So, this is the first chapter of Dead silent. I hope you like it. It's a really short chapter, but the others will be longer.

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece

Luffy was sitting on a chair in the corner of the room. All the other kids didn't really want to play with him, but he didn't care, he was waiting for his big brother to pick him up. Ace and Luffy lived toghether in a relativly big appartment in the heart of the city. Their parents would come once in a while, but theiy were both really busy traveling around the world for their job, so they only visited once a month or two, but they really didn't care. At least they had had each other. Luffy was thirteen and a half, and his brother Ace was nineteen.

One kid sat on his left. She was pretty pale and had was wearing only white. In a way, it made her look pretty elegant. She sat to and smiled to the raven-haired boy.

"How are you today Luffy?"

I am fine and you?" The girl sighed, but didn't loose her smile.

"I am okay, but I miss Usopp." Luffy looked down at his feet.

"It's okay, I told you I would find him, right?" The girl nodded and became serious.

"Did you make some progress on finding him?" Luffy nodded.

"I know his father's name is Yasopp, apparently, Shanks knows them. He told me they were on a trip and wouldn't be back before the end of the week." The girl smiled.

"Thank you. I can't wait to see him again." Luffy smiled.

"No problem Kaya." Luffy looked up at the other kids in the room as he felt their disgust and judging glare on him. He sighed. "You should stop talking to me in school or people will think you are weird too." Kaya frowned.

"Why do they think you are weird?" Kaya said nervously.

"I don't really know." Luffy sighed and Kaya smiled and left. A few minutes later, Ace arrived. He went to his instructor, Miss Makino.

"Monkey D. Luffy, your big brother is here to get you!" Luffy sat up and jumped in his brother's arm. The other smiled and thanked Makino before walking out to the little boy's locker to get his bag. It was a yellow and red bag with pirates on it, Luffy loved pirates. Ace took Luffy's lunchbox and the two were on their way.

"What did you do today?" Luffy perked up at the question, started explaining his hole day to Ace while the older boy listened with a grin.

"Well, today we did some math problems, we had to do it really well, since the five people who finished it first with all the good answers could have a candy. It was fifthy multiplications and divisions. Hey, Ace, I finished fast and won a candy! I was the second one to finish after Nami. Zoro slept the whole time and got scolded, it was funny!"

Ace smiled. "Why don't you try to make friends with them?" Luffy scratched the back of his head.

"Well, Zoro doesn't talk to anyone except Sanji, but they fight a lot even if they are best friends. Nami is fun, but she wont talk to me since I am not really popular."

"Well, you should try and talk to them, maybe you are going to become inseparable." Ace said with a smile.

"I talked to Professor Shanks, doesn't it count?" Ace shook his head.

"No, you need to make friends of your own age, Professor Franky, Miss Makino, Professor Shanks or Miss Robin don't count. I told you, you need to make at least one friend your age."

"Oh... But I talked with Kaya too, she is my age and since we are trying to find Usopp, who is also my age, that makes two people. I am a bit closer to finding Usopp now!" Ace flinched and started looking uncomfortable.

"Luffy... You didn't meet Usopp yet. I don't know if he is even real. Isn't it time for you to make real friends?" Luffy frowned.

"Kaya is really nice! She is the only one who would talk to me at school!" Ace bit his lips.

"I know it must be fun having your imaginary friend, you play with them and they never argue, they like you no matter what, but Kaya isn't real, you should make real friends."

Luffy's frown deepened. "Kaya isn't imaginary." Ace sighed.

"There is no Kaya in your class, not even in the entire school Luffy, don't play dumb. I checked last time."

Luffy took a neutral expression. Ace shivered, his little brother could be serious sometime, and it scared him when he did. The boy was rarely that serious, and he knew whatever he said in those times was the absolute truth. They both stopped walking on the sidewalk as Luffy looked up to his brother.

"Of course you wont find her name anywhere, she is dead." Ace froze. He turned to Luffy and took his hand silently. before walking at a fast pace to their house.

He closed the door of their apartment and took Luffy to his room, making him sit on the bed. "Repeat what you said."

"Kaya is dead." Ace gripped his hair with one hand. He had started to sweat. This wasn't good. This wasn't possible.

"It's okay if you don't believe me." Ace didn't respond at first. He seemed lost in thoughts. The younger boy started to get nervous. What if Ace didn't believe him? Would he leave?

Ace smiled sheepishly. "It's okay, I believe you."

"You always say stuff like that. You always reassure me, say you believe me, but do you really?" Luffy looked up to his brother with eyes full of hope. He had never talked to Ace about the ghosts before today. He had always feared Ace would reject him because of it. But, the older raven looked at him with a smile.

"I already told you. I believe you."

So, this story has a big back story that I will explain in little parts in the next chapters. It will maybe clear up some of the question you may ask yourself right now... I will probably come to correct the first chapter too later.

I hope you will enjoy this story as much as Headache and The freest man in the world. I have a lot of ideas for this one.

Until next time!