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Hello! This fanfic came from a dream that I had, and I decided to put it into words. Hope you like it!
Thanks for reading, and leave a review if you like, they are highly appreciated.
Sorry about possible grammar errors. English isn't my native language.
"Hey, did you see the boy who lives in the other street?"
Luffy looks at the boy who's talking to him, confused about who he was talking about. He was new there, having recently moved to live with a woman named Dadan, that now would be his adoptive mother, and Ace, the boy who also lived there and didn't seem to like him very much, no matter how much he tried be nice and friendly with him. He always felt alone in that place, and there was nothing he hated more than to feel that way. So, whenever he could, he would ran away from home and go to play in the streets, where he had already made an amazing number of friends in the few days he had moved there.
"Boy who lives in the other street? Who's that?" Luffy question, wanting to know more about this boy.
"It's that strange boy who lives nearby! He's very strange, never going out his house for anything!"
"But of course he doesn't come out, he's sick! Didn't you see those strange white spots that he has in his body? They say that if you touch them, you get sick too! Isn't that scary !?" The other boy said, talking about the rumors he had heard from the other boys in the neighborhood.
Luffy looked at them, still confused on the subject. Getting sick when approaching someone may seem scary to others, but to Luffy that fact only increased his curiosity about this kid.
"Where does he live?" He asks the boys, they then giving him strange looks.
"Why do you want to know? Don't tell me you want to go there."
"Yes I do! Tell me where he lives!" He insisted, sounding like he was going for a great adventure, not a place that looked so dangerous in the other boys eyes.
"He lives in the second house down the street! But if I were you I wouldn't go there!" He warned, but Luffy seemed not to hear anything he had said, running to the place, more curious than ever to see this strange boy whom everyone talked about.
Luffy ran as fastest as he could, anxious, but getting there he was somewhat disappointed, since the walls of the house were too high and he couldn't see anything. But that was nothing he couldn't solve. In his own clumsy way, he managed to climb the wall of the house, finally being able to see inside. Looking to the window, he could see someone in front of it, a boy who had several white spots in his body, just like the street boys had described. But it weren't these white spots that really caught his attention. What really caught his attention was the expression on the boy's face.
He looked so sad and lonely ... Luffy knew these two feelings very well, and knew they were not good. Without thinking much, he picked up a small rock in the wall where he was, and then threw it in the window, hoping that the glass not break. He gave a big smile when he realized he had managed to call the boy's attention without doing any damage.
"Heeey!" He called out the boy, trying to get in touch with him. When the boy went to open the window, he smiled in satisfaction.
"Who are you? What do you want here?" The boy asked, in a tone that wasn't very friendly. But that wasn't anything that would frighten Luffy, or make him leave the place.
"I'm Luffy! What's your name?" He asked, excited to meet someone new, so excited that he had even forgotten the rumors that surrounded the boy.
"Why would I say my name to a stranger? What do you want here?" He repeated the same question as before, with the same threatening tone, and Luffy started getting somewhat irritated with the boy. He wanted answers and not more questions to answer. Things weren't fun like this ...
"Ahhh this isn't fun! I was curious to see you ever since everyone on the street told me about you!" He said, and the other boy began to look at him with a suspect and more menacing look than before.
"... You've come to laugh at me then?" He asked, and Luffy shook his head immediately, denying that this was true. He hadn't come to laugh at anyone, he was just curious to know the boy who everyone talked about.
"No! I just wanted to meet you! You look lonely... wanna be my friend?" Luffy said, giving a big smile to him, as the boy looked at him in surprise, as if the other boy was crazy.
"Stop kidding me! I don't want be your friend, now go away!" He replied, closing the window and going out of sight.
Luffy stared at the closed window, wondering if he had said something to the other boy that had offended him. Not finding an answer to that, he went down the wall and walked away, but not giving up in making that boy his friend.
Luffy wasn't a person to give up so easily.
Day after day he found himself once again going up the walls of the boy's house and throwing rocks at his window to draw his attention, not caring if the boys on the street or even Dadan and Ace said to him to stay away from the boy. He insisted every day until the boy finally decided to open the window of his house and talk to him again.
"Don't you ever get tired?" He asked Luffy, the latter giving a little laugh, as if all this was being a great adventure and a challenge for him.
"No! I won't give up until you become my friend!" He said, determined, prepared to insist the time it took to gain the attention and friendship of the other boy.
"People haven't told you? That if you get close to me you will get sick?" The other boy asked, curious. It was clear that Luffy had heard these rumors, but he didn't believed in them, or at least didn't cared about that.
"Yes they told me about that, but I don't care, this won't stop me from being your friend!" Luffy said simply, leaving the other boy surprised and speechless.
"You feel lonely, don't you?" Luffy asked, and then the other boy looked at him, tears filling his eyes without him noticing. He shook his head in agreement with the other boy, unable to say a word.
"Then be my friend! Then you won't ever be alone again!" He answered, the other finally agreeing with him.
"My name is ... Trafalgar Law." The boy finally revealed his name as proof that he had become his friend, and Luffy gave the biggest smile he had ever seen in his life.
"Ok Tra ... eh..Trafu ... Torao! We are friends from now on!" Luffy said, and Law gave a small laugh as the other couldn't speak his name.
From that day on everything changed between them, and every day Luffy appeared in the same place when climbing the wall of his house, they then spending the day talking and playing, each on their side. In these days he discovered several things about the boy, like his disease wasn't contagious as everyone said, but when he said that to the boys from the street where he lived no one believed him.
A few more days going by and he found himself no longer needing to climb up the walls of the boy's house, now entering through the front door. Law had told his parents about the strange boy who appeared every day in his window, insisting on having his friendship, and they were very happy to find someone who finally didn't discriminate their child because of his illness. From that day on he had free access to the Trafalgar family home, knowing his parents, who Luffy had found amazing, and also his little sister, who like him, had the same white marks on her body. Rather than remain in the streets as before, Luffy prefered to spend his days in Law's home, the other kids distancing themselves from him as he was in constant contact with the sick boy.
"You don't mind everyone turning away from you because of me?" Law questioned Luffy, feeling guilty. Luffy just shook his head in denial. He didn't cared about any of those boys, Law was much more special than any of them, and if he had Law as his friend he didn't needed anyone else.
"I don't care for them, I like you more!" He told Law while he was watching him with a surprised expression on his face. It was the first time anyone had said he liked the boy, aside from his parents and his sister.
"I... I like you too!" Law said, and Luffy stopped running to turn around and look at the boy, a big smile on his face. Listening Law saying that he liked him made him feel really happy, in a way he had never felt before. Waving his arms to the boy he said bye to him, running back to his house, eager for the next day to come and to see Law once again.
But little he knew that this day would never come.
During the night he woke up, hearing loud noises of sirens and people talking loudly, making him wonder what had happened. Curious, he got up from his bed, heading toward the front door, which was open. There he saw Dadan and several other neighbors chatting in the street, and even more curious than before, he asked what had happened. Saying it was a matter of adults, Dadan caught him by his shirt to take him back inside, but when he heard the name of his friend's family being told by several people, he immediately realized that something was very wrong.
Biting Dandan's hand, he escaped from her and ran through neighborhood streets, passing through several people until he reached the house where his friend lived, there seeing the worst of the possible visions. The house he would visit everyday was on fire, surrounded by fire trucks, their sirens nearly leaving him deaf. He started to yell for Law, trying to move forward among all those uniformed mens and curious people, but was stopped before he could go further.
"Torao! Are you there? Answer me!" Luffy continued to scream while a men he had never seen in his life carried him away, preventing him from finding his friend. He shook himself, trying in every way to escape from him, but not succeeding. And with each passing moment he found himself farther to find Law, as well farther to find answers to what had happened.
Answers that would come few days later, due to his insistence on knowing what had happened. Law's parents were killed, along with his sister. And as for Law, the only survivor of that sad incident, no one knew where he was.
He just disappeared.
Knowing this, Luffy cried, not only because he would never see those people who were so nice to him again, but also because he couldn't stop thinking in how much Law was suffering. The boy that was lonely before, now was completely alone in this world, and he couldn't even see him and try to do something for him.
But even if he couldn't see him now, he wouldn't give up to find him in the future.
And from that day on, something has become a routine for Luffy.
Every day he spent a great part of his day in front of that house where he used to spend his days beside his friend, or what was left of it, hoping his friend would show up somewhere, sometime. But time passed, and in the end this never happened. And after years and years waiting for any sign of life from Law, Luffy finally found himself giving up, believing he would never see his friend again.
And so the years passed.