A/N Because obviously in the real world or in the modern AU world, there are no talking skeletons or talking reindeer, Chopper is a young teen, at maybe 12-13. And Brook is the the Brook from before he died. Got it? Shabing Shaboong? you got the dealio? Good. U don't like it? Oh well, deal with it. also everybody else is before the timeskip, So Franky CAN fit through doors and also for plot convenience he has normal arms. How is this plot convenience? I don't know. but it makes it sound like I know what I'm doing... Kinda..?

I don't Own one piece.

Luffy made it to the hideout a short 5 minutes after he and his brothers split off. He came to a halt in front of two looming, rusty warehouse doors which housed some minor graffiti in one specific corner. One example being the "Mosshead is stupid" Comment scrawled lazily in black marker, which had been crossed out with a red pen and now read "Swirly Eyebrows is stupid!"

Luffy pushed his hat onto his head before smiling and pushing the doors open with a resounding *SLAM* to reveal a surprisingly clean and homely space thrust inside the rusty warehouse exterior. The walls were still brick and the floor cold cement, but both were undermined by the variety of brightly colored chairs, beanbags, sofa's, rugs, paintings (Some of which Luffy proudly recalls drawing by himself. Such as the one of the dog, which Zoro stated looked like a Mud pile, but Luffy knew better.)

Before he could truly admire the rest of the decoration, he was forced to dodge out the way of an incoming projectile heading straight for his face.

The shoe flopped harmlessly to the floor behind the royal who stared at it questionably before the second of the pair collided with the back of his head; sending him off balance and falling onto the floor.

"HEY! What gives?! That hurt!" He yelled, standing back up and pouting at his attacker.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS?!" The orange haired girl clenched her fist in anger as she yelled at her idiot leader from across the room.

Luffy blinks before realizing that he's probably a lot later than he originally thought himself to be.

"I'm Sorry! We got into a fight before we left and I was forced to take a shower and clean up! So it wasn't really my fault!"

Nami only growled in frustration at his words. "It is too your fault! You shouldn't have gotten into the fight in- wait." She paused, leaning forward, a curious look in her eye. "'We'?"

Luffy's Eye's widened in shock as he clamped his hands over his mouth as if to force the words back in. But it was too late. "Uh-Oh" He muttered, the sound muffled by his hands.

Everybody in the room was by now watching the situation unfold. Zoro opened one of his eyes languidly in curiosity. Robin marked a page in her book before closing it and placing it on the table beside her. Sanji looked up from where he was busy in the kitchen. Chopper and Ussop looked on from where the former was telling one of his thrilling stories.

"Who's 'We' Lu?" Ussop asked, standing up and walking over to join Nami in staring down their captain for information.

The straw-hatted boy Laughed his "Shishishi" Sheepishly whilst fiddling with his hands behind his back and rocking back and forth on his feet. "It's a...secret." He finally says.

Zoro opens his other eye and sits up from the wall and stares at his captain quizzically. "What do you mean 'it's a secret'?" He asks.

Luffy looks down at the floor guiltily. "I'm not allowed to tell you..." He says quietly.

"Whaaaat?!" Ussop gapes, sour that his friend wont tell them.

"Why Not!?" Nami complains.

Luffy bows deeply in apology, as his hat falls off his head and on to the cold floor. "I'm sorry. But I can't tell you. I promised that I wouldn't tell anybody. Not even you guys."

Ussop and Nami are left shocked at the determination and honesty in the statement, until they are snapped out of their daze by a hand tenderly placed on each of their shoulder. "I think that, if captain could tell us, then he would. We all have our secrets, it's not right to bully them out of somebody."

Robin smiled gently at the two -who looked away slightly ashamed at the way they had tried to pry information out of their friend- before turning her attention to Luffy who craned his neck from his bowing position and gave one of his giant sunny grins and stood up straight to his full height.

"Thanks Robin! You're a life saver!" He claimed, and she just smiled calmly back at him.

"Anytime Captain." She replies- although, she herself would love to know just who 'We' entailed.

For as long as everybody had known their bubbly friend, it was complicated. Whilst they knew exactly how his mind worked, and everything about his personality. They knew nothing about him home life. They didn't even know his real name! They've just always called him 'Lu' as per his wishes.

Sometimes, with how open and easy to read their captain is, It's easy to forget how much of himself he's keeping secret.

With the situation over, Zoro closed his eyes, whilst Sanji Continued his cooking and everybody went back to doing their own thing. Luffy himself joined in with where Ussop was telling Chopper of the time he once saved a princess from an evil mastermind with only a pencil and a rubber band.

Brook and Franky walked through the door not a minute afterwards. Franky had a bottle of Cola in his hand as Brook walked swinging his cane in circles around his bony wrist. "Yo!" Franky said casually before he spotted Luffy. "Hey Bro! You made it huh? I was starting to think you'd slept in and wouldn't show up."

"Shishishi. Yeah, I was so late that Nami hit me with a shoe! Shishishi."

"Yohohoho. That sounds rather painful, are you ok Captain?" Brook asked in concern, knowing full well how hard their orange haired negotiator can hit.

"Yeah I'm Ok! I can't be taken out by a shoe! Shishishi" He laughed, shoulders shaking in response.

Ussop approached the three with a worried expression. "Hey, Guys... You might want to er-"

Before anybody even had a chance to blink, all four of the boys were on the floor, Swollen bumps forming on their heads and a shoes besides each one.

"YOU TWO! WHERE DID YOU MORONS GO!" Nami yelled in anger again, livid with her fellow gang members' lack of punctuality.

"Well Miss Nami, You see- We-"

*WHAM* another shoe joined the collection

"I don't want to hear it! Get you sorry butts up! We're leaving right now!"

Ussop let his tears fall freely onto the floor. "Why did I get hit too...?"

"Has everybody got everything? Don't forgot your weapons. We never know what could happen." Nami instructed, taking charge once again of this idiotic group.

Everybody checked they had everything as Sanji approached the straw hatted boy with a small lunch box wrapped in a red cloth.

"Here." He said, "I'm not sure if these assholes will have food or not, and if we're there longer than an hour, then I'm willing to place a bet you'll be hungry."

Luffy stared at the box with stars in his eyes and drool dripping down his chin. He reached out and immediately unwrapped the box, revealing a perfectly made meal, unsurprising from the straw-hats cook. Luffy Reached inside to grab the first thing he saw, before his hand was slapped away.

"Oi!" Sanji snapped. "Don't eat it now! The point is to save it for later!"

Luffy nodded enthusiastically before wrapping the box back up- albeit messier than before- "Thanks Sanji!" He beamed before running off to catch up with the rest who had already started the walk to the meeting place.

Sanji stared at the bubbly moron from the back before taking a drag of his cigarette and sighing with the knowledge that Luffy had absolutely no intention of waiting to eat the food, and that there would be none left by the time they even made it to the meeting.

He chuckled to himself at the predictability and started walking-trying to imagine how this meeting would play out with their captain the way he is.

One thing's for sure, This meeting will be interesting to say the least.