In the dark of the night, Luffy was packing his bag.. some would might call the items he packed.. odd..

He was packing a stuffed reindeer, a comic book with Pirate hunter Zoro, a drawing block filled with drawings and an old tape filled with songs sung by an unknown artist.

Those were the things that were imported to Luffy!

Carefully opening the door, Luffy glanced down a dark hall-way, making sure there weren't and wards catching a glimpse of him, silently Luffy walked out, and then closed the door behind him.

Inside of luffs head, those whispers and the sounds of waves were louder than ever, but suddenly they weren't a nuisance any-more, it felt like the constant sounds were cheering him on, as Luffy snook down the doors, until he found the right one, and silently let himself in.

It was very dark inside of the room, the only thing Luffy could see of Usopp, was his silhouette, the long nose pointing up in the air as his chest moved up and down.

Still Usopp didn't move an inch, it looked like he was gone from this world completely, and as Luffy lifted Usopp up, to hang him over his shoulder.. still Usopp didn't move one tiny little bit. He was completely limp!

"Don't worry Usopp." Luffy whispered. "We are on our way to the ocean." He stated as he kicked open the door, and ran out in the hall-way.

"Hey, did you hear that?"

"That sure was noisy!"

"Come on man!"

Swallowing Luffy hid behind a corner, with the big weight of Usopp over his shoulder.. it had seen so obvious just a little while ago, but it was really inconvenient to carry Usopp around like this!

The moment the hall-way was clear, Luffy jumped out and sprinted towards the exit. But.. where was the exit?

Luffy couldn't recall ever having seen an exit out of this place! Then there was only one thing to do. Luffy glanced to his left… one of the windows.. and with a food, he kicked it into pieces.

The crash was so loud that it was no wonder that the entire hall-way was woken and started to scream by the shock.

Next moments wards was coming from each their side of the hallways.

"IT'S LUFFY!" Lucci shouted.

"THEN DON'T STAND THERE! CATCH HIM! DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY!"

Luffy didn't waste time, but crawled over the window, still with Usopp and back-pack on his back.

The glass still remaining in the window frame, cut Luffys's legs and arms, but Luffy didn't care for the pain.

For the first time in so long, he felt like his own self again.

"HE'S GETTING AWAY!" Lucci shouted. Making Luffy smirk as he ran.

"Shishishishi!" The ocean, he could hear it, it wasn't far from here, the worst was over.

"Lu…Luffy.." Usopp groaned from Luffys shoulders.

"Oi Usopp, you are awake!" Luffy grinned.

"What's happening?" Usopp asked in that sleepy moan.

"We are going to the ocean Usopp!" Luffy grinned.

"LUFFY!"

Luffy looked to the side, this time it was Garp running straight towards them. "LUFFY WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" he exclaimed.

Luffy hissed as he just kept on running.

"Luffy he is gaining on you quickly!" Usopp exclaimed.

Luffy didn't answer as he just grunted, running forward.

"They are coming from back there to!" Usopp exclaimed. "Luffy put me down! You can't run with me like this!"

"Can you run by yourself?" Luffy asked.

Usopp hesitated. "I.. I can't feel my legs." He finally admitted. "I can't even lift my arm.. this is scary."

"Then just hang on!" Luffy snorted.

"Luffy just leave me!" Usopp exclaimed. "Go yourself! Get to the ocean!"

"Not a chance!" Luffy hissed.

By that, Usopp bowed down his head, and bit Luffy in the shoulder, making Luffy wince so he dropped Usopp on the ground. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?" Luffy asked looking at Usopp.

Then as he looked up, he saw the many lights coming towards him from back where they came, and they were quickly coming closer.

"JUST GO LUFFY!" Usopp exclaimed. "The only one who matters in here, is you Luffy! You are the one who must get to the ocean! GO!" he exclaimed.

"But." Luffy tried.

"Trust me Luffy!" Usopp asked. "We'll all be seeing you on the other side."

Luffy swallowed as he finally nodded, he had always trusted his nakamas, if they told him they could do some-thing, he would trust them to handle it, not just hold them back, and with that in mind, Luffy turned around to run, as voices kept calling behind him.

"LUFFY!"

"LUFFY!"

"LUFFYYYYY!"

But Luffy kept running, he could hear the waves so close in front of him, he could smell the salty sea-water! Even the smell of rotten sea-weed was welcome as he ran over a rocky place.. and suddenly had to stop. The road had ended, and in front of him was a giant drop, going directly down into the ocean waves, smashing against a bunch of rocks.

Turning around Luffy could see all the wards from the institution plus Garp, having cornered him on the cliff that hung over the ocean, backing away, Luffy almost lost the balance, which would surely send him plummeting down to the ocean.

"STOP!" Garp exclaimed making the others stop. "Luffy.." he tried more calmly, though his voice wavered under the words. "Please, step carefully away from the edge."

Luffy swallowed as he looked at all of them, then he heard them, the whispers in his head, but they were very loud now, they came from the ocean! And.. they were all calling his name! he could even make out the voices and set names upon them. Brook! Franky! Zoro! Chopper! Robin! Nami! Usopp! Sanji! It was their voices, they were all there, down there among the waves of the ocean.

"Luffy if you don't come over here, we'll come over there." Teach sneered dangerously.

Luffy swallowed.

"Luffy please! Garp begged. "you tried this before, you tried to jump into the ocean, and you nearly died! Don't do this!"

Luffy bit his lip as he tried to keep back his breath, that's when he saw her, standing behind the others, Robin, whom looked calmly at him, then offered him a slight smile as she nodded.

And suddenly, Luffy felt so at peace as he smiled. "I know what I have to do now." He whispered as he with the back to the ocean spreak out his arms, then Luffy closed his eyes.. and let himself drop.

"NO!" Garp yelled from above, while Luffy was falling, down and down, it almost felt like flying, before he crashed against the ice-cold waves of the ocean…

Monkey D Luffy, mental patient whom had previously almost taken his own life, to escape to a world of fantasy he had created as a mean to escape from the reality he had lived, had now in his second attempt succeeded in taking his life. It was over.

Slowly, ever so slowly, Luffy opened his eyes, he felt warm, he felt cosy, he felt safe. The sun was shining on his face from a window above him, and opening his eyes, Luffy saw wooden panels, felt the ship moving under him, rocking him quietly, and then he noticed.. the sounds.

The sounds deep breaths, from people that were sleeping.

There was a weight on Luffys chest, and looking down, Luffy saw a little ball of brown fur and antlers, rolled up on his chest, as the blue nosed reindeer was sleeping. Luffy blinked.

Looking to his right, Luffy saw Zoro, laying up against the wall with his katanas in his arms, snoring away, as Sanji laid by his feet's, almost pillowing on Zoro's legs in his sleep.

Brook looked extremely comical as he laid on his head with his bottom in the air, and Franky sat up in a chair, sleeping with crossed arms.

Then looking to his left, Luffy could see Nami in a far more comfortable chair, and Usopp.. resting his head on Luffys bead, while having his knees on the floor, half sitting half laying as he slept with his hands on Luffys covers.

Fondly Luffy reached over and grabbed Usopp's hands as a tear escaped from Luffys eyes.

"Luffy-san.." It was Robin whom spoke softly, she was awake as she always were, standing by the foot-end of Luffys bed. "You're finally awake."

Luffy whisked his tears away as he smiled at her. "You were all calling for me." He whispered. "You never let me go."

Robin shook her head. "We never left you for a moment." She told. "We were worried, I'm glad to see you are okay." She smiled.

Usopp groaned slightly as he slowly woke, then he seemed to notice that he hand were being held, and then he looked up at Luffy to have his eyes widen. "LUFFY!" Usopp exclaimed as he jumped up and embraced his Captain. "YOU'RE AWAKE! LUFFY!"

"WARGH!" Chopper yelled in surprised from where he had laid on Luffys chest. "WHERE'S THE EMERGENCY!?" he asked bewildered.

"Oh, Luffy!" Sanji brightened up as he as well woke, and Zoro was yawning.

"LUFFY SAN!" Brook exclaimed gladly together with Franky.

"Oh than god." Nami exhaled relieved.

"HAHAHA Every-body!" Luffy grinned. "You're all here!" and then he grabbed them all, for one giant embrace, of all of the straw-hats. "It's over!"