A/N: Thanks for Eyilin always giving reviews to me~ Anyways, there might be some changes in every chapter without you guys knowing, for example: Luffy was 56, then I turned him to 65 later on. Okay that was an example, but I might do it xD Well actually, I already did xD

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece

Last time on Chapter 18...

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.

"Luffy? Alright, this has to be some important thing, you wouldn't call us for no reason, especially if your brother is here-yoi." Marco says with a deadpanned tone, Luffy laughs as he hears the deadpanned tone at the end.

"Damn right I won't, it'd blow my secret! Shishishi!" Luffy says as he hears Marco sigh while he laughs again.

"Wait a minute, I'll take the transponder snail to pops-yoi." Marco says while Luffy hears the footsteps later on.

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"Gurarararara! Brat, why did you wanted to call me? Reports I suppose?" Whitebeard says as he laughs, Luffy swears that he hears Whitebeard drinking rum in the middle of a conversation.

"No, just to irritate you." Luffy sarcastically says as he hears Whitebeard and some laughs at the other side. "And I'm not a brat, I'm in the same age as you!" Luffy added as he hears Whitebeard laugh.

"Gurararara!" Whitebeard laughs as the others followed, after a few minutes Whitebeard turned serious "Enough about that, what do you want to know?" Whitebeard says with a serious tone and expression.

"First, did Thatch got a hold of the Yami-Yami no mi now?" Luffy asks with the same tone and expression as Whitebeard, he would have called Thatch 'Thatchy' if it wasn't an important conversation right now.

"No, not yet. Thatch is on a mission right now though." Whitebeard responds as Luffy took the information on his mind, a tense atmosphere came for a minute.

"Is Ace a commander now?" Luffy asks, excitement completely obvious in his tone. He hears Whitebeard and the others laugh again, the tense atmosphere was gone.

"Yes he is, but he isn't here. We left him and told him he can't join, he's sulking in the corner somewhere right now." Marco answers while Luffy laughs from the answer.

"He'll probably annoy and ask us what was it that he wasn't able to know." Luffy hears Izo say as the others laughed and he hears says some commanders say things in agreement.

"I see…" Luffy says quietly as he remembers an important question "How's Teach doing?" He asks quietly, but everyone heard it. The tense atmosphere was back once again.

"… He's not doing anything that's making us wary of him, for now." Whitebeard says as Luffy nods in acknowledgment.

"That's all I need, for now. my Nakama might ask me what I'm doing right now, I can't let them getting suspicious of me. Bye Giant-ossan, everyone!" Luffy said cheerily as the others said their goodbyes. Luffy placed the handset back to its rightful place, he stood up and stretched as he exercises for a little.

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"Luffy's taking his time in his room." Zoro says as they haven't seen their captain yet.

"He's probably looking around his room, the Captain's room is quite big." Usopp responds as his stomach growls. It's been a long time since they've bid their goodbyes to Kaya and the others in the Syrup Village, they haven't eaten yet. Usopp took a food inside the refrigerator and ate in the table.

"Still… Isn't he taking a look a bit too long? I mean, the Captain's room might be big, but it can't be that big, right?" Nami says in suspicion, Usopp quietly agreed. Nami had another question though.

"Don't get suspicious of Luffy, he might be mysterious sometimes, but he's our Captain. And if he keeps secrets then it's his decision to tell us and knowing Luffy, he only keeps secrets if its necessary." Zoro growls, Nami gulped and nodded as Usopp did the same. After a few minutes, Luffy came, he was massaging his shoulder while exercising his hands next.

"Ah…! I'm hungry… We really need a cook." Luffy says, as usual, he plopped himself on a chair as he went back on massaging his shoulder. Zoro and the two raised an eyebrow on that.

"Why do you keep massaging your shoulder?" Zoro asks, Luffy laughed at the question though, which Nami and Zoro for not getting the answer quickly.

"I'm preparing for another training, you guys need to train." Luffy said as he grins, Nami and Zoro shuddered since they've felt Luffy's training even in just one session, Zoro was quite excited though. Usopp had no absolute idea how scary Luffy's pieces of training are, so he laughed.

"I, the Incredible Usopp, shall join the training! I will show you how incredible I am!" Usopp said as the two looked at him with pity, knowing Usopp would later know how scary of a teacher/trainer Luffy is.

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Usopp now know why Nami and Zoro shuddered when Luffy said to 'train' with him, Luffy didn't give them a break after all the beatings they had from Luffy. Finally, it felt like forever though, Luffy finally gave them a break. "… Luffy's scary…" Usopp kept repeating while on they were on a break, Nami and Zoro had felt pity for Usopp, since he almost looked like he had a trauma of Luffy's pieces of training, which might be possible for him right now. Not like Nami and Zoro could say they weren't having a very hard time on Luffy's training, Nami, Zoro, and Usopp had bruises everywhere because Luffy whacked them while they had to be freakin' blindfolded along the way, and Luffy shooting them with rocks didn't help either. Except, Zoro had the hardest training among the three, which Nami noticed.

"Can I ask a question?" Nami asks as she winced when she felt her bruises quite painfully, Luffy looked at her, Luffy nodded, indicating she can ask. "Why is Zoro's training was the hardest among the three of us?" Nami asked, Usopp turned, quite interested why. Luffy laughs at them, Luffy looked at Zoro and grins, which didn't go unnoticed by all of them. Luffy looked at Zoro's beaten form.

'You guys need to get ready for Paradise And New World…' Luffy thought as he remembers the scenes which made him remember the nightmares. "Zoro's the strongest among the three of you, and he's been following the training I gave him after I met him in his island, It's only natural that I need to make him a harder training than the two of you. After all, he can use Kenbunshoku and Bushoshoku Haki quite fine, he just needs to train more to hone it." Luffy explained which Nami and Zoro got the point, Usopp just felt completely stranded.

"Wait, Haki? What's Haki and what's those Kenbunshoku and Bushoshoku Haki?" Usopp asks as Luffy facepalmed.

'I forgot I haven't told him yet. Luffy thought as he sat "I'm giving extra minutes of break!" Luffy declares, which made Nami and Usopp happy. Zoro just slept. "I'm going to explain Haki to Usopp, you guys can do everything you want." Luffy said as he pulled Usopp, who thought that he can also rest.

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After a day of explaining Haki to Usopp, they all slept except for Luffy who just took a coffee and didn't sleep. And this day was just usual, making the pirate flag again and etc, before Usopp fired a cannon. Well, they were in the lounge and it was peaceful until a shout came. "COME OUT YOU DAMN PIRATES! I'M GONNA SLAUGHTER ALL OF YOU!" A person shouts outside, Usopp dropped his cup as Luffy opened the door and saw Johnny kicking the barrels.

"Hey, what the hell do you think you're just doing?" Luffy says calmly with a grin, but everyone knew underneath it was annoyance and anger.

"Who am I…? I should be asking…" Johnny says as he stares at Luffy "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!" Johnny shouts as he swings his sword to Luffy, Luffy didn't want Going Merry to have a scar yet, so he doesn't dodge, he takes the sword, flips Johnny and plants a foot on Johnny's back to prevent him from going mad any further.

"Calm down, I don't want Going Merry to get wrecked." Luffy says calmly as he watches Johnny struggling.

"SHUT UP! YOU KILLE-" Before Johnny could continue shouting, Zoro went outside, to confirm that he sensed Johnny.

"Huh? Oh, it is you, Johnny! Where's Yosaku? Isn't he with you?" Zoro says, not minding that Luffy was currently trapping Johnny, it was Johnny who started it.

"Z-ZORO-ANIKI!? IS THAT REALLY YOU, ANIKI!?" Johnny shouts in surprise as he rotated his head to be able to see Zoro.

"They know each other…?" Usopp says quietly as he and Nami looked outside in surprise as they heard it.

"Just what's going on?" Nami asks to no one since Usopp didn't know.

"Yosaku is…!" Johnny says with a terrified and sad tone as he looks at Zoro.

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"SICK!?" Usopp and Nami shouts as Yosaku was in front of them, on the ground.

"Yeah… His teeth have begun to fall out, and his old wounds have reopened...!" Johnny pauses as he placed his hand in his head, thinking what happened to make Yosaku in a state like that. "I just don't know what to do anymore. I was trying to at least let him get some rest on top of that rock but…" Johnny pauses "ALL OF A SUDDEN, THIS SHIP FIRED A CANNONBALL AT US!" As Johnny said it, Usopp's eye bulged out and his mouth dropped to the ground.

"I-I'm truly, truly sorry." Usopp says as he bows down while he was crying, Johnny sniffed.

"It's fine, what's done is done…" Johnny pauses as he took a deep breath " If all problems could be solved with a simple apology, there wouldn't be any need for policemen." he let all out as Usopp cries. Luffy sighed, he was casually sitting in a barrel while leaning on the wall with a newspaper on his hands, he could read after all.

"He only has a scurvy, a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes." Luffy says with a deadpan tone as he flipped another page, everyone was looking at him, it was so quiet Luffy had to look at what happened. Nami had widened eyes with her face showing disbelief of how Luffy was able to say things like that, the same goes for Zoro and Usopp. But Johnny saw a hope.

"I-Is there a way to solve it…?" Johnny asks as he looked at Luffy, who placed the newspaper on the other barrel as he looked at Johnny.

"Yep, limes." Luffy says as he grins, Johnny grins while crying after that.

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After Luffy and the others gave limes to Yosaku, which he recovered too fast. Then next Yosaku and Johnny introduced themselves, they told about how they worked with Zoro a long time ago as Bounty Hunters. Yosaku, of course, fainted as blood came in his mouth. They talked about Chefs and stuff, then Johnny raised his hands. "Aniki!" Johnny says as he raises his arms like he was in a school while Zoro looks at him.

"What is it, Johnny?" Zoro asks Johnny as he side-glances at Johnny.

"If you're looking for a cook, I know just the place. Of course, getting one to join you is another matter altogether…" Johnny says as the others looked at him like he gave them the best gifts ever, except for Luffy, who just grinned.

"A restaurant of the seas!?" They all exclaimed, except Luffy, which made them look weirdly at him for a moment.

"That's right, you should be able to reach it from here 2-3 days. But that place is close to the Grand Line so you gotta be careful. Lotta dangerous guys around those parts." Johnny pauses "Even that 'Hawk-Eyed Man', you've been looking for has been sighted there once before." At those words, Zoro widened his eyes as his body was aching for battle. "If it's alright with you, I'll lead the way!" Johnny says as everyone pumped their fists at the air, but Luffy joined this time.

"ALRIGHT!" Everyone shouted in excitement, but somewhere deep in Luffy's heart… He was still remembering the dark memories, and he wasn't ready for another scene where Zoro almost died.

A/N: Okay this is what you've been waiting for Mitsuki! Woooo!