Chapter 27
Luffy was in the same cliff that Ace and Haruno were this morning, lied with his head in the ground and his straw hat on top of his head. Memories flas.h.i.+ng through his head... Like in the day that they discovered that Sabo was a son of a n.o.ble and said: "Ace! Luffy! Haru! One day, we need to go to the sea! We need to be free!" Or when they made the sake ritual and became brothers, with Ace shouting: "From today onward, we are brothers!" He was lost in his thought and memories that he didn't notice that Ace and Haruno were approaching him. Ace looked at him and with an angry expression hit his head with a punch!
"Until when are you going to stay there?" Asked Ace looking at the calm and beautiful sea. Haruno smiled and patted Luffy's head and said: "Well Ace, he is just sad." Ace ignored what Haruno said and continued: "The treasure that we stored in that tree was stolen. Maybe it was one survivor of the BlueJam pirates it even the govern... I don't know where it is. I don't care anymore about the treasure, it was the pirate savings that I had with Sabo... Now that he doesn't need it, I don't need it too. What is the use of a treasure if I couldn't protect him?" Haruno sighed and looked at Luffy, who started to say: "Ace... I... I want to be stronger!"
"More and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more... And stronger!" Tears falling from his eyes while Luffy was saying: "To protect everyone and everything! I don't want to lose anything..." Haruno smiled and got up. Then, Luffy continued:
Ace ignored Haruno and continued to say: "Sabo asked me to take care of you... I promise that I will never die! How can I let behind a crybaby little brother like you?" Luffy nodded while tears continued to fall from his eyes, saying: "Okay... Okay." Ace looked at Haruno and continued: "I not very smart... I don't know what killed Sabo yet. But it was something opposite to freedom. Sabo died before knowing what freedom is, but we drank sake together and we are alive! You know, Luffy, Haru... We need to live without regrets!"
Haruno and Luffy nodded and said: "Okay." Haruno remembered one day when they were in their secret base... Luffy was sleeping and Ace and Sabo were looking at the starts... Then he (Haru) said: "Boys if a n.o.ble family became n.o.bles when they are eighteen years old. That's why I need to leave this place until I am seventeen years old... Right?" Ace looked at him and with a weak smile said: "One day, we are going to the sea. We are going to live how we want and be freer than everyone else!" Haruno smiled and Luffy nodded and said: "Okay." Ace sighed and continued: "That means that we will have a lot of enemies, even grandpa is going to be our enemy. We need to risk, we will go to the sea at seventeen years old! And then, we will be pirates!"
Then, that day onward they started to train intensely. Ace and Luffy trained the hand to hand combat and Haruno trained his Ak.u.ma no Mi skills and Mind and Soul skills too. He made quests of the system and got SC to buy a lot of buffs and debuffs, Ace, Haruno, and Luffy fought with Garp and other dangerous creatures every day and night. Then, in a blink of an eye, nine years pa.s.sed, today is the day that Haruno is going to the sea! Haruno was anxious and Luffy was anxious for himself! Wanting to got to the sea quick. Well, Haruno opened his status to see the difference of nine years of training:
[Name: Monkey D. Haruno] [Ocupation: None] [Age: 17]
[Lvl 18]
[BE: 300/300]
[ME: 500/500]
[SE: 490/490]
[BP: 80]
[MP: 100]
[SP: 90]
[Body Skills:[Shared Vision] [Semei-Kikan] [High Vision]
[Mind Skills:[Telekinesis] [Fire Control] [Mind Break] [Focus]
[Soul Skills:[Animal Language] [Soul Connection] [Soul Fire] [Soul Eyes] [Soul Share]
[Haki:[Observation Haki (C)]
[Ak.u.ma No Mi:[Room Room no Mi]
[Permanent Buff:[Strong Mind (Golden)] [Animal Charm (Golden)] [Ak.u.ma no Mi Training Speed Up (Golden)] [Body Energy Recovery Buff (Purple)]
[Focus: Literary help you to focus easily.]
[Soul Eyes: With this skill, you can see the soul of the target.]
[Soul Share: Shares the skills or abilities that someone has in their souls to you using the soul connection. If the person dies, the new skill that you received disappears.]
[High Vision: Can see tiny things from far away. Like an Eagle.]
Haruno looked at his back and with a smile, he said to Luffy: "In one year, it's your time. Do your best to be stronger than you are now." Everyone was there, Makino, the mayor, Dogra, Magra... And the other bandits, but not Dadan. Haruno smiled and shouted: "Thank you guys for everything! Ah! And before I forgot, Luffy, say to Dadan for me: 'Thank you! Old woman!'" After saying it, he used his Ak.u.ma no Mi and teleported his boat toward the distant sea. Well, he left in the same place as Ace, on the coast near the mount Columbo. After leaving, a screen appeared.