Thousand Sunny:

Sabo, second in command of the revolutionaries is dead. That is what the newspaper said and Luffy read it. Luffy's eyes were blown wide as he read the details, There had been a conflict between the revolutionary's and the Blackbeard pirates. In an effort to escape Sabo was killed by a full-on attack by Blackbeard.

Luffy's eyes held nothing but pure hatred and for once he was glad he was alone so that his Nakama didn't see him like this. And then it sunk in. "He's gone." Luffy murmured in shock.

Luffy then stood up and numbly made his way to the figure head of his beloved ship the Thousand Sunny. He went over the old memories that had resurfaced about Sabo and Ace, "My brothers. Their both gone." Luffy whispered to himself and then he saw a white.

He could hear crying and then he felt the water, the last thing he heard was panicked yells and curses before everything went black.

When Luffy next woke up he was met with the worried face of his fuzzy doctor Chopper. "Are you feeling okay Luffy?" Chopper asked as Luffy noticed Zoro taking a snooze against the wall.

Luffy put a sad smile and tried to act like he was fine but the tears falling down his face betrayed his will. Soon the tears turned into sobs and he could feel Zoro rubbing circles on his back in a comforting way. "Now that you are calmed down tell me what's wrong? You saw the newspaper but we didn't what happened?" Zoro asked as he met Luffy's eyes.

"I can't tell everyone individually I have to tell you guy all at once or I'll probably break down again," Luffy said and Zoro nodded.

The two made their way down to the galley where everyone was waiting for him to arrive for dinner. When he walked in he put his hand up so that he could talk, "I'm sure your all wondering about what happened earlier so I'll tell you guys. In the newspaper..." Luffy took a deep breath.

"There was an article about the Blackbeard pirates and this time they fought the revolutionary's." Another deep breath. "He killed Sabo..." Luffy gritted out between his teeth and at the same time trying to keep his Haki under control.

Luffy was soon in a group hug with everyone but Zoro and Sanji joining in. Luffy smiled and knew that if he had his Nakama by his side then he could make it through anything.

Weeks Later:

Luffy lay defeated next to the dead body of Marshall D. Teach 'Should I die? Am I useless, I sure feel useless.' Luffy thought miserably.

Over the past weeks, he has grieved the loss of his brother and now he's grieving even more for the loss of his crew. His crew had made it to Raftel after Sabo had died and they were ambushed by the Marines and Blackbeard his crew went down one by one many different ways which left Blackbeard for Luffy to take his emotions out on. The point was that he was now truly all alone.

Luffy closed his eyes and as soon as he did he felt something hit him in the head. "A pearl? It's glowing." Luffy wondered aloud and made up his mind.

He got up and he broke down when he visited his crews final resting place that looked out over the ocean. Luffy sat in front of the graves and pulled the pearl he found earlier out.

"What is this?" Luffy said experimenting by poking it until he dropped it and it exploded into a blue smoke. "What the hell?!" Luffy exclaimed as the smoke seemingly wrapped around him but also flew over the ocean in two different paths.

As Luffy was struggling against the smoke the area around him started turning white and a dark figure appeared. "Who're you?!" Luffy yelled and the figure chuckled.

"I am none other than..." he said taking off his cloak to reveal a man with a curly mustache and a captains coat, "Gol D. Roger!" He said and Luffy's eyes widened.

"Now my young friend I hear you've had troubles," Roger said in a sad voice. "But now you're the Pirate King and you have a wish... anything you want. What is it?" Roger said now behind Luffy. "Wish with the pearl," Roger whispered before standing across from Luffy again.

"I wish to go back. T-to goes back and start over with my brothers." Luffy said and everything went black. The other trails of smokes had each wrapped around a certain grave.

Sometime later:

Luffy's eyes opened reluctantly as he laid on a very familiar cliff side. As he looked down at himself he noticed that he was his seven-year-old self again, "Wah! I went back!" Luffy exclaimed as he touched everywhere on his body confirming that he was younger again.

"Wait, does that mean it worked!?" Luffy yelled remembering the pearl and unfortunately everything else.

"Luffy!" He heard a familiar voice call out before he was wrapped in a hug. "Ace!?" Luffy cries out confused but still overjoyed that his brother is there. "Wait you never hugged me much before?" Luffy said as Ace hugged him.

Ace pushed off of him and immediately hit him over the head, "Idiot." Ace said but then got a look of confusion. "Ace? Where are we and what happened?" Luffy asked and Ace's face became sad and he stood up so that he was looking out to the sea.

"Sabo is dead and you know where we are." Ace said and Luffy was jumping inside because he knew for sure now that he was back and Sabo was alive.

'Now to figure out if their back and I'm not alone.' Luffy thought as he looked determinedly to Ace. "Ace. What do you think about the Whitebeards?" Luffy asked and almost cried when he saw Ace's reaction.

"Luffy. Explain. Now." Ace said with a tone that left no room for argument. Luffy was about to explain when his stomach growled loudly. "Oh right, you damn near starved yourself when he died." Ace said but then chuckled, "let's go hunting." Ace said helping a whining Luffy up.

"What are we gonna catch Ace?" Luffy asked as they ran down the path from their childhood.

"I was thinking crocodile?" Ace said and was met with a cheerful Luffy. So the two brothers made their way to an old river that had plenty of crocodiles to eat.

"Yay crocodile!" Luffy yelled as he was about to charge into the old river. Before Luffy could fully make it into the water Ace grabbed him by the back of his shirt, "Idiot! When are you going to learn that you can't swim!" Ace yelled and Luffy's face turned into a pout which made Ace falter. "W-whatever. Let's just catch something." Ace said quickly jumping into the river and killing a crocodile for the two of them.

"Sticks, sticks, where are you stick "Luffy wondered as he looked for sticks to put in the fire. "What to say... ah, whatever all this thinking is hurting my head," Luffy said and then started humming a song while looking for sticks.

While Luffy looked for sticks Ace allowed himself to go over everything in his mind. 'Ok, so I was just in a war. Didn't I die? And Luffy was supposed to be crying and all depressed and stuff.' Ace thought as he prepared the crocodile to cook.

"He's gonna have to explain." Ace said aloud without thinking. "Explain what?" Luffy asked innocently while dropping the sticks in a messy pile next to the fire. "Explain everything! Explain why you weren't all depressed at the cliff!" Ace yelled hands waving around. With his eyes shadowed Luffy sat calmly at first not saying everything.

"Well umm... what's the last thing you remember before waking up here?" Luffy said with a seriousness that made Ace snap his mouth shut and follow directions. "I remember a war... it was all my fault my family and you just because I lost to that man." Ace grit out through this teeth.

Luffy frowned and jumped into Ace's lap for a hug, "It wasn't your fault we all wanted to save you." Luffy said sincerely burying his face in his brother's chest.

"Yeah, what about you? What do you remember you can't be dead, right?" Ace said and Luffy's face turned dark.

"I almost did. I was on the verge, but it was only because I had nothing left." Luffy said which made Ace angry.

"What are you talking about!? Your crew loved you!" Ace yelled but Luffy's expression only became darker. "Blackbeard killed all of them along with... someone very important to me." Luffy finished and Ace's face became dark as well. "I killed teach and right when I was about to give up and die I found a pearl. And when I dropped it the smoke gave me a wish and Roger granted the wish." Luffy said frowning deeper when Ace flinched at killed and die.

"And your wish was?" Ace asked with a shaky voice. "To go back with my brothers and start over," Luffy said and hugged Ace again who didn't even resist and hugged him back.

"But what about Sabo he's dead by now at this time." Ace said not separating from the hug. "I know I need to write a letter to him. I think I need to pay a visit to Makino!" Luffy said with a smile excited to see the person who took care of him for many years.

"I think we do. Well let's eat first then we can. Okay?" Ace said and Luffy nodded and used the sticks he found earlier to build a fire.

"The islands in the south are warm-" Luffy started singing and Ace immediately moved behind him and covered his mouth. "That song. Don't sing it, please." Ace said and let go of Luffy.

"Shishishishi! Ace is weird, hurry up let's go see Makino!" Luffy said running ahead of Ace. "Dammit, Luffy! Wait!" Ace yelled at Luffy. As soon as Luffy got to the village outskirts he stopped running and waited for Ace.

Ace got there and they went into the town heading straight for Party's bar thanks to Luffy's directions. "Look! The freak is back!" a village kid yelled and instead of retaliating like Ace expected Luffy to do he just put his head down and continued.

Next thing they knew the kids were throwing rocks at Luffy, "Where're your parents, freak? You know what you should just die and disappear. It'll do us all a favor." The oldest kid said murmuring the last part.

When Ace heard it he snapped, unfortunately, he didn't have his pipe so he just punched the kids until all of them ran away. "Assholes," Ace said in disgust. "Let's just go and see Makino, okay?" Luffy said and Ace nodded making sure to keep an eye on Luffy.

They made it to Party's bar and was met with an excited Makino. Makino is the owner of Party's bar and has long dark green hair. She wears a long skirt and an apron over her shirt. "Oh hey, boys! It's nice to see you here! Would you like some juice?" Makino asked and Luffy nodded enthusiastically while Ace just shrugged.

The two found a seat on the barstools while Makino got their juice. "So What brings you, boys?" Makino asked sweetly. "I need to write a letter!" Luffy said with a big grin which made Makino and Ace smiled as well. "To who?" She asked pulling some spare paper and some ink and quill.

"To Sabo," Luffy said as he thought of what to write. "Idiot Sabo's dead." Ace whispered with his eyes closed and Makino gasped and started to tear up. The two watched in silence as Luffy wrote his letter and sent it off to Sabo. After he did that the two brothers headed back to the mountain bandits.

The Letter:

Dear Sabo,

Did you come back with me and Ace? I don't exactly know what to do yet but I miss you because you're my big brother. Oh and Ace doesn't know your alive, what should we do about that?

Luffy

Back with Luffy:

They had made it back to the rundown shack that the bandits call home and were walking through a group of shocked and worried bandits. "What's with you guys?" Luffy asked with a grin.

"I think we have the right to be shocked brat. You left all sad and crying and Ace left angry." Dadan said.

Dadan is a big woman with curly orange hair, and she is wearing some simple pants and a shirt. "Anyways where were you, boys?" Dogra asked after he pushed his way through the group of bandits.

"We went to Makino!" Luffy said which only made the bandits more confused. "Why?" Dadan asked confusion written all over her face. "To write a letter to Sabo," Luffy said done with all the questions.

As soon as he said that everyone in the rooms faces became downcast. "You kids must be hungry. Why don't we have some rice?" Magra said and with that everyone in the room got excited and ready for the food.

"Ace? Whatcha thinkin about?" Luffy asked as they lay in the room Dadan gave them to sleep in. They had some rice and instead of leaving to the treehouse they just stayed with Dadan. Luffy wasn't quite willing to sleep scared of the nightmares that might plague him so he found Ace as a distraction.

"Nothing. Don't worry about it. Lu. " Ace said and Luffy didn't like that answer. "But Ace~" Luffy complained and Ace just sighed. "Basically we time traveled back to the past?" Ace asked and Luffy nodded, "Then we need to get stronger, there are people I want to save and I'm sure you wanna save your crew and that special person of yours. Right?" Ace said Luffy nodded fully agreeing with Ace.

"Then tomorrow morning we start training." Ace said and Luffy gave an enthusiastic "yeah!" And then settled in his blanket to go to sleep. With the excitement in mind, he slept with no nightmares.