"I want them all back"

"I can't just bring them back to you, they all died and were buried for a long time"

"Then bring me back to them."

"You want me to kill you?"

"No, but when you said earlier what kind of things you could do, you said time travel. I want all of us, back in time, training to be stronger this time. I won't let any of them die. I want to go far away in the past... Enough to save Sabo... Dragon... Zoro... Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Jinbe... Ace... His captain, Newgate...My Armada... Even the one who are still alive, maybe make their lives happier... Marco, Law, and even Shank's arm while we're at it!"

The man in front of him grinned. "That is quite a demand... Roger wasn't as greedy you know?"

"Maybe because he wasn't alone..."

"He asked for freedom. In a way, I can see you are asking for the same as he did..."

Everything went dark. A weird ringing sound came to his ear. As he slowly opened his eyes. He saw all of the crew of the red haired pirate around him and their captain, looking at them with weird worried expression. The pirate king stood up slowly and took a look around before his eye landed on the captain of the red force, who was poking his arm in a fascinated manner.

"What happened to you two, you suddenly started gripping your ears and screamed. What was that about?" Yasopp shot to his captain.

The said man stood up and sat on a stool, still freaked out about his arm, before he turned to the grinning idiot who was currently munching happily on his devil fruit.

"Luffy? Why are you-" He cut as the king turned to face him, taking the last bite of the fruit and placed a finger on his mouth, politely and wordlessly telling him to shut it and laughed lightly.

"You should leave now, you said you were going to come back a few times before setting sail again." The little boy remarked calmly.

"Hey! Captain! He ate the devil fruit!" Benn shouted out of surprise.

"I-Its okay, it's anchor's anyway..." Shanks was able to respond, still in shock. Not even 5 minutes ago, he was in the new world with the three other Yonkos in an important meeting who was interrupted by the marines, which exploded in a big battle. Last he heard of the pirate king, he had returned to raftel, which he always did when he was in sorrow. After his crew's death, He needed some time alone.

"You will say hi to Ace for me!" Shanks didn't know if the little brat in front of him remembered anything, but he needed proof. He got what he needed when he saw the little boy nod happily before rubbing his eyes and bolting out of the room like a rocket.

"Hey what's with your arm earlier? Did you hurt yourself or something?" One of his crew asked.

"Never felt better. My arm is in perfect shape."

In the mountain of the island, two really confused boys were sitting on the branch of a tree, facing each other with a weird frown.

"Is this what death feels like? You see old memories or something?" Ace asked as he poked the blond.

"That's what I was going to say! Where is Luffy though? If I had to replay any of my memories, it would be when the three of us were together..." Sabo responded.

"Yeah, before you died..." Ace said softly.

"You died first!"

"No I didn't!"

"When you thought I was dead, I wasn't. I had lost my memories and was sailing with Luffy's dad."

"Sooo, when did you die?"

"I don't want to talk about it right now I think... It happened like, two minutes ago, I still need time to process." The two sat there in silence, thinking over their situation before Ace spoke again.

"I think I don't want Luffy to be here actually"

Sabo frowned. "Why?"

"Because that would mean he would have died." The blond thought about it for a few seconds, then smiled.

"What If we are just back in time because someone or something wanted to give us a second chance to be better big brothers?"

"Then lets try to be just that. If Luffy isn't here right now, it means he'll be coming soon."

What if he doesn't remember us?"

"If he doesn't remember us, then we'll have to try and befriend him again."

Sabo giggled. "It's not like you could do a worst first impression than last time!"

"But if he doesn't remember, what do we do? Do we tell him? Do we tell Dadan and the others?" Sabo frowned, he hadn't thought about that yet.

"Just act natural, well, natural for when you were young so no one will be suspicious of anything and after we will make Luffy our brother again! Even if he doesn't remember, I think it's better that way, he wont remember we died..."

The duo ran back to grey terminal as usual and went to rob some thugs, as if nothing weird was currently happening.

Back in the village, Luffy was sipping on his juice in a bar when the group of bandits came back to bad mouth Shanks and his crew. Even with his new level of maturity, he wouldn't let anyone insult Shanks, the one who inspired him to become the pirate king.

"You should take all of that back." He said, still not facing them, sitting comfortably on his stool.

"What did you say brat?" Luffy turned to face the bandit and gave him a death glare. "You should take it all back. Shut up and get the hell out of this town, this island before I decide to make you go myself." The bandits laughed and watched as the kid walked outside the bar, like an invitation to a fight outside. The leader, amused, followed shortly behind.

When the leader, higuma, tried to grasp the kid, He evaded the attacks. As he started to get frustrated, the red haired pirate approached, but Shanks stopped his crew from going further, letting the kid pirate king fight his battles.

"So you said your fist is as strong as a pistol? Can you show me please?" Shanks said as he weirdly crossed his arm, not being used to this feeling and smirked.

Luffy smiled back and threw his arm backward. "With pleasure. Gomu Gomu no... pistol!"

Higuma flew back into the water before being eaten by a sea king.

"We could bring him with us next time, the brat's strong!" Yasopp said deeply impressed.

"Like I would come! When I set sail, I will meet back with my crew, who is stronger than yours, and I'll become the king of the pirates!"

"In that case..." Shanks squatted in front of the child and put his hat on his head. "I'll be returning this to you." The red-haired pirate were a little confused at those words, but tried to just shrug it off, saying Shanks was sometime a little, lets say, special.

After some laughter and drinking at the bar, Shanks and his crew set sail back to the grand line.

A few days later, Garp came to the island and dragged his grandson in the forest who, surprisingly, came without having to use force. As the neared Dadan's hut, the raven haired boy started running around, excitingly looking around his childhood, or should I say new, home. His eyes soon landed on a mean looking ten year old. Luffy pouted lightly. 'He doesn't seem to remember... Wait, what is Sabo doing there?' He thought when he felt the blonds aura. He shrugged it of, saying Sabo had maybe been hidden there the first time too.

His gaze never left the older raven though, as he examined the boy when he slid of his prey with his pipe in his hand, now facing the seven year old pirate king.

They stared at each other for a few second before Luffy smiled. "My name is Monkey D. Luffy!" Ace smiled, surprising everyone around. Luffy frowned at this, thinking Ace wasn't able to smile back then. What startled him the most actually was when he hugged him and seemed to be crying in Luffy's shoulder, nearly given everyone else a heart attack.

"Sorry..." Ace muttered as the younger raven was still frozen. He smirked. "Who's the crybaby now, Ace?" Ace looked up and let out a relieved sigh as he now knew his little brother didn't forget him.

All the bandit were pretty much unconscious and Garp had left, even though he was curious of what the hell was happening, he had urgent marine duties to get to.

A boy in a blue coat jumped from a tree and knocked his pipe on the older raven's head.

"I TOLD YOU TO ACT NORMALLY!"

"Well, TRY AND ACT NORMALLY IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES!" Ace yelled back, rubbing the spot were the haki coated pipe had knocked him.

Sabo turned to face Luffy and saw his big smile. He hadn't seen this smile since the beginning of the war. His heart felt warm and he smiled back, tears running down his cheeks.

The three boys started to messily cry and laugh before they went to their room in the hut, like they used to.