Hi Minna-san! Whew, 8 months. Sorry about that, but believe me things have been crazy! First I get a job that lasted 10 HOURS A DAY , to get a new laptop. Which I did, his name is Ashitaka. But here's comes the kicker, wait for it…. I am now a bona fide college freshman baby! –basks in the illuminating light from the heavens.- And as you can guess the transition is a bit trying. But this semester I've found myself with some free time, so yay! New Chapter!
To my reviewers: I love you all , seriously! You guys rock my socks! Thanks so much for all the favs (65 whoa!)and alerts. I'M NOT WORTHY!
Now to Miss Miyu Hinamori (You must've seen this coming). I would like to argue a couple of points of your review.1st, the bra thing, Why did I emphasize it? Because it's funny. Luffy does many attacks (such as the Gum Gum Balloon) that leave his shirt open. This is a wacky comedy that touches the serious line, but hardly ever crosses. 2nd, What way are you talking about? Do you mean the breast thing? Let me tell you I may not have had any brothers, but I had tons of boy cousins( basically like brothers in my eyes), whom I grew up with, who had no problem changing in front of me. And let me tell you it made me a hella embarrassed .This won't be an Ace/Luffy or Sabo/Luffy paring unless my readers want it. Lastly, do not tell me about rereading anything. I have been a dedicated One Piece fan since 2000 and for you to tell me that is a huge insult. Now I'll be ecstatic if Sabo is still alive. For a character that was only in a few short chapters he is currently in my favs list, but as you said everyone believes different theories. I believe Sabo is dead. I respect your opinion so show me the same courtesy. Now if I'm wrong and he's alive I'll dance the happy dance with my Usa-chan bunny in the streets, but contrary to popular belief people do die in One Piece. Remember Ace?
Disclaimer: I own some One piece manga and DVDs and a button that I got from AWA but as for the rights( even the gender-bending rights) that belongs to the magnificent Oda-sensei! No copyright infringement intended. So kiss my ass ACTA.-flips ACTA the middle finger -
For soul-madness-For some reason FFN won't let me put up the link so just look up 'LuNa-GenderBender' by Rusky-Boz on deviantart.
I'd like to dedicated this chapter to all my reviewers , but I especially what to apologize to TheBlackSeaReaper. I promised them that I'd have this chapter out in October but life got in the way. So I'm sorry, TheBlackSeaReaper, everyone. I hope this long chapter makes up for it.
I don't feel too good about this chapter, I hope it lives up to the humor and I hope it's not too boring. I tried very hard to make it different from the original but it ended up being a little close. Sorry. I'm also sorry if Luffy seems a little flat. I struggled trying to get back in the grove of writing. Just bear with me guys. I promise this story will not be some knock-off rewrite.
Also forgive any Grammar.
Chapter Two: What's so great about muscles anyway?: A pink-haired boy's crush.
-May 5th-
Sparkling brown eyes crinkled in amusement as the owner took stock of the disastrous situation she had somehow gotten into. A lesser sailor would probably find such a situation quite worrying, but the sailor, being who she was, only found it a bit disappointing.
"Hmm and it so sunny too." The straw-hatted girl said with a sigh, as she stared disinterestly at the roaring whirlwind that was quite intent on sucking her and her puny dinghy into its watery depths.
"Shishishi, well, at least I'm not drowning cause I can't swim!" she said breaking into a large grin. "and I didn't fall in either !" In your face Ace!
And so the girl, grinning rather smugly, plopped back with a clear conscious as her boat was sucked into the dark abyss.
Meanwhile, a few miles away a pink haired boy picked himself off the floor for the 8th time that day and set about his daily groveling, completely unaware that in a few short minutes his life would be changed forever.
-Romance Dawn -
Brown eyes stared after the retreating boat in shock.
That idiot girl and that pink thing had almost fallen on their freaking ship!
Huffing, the orange-haired thief released their hold on their shirt and waited for the feeling to come back to their legs.
Stupid kids…
Narrowing their brown eye's the thief stared at the rapidly disappearing ship until it was a mere dot against the horizon. That girl, she had come from the ship that their latest booty had resided. Alvida's ship. Was she y the reason that the heist had been so easy? The thief had wondered about the surprising lack of guards( except that one guy ,but a quick kick had took care of him.) and just vaguely recalled some pretty loud explosive noises accompanied by some furious shouts.
Could she have been the cause of such pandemonium?
The thief shook their head dismissing the thought as quickly as came.
There was no way that was possible. She was just a kid.
Who had almost crushed them with a boat.
With a sigh the orange-haired thief hoisted the days well-earned booty, resisting the urge to yell some very colorful curses in the direction of the stupid straw-hat girl.
"Oh well." No reason to hold a grudge.
It's not like they would ever see her again.
-The Naval Base-
"Whoa!" exclaimed Luffy, her brown eyes widening in awe as she took in the quaint little town and the impressive sight of the naval base standing in the background. "I can't believe you actually got us here!" She turned to her attention to a now very flustered Coby, a bright smile on her face. "You're amazing, Coby!"
The bespeckled boy brought a hand up to sheepishly rub the back of his head as he blushed under the praise. In reality, finding an island within an hour of a ship with a map and compass was a task that even the most inexperienced sailor could accomplish (1).Not that Coby would tell the would be pirate that.
He had enjoyed Luffy's praise far too much.
Unfortunately he only had a few minutes to preen under the praise before he was dragged forcibly into the nearest restaurant.
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Ten minutes later saw a highly amused Luffy and a very confused Coby walking towards the naval base.
"It's not funny Luffy-chan!" cried Coby , glancing at to the chuckling girl. "Something weird is going on here." He whispered as he fiddled nervously with his glasses. "I mean, I can understand Zoro, but why would they react like that to Captain Morgan's name."
"Maybe everybody in this town are just jumpy weirdoes." Luffy suggested brightly. Coby gave the girl an incredulous look.
"Or," he said after a minute." They've been given a reason to be so afraid." He paused to ponder for a moment. "But why it doesn't make sense." Captain Morgan is a renowned marine officer. He was respectable and brave; he captured the villainous Kuro, he- "Luffy-chan?" The bespeckled boy stopped short as he realized his companion was no longer at his side. " Luffy-chan?"
Coby blinked as a red blur sailed past his head.
Startled, he whipped around only to see Luffy rising from the ground, a small blue bundle in her arms .
"Luffy-chan!" he cried rushing towards her.
-Be my Swordsman-
Zoro was meditating.
It was what he did when he wasn't daydreaming about killing that blonde idiot.
Or trying to ignore the fierce rumbling of his stomach. (Those dirt covered riceball had only amounted to a grain of rice in comparison to his hungry stomach.)
Or counting the number of rocks on the ground, which was really much more interesting than anyone gave it credit for and…
God, he was losing it.
Anyway, he was meditating, trying to mentally make up for the training his body was missing.
So intent was he on his task he didn't notice the red–clad bust until it was only a few centimeters from his face.
"Gah!" he yelped , cursing as his head collided painfully with the wooden post he was tied too. Jerking his head up he felt his eyes widen as they came in contact with sparking brown.
"Hi!" the girl chirped.
Zoro blinked. Once , twice..
"What the hell , girl!" He hadn't meant for it to come out like that. Really, he hadn't. But due the closeness of this girl and his current slouched position he was getting a good view indeed and it would not do good to let how flustered he was show and wreak his badass , wouldn't do good at all.
The girl continued to grin at him, utterly unfazed by his sharp glare. She leaned in a bit closer towards the swordsman, causing him to curse and stretch his head back as far as he could. After about a minute of staring, which left Zoro squirming internally, the girl pulled back, her smile growing larger.
"I've decided!" she said suddenly." I want you to be a part of my crew!"
Zoro blinked.
"Eh?"
"EH?" Both heads turned to see the source of the incredulous shout running towards them at top speed.
Coby grabbed Luffy's arm in a firm hold and quickly dragged the girl a little ways away from Zoro.
"Luffy-chan, you can't be serious." The boy whispered furiously. That guy's trouble. You know what people call him? An unholy demon. Plus he's a pirate hunter! What good is a pirate hunter on a pirate crew!"
"Shishishishi don't worry Coby, Zoro's a good guy, remember? It'll be fine."
'I wouldn't count anyone who's felled countless people as a good guy .' The pink-haired boy thought grimly, conveniently forgetting that those people where pirates. "Luffy-chan can't you find someone different?" preferably someone who won't cut you up in your sleep!
"Nuh-uh, I don't want anyone else. It has to be Zoro." Luffy said stubbornly.
And just like that the look on Coby's face turned from a panicked grimace to a sullen frown.
"Why." He said sharply, fixing the swordsman with a frosty look.
"Cause. That's why."
If possible, Coby's look got even colder.
Luffy's grin was sudden replaced by a hard frown. Startled, Coby immediately released her, fully intending to take a step back. He barely registered the whistling sound of a blade slashing through the air, before his head was forcibly grabbed and his face was pressed against something quite soft. It took him about a split second to realize what it was, and with that realization, came the complete shutdown of about all of Coby's mental functions.
"Trying to cut off people's heads isn't very nice." Luffy said matter-a factly , a displeased frown marring her pretty face. She released a now very flustered Coby, who tittered a bit on his feet before crashing to the ground, a glazed look in his eyes.
Helmeppo smirked at the girl before him. She was quite cute. Unlike that barbaric girl that had hit him earlier. Not that he really knew what she looked like. His face had begun to swell and thus his vision had been a little foggy , but he just knew that she had to be some ugly , uncultured hag to punch him. "Trespassing on a naval base isn't very legal." His smirk widened as his eyes appraised Luffy."Buuuut, I'm willingly to overlook you fraternizing with a criminal if you agree to be my girlfriend. I even promise not to tell my Daddy." He flashed her what he thought was a suave smile." What do you say?"
He expected a gushed yes . He expected a pleased smile. He expected an ecstatic hug. What he didn't expect was hard punch to his glorious face.
He fell to the ground with an impressive thud, blood gushing out of his nose.
(Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away (and apart) two pirates turned towards the east, with nearly identical expressions of suspicion.)
Luffy glared at him "I have no idea what you were trying to say Onion head, but if you're picking a fight, you got one." Helmeppo stared at her, the beginning of tears forming in the corner of his eyes.
"Y-y-you hit me. Y-y-you big meanie! I'm telling my Daddy on you too!" What was up with girls hitting him today!
Luffy glared increased. She hated people who couldn't fight their own battles.
"Oi, you live here, right?" she asked, taking a menacing step forward.
Helmeppo cringed, all thoughts of revenge driven from his mind, and nodded meekly.
Luffy grinned. "Good, cause I need you to help me find some swords."
Helmeppo gulped.
Of all the times to go off without guards.
-The pirate Hunter-
"Shove off you stupid kid." Zoro snarled irritably. After snapping out of his small trance the kid had immediatly set upon undoing Zoro's binding, much to the hunter's would not due good for his conscious if this kid got himself killed because he was helping him. He already had the idiot girl running around the base,. "Why are you even helping me!"
Cody huffed.
"Because Luffy's risking her life to help you. What kind of friend would I be if I didn't help her?" The pink-haired boy snarled as his fingers flew across the rope that bound the pirate hunter.
Zoro blinked, a bit startled by the boy's animosity.
"What's your problem kid?" he asked , honestly confused.
'Maybe the fact that Luffy just has to have you on her crew, and I'm risking my life for a potential rival, whose not even all that great.'
"Nothing."
'I bet it's the muscles.' He thought scornfully glaring at the swordsman arms.
What was the big deal about girls and muscles!
He could get muscles if he wanted . Not that he needed them. Being a marine required more than muscle, it was about speed and intelligence.
Not about scars and muscles.
Which he could get.
If he wanted them.
He turned to glare at Zoro, who stared back very much bemused.
With a huff, he turned back to his task.
'Note too self: Get muscles.'
Cody only had a little time to ponder this, before a shot echoed across the bare plain and his world exploded with pain.
"Swords, swords, swords, swords, where are those damn swords!" Luffy fumed as she ran through the countless set of identical hallways.
"Hey onion-head where are Zoro's swords!" she growled , giving her lank burden a rough shake.
Helmeppo, who up until that point had been crying quite pathetically, gave the girl a fearful look.
They're in m-m-my room." He sniveled. "You a-a-already passed it."
"What!" The cowardly blonde gave out a cry when Luffy smacked him non to gently in the face "Why didn't you tell me that earlier!"
"Ow! You didn't give me a chance you stupid girl! And how dare you hit me again!" It wasn't fair. The girl was so cute, but she wouldn't grovel and was ten times stronger than he was! And she kept hitting him!
"Oh shut up, stupid onion-head." Luffy said grumpily as she turned to run down the direction she just came.
"You there, halt!" Luffy jumped and turned toward the command , a curious expression on her face.
"Yeah?" Luffy chirped, completely unconcerned by the numerous guns pointing at her. The, speaker, to his credit, recovered from the shock of the obvious dismissal with merely a flush indicating he had been affected at all.
"Put down the Captain's son or we'll shoot." He shouted. Luffy blinked.
"Wait."
Helmeppo felt his face flame up as something soft pressed against his back. The blonde chocked as he realized exactly what it was. This was the closest he had ever been to a girl and even though this girl had punched his magnificent face three times today and had dragged him all around the base, somewhere in his depraved mind , he felt that this had to be some admission that she liked and thus meant she was worthy of a second chance.
"Ok, now you can shoot."
On second thought…
Helmeppo screamed as he was propelled headfirst into the horde of gun-wielding sailors. Though he would always remember this day as the worst day of his life, a part of him (most likely the minuscule part, that could be identified as his manhood.) felt that even he had died that day , he would have died a happy man.
Zoro stared at the guns now pointed towards him and the widely failing Coby.
He couldn't die. Not now, not here. Not yet.
He had made a promise. He couldn't break it now.
Flashes of a black-hair girl assaulted his mind, as the assembled sailors, as one, readied themselves to shoot.
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Twenty minutes later Zoro was still in shock.
He just couldn't wrap his mind around the fact that a little girl, had not only managed to save his life , but hold herself in fight with a seasoned marine captain.
He turned back to stare at the girl who was laughing with the pink-haired boy while scarfing down her third helping of soup. She had been smiling then too as she took on a guy twice her size. There had been no hesitation, no fear as she battled. Just that confident smile as she presented him his swords before preceding to annilate the corrupt bastard.
A wry smirk made a way to his face as drained the last of his rum.
It figured that the only women he'd chose to led him would be one who could beat him in a fight. Just his luck. He must have a thing for finding strong girls. Or better yet girls stronger then him…
Cody stared after the retreating boat, a wistful smile on his face.
He should have seen what the girl was pulling the minute she opened her mouth.
Luffy had done nothing but help him . Even when it looked like she was damming him it all turned out to be in his best interest (though he could have done without the beating. After all he had only shoved her.).
He owed it to her to become stronger. Even if they were now enemies , even if there was a possibility that one day they would meet on separate ends of the battlefield, he would become a strong marine and show her what he was made off.
'Watch out Zoro! I won't let you win!'
The temporary leader gave their newest recruit a shrewd look.
He was not too old to not recognize the beginnings of a boyhood crush.
He had seen, just before he came into the tavern, the way the boy glared at the girl's newest partner. Had noticed his stricken look when the two had announced they were heading out. Had seen the goofy look cross his face when the girl had given him a large goodbye hug (though he could not blame him for that one. The boy, being a good foot shorter than the girl had gotten a very good faceful indeed). Many of the shorter soldiers , at that, had looked like they wanted a hug too, but any requests were quelled by a sharp glare.
He wouldn't say anything though. The desire to become strong was an admirable one, no matter the reason. Plus the girl was quite the catch, pirate or not.
'God speed kid , you're gonna need all the luck ya can get with that one.'
-Den Den Mushi Death Threats
"She's gorgeous isn't she ! ISN'T SHE!"
The mayor of Fuchsia Village stared at the phone utterly bewildered.
Why did he make that sound like an accusation?
'Ace…'
'ISN'T SHE ! I JUST KNOW IT! DAMN IT ALL TO HE-'
The Mayor jerked the phone away from his ear as Ace voice raised in volume. Over the years the mayor had suffered many 'status' calls from the two boys with demands to know about Luffy. How much she'd grown, changes in the pitch of her voice, scar reports, hair growth etc. So, as Luffy had just set off mere hours before, the Mayor had been expecting the call.
The anger (from Ace at least) was also expected.
The following hour-long rant was not.
Makino giggled into her hands as the mayor continued to stare at the phone utterly amazed.
'Ace,' injected the calm voice of Sabo. 'Shut up.'
'…..'
'I'm sorry mayor, now could you please continue your report. How exactly did Luffy look."
"Yeah !Tell me old man ,how amazing does she looks!" Ace shouted a hint of accusation still present is his voice. Three years without a photo of his beloved sister had driven him to the breaking point. Who knew how amazing she looked? All the men in the world would probably be throwing themselves at her feet, trying to gain her affection, forcing their impure feelings on his innocent baby sister. He had the sneaking suspicion that someone already had. UNFORGIVABLE! He seethed as his body glowed red with rage. Marco silently edged away from his glowing crewmate.
"Ace, your being paranoid about Luffy again, aren't you?"
"It's not paranoia if I know they're out to get her!"
'That is exactly what it is. Moreover, stop making it sound like it's the mayor fault. He's not her father.'
'Well then, who else am I supposed to blame?'
'Genetics?' Ace glared at the phone. He could practically feel Sabo's deadpan stare. Beside him, Macro muffled a chuckle with his hand.
Back on Dawn Island the Mayor rolled his eyes.
"I haven't even told you what she looks like."
The two brothers snorted, obviously not believing that their sister could be anything but a knockout.
They weren't wrong.
'Well spill it!'
"Luffy is just fine you two." Makino said, feeling pity for the poor mayor, who was sputtering at the rudeness that was Ace.(2) "She's grown into a very pretty young lady. Probably three inches taller since you two left. Her hair's grown out to her shoulders as well it's very pretty, though the poor things not too good with tending to it. " she said with a sigh , amidst the fond chuckles of Ace and Sabo "Though not that she has too , she just shoves that hat over it without a second thought. It's a bit frustrating."
'That's not enough,' Surprisingly , it was Sabo who said this.
"Yeah," Ace immediately piped in. 'I want exact measurements."
"40-24-36,"(3) the mayor said before he could stop himself. He had accompanied Makino many times to go shopping for the girl so it was only natural that he knew that sort of thing. Unfortunately, he seemed to have forgotten who he was talking to…
There was silence.
Makino put her face in her hands. "I don't think that's what he meant mayor."
And then…
'WHY YOU FUCKING, DIRTY ,PREVENTED OLD MAN! WHERE THE HELL DO YOU GET OFF OGLING MY SISTER! DAMNED HENTAI! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU! JUST YOU WAIT OLD MAN!WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH PIECES OF YOU LEFT TO IDENTIFY AND MRPH-"
Ace voice was suddenly cut off and a new unfamiliar one was heard.
'SHUT UP ACE! If you wake pops up we'll all be in trouble!'
'NO ! THAT BASTERD HAS BEEN OGLING MY SISTER ! HE MUST DIE!'
'No Ace! Remember we're on a ship !A WOODEN SHIP! Don't activate your powers! ACE! NOO!AHHHHH-'
'WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON DOWN THERE!'
And then the line went died. The following silence was interrupted by Sabo's cool voice.
'Be expecting a visit from us very soon mayor.'
The Mayor gulped.
He was so screwed.
TBC…
Omake: Atashi no kokoro: anrokku!
This is a first of numerous OKAME's that features Luffy in various female roles. The first person to figure out what anime this is from gets to choose the next one.
She was falling.
There was nothing else to it.
Luffy saw her life flash before her eyes, as the wind roared around her , her red checkerboard school uniform whipping furiously . Small clips of the most important moments in her life…
Her first birthday.
Her first piece of meat.
The adoption of Ace and later Sabo.
The cold snowy day that Ace had finally refereed to her as his sister…
All these images and more flashed before her eyes
And suddenly she was turning,
Turning and waving her hands, trying desperately to grasp on to something , anything that would save her.
'Them' she thought finally remembering the unconscious boy connected to the loose arms around her chest.
Really, first, the stupid redhead cat-eared boy had tried to steal the cool-looking egg she had found this morning from her, and then he chased her for no good reason, which had resulted in her dropping her ice cream (unforgivable). Then he had accidently pushed her off the roof of a building, when she had enough of the chase and charged at him, swinging, and in the midst of trying save her had somehow managed to get knocked out.
Useless Asshole.
But she really had no time to dwell on that , as she felt her wildly failing arms contacting with something very warm.
Suddenly a bright red light flashed before her hers, so bright that she had to shut her eyes tight due to the sheer brilliance of it. A weight even warmer than that she felt before settled against her chest .
Opening her smarting eyes , she felt her jaw drop as she laid eyes on the most peculiar thing.
It was a chibi her.
A chibi her, dressed in a red top and blue shorts, complete with a strawhat and an elegant red cape-coat fluttering behind her.
Weird.
"Hi!" the mini her chirped as though falling to your death happened every day. " I'm Jiyuu! Nice ta meet ya!"
To be continued in Okame four.
(1) Exaggeration.
(2) I hope Ace doesn't seem too over the top. I am of the firmest belief that the only reason Ace learned manners was because Sabo died and he was the 'polite' brother. I can vividly see Ace telling Sabo to handle the 'formal' aspect of thanking Shanks. However he is not crass and does resemble his polite self in the Anime/Manga( tho mostly due to Sabo). It's just the stress.
(3) I was told by a guy that this was a girls perfect measurement.(He's obviously never seen Boa) Just refer to the Deviant art photo if you want to see what Luffyko is to look like.
And that's it for Chapter two. Don't forget to drop me a review. Also I got some requests for a male!Nami , that's the reason I made her genderless in this chapter. So I'm having a poll, If you want her genderbent let me know. ( Note: Sanji will not be genderbent, even if Nami is. ) I also got a request for genderbent Shanks. Something else to vote on.