Chapter 1: History Class

(Hey guyz~! Yeah I know… Stop making new fics and work on the others. Here's the reasons I'm not working on them.

Brother's Returned – Completely lost and don't know what to do. Worse than writers block.

Second Chance – I don't want it to end too fast. I wanna give it time.

Any of my D. Gray-man fics – Eh. Got bored, stopped watching DGM, don't really feel like writing murder scenes, and I'm currently addicted to One Piece. The fact that I have Ace, Sabo, and Luffy in my head doesn't help. Along with Thatch, Marco, and Law…

I now have a total of nine voices in my head at nearly all times. Ace, Sabo, Luffy, Law, Thatch, Marco, Allen, Lavi, and Kanda. Notice I didn't say 'subconscious'. Whatever that is… Wait! *thinks for a moment* Yeah that's Siel. Side effect from roleplaying as a bat shit insane girl… Now it's ten voices. I need help big time. On to the crap!)

It was the first day of the second semester and Luffy was both happy and pissed. He was happy because, with school coming back, he could see his friends again. He was pissed for something near that reason. He was pissed because that man would come back as well. Luffy hated him more than anything in the entire world. To him, that man was an attention whore. He always had to be popular and stand out above everyone else. He and Luffy were complete opposites.

While Luffy was kind, mellow, and liked to stay hidden – unless with friends, then he was hyper-active and loud – that man was rude, always had to stand out, and was always the center of attention. If someone tried to talk to the man, he would walk away and ignore them. The only person that man spoke to was his best, and probably only, friend, Sabo. That bastards name was-

"Ace!" A group of girls screamed, unknowingly finishing Luffy's train of thought.

'Speak of the devil and he shall arrive.' Luffy thought to himself.

"Hey Ace." A girl called out seductively with a smile.

"Hey man, wanna go play ball with us later?" a man in a letterman jacket asked.

"Ace! Can you sign my binder?" a nerdy looking girl asked as she pushed up her glasses that seemed to be too big for her head.

As the whole class called out to him, Ace didn't say a word and just walked to his seat. Stopping next to Luffy. After a moment, both boys were sending death glares at the other.

"Monkey." Ace spat.

"Spade." Luffy replied with the same tone.

"So. You're still here. That sucks. I was hoping to have a good semester for once." Ace said.

"I was hoping the same. Too bad. Maybe you should go to a different class. Actually, how about you get your entire schedule changed? I don't was to see your ugly mug all day, every day again." Luffy commented.

"I should be saying that to you. Move, Monkey." Ace said.

"Make me, Spade." Luffy said as he stood face to face with Ace.

"Sit your asses down or else you two love birds get to spend more time together after school!" The professor shouted as he entered the room.

Without another word, Luffy moved and let Ace get to his seat, shortly followed by Sabo. Luffy was somewhat grateful that the professor had put Sabo between him and Ace. The two absolutely despised each other. In the beginning of the year, they had broken into multiple fights during classes. Eventually the teachers learned to either put the two on opposite ends of the room, or put someone between them.

"Now. Since I have to be stuck with you imbeciles yet again, we might as well go over a topic one might consider, enjoyable." The professor started. "The Great Pirate Era."

At the mention of those four words, everyone either looked confused or excited. Most of the students at Goa Academy almost respected pirates. Some wanted to be pirates, others wanted to meet them. But the main reason for this reaction towards the ocean bound criminals, was because the second Pirate King had been born on their island. Most of the people on the island were proud to know that, but there were some who straight up hated the island and everyone who showed that pride. Some even went so far as to leave the island and go somewhere far away. Usually they went to West Blue.

"To start us off, we'll be learning about the Pirate Kings. Who has not heard of them?" The professor asked, pausing for a moment only to be given silence in return. "Good. Now does anyone want to tell us what they think they know about the first Pirate King?"

Silence. Dead silence. Nobody even moving in the slightest to raise their hand, and nobody calling out.

"If my other classes are like this, then it might be a good day after all." The professor muttered to himself. "Monkey!"

"Y-yes sir." Luffy replied nervously.

"Tell us about the first Pirate king." The professor stated.

"His name was Gol D. Roger, known as either Gold Roger or Pirate King. He was born in Loguetown and executed there. His final words being 'My treasure? If you want it you can have it! Find it! I left it all in one place'. His words causing the Great Pirate Era. Also, the reason he turned himself in, was because he was dying of an incurable disease. He didn't want to die by sitting around and waiting for it to happen." Luffy said.

"How do you know of the disease?" The professor asked.

"Many, many years ago, someone from my family had met Dark King, Silvers Rayleigh, who told them about Roger's illness. The story has been passed down my family for generations." Luffy explained.

"Who was it? The man from your family I mean." The professor questioned.

"If you don't mind sir, I'd rather not say." Luffy stated.

"Fair enough. Well done." The professor said before walking over to his laptop and starting a power point.

"Oi…" Sabo whispered as he leaned over to Luffy. "Who was it? I won't tell."

"Sorry. My grandfather made me promise not to tell a soul. Otherwise I don't get any kind of food or drink for a week…" Luffy said quietly.

"Wow… Your gramps sounds harsh…" Sabo muttered.

"He is…" Luffy whispered as his head lowered enough for his eyes to be shadowed.

Slowly Sabo started to lean away from Luffy and back into his seat, whispering something akin to 'That kids family is messed up'. Soon followed by Ace saying 'He is too'. At that, the glaring between Ace and Luffy started.

"Now. How about we start with Roger's greatest rival, Edward 'Whitebeard' Newgate and his crew." The professor started as a picture of said man appeared from the projector.

As soon as he heard the name 'Whitebeard', Ace had stopped glaring and was instead watching the screen. He looked nearly shocked, worried, confused, and even a bit happy. As Ace stared at the photo, Luffy turned to Sabo and gave him a look that asked 'What's with him?' to which Sabo only shrugged.

"Edward Newgate. The strongest man in the world. Having had one of the largest crews in all of history, nobody was able to win against him. His crew consisted of sixteen divisions, the commanders of each division being highly skilled and holding high bounties. The first division commander, and later captain, was Marco the Phoenix. Having eaten a mythical Devil Fruit, allowing him to transform into a phoenix and have the same regenerative abilities. Some believe he is still living due to the myth of a phoenix raising from its own ashes. Seeing as how he went missing multiple years after Whitebeards death, it is possible." The man informed.

"Marco…?" Ace muttered, almost as if trying the name for himself before smiling slightly.

Luffy looked at Sabo again with an even more confused look. Sabo just shrugged again, this time more confused. Both men looking at Ace as if expecting an answer, but never getting it.

"Another member of Whitebeards crew was Marshall D. Teach, also known as Blackbeard. He had been a member of the second division until he murdered the fourth division commander, Thatch. The reason being for the Devil Fruit, Yami Yami no Mi. After stealing the fruit, he left the crew and created his own. Shortly after, he got into a fight with the second division commander who was captured and turned into the marines. After Whitebeard's death, Blackbeard took his position as Yonko and Whitebeard's Devil Fruit ability." The professor continued as he showed a picture of Blackbeard.

"Thatch…" Ace muttered sadly before practically growling the word 'Blackbeard'.

Again, Luffy looked at Sabo and mouthed 'What the hell?'.

'I have no idea.' Sabo mouthed back before looking back to Ace who looked like he was trying to burn a hole into his desk just by glaring at it.

"Ace…?" Sabo whispered cautiously.

"What?" Ace nearly growled.

"You okay?" Sabo asked slowly.

"I'm just peachy." Ace said sarcastically, before calming down slightly. "Remind me to get a picture of that Blackbeard guy later."

"Why?" Sabo asked.

"Because I want to tear it into a million pieces then burn it in a raging inferno." Ace said, almost calmly.

Sabo was shocked. "Why!?" he nearly shouted.

"I don't like him." Ace said like it was the simplest thing in the world.

"I can tell." Sabo said with a sweatdrop.

"Would you two shut up?!" the professor yelled.

"Sorry…" They whispered.

"Now, as I was saying. For you idiots, a Yonko was the title given to one of the four emperors. Whitebeard – later replaced by Blackbeard –, Akagami, Big Mom, and Kaido. The Yonko were the four most notorious and most powerful pirate captains in the world, but are neither allies nor enemies of one another, preferring to remain autonomous under most circumstances. These four individually resided within the second half or the Grand Line – known as the "New World" –, exerting impressive influence, or control, over dozens of other pirate crews and self-governing islands.

"A great example being Akagami Shanks, literally meaning "Red-Haired" Shanks. Before becoming a Yonko, Shanks had visited our island and claimed it as a temporary base. Before leaving the island one final time, he saved a small boy from the Sea King that used to claim these waters. In turn, he lost his left arm. After healing, he left behind his famous straw hat, which he had received from Roger himself, with the boy. The hat was supposed to be a symbol for their promise that the boy would grow strong one day and become the Pirate King. The boy kept his promise and became the second Pirate King." The professor said.

"Shanks…" Luffy whispered under his breath before smiling and drawing a small straw hat on his paper.

"Not you too…" Sabo muttered.

"Because of this promise, the boy created a crew named the Strawhat Pirates. His first member being the famous pirate hunter, Roronoa Zoro. Soon followed by Burglar Cat Nami as the navigator, Sogeking Usopp as the sharpshooter, Black Leg Sanji as the chef, Cotton-candy lover Chopper (pet) somehow being the doctor, Nico Robin as the archeologist, Cyborg Franky as the shipwright, and Soul King, or Dead Bones, Brook as the musician."

"Wait! The Soul King was a pirate!? And on the same ship as the second Pirate King!?" A girl in the back shouted as she stood in shock.

"Yes now shut up!" The professor shouted.

Immediately, the girl sat back in her seat and stayed quiet in the back.

"Good. Now onto the closer relations. I'm sure everyone has heard of Garp the Fist and The Revolutionary Dragon, correct?" The man asked, everyone nodding in response. "Good. Many don't know this but, Garp had been the father of Dragon and grandfather of the second Pirate King. Before you ask or say anything, yes. The family was very confusing. One being a Marine Hero, another being the leader of the Revolutionaries, and the last being the second Pirate King. The family was very dysfunctional."

"You can say that again." Ace muttered.

When hearing that, Luffy had to resist the urge to growl. Saying something like that wasn't right for a teacher to say, no matter how true. Luffy had chosen to just close his eyes and count to ten in his head.

"Lastly, we have the three most important people. The commander, the revolutionary, and the king. Let's begin with the commander. Tell me if you think he looks familiar." The professor said as he switched to the next slide, showing a picture of Ace.

"Ace!?" Everyone shouted causing said man to jump.

"What'd I do?" Ace instinctively shouted.

"Why do you have a picture of Ace?" Sabo questioned.

"I don't even think his fan club goes that far…" Luffy muttered before thinking for a second. "Never mind…"

"Portgas D. Ace. Son of Gol D. Roger and Portgas D. Rouge. Second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates. Also known as Fire Fist Ace. Does anyone know why?" The professor asked.

"Because of his Devil Fruit. The Mera Mera no Mi. He was made entirely out of fire and his main attack was 'Hiken', meaning fire fist, which was him practically shooting a fist made of fire at his opponents." Ace answered with a small smirk and glint of pride in his eyes.

"Why am I not surprised our Ace knows about Fire Fist?" The professor said teasingly. "Since you know so much, care to tell how he died?"

"Marineford War. Whitebeard pirates vs. Marines to save him. Once freed by his little brother, they started their escape only to be stopped by Admiral Akainu. Fire Fist fought Akainu and started losing. As a low blow, Akainu headed to attack Fire Fist's immobile brother. Fire Fist shielded his brother but lost his life in the process." Ace said, flinching at the end.

"Well explained." The professor said.

'Thank you… For loving me!' a voice, sounding a lot like Ace's, said.

As soon as he heard those words, tears slowly made their ways down Luffy's cheeks and onto the desk. Immediately, Luffy tried to stop them, but couldn't.

"Oi. You alright?" Sabo whispered.

"I… I don't know…" Luffy whispered. "I thought I heard something and… and then I started crying… But I don't know why…"

"What'd you hear?" Sabo asked.

"It sounded like Ace, which was really weird, but he was saying 'Thank you for loving me'. It sounded like he was crying and even dying…" Luffy muttered before the tears started again.

"O-oi… I thought you hated him…" Sabo stated nervously.

"I do… But I can't stop…" Luffy whispered.

"Oi. Are you crying? Jeez… I hate crybabies." Ace said.

"Shut up!" Luffy nearly yelled before putting his head on his desk.

"Need I remind you three, again, that you are still in class? And what's with Monkey?" The professor questioned.

"He's crying like a baby." Ace said bluntly.

"Shut the hell up!" Luffy shouted, not raising his head.

"Dude how can you be so angry and crying at the same time?" one of the men in the class asked with a chuckle.

"I said shut up!" Luffy yelled again.

"You aren't scary, you know! You're crying into a table, kid." A girl a few desks away from Luffy said.

Immediately, Luffy lifted his head and glared deeply at the girl who jumped back, causing her to fall off the chair. Quickly, everyone looked over at Luffy and saw how pissed he was. He was damn near furious and pretty scary, even with some small tear trails staining his cheeks.

"Oi. Calm down." Sabo said as he put his hand on Luffy's shoulder.

At the touch, Luffy flinched. Slowly, he turned forward again, folded his arms on his desk, and put his head down in them. He didn't know why, but he was out of it today.

"If I may continue. There are only two people left that I would like to mention before you all leave." The professor said.

After a few moments of silence, and Luffy moving his head so he could still rest while watching the presentation, the professor continued.

"Next is the revolutionary. He was the second oldest of the three brothers. After an incident, Dragon had taken him in and took care of him. After twelve years, he became second in command of the Revolutionaries. Also another familiar face." The professor said before changing screens.

"What are you doing? This is getting annoying already." Ace stated as he looked at his friends picture on the screen.

On the screen stood Sabo, dressed in a blue tail coat, and black top hat with a pair of blue goggles on it. The only real differences being the picture of Sabo was missing a tooth and had a burn scar on his face. Another thing they all noticed, was the fact that Sabo was holding a pipe and looked like he had been using it to fight.

"Nobody knew his full name. Everyone either called him Mad Hatter or Sabo. Does anyone know how he might have gotten those burns?" The professor asked, secretly looking at Sabo.

Just as he expected, Sabo was the one to answer. "While escaping the island, he got in front of a Celestial Dragons ship. The Celestial Dragon shot at his boat and at him. He was burned by the flames that were engulfing the wooden fishing boat." Sabo said, a small shudder running through him at the mention of the flames.

Immediately, Ace and Luffy started feeling anger, hatred, and sadness run through them. Both felt as though they wanted to hunt down that Celestial Dragon and kill him themselves.

When Ace looked down, he saw something written on his paper. Slowly and carefully he read it. 'By the way, Ace, which one of us do you think is the older brother? Two big brothers and one little brother. It's odd but our brotherhood is my treasure. Luffy is still a weak crybaby but… he's our little brother so take good care of him! –Sabo'

"Oi. The hell is this?" Ace asked Sabo angrily as he pointed to the letter.

Sabo looked at Ace in surprise, then to the paper he was pointing to. After a few moments of staring, Sabo looked back to Ace. "That's a blank piece of paper." Sabo said slowly.

"Wha-?" Ace said as he looked back at the paper to see it was blank.

"What's with you today?" Sabo asked.

"Nothing. Forget I said anything." Ace said before balling up the paper and throwing it at Luffy.

Luffy groaned lightly before lifting his head and seeing a piece of balled up paper next to his face. Immediately he noticed a small, blue 'S' with crossbones behind it, on the paper. He blinked a few times to make sure he wasn't seeing things. After the third blink, it went away, and Luffy shrugged it off. He was probably just tired.

"And onto the last person. The second Pirate King." The professor said.

Immediately, everyone got excited. Everyone except Ace, Sabo, and Luffy. Ace didn't care, Sabo was trying to figure out what was happening to the two men on either side of him, and Luffy already knew. After a few moments, the slide changed and everyone gasped.

"WHAT!?" They all yelled.

Luffy looked over at Ace and Sabo, hoping they didn't freak out. He was sorely disappointed though. Ace had an eyebrow raised in confusion as he looked between the screen and Luffy. Sabo was staring wide eyed at the screen.

"Please don't ask." Luffy muttered.

"Monkey. Care to explain?" The professor asked with a small smirk of amusement.

"Do I have to? I really don't want to be injured." Luffy said.

"Do you want to fail this class?" The professor asked.

"Do you want to be punished by a modern day version of Garp the Fist?" Luffy asked in reply.

"Speak boy." The professor said.

"Uh. No. I prefer food and water over attention." Luffy said.

"Excuse me?" The professor asked with annoyance.

"Which would you rather do? Tell and get beaten up by a modern day version of Garp the Fist along with no food or water for a week, or not say anything?" Luffy asked, completely serious.

"Speak or else I make it to where you can't eat for a month." The professor said darkly.

"Fine! But you get to pay my hospital bill." Luffy said before getting to the explanation.

"His name was Monkey D. Luffy. He was the son of Monkey D. Dragon, the revolutionary, and grandson to Monkey D. Garp, Hero of the Marines. He had two brothers. Portgas D. Ace and Sabo. Ace hated everyone and everything because everyone he met had trashed his father and said he shouldn't be alive. Sabo was a young noble who hated how the other nobles acted and ran away to Gray Terminal where he met Ace. After some time, they met Luffy. Ace wanted nothing more than to kill Luffy at first before they became friends and later on brothers with Sabo." Luffy explained with annoyance.

"Sounds like they're a lot alike to their past counterparts." A girl whispered in the back.

"Not even close. Unlike now, Luffy chased Ace everywhere so he could be his friend. While I want nothing more than to avoid him. Although Sabo is closest to the same if you ask me. He's been the neutral party throughout everything." Luffy commented.

"And you know this how?" Sabo pressed on.

Luffy sighed. "Because Luffy is my great, great, great, great, great grandfather."

There were a few moments of silence before- "WHAT!?"

"Do you have to yell?" Luffy questioned. "And seriously, it's not that hard to figure out. I even have his name! Hell I might as well be him!"

"What do you mean?" Sabo asked.

"My parents were oh so original when I was born that they decided to name me after him. Slowly I started to look more and more like him. At this point, the only difference in appearance would be, I don't have his scars." Luffy said.

"Since you're sharing, how about you tell about the scars as well?" The professor asked.

"I'm just doing your job now aren't I?" Luffy questioned.

"Get to talking brat!" The professor said as he sat in his chair and put his feet on his desk.

Luffy sighed, again. "The one under his left eye is due to him trying to show his strength to Shanks. The one on his chest is because of Marineford. After Ace died in his arms, Luffy had gone into shock and couldn't move. Jinbei had grabbed him and had been trying to escape with him. Akainu had attacked them by sending, I believe, a pillar of magma through Jinbei's chest and burning Luffy's chest."

"Ouch… That must've hurt…" A man muttered.

"Which part? Stabbing your own cheek when you're seven years-old, Magma burning your chest, or the only brother you have left dying in your arms after promising he would never die after the first one did?" Luffy asked.

"What…?" A girl asked in shock.

"After Sabo 'died', Luffy promised to get stronger so he wouldn't lose anyone ever again. Ace and Luffy promised to live a life with no regrets. Then Luffy made Ace promise not to die. Mind you they were seven and ten while still mourning their brother. When Ace died, it was in Luffy's arms. His final words were along the lines of 'My only regret is not seeing you reach your dream, but I know you'll make it. Because you're my little brother. If it wasn't for you and the Sabo incident, I would have died a long time ago. Oyaji… Luffy… Everyone… Thank you… For loving me'." Luffy explained, a small tear falling down his cheek again.

After a few moments of silence, Luffy started speaking again.

"He made it look easy, but in fact, he went through more than any of us ever will. He was the king for a reason." Luffy said right before the bell rang.

Quietly, Luffy put his stuff in his bag and walked out of the room, leaving the occupants completely shocked. Even Ace had wide eyes. Deep down, Ace and Sabo felt something akin to guilt growing inside them. They didn't know why.

Immediately, a scene of younger versions of themselves and Luffy clinking red cups together before drinking the contents ran through their minds.

'From today on… We're brothers!'

(How was that? Mostly talking about the past but… You know… It's a history class. Next chap won't be as focused on the past. Most likely. I don't know. It's like… 4 A.M. I can't think anymore… Night. Morning. Whatever it is for you now… Also I wanted to say this earlier, February 9th, 2010 was the day Ace died. ;-; I miss him, ya know… Anyways. Fave, follow, read my other stuff, and review. Bai~! c(X )

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End time – 4:45 A.M.