A/N: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece

Last time in Chapter 3...

Luffy always looks after the hut, when he has the time he looks after the Foosha village. Why? Because a long time ago when he was the Pirate King, Arrogant marines came and destroyed the whole island, leaving the nobles to escape and took the places where Luffy cherished and protected the most, after that Luffy heard the news and came, Luffy saw Makino dead in the Partys Bar, on the ground. Each of them dead and when he came to the hut all of them were dead. The marines said that pirates came and lost everything he had... 'This time I won't lose everyone, I won't let anyone kill the people I love… I won't let them do it... I came here to protect them, and I won't let them do whatever they please... This time, this time I'm going to protect them and won't let them die…' Luffy's memories of everyone dying flashes at his eyes, a single tear came out which didn't come unnoticed to Ace who was looking at him.

Ace and Sabo ran as fast as they could, sweats forming on their face as they tighten their grip on their pipe, it's been evening and they had to save Luffy.

FLASHBACK

"I wonder how much it takes to buy a pirate ship…" Sabo asks Ace who looked at their pirate fund and looks at Sabo back.

"Dunno, ten million or a hundred million beli? We've still got a long way to go." Ace responds as pauses for a second. "Shut it quick. Or someone might see it…" suddenly Luffy came behind the tree.

"A pirate ship!? Are you guys gonna be pirates!? So am I!" Luffy says, as always, gleefully. Sabo and Ace look at Luffy with a stunned and horrified face, the two jumped and quickly roped Luffy at the tree. "Ace, you come out here every day?" Luffy asks at Ace, grinning.

"Shut it" Ace coldly says as he crosses his arms.

"Is this that Luffy guy you told me?" Sabo asks Ace as Luffy turns to Sabo with his eyebrow raised.

"What did he told you about me?" Luffy asks as Sabo looks at Luffy.

"He said you were weird, and you don't sleep." Sabo responds while Ace glares at Sabo who look confused giving him 'what-did-I-do' look, Luffy made a blank face yet his eyes wide, which took the attention of the two but Luffy quickly grinned and looked at them.

"Let's kill him." Ace says casually while and Sabo looks at him

"Yeah, let's do it." Sabo says as he nods. Luffy only sighed at their naiveness

"Do you know what happens when you kill?" Luffy says while the two looked at Luffy, before Luffy could've talked, Ace glares at Luffy.

"Shut up! What do you know about us anyway!? We're not the same at you!" Ace yells in anger while Sabo tried calming him down.

"We might be different in many ways, but we have some similarities." Luffy says painfully while the two was confused but then they heard in the bush a voice.

"I heard voices from the forest! Sounds like kids…" An unknown person shouts and Sabo and Ace tensed.

"Crap! Someone's coming!" Sabo whispers as Ace looked behind him with a panicked face.

"Quick, undo the rope! If we don't get out of here, they're gonna find out treasure!" Ace whispers and they immediately hid behind the bush, it showed a big man and two men on his side.

"Those kids are pretty famous around here. It was definitely Ace that stole your money!" The big man says while the man that Ace robbed was behind him, ace stiffened.

"Yes… it was pathetic, but I was careless." The guy Ace robbed says sheepishly.

"I'm amazed this kid was brave enough to go after our pirate crew's money! If captain Bluejam hears about this… We're both dead." The big guy says while Sabo and Ace were visibly sweating.

"Crap, that guy was with Bluejam? This is bad, we stole from him!" Ace whispered to Sabo while still looking at the three bandits.

"He's got a real sword! That's one of the subordinates, Porshemi. He's crazy, you know!? He scalps his opponents while they're still alive!" Sabo says as Ace looks at Sabo like he had two heads, then Ace remembers something.

"Ah!" Ace widens his eyes and looks at the side, only to see Luffy gone.

"Huh? Where is he?" Sabo asks while panicking, suddenly they heard Luffy with Porshemi.

"Lemme go! Bastard!" Luffy shouts with no tone and a bored face. And let's say… Think about what happened next why they were searching for Luffy.

PRESENT

Luffy wasn't having any problems, he still had his Busoshoku Haki on his side, so he wasn't bleeding or even injured.

"How the hell are you not injured!?" Porshemi yells in anger while Luffy huffs.

"I won't say it! If you're bad then why would I even say it, jerks!" Luffy says angrily while Porshemi grew a throbbing vein in his head.

"Fine, then it's time to die!" Porshemi says as he draws his sword and attempts to slash Luffy's neck, a little bit more and it could have killed him.

Keyword: Could have

On the side of Luffy, the wall broke revealing Ace and Sabo with their pipes. "STOP IT! " Sabo and Ace yells while Luffy grins at them.

"It's about time you showed up!" Luffy yells in anger and huffs '... Well, at least they showed up.' Sabo and Ace took their time in beating them then Sabo finally takes off Luffy's rope and then realized something.

"Why aren't you injured?" Sabo asks in pure curiosity and surprise while Luffy shows his blank face.

"Dunno, strong skin?" Luffy responds blankly as Sabo takes Luffy and was about to run away, but then Ace was still on his stance, ready to fight them.

"LET'S GET OUT OF HERE, ACE!" Sabo yells yet Ace stays at his position, waiting for the bandits to get up and fight him.

"I'm not going to run away!" Ace yells back and Sabo looked at Ace as if he was crazy.

"ARE YOU AN IDIOT!?" Sabo yells, once again as Ace had a determined face as he looked at the enemies in front of him.

"IF I FACE A GUY, I WON'T RUN AWAY!" Ace yells while Sabo was about to protest, but then Luffy laughed.

"He's a good idiot." Luffy says as he stands up and takes a pipe near him and went in Ace's side, also going to a stance.

"Wha-!?" Ace says in surprise while Luffy just laughs at Ace's face

"I'm just giving you guys a help." Luffy says while grinning, Ace looks at him for a moment then smirked.

"Fine, but don't blame us if you get killed." Ace says while turning to the enemies. Luffy laughed as he took his stance. Sabo looked at them wide-eyed, full in disbelief.

"TCH!" Sabo curses as he went with them. Porshemi stood up with his eyes covered in anger.

"Hey… That's a bad decision, you know? Just give us our money back, you rotten kid." Porshemi says while Ace grips his pipe tighter.

"We'll use it better." Ace shoots back while Porshemi grows a throbbing vein as he takes his sword.

"DON'T BE RIDICULOUS!" Porshemi yells in anger while Ace was the first to go run towards him. "IF I LOST TO A KID… I'D QUIT BEING A PIRATE! " Ace wasn't strong enough to deflect the power Porshemi gave so he went crashing down at his back before everyone could see it, Luffy punches Porshemi's hand which was holding the sword, Porshemi cried out in pain and his grip loosed, Luffy the chance to punch Porshemi right in the face.

"GOMU-GOMU NO PISTOL!" Luffy shouts while his he stretches his arm that even normal people can't do. In one punch, Luffy took down Porshemi, without using Haki ( unknown to everyone ), everyone was wide-eyed. Suddenly, Luffy takes Sabo and Ace with him. "Let's go!" Luffy shouts gleefully despite just being released from the torture Porshemi did to him, he laughs and drags them with him.

"That's a bad habit, Ace! You've got to run when you're facing a real pirate! WHY DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH!?" Sabo shouts at Ace, Luffy was at the tree sitting calmly as he was amused by how Sabo was still sane after the years with Ace. After Sabo's lecture, Ace stands up and points at Luffy.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TOLD THEM WHERE THE TREASURE WAS!?" Ace yells as Luffy smiles at Ace.

"Because..." Luffy slowly says while Ace inhales again, Luffy stops, knowing Ace would yell again.

"THOSE GUYS DON'T CARE ABOUT KILLING WOMEN AND CHILDRENS!" Ace yells again. Luffy closes his eye and grins at him.

"Because, if I told them. I wouldn't be your friend anymore." Luffy says calmly while Ace looked at him as if he was crazy.

"EVEN IF I DON'T, IT'S BETTER THAN DYING, ISN'T!? WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE MY FRIEND SO BADLY!?" Ace yells while Luffy keeps his grin. "AFTER WHAT I DID TO YOU, WHY ARE YOU STILL FOLLOWING ME AROUND!?" Luffy's grinned faltered and turn into a sad smile.

"Because I have no one else. I can't go back to the Foosha village, I hate bandits, if I didn't followed you, I would be alone… Feeling alone is worse than being hurt." Luffy says painfully while Ace and Sabo were shocked, Ace calms down and stops pointing at him.

"You're parents?" Ace asks while Luffy looks at him in the eye.

"Only gramps, they're gone." Luffy responds as the two kept the Q&A.

"If I'm around, would it be better?"

"Yeah."

"And if I were gone, would it be worse?"

"Yeah."

"Do you want me to live?" Ace asks as he remembers when he asked people about 'If-Gold-Roger-had-a-son.' question.

"Yeah, Gol D. Ace..." Luffy says as Sabo and Ace looks at Luffy with their eyes widened and their grip on pipes tightened.

"How... How did-" Ace says as he stops when Luffy grins at him with sad eyes

"Everyone has monsters on their heart, parentages don't matter. You're you, did you thought that they would say something good about Gol Roger if they were enemies?" Luffy says as Ace's eyes widened, Luffy jumped out of the tree and walked towards Ace, Ace took a step back. "My father is also called the Most Wanted Man In The World." Sabo's eye widened at the revelation.

"Dragon!? The leader of the revolutionary!?" Sabo yells as he was surprised and stunned. Luffy nodded as Ace's grip loosened a little when he heard it.

"If I were to ask a marine, 'What if Dragon had a son?' they would say bad things." Luffy continues as he points at Ace's heart, "Ask people who knows Gol Roger, and that's when you have to believe what they say. Is he good? Or bad? The people who only knew Roger can say the truth. Ace, everyone has the right to live." Ace was fully shocked that another person could accept him. "There's a lot of people who can accept you than us. Think of Nico Robin, she has a bounty and is on the run, starting from when she was 8 years old." Ace his eyes widens more.

'Someone had a bounty even when they're 8 years old...!?' Ace says in his thoughts as Luffy smiles at him.

"You don't have one. That's why you have to be strong like her, because she has a dream and still has a will to accomplish it. She tries to live, and live. You have to do the same, there's no one who's alone in the world." Luffy says as Ace's wall breaks. "Friends?" Luffy asks Ace and Sabo as he grins at them.

"Hear that, Ace? He accepts you." Sabo says as he already accepted Luffy, and there's no way Ace wouldn't. After all, he already broke his walls.

"F-fine!" Ace says as he stutters in embarrassment. Luffy laughs, and because of that, Ace gets angry and... At least they were friends.

A/N: Well hello guys, I just reach what? 1,698 words? I dunno xD