A/N:

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece

Last time in Chapter 17...

"Maybe I've sailed, maybe I haven't. I'm not answering that second question, maybe I'll say it someday." Luffy says before stopping petting the Sea King 'Speaking of which, I think I can say it considering I've told Grampa I came from the future… Well… That time it was an accident, hope he can keep it well though…' Luffy thought before continuing to pet the Sea king "Putting that aside… I'm hungry…" Luffy says as he stops and looks at the Sea King, thinking of meat. Which he brushed off since the Sea King was his friend. Luffy stands up and takes 5 meat inside a barrel, he can't let the food storage go out easily or he'll die out of starvation.

"You're so secretive, we're a crew, aren't we?" Nami says as she crosses her arms and pouts.

"Well…. Maybe someday I'll tell it, and correction Nami,-" Luffy turns to look at Nami and Zoro while he grins at them. "– Family, not a crew." The two looked surprised before grinning.

"We need to plan things more!" Nami says as Luffy stops petting the Sea King for once and look at her.

"What do you mean?" Luffy asks as confusion was all over his face

"Are we going to the 'Grand Line' like this?" Nami emphasizes 'this' as she looks at Luffy, who was confused at first before laughing.

"Shishishi, foods, ship, or even members aren't a problem! We'll get a ship and our sniper at the next island, we'll just think of the enemies we get later on." Luffy said as he plopped down the side of the boat. 'I also need some reports to know and say to Giant-ossan too…' Luffy thought as he takes off his hat and looks for it for a second before putting it back.

"Okay…?" Nami says awkwardly and was frozen stiff as she sees her captain grinning mischievously.

"We also have to train, since 'Grand Line' is very dangerous for beginners…" Luffy says as he stands up "Time for Haki training!" by this, Zoro stands up as he yawns.

"Finally! I've been waiting for this." Zoro says, the two looked like they were understanding each other, can't say the same for Nami though.

"Wait! Haki? What's 'Haki'?" Nami says as she looks at her captain and Zoro back and forth, Luffy laughs at Nami, which caused Nami to look at Luffy.

"Haki is a mysterious power that is found in every living being in the world. It is not that different from the typical senses. However, most people don't notice it or fail to awaken it. Broadly speaking, there are two types of Haki available to everyone, given the proper training; however, there is a third type that only a certain group of "chosen ones" are said to possess." Luffy pauses as he looks at Nami seriously. "Haki is separated into three categories, or 'colors' : Kenbunshoku Haki, which grants users a sixth sense of the world around them and limited precognitive abilities; Busoshoku Haki, which allows the user to use their spirit as armor to defend against attacks or to make their own attacks more potent; and Haoshoku Haki, a rare type of Haki only one in a million can use which grants the user the ability to overpower the will of others. And I'm going to sharpen your 'colors'" Nami stands up as she was ready to participate. The two didn't notice the mischievous grin from their merciless Captain.

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"Hu hu! It's such a beautiful day…" A slim tan-skinned teenager with medium-length black woolly hair, prominent lips, and a long nose said as he stares at the Sea on a cliff. " There's nothing like starting such a happy and refreshing day by looking at the Sea! " The Long nose says as the birds chirp at the background.

'See you next time, Usopp!' The Long nose, now known as 'Usopp', suddenly remembers a certain Strawhat man. "Why him?" Usopp asks himself before shrugging it off and goes to a quiet village.

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"THIS IS BAD!" Usopp shouts as he runs to a quiet village "WE'RE IN DANGER! THE PIRATES ARE ATTACKING!" He shouts louder than the first. He repeated saying 'The Pirates are coming!' then shouting warnings to the people.

"WHAT!? PIRATES!?" An old man(?) shouts in surprise as he hears the shoutings of Usopp.

"Oh! Usopp is starting to shout again, that means I have to go to work now." An old man says as he casually drinks as he hears 'The Pirates are coming!' outside.

"Not again..." A man says as he looks at a newspaper, still, he was grinning.

" I WAS JUST JOKING…! WAHAHAHAHAHA! " Usopp says as he bursts into laughter, not long before someone throws a frying pan into Usopp's head.

"WHY YOU LITTLE LIAR! I WON'T LET YOU GET AWAY THIS TIME!" An old man says as he had a broom in his hands as a weapon. Usopp looks as everyone goes out of their houses and started chasing him with some kind of weapons on their hands.

"STOP RIGHT THERE! YOU BASTARD!" The people, though mostly old men, shouted as they chase Usopp, who was running for his dear life.

"WA HA HA HA! THEY'RE CHASING ME!" Usopp says the obvious as he had tears coming out of his eyes, though he was grinning.

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"Ah~! Land, I miss this feeling already." Luffy says as he sits in the sand, grinning madly. On the other hand, Nami and Zoro were plopped on the sand, they had bruises, cuts, and injuries everywhere. Unlike Luffy who had no bruises or injuries.

"You… Held… Back…!" Zoro says angrily as he was on his knees, despite what he said, he was angry at himself for being weak and not being able to be strong enough. Nami felt the same thing.

"'Grand Line' is tougher than our training! If you can't handle that much then you won't survive in 'Grand Line'!" Luffy says as he was patting his shorts to take off the dirt. The two was quiet as they kept repeating Luffy's word in their heads, encouraging themselves. It was quiet until a shout of a person came.

"LUFFY!?" A person shouts as they turn to see who shouted it and saw a long-nosed person and three kids at the cliff, his jaws were dropped and his eyes looks like it was ready to fall out of their sockets. The person took a step forward which caused him to fall off the cliff, Nami and Zoro sweatdropped.

"You know him, Luffy?" Zoro asks as he turns to Luffy, who nodded. A few seconds the long-nosed person was up and ran towards Luffy like a madman. Luffy was grinning so Nami and Zoro thought the long-nose wasn't a threat.

"It's been a long time! You've grown so much I can't even reach you anymore! Not like I could even a long time ago... And you've got a crew already!?" The Long Nose shouts in excitement, Luffy grins at the Long Nose.

"Alright, Alright! Calm Down, Usopp! How about we go to 'Meshi' first, eat then introduce to each other? Nami and Zoro might be confused right now." Luffy says as he looks at Nami and Zoro, who had confusion all over their faces. " Yosh! Let's eat! " Luffy added as he pumped his fists in the air. The kids, and the three sweatdropped.

'You only want to eat…' They all thought at the same time.

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"Usopp! Meet Nami-" Luffy gestures over Nami with a bottle of sake that he was drinking, which annoyed Nami "– and Zoro-" Luffy does the same to Zoro, who was also drinking a sake "– Nami is our treasurer and navigator while Zoro is our swordsman!" Luffy ended as Usopp greeted them, which Nami and Zoro did the same.

"I AM YOUR CAPTAIN! CALL ME 'Captain Uso-Ack!" Usopp chokes as Luffy suddenly put Usopp in a headlock, trapping and choking Usopp. Luffy was grinning while he was tightening his headlock on Usopp 'playfully'.

"Oh…? Who gave you the permission to be the Captain, Usopp? Why you, little rascal!" Luffy said as he was headlocking Usopp despite the limited space they had. Usopp was slowly turning into blue as he tried breaking free from Luffy's headlock.

"Going… M-Merr…y…!" Usopp managed to say as Luffy stopped his actions when he understood what Usopp said, after a few minutes of Usopp coughing and slowly turning back to his normal skin color, Usopp had a comical angry expression on him. "WERE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME!?" Usopp says as Luffy laughs, the others sweatdropped at the scene.

"What's the 'Going Merry'?" Nami asks, looking at her captain for information because she has no absolute idea who or what is Going Merry.

"Ah… Going Merry is our ship!" Luffy says gleefully, the others didn't notice sad expression for a second.

"Going Merry is upgraded now!" Usopp says as Luffy raised an eyebrow in surprise.

'Upgraded? I wonder how they upgraded it.' Luffy thought as Usopp seemed proud

"Going Merry has it's own captain room now! The Going Merry is also slightly bigger now and the ship itself is stronger and tougher! That might be the only thing we were able to do because East Blue is weakest of the four blues and we lack great kinds of stuff, unlike the other blues. " Usopp says he looked at the others.

"I didn't know you were the 'Luffy' Captain Usopp said for a long time!" A boy with dark green hair shaped like a pepper, now known as Piiman, says as he looks at Luffy.

"Really?" Luffy asks as he looks at Usopp, who tried shutting Piiman's mouth off, to no avail and he blushes. Luffy and the other laughs.

"I see Usopp admires our captain." Nami says as she snickers at Usopp's face. After a few minutes of teasing Usopp, Usopp goes to the corner and sulk, the others watch it as they laugh.

"Why don't we see Kaya now? It's been a long time since I met her." Luffy says which made everyone turns to face Luffy ( including Usopp ), Luffy grinned as he looks at Usopp, who nodded as if they had a silent conversation.

"Let's go meet Kaya!" Usopp says as he grinned and stood up and led the way to Kaya's mansion.

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"Ah! It's been a long time, Luffy-san. Come in!" Kaya says as she opens the door, Kaya is a slim and pale-skinned girl with blonde hair. She has wide brown eyes, that are of a sort of lighter shade. The others bowed and went it, considering it was a rich girl's mansion.

"It's been a long time, Kaya! Shishishishi" Luffy says as he laughed, Kaya snickered slightly as they sat. Usopp noticed that Nami and Zoro didn't had the chance to introduce themselves.

"This is Nami and Zoro, they're Luffy's Nakama," Usopp says as he gestured over Nami and Zoro, Kaya greeted them as Nami and Zoro did the same.

"This is my butler, Merry." Kaya said as Merry bowed to them, after that it was an uncomfortable silence.

'I need to call Giant-ossan soon… Luffy said as he was quiet, which was rare. The others noticed it when Luffy had a frown on his face. Suddenly Kaya stood up, which stopped Luffy thinking about the problems later on, and he was beginning to be red anyway.

"I guess you want to see Going Merry now, right? It's been upgraded, Usopp-san must have told you." Kaya says as Luffy nods, Luffy stands up as everyone followed.

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Nami and Zoro stared in awe as they see Going Merry. The Going Merry has a jib and a central steer rudder. The ship's armaments consisted of four cannons, one in the bow pointing forward, one in the stern, and two pointing to either side. "A Caravel!" Nami says in delight as Merry coughed to get their attention

"Now… I will explain the steering system." Merry says as he comes to Luffy, Luffy gestured to stop for a minute.

"Nami, come and listen with me. There might be times where I leave and you guys will be alone." Luffy says as Nami looked at him weirdly before nodding then listening to Merry as he gives the instructions.

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After an hour of Merry explaining, it finally stopped. Luffy placed his items on the Captain's room, he was quite amused of the shocked and terrified faces of Kaya, Merry, Usopp and the kids when the Sea King went out of the water, soon after that, they left and so the Sea King, Luffy freed the Sea King. Usopp joined and they also placed their items in their respective rooms, which are the female and male's room. Luffy sighed and plopped himself at the chair, the transponder snail close to him. He dials a familiar number, he waits until someone finally answered.

"Hello? This is Marco The Phoenix, what do you want? " Marco's voice was the cold, firm and authoritative kind of voice, Luffy decided to speak up.

"Shishishishi, It's Luffy, I gotta talk to Giant-ossan." Luffy says cheerily as the transponder snail's eyes widened. It was going to be an important conversation after all.

A/N: Hello guys! Sorry for the late uploadation ( is that a word? Anyways I meant Upload-ing, I don't even know what I'm saying anymore ) So guys you can leave a review if you want! – Mitsu