chapter 4

Luffy and kumi were walking through the forest they were planning on finding an animal to fight to test their strength but all the animals were scared of them.

We're are all these animals I need something or someone to fight to break pass the bottleneck in my training. shouted Luffy in frustration" During this time Luffy hit a stop In his training he couldn't gain anymore strength no matter how much training he did or what he gained was too little.

Kumi the spotted a huge tiger coming towards them it was about 5 meters tall it had orange fur with stripes on his back his eyes showed hunger.

Luffy got excited seeing it thinking it could be strong enough for him to break through the limit's his young body put on him. He decided to not use his elements as it wouldn't really be challenge so he decided to use only his physical strength and the sword his grandpa gave to him.

When Luffy unsheath his sword the tiger immediately lounge towards him trying to eat him, Luffy jumped high in the air and landed on a branch.The tiger was now even more angry that Luffy was evading his attacks and jumped towards the branch Luffy was on intending to eat him.Luffy watched the tiger come towards him and jumped up in the air and kicked the tiger in the head knocking it down from the air.

The tiger once again rushed towards Luffy when it got up this time with tremendous speed Luffy was barely able to follow, Luffy doged in time but still got injured by the tiger's claws a large claw mark was on is shirt with blood pouring from it.Luffy was wincing in pain from the attack kumi wanted to help but Luffy stopped him saying this was his battle.

The showed his sharp fangs to Luffy who stood their sword in hand with a bright fire in is eyes.The towards once again rushed towards Luffy he closed his eyes and opened them and rushed towards the tiger sword in hand while letting out a primal screem as the tiger roared at him.

Luffy and the tiger clashed and we're at the place where the other once stood, kumi watched in fear as he wondered if his friend was okay.Luffy and the tiger stood back to back as the tiger's head fell off and another claw mark appeared on Luffy's back.

Realizing his friend as won kumi chaired as Luffy smiled at him,guess we'll have enough meat for another month. "said Luffy as he passed out" The last thing Luffy saw was kumi rushing towards him.

Luffy woke up on a hammock with bandages all over him. Luffy got up but kumi said some words to him in monkey language he translated them as lay back down if makino finds out you're injured she'll kill you.He wanted to protest but knew his friend was right and it wont take long to heal as kumi shrunk his wounds with his devil fruit.I swear that devil kumi has is too overpowered " said Luffy in a hushed town"

It's been a month since we found his devil fruit and he already has great control over "it said Luffy to him self"

Time skip two days later

Luffy p.o.v

Even though I fought that tiger I still gained no significant amount of strength though my technique has become more refined, it's still hard to gain strength.Though it must be because my body just started developing so I can only train a little as to not stunt my growth.

I need to find away to get stronger fast maybe when gramps comes back I can spar with him.