To 99 Luffy: Thank you for your review. Honestly, I was worried that not many people liked my One Piece fanfic after seeing the number of reviews I got. Since this the first One Piece fanfic I'm doing, I'm worried about how I show the characters. If you find some characters out of character, please do forgive my lack of skill.
Please do enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 4:Ope Ope no Mi
Listening to Luffy's story, Hancock found herself more attracted to him as she heard that one of the rumored first years who dared to challenge the Marines was none other than the man before her. If something were to happen to him, she would not know what to do.
"I-I don't mind using my Shichibukai title to help you and your friend." How strange. Hancock doesn't normally stutter when she speaks. It's just that for some reason she has a hard time keeping her composure around Luffy. Hancock didn't know how to describe this light and fluttery feeling in her chest.
"Really, thanks! I owe you one!"
Blinding. Simply blinding. That smile directed only at her. Of all the thousands of smiles she had seen, this was the first one to have affected her like this.
"Then… call me Hancock…" Hancock asks unable to look at Luffy straight in the eyes. This sensation not once has she ever felt this before. It doesn't hurt in fact she feels more ecstatic.
"Sure, Hammock!"
"It's Hancock..." Hancock meekly corrects him not minding having her name mispronounced.
Law lets out a sigh. He wasn't expecting that person to send a messenger to him so soon. At least, he didn't come out himself. If it was one of his subordinates, then Law could handle them himself. For now, he needed to concentrate other matters.
Leaving behind his beaten opponent, Law decides on a change of scenery.
The bitterness of defeat… No failure was unacceptable. He was given a chance to prove himself to his idol yet he failed. Not only did he fail to bring Law to his boss, he lost to him as well. When his boss gave him a chance to redeem himself after his one sided defeat by Luffy in his middle school years, he was ecstatic to find out that he did not throw him out.
Although he lost miserably to Law that did not mean that his mission was over.
Upon seeing their dear leader still in school brought tears to the three Heart delinquents' eyes. It hadn't even been half a day and they were crying as if he was gone for months. At the sight of the cursed straw hat delinquent, they spewed angry remarks for kidnapping their precious captain. While his three nakama were being creepy, Jean Bart welcomed Law back.
"Law?" Jean Bart called out his leader's name when he noticed how something was off about him.
Ignoring that bad feeling in him, Law headed back to his room. There was definitely something wrong about Law's encounter with Bellamy. If he was sent by that person, then why would he send someone of Bellamy's level. Maybe it's just him being paranoid after all ever since he decided to enroll into the high school division at Grand Line Gakuen he has had this uneasy feeling. It has been four years since he returned to Grand Line Gakuen. He had hoped that person would have forgotten about him but it looks like it was far from it. But if that person really did want to bring back Law, then he would have sent one with more skill. And Law doubt sending Bellamy would persuade him into returning. As for his motive in sending Bellamy remained a mystery to Law.
"I'm making dinner anything you guys want..."
"Meat!" Luffy immediately answered.
"Cotton candy!" Chopper loved cotton candy more than anything else.
"Sake."
"Will you try something else?! We're still underage?!" Usopp shouted at his idiotic green haired friend.
"Super Cola." Franky does his signature 'Super' pose, leaning to his right bending knee on the same side while the other is straight with his arms over his head lock together wrist to wrist connecting the two separate blue star tattoos to make one star.
"Panties..."
"Are you trying to make all women your enemy?!"
As much as they like girls too, hearing Brooks's disturbing answer was just plain wrong to the two Heart delinquents.
"I hate bread... !" What did he just say! It is true Law hates bread as well as umeboshi, but the thing that was not what shocked him. It was his careless reply that surprised him. Law started to reconsider being involved with the Straw Hats. At this rate, he may end completely drawn in by their pace.
"Hahahaha!" Chopper and Usopp laugh at Luffy's idiotic but funny act, dancing with a bamboo sieve and chopsticks wedged in his nose and lower lips.
Brook played some music as entertainment.
Franky started doing his 'Super' pose.
Zoro just slept while Chopper and Usopp join Luffy in his dance.
And that's the last thing he would want.
"Hey Trafalguy, wanna join!" However Luffy receives no answer as Law was gone before he knew it.
Dinner was excellent. Earning Sanji, Penguin and Sachi's respect for his cooking. They made sure to warn the cook beforehand about their captain's dislike of umeboshi when he was about to put the awful thing in one of Law's onigiri. If it's one thing they know, it's not to feed their captain onigiri with umeboshi. And they learned that the hard way. The three got along even better when they found out the three of them liked women. Penguin and Sachi told Sanji he was lucky to be with two beauties. Forming their women loving alliance, Sanji promised to formally introduce Nami and Robin to them as a sign of their friendship. The three cheered in glee of their new established friendship. Brook played a tune of friendship in commemoration of their friendship. Zoro commented on how stupid they were. Usopp smacked Luffy in the back of his head for stealing his meat. Chopper asked Law if he could borrowed some of Law's medical books after finding out that the Heart gang leader's interest in the medical field. Not seeing the harm in letting Chopper borrow some of his books, Law promised to take Chopper to his room to see which books he would want.
"Bepo..."
"Aye, Captain..."
"Let go of me..."
"No..."
Ever since the raven haired boy returned, the white bear kept clinging into him in fear of his captain being taken away again.
"Bepo, do you want to me to kick you out of our room..."
"I'll be just fine, Captain! I'm a bear after all!"
"Yeah but come you can talk..." Chopper was one thing since he ate the Zoan fruit Human Human no Mi, but that didn't explain how Bepo could talk.
"I'm sorry..." Bepo apologizes.
"He's depressed?!" It seems he was sensitive about it when Franky asked him.
"He's funny! Hahahaha!" Luffy laughed.
"Captain save me!" Clearly remembering the traumatic meeting with the Straw Hat gang leader, Bepo tightened his hold.
"Gyyyyaaaa, Captain!" Penguin screeched.
Uh oh, Bepo just remembered he still had his captain in his arms. Ad what's worse is that he's a proficient fighter. Too afraid to see the sorry state of his captain, words couldn't even begin to describe how much guilt he felt. At the very least, he should apologize.
"C-Captain..."
"Yes, Bepo."
Strange, he sounded perfectly fine for someone who was just broken in half.
"Captain?" Why was someone who was suppose to be in his arms sitting in the chair next to Penguin's? If he was over there, then who was in his arms...? Bepo looks down to see instead Law but the original owner of the seat Law occupied, that long nose guy, if Bepo remembers correctly his name was Usopp, whose face was turning into various shades of blue in his arms.
"Man, Captain. You scared the living day lights out of me. You got to stop using your powers like that." Penguin gets up back to his seat. Having the person right next to you swapped with your leader wasn't exactly the most soothing thing.
Gasping for air as his life flashes before his eyes, Usopp says good bye to his friends.
Just before Usopp breathes his last breath, Bepo releases Usopp.
"Hahahaha, you guys are funny!"
"Don't laugh?!" Usopp shortly recovers from his near death experience yells at his idiot of a leader.
Now that dinner was over, it was time for a bath.
"Trafalgar!" Coincidentally, Kid and his nakama were there too. "What are you doing here!"
"Eustass-ya, this is the dormatory's bathroom. Is there really a need to ask?"
"That's not what I meant-"
Ignoring Kid in favor of Bepo, Law proceeds to wash Bepo's fur.
"Bepo, keep still..."
"Aye, aye, Captain!" There was nothing that Bepo loved than to have his fur cleaned by his captain except for when his captain uses him as a pillow. Unlike Sachi or Penguin, Law's touch made Bepo feel at ease. Bepo always preferred Law over anyone else.
"Captain, wash my back too!" Sachi found it unfair how Bepo always hogged Law to himself. He wanted to be spoiled by their leader too.
"I only wash Bepo." Law bluntly replied.
"Captain, let me wash your back!" Penguin asked. If pushing doesn't work then try pulling.
"No wait, let me do that!" Sachi refutes.
"I asked first!"
"As if I let you!"
"You two swing that way..." Sanji cringes at the newly discovered fact that he had not expected from his fellow women loving companions.
"You're wrong?!" They both yell at the same time.
"Then why are you two acting like a couple of love struck girls..."
"You idiot! What kind of question is that!" Sachi refutes.
"The Captain is the coolest and greatest delinquent there is!"
"He's super strong too!"
"He's even cooler when he used his devil fruit ability."
"The way he uses his devil fruit ability is extraordinary. His devil fruit ability suits him perfectly if I say so myself."
"He can do all sorts of things with it."
"Oooo..." The conversation piqued Luffy"s interest when Penguin and Sachi mentioned Law's devil fruit ability. "You mean when he teleported us on the floor."
"Captain can do more than that! Captain can cut up people without killing them, and rearrange and swap their body parts. He can remove someone's heart without killing them."
"That's an interesting ability!" Sitting in the bathtub with his arms over his head, Luffy wondered if he could make some meat pop out.
Chopper and Usopp cling onto each in fear of the newly discovered information of Heart delinquent.
"Scary! Trafalguy is scary!" Chopper shrieks.
"Luffy, don't fight that guy! I have I'll-die-if-I'm separated-from-my-heart disease!"
'So he ate the Ope Ope no Mi... Interesting.' Kid smirks upon hearing the new information about Law.
It didn't take a genius to figure out what Kid was thinking. Really the only things on his mind were just violence and fights. Killer just hopes he can at least bath in peace without his captain destroying or causing a fight in the dorm bath.
"So if we were in a hot spring, he could warp us in the girls' bath!" The obvious nosebleed made it clear what Sanji's intentions were.
"And more..." Sachi baited.
"More..." Like a fish, Sanji took the bait.
"... Captain can easily switch people's minds."
It was no wonder those two respected him so much with a godlike power he could sneak into the girls' bath as much as he wanted or do what he wanted in a woman's body. Wait if he uses his power for the latter he won't be able to switch back to his own body, but that was not a bad deal either. The fact that he had such a power made Sanji seething in jealousy. If only he hadn't focused so much on the Suke Suke no Mi, he could have been in heaven.
"But I've only seen Captain use his powers when he fights."
What he only uses that heavenly gift for something like fighting only! This just pissed Sanji off even more.
"No, he often uses it when he gets mad at us."
"You're right like that one time he..."
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"I'm so sorry, Captain..." Penguin is down on his knees completely depressed. Make one a bit curious at what happened.
"Please don't kill us..." Like Penguin, Sachi instantly becomes depressed fearing for his life.
On second thought, maybe they were better off not knowing.
"Fuffuffuffu..."
The sight of his former protégé fighting against his opponent with such ease amused the blonde man seeing how much stronger he grew in the long time they had not seen each other. If only there were bloodshed, then it would have been a better video to watch. But with the nature of his former protégé's devil fruit power that would not be possible. It was at times like this that he found Law's devil fruit ability to be annoying.
"I'm glad ya like it Doffy! That worthless trash, Bellamy, turned out useful after all."
"You really did well in this as always."
"No, I didn't do much."
"I guess you're rig—"
"If you say so, then I have no choice but to bring back that brat!"
Omake 1
Sachi hummed a merry tune along with Penguin, making some onigiri after finding out about their captain's favorite foods. Bepo wanted to join the two but being a bear violated health and sanitations regulations so he was left moping in a corner while the two made onigiri.
Shortly after they finished, they left the home economics room and headed off to the biology lab to deliver their captain some lunch since he's normally cooped up in that room he rarely eats lunch. Maybe that explains why he's always so skinny compared to other them and other guys.
"Captain, we brought— Captain, how many times have we told you to stop dissecting so many animals here. It smells like a graveyard here!" Sachi pinches his nose along with Penguin while Bepo was the only one to remember to wear a gas mask whenever they enter the biology lab.
"Captain, we brought you some snacks. It's your favorite~" Bepo sets down the onigiris on the table Law was dissecting a frog at.
"He's not a kid you know." Sachi halfheartedly informs his furry friend.
"He ate it?!" Much to Sachi and Penguin's disbelief, Law quietly ate the onigiri thanking Bepo for the food. Bepo informed Law that the onigiri were actually made by Penguin and Sachi since he wasn't allowed to touch them. Law listened to his bear friend speak as he ate the onigiris he found them delicious. Maybe he should tell them he likes grilled fish if they decide to make him lunch again. They did do a good job in making them at least until the third onigiri.
"Sachi. Penguin."
"Yes, Captain?" Sachi and Penguin turn around to see an unhappy captain right behind them. The frightening part wasn't his unsheathed nodachi but rather the blood thirsty look in his eyes.
"I don't like umeboshi..."
"Captain, we're sorry! We didn't know!"
"Gyyyyaaaaaaa!"
From that day forth, the biology lab on the third floor was to have been the official location of Trafalgar Law's human experimentation laboratory where you would hear the screams of the Heart Gang Leader's victims. And no one except the Heart Gang dared to set foot on that cursed ground.
Omake 2
"Captain, wash my back too!" Sachi found it unfair how Bepo always hogged Law to himself. He wanted to be spoiled by their leader too.
"I only wash Bepo." Law bluntly replied.
"He's turned into cotton candy!" Which is true seeing as how there are so many bubbles it's hard to tell if he's a bear or a sheep.
"Eh? Really?"
"Captain, are you blind! There's so many bubbles I don't know where to start!"