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School starts in two days, so I might not be writing as much, but will still be posting Sons of Beasts, Family and FAS, The Never Ending Nightmare, and this one for a few more months at least. Just won't be writing new content. So I wrote this story while watching the Whole Cake Island arc. I will never do something like this again. It took FOREVER to get through the arc and I have a newfound appreciation of those who do memory fanfics. Pausing every few seconds to copy down a line of dialogue was not fun. Though I still enjoyed adding to the story. Ruffy's thinking is sarcastic, I couldn't help it with some of the scenes!
Something weird also happened to me while writing this. Since the point of view is from the Big Mom pirates, I started rooting for the bad guys while watching, even though I knew what was gonna happen! It was trippy. So Ruffy is considered an OC but he's basically an OOC Luffy. Maybe OOC Charlottes behind the scenes, but we'll never know. I haven't finished editing it, as I'm bored with editing, so I have 6 chapters edited. Another 50,000+ word story. Sorry about the long A/N. Enjoy~
Ruffy sat on his bed and looked at the sheet of paper in his hand he'd snatched out of the latest newspaper. The teen held up the wanted poster in confusion, cocking his head to the side. Something was off about this photo. He didn't remember taking this picture. And he never wore that hat either. It was a wanted poster with a photo of Ruffy, only slightly different. If it werent for the small scar on the left cheek of the doppleganger, he would have thought it was him.
The photo had slipped out of the paper, and when Ruffy picked it up, he immediately stuffed it into his shorts before going into his room and locking the door so he wouldn't be interrupted by dad in case he had something to talk to him about.
Why was there someone who looked exactly like him? They even had the same haircut. Was he cloned? And why did his name rhyme with Ruffy's? Monkey D. Luffy, or otherwise known as Straw Hat Luffy. The last name wasn't even close to being the same, though.
Charlotte D. Ruffy didn't sound anything like "Monkey". And that was a pretty funny name. He wished he had a silly last name like that. Then he thought about something. He knew he was adopted, for he'd overheard a conversation from his father, Katakuri, when he was young, and knew he wasn't biologically related to any of his big family.
That's why Big Mom didn't like him much, despite the fact that he was a strong asset to the family. She never invited him to the tea parties, he was only allowed to come because of Katakuri bringing him along. The family still remembered when a four year old Ruffy jumped into the chocolate fountain. That had been a mess, and a nightmare to clean up.
But, even after that, no one was mad at him or hated him, besides Mama and Flampe, who seemed to be jealous of Ruffy being the son of Katakuri.
Anyways, what if Luffy was actually Ruffy's twin? Who's to say Ruffy and Luffy werent separated at birth? Well, he'd find out himself! Clearly, Katakuri had been keeping the wanted posters away, since there was no way 300,000,000 berris was a first time bounty. Ruffy wondered why it was kept from him. There were other wanted posters inside, but Ruffy wasn't interested in them.
Well, he wasn't mad. A bit irritated, but not mad. When Katakuri called his name, Ruffy shoved the paper under his mattress. Ruffy trotted down the tall hallway to the kitchen and gave his father the paper.
-x-
Ruffy sat at the desk in his room and wrote a letter to Straw Hat Luffy. He had crumpled papers on the floor around him, trying to find the best letter to send. He already had two photos of himself he'd send along with the letter.
One of them was a normal picture of himself, while the other was him in partial dragon form, where he was still in humanoid form but covered in black and green scales and red irises. He thought he looked cool like that, while some of the kids on the island he lived with Katakuri on were afraid of it.
Hey, Straw Hat Luffy!
So I saw your latest wanted poster, and I thought it was of me! It's super cool that you and your crew broke into Enies Lobby and had it destroyed (if that is even accurate). I don't get to get into trouble like that much. :(
Anyways, I think we might be twins, or you're a clone of me. Or I'm a clone of you?! Oh well, at least that would be super cool. So, I thought, if we were related, we could be pen pals and write letters to each other. I'd love to hear about all of your adventures! And I could tell you all about my family. It's huge! Like, over 80 aunts and uncles. It's crazy.
So, I hope you write me back. Bye bye.
-Charlotte D. Ruffy
Ruffy folded the letter and photos and put them in a thick envelope, putting it in the mail slot outside of the house for a coo to come and deliver the letter to Luffy. He really hoped that his twin would reply to him. He wondered how the pirate would react to it. And did this Luffy know who the Charlotte family was?
Did he know anything about the yonkos, or not since he was still in Paradise? Ruffy wondered what it was like over there. Did he come from Paradise? With no one wanting Ruffy to know he was adopted, he was never told where he had come from. It made him so curious it hurt. He never remembered crossing the Red Line, so had no idea if he'd ever even been out of the New World.
The furthest he remembered going was when he was brought along to getting massive sugar cane stalks from a certain island. Katakuri was very protective of him as a child and young teen, so Ruffy didn't go many places outside of Totto Land. but, at least there were many places he could hang out in Big Mom's territory.
Since the teen couldn't talk to his father about the letter sent, since he had hidden the wanted posters, Ruffy couldn't talk to him about it. There was only one person he could really talk to and always tell the truth. He bounded out of his room, and quickly told Katakuri that he was going to go see Pudding. He often visited his good friends, mostly going to her for it was more convenient. Plus, there, she had the sweets Ruffy inhaled like he was starving.
"Alright, be careful," Katakuri replied, reading on the huge couch. It was still early morning, so he was still at home and not going out to take care of his island. He always read in the morning, which is almost every day he woke up early enough for him to still be there.
"Will be," Ruffy said and, the moment he was a couple steps out of the front door, he transformed into full dragon form and took off, flying away from Komugi island, and going to the chocolate one where Pudding lived. He couldn't wait to tell her.
It never took long for Ruffy to get from one island to another, with how fast he could fly with his mythical zoan fruit. Flying was the most relaxing time Ruffy ever had. It was also nice that he could dive down and take mouthfuls of the flavored seas he flew over, easily ascending again afterwards with sweet tastes in his mouth.
The citizens on Cacao island weren't afraid of Ruffy's dragon form since he came there like that very often to see his best friend, and technically aunt. He bounded into the back door of Pudding's cafe and announced his presence by stealing a cupcake off of a baking sheet on the counter. He was going to rip off a part of the wall, but there were some sweets right in front of him that he could eat instead.
"Ruffy, don't eat the customer's food!" Pudding scolded. There was no point in her saying it anymore, since he never stopped doing it. She actually made more in case Ruffy came to eat his fill. He walked to the bar stool against the counter Pudding was setting desserts up on plates for the customers and then making the display cases look like with her beautiful desserts. They looked so good!
A good thing about having Ruffy around was because he often showed up at the end of the day to "clean up" all the sweets that were left over by eating them like there was no tomorrow. If he couldn't that night, the leftovers would go into the fridge that was especially for Ruffy.
Ruffy and pudding had been friends ever since they were little. Ruffy was two when pudding was born, and being the only other young child in the family, he spent most time playing with the baby. As they grew up, they were still good friends, and Ruffy would visit often, eating most of what Pudding baked.
"Hey, guess what?" the boy asked, practically bouncing in his seat.
"What?" Pudding replied as she served the customers.
"Apparently I have a twin," he whispered, like it was some secret. Pudding's eyes widened when she looked at him. At first she thought he was joking, but she could tell he wasn't with the grin on his face. Plus, he was a terrible liar. "Yeah. He's a wanted pirate in Paradise. Just broke into Enies Lobby and apparently destroyed the island. He must be crazy strong. So I wrote him a letter. Ya know it's possible, since I'm adopted but no one wants me to know. And dad has been hiding the wanted posters, so he didn't want me to see. I wonder why…" Ruffy said, looking up with his hand on his chin.
Pudding sat at the bar counter next to Ruffy. "What's his name?" she asked curiously. What would Ruffy's twin be like?
"Straw Hat Luffy. Bounty is 300,000,000 berris. So cool, right? Full name is Monkey D. Luffy. Isn't it weird our names are so close to being the same? Makes me so curious!" Ruffy said loudly. "I sent him some pictures of me to prove that I do look like him. I sent him a picture of me normally, and then me in partial dragon mode."
"Hmm... Well it's possible you two could be twins. Do you think you'll ever meet him?" Pudding wondered. Luffy shrugged.
"Probably not here. Even if he is pretty strong, Mama and the Charlotte family are super strong. I mean, dad has a bounty over a billion. Luffy would have to get seven hundred million more berris on his current bounty to be even close. Maybe I'll see him sometime outside of Totto Land. That'd be nice," Ruffy said. "And I'm curious about his crew."
"Well, don't rule out ever meeting him," Pudding replied, going back behind the counter to make another serving of cupcakes for the customers who had been in there for awhile. "Tell me if he writes you back. Now I'm pretty curious, too."
"Okay!" Luffy said, stealing another cupcake from the tray before leaving. Like usual, he broke off a piece of the wall to eat on his way out. Pudding was used to it by now, and it was an easy fix. People ate buildings and furniture all of the time.
He changed into dragon form to go to the sea next to Jam Island. The water always tasted delicious. He loved his devil fruit. It was not only strong, but fun and convenient. He could go anywhere in Totto Land easily, not needing or going through the hassle of using a ship between island to island.
When he reached the pink and red colored water, he didn't hesitate to dive under, guzzling the fruity water before surfacing again. Now he was sticky with the juice, but it was no problem as he headed back home, and just dunked under the normal water. Komugi island was further away than the others, so it took a little while to get there, but not too long.
Ruffy constantly looked at the front door of his and Katakuri's house, wanting Luffy to have written back by now. He was a bit sad when it had reached two weeks after writing to him. By then, he'd seen all of the others wanted posters, and wondered what was up with Sanji. His face… did he really look like that? Or was it just a terribly drawn picture?
Well, if he did look like that, then it was nice Luffy still let him on board. Of course Ruffy wouldn't protest for looks, but he could see many Charlottes not wanting to be associated with him. Mostly the women.
Nami and Robin were pretty, and Zoro looked like a strong guy, with the second highest bounty to Luffy. Franky also looked like a strange guy. Ruffy had seen double chins, but triple chins? How did that happen? And they had a pet, too. It seemed like Luffy's crew was very diverse. It was cool, and Ruffy wanted to hear more about them!
-x-
Finally the day came that a Coo dropped a thick envelope to Ruffy and Katakuri's front door. When the teen opened to check it, like he did everyday, he had to hold in a cheer. His dad didn't know about him writing Luffy, and didn't know about him even knowing who he was.
He hurried to his room, glad Katakuri was out at that time, going around the island and doing his minister duties. The moment Ruffy reached his room, he slammed the tall door shut. For anyone not with extreme strength, it would be impossible for them to even open the doors in his house, which were sized for his father. Though there were doorknobs that reached from a normal height to the height the giant Sweet Commander would need to open.
He flung himself down on his large bed and ripped the envelope open. There was a long letter, and multiple photos. He saved the photos for last, wondering what Luffy had sent. His twin didn't have the best handwriting, but it was still legible.
Ah, that's so cool! I have had two older brothers, but they werent blood related. They would have been so upset if there were TWO of me. Well, kinda, though I don't think you're a clone, but neither am I. Oh that'd be sool cool to have a clone! Then I could play pranks on other people. My crew would hate that, but it sounds so fun!
We should totally be pen pals and write to each other! Robin told me that the Charlotte family is the Big Mom pirates, an emperor's crew! That means you're super strong right? Maybe we could fight some day! But first we have to get to the New World. Fishman Island sounds fun. Sanji really wants to see some mermaids. He likes ladies.
And I could show you my shipwright's inventions. He can make so much stuff. Our ship is so cool, there's even an aquarium, and the ship can fly by using cola! It's soda powered, isn't that awesome?
You're devil fruit looks so cool! Robin told me it's probably a mythical zoan, which is more rare than a logia! Ace - Firefist Ace - is my brother and has a fire logia. He's super strong, and is on another yonko's crew. I have the gum-gum fruit, which made me rubber and I can do all this cool stuff, too! I'm immune to guns and punches. It's kept me alive from being in stupid situations and fights.
I hope we can see each other some time in the future. So, write me back!
-Luffy, the future Pirate King :)
Ruffy smiled as he read. Luffy sounded like a bubbly person. Then he turned to the photos to see himself standing with Luffy's crew. They were all smiling, while two of them looked like they didn't really want to be there. Roronoa Zoro and the other guy, who must be a real picture of Sanji. Whoever drew his wanted poster has terrible artistic skills. Ruffy could probably draw better than that.
Another photo was of his ship, which looked fun and cheerful, with a lion's head that looked like a sun also for the figure head. Luffy liked this ship much more than the ships he'd seen in Totto Land. Secretly, Ruffy hated the main ship. The figure head talks the whole time, which he thought was annoying, even if he'd only been on it a couple times.
Katakuri had brought him on multiple times when he was a young child and there was no one to babysit on short notice. He had sat in a mochi backpack so not to annoy anyone important. Well, not to annoy Mama. all the other brothers and sisters of Katakuri liked Ruffy.
There one other photo that was of Luffy, as he was red and steaming, with his arms stretched apart. Ruffy decided he liked his devil fruit more. Luffy didn't seem like he could fly or breath fire. Ruffy was immune to guns, punches, and swords when he was doned with the scales. It hadn't always been like that. He got the fruit when he was eight, and at first had been tiny and his scales were weak and bendy.
As he aged, they got thicker and harder the older he got and the intense training his dad had taken him through. He was also trained in hand to hand combat, also from his father. Being the son of the strongest Charlotte, Ruffy needed to be strong so it didn't make Katakuri look bad. But, he also trained his son because he cared about him a lot.
Despite how hard and hostile the Sweet Commander looked and acted towards many outsiders, he was a softy when it came to Ruffy, who was one of the few people to see Katakuri's full face.
Ruffy put the letter and pictures into the envelope and stuck it in a bag, heading outside and shifting into his full dragon form and flying away, carrying the bag in his clawed hands. It was time to finally show Pudding. She would be interested, and Ruffy could eat some of her sweets or the walls again.
When he slammed the back chocolate door open, Pudding jumped in surprise, a tray of brownies falling to the ground before Ruffy zipped over and caught it. Pudding hit him on the head. "Don't startle me like that! No, no brownies for you," Pudding said, keeping the brownies out of her best friend's reach.
"C'mon, Pudding! I didn't mean to, I was just excited. Luffy wrote back, finally!" Ruffy cheered, grinning when Pudding caved and gave him a pile of brownies. She lead him to the front, and asked him for the details as Ruffy continued to grin.
"Read it to me," the girl said. So Ruffy excitedly read the letter to her, putting emotions into his voice to make the letter sound more like a story. It sounded to him how it would be spoken by Luffy. Pudding smiled at the silliness that sounded to come from Luffy's letter.
"Then he sent me some pictures. His ship looks super cool! And his body is made of rubber, which is really weird." And then he laughed. "Then there's a group picture of him and his crew. What?" Ruffy asked, seeing Pudding's red face as she looked at the group photo. "What's wrong?"
"N-Nothing," Pudding said quickly, but his head face in her hands as it got redder.
"Ah! You think the guys are hot~, don't you? Zoro and Sanji," Ruffy teased. "Sanji looks much better in this than his drawn wanted poster, huh?" Pudding nodded, her face still in her hands. "Which one do you like better?" the teen continued to tease.
"...Zoro looks scary. Sanji is really handsome," Pudding said quietly.
"Hey, maybe if I meet Luffy, you can meet Sanji," the boy offered, taking the photo back. It was strange how this person looked exactly like him. Like he was looking at a mirror. Luffy looked good in a hat. That meant Ruffy would look good in a hat. It was so weird!
"I hope I can meet Luffy some day," Ruffy sighed, resting his jaw on his hand. "My long lost brother. Maybe he has some answers about my birth family."
Ruffy and Luffy continued to write to each other, Luffy telling his identical twin all about his adventures. Going on a haunted ship really didn't seem appealing to Ruffy. Especially since it was supposed to have zombies. It made him wonder if Mama would let zombies into Totto Land. After all, she wanted to it be open to all kinds of people and animals.
And Luffy had said the zombies' bites didn't do anything. And he had sent a picture of the walking, talking skeleton with an afro. It was so cool! Luffy had everyone on his crew. A reindeer/man, cyborg, skeleton, humans. And he said that Brook, the living skeleton, was a musician.
But, a couple weeks after Luffy's last letter, he stopped messaging. For two years. With Ruffy not supposed to be knowing Luffy, he didn't see the paper until the war had long passed. Ruffy was very sad for his twin, that he lost his last big brother. And he might be dead. Ruffy was very upset from that for awhile, before he finally told his father about the relationship between the twins.
Katakuri was only not very angry after learning about it because Ruffy was very upset about what had happened, and locked himself in his room for a couple days. Only Pudding was able to get him to come out.
Ruffy knew he hadn't ever met Luffy, and didn't know him that well, but he had had a tie to someone not in his adoptive family. He really hoped Luffy was alright, and the rest of his crew as well, since they all went missing around the same time. Hearing that made Pudding sad. She'd never get to meet Sanji.
Ruffy had once said in a message that his best friend thought Sanji was attractive, to which Sanji apparently was ecstatic, though he didn't have a picture of her. Any lady thinking he was good looking was good enough for him apparently.
-x-
"AHHH!" a scream came from Ruffy's room. Katakuri rushed to it and slammed the door open.
"What's wrong?!" he asked in a slight panic, as Ruffy had tears in his eyes while looking at the newspaper. Ruffy just looked up at him, a watery smile on his face. He held up the paper with shaking hands. Katakuri didn't get to see the paper before Ruffy shouted, "Luffy is alive! And so are the rest of his crew!"
Katakuri smiled at Ruffy, who was covering his red eyes with his hands. He was so happy his brother had survived. He must have been away training or something. For two years. If that were the case, Luffy would no doubt be much stronger. Plus, he had to be stronger to get to the New World, where they were heading. His crew had to be stronger now, too.
By the time the paper had come out, the Straw Hats had already descended and were on their way to Fishman Island at the bottom of the sea. Maybe Ruffy really could meet him, and pudding could meet Sanji! Oh, she'd be so happy to hear the news.
"I gotta go tell pudding!" Ruffy shouted as downed his pills before he threw a shirt on and left the house, sprinting out and then flying off as fast as he could, before his father could even respond. Ruffy flew across the ocean faster than ever before, zipping to Cacao island as fast as he could, grinning, showing his sharp teeth.
He landed outside of Pudding's house, and burst through the door, something Pudding hated. But Ruffy never stopped. It wasn't as if she walked around naked or anything that could be embarrassing like that.
"Pudding!" he shouted as he searched the house, finding her in her room, sleeping. He jumped on the bed. "Pudding, Pudding!"
She screamed in surprise, and kicked him in the face. "You jerk!" she shouted, covering her third eye with her hair as fast as she could. Ruffy didn't care about her third eye, but she was always embarrassed about it. "What do you want?" she asked grumpily. Ruffy beamed at him.
"The Straw Hats are alive! Luffy is alive, Sanji is alive! They're gonna be in the New World soon, and then maybe we could meet them some day, right? They aren't dead!" Ruffy cheered. Pudding smiled widely, too.
"That's good," she sighed, and fixed her hair before going downstairs, her face red. Ruffy grinned at her. He bounded down the stairs after her.
"You gonna bake something?" Ruffy asked as he sat at her table. She always baked when she was really happy. When she was sad or upset, she ate all the sweets she had, but never gained any weight, like Ruffy, who could eat an elephant and still eat more afterwards. She nodded her head, and got out her supplies. Brownies.
"I know I have no connection to any of them like you do, but I'm really happy. And I know how hard it was for you to think he was dead. I'm happy for you, Ruffy," Pudding said with a big smile that Ruffy returned.
A little slow to start, but it will start following the WCI arc plot-line , though from another's point of view on the "bad guys" side. Don't worry, it isn't a carbon-copy of the arc with nothing new, as I have an OC and a whole crap ton of original content while also following the arc. You'll just have to see, it's hard to explain.
And I just love writing dragon fanfics right now. So, yeah, Ruffy has a kick ass mythical zoan fruit. Katakuri is also one of the main characters throughout the story. And I will be putting the Straw Hats and their allies in a bad light, as they are considered the enemy and bad guys from this point of view. Review!