Sequel to Not Everyday is a Good Day, Live Anyway.

Chapter 1

"Over there, Garp," says a fisherman as he points to the unknown ship at the dock. "It wasn't there before we turned in last night."

As soon as Garp caught sight of the ship, he grinned. "Go on about your business. I'll handle this," he tells the group of fishermen that came to get him.

"Are you sure?" one asks nervously. "What if it's a pirate raid? I mean, I know not all pirates are bad and all. Shanks was nice enough, but this one came without a flag. The ship may be small, but we weren't sure what kind of people are on board. They could be slavers wanting to take our women and children."

"They're pirates all right, but there's nothing to worry about," Garp says as he turns around and starts to walk towards the village. "I just need to get Makino."

The fishermen looked at Garp as if he were crazy. What could a simple barmaid do? Well, if the Vice-Admiral says there's nothing to worry about, then they'll just have to trust him. They were but simple fishermen, not fighters. They're sure the Marine Hero could handle a small ship of pirates if it comes down to it. Just in case, they'll just fish a little closer to land to lend a hand if need to.

-*/

A woman with dark green hair boards the ship at Garp's insistence. She's not even sure why the Marine told her to get on the ship and inspect it for him, but she did it anyway, knowing that Garp is out there in case things goes wrong.

Opening the door to the cabin, leaving it open, she opens another door that leads to what looks like the kitchen. Seeing nothing, she walks back out and opens another door. This one has a desk with a lamp, a hammock, and three wanted posters on the wall.

Her eyes went straight to the wanted posters. They were the same posters she has hanging in her bar. Two are of the boys who lived with Dadan before they mysteriously disappeared years ago.

She'd heard Garp had continued searching for them, even when his boss told him to let it go. The boys were believed to be dead for the longest time. That was until the man came back with news that the boys were alive and living somewhere safe. He wouldn't tell them where they were. Dadan and the rest of the bandits even argued with the Marine to take them to them so they could see for themselves.

Garp finally let out that the boys were living with the Whitebeard pirates and that their captain knew of the boys' background. The thought of the strongest man in the world dissuaded the bandit from wanting to see the boys. Though Dadan swore that if she finds out that anything happened to the boys, she'd sail out there herself to kill the man, strongest or not.

The young woman then finally moves on to the third poster. A finger makes its way to the face on the poster. The picture was of a young girl dancing in a simple dress, yet, she recognizes the name under the photo. It's the face of a boy that she would have cared for if the boy had never been taken on his way to this island as a babe. A warm smile appears on her face as she notices how happy he looked.

Tears threatens to fall as she turns her head to the hammock, where there are two boys still slept. They look so peaceful, laying there and hugging each other. She ran her hands through both of their hair and over their faces. They've grown into handsome young men that she wished she was there to see their growth.

Have they changed? Would they still remember her? Is Ace still that shy little boy that would blush every time she brought him new clothes? Is Sabo still the boy with proper etiquettes that she'd never seen on a child so young? Are they still angry with the world? There's so much that she didn't get to see.

"Ace?" she whispers when the dark haired of the two begins to stir.

He hummed before slowly opening his eyes. "Makino?" he asks with his voice full of sleep.

"Yes, Ace," Makino says through her tears. She's so happy that he remembers her after all this time.

Ace's eyes widens in surprise. He didn't think they'd be able to see her first thing after waking up. "Sabo. Sabo! Makino's here," he said excitedly, shaking his bed mate.

"Hmm?" The blond's eyes opened a fraction before closing again. "Too early. Sleep. Five minutes," he mumbles.

Makino giggles at their antics, while Ace huffs and looks in between him and Sabo. His widens as he notices that it was only him and Sabo in the hammock.

"Luffy?! Luffy! Luffy Luffy Luffy!" Ace looks around their cabin room frantically for the missing teen.

Sabo shot his eyes wide open once he heard the frantic shouting of his brother. "What's wrong with Luffy?" he asks worriedly, looking to where his youngest brother isn't. "Where's Luffy?!"

"Obviously not here," Ace jumps out of the hammock, causing it to flip and send Sabo to the hard, wooden floor. "We have to find him."

They both grab their pants, putting it on as fast as the possibly could and run past a surprised Makino. Finally coming to her sense, she follows them out to the open deck, where they'd just jumped. Taking the same plank that she used to get up, she meets up with Garp, who was looking in the direction of where the boys took off, with wide eyes.

"Luffy's missing," she tells the old Marine with worry in her voice.

"Figures," the man mumbles. "They only panic when Luffy's not where they want him to be. That boy attracts trouble like a thief to a hoard of treasure." He heaves a sigh before looking at the young woman besides him, looking worriedly towards the forest. "Well, let's follow and see if we can find my wayward grandson before something happens."

"Why the forest?" she asks curiously as they make their way at a more sedate pace. "Wouldn't the village be closer to check first?"

"Nothing is opened in the village yet, and the forest would probably more fun for the kid," Garp huffs. "Kid thinks with his stomach."

They were already deep into the forest when they heard and felt a loud boom that caused all the birds in that area to fly as far away as they could. Then there were shouts, with the occasional screams, and other sounds of what could possibly a fight.

Without a word, Garp runs towards the commotion with Makino following as best as she can. Eventually, she lost sight of him, but it wasn't a problem as all she has to do is follow the sounds.

Soon enough, she caught sight of him and stopped right next to the Marine.

There, in the clearing of broken trees, were Dadan's men, unconscious and littered about here and there with the downed trees, branches, and some head first in shrubberies. Dadan, herself, is laying face down right in front of Garp's feet.

And right in the middle it all is a familiar looking face with his straw hat dangling behind his neck, facing down a wild boar. The boar rushed at the boy just as Ace and Sabo burst out of the shrubbery opposite of them. The two teens only stopped a moment to take in the scenery before running towards the youngest.

Makino, frozen in fear for the boys, could only watch as Luffy, it has to be Luffy as the face matches the one from the wanted poster, turns his fist black and punch the boar head on, and just seconds after, Ace and Sabo land their own black fists on Luffy's head.

"Oww. What was that for?" Luffy whines, crouching down with his hands over his new bumps.

""For leaving the ship and not letting us know,"" the both said.

"I was getting breakfast," Luffy pouts as he points to the unconscious boar.

"You could have woken us up, so we could go with you. What if you ran into trouble?" Sabo sighs.

Makino giggles as she thought about the statement, and it made sense, seeing how the boy could take down a wild boar with one punch, not to mention the downed bandits. It's good to know they look out for each other. The sound of her giggle finally caught the attention of the boys, and Sabo gave her a surprised look before smiling widely and running up to her to give her a hug, but not before stepping on Dadan as if she weren't there.

"Makino," he says as the woman returns his hug, "I'm so glad to see you again."

"Me too," she says as they let go to look at each other. "It's so good to see how well you two are doing. You boys have gotten so big."

The smile Sabo gives her turns pained as he asks, "By the way, what did I just step on?" He was too afraid to look down to see himself, but his question prompted Ace to look at what his brother is standing on, then back to Luffy.

"Will someone please tell me if I stepped on something gross or not? These are new shoes," Sabo moans, wanting to know if he stepped on animal feces.

Makino giggles, not wanting to say anything. Garp looks on in amusement, though a bit miffed that they haven't greeted their grandpa yet, but it's ok. Makino deserves their attention. Instead of demanding their attention like he wants to, the Marine decides to get started on their breakfast.

"Depends on how you see it, I guess it's gross," Ace says, still looking at Luffy, but this time he raised an eyebrow, letting Luffy know that he wants to know why there were unconscious people all over the ground.

Luffy pouts even more as he finally answered. "They were in the way," he mumbles, crossing his arms

Hearing that it didn't sound like poop or a bloody carcas, unless Luffy's decided to move the body because they were in the way, but nothing smelt dead near him, Sabo finally looked down. "Oh. It's just Dadan," he says in relief.

"Come on, Luffy," Ace says, taking his brother's hand to introduce him to Makino, leaving Garp, whom he's ignoring on purpose, to deal with the boar.

After introductions were done, Makino had the boys situate Dadan and the bandits in a more comfortable position. It was while they were eating that bandit leader woke up with a groan. "What hit me?"

""Most likely a rubber fist,"" both Ace and Sabo said.

"Wha-" she cut herself off as she turns to the speakers. Her eyes widens as she recognized them from their wanted posters that she has hanging in her cabin. "Ace? Sabo? What are you boys doing here?"

"We decided to come and visit," Sabo answers.

"Only because Luffy wants to start his Pirate King adventure here in East Blue," Ace adds.

"Luffy?" Dadan asks in confusion, sure that she'd heard that name somewhere. Then she finally remembers Garp talking about a grandson of his. "Luffy!" She points her finger at the last of the boys that she's never seen before. She didn't bother with keeping the other boy's poster on her wall with Ace and Sabo's. No point when she didn't think she'd ever meet the kid. "You're that Shitty Garp's grandson!" There is a slight pause as she processed what Ace said. "Pirate King?!"

She ends up shaking her head, while Makino laughs and Garp, once again miffed as he was once again treated as if he weren't there. "I give up," she sighs and gets up to take a seat with them and starts eating. From the very few years that she's taken care of Ace, and the few months with Sabo, she'd learn here's no point in trying to understand that not-family of crazies.

She'll save the headache for later, or maybe never. She may be happy to see Ace and Sabo again, but knowing them, they'll just give her migraines again. That's just how they are. No matter how long it's been or how grown up they are, Dadan is sure they still cause everyone around them migraines.

Luffy complained that there wasn't enough food, but Makino promised she'd make more food later.

"So what happened?" Sabo asks with a knowing grin.

"Luffy wouldn't have attacked you for no reason," Ace adds when Dadan gives Sabo a confused look.

"Oh, that," she huffs. "I was planning on robbing him blind."

""But he doesn't have anything for you to rob,"" they both say.

She grunted before answering. "I'm a bandit. I know real gold when I see it." She nods her head towards Luffy's hair clip before taking a large bite out of her meat.

Luffy quickly covered his precious clip before shouting, "You can't have it! Trao gave it to me."

"Don't want it anymore. Didn't know you were with these idiots," Dadan mumbles.

"Oh, ok," Luffy says with a smile before taking off his straw hat and digging around behind the ribbon.

"That hat looks familiar. Where did you get it from? It looks old," Makino asks.

"Shanks gave it to me. It's our promise," Luffy answers distractedly.

"Oh, yeah. We met Shanks," both Ace and Sabo said excitedly. "He told us that he's been to Fuusha before."

"Yes, he has," Makino giggles. "He came and went, but he was here for about a year or so. I never knew pirates could be so carefree."

""Shanks saved Luffy from a sea king,"" they said proudly.

"The only redeeming part of that damn Red Hair," Garp huffs. "He's the idiot that put the idea of being a Pirate King into my grandson."

"Ah! Found it!" Luffy said as he held up a green pebble-sized stone and hands it to Dadan. "You can have this."

The rest of the bandits had already woken while they were eating and watched in curiosity as Dadan held it up to the sun.

"Kid, this is real," she said as she hands it back to the boy, but Luffy only shook his head. "No, really. It's emerald. You know, worth a lot of money?"

"And I'm giving it to you. It's yours now."

"Look, you little shit, this may be small, but it's worth thousands of bellis," Dadan nearly shouts at the boy.

"You should just take it," Sabo says as he leans back on his hands with an amused smile.

"We're pirates. He can easily get more if he wants," Ace smirks.

The other bandits watches with wide-eyes, surprised that anyone would want to part with something that valuable.

"We already have more of it," Luffy says. "I left the rest with our treasures at home. This one is for Makino," he hands the other woman a red pebble.

"Why are you giving these to us?" Makino asks as she accepts the stone carefully.

"Because you took care of Ace and Sabo. If you didn't take care of Ace and Sabo, I wouldn't be here. So I want to thank you," Luffy smiles. His words cause Ace and Sabo to blush.

Makino got up to give Luffy a hug telling the boy that it wasn't necessary but thanked him anyway, tucking the ruby into her pocket for safekeeping.

Dadan huffs before saying, "At least one of you is thoughtful. Taking care of those brats were a pain in the ass."

"And what about your dear old Grandpa?" Garp asks.

"You're a big shot in the Marines, so you don't need it." They all laugh at that response, except Garp. He just opened and closed his mouth, taken aback. He ended up grumbling about ungrateful grandsons.

"When are you brats leaving?" Dadan asks before they left the forest to go to Fuusha.

"We're not sure. Maybe tomorrow," Sabo answers.

"Don't worry, we'll come and visit before we leave," Ace smiles before they turned to leave.

"Boss?" Magra waves his hand in front of the bandit leader's stunned face.

"Ace smiled," she says in wonder. "I can't believe that angry little monster actually smiled."

"Garp did say the pirates that took them in were good," Dogra says, a little happy for the two kids they helped raise. "They must have helped him."

The leader gives a huff but smiled. "Can't believe there'd be any pirates out there that'd willingly take in Roger's son. Come on boys, we need to get the day started."

-*/

Woop Slap, the mayor of Fuusha Village, is on his way to Partys Bar to find Garp since the Marine wasn't at his home. That's where Garp usually is during this time of day if he isn't in his home. It's the only place the man goes for his meals. Makino spoils the old man.

Once the bar is in view, he notices most of the young women of the village crowding around the windows and door, peering in. "What's going on?" he asks one.

"Oh, Mayor!" she turns to the old man. "You won't believe it, but there're outsiders in Makino's place. Do you think Makino fancy one of them?"

"And why are you girls loitering out here for?"

"Because it's not often you see handsome men in our village," she sighs before turning her eyes back to the window. "Do you think they're taken?"

"Don't you girls have anything better to do," he grumbles as he heads in.

The fact that all these girls were drooling over the outsiders is strange. What he found even more strange is that Partys Bar isn't to be opened for another couple of hours for lunch.

Of course they leave out the fact that Garp is in here, he thinks to himself as he notices the man sitting at a table with a child, and no handsome men in sight, unless the standards the girls are going for nowadays have lowered to an old man or a kid.

"Garp," the mayor greets once he enters the bar.

"Morning, Woop Slap," Garp answers cheerily, waving the old man over. "Meet my grandson, Luffy. Luffy, his is Woop Slap, the mayor here."

"Yo," Luffy answers with a lift of a hand.

"Your grandson, huh? I take it the other two are here too?" he takes a quick look around the empty bar to see no one else, not even Makino. He and the barmaid knew why the old Marine took vacation time to come and visit, when he rarely does so anymore. Garp had looked so happy when he first arrived that he had to share the news that his three grandsons were finally coming home for a visit. Woop Slap had only seen the Marine that happy only once, and that was when he came to tell the news that his grandsons were alive.

"They're in the back helping Makino with the food," Garp laughs. "They didn't like all the attention they were getting."

Woop Slap turns his attention back to the boy. "So why are you kids here now? You boys should have came by earlier to let us know you were still alive, rather than staying on some filthy pirate ship," he huffs.

"Wanted to start my crew here in East Blue where Ace and Sabo grew up," Luffy beams. "I'm gonna be the Pirate King."

"Hmf. You want to start your pirate crew here? As if we need the reputation of spouting no-good pirates," the mayor gruffs. "I see living those Whitebeards for so long didn't teach you how bad pirates are."

Luffy laughs as he sensed no heat in those words. "Pirates are free," he says. The mayor continues to scowl, but inside, he felt lighter, knowing the brat hasn't been raised wrong. The wish of freedom, he understands. Just looking at Luffy, he knew the Whitebeards had given the boys the freedom they deserve.

They hear the sound of laughing and turn their heads to see Ace pushing a cart filled with food, Sabo with both arms carrying more food, and Makino laughing at whatever was said.

""Mayor!"" Ace and Sabo said in surprise. ""We were going to find you after breakfast.""

"Well, I was looking for Garp, but he wasn't home, so I figured he was here, mooching off poor Makino again."

"Say, Mayor," Sabo says as he tentatively looks towards the door, "think you can do something about that?"

Woop Slap looks at the door and back with a smirk. "You don't like having the attention of all the girls in the village?"

"Well, no," Ace says as he rubs the back of his neck. "It makes us feel like they're going to call the Marines on us. We're used to being avoided."

"No use in calling in the Marines when I'm here," Garp laughs loudly.

"Maybe it's because you're wearing wrong pants," Luffy says offhandedly as he ate his stolen food.

Both of the older teens look down to see that they're wearing each other's pants.

"I think it's because you're both shirtless," Makino giggles.

There's a pause as the boys look at each other.

"I think it's the pants," Ace finally says. "We've gone out without shirts before and never got this much attention."

"It's probably because there are so many dangerous pirates out there, that it's best to avoid them all," Makino says with a thoughtful face. "But Garp is here, and this village is mostly peaceful enough. And it's very rare that we see good-looking young men," she gives them a wink causing the two to blush.

"I'm going back to the ship to change," Sabo said determinedly.

"I - I didn't bring any shirts," Ace whines with his head on the table.

"Because that'll cover your tattoo," Luffy laughs, repeating what his brother has told him and his families many times before.

After breakfast and somehow leaving the bar without being mobbed, the two older men helped the boys buy the supplies they needed. Ace and Sabo wanted to leave tomorrow, no later than that. It was very uncomfortable having people openly stare at them or follow them as they shopped.

A/N: Sorry if I take too long to post each chapter. This is my first story I'll be posting as I finish each chapter. I usually like to finish them before posting, just so I know that it's completed. I have no idea how long it'll take for me to post new chapters. . I hope you enjoy this sequel.