One day later...

Sabo floated along; his small ship carried by the gentle breeze. That is, until he saw a familiarly large sword on a familiar boat with a over familiar man riding on it. Sabo squinted a bit.

"Hey? Is that you? Mihawk!" Sabo yelled The boat stopped a little ways off, Mihawk looked up at Sabo, giving a nod of acknowledgment. Sabo anchored his boat a few feet away from Mihawks. "That way, the way you just came from..." Sabo peered behind the man into the ocean. Mihawk was silent. "The Baratie! Why were you there?" Sabo demanded.

"I followed a group of pirates who escaped me. It led me to a very entertaining duo of children." He chuckled to himself.

"Children?" Sabo inquired.

"A fourteen year old girl and an older boy." Mihawk yawned.

Sabo tapped his foot. Doing math in his head. Luffy was ten when she disappeared. She'd would be around fourteen now.

"Luffy?" Sabo said.

"Hm? I believe she mentioned that name. She said something about Zoro as well." He said. Sabo couldn't hide the smirk that mad it's way to his face.

"A black haired girl? Big brown eyes?" Mihawk nodded. "Scar about here?" Sabo pointed under his eye.

"Was that what that was?" Mihawk muttered.

"Red Haired Shanks's Straw hat?" Sabo said. Mihawk chuckled.

"It seems you know the girl. She was a feisty little thing. Punched me right here." Mihawk pointed to a spot on his cheek.

"Is she still there? Luffy?" Sabo asked. Mihawk yanked up the anchor and continued to sail forward.

"Possibly. She seemed intent on staying until her friend was better." And with that, Mihawk was gone.

Sabo smiled.

"So, the Baratie will be my first stop after all!" He yanked up the anchor and pulled out his sail, letting the wind push the boat as he rowed furiously. It was nearly three hours until the Baratie was in sight, another two hours until he was there. He docked, out of breath on the deck. There where people outside, chefs, all picking drift wood out the water.

"That girl caused quite a mess, didn't she?" One man laughed.

"But she had a killer apatite!" another laughed, causing a chain of laughter.
"Hey! Slackers! Get back to cleaning!" A large man with a chefs out shouted as he came out the door.

"Sorry! Owner Zeff!" The men all shivered and began working on the drift wood and broken restaurant faster.

Zeff's eyes fell on Sabo.

"Who're you?" He asked.

"A girl... she was here! Luffy?" Sabo huffed.

"That waitress?" Zeff smirked and shook his head.

"Waitress?" Sabo raised an eye brow. Zeff nodded.
"Come with me." He said, Sabo followed the man back into the restaurant.

Sabo listened intently to the story. Six kids, Luffy and her friends, Usopp, Nami, Zoro, Johnny and Yosaku, accidentally blew a cannon ball into their restaurant during a feud with a marine. Luffy had come in to apologize and Zeff made her work as a waitress for a week, even though she refused to do the job for longer than a day or two. The a hungry pirate came, one of the best and youngest chefs, Sanji, fed him and gained Luffy's admiration in the process. Then the pirates came. Luffy and her crew fought them and they won. Then Mihawk came, he beat Luffy's friend but the boy survived. One of her crew mates had stolen their ship and Luffy, a healing Zoro, and Sanji, who had joined them, went after her.

"That was yesterday, they took Sanji's boat to Cocoyashi."

"Yesterday?" Sabo sighed, then he thought of a question, he would ask, for Ace's sake. "Uh, What's this 'Sanji' like?" He asked.

Zeff let out a laugh.

"That boy? He's a love struck fool who'll chase after any pretty girl to walk through the restaurant doors." Zeff stood. "That's all I have to say." He walked back to his office. Sabo left the restaurant and headed to his boat.

"So... it would be best not to tell Ace about Sanji." Sabo sighed, looking out at the sea as he sailed away. "How do I just keep missing her?" he released his sail and let the wind blow the ship along. "Well, if I hurry, I should catch up. How long could she stay in Cocoyashi anyway?" Sabo smiled. Then the Den den mushi in his pocket rang.

"Hm? It's Ace." He answered. "Hello? Ace?" Sabo spoke.

"Oi! Sabo! Where are you?" Ace's angry voice rang through the snail phone.

"I just left the Baratie." Sabo held the phone away at Ace's loud voice.

"Was Luffy there?" Ace asked.
"She was, not anymore though." Sabo sighed.

"What's she been up to?"

"Causing trouble, gathering a crew."

"A crew?"

"She already has 5 people."

"Oh, four girls and Zoro?"

"..."

"Sabo?"

"Try for boys and a girl named Nami." Sabo muttered.

"WHAT!? THAT'S IT! I'M COMING OVER THERE!"

Sabo winced at the loud voice.

"No Ace, really, she's fine." Sabo smiled nervously.

"She's not fine!" Ace yelled. "What's this crew like?"

"I'm not sure about the rest, but Sanji sounded... nice?" Sabo lied.

"That tone says other wise." Ace growled.

"Don't be silly. You stay there, don't worry, I can handle it." Sabo said.

"Sabo! Wait! Liar! Don't you dare hang up on-" Sabo hung up the phone. A shiver went up the boys spine, Ace would be angrier now, he could feel it.

Back with Ace

The transmission had ended.

Ace burned the news paper in his hand and slammed the den den mushi on the table. He stood and shouted.

"You!" He pointed at the man who had given him the paper.

"Y-yes? Ace?" He stuttered, standing straight at the angry voice of the fire user.

"I'll be going." He stood. "Sabo can't hand anything! He's always to easy on Luffy's friends!" Ace stomped to the side of the large ship, jumping on his one person boat. "So I'm off!" He yelled, dropping into the water and using his fire to fuel the motor and jet forward in the ocean.

Ace thought.

"Okay. Luffy should be heading for the Grand Line." He muttered. "So at some point she'll end up on Drum Island. If I get there first, I'll leave a note and try and find her at the next island." He thought, "And it works in my favor. Teach was heading in that direction." he smirked and nodded. "Here I come Luffy!" He shouted, pressing the boat on faster and creating a large blast of water in his wake.

Sorry this was short! But hey! I have friends in here.

Ace- oi! Sabo! Liar!

Sabo- You would've freaked out!

Ace- I am freaking out! Hey! Author! Where's Luffy?

Me- She left with Zoro and Sanji after the last chapter, they'll be back.

Ace- Then I'll wait!

Mihawk- You guys are loud.

Me- Oh yeah! Mihawk was in this chapter too!

Mihawk- Though I'm not sure why.

Me- The viewers don't see you that much.

Mihawk- I see.

Ace- Well, I don't like him.

Sabo- You don't like anyone.

Ace- I like you. And Luffy. And White Beard. And Marco. And our Author. And-

Me- As flattered as I am, we're running out of time! Ace! Sabo! Mihawk! Let's do it!

Everyone- Read and review!