1 Piece AU Luffy Charlotte
By: FunahoMisaki
(AN: I own nothing and read last chapter)
"I'm not the sharpest sword on the rack but I have a feeling that you called more people mama and papa than most people do." Zoro said while they were sailing after Luffy finished his call with the Charlotte family and then waited till the next morning to call the Red Force, Shanks had not liked Luffy's attempts at renaming it the Tomato Sauce which the Big Mom pirates all encouraged happily.
He mainly waited till the morning because he knew that Papa Shanks would have a hangover and Papa Benn always sent Luffy extra money and stuff if he annoyed or yelled at Papa Shanks while he was hungover. It was also really fun because he knew Shanks would never hurt him and the most the man would do would train him a little harder than normal or tickle him mercilessly for a while.
"Shanks and the rest of his crew visited my home island when I was like five or something so they've known me since forever and I didn't know I had a mom or dad until recently….so when someone told me what a papa was I immediately thought of Shanks and Benn. But the people who took me in after I was caught by slavers treated me nicely and trained me and all and some of them acted like mamas and papas too so I call them that. They don't mind at all." Luffy said shrugging his shoulders and making Zoro shrug his as well. So the captain had been caught by slavers, saved, and adopted by a group of strong people? Okay. That was fine with him since it wouldn't get in the way of his dream.
"Fair. So where are we heading?" Zoro asked looking around for any islands nearby and not recognizing this patch of ocean, not like he would anyways since it all looked the same to him.
"We're following the bird. They almost always lead towards an island and food." Luffy said pointing upwards towards a bird that Zoro hadn't bothered to take notice of earlier and making the man nod his head in understanding.
"Although since it's been going in one direction for a while now it's safe to say it's island should be kind of close by. That means I can go ahead and catch it!" Luffy said brightening it up and making Zoro look at him confused. Was he going to shoot it down and fish it out of the water? But he couldn't swim so Zoro would probably have to fish it out instead.
"Alright so wh-" Zoro was cut off by a Gum Gum Rocket as his captain went flying up to the bird…only to get stuck and carried off. Zoro face palmed before sighing as he grabbed the oars and began to row after his captain who was just laughing loudly.
With Luffy, he had just been released by the bird and was falling but he wasn't worried. He was rubber after all.
"Man that was a pretty far drop." Luffy said as he finally hit land, and he was glad he landed on an island and not in the water or else he'd be in trouble. That's when he looked down and noticed the guy who had been knocked back and apparently unconscious when Luffy landed.
"Oh hey boss. I got the map, mind taking care of these guys for me?" An orange haired girl, who looked like the one from the boat that the whale lady attacked, asked before she quickly ran away.
"Eh who the hell was that?" Luffy asked confused as he watched the orangette run away before he turned back to the three in front of him who apparently didn't care that Luffy didn't know the girl. They were going to attack him anyways. Luffy just grabbed the first one and threw him into the other two, leaving them all on the floor groaning and barely conscious. Then Luffy disappeared.
"Huh he took them down already? But I only looked away for a couple of seconds!" The orangette said surprised when she got to the roof of a building and saw that the pirates were on the ground and the poor bastard she threw under the bus was nowhere to be found.
"So any reason why you tried to blame me for your crimes?" Luffy asked from right beside her making her jump. When the hell did he get there and how did he do it without her hearing?!
"What the-" the girl jumped away slightly, nearly going off of the side of the building, and Luffy gave her a serious and disappointed frown.
"With how easy you've done that it wasn't the first time you threw somebody nearby to the wolves for your own misdeeds. How many people died because you did that?" Luffy asked and the girl flinched but steeled herself.
"I need to do it, for no reason you should concern yourself with. Just know that I can't afford to care until I'm finished doing what I need to do and then I'll beg for forgiveness in the next life." Nami said and Luffy stared at her hard.
"How very pirate like of you. Stealing something from others and throwing innocent people to their deaths just so you could live on for your own goals. Who's crew are you on?" Luffy asked wondering if this girl was a rival pirate and if so why she was being so cagey about it.
"I'm not a pirate! I hate pirates! I'm a navigator and a thief but I'm no pirate on anyone's crew and I'll never be a pirate!" The girl snarled at him angrily and Luffy raised an eyebrow.
"If you're not a pirate and hate them so much then why are you acting like one?"
The orange haired girl looked away with clenched fists and teeth. Obviously his words hit a sore spot or something as he pointed out how she was acting like the ones she claimed to hate.
"You have no right to judge me! Especially not with my goal being so close! With this map of the grand line I'll be able to complete my goal and then never have to deal with this again." The girl snarled at him with tears in her eyes while Luffy looked at her curiously.
"A map of the Grand Line? Which part?" Luffy asked making her stop short.
"What?"
"There's two halves of the grand line. The one that's probably what your talking about is Paradise, the first half. There's likely no way someone in this sea has a map of more than just the first island there or two maybe. It's almost impossible for anyone in this sea to have a map of the second half, New World." Luffy said making the girl look surprised that there were two halves and then look annoyed.
"If it's the grand line then just an island or two in would have enough money for my goal!" The girl said making Luffy raise an eyebrow again.
"You said you're a navigator…but how are you going to sail the grand line without a log pose or even a boat able to handle most of the waters and rapid changes of the seasons? And what about if you sail into the calm belt where there is no wind but sea kings galore who are all bigger than any here in East?"
"Oh shut up mister know it all! How would you know anything about this?!"
"Considering I was raised in the New World for the last several years, by pirates no less, I'd hope I'd know."