Chapter 4: Life and Death Situation

Luffy woke up the next morning and yawned

''Yesterday was a long day, I hope today its peaceful'' said Luffy while walking out of the cave

When the sun hit his face, he squinted his eyes. When he got used to the sunlight he looked straight ahead and saw something. Because of the thing he started sweating bullets, his whole back was wet. In front of him lay a lion, even by standing close to it he felt the pressure of the being.

As Luffy tried to escape the lion opened its eyes and looked directly at Luffy

Luffy knew he was screwed so he started running as fast as he can, but to no avail. The lion stood up and with only one jump, it landed in front of Luffy. Luffy halted his steps and looked terrified.

The lion looked at the puny creature in front of him and just swiped his claw at Luffy. Luffy hit a tree with light speed and because of that he was left bloodied and unconscious. The lion thought that the weak creature was dead so it left.

Even tho Luffy was unconscious he wasn't dead.

After 5 hours Luffy woke up and stood up weakly, the cave he stayed in was close so with all his strength, he got in and just fell on the bed that was made out of leaves.

The next day Luffy woke up with a fuzzy mind, he had to wait for it to go away and remember what happend yesterday.

After some time he finally had a clear mind and remembered what happened yesterday. He knew he should be more careful, because there could be danger everywhere he goes. He knew something was strange with this forest, because when his gramps threw him in constant danger, he fought with a lion and was nowhere near the strength of this lion.

As he was thinking his stomach growled loudly. Luffy wasn't surprised, because he knew he hasn't eaten anything in a whole day.

Luffy got up from the bed and went out, as he was walking out something felt odd. He reached for his head to take off his hat, but felt only his hair. The straw hat that Shanks gave him was missing and before he could reach the end of the cave, he dropped on his knees. That hat was very precious to Shanks and Luffy promised him that when he became strong and beat him in a fight, Luffy had to give his hat back to him. But he got it lost.

He had to find it, except to find a way out of here. He must get the hat back. He cannot go on an adventure without it.

But before any of that he had to find some food.

''Where could there be a weak creature or something i could eat" Luffy asked himself

''Lets just look around, but i have to be careful'' Luffy said with a little amount of fear, he didn't want to repeat his mistake again

Luffy started looking around, he finally found something after 15 minutes

Luffy was looking at another white rabbit, he thought with a sneak attack he could get it easily.

Luffy in a flash got out od the bush and attacked the rabbit, the creature wasn't fast enough and Luffy was able to strike it right in the body. It let out a pained shriek and died.

Luffy learned his lesson, quickly got the rabbit and headed back to the cave.

When he arrived back he cooked the rabbit and ate it.

''I need to be strong enough to defeat stronger animals and to become strong i need to train'' Luffy said

''I will train very hard, find Shanks' hat and get out of this place'' announced Luffy

*Time skip*

After 5 years he is 12 years old. He is 60 inches tall and has a slim build, because of his devil fruit. His hair has grown to his shoulders and his eyes are fierce.

''What has it been, 4..5 years, i dont know, but i sure have grown'''said Luffy with a deeper voice not his usual childish voice

He was munching on some meat, it looked like the leg of a bigger creature than a rabbit

''I have explored this whole forest'' said Luffy

''Found Shanks' hat, 2 years ago'' said Luffy remembering what happened when he found it

*Flashback*

Luffy was jumping from tree to tree, but stopped because a huge boulder, he thought that he could get a better view from up there so he climbed the boulder only to find a yellow monkey with a straw hat sitting on top of it.

He recognized the hat.

'Shanks' hat' thought Luffy

'I must get it' but Luffy knew the monkeys in the forest were powerful so he had to think of a strategy

After some thinking Luffy jumped at the monkey and stretched his hands, making a net to capture the monkey. The monkey noticed Luffy, but was unable to avoid the net fast enough and got caught in the net. It tried to get away and actually was able to, but the hat fell of it, it didn't care about a hat, it only wanted to save its life.

Luffy didn't care about the monkey, he quickly rushed to the hat and caught it while it was still in midair. He looked at it for a second and put it on his head without thinking any further.

'It sure feels familiar'Luffy reminisced

''One goal accomplished, two more to go. HELL YEA'' yelled out Luffy

*End of the Flashback*

''Or when i met the lion a second time'' said Luffy

* Another Flashback*

Luffy was searching for food until he spotted something. A lion, wehn he got a closer look it was the same lion from before. Luffy's blood was boiling, since his utter defeat caused by this lion, he couldn't get it out of his mind and was always careful. Today he will prove himself by defeating the lion he lost to years ago.

The lion was devouring an animal when suddenly ia a flash something hit him. The lion turned around to see the weak creature that it thought it killed. The lion still thought Luffy was weak and underestimated him, but little did the lion know his death was near.

With the rage burning in Luffy's eyes he threw a Gomu Gomu no Gatling at the lion and bombarded it with punches. When Luffy stopped the lion's body was on the ground bloodied just how his body was when the lion swiped his claws at him.

''Hmph take that you puny creature'' Luffy said with some arrogance

*End of Flashback*

''It was great'' Luffy finished the meat he was eating and stood up from his sitting position.

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This is for chapter 3 of Inherited Smarts.

Hope you have enjoyed it.

Bye.