I am really happy with the reviews I got so early so thank you all!
This is the first fanfic I posted, so I am really open to constructive critique. I know my first chapter seemed a bit rushed, but I will try improve this for the next chapters.
For the pairing, I got two suggestions from you: Luffy x Robin and Luffy x Boa Hancock. I am not sure yet if I will give Luffy a pairing, but if I do, I will keep those suggestions (and the ones others will make) in mind.
Some parts will be rushed like easy east blue fights, but if there is one you want me to put in, I will try to add it. If you have any suggestions, please let me know, I am always happy to read your opinions.
They trained everyday harder and harder. They were too busy having good times together before Ace or Sabo thought to ask Luffy anything about what happened after they died.
It suddenly came to them when they saw their little brother morn at the top of the newly made and improved hideout.
They both walked up to him and hugged him. "I know it's easier said than done, but, you don't have to mourn, we are right here..." Sabo whispered softly.
"Don't worry about that, I'm not mourning your deaths, I've had plenty of time for that already..." Ace started to shiver.
"How much time?"
"Well... Ace I- in your perspective, you died a few weeks ago right?" They both nodded.
"Well, for me, it's been like, a decade." Ace's eyes widened. "I died 10 years ago?"
"No, actually, Sabo did. you, it was more like... 18 years ago."
"That, wasn't what I expected." Sabo had froze. He knew exactly what that meant if Luffy wasn't mourning their death. Only them dying could have a significantly equal impact on Luffy.
"It's okay, I wasn't alone most of the time." Ace hugged Luffy closer.
"They are alive and well too, not just us you know?" Luffy's eyes filled themselves as he looked away. "I miss them... I missed you two a lot too..." He smiled. "I won't let any of you down."
After a few minutes, Ace started to really get curious. "How did you get us back? And who else remembers?"
"I made a wish. Long story."
"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 one who remembers... I think, but I am not sure, You two, Dad, my crew, Old mustache man, The armada, pineapple head, Tora-o and Shanks."
"What Armada?" Surprisingly, this was the only thing Ace couldn't identify.
"Wait... Your WHOLE Armada remembers? Or just the captains?"
"What Armada? Since when do you have an Armada?"
"All of them."
"WHAT THE HELL THAT'S OVER 5000 PEOPLE! AT LEAST ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO DO A MISTAKE AND CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY!"
"No they won't I told them not to do so." Luffy answered with confidence.
"Did they die too?"
"They were the one guarding the island where I made my wish, the former world government didn't want me to do it. Probably a lot of them died during the fight."
"WHAT ARMADA!?" Ace yelled, tired of being out of their conversation.
"At Dressrosa, two years after the war of the best, Luffy defeated Doflamingo and made a fan club that became the straw hat Armada. They consist of seven pirate crews who are the beautiful pirates, Barto club, Happo Navy, XXX Gym martial art alliance, Tonta corps, Giant warrior pirates and the yonta maria grand fleet. They are all weird and really different from each other, but surprisingly friendly and funny. I mean, only Luffy could make dwarfs and giants cooperate in the same grand fleet!"
Ace snickered. "You two should tell me more, I feel like I wasn't there for most of your lives..."
So they talked. Most of the time, since he had lived a lot longer, Luffy was the one who would talk, but Sabo and Ace added their parts once in a while. Except Luffy skipped the sad parts.
"-Then, I kind of destroyed fishmen Island..."
"It's not like they didn't know you would do it one day!"
"Yeah, but It still felt weird destroying every of those peoples home!"
Sabo laughed. "You felt really charismatic standing dramatically in the middle of that big fire."
Luffy grinned in return before he returned to his stories. "You know, I still don't know who was the best fire user, fire fist, or fire staff?"
"Well, fire fist sounds more badass than fire staff and I am the original one out of the two, so you better find your own devil fruit, won't let you get mine this time!" ace laughed half halfheartedly, which his two brothers caught on instantly. "Are you okay Ace?"
"Not totally."
"Why?"
"Because I died and left the both of you. I left my crew to deal with pops and my death. I left the world before seeing you make your dream come true!" Luffy smiled softly. "You were still there with us. Even if not physically, we could still move forward."
Sabo frowned. "This isn't a brother complex like 'I'm jealous of my brother for spending more time than I did with my other little brother' thing huh? Please tell me that! I would be so embarrassed for you!"
"Shut up, I'm trying to be serious here!"
"I know, you just seem like the kind of guy with a brother complex that's all! Don't worry about Luffy's safety though, he's the freaking pirate king." The blond grinned "And you know, this time you will be able to do all of those things with us!"
Luffy bit his lips, but tried to smile again. "Are you going to leave us to go with my dad again?" He muttered in a worried tone.
"I did a lot of stuff in the revolutionary army, I can't just change all of that, it would be pretty selfish. I think I should go, but we can stay in contact with snail phones. In any case, we still have a few months before I go! lets not rush this decision. We can still train and catch up until I go."
Ace snickered. "Then, when the time comes, we will say our goodbyes, is that it?"
"Y-yeah... "Sabo looked down. "B-but, this time, we will stay in contact so it'll be alright! And, also, you will know I didn't die."
"For now, lets enjoy our time together!" Luffy jumped and tackled down both his brothers in a hug. His eyes were hidden in the fabric of their shirt, but the two eldest brother could feel it was wet. They stayed like that for a few minutes, on the top of their hideout, trying to comfort the young pirate king.
"Sabo, Ace, I am going to be the pirate king..." Luffy whispered softly.
The devilish brother trio continued their training, daily hunt, stealing and eat-and-run in the noble's part of town when they encountered Sabo's father again. It had been a few month since they had talked about when Sabo would leave and they decided to recreate the scene that had happened a long time ago. Even the fire in grey terminal, they wouldn't try to prevent this from happening. They tried to warn people to leave before it happened and they succeeded saving a lot of people, but a lot of them still died in the incident.
Sabo was taken away before he left to the sea and was shot down by a celestial dragon again. The boat had been completely destroyed but with haki, the blond had protected himself against the blast.
When Dogra went to tell everyone Sabo had died, Luffy and Ace cried. They both knew he was alive, but, both for different reasons, his departing was really hard to manage. Luffy for the guilt of letting Sabo die in his first life in the war they had fought together and Ace because he had just reunited with his two brothers and one of them already left. They didn't cry as much as when they thought the latter had died, but still bared a similar sadness.
On the revolutionary's ship, the blond was sitting on a bed, waiting for Dragon to come back.
"What is your name?" Sabo sat up and stood on the side of the bed. Dragon noticed his form was more muscular then last time they picked him up and he didn't seem completely lost. His injuries were minors too.
The blond boy lifted his hand in front of the revolutionary leader. "My name is Sabo, nice to meet you!" Dragon smiled. "I bet I know who did this."
"Your guess would be right if you are talking about the reckless goofball I call a brother..."
The two started chatting casually, the rest of the revolutionist were simply completely lost. "How is he by the way?" Sabo looked down. "He seems perfectly fine, but he hides a lot of his pain. I hope it will get better once he reunites with his crew."
"Well, care to retake your position?" Sabo grinned. "Of course, I wonder what kind of reaction we'll get when I start wrecking everything."
"What are you two talking about? How do you know each other?" A woman asked. Sabo giggled and Dragon looked at the woman straight in the eyes with the most serious and determined expression he could wear. "He is my second in command."
"You can't bring that brat on missions!" The few revolutionist in the room were completely outraged.
"Why not?" Dragon asked in a monotone expression, the man never judged someone by his cover, and he thought everyone in his army, at this point, had learned to do the same.
"HE'LL DIE!"
Sabo and Dragon laughed and walked to the deck casually. "Hey what's this place?" Sabo asked as he noticed the powerful aura that was on the island.
"Shimotsuki village." Sabo's eyes widened. "That's Zoro's hometown! He told me about it once! No wonder there's a powerful aura on the island! Mind if I go catch up?" Dragon smiled and watched as Sabo left, running in the sky with his rokushiki techniques he learned in his past life, leaving the few revolutionist on board to deadpan and ask themselves what kind of child they let aboard.
When he arrived on the island, he landed about two meters away from the swordsman who was still training. "Hey!" Zoro looked up and grinned. "Fancy meeting you here, chief of staff. How are you and your brothers doing?"
"You weren't scared or completely overwhelmed when you randomly ended up here, huh?" Sabo asked teasingly.
"No, I and probably all the rest of the crew came to realize that this was most likely Luffy's doing and, like always, we gotta deal with it."
"And to answer your question, me and my brothers are fine."
"That's not exactly what I meant. How is Luffy holding up?" Zoro had taken a serious and guilty expression. The blond started to be nervous.
"What happened exactly?" Before Zoro could reply, a blue haired girl came to Zoro with a smile.
"Hey, I wanted to than- who is this? Never saw him in the village." Sabo held his hand in front of the girl. "Call me Sabo. I'm from the ship that is about to dock, I am Zoro's friend."
The girl frowned but shook anyway. "I'm Kuina." Sabo smiled and looked back Zoro. He had learned of the girl named Kuina when he talked with the swordsman and he knew Zoro had saved her from whatever killed her at this point. When he saw him looking away, he smirked wildly at the sight of the light blush on the swordsman's cheeks.
"Before I leave, I wanted to thank you personally for being there to protect and take care of my little brother. He is always reckless and a total goofball, but you never left his side."
"I could never hope for a better captain!" Zoro exclaimed proudly.
The blue haired girl started getting skeptical. "What are you talking about?" Sabo turned to the girl and smirked then returned his gaze to the green haired boy. "Are you going to bring your girlfriend aboard?"
Zoro growled and the woman blushed before looking away.
"Kuina will come if she wants to."
"Where are you going Zoro?" Kuina asked, suddenly curious.
"I will go to a certain town in ten years to meet with my captain."
"I will go with you, if I don't, you would get lost and never see him again!" the blond and the girl laughed and Zoro smirked almost evilly.
"If you want to come, then you will have to train until you reach our crew's level..." A shiver went down the two other's spine. They knew what Zoro called training and, even if she was a woman, Kuina wasn't going to escape it.
They soon left for the dock, were the ship was docking and the rest of the revolutionist reunited.
"I'll be leaving now, see you in ten years Zoro and you too Kuina!" The green haired swordsman grinned.
"Yeah, see you!"
When Sabo was reintroduced to the ones aboard the deck, he was officially announced as Dragon's second in command, making all of them baffle in disagreement. Dragon, being blunt as ever and not seeing any problem with it, stopped their bickering with one glare and went back to his usual business.
Some of them still questioned the kids safety until they saw him train with Dragon, who was using multiple techniques he never used to train others and almost didn't hold back , and the child countered and fought back better than anyone else could. They all learned to treat Sabo as an adult and a superior really quickly, seeing he was stronger and wiser than pretty much all of them.
They also learned to never question any of his orders. It didn't change the fact that they all became close to the kid real fast as he was really friendly.
Everyone who remembered their past life trained hard and tried to keep everything, as much as they could, the same as it was the first time. The three brothers would chat once in a while, but with Sabo in the revolutionary army, their talk couldn't be too long. Ace finally set sail when he turned 17 and made his way to the New world with his crew where he talked a bit with Shanks.
"Ace! how are you doing? And how is Luffy?"
"I am very well and so are my brothers. How's the arm?"
"After seven years, you would think I have gotten used to the feeling, but it is still a little strange! Bwahahahaha!"
Ace smiled. The two captains drank and laughed until the raven haired had to leave. Like the last time he had set sail, he had someone to meet...
"Hey, big guy! I wanna meet this Whitebeard!"
"I'm not going to let a kid with murderous intent near the old man!"
"Captain! That's Jinbe!"
"One of the seven warlords? Well that's gonna be a problem."
"I may not be a Whitebeard pirate, but I feel it is my duty to face you."
They both looked at each other with a wide grin before they stepped forward and greeted each other. "Ace! So good to see you!"
"I am happy to see you too Jinbe! Is the old man coming yet? If I recall, last time it took 5 days!" The spade pirates looked at their captain and the warlord in confusion. They were both laughing and chatting like old friends, talking about non sense.
"So, I hear the old man knows to?" Jinbe smiled.
"Yeah, he does, he said he and Marco were a bit disoriented at first, but they just rolled with it until I explained everything to them."
"I really missed everyone!" Ace looked far away, really inpatient to see the Moby Dick.
"Hey, you were with Luffy since a few months ago right?"
"Yeah, I left 7 months ago." Jinbe's smile dropped a little. He looked away with a sad smile written on his face. "I'm sorry."
"What is it?" Ace became a little worried.
"Well... I hope for you he wasn't to much of a mess when you met again..."
Ace thought back of the last 7 years he trained with his little brother. He was mostly happy and cheerful, but sometime, he would disappear for a few days. It wasn't anything he really worried about, but Luffy had been a little different. He would talk less, he could get really serious and had never been defeated by his brothers.
"He seemed mostly okay, but at least I can say he is not broken. With time, he got better and better, so I think it will be alright."
"Captain! How do you know this warlord?" Ace's first mate asked.
"Long story. We'll be joining the crew of the strongest man in the world soon, get ready!" The crew was surprised, seeing a few hours prior he wanted to challenge the man, but at this point, they were all used to their captain's antics and let it go. While waiting for the Whitebeard pirates to dock on the island, the partied and spared daily.
Five days later, Whitebeard and his first commander stepped foot on the island. Everyone on the Moby Dick and on the island fell silent. The spade were deeply impressed by the charismatic figure in front of them.
"Ace! Welcome back aboard my son!"
The raven smirked. "Good to be back!" They all got back on the Moby Dick and partied, never answering the questions of their clueless brothers and sisters, saying it was complicated and continued their route.
I hope you liked this chapter, I didn't want the childhood arc to be too long so this is it. I will try to release new chapters once every week or once every two weeks.