1 Piece AU Luffy Charlotte
By: FunahoMisaki
(AN: I own nothing and read last chapter)
Luffy yawned as he casually caught and threw the cannonballs that the marine Lieutenant was having fired at the Straw Hats as they approached the floating restaurant Barratte.
Honestly these weren't anything to worry about since his Observation Haki told him where each one was coming from and going towards, and his ability to stretch made sure that they were all within his range. He was a bit annoyed that the lieutenant was blowing them off for a date with some woman that reminded him of the ones that worked for his Mama Stussy…but he didn't really care. He was hungry and he didn't want to cook again…so they were going to recruit one of the fighting chefs! They were a pirate crew after all. They had no use for someone who couldn't hold their own in a fight.
"Oh Luffy-kun!" Fullbody's date said surprised to see Luffy when he walked in.
"It's been a while since I've seen you. You were still small and cute back then, oh you probably don't remember me. I'm April and I-"
"Work for Mama Stussy I know." Luffy said giving the woman a smile while she came up and hugged him, slipping something into his pocket that he knew better than to check out just yet. While he didn't like doing sneaky shadow stuff unless it was well deserved revenge on someone or absolutely needed, he understood the reasons for it. His Mama Stussy and Mama Branch had taught him all about being sneaky. Mama Smoothie had even told him how he could get more food from the kitchens if he was sneaky enough. Something that had more than one chef cursing when he was able to sneak by them and get some more food, and had his other family snickering or snorting at how Smoothie got him to learn how to be stealthy.
"I'll tell your mom you said 'hi' when I get back to her." April said smiling at Luffy before moving back towards her date who didn't look happy at her knowing the pirates or going to talk to and being friendly enough with the captain to hug him.
"What does your mama Stussy do?" Ussop asked staring at his captain curiously as they were seated at a table when Luffy held out some Berri's that they 'liberated' from some no name crew that had tried attacking them a few days ago. Sure Nami kept trying to steal them all for some reason but he had hid the treasure in his chest which was locked and hidden in the captains quarters that he rarely used. He was so used to sleeping with other people around that it felt weird to sleep on his own. It was lonely to be by himself in the dark room. He didn't like being lonely.
It brought back memories he'd rather not remember.
"She runs the pleasure district…some people call her the Queen of Whores." Luffy said casually while waiting on the waiter to come on up and take their orders. Apparently being pirates meant the other patrons were rather quiet and gave them a good amount of space.
"So Fullbody…" Nami trailed off looking pretty amused as all the pirates and half the fighting chefs began to snicker or smirk slightly, as did a couple of the Marines and civilians around them.
"Had to buy his date for the day just like most marine captains and lieutenants do." Luffy said without bothering to keep his voice down and there were immediate rumors and whispers going around at that.
Especially since the woman in question didn't deny it and in fact was just smiling prettily at everyone when they looked at her to see how she'd react to those accusations.
Fullbody was less than pleased about that and he made it known in spades as he slammed his fist down on his table complaining about a fly in his soup, breaking the table and the bowl while the soup flew everywhere. Luffy blurred in place as he grabbed April and then stood nearby with her held in his arms as the hot soup splashed where she had been a few seconds ago.
"Your observation haki is getting pretty great Luffy-kun. Thank you for that." April said and then kissed his cheek just long enough to leave a dark pink lipstick mark on him, causing his eyebrow to twitch and he dropped her. She would have landed on her ass but she was expecting it so she just giggled as she landed on her feet while he wiped off the lipstick.
"Come on! I hate it when girls do that." Luffy said rubbing the lipstick off while a blond waiter was beating the crap out of Fullbody, and it seemed to be a regular occurrence given how the other chefs were reacting.
"Oi. Don't talk to a lady like that." The blond chef said glaring at Luffy who just looked at him for a moment before shrugging and turning to go back to his table. The waiter was an interesting one. He only used his legs when beating up Fullbody. That and it seemed he really like ladies. He was acting like how Mama Branch said Perverts were like.
"Bye Luffy-kun. You should probably expect your Mama to call when I get back." April said grinning at Luffy and making him snort slightly. He knew good and well that she was going to hang around for a while longer just to have more stuff to report back to Mama Stussy about.
"Not like she doesn't call once a week anyways." Luffy said shrugging slightly as he sat back down, ordering a large order of meat from the waiter and some sweets. You don't grow up around and as a Charlotte for most of your life without picking up a taste for sweets.
Luffy gladly dug into his meal and only glanced up every once in a while, looking at a woman who his observation Haki told him was stronger than most in this sea and yet seemed to be so lonely and broken…
And then his attention snapped to the door when a Marine came in hollering for his superior because their captive escaped. A captive that had apparently been starved for the last few days. Luffy frowned at that, putting the bones of the meat down and turning his attention to the doorway.
"Good day crummy pirate. How do you plan to pay today?" The guy at the front of the restaurant asked the obviously starved and dehydrated man who stumbled in after shooting the Marine but Luffy could tell that the guy wasn't dead. He was shot in the back but it missed anything vital.
"Do you take lead?" The pirate asked hoisting his gun a little higher. The chef immediately lunged to attack.
Luffy appeared between them in an instant, stopping the chef with one hand and the pirate with the other.
"There's no need for that, either of you. We'll pay for his meal." Luffy said to the chef who scowled but backed down with a nod.
"I don't want charity." The pirate said glaring at Luffy who just shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't want to see someone else starve. Think of it as a favor to be repaid later if you want." Luffy said as he grabbed the pirate and nearly dragged him to their table where his crew was watching surprised and confused, not used to seeing him do something like that.
"Heh. I'll repay your kindness some day then stranger. Name's Gin, Gin the 'Man-Demon', Combat Commander of the Kreig Pirates." The pirate said as Luffy forcibly sat him in one of the seats and then ordered a meal for him.
"Charlotte D. Luffy. Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates." Luffy said nodding at the other man who looked surprised to hear that the other man was a pirate.
"You've got strong feelings about starvation then Luffy?" Usopp asked looking at his captain half curious half concerned.
Luffy just shrugged slightly.
"You would too if you were kept chained up and starved on a slave ship for a year."
The whole resteraunt went dead silent at that and he saw more than a few looks of disbelief and shock and horror and pity being shot his way by the civilians while the chefs all winced.
The woman who he had noticed earlier winced slightly and then glanced at him with sympathy in her eyes for a moment.
The head chef winced but then nodded to him.
The blond haired pervert chef that he had his eye on recruiting however flinched and then gave Luffy an understanding look.
"Oh…" His crew had no idea how to react to that at all, and neither did Gin it seemed.
After all that wasn't usually something people talked about so openly and casually.
So how did one respond to hearing that?