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May contain Ooc-ness, again, sorry 'bout that, as it is not my intention.
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Okay~ Here's Chapter 2, everyone! :)
When Luffy reached the room he was previously in, he noticed that the room had been organized, except for maybe the few papers that lay on the big desk across from the door.
The bed covers were a light shade of green, and the pillows were a shiny silver color.
The walls were a plain gray that matched with the surprisingly clean white carpet.
Everything was so, so clean. It was nothing like what Luffy remembered his old room from 10 years ago to be.
*Flashback*
"Luffy~" A beautiful mermaid with short green hair called for the fishboy.
"Yes?" He replied quietly. The boy was currently playing a game of hide and go seek with his two brothers, Ace and Sabo, and his best friends, Usopp and Chopper.
"I don't want to interrupt your game, but please, clean your room for once. Shanks is coming over later." The mermaid reminded the fishboy.
"But Makino~ Shanks wouldn't mind. It's been like that for age-"
"FOUND YOU!" A long nosed merman had interrupted as he pointed to the other nine year old who was currently freaking out.
His hiding spot couldn't have been more obvious. He was hiding in an almost completely open cabinet in the kitchen, after all.
His tail stuck out of the cabinet, showing that the cabinet was much too small for him to fit in.
"AHH!" Luffy screamed as he swam away at high speed before Usopp, the long nosed merman, could tag him.
However, Usopp could never match up to how fast Luffy swam. The other was much too energetic.
Finally, Luffy came to a dead end at his room.
The room was a disaster.
The paint was coming off the walls, the floor was covered with clothes that he most likely didn't wear, the blankets and pillows from his unmade bed, and piles of undone homework.
"Give up, Luffy!" Usopp shouted as he entered the room, soon after closing the door so the other couldn't escape.
Luffy started to panic. He tried to think up a plan where Usopp would not be able to catch him.
It was too late, Usopp tagged Luffy.
"What the heck, Usopp! That's not fair! I couldn't swim away!" Luffy yelled excuses. He clearly didn't want to be it.
"Too bad!" Usopp shouted back before laughing and running away to hide. "Guys! Luffy is it now!"
Luffy counted in his head up to 30 seconds. He hated being the one who had to look for others. It was boring.
While he could easily tag them as they tried to swim away, he didn't like spending half an hour looking for his brothers/best friends.
He glanced around his room before exiting it to look for the players of their game. It really was a mess.
It reminded him of all fun things he and his brothers did to get it this messy.
*Flashback-End*
The fishboy smiled nostalgically at the memory. He was a bit sad for a moment, longing for his family and his friends who he hadn't seen in 10 years.
That had been 3 weeks before he was taken away to that dreaded place.
A few seconds passed and Luffy just stayed in the same position, staring at the perfect-looking carpet.
'Will I see them again?' Luffy wondered. 'Would they hate me? What if I get caught again? Can I ever go back?'
So many questions wandered around in his head.
'No, if I think too much, I'll get a fever...'
"Hmm? Luffy? What'cha doing?" a deep voice asked the merman in front of him.
Luffy spun around on his tail and his ocean blue eyes met a pair of solid green ones.
They stared at each other for what may have felt like hours before Luffy shyly looked away.
"Nothing, really. Is this your room?" Luffy asked Zoro, looking back to him.
Luffy didn't pay much attention to Zoro before, but now that he was, he got a good view of him.
Zoro was a muscular man with light green hair and solid green eyes.
He wore a blue button-up shirt that was left unbuttoned, revealing a scary looking scar, green pants along with boots, and three katanas to his side that he always kept there no matter what.
(A/N: In this fanfic, Zoro has not received the scar over his left eye yet. Just thought I'd point that out.)
"Uhh- yeah, actually. Does it surprise you?" the swordsman replied a bit awkwardly.
"I don't know. I guess, I mean, you don't look like the type of guy to keep his room so clean and organized. No offense." the fishboy answered, trying to avoid an awkward conversation.
"That's okay. I get that a lot."
"Zoro?"
"Yeah?"
"Sorry for troubling you, but where am I going to sleep?"
Zoro pondered for a little bit.
"How about you sleep here for the night and I'll sleep in the living room? Just until we can get you home. How does that sound?"
Luffy froze.
'Home?' the fishboy thought. 'They're going to take me back after all? But...I can't! What am I going to d-'
"Luffy?" the green-haired swordsman had interrupted the fishboy's thoughts upon noticing how he had tensed.
"Okay." Luffy answered quietly, his bangs covering his eyes.
'That's strange.' Zoro thought. 'Did I say something wrong?'
Somewhere on the Fishman Island.
"You let him escape!?" A man had said to a more important looking prison guard.
"We are terribly sorry, sir. There was an interference." the prison guard replied in a tone that showed respect to the other, all the while bowing down.
"What do you mean 'interference'?"
"What I mean is that, while Monkey D. Luffy swam away, somebody had a little 'fun' with our guards."
"And who may that be?"
"We don't know. We are doing everything we can to get answers. Please forgive us."
"Very well...you are forgiven. As long as you recapture Monkey D. Luffy and arrest the person who had assisted him in his escape."
"Yes, sir!"
"You may leave now."
The prison guard saluted before spinning on his tail and swimming away.
At a small house in the Fishman Island.
Makino held the newspaper in her hand, reading the headlines repeatedly.
Her hands were shaking as she gripped hard enough on the paper to turn her knuckles white.
"Sabo! Stop messing with my hat!" A slightly angry freckled merman had yelled over to another merman, who was pushing the hat inside-out and placing it on top of his own hat.
"C'mon, Ace! Doesn't it look good on me?" The blonde merman said with a fake sparkle in his eyes.
"Just give it- Oh? Makino, what's wrong?" The raven haired merman had asked the green-haired mermaid after noticing her behavior.
"I-it's..L-Luffy!" Makino had yelled out. The boys immediately were dead serious as they rushed over beside Makino.
The headlines read,
"MUGIWARA ESCAPES? MONKEY D. LUFFY WANTED!
Monkey D. Luffy, also known as Mugiwara no Luffy, escapes Fishman Island's Marineford Prison!
Citizens of Fishman Island are warned to keep an eye out and contact the Head of Police immediately if spotted.
{Here there was a picture of a muscular, but thin 19 year-old boy with messy and curly raven hair.
He had a scar beneath his left eye, and another much worse one on his chest shaped like an X, and he looked to be
swimming away with a determined facial expression.}
WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE:
$400,000,000
Although Monkey D. Luffy may have escaped, no one knows his exact location. Evidence shows that he could've been eaten
by a Sea Monster after his escape.
His whereabouts remain a mystery, therefore, the citizens of Fishman Island need to
keep caution at all times.
Other information unknown until proven with high investigation and evidence.
- Fishman Island Newspaper"
"Luffy!" Escaped out of Ace and Sabo's mouth.
They were surprised to find their younger brother there.
He looked extremely different in the eyes of the two brothers.
Luffy looked so much older, not to mention the scar on his chest which seemed to anger the brothers.
He was just so different from the Luffy of 10 years ago, he didn't look happy.
'Luffy! Please be safe! I promise...I promise, I'll find you!' Ace and Sabo thought to themselves as tears threatened to spill out their eyes.
They couldn't help but hate themselves a little for having fun while all this time, they knew their brother was in trouble when he was taken away from them 10 years ago.
They had assumed he was dead. This brought relief to the two boys because they knew now that Luffy was still alive somewhere in this world, and they would meet him again, no matter what it takes.
"Luffy, wait for us!" Sabo had said aloud in a confident voice. They would find him, and they will be together once again!
Back at Law and Zoro's Apartment.
Luffy gasped as he woke up from his dream. He felt like someone had been calling him.
Someone dear to him, someone important to him. But there was two of those 'someones.'
"Ace. Sabo." Luffy had whispered, a small smile on his face. He'll be waiting.
Aaaaand, that concludes Chapter 2...pretty short, huh? I don't know. Next chapter will be longer, I promise! o3o
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It's so late right now, 4:00 AM. I really need to see a doctor, I have only slept 'bout 2-3 hours everyday. I need sleep!I was planning on posting this like 3 days ago, but I never got to finish. :c
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Well, then, until the next chapter~
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