Two weeks have passed since the incident at the Baratie and since then the two clueless men have yet to see each other in person. To Luffy it felt almost as if Law was avoiding him because everyday after school when Daisy was picked up, it was always during the times they were playing outside and the other times it was Baby stopping by. He missed seeing Law; he was what he looked forward to seeing during after school. Luffy even missed a day of school to stay behind at work in the hopes of running into the cardiologist, but it was still not luck. Law just didn't want to see him.

The day continues to drag and by now it was still 4:30. Luffy would catch himself snapping his head in the direction of the main entrance, hoping that he might catch a glimpse of Law each time someone stepped in through the doors.

This was completely ridiculous. Since when did Luffy become so obsessed about a guy? He hated himself for his behavior, he was better than this. He kept telling himself to get over the doctor over and over again, reminding himself that this man wasn't just any man, but a married one with a child. Just imagine how much trouble he would get if anyone where to find about them-that is if anything where to happen.

He was not about to ruin a perfectly good marriage because of his selfish needs.

Before he knew it the door to the front entrance opened, with the sound of light footsteps entering the cafeteria. Luffy didn't stop to turn this time, he knew it wasn't Law and honestly even if it was him, he still didn't want to demean himself by looking.

Since the night at the Baratie, Nami couldn't get the idea of Law being 'the guy' out from her head. Now that she knew who he was, all she wanted to do now was help Luffy more than ever, but how could she when she also believe the doctor was a married man? There was really only one way to settle all of this and that was to get some inside scoop on the guy by none other than Baby herself. So as she made her way closer to the table where the sign out sheets where and where Baby waited for Daisy, Nami quickly thought of an excuse to make conversation regarding the doctor.

"You are here for Daisy right?" Nami asked, pretending that she didn't remember.

"Yes, Daisy Trafalgar—oh I remember you. You were at the Baratie that night with Daisy's teacher Kaya and other friends, right?"

Bingo. Now was her perfect chance to get some inside information about the doctor and Baby. "Oh yes that's right, we ran into each other when you were just heading out with your husband."

"My—my husband?" Baby confusingly stated

"Oh are you and Law not married? Ehh, your boyfriend then is that the proper term?"

"Siblings would be the right term"

Namis eyes widened in shock. How could she have been so dumb to miss that hypothesis? Siblings, of course, it was totally obvious now the more she pictured them together with their same jet black hair and piercing grayish blue eyes, and that identical angry- bored look they wore on their face each time the walking into the building. The proof was all there, yet nobody seemed to assume the obvious.

"Siblings? You mean Law is your—"

"Older brother. Where did you get the idea of husband?"

"Oh well we just sort of assumed" Nami started laughing nervously while rubbing the back of her head. "You know since Daisy has the same last name as you two"

Soon after Baby began to chuckle silently to herself "Well I guess that is understandable seeing that he does always come to pick her up and we're always together. But no, Law is Daisy's only uncle."

"Well you have no idea what great news this will be for a friend of mine..."Nami admitted in relief as she placed her left hand over her heart.

"Oh?" Baby's eyebrows rose in interest but soon her eyes fell onto the bright shining rock wrapped around Nami's ring finger. She remembers her daughter mentioned a while back about her leader Mr. L proposing to one of the other leaders here in after school; guess that meant Nami was that other leader. "Oh I almost forgot to congratulate you on your engagement! Daisy had told me all about it the week after. You must be pretty happy!"

Nami looked down at her ring, smiling with embarrassment that even the parents where finding out and congratulating her, not that she didn't mind the attention.

"Thank you and yes I am happy. Been waiting a while now for this guy to pop the question, ya know?" Nami affirmed jokingly.

"Well there you go, now you don't have to worry about waiting. Luffy must be pretty excited himself about the whole engagement"

"Yeah he's also very exci—wait, Luffy? Uh I guess he's also excited, though I think he's looking more forward to the food they'll be serving instead"

"Well yeah, isn't Luffy your fiancé? That's what Daisy had told me."

Suddenly everything made perfect sense to the red head leader. She could see how the kids had thought her and Luffy where dating, if she was one of the kids she would have believed the same thing, guess it never occurred to her the confusion it would bring in a situation such as this one. Well no matter, now that she knew the true relationship between Baby and Law, she knew she had to get to work quickly, but there was still one thing she needed to conform before doing so.

"I could see why she would think that, but no, Luffy is not my fiancé, his older brother Ace is."

"Oh, I'm very sorry for the misunderstanding."

"Nah no worried, though I do know two people who might still be in one . . . Say Baby, would your brother be interested in a relationship if he isn't already in one? I think I know someone who might have their eyes set on him." Nami smirked

Baby gave Nami a suspicious look "That all depends on the gender." She looked around to make sure no one was around to hear her, not that she was ashamed to what she was about to tell Nami, of course not, she just didn't know how private Law was about it. "Law doesn't date girls. He's gay, so if your friend happened to be a woman, then I suggest you let her know that he is not interested."

And there was all the evidence needed to put the rest of her magic to work. Thank fucken god that all this was cleared up, it was started to get depressing watching Luffy stare at Law the way a dog looked at a piece of steak each time he came in.

"Well it's a good thing my friend isn't a girl then right?" she smiles at Baby. "In fact I see him coming over here right now, so I'll let you decide."

From a distance, Luffy was making his way to the table to drop off the folder where Daisy sign out sheet was. His heart was beating faster and faster as he made his way closer to Nami and Baby. He was nervous to approach Laws wife, he felt like his conscious might take over and reveal all feelings out to her, he didn't trust himself.

Thankfully Nami was keeping her distracted, so he could just drop the folder off and be on his way. But of course when did things ever go his way.

"Oi, Luffy come here. Look have you met Baby, Daisy's mom?" Nami introduced.

Luffy walked closer to the two girls, standing next to Nami as he tried his hardest to make eye contact with the other girl. "Not face to face, no, but I do know who she is." He sucked in a deep breath and lifted his head up to properly introduce himself. He sent her one of his big signature smile that required him to close his eyes. "Hello, the kids call me Mr. L, but you could call me Luffy. It's nice to meet ya."

"Hello Luffy, it's nice to finally meet you as well." Baby replied, while reaching over to the boy to shack his hand.

"I have to get back to work now. Daisy is just finishing up a craft, but I'll go let her know you are here.." Luffy excused himself and walked as fast as he could back to his station with the kids, refusing to look back.

Meanwhile, Nami and Baby watching as Luffy made leave. Nami had saw the smile Luffy sent to Baby earlier, but she knew very well that, that smile held a lot of force filled with pain inside. And now that both women knew the whole situation, maybe they could work something out to pair these two idiots up together.

"So what do you think? He's completely crazy for your brother."

"Oh, I like him! He's perfect for Law."

"What do you say instead of telling them, we let them figure it out on their own, see how long it takes these blind men to figure it out." Nami suggested.

Baby sent Nami a mischievous smirk "I like the way you think Nami"

The next morning before everyone is out of the apartment to start there day, Baby stops Law for a moment to talk with him. Remembering the plan she created yesterday with Nami, she had to make sure to make her excuse believable otherwise her brother would catch her like a fly, and she knew how perfectly easy it was for her brother to make her speak.

Law was just inside his office organizing some papers he had scattered all across his desk and neatly placing them inside his leather messenger bag. The past few weeks have been hell for Law at work, with all the meetings, updating patient records, returning phone calls or dealing with various office issues, it was like he didn't have any time for himself anymore- not like he ever did in the first place. Thankfully this was the last day of his stressful week, on top of that he would be able to get home early today and finally relax. He definitely needed it.

In a way, with all these distractions going on at work, he was able to forget about his pained heart towards Luffys proposal. Since that particular night after dinner he had been avoiding the younger boy ever since, it was just too hurtful to see him at the moment. Which is why he single handily chose these specific weeks to keep him-self occupied from going and picking up Daisy from school. It was messed up, but he knew he needed to stay away from him as much as possible right now.

Laws thoughts were soon broken when he heard three knocks at his door.

" Law? Oh there you are, hey I was just wondering if you were going to be home early today?"

"My meeting ends at 2pm."

"Oh perfect. Okay, well uhh…I won't be back till later so—"

"Do you need me to pick her up?" Law interrupted sounding annoyed because he really didn't want to start picking her up from school just yet.

"What- no no no I got it, ehh I was just saying is all . . . well anyways I really should get going, see ya brother!" Baby closed the door and left with Daisy as fast as she can out the door before her brother would come outside and question her suspicious behavior.

Later that day at 3:15 from the Drum after school program the first and second grade group were playing a delightful game of capture the flag. It was Wednesday, so on these days Luffy never showed up for work, however today was different since he had to take an exam earlier that morning, giving him free time to stop by and visit his students and pick up Nami from work.

"Luffy I need you to do me a huge favor." The red-head asked as she approached him from the soccer field where he was playing a round of capture the flag. Luffy spotted Nami walking over to him with a piece of paper and school cell phone; he wondered what this favor was.

"So I just received a call from Daisy's mom saying that she wouldn't be able to pick up Daisy from school and right now Law is in an important meeting, so there really is nobody else to pick her up. She asked if one of us could take her home today and I told her that you would be able to since technically you're not teaching today."

"Wait you want me to what?" Luffy protested

"Take Daisy home" she repeated while handing Luffy the piece of paper from her hands that confirmed her home address along with Baby and Laws cell numbers. "Stay with her until someone gets there. She left an extra pair of house keys inside the tree next to their door"

Luffy looked down at the paper, catching a glimpse of Laws cell number and repeating it over again inside his head. This was bad, what if Traffy was the first one to arrive home while he waited. What would he say to him? But he had no other choice; Nami had already promised Baby that he would take her daughter. Damn why'd he have to stop by for a visit?

"Alright, I'll take her. Just hand me the keys to the car."

"Thank you Luffy, you're a great brother in law" she teased and handed Luffy the pair of keys she had in her pocket. "Have fun~"

They arrived at the apartment no moment later. Luffy was his seat fidgeting with the keys as he waited for the right time to get off and escort Daisy to her house. Who would have thought Law lived not to fare from where he and Ace lived, oh great was he now going to start taking this route to head to work?

"So is this the right place?" Luffy verified with Daisy even thought he already knew this was the right place.

"Mmm-hmm! C'mon Mr.L, let go inside! We could watch a movie while we wait!" Daisy says and starts unbuckling herself eagerly to head up to her room, leaving Luffy no other choice but to follow after her.

She reaches with her tiptoes to ring the door bell, but there was no answer. She tried one more time but still nothing. This time Luffy gives it a shot and of course still nothing. He begins to look around for the tree plant thing Nami had said was beside their front door, but the more he looked all around, the more he realized there was no evidence of any tree being by anybody's door. Okay so now what am I suppose to do, Luffy thought. But not too soon after he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps making their way to the door from inside Daisy apartment.

The door flew open and Luffy had to control his face from turning any redder.

Law stood on the other side looking like he had just been disturbed from his afternoon nap, his hair was a mess with dark bags being more noticeable under his eyes than usual, and let's not forget his missing shirt that exposed a perfect view of his well toned abs and other hidden tattoos all across his upper body.

"Law! Your home!" Daisy cheered while attacking her sleepy uncle with a hug who was still trying to process what was going on. His eyes suddenly laded on the other male beside his niece, rapidly realizing who it was standing on the other side of his door.

"L—Luffy?"

He nervously laughed back at the cardiologist "shishi hey Traffy, long time no see right?"

"Right…what—what are you doing here?" Law felt the need to question because it was hell strange that Luffy suddenly appears at his doorsteps with Daisy beside him.

"Mommy couldn't pick me up so she called Ms. Nami and asked if Luffy could bring me home. We even stopped to get some ice cream!"

"Wait wait wait, slow down. What do you mean mommy couldn't pick you up? So she just lets one of the leaders go off and take you home without telling me? Doesn't she know how dangerous that could be, what if they kidnapped you or something! –No offense"

"None taken. Well Nami told me that she said you couldn't get her because you were at some meeting or something, I don't know point is she's here and you're here and I didn't kidnap her shishishi." Luffy joked, trying to lighten up the mood after seeing Law blow out in disbelief.

"Yeah theirs that I guess" he sighed and sent the leader a sincere smile, that automatically caused Luffys heart to start beating rapidly fast.

Daisy had long since left the two standing at the door staring awkwardly at each other. The silence between the pair continued to escalade and yet somehow neither of them could find a reason to just say goodbye.

Luffy eyed Laws entire upper body, checking out the defining perfection of his abs and arm muscles. He wondered how on earth a doctor like himself can even find the time to keep himself so ridiculously in shape, not that he minded at all the perfect view. His tattoos where another thing making him weak on his knees, he just wanted to trace his fingers- possible tongue as well -all across his chest. His fantasy left him short breathed with the need of wanting to know what else was hiding underneath his other fabric of clothes. That is until he was suddenly interrupted by the one causing him to fantasize.

"Oi, Luffy are you listening to me? Are you okay?"

"I—I like your tattoos." Luffy said.

It suddenly clicked to the doctor that he was in fact completely shirtless standing in front of Luffy. It was no use covering them, so instead he embraced his body and used it as an opportunity to woo the younger male.

"Thank you. I made them myself actually."

"REALY!" Luffy eyes began to sparkle in amazement

"Really." He lifted up his arms showing him his tattoos painted all across them. "I made these when I was just in high school with an ink gun I miserably made out of a hot glue gun and some black colored pen ink"

"Wow, it looks like it was done professionally" was all Luffy was able to say

Law noticed the way the boy eyed the one on his chest, he saw the way he bit his lower lip while staring at it with intense interest. He took a step closer to Luffy; giving him a better view of his chest tattoo. "And this one I just recently made half a year ago. It hurt like a bitch, but the pain was definitely worth it."

"Was this also by a hot glue gun?" Luffy stammered while still staring at his upper body.

"You could actually feel the difference between a handmade gun and an actual gun, here feel for yourself." He pulled Luffys hand and placed it over his chest, letting the boy feel all around it. Luffys face was burning hot; he couldn't tell if it was his or Laws heart beat that was racing rapidly. But as his hand remained hovering over him, he slowly realized that this was his chance to feel the other man's body just like he wanted. Slowly he began tracing his fingers through the lines of the ink, drawing out the perfect heart that was tattooed over Law's chest.

Law passionately shut his eyes as he felt the way Luffys hands touched his skin. He began to take heavier breaths, biting his lower lip so hard to contain the urge from pushing the boy against the wall and attacking his lip then and there. The thought of Luffy being engaged didn't even cross him mind, his selfish desire of wanting the boy all to himself completely took over. And just maybe if he could show Luffy how much better he is then maybe, just maybe he might change his mind and take him instead of that red head.

Law inched his way closer, but Luffy managed to take a step back. The closer he got to the boy, the more scooted away Luffy got until there was no more space for him to go back, he was blocked between the wall behind him and Law in front of him, with Luffy still keeping his hand on his chest. Law leaned in closer to Luffy's ear.

"You know, if you want I could always make you your very own tattoo." It was his turn to place his hands over Luffys chest. "I think you'd look great with one right here, don't you agree?" he slowly began to undo the buttons on Luffys shirt with his one hand. After the first button was undone he looked back up at Luffy waiting for the signal to back off, however the signal never came, just the view of a half lidded younger boy.

Law eyed the boys parted dry lips that only urged him to move in closer. It was like déjà vu from the time back at the science fair, only this time Law was definitely going to take his chance. With one hand now leaning against the wall and the other laying perfectly over Luffys chest, he began to move in closer.

"Traffy—" Luffy managed to whisper out, but his words soon became silenced as Law broke the barrier between them.

Luffy shut his eyes, feeling the other mans lips on his; his mind was racing in circles to everything that was going on just now. Should he be doing this? Should he kiss back? Why is Traffy even kissing him? But suddenly it was like a different wave of emotions swept in and took over, soon Luffy found himself giving in to his desire of wanting the man and so he pushed in deeper with the kiss.

He clenched on tighter to Laws waist, gently scratching his chest with his other hand. Law cupped his hands over Luffys jaw, pushing the boy forcefully against the wall until there was no more distance between them, slowly beginning to lose breath but not wanting to break apart just yet. Even Luffy was beginning to feel short from breath but couldn't find in him to let go, he didn't want to stop, this was all like a dream coming true to him, one where Law realized how better off he was with him and—

"Law, what are you doing to Mr. L?"

—and of course what was he even thinking getting himself in this kind of mess, completely forgetting the Law a married man with a beautiful daughter. So much regret began rushing through Luffy's mind; he needed to get out of here before he screwed anything else up.

He pushed his body away from the doctor, quickly tuning around to button up his shirt. He didn't understand how he let himself do this, but what he didn't understand more was why Law was also doing the same? He didn't want to think about none of that though, all he wanted to do was get the hell out of here and fast.

"I'm—I'm so sorry Law…I don't know what came over me... I—I should probably get going.." Luffy nervously apologized.

"Awe your leaving?" Daisy whined

"Yeah sorry Daisy, but I really can't be here right now. I'll still see you at school tomorrow. .." He turned around making his leave as fast as he can.

"Luffy wait!" Law shouted eagerly.

Luffy swiftly turned around facing Law from afar. Law was going to use that moment to just go out and say how he felt about the younger male, but when he saw the regret written all over the boys face, he couldn't help but feel regret himself.

"I'm very sorry Luffy. I don't know what came over me."

Luffy was looking at the floor, clenching his fist into a ball "Yeah, same here. It won't happen again, I promise." he assured, then quickly made his way out from the apartment building, carrying and leaving behind two confused aching hearts.

That night Law was outside leaning on the rail of his balcony while smoking a cigarette. It was late at night; Daisy had long since gone to bed along with the other half of the city and all he could do was stay awake contemplating on his earlier activity with Luffy. He's never felt this much like shit in such a long time, his heart was in a continues ache while his mind was trying to forget the pained look the boy had on his face the moment they broke away from the kiss. And then there was the deal with Luffy kissing him back, why did he kiss him back? Curiosity maybe? Or maybe deep down he had felt the same way? Either way none of that even mattered because in the end Luffy belong to someone else, some who he promised to share a life with, someone who he loved deeply. He couldn't understand how everything suddenly became so screwed up in his life.

His frustration got the best of him, causing him to chuck over a vase that was once lying next to him and falling off the balcony four stories high, thankfully nobody at the bottom of the floor. In the back Baby saw the whole show, and immediately went on to text Nami about their first plan being a fail. Few minutes later while Baby was in Daisy's room checking up on here she received a text from Nami telling her about moving on to plan B: operation carnival, the final set up. she smiled at her phone before putting it away into her purse, making her way to the balcony to share a smoke with her older brother, she was confident this next set up would work.

AN: Thank you for reading! Hope you all enjoy. (: