Heya, this story idea came to me at about 11 p.m. so I decided to get my butt out of bed and type it before I forgot about it. Typed from 11 to 1 in the morning. Enjoy. Oh, and I do not own One Piece.

Zoro quickly pulled up into his driveway and got out to bring Luffy inside. Zoro's house was big. Not huge but big. Well, maybe a little bit bigger than big. It has four bedrooms, all of them master bedroom sized. A pool room, and a medical room. Plus a room that Zoro installed himself, the dojo.

He brought Luffy inside and rushed him to the medical room. Luffy was layed down onto the medical bed, then Zoro went to the cabinet to get some gauze, disinfectant, bandages, and tweezers, since the bullet was still in Luffy's side.

Once he found everything he cleaned up the most of the blood so as he could see the bullet. It's a good thing Luffy wouldn't be awake for this part, because Zoro doubted he would stay still for this. He took the tweezers and reached in the wound to get the bullet. After three tries he finally got a hold of the bullet and pulled it out, then the disinfectant was sprayed on and the gauze was pressed down before he wrapped the bandages around Luffy's side.

Zoro wasn't really freaked out about doing this. He's seen a lot worse and gruesome things. He shuddered at the unwanted memories.

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Pain.

Blood.

Laughter.

Darkness.

How did it come to this? He had been walking home after going to the super market for.. him. It was so quiet. How did he not here them? He remembers a bag being wrapped around his head, making him blind. Then they dragged him off to someplace. There was a lot of movement. After they stopped moving him his head felt heavy. The bag was taken off, and he stared at the face of some kid who looked a bit older then him.

"Monkey D. Luffy." The kid said. "This is your unlucky day." He chuckled. "You're next on our list. Get to it boys!"

Pain. From the punches and kicks.

Blood. From the cuts they were giving him with a pocket knife.

Laughter. From the boys beating him black and blue.

Why? Did he do something wrong? Was he so mad at him that he hired these kids to do this? He told him he was sorry. He didn't mean to ruin it. But he knew that picture was important. It was after all, a picture of his wife. Who was dead. The picture was irreplaceable Luffy knew. But to go so far as to hire these guys to do this to him...

No.

Grandpa would never do that.

These bullies must have just decided to do this to him. But, out of nowhere. It couldn't possibly be a coincidence could it? Maybe grandpa did...

Whose that? Green hair? He looks like a good guy, maybe he would-what? Where did that bat come from? Maybe that guy will help me, wait! Don't go! Wait1 Wait!

Darkness. From an iron bat hitting his face with full force.

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His eyes opened slowly. He was still upside down. Look at all the blood on the ground. Was that all his? It looks like a rain puddle, except the rain is red. It tastes like copper. Yuck. Red is running down his face and into his eyes. It hurts.

Snap.

Thud.

Splash.

Great, now he was covered in blood. Guess the rope wasn't strong enough to hold him any longer. Every thing's so spinny. It's hard to walk. But I have to try, I've been gone for too long. He's probably even madder now. It's so cold, even colder then before. His body is trembling. But he'll make it home, step by step.

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"Luffy! What happened?"

'Ace. I'm sorry, but I can't talk for some reason.'

"Luffy! What's with all this blood? Talk to me! Why aren't you talking"

"A-A-ce. S-s-"

"Luffy, you can't talk can you? It's ok. Come on, let's go get you cleaned up."

Ace you don't have to pick me up. I can walk, really. What about grandpa? Is he still mad?

"G-gran-"

"He went out Luf. He'll be back soon. Then me and him are gonna go out and find who did this."

So grandpa didn't have those guys do this. I should've known. Grandpa's not that cruel. I'm so happy.

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"Luffy, wake up. You're going to school today. No more home school remember? C'mon get up."

"Naa, alright Ace. 5 more minutes."

"Nope."

"Hey put me down. Where we goin' Ace?"

"To the bathroom. I prepared for you not wanting to wake up."

"Huh? Hey don't dump me in the tub! Ack! Wet! Cold! Fine I'll go get ready! Guh!"

"HAHAHA! Some way to wake up huh Luffy?"

"Oh hey grandpa."

"Better get going. You got 10 minutes left."

"WHAT! CRAP!"

He quickly got dressed and made sure his bandages were all secure. Hopefully the kids at his new school won't judge him by his appearance or they might think he's gonna get in a lot of fights. He grabbed a muffin on the way out while saying good bye.

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"You can come in now."

He walked in after the teachers' words. Nobody's making any kind of judgment from what it looks like. Good.

"Um, hi. I'm Monkey D. Luffy."

"Let's see. There's a seat by Zoro, the one with the green hair."

Green hair? That seems familiar. Maybe. Luffy's eyes widened once he saw him. Then he looked down at the floor. It is. It's the guy from the park. The one who left me. He sat down next to him, ignoring the stares from a few of the other kids.

The other kids are taking tests, and he has nothing to do. He supposes he could take a nap. But then the nightmares would come back. The ones from the park. They flashed in his mind again, playing over and over. Making him scream. But only in his head, not out loud.

The bell rang.

He stood up after most of the kids left. He looked down at Zoro before he spoke.

"Zoro right?'

"Yeah, that's my name."

"Could you show me where my classes are?"

"Yeah let me see your schedule. Wow, you have all the same classes as me. So just follow me to every class then."

Luffy smiled, this guy was actually pretty friendly.

"Yosh!"

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How?

How did this happen again?

He knew those guys. The same ones from the park.

Why did they do this? Again?

What did he do to them? What did he EVER do to THEM! It made him so angry.

But, he didn't feel angry. He felt to tired to be angry. Probably from losing to much blood from the gun shot to his side.

Every thing's fading.

Fading to black.

Darkness.

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Zoro whipped his head toward Luffy's direction after hearing him gasp awake. Probably a nightmare. He wouldn't doubt it after what the kid's been through.

"Z-Zoro?"

"Yeah Luffy, I'm right here." Zoro got up and walked over to Luffy.

The smaller teen watched as Zoro walked over to him. Once he was there Luffy wrapped his arms around him. He knew it was kind of weird. He hadn't known Zoro for that long after all. But every time he has those nightmares, he always needs somebody to be there for him. Luckily Zoro returned the hug. Knowing that Luffy probably needed some comfort.

After Luffy let go Zoro went to get him some water. He figured the boy might need some time to register what had happened. And the poor thing is probably parched.

After Zoro left Luffy collapsed back onto the bed, wincing at the pain. These nightmares have really got to stop.

Sorry if it's a crappy chapter, but like I said, I was typing from 11 at night to 1 in the morning sooo, yeah. Don't forget to review my wonderful readers. :3