"Luffy": talk

"Sabo": whisper

"ACE": shout

"Gomu Gomu no": the skill's name

'idiot': thinking

<Joyboy>: voice of all things

-Into the story-

It had been a few months since Garp trained all of his grandkids. Even though his training was hard, in the end, all of the kids' speed and strength had improved. Each of them all managed to either learn Soru or Geppo, while Luffy and Law had successfully learnt all the Rokushiki, since those two worked the hardest. Whenever Garp had to return to the marine Headquarter, Corazon would be the one watching them training, because the blond had also learnt those skills when he was still a marine.

Besides that, the Drowning squad could also finally take control of their devil fruits, thank to Rayleigh and Corazon. Ace and Sabo could both easily fight and light their pipes on fire, while Sabo could transform back and fore with ease and longer timer, but Sabo still needed to wear the seastone cuffs around his neck, two of his arms and legs in case he would lost control when he passed his time limit, which had happened in the past. Law could finally create a bigger room which surrounded half the island, and the room also stayed longer than before while Luffy could turn into his Gear 4, but it could only work for 10 minutes, which he needed to improve more.

"RUN"

"Nihahahahah......This is fun......."

"Less talking, more running!"

"CATCH THOSE LITTLE BRATS! DON'T LET THEM RUN AWAY"

Ace, Luffy and Sabo were running away from the people of the Ramen restaurant which they just ate without paying. Despite the busy street, the three kids dodged and ran through the people around them smoothly, maybe living in the jungle and fighting with dangerous animals was a good thing for them. But then a man suddenly shouted out Sabo's name, which got the kids to stop and looked at him suspiciously.

"Sabo? Wait, you're Sabo, right? So you still alive?"

"Sabo, did that guy just call you? Do you know him?" Ace asked.

"N-No, that guy must confuse me with someone else. Come on let's go, they almost caught up to us", Sabo said.

The three boys then continued running away, but later the three of them were stopped again at the sight of the older boy, whose hand was holding a long sword, Trafalgar Law. The teen was smirking at them, which gave the other three a chill feeling down their spines, then he spoke up.

"I assume you guys have forgotten about what Cora-san taught us."

The people who were chasing them also stopped when they heard what Law had said. They thought the older one was lecturing those three about their bad behavior, but their next move had made them speechless. Those three kids turned around and bowed at them while saying

"Thank you for the food!"

"Good! Now let's go". Law said

Suddenly a blue sphere appeared around the kids, all of them then vanished without any track being left.
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The four of them were on the cliff where they always trained with each other, or just stood there to see the ocean view and feel the strong wind. Just as they arrived, Luffy called out for Isora and started to pet him, while Ace looked bother because of something and Sabo was feeling uneasy. Law decided to go back to where his crewmates were lying after their sparring with him a few minutes ago. Suddenly, Luffy spoke up.

"Ne, Torao! Are Rayleigh and Cora-san at home?"

"Cora-san is helping at the Party Bar, Rayleigh-ya just went on a mission which was given by your father. He said that they had successfully tracked down Nico-ya". Law answered while taking his book out and sat down near his crew.

Just on hearing his crewmate's name, Luffy couldn't help himself but to smile widely, he then turned back to play with Isora and left Law to read his book. Ace, who had been silent for a while now, had finally looked at Sabo and asked him

"Sabo, who was that man? I'm sure you two know each other."

"........that man.........he was.........he was my father" Sabo said quietly, but the other could still hear him well.

"Wait! So you aren't an orphan?" Ace looked surprised at Sabo.

"Yeah"

"Not just that. Sabo used to be a noble, but he ran away because his parents didn't treat him right", Luffy said casually.

"H-how do you know that, Luffy?!" Sabo looked shocked at the youngest who was sitting on the sleeping Sea King's head.

"You told me", Luffy answered.

"But I didn't tell you anything."

"Sabo-ya, why did you lie to us?" Law looked up from his book, and gave Sabo a cold glare.

Sabo was surprised at Law's cold voice. He didn't know it could be colder than usual. Ace also looked at him seriously, but Luffy only stayed silent and watched them with the eyes which could see through his soul. They all wanted an answer from him, which made the atmosphere suddenly become harder for Sabo to breathe. After a while, he spoke up.

"I'm scared you guys would hate me. Because all of you hold a strong hatred toward the World Government, Celestial Dragon and Noble. So I think you guys may also hate me if you know about me"

All the kids stayed silent after what Sabo had said. But then the tense atmosphere was broken by Luffy, who was laughing his ass off. Law and Ace soon also followed the younger. They kept laughing like that, which caused the sleeping trio to wake up, and Sabo to look at them weirdly.

"Why are you guys laughing?

"Oh, Sabo! It's just we all didn't care about your family really," Ace said.

"Yeah, we like you because you are Sabo. You are nothing like those noble scums". Luffy said.

"And you should look at us, Sabo-ya. We are a circus with all kinds of people, so one more runaway noble wasn't a big deal."

"Wait, Sabo-san is a noble?" asked Shachi, who just slightly woke up.

Sabo was taken back by what they had said, he also felt touched by them. Now he thought of it, all of them were really a circus with different kinds of people. Shachi and Penguin were orphans, Bepo was a talking polar bear, Ace and Luffy were the biological sons of dangerous people, Law was the survival of a deadly disease, Cora was an adopted son of the Fleet Admiral, and he was a Celestial Dragon, Rayleigh was the Pirate King's Vice-captain. Suddenly, Ace spoke up.

"I just have an amazing idea. You guys wait here for me, OK? It'll be quick"

Then he ran away and left the others to be curious about his action, except for Luffy who was busy being a giggling mess. After a while, Ace came back with a bottle of sake and a few small cups. He then placed all the cups in a circle. Others also came up to see, each of them sat at each side of the cup's position. Ace then began to open the bottle of sake.

"Wait! Isn't that their sake?" asked Penguin.

"Yeah, I just stole it after this" Ace said with a grin on his face.

"You're going to regret it" said Law, he then gave out a tired sigh.

They could steal anything they wanted and the adult wouldn't care, but except for those bottles. The alcolholic trio were very scary when they were mad, maybe more scary than Garp. Rayleigh's punishment was usually training, but the children had to train non stop for a whole week, while Corazon would turn them into his target practice. Dandan was the only one who would give them the lightest punishment, because she would only tell them to do their housework for a whole week. They really didn't want to know what would happen if they found out their missing bottle was in Ace's hand. All of them were scared, even the two most powerful kids in their group. But then Ace spoke up while pouring the sake into those cups.

"Do you guys know? We could become brothers if we exchanged this cup of sake!..."

Their eyes were all wide open knowing what Ace was trying to do, except for Luffy who was closing his eyes and feeling the nostalgic about that moment.

"When we finally set sail at the age of 17, we all might not be on the same ship. But our bond will never die! Whenever you are, whatever you do? We'll always be bonded together!" Ace finished after the seven cups were full.

"But I'm not a human like you guys", Bepo said quietly.

"We don't really care about it! Sworn Brother didn't mean to have the same blood or the same kind." Said Law.

"Besides, we also have these two as our brothers, so it won't be different from you" Penguin explained while pointing at Luffy and Ace.

"HEY, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT" Ace shouted, which caused the others to laugh.

"Nishishishishi.......You guys are so funny, but I can see we all love each other very much...." Luffy chuckled.

All the kids immediately became silent at Luffy's statement. Their cheeks were slightly reddened in embarrassment, while they couldn't say any words. Especially Ace and Law, since those two weren't a kind of opening their hearts, so it was weird for them to feel something like fondness and affection from the other. But in the end they all looked at each other and smiled, like they had acknowledged that the seven of them were now all brothers in everything but blood.

"OK, we need to do it fast or else they will know Ace has stolen their sake" Sabo said.

"Let's have another spar, but only with a weapon this time", Luffy suggested.

"You really love training, don't you Lu?" Shachi said while looking at the youngest

They then all picked up their cups, while glancing at each other, and grinning.

"Starting from today......" Ace began.

"WE ARE BROTHERS!" They cheered in unison.

The clinking sound was created when all the cups touched each other, some sake was spilled over the other cup, mixing and creating their new bond, which was so strong that it could never be broken even by death or time. They all then took their own drink, and let the hot sensation of the sake slowly touch every corner of the mouth, tying the knot of their new bond.

Suddenly, a shadow figure appeared above all the kids with a very dangerous aura that caused them to freeze in their own place. The kids slowly turned their heads to the figure just to meet an extremely furious Dandan, who was ready to punch all of them till death.

"What do you brats think you are doing? Drinking sake at this age? I thought Law would know better than this" Dandan said with a cold voice while gritting her teeth together.

Her eyes twitched as showing her anger when she saw their attitude. Luffy was laughing like he always did, Penguin and Shachi were giving her something like a proud grin, Ace and Law didn't show any sigh of feeling guilty, while Sabo and Bepo lowered their heads as an apology.

"YOU BRATS.....!" Dandan shouted.

"RUN" Luffy yelled at the top of his lungs.

The straw hat kid quickly ran away, while cracking like an idiot. His brothers also snapped back immediately, and scattered. In a blink of an eye, the kids had all disappeared like thin air. Dandan then looked down at those empty cups, and cursed those brats for stealing their sake. But Dandan was also smiling as she remembered the previous scene, it was truly a heart-warming scene for the new and strong bond to be created by them.