I SADLY OWN NOTHING. I TECHNICALLY OWN IDEA THOUGH, SO YEAHHHHHHH.

ALSO- WHILE I HAVEN'T CHANGED THE LAST CHAPATER IT HAS BEEN NEWLY BETA-ED? REVISED? WORDS.

It didn't particularly hurt getting shot. He's been shot before… hell he's been shot in the head. That doesn't mean it was a pleasant experience. What made it worse was that his whiskey had been knocked over as well and his drink got on his cigar. His hands fisted and he felt the ever present pressure of his mutation pushing to be let out. His eyes darted quickly across the bar, and he briefly saw the three young mutant's eyes, all lit as they moved to cover each other, the blond one being pushed to the back. But the fuckwads in the bar didn't see children. He knew that. He knew they weren't gonna let the kids go. Didn't matter that little kids, to the 'human's' they were demons and monsters and needed to die. His choice was made the minutes the kids lit himself on fire. He blamed chuck. A familiar pain rip through his knuckles as his bone pushed through his skin. His metal skeleton didn't let the bullet through the bone. He felt the muscle in his knee slowly nit back together and push the bullet out. His eyes went back to the other bar guest.

He glanced up in time to see the bartender- Makino- take out her own gun. The three brats had scurried behind the bar, hidden from the bar's angry non-mutant occupants. He stood up and brought his fist up, showing everyone in the room his own mutation.

"Another one."

"I bet the bartender is in on it."

Logan sneered, glancing at the girl and the door the stood a few feet behind her.

"Hey Shelia, get the brats out of here."

He almost laughed when some of them men tried to go around him to get a shot at the three kids that ran off. Another shot ran out, and the man closest to the door backed up, looked like Shelia knew how to use a gun.

He glanced back at his spilt whiskey and soggy cigar. It was defiantly Chuck's fault.

Ace grabbed Luffy, slinging him unceremoniously onto his back, and shot out the back door. His arm's linking to hold Luffy up while simultaneously clutching his prize closer. Looking back only once to make sure Sabo was following. Luffy's arms and legs stretched without questions, tying themselves around Ace so he wouldn't fall off.

"Ace!" Sabo yelled, two steps behind him. "Dadan's place is in the other direction!"

"Shut up! I know, I'm not stupid! I grew up in these woods to you know?" Ace shot back, quickly jumping over a small stream and going deeper into the woods and in the opposite direction of their care-takers home. The fire under his skin itching to be let lose, to devour, and burn, and turn to everything to ash.

"Ace?" Luffy whined softly, moving his head to rest it on his shoulder. His flames smothered themselves, where they had start to ignite around his feet. His flames were just as protective of Luffy and Sabo as he was. They'd never hurt them.

"If we go back to Dadan's, the shitty Gramps will separate us. We've been fine living in the woods, we can make it on our own!" He declared loudly. The warning his grandfather had given him ringing in his head. Luffy and Sabo were everything to him, he didn't know how much control he would have if they were forced to separate.

Sabo gave a breath grunt as he worked to get closer.

"NO!" Luffy cried, his arms automatically tightening around his neck as his legs squeezed the air out of his lungs. "I don't want to leave Nii-chan!" Tears started to drip down, soaking Ace's shoulder.

"That's why we're going this way Lu." He murmured breathily, his pace slowing as the bar faded completely from view, hidden behind hundreds of trees.

"We stick together right?" He announced, his voice leaving no real question as he turned to gaze at Sabo.

"Yeah," he smiled weakly, his eyes leaving Ace's to gaze at the sobbing seven year old. "We're staying together Lu, so don't you worry."

For a moment they don't move, catching their breath and staring at each other as Luffy slowly stops crying, his sniffles breaking the silence every few seconds.

"We- We can't stay in the woods. Or here. Gramps will defiantly find us, and the town knows us and the people at the bar will surely-" Sabo started, his breath easing for just a second as a thousand thoughts and plans seemed to pass by his eyes.

Ace grimily holds us Makino's purse.

"I know. We're gonna have to take a bus, get out of here, as far as we can possibly go." He informed them, his face slightly down casted.

"Ace..?" Sabo looked in horror. "That's-"

"Makino's, I know. I didn't want to, but Sabo, she'd understand!" His voice dripping with guilt and dismay.

"But Makino is- I mean she- She took care of us Ace! She's practically family!" Sabo shouted, anger clouding his vision. A familiar itch made him clench his hands, they never raised their mutations against each other the only exception being spars.

"I KNOW! I know okay? But she would understand, she'd never want us to be separated." He yelled back, his feet once more catching fire and slowly burning the foliage around them.

"She said to stay together." Luffy said quietly, his head turned away.

"Yeah, like Lu said. She'd want us to stay together and this is the only way."

Sabo glared in anger but conceited, he knew she would understand, but he didn't like it.

"We'll go to our tree house. I think I grabbed an old book-bag from the junkyard last week. We can use that." Sabo said quickly, wanting to not think about what his older brother had just done.

Luffy's arms tightened, the flames died out, and they started to walk towards the center of the forest. Luffy slowly unwinding his legs to let them drag behind them.

"Then we'll stop and grab something from the tree house." Ace announced.

"Pirate flag?" Luffy mumbled, softly, looking heartbroken at the prospect of leaving it behind.

"Our pirate flag, our sake cups, and our clothes. And our treasures." Ace offered back, reaching behind him to get Luffy off.

"I think all of it will fit."

"So, we've had little freaks in our town all along. I knew something wasn't right with you."

A harsh and hoarse voice announced. A man in blue jeans and a hunting hat came out from behind a few trees. His eyes dark as his figure stayed firmly on the trigger of his shot gun.

PLEASE READ IMPORTANT!

SO I HAVE YET TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE A POLL SO I'M RELYING ON YOU TO CHOSE. THIS STORY CAN GO ONE OF TWO WAYS.

ASL CAN END UP WITH

WHITE BEARD

OR

X-MEN

TECHNICALLY THEY CAN END UP WITH BROTHERHOOD AS WELL BUT I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE BROTHERHOOD.