reyleighs and shanks training

Excuse me is this Dawn Island," he asked a fisherman.

"Yeah but if you're looking for the famed cleanest city it's on the other side of the island." the fisherman said about to go back to work.

"That's okay I'm looking for a boy named Luffy. Do you know him?" Rayleigh asked the now tense fisherman.

"W-what do you want with Luffy." he said and Rayleigh backed off, "I'm sorry Shanks wouldn't stop talking about him. I just wanted to meet him myself."

The man visibly relaxed at the mention of Shanks and sighed. "He'll probably be at the Party's bar," the man said pointing towards the bar and then going back to work.

"Thank you," Rayleigh said before going off to find the Party's bar. 'Bar? Why is this kid in a bar of all places?'

Party's bar:

"Makino I'm back!" Luffy said giving Makino a hug.

"Welcome back Luffy. Did you learn anything new?" Makino said giving a hug back and then getting some food for a hungry Luffy.

"Yeah! You wanna see?!I call it the Water Pistol." Luffy said excitingly while eating food.

"Sure! But after you eat and I clean up. Okay?" Makino said and Luffy pouted before going back to his food.

Makino noticed someone strange come in, "How can I help you? Are you new around here sir," she said to the strange man.

"No, that's okay. My name is Silvers Rayleigh, I was wondering if you knew a boy named Luffy?" as soon as he said that Makino immediately tensed and said, "What do you want with Luffy?" she said in a forced calm voice.

"I simply just want to meet him," Rayleigh said to the tensed woman.

"I'm Luffy Old man," Luffy said finishing off his food and turning towards Rayleigh expectantly.

"I see, I want to talk with you. Can I?" he said guessing that he will just to get him away from Makino.

And he was right Luffy responded almost immediately with "Sure, let's go," and they headed to the beach towards the woods for some privacy.

"So who are you old man? And why did you want to meet me" Luffy questioned?

"My name is Rayleigh, I'm here to meet you because Shanks wouldn't shut up about you," Rayleigh said matter-of-factly.

"You know Shanks old man!" Luffy said resulting in a bump on the head.

"Don't call me old man! And I wouldn't have said it if I didn't know him," Rayleigh said to a Luffy who was cradling a bump on his head until that turned into confusion.

"Huh? How'd you do that?" Luffy asked and then got a look of recognition. "Was that Haki?"

Rayleigh was shocked then a question came to mind, "Hey, Luffy why do you want to be the pirate king? Do you want to conquer the grand line?"

"Huh? What does conquer mean?" Luffy asked tilting his head to the side.

Cursing himself for using words he didn't know searched his mind for a definition finally finding one he said. "It means to take something by force." and then looked at the kid expectantly.

Luffy answered his question filled with confidence, "I want to be the pirate king because he is the person that is the freest. Right?"

Suddenly Rayleigh remembered his old captain, "HAHAHAHA! Well, then Luffy I have an idea. I want to help you achieve your dream. How about I train you in all that I know and shanks will also teach you ?" Rayleigh said wiping the tear out of his eye and cheering up because of the boy.

"Sure, what will you and shanks teach me?" Luffy said after thinking a while resulting in his head turning red.

"Well first off you are going to get smarter, and the rest of it is a surprise. If I told you then it wouldn't be a surprise. And before you ask how much I know let me tell you that I was the pirate kings first-mate." Rayleigh said and Luffy's eyes lit up.

"Cool!" Luffy said with stars in his eyes. "Wait how am I going to tell Makino?"

"Don't worry about it I'll tell her. You tell your parents, okay?" Rayleigh said and Luffy shook his head. "Oh, and why not, brat," Rayleigh asked.

"Cause I don't have any parents. I'm all alone." Luffy said sadly and looking at the ground.

"I see do you have anything to pack? When your stuff is packed wait for me at the docks, okay?" Rayleigh asked and they both made their way back to the village.

When they got to the village Luffy ran towards his dark and lonely house to gather his things, and Rayleigh headed to the bar.

When he got there "Excuse me, Makino was it? Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I'm taking Luffy with me." Rayleigh said and walked out the door and toward the docks. As he did that he heard panicked yells back where the bar was. He got to the docks and saw Luffy with a small backpack on.

"You ready to head out Luffy?" Rayleigh asked and spotted a dingy a little ways away. And they started moving towards it.

"WAIT! Why are you taking him?! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" Makino asked pleadingly while also starting to cry.

"Luffy as soon as I grab you act like your knocked out, got it?" Rayleigh said quietly so only Luffy can hear him. Then spoke louder as he grabbed Luffy "'Cause I want to!" Rayleigh replied as Luffy got bored and fell asleep. Rayleigh got in the small boat with Luffy and put him down gently because he felt him go limp and assumed he was asleep. Rayleigh then set off towards the calm belt with a small dingy and no food.

A few hours later:

"OH LUFFY! WHERE ARE YOU? IF YOU'RE HIDING FROM ME YOU'LL GET THE FAMOUS FIST OF LOVE!" a large man wearing a marines vice-admiral uniform yelled walking toward party's bar. This man is named Monkey D. Garp, and Luffy's grandfather. Garp didn't notice the villagers talking and whispering about him and his grandson.

Garp walked into the bar and was met with a crying Makino and he instantly jumped into action, "Makino what's wrong! Talk to me," he said in a concerned voice.

"H-he took him, a-and I couldn't stop h-him." she managed to get out before crying again.

"It's okay Makino. Who took who? Just calm down and tell me everything, okay?" Garp said and successfully calming Makino down so she could talk.

"A man who I think was named Rayleigh came and told me he wanted to talk to Luffy," Makino said and then said the rest of the story. By now Garp had many emotions running through his mind, he knew he probably couldn't save Luffy because he'll disappear, but that's not what he's worried about. He's worried that Rayleigh found out about Luffy's father.

"It's okay Makino it's not your fault, I should've have protected the village better. Here take this it's called a den-den mushi you can call someone on it see? Garp then dialed from his den-den mushi and they heard a Purupurupuru and a gatcha before Makino heard Garp talking through it. If any trouble happens here call me on that, okay? Now I gotta get back to Marineford," Garp said as he left towards Marine HQ.

When Garp got there he immediately went to the Fleet admirals office. Sengoku a man with a long black braided beard and black poofy hair groaned when he heard Garp stomping toward his office. Soon enough Garp smashed through the wall and then fixed it without saying anything, but what surprised Sengoku was that Garp wasn't laughing or smiling about how cool of an entrance he thought that was. No, he was clearly frowning and troubled by something.

"Sengoku I have a personal problem," Garp said seriously, shocking anyone who could hear it.

"Is it about your grandson, knowing you it could be anything?" Sengoku said motioning to a chair. "Did someone find out about Luffy's father?"

"I think so, he was kidnapped by none other than that Silvers Rayleigh. And knowing him he'll disappear again before I can find him. And bring my grandson home," Garp said sadly.

"Don't worry too much Garp you said he's a strong kid he'll find his way back. Just believe in him got it?" Sengoku said trying to cheer up his friend, and it seemed to have worked because Garp then pulled out some rice crackers and left the office smashing through the wall not bothering to fix it and telling some marine to do it.

With Rayleigh and Luffy:

Rayleigh had stopped to get supplies and Rayleigh learned that if Luffy is bored then he'll fall asleep almost instantly. He was now holding Luffy in his arms as they sailed along the sea. He was still sleeping at dinner time Rayleigh was mentally cooing but still decided to wake him up to explain why he lied about kidnapping. To wake him up he made sure to use Haki and punched him right in the head.

"OWOWOWOW! That hurt Rayleigh! Why'd you do that?" Luffy asked holding his bump.

"Because we need to talk about why I did what I did when we were at Foosha,"Rayleigh said before bringing out books that he brought with him from the island they stopped at before heading to the calm belt.

"Didn't you do it so no one knew you were going to train me?" Luffy asked his head tilting to the side in confusion of what Rayleigh was talking about.

"Actually that's partially correct, I did it so you wouldn't get a bounty." Rayleigh said leaving that conversation for later, "Now I'm going to train you for about two years or maybe three. First I'm going to help you master your Haki, help you work on a fighting style, and also using a weapon and making your body into one." Rayleigh said before a giant sea king rose above the water. "Perfect I'm now going to show you some of the things you'll be able to do when I'm done training. Oh, and before I start if I train you then you will follow each and every order I give you without complaint got it?" he asked and got a nod in response. "Now then one of the things you'll know is something called the six-powers. I'm going to demonstrate Moonwalk, Shave and the Tempest kick." Rayleigh said as he jumped into the air using the air as a platform. "This is Moonwalk," he then moved so fast that it looked like a blur in Luffy's eyes."Shave," and last but not least Rayleigh kicked the air so hard that the air where he kicked was turned into a blade and cut the sea king in half. "These are only three of the techniques, there are actually six," Rayleigh finished.

Luffy gained stars in his eyes and yelled out, "COOL!" while Rayleigh used Shave again to get back to the boat. Rayleigh knew they were pretty close to the calm belt because there were so many sea kings in the water and under them. As soon as they entered the calm belt he showed Luffy different things he would teach him enjoying the visible stars in his eyes that would shine each and every time he did something.

"Now that I've shown you the moves I don't want my little student to be stupid so read and study those books that I got at an Island at the last Island we went to while I choose an Island to start your training at," Rayleigh said getting out a map of the calm belt. Luffy was about to protest saying books were boring but remembered what Rayleigh said before, and picked up books without complaint. The books were about various things that any sailor should know, and a little more that interested Luffy. An example would be a devil fruit encyclopedia that Rayleigh found. A single devil fruit caught Luffy's eye and Rayleigh noticed it was the exact one that always caught his former captains eye when he saw it.

"What do you got there Luffy," Rayleigh said and Luffy held up a picture of the genius genius fruit. "Do you want to eat that devil fruit or something? Why does it catch your eye?" Rayleigh asked wondering what was so special about it.

"No I already have 5 devil fruit, and this one just feels like calling me, like something is gonna happen because of it," Luffy said now searching for his devil fruit. When he finally found the 5 devil fruits he ated and he showed Rayleigh and he said, "I can't train your devil fruit because I don't have one, so you'll have to do that on your own time and you should know that having one fruit make you op and you five fruit it makes you godlike ." and he received an enthusiastic, "ok!"

Eventually, Rayleigh had to stop searching for an island to eat so he didn't starve out at sea. When it was late out and Luffy was sleeping while snuggled into Rayleigh's side for warmth he found the perfect island for him to train Luffy. Rayleigh looked down at Luffy and ruffled his hair while whispering, "Perfect." he then settled down to sleep, the next day would be a fun one that's for sure