A raven haired boy ran through the forest desperately. He ignored the pain in his bloody limbs and his exhausted mind. After all if he gave in to the pain now, they'd catch him.

And once you're caught there was almost no chance of escape.

He would know this better than anyone.

'Keep running' was what you could basically call the child's motto.

It was a silent night, there was a full moon all that could be heard was the shallow weak breathing of the injured child, not that anyone would really care.

The boy would have given up if it hadn't been for the fact that his brothers would have most likely blamed themselves for his sudden disappearance.

Lost in his thoughts the boy ended up tripping over a root which normally would not have been a problem if his vision hadn't started to fog. As realization hit him, he gritted his teeth and mumbled a curse 'dammit-' was all he could say as he fell to the ground with a painful 'crunch'.

He felt something cold clamp around his hands. As he suspected they were sea stone cuffs.

Without hesitation the boy stood up to see eight dark figures since there was no light though what did he honestly expect?

He gave them a deathly glare not caring much that they probably couldn't see it for the lack of lighting.

The boy threw a stupid blind kick at one figure causing him to fall to the ground lifelessly the man hadn't even had time to dodge the attack. As if on cue all figures pounced at the wild and dangerous child.

"You know you can't escape!" a gruff voice said pinning the small form to the ground mercilessly.

"We always get what we want" an older sounding women said as she pulled out some restraints from her travel bag.

All the while the boy was growling and trying to bite the limbs that kept him pinned to the ground and stood between his freedom and brothers" let go bastards!"

That left the figures frozen in place for a split second you could sense fear and hesitation in the air. But before the currently restrained boy could use this to his advantage another voice decided to cut through the atmosphere like a knife.

"And why would we do that dragon child?"

Meanwhile with our famous trio (obviously not including the littlest)...

"S-savo you took my pillow…" a freckled face boy whined barely awake throwing his arm over to his brother, which ended up on the others face.

The said boy groaned in response " ace go back to sleep~" the blond begged as he swooshed the hand off his face.

"Bu- savo i just wanted to cuddle~"the boy faked a hurt expression.

"Do you want to deal with a whining luffy this early in the morning?"

The brunette immediately went quiet shutting his mouth. Which made the blond chuckle and settle down an idea popped into the mind of the current silent one.

"Fine! I'll just cuddle with lu."that made the blond pale drastically "n-no don't you dare, it's way too early for this, look the moon is still out! i swear if you wake him up i'll-" before the blond could retaliate any further he noticed the pale and horrified expression on his brother's face.

"A-ace?" the blue eyed child said getting up and moving closer to the other. " oh my god" they both stared wide eyed at the place there baby brother was suppose to be, covered in what looked like blood (though they really couldn't see much) after a moment it seemed to register in both their minds that there little brother was gone. he was gone and it looked like he was dragged out. "Luffy!"

They both ran as fast as they could to the makeshift door of their tree house along the way grabbing their pipes and hats.

There was no exchange of any words as they ran threw the forest of their island. but for them the forest was there home it was the one safe place they could call home. Where no matter how many people try to enter they always failed, it was because of the huge animals that roamed the forest, in a way the brothers secretly thought of them as guardians not for them but for there home.

After a lot of frantic running the top hatted boy tripped over a rock after spotting something horrifyingly familiar "Sabo you okey!?" the older brother asked "y-yeah i just tripped but think i saw something" the boy stood up placing his hat safely on his head again.

The boy walked hastily over to some pointy rocks.

A straw hat