A/N: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece
Last time on Chapter 9...
"Bye! Bye Tom-san! Bye Iceburg-ossan! Bye Franky! Bye Kokoro-bacchan!" Luffy shouts as they sailed, the others left things like 'I'M NOT THAT OLD!' and stuff like that, Luffy was going to miss them… "Off to East Blue!" Luffy shouts as he grinned.
"This is Ace. Ace, meet Cora-san and Tor-" Luffy gets cut off by Law yet he still grins.
"Law." Law says while glaring at the two, he can't help it, it's been a habit for him.
"-ao. Sabo, this is Cora-san and Tor-" Luffy ignores Law and he still continues while Law's eyebrow twitches in annoyance.
"Law." Law says again while Ace and Sabo kept quiet, Ace glaring at the two while Sabo looks at the two.
"-ao." Luffy says again while Law twitches his eyebrow in annoyance again but only sighs. After that was silence and cricket sounds in the background. Ace, of course, being hotheaded out of all of them, snapped.
"WHY DID YOU BROUGHT PEOPLE WITH YOU!? WHAT IF THEY DID SOMETHING TO YOU OR-" Ace gets cut off by Luffy's blank face.
"I saved them from dying." Luffy says nonchalantly while Sabo was wide-eyed along with Ace.
"You? Of all people? You can't even punch properly!" Ace says mockingly while Corazon and Law were confused, Law wanted to talk but Luffy didn't allow him to.
"Shishishi, I just helped them escape from bandits! When they were out of sight I just helped them along the way! You can't believe what happened through all these 3 months!" Luffy says cheerily while Corazon and Law were more confused, before Law frowned and whispered to Corazon.
"Go along the flow, there's something wrong." Law whispers to Corazon, who just nodded before lighting his cigarette.
"What happened? WHAT HAPPENED!? I BET YOU HAD TO MAKE THEM HELP YOU TO NOT GET EATEN OR BEATEN UP BY PEOPLE! AND YOU SAILED FOR A VACATION!? YOU'RE LUCKY THE SEA LORD OF THE COAST DIDN'T EAT YOU!" Ace shouts while Corazon and Law sweatdropped, they were thinking the opposite thing that Ace just said "AND WE WERE SO WORRIED WE COULD HAVE SAILED ON OUR OWN JUST TO FIND YOU! WHAT IF A PEDOPHILE CAUGHT YOU OR SOMEONE TRIED TO BUY YOU OFF!?" Okay, Luffy was sure Ace's brother complex just got upgraded.
"But the two helped me, so they're our friends from now on!" Luffy says while Sabo and Ace looked at Corazon and Law suspiciously.
"You wouldn't have helped Luffy if you had no intentions." Ace says warily while Corazon's eye widens. He was about to say something, but Law cut him off.
"We simply did it as thanks to Luffy, we're eternally grateful for what he did." Law says while Luffy grinned wider as he saw Law going with it, which didn't go unnoticed by all of them.
"I see… Thanks for helping Luffy live through all of it, but we can't help you guys anymore." Sabo says with a cold tone, which made Luffy frown.
"Let's make a secret base then, we'd need it in the future anyway…" Luffy says with a pout, which made the two change their minds.
"… Fine…" Ace says quietly with a blush before going to the bandit's hut.
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Luffy's soon to be brothers, Law and Corazon was wide-eyed, they never knew Luffy was so good at building things. "Luffy, I never knew you were good at building things…" Sabo says as Ace nods in agreement, Luffy was expertly hammering a nail as if he did it for thousands of times.
"Really? Shishishishi, I guess I'm a prodigy in it!" Luffy says cheerfully, yet in the back of his head, he was remembering some things.
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Luffy looked at the burned down Thousand Sunny. "I'll make sure I can make a great boat using your things, Sunny…" Luffy said as he silently cried at the Thousand Sunny as he was touching it, he lost all his Nakama after all...
PRESENT
'I always use it in traveling, Franky would have been so proud of me if he saw this…' Luffy says in his thoughts as he was unconsciously creating the base, the brothers helped him ( of course Corazon and Law also did ) make the base.
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"Shishishi! We made our secret base! It's soooo cool!" Luffy shouts childishly while he was inside the base, Corazon and Law sweatdropped when Luffy climbed like a monkey.
"We could use this to hide on Shitty Gramps too." Ace says as the soon-to-be-brothers shivered, even Luffy was in the future, he still can remember the trauma his Gramps gave him like it was yesterday.
"Shitty Gramps?" Corazon asks while frowning, kids shouldn't know foul languages, for his case though.
"Shitty Gramps is Shitty Gramps." Luffy says while he was shivering, Sabo was in the corner saying rainbow of curses while shivering.
"Ok…?" Corazon says awkwardly as they slept in the new base. Little did they know that the kid's ( or adult for Luffy's case..? ) worst nightmare was about to become theirs.
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"SHITTY GRAMPS ALERT!" Ace yells as he ran with the speed Corazon and Law didn't know of, considering they didn't know this Shitty Gramps.
"Grampa!?" Luffy says in disbelief as he chokes on his meat while at the base, Sabo shivered and searched for a hiding place while Ace was turning blue of imagining in meeting his Gramps. Law and Corazon tilted their heads in confusion.
"Why are you so scared of your Grandfather, does he abuse you in some way?" Law asks while Ace looks at him like he has two heads.
"Somehow? SOMEHOW!? IT'S NOT 'SOMEHOW'! THAT SHITTY GRAMPS ABUSE US WITH HIM AND HIS FIST OF LOVE!" Ace yells in anger while he was imagining the bad scenes that could happen, Luffy was shivering in fear but wasn't hiding.
"He could find us here, even if we built our base… Gramps has a great sense of sensing us…" Luffy says he was turning blue of what was about to happen, Sabo and Ace nodded even though they don't know haki ( but they know what Luffy meant about their Gramps having a great sense of sensing them ).
"What should we-" Sabo was cut off by their Grampa.
"YOUR GRANDPA IS HERE!" Garp yells while Ace, Sabo, and Luffy immediately ended their conversation both paled as white as a sheet. Their ' Shitty Gramps ' climbed with a devilish grin. "Did you miss- Huh? Corazon?" All of them looks at Corazon, who had his eyes wide open and his cigarette fell to the floor.
"Ga-Garp-san!?" Corazon says in disbelief while Luffy exhaled for a minute before calming, Luffy knew about it. Considering his Grandpa was kind, he has a chance to be accepted by Grandpa.
"What are you doing here?" Garp asks the stunned Corazon, Garp didn't think that he would find the long-lost Corazon.
"Do you know each other?" Law asks Corazon while Garp sighs and grins at them.
"Kids, go hunt somewhere. Me and this guy need to talk, okay?" Garp says as Luffy looks blankly at Garp, Luffy sighed for a second and grins at him.
"Let's go, guys! Croco~dile~!" Luffy says as he runs to outside, laughing, being the overprotective soon-to-be-brothers the three are, ( yes, I included Law ) they quickly followed Luffy.
'This is the weakest sea of the four blues... Speaking of the weakest, was Luffy born from here? He's too strong, and he's hiding it. Why?' Law says in his thought as he runs towards Luffy, his overprotective mode running wild.
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Law sweatdropped 'Luffy-ya is quite good at acting…' Law says in his thoughts as he saw what happened in this past hours, only what he saw was: Luffy getting eaten, getting beaten by his brothers in 100 fights and pretending to get hurt ( which didn't go unnoticed by Law's sharp eyes ), Luffy acting like an idiot, etc… Law sighed. "Luffy-ya, can I talk to you?" Luffy looks at Law and tilted his head in confusion, at the same time he didn't miss the wary and guarded looks that Ace and Sabo gave at him.
"Okay!" Luffy says cheerfully as he let Law drag him and give his soon-to-be-brothers 'don't-follow-us' look, which got a response by groans and glares at him. After Law got Luffy and dragged him into a place where no one could hear what they're saying.
"Luffy-ya, why are you hiding your true strength to them? It's not like it's forbidden or something, right?" Law asks while Luffy just laughs and shakes his head which made Law more confused.
"Keep this a secret, and it's a secret! Shishishi." Luffy says while leaving a confused Law, Luffy grinned at his thought 'Torao will know someday!'
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After that, Luffy and the others came back to the base. What they saw was Luffy's Grandpa or ' Shitty Gramps ' with Corazon, drinking sake and laughing. Luffy wasn't a bit surprised, knowing Garp was kind. Luffy grins and surprisingly hugged his Grandpa, which surprised Ace and Sabo mostly as Law and Corazon was shocked too. Luffy hugged his Grandpa like he wouldn't be able to see him again, which of course shocked his Grandpa. Garp looked surprised at his little grandson's action, Luffy never did that to him. "Shishishi, Grampa! I love you!" Luffy said while grinning at Garp, while Sabo and Ace had their jaws dropped.
"LUFFY MUST HAVE BROKEN HIS HEAD WHEN HE GOT EATEN!" Ace yells while Sabo turned blue. "DID SHITTY GRAMPS DID SOMETHING TO LUFFY!?" Luffy never said that to his Grampa, well only this time. Luffy still remembered it like it was Ace's death…
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"Grampa… Why did you have to leave us… Me and Sabo will be alone, you know?" The Pirate King says as tears were streaming at his face, there he stood, in Garp's headstone. Luffy's memories of his Grampa was flashing through his mind, Luffy smiled. Now that he remembered, his Grampa only did was train him even with abuse, but still care for him and telling him not to go on the wrong path… If only he was able to show more affection...
"Come on, Luffy… We need to go, Marines might come back here any time now…" Sabo says with his eyes shadowed, but he still can see the tear stains at Sabo's face. Luffy didn't want to go anytime now, but at the same time, he needs to.
PRESENT
Garp was at lost, he never heard Luffy say that to him… His eyes suddenly showed affection and he was grinning happily, but Garp was so happy at Luffy saying that he can't help have tears in his eyes. "Bwahahaha, what made you say that to me?" Garp asks with affection, which undoubtedly shocked all of them ( except for Luffy ). Luffy burrowed deeper in Garp's chest and repeating 'I love you' to Garp who was grinning at Luffy while crying a little because this was a precious moment for him. While Luffy was extremely happy, to say something like that to his Grampa made him soo happy! He felt so satisfied, he felt so relaxed at Garp hugging him and grinning at him. If he had shown this a long time ago… Would Garp also hug him…? Even after being The Pirate King? After rebelling in the World Government..? Luffy's heart clutched at the thought, but for now… He'd enjoy this moment. Luffy would repeat 'I love you' to his Grampa as many times as he can because there'll be a time he won't be able to do it anymore… Luffy hugged his Grampa tighter before looking at him.
"Grampa… I might not become a marine, but I'll always love you! Even if the World Government becomes corrupt! I'll never replace my Grampa to another Grampa!" Luffy says as he was grinning, 'Even though it already is corrupted… But you're different!' he'd accept the Fist Of Love. Luffy burrowed his head at Garp's chest, preparing for Garp's Fist Of Love…
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Ace and Sabo widened their eyes and ran towards Luffy to protect him from the Fist Of Love.
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"I won't replace my grandsons too… But you should become a Marine! I don't like having my grandsons get the wrong path! I'd hate to see my grandsons getting hurt! I love my grandsons anyway!" Garp says while patting Luffy, who was shocked, in the head. Ace and Sabo stopped and slightly blushed at hearing 'I love my grandsons' from Garp who was laughing at their reactions. Law and Corazon looked at the touching scene, smiling.
Luffy never heard 'should' from his Grampa, especially in saying that they will be marines, no matter what. It's usually 'will' or 'never be a pirate' but Luffy never heard his Grampa say that word in a pleading manner… Luffy grinned and released his hug at Garp. Instead, he took Sabo, Law, Ace, and Corazon's hand and made it turn into a group hug. "Shishishi" Luffy laughs when Ace incredibly blushes. ( as Sabo wasn't better and Corazon and Law was only blushing a little from the sudden contact )
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For the first time, Garp patted Ace, Sabo, Law and Luffy's hair ( while ruffling Luffy's at the process ) and didn't give them a First Of Love, instead, it was patting their hair, ( ruffling for Luffy also ) and a grin from Garp. All of them ( except Luffy, Law, and Corazon ) thought it was a miracle. " How were you able to do that? " Ace asks while Luffy tilts his head in confusion.
"Do what?" Luffy asks while he stops waving at Garp, who was already in the distance.
"Tricking Shitty Gramps and not making him give his Fist Of Love?" Ace says while Law and Corazon widened their eyes, tricking their Grandfather and giving him false love was cruel, but it was stomped flat by Luffy's word.
"I never tricked Grampa… I've wanted to say it to him, there might be a time where I'll never see him again..." Luffy says while he looks grim once again at the last sentence as Ace and Sabo was shocked.
"But why? I thought you said you hated Shitty Gramps!" Ace says in disbelief as Sabo followed by nodding in agreement.
"Shishishi, I love Grampa! He might abuse us in training, but he loves us too! He never wanted to let us be a pirate because he never wanted us to go on the bad path, but I will still achieve my dream!" Luffy explains while Ace and Sabo had their eyes and mouth wide open at Luffy's words, it felt so honest and so… filled with Happiness and affectionate that it almost made Ace and Sabo think twice of hating their Shitty Gramps… "Now then… LET'S EAT!" Luffy shouts as he runs in the forest, which made Ace and Sabo's face go terrified of the thought of Luffy being eaten and they quickly ran, following Luffy. Law and Corazon smiled and followed the three soon-to-be-brothers.
A/N: Annddd… Sorry for the wait! It took a long time! I had my schools and stuff soo… Yeah! I'm still working on the second story I created, maybe it'll show up later and sooner or something… Yeah, don't hope too much I tend to forget things easily xD maybe I have an Alzheimer or something xDD Sorry if its bad, I rushed since I had to fix the second story.