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After the incident with the captain of the 'notorious' Mugiwara Kaizokudan, the Whitebeard crew went on about their business around the ship.

Almost an hour has passed when the door to Haruta's cabin opened, letting the dishevelled nurses to come out, followed by a grinning Izou and a victorious-looking Haruta.

"Ladies and gentlemen" Izou started.

"We now present to you" Haruta continued

"Mu-" they were interrupted when they heard Luffy yell "Oi, you two! Can I change?"

The two looked at each other before whispering something to the nurses. The nurses hurriedly went inside and crashes were heard.

Izou cleared his throat. "Anyways, here is Monkey D. Luffy!"

When they stepped aside, Luffy was seen to be wearing a deep red spaghetti-strapped dress that ended under her knees and a short knitted white cardigan that ended just below her elbows, light make up, black high-heeled sandals, and her boshi was perched gently on top of her short hair that was curled into soft ringlets so that it softly brushed her face.

She would've been considered as the most beautiful woman in all the four blues if she weren't wearing a frown.

"Oh, cheer up, Luffy-chan!" coaxed Haruta.

"Island!" a random crew member shouted from the mast.

"See, Luffy, an island!" Izou said.

Luffy turned around and ignored them. Before taking the first step, Izou tapped her shoulder.

"Hmmmm. I remember the deal was that you act lady-like too."

"Screw the deal." Luffy said.

"Oh, my. A true pirate always keeps his or her word, huh, Haruta?" Izou asked solemnly.

"I guess this one's another wannabe, I guess." Haruta tried to hide a smirk when she saw Luffy tense and straighten up.

"That's just low." Luffy muttered while walking daintily to the mess hall where the majority of the Whitebeard crew stayed, eating breakfast.

-;-

The mess hall was deathly silent when the doors opened gently revealing a now grinning Luffy, tailed by Haruta and Izou.

Haruta ran in front of her and snapped a picture of Luffy before her grin was turned into a deep scowl.

Luffy pushed her boshi lower so that it covered her eyes as she walked daintily towards the table that held food.

Luffy gently grabbed a plate and piled it up with meat rather viciously.

"Oi, Luffy. Lady-like, remember?" Izou said while grinning sadistically.

Luffy turned her head slightly in her direction before shrugging and grabbing her plate that was piled with meat and looking up around the room.

The crew shivered involuntarily when her gaze swept among them. It all intensified when the door opened, revealing Marco and Vista who were chatting lightly.

When the two noticed that the rowdy mess hall was deathly quiet, he let his gaze wander around the room and flinched when he saw Luffy glaring at him.

Marco whistled lowly when he took in how she looked.

"Looking good, Luffy." Marco grinned.

"You idiot! I'm going to kill you!" Luffy placed her plate down on the table and was going to charge at him when the Whitebeard crew finally reacted and held her down.

"Let me go! I'm going to kill that traitor!" Luffy shrieked.

"Marco! Get out! Let her cool down!" Vista shouted at him.

Marco smirked at Luffy as the girl struggled beneath the piles of men.

"DID YOU SEE THAT?" Luffy began to trash viciously as the men around her blushed heavily from the contact.

Izou shot a bullet at her head before it bounced right off. All trashing, shrieking, cursing stopped when the girl went limp.

"Holy Roger, Izou! You killed Ace's little sister!" Jozu shouted in his face.

"You idiot. She just had a fit."They all looked down to see that he was, indeed, telling the truth.

The three brought Luffy to her cabin and fixed her up before leaving her to sleep for a while.

-;-

Luffy woke up around two in the afternoon; she looked at her clothes and shrugged. Not really caring anymore.

She strapped on her high heels and walked outside to the deck. She glanced around and saw that they have docked on an inhabited island and decided that she would explore when she had a better idea.

Luffy walked sluggishly while her hand was placed on the wall as she walked. She smiled when she saw that she arrived to the place where she was planning to go to.

She opened the door gently and popped her head inside and saw that the man he was looking for was seated against the headboard of the bed and placed his hand on his lips as a signal to keep quiet and pointed to the hunched body of the pineapple-haired man that was situated on an armchair.

"Ossan." Luffy smiled cheerfully before sitting at the seat on his bedside.

"Gaki." Whitebeard gave her an eye-crinkling grin.

"How have you been, ossan? You look crappier than the last time I remember." Luffy said, pouring sake as she gave the strong pirate a glance over.

Whitebeard laughed heartily at the comment as he downed the healing medicine. "I'm not exactly your age, am I, Gaki?" and indeed, he did look far from the feared pirate that was known throughout the world. His body seemed less muscular than usual. His face was now aged and he now appeared smaller than he used to be.

"You're right, ossan!" Luffy grinned.

"I heard you tried to kill my son, gaki." Luffy scowled at nothing before turning to Whitebeard.

Luffy bobbed her head once in affirmation. "That bastard gave me to Izou and Haruta. That traitor."

Whitebeard just stared at her. "Ahh. That's why the clothing's different."

Luffy looked outside the window then back at him.

"Ossan."

Whitebeard grunted in response.

"When was the last time you've been on an adventure?"

"A long time now, gaki."

"Do you want to have an adventure now?" Luffy was practically bouncing in her seat now.

Whitebeard smiled and hopped off his bed.

-;-

"You're such an idiot, gaki." Whitebeard called out from behind Luffy.

"Eh?"

"We're lost." Whitebeard stared passively at Luffy.

"Don't blame this on me! Aren't you a captain too?" Luffy challenged.

"That's why I have navigators." He and Luffy shared a look before bursting in laughter.

"Damn straight!" Luffy placed her boshi on her head and stretched her head up.

"Oh! I found it a lake, a way deeper into the forest and your ship. Where do you want to go?"

Whitebeard looked up the sky and saw that it was still around three in the afternoon.

"To the lake it is."

-;-

The two arrived back to the ship and boy was it chaotic.

"Hey, what's going on?" Luffy asked a frantic crewmember.

"Oyaji's missing!" He screamed at her.

"But, he's right there." She pointed next to her.

The crewmember looked at Whitebeard and cried at his feet.

"Oyaji! I thought you were kidnapped or something!" Whitebeard bonked the boy on his head and said

"Why would that happen?" Whitebeard sighed before gazing lovingly at his family.

He turned his head to the girl who caused all of this and saw her back at the shore, tailing a poor hermit crab.

-;-

Luffy crouched down behind the hermit crab, thoroughly amused that she didn't notice the tall figure looming over her.

"Stop stalking the crab." Marco stated.

"Oh, hey, Marco!" Luffy looked up and grinned.

"Huh. Not trying to kill me, are we?"

"Eh? Why would I do that?" Luffy looked at him confusedly.

Marco sighed and was about to retort when Luffy slumped down the sand and started piling the dirt.

"What are you doing?"

Luffy rolled her eyes "building a castle, obviously."

"That looks like an ant hill." He teased.

"shut up!" Luffy blushed heavily.

"Let's see you do one, smarty pants." Marco shrugged and made a small castle, nothing too grand, but enough to impress the brunette.

"sugoi!" her eyes sparkled with amazement.

Luffy ran to the woods and came back to him with a small branch and a big leaf.

"Here." Luffy handed him the leaf.

"What will I do with this?" Marco asked confusedly.

"I want you to write something on it." Luffy grinned

"Tell me what to write then."

Luffy told him what to write and he couldn't help but let an idiotic grin glue itself on his face.

-;-

Marco and Luffy were walking along the shore with her in front and him trailing behind her. He was holding her sandals as she ran with arms spread out, feeling the wind. They were talking about random things until it came down to what they want to do the most.

"I..." Luffy started "I want to reunite with my nakama, be pirate king, and..."

"And..?" Marco prodded.

"And I want to fly." Luffy smiled sadly.

"Fly? Why fly?"

"I want to fly because, if Ace is in heaven, he might be able to see me and hear me better, even if it's just for a while."

"What about you, Marco? What do you want to do the most?"

"I..." Marco started 'Want to be with you.' He added in his thoughts.

"I want to be with oyaji and the family as long as possible." He finally answered.

"That's a nice goal, Marco."

Luffy ran back to him and stared at his ankle.

"What are you looking at?"Marco asked.

"What's that thing you always wear on your ankle?"

"Oh, that? It was a gift from my mom when I was a kid."Marco stared at the ornament fondly.

"It's really pretty." Luffy stated as she turned around and began walking again.

Luffy has been walking a few steps when she was stopped by the shoulder. She turned around to see Marco bent down by her feet.

"What are you doing?"

"A gift." He said plainly and then stood up.

"Gift?" she looked down and her eyes widened.

"Are you okay with this?" she asked cautiously while admiring the ornament.

"Yes. Take care of it." Marco stated 'and my heart' he prayed mentally.

Luffy looked at his back as he started walking again. Luffy grinned and jumped on his back.

"Thanks Marco! I'll take good care of it, promise!" Luffy laughed as she hung from his back like a kid and gave him a small peck on the cheek.

Marco smiled and pink dusted his cheeks as he continued to walk back to the ship.

-;-

Haruta and Izou smirked as they looked at the photos they got of the two on the beach.

One was of Luffy gazing at the hermit crab while Marco stood protectively behind her.

The other was when Marco was lagging behind Luffy as the girl twirled as she ran ahead of him.

One was when Marco was placing the ornament on her feet which quite shocked them since he never lets anyone touch it.

And the one they love the most was one that Luffy asked them to take one off. The last one they took for that afternoon.

Luffy was crouching by the castle as Marco placed his hand on top of her head as he shifted his weight on that arm. On top of his head, was Luffy's prized boshi and on her ankle was Marco's anklet.

Luffy was grinning widely at the camera with a peace sign, sporting a grin much like to the one on her bounty picture.

While Marco was grinning slightly as he was supporting himself through placing his hand on Luffy's head. But, you can see the happiness glistening in his eyes.

Behind them was a medium-sized sand castle with a leaf for a flag and shells as windows and doors.

The words scrawled on the flag made them grin widely.

-;-

As the Moby Dick sailed away from the shore, a hermit crab crawled inside the hollow castle as the leaf flag fluttered with the wind.

"Luffy and Marco's castle"

Was the last part a bit stupid?

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