-=Merchant Days=-

"That's a scumming!" Gayphin

"No, it's not! It's his fault for leaving it a bit open!" Joseph Gardardy

"But he kicked it over!" Gayphin

Award goes to the dumbest kid around! GAYPHIN! WHOOP!

Anyways on to the story! I hope you enjoyed this story's beginning as much as I did. NONE! Haha, nevermind that, I hope everyone has a good day!

With the goods in hand, I grasp onto my items and make my way onto a small boat. Looking into the sky I could hear Luffy and Dadan's Bandits waving me off onto my travels. While I looked back towards my family I remembered when Ace had left.

Flashback – 4 months ago

It was a sunny day at the bay of Dadan Kingdom and everyone was here to see Ace off along with Makino and Mr. Mayor. I went up to Ace as he prepared to board his ship.

"So you're finally going off Ace?"

"Of course! I'm going to become known all over the world!" He responded back. "Also you sure that you don't want to travel with me; you could become my navigator as you're good with a compass and a map?"

"Yeah, the pirate's life isn't for me. It will only hinder me with things that I don't want to deal with!"

"Huh, you never did want to deal with fighting did you? You've always gone with the wind when it came to anything."

He proceeded to put my salmon cowboy hat he had in his hands onto my head and then he gave me one last grin before setting off in his boat and going off into the distant sea.

Flashback End

That memory was always charming for me to remember, but now was not the time for that. I better get started! Who knows what people may need out on the 4 different blues? Let's get going!

-=1 Day Later=-

Crash!

"What was that?" I faced towards the little island I came upon. What was this place? I began to check on the map and realized that it was called Syrup Island. I began to unpack my goods on hand and gave a good look over what looked to be just some small uphill road. Man, this place seems to have no-

"Who goes there?"

I immediately swerved my head towards the noise in case of an attacker but came upon a site of a long nosed kid.

"You better tell me who you are because if you don't I'll unleash my 8000 followers against you!" He yelled again. With some flags appearing around him all facing towards me in threatening ways, it was actually sort of funny.

He was trying to lie to me even though I could easily sense only four people were present. His lies were extremely terrible except compared to Luffy's lies which were even worse.

"Yah know I could just kill you where you stand!" I threatened back.

The result was immediate as three young kids jumped up and ran away before anything happened to them. The long nose stayed, even though when his legs were trembling heavily; impressive for a scaredy cat like him to stay and fight me even when his subordinates had ran away.

"Jeez i'm just joking with you right now. Anyway do you know if anyone needs anything since i'm a merchant" I smiled at him.

Like a curse, all his fear seemed to disappear after I told him I was a merchant. His legs stopped shaking and he took a moment to refocus himself. He then jumped down from the rock and asked, "So my names Usopp what's yours?"

"Just call me Rogue!" I chirped. I looked at him as he began to ask about what items I had in my bag.

"So do you have any cool pellets that would be amazing shoot with?" He asked first.

"Let me check first." I looked into my bag of gadgets and tricks then dumped it out onto the sandy floor. Hmm, no that's the soap. What about that? No that wouldn't be good for him to use; and that could kill him. Ah, there it is, my firecracker pellets.

"I have these cool firecracker pellets. What do you think about them?"

He then grabbed hold of it and gave it a good look over and tapped it lightly to check the quality of it. I myself didn't know too much about it, but I got 30 of them for a good deal.

"Well, it seems to be perfectly fine to me. I think I'll buy it! How much does it cost?"

"I say about 100 beli per pellet"

He immediately stood up upon my price and yelled, "That's highway robbery right there no deal!"

"Okay, how about 75 beli for each one?"

"No deal!"

"Alright, you have my hands how about 30 beli for each one?"

"Okay, that sounds way more reasonable; I'll take it!"

We began to shake hands upon our deal and traded our items between each other. A good deal if I say so myself with how much I made, it was about 450 beli in profit. Yes sir, that was some good money I just made back!

"So since you're a traveling merchant of the sea, that means you've been to other islands right?" He pressed forward.

I grabbed my salmon hat and placed it onto his head as I laughed. "No, or at least not yet!" He seemed to be happy to hear about that.

"You know my dad's a famous pirate!" He exclaimed to me.

"Who is he?"

Proudly he stood upon the ground shadow encompassing me and spoke, "His name is Yasopp, I betcha you heard about him before!"

Man I wonder what he just said? "Hey I wasn't listening to you. Can you say that again to m-". Gosh darn narcolepsy!

"Wake up! Are you okay?"

"What?"

"What do you mean? You just passed out on me when YOU were asking a question!" His nose seemed to really stick out now more than ever.

"Well! I actually have narcolepsy."

"Did that have anything to do with you passing out during my story?"

"Mn!"

Man today has just been fine! At least I don't pass out as much as Ace usually does nowadays. After that little incident, I pushed my thoughts back to the back of my head as I listened in on what he was saying.

"-Shanks' crew!"

"Shanks?"

"Yeah, you know him?"

I thought about where I had heard about that name before. Now who always said that name again? Oh yeah, Luffy was the one who always said it.

"I promised to Shanks that I would become the Pirate King with this straw hat!"

"Yup, my little brother always talked about him!" I beamed a smile as I thought about Luffy and his silliness that was always included with him. "He always talked about how amazing Shanks and his crew were when they were there!"

He seemed to be elated beyond belief and looked briefly at me and started again on his talks about his dad while also mentioning his supposedly REAL adventures. It was all interesting to take in what he was talking about and how dear he held these memories to his heart. Now if only Ace could be a little bit more like him and be more proud of his lineage.

He then checked the time and proposed if I wanted to eat lunch together and I agreed of course. He took us to a small bakery restaurant. I finally took notice that he was actually quite young compared to what I thought at first. 14 he tells me, what a surprise! Or maybe not, who knows.

"Oh! Do you happen to have any medicine or anything of the like to help this girl I know?" He asked as he looked at me with hopeful eyes.

I myself felt the need to help, but couldn't help being just as blunt as always when it came to things I wouldn't normally have.

"Baka! Why would I have any medicine? I'm a MERCHANT! Not some doctor you idiot!"

"Well I just wanted to ask." He mumbled to himself.

Sigh! Are you kidding me? Now I feel bad for doing that, huff. "How about this, I'll try and find something in my bag that could help once you show me this girl you're talking about in the first place."

He seemed excited to know that I could possibly help with this problem.

"Thanks! It would definitely be fine; just wait a moment because I got to find my way in first."

"You can't just walk in?"

"Yeah! As a pirate you got to be able to sneak around obstacles! Also i'm not really considered the best influence…" He mumbled the last part.

Huh?

"Well if you need to find a way into this place just tell me which way to go, but prepare yourself." I prepared my hand as a gust of wind started to form around my stuff and I along with Usopp.

"Wind!" I whispered loudly.

"HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS?" He screeched in terror.

"Haha! I ate the Kaze-Kaze no Mi. I'm a devil fruit user!" That only seemed to solidify his indignant terror. Though eventually after bugging with some gusts he finally calmed down and pointed to the location of the house she lived in. It definitely was a sight to see since it was a mansion.

"So… she's a rich girl?"

"Yeah." He quickly replied. "Kaya! I'm here with someone!" He quietly told to the window that was closed. As soon as he mentioned the name a girl that had blond neck length hair stuck her head out the window. With a huge smile on her petite facial features.

"Usopp!" She started, "What stories do you have this time?"

With the stories part I had serious doubt that she thought they were real and left it to imagination for later. Still as they talked more and more I couldn't but help remember when Lu told us stories about his little adventures in Windmill Village. If only that adv-

"Rogue!" Usopp spoke as he shook me.

"What?"

"You were a bit out of it just now."

"Sorry, just remembering something bad."

"Alright, anyways!" He smiled, "Kaya, this here is the merchant that I told you about! I gave her a pretty good scare when she landed!"

"Really?" She turned towards me with amazement.

I could only deadpan with what I just heard. But woe is me as I couldn't just crush his hopes and her belief. Sigh! "Yeah, it was pretty spooky at first especially with his large army he mentioned!" Might as well go with his lie for now as things couldn't get any worse than before.

"That's amazing Usopp! I bet you can scare anyone on the seas!" She beamed.

"Yeah, that's right. I'll be a brave pirate of the seas. Just you wait and see!" He proudly stated out.

Yeah right. Where I'm from, you would have gotten your ass beat within a week or so. Man, for a brave warrior he sure doesn't have anything going for him too much. For the rest of the time till the evening they just kept on talking about what he had done on his adventures.

"So, is there any apartment or house I could rent nearby or something?" I inquired.

"Since we don't usually have many visitors here there aren't really any buildings like that built here, but if you want, I could let you stay with me."

"Sure!"

As we went to his house to place my stuff down and dine, I started to talk a bit about myself.

"Hey, I never really got to ask you, but do you even know what a devil fruit is?"

"Of course I do…" he dawdled.

"You only know the premise that it is a myth don't you?"

"No…"

Sigh! Gosh, I'm sighing a lot more recently than before. "Alright, I'll take it upon myself to explain a bit more to you just in case you find yourself in a battle with one."

I stuck my pointer up first, "There are paramecia-types, and they have the ability to take parts of an element and are applied to themselves like the Gomu Gomu no Mi gives you properties of rubber." I then stuck my second finger up, "Now there are zoan-types, they give you the ability to turn into an animal." Finally I stuck up my third finger, "With the final type are the Logia, which are the trickier of the two to deal with or so I've been told. For example here punch me." He then punched me, but only to phase right through my body. "They can't be hit by normal means, but I've yet to run into that problem as I'm a Logia too."

He was really overloaded with all this info but kept it to himself and asked, "So… do you know how to hit one though?"

"Not really… I have an idea on it but I've yet to find reason to act upon it." From then on we only walked in calm silence as we walked inside his house. It looked quite cozy as it was a small cottage like house with nifty things here and there across the floor.

"Well, as a guest I'll cook dinner for you."

"That's fine… I guess, well the supplies are in the cabinets." He informed as he sat down on the floor and began working on whatever he was working on before.

-=20 Minutes Later=-

"Dinner is done!"

"Okay, I'll be there in a few minutes!" He replied.

He sat down as I placed down a plate of food that had some salmon rice and some broccoli on the side. He seemed to slowly take a taste of the food before digging in some more and he finished it before I had even placed mine down.

"That was pretty good!

"Yeah, a person named Makino taught me how to cook in case I needed to make some food on the run!"

After some more small talk that night, we talked about where we would sleep and decided that I would sleep on the floor after some… convincing.

"Night Rogue."

"Night Usopp."

-=Next Morning=-

"So you're leaving?"

"Yeah I can't stay here forever; I'm a merchant for god's sake." I then placed my bag onto my small boat and took in a deep breath. Huh? Interesting how many different kinds of people you'll find out on the sea. I wonder what ya think about me being some merchant Gramps.

"Hey, don't forget that someday you'll see me out on the sea fighting strong monsters out there." He yelled.

"Yeah I'm sure you'll be out there eventually with your cool gizmos and gadgets!" I wished him luck.

After the declaration of his dream to me, I set out my sail and looked on wondering what my next adventure might be. What may lay next might be life or death, but all I could tell was that it was just the start of my Merchant Days!

Well after some consideration I thought about what I should do next, and after some thought along with asking for help I've come to the conclusion of writing up the story for Rogue. Though it will be rough in the beginning as this will be my first non one-shot fanfic. So I hope some reviews on how I could show the characters more precisely without breaking character. Still I hope you guys liked the start of it so far. For those who are wondering I'm just going to make the first dozen or so chapters to be just normal merchant stuff with OC's here and there to show more character. And because when it comes to fight scenes I'm not exactly the best with it.

Finally thanks again to Black Night Wolf for beta'ing this for me again! And as always, stay Quackful!