Chapter 3
Ace was on duty when the news coo came. As the 2nd division commander of the Whitebeard commanders he was incharge of sorting the wanted posters. Not that he minded doing that. He was looking for his little sisters for a few days now. He knew that she wouldn’t be able to stay low until she entered the grand line. Flipping open the paper to see he looked through the posters. When he saw it. Gripping the paper he tried not to light on fire.
Monkey D. Luffy, 30,000,000 berry.
His first thought wasn’t about his sister using her full name. He did the same thing after all. It wasn’t that she had a bigger bounty than he did when he started. It was ‘There she is,’ followed closely by ‘What the hell!’. There was his baby sister.
But that’s not what had him upset, no, not in the slightest.
It was her bounty poster that had him fuming. Because there was his baby sister waving and smiling at the camera man, of course it was a bounty poster. But it is what she was dressed in that had him seeing red. She was dressed in a dress that was made out of a fine silk and mesh spaghetti strap mini dress, the dress was a skin tight fine silk dress showing off her curbs and clinging to her body. The dress had Tiger print mesh over it, the Tiger print cutting diagonal to show off half of the black part of the dress underneath while the other half it the Tiger print, with The Tiger print going further down in the black part of the dress making a little flowy tail that fluttered in the wind. The dress was short, stopping right at her mid thigh. She had black and Orange kitten heels to match her dress, with bangle bracelets, rings, a necklace, and earrings. She was still wearing her iconic straw hat, but it didn’t make her outfit any less feminine. She even put on makeup. A gradient of glittery dark brown to a glittery burnt orange eyeshadow on her lids, eyeliner, mascara, light blush, and a nude lipstick with lipgloss over top of it.
Ace couldn’t believe the audacity of the cameraman to take such a picture. Did he not know who she was? Did he not know she was his baby sister? Did he not know the kind of trouble it would stir up? He felt like he was going to rip the poster apart. But he knew he had to keep it. It was proof she was okay. But oh boy, was she going to get a lecture from him and probably Garp and everyone else when they saw it. He took a deep breath and calmed himself down. He knew Luffy didn’t mean to cause trouble. That’s just who she was.
But the audacity of this fucking camera man!
“POPS!” Ace said, spinning around angry clear in his face. “I have to go talk to a reporter a bit.”
“What about?” Whitebeard/Pops asked just as ready to laugh or fight. He wasn’t sure why their youngest looked so angry, but he was sure it was going to be a lively reason.
Ace covered the poster as he sped over to pops. He did not want his Crewmates/pseudo-Brother looking at his sister’s first bounty poster. “They took this photo of my little sister! MEN ALL OVER, WILL SEE THIS!” He yelled showing the poster to pops.
The old man took the poster, taking a closer look. He saw a young girl, a young girl his youngest Crewmate/pseudo-son has talked about all the time ever since he joined the Whitebeard pirates, staring back at him smiling. All around her looked like a war zone. But she looked all prim and proper, like she just stepped off the pages of a pirate magazine. Which yeah Whitebeard gets that, she’s a teenager and a pirate, their pirates and civilians alike that are younger than her that wear less clothing.
Whitebeard glanced at Thatch as his son took the poster from his hand. Ace quickly trying to burn it as the Thatch moved away.
“So this is your- Holy shit,” Thatch said. He was half joking to make their youngest angry. It was true that the girl smiling back at him was cute but way too young.
“Thatch! Say one more word about my sister. I know where you sleep,” Ace growled. He tried to grab the poster but Marco took it next while Thatch held Ace back.
“30 million. That’s a good first bounty,” Marco said reading the poster. He then smirked looking over the top of the poster. “She’ll grow up to be a knock out too,”
“SHE WILL NOT!” Ace yelled, his fists clenched as he struggled against Thatch’s firm grip, as more and more brothers started looking at the poster. They smiled, and laughed at their youngest.
“Didn’t know you were so protective of your sister son,” Whitebeard said smiling, he knew the others were just teasing Ace but he also knew that deep down Ace was overprotective of Luffy. It was just his nature as an older brother to be that way.
Ace looked up at Whitebeard. “Luffy is the reason I’m alive,” He said, making the jokes stop. “When Sabo died she was all I had left. She attracts trouble like treasure attracts pirates.” He said with a sigh. He lost count of how many times he had to pull Luffy out of dangerous situations.
“Gurarara!” Whitebeard laughed, smiling. “Well she's welcome aboard anytime.” Ace wouldn’t say it but was thankful to the Whitebeard Pirates. Even if they were going to find peppers in their coffee later.
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Meanwhile across the world far far far far away from the Whitebeard pirate.
Sabo was holding the same poster of Monkey D. Luffy. Sabo had lost his memory so long ago. He didn’t mind it now as he did when it was new. He had plenty of new memories. His friends and coworkers meant the world to him.
But when he opened the news paper to see the wanted posters he saw a a poster of a young girl. She looked to be 16 maybe 17. He did not like how much skin was showing. He couldn’t place why that was. He had seen plenty of posters of female pirates. Some wearing less than this.
“Luffy,” He whispered pouting.
“Sabo?” Koala asked looking over his shoulder. She saw the poster and then looked back up at Sabo’s face. “Is something wrong?” she asked.
“I feel like I know her, and I’m not happy about the amount of skin shes showing...” He muttered, still frowning at the poster.
“Maybe shes your childhood crush?” Hack said now looking over his other shoulder. Sabo felt disgusted with that idea and shook his head. That couldn’t be it.
Koala thought about it looking at the girl. She looked so happy. The smile was infectious making her smile a little. “Maybe a little sister?”
“Little sister?” Sabo gasped. He looked like he was remembering things. “Ace, and Luffy!” He whispered, and then promptly passed out.
It was three days later when he woke up that they found out he got his memories back. All because someone took a bounty picture too revealing of his little sister. Sabo talked with Dragon and the two were on a secret war path. Sabo is looking for the reporter that took the photo to ‘just talk’ with him. No one would mention that Dragon seemed all too happy to punch whoever was taking those photos of Luffy.
Koala laughed the first few weeks but later worried about Luffy. From what Koala knew the girl was always in some chaotic mess, and Sabo was losing his mind every time her photo showed even a bit of skin. ‘Luffy please get married without an announcement,’ Koala thought while watching Sabo beat up some nobody’s for talking about wanting to meet the ‘cute new pirate Strawhat and offering her a good time’.
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Money D. Dragon was the next to see it, he had been stuck in his office for the past couple hours doing paperwork when he heard that Sabo had passed out, and he was given the newest bounty posters by Koala, before she’s scurried out of the room like the Devil himself was after her.
He raised an nonexistent eyebrow at her, before looking down at the posters. And right there, on top of all of them, was a bounty poster of a young girl, a bounty poster of a young girl that was his daughter.
Dragon’s brain short circuited, blue screen, and rebooted when he saw Luffy’s bounty poster. The image of her in that ridiculous outfit, flashing her innocent smile at the camera, was burned into his retinas. He didn’t know whether to laugh or to scream. The dress was... inappropriate, to say the least. He couldn’t believe she’d wear something like that, and even more so, that some perverted camera man had the gall to take the picture. He threw the poster onto his desk, his eyes scanning over it, trying to process the information. 30,000,000 berries. That was a decent start for a pirate, but it was the way she was dressed that had his blood boiling.
He leaned back in his chair, steepling his fingers as he thought. He knew Luffy was going to be a handful, but this was beyond anything he could have imagined. He had to talk to her, to explain the implications of flaunting herself like that. But how? He hadn’t seen her in years, not since he sent her off to live with Garp. He picked up the poster again, his eyes narrowing as he studied her. She looked so much like him, except for that damn hat. It brought a bittersweet smile to his lips. Garp was going to have a field day with this.
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Meanwhile, far far, far, far, far far far far far far far away in Marineford headquarters in Sengoku’s office Sengoku sat at his desk, and when he saw the poster before its release he knew there would be trouble. Garp threw a tantrum when Ace became a pirate, now that his little, sweet, Princess of a granddaughter was one it would be worse. He cleared his throat and called Garps right hand man, Bogard, to his office. He would need help keeping Garp in check. He might even send Garp and Sakazuki to go train together. Both hated the other because their ideals didn’t match up.
If nothing else he needed to hide the bounty poster for a few days. Until it had already made the rounds and there was nothing Garp could do about it.
Bogard had picked up the poster and looked at it once, and started laughing.
Sengoku hated that people thought he was the brains behind Garp. That all he or anyone else had to do was talk to him and he would be reasonable. The man was as crazy as Luffy herself. And Sengoku had a feeling that when Garp saw that poster, he would blow a gasket. The kind of gasket that would have half of marineford scrambling to apologize for their existence.
“Vice Admiral Garp is going to ‘love’ this." Bogard laughed, slapping the poster onto the desk. “You want me to take him away so he won’t find out? Good Luck with that. He knows Luffy ran off to be a pirate weeks ago, he’s been looking for her poster ever since,” He chuckled, smiling at Sengoku.
Sengoku sighed, making peace with the last peace of relaxation he was going to have. Of course, Garp was looking out for her poster. If he didn’t get the news coo he would think something happened.
“No chance I can’t let him see this, go… go meet up with Whitebeard for a distraction?” Sengoku asked as a last ditch effort. Bogard shrugged, having finally stopped laughing. “Remember Ace joined the white beard Pirates a few months ago.” He said, Sengoku nodded, “Well, Garp is already planning to go and drag him back. He’s going to see it when he does. It’s all over the Grand Line already.” Bogard said, still smirking.
Sengoku let out a long suffering sigh, “Fine, tell the bastard to come here.” He leaned back in his chair. He would show the crazy man the poster and try to get him to see reason. Not that he thought he would be able to do so. It would be a mess.
Bogard chuckled, saluting him with two fingers before straightening out of the room. And not even a few seconds later Garp walked in.
“What's up Senny?” Garp asked, strolling in. Bogard hadn’t even been gone for a minute when Garp showed up. Meaning he was waiting for him to call.
“We are not changing the picture.” Sengoku said, holding the poster up. He waited for Garp to take it, watching as the men's casual smile turned into a frown.
Garp took the poster, his eyes widening as he took in his granddaughter dressed in... that. “What do you mean you wont change the photo?” Garp growled. “If you need a good photo then you could have just asked I have plenty,”
“We need one current. All you have is her as a kid, with her brothers.” Sengoku answered.
“I have more, those are just the best ones!” Garp said, reaching into his pocket. He brought out a wallet that only held photos of his grandkids.
‘Here we go,’ Sengoku thought to himself, as Garp pulled out a photos after photos after photos after photos of his grandkids. Most of them were of Luffy and Ace together, the two of them causing mischief and generally looking like the world’s most adorable little hellions.
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Meanwhile, across the ocean on The Red Force ship, the Red haired pirates Benn Beckman, Lucky Roux, Yasopp, Limejuice, Bonk Punch, Monster, Building Snake, Hongo, Gab, Rockstar, Oli, Gerotini, Fugar, Pururu, and Linaria all stood around their captain, Shanks, all staring down at Luffy, the girl Shanks considered a pseudo-daughter, the girl they all considered their family first ever bounty poster.
None of them liked it.
Shanks took the poster from Benn Beckman's hand, his eyes scanning over the image of Luffy dressed so... provocatively. She was smiling and waving, seemingly oblivious to the chaos she would cause. He knew she didn't mean any harm by it, but that didn't stop the rage that bubbled up inside of him. He had seen his fair share of pirates dressed in skimpy outfits, but this was different. This was Luffy, a girl who was practically family to them all. And she was only seventeen.
"What kind of pervert took this picture?" Shanks roared, his hand crumpling the paper in his grip. The ship deck fell silent, all the laughter and jokes dying out instantly.
Yasopp, the first to speak, took a deep drag of his cigar. "Looks like she's got quite the fan club already," he said, trying to lighten the mood. But his eyes were as stern as Shanks' when they fell on the poster.
Limejuice couldn't help but chuckle. "Well, she's definitely got the look of a pirate queen now," he said, admiring her fiery spirit despite the controversial outfit.
Bonk Punch nodded in agreement, his usual carefree demeanor replaced with a hint of concern. "But she's gonna be in deep waters with that bounty. She's a target now."
"She's always been a target, Punch," Beckman said, his voice calm but firm. "But we knew this day would come."
“We all knew she was going to be a pirate one day! This is it new!” Shanks cut in, “but what happened to our little Luffy that would only wear t-shirts and shorts?” He waved the bounty poster around.
Lucky Roux shrugged, “I guess she’s growing up, Cap’n,” he said, trying to ease the tension with a grin.
“Grown, my ass!” Fugar shouted, “She’s still a kid to us, and now every perverted pirate with a telescope is gonna have her poster plastered in their cabin!” His cheeks had turned a shade of red that matched the ribbon around Luffy’s hat.
The group of pirates continued to argue, their voices growing louder and more agitated with each passing moment. They had all watched Luffy grow up, from her clumsy beginnings to her current status as a pirate with a burgeoning reputation. They had all played a part in her journey, and the sight of her dressed in such a revealing outfit was not what they had envisioned for her first bounty poster.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean in the East Blue the Strawhat pirates Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Usopp and Nami all looked at Luffy’s first bounty poster.
“Your wanted poster shows a lot of skin,” Zoro deadpanned, eyeing Luffy’s outfit with a critical gaze. Nami, on the other hand, couldn’t help but appreciate the flair of the tiger print mesh.
“Shshshshsh,” Luffy laughed. She was sitting cross legged on the ships figure head. “It’s okay, I’m a pirate after all.”