One-Shots

One Piece: Different Home

What if Luffy was sent to another universe where things went differently?

Luffy didn't know what had happened. One moment, he was with his crew on another mysterious island, exploring and having another adventure.

Now, he's on a ship that Luffy recognizes, because it's the Moby Dick, the ship Ace used to sail on with his crew, Pineapple Head, Giant Banana Mustache Man, but thinkingofAcehurtand-

"Kid, what are you doing here, yoi? Who are you, yoi?" Luffy looked up to see Marco.

"Pineapple Head?" His voice was breathy, almost shocked. "Why am I here?"

"Wha-? The only person who calls me that is-" Marco wasn't able to finish as his mind processed the teen's face. "LUFFY?!"

"Oi, what's going on?" A voice asked and two familiar faces came into view.

Luffy couldn't move. His throat tightened, his body heated up, and tears sprung to his eyes. "Ace...Sabo...That's not..."

"Luffy?" Sabo almost choked. "Why do you look so...old?!"

"What?" Luffy asked, but a voice echoed behind him.

"What's going on?" A cheerful voice asked happily.

Luffy turned around to come face to face with... thirteen-year-old Luffy?!

The two Luffy's stared at one another before gaping. "Waaaaahhhh?!?!"

"What's going on?" Ace screeched.

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Luffy stared up at Whitebeard. He was seeing a dead man, Ace and Sabo being the first.

"Giant Ossan..." Luffy murmured.

"Gurararara! You cheeky brat!" Whitebeard laughed. "So, I hear you're Monkey D. Luffy?"

"Of course I am!" Luffy shouted before pausing. "Although I'm not sure why a thirteen-year-old me is running around on your ship...with Ace and Sabo of all things! Is Thatch here, too?"

"Right behind you." Luffy turned to see Thatch, alive and well.

"This can not be happening..." Luffy muttered, rubbing his forehead.

"Do you mind explaining what exactly is going on?" Marco frowned.

Luffy sighed. "I think I may have gotten sent to a different world."

"Huh?" Little Luffy wondered.

"A different world, universe, whatever. This is probably, like, a different reality, like...another way my life could have turned out..." Luffy's voice became uncharacteristically quiet near the end.

"So, what's your world like? And why are you so shocked to see Ace, Sabo, and I?" Thatch asked.

Luffy frowned and fiddled with his hands. "I...in my world...things went a lot differently. Sabo...he died during the Grey Terminal incident. He set out to sea and Celestial Dragons shot his boat down. What happened here?"

Sabo swallowed dryly. "I...survived. Ace and our Luffy dragged me back to Dadan's hut and got me treated. I still have a burn scar, though. We set out to sea after that. Marco found us and we've been here ever since." Sabo pointed to his eye.

Luffy frowned and rubbed his watery eyes. "Ace swore he wouldn't die. Ace left when he was seventeen and joined Gia-Whitebeard later. I stayed in Foosha until I was seventeen, then set out. Right now, I'm in the second half of the Grand Line with my crew. We're pretty infamous pirates. Shortly after we arrived in the Grand Line, Ace told me he was searching for a man named Marshall D. Teach, AKA Blackbeard. He killed Thatch and betrayed you guys for a Devil Fruit, the Yami Yami no mi. Afterwards, my crew and I were separated, and I found out Ace was sent to get executed at Marineford. I stormed the place to save him, but in the end, he sacrificed himself to Akainu to save my life. He...broke his promise and died in my arms. Whitebeard died fighting and Blackbeard somehow got his Devil Fruit as well and didn't explode. This scar on my chest...it's from Marineford. I bare it to the world to show everyone that I've been through hell, and I've lost my family more than once, but I'm going to keep pushing forward because I haven't lost everyone and the world isn't going to take me down."

Silence spread through them. Little Luffy sniffed. "Ace, Sabo, Thatch, and Oyaji...died?"

"For me, yeah." Luffy turned his head to look at his brothers. "I feel like I'm looking at ghosts. It hurts...my throat is tightening too much, my heart is squeezing so badly I'm afraid it might burst, and I wish you were my Ace and Sabo, but you aren't. I'm sorry."

Sabo and Ace couldn't form words. It may not have been their Luffy, but the way Luffy addressed Whitebeard and Marco, it proved that it was still Luffy, and they felt like they'd failed their little brother, even if it was alternate versions of themselves.

"Luffy-" Ace and Sabo were cut off.

"I wanna go home," Luffy whimpered, tears burning behind his closed eyelids. He opened them and stared at the pirates with anguish, guilt, pain, and sadness. "I don't want to do this anymore. I can't look at Ace or Sabo without feeling hatred and envy and guilt because this universe has my brothers, this universe's me has his whole family, and them being alive here makes me feel like your Luffy came through for you, and I failed to do the same for my brothers. My chest hurts, I can hardly speak, I just want to fall down and cry, bawl, because I can't take this. I want to go home, back to my crew, back where I don't feel like I'm dying inside."

"Because while my brothers are alive and well and I'm so glad I got to see them again, they're not mine and mine are gone and never coming back and standing here proves that." Luffy couldn't stop the waterfalls of tears pouring down his cheeks.

"Everything turned out differently in my world, everything happened differently, and I want to go back home, where I still have my nakama, where everything is different, but it's home. This place holds my home, but it isn't home because I know home, and some of my home has died, but my nakama are my home, too, and I want to go back to them."

Luffy stared at them. "It's different, but it's my home. Let me go home."

Okay, so Luffy is kind of OOC, but whatever!

This alternate universe is based off of the clichè stories of ASL being raised by the Whitebeard pirates. I've always wondered how Luffy would react to this alternate universe. Most people would think Luffy would be happy to see his brothers and wouldn't want to leave right away, but I've put my own realistic twist on things, something less expected.

This takes place before Luffy discovers Sabo's alive, so before Dressrosa. Bye my doggies!