Another purpose

Going to Sabaody Archipelago

The day of the Straw Hat's reunion had arrived and two figures could be seen walking slowly through one of the many shopping groves. Both of the men were wearing cloaks but in different styles, one was a simply hooded fur cape which slightly covered his arms, he was also shorter in stature then his companion however he was carrying a backpack which was twice his size. The other man was wearing a black full body cloak which was adorned in red clouds as well as wearing a conical straw hat with two sheets of cloth covering his face.

As they proceed to walk through the grove the sound of a gunshot echoes out and as they turn to look at the source of the sound they see a young woman hit the ground with a small pool of blood forming around her shoulder.

"Don't get involved, her injuries aren't serious and simple medical attention will suffice" the taller one said to his friend and proceeded to walk on slipping through the crowd with ease. The second man tried following his friends example however his backpack knocked someone to ground, unfortunately the person that was knocked to the ground was the assailant of the woman who was interrupted as he tried to shoot the boyfriend of the woman who was shot.

The taller man looked back, lifting his hat showing a pair of red eyes with three black tomoe surrounding the pupil and sighed at the commotion his little brother was causing.

'Luffy, what are you doing...' Itachi thought.

As Itachi began making his way towards Luffy he hears a gunshot and not long after watches as the four people surrounding Luffy collapse to the ground. Itachi grabs Luffy and drags him by his cloak; "Luffy, we need to leave the area, I understand that you didn't start that fight but Marines surely heard the gunshots." Itachi explained as they hurried through the crowd.

"Hey Itachi, that guy has a four hundred million Berry bounty" Luffy said completely lost in thought which wasn't as rare since he met Itachi, "He must of been pretty weak since he passed out from a weak blast of my Haki, most of the animals on the island would of ignored it" Luffy finished with a frown. The two of them continue onwards further into the grove.

A few hours later there was a gathering of pirates in a clearing between two groves, the atmosphere was tense with all the rookies who had made it to the end of the first half of the Grand Line known as 'Paradise'. There were a few individuals who stood out from the rest of the rabble but all of them were relatively weak in comparison to Luffy and Itachi so they paid little notice to them; naturally all the rookies gathered in one place unsurprisingly drew the attention of the Marines.

It didn't escape Itachi's notice that the person who Luffy knocked out was killed by the leader of the marines who used the flat end of his axe to fracture his skull. "YOU'RE NOT STRAW HAT LUFFY, YOU SCUMBAG!" yelled the Marine; "PX-5 who is this imposter" he asked looking at the Pacifista.

A giant of a man stepped forward and began staring at the downed man before speaking in a soft but cold robotic voice "Scan complete. Target identified as 'Triple Tongue' Demaro Black, Twenty three million Berry bounty". This revelation caused an uproar among the pirates who realised they had been tricked by someone with a miniscule bounty.

Luffy and Itachi were preparing to flee the area when two lasers hit the ground at the feet forcing them to leap away, "Hey I have lots of lunches in this backpack you jerk" Luffy yelled glaring at a large marine, Luffy's cloak had flew off in the blast along with Itachi's hat which revealed both of them to the crowd of people.

"THATS THE REAL STRAWHAT LUFFY!" all the pirates in attendance yelled in utter shock.

"Captain Sentomaru" one of the Marines said while shaking uncontrollably "that's Straw Hat Luffy, how are we meant to beat him? He fought in the War of The Best!" the Marine cried out with many nodding their heads and backing away.