One-Shots

One Piece: If I Shatter, Pick Me Up

This is another time travel one, but what if Luffy didn't go back as his seventeen-year-old self? What if he went back in his own body at the age of twenty-five?

Would you turn back time?

If you were given the chance

Would you go back to the eras

When worry and pain was fake

If I had the chance

I'd do it all again

Because I would know

I could fix everything

The straw-hatted captain stared at a familiar face with three claw marks on one eye, a missing arm, and bright red hair.

If I shatter, pick me up

Please, it's all I have left

I've lost my family

The people who cared for me

And I'm looking at their ghosts

With such a broken heart

My eyes are tinted glass

So cracked and dark

So fragile and clear

I'm slowly losing it

Losing everything I ever held dear

Because you weren't here

And please, if I shatter, pick me up

"Who're you?" The red head, Shanks, asked dangerously. "And what are you doing on my ship?"

Luffy should have known the pirate wouldn't recognize him. After all, Shanks hadn't seen him since he was seven, and even now, he looked so different than what Shanks would ever recognize Luffy to be.

It's not like he was wearing his straw hat either.

And you look at me 

With eyes that don't recognize

And I gaze at you brokenly

Because everything I knew is gone

And I can still feel the knife in my chest

I know you

But you don't know me

And it's sad

Because I remember laughing with you

You were somebody I looked up to

Someone I knew would always be there

And now that you

Can't remember me

I'm breaking inside

Cause it's just not fair

Luffy smiled tiredly, sighing. "God, it's been how many years? And I have a feeling the bounty posters you've been seeing don't exactly match."