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*Thud* x4

"MR. STAN!! IT'S ALREADY 6 AM!" Luffy was yelling in front of Mystery Shack and knocking on the door repeatedly.

And well, Stan...

*Bang*

The door swung open and a visibly irritated Stan appeared, red-eyed, exhausted, in short, just woke up.

"WHO TOLD YOU TO DISTURB MY SLEEP AT THIS TIME?!"

"I'm sorry to disturb your sleep Mr. Stan but you asked me to arrive at 6 am and here I am" Luffy spoke politely but he knew Stan well enough from the cartoon.

'It's impossible for Stan to wake up so early to work which leaves only the option that it was a plan for there to be a reason to fire me.' Luffy thought as Stan slapped the palm of his hand on his face.

It can be said that the spell turned against the sorcerer, and Stan's plan failed.

"How did you manage to wake up this early in the morning and come here without your parents' permission?!" Stan rubbed his eyes irritably.

"Mr. Stan, I don't have parents so this is not a problem and your answer to your other question is a competent employee is always on time, right sir?" Luffy teased him at the end, ending the sad mood he created when talking about his parents' subject.

Stan can't help but sigh and enter the house again.

"So Mr. Stan what's my task?" Luffy followed him inside and closed the door.

"Clean the house..." Stan was heading upstairs to his room to go back to sleep.

"But she's already glowing." Luffy cleaned the whole house last night.

"Do what you want, but don't spoil the attractions!!!" Stan warned me.

*Bang*

He slammed his bedroom door.

'What do I do for fun while Mystery Shack still doesn't open and Soos doesn't arrive...'

I thought about exploring the house but I already know every corner of this place with my haki and it would only be fun if I could see it with my own eyes.

'I can see if there's anything good on TV, but considering what's on TV in Gravity Falls besides Duck-Tective besides just listening is boring.'

So all I have left is training, but there needs to be a balance between rest and training unless I administer medication which will also not be possible because I don't have the right tools and ingredients.

'I'm going to play with the sword, I don't have much to do and it can be useful in the future as well as fun' I smile at the idea and quickly leave the house in search of a stick that fits in weight and size.

*Swish*

Luffy was left waving his staff in the air playfully as he remembered the various sword-fighting techniques he saw.

'Will I be able to use any of them in the future?' Luffy thought while imitating the style of characters who use the style of one sword.

Asuna focused on fast lunges, Tanjiro follows the flow of the water, Asta and Berserker with heavy cuts, precise cuts, slow, fast, strong, and even a little dance with their rhythm, etc.

It felt like time was flying, 2 hours had already passed differentiating the sword styles.

Luffy was having so much fun that he didn't even notice Soos approaching for work, which shows he has a lot to learn.

Soos drove to work with a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast.

And obviously, he came across the scene of Luffy swinging a staff like a sword, but he kept going and opened the door to enter.

With the sound of the door, Luffy finally came out of his world and noticed Soos finishing his sandwich as he entered.

"Good morning Soos!" I greeted him with a smile on my face.

"Good morning eh- Gee, sorry I forgot to ask your name." Soos rubbed his head a little embarrassed.

"My name is Luffy!" I extend my hand for a handshake.

"Luf-fe? Damn it, it's going to take me a while to get used to your name, well you already know my name but I'm Soos." Soos squeezes my little hand.

"Soos, I wanted to thank you for yesterday, if it weren't for you I wouldn't have been temporarily hired by Mr. Stan. And as a thank you, you can ask me for anything." Thank you very much.

"No need, my friend."

"Let's go Soos anything." I shake my fists in hopes he'll say anything, even a robot or weapons if he asks.

Soos tried to think of something that wouldn't be hard to do.

"I already know, how about we play sword fight with me?" Soos asked as he swung an imaginary sword.

"May I ask why?" Luffy curiously asks Soos.

"Because of FCLORP!" Soos responds excitedly

"Foam and cardboard, legitimate, outdoor, role-playing?" Luffy asks remembering the episode of Dungeons, Dungeons, and more dungeons.

"Yes! Do you play?!"

"I've heard about Soos but don't you have to work now?" He arrived at 8 am, he must have work to do.

"Well, I usually clean things up and fix it if something breaks until the tourists arrive but since you cleaned up last night I have nothing to do until Mr. Pines calls me." Soos said as he whistled at the glowing house.

"We don't have cardboard, we'll just have to stick with sticks." I said showing my stick.

"Okay then, wanna play with me?" Soos rubs my head.

I smiled and started to run outside.

"You'll never get your princess back, you half-assed hero!"

"Give the princess back her Demon King!" Soos ran outside and grabbed the first stick she saw.

So we stayed for an hour and a half until Stan woke up to make breakfast and complained about the noise we were making.

"Well, I guess that's it for today." I cleaned my shirt.

"We can play more tomorrow if you want." Soos threw the branch away.

"Of course!" With a smile on his face.

*Snoring*

Luffy put his hand on his stomach a little embarrassed.

"Why don't you come in for some breakfast too?" Soos asked as he wiped his hands.

"Is Mr. Stan going to let me eat?"

"Of course, Mr. Pines is a person with a good heart." Soos encouraged me.

"Pancakes?" I started to drool at the thought.

"Hmhm" Soos nodded.

"Yaay" Luffy jumped towards the kitchen.

"What are you doing here?! Hey! Don't eat my pancakes!" Stan was yelling at Luffy who had taken a pancake from his pile.

"Calm down Mr. Pines is just a kid." Soos came to the rescue of the helpless child who had Stan's pancake in his mouth.

And it was with this routine that I spent the following month training to improve my mastery of the rokushiki and Devil Fruit, no significant advance in busoshoku, I couldn't activate the black armor again maybe I have to put myself at risk or wait for my body to grow, possibly my age of 6 is limiting me, who knows.

Another thing that happened this month besides Stan not stopping throwing chores at me is that I met Soos' grandma and she makes delicious dinosaur cookies.

Let me tell you this little story, one day when we were pretending to cast spells instead of playing swords, Soos invited me over to his house after finishing work on the cabin, to sleep over at his place as my shift didn't end until around 8 p.m and 9 p.m.

And I said I couldn't go that day and only tomorrow, I needed to let my friends know in advance so they wouldn't be worried and season the meat in advance so it just needs to warm up.

Although they have been eating raw meat for over a month, now they only eat it cooked and seasoned after having tasted mainly Ravi, the others can even go back to eating raw meat but Ravi... If I make the meat for Ravi, I have to make it for the others, otherwise, they will want to eat it.

Well going to Soos' grandmother's house or as she likes to be called Abuelita (grandmother in Spanish), I found out that Soos was already doing karate through Abuelita who introduced me to the paintings and like almost every grandmother I met and wanted to fill me up of food because I looked too thin.

Well, even if she fills up with food so my belly looks like I ate a bear, I'd be back to normal height in an hour and a half standing still or 40 minutes on the go.

Too bad I can't see the pictures but that's not the main point of the story anyway, Soos invited me to his house to play video games he even spent his savings buying another controller to play together

Soos is one of the best people I've ever met and I asked him if he had the classic that everyone who's watched gravity falls knows which game referred to, Stree- I mean Fight Fighters! And amazingly he had, I don't know how but he had.

'Soos bought the game recently?' The lack of dust and the edges that aren't frayed or the cover not wrinkled make it look like he bought it recently.

'Soos I owe you a lot, I promise to improve your pickup if possible, or your speedboat, I can even try to make a replica of the lightsaber but that could put Soosr's physical integrity at risk.'

But going back to the game, which was a lot more fun with my good memory, I understood Soos' explanation about the buttons the first time, before it took me a while to memorize the controls of a new fighting game and put it into practice after playing so much in the other.

Soos let me choose my character first and I know this situation seems ironic since a "blind" is playing Fight Fighters but since it's Soos and not Stan he believed me when I said I wasn't blind and didn't ask me a reason to use the sale.

My excuse is that I played so many games that I memorized the game positions, even so, it will be difficult to find out where the Soos character is, but I like that it balances the game, as my advantage is that I know all the buttons and possible combos with them while Soos has the advantage that I don't know your position, it seems fair to me.

Soos found my ability to memorize the entire game amazing.

I chose the character that according to Soos was Beastor meanwhile he ended up choosing a character called Admiral Big-Calves, the game started with a roar of my character.

A character with few words.

And the Admiral said: "You won't be able to fight for this forest forever."

And my character finally says something and it's: "Death"

Yes, just that word, were you expecting more?

'I feel like I'm going to get along with this character.'

And so we played until we slept and I must say that it was a close fight I don't know how much life I had in the first round so much that after losing that round I managed to calculate the average of blows I had to take to for lose.

At the end of the night, the game was 3 to 3 a tie, we did not play one more because it was time to sleep, Soos wanted to tell me horror stories but he ended up sleeping in before he told me something scary.

The story would end here if it weren't for the fact that I wasn't sleeping because of discomfort, I ended up sleeping on the roof feeling much more comfortable, and after just a few months in the forest, I was already in the habit of sleeping with the whispers of the wind caressing my face.

And there was also another problem that Soos started to invite me often, which I didn't have any specific problem with since I trained before going to work and showering too, the problem is that on one of those trips Ravi followed my scent to Soos' house.

I was surprised to see Ravi approaching the house.

[FINISH HIM]

"YES!" Soos was happy with the victory but when he looked to the side he saw Luffy a little down.

"Let's go one more Luffy you will win the next one." Soos got it wrong but I don't blame him would have thought the same.

"Sorry, Soos I need to go to the bathroom for a bit." I ran towards the bathroom.

"Children, when nature calls you there's nothing to stop you. *Munch* x3" Soos ate some popcorn and switched the game to entertain while Luffy didn't arrive.

Luffy entered the bathroom, locked the door, and opened the window to get out.

After leaving for a while I called Ravi who knew he was watching me through the bushes.

*woof*

Ravi jumped on top of me and started licking me.

"*Laughs* I'm sorry Ravi did you miss me?" I caressed his body and then Ravi lay on his back for me to caress him.

*Bark*

"It looks like this is a yes, but you can't do that, what would happen if people saw you? It would be dangerous for them." Impossible to be dangerous to Ravi when no one here has a decent firearm other than Stan who once said he had 10 guns around the house and I've never seen him use one.

'Was it a lie of the moment? Or he still hasn't bought it? Anyway, it's a good thing this kid wasn't seen, it would be a problem.' I sighed.

*knock* *knock*

"Hey Luffy, is everything ok in there?" Soos was knocking on the bathroom door.

I asked Ravi to be silent and approached the window.

"Yes, I'm fine, I just need another 5 minutes." I said as if I was done doing what I needed to and getting ready to leave.

"Oh I see, hurry up, Abuelita made cookies." As Soos was about to walk away to the kitchen Ravi started growling.

"Shhh…" I restrained Ravi as much as possible, and Soos continued toward the kitchen.

'*Sigh* Glad he didn't hear.'

"You can take as long as you want there Luffy, the cookies won't walk around like they have life. Or will they..."Soos looked thoughtful.

"*Phew* You can't do that Ravi and if you got caught?" I muttered to him and released him, Ravi was quiet.

*Purrs*

'Ravi is a little crestfallen. Wait...' I had a hunch about what was going on.

"Ravi by any chance are you jealous of Soos because I'm in town most of the time?" I asked the question but I was pretty sure that was it and Ravi's reaction to hearing what he said proves it.

"Look..." I put Ravi on my lap and started to caress him.

Ravi felt very comfortable on Luffy's lap.

"Ravi, I've told you this before, I won't be able to be with you all the time…I could end up being gone all day or all week and you'll have to deal with it." Ravi looked at me and I could feel how sad he was..

"You can't depend on me as much as you want even if I want to, but know that I would never abandon you, or the rest of the family because you are important to me." I patted his head and leaned my head against his, Ravi was happy with the pat, which is considered important in Luffy's heart.

"For now I'll spoil him a little, I'll come over to Soos's house twice a week and nothing else." Ravi pushed his head against my body.

"What was Ravi?"

*Bark*

"Do you want me to come more often? But why the sudden change?" With that question, Ravi seems embarrassed to speak.

I muttered, "Were you afraid of being abandoned?..." Ravi listened and turned around in surprise and that was all he needed to make sure what happened.

I jumped up hugging him "Ravi I could never abandon you or the guys you guys are important so don't be afraid of those kinds of silly thoughts, Soos, Stan, grandpa and grandma, Uncle McGucket, they matter to me but you are my family and don't forget it." I rubbed myself against his soft fur.

"Now go Ravi, I have to go back inside, but know that I'll be at Soos' house less, I think you guys need some extra training." *Smile D*

Ravi barked excitedly to get back to training with me that day, even though the other wolves found those days hellish, Ravi was happy to have guided him personally after such a long time.

When I finally got back to the room, Soos asked me if I was talking to my belly, he could hear me talking softly as he passed by the bathroom.

To which I replied, "Sure, you want to know what he told me?"

"Say, say." Soos was very curious.

I called him closer, and as soon as Soos got close enough I touched my belly, rubbed it, and said in the most distorted voice possible: "HuuNgRY~"

Soos laughed at that and handed me the plates of cookies Abuelita made.

"Thank you, Abuelita for making our cookies." I was grateful that she almost always arrived with food here.

She laughed and said it was nothing and was glad that Soos seems more active, she said that Soos even lost some weight with our pranks.

In short, this one month was really fun, even though Stanley tried to fire me on purpose, even making a lot of messes so I had more things to clean up.

The day has finally come when Stanford is going to tell me whether I've been hired or not, and if he chooses the latter, he can only fire me for cause.

Stan said after what happened the first day that it was not necessary to arrive at 6 am, but I kept coming anyway because it was like a dream to be in the real Mystery Shack.

'Every time I wake up I ask myself if it's not a dream that I'm living but everything I'm feeling can't be a dream.' After playing around with sword styles, I started making breakfast, for Stan and me, Soos eats Abuelita's breakfast before coming to work.

"It must now be 8:49 in the morning, Stan is usually awake at this time and tries to sleep more but he can't and gets up at 9 o'clock... Would you like something Soos? One coffee? Juice? Bacon? Or maybe the Ovaltine I made for Stan.?" I set the table by placing the dishes and pouring Ovaltine into Stan's mug and mine.

'9 a.m' I hear Stan creaking down the stairs.

He arrives for breakfast just as I finish washing the dirty dishes.

Stan picked up the mug and took a sip.

"Ovaltine? What happened to the coffee?" Stan asked since on other days it was an improvised coffee or cappuccino.

"It's good to have a variety and I think you liked the Ovaltine." Stan didn't stop drinking even when I talked about it.

"Just your impression." Stan is no longer surprised that even blind he can see better than anyone.

In addition to the food being very delicious, even with the dubious quality of the ingredients, you can't imagine Stan's surprise when he ate my food for the first time even though he suspected because I made breakfast he decided to try it, and quickly cleaned the plate.

I started eating an omelet I made to nourish myself a little before going for pancakes or bacon.

"So Mr. Stan..."

"Hmm?" Stan looked up from the newspaper and grabbed a pancake.

"Is today..."

"Have something special today?" Stanley asks.

"If you're going to hire me or-" Before I could finish speaking he interrupted me.

"You are admitted." And he took another sip of the Ovaltine.

"W-wha-"

"We don't have a specific uniform, but since you don't have a dressier shirt, you can just get the same one from Soos or a different model from the gift shop." Stanley said calmly as he finished reading the paper and having breakfast.

"Aren't you even going to fire me so I don't win the bet?" I thought he would do it since it was a 'gamble' and Stan hates losing bets so he cheats sometimes or most of the time.

Stan sighed, "Look kid I'll be honest with you, I thought about that when you did everything perfectly without complaining quickly and efficiently. But I started to see that you were making it easier not only for Soos, look..." Stan took a briefcase and opened it.

"This was the month that made me the most profit with you managing only the cashier. Losing you would be the same thing as me taking this briefcase and setting it on fire." Stan started to laugh and put the briefcase behind the board.

"YES! SOOS I GOT IT!! High five!" I jumped up with my hand.

*Clap*

"Congratulations Luffy let's celebrate!" Soos congratulated me and hugged me.

"I don't pay you guys to party! TO WORK!" Stan yelled and slammed the vault door, going to get ready for another day of deceiving tourists.

Soos and I smiled at each other and started cleaning the house cooperatively with me taking care of the secret room and the hallway with the wax men so as not to get in the way of the plot.

'With this objective being completed and the other one in progress, now I lack manpower for my future laboratory, I need them to be able to maintain my identity anonymity.' I thought of 5 different solutions but there is one that has a better speed rate at work and I am going to use that.

"But only in the future, in the future..." I muttered, sweeping the floor.

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Hello, how long readers, have you missed me?

Sorry for the delay but I'm having less and less time...

What if it explodes I will overload myself staying up at dawn and I have to wake up at 6 but I need to see the plot start, for those who like spoilers I think the great time-skip you are waiting for will be in 2 chapters, it may seem forced but I will use flashback magic to try to recount what I missed and I think it will be appropriate we are stalling a lot in training and I was planning in the events for the awakening of haoshoku, busoshoku and kenbushoku advanced. But I don't know if you'll want to... anyway what did you think of Stanley? I tried to make it as legit as possible I put an Easter Egg and anyone who is a Gravity Falls fan must have noticed.

I'll re-read and fix it as much as I can because I go to my grandmother's and there's no computer there.

I finished it now, I hope you like it, I spent the whole day doing this correction and I have to wake up early tomorrow but as I said before... LET MY SLEEP SCHEDULE EXPLODE!!!

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