Our last sail

11. Meet Ace

"Luffy": talk

"Sabo": whisper

"ACE": shout

"Gomu Gomu no": the skill's name

'idiot': thinking

<Joyboy>: voice of all things

-Into the story-

"Who the hell keeps hitting at my door?!"

It took a few moments for the woman to realize who was at the door. When it finally hit her, she screamed like she had just seen her death.

"G-Garp-san!?"

"Long time no see, Dandan". Garp greeted her

The conversation went on, but Luffy paid them no mind. The kids decided to explore around while waiting for the adult to finish talking. Law and Luffy were going with each other when suddenly Luffy felt something was going to aim at him, so he dodged it out of nature. Law then grabbed Kikoku and stood in front of Luffy to protect his brother, but Luffy knew who did this, so he told Law to not worry. He looked at the way where the spit was shot from, there stood a black haired boy with freckles around his face. Luffy nearly cried, but he held it, he was so happy to see Ace again after such a long time. Garp then walked toward them and said

"Luffy, Law meet Ace. He is your new brother. All of you will live here together, so be nice."

"Ne, Ace, let's be friends." Luffy said while smiling. Law just stood there and said nothing.

Suddenly, Ace left them and went to the forest. Luffy almost forgot that Ace was like that when he first met him, Luffy felt so distant from his brother. But he knew that Ace was still questioning whether his existence was worth it or not. He was still searching for his answer. But this time Luffy wouldn't lose his brothers again, he would make sure Ace knew he was loved by many. He missed his brothers, but he also had to let them know who was stronger, and maybe they wouldn't be such a brocon like they used to back then. If only he could know that his brothers would get more worse.

Now was the time for dinner. Luffy's group, Dandan and Ace, were sitting with each other. The group only got a bowl of rice and a cup of water while the other got all the meat. This made Luffy grumpy, then Dandan said

"You guys can't have these meat, because Ace was the one who went hunting and he shared it with us. If you want to eat, you have to go hunting by yourself"

Corazon had figured that Luffy wouldn't be satisfied with just rice. He also knew it was because of the kid's devil fruit, Luffy would need more nutrition to stay active. Maybe he could find something for the kids. Luffy was sad, but he didn't care about it, he could go hunting with the others. He ate all the rice in one go, then turned to Dandan and asked

"Can I have another one?"

This got Dandan angry. She then shouted at the kid next to her.

"DON'T YOU REALIZE WHERE YOU'VE BEEN LEFT?!"

"No" the kids, except Luffy, answered.

"THEN I'LL TELL YOU GUYS. HERE IS THE HIDEOUT OF THE MOUNTAIN BANDIT WHO RULE MT. CORVO, THE DANDAN FAMILY!"

"Mountain bandit? I hate those guys" said Luffy he remembered Higuma and his men.

"Dandan-san! If you don't mind, we aren't going to live here since it doesn't have enough places for us. We don't really want to cause you trouble, so we will build another house near here, but we still come here if we need something" said Corazon.