One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
Scarlet belongs to me

-Chapter Three-

The sound of the shrill bell indicating that the last class of the day was over filled the air as Scarlet stood and stretched, grunting at the sound of her bones popping. 'Well, time for work' she thought, her lips twitching downwards as her eyebrows furrowing a bit. Trudging out of the room, a force soon knocked the red head over as arms wrapped tightly around her and a cheek was pressed against her own. "Luffy, what did I tell you about physical contact?!" Scarlet cried out as she pushed the hyperactive boy away.

"Sorry" the raven haired boy said, laughing with his eyes closed and a wide toothy smile on his face while a straw hat rested on top of his head. Under his left eye was a scar, one that Scarlet had unfortunately been there to see how he received it.

-Flash Back-

"Luffy, this is a terrible idea" Scarlet said as she placed her hands on her hips and stared at the young ravenette.

"No its not, this is surely going to show Shanks that I'm strong and not just some weak little kid!" The boy cried out, a dagger in his hand as he was marching towards the tavern where Shanks would be.

"You're going to hurt yourself" Scarlet said as she hurried her footsteps to get a head of her friend and stand in front of him. "Besides, my daddy says that kids are age aren't allowed in taverns, so how are you going to even get in?" She asked.

"I'm friends with Makino, she'll let us in no matter what" Luffy said proudly as he smiled brightly and walked past Scarlet.

"Luffy please listen to me!" Scarlet cried out as she dived forward and wrapped her small arms around one of her friend's legs. She groaned as he kept going, dragging her behind him with ease as dirt started to gather on her jeans and shirt while the concrete sidewalk scrapped her skin. Soon the young boy pushed open the doors to the tavern and marched on in towards the counter where a skinny dark green (that almost looked black) haired woman with brown eyes stood, drying a glass mug.

"Makino" Luffy said as Scarlet sighed and stood up, patting her dirty clothes a little while crossing her arms.

"Oh, hello Luffy, Scarlet" the woman said, smiling at the two before going back to work as Luffy crawled up onto one of the stools, standing tall while looking around the filled tavern. Before spotting a red haired male wearing a straw hat (that would later belong to Luffy) along with three scars running down his right eye, he was sitting and laughing with a bunch of other men while downing some alcohol.

"Shanks" Luffy called out, his face in a serious expression as it goes quiet.

"Oh, hey Luffy, what are you up to?" The red haired man asked with a wide smile as Scarlet covered her face.

"This is going to end badly" she mumbled while shaking her head back and forth.

"I'm here to show you that I am tough and not some weak little kid!" Luffy exclaimed.

"Oh and how are you going to do that?" Shakes asked, interested to see what the little guy was going to do. Luffy swallowed thickly as he took in a deep breath and raised the dagger and pointed the tip right under his right eye, making sure it was wide open so he could see. Shanks placed the drink in his hand down and raised an eyebrow as he was completely interested in knowing what the child was going to do. Makino's back was turned to all of them as she was too focused in cleaning up to pay attention to what was going on behind her.

"Please don't do this" Scarlet whispered as she peeked out from behind her fingers. With another deep breath, Luffy plunged the tip into the soft tender flesh under his eye as a loud scream bubbled past his lips.

"Idiot!" Shanks cried out as he quickly stood up and rushed towards the child.

-End of Flash Back-

He had been rushed quickly to the hospital after that stunt he pulled, but to Scarlet that was the least of her problems when they were kids. The red head shook her head as she heard the sound of fingers snapping in front of her. "Hm?" She hummed questioningly as she looked towards her friend.

"You okay Scarlet, you kind of spaced out?" Luffy asked as he tilted his head and lowered his arm.

"Yes, now if you'll excuse me, I must head off to work" she said, standing up and dusting herself off.

"Can I come with you?" Luffy suddenly asked as his eyes sparkled brightly.

"What!" Scarlet exclaimed before straightening herself and coughing. "No, you can't come with me" she quickly said, her voice rushed.

"Aw, why not?" Luffy whined.

"Because" Scarlet said, her grip on her bag tightening till her knuckles started to turn white.

"Please, I want to see where you work" the boy begged as he wrapped his arms around the red head and leaned against her.

"No means no Luffy, go bother Zoro" Scarlet said in a stern strict voice.

"But he's training with Mr. Mihawk in the gym" Luffy said.

"Then go mess with Sanji" the red head said, trying to pry the boy off of her.

"He's with Mr. Zeff" the raven haired boy said.

"Usopp?" She questioned as it went silent while her friend hummed in thought.

"Okay, see ya later or tomorrow, whichever one" Luffy said as he let her go and went racing down the hall. Scarlet breathed a sigh of relief as she started to walk down the opposite way that Luffy had ran.

"Hey Scarlet" came a loud female voice behind the red head causing her eye to twitch.

"Sorry can't talk Nami, got to head on to work" she said quickly as she ran forward, leaving a young woman with short orange hair and light brown eyes behind.

"Okay?" Nami said, slightly confused as she watched her friend run away from her and towards the entrance of the school. Once outside Scarlet slowed down and quickly walked down the stone steps of the college as she took in deep breathes. Don't get her wrong, she wanted to stay and chat with Nami, it would be better than going to work, a place she despised all together. A building that she found disgusting and immoral even if it does help bring in money, cause God knows her mother was never going to bring home anything other than married men that wanted some excitement in their life. Straighten herself out she briskly walked down the sidewalk.

While Scarlet was heading onto work, Law sat in the college's library with Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo. His feet were propped up on the wooden table as he boredly looked around, already having finished all his assigned work. "What do you guys want to do tonight?" Penguin asked, as he closed his text book.

"Don't know" Bepo said sleepily as his eyes became half lidded.

"Law, what do you want to do?" Shachi asked, as two of the three looked to him.

"Go out drinking, maybe to a bar or maybe a strip club" Law said, shrugging his shoulders as the two that were looking at him smiled widely at the thought.

"Really?" They both asked excitedly at the thought of heading off to a strip club.

"Yep" Law said, as he stood up and stretched. "Let's head on back to the apartment and get ready for tonight" he said, burying his hands into his pockets as the three followed in standing up, Bepo yawning as he sluggishly followed. The four gathered their things and left the quiet room filled with countless shelves of books that seemed to be gathering a little bit of dust on the top.

A/N: First I want to say that yes I do know how Luffy received his scar, I looked it up and read about it. But since this is set in modern time I had to change it a bit while also trying to keep it the same so I'm sorry if its not that great of an explanation of how he got it in this story. Anyways, enjoy.

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