You glared out the window as your destination grew ever closer, fidgeting you glance down at the silent phone on your lap,

"It won't be forever (Y/N)," an amused voice beside you chuckles. Turning to your Aunt, an annoyed pout on your face, the car pulls to a stop at a red light. The woman flicks her cig out the window before exhaling smoke and tucking a stray strand of dark hair behind her ear, she glances at you, "it's only two years,"

"I don't want to spend my junior and senior years at a new school," you scoff, "why can't I just stay in Sabaody with my friends?" well, one friend. You glance down at your phone again, Camie, your best and pretty much only friend had been texting you near enough non-stop since you left late last night, she must have finally fallen asleep however, as it has been at least five minutes since her last message,

"You'll make new friends (Y/N), plus it's not as if you won't see or hear from your friends again, you'll be visiting in a few months' time," with a huff, you turn away once more and rest your forehead against the window, thinking of home and of your Mother currently in the hospital back in Sabaody. You're distracted from your thoughts however as three boys go running past the car. Two with raven black hair and one golden blonde, the two clearly elder ones yelling annoyed at the younger who's grinning as he whoops loudly and runs faster. The car begins to move again but you keep your gaze fixed on them out of curiosity, the elder ravenette launches himself at the younger in an attempt to tackle him, but the younger raven-haired boy seems to predict his actions and simply dodges to the side. Unfortunately, this means the poor guy ends up eating dirt as he hits the ground face first and before you know it, you've snorted out a laugh which you quickly turn into a cough at your Aunts curious quirk of a brow, "you okay there?"

"Yep, fine," you snip and try to ignore the woman's amused smirk. Slipping on your headphones and quickly turning on your favourite song, you focus your eyes back out the window as your ears fill with the comforting tones of the music and you wonder to yourself, that boy, the youngest one, he looked strangely familiar.

Not that much later, you were pulling into the driveway of a decently sized two-story house. Outside stood your Uncle talking to a rather large and imposing man you can only assume is one of the neighbours, the pair of them were laughing with wide grins. Your Aunt slips out of the car expecting you to follow, not that you do, you stay put, glaring at your Uncle as she walks over to him, greeting the other man before kissing her husband's cheek and then heading inside. Your Uncles gaze turns to meet yours and he raises an eyebrow at you, grumbling to yourself at how you are determined to hate this man, who's uprooted you from your home and made you move twelve hours away, twelve! Even if he is your Uncle and you love him very much, you were going to hate him forever, or well at least until you've calmed down.

You exit the car with an angry sigh, grabbing your bag and slinging it over your shoulder as you slam the door shut and stomp off towards the house, "What, no hello? No hug?" your Uncle has the audacity to sound wounded, before you can respond though, someone yells your name and automatically you turn towards the voice. Only for a body to slam into you and send you falling backwards to the ground pretty hard, winding you in the process. Stunned for a moment, it takes a minute to process the mix of worried and irritated shouts and the fact that someone is currently wrapped around you hugging you tightly. You turn your dazed gaze to the person on top of you, you stare at the grinning boy,

"Shishishi, you're finally here!" you blink, it's the boy you saw earlier, you frown, gazing at his face, his wide grin and big innocent eyes framed by tufts of raven black hair, a fine scar visible under his left eye makes you gasp,

"Luffy?" he grins wider at you, but the grin drops instantly as a fist collides with the top of his head and he's yanked roughly off you,

"Luffy you idiot! What the hell are you doing!?" it's the other ravenette from before, you can't help but momentarily stare at him, mainly his face. His nose is grazed and his lip is bleeding but he seems to be okay after his face plant earlier, he continues reprimanding Luffy as the boy wriggles in his grasp. You quickly avert your gaze realising you're beginning to stare for longer than is polite and push yourself into sitting up,

"Ace! That hurt!" Luffy yelps,

"Yeah? Well it's the payback for before and for knocking her down!" Ace growls at him. A hand appears in front of your face, looking up you find a set of blue eyes and a kind apologetic smile framed by bright golden locks, again you find yourself staring, he's kind of cute even with the scar.

"Sorry about that, Luffy can be a little... over excited," you take his hand quickly as to avoid seeming rude for staring at his face so long, he pulls you to your feet carefully. You dust bits of grass off you as he swoops down and picks up your bag from where it landed, "I hope you're not hurt,"

"N,no it's fine," you give a small awkward smile, your Uncle and his friend are chuckling away,

"Don't worry, our (Y/N) is a tough cookie," remembering your anger with your Uncle, you glare at the silver haired man,

"Some Uncle you are, not even concerned," you scoff,

"Some (niece/nephew) you are, not even giving your favourite Uncle a hug," he responds with the same tone, mocking slightly, you scowl,

"You're my only Uncle, Rayleigh," you huff, "and you don't deserve a hug after what you've made me do," you turn back to the blonde, thanking him with as best a smile you can manage, taking your bag from him before spinning away and heading inside to sulk.

Rayleigh watches you slam the door behind you and sighs, "Don't worry too much," Newgate pats him on the back, almost making the man stumble, "she'll forgive you,"

"Hmm, true, but she will make me work for it," he chuckles in response. Luffy having finally gotten out of Ace's grip looks around disappointed,

"Where'd (Y/N) go?"

"Let her rest up for a while Luffy, she's just had a long journey. You'll have plenty of time to catch up tomorrow," Rayleigh tells him before saying farewell to Newgate and heading indoors himself.

"Come on lads, leave them to it," the three boys look to their father and nod following him next-door to their own house,

"Hey Luffy... how do you know (Y/N)?" Sabo asks curiously as both he and Ace tug him along with them, their brother grins at them,

"Pirate camp!" he then runs off inside, shouting about how he's hungry and wants meat. Sabo and Ace share a look, both voice the question now on their minds,

"Pirate camp?"