Warnings: Antics, fluff, possible OoC characters, mentions of violence/murder

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece, not me! But I do own my words and the plot!

Don't ruin my normal even if my normal isn't exactly normal

"Shhh, Luffy! We can't get caught!" Sabo whispered as he grinned at the only person younger than him on the ship. Luffy grinned and brought up both hands to try and stifle his giggles. Both Sabo and Luffy peeked out from behind the wall they were against. The door opened and then, two seconds later, they heard startled shouts along with a girly yelp after a loud splash had occurred followed by a big bang. Sabo bit his lower lip to stifle his laughter.

Ace, Marco, Thatch, Izo, Haruta and several others were now dyed all colors of the rainbow with glitter and feathers covering their bodies. Sabo was so sure they were going to get away with this –

Luffy let a giggle lose.

Sabo paled as several pairs of furious eyes turned towards the two.

"Run Luffy!" Sabo took off sprinting down the hall, quickly followed by a laughing Luffy. His little brother obviously did not understand how angry the other commanders were for being dyed red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple and then dressed in glitters and feathers.

"SABO!" Marco, Thatch, Haruta and the majority of the commanders ran after the ships' number one prankster.

"You'll never catch me!" He cackled as he ran up the stairs to the next floor, determined on losing them on this maze of a ship. Meanwhile, Ace turned his eyes to the four year old who snuck into the closest room. He grinned as he walked to the door. He honestly didn't mind being dyed in paint, he did it to the commanders before 600 something years ago and several times since and it wasn't like it hadn't happened to him before, but he had to admit the glitter and feathers were a nice touch.

Ace entered the dark room and heard giggles from the far wall. However, he just whistled and began to search, saying "Oh, I wonder where Luffy is?" and other such things in a joking, teasing voice that just made him hear more muffled giggles. He looked in barrels, under tables and behind counters. But as he neared the window on the other side of the room and saw small feet at the bottom of the huge curtains, he hummed loudly in thought. "I wonder where Luffy could be?" He waited five more seconds, hearing more giggles, then yanked the curtain open and picked up the boy, holding him out from his body so he wouldn't get covered in too much paint. "Got you," He said in a singsong voice.

Luffy pouted at him and stuck out his tongue, saying "Stinky Ace!"

"Ohohoho, getting cocky now, are we? How do you like this?" Ace moved him to his hip and with his free hand began to tickle him mercilessly. The young human squirmed and laughed loudly in his grasp as Ace tickled his feet, legs, stomach, arms and armpits. After several minutes of the tickling, Luffy leaned against his chest, not caring about getting paint all over his body.

"Shishishi, rainbow Ace!" He laughed as he played with the still wet paint, making poorly drawn pictures on his body.

"No thanks to you and Sabo," Ace teased with a huge grin on his face. Then he let Luffy down and took his hand. "C'mon, let's go clean up."

"Uhn!" Luffy nodded his head and tightly gripped onto Ace's hand as they walked out of the room, talking about Sabo's prank the whole time.

Whitebeard was holding the small human on his ship in one of his large hands as he sat in his chair. His children were currently exploring the island they had docked on and he was to stay back on the ship anyway, but then he found his youngest very ill. Whitebeard had been walking the halls of the ship when he found the four year old, who was supposed to be napping in his room, on the ground, crying and throwing up and trembling as he sobbed while calling out various crew members names. He had quickly cleaned the mess before taking the sick child onto the main deck with him.

Currently, Luffy was leaning against his chest on his lap, being supported by his large hand as well. He was pale save for his rosy cheeks and his breathing was ragged. Whitebeard could hear his labored breaths and every once in a while tried to help him swallow down some water to soothe his throat.

He had gotten sick last year too. Whitebeard wondered if the ship was just too dirty but then they would probably know. Luffy was human and if he got sick constantly they would figure that there was something wrong on the ship since as vampires, they could only get ill from the sun and silver.

"Papa," Luffy wheezed. He looked down at his youngest and ran a soothing finger down his back.

"Are you alright, Luffy?" He asked in his deep gruff voice. Luffy smiled up at him as if he wasn't sick at all and snuggled deeper into him.

"Happy. Wanna stay."

"You can stay as long as you want Luffy," Whitebeard replied. He felt the human nod before his breathing turned from labored breaths into slightly heavy yet soft snores. He held Luffy there the rest of the night until his family had returned and they began to fret over his illness. He watched with fond eyes, realizing definitely not for the first time and definitely not the last that they got along better than most blood siblings.

"Izo, why a dress?" The cross dresser looked down at the innocent voice and saw his recently turned five year old brother holding onto his kimono with confused eyes. "Dress for lady?"

"I am not a lady, Luffy, and this is not a dress. This is a kimono," He replied as he pat the younger on the head.

"Look dress," Luffy replied as he gently tugged on the fabric on Izo's body.

"It is not a dress Luffy," Izo sighed in mild irritation, turning back to his sewing.

"Mystery?" The boy tilted his head to the side with his wide eyes staring at him, his mouth parted slightly in curiosity. Izo sighed before he chuckled and pat him on the head.

"Yeah, it's a mystery."

Luffy giggled as Izo continued to patch up one of his shirts. Sewing was calming for him – it reminded him of his late mother from 900 years ago. He was often told he had a complex about women by people who knew nothing of his past. He would always beat them up after – they didn't know what they were talking about.

He had been the youngest child and only son in a family with a father, mother and four older sisters. His father raised him to respect women and his sisters and mother taught him what love truly was. They also taught him how to dance, a family tradition for all genders. He didn't like his part as a male, but he loved watching his sisters and mother dance. They were so beautiful and elegant and when his eldest sister sang as well, it could draw tears to his eyes.

The last time he ever saw them they were dancing. He was thirteen years old when a man came and mercilessly slaughtered his whole family in the middle of their daily practice. His family had saved him, shoving him into a closet as they were ripped apart by his sword. When he finally had the courage to leave it, he saw the blood and promptly threw up until he coughed up blood.

For the next twenty years, he had done anything to find out who had murdered his family. He used his dancing skills from his mother to seduce others and used his sharpshooter skills from his father to kill anyone who got in his way. When he finally found the man who slaughtered them, he was already dead – buried six feet under after the island's ruler had him executed.

Izo thought he had nothing to live for, and then a vampire turned him for fun. If Marco hadn't found him that day, Izo might have never lived this long.

He kept his family in mind by making clothes, something his sisters enjoyed doing and did for him all the time. And now, he had his own family to make clothes for, one of which was a little human.

"What do you think, Luffy? Looks good, right?" He held the shirt up to the young boy and grinned when he giggled and laughed in glee, clapping his hands before reaching up for the shirt.

He would always wonder if his sister felt so happy whenever someone looked so excited from seeing something as simple as clothing presented to them.

"Hello, Nami," Sabo sighs as he stares at the red haired succubus on the ships deck with annoyance. She grins at him flirtatiously before flying closer to him.

"Sabo, my, my, you're looking quite delectable right now," She says while landing in front of him. He grunts and puts down the box he was holding.

"What do you want?"

"I think you know what I want."

"Then why don't you ask that incubus that you're always with? He's right there."

Nami turns around, slightly shocked, and sees the blond incubus looking absolutely defeated, mumbling about how his beloved Nami-swan is being nice to the blond bastard. Next to him is their green haired friend, a werewolf, staring at Sanji with amusement and annoyance. Nami smacks her hand to her forehead.

"I told them to stay back there!" Sabo hears her mumble. His family has mostly stopped whatever they were doing and by now have all walked over to see some of their allies.

"Nami, what are you here for?" Ace asks as he walks over, swinging his arm over to rest around Sabo's shoulders. Nami sighs and looks back at her friends, who for once look serious, as they walk to stand next to her.

"Something bad is brewing in the world," She says as she crosses her arms. She looks up when Whitebeard sits in his chair and waits for him to motion her to continue. "For some reason, the humans are all becoming more violent than they have been in years, not since the Dark Age. Many of the humans are massacring certain villages now, too, but we can't find what the reasons are. It's always death by fire when they do these massacres, as well. Have you heard anything about this?"

"No, we haven't heard anything. That could get bad for us, though."

It was silent for a while. During the Dark Age when the humans became very violent, many of their own had been killed off. With superstitions arising, people became more careful or were driven insane. To find good prey was difficult. Still, it had been just as damaging to the humans.

There was a pitter patter of small feet and everyone looked behind them as Luffy ran up. He was holding something behind his back as he ran up and stood before Nami, beaming at her with his huge grin. Zoro raised and eyebrow while Sanji sighed and took in a deep breath of his cigarette. Nami simply looked up and glared at them.

"Did you guys kidnap a human?"

"No, Ace here saved him," Thatch said grinning as he walked up and smacked the other on the back. "His name is Luffy."

"Luffy, huh?" Nami kneeled down to his level and gave him a small smile. She may have been a demon but she didn't like to scare kids, she liked seeing adults reactions more – how they would scream at her in fear and writhe on the ground if she hurt them. "What do you have behind your back?"

Luffy pulled out a tangerine and shoved it in her face.

"We don't have any tangerines on board right now," Thatch looked up at Whitebeard. This was not the first time he had pulled something out of nowhere, but this was the first time it was something that wasn't a hibiscus.

"Thank you," She said while ruffling his hair before standing. They were about to leave when Marco spoke.

"Do you guys know anything about blue blood?"

"Blue blood?"

"Yeah."

"I've never heard of anything like that, but I bet if you could find Nico Robin she could tell you something. It'll take a while though, knowing how sneaky she is."

AN: Yo! So, what do you guys think of prankster Sabo? Normally Thatch or Ace are depicted as pranksters, but I think Sabo would be awesome about it. I mean come on, he designed that tree house and he and Ace came up with that awesome trap in just hours that ended up knocking Dadan out of their treehouse. He could definitely pull some fantastic pranks, I think. No violence this chapter as well! And what do you guys think about Luffy's powers? I'm curious as to what your theories are.

Genesis: Thanks! I'm so glad you like it! :) Maybe, maybe not. You'll see eventually.

Callie982: hahahaha I'm glad! :)

shadowmarialove: hehehehe yes, it has to do with his powers, but I can't say what exactly those are yet. hahaha, I'm glad this made you less bored after your homework. I hate doing homework too. But true, learning is good. I already have the next chapter written out, it's the future chapters that are making me pull my hair out, but that's a while away so I'll be okay. :)

luffylova: I'm glad you think so! :) I definitely will!

I'm sooooo tired! And I'm covered in sunscreen. It feels icky. (I burn really easily. It sucks.) Anyway, thank you so much for reading this chapter! I hope you enjoyed! Please leave a review! :D