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Disclaimer: One piece is owned by Oda. I am not Oda. If I was, Ace wouldn't have died, or he would've at least seen Sabo again once before doing so.

"Luffy."

"What?"

"We are still here. We won't let you be alone."

"Don't say something like that. Ace said that. Sabo said that. They are both gone."

"I know."

"Do you know what would happen if you were all to die to, Zoro?"

"No."

"I would break and falter. It wouldn't even matter anymore, there wouldn't be anyone left who would need to rely on me."

"I see the rock, but the two Johnny and Yosaku aren't on it." Luffy said looking straight ahead of them.

"We will maybe encounter them later, it doesn't really matter anyway. We just need to keep going toward the Baratie." Nami followed.

"Do we have to stop there? I mean we don't really need swirly eye-brows on the ship." Zoro growled.

Nami smirked evilly. "You just don't him around Kuina!" Kuina turned away, as if she didn't hear the navigator's comment.

If looks could kill, the navigator would have died slowly and extremely painfully. The swordsman had one of his looks that made your blood freeze and run backwards. The colors in Usopp's face drained, let's say he remembered what happened to the last person who received this certain look, and if Nami hadn't been a fellow crew-member, her demise could have been has goresome. Yet, the woman kept her smile, seeing this only confirmed her suspicions...

Usopp put his arms around Kaya's waist as he was standing behind her. "Well, I will put him in his place if he tries to charm Kaya!" She blushed and turned to face Usopp with a smile.

"Is he really that bad?" She asked as she played with one of Usopp's curly strand of hair.

Nami snickered. "Women are to Sanji what money is to me and what meat is to Luffy, so yes. He is that bad."

Luffy looked up. "Come on you guys! The only reason he is like that is that he doesn't have a girlfriend yet. Find him one and he wont bother Kuina nor Kaya!" The veterans blinked at Luffy. The idea wasn't really a bad one for once and... he seemed to understand some things about relationships for some reasons.

"It actually makes sense, but Sanji is a lady-man. He wont settle down for one girl and stop fawning on the others." Usopp said in irritation as he pulled Kaya closer.

"Then the girl has to be strong, beautiful and not let anyone walk all over her. She has to be the one to force him to settle down." Luffy said, deep in thoughts.

"Sooo, you are meeting back with a crew mate you haven't seen in ten years and your first thought is to keep him away from Usopp's girlfriend?" Kuina summarized. They all nodded. "And you too, if Sanji started roaming around Kuina, It would start a war!" Usopp said loudly as Zoro's eyebrow twitched in irritation.

"It's not like we aren't used to the two of them fighting anyway." Nami snickered.

"We'll leave it as that for now." The captain turned to the sea-restaurant he could that started to appear below the horizon. As he did so, he sucked as much air as he could in his lung (which is a LOT) and yelled.

"SANJI! WE ARE HERE AND STARVING! PREPARE THE MEAT!"

Sanji,

"Let me be blunt here. I have always had serious doubts that someone of your ilk could ever become the pirate King."

You did it before...

Would you turn your back on me again?

The rest of the crew started to laugh. Even Zoro let out a chuckle.

"Why are you all laughing? I'm just giving him a heads up so my meal is ready when we arrive." Luffy said in a playful manner.

As they approached, Luffy spotted Lieutenant Fullbody's ship docked at the restaurant's side. Luffy stepped in, fully dressed in his captain attire.

"Luffy, your table is set!" Sanji said as he smiled at the crew who entered the restaurant.

Luffy walked to his cook and took a good look. Sanji didn't change his wardrobe or hair that much, still in his suit with his hair thrown over one of his eyes. On the other hand, the cook looked a lot stronger than their first time around. He smiled and made a gesture for his crew mates to follow him to the table when the blond cook looked over Nami and the two new girls. As he started walking to them, he remarked the smallest of them with the light hair had Usopp's arm wrapped around her shoulder. He had never met the girl before, but he remembered her name, Kaya.

"U-Usopp... are you okay? I know it's hard to be right now, but you shouldn't cry, Luffy, at least, is still safe!" Chopper said softly.

"I'm sorry... I just know now I will never see Kaya again..." Usopp sobbed.

"Luffy will get us out of here!" The little reindeer said with a strong resolve.

"Even if he did... They killed her." Sanji turned to face the sniper.

"Why? Was this girl a pirate?" Usopp shook his head.

"N-no, she was studying to become a doctor. I wanted to ask her in marriage when would return to E-east blue b-but-" Usopp burst into tears.

'We are all breaking little by little. Luffy better hurry and get us out'

"Those shitty bastards. That is just low." Sanji spat bitterly. As much as knowing the marines had killed a woman for no good reason made him mad, the hurt coming from seeing his usually cheerful and somewhat annoying crew mate in such a state devastated him even more.

The blond cook smiled to the three ladies and started introducing himself. "Hi my lovelies." He looked at Nami. "How are you doing Nami-swan?" The latter smiled and went to the table to sit with the rest of the group.

Next he looked at the straw-hat's nurse. "You must be Kaya-chan! So nice to finally meet you!" He said in a friendly way, without flirting or anything he usually did. This shocked everyone to a point Zoro turned to watch carefully what would be the blond's next action. "And you," he said turning to Kuina. "Would you be kind enough to let me hear your angelic name?" He said returning to his usual quirks.

"Kuina."

Sanji stepped close to her and was about to take her hand to lead her to the table when he felt an uncomfortable killing glare at the back of his head. He frantically turned his head to stare at the moss-headed swordsman.

The swordsman had a look that could make a weak man fall unconscious even if he didn't know the conqueror's haki.

The blond cooked stepped toward him and answered with the same glare at the first mate. The whole restaurant felt completely silent as the air around them seemed to thickened the only one who didn't seem really affected was the straw-hatted Captain who was happily munching on his food. Even the marine lieutenant who had been looking boringly at everything around the Baratie had completely stopped all of his movement and was now sweating nervously. Suddenly, their staring contest was interrupted as a man in an onyx black armor decorated with gold details came in. He had light purple hair and a black headband with his jolly Roger on it and golden stripes on the sides. At his left side was a man mostly dressed in grey with the same headband, minus the golden stripes. Don Krieg and his first mate, Gin.

"There really is a restaurant on the sea, guess those two bounty hunters weren't lying! I want all your food here! We need provision for our voyage to the grand-line!" Yelled the captain. The straw hats all gave a quick and uninterested glance their way, only to return to their meal.

"Guess we know why we didn't see Johnny or Yosaku earlier..." Usopp stated dully.

Krieg gritted his teeth in annoyance. "You! Waiter boy! Go get all the food in your restaurant and take it here!" He shouted as he grabbed Sanji's collar. The blond cook didn't even look his way, too concentrated in his staring contest with the green haired swordsman.

"I am not a shitty waiter, I am a cook." He said in a low tone.

"You? a cook? Nobody can stand your cooking!" Zoro snarled.

"What did you say shitty marimo? How could you know what my cooking tastes like, you can't find your way to the dining hall!"

The two pirates started throwing insults and Krieg instinctively stepped back.

"I WON'T REPEAT MYSELF AGAIN! I NEED FOOD FOR MY 5000 MEN SINCE WE ARE GOING TO CONQUER THE GRAND-LINE. DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE STRENGTH OF THE CREW OF THE FUTURE PIRATE KING. IF YOU DO, I WILL CALL MY ENTIRE FLEET TO DESTROY YOUR RESTAURANT!"

Luffy stepped forward with his eyes shadowed by the rim of his hat.

"Bring them on." Krieg looked at the straw-hatted captain and laughed.

"You think you and your crew can take on all of us?"

"No, I will be more than enough for that task." Krieg's brow furrowed.

"I have the strongest crew in East blue! You can't defeat me or my crew!"

"Having a lot of crew members doesn't equal strength. You are too weak, your crew will die in the grand-line." He said in a low tone. Zoro stopped insulting each other and looked at their captain carefully. "But... You wouldn't care would you?" Gin's eyes turned to the raven haired teen.

"If they die, they were simply too weak to sail under my flag!"

"The role of a captain is to be strong and to protect his crew. If anyone dies, it only proves the captain is weak."

"This isn't about Krieg anymore, is it?" Usopp said just loud enough for the rest of the crew to hear.

"But we didn't die, why does he think we died?" Sanji said skeptically.

"Because it would be easier for those bastards to fight him after being broken and use us as leverage as plan B if they are still too weak to defeat him. He thinks we died. I don't know if it's worse if he thinks that way or if he knew the truth. All I can say is it doesn't anymore. It never happened and will never happen." Zoro said bitterly.

"-Or... If you crew survives, they will manage to see you are weak and betray you." All of the straw-hats went silent and stared at their captain in disbelief.

"They won't betray me, since they follow me because they all know I am going to be king! You are too weak to understand what true strength is!" Krieg said in an angry tone.

Luffy stepped forward. "If I am too weak..." He flicked Krieg's armor, which shattered after a few seconds. "... What does that make you?" Gin's eyes widened. Krieg stepped back. They were both staring at Luffy with wide eyes.

"People who think they are invincible die young. Call your fleet, We'll see who is right. Maybe you'll prove to me number equals strength. Maybe I will prove to you that you are wrong. Who knows." Krieg called his fleet and the two captains, Gin and the straw-hats all stepped outside. Lieutenant Fullbody curiously looked through the window and decided to wait before reporting the fight between the two crews. He had recognized the two pirate hunters in the second crew, Zoro and Kuina, but their Jolly Roger wore a straw hat like the teen in the red captain coat. His brows furrowed. Krieg was trying to intimidate the other crew with a speech, but it seemed like he was totally ignored. Curious, Fullbody walked to the front entrance to hear better what was happening.

"Zoro, Sanji, What are my restrictions?" Luffy said with smirk.

"Restrictions?" Kuina asked.

"Sanji, Zoro and Luffy started doing that every time we fought weaker enemies in Paradise or somewhere else outside the New world. They do that to practice certain techniques they are less good at." Nami said simply.

"Tie your hands in your back, most of your attacks involves punching, it will help practice your kicks." Sanji stated.

"ARE YOU UNDERESTIMATING ME?" Krieg yelled. Gin watched with an irritated gaze.

"Shut up, we are just trying to make the fight evenly matched!" Nami said in an intimidating tone. Krieg only looked for his fleet that was approaching slowly.

"Practice observation haki against a lot of foes. Cover your eyes. This is the only form of haki you can use." Zoro continued on the same tone.

"Any technique restriction?" Luffy asked as Usopp started tying his hand and covering his eyes.

"No Devil fruit. No haki. No Fishman Karate. Only Rokushiki. You had a hard time with it last time we saw you, it was a little sloppy. I hope you practiced it in the last ten years." Luffy smirked. The lieutenant who was eavesdropping furrowed his brows. I thought Rokushiki was a high rank marine technique.

"Of course I trained it! So, I am ready. I will fight his crew than kick his ass!" Luffy said as he turned to his crew before he jumped on the ship that was already docked. "Zoro! Kuina! Your two bounty hunter friends are tied up here! Can you come and get them before I destroy the ship?" The two nodded and walked to the ship nonchalantly while their captain seemed to have started running in the sky toward the 49 approaching ships, which made everyone' eyes widened except the straw-hats and the cooks of the baratie, who had already witnessed it once or twice from Sanji.

As he neared the first ship, the young captain flipped forward and descended his foot in a kick, creating a blade made of wind. "Tempest kick" The ship split in half upon impact. Luffy did the same for 9 other ship before growing bored with it and landed on the 11th ship. Many people came running at him.

"Paper art" The raven haired's body went limp as he avoided every hit directed his way like he was a leaf, making some of the people on the ship hit each other accidentally. After a minute and almost a fourth of them being defeated he kicked around himself, using his tempest kick once again and making them all fall down.

"Geppo" Luffy jumped to the 12th ship with great speed, passing through the deck floor of ship upon landing. Jumping out of the hole, he kicked the rest of them in a normal fashion before he moved on to the next ship. With a stronger tempest kick, the straw-hatted teen managed to sink ten other ship before he landed on the 23rd ship.

"Soru" Was the last ting the occupants of the 23rd ship heard before the teen disappeared a few seconds passed before, one at a time and in a really quick pace, everyone started falling down unconscious as the blinded captain kicked and head butted the pirates.

Luffy jumped from ship to ship, defeating his enemies in a similar manner until he landed on the 30th ship. Growing bored, he started using normal kicks and other simple attacks.

The more he went to the ships in the back, the more the opponents could put up a fight. Some would even almost stand back up after a simple kick from the young teen, which was really impressive, but none of them actually managed to stand after one attack. It seems Krieg puts his weaker crew members on the front-lines of his ship like they are only mere canon fodder. Luffy gritted his teeth. The weaker crew members aren't meant to be thrown away, they need to be trained and protected.

On the 41th ship, someone actually manage to shoot a bullet a Luffy. The others were simply avoided with paper art or observation Haki "Tekkai". It wasn't really necessary, since he was a rubber man, but his cook and first mate had told him he couldn't use his devil fruit. The bullet only fell, kind of like it had hit a wall without leaving an impact mark. After that, Luffy changed between each technique until he reached the last ship.

On this ship stood Pearl, one of the strongest of Krieg's crew.

"You can't destroy my indestructible- bwah!" He shouted as Luffy kicked him directly in the stomach, breaking his armor in the process. While the young monstrous teen kicked the rest of the crew's ass, Pearl surrounded himself in fire.

"You can't attack me now!" His accomplishment was short-lived as the teenage captain walked slowly through the flames with a big smirk plastered on his face. Even with his eyes covered, it was easy to see his mischief and playful attitude.

"How did you pass through the flames!?" Luffy laughed.

"If I was afraid of fire, I would be afraid of my brothers! It would be pretty stupid wouldn't it?" Pearl's brow furrowed before he too fell unconscious as the straw hatted teen kicked him directly on top of his head.

"Geppo" The demon-like man returned to the baratie while happily jumping in the air until he landed at his crew's side with a grin. As he removed his bindings on his hands and eyes, He received quite a few horrified glare from pretty much everyone present, except the veterans straw-hat.

"WHAT KIND OF FUCKING MONSTER ARE YOU!?" Patty, one of the cooks shouted as he watched the scene from the front of the restaurant with a shaking marine on his left.

"I am not a monster, if I was, I would have sunk all of his ships, I only sunk 23 of them!" An explosion was heard behind him as the fire on the last boat activated the gunpowder below deck.

"Well, now it's 24..." The teen said sheepishly scraping the back of his head.

Krieg stared angrily at the raven haired captain. "STOP MESSING AROUND! YOU MAYBE ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO DEFEAT MY CREW-"

"In only a few minutes..." Gin added with wide eyes, looking at the ground.

"He could actually have done it in a few seconds if he didn't have any restrictions." Usopp stated, earning him a few chuckles from his crew or people who simply didn't believe him.

"Yeah, but where is the fun in that?" Luffy asked with a pout.

Krieg growled and swung his lance at the teen, which exploded on contact. When the smoke cleared, The powerful young captain didn't have a single scratch on him and looked at Krieg with a questioning glare. "You want to start now? I didn't get my restrictions yet!"

"YOU SHOULDN'T BE HOLDING BACK AGAINST ME! I AM THE STRONGEST MAN IN EAST BLUE!" Luffy shrugged.

"Yes, you are right if you don't count me, Bartolomeo, and smoker, being devil fruit users... Ah! Scratch that! You are weak since you can't even beat any fighter on my crew and they are all humans!" This only manage to make Krieg growl louder in anger.

"You will pay for your arrogance!" The short-tempered captain shouted as he shot his lance forward. Luffy simply gripped it between his fingers and broke it. "You may be strong, but none of you are invincible!" He said taking out his poison bomb. Every cook and customers who had come out of the baratie to watch the fight ran back inside and shut the doors and windows while Luffy tossed a few gas mask to his crew mates which he collected from the people on Krieg's fleet and didn't bother to put his own on.

"Luffy, I don't think you have poison resistance anymore since we came back!" Nami yelled in fear.

Luffy turned to face her with a smile. "Don't worry-" He was cut by a large purple fog who completely covered the area. When the fog died down, Luffy was clutching his knees and coughing a bit. His vision was blurry and he was almost loosing his balance

"You said not to worry!" Usopp yelled.

"Me and my brothers tried building up our poison resistance. It isn't as good as before, but every time I do it, it gets easier and better." Luffy said as he stood back up to face Krieg and Gin who had both removed their mask and were pretty much frozen in horror as their last technique, used only in urgent cases, was pushed aside like it was nothing.

"Now," Luffy said as his vision came back to normal. "This has been going on for too long. Lets finish this quickly, I am still hungry." With those words, Sanji walked to the kitchen nonchalantly with a grin since the door and windows had been reopened and Luffy threw his two fists backwards.

"Gomu Gomu No... Bazooka!"

Don Krieg was sent flying several yards back. The great and mighty Don Krieg had fallen after a single attack. Gin couldn't believe his eyes. Everything he thought he knew and everything he believed in was completely annihilated by one man in less than 20 minutes. The said man simply returned to his table, shortly followed by the rest of his crew in a really joyful matter.

Nami, Zoro and Usopp left to the kitchen to talk a few minutes with Sanji.

"Do you know what he was talking about when he was talking about betrayal earlier?" Nami asked worriedly.

"No. Maybe another lie from those shitty bastards. Who knows what happened after we got captured." Sanji said angrily.

"He would know we didn't betray him wouldn't he?" Usopp said with a worried expression.

"It's not like it never happened before." Zoro said bluntly.

"What?" They all responded.

"Don't give me that! All of you did it before! Quit the crew! Turn your back on him! Don't act like it would be impossible for any of you to do it!" Zoro spat.

"We had a reason at those moments!" Nami said, thinking back of what had happened so many years ago in her home island.

"Maybe, but the Shitty Marimo is right. Maybe we had reasons, but Luffy didn't know those reasons until after it was over in most cases." Sanji said as he thought back of what he did at whole cake island.

"Like you said earlier Zoro. It never happened... right? Going back in time means what happened is all erased?" Usopp said still not too confident of it.

"Well, I don't think anyone would have been capable of betraying Luffy back then. Lets just forget about it for now and get back to it if it is ever pertinent to do so." Nami said before they walked back to their table with a large amount of plates for the crew.

So this was the Baratie arc!

I want your opinion for this... Do you think Gin should join? Personally, I wasn't going to add him to the straw-hat crew but maybe some of you like him and want him in the crew.

Secondly, what do you think should happen with Arlong? If Jinbe is the one who let him loose in East blue, shouldn't he not be there anymore or you want me to put him there still since you don't think Jinbe would have changed that? I am not sure exactly what to do with this actually and I wanted to know if your ideas would be better than mine for what happened with Arlong before the straw-hats came to Conomi island.

So, in the crew, we have two characters who didn't get a lot of screen time in the canon. Kuina and Kaya. Especially Kuina since she died young. There is something I wanted to do for a while. I want to write a full physical and personality description of the crew members who aren't straw-hats in the canon. If you would be interested in those, I will add them at the end of the new chapters every time a new crew mate joins.

I hope you liked this chapter! Thanks for reviewing, it helps a lot and makes me want to write more when I read your positives responses!