It was late afternoon and Luffy follows behind his grandfather down the familiar path from his childhood, they had been walking since the early hours of the morning to come into the deep forest and up the mountain area.

'Is this really happening?' Luffy thinks as he stares around at his old home, the words his grandfather spoke were the words of that time. 'Last night...I thought it was some kind of dream. But here I still am!'

"Pirate King of all things..." Garp says loudly in disgust as he hurries along his was the same as it was at the beginning of their journey, "That fruit and now this. Leaving you there in that village was a big mistake on my part!"

Luffy blinks as he walks faster, he remembered this well; of course this time around he was not being dragged by his face most of the way and he was not a he. Looking down he stares blinking at his shorts knowing that an important part of him was missing.

"That darn stardust... genie!" Luffy cries out loudly just as angrily as his grandfather was about him becoming Pirate King, eating that fruit and meeting and playing with Shanks, "Turning me into a girl! I got to get back!"

Luffy stops in her tracks as she came into the clearing in the forest that had his old home. The wooden house that belong to the mountain bandits was missing Luffy's Kingdom that he and Ace build outside; this caused her heart to ache.

'…..ace...' A small part of her mind spoke that name; Luffy had been blocking her thoughts off from his dead brother.

Luffy watches as her grandfather walks over to the wooden building and slam his fist against the door, she quickly rush over wanting to see Dadan once again.

"Dadan get your large butt out here!" Garp shouts as he slammed at the door a couple more times. Grinning boldly Luffy waits for her to open the door. The door open and Dadan stood staring in shock, the words she was about to say to the person there were lost to her.

"G..garp-san!" Dadan cries out at last as she began to sweat, "You surprised me!"

Luffy grins up at her and looks around at the other two bandit that came out with her; she and Garp stood talking about Ace causing Luffy to stop listening. Frowning she glances around knowing that as soon as she moves away that Ace was going to spit at her face.

'I don't want to move...' Luffy thinks as she gazes over to the place where Ace would appear, then looks back at Dadan who was calling her a monster or something, 'I don't want to face Ace...or Sabo when that time comes... Since when am I a coward?'

"Ah! Ace!" Garp calls out making Luffy become still, she turns slowly and sees Ace sitting upon his kill glaring at them all. Luffy's face goes completely free of emotion as she stares at the boy. "Luffy, this is Ace. He is three years older than you. You are going to be living here with these people, so try and get along!"

"Sure Grandpa!" Luffy says brightly as she turns and looks up at him, Garp froze for some strange reason and duck down sweeping the man turned boy turned girl, into a crushing hug. "Shishihishi! Grandpa wanted a hug!" she wraps her arms her around the man's neck and returns the hug.

"Dadan!" Garp roars as he faces the woman, "Take care of my cute grands-child! Or I swear you and your entire family will be going down!"

"Yes sir!" Dadan cries out shaking in fear as did the rest of them, "We'll be sure to care after him!"

Garp bent down and places Luffy to her feet causing her great confusion, why was her grandfather being nice so suddenly; the old man flips the straw hat off if her head and began patting her on the head with a thoughtful expression of his face.

"Luffy grow your hair out long!" Garp suddenly demands as he removes his large hand and stands.

"Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuh?!" Luffy cries out shocked, "WHY?!"

"Because I said so." Garp said simply as that as he turns to Ace and smiles at the boy as he carries the overly large buffalo over his head and heads towards the door.

"Oh okay." Luffy mumbles as she walks into the house uncaring, she stands in the door frame watching the old marine hero go. "Bye Grandpa!"

"Bye Luffy! Be good and become a strong marine!" Garp shouts as he turns and strolls off back towards the path, "Oh!" He turns around and waves, "Grandpa loves Luffy! Does Luffy love Grandpa?"

"..." Luffy blinks at this, then grins widen and starts waving her arms, "Yeah! Luffy loves Grandpa!"

She watching Garp walk out of sight and turns to see Dadan staring where Garp once stood; Ace was glaring hard at Luffy like he wanted to kill her right there and then. Luffy grin drops as she blinks at him and follows them inside.

'Grandpa is treating me like a little girl!' Luffy thinks as she takes a seat beside Dadan who right away starts to complain about Garp; around her she was dimly aware that the bandit had started making their evening meal.

Luffy turns to Ace. He was waiting for the meat to be cooked, the ten year old growl from deep in his throat when he notices the other's stare. Luffy continues to stare at him much to Ace's displeasure.

"From now on you'll be working here!" Dadan bellows at Luffy, she broke eye contact and gazes up at the woman, "You'll be cleaning the floors, washing the windows, doing our clothes and boots. As well as cleaning and treating our weapons!" she pauses for a moment, "You must not tell Garp!"

Luffy glances at the meat that was now being handed around, now that she notices it was a all quieter than the first time around. No one attacked her when she entered, maybe because she came in with Dadan and as for the silent meal time it most likely because of the stranger in their midst.

"I'm want more food." Luffy says loudly but she knew that response to that already. Ace and the bandits were all tucking in to the meat.

Dadan snorts loudly through her nose, "This is meat from Ace's kill! He shares it with us and gets to eat at our table because of that!" The woman sneers down at the child, "One bowl of rice and one glass of water a day is all you're getting! Anything else you have to get on your own!"

"Oh, okay!" Luffy replies and holds back her laugher as she sees Dadan falls down in shock.

"'Okay'!? You agreed?! You are meant to be crying your eyes out!" Dadan cries out at the child, who smiles bright at her.

"Grandpa once abandoned me in a jungle!" Luffy says with fondest at the old memory, "I well used to surviving this kind of place!"

Luffy stands and runs out the door; Ace was already walking ahead. Smiling at the small form she hurries along, even though it had been a long hike that morning she still had enough energy to carry on. It would seem that the scar on her chest was not the only thing that came with her to the past, also her full power.

"Ace never spat at me..." Luffy mutters under her breath as she follows and walks right behind him. He had yet to notices the girl there. Truthfully she did not know what to say, her memories were floating around in her head causing her mind to spin.

"Ace can we be friends?" Luffy asks loudly making the boy halt and slowly turn, he was very surprised to see Luffy there. "Ah! I'm Luffy! Nice to meet you!"

"Die." Ace hisses out and spins on his heels, his glare was deadly and if he had his fire power Luffy was sure she would be roasting tonight.

"Die...?" Luffy asks as she hurries along beside him, knowing that he was going to do something to throw her away from him soon, "Is that how you mountain bandit greet?"

"I am not a mountain bandit!" Ace shouts as he turns to face him, he held his pipe tighten threatening; Luffy knew this action, Ace was indeed going to strike him, "And stop following me!"

The pipe swung round, instead of moving Luffy closes her eyes and relaxing her body she let the pipe hit her around the cheek, causing her to go flying down the small slope they just went up. At the bottom she lay blinking, the first time round Ace had broke a large tree and pushed it down the path.

Walking she gazes up and saw that Ace was already out of sight. Hurrying back up the slope she ran at her slowest pace; it did not take long before she saw Ace once more, he was mumbling darkly under his breath while cursing the world.

"Ace!" Luffy cries out joyfully as she bounces by his side and succeeded in freaking him out slightly. The freckled faced boy visible grits his teeth as he growls at the girl, he glances towards something and his eyes narrows. Luffy follows his line of vision and sees that he was staring at the old hanging bridge.

Ace turns and walks fast across the bridge, Luffy carefully walk behind. The bridge swung side to side as the pair crossed. There they came to be in the middle of the bridge Ace suddenly knees bringing the pipe ready for a large swing. Luffy did not close her eyes just time as the pipe hit, she met his eyes and stared at him with a pricing gaze while keeping the rest of her face blank; no sound came from her as she fell, Luffy made sure to keep her eyes on his until she was unable.

Half way down she twists in the air on that she was facing upright, then she shoot out her arm stretching to the sides. Grabbing hold of a rock she let herself be pull towards it, just before she crashed face first she stuck her feet out.

"That wasn't very nice." Luffy says as she recalls the events that happens after this; he spent a whole week going for a way out while being chased by hungry wolves. Luffy grabs onto a rock with her other hand and let the lengthen one go returning it to its rightful shape. Slowly she began to climb up the cliff thinking of all that had happened.

After Kid became King Straw Hat Luffy lost his focus, he was to blame for not getting there. Kid and him had been on the last challenge before getting One Piece, but both their crews were in danger. Unlike Kid Luffy went back to help his crew while the other captain claimed the prize.

'Now what?' Luffy thinks as she pulls herself over the top and stands. 'I'm back in the past! I can change the future in many ways...' Memories on events she only heard about came into her mind, will she be able to do anything?

Luffy blinks as she dully looks at her surrounds, Ace had gone to Grey Terminal for the night it seemed and the sun was setting fast. She wanted to contact her crew but wanted to wait for the stardust to return and see how everyone was. It had been a month since Kid was crowned as King and no one knew how to come to him since all felt it was their fault for him losing his dream.

'I was planning to fight Kid for the title anyway.' Luffy thinks as she walks heading toward where the tree house was, 'It's not there!' she stops in her tracks, 'Our tree house has not been build yet!' Luffy shakes her head and continues walking still heading to the place where she also called home, 'I can camp out tonight...But first I best find myself something to eat.'