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"You can see Sabo?" Ace asked nervously. His brother nodded, throwing quick glances to the blond at his side, who sighed.

"Well, yeah. He has been haunting me for a few years, now I just know he was haunting you." Sabo turned to Luffy with an offended expression.

"HEY! I wasn't haunting you, that is really rude!" Luffy turned to face him.

"Okay, then if you aren't haunting Ace, what are you doing."

"... Maybe... Watching over him?" Sabo said as he passed a hand through his blond locks.

Ace was still frozen in place as he stared at Luffy. This was too much. Luffy being a medium was one thing. Sabo... Sabo was dead. Sabo should have crossed. He should have. He had nothing to do still on Earth, he would be better off where ever 'the other side' was. Not stuck in an apartment with two arguing brothers.

He fell to the floor as he fainted Luffy barely managed to catch him before he hit his head.

"That is exactly why I didn't want you saying that to him," Sabo said as he looked sadly at the two brothers.

"Well, how was I suppose to know he would faint?" Luffy asked as he dragged his big brother, with difficulty, to the sofa. Sabo sat on the sofa next to the unconscious raven and Luffy sat on the floor.

"I thought he would be happy to know you were there."

Sabo closed his blue jacket over his white shirt in an attempt to hide his stab wound, but it didn't really work well. "I think I know why and it's my fault. He's probably upset right now I didn't cross to the other side."

"But... How do you... How does he know of all this?" Luffy asked.

"That's... Something you should learn from him. It involves me, but Ace is the one who will be the most affected by this. I am already dead after all." Sabo said with a fake smile and hurt staining his voice.

"Ace... I don't want to die... I'm scared."

Sabo looked over at Luffy's sad expression. "I just wanted to make him happy..."

Sabo approached him and sat on the floor to his side. "It's okay, he was just tired."

"Yeah-" Luffy looked to his side where Sabo was sitting a few seconds before. The blond had simply vanished.

"Dammit Sabo! You always leave like that in the middle of a conversation! You are so annoying!"

"So, Blondie didn't change at all huh?" Ace chose this moment to wake up. Luffy's eyes widened.

"Sabo could disappear when he was alive too?" Ace chuckled.

"No, he was annoying, just like you said." Luffy smiled and went to sit up next to Ace on the sofa and his brother pulled him closer.

Luffy looked up to him. "I just don't want the whole thing that happened with Sabo to repeat itself." Luffy nodded.

"Don't worry. I am fine." Ace sighed. "Since when did I ever stop worrying about you? You are a trouble magnet!" Luffy giggled. Ace followed. Soon, they were both laughing until Ace checked his watch and decided it was time for them to go to bed, they had to wake up early to go to school and college in the morning.

When they woke up the next morning, Luffy was in a slightly better mood than usual. Sabo was wandering aimlessly around the house, mostly following Ace and sometime Luffy around as he was bored. Ace was preparing everything for Luffy's day at school and his own busy schedule.

"Can you walk home today Luffy? I have work until pretty late tonight, I won't be back before around 7:30."

"Okay," Luffy answered without too much enthusiasm.

"Hey, could you try to talk to other kids today? It would be good for you." Luffy nodded and straightened up his polo shirt while Ace adjusted his tie.

"Don't tell them about ghosts, though, that could spook them away." Sabo stuck his tongue at the eldest, making Luffy laugh.

"Okay. I'll make sure of that."

"Oh and... Sabo... If you are here right now... Keep an eye on Luffy." Ace cringed as he spoke those words. He still had trouble with the situation, but there were no doubts Luffy wasn't lying, that he knew for sure. The blond smiled. "Always."

"Sabo said he would. Now let's go!" Luffy said as he was almost happy to go to school today. It wasn't often he felt like that, but today he felt confident and wanted to make new friends.

The two brothers jumped in the car and Sabo followed as Ace instructed.

Ace picked up his phone. Luffy was sitting on the sofa with a blanket on. He looked at Ace's expression change from joyful to dread in a few second.

"What the hell did you think you were doing?! That's dangerous! Hell, I am coming right away!" Luffy followed Ace's movement with his eyes. He was very frantic and seemed almost scared.

No, that wasn't it, Ace was never scared.

The 15-year-old freckled teen rushed to the bathroom and exited the house with a first-aid kit.

A few weeks later, a blond started to haunt the apartment and Ace had never seemed more depressed.

Sabo didn't get out of the apartment often, and when he did, he usually followed Ace around. It's not like he couldn't, he wasn't poltergeist, only those were trapped in one place since they were too angry and dangerous to do so, but he didn't like the feeling that was creeping inside his stomach when he would be around people, try to talk to them, but no one responded. It made the blond feel so empty. He didn't talk to other spirits too much for, well, other personal reasons.

But when Ace had asked, he had felt so happy. In the last four years, he had been haunting- watching over the idiot, he had never hoped for the man to respond or to acknowledge his presence. Of course, he was also happy to have the youngest to talk to and had started becoming very fond of Luffy too as he started watching over him too, but Ace was his best friend.

Actually, he didn't really have to get in the car to follow them, but it was fun to listen to the two brother's interaction. He was just sad he couldn't be part of it. Sabo followed Luffy as he entered his school. He was surprised to see a few spirits wandering around, some following certain kids just wandering around the school grounds. Luffy entered his classroom, followed shortly by the blond, and walked to a green-haired boy who was currently sleeping on his desk.

"Hey! What are you doing Zoro?" Luffy said as he sat in the chair just in front of the other boy's desk. Sabo lazily installed himself on Luffy's, sitting on it and swinging his legs since he had nothing better to do. Talking to Luffy now was out of the question since Ace wanted his little brother to make some friends. He sighed.

"I was sleeping until you woke me up." Zoro answered as he looked up at him with a glare. A dark blue-haired girl walked up to them in curiosity. Luffy seemed to notice and locked his gaze on her features. She seemed healthy, didn't have any visible injuries, but somehow, she was dead. She stopped in her track. The boy in front of Zoro was smiling at her and the blond with a stab wound looked really bored. She turned to the blond.

"Can he see me?" Luffy side-glanced at the two ghosts but quickly returned to trying and making friends with the green-haired sleepy head. They had started chatting and he wouldn't interrupt Sabo in a conversation, he was the only one Sabo had talked to in far too long.

"Aren't you talking with your friend Sanji? Where is he by the way?" The raven-haired teen felt a bit nervous. He hadn't talked to many people aside from spirits or his brother recently.

"Swirly-Brow? He's probably just being stupid around a girl again. Kind of annoying." As if on cue, the latter entered the room while talking with an orange-haired girl named Nami and a light blue haired girl named Vivi. They were both pretty and people seemed to appreciate them a lot for some reason Luffy didn't understand, but really wanted to know.

Zoro looked at Luffy thoroughly. He didn't really know him, nobody really did. The kid was a loner and at first, he thought he would seem more depressed for that fact, but Luffy looked like the most energetic, cheerful boy he had met.

"Hey, aren't you the guy with an imaginary friend or something?" Luffy blinked and started to chuckle.

"That would be stupid, I am thirteen, not seven you know? I... I just think out loud sometimes when I am tired... Yeah." Luffy started spouting, searching for a good explanation for his seemingly weird quirks. Zoro shrugged and sat up.

"Hey, you know the math homework we had to do? I didn't really get question 5, can you help me?" Luffy smiled.

"Of course!" Luffy went to his bag and got his homework out. He had understood everything well the day before, but only because Sabo had explained everything. It wasn't uncommon for the blond to help him do his homework and help him study actually, he had done so for a long time. Luffy's grades had improved a lot because of it too.

A few desks away, the bloodied teen and the blue haired spirit had started talking.

"Hey, what's your name?" The blond asked.

"Kuina, yours?"

"Sabo. Why are you here? Are you haunting the school? Did you die here?" Sabo asked, rather bluntly. He didn't really like beating around the bush since he had hanged around Luffy and Ace for so long, he may have had picked up on their unrequired bluntness.

"No... I am not haunting the school, that is kind of offensive, I am... watching over the moss-head over there. Without me, he would be lost all the time, quite literally." Kuina glanced at the two living teens before smiling back at the blond.

"What are you doing? I have never seen you at this school before! And also... What's up with the raven? He feels... Different. I never paid much attention to him before but now..." Sabo sighed a bit, bit didn't lose his smile.

"Luffy's a medium, he can see ghosts and everything." The blond narrowed his eyes and muttered something else. When the blue-haired girl asked, he didn't really respond and they continued their conversation.

"How is it possible? I never met a medium before! I thought those you see on T.V. were fake!" She said in realization.

"Most of them are, I think only one or two are real, though." Sabo looked down at his stab wound. He probably looked pretty bad if he really thought about it. Kuina looked like she still was alive and breathing.

"How did you die? I mean, you look pretty good for a spirit. Most of the ones I have seen have half of their brain blown away, a critical wound or look really ill, exactly like they did when they died... You-"

"I won't say. it's kind of embarrassing if you ask me. You look like hell and you are only fifteen!" Sabo closed his jacket over his wound. He didn't really like talking about his life much. Even less with other spirits. Most of them, when you talked to them, made you feel like it was a competition on who had the best life or who died the most heroicly.

"Well. Life is hard. I got over it and now I watch over two loud brothers. I still enjoy my time, though." Sabo smiled.

"It's not like we have anything else to do... But as you said, it is enjoyable. Hey, but you can talk to them! At least that sounds better than nothing!"Kuina said as she looked over to Luffy in wonder. Making any sort of contact with Zoro was something she had wished for. Yes, she could influence his thoughts, a bit like subliminal messages to help him not get lost or get him lost on purpose (depending on her mood), but actually talking to him would be so much better.

By the time it was lunch, Zoro had warmed up to Luffy and they, alongside Sanji and the two girls he was talking when he entered the class, ate together in the cafeteria. Kuina and Sabo were still chatting like they had done all morning, which had been really distracting for Luffy as he was the only one who could hear the two of them.

"So, Luffy, you said you have a brother? What's his name?" Nami asked as she turned to him. They all felt a bit awkward at first, but Luffy was the kind of person who could never really feel discomfort, especially with everything he saw every day.

"His name is Ace. He is really cool! He is always there when I need him and never gets scared." He said cheerfully as he started eating the content of his lunchbox.

"Why don't you speak more with other people at school, I haven't seen you hang out with anyone before." Luffy scratched the back of his head at Vivi's question.

"I don't know, just... didn't feel like it... Hey, are you going to eat that?" The young teen was really lively today as he started to open up a bit to his newly made friends. They talked about several trivial things, hobbies, favorite sport, favorite movie. Nothing of importance, just the usual. As the day went by, they had all seemed to accept Luffy as an addition to their usually more quiet group, but it didn't matter. Luffy was joyful and fun to have around. As they went out of class for the day and said goodbye to Makino, the teacher that would usually watch over them if any of their family members were late to pick them up, Kaya, the pale spirit that Luffy had gotten to know caught up to them.

They were all standing by the gate, waiting for their parents or just waiting for the others to be picked up before walking home themselves.

"Luffy, wait!" Luffy, Kuina and Sabo's head turned sharply to the approaching girl, but only Luffy seemed to do so, staring at nothing, for the rest of his new friends.

"Are you okay Luffy?" Vivi asked concern written on her face as Luffy was still thinking of what to do.

"Don't worry, I'll talk to her, stay with your friends," Sabo said as he went to talk with the other spirit.

"Thanks, Sa- Vivi for your concern, I am fine, just thought I heard something." Luffy turned back to the small group and smiled. "I'm just... troubled since my brother won't be home for a few hours. It hardly ever happens."

"Well, you could all come at my place for dinner and study, that could be fun," Sanji suggested.

They all accepted and took their phone out to call their parents or caretakers. They all accepted except Nami's, apparently, hers was rather strict.

While she excused herself and walked to her house, the rest of the small group, followed by the two 'guardian angel' spirits, as they liked to call themselves. When Luffy had called Ace at his work, the older brother had been quite delighted Luffy had already managed to make a few friends, which only proved if Luffy had put just a little effort, he could easily make some friends.

Luffy, Zoro, Sanji and Vivi walked to the swirly brow's house. As they entered the house, Luffy stumbled back a bit. "Dear god..." A woman was standing in the kitchen, she was rather pale and had blood on her dress. She actually looked quite ill, but that wasn't what surprised him. The woman looked a lot like Sanji, he could only assume it was his new friend's mother. She looked surprised to see Luffy and Sabo enter, but returned to the living room, sitting on the rocking chair, making it sway slightly.

"Are you alright Luffy? You look like you've seen a ghost!" Vivi asked in concern again for her new friend. She was quite the caring type actually, always making sure everyone was okay.

"That is actually a little funny," Sabo said bluntly. Kuina rolled her eyes and the dead woman in the living room stopped rocking her chair.

"N-No, I am fine, like I told you. I just need to go to the bathroom for a second," Luffy said, staring Sabo in hope he got the message.

"The bathroom is over there... I'll go prepare dinner." Sanji said in a low tone as he made his way to the kitchen. Zoro and Vivi installed themselves in the dining room with their bags to start studying. Meanwhile, Luffy was splashing water on his face in the bathroom.

"Is it me, or is everyone I meet being haunted by a ghost?" Sabo sighed.

"I told you before, this is offensive. If a spirit doesn't have any bad intentions, he is not haunting anyone, he is watching over someone." Luffy rolled his eyes.

"Yeah... big difference. At least none of them is being tormented by a poltergeist. That would be bad."

"Yeah. Plus, they all seem nice so stop complaining. You are still alive at least." Sabo huffed to the raven-haired teen.

"Stop with that argument. You used it too many times now. Besides, you can make new friends too, like that girl..."

"Kuina."

"Yes! This is good for you too, isn't it?" Sabo thought about it for a few seconds and nodded. It was fun to talk to new people for once.

They both exited the bathroom and came in the dining room for Luffy start studying with the other two when Sanji arrived with four plates.

"The rest of my family is out of town for the next few days, It's nice to have you three here for dinner," Sanji said with a smile. They all started to chat with smiling faces, enjoying each other's company until, one at a time, they had to leave. Sanji had gone to the bathroom for a few minutes and only Luffy was left, leaving him alone as he sat in silent with the two ghosts of the house.

"Are you Sanji's mother?" The woman turned to him with a confused expression.

"Y-yes, actually. I am Sora. You're new... Luffy is it?" She said as she glanced from Luffy to Sabo repetitively. She had already heard of mediums, but she had never actually talked to one. The one she had met in the past could only sense their presence to a minor degree and hear them if he concentrated enough.

"Yes... listen, is Sanji's family, his brothers, sisters, and his father, are they good to him?" The two spirits looked surprised at Luffy's question.

"Where did you get that idea?" Sabo asked, a little stunned.

"They aren't, are they?" Sora looked startled.

"No, they aren't. Sanji has always been a black sheep in this family... But he is a very good boy and an excellent cook." She smiled. "We can't really change the livings, can't we Sabo?" Sabo looked down with a saddened face. Him, Sora and Kuina had discussed a bit while the others were eating their dinner.

"Mrs. Sora, do you think-"

"Luffy!" Sanji entered the room suddenly. I think your brother is here!" He said as he looked through the front window.

"Oh... I will excuse myself then. Thanks for dinner." Luffy exited the house, followed by the blond ghost and Sanji immediately lost his smile as he closed the door.

"Luffy... How did you learn my mother's name? Who were you talking to?" Sanji muttered to himself as his mother looked at him wide-eyed.

"-That would be bad" Sanji passed the bathroom as he heard Luffy talk to someone.

"Stop with that argument. You used it too many times now. Besides, you can make new friends too, like that girl..." He was probably on the phone, but then, he could hear the sound of water flowing in the sink and a small splash before Luffy stopped it

"Yes! This is good for you too, isn't it?" Sanji frowned and returned to the kitchen.

He ignored it for the rest of the evening until later, when he came back from the washroom himself.

"Are you Sanji's mother?" He had been about to enter the room when he heard those words. He stopped and peeked at the living room. Luffy was alone, staring at the rocking chair that was swaying just slightly, as always. Luffy paused for a few seconds.

"Yes... listen, is Sanji's family, his brothers, his sister, and his father, are they good to him?" Sanji froze. Where did that come from? And why did the boy even care? They had become friends only today!

"They aren't, are they?" Luffy paused again.

"Mrs. Sora, do you think-" He didn't want to hear anything else. Hearing Luffy as he said his mother's name when he couldn't have known it made Sanji react instantly. Luffy wasn't normal. He couldn't think that anymore.

"I think I made new friends today," Luffy said really happily. Sabo smiled at Luffy. He had never seen Luffy look so excited about something like that.

"You think?" Ace asked as his little brother looked out the window.

"You can never be sure."

End of chapter three!

Hope you enjoyed it, at least, I am having a lot of fun writing it.

I will update this story irregularly, like my two others, don't be surprised if I post three or four chapters in a row and then pause for a week or two, it always depends on my schedule.

Until next time!