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Chapter 2 (Revised)

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece.

Warning: Contains curse words!

Luffy: 8 years old, Ace and Sabo: 11 years old

Third Person P.O.V

A year had gone by and each day brought more pain and suffering for the three. By this point in time Ace and Sabo had tried their best to continue giving hope to their little brother, but all three knew it was pointless. Ace and Sabo felt as though they had failed as their brother's protectors, which had only grown worse now that Luffy was sick, again.

Ace's P.O.V

"What the hell are we going to do!? If Luffy doesn't get better soon those bastards are going to throw him out to die." I hissed out quietly in hopes that Luffy wouldn't hear. "I don't know! This is the third time these past few weeks that Luffy has gotten sick," Sabo responded back with a panicked look in his blue eyes.

I clenched my fists feeling utterly helpless in this situation. The whole idea of not being able to fight my way out of this situation was frustrating beyond belief. I wanted to scream, begging for any god to listen to my pleas and save Luffy and Sabo. I didn't care what happened to me, I didn't deserve to live anyways, but my brothers were unlike that. I needed them to live.

"I-It's called malnutrition I think," Sabo said hesitantly breaking me out of my depressing mood. "What?" Sabo responded back nervously, "I read this somewhere and I think what Luffy - no - what we are suffering is called malnutrition. I-It's when stuff begins to happen to you when you don't eat the right foods and stuff." I spoke through clenched teeth as hot fury coursed through my veins, "Well that's just fucking great. If I get the chance I'll kill these assholes for doing this to us."

I heard Sabo sigh loudly and I turned to look at him with my eyes showing how angry I was. He met my gaze head on, "When do you think we'll get a chance like that? Because if you haven't noticed it doesn't look like its going to happen anytime soon and I don't really think Luffy has much time left if we don't get him a doctor." I sat down with a huff and glared at my lap as Sabo's implied accusation ringing in my head.

"Its all my fault I already know this dammit," I growled out. Sabo sighed, "I never said it was your fault and let me finish." He said when I opened my mouth to retort. "If anything the fault is on all of us including Luffy." I knew it was my fault no matter what Sabo says to try to sugar coat the truth. It was me that made the fatal decision to stay back and play around in the woods longer than usual.

"Ace," I looked up at Sabo, "it seriously isn't your fault. I don't care what you do or say to argue against this. Besides Luffy and I both agreed with your plan despite the fact that we all knew it could lead to trouble. What I want to know is how Dandan and everyone else are doing," Sabo said in his annoying know-it-all tone of voice. Despite his words I didn't find any reassurance in them, but I ignored that in favor of listening to his lingering question that hung between us unanswered.

"They haven't forgotten us." Sabo and I jumped at the sound of Luffy's raspy voice. "Luffy! Your awake!" We both exclaimed feeling waves of relief crash into us. "They would never forget us," Luffy stated seriously while trying and failing to sit up. Sabo and I shared a look before Sabo replied, "Of course, Ace and I were just being stupid."

We helped Luffy sit up and Sabo let the younger boy lean against his chest. "Think you can drink water?" I asked while offering the last bottle of water we currently had. "I think so." I nodded and passed the water to Sabo hating the raspy sound to Luffy's voice.

Sabo took the water and began to help him drink the liquid. After a few sips he turned his head and refused to drink any more water. "Look we saved you some bread and cheese. Think you could eat it?" Sabo said hopefully only for Luffy to shake his head no. "Please, for us?" I said trying and failing to hide the desperate tone in my voice that was begging to be released. The eight year old hesitated before reluctantly agreeing.

After Luffy ate a few tiny bites of the little food we had Sabo layed him down to rest on the cold floor using the blond's coat as a blanket. When Luffy was sound asleep the guards came back and threw an older male into the cell directly next to ours. When the guards left the man looked around and noticed us staring at him. The man let his gaze assess the situation until finally it landed on the fever flushed Luffy. "What's wrong with the chibi?"

Author's Note:
Hello my lovely readers. I hope you are having a lovely day. Can anyone guess who that guy is? *crickets* No one? Well except for those crickets. I'm already half way done with the third chapter. Hope you all enjoy! Keep an eye out for chapter three! Bye luckies!! *waves fiercely*