I don't own One Piece

The rating is T, it's the most fitting (probably), can change with the story

Beta'd by ninjabunny11

Random Marine Soldier Paul's POV

I nervously knocked on the door. I had been sent here by Fleet Admiral Sengoku with a message for the youngest Vice-Admiral in the history of the Marines. "Vice-Admiral, the Fleet Admiral wants to speak with you." There was no sound that indicated someone was in the room. I knocked again and politely announced that I was coming in, but as I expected the room was abandoned. I just sighed at this, and went to look after the female officer. But first I better tell Fleet Admiral Sengoku that she's missing. Yeah, that's not intimidating at all…

Sengoku's POV

After the young soldier (Paul was it? whatever…) left, I knew I had another headache coming. After all, that girl had been informed about this meeting ages ago, yet she was nowhere to be found. In hindsight, I probably should have known this would happen. I quickly hid a fond smile before going back to my usual poker face. "So it seems our last member won't be appearing anytime soon. "

The reaction to this was mostly resignation. "She missing again?" asked a highly amused Aokiji, who had just woken from his nap. His question sounded more like an announcement. Garp laughed in reply, continuing to eat his rice crackers. Wait… His?

"Garp, where did you get the crackers?" I could feel my temper rise. Garp paled, not even trying to lie, before fleeing the room with me hot on his heels. The last thing I heard was "Well, I guess with this, the is meeting over, huh?"

Ten minutes and a knocked out Garp later (let him taste what a fist of love feels like!) I let my mind slip to a certain girl. Vice-Admiral Luffy, known for her enthusiasm, strength, and fearlessness, among other things. Her rank, which had surprised many, was due to her own hard work. She had captured several pirates with bounties higher than 200,000,000 beri and exposed quite a number of corrupt marines. Her full name, Monkey D. Luffy, was known only by a handful of people, so no one could say she had gotten her position through nepotism. It helped that her grandfather was THE Garp, so no one would have guessed that they were related based on appearance alone.

I, like many others, had thought of her as an oblivious idiot upon our introduction, and if you had told me that this girl would become one of my best Vice-Admirals, I would have laughed in your face. When Garp came to me with her three years ago and said she was going to become a marine, I had thought he had just kidnapped her and dragged her here against her will, so I was surprised when she said she WANTED to be a marine. Just what had happened for her to have that kind of conviction in her eyes? In the back of my mind, though, there was this nagging feeling that she wouldn't be one of us forever.

With that in mind, the fact that she was nowhere to be found… that was never a good thing. This would probably have everyone who actually knew her on high alert, especially with her mischievous nature and prankster side. Honestly, she was quite possibly the biggest troublemaker I'd met in my entire career. Though thankfully, in the past year the pranks had died down, and now it was only those who somehow incurred her wrath who needed to be afraid.

My thinking came to a stop when I heard some marines calling Vice-Admiral Luffy's name. Some even called the names of the rest of her recruits who always seemed to gather around her: Kuroashi Sanji (20*), Mikan Nami (18), Tony Tony Chopper (15), and Sogeking Usopp (17). Many had questioned her about her subordinates, since they weren't marines and they served under Luffy's command without any training, but in the face of Luffy's persistence they let it go.

I just sighed and went back to my office. Hearing another crash from outside, I knew that this was going to be a long day.

Ussop's POV

It was just after dinner, and the sun had already set on Marineford. I was on the roof of Luffy's office, watching the stars with her. "They're looking for you. Again…" my sentence was completely ignored by the raven-haired girl who was currently in her own dream land, not at all bothered by what was happening down below. I saw a young man in marine garbs slipping his fingers through his curly brown hair with a sign of anxiety.

I looked at the stars again. It was mesmerizing just how much they shined. Like Luffy for us… I knew that every Strawhat (A/N: yup, still Strawhats. Luffy is stubborn and won't let anyone take her hat, not even Sengoku, so Luffy wears it instead of the marine cap) felt the same, that Luffy was their ray of sunshine, their bright star, their cheerful captain. She had saved us, maybe unintentionally, and now we were nakama.

(A/N: And if you wanna know about Zoro (20), Robin (26), Franky (28) and Brook (77), they can't be part of the Marines, because they're seen as criminals by the marines, but they are still Luffy's nakama, so they're a secret for now. (Explanations in chapter 2.) All the events are a year earlier. So it's only normal that they don't meet Ace (19) in Alabasta. So Thatch is still alive and everything. Hope that answers some questions, but if you want to ask something then PM me and I'll try to answer it. TRY the keyword.)

Flashback:

"I wanna go on vacation," was the first thing that left the vice-admiral's mouth as soon as she got to Sengoku's office. He just looked at her confused. So she repeated herself. "I want a vacation. I've always followed orders, going where you want me to go, beating up who you want me to beat up, and now I want some time alone without orders, or this uniform! So please, Senny?" She exclaimed and used her puppy eyes.

Sengoku just rubbed his temple, knowing that she would do anything to get what she wanted. "And where do you want to go, may I ask?" It was obvious to him that she had already won. Damn puppy eyes.

"To the New world," She casually answered, like it was no big deal. And to her it really wasn't.

Sengoku, on the other side, looked shocked. "If you want to go on vacation, why would you go to the New World!? That's not a place to relax!" After that left his mouth, he knew that he had just answered his own question.

Luffy just shrugged. "I'll have adventures so it won't be boring. Besides, why would anyone want to relax, that's no fun at all." She added the last part with a pout before she continued. "I feel like there's something to do, someone waiting for me. Some kind of pull." In that moment she didn't look like a clueless 16-year old teenager, but more like the determined vice-admiral she was.

But then her words registered to Sengoku. 'Something to do?' Now she sounded like a D. Nevertheless, he sighed heavily. "You have two months. Don't get killed, otherwise Garp will have my head."

She squealed and hugged 'Senny', then was out of the office before anyone could say 'meat'.

2 days later

Random town mayor POV

You saw a lonely person wearing black short trousers, a yellow sash around her hips, sandals and a red cardigan stepping out of a store. She was a little smaller than your average Jane, but not too skinny. You could easily tell she was a woman, what with her hourglass figure, even if her clothes were little baggy. Then you noticed the strawhat on her head, which clearly clashed with her clothing, yet perfectly completed her, and you wondered just how you hadn't noticed the damned hat earlier. Then you saw how someone pointed at you and she followed the finger, till she was right before you. You started to notice even more things about her; how her smile seems to radiate warmth, how black her hair and eyes were, the small scar under her left eye, the way she left her cardigan open, and the hint of muscles under it (sorry perverts, she has a simple black bikini top underneath) and lastly, the huge x-shaped scar on her chest.

You introduced yourself as the mayor of this town and she asked you a few questions. A day later, she left the island, claiming that she was starting the search for her nakama. And you wondered why she seemed familiar to you.

*if you didn't realize it, this is their respective age, might be different, but I like it this way, their appearance is the same as the ones in the New World in the anime and I won't describe what's wearing anyone else, I'm bad at it and I know it, so you can just imagine them wearing whatever you want

Now as you could notice this is my 1st FF and English is not my 1st language, I maybe clumsy when writing, but please let me know if you won't like something or something is too confusing, key? And if you wanna know the plot then, not telling If you want to know if there be romance, then HELL YES, (*clears throat*) I mean I'll try