Vampire's Family
By: Sissy

Chapter 1: They are vampires

"Nee-san… why are we here?" The young teenager with the black hair protested, dropping his head on the table of the restaurant they were in, "I'm hungry."

"Well, two reasons Luffy-kun." The older woman who smiled at him asked for a menu, "One is for looking for a new member for our family, and the second is to get you some food."

"Yay! Food! Thank you Robin!" Luffy cheered, as Robin put her order in, scaring the waitress.

"But first, Luffy-kun, we should talk about you." Robin said, looking seriously at her younger brother.

"What about me?" Luffy asked her innocently, eying the food on the other table.

"Don't even think about it. Look at me Luffy." Robin told him and the boy looked quickly at her, "You should know by now that there's a reason I brought you on this journey."

"Shanks said that you wanted me to learn more about the world so that I could become a better leader for our people." Luffy said to her, eyeing the waitress that came their way.

"That's right. But before that happens, you need to learn an important fact of life." Robin told him, noting Luffy's happy face when the waitress stopped in front of their table.

"What's that?" Luffy's expression was that of a small child receiving candy and as he moved to dig in, Robin stopped him with her knife.

"Nothing comes without a price. We all have to pay something sooner or later." Robin glared at him and Luffy looked scared. The waitress took that as her cue to leave.

"Did nee-san have to pay something too?" Luffy asked shyly.

"My real family is about the only thing I paid. A small cost, considering it was taken by you." Robin smiled, taking out the knife from the food.

"But nee-san, wasn't your family your most important thing?" Luffy looked sadly at her.

"It was. But that was a long time ago. Don't think about it too much." Robin smiled at the boy, who wasn't too sure about what she was talking about.

"Then nee-san, do we all have to pay with our most important thing? I don't want to lose you or our family." Luffy looked sadly at the food in his plate.

"Don't worry Luffy. I'm sure, that for someone like you, the price…will be something you can give up easily." Robin faked a smile, though she felt miserable inside.

Luffy wasn't sure what he should do. His sister was always happy around him, but she had paid a price long ago that was too difficult for her. Luffy had been told the story before by Shanks, so he knew his older sister was putting on a front.

"Now, don't look like that captain." Robin tried to cheer him up, "We came here to feed you, did we not?"

The words brighten Luffy up. No matter what had happened before, as long as Robin didn't mind the subject that much, it was okay to ignore it.

"Yeah!" Luffy grinned happily like normal and started eating.

Robin's mood could always be brightened whenever she was around Luffy. It seemed that was his effect on her. And everyone in their family felt the same way. She watched Luffy gulp down almost all the food sometimes, while she ate in small pieces.

But just as they were enjoying their food, the door of the restaurant flew open to reveal a couple coming in through the door. Luffy and Robin immediately turned to look at the two people.

'Blood?' They both thought at the same time.

"Why the fuck do I have to accompany you to this place? That stupid cook works here!" The male with the green hair and the gakuran uniform with an arm band labeled 'Defense Team' was currently looking very pissed off.

"Because you owe me. That and it's scary for a young girl to be walking around all alone." The slight orange hair on the girl's head was a curious trait considering she was also in uniform with the same arm band as her companion.

Luffy and Robin kept eating, even though they watched with curiosity at the pair of students. The waitress that served Luffy and Robin went over to the students with a smile. But when she asked them if they already knew what they wanted to order, the male glared at her.

"Zoro! Stop scaring people! We might be here on business but you know we must never forget manners!" The girl hit her 'friend' in the head, then smiled at the waitress. "I'll have a soda and could you ask the cook Sanji-kun to bring it?"

"Sanji-san? But that is a waitress job." The waitress looked worried and troubled.

"We have business with him and we gotta see him now, so go get him already!" The male named Zoro glared daggers at the waitress.

"Y-yes, sir!" The waitress ran towards the kitchen in a hurry.

"Zoro! Darn… And here I was planning on ordering something else." The girl sighed sadly.

Robin decided to ignore the pair for the moment, but Luffy stared intensely at the other male, who noticed the stares.

"What?!" Zoro yelled at Luffy, who paled when he realized he had been staring. Clearly, he hadn't expected that.

"Oh, dear…" And neither did Robin, who sighed.

"Don't you know it's rude to stare?!" Zoro barked at Luffy, considering they were only a few feet away.

"How about you? It rude to yell as well." The girl with Zoro smacked him on the head again.

"Luffy, apologize." Robin told her younger brother.

"Ah! S-sorry." Luffy looked like a small child like that.

"…" Zoro felt a bit bad about yelling now as his friend hit him again. "Ow! Y-yeah, okay. As long as you understand."

"Nami-swan!" The voice ringed in Luffy's ears.

'Interesting. All three of them are…' Robin went deep in thought.

"Hello Sanji-kun." The girl that was called Nami smiled at the blond male who wore a cook's uniform.

"Here's your order." The cook, Sanji, softly put the drink on the table. "Marimo, you're not bothering Nami-san, right?" He asked Zoro with a glare.

"The hell is your problem?! She's the one who dragged me here!" Zoro was getting pissed off even more.

"Now, you two. Don't form a fight in here. The school can't cover damages." Nami told them and both males calmed down.

"That's right. Hurry up with what we came here for." Zoro ordered the girl who glared at him.

"Sanji-kun, the president is looking into your job. I came here since you're also on the 'Defense Team' and have been slacking off. So, I suggest that, before the president finds out, you do something about your situation." Nami told him seriously, then smiled.

"I understand Nami-san. Don't worry. It'll speak to the president myself." Sanji smiled back at his friend and classmate.

"Then can we go?" Zoro asked Nami, feeling quite bored.

"Yeah, yeah." Nami sighed, leaving some change on the table and picking up the bill.

"Oh my God! Sanji-san!" The earlier waitress went over to Sanji in a hurry.

"What is it Hitomi-san?" Sanji asked his co-worker.

"Those two that were sitting here! You won't believe who they were!" The waitress, Hitomi, pointed to the table where Luffy and Robin had been sitting earlier.

'They're gone already?!' Zoro and Nami both turned to look at the table, then looked at each other to confirm the situation.

"There was someone there?" Sanji asked her with a slightly confused face.

'Then those two were-!' Zoro and Nami thought at the same time and nodded to each other.

"Yes, that's what I was telling you! Those two were-!" Hitomi was cut off by Zoro, who yelled at Sanji, "They're vampires, crap-cook!"

"What?!" Sanji was too shocked over that to hear what his co-worker had been trying to say.

"We have to go!" Nami ran to the counter and paid quickly, as Zoro got out of the store.

"Damn! Where-?" Zoro looked around, then quickly spotted the pair who were walking away with smiling faces.

Zoro ran towards them, followed by Nami and Sanji, who had put on the same armband as the other two. Zoro moved his hand to the side, but quickly realized that he was only carrying a bamboo sword.

'Crapshit.' He thought, then yelled to Luffy and Robin. "Stop right there!"

"Huh?" Luffy looked back to see Zoro with his most pissed off face.

"Oh, dear. I did pay, didn't I?" Robin was currently remembering useless facts.

"I don't think that's why he's angry, nee-san." Luffy chuckled, then looked calmly at Zoro, who had fallen on the floor.

"When did-? How'd she-?" Zoro was asking himself as he picked himself up from the floor.

"You fell?!" Sanji was surprised as Nami saw Robin, who had crossed her arms in front of her chest, slowly put them down while opening her eyes.

"What can I do for you three?" Robin asked them with a smile.

"A beauty!" Sanji was mesmerized, then smacked himself so he could concentrate.

"You two are vampires, aren't you?!" Nami asked them both with a glare.

"What if we were?" Robin asked her, feeling Luffy's hard concentration on trying to remember something.

"Don't you know your courtesy?! In this town-" Nami was about to say, but Luffy cut her off. "Now I remember!"

"Yes?" Robin turned her attention to her younger brother.

"Shanks said that we had to present ourselves to the school's Defense Team in order to be fully acknowledged as visitors!" Luffy beamed happily as all four couldn't believe their ears.

'They didn't know?!' The three thought in their heads.

'Why did that man chose to tell him, but not me?' Robin felt a little pissed, but quickly sighed. "I'm sorry for our rudeness. Could you direct us to the school?"

"…A-ah! Yeah. Sure. Please, follow me." Nami told them as she and the two males lead the visitors to their school.

"Nee-san… Are you angry that I forgot to tell you that?" Luffy looked worriedly at his sister, who softly smiled at him.

"It's okay. I'm used to it." Robin told him as Zoro eyed them suspiciously.

Ignoring the stares from the surrounding people, they arrived at the front gates of the school that you could see even from the edge of town.

"Sanji-kun, are you sure you're okay?" Nami asked the male at her side.

"Yes. Why do you ask? Could you possibly be worried about me?" Sanji looked a little happy.

"You're still in your uniform crap-cook. It'd be troublesome if the president found you." Zoro told the man, who paled.

"It's okay Sanji-kun. We can handle it from here. You go back to work." Nami told him with a smile.

"Thank you Nami-san." Sanji picked up the girl's right hand and gave it a soft kiss before running back the other way.

"…What?" Zoro asked Luffy, who moved his hands up and down in front of him, like a small child. "You look like you want to ask something."

"I do! But nee-san won't let me!" Luffy was mentally crying. He was curious as to what the whole fuss was about, but one look from Robin and he knew he shouldn't ask.

"…" Nami and Zoro eyed Robin, who was smiling at the distressed Luffy.

Luffy, once calmed, followed his sister who was walking behind the two students. They entered the school grounds and followed Nami up the stairs to an office with the label 'Student Council' outside the door.

"President, we brought two- Gah!" Nami was surprised to see a male in front of the desk of the president.

"You again?!" Zoro glared at the man, taking hold of the bamboo sword.

'This isn't possible.' Robin thought to herself once she saw who was in the room.

"Eh?! Isn't that Ace?!" Luffy was shocked as well to see the male.

"Luffy? Hey! What's up, lil' bro?" The male smiled happily at Luffy, while Nami and Zoro turned to look at Luffy.

'This moron is the King's son?!'

To Be Continued…

Sissy: O-kay! I'll begin with; this came out when I saw one of the ending where Robin is just standing there with a cool castle behind her. I thought 'Vampire!' and don't regret it. So I made a bet with sis.
Aoi: That's right!
Sissy: If people respond positively with this fic, I'll be writing this one and Black King at the same time!
Kody: Of course, that's not counting the fact that you're a "busy" uni student.
Sissy: True enough! So, go! Comment! I take any givers!
Aoi: You want to see the new Munto movie which you downloaded, right?
Sissy: Yesh! Even if it's raw, I don't care!!! (runs away)

(Will leave this for the weekend to see how it goes. I'll be checking the responses (if any) on Monday. Have a nice weekend!)