Hello everyone!

In the comments, you guys were stating that even though Reiki will not use much of his power, he still sound to powerful and needs some kind of weakness (in both battle and life)

So I will create some kind of weakness that may or may not be his downfall in the future.

He will also have some kind of silly weakness (since all the powerful guys in one piece have some kind of stupid weakness or are not serious in the middle of the fight) like for example: Being scared of bees, secretly hates vegetables, actually sucks at cooking even though he brags that he's the best, please note that I'm not actually going to use any of the weaknesses I just mentioned.

Anyway, for this chapter, it's going to be a time skip for a few months after Luffy met Reiki. And please note that both Luffy and Garp aren't aware of Reiki's full name, 'Cheshire D. Reiki' or that Reiki is a 'D'.

In this chapter, it's somewhat Luffy's POV in the beginning, because low and behold!

Shanks and the Akagami pirate crew are here!

I'm planning to try and add Whitebeard as soon as possible, depending on this chapter, I'm guessing that the Whitebeard Pirates will arrive at Dawn island in the next 10 or so chapters.

Anyway, on to the story~

P.S.: By the way, I didn't exactly know how long Shanks stayed in Fuusha Village, so I guessing about 1 year.

Narrator's POV:

The meeting between Monkey D. Luffy and Cheshire D. Reiki was destiny. Not that anyone probably knows.

True brotherhood bonds formed as Reiki became the 1st most important thing in Luffy's life, replacing meat which was a feat that should be put on the walls of the hall of fame.

While Reiki was unaware of this fact (or maybe he was, but who knows), Luffy adored Reiki, due to the fact that Reiki was probably the first friend his age (those mean kids in the village don't count), Reiki had awesome powers that he would always wink mysteriously when Luffy asked where they come from (Not that Luffy had any idea of how powerful those powers actually were), the fact that Reiki gave him food (which deems him as a good person in Luffy's eyes), and most importantly of all..

Reiki was Luffy's first big brother.

He was Luffy's first nakama.

After a few months since the meeting, Reiki had gone off for training for 7 months (not that he told anyone when he was going to come back, he just left a note that said, 'I'm off, be back soon'), exploring more of Goa Kingdom (and maybe or maybe not bring a few disgusting snobby nobles to their knees while in disguise)

1 month after Reiki left, the infamous Red Hair Shanks and the Akagami Pirates arrived at Fuusha Village...

6 months and 2 weeks later...

"Luffy, I think its time for you to go to bed." Makino said sadly.

Luffy looked down sadly, before piping up again.

"Ok! Bye Makino! Bye Everyone!" He said happily, though anyone could tell it was fake.

Shanks frowned, drunk but still thinking right. Shouldn't his parents come and pick him up? Now that he thought about it, he never seen or heard anything about Anchors parents.

"I'll take you back Anchor!" Shanks smiled a slightly drunk smile, accepting Makino's smile of gratitude, and picking up Luffy abruptly and let him sit on his shoulders, hands gripping on his favourite straw hat.

Luffy smiled happily, "Thanks Shanks!"

On there way to Luffy's house, Shanks was swaying side to side, to purposely make the ride more bumpy for Luffy since he seems like a daredevil. Not to mention Shanks was still kind of drunk.

"Hey Anchor, where you're parents?"

Luffy looked down sadly, Shanks not missing the slightly lonely and confused look in his eyes. "Don't have any."

"Then whose looking after you?"Shanks asked with slightly growing panic that his cute little anchor is living in a house alone, what is he, like 5 years old now?

"Gramps." Was the boy's reply as if it was obvious.

"Then where is he?"

"Don't know." Luffy shrugged his shoulders as he pointed to a certain direction and tried to struggle his way down, indicating that they have arrived.

Shanks looked up.

...

And for some reason, the Red haired Yonko instantly wanted to burn the house down.

It was a nice house, with a little more luxury then the rest in the village, indicating the Luffy's grandfather, whoever that shitty man was, had to be somewhat rich.

The house was a simple large white house with pale peach highlights and a dark brown roof. The door was pale peach as well as the outlining of the windows which had some dead flowers that indicated that maybe there once was some kind of joy in this house.

Shanks also noted a miniature garden that was full of herbs that seemed still alive. As well as a balcony and a deck in the backward.

The house seemed to vibrate gloom, loneliness, and for some reason lost memories.

Luffy walked up and opened the already unlocked door (which Shanks made a mental note to tell the little boy to beware of perverts, paedophiles, and other sick people who might be attracted to the adorable little boy)

Shanks followed, almost coughing on all the dust. The living room, the kitchen, the bathrooms, all full of dust and a wary dark feeling. Shanks looked at the photo frames that seemed shadowed, perhaps this house might have once had happiness.

The only room Shanks didn't immediately want to burn down was a yellow door that opened to reveal bright sky coloured walls with a few birds or clouds painted here and there.

A bouncy messy bed that was obviously used recently as well as action figures and colouring books littering the floor.

When the Yonko's attention went back to the small boy he became so fond of, he noticed that he was staring at a photo frame, not seeing what the picture was but was trying to hold back the urge to crush the boy into a hug when the boy was giving a soft and happy smile at the photo.

"What's that Luffy?" Shanks asked in a good natural tone, trying not to sound curious. Luffy looked up and grinned a grin to wide for his face.

"It's a secret!" The small boy said in a happy tone as he put the photo inside his bedside table drawer andlocked it with a key which he put safely in his pocket.

Shanks was downright shocked that Luffy was actually responsible enough to keep something a secret, even more shocked when the small boy actually thought to take precautions and locked it.

Being the nosy person he was, he unconsciously thought up of ways to try and find out what the photo was showing.

1: He could create less work for himself and destroy the drawer but that might destroy the photo and also create a very unhappy Luffy.

2: He could ask Makino-chan in hopes of finding out. However knowing that teasing personality of her's she would probably keep it a secret.

3.: He could get Yasopp to pick the lock however that might cause some questions.

4: He could-

A hand touched him on his shoulder, interrupting him trying to think up this fourth option. He turned around to see the sweet bartender Makino.

"That photo is precious to him if he's trying to keep it a secret, I think its best if you leave it alone, I'm sure you'll find out eventually." Makino smiled sweetly.

Luffy came running into the room in his pajama's which made Shanks innerly squeal at the adorableness.

Tucking Luffy in to bed, Makino whispered gently in his ear, "He'll be back soon...Each day that goes by, the closer the day he'll come back." Luffy smiled happily at the thought while Shanks was wondering who they were talking about.

His shitty grandfather perhaps? (Shitty because he actually dared to leave his sweet adorable anchor stay home by himself at the freaking age of 5.)

As Shanks and Makino stepped quietly out of the room, turning the lights off, Shanks could have sworn Luffy mumbled something in his sleep with a happy smile.

"...Reiki..."

Somewhere on the other side of the island...

Binkusu no sake wo... todoke ni yuku yo...
Umikaze kimakase namimakase...
Shio no mukou de... yuuhi mo sawagu...
Sora nya wa wo kaku... tori no uta...

A gentle voice soothed through the night as the voice sang a slow version of the usually happy and cheery song.

The voice belonged to a small figure who was in a a white hood that hid his face flowed behind him like a cape.

He stopped and stared at a certain direction as if sensing something that was calling out to him.

"Hmm...Now that I think about it, Lu really likes the lullaby version of this song doesn't he..?" The small figure took off his white hood and stared into the starry sky.

Gentle pale blond locks that looked almost as white as snow in the night with a long low ponytail that flowed along with the wind, deep violet eyes that sparkled and seemed to glow in the night was searching the sky for a moon.

"Full moon, ka? Its been about 6 months and 2 weeks now."

Cheshire D. Reiki let out a slightly depressed aura. "Ahh~ I miss Luffy..." Perking up happily with fake cheery childish 'innocent' he cheered, "Yosh! Lets go back to the village tomorrow! I hope he didn't do anything stupid while I was gone!"

Young 5-year old, Monkey D. Luffy was standing on the bow of the infamous Akagami no Pirates ship, glaring angrily at Red-Hair Shanks and his crew who were laughing at him.

"I'm not kidding! I'm serious! Now I will show you!" Luffy shouted angrily as he held a knife in his hands.

Red-Hair Shanks laughed with amusement and mockery. "Fine! Show us!" Shanks shouted pumping his fist in the air, a distant thought passed through his air-filled head if the brat he come to be so fond of was going to do anything dangerous.

"I wonder what he's going to do this time..." One of the pirates muttered in curiosity.

"Knowing Luffy, probably something really childish." Another pirate answered him.

Only God knows why the Pirates were stupid enough to let a 5 year old child hold a knife and was standing on a 5 meter figurehead.

Luffy held the knife in front of his face, having a look that was telling that his human instincts were telling him that this was a bad idea, but Luffy ignored it considering his determination and stubbornness somehow outweighed it by a mile.

Shanks stopped smiling when Luffy brought out a knife in front of his face.

Then Luffy stabbed himself beneath the eye.

Shanks and the crew gasped loudly in shock.

"OUCH!"

"YOU IDIOT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

"Men, lets make a toast!"

"TO LUFFY'S COURAGEOUS ACE (STUPID ACT) AND OUR GREAT VOYAGE!"

"KAMPAI!"

"Sake! There's not enough sake!"

"HEY! That's my meat!"

"Shut up! I'll eat it!"

"Ah! It didn't hurt at all!" Luffy said 'bravely' with tears lingering in his eyes, threatening to fall.

"Yeah, right!" Shanks said with an unimpressed tone despite the fond smile on his face.

Reiki stood outside of the bar, leaning next to the entrance in silence.

'I forgot about the Red Hair Pirates...' was the only thing that was passing through his mind as Reiki felt like he wanted to smack his head on the wall right there constantly.

'...And they said I was a genius...' Reiki wanted to laugh at his pathetic memory while at the same time he was smiling happily because the time with Luffy (and probably catching some of his air-headedness ) has made him more...human. And not some kind of cold child prodigy.

Reiki tugged down his white hood as he wondered if he should introduce himself now...maybe go in as the 'protective big brother' mode and fuss over Luffy for stabbing himself?

Or maybe go in as 'smiley sadist that somehow walk around with his eyes closed all the time' and let out a dark aura which would probably scare Shanks then dote Luffy as if they weren't there?

'Ah~ So many choices that cause so much chaos~' Reiki thought happily. He tipped his head to the side and gave a thoughtful look, putting a finger on his chin.

If he had to think logically, Reiki was aware that Shanks and probably a good number of others in the bar could probably sense him with Observational Haki. While Reiki was pretty sure he got the aura repressing down, his haki was still a chihuahua compared to the lion Red-hair Pirates.

'Then again...' Reiki yawned. 'I'm pretty tired, I just travel without taking much rest, so I think I head back to our house and give it a good clean-up before taking a nap, then I'll make Luffy a special dinner and desert for leaving him alone for half a year.'

Satisfied with his decision he headed to his house he shared with Luffy and the shitty gramp- I mean, Garp when he was here.

'...' Cheshire D. Reiki stared at the gloomy dark, probably bug-filled sorry excuse for a innocent 5 and 6 year old child. And a shitty gramp- I mean grandfather.

Now, Reiki wasn't like most 6 year old boys (who's secretly like 18) if you hadn't noticed.

While most modern boys like to play games, laze around, or play pranks and laugh there asses off before getting killed, Reiki was different.

Sure, he liked to do all that. But he had a girly side to him that probably wouldn't be found in a male.

And no, he wasn't ashamed. He was proud. Besides if you really thought about it, women kind of have more skills then male, not that he would ever admit it considering he was a male.

To put it simply, Reiki was maybe, kind of, sort of, not really, but kind of really, a clean freak.

Ok, maybe not a freak, but someone who liked to keep things neat, tidy, and you know, clean, at all times.

DON'T STARE AT ME LIKE THAT. DOESN'T IT JUST BOTHER YOU WHEN YOU SEE UNDERWEAR, DIRTY SHIRTS, OR SO MUCH DUST IT ACTUALLY TURNS INTO BUGS LYING AROUND LIKE THEY RULE THE WORLD OR SOMETHING?

IS HE THE ONLY ONE THAT'S NOT BOTHERED BY THE THOUGHT OF CATCHING SOME KIND OF DISEASE BECAUSE OF THE DIRTINESS OR THE FACT THAT BED BUGS OR OTHER CREEPY CRAWLERS ASSAULT YOU AT NIGHT?

Yeah, didn't think so.

Moving on.

Putting on a cleaning mask, gloves, an apron, and a hankerchief tied in his hair pulling back any loose strands, spotted cat ears and a tail appeared with a few sparkles which evaporated into the air.

"Cheetah call." Reiki said simply. Oh, how he wonders why in the world does every single damn character in One Piece always announce their attacks, sure you should give it a name but to say it every single damn time? Sounds kind of a pain.

In around half an hour, Reiki was able to convince all the bugs to move out (Animal powers), then vacuumed the whole house before dusting it and wiping all the dirt and any other nasty stuff Luffy must have brought in.

Watering the herbs that somehow were still alive, then re-placing the dead flowers with simple pretty wild flowers, then sweeping all the dead leaves and rocks to the side, heck, he even had enough time to repaint some imperfections and replace broken tiles on the roof.

Taking out everything that seemed useless and adding his own decorations here and there to make it more cheery. Reiki was happy that at least Luffy's room was spared the gloom and doom, Makino probably did all the cleaning.

Cleaning up all the action figures, colouring books, and dusting the bookshelf full of study books that he never used. Making the bed, he ignored the very bad crayon drawings of things he couldn't identify on the walls.

Reiki thinks the figure with the yellow head and skinny stick man arms was him and the black monkey-like figure that was hanging off him holding a brown thing which Reiki thought was Luffy holding meat.

Reiki smiled.

And then there was a drawing of a tall figure with red hair and a straw hat which was obviously Shanks...

...though Reiki was questioning why Shanks seemed to be sitting on a giant banana with wings.

Perhaps Luffy misheard one of Shanks stories but was so impressed that he decided to draw it on his 'wall of fame'

Well, it made a good laugh.

For the finishing touch, Reiki sprayed all over the house a soft fresh scent of wildflowers and outdoors which he made himself.

He looked around to admire his look.

Except he was using cheetah night vision.

Getting rid of the ears and tail, everything was pretty much black. Reiki sighed. The sun must be starting to set now.

"Why did Luffy even shut all these curtains anyway?" Reiki muttered as he snapped his fingers and all the curtains opened revealing the orange and pink sun rays. And no, this was not a part of his powers, this was a small magic trick he learned back in his own world along with fortune telling skills that for some crazy reason actually work in this world.

Opening a window to let some fresh air in, Reiki admired the sunset for a few moments. His favourite pair of cheshire purple cat ears appeared on his head on instinct when he heard loud noises.

Reiki sighed with amusement, "They're still partying? How does Makino keep her stock up if those pirates 'pirate' 24/7 not to mention Luffy, who still eats a large amount even without his devil fruit."

Ding!

A bell ringed out of nowhere signalling that Reiki remembered something.

"Wait...stock..? Ah! Got to go to the grocery store before it closes for dinner and restocking of the fridge!"

Closing the windows and locking the door with his key, he dashed to the nearest grocery store. Money wasn't a problem considering how many nobles he robbed and they have absolutely no idea they were robbed until 3 days later.

Not to mention Luffy never actually uses (or probably knows) of the large amounts of money Garp sends every month for stuff like clothes, foods, and other stuff.

Reiki tried to guess the time by the angle of the sun. "Mmn...Lets hope Luffy doesn't come home until I came back."

5 minutes later...

Shanks, Luffy, and Makino just happened to skip back to the white house 5 minutes after Reiki left.

But if Reki knew this, he wouldn't mind. Because honestly he didn't want to see this sappy heart-warming scene.

Luffy was between Makino and Shanks holding there hands and skipped along. Makino and Shanks hosted up him sometimes to bring more 'jump' to his skips as they smiled fondly.

To put it simply, they looked like one of those families where nothing goes wrong and have moments like this everywhere where you just can't help but smile.

In other words. To much sappiness for Reiki, he would have felt totally out of place.

Moving on.

When the small 'family' arrived at Luffy's house, they were all surprised. "Ara, the house looks brand new!" Makino exclaimed as she noticed the sweeped yards and fresh re-planted flowers.

Luffy took a deep breath. "I smell wildflowers! The air feels so clean!" He said happily. Perhaps the entire time the house started getting dirtier including the air, Luffy was unconsciously breathing in dusty air without his knowledge, only now seeing the difference.

"It actually looks like a happy-fun family house then that gloomy haunted mansion from the last time I was here!" Shanks, was quite pleased with this new development since he was secretly planning to somehow burn the previously gloomy house that was housing his adorable poor little anchor.

"Perhaps it was your shitty grandfa- I mean grandfather, Anchor?" Shanks suggested, having a change of thoughts for the shitty grandfather who abandoned his grandson in a cold white house.

"No way." He was immediately shot down by Luffy and even Makino.

Makino then sniffed the air. "This smell...wild flower perfume? And I know this scent." The green-haired bartender racked through her brain until she came to remember a certain memory.

"Good Morning, Makino." A small pale blond haired boy walked up to the green-haired bar tender with a kind smile. The smile faded from his face when he wrinkled his nose in disgust of all the smell of alcohol. His animal sense nose was quite sensitive after all.

"Uh, this smell is nauseating, this can't be good for the health for a young woman like you Makino." The green bartender smiled, already use to his mature personality despite being 6. "I'm use to it, no worries."

She went back to cleaning a glass when she felt a small impact on her fore head. She looked up to see deep violet amethyst eyes staring straight into her's with amusement and wisdom that a child's eyes should not possess. "Use to it or not, you don't like it. But I can fix that for you."

Taking out a small bottle, he spritzed it in the air a couple of times. Instantly a fresh and not strong scent of calming wildflowers spread through the room. Makino took a deep breath and smiled widely, "Amazing! This scent isn't strong and is refreshing and calming."

Reiki gave a small wink, "Perfect for calming aching hangovers, no? I made this myself. I leave it with you since I have an extra. I've got to go and make breakfast before Luffy wakes up. Later." The blond boy casually waved with a cool demeanor that surprisingly suited him.

The green-haired bartender giggled. "That boy is going to be a hit among the female population in the future, but something tells me he won't be very interested."

Luffy recognized the scent as well. "AH! This is the smell from the bar, but I don't smell it at the bar anymore!"

Makino put two and two together easily and a happy aura was released from her. "Luffy, that was a special perfume that Reiki made for me, but I ran out right after he left, if your house you share with Reiki has the same scent, do you know what this means...?" Makino hinted an awful lot, knowing Luffy won't understand even if you put it simply. Or even stated it right to his face.

Luffy thought for a moment before he instantly lit up. "That means...Reiki is back!"

Well, Luffy didn't mind to think for his family even though thinking did hurt.

Shanks was utterly lost.

Currently, his new favourite bar-tender was radiating a happy aura and such a bright smile that it nearly blinded him. Not to mention that Luffy was bouncing around glowing with pure happiness and excitement, Shanks could honestly say that this was the first time he's ever seen little Anchor this happy.

Crack.

This is also the first time Shanks had seen Luffy break the door to his own house.

"Luffy!" Makino gasped in shock.

Luffy got out his puppy-dog eyes at her. "I didn't mean to! The door just wouldn't open! I thought Reiki was inside!"

Makino had slight resistance considering she's known Luffy for a while. Shanks...not so much.

"Of course not, Anchor! I'll take the blame if this Reiki guy ever gets angry at you!"

"That's fine, Captain. After all, Reiki has never been angry or lashed out at Luffy before, even when Luffy ruined his 3 million beli painting."

Shanks eyes went wide. "3 million beli?! I didn't know anyone in this village had that kind of money!"

"Neither did I, though Reiki was always the kind to be full of surprises." Makino giggled as they went inside the house.

It was completely different from when Shanks and Makino went there last time. Luffy just happily raced around the clean and warm-heart feeling house. "Home! This is how Reiki always cleans! Reiki must be back! I can't wait to see him again!" Luffy began ranting happily.

"Who is this Reiki guy anyway?" Shanks was now really itching to know.

Luffy stopped ranting/running/cheering and turned to him with a big grin that was too wide for his face.

"Reiki is my big brother!"

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?!"

I was planning to go furthur, but then I was like. 'You know what, save it for next time, I'm tired.'

I'm 99.99% sure that they're are spelling mistakes, so please forgive me for that part. I'll try to fix it when I have time. (Which currently I don't.)