Luffy stood on a hill making the biggest decision in his life. His eyes closed in concentration which he hardly does. After his brother Sabo was killed he was thinking of a way to keep his dream.

Yes, luffy was going to be a pirate…at the age of 7.

And not just any pirate. He was going to be the pirate king! That's how he was going to live both Sabo's and his dream, To go out to the world and have an adventure like none ever before. He already had a boat that was leaving in a few hours from the village. He had made an agreement with a sailor to drop him off at any other island close by.

He was going to train there on the boat more how his gomu gomu no powers. Sabo and Ace had already helped him a lot with his control and power. All he needed was a test.

"Yo! Kid! Are you coming or what?" yelled the sailor from below the hill. He was wearing a navy costume (he was an ex-marine) and waving his right arm back and forth. His long brown hair dancing with the wind and his expression annoyed.

"Yeah just wait up! I'm coming!" yelled back luffy. He jumped from the hill towards the bottom. His straw hat, that shanks had given him, flying in the air around his neck. His red shirt dancing everywhere in the wind, wildly trashing around. He finally landed with his knees bent to lessen the impact. Luffy jogged toward the sailor.

"Thanks again mister, for the ride and all." Luffy said with his huge grin. His smile going from left to right of his face. The sailor smiled at the little seven year old. He placed his hand on luffy's straw hat and put it on luffy's head.

"Yeah yeah, lets get going the sooner we leave the better," Replied the sailor, already walking towards the docks.

"Hai!" screamed out luffy as he followed the sailor. His adventure was about to begin and little did he know…he was going to meet another friend.

3 months later

"Well here we are Cocoyashi village." Said the sailor, looking at the peaceful villagers as they went on their merrily day. Luffy looked around in amazement. The village looked so peaceful, with everyone doing what they mostly do on their daily lives. He is where he was going to get a boat and start of his adventure.

"Thanks again for the ride mister," Said luffy with his famous grin.

"Don't mention it kid. Well I best be going now. Oh and good luck on your adventure!" screamed out the sailor as his ship was sailing off the docks.

"Arigato!" screamed luffy, waving his hand at the sailor. Luffy was there till the sailor was swallowed up by the ocean and he couldn't see him anymore.

"Well, better find some food first then look for a boat. Food!" screamed out luffy as he jogged down the road towards the village.

Luffy looked for hours for a restaurant but he couldn't see any. The villagers that he had asked had given him directions but he was never good at directions. Suddenly there was a loud commotion going on at a small library. He had an old lady carrying a small girl that held on to a book as if it was her life. The old lady set the girl down on the porch with a scrowl on her face.

"Don't come here again little twerp!" the old lady yelled at the girl who was to busy starring at the book she had. The old lady finally turned and walked back into the library and slammed the door shut. Once luffy had finished processing what was going on he walked towards the little girl.

"Hey are you ok?" asked luffy. The girl lifted her head towards the voice that had interrupted her reading.

Luffy stared at the girl. She had orange hair (which luffy thought was pretty) with a pretty face. She had a yellow dress with tangerines at the bottom of the dress. Her eyes were as brown as chocolate. All in all luffy had only one thought.

'Cute'

"…-uo ok?" that got luffy out of his mind as he refocused on the girl who had a confused face on her as she stared at him.

"Huh?" replied luffy.

"I said if you're ok? You kinda dozed off" said the girl tilting her head to the side as she kept staring at him.

"Oh uh sorry, just thinking" said luffy rubbing the back of his neck in an embarrassing way. His cheeks with a slight pink color to them from being caught staring. How did he get distracted so easily.

"Oh ok. Hi I'm Nami. Hey I've never seen you here before? Are you new?" asked the girl named Nami as she waited patiently for luffy to answer.

"Yeah just got here really. Names Luffy, Monkey D. Luffy" replied luffy with his jaw breaking smile. Nami blushed a bit from that smile. Something about it just made butterflies fly around in her stomach. She had never had this feeling before, it was new to her but there was one thing…she liked it.

"Nice to meet you. You here alone?" asked nami as she tried to get rid of the blush on her face before luffy notice. Unknown to her luffy caught it but shrug it off.

"Yup! Me going on an adventure to be pirate king!" yelled luffy making name flinch backwards. His arms spread out wide as he closed his eyes and made his famous grin. Nami looked at luffy with a stunned impression. Did this boy actually think he was going to be pirate king? Well for starters he doesn't look like much, thought nami as she did an inspection on the boy. He was wearing a red sleeveless shirt with blue shorts and sandals. He had raven black hair under his straw hat and a cute little scar under his left eye.

"Navigachion?" asked luffy after a small moment of silence. He had a little trouble reading what the cover of the book said. Nami was taken away from her thoughts at the sudden question.

"Navigation." Corrected nami.

"Oh, hey do you know where I can get any meat around here I'm starving." Asked luffy with a pout on his face. He hadn't eaten any meat for the past 3 hours and he was hungry. Nami giggled at the pout on luffy's face. Again her stomach did a flop at the sight.

"yeah there's one down on the next street. Want me to show you?" asked nami. She didn't know why but she wanted to know this person better. Luffys face brightened at the response and automatically answered.

"Really? Arigato!" grinned luffy at nami. Nami smiled big and started leading to the restaurant with luffy closely behind.

Scene change

"Arlong-sama, island dead ahead!" said a man who was at the crow's nest.

"Head straight to it. I will rule this ocean." Said a dark figure showing his razor sharp teeth with a big nasty grin.

I always wondered what would happen if luffy met nami earlier on. And well i came up with this story.

To Be Continued...

Hollowboy6 out!