Brothers

"Luffy, I want you to meet your older brother, Ace." said Garp with a smile on his face

Ace was still giving Luffy an aggressive look. "Don't be rude Ace say hi now." Garp told the older child. However, he stood still, looking at the young boy in front of him. "Oh you think Luffy's just a weak little kid huh... Well why don't you fight him?" said Garp

"Garp-san, purposely letting two young boys fight isn't a good idea." says Makino as she disagreed with the idea.

"Oh come on, they're brothers. Brothers fight all the time. That's how they get stronger." he says while laughing as Makino went inside the house. Both Ace and Luffy liked the idea of the fight. Ace thought this was going to be an easy win while Luffy was just waiting to see what would happen.

The fight started when Ace charged right at Luffy recklessly and threw a couple of punches which Luffy was able to dodge because he had quite a lot of practice. Ace was surprised that the boy had dodged his punches but he wasn't done with attacking. He threw punches and kicks and all of the attacks were either dodged or blocked and it was clear that Ace wasn't trying in this fight yet but Luffy also wasn't trying for the time being. When Luffy saw an opening, he took it and aimed a punch right for the jaw of Ace, but Ace grabbed the hand and threw him down.

Luffy quickly got back up and almost like there was a light that had flickered in Luffy's eyes and that meant that the young boy was now going all out in this fight. He ran towards Ace and lashed out a series of punches aimed for Ace's body and face and some hit because they were much faster than what Ace was expecting.

Ace smirked as he noticed that his lip was bleeding and said "Not bad kid." and then again recklessly ran towards Luffy and was going to punch him but as Luffy was getting ready to block the attack, Ace moved his hand down and kicked Luffy right in the stomach and punched him in the face.

Quickly recovering from the blow, Luffy smiled "You're strong." and his eyes once again lit up brightly and he and Ace charged at each other and started an all out brawl. Both kids get hitting each other with punches and kicks. There was quite a bit of throwing, mainly Ace throwing around Luffy because the younger boy was easy to pick up, but Luffy was determined to win. This guy was stronger than Zoro but not by a lot so Luffy was genuinely having a tough time fighting Ace.

Ace too was kind of having trouble but he wasn't going to show it. This Luffy kid was a pretty good fighter and Ace was impressed. However, right now the fight was going back and forth and both kids could hear Garp giving each boy tips on what to do. But both knew that this fight was going to end soon. It was only a matter of time because both were tiring out and the damage each kid was doing was causing was eventually building up. But this was still far from over.

Luffy threw a wild punch that Ace was easily able to dodge and he decided to grab the arm of the younger boy to once again throw him, but as Ace grabbed the arm and brought him closer to throw him behind, Luffy placed a well timed kick to the stomach and then two punches in the face of Ace to knock him down.

Ace fell down while Luffy was still on his two feet, breathing heavily and sweating profusely. Garp was clapping and was very impressed with his two grandsons. Luffy went over to Ace and helped him up. But before that, the boy looked at Luffy angrily and serious until he smiled "You sure are strong huh." grabbing onto the extended hand of Luffy and got up. "But, I am kind of out of practice and I'm pretty sure you've been training with that shitty geezer."

"Oi I'm not an 'shitty geezer' I'm your grandfather." said Garp and hit Ace with a 'Fist of Love'. "Have some respect for me you damn brat."

The three of them went inside the house where Dadan and her crew of mountain bandits and Makino were sitting in peace where there was a bunch of food already prepared. Once Garp and the two younger boys sat down, all hell broke loose for the food. The bandits were grabbing quickly, Makino already peacefully took her plateful and didn't bother with going for more while Ace, Garp and Luffy were in brawl mode for the food.

Once they had been done with the food, Makino had left to go to the Party Bar to work because it was soon going to be night and usually the night would be the busiest time for the bar. Garp took the two boys and went with Makino.

While in the party bar, just before people had arrived and it was still empty, only consisting of Garp, the boys and the handful of Marine officers, Garp got a call from the den den mushi that he carried with him.

"Garp…"

"Newgate? Is everything alright?" Luffy's eyes lit up. His family called once a week to check up on Luffy but normally it was Marco or someone else. Curious, Luffy listened to the conversation

"Not really… We had to leave the island because your damn Marines got too angsty. Thatch still hasn't woken up yet but he is now on the ship." Luffy was sad. He hoped Thatch was alright. "And on top of that, Charlotte invited us to one of her tea parties which is coming up in two months and you know how those end up. So for now keep Luffy with you. Once we get done with that, we'd like him back if you don't mind."

"Okay Oyaji!" yelled out Luffy

"Ah, how are you my son? I hope you are well."

"Yeah I'm okay. I made a lot of new friends."

"Is that so? Well once you get back to us, we'd like to hear your stories." says the older pirate "Your family misses you."

"I miss you all too." says Luffy. Ace was hearing the conversation as well and on the inside, just a little bit, Ace was jealous of Luffy. He didn't know much about him but he had a family that was waiting for him. All he had was the shitty geezer, Makino and the mountain bandits. Of course he also had a friend but Ace would like to have a family. He already hated his father for causing him so much trouble and his mother had passed away giving birth to him. But he was fine with the life he had. He was going to become a pirate anyways so he would make nakama that he would consider family.

The phone call ended early and Garp made a phone call himself. The snail was ringing until eventually it was picked up "Hello?" said a voice

"Oi Sengoku… My vacation is going to be slightly longer than expected. Home problems I have to take care of."

"That's fine but if I need you, I'll call you." and he hung up the phone.

As night came and people started entering the bar, Luffy and Ace were getting along well while everyone was around Garp because he was the famous Marine hero.

"So Luffy" says Ace as he drinks some juice "We're gonna go out tomorrow okay. There's a friend I want you to meet."

"Okay." says Luffy. As the night went on, the two were talking and getting along. Luffy told Ace about his family and Ace honesty wasn't surprised that he was a pirate at such a young age. And a pirate that was apart of the Whitebeard crew was even more impressive. Ace now understood how Luffy was so strong for his age. Once Ace got to know the family, Luffy told him about the adventures he'd been on and Ace was interested. The stories were interesting and Ace really kind of understood how a pirate's life isn't so easy as he thought.

As night came, both boys fell asleep on the table with their heads down and Garp took them to Dadan's house. Just as Garp was about to leave, he felt sad. Ace was basically left alone most of his life and he knew Ace hated his father while Luffy was alone on the Whitebeard ship. They both were surrounded by people who cared from them but both boys needed someone their age to have as a friend. And as long as this vacation would last, Garp would make sure that both boys looked after each other.

When morning had come, Ace and Luffy had snuck out. Walking through the forest and climbing up some rocks, the two had made it across to the other side of the island where there was a heavy stench of garbage "Welcome Luffy, to the Grey Terminal"

"What's that?" asked the young boy looking at the huge pile or garbage "And why are we here?". Ace just kept walking for a bit and eventually made it to an area where there were trees.

"SABO!" he yells out. Waiting for a few seconds before yelling the name again he heard a voice coming from the trees.

"You're late Ace." says a boy with blonde hair and a top hat. "I already did the job in town."

"Fuck… How much money did you take?"

"A lot actually… There were a lot of tourists so it was pretty easy to steal from them." He showed Ace the money and Luffy was at awe. He was surprised a kid could steal that much money.

Sabo looked at Luffy and raised an eyebrow "Who's the brat?"

"Oh yeah… that's Luffy. I think that's my brother… Or at least that what the shitty geezer said. But that's not the point. He's actually a lot stronger than he looks. He actually beat me in a fight."

Sabo looked genuinely shocked. Ace wasn't a weak kid and the only person that could beat Ace up was himself. When he heard that Luffy beat him, Sabo was interested about just who this kid was.

"What's the money for?" asked Luffy

Both Sabo and Ace put on a smile. "That's our treasure loot. We are going to buy a pirate ship with that money."

Luffy's eyes widened. "Oh a pirate ship… You should see Oyaji's ship. The Moby is the biggest ship in the world!" he exclaimed.

"Moby?" Sabo had a confused look on his face "So you mean the Moby Dick?"

"Uh huh." with no lie in his eye

"Oh yeah… I forgot. He's been on Whitebeard's ship since he was born. He's just on vacation with the geezer."

"Whitebeard?! You mean THE Whitebeard? The World's Strongest Man Whitebeard?"

"Yup."

"That's awesome. You gotta tell me how it is." The trio took a seat down and Luffy went on explaining about his family like he did with Ace and then told different stories this time around. Ace really liked the kid and he could tell Sabo liked him too.

After spending some time talking about how life was with the Whitebeard crew, Sabo said "Well Luffy, since you are a real pirate, wanna help us steal things so we can go on our own adventures and meet with you as pirates later?"

Luffy was excited. He never had friends up until his grandfather had taken him to East Blue. He was happy to be spending time with boys around his age. "Let's do it."

"Alright so here's what we do…" And both boys explained to Luffy how they usually stole things from people in the rich part of the island. But they did tell him to be careful because they could get caught. But in Luffy's eyes, they saw a bright light and a smile and both trusted him to do his part.

Once they got into town, they all split up. They planned to meet up behind a restaurant in a few hours.

After those few hours had passed, the trio had meet in the spot they had planned. Each boy was showing much they had stolen and not surprisingly, Luffy had stolen the most. He was a lot smaller and more quiet than both of the boys so it was easy for him to go unnoticed. He was six years old while the other boys were 9. They were larger and easier to spot.

They had made their way back to the Grey Terminal and went to the spot from earlier in the morning to put the treasure in the safe area they had made. However, they had heard a group of people coming their way. Ace and Sabo knew the area well and instantly said to meet up by the big tree, which they did. Leaving Luffy alone because he didn't know where to go. It was only until both made it to the tree that they remembered Luffy didn't know the way around. And both were very worried

"You sure it was this Ace kid who took your money?" said a man who held a sword and had a tattoo on his left arm.

"Yeah." said an injured man who was ashamed that he let a kid steal his money

"This kid has to be suicidal if he wants to steal from our crew."

"Shit that guy's from Bluejam's crew…" Said Ace

"That's Porchemy… the guy who skins people alive…"

"Fuck I hope he doesn't catch Luffy." Ace said worryingly.

Just as he said that, they saw a few people reach towards something and they had gotten a hold of Luffy. Both boys cursed at themselves for leaving Luffy alone. "Ace! Help me!" he yelled and then realizing his mistake

Porchemy held on to Luffy by the shirt and said "Where is Ace?"

Making the worst lying face ever "I don't know Ace."

Both kids were surprised at how much of a bad liar he was and so was Porchemy.

"Where's our money?"

"I don't know…" making that same face

"Ahh so you don't want to talk huh. Well, I'll make you talk." and they left. Ace and Sabo's eyes widened. They had to somehow help Luffy.

"Ace… Get your gramps." Sabo said

"What? We can handle them. We don't need that geezer."

"Yes we do… Because you said Luffy is stronger than you. And he is raised by pirates. If he wanted to fight, he already would have." Sabo stared at Ace "You go run for your gramps, I'll make a trail for you to follow."

Ace took a deep breath and ran as fast as he could while Sabo stayed close behind Porchemy and followed

"Let me go!" yelled Luffy as he was tied up hanging from a tree branch "I'm not telling you anything" and the man slapped Luffy across the face, already with a bloody lip.

"He's a tough one… Bring me my gloves" he ordered his subordinates "Listen here brat. Your buddy ace stole money from our crew… So tell me where it is before I kill you."

Luffy just stared at the large man in front of him. He was stuck in a tough situation. He didn't want to rat out Ace and Sabo but he might die for not telling them. However, his resolve was strong.

EVen when Porchemy put on his spiked gloves, Luffy showed no fear. However on the inside, the little boy was terrified. He missed his family and wished they were here to save him. He wished Ace and Sabo were here but he knew they ran for their own safety (which he didn't blame them) and this might be the day that he died.

"I'll ask you this one more time… Where is Ace?" the pirate looked at Luffy with murderous intent but still Luffy said not a single thing.

Sabo was shocked. He wanted to help save the boy and yell out but if he helped and died, what was the use. And just by looking at Luffy, he knew the young boy was going to remain silent. But Sabo wondered why. He had just met the two and they kind of used him to steal more money from others. But all he could do was wait on Ace to show up with his grandfather.

Ace ran as fast as he could without stopping back to the village. He was tired and sweaty and he had many cuts along the way from hitting branches and falling on rocks. All he could think of right now was to save Luffy.

Making it to the village, he found his way to the Party Bar where he knew Garp would be at and just as he entered, he spotted Garp quickly who was at the front.

"Gramps!" yelled Ace and Garp quickly turned his head in a serious manner. Ace always called him 'shity geezer' but today he knew something was wrong.

"Catch your breath first Ace and then tell me." says the older man

"No...Time… Pirates…Took…Luffy." he said, trying to catch his breath in between words.

Garp was furious and Makino had worried eyes. The rest of the Marines were paying attention now that they found out a pirate took Garp's grandson.

"Do you know where?" he asked in a dangerous and serious tone. Ace nodded his head and took off while Garp followed behind.

Luffy was silent and still looking at the Porchemy. "You don't want to anger a pirate… Especially one like our captain Bluejam. He's a real brute." and he punched Luffy with the spiked glove landing on his face. Luffy was in pain. Porchemy kept on punching Luffy over and over either in the face or the body yet Luffy remained silent. He wanted to scream but he didn't. All he let out was silent tears mixed with dropping blood. "You guys, look out for the brats. I'll deal with him." he commanded his crew.

After continuous attacks on Luffy, the boy was near death. "Who do you think you are to keep a secret, you little brat!"

Luffy then finally spoke "I won't tell you anything." Then Porchemy had enough. He took off his gloves and picked up a sword. Luffy couldn't even open his eyes because of the injuries he sustained due to the punches. But he could feel a murderous aura. But it was an odd one, this aura was not Porchemy's. It was someone else.

"STOP IT!" a voice called out

Garp followed Ace and through the Gray Terminal and continued to run towards Luffy. Once they entered a forest area, Garp had used his Observation Haki to pinpoint exactly how many pirates there were and he counted 5. He noticed 2 young boys and one was Luffy.

Following a trail of branches, Ace stopped running and so did Garp.

"Luffy still hasn't talked." Sabo said

"What did they do?" Ace asked and Sabo explained what he saw. Garp had cracked his knuckles and looked right at the two boys.

"You two take down Luffy and take him to a hospital. If they ask who the patient is, tell them it's my grandson."

"I can fight. I can't run away" said Ace and Sabo told Ace that it wasn't a good idea. Garp almost smiled because reminded him exactly of Roger. Like father like son he thought.

"Ace listen to me. Luffy needs you to be there with him. That goes for the both of you. I'll handle these idiots, you guys just get Luffy some help and quick."

Ace and Sabo ran from the bushes to stop Porchemy from cutting Luffy's head off, both yelling "STOP IT!"

Behind them, Garp also walked out and said "What have you done to my grandson." as he moved as fast as he could and took down Porchemy with one punch. Sabo and Ace quickly got Luffy down and both boys carried him to safety and listened to Garp by getting him to go to the hospital in the village.

However, Garp was surrounded by 5 pirates but that wasn't going to be enough to stop the Vice Admiral. Easily beating the lesser pirates with no trouble, He turned his attention to Porchemy who had gotten up but Garp wouldn't let him up. He punched the man again and kept punching him even when Porchemy was on the ground. He kept hitting him with haki infused punches until eventually his face became all bloody and swollen to the point where Porchemy had died.

Garp got up and felt no remorse. They hurt his grandson. And considering what Luffy had gone through, Garp couldn't care less about some stupid pirates. All he wanted to do right now was to make sure Luffy was still alive so he made his way back.

Once Ace and Sabo had gotten Luffy to the hospital, they just waited on Garp to show up. Once he did, the trio waited outside until the doctors were finished treating Luffy.

"We're sorry." said both Ace and Sabo. Garp looked at them with a raised eyebrow. "We told him to steal for us but in the end he got caught and didn't say anything."

"Now why are you boys sorry? It wasn't your fault he got caught. He just doesn't know the place. Anyways, he is a tough one. He's been living his entire life as a Whitebeard pirate. He's been through alot himself. He's not gonna die nor will he be seriously injured."

Ace then looked at Garp and formally introduced Sabo to him and then explained what they were doing all this time and honestly Garp wasn't surprised. At first Garp wanted Ace to become a Marine but when Luffy was born and given to Whitebeard, Garp stopped caring. Ace could do whatever he wanted. And if he wanted to become a pirate then so be it.

A couple of hours later, the doctor came out and had good news. He said Luffy was recovering fast and should be able to get out of the hospital by tomorrow, Right now all he was doing was sleeping for the time being but there were no serious injuries. He just looked worse than he actually was.

Both boys let out a relieved exhale while Garp was looking at the two boys. He was happy for Ace and for Luffy. He assumed Sabo had no home so he looked at the boy in blue and said "Sabo right?" and he looked back "Do you want to be my third grandson? Two of them trust you and without you leaving that trail, we might have not found Luffy on time."

Sabo was shocked. His real parents were complete assholes and he hated them. But Garp was willingly accepting Sabo. He had another home now.

The next day after Luffy had woken up, the two boys and Garp went to meet with Luffy. Garp had hugged his grandson and said he'll be fine. However, Ace wanted to know why Luffy didn't just tell Prochemy about where they were.

"Luffy why didn't you tell them?" asked Ace seriously "You could have died."

"Because... " said Luffy "If I told them, you guys wouldn't be my friends."

"But still… That was a pretty stupid thing to do you idiot."

"Because, If I told them about you, I'd have no one else." Luffy yelled. Ace, Sabo and Garp were surprised.

"But you have a family" said Ace "You can't be alone."

"Everyone's a lot older than me." Luffy said "I don't have anyone my age to play with and I feel alone because of that. If I lose you guys too, then I'd have no one to play with. I'd rather get hurt than be alone."

"Luffy…" Ace looked right into the eyes of the young boy "Do you want me to live?"

"Of course I do!" Ace looked surprised. Garp was shocked too. He didn't expect Luffy to feel alone even with his huge family. Garp had let out a smile because now the boys were getting along so well.

"Well you three brats… Come now. Let's go home and get you all some time to rest." said Garp

Days turned into weeks after Luffy had recovered. The three boys were training under Garp's rules and watchful eyes and whenever they got time off, the three boys would go back to the Gray Terminal and to the rich part of the Goa Kingdom to do their acts of piracy.

However, there was a difference from now than before. Sabo was clearly the strongest fighter, Ace was the second strongest between the two and Luffy wasn't far behind Ace and Sabo. There wasn't a big strength gap between the three boys. Luffy got the surrounding areas in his head, he was perfect with being left off all by his own. And each day, the treasure and money that the boys had "collected" was growing.

Training under Garp was more fun for the boys as they would each get hits with the famous "Fist of Love" from the old man and he was teaching them how to fight and his Marine officers were helping out too. This was the most Garp had spent time with the trio and they all seemed to love it.

Today however was a different day. Garp was busy and left for a quick job because there were pirates coming towards his way and Garp needed to make sure this this group was a 'friendly' group. So he left the three boys alone with Dadan. But Dadan wasn't having any of the boys craziness so she just placed them outside of the house and told them not to leave as she went into town.

Ace looked at the two boys and said "Did you guys know, if you share a drink, you can become brothers?" as he pulled out some liquor and three small cups

"Really?" said Luffy

"Well when the three of us get older, we aren't going to be on the same ship right, but this will bind us together as brothers! No matter what we do or where we are, nothing will ever break this bond! " he pours some sake into the cups "From today on, we're brothers!" said Ace as the three drank the liquor and almost spit it out because of the bad taste, but they all drinked it.

And from this day onwards, until the end of times, the trio known as Ace, Sabo and Luffy became brothers.

Alright folks… That is the end of the chapter. I hope you guys enjoyed. Next chapter will be a long one and an interesting one. Not gonna say what's going to happen but it's gonna be pretty cool and I hope it'll work out. I used kissmanga's translation for most of this chapter. And I will continue to do so for chapters that are cannon towards the manga.

Sorry for the late release of this chapter, I've been busy with a lot of stuff and school for me is going to start in a few days so expect 1 chapter a week or maybe 2 chapters depending on how much I write.

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And with that I shall see you all next week. Peace out and God bless.