A/N: Oda-san owns One Piece!
Last time in Chapter 1...
"Tell me which time you want to be at." Roger asks at Luffy, looked at Gol, he took a glance at the whirlpool before grinning.
"The time where Shanks came to our village!" Luffy says with a gleeful tone. Gol nods as he went out of the way to let Luffy go to the whirlpool in front of him.
'Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook, and Jimbei...Ace... Everyone...! I'm coming, I'll promise you all that I'll save you all again!' Luffy runs to the whirlpool and stopped at the final step and turned to Roger
"Shishishi! Thank you! Roger!" Roger grinned and Luffy jumped at the whirlpool. The moment he jumped into the water, he couldn't breathe! Then he lost all consciousness.
He couldn't breathe, then somehow he was completely normal now. He opened his eyes and then every scene changed. First, he was at Raftel, then now here he is, 6 years old, currently with Shanks. The bandit didn't come yet, and somehow he had a tingling sensation at the side of his eye.
"You can't handle being a pirate!" Shanks shout as Luffy got confused, then he thought about it for a minute.. 'Ohhhh…' It was the time where he stabbed himself. In the eye. "Not being able to swim is a pirate's greatest weakness!" Luffy decided to go along with it since he was more matured and smarter than he was when he was a kid.
"Besides, my fighting is pretty good too!" Luffy says as needed to remember every bit of words. "As long as I stay on the ship, I'll be fine!" 'What did I said before after this? Ummm..' "I've rigorously trained before!" Luffy shouts as he raises his hands, punching in the air as he remembered on his timeline, "My punch is as strong as pistol fire! "
Shanks laid down on the counter with his palms supporting his head's weight with a bored expression. "Pistol? Wow…. Really?" Shanks says a disbelieving tone while Luffy knew this was past, he can't help but get angry at that.
"WHAT KIND OF TONE IS THAT!?" Luffy yells in anger yet kept his composure calm, he can't afford to let things mess up. Then the pirates suddenly joined the conversation.
"Luffy! You seem unhappy!"
"Be happy to face anything!"
"Yeah! A pirate's life is great!"
"The sea is so wide and deep, you can go to any island and seek adventure!"
"Nothing is greater than freedom!"
Luffy remembered the words like it was yesterday, he can't help but imagine it all and laugh. "Don't give him dumb ideas, guys." Shanks says as the others 'boo'-s Shanks.
"But it's the truth isn't? Right?" Lucky Roo asked while a pirate answered 'Right!'
"Captain, why don't you take him with us one time? It's not a big deal!" Someone asks Shanks, who looked at him with an unimpressed look.
"Yeah, I agree." Someone agrees on the background, though Luffy keeps quiet. Knowing how dangerous it would now. Unlike before when he was just so naive.
"Well then, next time one of you get off the ship and let him take your place." Shanks says as the others turned their backs on Luffy.
"We've said enough! Let's drink!" The others says as Luffy mutters 'traitors' but can't help but smile at them.
"The most important thing is that you're still too young, wait at least another 10 years and I'll reconsider taking you out to sea." Shanks says as Luffy mutters again but didn't let anyone hear it if they heard what he said 'That'd be when I'll sail out to sea...' people will get suspicious of him. Luffy remembers what he took from Shanks', his arm. He won't make that mistake ever, again. Luffy somehow made a sad face for a moment but Shanks caught a glimpse of it.
"Don't be sad. Here, drink some juice." Shanks thought Luffy would fall for it, well that isn't gonna happen, anymore. Luffy smirked.
"A man doesn't drink juice, Shanks." Luffy says with a smug tone. The bar went silent for a moment, then Lucky Roo suddenly shouted stood up.
"EVERYONE! LUFFY JUST GOT SMARTER!" Lucky Roo yells as all of them cheered in happiness, Luffy was quite offended but brushed it off.
"Luffy, would you like to eat something?" Makino, the bar owner, asks Luffy, who from the moment he heard 'Food' which is a magical word for him, he thought of meat. And secretly, the rums.
"Ok! I'll pay you with my treasure tab!" Luffy says while grinning as he puts his weight on his right arm, and putting his right arm on the table.
"What treasure? You're lying again." Shanks says as Luffy makes a sharp turn to Shanks, he felt incredibly offended by that.
"I'll pay her once I become the pirate king, and return here!" Luffy says angrily as he huffs.
Makino giggles, "I'll be waiting!" She says while smiling at Luffy.
"EXCUSE ME!" A familiar voice was heard when the door banged, Luffy unconsciously growled and a little haki came out and he curses himself for it, Shanks and the others felt it, but shrugged it off, thinking it was one of their nakama.
"Hehe, So this is what pirates look like, Huh? This is the first time I've seen pirates. They look pretty dumb to me." The person, or Higuma says and as much as Luffy wanted to punch his face now, he'd be patient, but patience was never one of his favorites, yet Luffy continued to eat.
Higuma is a tall, dark-skinned man with black hair, a black goatee, and an X-shaped scar above his right eye. He wore a long red coat over a white shirt, black trousers, and a golden necklace.
Higuma goes in front of the counter, facing Makino, who looked troubled. "We are bandits, We're not here to cause any trouble. We just wanna buy 10 barrels of sake." Makino's sweat was visibly being seen.
"I'm so sorry, but we are out of sake." Makino says as she stiffens, Higuma looks at the pirates, or rather, what the pirates were holding right now.
"Oh? That's strange, then what are they drinking? Is it water?" Higuma asks as Makino makes a nervous smile.
"It's sake, but that's all we have." Makino says as Shanks smiles at the bandit good-heartedly.
"I'm sorry, looks like we've finished all the sake here, sorry about that." Shanks says as he held out a sake. "Here, if you don't mind. Take the last bottle." Higuma looked for a minute then shattered the bottle in Shanks' face, causing everyone to react. Luffy eyed him, he was about to make sure Higuma gets it later, hard.
"Just who do you think I am? Don't take me so lightly. One bottle is not enough!" Higuma yells at Shanks, who's eyes is covered by his hat.
"Oh no, the floor is all wet." Shanks says as he looks at the floor, which was wet. Higuma took out a wanted poster that was hidden in his red coat.
"See this? My head is worth 8 million beli, I'm one of the prime fugitives here. And I've killed 56 people before you cocky bastard." Higumo says with a dark expression, Luffy just closed his eyes, if he was about to see the guy, he'd pummel him to death. Though he sees the chest that held his devil fruit.
'Gomu-Gomu no mi!' Luffy says in his thoughts while he took and ate the devil fruit, silently coughing of the taste.
"Now that you know who I am, don't mess with us again. After all, mountain bandits and pirates don't mingle very well." Higuma says smugly while Shanks ignored this and took a large chunk of shard at the broken bottle while picking the rest.
"Sorry about that Makino, do you have a mop?" Shanks asks as Makino flinches.
"Ah... It's alright, I'll clean it up!" Makino says as she goes to the other room to get a mop. Higuma took his saber in his hands and shattered the rest, Shanks fell down, completely wet. Luffy was sure veins visibly came out in his face. He didn't even try dodging this time as he felt the wetness on his side.
"Well, it seems like you really enjoy cleaning, now you can do more." Higuma says in hidden anger. After that, the bandits walked towards the door and said something that made Luffy used all of his will to stop him from torturing the guy to death. "Later, you bunch of chickens." after that the bandits left.
Makino kneeled down to Shanks, "Are you alright captain?! Did you get hurt?" Makino asks as Luffy watches the whole thing with bored eyes.
"No, I'm fine." Shanks answers as he raises his hands, indicating to stop.
"AHAHAHAHA! Our captain looked silly!" The others laugh at Shanks' current state, ignoring the fact someone just humiliated him.
"He fixed you up good, captain!" One shouts in laughter, Luffy and Shanks just laughed too.
"Enjoyed the bath?" Luffy says as he teases Shanks, who laughed off the joke, suddenly a yell resonated in the bar that made them quiet.
"AAAHHH! CAPTAIN! THE DEVIL FRUIT! IT'S GONE!" Lucky Roo yells as his captain panics, Luffy decided to tell them, it was going to show up later on.
"Oh? That fruit? It was disgusting." All of them looks at Luffy like he had two heads, Lucky drew a fruit which resembled his Gomu-Gomu no Mi.
"LUFFY, DID YOU EAT THIS...?" Lucky asked while half-ly shouted at Luffy.
"Yeah." Luffy calmly replies while Shanks places his hands on Luffy's shoulder while sweats were dropping visibly.
"THAT'S THE FRUIT OF RUBBER! IT'S ONE OF THE FRUITS OF THE DEVIL AND ON THE RAREST TREASURES AT SEA! WHOEVER EATS IT WILL TURN INTO A RUBBER MAN AND WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SWIM!" Shanks yells while Luffy had a blank look.
"Cool." Luffy says calmly, leaving all the others shocked by the response.
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The next day, where everyone knew of his devil fruit powers, he went out and usual with the Mayor's scolding, he plugged his ears, not wanting to hear any of it. It's been a long time since Luffy had seen the pirates, now he's at PARTYS BAR with Makino, cleaning the glasses and things. "The pirates have been out at sea for a long time. Do you miss them, Luffy?" Makino asks as Luffy grins.
"Nah." Luffy says while Makino was quite surprised by the response. Suddenly a familiar-oh-so-the-person-Luffy-wanted-to-kill guy went in.
"Excuse me." Higuma says while he was with his 'friends'. "Well, looks like the pirates aren't here today, it sure is quiet. We're back again." As the others sat on the chairs, Higuma yelled at Makino. "What are you waiting for!? We're customers! BRING US SOME SAKE!" Luffy, again, grew a throbbing vein in his head.
'Just a little more, just enough proof then I'll be able to kick him out of the world... Slowly… Patience..." Luffy thought of it like a mantra.
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"CHIEF, HURRY! SOMETHING BAD HAS HAPPENED!" Makino yells as she came rushing at the Mayor's house, the Mayor, Woop Slap, turns to Makino.
"What's wrong, Makino? What's all this fuss about?" Woop Slap asks as Makino pants heavily.
"Luffy... Luffy was… KIDNAPPED BY THE BANDITS!" Makino yells with a horrified face.
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The people were forming at the place where Luffy tortured Higuma, like he said. Hard. Mayor and Makino came with troubled and worried faces. "What happened!?" Woop Slap asks, not knowing things yet. Then Makino and Mayor gasped, Higuma was tied up and beaten up, his arms and legs were bent, the fingers were being snapped at Luffy who was happily and sadistically sitting at Higuma's body. "W-what..?"
"Looks like you got your proof at your fist being strong as a pistol!" Shanks says while Luffy smirks in satisfaction as he held 2 fingers.
"1st. They harassed Makino-" Luffy says as he leaves the last finger "-2nd. They mocked you guys." And the pirates laughed, leaving the confused villagers.
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"You're really leaving this time?" Luffy asks Shanks, but he knew better, he knew the truth.
"Yep, we've stayed here long enough. It's about time we moved on, are you upset?" Shanks says as he attempts to at least tease Luffy.
"No! Not at all!" Luffy says with a gleeful tone and a grin. Shanks comically fell to the ground, making the others laugh. "One day I'll find myself a crew that is as strong as yours! And then I'll find the world's biggest treasure! " 'Even though I'll already found it!' Luffy thought "AND BECOME THE KING OF PIRATES!" 'I already am!' Luffy snickered at the thought.
"Oh...! So you want to be bigger than us, huh? Well then..." Shanks says as he reaches for his hat Luffy already knew what was going to happen, Shanks was going to pass his hat, but... "This hat, is my gift to you..."
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"This is my favorite hat, you know. When you become a great man in the future, you'll return that hat to me." Shanks says as he was about to go, but Luffy ran to him with a grin.
"Shanks! Before I forget!" Luffy says as he takes out an envelope and gave it to the confused Shanks, Luffy grins. "Read it out loud with your trusted people, keep it a secret! Shishishi~" Shanks was confused but still nodded.
"Pull up the anchor! Set sail!" Shanks orders as Ben was waiting for him.
"The kid's gonna be big someday." Benn says calmly to Shanks while smiling.
"I know, he reminds me of my early years." Shanks says, returning the smile and passing Ben. As they were out of the sight, Shanks' took out the envelope that Luffy gave which confused the others. "Benn, Lucky, and everyone! Luffy gave me an envelope and said to read it out loud with my trusted people!" All of that caught everyone's attention and formed a circle, Shanks took out the note and read it out loud :
"Dear Shanks,
When you read this you're probably out in the sea now, my secret is that I'm from the future! From my first timeline you lost your arm, so I thought it'd be fair to share you some of my info, Shishishi~ anyways, I'm sorry but I secretly came to your ship and wrote down your den-den mushi number, I'd need it, I'd also need your help from the future. It's to prevent something bad happening… Anyways tell me Giant-ossan's ( Whitebeard if you don't know ) den-den-mushi number, you can tell him I'm from the future and also let him read this note, and I wrote down his own note down, anyways. To make sure, just believe in me... I lost many important things on my first timeline, but now I'm here to change it all, also. You'd need to practice your haki and stuff like that for the future, you've gone too rusty old man. – Luffy
P.S Don't read the ones for Giant-ossan's"
Shanks finished as everyone was deadly quiet and frozen at their spot. Until chaos came.
"LUFFY! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?"
"HE'S FROM THE FUTURE!? HOW ARE WE SUPPOSE TO BELIEVE THAT?!"
"AND HE CALLED WHITEBEARD, 'Gian't-ossan'!"
"Quiet!" Shanks shouts as everyone looks at him "For now we have to believe Luffy, and hopefully get some answers if he calls." Everyone agrees, it was a long day for the Red-Haired Pirates.
A/N: Phew, I reached over what? 2,378 words? Anyways, please tell me some mistakes! Maybe I can reach 5,000! Nah maybe not…