Author's Note: Hi guys! Thank you for clicking on my new story! This is my first fanfiction, so it may not be the best one out there, but I will try my best to gradually improve my story telling skills. Anyway, this story is about two people, Sanji and Law who by coincidence meet when they are kids and about how they see each other again when they grow up as pirates. Some of the characters may act more OOC than their original selves on the show. There will only be friends for now but a slight romance may appear later on. If it is requested enough times, I may increase the rating but it will stay K+ for now. This story will generally follow the plot of the One Piece series, so not much from this story will be different from the original series (except maybe a few things later on).

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece, Eiichiro Oda does.

Chapter 1

It was an extremely hot day on the floating restaurant, the Baratie, and a young blonde boy with a fringe covering his right eye was hurrying around the ship taking orders. "Hey brat!" someone from the kitchen called him.

"What do you want?!" he yelled back while running towards the kitchen.

"Take this order out to the customer!" A guy with a chef's hat covering his balding head told the kid as he all but threw him the plate on a serving dish.

"Got it!" The kid yelled back as he hurrying out the kitchen. "And the name is Sanji!"

"All they do is order me around" Sanji grumbled as he walked outside the restaurant. He was allowed a break after the lunch rush was over. The steady stream of customers would start to decrease slowly and he would not be needed to run around getting orders. "Why won't that old man let me cook!" Sanji muttered angrily as he picked up a rock and examined it. "I can cook better than most of the people on that ship, yet I'm forced to take orders instead of cooking!" He yelled as he dropkicked the rock and watched as it flew away. "I need to go back there and set him straight!" With a determined face, Sanji was about to head back to the ship before realizing that the scenery had changed. "I must've wandered off farther than I initially thought…" Looking around, Sanji saw some of the flowers that surrounded him, and noted that he had never seen these types of flowers before.

Usually, whenever Sanji was able to take a break, he would be up on the deck just staring off into the horizon. On that particular day, the Baratie was docked at an island somewhere in the East Blue.

"What pretty flowers" Sanji smiled as he kneeled close to a bush full of flowers. "It is nice to see some flowers instead of just staring out into the ocean every day." While he was silently admiring the beautiful exotic flowers, he heard a rustling nearby. "A wild animal?" Sanji thought as he looked around for something to defend himself with. Even though he was good with fighting with his legs, Sanji knew that it was better to confront an unknown foe with a weapon before resorting to close combat afterwards if it is necessary. As the rustling got louder, he decided on a tree branch that was laying some distance away from him. After lunging to grab it, he broke it in half so that he had two sharp sticks that he could fight with or throw at an enemy so he could make a quick getaway. Sanji got into a fighting position as he heard the rustling get louder.

"Stupid rock, stupid tree, stupid bird" Sanji heard someone talking when the rustling got close to where he was standing.

"Huh?" Sanji tilted his head as a boy walked out of the bushes. A boy that looked like he was close to his age was looking down while walking, and was reading a book that was in his hand.

"Why would Corazon leave me alone on this boring island" the kid grumbled as he continued reading while walking, not noticing Sanji.

Sanji had unknowingly dropped his stick on the ground while he watched the boy, mystified. The boy heard the stick fall and turned around startled, finally noticing Sanji.

"Um, hello?" Sanji said as he scratched the back of his head. He just didn't know what to say to a kid that he had randomly met in a forest that was supposedly some distance from the nearest city.

"Hello" the boy mumbled back and silence took over once again.

"Um, are you lost?" Sanji asked as he studied the boy. He had a slightly tanned complexion with small blotches of white on his skin. He wore somewhat tattered clothes and a big white hat with a few spots around the bottom. The only thing that the boys seemed to have was a small backpack and the book that he was reading earlier. But the one thing that fascinated Sanji the most was the boy's stormy gray eyes.

"No, why do you ask?" The boy asked as he shuffled his feet uncomfortably, for the blonde stranger in front of him was studying his appearance.

"Let's see, you're walking randomly through a forest looking at a book that you are so focused on, that you didn't even notice that you walked by me." Sanji calmly pointed out as he crossed his arms.

"Hmm?" The boy looked around confused. "It seems as if I wandered off again." He grumbled as he got a good look at his surroundings.

'Again?' Sanji thought while he sweat dropped while watching the boy look around himself. 'Does this happen often? Who would let a young boy wander off like this?'

"Well, where is the last place that you remember being?" Sanji cocked his head as he watched the boy think.

"Corazon had left me at a pastry shop with his "friend", but since I was bored, I grabbed a book and I guess I just wandered off while reading." The boy sighed as he realized how he got into his situation. "He had said that he had to report to someone about something."

"A pastry shop…" Sanji tried to remember if there was a pastry shop on the map of the island that he had seen prior to the Baratie docking at the island. 'There's plenty of time to help the kid find this "Corazon".' Sanji decided while looking in the direction of the Baratie. "I've got nothing to do right now so I guess I'll help you get back to that pastry shop."

"Really?" The boy looked at Sanji with cautious eyes. "You do realize that you're helping a stranger that may have the potential to kill you right? I could even be pretending to be lost and would plan to lead you towards a trap where you could be captured or killed right?"

Sanji raised his curly eyebrow in slight surprise. "I'm sure that you're not pretending to be lost; your behavior seems too natural for you to be pretending. And who would think of doing something like that at your age?" The boy became silent, not answering Sanji's question.

"Let's go while it's bright out!" Sanji declared as he started walking towards the beach where the Baratie was docked. It was from there that he could see the city. While Sanji had headed towards the shore, he listened for the boy's footprints. It was silent at first, but he heard another set of footsteps gingerly walk behind him. "Oh yeah!" Sanji stopped walking and turned around to face the boy. "I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Sanji," he held out his hand towards the boy smiling. The kid looked back at Sanji's hand for a moment before begrudgingly holding out his own hand.

"My name is Trafalgar Law."

He couldn't believe it! Corazon had told him that he would have to disappear for a while to report something to someone and left him at a pastry shop on an island where he had never been before with his "friend". The woman that Corazon had left him with glanced at him every once in a while, but never paid any real attention to Law during his time there. Not even when Law had disappeared for an hour to "borrow" a medical book from the library across town.

"Are you hungry kid?" Law looked up from his book to find a plate full of tarts and a glass that was presumably filled with apple juice placed on the table in front of him. Law nodded his head politely and took a tart from the plate. Corazon's "friend" had grinned and walked back into her shop.

"This is too much sugar," Law muttered as he ate his tart and drank the juice but touched nothing else from the plate. "When's Corazon coming back? I'm bored."

"If you're bored, you can go for a walk if you want," he looked up once again to see Corazon's friend sit down with a cigarette. Law scrunched his nose and muttered "Those things are bad for your health."

"I've used these things since I was a teen," She responded with a smirk. "My body should be accustomed handling the smoke."

"That's not how it works!" Law grumbled silently.

"Corazon should be gone for quite a while, so you should go somewhere to stretch your legs."

Law looked at Corazon's friend. "Do you know where he goes?"

She took a puff and looked back at Law with an amused expression. "Yes, but I won't tell you."

"Why?"

"Because I can't be bothered to tell you things like that and you don't need to know."

"Why can't I know? It's not like I'm going to try to find him after you tell me." Law inquired.

"Corazon told me about you, and he's right, you're pretty smart for a kid." Law gave her an annoyed look. "But he also told me to not tell you about his whereabouts. Whether he tells you is up to him."

"But isn't it natural for me to know where he is? If you haven't noticed, he is pretty clumsy and can accidentally cause his coat to catch on fire or fall even though nothing trips him." Law pointed out. "So I should know where he is just in case he needs me to help him with something just in case he gets hurt in an unfortunate event."

Corazon's friend smiled at Law's argument. "His current location is for me to know, and for you to find out. Now go out and do something instead of probing me for Corazon's location, which is something that I will never reveal."

"But there's nothing to do out there!" Law complained gruffly as he crossed his arms.

"Go to the beach, explore the forest, you might find some rare medical herbs," She took another puff and pointed to Law's new book that he "borrowed" prior to him talking to Corazon's Friend. "It's a small island so you should be fine by yourself."

"Shouldn't you be watching me?" Law asked her nonchalantly while jumping off his chair to go on a walk.

"Like I said, you're a smart kid" the woman shrugged. "Plus, you probably would've tried to escape me sooner or later just for fun, not that it'll matter, because I was always watching whether you knew it or not." Law rolled his eyes and picked up the book before heading towards the library. If he was going exploring again, he would need to get another book. Law had already read through the book and he wanted another one to inform himself of the flora that he had never seen before on the island.

And here he was, following a random blonde boy that happened to be in the same part of the forest at the same time as him when he was taking a walk.

"Um, Sanji right?" Law asked after walking with the boy towards a destination that only he knew.

"Hmm?" Sanji cocked his head to look at the boy.

"What are you doing in the forest?" Law questioned Sanji as they continued to trek through the forest. By the look of his clothes, Law deducted that he was most likely a cook or a waiter.

"I was just walking around during my break," Sanji answered looking back to the direction of where the Baratie was docked. "I work as a chef on the floating restaurant, the Baratie." Sanji smiled fondly. "It serves the best food and the customer service is top class." Law couldn't help but chuckle to himself as Sanji kept gloating about how amazing the Baratie is. "But the job can be demanding, especially to the smaller, younger but more talented crew members." Sanji frowned slightly. Law looked at Sanji with an amused expression at Sanji's slight jab at the restaurant's treatment of him.

"So where are you from?" Sanji asked Law after a comfortable silence.

"The North Blue" Law answered quietly in response while Sanji's eyes widened in surprise.

"Really? I'm from the North Blue too!" Sanji grinned at the fact that he found something to talk about.

"So I'm guessing that you grew tired of living in the North Blue and decided to work as a cook at the Baratie so you could travel?" Law asked him as they started to walk side by side.

"Hm? No, not quite" Sanji shook his head. "I was born there, but I became a cook at the Baratie after the ship that I was working for, got raided by the Baratie Pirates." Sanji stopped walking and stood still. "A bunch of bad things happened and before I knew it, I was stranded on a rock with the old man that had raided the ship I was working on." Law looked at Sanji curiously and waited for him to continue. "He had two bags with him; A big bag and a small bag. He had given the smaller bag to me saying that since he was bigger, he needed more food for himself and told me to go to the other side of the rock to watch of ships. I of course got angry, but took the smaller bag begrudgingly. I soon ran out of food after a weeks and I got desperate. When I looked back at the old man, he still had a big bag. I attempted to kill him to eat his food but I couldn't." Sanji hid his eye when he looked down.

"Why?" Law couldn't help but ask. He was usually a quiet person, but this kid's story had intrigued him.

"I couldn't because the big bag was full of treasure not food. During those long weeks the man had eaten his leg off so I could eat food. Shortly afterwards we were saved by a ship that had gone close to our rock. And on that day, we had promised to open up a restaurant on the seas. I had also vowed that I would never refuse food to a starving individual regardless if they are evil or not!" Sanji had ended his tale determinedly pumping his fist in the air. He then looked over to Law who looked back at him with a hint of respect. "Yeah, that's my story, geez, we just met a few moments ago and yet I am telling you my life story." He scratched the back of his head embarrassingly.

"Well I think that your story to become a chef on the Baratie is more admirable compared to other's stories about how they came to do their job" Law shrugged slightly to try to make Sanji feel better.

"I guess you're right!" Sanji grinned and started walking again with Law following behind him. "Well since I told you my story, you may as well tell me yours!" He looked at Law from the side.

"No" Law answered curtly and stayed quiet.

"What?" Sanji stopped walking and turned to face Law. "I told you my story, so you tell me yours!"

"I didn't ask you to tell me your story did I?" Law continued to walk in the direction that Sanji was walking at.

"But…" Sanji protested but sadly decided to stop probing Law. It was true, he had never asked Sanji to tell him his story but Sanji had told him anyway. "I'll find out your story sooner or later!" he yelled at Law as he jogged to catch up to him.

"I hope you won't" Law silently muttered as he hid some of the white blotches on his skin.

AN: So how was it? Do you think I should continue this story? I know that there is more to Sanji's story and that I didn't accurately talk about Sanji's past, but it may be easier to be vague now, and add more details later. This chapter may probably be the longest one in a while due to it being an introductory chapter, but I may have put in too much information. I will try to update this story as quickly as possible. All reviews and criticisms are welcome.