Is This Truly a Coincidence?

It's been 6 years since I came to this world as Sephiroth himself and my life has been nothing less than perfect!

I have mastered numerous magics thanks to the former Sephiroth's experiences and can use them without their respective materia thanks to my bloodline.

As I had anticipated I had completely mastered Sephiroth's personal martial arts in no time flat too. My wooden training sword is far more lethal than the marine standard issue.

My body's growth has come along nicely with my only real limitation is my age.

If I were to face Bluejam' crew I would dominate them easily. But it's not my problem. Ace, Luffy, and Dadan will deal with them their selves. Unless the idiots cross me. Then I will do some damage.

I spent some time in the forests outside Foosha hunting and facing off against the beasts to gather food, trade in fur, and build up my experiences.

This also built up my gil so I could buy more materia to master.

I also made a beastly rival of sorts over the years.

A wolf or tiger like quadrupedal animal with dark red and orange fur with a thin brown mane. It has ochre eyes. There are black markings on it's legs and what appears to be face paint.

To me it looks like Red XIII, or Nanaki, from Final Fantasy 7.

At first he considered me prey, but after a few battles ending in my victory over it, followed by healing him with magic. The hostility turned into a one sided competition and rivalry.

I never lost but the little beast kept improving and we hit it off as friends of sort and often hunt together. Sometimes it even crashes at my lodge and has become acquainted with the villagers despite the initial reception.

For convenience sake I named it Red.

...

==Short Flashback==

"Gum Gum Pistol!"

I smirk as a rubber powered fist comes flying towards my head. I casually tilt my head aside as the fist sails past my head and smashes a hole through a tree.

Unfortunately for Luffy his hand gets stuck and his body is forcibly launched hard into the tree where he tries to pry his hand free.

"Ung!!!" Luffy grunts, "Yaa! I'm stuck!"

It has been a few weeks since Luffy had gotten his fruit and straw hat from Shanks. He was all to happy to have a special power of his own. Even if it is as weird as having a rubber body.

Due to my coaxing he decided to make up some attacks of his own ahead of schedule. I'm not about to intervene in his future too much. So I will consider a freebie.

In exchange I will use him as guinea pig for an experiment I planned in the future with the White Materia.

It turns out I have both Black and White Materia available. The destructive black materia cannot be used, however a heavily nerfed white materia can be.

Since the white materia calls upon the lifestream to perform it's miracles. It is not as effective since this world does not have a lifestream. However I found out that it had outrageous purification effects and can be paired up with restoration spells to boost them by twice.

I chuckle as I watch as Luffy struggles in vain to pull free.

"Stop laughing! This ain't funny!"

"I'm gonna have to disagree with you there Stretches." I say in amusement as I approach Luffy. Raising my wooden sword up, I swing down and watch as Luffy's rubber head caves in before popping back out.

"GAH!" He cries out in pain as he rubs the point of contact.

*Tsk tsk tsk!*

"I believe this is my win again Stretches." I say with a smug grin.

Luffy protests, "No fair! I'm stuck!"

"Sorry, but that is your problem. Out there in the seas other pirates or marines won't play fair. You have to work on you technique so you don't get stuck."

Luffy nods, "Yes!... I'm still stuck!"

"Haah... Okay I will help you this time." I walk around the tree and grab his hand before walking back stretching his arm along with me.

"Where are you going with my arm?" Luffy asks, sticking his head around the tree to see what I am doing.

I respond with a hum, "Oh nowhere, just gonna pull this back right... About... Here to build up some momentum..."

"What mome... GAAAHHH!!!" I let go and watch as his hand shoots back and tears through the tree, launching Luffy flying towards the village in terror.

*Whistles*

"Who knew rubber could be so amusing? Haha!"

I roam back into the forest to continue my training.

...

After that day I haven't seen much of Stretches again. According to Makino his grandpa hauled him off to Mt. Colubo to live with an acquaintance.

I started to build up on some belli these few years thanks to robbing some no named bandits in order to test my infiltration and assassination skills. I have well over a million belli put away now.

...

Leaving behind Foosha Village and Red, I decide to check out the island's resident kingdom and check out the Grey Terminal. I wanted to see how bad it truly was.

True to my expectations it was dreadful. A real landfill inhabited by the less fortunate and needy. People scrounging around for whatever of value they can find to sell for their next meal or repair their shanty shack.

The kingdom beyond the walls live in comfort while most of these people are ignored and not given a chance to thrive.

All of them unaware that their kingdom will try and purge them in a few years.

"It's worse in person than poryrayed in the series. Starving children, merciless thugs, a venerable wasteland of depravity." I feel sad for these people here. I'll try and save as many people as possible when the nobles try to burn Grey Terminal to the ground.

"I may even leave Jalmack a 'gift' to remember us by when he leaves Dawn Island. Hehehe!"

As I am walking through the wasteland of trash a commotion nearby attracts my attention.

"HEADS UP!!!"

*Rumble Rumble Rumble!*

*Crash!*

A tall pile of rubble begins to collapse with a filthy looking red head with unkempt hair surfing down on the avalanche.

"RUN FOR YOUR LIFE RUDE!" The red head yells at his friend who scrambles to get away from the oncoming wave of trash. His friend is a hairless black kid wearing an outfit similar to the red head's.

Seeing these two kids who look to be around Luffy's age. I cannot help but ask myself...

"Does such coincidences truly exist?"

It is at this moment I found two of a few coincidental encounters that will become the foundation of my future goals.

Good or bad I can't be sure yet.