5 Chapter 05

Chapter 05

"Yeah, and he's a pain in the ass." Said Garp. "Don't even plan on being a revolutionary!"

"Nah. I'm good." He grinned, "I will be something better. The strongest man and the king of the pirates!"

Garp for the first time was glad to hear that. It was better being a revolutionary. But then he frowned, "Wait, did you say you have a stash of bounty posters?"

"Yeah," Luffy nodded, "There were tons of them in the Marine base."

"Marine base?" Garp said, pulling his fist up. A tick mark on his head.

Luffy quickly slapped his mouth shut. Shit. He actually found them there after stealing some of their weapons, and kept them. But why did he slip up? Bad Luffy bad...

"You didn't happen to be the thief who is stealing from the Marines are you?"

"I-I... it was only once." Luffy said, "Maybe twice or three times… but it was accidental. I promise, I just slipped."

Garp just sighed, it all seemed to be a coincidence. Personally, Garp didn't want Luffy to know who his father was, and after what happened with Ace, he didn't want Luffy to hate Dragon. Sure he didn't really like what the brat was doing, but it was an honorable goal.

Even though his personal beliefs were more aligned with Marines. Dragon had more radical approach to things. However, he could see why. Sometimes even he questioned if he was in the right side or not.

"Anyhow Gramps, teach me something!" Luffy said, a bit childishly, "Teach me something and I might just forgive you for your miss up." He said, pouting and crossing his arms. "And I might not ever question about him again…" he muttered the last part.

But Garp heard it just fine. Honestly, he was willing to give anything to stop the boy from asking about that man. Shanks was a bad influence enough, he didn't want another one for his grandson.

"And what might that be, brat?"

"Teach me…" Luffy said, pointing at the bumps on his head, "How you are able to hurt me."

Garp laughed, "Bahahaha… Oh, that. That's called Haki!" Not that he would be able to learn it of course.

Luffy smiled, stars in his eyes, "Oh then teach me that Haki thing!"

"Bahahahaha… in your dreams, brat." Garp said, "Join the marines, I will teach you personally." Well, it was difficult to train someone in Haki if they didn't have immense willpower to fuel the thing, but from his perspective, Luffy had a lot of it.

He was stubborn as they get, and recently he found out that he was pushing himself more on training after Ace left. And training like that and being stubborn was the definition of willpower in his books.

But the thing was Luffy wasn't strong enough to learn that… yet.

Luffy gave an annoyed expression, "Come on gramps. Teach me something cool." Luffy said, "Something that makes my punches harder."

Garp rubbed his chin, then an idea came to his mind. "I can't teach you Haki. But I can teach you the next best thing."

And the Garp jumped off, high, kicking the air as he did, the he kicked again, and he started climbing the air. Soon Garp came back with a smile on his face, "How was that, brat?" He shouted down. Was he going to teach his grandson rokushiki, nope. Son Goku would have his ass. But he could show it to him to get him interested in the marines.

Also he did feel kinda bad that the weapon that he gifted Luffy couldn't be wielded unless he became strong enough. So he could throw a bone or two.

"There are in total six of those techniques, they are called the rokushiki. It takes a strong body and mind to learn it."

"Cool." The boy had stars in his eyes, "Teach me."

"Oh that's easy, you just kick the air." Garp said as if that was a matter of fact. "… or join the marines." His face turned into a mocking grin as he laughed.

"Come on, teach me, please, gramps." Luffy said, in a pleading tone, even giving his puppy eyes. Garp landed down seeing this but didn't say anything.

He just picked his nose with a boring expression, not even getting affected by it. After raising Makino, he was now super resistant to it. "Nah. Figure it out. Bahahahah."

Only Dragon was able to do it, and that was when he trained with the marines, before leaving their cause. And he was sure Luffy wouldn't be able to learn it.

Garp grinned, enjoying the frustrated expression of Luffy. But he would help out his grandson. So he took something out from his pocket, and tossing it to Luffy.

It was a small note-book. "There are a few workouts here that will help you with that technique. They are pretty hard but they build up strength in the body overall, and will make it so you can learn these cool techniques."

Of course, this book was only a demonstration written by Zephyr. They were kinda of rare to find these days. To use the rokushiki one needs to build up their body's strength in specific areas, and only after that, they would be eligible to learn the techniques.

This book just covered the first part.

The second part was only doable if you went to Marineford and trained under an instructor.

Sengoku used that to make all good candidates learn in from Marineford.

So he was basically giving the boy way to get strong, and by his estimate if he was able to gain strength according to the small book, he might have a chance to lift up the naginata.

Luffy smiled, before frowning, when he opened the book. And then looked at Garp, "But I can't read."

Garp threw his head back and laughed, "I know! Bahahaha…" he said, "Teach yourself that. And be quick, I will take it back tomorrow." He lied, he would give the brat a week. It should be enough to motivate him to learn reading. With that he started to walk away, "I am going to catch some fish to eat."

Also, he wasn't worried, sure those workouts would build a body for Rokushiki techniques, but it took years for normal marines to learn them, and that was having instructors. So, this will be his bait to catch Luffy into the Marines.

This wasn't some highly advanced technique, either. This was just the first part, the second part was the most important, where it was detailed how to perform the techniques. The second part of course needed an instructor to demonstrate and correct the small mistakes. But of course, the Marines being so old, there were some books here and there which had writings on it.

And other then the official marine source, or good black market connections one wouldn't be able to get that.  So he was sure Luffy wouldn't be able to learn them.

Soon Garp would come to realize how wrong he was. And a certain someone would be up on his ass for that.