A/N: Hey guys! I'd like to apologize for the late chapter (again -.-), but I was on vacation for a week and I couldn't write while I was gone. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter, and are as excited about this story as I am. Like always enjoy and I'll see you again at the end of this chapter :).

P.S. To anyone finding it hard to visualize supersonic Luffy I will tell you this. If you have heard of God of War 3 then this will make it easier. Luffy looks pretty much like Poseidon does when he jumps off of Olympus at the beginning, just imagine him running like that :).

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece I don't etc. All rights go to him.

Chapter 5: The Beginning of the Battle and Luffy's Secret Goal?

-With Nami and Zoro-

Nami was still sitting on the fence, patiently waiting for Luffy to arrive while Zoro was just waking up from one of his 15 afternoon naps.

"Captain is running late." Stated one of the children (Not going to try and figure out their names)

"So is Luffy!" stated Zoro, rather annoyed that Luffy hasn't showed up yet.

"Oh hey, look someone is coming towards us!" yelled Tamanegi.

Down the road, they could make out a faint image of someone running towards them. After a few moments the person came into view and they could make out that it was Usopp running towards them.

"What is this…? Luffy isn't with him." Said Zoro as Usopp came into clearer view, he could see that Luffy wasn't with them.

"Captain!" the little boys yelled as Usopp came closer, but Usopp didn't stop to greet them and instead ran straight through them. The boys moved out of his way before they were trampled.

"Where's Luffy? Didn't he go to the coast with you…?" Nami asked. Usopp stopped for a second and decided it would be best to tell them the truth.

"Luffy was killed… that caretaker, Kurahadol and some hypnotist killed him… I'm off to warn Kaya. Luffy's body is at the coast." Usopp said in a sad and angry tone. He soon began running off to the mansion.

"Nani!?" said a surprised Nami. She had this horrible feeling of sadness in her heart that hurt more than any flesh wound could deal. 'Great, another person I've grown to like was taken from me…' she thought. She tried her best to fight back the tears in her eyes as she imagined Luffy's lifeless body lying on the ground.

"Hey kids, take us to the coast." Zoro said to the kids. Zoro knew Luffy could not die so easily, heck he'd seen him take multiple bullets to the body and that didn't even scratch him. He knew his captain was alive and probably had some sort of plan, probably one involving him to have faked death.

-At the Coast-

"This is the place; Captain comes here all the time to heal his wounded heart. It's really nice here." said Tamanegi as they looked around.

"The straw hat Onii-chan isn't here." Said Piiman (finally looked their names up).

Nami was standing at the very edge of the cliff looking at the view. She knocked a loose rock down the cliff side and noticed that it was quite steep. "This place is pretty steep." She said, informing them of her findings.

Zoro noticed Nami standing too close to the edge and told her to be careful. Nami gave a nod and was about to walk away when she noticed someone at the bottom. However, panic took over her as she noticed the straw hat on the ground beside the body.

"Lo…Look!" she exclaimed pointing at the 'dead' body. Zoro and the others ran to the edge to see what she was pointing at and noticed the body lying on the ground. They all quickly rushed down to the base of the cliff to see what happened.

When they got there, what they saw surprised them. Luffy's head was planted into the ground while the rest of his body was on the ground. Nami saw this and almost burst into tears at the sight of his dead body. She was using all her will to not shed a single tear and hide her emotion.

"He fell off the edge and died! That's what Captain Usopp meant when he said he'd been killed!" yelled the 3 kids in unison.

Zoro didn't bat an eyelash as this seemed too suspicious. He was checking the surroundings to find any clues as to what happened, when he heard a faint sound.

"Quiet, I hear something." Zoro said and everyone immediately shut their mouths.

"Zzzzzzzzz…" was all they could hear aside from the waves coming from the ocean.

Zoro immediately recognized the sound and grinned. He pulled out his katana and started poking Luffy with the sheath.

When Zoro poked him Luffy stirred awake and let out a huge yawn. Nami and the kids all backed away scared that a dead guy was moving, but soon the shock turned into relief.

As Nami got over the fact that Luffy was not dead, the relief and sadness she felt earlier soon turned into anger.

"Monkey D. Luffy... Get over here…" Nami growled in an extremely dangerous tone.

"H-hai…" Luffy said as he knew that kind of tone was dangerous and he didn't need to use Haki to know that she was clearly upset. However, instead of turning to water, Luffy thought that he should just let her take her anger out on him to let her calm down. When Luffy finally made it over, he was immediately met with a fist in his face.

"Do you have any idea how worried I was!?" Nami screamed as she grabbed Luffy by the collar and started swinging him around.

Instead of complaining about the thrashing and the pain that was being dealt to him like a normal person should, Luffy heard what Nami said and smirked a little.

"You were worried about me?" Luffy asked still with that devious little smirk on his face.

Nami was blushing furiously at what Luffy said and tried to hide it as best as she could.

"O-of course I was worried, I can't let the only pirate that I like die!" Nami screamed still swinging him around.

Right before Nami was about to send another fist into Luffy's face, Luffy grabbed Nami and pulled her into a warm embrace.

"Sorry for making you worry Nami" Luffy said while gently stroking the back of her head to provide comfort.

"B-bastard, you think a hug is a good enough apology?" Nami yelled at him while hitting his chest with her fist but with barely any force put into it.

"Looks like I've already been forgiven." Luffy said with his trademark, toothy grin.

Zoro saw this little show of affection and was grinning uncontrollably. He couldn't let this opportunity go to waste so…

"Luffy and Naaamii~ sitting in a tree~ K-I-S-S…" But before Zoro could finish he was cut off by a wooden pole into his *Cough* by none other than Nami.

While Zoro was getting the beating of his life from Nami, Luffy was laughing like a maniac.

After the madness settled down, it was back to business. Luffy explained to everyone about the whole Kaya will soon be assassinated ordeal.

"Whaaa?! Kaya will be killed and the village destroyed?! Are you sure you heard right Onii-san?!" the kids yelled in utter disbelief.

"Yea, that's what I heard and I don't believe they were lying." Said Luffy as he placed his hat back on his head.

"But that still doesn't explain how you ended up at the bottom of the cliff." Said Zoro

"Well, it was between 2 choices, either I just defeat Kuro and Jango now but risk a surprise attack from the pirates, since I don't know where they are. Or, wait until they decide to attack the village and just defeat them all before they reach the village. I decided that we should go with option 2. I knew you'd be bored Zoro so I knew you'd be up for it. I let myself be hypnotized then I fell down the cliff while I was asleep. They thought I was dead so that gives me the element of surprise."

"Hehe I see, I'm soooooo~ glad that you thought of me Senchou." Zoro said sarcastically.

"So what do we do now?" asked Nami.

"Well Usopp was pretty spooked, I think we should tell him the whole plan since it involves his village." Said Zoro with his arms crossed.

-After Usopp gets shot, rejected by Kaya, and chased out of the village-

"Oh there he is! Captain!" exclaimed the 3 kids as they saw Usopp standing in the middle of the road.

Usopp covered up his wound, wiped his tears away and turned around with a fake smile planted on his face.

"Yo, what's up?" Usopp said to the 3 kids.

"Yo" Luffy said nonchalantly to Usopp.

Usopp gasped in shock at seeing Luffy here. He immediately ran over to where Luffy was and asked, "Hey, you're still alive?!"

"Yeah I just woke up."

"Anyways Captain, we heard everything, let's go warn everyone!" exclaimed Tamanegi.

Usopp looked at the boys and thought that it would be better to keep them out of this conflict. So he decided he would do what he is best at, lying.

"I'm just kidding like I always do, I was just mad at the caretaker so I went around calling him a pirate." Usopp stated as he started laughing.

The kids started laughing as well and said, "Oh I see, you sure got straw hat Onii-san." as they started to walk away.

The laughing stopped when they got past Usopp and he turned around to see what was wrong.

"I'm starting to lose respect for you captain." They all said in unison.

"Even though that caretaker guy is mean, we never thought that you'd lie to hurt someone else… To think we had so much respect for you, Captain." With that being said they all walked away deciding that it should be best that they returned home.

-At the coast during night time-

Nami was applying first aid to Usopp injured arm. She was just done disinfecting the arm and was now applying bandages to it.

"Luffy how come you didn't just heal his arm like you did Zoro?" Nami asked.

"Oh, I'm no surgeon, I could heal his wound but the bullet would still be inside his body, which would probably result in lead poisoning. It's best if he heals by himself right now. It's a good thing you knew how to remove the bullet." said Luffy with a grin.

"By the way, why did you lie to them?" asked Luffy to Usopp.

"'Coz I'm a liar." Said Usopp.

"No one would believe me in the first place. I was to naïve."

"Even if you were naïve, the truth is still the truth." stated Zoro.

"The pirates are going to attack tomorrow at dawn… But I will stop them and make sure that what I said really was a lie! Because even though they shot my arm, chased me all around the village… this is still my village damn it! I love this village."

"Hehe, Never thought you'd be the type to just ditch your friend and fight by yourself." Zoro said with a smirk as he placed his hand on Wado.

"Let me get this straight… All the treasure on that pirate ship is mine." Nami said with a straight face.

"Yosh! We'll lend you a hand." Luffy stated, confirming the actions of his nakama.

-At the slope-

"The pirates are planning to attack from tomorrow on this very coast. However, this is the only route that leads to the village. The rest are cliffs so there is no other way to attack. So if we stand our ground on this slope, we should be able to fend off the pirates." Usopp explained.

"Sounds easy enough." Luffy stated

"Of course it sounds easy but we need real battle strength. What are you guys capable of?" Usopp asked.

"Slicing"

"Kicking ass"

"Thieving"

"Okay then I'll be hiding!" Usopp said.

They all punched him in the head and screamed. "You will be fighting!"

"Okay anyways, we should lay down some oil on this slope; they won't be able to get up if they keep slipping." Usopp said as he brought over some oil.

After they finished laying down the oil, they decided that they would wait until dawn arrives to kick some ass.

-At dawn-

"Hmm… they're not here yet, you sure this is where they were going to land?" Luffy asked.

"They're definitely coming, I just know it." Usopp said.

Luffy sensed a large group of people docking at a different coast. He decided it would be best to tell everyone.

"Hey guys, I can sense a lot of people docking at the North side of the island, are you sure this is where they were going to land, Usopp?" Luffy asked.

"Sh-it! There's a slope just like this one on the north side of the island! I assumed they would be coming here since they met here! Shit this is bad! We have to hurry to the North Slope!" Usopp yelled while he ran around, panicking.

Just then Nami remembered an important detail. "Guys, our ships are docked on the North side! All of my treasure will be taken if we don't stop them now!" yelled Nami.

"Okay then let's go, I can be there in a second." Luffy said and grabbed Nami. He held her bridal style so that it would be more comfortable to run. "Nami… hold on tight, this may feel weird but it will be over in a second."

While blushing Nami just nodded and hugged Luffy as tight as she could and buried her face in the crook of his neck. Just like before, Luffy crouched on the ground and was prepared to run again. "Mizu Mizu… Godspeed." as Luffy said those words; he shot his leg forward with his devil fruit powers until he accelerated to Mach speed.

Nami was screaming while she tried to not fall off from the sudden force. It felt like she had thousands of butterflies fluttering around in her stomach. As quickly as that feeling came, it went away as Luffy reached the destination.

Luffy stopped at the top of the hill and gently put Nami back on the ground. He decided to wait for Usopp or Zoro before he would take action.

"Nami… let's wait till Zoro or Usopp gets here. I'll move our ships so they don't find your treasure. I'm going to move them to that other coast we were just at." As Luffy said that he created a small wave to give the boat a head start, then he created a little sea current to direct it to the coast.

"Alright guys, head for the village and attack!" Jango yelled as he commanded the pirates up the slope.

Nami began panicking as the pirates came closer. She was very uneasy about the situation since they didn't have the traps they set up.

"Luffy what do we do?" Nami asked Luffy for some reassurance.

"Just stay behind me, this will be over soon." Luffy reassured her as she made her way behind him.

Luffy stood there facing the horde of pirates running up the slope. Instead attempting to attack or defend himself, he stood in the same position but this time, with a huge grin implanted on his face. As the pirates reached the top of the hill they were greeted by a flurry of slashes and pachinkos.

Zoro and Usopp had arrived.

"Yo Zoro, I'm surprised you didn't get lost trying to find this place, shihihi." Luffy said mockingly at Zoro.

"Urusai! You're the one who ran off before we could follow you." yelled a mad Zoro.

"Hey Captain, how are we gonna beat these guys? They just defeated some of our men like it were nothing." said a pirate to Jango.

"Hmm… These guys are strong so we'll just have to get stronger." That being said, Jango brought out his pendulum and began swinging it back in forth in a pendulum motion.

Luffy raised his eyebrow as he knew what he was going to do next, instead of using the hypnosis to his advantage, Luffy decided that it would be better to give him the handicap; it was more fun that way. So he closed his eyes and waited patiently for Jango to finish.

Jango continued swinging the ring while his men watched intently. "When I say One, Two, Jango, you all will get stronger… much, much stronger. Okay… One… Two… Jango!"

It was quiet for a second and then… all the pirates began cheering and roaring. One of the pirates even demonstrated their new strength by punching the cliff and shattering it to pieces.

"What the hell, he just hypnotized them how does that make them stronger!" yelled Usopp and Nami.

"Oi Luffy, what do we do, we might need to try something other than attacking them head on." Zoro said while turning to Luffy.

Luffy just stood there with his closed not paying attention until Zoro interrupted his train of 'thought'.

"Oi, Luffy!" Zoro yelled which startled Luffy.

"Oh Zoro, don't worry I can take these guys on, here hold my katana…" Luffy said. He decided he wouldn't use his katana right now. He needed to get better at using his devil fruit anyways.

"But don't use it… you might forfeit your life…" Luffy said in a dangerous and serious tone.

Not wanting to start an argument in the middle of battle, Zoro just nodded and took his katana.

Luffy walked over to Nami and started taking off his cloak. Once he had it completely off him stood in front of Nami with the cloak in his arms. "Hey Nami, wear this while I'm out fighting, it might get dirty if I wear it." Luffy said while handing her the cloak. "And be careful with it, I got it as a birthday present, shihihi." Luffy said while giving his trademark, toothy grin.

Nami nodded and started putting the cloak on. She wrapped the string around her neck and looked behind her to see how it looked. It actually looked good on her and fit her perfectly, even though it was a bit long at the bottom. With the cloak on she felt this indescribable warmth around her body. It was oddly familiar… where had she felt this before… Then she remembered all those hugs and moments with Luffy and how they felt. 'That's what this feeling is… I feel so safe with this on.' she thought as she was day dreaming.

Her train of thought was interrupted by Zoro who was yelling at her. "Oi Nami, get back or you might get caught up in this."

Nami nodded and began heading up the slope taking one quick glance at Luffy, whom was waving at her with a smile as she headed back. She couldn't help the smile that crept to her face as she ducked down for cover while watching the battlefield.

After seeing that Nami had found safety, he turned to Zoro and Usopp and said, "I'll handle these guys for now, if any get past me and manage to get up the slope, feel free to take them out." said Luffy as he got into a fighting stance. Zoro and Usopp nodded as they prepared for their fight.

The pirates began ascending the slope and getting closer and closer to their target. Luffy grinned and crouched down while turning both his arms into water.

"Mizu Mizu…" Luffy shot forward at supersonic speeds and shot out huge jets of water from both his arms, slamming them into the oncoming pirates. "Hydro Cannon!"

Every single pirate was knocked out the moment that the blast hit them. An attack at supersonic speeds plus the force of the attack would have killed them all if not for Jango's hypnotism.

"Hehehe, sorry guys looks like I took all the fun. Shihihi." Luffy said while rubbing the back of his head.

"Heh, whatever, but I get the next enemy… no questions asked. Got it?" Zoro said while smirking.

"Yea whatever, I'll just be here, shout out if you need any help." Luffy said to Zoro as he leaned against the slope waiting for more pirates.

Jango was looking around at all the unconscious bodies of his men. He was really nervous about the whole situation, considering their Captain would kill them right away if they failed this operation.

"Shit… that kid really screwed us over, Captain Kuro made a huge miscalculation. If Captain Kuro sees this we'll all definitely be killed." said Jango while clenching his teeth, trying to figure out a plan to take down these kids.

"Hey… Buchi, look what happened out here!" said an unknown person on the ship.

"What's all this!?" said another voice that was also coming from the ship.

Jango was surprised at first but remembered an important detail. "We still have our trump cards. Come out, Nyaban Brothers!" Jango yelled.

As Jango said that, 2 people jumped from the ship and landed onto the beach.

"You call Captain?" said the smaller of the 2 people that just arrived.

"Buchi… Sham, we must get past this slope but… as you can see our men are incapable of fighting and we have people in our way. Take care of that swordsman up there." said Jango as he pointed at an extremely intimidating Zoro.

The two brothers cringed in fear and they looked as if they had just seen a ghost. "That's impossible for us Captain Jango! He seems way too strong for us to handle. And our responsibilities are only to watch the ship, not to fight on battles." The skinny one said as he and his partner were backing away clearly showing fear.

Luffy could see through their little act, using Haki of course. 'Hmm… I probably shouldn't interfere in his fight though… I certainly wouldn't want anyone interfering in mine. Whatever, Zoro's strong he'll beat them.' Luffy thought as he sat down and leaned against the wall.

"Hey kid, are you not gonna back up your friend over there?" Jango asked to Luffy.

"No, I'm gonna sit this fight out, Zoro has been bored lately, and I know I wouldn't want for someone to interfere in on their fight, so you don't have to worry, you're safe for a few more minutes. Besides, I can already see through your friends' act." said Luffy as he closed his eyes.

"Suit yourself; it's your friends' funeral." Jango said as he turned to look at sham running towards Zoro in the weirdest way possible.

"Gyaaaahhh get ready, for I'm going to rip you to shreds!" Sham said while running at Zoro.

Zoro just sweat dropped not knowing what to do. "Hey you! If you don't stop I'll have to kill you!" Zoro yelled, not wanting to fight a weakling.

Sham paused for a moment and said in a dangerous tone, "That's if you can kill me…" as he said that he grabbed the katana in Zoro's hand, blocking his attack. When Zoro wasn't able to stop him, he grabbed the 3 katana from Zoro, 2 of Zoro's and Luffy's katana.

"You… underestimated me." he said as he jumped back with the 3 katana on his back.

Zoro was about to pull out his other 2 katana when he noticed they were missing, Luffy's was too. Sham noticed the confused Zoro and smirked.

"Lose something? I wouldn't know anything about it." Sham said with a devilish smirk.

Zoro noticed the katana on his back, "Give those katana back right now…"

"But don't you already have one in your hand?... These will only get in the way." Sham said as he removed the katana from his back and threw them behind him.

Zoro grew angrier now that his katana were being mistreated. He ran towards Sham with killing intent. "How dare you throw my treasures!" he said as he sliced through Sham.

It seemed like Sham was cut so Zoro ran past him and tried to reach his katana. Unfortunately Sham played another trick and grabbed Zoro from behind and brought him crashing to the ground and pinned him. "Buchi! Now it's your turn!" Sham yelled to the bigger one of the two.

"Gotcha!" Buchi yelled as he jumped 60 feet in the air. He then began accelerating downwards with his foot directly in the path of Zoro's head. Just when he was about to make contact with his head Zoro broke out of Shams grip at the last second and rolled away.

Buchi used enough force to create a little crater where Zoro's head was just a few moments ago.

'Shit, every bone in my skull would have been broken if I didn't break free.' Zoro thought as he was panting heavily trying to regain his composure.

"Damn, he got away!" said Sham.

"Hey, you have to keep him held down for that to work!" exclaimed Buchi.

"Whatever, he's not getting away this time!"

"I'm not great at one-sword style but I'll have to manage for now…" said Zoro as he got into his fighting stance and prepared for their assault.

"Let's go, Buchi!" yelled Sham as they both lunged forward at Zoro.

They began attacking Zoro in a flurry of attacks. All Zoro could do was defend against the attacks. They kept the exact same pace throughout their assault forcing Zoro to begin backing up while he blocked all their attacks.

Seeing this, Usopp decided he should help Zoro, so he ran to the top of the hill where Nami was hiding so he could shoot form above, giving him the advantage. "I'm gonna shoot one of those guys so Zoro will get an opening." he said to Nami.

"Lead Star!" Usopp yelled as he shot the pachinko towards the fight.

Seeing this Zoro moved into the trajectory of the pachinko resulting in him getting hit in the back… hard. He clenched his teeth in pain and stopped his blocking, giving the two foes an opening to strike.

They both sliced into Zoro's chest giving him big wounds all across his chest. He flew backwards from the attack which gave him enough distance from the two brothers to get up and continue fighting.

"Why did you hit our own people?!" Nami yelled at Usopp.

"No… it's not like that, it's like he let himself be hit on purpose…" Usopp said still shocked from what just happened.

"Baka! Do you want to die?!" yelled Zoro to Usopp.

"Could it be that we were the ones that were just saved? If you had hit them with the pachinko we would have been their targets." Nami suggested.

'Shit… if only I had another katana, I could mop the floor with these guys.' Zoro thought as he continued to block all their attacks.

"I got it! I'll just go get steal back his swords so he can fight properly!" Nami said as she began running down the slope.

Luffy was sitting down while leaning against the slope wall looking at the fight with interest. He then saw Nami running down the slope. 'I thought I told her to stay at the top where it was safe.' Luffy thought. However, Luffy failed to notice Jango standing where Nami was running to. When Luffy did notice it was too late… Jango used his ring to slice Nami's shoulder, causing her to fall down to the ground while screaming in pain.

After seeing this, Luffy's rage skyrocketed and he began shaking. His eyes began glowing a bright blue. His aura turned into an extremely deadly and dangerous one that would make even the strongest of men cower in fear. He got up and began walking towards Jango and Nami. Nami didn't notice anything as she was still on the ground writhing in pain. Luffy finally made it behind Jango while Jango still didn't notice the extremely deadly aura behind him.

"You… hurt… Nami…" said Luffy in an extremely angry and deadly tone.

This caused Jango to turn around and when he did he began cowering in fear. He looked at the boy, his eyes were glowing a bright blue and he seemed extremely upset as he was shaking in rage. That is all Jango could see or think right before he met a supersonic, Haki infused punch right into his gut, sending him flying up to the top of the slope.

Luffy's rage subsided as he then knelt down beside Nami who was still clutching her shoulder.

"Itee…" she said in a soft voice, she didn't even notice Luffy beside her.

"I know it hurts just bear with it for a few more seconds." Luffy said in a warm and reassuring voice.

This alarmed Nami as she quickly turned her head in the direction of where she heard the voice. She quickly relaxed as she saw Luffy smiling warmly at her. She clenched her teeth in pain as he touched the wound but the pain subsided soon after. Luffy began increasing blood flow to her shoulder which resulted in the wound healing and scabbing over.

"Now just because I healed the wound, doesn't mean you can go right back to lifting heavy treasure, and also it still needs to be bandaged. Now let's see what I can use… Ah, I got it." Luffy said as he took off his cardigan. He sprayed it with water to thoroughly clean it. He ripped each sleeve off and began using it to wipe the blood off her shoulder. He used the rest to tie around her shoulder as a temporary bandage.

"There that should do it…" he said as he began grinning. But now, this left him without anything to cover his upper body.

Seeing his half naked body made Nami blush furiously and turn her head away from Luffy.

"Th-thanks…" she said while her head was still turned in the other direction so she couldn't see Luffy. Luffy turned his head to look at the top of the hill and furrowed his brows when he saw what awaited him. There… standing at the top of the hill, was none other than Captain Kuro.

Jango managed to get himself off the ground and looked up to see Captain Kuro, menacingly staring down at him.

"Never thought you would be beat up by these kids… guess the Kuroneko pirates are not what they used to be… RIGHT! JANGO?!" Kuro yelled the last part and everyone could clearly see that he was upset, or rather, he was furious.

"B-but you didn't you say that these kids wouldn't be a problem?..." Jango said in an extremely nervous tone.

"Yes… I did. So what? I knew they would try and stop us, but what I didn't expect was for you fools to be so damn useless!"

"How dare you call us useless, Captain Kuro…! It's true that you were strong once before but that was three years ago. When you were fooling around playing butler in a peaceful village, we were training and raided countless islands!" Sham exclaimed.

"What are you implying...?" Kuro stated and a calm yet dangerous tone.

"Do you think you have enough strength to beat us now?!" Sham and Buchi both exclaimed as they ran towards Kuro.

While they were charging at Kuro, Kuro raised his duffel bag into the air and began moving his feet extremely quickly.

When Buchi and Sham finally lunged for the kill, they found themselves slashing nothing but the duffel bag.

Kuro moved quickly behind them and reappeared in front of Zoro in less than a second.

"Who were you going to kill…?" Kuro said in a menacing voice while also revealing blades that were 3 feet long and began at his fingertips similar to that of a cat.

"Turn around!" both Sham and Buchi exclaimed. But when they turned around, they saw no one other than Zoro standing there.

"There it is… Stealth foot." said Jango who retreated away from the battle down the slope.

"You guys are right… I'm not as fast as I once was." Kuro said as he appeared behind the nyaban brothers and put his arms around both their shoulders, pointing the sharp edge of the blades towards their necks.

"I've become more humble after staying on this island for so long so… I'll give you five minutes, if they are all still alive after the 5 minutes are up then…" he began backing off the brothers.

"All of you here will be killed by me!" he said while getting into fighting stance.

"Five minutes, we'll manage to beat them in five minutes somehow… It's all him, the guy with the green bandana, we have to beat him!" said Jango in a very nervous and panicking tone of voice.

Luffy saw Zoro's current predicament and he decided to aid him but do it indirectly. He walked over to the katana on the ground. He picked his up and strapped it back onto his waist and he threw Zoro's towards him.

"Oi, don't throw my katana!" exclaimed Zoro as he saw what Luffy did.

"Heh, where's my thank you?" Luffy said with a cheeky grin.

"Yea… Thank you." said Zoro as he grabbed the 2 katana and unsheathed them. He put wadö into his mouth and held the other one.

Zoro got into a fighting stance with his 3 swords as he stood in position, waiting for the brothers whom were already approaching him with killing intent.

"Fool, you think having 3 swords will be enough to stop us! The results will be the same!" they yelled as they got closer and closer to Zoro.

Zoro got into a position where the 2 katana were perpendicular to wadö and were pointed downwards.

"Tiger… You guys just don't get it do you…? … Hunting Prey!" He yelled as he lunged forward and slashed both of the brothers, killing them, or at least knocking them out and sending them flying behind him towards Jango.

"Having 3 swords and using 3 sword style are completely different." said Zoro as he began sheathing his katana.

Buchi grabbed onto Jango's leg and muttered, "That bastard… I'll kill him… please hypnotize me… please, Captain."

Zoro looked behind him and noticed that he was still alive. "Must have been saved by all that fat." He muttered as he turned around to finish the job. However what he saw shocked him.

It looked as if Buchi was going through a transformation as his muscles were growing in size and his pupils began blanking out as his eyes turned completely white. He got up and turned around facing Zoro, baring his teeth and going towards him with the intent to kill.

'Crap, this is going to be a pain… that guy could crush the ground in his normal state, I wonder what he could do now?' thought Zoro as he got ready to go into another fight.

"Crap, Luffy Zoro might be in trouble, you have to help him!" yelled Nami.

"You're not going to be helping anyone!" Jango yelled as he flung his ring towards Luffy's neck.

Luffy already saw this coming seconds before Jango even begun his action so he decided he would screw with everyone. As the ring began flying closer and closer to his neck his serious expression turned into a toothy grin as he turned to Nami. Nami was shocked and yelled for him to watch out but it was too late. The ring cut Luffy's neck and sent his head flying towards Nami. His head landed in front of Nami with his eyes still open and that grin still on his face. Nami saw this and let out a scream that could cause people's ears to begin bleeding as she fearfully backed away and put her head in between her knees to shield her eyes from the sight.

However, what she heard next shocked her and everyone that was there. Luffy's head began laughing uncontrollably as his body was rolling around clutching its sides. After the laughter died down the body got up, grabbed the head and then threw it in the air. The head turned into water and the water began reforming as a head where the body was missing one. Luffy's head was once again attached to his neck and he had that same toothy grin he wore before he was decapitated. He turned to look at Nami and the expression she had on her face was priceless. Luffy began roaring in laughter as he, once again, rolled around clutching his sides while laughing his head off.

"You… you should have seen the look on your face, hahahaha, it was priceless." he said while doubling over in laughter.

Once the shock subsided, Nami began fuming with rage as she looked at the laughing Luffy. She went over there and gave him the beating of his life, one that was even comparable to Garp's.

"That's Whack for Thump scaring Punch me!" she yelled as she began panting with rage.

"Hahahaha that was worth it though, I wish I had a camera or something so I could have taken a picture of that face, hahaha." exclaimed Luffy as he was still laughing his ass off.

"Alright Luffy~… just for that, you have to go and steal the treasure on their ship and be back here in less than a minute unless you want to be in a debt that makes the United State's (hehehe) debt look like nothing…" Nami said with a vein popping out of her forehead and with clenched teeth.

"Aye, sir." Luffy said while giving a mock salute and ran to and through the ship at supersonic speeds. After a few seconds of storming through the ship he found the room filled with treasure. He grabbed it all and ran back to Nami as fast as he could.

"Well, there wasn't that much treasure, I think like 5 million beli's worth?" he said while putting the treasure down next to Nami.

"No it's completely fine! Arigatou!" yelled Nami as she ran up and hugged Luffy while he was grinning and rubbing the back of his head with a slight blush.

"Alright Buchi, you take care of that swordsman over there, I'll take care of the straw hat kid." Jango said as he was facing Luffy with his back towards Buchi.

"Okay Nami, just have a little rest here, this will be over in a few minutes." said Luffy in a cool voice as he gently placed Nami to the side. He took his cloak from Nami and covered Nami with it like a blanket. Nami soon closed her eyes and began drifting to sleep as she knew it was safe to do so, as long as Luffy was there.

By this time, all the members of the pirate crew began to stir awake and they saw the leaders of their crew preparing to fight the kids that were giving them a hard time.

Someone was walking through the woods and made it to the beginning of the slope. Kuro thought that someone was sneaking behind him and so he turned around to attack the person.

However, Usopp immediately recognized who it was and dove in to the protect the person. He managed to get there in time before Kuro could hurt the person but Kuro managed to slash Usopp before he managed to get to a safe distance from him.

Kuro had a look of shock as he realized who he almost cut down. However, that shock quickly subsided and he regained his composure.

"Usopp-san are you alright." said Kaya. The person who Kuro attacked was Kaya.

"Kaya what are you doing?" Usopp said while wincing in pain from the slash.

"I'm sorry Usopp-san, I know that you might never forgive me for what I have done. But I can't believe that... Kurahadol is a pirate." Kaya said sadly.

"That doesn't matter now, I told you to run away didn't I?! He wants to kill you!" Usopp exclaimed as Kaya was on the brink of tears.

"But you're still fighting even though your hurt!" Kaya exclaimed in a concerned voice.

"Kaya ojou-sama why are you here?" Kuro said in a calm voice.

"Please, stop this Kurahadol!" yelled Kaya.

"Meri told me everything. If you want my fortune I'll give it all up. So please, leave this place! Right now!" Kaya yelled trying to solve this dispute peacefully with the least amount of casualties.

"I thank you for your offer... however... There's one thing that I desire, and that's... the tranquility of my soul." Kuro said in a menacingly low voice while he readjusted his glasses.

"All I want is tranquility... I spent 3 years gaining the trust of the villagers, which made me feel unbelievably comfortable. Therefore, I'd like to keep this sense of tranquility with me forever." Kuro calmly stated.

Kaya was shocked from this and began backing away, all the while trembling. She brought a gun out of her coat pocket with trembling hands and pointed it at Kuro.

"You're not Kurahadol... Leave this village!" Kaya said with still trembling hands.

"Oh... so you're pointing a gun at me... so that's how it is. You've grown quite a lot these past three years. I remember nursing you when you were sick from grieving over your parent's deaths. All that was so... I could kill you someday! Today being that day!" yelled Kuro as he took Kaya's gun from her. Tears finally rolled down Kaya's cheek as she bit her lip to keep herself from sobbing.

"I, Captain Kuro had to keep a smile for a girl whose nose always sniffled." he said as he dropped the gun.

"No matter how much I hated it, I tried to make you happy." he said in a disgusted tone.

Usopp was looking at Kuro with all the hate he could muster and muttered, "You bastard!"

"Can you imagine me, the former Captain Kuro, doing such things?!" he yelled loud enough for everyone to hear.

By now, Luffy was quite irritated by Kuro's thinking.

Usopp picked the gun off of the ground and stood up quickly to catch Kuro off guard and shoot him. After Usopp shot, Kuro used stealth foot to avoid the bullet and went behind Usopp. Kuro surrounded Usopp's head with his 5 claws.

"I believe you still owe me for that punch you gave me earlier. You hit me pretty hard that time."

Usopp was trembling in fear until he looked at the slope and noticed Luffy was getting into a fighting stance but what Usopp noticed was his glowing blue eyes that sent a shiver down his spine.

The next thing Usopp saw was a fist made of water flying at Kuro's face and knocking him back several meters.

"Since you hate punches so much I'll give you a hundred more for free." Luffy said as he grinned that cheeky grin of his with those same glowing blue eyes.

"What the hell is he?!"yelled the crew as they stared at Luffy, mouths agape.

Suddenly out of nowhere all the kids of the Usopp pirate crew appeared and began beating Kuro with various kitchen ware and baseball bats. They were screaming things like 'give up' and 'kill him'. After they were done 'beating the crap out of him' they ran over to Usopp.

"Captain, you were fighting them all along! Why didn't you tell us the truth?!" they all exclaimed

"Never mind that! You guys have to get out of here now!" Usopp yelled.

"No! We're fighting! If we were to run that would bring dishonor to the crew!" yelled all 3 boys.

Kuro got up looking unfazed from their little 'assault' and stood behind the band of misfits. The kids began shivering in fear until the turned around which turned their shivering into spasms and screaming. Instead of slicing them up Kuro just walked passed them back onto the battlefield.

"Not bad... that was a pretty good punch you managed to lay on me. So... you have the powers of the Akuma no Mi don't you boy?" Kuro said with a glare.

"Yeah, the Mizu-Mizu no Mi, I'm a water man." Luffy said with a cheeky grin.

The entire crew was freaking out saying things like 'What?! That's bad news!' and 'Those things exist?!".

Kuro was silent for a moment and appeared to be thinking until he spoke up, "Jango! I will take care of this kid, you take care of Kaya ojou-sama. Make her write the will as planned, then kill her! Also... the three ants over there... they're an eyesore." Kuro said as he prepared for his attack.

"Understood" Jango said as he began walking up the slope, only to be stopped by one of Zoro's swords blocking his path.

"Stop. I won't let you pass me." Zoro said calmly.

"Buchi!" yelled Jango.

Buch was now growling loudly and jumped up into the air to attack Zoro. "Cat Kill, Stump!" he yelled as he quickly descended.

"That again?" Zoro said as he jumped away to avoid the attack. However, what happened next caught him off guard. An entire section of the slope and cliff were destroyed from the raw physical power of the attack. Due to the rocks crumbling, there was now a heavy smokescreen which Buchi used to his advantage and grabbed Zoro's shoulder and pinned him to the cliff wall. Zoro managed to stick his foot out to Buchi's face, preventing him moving any further to attack him.

"You've already lost to me once. Didn't I tell you not to bother me anymore?! Outta my way!" Zoro yelled as he kicked Buchi in the face with his other foot. While Buchi was dazed, Zoro brought out his other 2 katana and lunged forward to slash Buchi across the chest, effectively killing him, or at least knocking him out.

By now Luffy was ascending the slope as Kaya and the kids retreated into the forest. While Zoro was distracted, Jango had used the opportunity to go after Kaya and the three children.

"Usopp! You go and look for Kaya and the kids! Leave everything here to us." Luffy said.

Usopp, who was on the ground bloodied and bruised, courtesy of Kuro, used what little strength he had left to pick himself up off the ground. He was trembling as he got up and managed to turn to Kuro. As he was about to walk forward, Usopp lost all his strength and fell back to the ground.

After seeing this pathetic display, Kuro began snickering which soon turned into an hysterical laughter. "You really amuse me. Even if you do catch up to Jango, you'd be no match for him. It would be safer for you if you stayed here." Kuro said while laughing a little.

"Even if can't... I want to protect them... For I am the Captain of the Usopp pirate crew. I am a brave warrior of the sea... And I will not let you lay a hand on any of the villagers!" Usopp bellowed for the world to hear.

"Hehe, well said Usopp." Luffy said as he continued to glare at Kuro.

The pirate crew down by the shore were watching and began saying things like, 'What the hell was that' and 'Look he's crying, how pathetic!' as they all started laughing.

After hearing this Luffy's anger rose even more as he punched the cliff and broke off a huge piece off rock. He took the rock and flung it at the pirates, hurtling them backwards.

"What's so funny?!" Luffy yelled as his glowing blue eyes scared the pirates shitless.

"Luffy, I'm taking Usopp with me to find that hypnotist. Any problems?" Zoro asked as he bent down and picked up Usopp.

"None! Get going!" Luffy yelled back.

As Zoro was continuing up the slope Kuro spoke and said, "Hey, who gave you permission to go past this slope...?"

"That would be me..." Luffy said as he appeared in front of Kuro in a split second and tried to slash him, only to have his sword blocked by Kuro claws. He then tried punching him but Kuro managed to use stealth foot and avoid his attack. Luffy knew Kuro was gonna attack him from behind so he ducked and kicked his legs up to try and get a swing at him, but Kuro used stealth foot and dodged again.

"Crap, he's fast enough to even keep up with me. Oh well, at least Zoro and Usopp got away." Luffy said while he waited for Kuro to reappear.

When he did appear, Luffy turned to him while thinking. 'Shanks told me that if I want to become Pirate King, I would need strong nakama to help me along the way. But for my second dream... I would need a massive fleet of nakama. I need to get Kuro to join my crew, I can already sense with Haki that he is not completely evil, and his brilliant mind would help greatly for my other goal. To avenge Sabo's death... By destroying the World Government.'

A/N: DUN DUN DUN! # ^#$* Bet you weren't expecting that huh?... I know this may be copying The Will of D a little but I already planned that I would be having Kuro and his crew in Luffy's crew from the beginning. Also, the idea of Luffy commanding an entire pirate fleet is badass.

Also, the changing eye colour thing will be explained later. Just imagine his eyes the same as Master Makarov's (Fairy Tail) when he uses Fairy Law, except they are blue and not yellow.

And to those who are confused or irritated by the sudden change in the plot-line, I apologize. But, the whole thing will be explained in detail in due time. But for now, read, enjoy and review (If you can).

Also, I have been wanting to get these ideas out of my head and onto the website, so I'm just going to ask all of you this. Will it be okay if I update one/two-shots of future events from this story. Like ones from Enies Lobby, Thriller Bark etc (Ones that are a long long ways away). Of course I would put spoiler warnings in the beginning to warn people, but I don't know if people would want that. So if you guys could message me/review saying whether or not you would like that it would help :)

~~~~VirajPatel~~~~

P.S. I have had the worst time coming up with names for Luffy's attacks. So if you have the time, could you guys leave suggestions in your reviews :) It would help me out.