Akira: Hello here is a new fic featuring Marco as our main baby!

This is Marco x Ace with Kidd x Law and Zoro x Kaku as side pairings!

_MARCOS POV_

"Marco where're you hiding?" Says my big brother Thatch.

I'm hiding in my closet. Shh, don't tell Thatchy. I try to stop my laughing with my hand but I accidentally let out a giggle.

Suddenly the door opens and I Thatch with his face drawn on with Izous make up.

"Ah ha! I found ya!" He grinned.

I try to escape from him but he caught me...

I should say hi, huh?

My names Marco Newgate. I'm 6 years old and I have 14 big brothers. That's a lot of brothers.

My papas name is Edward Newgate, but people always call him Whitebeard. Why do they call him that? He hasn't got a beard, he's got a moustache. People asks if he's my grandma, is it because he's 72? I just thought that was normal...

Thatch here, is one of my big brothers. He's 17 and has a thing for cooking.

Izou is a year younger than him and he like to dress up in kimonos and girl clothes. I don't mind so long as he doesn't put me in a dress or make up.

Haruta is 14, and he like to trick people. Everyone calls him 'The Trickster'.

Rakuyo is 23, he has strange hair but not as strange as Thatch.

Vista is 28, he has a cool moustache and he's really good at swords.

Namur's next, he's 20 and he has a job at the aquarium. he's really smart on every type of fish out there!

Jozu is 29 and he studies on rocks. his favourite rock is a Diamond, I guess that's why everyone calls him 'Diamond Jozu'.

There's others but that will take too long.

Thatch picks me up and puts me on his hip. "Did you really think you could hide forever?" He asked me.

"I could have tried..." I mumbled.

_NO ONE POV_

Thatch laughs as he carries his youngest brother. The boy has been with his family for about 2 years and in that small amount of time he has everybody wrapped around his little finger.

Edward Newgate is the CEO of a multibillion dollar organisation called 'Yonko Enterprises'. The vise president to this company is a man named Shanks La Roux. An old Student to his old friend Gol D Roger.

Newgate also is in ownership of 16 orphanages within Grand Line City. Each one he had adopted a son from. And each one is Under the management of a son. the children of the orphanages have taken a liking to call Newgate and his sons Captain and his Division Commanders. Thstch is the 4th Division Commander, the 4th division was the 4th orphanage he had bought. Newgate is in control of 2 orphanages, the first and second division. He plans to give the first division to his youngest son, Marco.

Marco is a special case to the Newgate family. Without the knowledge of the Newgates he was abused daily by both the care takers and even some of the older children, none of the other children were abused, it was just him. Outraged, Newgate had adopted the boy and had the care takers tried and arrested. the older kids were either to apologise to Marco or were put on a different orphanage at a different city.

But the damage had been done. Marco was wary of who was within five feet of him and if someone suddenly touch him, he screamed and ran to hide in a dark place like a closet or under a bed.

Eventually, Marco had slowly began to trust Edward and his sons and on his first birthday with the large family, he was given a Blue Phoenix Plushie.

Marco had immediately loved and became attach to the plush bird, everyone in the room had their heart melt at the sight of the awe and wonder within the boys bright blue eyes.

As Thatch was carrying his little brother to the kitchen, he saw his brother Izou, the 16th division commander, with a familiar blue bird.

"So you found it Izou?" Thatch spoke to his younger brother.

"Yeah, Stephan was guarding it in Harutas room. Haruta might have had it on him." The kimono wearing teenager replied.

Marco took his precious toy in his arms and nuzzled his face in the soft material of the bird.

"Now let's get some breakfast!" Thatch smiled widely and proceeded to the kitchen.

"So it's your last few weeks at daycare, Marco. You excited to go to school soon?" Izou asked the small blond boy.

Marco frowned a little. "I don' really wanna go-yoi..."

"Aww come on bud! It's fun! You'll make some friends, learn cool things,

It'll be great!" Thatch tries to cheer up the boy as he put him on a seat and starts to make breakfast. Pancakes sounds good.

Marco looks to the brunet. "But you said you hate school-yoi." he retorted.

Izou and Thatch says simultaneously as well as the other older siblings in the room. "That's high school."

The child blinks. High school? It is a school up high somewhere? No wonder they hate it.

"Gurarara! Good morning my children!" Says a loud, thundering yet comforting voice.

"Good morning Oyaji!" Says the elder siblings.

"Mornin' Papa-yoi!" Marco smiles widely to the strong man.

Despite being 72, he doesn't look it. He is actually very fit and strong for his age, he has fought and yet he drinks like it's the end of the world!

"How are you today my little phoenix?" He asks his son.

"Mm! I'm fine, I don't want to start this school soon-yoi." Marco mutters the last few words.

The elder man chuckles a deep, loud chuckle. "We go to school and learn what we need to be able to have jobs, pay bills and learn to read and write. That's how we learn my boy."

"But why can't you and the others teach me that?" Marco tries to protest.

"Because there are just some things that we can't teach." Newgate smiles.

Before Marco could say anything further, a plate of stacked pancakes with pineapple pieces and chocolate syrup was in front of the boy.

"Nows not the time to talk, let's eat!" Thatch smiled wide.

And so they ate.

Now at the daycare, Marco held onto the hand of Haruta while he held his phoenix in his other hand. His best friend, Kaku, was also with him. Kaku was 4 and had orange hair and a long, square nose.

He may be able to be so free and happy with his family, but strangers and other kids are a different story all together.

As the two entered the building, Marco got settled in an area for drawing with Kaku and his little blue friend.

"Okay. I'll see you after school, okay Mar'?" Haruta smiles, crouched to eye level with his little brother.

The blond shyly nodded his head. He hugged Haruta and they gave a small fist bump and a wave good bye to Kaku as the elder then left.

Marco didn't like people, he feared them. He had lived at the orphanage since he was born so those first few years really had an impact on him. Kaku was his next door neighbour who had four brothers and one sister; Kumadori - 19 years old, the eldest, Jyabura - 16, Lucci -who was the same age as Juabura, Fukuro - 14 years old, and Kalifa who was 12.

After some time with Marco drawing, Kaku was called over by a teacher, someone came up to him.

"You have a phoenix too?" Says a voice.

Marco looked up to see silver coloured eyes, dark, wavy, chin-length hair and cheeks with freckles along them.

Marco thought the boy was cute. He noticed the boy had a red tank top with black shorts, in his hands is a Phoenix plushie almost exactly like his own but Marcos phoenix is blue, not red.

"Yeah..." He said slowly, not sure what to say.

"Cool! I thought I was the only one who likes phoenixes!" The boy smiled bright. "I'm Ace."

"... Marco-yoi." Marco replies.

" 'Yoi'?" Ace questioned. "A speech tic?"

Marco nods, he was always made fun of for that. But his papa or brothers didn't mind, Izou said it was cute.

"That's cool, I have a cousin that says "-ya" after saying someone's name."

Marco raised an eyebrow at the boy, this kid is strange.

"Even though your blue Phoenix is cool, mine is better!" The boy smiled mischievously.

Ah, no. Oh it's on!

"Yeah right-yoi. Blue Phoenixes are better." Marco states.

"Nuh-uh!"

"Yeah-huh!"

And so the fight between a six year old and a four year old had begun.

Their bickering ended up with them out of breath, red faced. They stared at each other for a brief moment until they both had suddenly abrupt into loud fits of laughter.

"Hahaha... you're funny!" Ace said to Marco.

The blond looked to the younger boy and smiled at him.

"You wanna be friends?"

It was a question Marco had rarely been asked. The ones who asked that was Kaku and some boys named Zoro and Kidd.

Marcos smile widened and he nodded and Ace smiled.

Kaku had then came back and noticed the two boys smiling to one another.

"Umm... Did I miss something?" He asked.

"I made a friend-yoi..." Marco said.

Kakus eyes widened. He smiled and greeted the boy.

The three friends had played with their toys; Marco and Ace with their Phoenixes and Kaku with his giraffe.

Kaku left to go get a drink, Marco offered to go with him but was told it was fine.

As Kaku was walking, giraffe in hand, he was pushed over. His toy was taken by bullies and he chased them outside to get it back.

"Give it back!" He exclaimed.

"What Cha gonna do about it, long nose?!" Says one boy, others laughing.

What could he do? These boys were older than him and taller. He was taught it was bad to start fights even though his family was made up of gangsters.

"Give it back to him!" A voice called out. Kaku and the boys looked over to find a boy with green hair and dark eyes. He wore a white T-shirt with a green hooded vest that had tiger stripes all over it, black shorts and black sneakers.

"Oh yeah? What are you gonna do about it?" Sneered another boy. He laughed with some other boys. He was quickly silenced as the green haired boy kicked him in the face.

An all out brawl (for 6 year olds) was brought out and the green haired boy win against 5 other boys, he was left only with scrapes and a bruise here and there. The boys ran off and Kaku was given his toy back.

"T-thank you!" He stuttered. "are you hurting?"

The boy shook his head. "I'm fine. What about you?"

"I-I'm okay. I'm Kaku."

"Zoro..." The green haired boy. now known as Zoro, replied.

"Like in the movie?" Kaku asked curiously. Zoro raised his eyebrows and so Kaku explained the movie of a Spanish swordsman with the same name as him.

As it turned out Zoro liked to play swords as well and wanted to be a swordsman himself when he grows up. Kaku admired him for that.

The two soon enough became friends and had met up with Marco and Ace. Marco was worried when he saw that Kaku had scrapped his knee, the two didn't even notice it and Zoro got immediately worried. Marco has cleaned and patched up the scrape (with the help of a teacher) and soon enough it was home time.

Ace was picked up by a red haired man and a blond teenager, he said his goodbyes to his friends and left with his father and brother.

"How was your day Ace?" Asked the red haired man.

"It was good! I made some friends! One even has a Phoenix but his is blue!" Ace replied excitedly.

The blond haired teenager said. "Oh? Was that the blond boy over with your group?"

"Yeah Sabo! His names Marco! He has a speech tic like Law, 'Cept he says 'Yoi' when he finishes speaking! The orange hair boy is Kaku, he got bullied because of his nose and 'cause he likes giraffes. then there's Zoro, he wants to be a swordsman!" Ace rambled near the end about his friends.

The two men listen to the boy, it's nice to know he made some friends.

As the trio came home, Ace immediately ran to his mother, Rouge, and his baby brother, Luffy. He kissed his mothers cheek and told her of his day.

Rouge giggles as Luffy cooed. "Well speaking of Law." Rouge started. Sabo and Aces attention was on Rouge intently. "It seems like he's moving here with Uncle Roci and Uncle Doffy."

Ace was exited. Sure, Law was a strange kid but he lived with a man who fell over nothing and caught fire and a pink flamingo! Ace loved Doffy (real name is Doflamingo), he was funny and wore what he wanted. Roci (or Rocinante) was usually called Corazon, and although he was clumsy, he did care greatly for Law and his family. Doflamingo and Rocinante was Rouges older brothers and were always there for her and vise versa. They had showed Shanks and Rouge Sabo when he lived at an orphanage near their town and so the couple adopted the boy making him family.

_Back at the daycare_

Zoro was then picked up by a man with yellow eyes and dark hair. He didn't look like he's smile so much but he smiled softly when his eyes landed on Zoro.

"Later guys!" Zoro called and went to the man who held his bag and the two left.

"That was Dracule Mihawk." Marco said. Kaku looked to his friend confused. "He was a pro swordsman but he quit and now teaches at a dojo," He explained.

Kaku looked to where Zoro and the man now known as Mihawk once were.

Soon after, Haruta came in with a man with dark wavy hair, sharp eyes and a slight goatee. This was Rob Lucci, one of Kaku's older brothers.

The two went to their siblings were on their way home.

"What happened to your knee?" Lucci asked his little brother. It may not look it, but he cared greatly for his little brother, he looked so much like their mother. Even Kalifa couldn't compare to him on looks of their mother.

"Some bullied were after me again and took my giraffe." Kaku felt Lucci tense. "But don't worry! Zoro saved me and Marco fixed my knee!" He tried to calm his brother. It worked until he was asked;

"Who's Zoro?"

Marco decided to help his best friend. "Zoro'a a friend of mine, he became Kakus friend today after he beat up the bullies."

"Oh! And Marco made a friend today!" Kaku smiled.

Haruta got exited at the news. "Oh? Who is it?"

Marco stayed silent, his cheeks being dusted in a light pink.

Kaku giggled. "His names Ace. Has a Phoenix like Marco only his is red."

Haruta smiled. He was SO going to tell everyone.

As the quarto came to the front of their houses, they said their goodbyes and walked into their houses.

"We're home!" Haruta called out.

Vista came into sight and smiled at the two. "Welcome back. how was your days?" He asked.

Haruta huffed. "Mine was a bore! But as it turns out, Marcos was interesting~" He smirked.

Vista became intrigued. "What happened?" He asked.

"Wait 'till everyone's home at dinner. it's a surprise!" Haruta smiled, he let Marco down who went to Bista and gave the tall man a hug.

Soon enough, it was dinner and Haruta told everyone of Marcos new friend.

"Haruta!" Marco shouted. "I would of told them!"

"No you wouldn't have!" Haruta said.

Newgate laughed heartily. "It seems we may meet this Ace boy soon."

Laughter was echoed throughout the dining room and soon enough chatter had been made through the room.

Marco was scared.

No, scratch that. Marco was absolutely terrified.

Nightmares were all that was in his head.

Tears were evident in his eyes. He clutched his phoenix like a lifeline. Stephan woke up from Marcos yell as he woke up. The boy was in obvious distress.

Marco got out of his large bed and slowly made his way to Thatchs room,his phoenix still in his grasp. Stephan followed to be sure the boy was okay.

*Knock Knock* "T-thatch?" Marco hiccuped, keeping his voice quiet so he didn't wake any others. He was scared, you could hear it in his voice. "Are you up?"

Slowly, the Door opened to a tired Thatch. His hair no longer in its pompadour, it now reaches his shoulders.

"Marco? What's wrong?" He asks sleepily.

Marco hiccuped and was now hugging his big brothers legs. Crying silently.

Thatch was now wide awake and knelt down to Marco and picked him up. Rubbing soothing circles on the six year olds back.

"I-I h-had-d a n-nightm-mare..." Marco silently said.

Thatch closed his door carried him into his room that he shared with Izou. Izou was stored awake and saw the crying boy, he immediately got out of bed and went to the boy and Thatch.

Marco soon calmed down after telling them of his nightmare of his time at the orphanage.

Izou went back to bed as soon as Marco fell asleep in Thatchs arms. Thatch went back to bed with his little brother in his grasp, the phoenix in his own grasp. Slowly, Thatch went back to sleep with Marco dreaming of a better dream. One with his papa and brothers and even his new found friends. Aces smile and two Phoenixes; One Blue, One Red, flying in the sky with shimmers of blue and red seen across the sky.

Akira: and I'm done! What do you think? REVIEWS!