A.N.: Hi! It's been a loooong time already... I've just been in a shock n I dont think I can update more...I can update this since I have written this a long long time ago... So, for the other maybe will be in a hiatus for now...

Thank you for reading my story...^^

Chapter 2: Memory of That Day

“Stop moving around, Luffy! I need to put on your suit after this! And after that I still need to do your hair so please stay put for another half hour to lighten my works…” A tangerine haired girl grumbled both her hands pushing the jumpy hyper active boy in front of him down back to sitting position he was a minute before.

“IIyadda! (I don’t want!) I don’t like that tight suit and the color is boring!” The ravenette replied looking back to the now angry woman, “And I absolutely don’t want to wear that shoes!” The boy added quickly giving an intense glare at a pair of shiny onyx black shoes.

Nami sighed tiredly, “OK! I will let you use your sandals as long as you agree to wear the suit and stay put for another 30 minutes for me to do your hair…”

“15 minutes?”

“Twenty…” The girl arched one of his eye brow stating her last offer. Luffy thought for a while before finally nodding his head messing the black hair which Nami has worked so hard for the last 15 minutes.

“Argh! Stop moving, you bastard Luffy! Or I won’t let you wear those stupid sandals!” Nami grumbled locking her slender arms around the prince’s neck to stop Luffy from messing his hair further.

A light knock was heard in the middle their quarrel. “Luffy, are you there?” A deep bass voice could be heard across the big wooden door. The prince’s face immediately lite up hearing his older brother’s voice.

“Come in, Ace!” He shouted almost the same time as a loud banging door could be heard. Two men in their early twenty stood proudly on the doorway. The taller one had the same raven black hair liked the youngest prince while the other man has pale blonde hair. Both of them were wearing a dark blue formal uniform though what they wore on their head had successfully shattered the formal aura emitted from their uniform. The older one wore a safari style hat while the younger one was wearing a tall hat.

“Hey, Luffy. How are you doing?” The second prince came closer to Luffy, giving a quick bow to Nami who moved a bit further from the princes, before ruffling his younger brother head.

The youngest prince pouted, “Bad. Since I have to attend party without you guys. And also because I have to wear suit. But thankfully I can still wear my sandals…” Luffy proudly showing off his favorite straw sandals to his older brother. Nami who was observing from the side kind of wonder why all the princes had strange choice for fashion. The first prince, Ace, prefer to be bare chested if he could. The second prince, Sabo, would always wore his tall hat wherever he went, just like this time, even though he knew it was absolutely not proper at all. But the third prince choice of fashion was the worse. If he could really chose what to wear himself, he would chose a loose red, or any bright color, vest with shorts, a pair of sandals and to make thing worse a straw hat. Well. If she didn’t negotiate with the youngest prince to not wear the hat, maybe he would stubbornly wear it despite the look he would get from the citizen or despise glare from the other kingdom’s delegate from wearing such a poor fashion for a prince.

Nami thought was broken by a loud ‘tap’ sound. She immediately looked up, just in time, to see Luffy jumped off from the big sit. Nami was currently shouting mentally trying do hard to hide the freaking out emotion in her mind. Damn. She had to redo Luffy’s hair again.

 “Can you guys stay tonight for the party, please? Sabo nii? Ace nii?” The ravenette blinking his eyes liked a lost puppy. For a slight moment both his brother were literally frozen seeing how cute their brother was. Ace was the first one to come to his sense hugging Luffy almost immediately after that.

“I don’t want to let that stupid neighbor kingdom to have you…” Ace wailed still hugging Luffy and pouted to Sabo. The second prince could only sighed seeing how possessive their oldest brother was.

“Ace, let Luffy go…” Sabo ordered him but only got a stubborn ‘No’ from him. Ace kept mumbling nonsense while Luffy particularly joined him to convince the second prince.

Sabo frowned got deeper and deeper as the minutes passed. The room got hotter and hotter as Sabo hand started to light with small flame on it. “Stop that both of you!” Sabo screamed on the top of his lung, his dark eyes shone dangerously at both his brothers. The first and third prince was gulping in nervousness, it was rare for them to see the timid Sabo to be as angry and serious as this. Both Ace and even Luffy kept quiet as the second prince chided them mercilessly. “Don’t you know how important the Ball tonight is?! You should know it the best Ace! We have to even if we don’t want it… I’m also as unwilling as you to give Luffy to them…”

Ace cut his little brother short, “We still don’t know whether he will like Luffy or not…”

“You know it’s hard to hate him, right, Ace? And it certainly would be bad for our country if he decided to break the deal” Sabo voice got colder as Ace’s glared got more intense than before. The first prince walked toward the blonde teen both of them were literally doing a glaring contest right now.

“Luffy is not some property to be used to keep our country safe…” Ace was the one who broke the silent between them. This words made the second prince’s anger subsided a bit replaced by guilt.

The pale blonde haired teen looked down admitting his defeat, “I have never thought of Luffy as thing nor has Father…” He whispered sadly, “But this is the only way or we have to go on a war once more” Sabo looked, his eyes were still full of guilt but there was a slight sense of responsibility there which little by little washed away his doubt, “beside I don’t think that person is that bad…” The second prince added.

Ace pouted, he knew this was the only way to avoid big war, but sacrificing their little brother was a bit too much to ask for a payment. “I talked to him yesterday, he’s an annoying bastard…” Ace mumbled. Sabo could only laughed lightly hearing his older brother’s silent protest.

“What are you guys talking about?” The third prince question literally made both his older brothers freaked out. “What do you mean with all those ‘sac—saccade?’ and ‘war’?” The ravenette teen asked messing up some of his vocabulary in the process.

Sabo looked at Luffy for a moment with a blank expression to weigh up whether it was a good choice to tell him now or not, before a thought suddenly popped up inside his mind. “Oh, right, Luffy! Robin was waiting for you in the library…” Luffy smile abruptly vanished at the mention of both ‘Robin’ and ‘Library’. All his curiosity about the talk between both his older brothers just vanished right at the moment. Robin waiting for him in the library could only mean ‘Extra Lessons’ for him for hours. It wasn’t like he hate the older woman, it was just he hate to read and sit for hours in the confiscated room full of books.

Luffy groaned loudly not having any intention to hide his unwillingness. “Should I? I’m currently not in mood to hear any math or civics or politics at the moment…” He whined. “Beside Nami still has to prepare myself for the Ball. So tell Robin that I can’t meet her today…” Luffy grinned widely, happy with the fact that now he has some reasons for not going to his lesson.

“Are you sure, Luffy? Robin said that there won’t be any lesson this week as long as you come to the library now…” Ace smirked knowing how Luffy hate to study.

Luffy face lit up hearing that he would be lesson-free this full week. “Really?! You are not lying to me right now, right, Ace?!” Luffy jumped up and down for several time which was not to Nami’s favor. The youngest prince obsidian hair was now in absolute mess.

The taller dark hair man nodded with a big smile plastered on his face. “But I think you have to let Nami redo your hair again whether you want it or not. We will help you with his clothes Nami…” Ace offered which Nami gladly accepted.

With the help of his older brothers, in less than fifteen minutes Luffy was ready for the Ball tonight.

“Well…, we will see you next week…” Sabo said ruffling his younger brother soft black locks of hair.

“Tried not to get into trouble without us…” Ace added with a playful smirk on his face.

“I won’t! Argh! Stop treating me like a kid already, we are just 3 years apart!” Luffy protested shoving the older blonde teen’s hand from his head.

“Okay, okay…” Sabo laughed ruffling Luffy’s hair once more time, this time Luffy let him since he knew his brother would keep doing that again and again if he didn’t allow him.

“Excuse me, Luffy senchou…” Luffy looked up to see in his door way was a tall slender man. Remembering about the event from before the youngest prince refused to look at his personal body guard.

“What, Brook?” Luffy asked coldly. Both his brothers looked confusedly between the afro tall soldier and the dark hair teen. They were usually so close that some time the older princes thought that Brook has stolen their position as Luffy’s big Bro.

The pale soldier sighed looking down from Luffy’s cold behavior toward him. Well…, he wouldn’t mind the youngest prince to yell at him but he never thought that he would get a cold shoulder from the prince. “I’ll accompany you to the library and King Shanks also told me to escort you during the Ball…” He coughed awkwardly while Luffy still refused to look at him. It wasn’t like Luffy was being annoying or what, it was just he felt betrayed by one of the person he believes the most.

“I’m sorry… If you don’t want me to escort you tonight, I’ll ask King Shanks’s permission to assign someone else in my place.” Brook said weakly, “I hope you could forgive me, Luffy senchou…” Brook added quietly before walking out of the room but this time the black hair teen stop him on his track.

“Piano…”

“Huh?” Brook looked confusedly at the young prince he had assigned to protect for almost 17 years already.

“I’ll forgive you if you play me the piano” Luffy said with voice even smaller than Chopper’s, his cheek slightly blushing.

“And I don’t want anyone beside you to be my body guard…” Luffy added, “So don’t say anything like that anymore, Brook.”

“Thank you, Luffy senchou…” Brook bowed deeply a big smile formed on his pale white face. Somehow this was the happiest moment in his long life except the time when he first met the young prince.

“Then we will get going too…” Sabo smiled a bit moved by the mature choice his younger brother took.

“Take care, Luffy!” Both his younger brother said.

“See you later, Sabo, Ace! I will miss you guys…” The youngest prince waved both his hand up vigorously. Both the dark and blonde man looked back, guilty corrode their feeling knowing fully Luffy wouldn’t like the deal between their Father’s and the neighbor country’s king.

“I hope that green hair bastard wouldn’t be so bastard in front of Luffy…” Ace grumbled still positively against the deal.

“Well… The worse won’t come until the end of this month…” Sabo gave a meaningful glance to his older brother.

Ace sighed before nodding his head. “I just hope some miracle will happen so both the war and letting go of Luffy won’t happen…”

For once Sabo was in full agreement with his usually idiotic big brother.

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It was the first time for Luffy to go inside the library by his own will, usually he would need both Brook and Frank to drag him inside.

The youngest prince let his obsidian eyes observed the room. The circular 4 floors room stood proudly and grandly. All the thousands book racks with books of larger number decorated almost every part of the Grand Library. In the middle of the room, where the light was the lighter from the sun ray slipping through the glass ceiling despite the dim situation of the other part of the library, stood a beautiful woman in her late twenties. Her long straight dark indigo hair was being let loose behind her back. A black sun glasses on top of her head, although both she and Nami were maid, Robin wore dark purple shirt and jeans in the same color.

“Hi, Robin!” Luffy shouted seemingly forgetting the fact that they were in library. “Why do you call me?”

Robin gracefully closed the book she was reading and looked up at the energetic young prince. “I just want to give you a brief information regarding the Samurai kingdom. So, sit down here, please, Luffy…” The indigo haired woman pointed toward a wooden chair in front of a small table full of thick books.

“Yadda! You lie to me! Ace said before that there won’t be any lesson…” Luffy folded his arms in front of his chest refusing to move from where he was currently standing.

“I told him there wouldn’t be any lesson after you come here right meaning no lesson this week after you left the library.” The older woman rose her right brow slightly, “Right, Luffy?”

The ravenette thought for a while trying to recall what his brother said to him.

“Are you sure, Luffy? Robin said that there won’t be any lesson this week as long as you come to the library now…”

“Ah! You are right!” The prince clasped both of his hand, “But I still don’t want to listen to any lesson now…”

“Then we don’t have a deal here… By the way, do you want to see your schedule for this week, Prince Luffy?” Robin walked toward the dark hair prince and gave out a piece of paper with some neat scribble on it.

Luffy eyes widen in shock seeing how tight his schedule would be this week. “What the?! This is ridiculous Robin! Do you want to kill me?” The third prince whimpered with a sad eyes trying to convince the older woman.

Robin shook her head before pointing to the seat beside her. “Sit here now. Listen till I finish and you won’t need to follow those cramp schedule…” Robin took one of the thick book and started flipping the page, “I won’t tell you to read. Just listen to me for 20 minutes or so... Ok?”

In the end, the teen gave up and walked unwillingly to the seat. But it didn’t take long for the prince to regret it. It was even more boring than the usual civic lesson he got and the politic jargons got jumbled up inside his mind.

“When will it finish, Robin~?” Luffy groaned cutting Robin’s explanation right in the middle. The dark hair teen was trying hard not to sleep since if he slept through the explanation Robin gave, he would get another round for re-explanation.

“It has been only ten minutes, Luffy… By the way, do you get the things I explain to you?” Robin looked up from the book she was reading out loud for the third prince.

“Yup!” The third prince answered enthusiastically though his teacher gave a ‘Are-You-Sure-?!’ expression. “Well, somehow… maybe?” He trailed off feeling uncomfortable under the far taller and older woman’s gaze.

“Okay… I don’t understand any of it!” The prince finally admitted. “Can you stop with all the boring stuff? And why the hell do I need to hear about this neighbor country’s kingdom history?! Their name is so cool, but their history is boring as hell!”

His teacher sighed in defeat, “You have to accompany their King tonight so at least you have to know a bit about them, Luffy…”

“Huh?! What do you mean? I have never heard about that…” Both his eye brows knitted into a deep frown.

“Well…, the King should tell you after this, but maybe it won’t hurt to spill the beans now.” Robin started, “Luffy, you won’t just accompany him tonight at the ball but also during all this week until he came back to his own country.”

“WHAT?!” Luffy jumped up from his chair, “NO ONE HAS EVER TOLD ME ABOUT THIS!” He screamed out loud. Did his Father wanted to torture him by giving him this annoying task. Did his dad thought he was some kind of chaperone…

“Yadda!” He pouted. “I don’t want to accompany anyone, to anywhere…”

“You have to Luffy…” Another bass voice could be heard reverberating through the room. Without seeing the resource of the voice, the third prince already knew who it was. He looked back just to see a red haired man that he expect to be sitting idly on his throne.

“Shanks? Can you explain to me what the hell is happening here?” Luffy demanded folding his hands in front of his chest again.

Shanks scratched the back of his head before sighing in defeat. The young Luffy who was always smiling happily at him and following him anywhere has grown old enough to glared at him now. “To cut a long story short, well, I assign you to accompany King Roronoa during his visit here.”

“Why?”

“Since between the three of you, you are the one with the smallest age difference with him and you are the one with the freest time…” The king said with a carefree smile plastered on his handsome face.

“This is a very important task, Luffy… The peace treaty between our country and their country depend on the impression you give him.” Shanks quickly added before his son could argue any further.

“The Ball will start at 6 sharp. I hope by then you have already has slight idea of their Kingdom’s condition and especially about king Roronoa. See you later, Luffy!”

Luffy grumbled weakly under his breath. Seeing how his Father has started to give him some important job kind of making his heart happy, but the fact that he had to be some chaperon of the neighbor kingdom king who has the reputation of being the Cold Blood Demon. The fact that he had to accompany the very person who had killed a lot of number of his citizen. Those facts successfully stirred Luffy’s stomach making him wanted to throw up.

“OK, I’ll continue with my explanation. This time I will tell you about King Roronoa. Like most citizens of samurai Kingdom, their king has a strange color of hair. Not much was known about him, only that he used santoryuu for his fighting style.”

“Santoryuu?” Luffy cut her slightly curious by the strange style name. Maybe he could ask this Roronoa guy to teach him if it was as cool as the name stated it.

“Three sword style…” Robin smiled sweetly knowing perfectly what was on the young prince mind. “You can ask him more about it since honestly I don’t have any explanation about that style…” She said quickly before Luffy, whose eyes were shining brightly after hearing the words meaning, could ask her further.

“OK…” Luffy puffed his cheek not really happy with the minimum information considering those super cool fighting style. Ignoring Luffy obvious pout, Robin continued with her explanation, though the young prince didn’t really process more of what she said after that. His eyes kept getting heavier and heavier as Robin’s voice seems liked coming from distance. It took no more than some mere minutes before the prince drifted into a deep slumber.

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It was dark and cold and damp. Every time the ravenette try to open his eyes, he could only see blue.

Why was he here? Wasn’t he supposed to be in the library with Robin? The ravenette thought, his power was slowly slipping out of his body to the sea. He felt his consciousness slowly but surely engulfed by the calm sea.

‘Was it the end of his life?’ was the only thought in Luffy’s mind. But he still wanted to life. He still wanted to see the world with his own two eyes. He still wanted to taste the freedom from sailing out to the world beyond his small kingdom. He still wanted to find the biggest treasure in the world, though he didn’t really know what kind of treasure it was, that would make him happy. And more over he still wanted to spend his time with all his nakama.

From the little bit of energy he had, the corner of Luffy’s eyes could see a small green ball slowly approaching him. The green got bigger and bigger until it was only a mere centimeter from where he was drowning.

As Luffy’s energy started to drained, he felt a pair of strong hands gripped his own small hand. The warmth soon engulfed his cold body, giving a new strength to the dark hair boy. He opened his dark eyes slightly just to see a pair of golden eyes. A pair of golden eyes that radiated a strong warm feeling across his body. It was just like he could see the sun itself, even in this dark abyss.

It didn’t take long for the stranger to take Luffy to the surface. The little prince gasped as his lung greedily take as much fresh air as he could.

“Hey…” Luffy felt his cheek lightly slapped, the little prince tried hard to open his heavy eye lids. His vision was blurry but he could somewhat see the person in front of him. The person face was blurry but Luffy could recognize it as a boy. “Are you alright?” The boy’s voice was a lot deeper than his own childish voice. It was a bit rasp and cold but it was the gentlest voice Luffy has ever heard.

Luffy nodded his head trying to utter a small ‘Yes’ but failed. His headache was getting worse and worse. As his vision got even more blur than before with his last bit of energy left Luffy grasped the boy’s tanned hand and smiled at him. “Thank you…” The prince murmured before his vision became dark once more.

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Zoro eyes jerked open suddenly. His whole body was covered with cold sweats. The green haired man stood up from his bed, all his sleepiness was long gone because of the nightmare he just had. He walked to his swords placed carefully just beside the bed. His hand reached out to the white katana sword, WadoIchimonji, which granted his position as the King. His mind drifted to the true wielder of WadoIchimonji, to his older sister, Kuina. He really wanted to cry, but he just couldn’t, even at Kuina’s death ceremony Zoro couldn’t shed a single tear.

“Promise me! Either I or you will be the greatest swordsman in the world!”

The green haired man remembered his last word to Kuina just a day before her incident happened. His last promise with his older sister. Maybe that was the sole reason why he just couldn’t shed a single tear.

Zoro closed his eyes slowly picturing the smile that kept him from giving up all this year. The smile of his most precious person. A smile so bright that even all the brightest star didn’t stand a chance. He could still remember clearly that kid small voice thanking him genuinely after he saved that kid from drowning when he intended to drown himself to death that day. How he hope he could met that kid from his child hood once again. The person that kept him alive till today.