Summary: I don't know what's worse…being thrown into this dog eat dog One Piece universe or growing up with the three terrors known as Luffy, Ace, and Sabo. Someone please kill me. Self-Insert/OC, Rated T for Language
Flashback= italics
Disclaimer: NOTHING BELONGS TO ME EXCEPT FOR MY OC'S
Chapter 4: Step 3: Learn to Deal with Your Brother's Annoying Friends
I was woken unpleasantly from my deep sleep by two hooligans screaming at each other. I crack an eye open and am welcomed to a sight that made me automatically sigh. Garp was roughly getting Luffy out of his bed for some reason and Luffy was not having any of it.
"Luffy damn it! Get dressed, we're leaving as soon as possible!"
Leaving? And what was Garp even doing here? I sit up in my bed and stretch out my sore joints. I don't bother getting out of bed just yet though. Baby steps Rexi, baby steps.
"Oji-san? What are you doing?" Garp stops his nagging and looks at me.
"Ah squirt you're awake? Get up and get ready, I'm taking you and Luffy somewhere," I raise my eyebrows at that.
"And where is that?"
"You'll see when we get there, now go get ready."
I get up, listening to Garp's words. Ignoring the screams of Luffy and Garp, I get ready in peace. Once both of us were ready, we all left. Garp was holding onto Luffy's cheek who had tried to escape multiple times. Garp told me that he was taking us to Mt. Corvo wear he wants the bandits to take care of Luffy. He didn't say anything about them taking care of me but I assumed that I would be staying with them as well. Wouldn't want Luffy to stay there by himself anyways.
"Like I said, Oji-chan…I'm gonna be the Pirate King!" Luffy mumbled. He was still being carried by his cheek so it was hard for him to talk.
"What do you mean Pirate King?!" Garp exclaimed.
"L-Let go of me, damn it!"
"Not only did you eat that Devil Fruit, but now you're spouting nonsense as well! Luffy, both you and Ace are destined to become great marines!" Garp yells. I almost laugh. Imagining Luffy as a marine is hilarious.
"Damn it…I'm made of rubber, why does this hurt? Please let go Oji-chan," Luffy complained. Ah so Garp's using his Haki. How cool…I want to learn how to use it in the future. I'm pretty strong right now, but with Haki I could become even powerful! I want it to be my main source of power in the future. But I'm not even sure I have the ability to use it. I'm too young to start training in that field anyways.
"Leaving you in that peaceful Windmill Village was a mistake! Of all things, the Pirate King?"
"Yeah."
"YOU BAKA!" Luffy grabs onto a nearby tree to stop Garp from walking but his face just keeps stretching. I stop walking, having an idea about what's about to happen and wait for it to play out. "Becoming friends with that damn Red Hair Shanks is completely unacceptable!"
"I'm gonna become…" At this moment, the tree Luffy was holding onto breaks and hit Garp right in the back. I am unaffected so I just continue to walk, stepping over the tree carefully.
"…as strong as Shanks is!" Luffy finishes.
"HEY!" Damn now Garp is mad. I'm slowly loosing my patience…these dweebs need to stop talking for two seconds. I suffered 10 more minutes of their bickering when we finally reached where the bandits stayed. Luffy stays back while I walk with Garp to go knock on their door.
"Why don't you just knock down their door? You seem to do it everywhere else…" I say as we wait for someone to answer the door. He just glares at me telling me to silently shut up. Well then. As Garp continuously knocks on the door, Luffy goes and explores a bit.
"Don't go too far Luffy!"
"Okay, Rexi-nee!"
Someone finally opens the door.
"So annoying! Who's the reckless daredevil?!" the bandit yells. Garp puts on the scariest face I have ever seen in my entire life.
"It's me." I think the woman peed her pants a little.
"G-Garp-san!" Two men sneak their heads from behind a corner to look at Garp and I, and also pee their pants a little. The woman who answered is, I'm assuming, Curly Dadan. She's tall and overweight and has long, orange, curly hair. She has a very masculine face that probably gets everyone confused on her gender. At the moment, she's wearing a white collar shirt, a pink beaded necklace, and checkered trousers held up with a large belt.
The two guys behind her if my memory serves me right are Dogra and Magra. Dogra is short and is wearing a polka-dotted dungaree with a turban on his head. He also seems to be carrying a small sword but I'm not sure. First thing I thought when I saw Magra was chicken. Okay so I might be a little hungry but whatever. Anyways he wears a decorated jacket with a yellow scarf around his neck and a pair of shorts. He's also wearing long, striped socks and carrying a saber on his right hip.
"You seem to be doing well," Garp says casually, putting his hands in his pockets.
"You've got to be kidding me! Seriously, I wish you'd just leave me alone for a change! That Ace is already 10 years old, you know!" Dadan exclaims. Luffy in the meantime is running around with no purpose for some reason. I'm not asking question though.
"Is he? Has it really been that long? How's he doing?" Garp asks. Psh, what a senile old man. He glares down at me like he knows exactly what I'm thinking but I just ignore it. This man is too smart for his age.
"It's nothing to laugh at. If he gets any wilder, we won't be able to control him at all. Just take him with you!" Dogra says.
"Anyways…" Garp says completely ignoring Dogra.
"Don't just change the subject like that!"
"Sheesh, that kid's so distracting!" Dadan finally snaps. Oh lord, please help me to get through this headache inducing situation. Garp picks up Luffy by his collar.
"Take care of him too." Now we just await the shitstorm. "Now, come on, Luffy. Say hello."
"Yo," Luffy says automatically.
"Who's that kid?" Magra asks.
"He's my grandson," Garp replies. And then the three proceed to die.
"WE'VE GOTTA TAKE CARE OF ANOTHER ONE?!"
"GARP'S…I MEAN…GARP-SAN'S GRANDSON?!"
All three of them get on their knees and say, "Absolutely not!"
"Well, you have to make a decision. Do you want to spend the rest of your life behind bars or will you raise him? I've turned a blind eye so far, but you've committed as many crimes as there are stars in the sky," Garp says while laughing (probably at their despair…he's like that).
"No way!" the three cry out.
"Well, true, I don't wanna go to prison…" Magra says.
"But sometimes prison actually seems tempting. Our hands are full with just Ace!" Dogra says.
"And now you want us to take your grandson too?! I'm sure that kid's just as much of a monster, isn't he?" Dadan says.
"What a crappy-looking mountain hut!" Luffy shouts.
"YOU WANT TO DIE, YOU BRAT?!" Dadan screams. Luffy runs away not paying attention to her. "HE'S NOT EVEN PAYING ATTENTION TO ME."
I laugh to myself a little and follow Luffy. He should be meeting Ace any moment now and I kind of wanted to be there when he did. I see something fly towards his face and he stops to see what it is. By this time, I have caught up to him.
"What was that? EH! It's spit! Nasty!" Luffy exclaims.
"Ewwww…who did that?" I ask. We looked around until finally we spotted Ace sitting on what appeared to be a buffalo. Luffy starts walking up to him and I am yet again forced to walk after him. Ace was wearing a red tank top with knee-length shorts. His shoes were kind of like mine, brown flats.
"Hey! You! Apologize that's gross!" Luffy yells. At this point, Garp turns around to see what Luffy's screaming about.
"Oh! Ace!"
"Hey! Apologize!" Luffy keeps screaming. Garp walks over to the both of us.
"Luffy chill, don't get mad about this kind of stuff," I say wiping the spit off his face with my handkerchief. He huffs lightly before crossing his arms and looking away. Ah now he's mad at me.
"Luffy. That's Ace. He's three years older than you and the same age as Rexi-chan. Starting today, you'll be living with these people," Garp explain.
"Ehh what about Rexi-nee?" Luffy asks.
"Oh she'll be goi-"
"She'll be staying here," I finish for Garp. He looks shocked.
"Excuse me?" Garp says. I give him a very wide smile.
"Did you except me to just leave my little brother with a bunch of criminals? I THINK NOT OLD MAN," I snap. He looks even more shocked. But not as surprised at the three bandits. I think my words broke their soul.
"Now we need to take care of 3 twerps…kill me," Dadan says as she stares up at the heavens.
"Okay, well then my business here is done. You two listen to what Dadan has to say, understand?" I nod at Garp's request but Luffy is still glaring at Ace. "I'll come to visit when I have time."
"Bye Oji-san!" I yell after him. Garp and the three bandits argue some more but I ignore it because Ace had jumped off the bull and was walking towards us. Luffy stands up straighter and I stay in my slouched position not really afraid of Ace.
"Apologize!" Luffy yells again. I hit him on the back of the head. "Ow! Rexi-nee, why are you being so mean?"
"EH I'm not mean…" I grumble. Luffy puts his straw hat on and wipes the tears out of his eyes. He seems to get a hold of himself. I smile to myself, Shanks really rubbed off on him. I walk into the cabin assuming that Luffy would follow me. We sneak around the purple curtain that acted as a door. The room had a cooking pot in the middle and there seemed to be no one present.
"Huh where'd he go?" Luffy asks. So he's still looking for Ace huh. All of a sudden two guys come behind us and put a knife to our throats. I automatically elbow the guy in the gut and take the knife from his grip. Before I could get Luffy out of the grasp of his guy, Dadan interrupts.
"Oi get you're hands off Garp's grandson."
"EHH this kid is…"
"Him and the girl are gonna live with us from now on," Dogra says.
"WHY DID YOU TAKE THEM?!" all the bandits scream. "THIS ISN'T A NURSERY SCHOOL YOU KNOW! YOU'RE TOTALLY GUTLESS."
"SHUT IT YOU SCUMBAGS! IT'S TIME FOR DINNER!" and then all hell broke loose. These savages were fighting for the food. Luffy saw the meat and automatically tried to get some. I wanted to go and get some meat for Luffy but at the same time he needs to learn to get stronger. To be fair, I won't get any meat either. I kicked the guy that was stepping on Luffy's face to get food and he went flying into the wall. It really is the survival of the fittest here. The meat did look good though…
We eventually got to eat at least one bowl of food which Luffy finished in approximately 2 seconds. I could at least make it last for two minutes.
"Another bowl! Ossan (1), I want another bowl!" Luffy demanded.
"I'M A WOMAN! And don't you realize where you've been left?!"
"No."
"THEN I'LL TELL YOU. This is the hideout of the mountain bandits who rule Mt. Corvo, the Dadan Family!"
"Mountain bandits?" I ask.
"I hate those guys!" Luffy exclaims probably thinking of those bandits that attacked us not too long ago.
"SHUT IT YOU DAMN BRAT! It's already a pain in the ass raising you. If you don't want to be here, that's fine by us! Just go somewhere and die like an animal." I get mad now. I stand up from my sitting position and turn my attention to Dadan.
"Shut up you old hag! You're damn yelling is getting on my nerves!" I scream. Dadan hits me on the head most likely (most definitely) annoyed with me.
"And who are you? Garp didn't tell us to take care of you!" Dadan replied.
"My name is Demange Rexi. I'm only here to take care of Luffy," I say sitting back down and resting my throbbing head.
"Little girl thinks she's tough shit. You ain't nothing in here!" I frown at her words. I don't act like tough shit…now Ace acts like tough shit.
"I'm still hungry…" Luffy mumbles. Dadan tempts Luffy to take a bite of her meat but in the last second fakes him out. Bitch.
"I'll have you know, this is all buffalo meat that Ace brought us. He shares it with us so he gets to sit at our table. The life of a mountain bandit is harsh. Starting tomorrow, we'll work you both half to death! Cleaning, laundry, shoe polishing and weapon polishing! Theft, looting, swindling and KILLING! And listen…you guys better not say a single word to Garp about the stuff we make you do!"
I hate my life.
"One bowl of rice and on glass of water a day!"
I'm going to die.
"That's all I'm giving you. Anything else, you'll have to get yourself. You'll have to raise yourself to be strong."
"Alright," Luffy and I reply. This shocks Dadan so much that her head shoots through the floor. I'm pretty sure it's going to be stuck now.
"Oji-chan threw me into the jungle once…earthworms, frogs, snakes, mushrooms. If this is a forest then there is plenty of stuff to eat! Besides, I'm going to be a pirate someday so I gotta deal with this at least!" Luffy explains. I knew that the pirate part would definitely catch Ace's attention but Luffy didn't know that yet. Only after Luffy's monologue was over did Dadan's bandits finally try to help her out of the ground.
Out of the corner of my eye I can see Ace sneak out of the room, probably heading outside. I look towards Luffy and see that he also noticed Ace's absence.
"Where's he going?" Luffy asked me. I shrugged my shoulders and continued to eat my rice. Unlike Luffy, I don't inhale my food. Luffy pulls me up to my feet and drags me outside to after Ace.
"Luffy wait! MY FOOD!" I yell getting everyone's attention.
"Where are you two going?!" I hear Dadan yell behind us. I couldn't care less though. I'm just upset that my rice is going to go uneaten…that actually upsets me so much I kind of want to cry. Rest in peace Rice…I'll never forget you.
I hear Ace slam the door in our faces but I don't even care because I am still mourning. Luffy not even fazed, opened the door and continued to run after him.
"Oi! Oiiiiiiiiiiii!" Luffy shouts. By this point, I had gotten up and was running with him. "I'm Luffy! I'm not angry that you spat on me anymore! It's nothing to get worked up about! Let's be friends," he says with a big smile on his face. Awh look at Luffy being the bigger man (boy?). Ace could learn a few things from him.
"Are you going somewhere?" I ask Ace, getting fed up with his silence. I wouldn't even mind an insult, just say something bro. All of a sudden Ace kicks the tree that he was standing next to and it starts to roll down the hill. That little bitch… Luffy yells so loud I thought his head would fall off and starts to run towards the dead end. I'm literally surrounded by idiots.
I jump over the tree easily and land on the other side. I hear the tree smash into Luffy and kind of feel guilty that I didn't help him but he could have, you know, just stepped to the side... Whatever, what's done is done I guess. Ace seemed to be surprised that I jumped over the tree. I scowl at him.
"Get out my sight you noob," I say.
"Noob?! What does that even mean?" Ace asks generally confused. Well damn, how do I explain this.
"It's means ur stupid," I say while sticking my tongue out childishly. Oh I went there. I could see his face get red as he got more and more angry but I guess he had a pinch of self control in him so he just ignored me and left. I head back to the fallen tree to hopefully find a squished Luffy. As soon as I got there he shot up from the ground and started sprinting towards Ace's direction.
"Oi wait for me Luffy!" I shout. However, it was too late. God damn anime…letting people run faster than humanly possible. I probably could catch up to him but I'm too lazy. And I don't particularly care for Ace anyways.
I don't remember what happens but I'm guessing Luffy's not going to stop bothering Ace till he acknowledges him which won't happen for a while. Ain't nobody got time for that.
So with that I start to walk back to the cabin having a bad feeling that I was forgetting something important.
*****BREAK*****
HOW COULD I FORGET?
It didn't hit me till it was too late but I completely forgot that the first time that Luffy had chased after Ace he had fallen off into some abyss and didn't come back to Dadan's for like a week. So I repeat…HOW COULD I FORGET?
The sky outside was turning into beautiful shades of orange and red hinting that the end of the day was near. Neither Ace nor Luffy had returned yet. There was a high chance that Luffy wouldn't be coming back and if that's the case, Ace has something coming for him. That fucking noob, I'll kill him and his rude ass.
"Hey Ace is back!" I hear Magra shout.
"FOOD!"
I run outside with the rest of the bandits who want to see what Ace has brought them this time. He brought back fish if you were wondering. A lot of fish.
"Ace you came back alone?" Dogra asks. I scowl awaiting his answer.
"What about Luffy?" Magra asks his voice filled with concern. "Wasn't he with you?"
"Hell if I know," Ace says promptly indicating that's all he's going to say about that. Never in my life have I wanted to strangle someone as much as him at this very moment. Should I go look for Luffy? Maybe I could find him before he found his way back here. I reign in my anger towards Ace (God I wish that kid would hurry up and get over himself), and without a word run towards the forest.
"I'll be back later!" I shout over my shoulder.
"Wait Rexi-chan!" Dogra shouts. I ignore him and head into the forest to look for the little twerp. That baka, when will he ever learn. I get that he likes Ace but why would he want to go to such extremes to be his friend. I want to be Ace's friend too, don't get me wrong, but chasing him around won't make it happen faster. I guess the only way Ace and Luffy can become close is if they go through all this crap together. Better strap in and tag along then… I sigh loudly, already fed up with all this bull shit.
I hope Luffy's safe…if he's not I'm going to murder him.
A week passed and Luffy was still no where to be seen. I couldn't help but think that some of this was my fault. The whole past week I had been going out and trying to find any sign of him in the forest but couldn't find anything. He truly had disappeared. I also tried to avoid Ace at all times. I don't want to deal with him unless it's completely necessary. I just want him to be like he was after the whole kidnapping of Luffy and crap. Damn…I have that to look forward to soon.
I'm getting ahead of myself though. Luffy has to come back to Dadan's alive before any of that can happen.
It was the middle of the night and everyone was asleep (including me) until everyone was disturbed by some obnoxious yelling from Dogra.
"Boss! Boss Dadan!"
I stir in bed and go to the source of the noise to see what the problem was. I was greeted by the sight of Luffy out of breath covered in a bunch of scratches. My eyes filled with tears as I stared at his sorry state. I ran up to him before anyone else could to get a better look at his wounds. I was blabbering nonsense over Dadan's voice asking Luffy where he was the entire time.
"I've been chased by wolves at the bottom of the valley," he explained while I lifted his arms to see if they still worked.
"What were you doing at the bottom of the valley?" Dogra asked. Luffy sweatdropped, and obviously ignored the question.
"Anyways…it's nice that you're okay…" Dogra continues before Dadan explodes.
"It's not okay! The pest came back!" Dadan says angrily. I turn to her, rage coursing my veins all directed to this stupid woman. Luffy was gone for a week and was obviously hurt but all she could think about was herself.
"I'm gonna take Luffy in and fix him up…" I say, trying not to let my anger show (it failed). I drag him in and take him into the room that I was sleeping in (which just so happens to be the one that Ace sleeps in). As soon as Luffy lays down he's knocked out. Figures…he's probably exhausted. I could see Ace move out of the corner of my eye, probably woken up by all the commotion. Well whatever, I can't worry about that right now. My only concern right now is to make sure that Luffy is fine.
So I go across the room to my side and grab my medicine bag which contains all the plants I have from the garden. His scratches aren't deep, just some bandages should be good. I sneak outside and grab some water from the well and bring it back in and clean his wounds. I apply some ointment that I made out of calendula, comfrey, and arnica. Then I apply the bandages over the cuts and call it quits. He should be fine by tomorrow if he eats some food, I'll just give him my ration too.
With that I lay down next to him and had the best sleep I've had that entire week.
*****BREAK*****
I wake up before Luffy and Ace so I go ahead and start my chores after washing up a little bit. I go outside and start hanging up clothes to dry off. I must have lost track of time because before I knew it Ace had left with a very earnest Luffy trailing behind him.
"Are you gonna go somewhere today Ace? Take me with you! Let's become friends!"
Hearing this, Ace stops his walking pace and instead starts to run away. Luffy takes this as an invitation and starts running off after him. I sigh, contemplating on what to do. I don't understand why he's still so obsessed with him. I think I'll just leave them to it though. I don't want to affect their relationship together. I am kind of concerned after you know Luffy going missing for a week, but according to canon it shouldn't happen again.
"Hey you got chores to do around the house!" Dadan yells after Luffy. He turns around and sticks his tongue out.
"No thank you!"
Well at least he has manners.
"YOU LITTLE SHIT! You're out of control!" Dadan screams. I agree Dadan, I totally agree.
But whatever, this nonsense should be stopping soon. I continue to do chores for the both of us cause he's a spoiled brat. Everyday Luffy chased after Ace and he would loose him. This didn't faze him though, probably gave him more of a reason to chase after him. Gave him a challenge you know. Also everyday, Dadan would send both Dogra and Magra after Luffy to get him back but they could never catch up to him. She even tried to send me once but I pretended like I was deaf.
Two months passed, and Luffy kept going after Ace desperately. Everyone was starting to get fed up with it. I was getting fed up of it too to be honest. What surprised me most was Dadan was actually worried about the twerp.
"N-No way! Stop talking nonsense!" She denied. I grin to myself.
"Awh it sounds like you're worried ~~" I say jokingly.
"Shut up Rexi! You should be the most worried!" Dadan replies. I look away, knowing that she's right.
"Whatever...if Luffy wants to torture himself to get a friend, then so be. I don't have any control over him," I explain eating some meat that they had given me. Over the past months I had gotten on their good sides so that means more food for me. The next thing I know Luffy comes in with his face completely swollen from I'm assuming bee stings.
I immediately start laughing.
"A bee-hive fell on me."
I start laughing more. He looks like a grapefruit. I think everyone's reaction made it more funny. I COULDN'T EVEN TELL IF IT WAS HIM OR NOT.
This is truly great, I'm so thankful I was able to see this in person.
"STOP LAUGHING AT ME REXI-NEE!"
This just makes me laugh harder.
*****BREAK*****
Luffy tells me that he ran into a big tiger when he was chasing after Ace and I thought it was funny that while he was telling me this, his knees were shaking. When he's older that tiger's gonna be afraid of him. Oh the irony.
But this gives me the sign that they will be meeting Sabo soon, so I start secretly going after Luffy and Ace. Another month passes of this, and by this point I'm incredibly bored. But in my notes of cannon or whatever I clearly wrote down that the tiger scene meant that the time of Sabo was coming soon.
Finally, one day I was slowly following an exhausted Luffy, he reached the end of the forest. We were both greeted by the sight of Gray Terminal. I think right about now would be good time to show Luffy that I was here.
"Hey what's up little bro!" Luffy screams really loud, frightened by my appearance.
"Rexi-nee?! Did you follow me all the way here?" Luffy asks still breathing heavily from the fright that I just gave him.
"Sure did," I say with a smile. He gets himself together and stares at the giant trash pile in front of us.
"What is this place?" he asks. I turn towards him.
"it's called Grays Terminal. It's a place where outlaws are banished from the kingdom, which is over that big wall over there. It's a lawless place, very dangerous. All that mumbo jumbo," I explain. Luffy nods, but probably didn't listen to a word I said. He confirms my thought by jumping down towards the gross place. I follow him grudgingly.
"Ace!" Luffy shouts his name a couple more times before some commotion knocks both of us off our feet. I get up immediately and head towards the noise before Luffy has a chance to cause trouble there. I look down to see what the problem is and see Ace chasing some bandit. Luffy, being the idiot that he is, didn't see them fighting and kept shouting his name.
"Luffy! Damn it, shut up! He's right here," I say as quietly as I can. Luffy hears me and comes over. Once he saw Ace he moves to scream his name but I cover his mouth before he can say anything.
"You have to be quiet, we'll follow him okay," I say. He nods silently and we watch as Ace takes the man's belongings which probably contained gold and other random crap. We follow him for a while as he runs into the forest. He jumps up a tree, and I assume that Sabo is up there as well. Once we reached there, we could hear the last part of their conversation together.
"I wonder how much we need to get a pirate ship…" I hear Sabo say.
"I don't know. 10 million or 100 million, maybe?" Ace replies. "Long way to go."
Before I can stop him, Luffy had already replied. I should have brought tape with me…
"A PIRATE SHIP?! You guys! Are you gonna become pirates? I'm gonna become one too!" Luffy just doesn't know when to stop talking does he. I sweatdropped at his ridiculousness. Ace and Sabo's reactions were pretty funny though if I must say so. They run down the tree so fast that I'm shocked and before I knew it they were in front of us. They both punched Luffy in the forehead knocking him down.
"Be quiet!" They both scream simultaneously. They drag him to a tree and tie him to it and then come up to me probably intending to do the same thing. Next thing they know, they're both rolling around the floor with a bump on their head. Serves these bitches right.
"Hmph, try that again and I'll slaughter you boys," I say as I go and take a seat next to Luffy who seemed to have no problem being tied up.
"Ace! I didn't know that you travel this far everyday!" Luffy says.
"Shut up!" Ace says trying to look intimidating which was kind of hard to do considering he still had the bump on his head that I gave him.
"Is this the Luffy that you were talking about?" Sabo asks his arms crossed across his chest. Sabo had short curly blonde hair that was covered by a large black top hat with a pair of blue goggles wrapped around it. He wore a blue jacket with the sleeves rolled up and light blue shorts that were held up by a belt.
"Oh, you told him about me?!" Luffy asks, his voice laced with excitement.
"I told him how annoying you are…" Ace said with his hands on his hip.
"He also told me that you're empty-headed," Sabo says. Okay true. Luffy just laughs at this.
"You don't realize that we're dissing you, do you?" Sabo continues.
"He finally got me here, even though I didn't take any walkable routes," Ace says to Sabo. He turns to me suddenly and says, "And what the hell are you doing here?! Did you help him track me down?"
"As if, you run so slow a turtle could have followed you!" I say back from my positon on the ground. I could see the vein in his forehead grow larger as he got annoyed.
"Excuse me?! It took Luffy months in order to get here!"
"Uh huh sure."
"What's that supposed to mean?! IT'S TRUE!"
I just grin up at him. I love messing with little kids. I could feel Sabo frown in my direction.
"Ace who is this chick?" he asks.
"This chicks name is Demange Rexi…" I say making sure my sarcastic tone got through to them loud and clear. "And you are?"
"LIKE I'D TELL YOU!" he screamed.
"No need to yell Banana-kun, I didn't really care anyways," I say. At that Luffy starts laughing again.
"Hahahaha Banana-kun, good one Rexi-nee!" Luffy says, still giggling a little bit.
"Thanks Luffy, I'm glad at least someone appreciates my fu—"
"ENOUGH! Ace, what should we do about them? They found out our secret. They're going to tell somebody if nothing is done," Sabo says. All of a sudden their faces go solemn and the next words that Ace utters are so serious that it actually sounds like he means it.
"We gotta kill them."
"Alright, let's do it," Sabo replies, more quickly than I found comfortable. Luffy then proceeds to freak out. Like freak out. He even started crying.
"DON'T KILL ME! HELP ME REXI-NEE! I DON'T WANT TO DIE! REXI-NEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Holy shit this boy has gone nuts.
"Luffy, chill out. They didn't me—" I try to say, but he cuts me off by his screaming again. They go up to Luffy and cover his mouth telling him to shut up.
"Sabo, kill him already!"
"What?! You do it!"
"BUT I'VE NEVER KILLED ANYBODY BEFORE!"
"ME NEITHER! AND I DON'T KNOW HOW!"
"Don't throw me into the water! I can't swim!" Luffy screamed, tears streaming down his face. This idiot just told them…how to kill him. I am done. I am so done with him.
"Okay, let's head to the river!"
"Why did he tell us that?" I am wondering the same thing. Luffy just starts screaming more. This is getting annoying.
"Rexi, can you get him to shut up?" Sabo asks.
"Well I did a lot of thinking about it, and I came to conclusion that no is going to be my answer."
"WHAT EVEN ARE YOU?" Sabo screams at me, obviously frustrated by the whole hectic situation. We hear rustling come from behind us.
"Oh no someone's coming. Set him free for now! We gotta move from here or they're gonna find our treasure," Ace says. I help Ace and Sabo untie Luffy and hide behind a bush. I hear the men speaking before I see them.
"Everybody knows those kids are around here. Ace and Sabo," someone says.
"Are you sure that it was Ace who took the money?" someone else says. They sound scary…
"Yes...we're sorry. We shouldn't have let our guard down."
"How outrageous that kid is! He can't just steal our money!" scary man says again. "If Captain Bluejam finds out about this, he's going to kill all of us!"
By this point they had already walked past us, so we all popped our heads out over the bush.
"Damn it! I didn't know that those thugs were working for Bluejam," Ace mutters.
"You mean that you stole money from them?!" Sabo asks exasperated.
"I shouldn't have taken that money…"
"Yeah Ace, what the fuck," I say. They both glare at me but don't say anything. Probably still freaked out.
"He has a real sword. That's Porchemy who works under Bluejam," Sabo says. "He's crazy. Did you know that? He scalps you alive after you lose a fight with him." I could hear Luffy gulp.
"Let's just let them pass for now…" Ace says as he slowly goes back into the bushes. I join him too until Sabo suddenly says something that makes me freeze.
"Oh? Where's Luffy?"
I look up from behind the bushes and see that fucking Luffy had been captured by Porchemy in literally .2 seconds. Probably a world record or something.
"Let me go! What do you want from me?"
"That fucking idiot," I say under my breath. Ace and Sabo were as shocked as me. Luffy was struggling in that larger man's grasp without any progress at escaping.
"Who is this little shit?" Porchemy (the scary man from before) asks.
"Help me! Ace! Rexi-nee!" I facepalm.
"That fool! He's calling my name!"
"Did you just call for…Ace?" Porchemy asks Luffy.
"So what?" Luffy asks.
"Do you know Ace?" No he fucking doesn't know Ace, he's just saying his name because he fucking likes that name.
"I'm his friend!" Luffy says firmly. My heart clenches. Luffy's loyalty never fails to impress me. "Oh but he just tried to kill me."
With each word that Luffy was saying, Ace got more and more mad.
"That fool! He's such a bigmouth!" Ace yells. I put a hand on his clenched fist making him look at me. I give him a look that I hope spoke a lot.
"No use getting mad about it now, we need to stop this situation from getting worse," I explain calmly. He seems to have calmed down a little, probably shocked that I was actually being nice to someone that wasn't Luffy.
"I don't know if you heard about it but I heard that Ace stole some money from us and ran today. You don't know where it is now, do you?" Porchemy asks Luffy.
"Oh no! They're gonna take all our treasure away!" Sabo whispers fervently.
"I hope that fool doesn't tell them," Ace says. I knew that Luffy would never tell but there was no way that Ace and Sabo will believe me if I told them that. Luffy sticks his lips out and looks away from Porchemy in the literally the most suspicious way possible.
"I-I don't know…" he says. He's such a bad liar. It's cringe worthy really. Porchemy props his sword on his shoulder and I tense up. Ace puts a hand out in front of me silently telling me "not yet."
"Alright, alright! It can't be helped that you don't know. Don't worry, I'll help you bring back the memory!" Porchemy says and starts heading away. Hell no. I'm not letting them get away that easily. I push past Ace's arm and took Sabo's pipe thing, not listening to his whispered warnings. I don't know if I can take them but I'm not letting them go with Luffy. Along with Porchemy there were 3 other men. I'll take them down first.
"Huh who's this?" Porchemy asks. "Another one of Ace's friends?" Like hell I'm his friend. I don't say anything and proceed to run in their direction.
I hit the blonde lion looking man with the pipe knocking him far into a tree. He still wasn't knocked out but I'd deal with that later. I kick one guy in the face as hard I could and then kicked his legs swiping him off of his feet. He thumped to the ground and I hit him with the pipe knocking him out. The last guy came charging at me. He reached out for a punch but I grabbed his arm and flipped him over knocking him out.
"Rexi-nee help me!" Luffy yells. His voice fills me with confidence to run after Porchemy. I go up to kick him but I was no match for the big man. With a flick of his wrist I was flung into a tree and was greeted with a Rexi shaped hole. This is just wonderful I thought as I slipped into oblivion. The last thing I saw was Luffy being taken farther and farther away from me.
*****BREAK*****
When I woke up, I was aching all over. But when I remembered where I was and why exactly I was aching all over I shot up from my laying position. I was behind the bushes hidden from sight but I recognized where I was. I also realized that both Ace and Sabo had fucking abandoned me. I am livid. Absolutely livid. All they cared about was their stupid money to get a stupid pirate ship. They couldn't give a shit that Luffy was probably being beaten to death right now. I'm going to slaughter them.
Now all I need to do is find those two bastards and make them show me where Porchemy took my brother. I head towards Gray Terminal and start looking for anyone vaguely familiar. Finally, after a while, I saw those three guys that I had beaten up earlier. I am proud to say that they looked more rough than I did. I see Sabo peeking from behind some rubble, looking vaguely concerned. I get filled with rage of course when I see and go marching up to him making sure that the 3 idiots don't see me. I sneak up behind him and scare the living hell out of him.
"How dare you abandon me in the middle of the forest to go hide your treasure Banana-kun. Don't you realize that Luffy is in danger!" I say as quietly as I could in this situation.
"I'm so so so sorry! I had no idea that Luffy wouldn't tell them. We have to get him back!" Sabo says franticly. Well…that was easy.
"Well…good. I'm glad you understand. But this isn't over! I just need your help to find out where he is," I explain. Sabo nods solemnly.
"We just need to get Ace, he knows where they would be keeping him," Sabo explains. He grabs my hand and drags me quickly to where Ace is. We're sprinting and it's getting harder and harder for me to catch my breath. Eventually we reached him. I could see him standing on top of a boulder.
"Ace!" Sabo yells trying to get his attention. It worked. He looked surprised to see me there with him.
"Sabo! What's she doing with you? Have they shown up to look for the money?" God I want to punch Ace in the face so bad…
"She found me, and no they haven't," Sabo says, still breathing heavily from running so fast. "And I bet they won't!"
"What do you mean?" Ace asked.
"That kid, Luffy…he hasn't told them anything!" Sabo yells. Ace is dumbfounded. "I'm sure that they're torturing him! I thought that he'd just tell them because he's dumb and cries so much! It doesn't make sense!"
"Of course it makes sense you idiots. He thinks of you guys as his friends, why in the world would he rat you out!" I scream, tears starting to come to my eyes. I wipe my eyes feverously. Stupid 10-year-old feelings. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Sabo silently freaking out both at the fact that I was crying and the impending fact that Luffy might be dead.
"P-Please…we have to save him," I say my voice quivering from the tears I was holding back. Ace gives me a nod and I finally pull myself together and give him a nod back. He jumps off the bolder and starts sprinting in the direction that I hope that Luffy's in. Sabo and I start sprinting (too much sprinting today dude) with him. The panic inside me was slowly getting bigger and bigger as we drew nearer to Luffy. What if I was wrong? What if we reach there just a second too late? I'm going to throw up.
When we reach the place where Luffy was taken we knock down the wooden door and distract Porchemy from giving the final blow. As we fought our way through his men, Luffy was a bawling mess.
"A-Ace! S-Sabo! R-Rexi-nee!"
Ace makes a move at Porchemy but the giant man grabs him by the throat.
"You made it easier for us by coming here voluntarily. We were having a hard time making your friend talk," Porchemy says.
"Ace!" Luffy yells.
"L-Let me go! Sabo!" Ace yells. Sabo comes up behind Porchemy and hits him on the back of the head causing him to drop Ace.
"That kind of hurt…Do you know what happens when you mess with adults?!" Porchemy says as he turns to Sabo.
"I'll fight you! Sabo, Rexi, help Luffy!" I nod and head towards Luffy.
"He has a sword! Be careful!" Sabo says. As Ace starts to fight Porchemy, Sabo and I deal with the other men and help untie Luffy. Once he's untied, he can't stand so I put him on my back and run out. We stop and turn to Ace.
"Ace come on! Let's go!" I shout. He doesn't turn around.
"Go ahead."
"You fool! Hurry up!" Sabo yells back at him.
"When I come to face someone, I won't run!" Ace says. His words fill me with spirit.
"Don't do it! He's not like the thugs in the city!" Sabo says, trying to reason with him. Ace doesn't listen to him and continues to fight the pirate. I put Luffy down gently.
"Don't move Luffy okay?"
"Rexi-nee…"
"Come on Sabo, we need to help Ace!" I yell as I go back to fight with him. We stand next to each other ready to fight. I felt sort of out of place but didn't think much of it. I wanted to help them.
"You're so reckless! Why are you always like this?!" Sabo says.
"I won't run…" Ace says shortly. I laugh at that.
"Well if Ace ain't running, neither am I!" I yell. With those words all three of us simultaneously attack the giant pirate. It actually didn't take us as long as I thought it would to defeat him. Sabo and Ace are strong. Put together, they're even stronger. And add me to the mix…Porchemy didn't stand a chance. Once he was defeated, Ace grabbed Luffy and we got the hell out of there.
Luffy wouldn't stop sobbing. By the time we had reached shelter he was still crying. I sit there and pat him on the head trying to stop his crying. I had already bandaged up their wounds and Luffy's, so we were just sitting around waiting for who knows what.
"You have a bad habit, Ace! When faced with a real pirate it's best to run! Why do you have such a death wish?" Sabo scolds him. Ace ignored him and continued to fix his dented pipe.
"This doesn't feel right. I liked the one I had…" he mumbles under his breath. Sabo just sighs.
"We made a stupid mistake. The Bluejam pirates won't forgive us. They'll come after us," Sabo says.
"OH THAT WAS SO SCARY! I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE!" Luffy yells still uncontrollably sobbing.
"YOU'RE SO ANNOYING! SHUT UP! STOP CRYING ALREADY!" Ace yells back. I punch him in the head, annoyed at him getting annoyed at Luffy.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR? I JUST DON'T LIKE COWARDS OR PEOPLE WHO CRY A LOT!" he continues yelling. But as soon as these words leave Ace's mouth, Luffy stops crying.
"Huh?" all three of us say.
"Th-Thank you!" Luffy says. "You…You helped me!"
And with those words he starts crying again and Ace gets annoyed again. This time, it's Sabo that makes him stop.
"Hey now, he's just being thankful…" Sabo says. I take this opportunity to leave to get some water. Luffy's bandages needed to be changed before we started heading back to Dadan's.
"Where are you going?" Sabo asks me bringing the attention to me. I turn towards him.
"I'm getting water to clean Luffy's wounds with…" I explain.
"I'll come with you!" Sabo says. I give him a stare but don't say anything against it. He walks beside me in an awkward silence. I guess it's now or never.
"…Thanks for helping me get Luffy back," I say grudgingly. Sabo looks away, embarrassed.
"Sorry for leaving you after Porchemy hit you…"
"It's okay Banana-kun. I would have done the same thing."
"Really?"
"Hell to the fucking no."
"Oh."
I start laughing. Sabo's a nice guy. We grab a few buckets of water and head back to where we were camped at. When we get back to Ace and Luffy, I can hear them talking.
"Because there isn't anybody else!" Luffy yells. My heart clenches. "I can't return to Windmill Village, and I hate those mountain bandits. If I didn't chase after you, I'd be all alone! Being alone is much worse than getting hurt!" What did he mean by alone? My eyes start tearing up and I can feel Sabo tense beside me. Poor guy has had to witness me cry two times in only one day. But despite that, I had no idea Luffy felt like this. Was I not enough for him?
"What about your parents?" Ace asks.
"Just Oji-chan and Rexi-nee, nobody else. Rexi-nee is my sister. I have her but even then, she won't be with me forever…" the conversation continues but I don't hear the rest. I'm confused and a little hurt by what he said. What does he mean that I won't be with him forever…?
*****BREAK*****
We were headed back to Dadan's place with Sabo. We decided that it'd be too dangerous for him to be by himself because the Bluejam pirates were probably looking for him. So the easy solution was for him to stay with us. I was walking with Luffy a little bit behind Ace and Sabo who were talking with each other.
"Luffy, I didn't mean to eavesdrop but I heard some of yours and Ace's conversation when I came back with Sabo…what did you mean when you said we wouldn't be together?" I ask him tentatively. I know he wouldn't get mad but I still didn't want to sound too rude.
"Oh you heard that?" he asks. I nod.
"Yeah…"
"Well I know that you don't want to be a pirate Rexi-nee, so you can't be with me when Ace, Sabo, and I all become pirates," he explains. Well that makes sense I guess…
"I know but Luffy you know that whatever I decide to do in the future, I'll still help you right? You don't need to feel alone…"
"Ahh Rexi-nee were you jealous of Ace~~"
"SHUT UP! Of course I wasn't. He's a weakling anyways, why do you want to be friends with him?"
"I HEARD THAT!"
A/N: Well well well, would you look at that. I actually reviewed. Words cannot explain how sorry I am that this update took so long. It's just that I was in my first year of college and everything was so stressful and these chapters take so long to write… I hope you guys understand. But I do want to start writing more for this fanfiction now that I'm on summer vacation!
Well welcome back y'all, I hope you're ready for an adventure ;)
(1). Ossan: a rude term for a middle aged man
Guest1: I don't plan on giving her devil fruit powers. I agree that there are many ways for her to become stronger and I will try my best to shape Rexi into an awesome boss ass bitch!
Guest2: We'll see about the haki ;) just gotta wait for it!
Guest3: Sorry for the late update! I hope you like this chapter!
Gulalii: I AM SO SORRY AND I AM READY TO REPENT FOR MY WRONGDOING! I'm really glad you like my story though, I hope this chapter was worth the wait (it probably wasn't :P).
Thank you to every for all the reviews, favorites, and follows! They mean so much!
