Once upon a time, there was a great pirate, his name was "Gold Roger". He had conquered every single treasure that existed. His last words before his execution have inspired pirates around the world to look for the legendary treasure one piece. The age of pirates has begun.

-East Blue-

-Aboard the ship of "iron Mace Alvida"-

"Aah, such a nice day." sighed the pirate. His name was Tenzo and he was the ship's resident doctor. An eyepatch marred his face, giving him a rough look. His hair was the color of dried blood and his eyes were dark brown. He wore a dark brown lab coat over his black shirt and dress pants.

''Why is the rum gone?'' A pirate asked his fellow crewmember. Tenzo looked over at him and loudly said "Cuz, you drank it all you filthy drunk."

The pirate looked at Tenzo and narrowed his eyes, upper lip twitching. "What was that Doc? I think you'll need a second eye patch soon." spoke the pirate menacingly while pulling out a knife. He started advancing towards Tenzo.

"Ship sighted!" Yelled a pirate from the crow's nest. "It's a small boat and it's fast approaching!" He continued. The drunk pirate sneered at Tenzo and told him that they'd finish later. ''Where!?" yelled a random pirate. "Northeast." Came an answer from the crow's nest.

Tenzo ran to the edge and focused on a tiny dot on the horizon. Taking the binoculars from a guy next to him and looking through them he was baffled at what he saw.

''What the...''

A black haired young man was standing on a small boat and moving towards them extremely fast. The thing that baffled him was the fact that the boat seemed to be moving on it's own with no help from the man.

''The boat is closing in, call Alvida-sama!" yelled a wooden legged pirate.

"He's almost here." Thought Tenzo. "seven, six, five, four, three, two." he counted.

The man jumped from the boat just before it hit the ship. The boat crashed with a mighty sound of wood tearing into tiny pieces on the side of the ship. The boat rocked harshly and threw the sailors to the floor. Only a few remained standing. Tenzo amongst them.

The black haired man landed in the middle of the ship surrounded by pirates. His posture tense, eyes cold. The man, Luffy was his name, looked around, taking mind of the pirates position as they were picking themselves off the floor. He was wearing A black sleeveless shirt, black knee length pants. On his back was a short one-edged sword. A tanto.

The door to the lower deck slammed open.

''Who was it! Who crashed into my ship!" Yelled the grotesque woman. She was everything that one would not want in a woman. She was 6,5 feet tall, had long stringy black hair, freckles on all the wrong places and the body of a beached whale. In her hand she had an iron mace almost as big as her which she waved around dangerously.

"It was him Alvida-sama." answered a blonde pirate. Luffy slowly turned around to face her. Alvida pushed through the crowd of pirates and got right into Luffy's face, their noses almost touching.

"Do you know who I am? I am Iron Mace Alvida. I have a bounty of 5 million beli on my head. She said in a single breath.

A flash of something went through Luffy's eyes. Alvida misjudged the look and laughed. "Hahaha I see you recognise me. Now, what do you want" she asked with a sneer while moving her mace from the left to her right hand. Her action did not go unnoticed.

Luffy spoke softly. "I find myself in the need of provisions, and a boat."

"You aren't getting either. Now get off of my ship." Rudely answered Alvida.

Luffy reached behind his back for his tanto. Alvida sputtered. "You dare?" There was a complete silence as Alvida's head fell and rolled across the floor, blood spilling from the wound, drenching everyone near.

''I do'' Whispered Luffy with copious amounts of blood on his person, making for a terrifying sight. An audible click could be heard as he sheathed his tanto.

Every single pirate heard him speak. " Musician?".

The pirates wondered what just happenned, many were staring open mouthed. None have seen what happened.

"Is there a musician on board" Asked Luffy, louder this time. Tenzo collected his courage and answered with a no.

''A cook?'' continued Luffy. "No, Alvida killed him yesterday. The food wasn't salty enough" Tenzo answered. A dark look befell Luffy.

''I see. Is there anyone of importance on this ship." He asked slightly annoyed.

"The doctor, it's him, it's him, that guy with the red hair!" yelled the drunk that was bothering Tenzo before.

"You asshole you ratted me out, I'll kill you!" Yelled Tenzo while advancing towards the drunkard.

"ENOUGH!" Yelled Luffy, making every pirate on the ship cover in fright, a few even jumped overboard.

"Come here" He beckoned to Tenzo. Once Tenzo came near he asked for his name.

"It's Tenzo, Sir." he replied.

"Luffy, my name is Luffy." Luffy told him, his lips forming a small grin, soothing Tenzo.

He continued. " I decided that you'll be joining my crew, I find myself in the need of a doctor. And I kinda like you, you've got spunk."

Tenzo thought through it and came to the conclusion that going with this obviously very strong young man, would be of interest to his health and who knows, it might even be fun.

"I accept" he said with a slight grin of his own. Luffy nodded. "That's good, well let's go."

With that said Luffy walked to the side of the ship, the pirates moving away for him to walk through them and looked at the little boat tied to the side of the ship. Turning towards the pirates he told them to put it in the water. They did so, no problems arising.

''Oh, before I forget" Said Luffy before taking out a bag from his pocket and walking to the head of the former female pirate. Grabbing the head by the hair, he put it inside the bag and sealed it. He walked back to the side of the ship and waved to Tenzo. Tenzo nodded and they went ahead and jumped down from the ship on to the small boat below. Tenzo grabbed the oars to start paddling, when Luffy just looked at him and said.

"We wont be needing those, I have my own way of moving through the sea and it's way faster." With that he sat down and turned his hand towards the back of the boat and spoke with a higher tone.

"Dai Kaze!(Great Wind)"

Suddenly the boat buckled under the force of the wind, making the tail end of the boat sink into the water a bit, before evening out. They started moving away from the ship, going faster and faster by the second. After ten seconds they finally reached an even speed of forty miles per hour at which point Tenzo opened his mouth to speak.

"Luffy, where are we going".

"We're going towards the Michi island. I'm planning to recruit a new crew member there. Zoro the pirate hunter is imprisoned there and we're going to go free him" Responded the young captain.

"What if he doesn't want to be freed?" inquired the new crew member.

Luffy blew it off, waving in the air with his free hand. "I'll think of something. Now, tell me a little about yourself. Likes, dislikes, stuff like that and tell me about what you can do besides healing people. Have you got any other skills worth mentioning?" Asked Luffy.

"Well I like oranges and all kinds of tropical fruits really. I like sassy women that are good in the sack." At this Luffy grinned.

He continued "I also like weapons, most of all guns and rifles. I've got sharp eyes and I'm a very good shot." Luffy nodded.

"Well now for my dislikes. I dislike the government, the way they do things is just not for me. It's why I decided to become a pirate. The thing I dislike the most, bordering on hate, would be the marines, the incompetent lapdogs of the government. I've had a few scuffles with them, all ending in my favor." Spoke Tenzo with hate, spitting nastily over the edge of the boat amidst of speaking about the marines.

"How about you, You're definitely strong, I didn't even see you slashing Alvida's head off. It happened in an instant. Good riddance though, she was a nasty piece of work. And how is this ship moving, did you eat one of those infamous devil fruits?" Asked Tenzo with an interested look on his face, his eyebrow raised. The captain took a second to think then explained.

"Well, I'm very good with my tanto, and I'm really fast because of my ability. It allows me to reduce air resistance around my body and also push wind at my back making me much faster and deadlier. Being experienced in sword to sword combat also helps" Explained Luffy.

"And about the devil fruit thing. Well, It's a long story. Are you sure you want to hear it? He asked. Tenzo thought for a second and responded with.

"Well, we've got nothing, but time. So go ahead."

Luffy nodded " Well it goes like this, It happened when I was six, seven years old..."

-Flashback-

-Dawn Island-

-Foosha village-

Foosha village was a mostly normal little island village, it had a bar, a bakery, a smithy and many other normal buildings such as the citizen's houses and such. But it had a secret. It was the home port of the pirate Red haired Shanks and his crew. Currently, the crew was drinking themselves stupid in the bar Black Haven. And this is where our story begins.

"You bastard Shanks." Yelled a little seven year old boy while throwing a shot glass at the offending person." The red-haired man caught it and set it down on the counter while ordering himself a new round of beer.

"Calm down Luffy, you're just a little boy, there's no way I can take you traveling with me." Said Shanks. "Besides I don't know how to change a diaper" He quipped with a lopsided grin. The bar patrons and his crew laughed like mad, someone even fell out of his seat."

"That's enough, both of you. You will act nice to eachother or there'll be no more drinking." Loudly said Makino, the bar hostess with a scowl on her face. Luffy grinned triumphantly at Shanks. "And no more food!" Finished Makino.

"No, I'm hungry Makino! You can't do this to me." Cried Luffy. The bar laughed again at our protagonist's antics. At that moment the door slammed open and in stepped a black haired man dressed in a brown jacket and black pants, He looked around and spoke snidely.

"So these are the so called pirates, they look more like losers to me."

The bar was deathly quiet apart from Shanks eating. The bandit walked to the bar and ordered ten barrels of sake .

" We don't have any left, I'm sorry" Makino spoke softly, a tad scared.

Shanks turned to the man and offered him a bottle of sake.

" Here you go, this is the last one."

The bandit hit the bottle out of the red haired man's hand.

" A single bottle? Are you kidding?"

At this a few of the bandits stepped inside the bar joining their leader. At this point Luffy saw a small chest on the counter.

"Treasure" He whispered while taking the chest and going in the back.

Then the leader of the bandits yelled. "Boys, let's get wild"

The whole bar jumped into action, tables were turned, bottles broken on people's heads and a few bandits even got a chair broken over their heads. The bandit leader and Shanks were staring at eachother.

"You've done it now you bastard" growled Shanks.

The bandit ran towards Shanks, his sword raised for an overhead blow. He striked. Shanks blocked the strike with his own sword and hit the bandit in the stomach with his left hand. He forced the bandit's sword away from him and spun around into a kick hitting the bandit in the head with the front of his shoe. The bandit crumpled to the floor.

Shanks took a step forward and plunged his blade right into the middle of the bandits back, twisting it for good measure. With a cry he wrenched it out and looked around.

The bar was a wreck, there were bandit corpses everywhere. The pirates thankfully lost none of their own.

"I'm sorry Makino, we'll clean and fix everything before we leave." Said Shanks to the owner of the Black Haven, that was currently hiding behind the bar. She lifted her head from behind the counter and was amazed at the damage they caused. Almost in tears she nodded to the red haired pirate.

"At least they wont be able to attack the village anymore and I guess that it's okay if you help me fix up the bar."

Shanks agreed. He looked around and realised that a certain someone was missing.

"Huh, where's Luffy?" He asked himself and at that exact point the black haired boy came out of the back and stopped abruptly, watching with wide eyes at the damage and the corpses.

"Shanks, what have you done" He asked still in a state of shock.

Shanks went up to him and kneeled.

"I did what was necessary squirt, these bandits frequently attacked and stole from the village. It was also they who attacked us, we just responded. We did what needed to be done." Explained Shanks with a calming and peaceful tone of voice. "Besides, you wouldn't want them to hurt Makino would you?"

Luffy moved his head from side to side.

"Do you understand, why I did what I did?" Shanks asked slowly. Luffy nodded.

"Good boy." Said the redhead while moving his hand and putting it right on top of Luffy's.

It went right through him. Shanks abruptly stood and looked on the counter not finding what he was looking for.

"Luffy, did you take the chest that was on the counter? Did you eat the fruit that was inside? Asked Shanks with a slightly raised and angry tone of voice. Luffy nodded.

"Baka" Yelled Shanks and hit Luffy over the head, or he wouid if his hand didn't go right through him. Shanks pinched himself between the eyes and said exasperatedly.

"Luffy, you ate a devil fruit, the Kaze Kaze no Mi. You're now a wind man and you'll never be able to swim again." Luffy just nodded sadly, still slightly subdued from seeing the carnage. Shanks sighed.

"Well, it's time to fix this place up. Wanna help squirt? Luffy nodded and they started to clean and fix the Black Haven.

-Next morning-

It was a nice day, the sun was shining and the sea was calm. Only the sounds of the waves crashing alongst the shore and a seagull or two broke the silence and peace of the Dawn island.

The port of Foosha village was a small one, it had a single landing dock, just enough for the red haired pirates ship. In front of the docks stood the pirate crew, Luffy, Makino and a few villagers.

Currently Luffy and Shanks were arguing.

''Take me along you smelly Shanks. I promise I'll be good. And I'm strong, my punch is like a pistol, you'll see."

"Haha, Luffy you're still too small, maybe in a few years when you're at least pint size." Everyone laughed at Luffy.

"You bastard Shanks, You'll see, I'll become stronger than you and definitely defeat you. I'll be the pirate king before you." Yelled Luffy, mad and embarassed at seeing everyone laughing at him.

Shanks laughed and nodded.

"I'm sure you will Luffy, well then before we leave I have something for you."

Luffy started jumping on the balls of his feet hyperactively.

"What is it, what is it, what is it, gimme gimme." The crew laughed.

Shanks smiled. "Still a child, hehe." He reached inside his coat and pulled out a short package.

"Here you go Luffy" He said while handing him the package.

Luffy quickly unwrapped it and smiled, his eyes full of glee at the present.

It was a short sword, a tanto to be precise. The blade was around two feet long, made of shining top quality steel. The sword had ripples at the edge, showing that it was folded steel. Made for extra durability. The sheath was solid black lacquered wood of a birch tree. All in all it looked positively deadly.

Luffy jumped and hugged Shanks thanking him profusely. Shanks just held him and laughed. After a few moments he let him down to the floor and stood back up.

"Well I guess it's time to go. Goodbye Makino. Get strong fast Luffy, and find me on the ocean, I'll be waiting for you." He said with a smile and wave while turning around. The crew boarded the ship and left, Luffy still watching and waving with his tanto in his hand.

-End flashback-

"Haa, I see. The Kaze Kaze no Mi sure is powerful. So you can't be hurt by normal means?" Asked Tenzo.

Luffy nodded.

"Yes, I am impervious to damage and can't be hurt, well at least not by conventional means. If by example someone knows haki, they can hurt me. But thankfully those kinds of people are far in between. Besides, I know a bit of haki myself." He added.

"Wow, you really are strong. You'll have to teach me some haki sometime, I'd love to learn that." said Tenzo.

"Sure, we could actually start now. Seeing that you're a ranged type fighter you would profit the most from Kenbunshoku Haki (color of observation). This is a form of Haki that allows the user to sense the presence of others, even if they are concealed from view or too far to see naturally. With enough skill, you could use this Haki to predict an opponent's moves shortly before they make them, thereby making their attacks that much easier to evade. " Explained Luffy knowingly.

Tenzo nodded with a very interested look on his face.

Luffy concentrated for a second and said .

"Ok, let's start. Close your eyes." Tenzo did so.

"Now ignore all the sounds you hear, forget about the sea, your breathing and all other sounds. Now feel with your mind for my presence." commanded Luffy.

"Wait, I can, I can sense something, something underneath us, it's really big and it's moving." Said Tenzo.

"Sea King" said Luffy while standing up and making the boat slow as the propulsion system was removed, namely, Luffy's hand.

Suddenly the boat rocked and almost turned over as a giant sea frog appeared from under the sea's depths. It was light blue with giant orange eyes peering at the boat. A tongue extended from the sea king's mouth and wrapped around Tenzo. Just before it pulled him in, Luffy raised his hand at the tongue and said Kaze no Yaiba (blade of wind).

A long crescent arch of pure compacted wind flew towards and through the tongue slicing it to pieces, blood spilling in buckets as the entire pressure of the giant frog's blood stream pushed through it's tongue, drenching Tenzo.

"Aaw, hell no." Cried Tenzo looking down at himself.

Luffy raised his hand towards the frog and yelled with all his might.

"Dai Kaze no Yaiba!" (grand blade of wind)

As three long crescent archs of pressurized wind surged from his hand and in the open mouth of the frog. A nasty squelching sound could be heard as the back of the Frog's head tore open. Blood and brain matter spilling out with great speed and falling down as crimson rain and hail at the sea below.

"Damn, that was impressive captain." said Tenzo, nodding appreciatively. Luffy looked at him grinning, he looked like a psychopath with his face drenched in blood.

"We should wash of the blood" Said Luffy still grinning. They did so. After they sat down and Luffy again started the engine, he looked at Tenzo and said with a smile.

"I see you have talent in haki, you achieved Kenbunshoku haki on your first try." Tenzo grinned.

"Heh, I guess I did. Thanks for the lesson Captain, but I think I have a long way to go before it's usable in combat."

Luffy nodded. " You'll get there". They continued chatting for quite some time as they continued along the sea towards Michi island.