Hanashi: Not quite yet I'm afraid, we still have a few more chapters to go before the real adventures begin. I'm glad you thought it was worth the wait, and I can't blame you, it's a good emotional scene.

kushjay805: Well thanks, I'm glad you like it.

bcgcdak: Thank you for complimenting my writing, and as for how much will change...well the best way to put it is the same way I did in the first chapter's author's note, instead of just one big change, there will be multiple tiny and giant alterations to all the plot lines within the story, as well as a few things created entirely by me thrown in for the mix. I can't go much deeper into detail than that, otherwise I'll end up giving away things that are going to happen that I don't want anyone to know yet. XP

I'm sorry that I can't answer your question any further than that, and I hope it doesn't negatively influence your decision on whether to keep reading this or not. But whether you do continue to read or not, I thank you for taking the time to do even do so in the first place, and I also want to thank you for taking the time to review so...thank you. :)

F-ckthesystem125: I'm very glad you liked the chapter so much. As for what's next, you'll see, but as you already, since I just wrote it at the top, know, it'll be a few more chapters before their really good adventures start.

Don'tneedtoknow: Well here it is.

Finally here's the next chapter, now then, please read, enjoy and review.

It had been three weeks since Shanks had left, but with his two best friends by his side Luffy did not mope over that fact because he was happy. Three things had happened in those three weeks though, the first being the fact that the other kids in Fusha village had found out about Luffy's new ability, and that changed things.

Twenty days ago...

Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Bellemere, Makino and Woop Slap were all currently heading towards the house Garp had built for his grandson, this was because Makino had mentioned heading over to tidy it up, with the Mayor's assistance. Bellemere then insisted that she would come along as well to help, and since it was his house she brought Luffy along to help do some of the actual cleaning. Nami had wanted to help as well, so she tagged along. Zoro on the other hand refused to help, mainly because it wasn't Luffy who had asked him to, partly because he didn't want to clean, nevertheless he ended up getting dragged along anyway because Nami said he had to, and well...she usually gets her way when it came to matters concerning her two male friends. The young green haired boy had put up resistance, but Bellemere ended up stepping in, which meant that he wasn't currently walking to his best friend's house, he was being dragged by his ear to it.

Once they reached said building a small frown graced the former marine woman's face, but she didn't say anything. Once they entered the house and she took a quick look around however, she did speak, but only to herself, "You've got to be kidding me. Seriously Garp? This is the best you could do? This house can't be anyone's home, not like this, so...empty and devoid of life...as well as joy."

As the three adults began to clean, Luffy noticed several children out one of his windows, and a smile stretched across his face as an idea hit him."Maybe if they see my cool new powers, they'll start liking me! And then I'll have even more friends!"

With that thought the rubber boy lent the broom he was supposed to be using to sweep against the wall, before exiting through his front door. He stood in front of his house for a moment, making eye contact with one of the children, but before he could go over to them he was stopped by Zoro, the green haired boy placing a hand on his shoulder, the door closing behind him as he did. He had noticed the kids around the same time as his best friend, and once he left out the front door, he proceeded to follow. "Are you sure of what you're about to do Luffy? Just because you've got a devil fruit power now, doesn't mean that they'll treat you any differently."

The straw hat wearing boy gave his friend a quizzical look as he asked, "How'd you know I was going to tell them about that?"

The swordsman trainee shrugged at that, "I just did."

The black haired boy smiled at his friend, "I guess we're just that good of friends, I'm glad. But Zoro, even if their mean to me again, maybe just one of them will like my new power, and then that person will become our friend. Don't you think it'd be worth it? After all, there's no such thing as having too many friends."

That was good enough for him, so Zoro removed his hand from his friend's shoulder, doing his best to fight back a frown as he did. "Alright then, go ahead."

So Luffy turned to look back at the kids and began walking towards them. As he did Nami exited the house, and seeing what was happening she looked to Zoro, "You didn't just do what I think you did, did you?"

The green haired boy nodded as he said, "I did."

"You bonehead! How could you!? You know all their going to do is be cruel to him again!"

"Luffy seems to think that it'll be worth it if he can make even one more friend, so I let him go."

"Why!? He's already got us, why does he need anyone else!?"

Zoro leveled a glare at Nami that she hadn't ever seen him use before, "Because we won't always be here."

These words took Nami back for a moment, almost as if they were a physical blow, "Wha-what?"

"You mean you never considered what would happen when you left and went back to your village? You said it yourself, you're only staying here temporarily, you, your sister and your mother will all leave this island, whether that's tomorrow, or a year from now doesn't matter. As for me, I'll be leaving with my Master when it's time for us to return home. As much as I wish to stay here with Luffy, if I did I would never become as strong as he needs me to be as first mate. We can spar all we like, but the fact is that he's no swordsman, and I won't learn anything about being one by training with him. Sure we're both getting stronger because of the training, but that's not enough. And when we leave, where will that leave Luffy? He'll be all alone again. Sure he has Makino, and his brother, who we still haven't even met yet, but that alone tells you how much he's around. While we will all meet again one day to form our pirate crew, who knows how long that'll be? I don't know about you, but I feel sick thinking about leaving my best friend all alone until then."

Nami looked ready to cry at that point, "I guess I never thought about all of that..."

Zoro gave the girl a sympathetic look, "I figured that. I wish I didn't have to think about it myself, but it's better than not knowing at all, in which case it would have hit us even harder when we did leave."

Still trying to hold her tears in, the young orange haired girl nodded her head, while bowing it, "Yeah."

That's when the six year old felt a hand placed gently on her shoulder, so she looked up at Zoro, who's hand was the one on her person. "Look, it'll be okay, we just have to help him find someone to keep him from getting lonely while we're all separated."

Wiping away a few tears that managed to escape, Nami nodded her head once more, "Right."

That's when the front door opened once more, all three adults coming out as it did. "What's going on out here?"

Before the two children could answer that, their attention, as well as the three adults's, was pulled to Luffy, who had been talking to several kids for a good couple of moments now, when he got a little louder.

The young rubber boy used his index fingers to fish hook his cheeks, before stretching them outwards far more than is physically capable, and spoke while they were stretched like that, his words still mostly understandable, "See? I'm a rubber person!"

He then let go of his cheeks and they came back to their original position with a loud smack. A large smile spread across his face as he said, "Cool huh?"

All of the kids's eyes widened to the max at what they just saw, fear quite evident on their faces. Luffy recognized this, so his smile began to shrink, and as two of the kids ran away screaming, he knew it wasn't going to end well. Three of the remaining four children then cried out, "Demon!", "Monster!", "Freak!"

Luffy's face no longer bore a smile of any kind, and as the oldest of the four kids spoke up, the young rubber boy had to begin holding in tears, a sad expression on his face as he did. "You ate a devil fruit!? You-you're a abomination! Anyone who eats one of those things becomes something evil! You were a freak before, but now you're a devil! Get away from us!"

The straw hat wearing boy tried to reach out to the kids as he replied with, "Bu-but I want to be your frien-"

He was cut off however, as he reached forward toward them, the oldest of the kids lashed out in fear and hate, throwing a fist his way, which made contact with the left side of his face. "Stay away from us you monster!"

Of course it didn't cause any damage, but it did cause the young rubber boy to stumble back just a foot or so. His face was turned because of the attack, so no one could see it, but when he looked back at the children, instead of the tears that were threatening to spill before, and the hurt expression, his face was completely blank. It lacked any sort of emotion, it was the face of solemn acceptance.

This went completely unnoticed however, as Makino and Woop Slap were currently struggling to hold back Bellemere, the red haired ex-marine fighting to get over to the children, her temper flaring. "Let me go! I'm gonna teach those brats some damn manners!"

Woop Slap was the only one of the two woman's restrainers to respond, "Listen here, you can't just go around beating on other people's kids, no matter how bad they might behave!"

"Just watch me!"

Just as Bellemere was going to break out of their grasp, having already dragged them several feet, she, as well as they, noticed the fact that Zoro and Nami weren't by the front door anymore. And that they were now in the middle of beating the oldest of the cruel children into the ground, the twelve year old being no match for the two at all, his friends having run off. Seeing this a smirk crossed Bellemere's face, "Way to go you two! Clobber that snot nosed brat!"

With that Makino and Woop Slap let go of the ex-marine and went to pry Nami and Zoro off of the preteen. As they did that, the red haired woman looked towards Luffy, watching him for a moment or so, before approaching him and crouching down so as to look him in the eye. "Hey."

The young black haired boy's face took on a sad expression once more, as his moment of acceptance had passed. He also acknowledged Bellemere's presence, "Hey."

"You shouldn't listen to morons like that, they've no idea what they're talking about. Nothing he said was true, you're not a freak, you're not a monster, and you're most certainly not a devil. You're a sweet kid with a big heart, anyone would be lucky to have you as a friend, and if they can't see that then it's their loss."

The straw hat wearing boy nodded his head, but did not give a verbal reply. And as he bowed his head, looking towards the ground, Bellemere knew that her words were not enough. So she sighed, before smiling once more and saying, "I guess it's fair to say you won't be welcome around here anymore, and since that's the case you'll be needing a new place to live. It just so happens that I have a spare room, right next to Nami's room in fact."

Luffy's head shot up to where it was level with Bellemere's, his eyes wide as he spoke, "Yo-you mean, I can-"

The ex-marine nodded her head, "Go pack Luffy, because your coming to stay with me and my girls."

The rubber boy couldn't fight back the huge smile that made it's way across his face as he said, "Yes Ma'am."

Bellemere stood up as Luffy raced back to his front door, once he opened it and entered his house, the red haired woman looked toward her orange haired daughter, who was in the middle of being scolded by Woop Slap. "When she finds out he's coming to stay with us, she'll be absolutely ecstatic."

Instead of being picked on and avoided, Luffy was now downright feared and hated. He wasn't bullied anymore because no one would even stay in the same area as him, too afraid of him to do so. That had Luffy depressed for a whole day, but he was pulled out of it by Zoro, Nami, Makino and Bellemere. Eventually Luffy just came to accept the fact that they didn't want him around no matter what, so he just stopped coming around, not even bothering to step foot near his own home, if you could call it that, so as to keep away. It wasn't that bad though, because now he could stay with Nami, Bellemere and Nojiko, which made the young boy incredibly happy. And while he hated the chores Bellemere had him do, he did them without much complaint, only doing so light-heartedly from time to time.

The second notable thing that happened in the last twenty one days was when Zoro introduced Luffy and Nami to his master Koshiro and the daughter of his master, Kuina.

Two weeks ago...

Zoro led both Luffy and Nami to his master's dojo...or at least that was what was supposed to happen. But Zoro ended up getting them lost, where Nami then had to take over and lead them back to Partys Bar, and this happened several times. Eventually Nami got too frustrated to deal with this and asked Makino if she knew where the dojo was. Since she did they followed her directions, and soon found themselves there. All three children removed their sandals and entered, where they were greeted by a man with long black hair tied back into a long pony tail and glasses upon his face, sitting upon his knees. A medium sized smile was on his face as he spoke, "Hello Zoro, who are your friends?"

Zoro, Nami and Luffy all bowed before the swordsman trainee replied, "These are the two I told you about, Luffy and Nami."

Koshiro's smile widened a little before he replied, "Oh yes, I'm glad we can finally meet. Zoro has told me a lot about the both of you. Proof of the fact that you've known each other for a year, but that makes me curious, why are we just meeting?"

Luffy was the one to reply, scratching the back of his straw hat covered head and chuckling nervously as he did so. "Guess it kept slipping our minds."

Both Nami and Zoro had to fight the urge to face palm at that very weak excuse. They succeeded, but barely.

However it seemed to be enough for Koshiro, "I see."

That was when someone else entered the room, and as they did everyone's eyes were drawn to them. The person who entered the room was a girl who stood an inch or two taller than Zoro, who was the tallest of the three friends by an inch or so, had dark blue hair and wore a short sleeved white shirt, as well as a pair of knee length black shorts. It only took a moment for her to notice the three friends, and when she did a smirk appeared on her face. "Hey there pipsqueak, who are your friends?"

Zoro grit his teeth in annoyance at Kuina's words, he should be used to this by now, but he wasn't and he was pretty sure he never would be. "Their names are Luffy and Nami, their the ones I mentioned in our last couple of duels. Guys this is Kuina."

"The ones you've known for a year but only just begun to talk about? Though I guess that might be because of all the brain damage you've probably taken with all the beat downs I've given you."

She wasn't even trying to hide the mocking tone to her voice as she said all this.

Zoro increased the pressure on his teeth, trying to keep them grit so he wouldn't respond.

Luffy was silent with a frown on his face, Zoro hadn't told him much about Kuina, only that they were rivals and that no matter how hard he tried he just couldn't beat her, but that was enough to know that she was just antagonizing him.

Nami couldn't help but think she was going to like this girl.

From there things began to spiral downward extremely fast...

It didn't take more than a few more words from Kuina before Zoro challenged her to another duel, and when he lost he demanded a rematch. This happened several times in a row, so Luffy and Nami ended up showing themselves out, although for different reasons.

Nami left because she wasn't going to wait all day for Zoro, deciding to hang out with Nojiko instead.

Luffy left a couple minutes after Nami did, but he left because he could tell Zoro would be at it until nightfall, and it would probably go past even that. And for some reason...he had the odd feeling that he wouldn't win a single round, just something of a hunch, but it resonated so strongly in his mind that he believed it. And knowing Zoro would be in a foul mood after all those losses, he decided to show himself out as well, since the green haired boy like to be left alone when he got like that.

And finally the last notable thing that happened in those three weeks, was when Zoro and Nami finally got to meet Ace. It was definitely an interesting experience, for Ace at least.

One week ago...

Luffy and Ace didn't get along too well, nevertheless they did care for each other, even if it was so hard to tell that even Luffy didn't think that Ace actually cared for him all that much, even though he did. Still though, Luffy really wanted Ace to meet his two best friends, so he took the opportunity to introduce them as soon as it showed itself.

Luffy had a mild grin as he introduced his friends to his brother. "Guys this is Ace, my older brother, Ace this is Zoro, and this is Nami, their my best friends and two of my future crew mates."

Luffy chuckled as he finished speaking, purely out of glee.

At those words Nami and Zoro both smiled, while Ace also couldn't help but crack a grin as well. "Is that so? And exactly what positions are they going to fill?"

The younger black haired boy's smile grew larger at those words. As he answered he gestured towards Zoro, and excitedly went on about his friend, "We've already got that all figured out! Zoro is gonna be my swordsman, and since he's my first friend he'll also be my first mate! He can fill two positions! Oh and he uses two swords and is really strong!"

Luffy then gestured toward Nami as he continued to speak, just as excited to talk about her as he was Zoro. "And this is Nami, she's my navigator, and she's really good at drawing maps too! Also when we get lost on land, she's the only one who knows how to get us all un-lost."

Ace couldn't help but chuckle to himself, when he had time to talk to Luffy he'd go on and on about his friends, the older sibling was glad to see him so happy. It was, unfortunately, a rare sight. He was always so alone, even when he got reprieves from that loneliness, whether it be with Shanks, Makino, Woop Slap or even Garp the young boy was grateful. Above all else Luffy feared being alone, and Ace knew this because a little over two years ago the boy had managed to worm his way into his heart, which no one had managed to do. He was only seven at the time, but his view on the world was already quite dark and bleak because of his heritage as well as other things. But still the younger black haired boy had refused to take no for an answer when it came to Ace becoming his friend. And that was where the path to them becoming siblings had started, and now they were just that, brothers, even if they weren't related by blood.

What had surprised him though was that by the way his younger brother went on about this Nami girl, that he had to have a crush on her. And Luffy hadn't even seemed to notice girls existed before, which could not have been a coincidence. While seeing her in person proved that she was indeed pretty as Luffy had said several times, though in the most unusual ways, it did not give the older boy any insight into what made Luffy see her in a different way than other girls.

The oldest in the room was soon awoken from his musings as his little brother spoke once more.

Finally Luffy gestured toward Ace, before saying, "What about you Ace? Wanna join my crew now?"

Ace didn't hesitate even for a second, "No thanks. I'm going to be the captain of my own pirate crew, not a member of my little brother's."

The younger of the two boys's smile disappeared at that and he began to pout. While the older walked up to the other two, so as to formally introduce himself. He shook hands with Zoro as he spoke, "Portgas D. Ace."

The green haired swordsman trainee gave his full name in return, "Roronoa Zoro."

And then with no warning, as he withdrew his hand from Ace's, Zoro's smile faded and he spoke up, "Luffy's told me how you're really strong...fight me."

Ace's eyes widened in surprise at the green haired boy's words. The swordsman trainee even moved to pull out his wooden practice swords, and Ace eyes narrowed as he did, however before it could go any further than that the green haired boy was taken off his feet, being completely blindsided by the punch that ended up putting him on his ass.

If Zoro didn't already know who the culprit was, which he did, being used to this kind of thing is why he knew, the person revealed themselves as they began to scream, "What the heck was that!? That's not how you greet someone you idiot! Especially your best friend's older brother! And on top of that you just met him, are you really that big of an insensitive jerk!?"

With her now shark like teeth protruding from her mouth, and her face wearing such an expression of agitated rage, both dark haired brothers couldn't help but shudder as they thought the same thing, "Scary..."

Zoro was about to voice a comeback, but Nami completely ignored him as her entire face went back to normal as she turned to Ace and spoke, chuckling nervously as she did. "Don't mind him, he's just an idiot. Anyway, as Luffy said, I'm Nami, it's nice to meet you Ace."

Ace couldn't help but sweat drop, "Did Luffy really have to develop a crush on such a crazy girl...?"

Before Ace could reply to the young girl, Zoro was back on his feet and proceeded to lock her in a head lock. She struggled, however no matter how much she did so the young green haired boy refused to loosen his grip. Instead of being worried or apologetic like most people would in her situation, Nami merely bared those sharp teeth again and proceeded to threaten Zoro with bodily harm.

While this also took Ace by surprise, they were Luffy's friends, so he knew he should have expected them to be a little crazy. With that thought he brushed the whole situation off by indicating he had to leave. "I've gotta get going now, I'll see you guys when I see you."

Luffy whined at those words, "You've gotta go already? Where do you even go and why are you always there instead of here in the village?"

Ace just kept walking as he replied, not even bothering to turn and face his younger brother. "I'll tell you...eventually."

Once Ace was out of earshot Luffy sighed, before sticking his tongue out at his brother's retreating form. "And that's my brother, the big jerk."

However his two friends were too busy wrestling on the ground at the moment to notice the exchange. As soon as Nami had managed to wiggle out of Zoro's hold they began to fight like the children they were, which was what they were currently doing as they tried to pin each other on the ground.

As for what these children were currently up to, they were all semi deep inside the forest outside of Fusha village, on Mount Corvo, Nojiko was also with them. And then there was what they were doing...

Nami ran and ran, but no matter how fast she went, she just couldn't manage to give her pursuer the slip. Or to be more exact, she couldn't escape from his grasp.

The young orange haired girl giggled continuously as she continued to evade Luffy's arms as he stretched them out to get her, although it wasn't an easy task to keep away from them, even if the young black haired boy barely knew how to use his new ability.

A couple of days ago Nami, Nojiko, Zoro and Luffy had decided to play around with his new ability, and they quickly came up with a game of stretch tag. Luffy had to stand in one spot, and he wasn't allowed to move from it at all, then he would stretch his arms out and try and get a hold of one of the other three. As of yet he hadn't caught a single one of them, however as his arms closed in on Nami, that would change in a matter of moments. Just not how you would expect...

Nami continued to run from Luffy's arms, even as they ever so slowly closed the distance between them and her. The young navigator to be knew that she had to do something fast if she didn't want to get caught. And as she neared Zoro she knew exactly what it was that she needed to do.

As Luffy's arms and Nami got closer and closer to him, Zoro could no longer be at a standstill like he had been for a little while now. So he turned and began to run in the opposite direction of where they were coming from. But with Nami already moving at her top speed, the young orange haired girl managed to catch up with Zoro, before unceremoniously and violently shoving him to the side, with such force that it caused him to hit the ground, which also left him dead in the water with no way to get away as Luffy's arms encircled him and announced that he was out.

Zoro would normally get up in Nami's face because of something like that, but today had been a good day, so he was doing his best to not get into an argument with her. That of course didn't stop him from muttering to himself as he got to his feet, "Damn evil girl..."

Luffy didn't waste anytime and quickly extracted his arms from Zoro, before sending them after Nami once more. However she had a good lead now, so as they drew closer to Nojiko, who was hiding behind a tree, the straw hat wearing boy decided to switch targets. The young blue haired girl realized this quickly, but by the time she was actually moving so as to run away, the black haired boy's outstretched hands patted her on each shoulder, letting her know she was out. So she merely sighed in defeat before taking a seat right there where she had been standing.

Although he had gotten two out of three of them out, he had also lost track of Nami. She could be hiding behind a tree, a bush, or she might have gotten behind him, whatever the case was it was going to be harder to end the game now. Yet, after almost two whole minutes of looking for her, while not actually moving from his spot, his stretched out arms going to every place he looked barred from that, he could not find her. So with a heavy sigh of defeat, he called out to his sneaky friend, "Okay Nami, you win."

The young boy then began to retract his arms, but because he didn't have too much control over his ability, he ended up pulling them in too fast, so by the time they reached him they had gathered enough speed and force to knock him straight to the ground, making him give a mildly surprised yelp as he landed on his back. The black haired boy quickly sat up, Zoro and Nojiko making their way towards him as he did, before he called to his orange haired friend once more, "Did you hear me Nami!? I said you win! Now come out so we can go play something else!"

No reply came for several long moments, so the three began to grow worried. Luffy got to his feet and looked around for a few moments, before deciding to go further in, Zoro and Nojiko following behind him as he did. "Nami!? Nami!? Where'd you go Nami!?"

The three slowly made their way further into the forest as the young rubber boy called for the orange haired girl, but after a few attempts without success, her blue haired older sister began calling out as well, trying to keep herself from becoming frantic. "Nami! Where are you!? Nami!?"

Soon enough the three stumbled on a small clearing, not even big enough to put on a map, but large enough to hold around a dozen or so children. There they saw a tree stump, which Nami was tied to, and they also saw her captor standing beside her, who had his hand over her mouth to keep her quiet, who appeared to be a kid not much older then them, wearing a large, fancy black hat with goggles on it and a fancy blue and black outfit to match. "You have to stay quiet! I can't let them find me!"

This boy's attention was quickly drawn to the three who were behind him, as two of them cried out...

"Hey, let go of Nami!"

"What do you think you're doing to my sister!?"

The boy's eyes were on them, so he wasn't looking at Nami, so he failed to notice as she opened her mouth, and proceeded to bite down on his hand as hard as she could. "OW!"

He quickly pulled his hand away, shaking it about in pain as he did, "You bit me!"

Judging by the look of anger and annoyance on her face, it was obvious that this kid didn't scare her, which put Nojiko somewhat at ease. "You tied me up!"

"You wouldn't keep quiet!"

"That doesn't give you the right to tie me up!"

"Shut up! You're too loud!"

"Your the one who's being loud!"

As the two bickered, the three others were able to see two more details of this kid's appearance, he had blonde hair and a missing tooth.

Luffy, not liking being ignored when he was telling someone to let go of his friend, wound his right arm back before shooting it forward, his arm stretching a few feet so as to allow his fist to connect with the blonde kid's face, knocking him to the ground and causing him to yelp in pain. "I said to let Nami go!"

This would have caused the straw hat wearing boy to seem somewhat threatening to the young blonde, and seem cool to anyone who had seen him hit him like that, however as his arm came racing back towards him and he ended up with his own fist in his face, knocking himself to the ground, yelping in surprise as he did, it ruined the effect and had him looking ridiculous. Zoro walked over to him after that and proceeded to help him to his feet.

Nojiko usually would have sighed and shook her head at the rubber boy, but she was too busy untying her sister at the moment to do that. Once the young orange haired girl was untied, her older sister locked her a tight hug, having been very worried for her safety.

The blonde boy was supporting himself on one elbow, using his right hand to rub the already forming bruise on his face, as he wondered to himself, "How the hell did he just do that? Did he eat a devil fruit? That's the only thing I can think of."

Before the young blonde could think any further on the subject, Nami stepped over him, grabbed a hold of the collar of his shirt with both hands, and began shaking him in an elevated position, which left him on the ground, but his upper half wasn't touching it. "You can't just go around restraining people, ya fricking jerk!"

Everyone's attention was quickly pulled to the right side of the small clearing, as someone entered it, "Hey Sabo, the coast is clear now, we can head ou-"

Ace stopped mid-sentence as he noticed all who was in the clearing, Zoro helping Luffy to his feet, and Nojiko watching as Nami violently shook Sabo by his shirt collar, chewing him out as she did. There were the beginnings of a bruise on his face as well. As the the nine year old black haired boy took this all in, there was complete silence in the clearing for several long moments, before he finally asked, "What the hell is going on here?"

As those words left Ace's mouth, Nami let go of Sabo's shirt collar and let his upper half fall to the ground, his head hitting it hard because of that. "Ow!"

Luffy, seemingly ignoring his older brother's question, smiled real big before saying, "Hi there Ace!"

To Be Continued...