Epilogue

Sometime, somewhere, far in the future, there stands a house. It's quite an odd house, as it was crafted in a tree. It was quite a nice house as ones that are crafted in a tree go, very roomy, yet just raggedy enough.

Inside the house, an older woman with bright orange hair sat, waiting for the boys to return.

"Mama?" Nami looked down devilishly at her daughter; an eight year old with short black hair.

"Hmm? What's up Nojiko?"

"Where's daddy and Ace going?"

"They're off adventuring in the forest again...honestly those idiots..."

Nojiko nodded her head in agreement and did a cartwheel.

"I wanna go adventuring with Daddy too! ADVENTUREADVENTUREADVENTURE!"

Nami's eyes twinkled in irritation.

"You mean you don't want to hang out with your own mother!?"

Nojiko eeped and hid behind a mountain of charting books. The woman laughed and tussled her daughter's hair.

"Go right ahead...you'll never have a dull moment with your father..." She said, sticking her tongue out playfully. Nojiko cheered, then the door swung open. A much older looking Luffy and a very skinny thirteen year old boy were both panting with their tongues hanging out their mouths. The strawhat lay crooked on Ace's brown-ish hair. Nami crossed her arms.

"Honestly! What did you two get into THIS time?!"

Both Luffy and Ace pointed at each other.

"He was a wimpy weakling..."

"He ran away from a giant tiger..."

"YOU'RE BOTH HERE AREN'T YOU?!"

Both of them tried to hide behind each other, and the oversized straw hat fell over Ace's face. Nojiko threw a book at her older brother.

"You wimp! I could'a beat that bastard tiger in an instant!"

Ace lifted the hat up and yelled back.

"YEAH!? REALLY!? YOU'RE JUST A WIMPY GIRL!"

"...yeah...you tell her Ace..." muttered Luffy to his son. Nami threw a book at her husband.

"DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!"

"Aw...you're no fun Nami..."

An irk marked appeared over the woman's head and she dangerously lifted her fist. Both of the kids ran toward Luffy in fright, while he shouted, "OI! Now I'M gonna be killed!"

Then Nami lowered her fist and laughed. Soon everyone was rolling on the floor, having fun.

"Couldn't you have just taken out the tiger with your Haki, Luffy?"

"Ace dared me to pretend to be a piece of meat...then the tiger came and I had to keep pretending...I ended up being a piece of running meat..."

"Yeah! Daddy couldn't beat the crap out of it OR use his magic powers!"

Nami and Nojiko looked at each other.

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life..." They both said. Ace got in his sister's face.

"Hey! I bet I can take out more giant tigers than YOU...you weak crybaby girl!"

"Says who!? I've got woman guts!"

"Oh yeah!? My punch is as strong as pistol fire! I'll kill ya!"

"PHHHT! You don't have the power to kill me!"

"Fine then! Let's have a spar! Outside! Right now! C'mon you crybaby!"

"You know I've beaten you a total of 97 times..."

"Yeah! And I've beat you 104 times! That means I'm better!"

"COME AT ME BRO!"

Ace and Nojiko gave a tough handshake. The hat fell in Ace's face again, but he adjusted it and they both ran out the door, ready for battle. Nami and Luffy watched this rather admusedly.

"Oi...they're quite a lot like us...aren't they?"

"They're both a lot like you, Luffy..."

Luffy gave a huge grin and ran his fingers through his greying hair.

"Well, they're a lot like you too...Ace keeps yabbering on and on about maps and other boring stuff...it's annoying."

"Of course it would be...to you..."

They looked at each other happily.

"You know...I wish we could see the others again..."

"Me too, but we have the kids and you're the most wanted man alive...It's too dangerous to even set FOOT in the sea..."

Luffy stared at the floor with a saddened expression.

"What kind of pirates are we if we can't even set foot in the sea?"

Nami flinched at this, then looked at the floor too.

"I want to have more adventures...with Ace and Nojiko too. And the others. I've dreamed my whole life about being the Pirate King, and now that I am, I'm not even doing anything. For thirteen years we've just been doing boring stuff."

Luffy looked back at Nami with a outrageous grin.

"Plus...Nojiko has been begging me to take her out to sea one day...I don't want to disappoint my daughter."

Nami chuckled and propped her elbow on his shoulder.

"Fine. We'll have a crew reunion. Then we can show them all the people we traveled with in all of the stories we told them."

Luffy fist-pumped the air.

"YES! I get to see my Nakama again!"

Sudenly, voices were heard outside the door.

"C'MON! YOU CHEATED!"

"HAH! The 98th time I've beaten you!"

"No fair Nojiko!"

The two children barged open the door scratched and bruised. Luffy crossed his arms at Ace and looked at him with a disappointed expression.

"C'mon Ace...Your uncle would'a never let a wussy girl win!"

"SHE CHEATED DADDY!"

"I DID NOT!"

"Yeah! She did some sorta sneaky thingy! She was like a cat!"

"It's called being a ninja! I'm naturally sneaky..."

"A duel's about raw power!"

"What's raw power if you can just steal their stuff and stab 'em in the back?"

"THAT'S CHEATING!"

Luffy and Nami both laughed and the two angry kids looked at them quizzically. Luffy then crouched in front of them and grinned.

"Why don't ya two work together for once? I've had some trouble with a giant bird around here..."

Nojiko and Ace stared at their dad with sparkling eyes.

"A-A GIANT BIRD!?"

"Aa! It's called a Snipe! Go try to find it and kick it's ass for me...kay?"

"AA!" They saluted and shoved each other out the door. Luffy laughed hard and plopped in a log chair, wiping his eyes. Nami chuckled at his request.

"Life is a marvelous thing, isn't it Luffy?"

Luffy looked up at her with gleeful eyes.

"Sometimes..." He fingered the scar on his chest. Nami cocked her head in confusion. Then Luffy looked back up at her grinning.

"But right now, yeah, it is..."

And there you guys go! Luffy and Nami as (almost) good parents! I hope the epilogue met up to standards! (It was kinda weird to write this as I picture the end of One Piece TOTALLY different...and also I can't really picture them having kids...)

Also, before anybody asks, yes, Little Ace has the Straw Hat. Assume that something happened, like Shanks insisted that Luffy keep it for his son or something...Just comfirming that little thingy.

Anyway...SEE YOU LATER! We're going to have one more chappie starring my dear friend Omega and a buncha bloopers and outtakes! See ya! *flies away on a magical jetpack*