Summary: Monkey D Rouge. Also known as the only one of Garp's "grandchildren" that actually became a marine. Or Luffy's lazy twin sister. She didn't care either way. SI-OC.

"There is no such thing as being born into the world to be alone."

Saul Jaguar D

Rouge pinched the bridge of her nose, an annoyed sigh escaping her mouth. "For the last time, it's Rouge, not Rogue!" She snapped at her twin brother, who somehow managed to mispronounce her name despite living with her for six years already.

Luffy merely grinned at her in response. "But Rogue sounds cooler~!"

Rouge allowed her head to hit the counter of Makino's bar with a loud thud. "Whoever got me stuck as your twin is the devil..." She grumbled despite the sting her forehead was feeling.

"Makino! Rogue hit herself again!"

Makino giggled setting down two glasses filled with milk in front of the two siblings. "Rouge, you shouldn't hurt yourself."

Rouge raised her head and scowled at the bar owner. "I'm already losing brain cells by being around Luffy, what's one or two more?" She sarcastically asked.

Makino blinked. "My, you're in a bad mood aren't you?" She asked without missing a beat, used to Rouge getting sarcastic when annoyed. If Makino had to guess, she'd say Rouge didn't get a proper rest. The bags under the girl's eyes clearly gave it away.

"Uh-huh, she's been like this since breakfast." Luffy nodded.

Rouge rolled her eyes as she chugged down her glass of milk. It was true that she didn't sleep well, but that was more because she got too sweaty during the night and felt too aware to fall asleep.

Makino's cool palm gently met her forehead. "Your temperature is normal."

Rouge rolled her eyes and pushed Makino's palm away from her. "What are you? My mom or something?" She was aware of how harsh that sounded, but she didn't care. She didn't need Makino taking care of her. She could do that herself.

She's been taking care of herself since she was sixteen...

Except, she was six right now, wasn't she? She wasn't the twenty-six year old her mind thought she was.

She guiltily averted her eyes. She wasn't one to apologize either. 'I'll pick up those flowers Makino likes later...' Makino was smart enough to figure out that those flowers would be her way of saying sorry after all.

A smaller palm roughly met her forehead. "...no fever!" Luffy grinned.

Rouge smiled slightly, ignoring the sting on her forehead. The only one she would allow to act so familiar with her was Luffy, her precious twin. "You're such an idiot Luffy." She fondly muttered, not even making a move to remove Luffy's palm and instead flicking Luffy's nose.

"Bwahahaha, it seems my timing is perfect!"

Luffy paled.

Rouge shivered.

The Monkey twins slowly and mechanically turned around to see their grandpa standing at the entry of Makino's bar, a huge D grin on his features. It was a common fact that Luffy was scared shitless of his grandfather.

Rouge on the other hand, wasn't really scared. But, if she wasn't scared, why did she shiver? Because she knew that whenever Garp came to visit, it meant that the old man would rope both her and Luffy into some crazy training to make them 'strong marines' somehow. Rouge much preferred to believe that Garp's idea of training was basically doing something insane without thinking whether or not it would scar her and Luffy.

Pure insanity. That was the two words she'd use to describe Garp's training.

"Garp-jii...hello." Rouge politely drawled out, knowing that if she didn't greet him, she'd get a fist of love.

Luffy however was too slow to react and ended up getting a punch to the head. "Your grandfather comes to visit and you don't even say hello? You're a shitty brat!"

"I'm sorry!" Luffy immediately cried out, nuzzling his aching head.

Rouge winced in sympathy for her twin, but was glad that it was him, not her getting the Fist of Love.

"Hey Makino?"

"Yes?"

"If I die, call the marines for his crazy ass."

"He is a marine."

"...oh right."

Rouge fell to the floor, feeling as if her skull almost broke.

"I heard that, you ungrateful brat!"

Before she could make a run for it, and maybe escape from whatever torture Garp was going to put her and Luffy through, Garp grabbed her and Luffy by the scruff of their necks.

She and Luffy shared solemn tear filled looks.

"Luffy, if I die...I want you to know, that even though you're an annoying monkey, I love you. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me." One might say she was being dramatic, but she was speaking from her heart. Unlike Luffy, she didn't have the main character armor to protect her. She could just imagine Garp killing her by accident.

"Rogue..." Luffy whispered in shock. "You're the best sister ever..." He said in return.

Garp rolled his eyes, trust his grandchildren to be dramatic and act as if they were going to die. Before either of his grandchildren could react, he threw them off a cliff. He grinned in amusement as both his grandchildren let out loud terrified yells, one day they would never fear anything. He was just making sure they got on the right track to becoming strong and fearless marines.

"IT'S ROUGE, NOT ROGUE!"

"...AH!"

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THOSE WERE MY LAST WORDS!"

Garp shook his head as he heard a loud crash. "Are you two still alive?!" He yelled down to them.

"I want meat!"

"I'm gonna file your ass! This is abuse! I'll let the marines arrest you!"

"Bwahahaha, I am the marine!"

"Forty-six, this is abuse, forty-seven, how was he even allowed to become a marine?" Rouge grumbled, doing the sit ups Garp had ordered her to do. Unlike her brother she was slow, so while Luffy was resting on his back, she still had to finish her sit ups.

"I dunno." Luffy shrugged.

"It was a rhetorical question."

"Huh? Rheto-blah?"

"Rhetorical." Rouge repeated. "It means that you're not supposed to answer."

"Oh, sorry."

"It's alright." Rouge sighed finishing her sit ups. "But with the hell he puts us through, he's probably serious about us becoming marines." She mused aloud, wiping away the sweat from her forehead. She heard footsteps approaching her and Luffy from afar and sighed, guess she couldn't even catch a five minute break before Garp threw something at them again.

"But I don't wanna-"

Despite how sore her body was, Rouge quickly tackled Luffy and covered his mouth.

"Oh, you two are done. Run twenty laps to the dock and back here, then we can eat." Garp ordered.

Rouge sighed in relief. If Luffy had finished that sentence, they would still be busy 'till midnight. Or he'd throw them over another cliff. Which Rouge didn't feel like doing.

As if the notion of food powered Luffy, which it probably did, Luffy grabbed Rouge by her wrist and started running at top speed. Rouge didn't even blink as she practically flew while Luffy dragged her.

'Less exercise for me~!' She gleefully thought as the wind hit her face. "Chihihihi~!"

Hearing his twin laugh, Luffy let out his own trademark laugh: "Shishishi!"

'Maybe, this is what it feels like to have something worth everything...' Rouge mused later that night as she, Luffy and Garp feasted on a meal that could feed a family of ten.

Chapter End

Author's Note: Short chapter, I know, but I hope y'all enjoy it. So far Garp, Makino and Luffy have all made an appearance. In the next chapter, another major character will appear.