Luffy stood in front of a full length mirror, taking in his appearance. He was wearing black trousers that were semi tight around his legs; his jumper was also black, with a white sailor's collar with a dark red double strips, the ends of the sleeves were also white with red strips. He had a white hat on with black and red ribbon running around it, with a piece of it sticking out at the back.
Smiling bright he spins around once, then hurries to his bedroom door; on opening it he walks out and slammed it loudly behind him.
"Grandpa!" Luffy calls as he makes his way down the corridor and to the landing, he leans over the railing,"Grandpa! I'm ready!" Luffy frowns deeply when he heard no reply, "Grandpa?"
Blinking he listens, turning his head to one side. On not hearing any moved to the top of the stairs, then jumped the whole flight to the bottom. He lands on his hands and knees still blinking as he listening out for any sound. On hearing a noise Luffy stands and quickly ran to the kitchen.
"Grandpa? You were here!" Luffy said with a grin as he spotted his grandfather placing some food on the table, it was piled a mile high. He pauses when he noticed that his grandfather's mouth was turned up side down, looking very unhappy. "What's wrong?!" He shouted out loud, if only to get the old man's attention.
It worked; Garp blinked as he slid a lot of fried sheep eyes onto a plate and stares at Luffy. He smiled brightly when he sees that Luffy was in his graduation clothes.
"You look just like me when I graduated." Garp said oddly quite, he waved his hand to the table, "Eat up my boy, you have a big day ahead."
"Shishishishi~" Luffy laughs happily as he came forward and flopped down in the chair, "Something wrong?" He asked again as he watched his grandfather also taken a seat.
"Ah, nothing for you to worry about Luffy," Garp replies as he lifted a plate to his face and pours the contain into his mouth. "Just some little brat who disobeyed me...again."
"That Ace guy you mentioned before?" Luffy asked as he remembered that his grandfather's worry over his adopted grandson. Luffy grabbed a plate and also opened his mouth as wide as he could, dumping the food within.
"Yes," Garp said sadly as he lowed his head and sat the empty plate to one side, "That boy is turning my hair white."
"I think that's just because you're old grandpa." Luffy said with a cheeky grin, causing the old man to laugh out loud.
"Could be. Could be." Garp nodded his head as laughing, then stopped and leaned closer to the table and says in a low voice, "Oh and Luffy, I sneaked a peek at where they are assigning you."
Luffy also leans forward grinning ear to ear now, "Where is it?" He asked knowing that he was meant to have known until after graduation.
"East Blue!" Garp declared loudly then and laughed as loud as he could, "At the same base where I was first assigned!" Garp leans back into his seat and stared into nothingness as he gazed into his memories. "It was a new build back then, and there were only a small number. Ah, those were the days. Boring at times but still we had our moments."
Luffy smiled as he grabbed another plate and started to shovel food in with a spoon.