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"So?" Luffy was sitting on his bed with Ace sitting right in front of him and Sabo who was sitting on Luffy's desk. He would often do that, Luffy had asked him why once and he told him that nobody would try and sit at the same place he did. He really hated the feeling of passing through someone, it felt cold and heavy, as if you're energy was stolen away, only leaving you with a sense of dread.

"So..." Ace said slowly. He didn't really know how he should ask this sort of question. Making Luffy reveal his biggest secrets and keeping his for himself felt pretty selfish, in fact.

"So...?" Luffy sighed as he waited for his brother to actually say something.

"...Is there something you want to tell me?"

"You are the one who called me and asked me to come home! I don't have anything to say!" Luffy shouted in frustration.

"You shouldn't try to apply logic on idiots..." Sabo said under his breath, making the medium chuckle a bit and calm down.

"I... just get frustrated sometimes..." Ace smiled.

"It's okay..." Sabo got off the desk.

"Really, it's not that complicated! You are both so thick-headed... Especially Ace!" Sabo sighed. "Look... Luffy... Ace is just unsure about everything right now since he learned that you have been hiding your ability for years. He just wants to know if you have anything else you would like to share, He won't judge you or reject you no matter what." Luffy looked up at Sabo.

"But I am not hiding anything." He narrowed his eyes. "I am not secretive, not really. You guys are the ones who keeps secret!" Luffy started to say, a little louder. He stared at Sabo. "Until not long ago, I didn't know your name!" He turned to look at Ace with a severe expression. The air became suddenly thick and the lights started to flicker. Both the blond spirit and raven-haired older brother started getting nervous. "And you! I don't know anything about your friends, your work, your college life... I would start believing you are trying to get me out of your life! Cut me off!" The whole room seemed to have started shaking. Luffy had his eyes squinted closed with tears gathered in them and his hands covered his ears as he continued his shouting. "Are you going to leave me too?! Like mother and father?! Am I such a nuisance that you would prefer to live with me away?! What did I do wrong?!" Ace stepped forward

The whole room seemed to have started shaking. A glass on the night stand cracked and broke in pieces. Luffy had his eyes squinted closed with tears gathered in them and his hands covered his ears as he continued his shouting. "Are you going to leave me too?! Like mother and father?! Am I such a nuisance that you would prefer to live with me away?! What did I do wrong?!" Ace stepped forward

Ace stepped forward and took Luffy in his arms in a tight hug. Luffy froze and the whole room returned to normal except for the broken glass who was still on the floor. The boy gripped the back of his brother's shirt and clenched his fists. He started crying in silence and Ace stayed there, supporting and holding onto him. Sabo made a fake smile. This was the kind of moment he regretted dying. He wanted to be there. To feel someone else's warmth when you felt down. But he was dead, there was no coming back from that.

After half an hour, Luffy had fallen asleep. He had found his conversation with Ace and Sabo very tiring, he had never really been that emotionally involved since he stopped being scared of everything and, even if he didn't really know himself, his little display had drained him too. His big brother had gone to the kitchen to make dinner after taking the shards of broken glass on the floor and having thrown them away while he slept. He didn't eat dinner actually after that, Luffy slept until it was morning. Sabo was outside, sitting on a tree branch, Looking sadly and thoughtfully at where he had been stabbed four years ago.

When Luffy finally woke up to the smell of Ace's cooking, Luffy smiled half-heartedly and took his silver locket out of under his shirt. He opened it. The outside was a simple design and of no real importance to him, only the inside really mattered. He opened it. Inside on the left was a little family photo with him, his mother, his father, and Ace. On the right was an engraving who read: Atone your sin.

His breath hitched.

"Papa... Why are you leaving? Will you come back soon?" Dragon didn't answer. He reached into his pocket and got a silver locket out.

"I want you to wear this as a reminder. You have been tainted and I don't know what to do to help. You will atone for your sin and maybe one day you will be forgiven." Dragon looked at Luffy severely.

"What did I do wrong? What is my sin?" His father's glare became harsher and a tad angry. "You were born."

Luffy looked at his shaking hands, closed the locket and put it back under his shirt. "How can I atone for that?" He chuckled. "You should've just told it to me directly... You want me to die."

"No priest knows what to do..."

"Why can't my only son be normal?"

"You should try to be more like Ace, he is an acceptable young man."

"Dragon... I think I infanted a demon!"

He walked to the kitchen heavily and sat by the counter. Ace put a plate of pancakes in front of him. "Good morning... Hey, where is Sabo?"

Ace raised an eyebrow. "How should I know? I can't even see him!" The two started eating their breakfast rather quickly.

Luffy scratched the back of his head. "Oh yeah... Sorry... Hey, today I am going to meet Usopp! He's Kaya's friend!"

The older raven-haired brother smiled.

"You told me a bit about that, what are you going to do?" Ace asked curiously.

"She just wanted to tell him something or ask him something before crossing to the other side I think."

"Have you done that before? Did you do it often?" Ace said with narrowed eyes.

"Well, I helped a few ghosts cross, it makes me feel like I am doing something good out of my life, that it isn't worthless..."

"Do you think I could do something good with my life?"

"Of course, why would you ask that?"

"Because they told me my life was worthless."

"Well, don't listen to them."

"What if they are right?"

"We will prove them wrong. If it means anything, nobody in the world is worth more than you in my eyes."

"Luffy. If your life wasn't worth anything, I wouldn't be here right now."

"Thanks." They both smiled. Ace took the plates and put them back in the sink and Sabo entered the house. He looked at Luffy with a tired expression before he flopped on the couch.

"What's gotten into you?" Ace looked at the couch where Luffy's gaze had locked and guessed the blond spirit had decided to come out from wherever he was hiding.

"Just a bit tired." Luffy frowned.

"Ghosts gets tired?" Ace perked up at the comment.

"No, just... forget it." Luffy made his way to the living room and crouched in from of the spirit.

"I don't forget things easily." Ace chuckled.

"Yes, you do!" Luffy gave his brother a glare before turning back to the blond teen.

"I do, okay, but you will tell me later. Now, I want to meet Usopp." Luffy stood and went to get his keys in his room.

"Hey, Ace!" He shouted from across the house.

"What?"

"Sabo's feeling down, cheer him up, talk to him!" Luffy ran back to the living room with a hoodie on.

"I can't even see him!" Sabo turned to Luffy.

"I am just tired!" Luffy ran to the door.

"Spirits don't get tired and Ace, Sabo's your best friend, you'll figure it out! Bye!" In a flash, he was out and the two were left in the room, speechless.

After a few minutes of silence, Ace decided to talk.

"Sabo. You broke your promise." Ace said severely.

"Hey Marco, how was work today pal?" Thatch, Marco's roommate and best friend since high school was sitting in the living room, watching T.V.

"Nothing interesting... Hey, Ace knows about his watcher spirit latched to him now." Thatch raised an eyebrow.

"Is that a good thing?" Marco shrugged.

"Don't know. Ace didn't take it well at first for sure."

"Well, at least he is not living in denial." Marco sighed.

"We are not talking about that again."

"You have to accept it one day, I died! People die! Don't say it was your fault again or I will punch you!"

"You won't." Thatch smirked.

"Yes, I will... It took me a while to be able to interact with objects, but now, I am fully capable of kicking your ass if you start your guilt trip again!"

"Give me some time."

"You want me to give you some time? For how many years have I been haunting your sorry ass? The problem is that you won't mourn my death if you can still see me! You won't accept my death if you don't mourn and I won't leave until you accept my death!" Thatch said as he sat back on the sofa. His head was smashed in and he had blood coming out of his mouth, his cut on his arms and from his torso. Somehow, even in his poor state, his pompadour hair was still on point. He had the physique of an 18-year-old young man, compared to Marco who looked more around 27.

"Not now."

"Fine... But you could make a new best friend, like Ace. He is living the same problems as you."

"Not exactly..."

Luffy ran to the school at high speed, skipping streets and alleys faster than he ever had when borrowing that route. He made it to the front gate where a pale spirit was waiting for him. She smiled at him and they started heading to Usopp's house. Professor Shanks had given him the address earlier that week. It was a pretty simple and smallish house on the outskirts of town. It took a little while for the two to get there by foot, but Luffy didn't like the metro or the bus, bus' were too crowded and ghosts of suicides were really creepy in the metro.

They rang the door bell and a boy with curly black hair and a long nose opened the door. Kaya smiled in delight at the sight of her friend and Luffy smirked.

"Are you Usopp?" He said and the boy nodded.

"I want to talk to you... I was friends with Kaya-" The boy stepped back and tried to slam the door close, but Luffy put his foot to stop the movement.

"You shouldn't run away from what happened." He said in all seriousness.

"How would you know? Kaya told me everything and she never mentioned you. For all I know, you are lying."

"Just listen to what I have to say and I'll go," Luffy said with a sad grin.

"No." Usopp pushed Luffy back a little and closed the door.

"Luffy, we could come back tomorrow. It's okay, he came back from his trip today, he needs some time to breathe a little." Kaya said apologetically. Luffy nodded.

"Are you going to stay here or are you going back to the school?" Kaya thought for a few seconds of her answer.

"He seems pretty down, I want to see if he's alright. See you tomorrow!" Luffy started walking away.

"See you tomorrow!"

Sabo looked at his best friend with a guilty look. "Why did you break your promise? You shouldn't have done that no matter what, that was stupid!"

Sabo looked down.

"I am so mad right now, I want to yell at you, but I can't even see you!"

Sabo chuckled dryly. "Didn't Luffy say you were supposed to cheer me up?"

"I can't see you or hear you... That is the real torture. You are still there but I can't see you. I just want to see you again." Ace brought his hands to his face to cover the tears that were threatening to fall.

"I just want to see you so badly..." Ace looked in Sabo's direction without realizing it and almost managed to look at him in the eyes, which surprised the spirit.

Ace was running towards Luffy's kindergarten. Dragon couldn't be there after work, he would only come later when he would be done around 8:00 maybe tonight and Ace was the only one who could go fetch Luffy since his mother was occupied too. Sometimes, he would wonder if they had accepted taking care of him after his father's death just so someone would take care of Luffy. As he turned a corner, He bumped into someone. It was a blond boy dressed in expensive looking clothing.

"I am very sorry." Ace helped the blond stand up. He really hated rich kids in general, but his foster-father had always said to be polite to them if you wanted to avoid trouble since they could do anything with money. The blond stood and smiled.

"I am sorry as well-" The blond looked at Ace's feature and froze.

"Ace." The raven haired boy frowned.

"How do you know my name?" The young noble had piqued his interest. He didn't seem like too much of a jerk and knew his name for some reason. But when Ace did ask, The blond looked completely terrified for a few seconds before apologizing.

"Sorry for that... My name is Sabo." Ace took his hand and shook. They both studied the other curiously before saying good bye and each going in a different direction.

"Hey, when I was still alive, how come you never told me you were a medium? I wouldn't have judged you, you know?" Thatch said as he looked at his friend with a curious gaze.

"I didn't tell you because I wasn't a medium back then." Thatch's eyes widened.

"How did you become one overnight?" Marco sighed.

"It wasn't overnight... I was feeling so guilty since I was the one who crashed the car that I started wishing I could see you again. I don't know how it happened, I meditated and did everything I could to 'strengthen my soul' and one day I was able to see you. Your image is a bit blurred, but your voice is clear to me. It's not like the other ghosts when I just sense them and hear them." Marco explained as briefly as he could.

"So you weren't born a medium?" Marco shook his head.

"Nobody is born a medium." Thatch hummed.

"What about the two kids?" Marco shrugged.

"I don't know how either of them got their ability, I only heard of them through Ace mostly."

"We should try to find out. I am curious." Thatch slumped back on the sofa and Marco nodded. "And when we will have found out, we will talk about me leaving." Marco nodded again sadly.

"I have been jealous of people with the ability to see spirits all my life." Ace said. Sabo looked at Ace with an apologetic smile, even if he knew he couldn't see it.

"At first, it was my father. He could see my mother and I couldn't. He helped her cross and I never got to meet her." Sabo started nervously playing with the rim of his shirt. Ace had never really opened up to him about things like that, and, even if he had never done, he knew where this was going and didn't like it.

"Then it was you."

After their first encounter, the two boys bumped into each other a few other times before they started hanging out. Over the month and a half since they started hanging out, they had become pretty close.

"What are you looking at Sabo?" The blond had been staring at nothing for a while and it had started to creep out Ace. They were both sitting in a tree in the park. They would often come there since both of their households were strict. They had a bit of free time after school and would meet there.

"N-Nothing..."

"Okay, that's enough. You are my best friend so you need to tell me everything. What the hell is bothering you?" Sabo looked at his feet and sighed.

"You wouldn't believe me and probably would laugh at me." Ace rolled his eyes.

"Don't care. Just say it." Sabo shifted his position to be more comfortable before he looked at Ace with a serious look. "I can see ghosts."

Ace blinked. He looked at Sabo with a surprised look and then sighed. "Okay."

Sabo frowned. "Aren't you going to say I am crazy and be a total jerk about it?!" Ace chuckled.

"Why would I do that?" Sabo sighed with a smile.

"You're an idiot." Ace looked at Sabo.

"My dad was a medium too, I don't know why you couldn't be one so I believe you."

"Just like that, huh? It seems so simple now."

"I was jealous. I don't really know why. Then you died and Luffy could see you and I was jealous again." Sabo looked at his stab wound. Since that day, his features hadn't changed at all. He had been frozen in time. He would never grow up, just stay here or cross.

"I just wanted to see my mom... I just wanted to see my dad... But never as much as I want to see you! Knowing you are here and not being able to see you is the worst." Sabo walked closer to his best friend.

"You're an idiot." Ace froze. The words were faint and he could only barely hear it, but he would recognize that voice anywhere.

"Sabo..."

Ha! So Sabo was a medium too! I hinted it (subtly) for a while, I wonder if any of you saw it coming...

I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Fun fact about this fic:

I originally had the idea after watching the sixth sense. At first, Ace was supposed to be dead but not know it until the end, but it was too much like the movie.

Hey, and also, for once, Ace is not the one with self-esteem issues!

See you next time!