A/N:

I don't have any beta readers yet. Can anyone recommend me one?

Also, for those who question about Zoro's strength today, it's still quite at a low level, considering he trained in East Blue. East Blue is indeed the weakest sea out of the 4, so the danger level is low. Unlike New World and Grand Line that is harder.

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda Owns One Piece

Last time in Chapter 23...

"A wound on one's back is the shame of a swordsman." Zoro says as Mihawk lightly grinned.

"Splendid." Mihawk says as he cut Zoro's chest. Luffy, despite knowing it would happen, had his eyes wide open, Usopp shouted Zoro's name while Nami fell to the ground and had a terrified face.

Luffy felt like his whole world shattered into pieces as he saw Zoro fall to the ground, lots and lots of blood, like a long time ago… Luffy already knows that he'd snap, and no one needs to tell someone that Luffy is ready to kill, since his face already told so.

"BRO!" Yosaku and Johnny shout, Luffy was quiet. Too quiet. But Usopp and Nami didn't notice it. While Sanji was having a battle in his head, remembering Zoro's words.

"Ever since I've decided to become the World's Greatest Swordsman, I threw my attachment to life." Zoro says as he looks at Sanji.

"IT'S SIMPLE! JUST THROW AWAY THAT AMBITION!" Sanji shouts, despite Zoro was already unconscious. Zoro fell in the water as Yosaku and Johnny went to get Zoro.

"… Nami, Usopp…" Luffy says in a very dangerous tone which made Nami and Usopp turn their head. "Don't get too close to the pirate ship." Nami and Usopp wanted to complain, despite them being one of the people who gets scared at times like this, they wouldn't leave a Nakama behind.

"But-!" Nami pauses as they can feel something dark emitting from Luffy, even if they haven't mastered haki yet, they can already feel that they can't complain, so they slowly nodded and went at the cook's ship.

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Mihawk can already feel a haki, something he's never felt before. "OI…" Mihawk turns his head to see Luffy. Luffy's Haki was dark, strong, nothing he's ever felt before. He felt that he was in front of a King.

"Are you his Cap-!" Before Mihawk could continue, Luffy ran to him with a strong punch. Mihawk could barely keep us with the consecutive hits Luffy was giving, when he took a little peek at Luffy's eyes, he saw darkness. There wasn't a single ounce of light in them.

While Mihawk and Luffy were fighting, everyone could clearly see that Mihawk was having a very hard time, despite their moves looking like the wind. Nami and Usopp were sweating, they didn't think Luffy was this strong. "H-how strong is that man!?" A cook says in fascination and fear if Luffy was a bad person, they would have been done, but he wasn't.

"I knew it… He was hiding that strength…" Zeff slowly says as he was really impressed "But I never thought that he would be this strong." Sanji couldn't take his eye away from the fight. "And he's still hiding more" Zeff added as some cooks looked at him.

"What!? He still has more strength left!?" Usopp says as his eyes widen in surprise, Nami couldn't even speak. Mihawk was clearly being annihilated.

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'He's-' Mihawk thinks as he tries to parry a punch from Luffy '-Still hiding more than this! Mihawk adds as he attempts to parry again. 'How strong is this man!?'

"L-Luffy…" Luffy suddenly stopped and got out from the darkness, he clumsily stopped using Haki and almost tripped on the floor, Mihawk took a step back for a little to avoid the clumsy punch. Luffy took a swift turn where Zoro was. Zoro had his katana straight up, "C…Can you hear me…?" Luffy's eye widens and did a 180° personality change.

"Yeah!" Luffy shouts as he grins, he was really happy to hear Zoro alive. Even if he knew Zoro was alive, he still can't erase those memories.

"Sorry for worrying you… I know…" Zoro chokes out and pauses as Sanji looks at him. "That if I don't become… The World's Strongest Swordsman, it will only embarrass you!" Zoro shouts as he coughs out blood.

"BRO! PLEASE DON'T TALK ANYMORE!" Yosaku shouts as Johnny did the same, but Zoro didn't follow it.

"I SWEAR! THAT I'M NEVER GOING TO LOSE AGAIN!" Zoro yells as he places his hand on his forehead and cries "UNTIL THE DAY I FIGHT HIM AND WIN…" At those words, Mihawk grinned, despite being exhausted. "I SWEAR! TO NEVER LOSE AGAIN!" Zoro repeats and louder. "ANY PROBLEMS, PIRATE KING!?"

Luffy grins, "Shishishishi, Nope!" Luffy says as Mihawk steps up, ready to say something, he already sheathed Yoru.

"It is much too early for you to die. I am Dracule Mihawk! KNOW THY SELF! KNOW THY WORLD! AND BECOME STRONG, RORONOA!" Mihawk shouts as he pauses "No matter how many months or days pass by, I shall stand here at the top of the world and wait for you! SO FORGE ON AHEAD WITH THAT FIERCE CONVICTION AND TRY TO SURPASS MY SWORD!" Luffy sits in the floor with his hat covering his eyes, but he was grinning. "SURPASS ME, RORONOA!"

"To think that Mihawk would say such a thing." Zeff says as his arms were crossed, the cooks were speechless by now.

"What do you aim for?" Mihawk says as he looks at Luffy, who looked at him with a grin.

"To be the Pirate King!" Luffy shouts as Mihawk grins lightly and crosses his arms.

"A tough path indeed. Even tougher than surpassing myself." Mihawk says as Luffy laughs, Luffy stands up and looks at Usopp and Nami, who was worriedly looking at him.

"Nami, Usopp, you two can get a vacation in Nami's village. I bet that you'd love to see your village again." Luffy says as Nami beams and nods. "Take that stupid Zoro, Yosaku, and Johnny too." Luffy adds as he laughs, the five shortly left. "Anyways, I have something to ask you."

Mihawk rises an eyebrow "What would that be?" Luffy grinned.

"You know Red-haired Shanks, right?" Luffy asks as Mihawk nods but rises his eyebrow more. "Tell him that I'll be in Paradise shortly and I'm-" before Luffy could finish, a stupid-wearing-armor-Captain had to cut off Luffy, which was a bad idea.

"Hawk-eyes!" Don Krieg shouts, Luffy and Mihawk looked at him, but Luffy's look was more annoyed. Don Krieg had an irritating grin and had his arms crossed. "Did you come all the way out here for my head? The head of the Infamous Ruler of East Blue, 'Don Krieg'!?" Don Krieg says smugly.

"For a while, yes. But I've had enough fun for today." Mihawk responds while he side-glanced at Luffy in amusement, Luffy was clearly irritated. Seems that they've forgotten how cranky Luffy was, especially of what happened.

"No need to be so curt. You may have had your fun, but I sure haven'-" Before Don Krieg could continue, Luffy cut him off too.

"CAN'T YOU SEE I'M TALKING TO HIM, YOU JERK!? GO AWAY AND LET ME TALK TO HIM!" Luffy shouts as he had a tick mark on his forehead. Don Krieg frowned and got angry.

"WHY YOU…!" Don Krieg shouts as he takes out two pistols and pointed it at Luffy, he continuously shot Luffy until he ran out of ammo.

"I should…" Don Krieg can hear Luffy's voice inside the dust,s "SAY THAT TO YOU, YOU JERK! " Luffy shouts as he comes out of the dust and instantly KOd Don Krieg by a single punch in the gut. Mihawk, who was watching in amusement, saw how cranky Luffy was today.

"I wonder why no one has ever made a bounty of him." Mihawk asks to no one as he sees Luffy ordering the pirates to go somewhere with their captain then a pearl-looking guy tried knocking Luffy, but Luffy only KOd him, they left and Luffy ordered meats from the cooks, which made Mihawk more amused.

"Anyways, tell Shanks that I'll be in Paradise shortly and tell him that I said sorry." Luffy says as Mihawk was interested as ever, but he only nodded.

"Farewell." Mihawk says as he goes into his boat and sails away. When Mihawk wasn't in sight anymore, everything was quiet.

"Now…" Luffy says as he slowly turns to the cooks, who paled. "WHERE'S MY MEAT!?" all the cooks ran to the kitchen to make meat, Zeff and Sanji only sweatdropped at the scene.

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After the fight, Luffy rested in Baratie, some asked about his Nakama, but he shrugged them off and said that they were fine and slept. "Hey… Do you know about All Blue?" Sanji asks Luffy, who was newly awake. Luffy grinned at the question, he knew Sanji would see through his lie though.

"Nope, tell me about it." Luffy tried to lie, but Sanji saw it.

"Liar." Sanji says as the two looked at each other for a second then laughed like idiots, "You've heard about All Blue, so… Do you believe in it?" Sanji hesitantly asks.

"I believe in it, if One Piece is real, how about a miraculous sea?" Luffy joked as Sanji laughed and grinned, the two kept talking about All Blue and some more things.

On top of the balcony, Zeff was resting his head on his palm as he looks at Sanji "Talking with such a stupidly wide grin on your face… Idiot."

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"Hm? Hey, where's our seats?" Sanji asks as when he opens the door.

"Where's the food?" Luffy asks as he had to bow a little to get inside, the cooks didn't even look at them.

"There ain't no chairs for you." One cook says as they didn't even bothered looking at the two.

"Just eat on the floor!" A cook with a scar on the right forehead until the right cheek says as he laughs while eating.

"No chairs!? This is a restaurant, how's that freakin' possible?" Sanji says as he sighs and goes to the corner, with Luffy following him. "Fine, whatever."

"Something's strange about them…" Luffy says but takes lots of meat and rum, Sanji huffs while he gets a food.

"They're always strange." Sanji says. Suddenly, Patty stood up and was holding Sanji's soup.

"Hey, who was in charge, of making this morning's soup!?" Patty asks as Sanji raises his arm like he was in a school with a grin.

"Oh, That'd be me! Pretty good, right? I made it especially g-" Before Sanji could continue, Patty threw the soup down the floor.

"HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO PASS THIS CRAP DOWN MY STOMACH!? WHAT IS THIS, PIG FEED!?" Patty shouts as Sanji makes an angered expression, he stands up, totally angry with Patty.

"Hey. Does proper human food not suit you, you damn raccoon?" Sanji slowly asks, more like a statement. His grin was long gone, replaced with a scowl.

"Ha, this is pure crap of the highest quality, makes me wanna puke! Did you put actual shit in this or what?" Patty says while he makes a thumbs down gesture.

"I'm perfectly confident of my soup. Maybe it's your damn tongue that's-" Carne spits the soup Sanji made before Sanji could continue. The cooks complain one by one.

"No way we can eat this filth, just throw it out!"

"Spit, spit! Eww, terrible! Just terrible!"

Luffy watches the whole scene quietly as Sanji finally snapped "THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE ALL DOING!?"

"You being the assistant head chef was always just a sham! It's only because you've been here the longest!" A cook complains while the others followed again.

"I'm sick of your violent ways!"

"If something tastes bad, then I have the right to say it's bad."

Sanji grits his teeth in anger "What did you…" Another plate was heard broken, Zeff himself broke a plate while Sanji side-ways looked at him. "Geezer…" Sanji says as he had a vein visibly seen in his forehead.

"What's with this disgusting soup? Is it supposed to taste like sludge or what!? We'd go out of business if we served this to the customers!" Zeff shouts as he wiped off the soup in his mouth.

"DON'T JOKE WITH ME, YOU DAMN GEEZER!" Sanji shouts as he grabbed Zeff's collar "HOW'S THIS ANY DIFFERENT FROM THE SOUP YOU MAKE!? WELL!? SPEAK UP!"

"The soup I make…?" Zeff says quietly as he looks at Sanji "DON'T GET COCKY!" Zeff shouts as he punched Sanji.

"The owner… Punched him…!?" Patty and the other cooks says quietly in disbelief. Normally, Zeff wouldn't do that.

"It's a hundred years too early for a Lil' eggplant like you to be comparing my soup with yours! I've cooked all around the world!" Zeff stated as the cooks were still surprised.

"He didn't kick, but punched him instead…!" The cooks says while Sanji and Zeff was having a fight, while staring at each other. At the end, Sanji went out stomping in rage.

"This soup's pretty good if you ask me!" Luffy says as he drinks the soup, the cooks looked like they were able to finally breathe as the tense atmosphere was gone.

"… Yeah, we know." A cook says as he sighs while the others followed.

"Whew, that was scary. He sure was stomping mad."

"Everyone here knows how good Sanji's cooking is."

"But if we didn't do that, that idiot would never listen to us! Hey Strawhat…" Zeff pauses as Luffy already knew he was the one being called so he turned to Zeff, who looked at him. "Would you mind… taking that Lil' eggplant with you? Take him to 'Grand Line'… It's his dream." Zeff says honestly. Little did he know, Sanji was only leaning on the door, listening to everything.

"Jeez, that was more trouble than it was worth, owner Zeff!" A cook says as Sanji lowers his head.

"I can hear you…" Sanji pauses as he listens to the other cooks.

"It was really hard to play along."

"Hey, give me another serving of this soup!"

"Me too!"

"And me!"

"You bastards…" Sanji quietly says as he can hear the other cook's words.

A/N: 'Sup guys! So, I've collected all those who answered, the long chapters won. But I'd like to keep some people like my chapters so I've thought of doing 2000 or 3000 words, maybe even 5000? I might go further than 5000 when I go further in the manga, but I hope you guys wouldn't mind.

And also, I'm so sorry for the short and boring fights. And Luffy had to hold back even if he was snapping, it would destroy Zoro's ambition. I had to join the 'cranky-Luffy' part since he was cranky, angry, frustrated, I just couldn't forget the cranky part I wrote.

A little question, is a bite from a bug is considered as a venom when it's dangerous? Like from Nami's in the Little Garden arc? Is the venom really high to make Nami sick, does it work on Luffy ( on this Luffy time traveling timeline ) or even Zoro? Thanks for those who answers!

Thank you for the people who supported and reviewed on my story!