"YOU CAN'T DO THIS! LET ME GO!"

"Goddammit! Where's the emergency sea stone, Vista! You didn't use them as your moustache-roller again right?!"

"What?! No!" came an indignant yell from the other side of the deck.

"Goddammit Ace! Calm the f*ck down!"

*CRASH* *CRASH* *CRASH*

"Open through! Emergency sea water!"

*SPLASH*

"What the hell, Haruta?!"

"Wrong fire-man! Run Haruta!" A scream resounded and Haruta did not need more prompting as he bolted off, shrieking.

"Ahahahahah! Oh God, Marco!"

"HARUTAAAA!" Marco yelled furiously as the petite young man yelped and jumped overboard.

"I'm free!" Ace exclaimed as he jumped onto the railing and spreaded his arms wide. "Luffy! Dearest big brother would be there to welcome youu!" Ace shouted to the distance before Jozu yanked him back and trampled him again.

"No means no, Ace! We have to stand by in New World!" Izou, in his pretty royal purple kimono, chidded strictly. His dainty hands are on his hips as he glared at his rebellious logia brother.

"I can go by myself!" Ace retorted

"Two years ago, you went out by yourself and got captured. We had to start a freaking war just to bust you out. A year ago you slipped out, it's practically all over the news that you made a cult with that crazy blonde brother of yours!" Izou listed.

"It wasn't a cult! It's a club! A Luffy's Cuteness-appreciation club! Get that right!" Ace protested

"And the last time you slipped out, you held hostages so many people and started talking about your-no, Luffy's childhood, in a live stream of a marine tv, Ace. Live stream," Izou said exasperately.

"What can I do? Sabo-"

"Don't bring in your insane blonde brother into this!"

"But-!"

"No!" Marco is back and crossed his arms strictly, glaring at Ace. Like a strict mother hen he is.

"Come on!" Ace whined. "I have to be there! Welcome him, see him, commenting on how much he'd grown, waving at him as he sailed on, make sure that I got my fair share of rubbery hugs, and Sabo would also be there! Trust me! With the two of us together, no one would notice that Fire Fist Ace and Revolutionary's Chief-whatever, are near!"

"No. With the two of you together, it would just be in another hour or two that Sabaody would turn into Sanobody," Blemenco laughed at his own joke.

"Pleaseee?" Ace begged then turned to a man in the middle of the deck, "Pops! Give some words in my defense, please?"

"Gurarara," Whitebeard laughed hoarsely, "If you want to do it then do it. You're free to go, you're the child of sea after all."

Marco facepalmed as Ace cheered, "Thanks Pops! I know I could count on you!" Ace dragged out his fire boat and tossed it overboard. "Bye jerks!" Ace mock saluted and took a dive for his beloved fire boat.

"Where do you think you're going!?" Izou screamed. "Child of sea or not, we were still the one who wiped your ass when you got in trouble! ACEEE!"

"Ace! I don't trust you to go by yourself-yoi! Wait- you little shit! Stop-yoi!" Marco instantly turned into his Phoenix form and took off, following the trail of Ace's fire boat.

As the two sparks of fire, one from Ace's fireboat and the other is from the flaming Marco, everyone gradualy dispersed, light smiles grace their face as they all sat back and relaxed.

Peace at last.

"Well, Jozu, good work until they come back," Haruta patted the big diamond man who will be in-command for them up till Marco get back.

Jozu suddenly had an impulse to jump overboard. He loves his brothers and sisters, really. But the last time Marco left without officially pointing a regent, Jozu was sold for emergency ration... Literally.

Yeah, just as you thought it was.


"Ace!" Sabo waved towards the two Whitebeards with a wide grin while holding a telescope in one hand.

"Sabo!" Ace practically bounced towards his blonde brother and enveloped him in a brotherly hug. "Have you prepared your speech?" Ace asked.

"I have!" Sabo nodded and rummaged through his blue coat.

"Speech?" Marco blinked in confusion.

"It's a speech for Luffy when we reunited later," Sabo explained and took out a simple folded paper and unfurl it- wait never mind, it's not a simple folded paper, it's freaking long that it reached the ground.

"And uh- you're going to read this to your brother?" Marco hesitated.

"Of course no, duh!" Sabo and Ace looked at Marco as if he's the stupidest person in the world. A tick mark appeared on Marco's temple.

"Luffy will probably fall asleep in the first paragraph, there's no way he'll stay awake," Ace crossed his arms.

"So..." Marco sighed. "What is that for-yoi?"

"I'm gonna read this to the mass as I have my arm around Luffy's shoulder," Sabo said confidentally and Marco choked.

"You'll practically announce your little brother's comeback to the world?! What is wrong with you two?!" Marco yelled.

Sabo and Ace looked at Marco expressionlessly, before broke out snickering.

"We're just kidding," Ace snickered teasingly.

Sabo smiled, "This paper is blank," Sabo showed Marco the paper. "It's just my vivre card. It's ridiculous to expect me wrote my speech in a paper, I'm too much of a genius for that," Sabo chuckled with a bit haughty tone.

Marco kept the thought on why Sabo has such a big vivre card, and instead asked, "So, what's your plan-yoi?" Marco asked.

"We're gonna wait for Luffy and his crew. Maybe have a talk or two with his crew members, especially the new ones. And then, we'll hear about his adventures and then maybe a spar or two." Ace said solemnly.

"And I'll catch up to him, which will take a really long time. I estimate that I'll spent my two days 'off-duty' days to talk with him. Oh, and introduce myself to his crewmates of course," Sabo sighed happily as he took out Luffy's bounty poster and proceeds to smile fondly at it.

"And then, some feast."

"Yeah, feast would be guaranteed. I even had brought crocodile meats in my ship, just for him."

"Ooh crocodile meats, Luffy's favourite. We should took a night out, just the three of us."

"I love that idea! I still owe Luffy a telescope from twelve years ago... Sigh, I wonder if he's still interested in stars."

"How about building a tree house? There are so many trees in Sabaody anyways. Surely, if one got renovated a bit, no one would notice right?"

"I'll deal with the mass, we should totally build a tree house."

"Oi," Marco's eyes twitched as the pair of brothers began to construct their plans to build an enermous tree house by destroying some groves later on.

"Aaaah! It's been a long time! Is Luffy still cuddly?" it was unknown whether they heard Marco's calling or not, but the conversation continued without a hitch.

"He's a rubber, he's forever cuddly."

"Is he still willing to cuddle?"

"Don't be ridiculous! Of course he is! He's forever our little brother after all!" The discussion getting more and more heated and Marco began to wonder just what were his chances to drag Ace out of here by force with the possiblity of Ace and Sabo joined hands to beat him back.

One hundred percent.

Marco hated to be smart sometimes.

"Well..." Marco started boredly as he tore off a piece of poster from a nearby wall, "Maybe you guys don't have to wait, it seems like your brother is already here-yoi?" Marco remarked.

"What?!" Ace snapped his head up and looked around wildly, "Where?!"

Sabo's eyes also darted around to search for any suspicious figures that looked remotely close to his dear baby brother, biting his lips like an anxious mother hen. "Where is he, Phoenix Marco? I don't see him," Sabo asked.

"Did we miss him?! Damn! Sabo, launch me to the air, I'm making fire messages in the sky!" Ace had started climbing his blonde brother's shoulder as he's talking.

"Hold on-yoi," Marco easily yanked his excitable crewmate off of the blonde. "What I meant, is this-yoi," Marco showed them the poster he just took off.

Sabo furrowed his brows, "Recruitment? Strawhat pirates?" Sabo took the poster and inspect it.

"Strange, I thought for sure Luffy said he didn't want too many members? Ten members are the limit, I remember," Ace frowned. "He said it will be cramped."

"Well, we're here! If he's gonna recruit any shady guy, we'll stop him, though, Luffy is already a very good judge of character himself," Sabo smiled and waved the poster around. "Let's go meet him, I can't wait to see him. Aah, it's been twelve years, Did his childish cute voice still stayed the same?" Sabo closed his eyes dreamily.

"Oh, it did. Just a small change, but still cute like when he was seven, believe me." Ace also joined his brother in sighing dreamily.

Marco sighed desperately, no wonder Strawhat was rumoured to be batshit crazy... Having this two as his brothers, it's gonna be a big question if he's not crazy enough to accept their antics wholeheartedly.


Sabo had a bad feeling, the more they walked, the more he felt nauseous. Why do the rumors about his cute baby brother in this place is so horrible? Shooting people? Fifty million bellies as the bottom line to join his crew? Tall and fat?

In the first place, Luffy is useless with guns, if you talked about him shooting people with "Gomu gomu no pistol", Sabo will believe that, those people must have deserved it anyways.

Second of all, while bounties might be like prestige in the eye of criminals, Luffy is not one to differentiate between people with that kind of shallow judgement. As long as they're cool, they're in his book absolutely.

Third of all, Tall? Fat?

The last time he checked Luffy was 170cm at most. Don't tell him puberty hit Luffy like a sea train?

Fat? NO! His baby brother is never fat! He can ate the entire year-worth ration for a small town and still be his bubbly cute and slim self in no time! A bit chubby, yes. Luffy looked like a type to maintain his baby fat in some area, which is definitely cute.

But he's definitely not classified as fat.

Can't anyone see? See?! This bubbly, cute and smiling teen in the wanted poster? Does he look fat? He looked cute!

Can't you see? Cute. This future Pirate King is the cutest boy to ever been born in this era, and any eras after this as much as Sabo concerned. There's no way in the hell a rubber could go fat. Are you sure you didn't see him whilst he was just cutely glomping down his food?!

"Enough-yoi. Stop terrorizing citizens," Marco's sweat dropped as he looked at the blonde revolutionary who was currently cornering some innocent citizens whilst chucking Strawhat's poster to their faces, Ace is beside his brother, crossing his arms and glaring threateningly.

"But they're insulting! Luffy barely reached my shoulder when we parted, don't tell me his growth spurt is better than I am?! Besides, they said Luffy is cruel and scary! He was cute! Cute! Not scary! What kind of blasphemy is that?!" Ace defended furiously as he gestured wildly aboud the importance of Luffy's cuteness trademark and how he'll have to spread the words some more through that forsaken cult he made just a year ago.

Marco sighed and facepalmed, "You need to let people have their own opinion-yoi, let them go. You're traumatizing them."

"If I even as much as heard those words again, I'll make you regret it," Sabo smilingly stated as he safely stored back Luffy's Wanted poster.

"Sabo-yoi," Marco warned.

Sabo stepped back and bent his body a bit in a respectful bow, "My apology for our sudden offensive action. We were just wanting to ask, where is this "Strawhat Luffy" accepting recruitment?"

"T-Th-There... I-in a bar, n-no-not that far... Hiiiii!" The group of traumatized men pointed shakily to a bar not too far away across the busy street of Grove 12 before hastily ran away like they had just seeing ghost.

"See? You scared them," Marco sympatheticly watched as those people ran off and immadiately turned to chastise the two brocons... who were not in their places anymore.

"AAAHHHH!"

"KYAA!"

"GYAAA!"

Shrieks resounded along with several gunshots, explosions, crashes, breaking glasses, and what suspiciously sounded like a metal pipe hitting something.

Marco's jaw almost dropped to the ground, "Where are them?!" The first commander immadiately fled to the chaotic direction, only to immadiately stop after taking a look and immadiately decided to do what's the best in that situation.

Call for back-ups.


"This is Sea Bar, Prelude to Love's in the line. How may I help you in this fine day, good sir~? We have special services for nobles and most special service for pirates who are willing to pay alot? Say your wish~?" Sweet cheerful voice answered adorably from the other end.

"Yeah, sure. Could we skip the secret codes protocol and go straight to "Your Chief of Staff is currently shrieking for World Domination in the name of [Blasphemous affair of illegal use of Luffy's name!]?" Marco said boredly.

"... Back-up's on the way, please hold your end..." The other side sounded like she's resigned for the fate already.

"Sorry. Can't. Currently dragging my own heavy baggage," Marco said and ended the call as he tried as hard to push Ace back without as much as hurting him too severely, whilst Sabo is currently running rampage.

Oh, Marco loved being smart sometimes.


"LET ME GO! THIS IS AN ORDER, KOALA! I'LL KILL THAT MAN! HOW DARE HIM! HOW DARE HIM TO SULLY LUFFY'S NAME!" Sabo roared as five buff revolutionary were desperately hanging on him, dragging him back.

"LET ME GO! MY FIRE IS SCREAMING FOR BLOOD!" In not any way better situation, Ace is yelling his lungs out like it was his last day on Grand Line.

"We're going home, say goodbye to your 'off-duty' days. And don't give me any of that Chief of Staff's orders, I already have Dragon-san's green light to drag you back, kicking and screaming," Koala's smile is especially cold and murderous as she said this.

"You too Ace, Child of sea or not, I'm dragging you back before anymore disturbances took a place and your little brother can only say goodbye to a peaceful sailing without hoards of marines trailling behind." Marco massaged his temples as he dragged Ace back (sea-stoned) to the fireboat.

It was lucky that no one had died as the two brothers were too traumatized and shocked when they started their righteous rampage. See if those foolish fakers still dared to spit out; "My big brother is Portgas D. Ace and my father is Dragon the revolutioner" seriously, don't they ever think just how much those names weight?

Marco shook his head as he kicked Ace down and started the fireboat to sail off.

Too bad, Marco was also secretely looking forward to formally meet this famous little brother that had made almost everyone in Whitebeard's deck, half-deaf.

"I heard some people came and cause troubles for 'Strawhat Pirate' a few days ago, of course they got the fake one. But we should be more careful in case they're aiming for us too," Nami said solemnly to the crew.

"AW! Leave it to me!" Franky posed heroically with a yell.

"Our name has reached to that degree? Aaahh, what should we do if these people turned out looking for us, the real ones?" Usopp panicked slightly but still putting up a brave front.

"Well, we can only fight now, would we? Fufu, As long as out captain is not here yet to give out orders, we have to stand on our own," Robin chuckled calmly and turned to Nami. "What kind of people are they? Bounty hunters? Pirates?"

"I don't know, the rumour is vague. But I think they almost thrashed the fake 'us' because of... blasphemous act? Anyway, I heard one of them destroyed an entire bar with a swing of a metal pipe."

"... I see," Robin still continued smiling, recalling a fiasco several days ago where Unit Emergency of Revolutionary Army was in chaos.


"Hear me, little shits. I don't give a f*ck about your family's prestige and glory. I don't give a f*ck about how you felt insulted and offended. My little brother could eat the entire world and I won't even complain and will ask him to share some instead. So yeah, I don't give a f*ck about the candies or your tea party," Ace elegantly tore up the documents of whatsitagain and let them burned down by his fire right in front of Big Mom's many sons and daughters who had come as some kind of ambassador envoy to convey their disatisfaction over the recent occurence in the Fishman Island.

"Fire Fist Ace, don't you believe right now we could start a war?!" Charlotte Cracker growled furiously.

"START! START IT IF YOU DARE!" Ace challenged.

"Ace-yoi!" Marco yelled to warn the younger guy for being too stubborn.

"Hear me now, biscuit, Luffy is my little brother and the only one who could beat him up is me!"

"My name is Cracker!" Cracker protested.

"Whatever! Oi, Katakuri, do you copy me? Yeah, in short, I give no f*ck and kindly go home. I might be a big brother but I have no tiime for people coming to me in an account to settle debt with my little brother," Ace gestured to the terribly tall man who was silent since the start.

"Fire Fist Ace, this is an insult to my Charlotte Family. As his brother you should know that you won't escape my mother's wrath either," Katakuri looked at Ace impassively.

"Yeah, so? That's not your problem, you're just jealous that you don't have a cute little brother!" Ace bite back.

Marco and the rest of Whitebeard's commanders looked at Ace incredulously, 'Ace, you little shit! How can this serious life-threatening situation became a situation to boast about your little brother!?'

Katakuri frowned, seemingly insulted. "I took offense in that, my little brothers are all cute in their own right."

The commanders snapped their head to look at Katakuri in shock, 'Another BroCon?! Dear Sea, how many of them will appear?!'

Seemingly had expected that answer, Ace pulled out a bounty poster out of nowhere and start to wave it proudly to Big Mom's children, "Not as cute as my baby brother! Look at him? He's the cutest to ever appear in history, look at biscuit, he looked older than you instead," Ace looked at Cracker disdainfully. "Even though you're the big brother... Actually most of your siblings looked older than you are."

"They used to be cute and still is," Katakuri glared.

"My baby brother is the cutest!" Ace challenged back. "And he looked younger than I am, so hell yeah!"

"Um, I can't see the reason why we're talking about this..." Charlotte Moscato voiced up.

""You shut up!"" Ace and Katakuri snapped at him, scaring the poor guy.

Katakuri then glared at Ace, "I'm the only one who can snap at my little brother, Fire Fist Ace, are you asking for a fight?"

Ace was about to open his mouth when Katakuri talked again, "You'll say 'let's fight', how predictable."

Ace scowled further, this is why he detested talking with Charlotte Katakuri, well no more talking then, let's just boasting.

"And no, I'm not jealous. I found your little brother stupidly reckless and skinny plain teenager," Katakuri declared, completely not seeing the next thing will happen if he said that and ended up with a raging and flaming second commander of Whitebeard pirates on his face.

"AAARRGHH! F*CK YOU!"

"F*ck! I'm outta here!" Haruta saluted and jumped overboard, swimming eagerly to the awaiting Moby Dick in the distance.

"You would think Katakuri knew his way with words with his ability to see into the future, but noooo!" Vista lamented and unsheathed his swords, surprisingly to the Charlotte family, the swordsman didn't use it to attack them but jumped towards Ace instead, as well as many other commanders.

"Luffy is cute! You blind old man in his late forty, you can only see the future but your eyes are actually blind!" Ace shrieked.

"I see you're starting to be so daring?!" Katakuri shot back.

It didn't end pretty for both sides that day.

Let's just say, Ace and Katakuri hated each other's guts so much despite their similiarities in being partial to their own younger siblings.


Trafalgar Law is seriously thinking that, for once, his calculation might be wrong.

Not once actually. The moment Strawhat-ya met him, all those calculations had gone down the ditch, and it actually took Law a while to realize that... He's regretting this so much right now.

Law is starting to think that all those powers behind Strawhat is not enough of a compensation for his sanity after interacting with him.

Not the Whitebeards.

Not the Revolutionary Army.

"Mugiwara-ya... You're not as cute as the rumour said," In a moment of sanity relapse, Law accidentally blurted the accursed words out after he helped Luffy to get his chains go.

Every breathing creatures in that cage stopped moving, yes even Law. Luffy, taking no heed of the sudden inexistence of breathing sound, quickly jumped into his feet the moment the chain is off.

"Whoo! Freedom!" Luffy cheered and start running around, still ignoring the fact that no one is breathing in the cage.

"... Trafalgar Law, really? What the fuck?" Smoker stared disbelievingly at Law, shifting his currently female body slightly away from the Surgeon of Death. Meanwhile, Tashigi in Smoker body, started giving judgemental stares towards Law.

But Law couldn't be careless of the opinion of the two marines who could be dead for all his concern. No, the problem now is that the Cyborg and Devil's Child is starting to look doubtfully at him. Especially Nico Robin, her smile is even colder than the current weather in this frozen part of island.

One step wrong and Law is a bit afraid of the consequences.

"What? Who in this part of Grand Line didn't know about the incident a year ago, about a cult worshipping Mugiwara-ya for his... inexistence of usual pirates' scary look," No matter what, Law wouldn't say that C-word again.

"Cult what?" Luffy turned back to look at Law when unknown words were mentioned. "Can that be eaten?" he asked.

"No, Luffy. It's a group of people worshipping something that shouldn't be worshipped in the eyes of common people," Robin stopped radiating cold smile towards Law to explain the meaning of that word to Luffy, patiently.

"Oh. It can't be eaten then?" Luffy blinked.

"No," Robin chuckled in the most motherly tone that any woman could manage. "Though, I do wonder why Torao decided to bring that up."

Law's eyes twitched, dammit Nico-ya, can't you let a man has his last strand of dignity?!

"Bring what? Meat?" As expected of Luffy, the dense captain didn't even caught anything.

Thank God... "No, Mugiwara-ya, can't we just focus on escaping before we're turned to ugly sculptures right now?" Law said desperately.

"Yeah... sure, bro," Franky looked at Law weirdly and motioned to Robin with his eyes, Law decided to act like he didn't see their shared suspicious as well meaningful looks and turned to the marine duo.

"One wrong word's out about this, I'll shamble you and your dignity to the atmosphere," Law threatened first before going down on bussiness.

After both marines agreed to his term, Law released them from their restraint, "Alright, now we should try to-"

"OIII! Torao! The cage is not made out of seastone! So, I made a hole on it! Let's go out!" Law's sentence were cutted out from a distant childish shout coming from outside.

"Mugi-?!" Law immadiately ran up to the hole to look outside where that annoying strawhatted captain, who was wearing candy-like coat, was waving wildly with stupid grin on his face. "You-! Quiet down will you! We don't need to declare our escape to the world!" Law facepalmed and growled.

"Shishishi! What are you mumbling about, I can't hear you," Still had the nerve to laugh, Luffy tilted his head and looked at Law strangely.

Law brought close his nodachi and grumbled, "Totally not cute."


After the whole fiasco against Caesar, both side of Marines and Pirates gathered and decided to party, well mostly because the Captain of Strawhat Pirates insisted and none of the pirates side was about to stop him (Except Law, but no one was about to listen anyways).

So at the end of party where both sides were ready to say goodbye and "See you soon, bastards!", Smoker all but dragged Law to the side and looked sternly at him.

"Listen here, Trafalgar, you can don anything and the marines probably will still forgive you, but for God's sakes I beg you to not have any idea on Strawhat. Else, I'll charge you for pedophillia," Smoker said seriously.

"What the fuck, Smoker-ya?" Law almost gaped at the white haired man.

"Just listen! You pirates might have crooked sense of justice but there's a bottom-line in everything! Besides, his brothers are insane!" Smoker warned.

"No, you're the one who should listen, what kind of 'idea' you're talking about?! You do realize Mugiwara-ya is nineteen right? Besides, I'm still smart enough to know he's out of question, thank you very much," Law rolled his eyes.

Smoker paused for a bit, damn right, Mugiwara is nineteen now, technically he's legal . How could Smoker forget that? "Okay, but I'm keeping my eyes on you," Smoker warned. "The savior of marines or not, I'll have my way."

"Eh, you won't be the first," Law shrugged.


It wasn't until the whole Dressrosa's fiasco, Fighting in colosseum for absolutely no reason, running and being trapped in Doflamingo's Bird Cage, fighting Doflamingo, almost dying, watching how Strawhat fought Doflamingo till the end and rested in the same cottage together that Law evaluated his opinion.

Law looked to the brown and dirty ceilings full of spiderwebs, the sun just came out of the horizon and Law is still having a hard time to register that this is real.

Doflamingo is defeated. Captured and hopefully tortured to death then rot in the hell named Impel Down.

His ultimate goal is reached. His long time goal is realised.

Cora-san... he finally managed to get revenge in the name of Cora-san.

"He's still not awake yet?"

"Sigh, no... my poor poor baby brother, he must've been so tired, I'll have my people to escort some crocodile's meats later,"

Law didn't even register who were talking (except for the last voice, Law knew it was the Brocon number two), and the room was silent again after the door is closed.

Taking the chance when the overprotective brocon is out of the cottage and cannot glare murderously at him for even giving the slightest soft look towards Strawhat (He couldn't help it, the boy helped to realise what probably his lifetime goal, it's hard to not to give him a slightly soft look!).

Law studied the serenely (if not inelegantly) sleeping face of the younger D. He looked content, soft expression, innocent look, has the scar on his cheek ever looked that adorable before?

Law smiled and closed his eyes, bringing his fluffy white hat over his face.

Alright, maybe Mugiwara-ya is cute. Only a little though.


Next is Sabo's chapter as I'll recount dressrosa and this chapter would be too crowded if I mixed in Sabo's POV in Dressrosa. Maybe some Ace's appearance (Oh, who am I kidding? Those two are partner in crime, it's hard to not have them to interact.)