1 Piece AU Luffy Charlotte
By: FunahoMisaki
(AN: I own nothing and read last chapter)
Luffy spent the next hour telling everyone about what had happened in the last few years, using more details to explain a few things, while Dadan alternated between hugging him and yelling at him. Mayor Wood slap was less than pleased that he was taken in and raised by big shot pirates and his 'baa-chan' was considered on equal strengths as Shanks. He was happy however that Luffy had found parents and a sister from the whole thing, and mentioned looking forward to meeting Pudding once she was old enough to set sail with her brother.
"So what's in the chest?" One of the mountain bandits was eyeing it greedily, envisioning the gold or berri's that could fit inside since it was a pretty decent sized chest.
"The going away presents from everyone. It was a gift from aunty Praline and aunty Prim." Luffy said with a grin, making the bandit quickly back away. They weren't going to steal Luffy's presents. Because though he had been gone for the last near decade, Luffy still was and always would be one of them. Not to mention the kid was stronger than them as a seven year old…now that he was turning seventeen tomorrow and had been trained by big shot, and therefore powerful, pirates?
Nope. The bandits weren't touching that.
"So you're staying for today and tonight but then leaving tomorrow morning?" Dadan asked although she was a bit sad, she already knew the answer and she had just gotten him bac as well.
"Yep! If I stay here too long Garp might find out and come back and I'd rather not deal with him right now. Besides Ace-nii is already on the Grand Line waiting and so is my sister!" Luffy said grinning and a fisherman nodded his head slightly in understanding.
"Good timing on your part though Luffy-kun. I just got a new ship the other day and was trying to figure out what to do with my old one. You can have it to start off if you want." The man offered making Luffy grin at him.
"Thanks! How much?" Luffy asked moving to take some of the berri's Shanks had given him out of his pocket to pay the man for the boat.
"No charge. I wasn't going to do anything with it and was probably just going to give it away anyways. Just make sure you knock out the Lord of the Coast when you leave, he's been scarring away the fish again." The man said smiling and Luffy grinned.
"The Lord of the Coast doesn't have anything on the sea kings in the New World, you should see Aunt Praline's pet Sea King! Consider him sushi." Luffy said with a grin and the townsfolk and bandits were definitely going to ignore the fact that apparently one of his aunts had a pet sea king that was far bigger than their local one.
"We have some produce that's close to going bad at the fruit stand, we can load up a barrel for you and have it waiting in the boat for in the morning. Taking out the Coast Lord would let more trader ships come through so it'd just be us repaying you for clearing the way." The fruit stall owner said scratching her chin as she thought about it.
"Sea King meat goes for a premium, especially to marines and traders that come through. I can toss in a couple of choice cuts of meat if you toss that sea king to shore when you're done with it." The butcher said humming thoughtfully at that and making Luffy laugh.
"Sure thing! Just make sure there's somewhere to put him! You want him sliced into chunks or will circles do?" Luffy asked grinning and making everyone glance at him and then at the sword on his waist.
"Circles will be fine if you can manage it." The butcher said after a moment before Luffy laughed.
"I might not be a swordsman like Mama Ama and Aunt Hachee but I definitely can handle that much." Luffy said before he began to dust himself off as he stood up. After all it was getting late since Mama Branch had gotten him to the island closer to afternoon time than anything.
"Is the tree house still standing?" Luffy asked looking at Dadan who nodded her head.
"Yeah, Ace kept it in the best condition he could before he left and we figured you'd like it in good condition when you got back so some of my men have been taking care of it." Dadan said making Luffy grin.
"And you haven't found mine, Ace-nii or Sabo-nii's treasure that we hid when we were kids. If Ace-nii only took his half of it then that means my half should still be there. I'll probably be in the tree house tonight if anyone needs me." Luffy said with a laugh and the bandits twitched. They hadn't seen where Ace had hid the treasure when he had dug it up for his own adventure, which meant they hadn't even known he had left half of it behind for Luffy.
"Must you go so soon?" Makino asked sadly but she knew he would be leaving tomorrow no matter what. After all he had to chase his dream and the only way to do that was to leave.
"Mhm. I need to go collect the treasure and make sure I have room in the chest for it. Plus I'm going to go back to the Grey Terminal for a little while to say my goodbyes there." Luffy said and he closed his eyes for a moment. He was going to say goodbye to the people who had died there when he was little, going to say goodbye to his childhood…going to say goodbye to Sabo.
"Be careful brat." Dadan said gruffly but the glittering of tears in her eyes meant she knew what he hadn't said outright.
"Don't worry. I've been training. There's not a single thing on this island that's a threat to me." Luffy said with his normal wide grin, and his voice wasn't arrogant or cocky. He was simply stating a fact.
"Not that most of it was a threat to you before your training." Mogra said with a small snort earning a nod from the bandits.
Luffy just laughed as he left the party bar, vanishing almost in front of everyone's eyes he moved so fast.
What he left unsaid to the townspeople and bandits was that he was going to do one last large prank in Goa Kingdom before he left. A sort of memorial to Sabo who'd probably have found it hilarious, and a signal to show that he was starting his life of piracy.
He was going to rob all of Goa blind and pin the blame on Sabo-nii's former parents and brother.