Chapter one
No one would be able to understand what happened to her. That day changed everything. For better or for worse.
One day she was an innocent three year old girl. Watching the other children play in the orphanage. And now here she is trying to get a hold of herself.
Reincarnation how is it possible. Sure she took a hard hit in the head that had her bed ridden for weeks. But still for this to happen to her of all people. If she had a choice she would have chosen not to remember. No matter what kind of life she would have led.
Arson Ruri, huh. Well she just had to embrace the new name and the new life that went along with it. No matter how unbelievable the situation she was in.
So she decided to keep everything to herself. People in this world are dangerous enough without all the knowledge she has of her first life. No she may not like the situation she has ended in. But killing herself again will not guarantee that she will end up in any better situation.
Even though it would be so easy.
How ironic. All she had wanted in her past life was for the pain to go away. And now she finds herself in a far worse situation. This must be punishment for taking her own life.
The one thing she had going for her has abandoned her in this life. Her family. Truly karma does exist.
Come on get a hold of yourself. Things could have been so much worse. She could have ended being born as a boy. Or god forbid a slave. Never mind that this world even though dangerous is at least predictable in a certain way. There are far worse realities out there.
Twilight, Tokyo Ghoul, Game of thrones, D Gray-man. She could go on and on. That and she at least knows what to avoid in the One Piece world.
Under no circumstances can she let the World Government know about this. She will just pretend to be an average girl with an average life. Who is she kidding. There is no such thing as easy in this life. But she will be damned if she isn't going to make sure her life will be as average as possible. Without grabbing anyone's attention. An ordinary girl on ordinary island.
What once was a story is now reality the once little girl thought before she once again succumbed to darkness.
The next day one of the first things she did was bring up all the memories she had of this place. It was easier than she thought. The fact that she was only three years old helped. Not much to bring forth. Though from what she manages to gleam she was a rather lonely girl.
The island she was born on was like something out of an old western movie. Salons and all but more tropical. All in all, a rather lively town.
Ruri doesn't have much knowledge of this place. Her world resolved around the orphanage. But what she did know made her easily able to figure out that she was in the One Piece world. She got a bit hysterical after realizing that. Not to say that she easily excepted her new lot in life.
No, death was not supposed to be like this. She didn't know what she expected but this was not it.
Ironic considering that she doesn't even know how she looks like.
Calm down Ruri. Getting a panic attack will not help you. Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in and breathe out. Don't wake anyone up. After a while she finally calmed down. She can't keep on doing this.
She has to get her priorities straight. Now what did she remember and where in the timeline is she. After some deep thinking she made a mental list about the facts she was sure about.
Fact one. Gol D Roger had already been executed. And it's still all everyone talks about. That must mean that it is a rather recent development.
Fact two. She was born on the Grand line. Let's hope that it's on Paradise and not the New World.
Fact three. She was an orphan in all but name. Her father abandoned her mother and in return she abandoned her. The woman also managed to come out of it squicky clean. Being the towns darling and all that jazz.
Fact four. Everyone seems to either be disgusted with her or avoiding her, guilty conscious much. One or the other, no in between. Well, her so called mother was one hell of a manipulative little shrew. Even her three year old self figured out that there was something seriously wrong with her situation.
Fact five. This world is extremely dangerous. More so for those who know as many secrets about it as her. It is literally survival of the fittest.
Fact six. This was a summer island. Not as bad as Alabasta but pretty close.
Fact seven. Monkey D Garp exists. He was the one who captured the Pirate King.
From what she remembers of the manga. Monkey D Luffy was the protagonist of the One Piece story. He grows up in a village in the East Blue. The Goa Kingdom if her memory was right. When Luffy is seven the Red head pirates dock on the island. Shanks the Captain and one of the four Yonko takes a liking to Luffy. He especially likes to tease him something about him being an anchor. They stay about a year on the island. Ruri is not sure if they stay docked the entire year or if they travel around too.
Then one day bandits show up and make a mess of things. Shanks let's them walk all over him and Luffy get's angry and ends up eating Shanks devil fruit becoming a rubber human. The bandits show up again on another day, when the pirates are out of town. Luffy opens his big mouth. The bandit decides to make an example out of him in the middle of town. Shanks shows up with his crew. The bandit ends up fleeing with Luffy on a boat or whatever that little thing is called. Throws him in the sea. Shanks saves him but not without losing one of his arms to a sea king. Luffy decides he is going to become a Pirate King and gets Shanks straw hat while promising to return the hat only after he achieved his goal.
Garp finds out and drags Luffy to a bandit hideout on the same island. Where he makes them raise him. She doesn't remember the names of the bandits but Portgas D Ace, the son of Gol D Roger and Portgas D Rouge was hidden there by Garp. The bandits where supposed to raise him but they did a very bad job of it. Garp has blackmail on them. So they reluctantly take in the other brat. Luffy chases after Ace while he tries to kill him. Wanting nothing to do with Luffy.
It took about three months before Luffy managed to find Ace talking with another boy Sabo. Ruri doesn't remember the name of the place only that the nobles would throw away their trash there. Sabo was a runaway noble who hates them. And Ace's only friend. Something happens that get Luffy taken by pirates. Later on Ace and Sabo save him but not before Luffy was beat up by the pirate. That day changes everything. It is the day Ace let's Luffy in. They also make a sake vow to be brothers.
Sabo gets recognized by his father. Who pays the pirates in the town to take him back. Sabo agrees to go with his father to protect his brothers. The pirate crew that took Sabo started a fire on the orders of the nobles. Because a Celestial Dragon, what was the Japanese name for them again. Ten something ten tenryou, ah who cares World Noble it is.
Sabo escapes and tries to sail away, but the ship with the World Noble shoots him down. Or that was what it seemed like. Dragon. Luffy's father saves him but he has amnesia not remembering anything but hating the place. Ace and Luffy think he is dead and get a letter from him. Ace never finds out about Sabo being alive. Sabo only remembers who he was when he reads about Ace having died in the battle of Marine Ford.
Luffy sets out at seventeen. Like he and his brothers had promised to each other. The journey starts with Luffy getting sucked in a whirlpool.
The first member that joins was Zoro, the first mate and a swordsman.
The second member was Nami, their navigator.
The third member was Usopp, the sniper and liar of the crew.
The fourth member was Sanji, their chef and Zoro's rival.
The fifth member was, ah shit who was it again. Okay, it was after Logue town... That means Chopper. The doctor of the crew and a devil fruit user.
The sixth member was Nico Robin the archaeologist and a devil fruit user. Hunted down by the world.
The seventh member was Franky the shipwright. A cyborg.
The eight member was Brook the musician, and a skeleton because of his devil fruit.
She isn't sure but the ninth member was Jinbei, or something close to that name. He is a fish man and a former warlord.
She remembers a majority of what happens in the manga. But she has also forgotten just as much. Damn she just hopes that it's nothing important. She plans to stay as faraway as possible from Monkey D Luffy. Especially now she knows he is probably a real person. To think crazy people like him really do exist. His kind of crazy is also contagious. You just have to look at the rest of his crew. She has to confirm if he is a real person. For all she knows he doesn't exist.
Waiting for his bounty it is.
Later on she will write everything she knows down. Just to be sure in German. Thank God her grandmother insisted in her learning how to speak and read it. From what she managed to get out of her memories. The language everyone uses is a weird combination of Japanese and English. And thank God she was such a otaku. Ha, and everyone thought she was crazy translating all those Japanese manga.
There is so much work she has to do. So much she still has to find out. But if everything goes according to plan she will be home free on some island in the east blue. Far away from all the lunatics.
That didn't mean it was going to be easy.