C20: The End of Years of Time Skip!

• (Kozuki Family's Personal Graveyard in Kubi of Wano Country) {Year: 19.10} •

Standing on the Kozuki Family's graveyard, a handsome young man scrunched his brows. He was now tall, had sculpted muscular body, sword-like brows, slightly past shoulders unruly black hair, and bright green eyes. Ryu looked more manly, losing the cuteness he had long ago. He was not saddened by the fact a single bit. Okay, maybe he was, but only because he enjoyed pissing off adults by beating them up as a kid.

Rin was nearby, watching him intently. From what she could gather by his actions during the past week, it looked like Ryu was going to leave earlier than expected. "You're going to leave sooner than expected, aren't you?"

Surprised, he turned and looked at Rin. "...Yes."

Not knowing what to say next, both of them descended into silence. They didn't divert from staring at each others, green eyes to brown eyes. Ryu had started to feel some romantic feelings for her so he couldn't just leave her like this. He went forward and hugged her, tightly but not painful. Rin was surprised at that, but she melted into his embrace. She felt like Ryu finally accepted her, so she smiled.

"I know I won't be able to stop you, but please don't forget me and leave me alone." She sadly requested of Ryu.

"I won't. But I might have other women, would you still want me then?" Ryu informed her. He couldn't hide the possibility of having another woman from her, and it seemed like she expected it.

"I already knew I would might have to share you with others, but as long as I'm your first and I have a spot in your heart, I don't mind." Rin told him, having no bitterness about it.

Though when she thought about Ryu being with other women, at first, she was bitter. But as time went on with him, she didn't mind it anymore, in fact she expected it and would question if he was eunuch if he didn't. Rin thought that if one was too strong, he would also have a lot of stamina, she couldn't possibly handle it alone. She imagined her first with him as she blushed to the point where Ryu chuckled at her, as if guessing what she was thinking about.

"Heh, thinking about it already?" Snickering, he outed her without any shame. Ryu was in fact worried about his sexual life, as he would have a lot of stamina when he start his first sexual intercourse in this life. But it looked like he didn't need to. Hugging her more warmly, he told her. "Rin, I love you."

Rin was surprised as he told her it. She couldn't stop a huge smile coming onto her face as she responded. "I love you too, Ryu."

Closing in her tender lips, Ryu kissed Rin. Surprising her again, Rin went in a daze and opened her mouth when he put his tongue in. Rin snapped out of it and blushed as she moaned into his mouth, she felt good just from kissing him. Ryu was actually experienced when it came to sexual life, as he had already did it in his past life.

Breaking off the sensual kiss much to Rin's disappointment, Ryu smiled wryly. "I promise you I'll come back in near future."

"...Mmn." Rin blushed as she meekly nodded. "But don't bring too much of new sisters, okay?"

Surprised, Ryu nodded dumbly. Rin giggled when she saw him, he was probably thinking why she was taking it so easily. "It's because I know I can't handle you alone and that I can't keep you here forever, so you would probably attract women who you might fall in love eventually, if you haven't."

"A-ah, I see." Scratching his head because he got read accurately, he started to go back to Flower Capital to announce he was going to leave without a banquet. "Let's go back then."

"Mmn." Rin nodded as she hugged him even tightly.

• {Year: 19.11} •

Near Dressrosa's South Harbor, there lies Ryu in his silver dinghy. He wore a casual green t-shirt with a black knee-length shorts. His durable sword were placed beside his left hip, connected to the belt he had.

"Well, let's go in Dressrosa and meet Joker," Ryu smirked as he put on a dark brown cloak.

...

Ryu said he'd meet Joker but he decided he'd enjoy a bit on Dressrosa. Currently, he was gambling with the others.

"Haha, I won again!" The green-eyes shouted for the people to hear. The other people grumbled as they lost their money to him. "What? Get good at gambling if you can."

Veins popped up on their foreheads when they heard him. They would, but they knew who the f*ck he was, Ryu! They literally sweat bullets when they recognized him as he came into the casino, thinking he was going to do something.

"Whatever, I think I nearly wiped out the bank." Ryu nonchalantly said as he stored the Beli. The other gamblers and staff heaved out a sigh of relief, the gambling god was finally leaving!

...

"What?! You're saying the Solitary Pirate, Ryu, is in Dressrosa?!" A slender, well-endowed, light olive-skinned, and tall woman with long, slightly wavy dark brown hair pulled back and held in place by a rose, with a lock hanging to the left of her face shouted. "Why is he here...?"

"When he came in, he first gambled and caused others to lose their Beli, nearly all of them have gone bankrupt!" A grunt reported. He sweatdropped that Ryu casually just walked in and took a lot of Beli.

"...Does Doffy know of this yet?" Viola asked.

"No, not yet!" The grunt shook his head.

'Perhaps with his help...' A glint appeared in Viola's eyes and told the grunts around her. "I want to meet this Ryu, perhaps I could trick him."

They were shocked. "B-but he's Ryu!"

"So?" Standing up and starting to go to where Ryu was reported to be at, she decided she would use him. "I'm going alone."

...

Ryu stood beside a one-legged toy soldier beside him, near the Corrida Colosseum's entrance. "Hey, what's your name?"

"Hmm?" The toy soldier turned its head to Ryu, and shook at the realization who he was. 'Why is he here?!'

"Well, you don't have to tell me, Kyros." Ryu whispered so only the toy soldier could hear. Kyros shook again when Ryu accurately knew who he was.

Getting his composure back, Kyros asked. "How did you know?"

"...Let's keep that a secret. I have a deal to make with you and the pretty woman over there." Ryu responded as he outed Viola at a distance who were listening in.

Viola was not surprised that he found her, but when Ryu said the toy soldier was Kyros, she was definitely surprised. She walked to Ryu and pretended to flirt with him, all to keep up the appearances.

Ryu knew she was just doing it for appearances, but he still couldn't help the twitch in his mouth. Wasn't she being too exaggerated?!

"Ryu, right? What's the deal?" Viola asked as she placed her hand on Ryu's chest. She had to admit, Ryu was definitely an eye candy. She also tried using her "Peeping Mind" on him, but...

"You won't be able to see through my desires, Viola." Ryu said suddenly, surprising her. Getting back on topic, he continued. "I'm going to make the toys turn back into humans."

"What?!" Both Kyros and Viola shouted before they quickly looked around. Then Kyros brought Ryu and Viola to somewhere safer. "And how do you plan to do so?"

"Simple, just scare Sugar into being unconscious." Ryu told.

"...What do you mean?" Kyros deadpanned.

"Like I said, I'll make Sugar's hard work go down the drain by making her unconscious." Ryu deadpanned too.

Kyros really wanted to pull his hairs out if he could. "So all we had to do was make Sugar fall unconscious?!"

He had been looking for a way to turn themselves back to human, but it turned out that they only needed to knock Sugar unconscious. 'Damn it! Thinking back, it just aggravates me!'

• (Ruined Dressrosa) {Year: 20} •

Sighing, an elderly, yet well-built and extremely muscular man looked from the King's Plateau, to see the ruined buildings around it. He was Riku Dold III, now the current King of Dressrosa. He had been forced into hiding his identity by disguising himself as Ricky. Granted, it worked but somehow, a certain green-eyes man he met two months ago, had easily found him out. But unlike what he expected, Ryu made a deal with him.

Which led to the Dressrosa looking a ruined country, however they didn't care as the citizens and his family were finally freed from Doflamingo's schemes. They were willing to rebuild the country, but gaining the trust from them would provide a tough job, still, that didn't stop the Royal Family.

"King Riku, the World Government is asking your country, Dressrosa, if it is willing to become a affiliated country to the World Government." A messenger reported to King Riku.

Turning around, King Riku had already expected this as Ryu told him. "Tell them we will accept, as long as they abide by the conditions we provide."

"Yes!" The messenger didn't even question what the conditions were as he was also there when Ryu spoke to King Riku and the Royal Family.

King Riku began to think back to the battle between Ryu and Doflamingo. 'It was too intense and amazing, but... did Ryu have to look so casual?!'

• <Flashback to the battle between Ryu and Doflamingo> •

Dressrosa looked like a huge burning country, surrounded by a cage of strings. The cage of strings were called Birdcage, erected by Doflamingo, the King of Dressrosa. Dark clouds roamed about. The buildings crumbled away as the fire began to diminish slightly. The citizens were crying and had ran near to the center as the Birdcage were moving towards to center. The strings cut through the buildings, which showed that it would cut the citizens easily.

Two figures were floating above the Dressrosa, but still inside the Birdcage.

One of them wore a hood cloak, covering everything but his piercing cold bright green eyes. He was Ryu.

The other was an very tall, light blond-haired, very lean and muscular man with tan skin. He wore flamboyant clothes, which referred to flamingos with his light pink feather coat being the most distinct of all. He was Doflamingo, the King of Dressrosa.

Doflamingo roared at the green-eyes man in front of him angrily. "Why did you ruin my plans?!"

The green-eyes man didn't say anything. He only shifted slightly and kept his piercing glare at Doflamingo. Ryu couldn't just say he did it for gags, could he?

"No matter, I'll just have to do it over." The pink-feathered coats man announced. But he knew he wouldn't leave uninjured, so he had to at least cut a limb of his opponent before escaping.

Moving swiftly, Doflamingo brought out five rainbow strings from his fingers and swiped it towards Ryu. "Five Color Strings!"

Ryu was not fazed at all, he only dodged and used his close combat skills with Armament Haki coating his hands and legs. Doflamingo had to keep moving, if he even stopped for a second he would be hit.

"Overheat!"

*SSSS*

A thick burning rope came out of Doflamingo's right hand and shot towards Ryu. Casually, Ryu shifted left and the burning rope shot through buildings and melted a hole. Doflamingo gritted his teeth, he couldn't even fight him at all, Ryu was just playing with him.

"Black Knight!"

A string clone of Doflamingo appeared as it and Doflamingo backed off and shot strings of bullet. "Bullet Strings!"

*PEW* *PEW* *PEW* *PEW*

Ryu, as usual, dodged. He was starting to get bored. "Hey, can you just use Awakening of your devil fruit already? I want to see it."

"You!" Angered that Ryu was casually talking, Doflamingo used the Awakened form of his String-String fruit as he attacked him. "Fulbright!"

Five detached strings came out of his left hand and shot towards Ryu while the ground around Doflamingo began to turn into thousands of white strings.

"Break White!"

Six large and thick sheets of white strings started to wrap around Ryu where he was. As he was being wrapped and trapped, Doflamingo used another move as he began to retreat. "Off White!"

Two large masses of strings from the ground near him before swiping at Ryu with them. Ryu stood still and took it, his body alone could easily break the strings if he moved a bit. Nevertheless, he was still disappointed. His strings... they were too weak, and Doflamingo didn't even put up a fight, but that was to be expected compared to Kaido of the Beasts.

Sighing, Ryu decided to attack once. Bringing his index finger towards Doflamingo's retreating back, he made a vertical slash. "Slice."

A compressed arc of air came out and went towards Doflamingo. As if sensing it, he turned and 'felt' it. "ARGGGHH!"

*Thud*

"My arm!" Doflamingo shouted and tried to retrieve it, but before he could, it rusted into dust. Shocked, he looked up and shook as Ryu looked back. Ryu released a bit of his Sword Aura and showed a feral grin. "Y-you..."

"Go, I won't kill you." Ryu told him. He knew Doflamingo was still going to suffer anyways.

"W-wha- Why?" Doflamingo trembled. "Why are you letting me go?!"

"Because you'll suffer that way." Ryu replied. "Your pride was trampled by me, your missing arm will be the proof of your failure! Hahaha! All of your plans of Dressrosa in future went down the drain just because of a mistake!"

Trembling even harder, Doflamingo was never so angered at someone like this. He had never wanted to kill someone so much like this. Like this... he would always remember his failure and the despair of being incapable of killing Ryu! "GREEN-EYES BASTARD~!"

As if in a suicide attack, Doflamingo's body turned into black burning strings. Strings that looked like it would cut through everything. Doflamingo had used a forbidden technique out of anger. "STRINGS OF LIFE FORCE!!!"

Widening his eyes, Ryu was surprised. He looked at Doflamingo's body of black fire burning strings. His life force were diminishing slowly but surely as he kept Strings of Life Force activated. "So in the end, you still want to keep your pride."

Doflamingo began to dash towards Ryu as the Birdcage sped up to the center. Eyes bloodshot, he spread out his black fire strings of life force. "I WILL EITHER DIE HERE OR KILL YOU!"

Ryu clad himself with his custom Armament Haki and started to move towards Doflamingo's body and his burning flames.

*CLANG~*

White was the only thing that everyone on Dressrosa saw, but a voice came out.

"Idiot, you won't die."

• <Back to present, Ruined Dressrosa> {Year: 20} •

"In the end, we don't know where Donquixote Doflamingo went..." King Riku said to no one in particular. After the short blindness they had, Ryu was the only one floating in the air which prompted the people to assume he was the winner and they were saved. However Ryu told King Riku that Doflamingo was actually still alive, but didn't tell where he was now. Viola was working with the citizens in rebuilding the Dressrosa.

A fair-skinned and thin 13-years-old girl with long, light pink braid hair ran towards her grandfather as a one-legged large muscular man, with long, flowing hair and a pointy beard followed. "Grandfather!"

Smiling, King Riku turned to his granddaughter. "Rebecca, why are you here?"

"She wanted to see her grandfather," the one-legged man responded for her. "I heard that the World Government has finally asked?"

Looking up to Kyros as Riku held Rebecca, he nodded. "Yes, it was as Ryu told us. However, I'm not sure how to feel about this when Ryu decided to affiliate himself with Dressrosa..."

"Ryu is super strong!" Rebecca shouted in her grandfather's ear. Riku shook and had to regain his composure as he turned to look at her, seriously. Kyros also got the message and felt like he should play along as if he didn't know of his daughter's feelings.

"Rebecca..." Riku asked slowly as Rebecca looked questioningly. "Have you fallen for him?"

Freezing instantly, she didn't respond for awhile much to their dismay. Rebecca finally gained a red face. Kyros and Riku cried tears. 'RYU...!'

They were not going to be able to do anything about Ryu, so they could only shout his name angrily in their mind. They were very protective of her.

• (Foosha Village in East Blue) {Year: 20.2} •

"He finally left, Chief" A young woman with brown eyes and shoulder-length black hair smiled. "We're going to miss him."

"He'll ruin the town's reputation!" Disgruntled, the chief said. The chief had a cleft chin, wore oval glasses, and has a mustache with a beard.

"I never thought he would really leave." A bystander added.

All of them were looking at a wood dinghy with a young man in it. He wore his trademark straw hat, which was given from "Red-Haired" Shanks.

"Wait, the sea king's here!" A other bystander shouted worriedly as a sea king neared the wood dinghy. "Be careful, Luffy!"

...

"What a nice weather..." The young man said in his dinghy. Then a sea king came out of the sea and roared at him. Grinning, he expected him. "I've been waiting for you, sea monster!"

Stretching out his right arm as his left hand grabbed on his right shoulder, he shouted. "Rubber... Pistol!"

His right arm stretched towards the sea king, hitting him in the head. The sea king immediately went unconscious.

"Alright, let's go!" Stretching out both his arms while standing on his dinghy, Luffy announced to the world. "I'll become King of the Pirates!!!"