighed. Reaching behind himself, Luffy took out a container of water. He unscrewed the lid and reached for Ace's chin again.

"Get away from Ace-kun." The large fishman growled watching the marine reach for the unconscious Ace.

Luffy smiled before turning to Jinbe who's eyes widened in surprise. This marine was young and slender not even at adulthood yet.

"Don't worry I'm not going to hurt him." Luffy held the container of water up. "I'm just giving him water."

Jinbe glared at the young Marine, "He isn't allowed any, are you trying to get him in trouble?"

Luffy gave Jinbe a blank stare before laughing, "Nope, Senny said I need to take care of him, so here I am." Luffy smiled and showed off a sharp fang, "Beside's look at my shadow and figure out what's really going on."

Watching the marine, Jinbei looked down at his shadow. He watched in wonder as a tail swished to and fro. He then glanced at the other marine who smirked and pointed to his own shadow. There he could see three swords instead of the one sword.

Luffy watched in amusement as Jinbe started putting two and two together.

"You're-" Zoro cut him off

"Don't not in here." He nodded to the cells further away from them, "They would hear and then we would be in trouble."

"Hey Zoro?" Zoro glanced at his captain who was looking at him from over his shoulder, "Can you go get me a bucket of water and some rags?" Without a thought Zoro nodded and left to get what his captain wanted.

"Hope he doesn't get lost…" Luffy watched his first mate leave before smiling, "He will probably blame us for getting lost instead! Shishishishishi!" Luffy couldn't help but laugh at this, it happened so often that it was funny now.

He grabbed Ace's chin again after opening the container. Luffy lifted the container to Ace's lips and tipped it a bit. The water rushed into Ace's mouth who swallowed instinctively. He reacted as Luffy had expected he would. Ace automatically tried to drink the water as fast as he could.

"Hey, slow down." Luffy tilted the container a bit lower to stop Ace from drinking too fast. "The water isn't going anywhere, it's all yours." Ace seemed to calm down as Luffy soothed him. "Even unconscious you still react quickly to things don't you?"

Looking at Jinbe Luffy could see the fishman has not fared any better down here. "How bad has it been?"

Jinbe only shook his head, "Bad, that lady, Sadi, keeps taking him somewhere to be tortured and when he's brought back he barely has enough energy to talk." His eyes filled with worry, "I don't know how much more he can take of this."

Luffy nodded with a grim frown. "Ace has been through many things. I wouldn't be surprised if this was them going easy so far." He took the bottle of water from the other once Ace turned his head a bit to get away from it. "There, hopefully you'll feel a bit better now." Luffy smiled as he used his sleeve to wiped the excess water from the others face. "My first mate and I were sent here because of a deal I have with the seagull."

Jinbe raised his brow at the nickname, "Sengoku?"

Luffy smiled, "Yeah, he owed me big time for a couple of things that happened." Luffy remembered the corruption in east blue with the two marines he took down. "So we made a deal, he told me when one of my brothers were to be executed and I would break them out with him letting us go." Luffy placed his hand on his chin in thought, "But right now with Whitebeard coming the plan had to change." He smiled again, "So the grande fleet is preparing for war as well or at least to help intimidate the marines into surrender." He shrugged getting up off the balls of his feet.

"I see." Jinbe watched the pirate in thought, "You are him aren't you? The newest Yonko on the sea, the fifth emperor?"

Luffy sighed before turning to the large fishman, "Yeah, there has only been four at a time, with another taking the place of the deceased one every time. My navigator and Archeologist have read many things about the yonko's. I am not anywhere near Shank's or Whitebeard's level...at least not as close." Luffy stared at his shadow as a tail wagged back and forth, "Something more important came up, so now I have to retrain myself to regain what was lost."

Jinbe looked at the young yonko in shock, "What happened?" To think this young teen in front of him was close to being on par with Red Hair and Whitebeard was unimaginable.

Shaking his head Luffy laughed, "I'm not telling!" He rubbed the back of his neck.

Jinbe sweat dropped at this, "Why?"

Holding up his pointer finger Luffy smiled, "It's a mystery thing!" This caused Jinbe to sweat drop even more.

"I'm back." Ro placed a bucket of clean water down next to Luffy. "The guards had to show me the way back like I got lost." He groaned scratching his head, "Why did the cells move?"

Luffy laughed as Jinbe sweat dropped again. It would seem the rumors about the First mate were true, he gets lost easily.

"Stop laughing!" Ro kicked his captain who tried to stop.

"But… it's funny!" Luffy held his sides trying to breathe again.

Ro's eye twitched in agitation, "Damn shitty captain." He walked back out of the cell and took up a guard position.

After Luffy finally got over his laughing fit he climbed back up and kneeled in front of Ace. Pulling out a clean cloth he dunked it into the water before ringing it out. Pulling Ace's head up he started to clean the grim and blood from his skin. When he got to his chest Ace would twitch and squirm under his treatment when he came across a wound.

Luffy sighed as his hand wandered over Ace's chest and abdomen without thought. He quickly pulled back and blushed when he heard Zoro behind him laugh quietly. Knowing Zoro though he would keep silent about this.

He went back to cleaning when he caught those pain twitches again. It looked like Ace was close to waking up.

Shaking his head and smiling Luffy started to hum under his breath. It slowly turned into him quietly singing a lullaby.

"Swing high,Swing low,

Swing into the deck down and below"

Luffy moved the cloth over another bruised area again but kept up the steady soft song. Ace's unconscious struggles to get away started to slow down as he went on.

"May your dreams be filled with knives and waves,

May you not fall to your watery grave,

As the pirate king of old watches over you"

Ace finally stopped struggling and seemed to be calming down as Luffy went on.

"Swing high, Swing low,

Swing into the deck down and below"

Luffy stopped when he was done cleaning Ace up as much as he could. The water was now murky with the grim and blood that came off of Ace. Checking the older one again it seemed he had been lulled back to sleep by the song.

"What song was that?" Jinbe asked as he watched the captain get up off the ground.

Luffy turned and smiled at the other pirate, "A song my mother use to sing to me before bed. I only vaguely remember her." He grabbed the bucket of dirty water, "I was being raised by her before I was moved to Dawn by my Grandpa."

"Why were you taken away?" Jinbe leaned forward as the other pirate left the cell. "She probably is worried about you."

Smiling sadly Luffy shook his head, "No, I met my father a couple of months ago and he told me what happened. My mother was killed when I was 2 ½ years old. The whole village filled with family members of my fathers men was razed to the ground." Luffy shrugged and he started to walk away to get rid of the water, "I was the only survivor."

Jinbe's eyes widened as he looked to the first mate. "Is that true?"

Zoro shrugged, "Yeah, the crew knows about this. Gives us a good look on why Luffy has such a determination to live. That and the fact that his grandpa threw his into bottomless ravines, left him in the forest to survive for a week to a month on his own, left him on a cannibal island,-" Zoro stopped when he looked at Jinbe. It looked like the fishman was close to having a heart attack. "You ok?"

Jinbe shook his head, "How on earth did that boy survive?" He groaned.

Zoro shrugged, "He's my captain for a reason." Was all he was going to say at this point.

A/N: Happy New Year! Just giving heads up the song was written by theriku260, she is a great beta reader/friend/writer! Also wanted to get this up around Christmas, but guess who got sick during that whole week till now! Yup, I have bad luck, lol.