I decided to have no pairing for Luffy. There are a lot of time travel fic with Luffy in a pairing and I have already something else in mind for the straw hatted captain.

Another thing, English isn't my first language. I have certain difficulties while writting the fic so I am sorry in advance for that.

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece.

"Where are my crew mates?"

"Gone."

"WHERE ARE MY CREW MATES?!"

"I've been telling you, they are dead."

"You are lying."

"You are all alone now straw hat."

"SHUT UP! WHERE ARE MY CREW MATES YOU BASTARD?!"

"They were all pretty injured, it didn't take much to break them actually. Or at least one of them."

Luffy was still injured and could barely stand. Hearing the man's word, the pirate captain couldn't stop his hands from shaking.

"What?"

"Torture. We wanted to know of your location since you were weakened from your last battle."

"SHUT UP! THEY WOULD NEVER-"

"Never what? Betray you? Then, if your crew is so loyal, how am I here right now?"

"It doesn't matter! I would rather have them betray me then die!"

"Oh really? You really don't want to know which one of your dear Nakama values his life more than the one of his captain?"

Which one?

"Luffy, are you alright?" The navigator of the straw hats had asked. Her captain had been quiet for a while, which was very unusual for him, even as he had grown more mature.

"I'm fine. I am just really eager to see everyone again." He's lying. Zoro had thought as he looked up to Luffy's tics and tells. The swordsman had picked up that his captain would always adjust his hat and huff lightly before telling a lie. It was something he had started to do after Sabo's death, lying. The young captain drowned himself in sorrow without anyone noticing, except his first mate. It had never ran in anyone else's head that Luffy could ever manage to do it properly without being totally obvious, so no one ever tried to learn to read in between the lines with the simple winded man, but Zoro had always been close and always seemed to understand Luffy on a deeper level.

"We are nearing orange town. We will be there in less than an hour." Nami said lightly.

"Good. We need to resupply and take a bigger boat for the time being before we get to the Gecko islands." The captain said in a stern voice before he installed himself in his usual seat, at the front of the boat.

Zoro?

"If you do anything that would cause me to abandon my ambition, you will end your life on my sword."

You are the most loyal.

Would you betray the crew- no me, for the sake of your ambition?

The rest of the travel to the island was silent mostly, with the exception of the sound of some passing chirping birds or the waves lazily hitting the boat. When they seemed to approach the island, they started to hear the loud town in feasting in what seemed like a festival.

"Why are they so lively? I thought they left town." Nami asked, not really used to the changes yet.

"What do you mean?" Kuina asked incredulously. Orange town, as far as she could remember had always been a cheerful and colorful town, Always finding the dumbest reason to celebrate.

"Maybe Buggy's late?" Luffy launched curiously. The first mate snickered.

"He won't be there. He's with the marines." Zoro said slightly mockingly.

"Yeah, actually, a little less than a year ago, We stumbled across their ship and took care of them. Zoro wanted to know if my training had paid and it seem it did, since I managed to cut him and actually hurt him. Zoro said it was haki training. He also said something about not wanting to be in anyone's debt." Kuina shrugged.

"Too bad, Buggy wasn't all bad. He actually helped at Impel down- Hey Zoro, since you don't mind changing stuff like that, why did you get captured?" The straw hatted pirate asked, still looking at the lively town a few minutes away from docking.

"We had a few weeks until you came and I was bored. Plus, Kuina said something about decoy while she could gather info from the base. We forgot to share what we got though, we'll do it on the way to Usopp."

The small boat was tied to the the dock and the four pirates started walking into Orange town. As they walked around the town, they couldn't help but notice people seemed overly inviting. It seemed faked, almost like the pirate hunters of Whiskey Peak.

Coming inside a small local restaurant, they came across a woman who's smile seemed more sincere. She was a little taller than Nami and wore a light blue shirt, black skirt and white apron. Her brown hair was brought together in a high ponytail with one lock of wavy hair left falling on the left side of her face. She was drying the dishes.

"Hi there! How can I help you?" The woman smiled at the four strangers in front of her.

"What is up with everyone?" The woman looked down and sighed and looked out the window.

"People are really wary of strangers, pirates raided this place a year ago. Since you are such a small group, they try to act friendly, but they don't really mean it. That is why everyone parties all the time, we celebrate being free, all healthy and at no ones mercy." Looking up at the group, her expression changed. The green-haired man and straw-hatted man where wearing neutral expressions while the two women looked understanding and almost guilty.

The raven haired man spoke up first. "We are actually pirates, but we were just here to resupply before we leave. We have people to meet up with anyway." The woman looked a little uneasy before her expression softened.

"You don't seem like bad people though. Why did you decide to go out at the sea to be pirates anyway?" Her look transformed from soft to curious. Her gaze ended up on the green haired swordsman, who was standing and smirking while looking at the three others.

"We all went for different reasons. We pretty much are a bunch of dreamers. I want to be the world's greatest swordsman."

"I always wanted to draw a map of the world." Came the response from the red-head.

"I want to prove myself. Be recognized for my skills and not be looked down upon for being a woman."

They all turned to the captain, who's eyes where hidden in the shadow of his hat. "I just want to be free." His words were heavy with pain and guilt. His expression almost seemed like a desperate cry for help, but before any of them could read to much into it, Luffy looked up with a smile, but not his usual ear-to-ear smile, and continued. "That is why I am the man who is going to become the king of the pirates!"

Every word were said with such confidence, they seemed to hit all who heard like a wave of conqueror haki. The four people also present in the room could only look in awe at the teen in front of them. He then sat at a table by a window followed, after a few seconds, by the three other pirates.

They ordered their meal and started to eat, but were all pretty surprised to see Luffy actually eat like a human being. Nami, who was biting her lips, opened her mouth to talk, but quickly shut it, not wanting to take Luffy out of his thoughts.

Nami?

"I told you to leave the island didn't I?! Go Away! Go away! Go Away! Go away! Go Away! Go away..."

You have so much ahead of yourself.

Would you leave us and let the others die out of greed?

I'm being ridiculous...

"Luffy, are you alright?" The raven teen looked up the dark haired woman and grinned. "Let's go get our supply." They all got up, paid and waved at the woman who was taking care of the restaurant. They started to walk around town, purchasing anything they would need when a group of six men bumped purposely into them.

"We heard you before, you guys are pirates, which mean you aren't welcomed here! Get out of our town!"

"We don't want you filth hurting our town!"

The men took their weapons out and glared at the pirates coldly. They were mostly armed with knifes or short sword, with the exception of one, carrying a gun.

"You carry those weapons like you are going to use it, which you wont, seeing there are still children walking around in these streets. Beside, we aren't here to harm anyone. We are here to resupply."

"We don't care and told you to leave!" The one with a gun raised his weapon, pointing at Nami's head. The straw hatted captain knew she wouldn't get hurt because of her haki training, but instinctively, he tensed and released a wave of haki, knocking the man out before he could manage to aim correctly. They all continued walking, heading for their boat.

"He'll be fine just passed out for a while." The five other men looked up at the teen in disbelief before picking up their friend and leaving. Every one who had witnessed the scene tensed and went silent, not wanting to offense the man who could bring them down without any physical contact.

After all their supplies was on board, the four straw hat pirates sat back and started to wonder about the next island, already knowing, or not in Kuina's case, what kind of island it would be.

So here you have chapter 4. I decided to not include most of the non-canon material such as movies and fillers, but I will include movie 6 (baron Omatsuri) since it will have a meaning later and is interesting with the ideas I currently have in mind

We already have Kuina in the 'newbies' of the crew and Luffy, Zoro and Nami for the veterans, who do you think I should add outside of the main crew in this new life? Let me hear your thoughts on that!

Also, I will probably have flash-backs from the manga, mostly for Luffy's thoughts on Sanji. If you aren't up to date, it will maybe spoil a little or you just won't understand, but nothing major.

I am also sorry for the late update and short chapter, I lost my document and had to do it all over again...

Next chapter We meet back with our favorite liar!