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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2014

Finally after 9 excruciating hours of school, Luffy was able to go home. He wasn't able to get that good of a sleep last night and could really go for a nap. The fact Usopp hadn't been there today either made him all the more eager to get the hell off campus and into his messy but warm bed.

He got his bike and began going home by the same route he'd always take. He went down the short hill and felt the air waking him a bit. Making him more observant. He hummed along to 'When You Were Young' by The Killers that blasted through his headphones, when he suddenly noticed a man.

He rode his bike faster as he recognized the man who'd just walked out of the Starbucks a block ahead. He'd quickly caught a glimpse of the side of his face before he turned to walk the same direction Luffy was riding in. He chased after the man and his beanie almost flew off at the speed he was going and he had to hold onto it with one hand, avoiding people on the sidewalk single handedly. Once he'd gotten close enough that he figured the man would hear him, he called out his name.

"Hey! Law, hey!" Luffy called out from behind the singer. Law turned around to see the same eccentric teen from the bar on Saturday.

"Luffy. Hey."

"You didn't forget my name!"

"Why would I have forgotten?" Law smirked and continued walking as Luffy got off his bike and walked alongside him.

"I dunno. But I'm glad you didn't!"

"Yeah?"

"Yeah! Hey where are you off to? You look kinda…"

Law was wearing dark blue skinny jeans with a rip at the knee and a black sweater with a leather jacket on top. He didn't know. Kinda what? He liked the way Law looked. It suited him. The whole punk-y look. To him, Law looked like he gave negative 26 fucks and then some. He just smiled as they kept walking.

"Kinda what?" the older man asked the teen who was just giggling to himself.

"You didn't answer my question!"

"You didn't answer mine." Law said back to him while sipping on his still too hot coffee, then smirking causing the teen to pout.

"Well I asked you first, it's common courtesy to answer!"

"You really do keep impressing me with your ever growing vocabulary."

"Don't change the subject!"

"I'm going to work."

Luffy was shocked, and jealous. Law got to go to work and of course that seemed like an odd thing to be jealous of, but he played music. That was his job. He got to play music, play music for people who would enjoy it and tell him that they loved how good he sounded when he hit the high notes and how good he looked when doing so.

"I'm really envious." Luffy said as he leaned his head back to stare at the sky. It wasn't particularly cold today, but wasn't all that nice either. At least the sky was clear, no rain, no snow. Just blue.

"It's not that great."

"What do you mean?! I'd much rather be doing that then being stuck in school talking about Pluto."

"You're taking astronomy?"

"No, he's a writer guy. Like philosopher or something?"

"Plato. You mean Plato." Law laughed. This was the second time Luffy saw him genuinely laugh and he like it. He liked seeing him laugh when his friends had told him that it was something rare.

"I can't help it if the class puts me to sleep and I get the wrong impression of the old mans name!"

"Of course you can't. You've got what, the attention span of a six year old?" he joked making Luffy lightly punch him in the arm, getting another chuckle out of Law.

"I'm just teasing you know. You teens are so impressionable it's hilarious."

"I prefer a twelve year old."

Law looked at Luffy dumbfounded at his sarcastic comment and couldn't help but laugh out once more.

"That's great. If you hate school so much, you should be a comedian." He told the teen who just looked at Law with his eyebrows raised.

"Oh was it getting to you, my wonderful sense of humor?"

"Most definitely." Law said plainly, before smirking again and resumed drinking his coffee.

Luffy enjoyed joking around with Law like this. He joked around with everyone but this was different. He got a weird sense of satisfaction when he'd get Law to laugh because he knew it wasn't something he did often. He wondered if maybe Law was ashamed of his laugh? Not that there was anything wrong with it. It was a laugh. If anyone had a weird laugh it was fucking Shanks. He'd gotten used to it since he lived with him for so long, but the first time he heard him laugh he nearly cried due to his own laughter at how ridiculous he sounded. The two kept walking down the street when an elderly woman approached them and asked for assistance.

"I'm sorry boys, but do you mind telling me where um… this location is here?" She flashed a piece of paper with an address on it and Luffy had no idea. He was about to tell her he'd never even heard of the street that she was looking for when Law spoke.

"Ah. If you keep going straight for two blocks you'll see it. Just take a left and you'll come across the number of the place you're looking for soon enough." He said with a smile.

"Oh thank you sweetheart, you're very kind."

"My pleasure."

"Have a good day now boys." She said and walked past them.

"Hey Law-"

Luffy was about to ask him a question but got cut off by the sound of a damned cellphone going off.

Law reached into his jacket pocked and pulled out his phone. "Sorry hold on," he checked the ID, "I have to take this."

Luffy nodded and Law answered the phone.

Hello? Yeah, I'm on my way now. No. I said no. Fine whatever, bye.

Luffy couldn't make out what was being said on the other side of the phone so he just watched Law's facial expressions change with every other word, until he hung up.

"Sorry about that, I've really got to go. I'll catch you later."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I'm at the bar usually every Saturday, so unless I somehow die, I'll be there."

Luffy looked incredibly delighted. He didn't really know why he was. All he knew was that Saturday couldn't come soon enough to him now.

"Okay!" he said loudly as Law crossed the street. He stayed put until he could no longer see the older man and hopped back on his bike before finally heading home to take that long awaited nap of his, smiling the entire way home.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2014

For the first time ever, it felt like Luffy had gotten to campus earlier than usual. It was 11:30 in the morning, and class didn't start for another half an hour so it really felt like a miracle he was able to be at school so early. He couldn't help getting up early when it came to the smell of food though, and he figured Zoro must have purposely put together a big breakfast earlier in the morning as an attempt to make sure Luffy could be on time for once.

He was happy for that at least, he got to eat a lot before sociology class. What was that class even about again? Wasn't the word social relating to talking or something? Why was that class so boring then? What did learning about other countries have anything to do with being social?

Still, he didn't mind wasting time on his bike. Luffy just rode around the campus, figuring he could get a good view of it in a whole. He's never really looked around much, only ever going to the areas his classes were at, so this was an opportunity to explore and save himself from boredom. The school was pretty big, very bland though, and as much as Luffy tried to entertain himself, it was hard to considering every building was so ugly and boring and… why the hell was he here again?

With a big sigh, he seemingly gives in to giving up on his quest, hopping of his bike. Now walking with it by his side, he looked around for a place to sit; taking a quick nap seemed to be the best option at this point. Almost every bench in the area he was in was filled however, with couples smooching, or more homeless people resting with their bodies spread out entirely. Luffy's boredom grew, and irritation began to sprout, when he caught sight of someone he knew.

Walking towards his direction, cigarette in mouth and books in hand, Sanji seemed to have spotted Luffy at the same time he did. Happy to finally see a person Luffy could bug and talk to until class began, he ran towards Sanji's direction with a loud 'HEY SANJI! HEYYY! IT'S ME, LUFFY!'

"So you do go here!?" was the first thing that came out of Luffy's mouth once he finally managed to get to the other. "Did you just get out of class? Are you heading towards your food truck now!?" he continues to ask, mouth starting to water at the thought of the truck's food.

"I told you I wasn't going to give you free food again if that's why you're asking," Sanji retorted with an exhale of smoke. Luffy frowned.

"I was only asking!" he replied, scrunching his nose at Sanji's almost unfriendly first words. "What class did you just get out of? Or are you heading to one?"

"I just got out…"

Silence.

"You didn't answer m-"

"SHHHH!" Sanji unexpectedly cut him off, holding a finger up to his face. The blond's face was concentrated, staring at something with focus, eyes following what ever it was he was looking at. Luffy immediately thought it was another homeless person, and that Sanji was out to be the cool hero once again. However, when Luffy turned his head, he didn't manage to see any bum in sight.

"What the hell are you looking at?" He asked the blond, furrowing his brows and squinting his eyes desperately trying to find whatever it was Sanji was so focused on. At this point, the smoker's mouth hung open. His face was tinted with pink, lips perched like he just sucked on a lemon.

"Look at that beauty." Sanji finally manages to breathe out after even more awkward silence. "I have to go talk to her. Sorry Luffy, that's your name right? Gotta go, this girl looks awful lonely and I think she could use my company!" He practically zooms away from Luffy, and would've practically ran to the girl, wherever she was, if Luffy hadn't managed to get a grip on Sanji's arm.

"HEY! What the hell! Don't leave me! I don't care about that girl, whether she's pretty or lonely or whatever! I'm fucking bored, I need someone to talk to!" Sanji halts at this claim.

"Are you fucking crazy!? That lady might need me and I hardly know you. I already told you I won't give you free food again, so what else do you have to say to me?"

"Don't be so grumpy, geesh. We're friends we can just talk about anything- and I wasn't gonna ask for food!" Luffy reminded him, sticking his tongue out this time.

Sanji shook Luffy's grip on him, puffed on his cigarette before taking it out of his mouth. He had a disappointed look on his face before saying, "Well I can't see her anymore. Congrats, stubborn bastard." Luffy laughed in victory as Sanji made way to sit on the grassy floor to their right.

"Tell me, when did we become friends exactly?" the blond questioned while taking a seat, placing his books down.

"Hm?" Luffy tilts his head, confused. What did this guy mean? Since when wasn't he his friend? "Since last week, when I heard you jam out and crap. That's when I decided you'd be my friend." A sudden burst of realization then hits Luffy; Sanji was jamming out. Jamming out on a guitar, he was playing an instrument. An instrument that could be played in his band, his band that needed a few more members. Sanji could join his band! His mouth and gaze widen like a playful puppy's at this realization.

"HEY, JOIN MY BAND!" Luffy loudly commands Sanji, catching him of guard, startling him.

"Wha-"

"I recently started a band and I'm looking for members! I just remembered you play super good, so I need you to join!" Luffy was beyond enthusiastic, already celebrating the thought of having another member.

"Practice is going to be every weekend, and any other day we all feel like it, at my friend Usopp's place. I can't wait 'til you meet him, his nose is so LONG! OH, OH! YOU CAN EVEN MAKE US ALL SNACKS AND STUFF! YES, I'M SO GLAD I CHOSE YOU TO BE IN MY BAND." Sanji was practically sweating now, dumbfounded by what Luffy was pouring all over him.

"Uh…" Luffy had most definitely thrown the blond off with such a sudden outburst. His so proclaimed friend was also already sitting at his side, swinging back and forth like some child with the biggest smile on his face. "No thanks, Luffy." His words caused Luffy to come to a sudden halt, the mood almost immediately changing.

"What do you mean no!? SANJIIIII!" he was now upset and whining even more so like a child. "I really need members, I won't accept a no! Nope! Plus," now whispering, "I really wanted you to make us snacks." Luffy had to get Sanji to join. He just had to. This guy was a major opportunity, plus being a fucking cook was mega points in Luffy's book and there was no way in hell he'd ever let that go. "At least come to one practice Sanji, come on!"

"You like oldies and you can play guitar, how can you say no to such a cool opportunity?!"

"Because it sounds stupid." The blonde said, puffing out another cloud of smoke before another lady caught his eye.

"Just beautiful. I really was born for this."

"SO YOU'LL JOIN?!"

"BORN FOR THE LADIES YOU IDIOT!"

"WHO THE FUCK GIVES A CRAP ABOUT THAT, JOIN MY BAND SANJI!"

"How many times do I have to reject you before you drop the subject?"

"I wouldn't let it go even if you died. I'll haunt you!" Luffy told him seriously before breaking out into laughter.

"Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?"

"No. I won't let you hear the last of it even when you're 20 feet under the ground! Join my band Sanji, please!"

Sanji sat in silence, smoking and thinking, hopefully contemplating Luffy's request.

"Nah, I really have better things to look after, especially with the shitty truck I work at." Luffy couldn't believe this. "Speaking of which, it's about to be twelve. Lunch rush is about to start, and it'll be a helpless shit hole if I'm not there." Grabbing his books, Sanji gets up and puts out the cigarette he had been smoking for the past couple of minutes. Pulling out another one and placing it in his mouth, he starts his goodbyes when Luffy interrupts him yet again.

"TWELVE!? YOU SAID TWELVE, FUCK!" he stands up in a rush, zooming past Sanji. "SOCIOLOGY CLASS!" he yells, realizing in the end he will ultimately be late once more. Grabbing his bike he turned around waving goodbye to his friend, helplessly bumping into a few people. Sanji couldn't help but to smile at the fool, lighting his new cigarette and making way to his proclaimed destination. Maybe it wasn't so bad having a friend like him.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2014

Luffy and Usopp finished their music class and were on their way out.

Usopp yawned and turned to his friend. "Luffy, I could really use some coffee… I didn't sleep all night and I don't know if I can stay awake for my next class." He finished while yawning once more.

"Okay, I'll come since I don't have class after this anyway. I was going to go bug Zoro at work but I can do that later!" he laughed as he and his friend walked to the North Blue Building where the schools Starbucks lounge was located. He figured he might as well stick around to hang in the student lounge while Usopp waited for his next class. Luffy checked his phone and saw that it wasn't even 11. Considering he didn't have anything in particular planned out for the rest of the day, besides annoying Zoro at the gym, he figured, 'why not?'

"Have you thought of any name ideas for the band?" Usopp asked as they walked.

"Mmmm, nope."

"Same here, I just can't think of anything that'd be cool enough for us. What about Zoro?"

"I don't think so. His would probably be all, 'Chop Chop Kick Punch' or something." He joked.

"That doesn't sound half bad." Usopp said sarcastically and they both laughed as they approached the building and quickly went inside, a rush of heat and warmth flowing past them.

As Luffy and Usopp walked into the café, they heard a voice calling.

"USOPP! USOOOOOOOPP! HEEEEY!" a female with long orange hair was shouting from a table that was covered in papers and books, where she sat alone.

Usopp recognized the female and smiled. "HEY NAMI!" he shouted before turning to tell Luffy to follow him.

They both approached the table as Usopp began introducing the two strangers.

"I didn't know you had classes on Wednesday! Oh wait, Luffy, this is my friend Nami. Nami, this is Luffy. I met him in the music class I told you I was going to take."

"Oh yeah! Hi Luffy." The orange haired girl smiled and extended her hand to shake Luffy's. He did the same, and Nami offered the two of them seats at her table as she cleared it off a bit and put a few books and papers away.

"Oh, one sec, I still need my coffee. Luffy do you want anything?"

"I hate coffee, so any kind of juice is fine thanks!" he told him.

"Of course you do…" Usopp mumbled to himself sarcastically. "Nami?"

"I'm good thanks!" she told him as he got up to go stand in line.

"So, Luffy! Tell me about yourself!" the woman asked curious to know more about the fellow Usopp had befriended during a music class no less.

"Oh uh I'm Monkey D. Luffy, I love music and I can play the guitar, school is a drag, I also really love meat and I ride my bike to school on the days my older brother can't take me-"

"Slow down, slow down! Haha, let's start with uh, what's your major?"

"Dunno, undecided I guess. Like I said, I don't really care for school. What are you doing?"

"Hm, oh. I'm in business finances. Well that's my major, I'm also doing a minor in child services."

"Like being a social worker?"

"Something like that, yeah." She said smiling as Usopp returned to the table, sat down, and handed Luffy a bottle of orange juice.

"How do you know Usopp?" Luffy asked, a bit interested in the history behind their friendship.

"Oh we met way back! He lived next door to me as a kid and I'd always pick on him." She laughed.

"What the hell are you telling him that for!?" Usopp shouted and Luffy laughed.

"Haha Usopp! You couldn't handle a girl?!"

"Shut up or it'll be you next." Nami quickly adjusted her voice to sound serious and threatening before quickly smiling and patting Luffy's arm telling him she was joking.

"Anyway, we met because our parents were pretty close, and I'd pick on him every day. Then during elementary a couple of jerks were making fun of him and I stepped in to tell them to shove it. They couldn't really say no because well," she flipped her hair, "and then we became friends! Although I still badger on him."

"Nami shut up!"

"I can't help it! You make it too easy for me!" she retorted and Luffy laughed at the bickering that went on between them. He liked Nami already.

"Oh hey! Did Usopp tell you he joined my band?" Luffy asked between sips of his orange juice.

"Oh yeah? No he never told me," she said while glaring at Usopp who choked on his coffee at the look she gave him, "that's really cool though!"

"Thanks! We're going to be the best!"

"Luffy we only have three damn members." Usopp reminded him his band wasn't really a band yet considering they had no one to sing.

"Three? Who's the other person?"

"Oh that's Zoro!"

"Does he go here?" she asked before turning to Usopp, "Have you met him?"

"Yeah he's a really cool guy. And really good at playing bass."

"No shit…"

"Zoro doesn't go to school, he's a lazy bastard." Luffy said, answering Nami's question.

"That's really interesting." She said, unaware she was speaking aloud.

"What is?" Usopp asked her. She sat still with her hand placed under her chin for five minutes with a look that said 'hey sorry my brains a but busy right now'.

"Okay I've decided. I'll join your band!" she exclaimed while shutting her big textbook that read 'Business Finances 101'.

"What?!" both Luffy and Usopp shouted at the same time, a couple of heads turned to see what the big commotion was about and just saw two dumbfounded teens staring at the ginger.

Usopp coughed then cleared his throat after choking on his coffee from hearing her sudden offer.

"No one even asked-"

"Well I figure I might as well right? I don't like any of these god-forsaken clubs here. They're all so boring and no one in them is interesting, so why the hell not?" she gave the boys another smile. Usopp had stayed puzzled but Luffy's jumped up and leaned over the table to give Nami a hug while shouting 'HELL YEAH!' loud enough to make people turn and stare at them once more.

"Wait, can you even play anything?" Luffy asked while still hugging her.

"I thought I'd just be your manager of sorts. It'd be good practice for my finances class." She told him. It really was a good idea; at least she wouldn't be with a bunch of fools who only cared about mathematics.

"Manager? Why the hell do we need that?"

"Well if you start playing gigs and making money, I'll be the one to look over that sort of thing." She said as her eyes widened.

"She loves money. Go figure right? I was never surprised when she told me she was going into business finances." He told Luffy before turning back to Nami.

"But really? I figured you'd be the lead singer." Usopp said while taking a bite out of a banana loaf he'd also bought with his coffee.

"WHAT?! You can sing!?" Luffy exclaimed and Nami gave a quick chuckle.

"Yeah, I mean, I don't think I'm that great, but yeah." She added extra emphasis to indicate she was being sarcastic in case neither of the two boys could tell.

"You're going to be our lead singer then!"

"Wh- well, I guess I could-"

Luffy hugged her even tighter and was so happy. He hadn't felt this happy for anything in a while. Last time he was over the moon for something was when Zoro had a specially made cake made entirely out of meat for his 18th birthday.

"This is going to be so great! I can't wait to tell Zoro!"

"Right. I look forward to meeting him." Nami said smiling at Luffy, feeling rather good she was able to make the boy she'd just met so happy.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2014

The pit of hell, also known, as math class was over for the day, and once again Luffy had never felt so relieved in his life. Thursday truly was the absolute worst, but luckily today seemed to be on the brighter side for him. First of all, he somehow managed to stay awake and actually learn something math related. That was one upside.

The next was that Usopp and Nami happened to be on campus today. Knowing that, Luffy suggested, or most likely bugged the two of them, to all grab lunch together before he had to head out to his next class. Grabbing a bit to eat before his politics class was a MUST every Thursday, and doing it with friends only enhanced his already enjoyable lunches.

They all had agreed to meet in front of the West Blue building, Luffy being the last to arrive. Nami frowned a bit at the sight of Luffy obviously being late, but Usopp couldn't help but to be happier to be seeing him at all.

"Weren't you the one who wanted to meet up for lunch Luffy?" Nami sighed as all three of them wandered around campus. "Why would you almost leave Usopp and I in the dust if this was all your idea?"

"Sorry I kinda got distracted on my way here." Luffy replied with a big smile, still super happy to be with his friends on a horrid Thursday of all days.

"By the way Luffy, where the hell are we gonna go eat? This WAS your idea, and now we're here. Just walking around. No where to go… so…" Usopp brought up a good point. Luffy hadn't even thought about it himself. He just thought of going to any place that sold food, but hadn't thought on one place specifically.

It wasn't hard for him to come up with where to go though. The food truck, which he for sure knew to be around campus 24/7, was always a good choice. Luffy went there any chance he got; he never grew tired of the greasy wide variety of food they offered. To him, in a way, it was a truck from heaven and it kind of made him wish he owned one.

Nami and Usopp followed Luffy around, chatting and beginning to mention possible songs to play in the future when the truck appeared in their sight. The smells already began intoxicating Luffy's nose and he couldn't help but to sniff it all in, his mouth almost watering.

"A food truck!?" Usopp asks in an unpleasant tone, "Are you sure you wanna eat here? Is it even good?"

"YUP! I love this place. Never fails to make me happy!" Luffy laughs.

"Don't you like anything you eat though how can I trus-"

"It doesn't seem that bad Usopp, give it a try!" Nami butted in, turning to Luffy quickly. She claps her hands together, smiling, "This place has got to be cheap. Right, Luffy?"

"Oh of course, that's why you don't mind eating a damned college campus food truck." Her long nosed friend spat out, almost inaudible.

"Oh I don't know, I haven't paid much attention really. My brother's paid a couple times and I even got a free meal once!" Nami's expression immediately drops and Usopp's bursts into a small evil chuckle.

Approaching the food truck, Luffy immediately sees Sanji, who wasn't smoking for once. It seems that the blond is the one to be working up front today, and it was nice to see him again. Maybe Luffy can get him to come to their practices for sure this time around.

"Hey Luff- Oh my god." Sanji's greeting was cut short, mouth dropping open, eyes wandering from his friend's to Nami. She quickly took notices his sudden attention on her. "Hello my beautiful lady," the blond was suddenly a different person, "Is there any way I can help you here today?"

"Sanji what the fuck!" Luffy pouted. "I'm in front, and I got here first don't ignore me!"

"Shut up Luffy, don't you see this lovely lady here! She's got priority over you so pipe down and wait your turn!" Sanji snaped back immediately, causing Nami to crack a smile and Usopp to become profoundly confused.

"BUT IT IS MY TURN!" Luffy yelled once again, but ended up horribly ignored.

"I would love to get something to eat, you know," Nami said. Her face was a bit flirtatious, being more on the devilish side. Usopp could tell she was up to something, he just couldn't tell if it was going to end up being a good thing or not. "I'm a bit broke right now, you know how expensive college tuition can be," she was practically over acting by now, pouting her bottom lip and batting her pretty eyes. "So I'm sorry but as much as I'd like you to serve me something to eat, I'll have to pass."

"Oh my lady, do not worry! Here, what would you like? I'll provide any meal for free, I won't let a beauty like you be hungry." Bullseye, Nami hit the target. It fascinated Usopp how sneaky and manipulative she could be, especially considering the fact that she almost never ceased to fail.

"WHAT!? WHY DOES NAMI GET FREE FOOD!?" Luffy began to sound beyond annoyed, "ME TOO SANJI, ME TOO!"

"HAVEN'T I TOLD YOU, NO MORE FREE FOOD FOR YOU, YOU SHITTY DUMBASS!" The blonde's attention turned back to Nami, with a bright smile. "So Nami's your name? It's just as pretty as you!"

"Hey, can I get free food?" Usopp cuts in, hoping he could be as cunning as his best friend.

"Who the fuck are you?" was the blonde's response followed by an outburst of laughter from Luffy.

"This is Usopp, Sanji! Remember I told you, I have a friend with a LONG nose! This is him, look at his snout! Isn't it great!"

"Usopp, huh." Sanji glanced at his direction quickly, "Mr. long nose, no you don't get free food. Fuck off."

"HEY!" Luffy's laughter grew even more, Nami deciding to join along, as their long nosed friend grew red from either embarrassment or anger. In the end, Nami was able to persuade the cook to allowing free meals for everyone without a single question or rebuttal coming from the man. She truly was amazing.

"Ya know, Nami," Luffy addressed her with food in his mouth, "You're gonna make one hell of a manager!"

"Oh, a manager. A manager for what? A store?" Sanji asked curiously.

"NO! She's the manager for our band!" and Nami nods at Luffy's claim, biting on her sandwich which she had to admit was the opposite of bad for a food truck meal.

"These air heads just started a band and I saw opportunity. Managing them and all, I can gain cash if I work right," she winks.

"You're helping them in their band!?" the cook was astonished. It shocked him a dope like Luffy could manage to get anyone to join his band at all, let alone a cute girl like Nami.

"Yea Sanji about that, practice is this Saturday! Don't forget to come, okay? You're coming right!?" Luffy was ready to be as stubborn as can be to get his friend to officially join. He was unfortunately caught off guard by the blond's remark.

"If Nami is there, by all means fine. I'll see you saturday."

"WAIT, WHAT!?" This was a dream come true, "SO YOU"RE IN THE BAND!?"

"No I'm not, calm down. I'm only going to see, I'll provide snacks too if Nami wishes for it." Luffy let out a huge 'WOO HOO' in victory. He felt closer to finally having his band pieced together and it really made him feel at ease. Starting this band, putting it together, meeting friends and even getting free food once in a while. This whole school deal wasn't turning out as bad as he had pictured.

Of course he did manage to ignore the fact that school was happening, but still. If it weren't for this boring prison, this sort of adventure would have never been realized; it would have never even started. He was more than thankful as he took a last bite of his meal and bid farewell to Sanji, Nami, and Usopp, allowing them to talk and get closer, as he headed off to class cheerful and in a good mood that afternoon.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2014

Zoro pulled up into Usopp's driveway and Luffy noticed the garage was open halfway. They both got out and took out their guitars and a couple of amps that Zoro figured Usopp wouldn't own, considering he didn't know how to play. They walked over to the garage door and crouched down under to see Usopp and Nami sitting on a couch that was against the wall of the garage, opposite the blue car that sat in the other half of it. Zoro let out an 'Oh wow' at the sight of the car, making Usopp turn to address the boys who'd now entered.

"Oh hey Luffy, Zoro."

"Oi Usopp! Hi Nami!" Luffy giggled in excitement at their first ever practice that was happening. It was really happening. The two put their stuff down next to Usopp's drum set that he'd just finished setting up a couple of minutes before the others had arrived.

"Nami, that's Zoro, he's the bassist."

"Nice to meet you, Zoro!" she said as she extended her hand to shake his and smiled.

"Yeah, you too. Luffy told me you could sing? He said you were pretty good but also said he'd never really heard you sing so I'm questioning his judgment."

Nami's grip on his hand tightened as her smile grew wider and she leaned in close while pulling him down so she could whisper in his ear.

"Never doubt my abilities. Ever." She said before slapping him on the shoulder much stronger that he'd thought she was capable of. He laughed to himself and let out a 'sure, sure.' Before asking Usopp if he could take a look at the car.

"Wow Usopp! You really do own it! I thought you were lying!" Luffy shouted as he opened the driver's side door and hopped in.

"Zoro, here." he said handing him his cellphone, "Take a picture of me in here!"

"Why?"

"I'm gonna send it to Shanks! He's gonna be so jealous!"

Zoro chuckled and liked the idea so he went ahead and did as Luffy asked, then hit send to text Shanks the photo.

"When do you think Sanji is going to get here?" Usopp asked as the two other boys kept fooling around, taking photos in various poses.

"Mmm, who knows! I gave him the address and directions so he should be here soon!

"What a stupid name." Zoro laughed and saw the reply from Shanks that read: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME LUFFY!?

and showed Luffy, who began laughing hysterically and sending his guardian even more photos of how sweet the car was.

Sanji had been driving around for what, twenty minutes? Luffy had given him the worst directions to get to the damn house. Thankfully though, he knew the neighborhood well and was able to find it without that much difficulty. He pulled up into the driveway where other cars were also parked, which he assumed were the other band mates'.

He got out and walked towards the garage that was half open and knocked on the garage door.

"Oi, Luffy-"

"SANJI! YOU'RE HERE! YOU'RE REALLY HERE! NOW WE CAN GET THIS STARTED!"

"So… this is your little band Luffy? I mean Nami is exquisite, but what is up with the other two."

"I told you! That's Usopp, the one with the long nose I told you about, and you met him Thursday! Did you forget?"

"Did I?"

"Thanks dude." Usopp said sarcastically as he sat on the stool before his drum set.

"What the fuck are you talking about curly brow?" Zoro shouted, not giving him a chance to explain what he'd meant by 'the other two'.

"WHAT'D YOU CALL ME YOU DAMN MOSS HEAD?"

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU CALL ME?"

"Oi Zoro-"

"Luffy, why the fuck would you invite such a fucking asshole to practice? He better not be joining. When you said you'd met someone else I didn't think they'd be this fucking rude." Zoro spat and pointed his finger in Sanji's face to which Sanji slapped away and went back to yelling.

"You probably play as shit as your fucking hair color. Who dyes their hair fucking green anyway?"

"I don't dye it, can't say the same about you and your curly ass eyebrow can you? Who the fuck goes and deliberately has their eyebrow curled for gods sake."

"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Sanji lunged foreword to, what Luffy thought was going to be a straight up kick to the gut, before Nami stepped in.

"You two are being fucking ridiculous. Shut the fuck up, right now. I'm not getting paid to sit here and listen to you two argue so-"

"You're not getting paid at all Nami." Usopp told her before she turned and glared at him.

"Usopp. Do you remember in sixth grade, when I broke your nose? Do you want that to happen again?" she threatened.

"No."

"Good. And you two, GET THE FUCK ALONG." She said while slapping them both on the back and smiling devilishly before returning to her seat. Meanwhile, Luffy had been sitting on the thrifted couch Usopp had purchased to place in the garage and was laughing his ass off. He really got a kick out of watching his two friends argue for no reason.

Zoro walked away and Luffy eagerly told him to hurry up and tune his guitar so they could get started and practice to show Sanji how good they really were. They never practiced together before but Luffy had a gut feeling they'd be good. He just knew.

Zoro tuned his black guitar before he, Luffy, and Usopp began playing the intro to Muse's 'Plug in Baby'. Sanji watched as the three of them had pretty good chemistry considering Luffy had told him they'd only been together for about three weeks. He could tell the three of them we're really into it.

Sanji noted the change in all three of their expressions. Normally, Luffy would be giddy and smiling, but now he had a very serious expression with his eyes partially closed as he focused on playing. He didn't know much about the other two yet, but he figured it was pretty much the same. He knew the feeling all too well. Getting into the song meant blocking out everything else going on around you and focusing on giving it your all, the best performance you can give.

Nami looked over at Sanji and nudged his side.

"They're pretty good huh? I'm kind of surprised myself."

"Yeah… they're good, for a group of idiots." he said in astonishment and turned his attention back to the bass player. He was quite impressed. Luffy had told him that each of the members were incredibly talented in their own way. But for three people who'd never played together as a group before, even Sanji had to admit, they we're pretty good. Great even. He found himself tapping his foot to the beat until the very last strum of Zoro's bass.

"Well Sanji!? I told you we were awesome!" Luffy yelled and shot both his fists up. Zoro and Usopp smiled, and looked rather shocked as well. They couldn't believe they were that good together either. Luffy had just told them what song to learn a few days before practice and it was the first time they'd played as a "band".

Sanji just stared at Luffy, who smiled at him before asking him to join once again.

"You're really not going to let me say no, are you?"

"Nope!"

"Then I guess I have no choice. I'll join."

"REALLY?!" Luffy shouted.

"Really?" Zoro groaned.

"Shut up you bastard. I'm only joining for Nami anyway." Sanji told them.

"YES NOW THE BAND SHOULD BE COMPLETE!"

"Well we still don't have a name." Usopp reminded him.

"Alright." Nami said as she got up and went through the door that connected the garage and Usopp's house.

She came back a few moments later with a notepad and a few pens in hand and put them on the center table.

"Everyone, write a couple of names. Good ones though, not something stupid. And we'll all put them in…" She reached over Luffy's head and pulled his beanie off. "Here. Then Luffy, since you're the leader, you can pick one and whatever it is, we've got to stick to it." she said as she looked at each of the boys individually.

"Sweet!" Luffy shouted as he grabbed a pen and paper and began writing down whatever came into his mind, along with the others. After a few minutes, everyone had put in about five or six pieces of paper into Luffy's hat and Nami began shaking it around to mix them up. She opened up his hat and stuck it in front of him, waiting for him to pick out a paper.

Luffy stuck his hand in and wiggled it around, before picking a paper and pulling it out. They all watched him as he opened up the paper and saw a huge smile emerge on his face.

"ALRIGHT! IT'S ONE OF MINE!"

"What is it?" Usopp asked, a bit scared to know.

"BEIGE GUACAMOLE!" Luffy shouted in excitement.

Everyone stared at him as he laughed. What the hell was he thinking? How the fuck had he even come up with that name?

"What the fuck?" Sanji yelled as Nami put her hand over her face in absolute embarrassment.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Zoro spat when he heard Usopp cracking up.

"That's really good Luffy." He said sarcastically as he kept laughing, unable to process the fact Luffy had actually come up with something so fucking stupid.

"I'll quit before we even have the chance to play a gig I swear to fucking god." Sanji told him as he lit a cigarette, desperate to relieve the stress Luffy had already started causing him, and they hadn't even been a complete band for over an hour.

"We're not using that." Zoro said in a monotone voice, looking at Luffy with the same serious expression he'd wear whenever Luffy would accidentally wash his whites with colors.

"WHAT?!" Luffy exclaimed. "WHY THE HELL NOT?! YOU GUYS SAID THAT THIS WAS HOW WE'D DO-"

Luffy was cut off by Nami slapping him on the arm and grabbing him by the shoulders.

"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO FREAKING WAY I'M GOING TO BE AFFILIATED WITH ANYTHING CALLED BEIGE FUCKING GUACAMOLE! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!" she yelled and Luffy just squinted at the ginger who was in his face.

"YOU MADE THE RULES!"

"WELL NOW I'M CHANGING THEM, PICK ANOTHER ONE. NOW, LUFFY."

Luffy groaned as he stuck his hand back into his beanie and quickly pulled out another paper. He looked at everyone before mumbling a quick and low 'fuck you guys' before opening the paper.

"Going Merry." He read and everyone's facial expressions quickly changed from angered ones to relieved.

"That's not half bad." Nami said as she leaned back into her seat, thanking God it wasn't another one of Luffy's catastrophic names. "Who's was it?" she asked.

"Mine." Usopp said with a smile.

"Not too bad long nose."

"Anything is better than Beige Guacamole." Sanji noted, wondering how the hell he got himself caught up with this shit.

"Going Merry it is!" Nami shouted and Luffy cheered. He had to admit, as much as he liked his choice, this name really did seem to suit them all.

Once the name was decided, the five of them played any and all songs that came up into their minds for hours. Soon it was 10:30 and Luffy remembered what he had to do.

"Sorry guys, I just remembered I have something to do! I'll see you all later!" Luffy said, as he ran towards the garage door.

"What the hell Luffy. Where are you going?" Zoro asked him wondering how he'd get anywhere considering he was the one who drove them to Usopp's in the first place.

"I have somewhere to be! I'll see you at home later!" he shouted before saying his goodbyes to the others and running under the garage door.

He had no idea how he'd get where he needed to be without a car or his bike, so he used a trip planning app he had downloaded on his phone since Zoro had no idea where he was going half the time they were driving, and their GPS worked about as good as he did.

Luffy arrived at the bar where Law had told him he'd be tonight. He was greeted by Franky, who by now had taken a liking to the lively boy, as every time he visited he had new stories to share and enlighten him with. He'd noticed Law sitting in the same booth he'd met him in, strumming his guitar the same way he remembered the week before.

He quickly made his way to the seats and sat himself down, with a loud 'Hey!' to which Law replied with a smile.

"Hey. I didn't really think you were the type to listen to what a stranger says, but here you are."

Luffy let out a low laugh. "Haha, here I am! What are you playing?"

"Violent Femmes. You've never heard of them?"

"Mmmm, I don't think so!"

"Well I suppose not, considering."

"Considering what?"

"I'm way older than you."

"No way! You don't look that old!"

"I never said I was old, just older than you."

"Like how old is older than me?"

"I'm 25."

"That's just… five… six years!"

"You're a math wiz, anybody ever tell you that?" Law said

sarcastically, getting a laugh out of Luffy.

"I wish my math prof did! It's been like two weeks and I'm

pretty sure I'm failing."

"Figures. You look like the type to completely zone out during a math lecture."

"What's that supposed to mean!"

"It means you look like a ditz, Luffy." Law chuckled as he went back to playing his guitar.

Luffy moped and noticed the tattoos once again and decided now would be a good time as ever to ask about them.

"Why death?"

"Hm?"

"Death. On your knuckles. Why'd you get that tattooed?"

"Oh. I had to learn from a young age that death was inevitable. I just figured, 'why not?', you know?"

"Hm…" Luffy stared at the man wanting to ask more. Wanting to know more. But really didn't want to pry. He felt the same feeling sit in the pit of his stomach as he did last week. He didn't want to ask and end up ignored by the man he'd just met.

"What is it?"

"Huh? Oh, I-"

"ALRIGHT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ON BEHALF OF ALL THE WATER 7 STAFF, WE'RE GOING TO HOLD A DRINKING COMPETITION! THE WINNER WILL RECEIVE FREE DRINKS FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH!" Franky shouted into the microphone to get everyone's attention.

Luffy turned his attention to the bar owner who was yelling nonsense like, 'COME ON DOWN!'. He laughed and turned back to Law to tell him something.

"I'm going to try! If I could win free drinks for a month Zoro would never bother me about forgetting to buy beer!"

Law raised his eyebrow and chuckled.

"You really think you'll be able to out drink those," he pointed at the men that had started to line up at the bar, "heavy drinking men?"

Luffy looked at them and laughed. "Yeah, I can do it! Just watch!" he said as he got up and walked towards the bar. He bumped into a red headed male by accident to which he got quite the yell at.

"Watch where the fuck you're going kid." The man said as he shoved Luffy to the side.

"HUH?! YOU WATCH IT YOU ASSHOLE!" he shouted back. Luffy didn't even walk into him. In fact, the other man had walked into Luffy. Law walked up behind him and glared at the aggressive red head.

"Is there a problem?"

"Yeah, tell your puny ass friend to watch where he walks. Who the fuck let this damn kid into the bar anyway?"

"Fuck off."

"I'm not a kid, I'm nineteen you crude!" Luffy shouted at the larger man who hovered over him. He felt Law grab his arm from behind warning him to stand back and not cause any problems. Law smirked at his clearly growing vocabulary.

"Luffy, weren't you going to enter the competition?" he said, quickly reminding him of the event Franky was holding to get his mind off the literal ass that stood before them, who looked like he was about to blow.

"Oh yeah!" he quickly squirmed out of Law's grip and walked past the angry man to the bar.

Law followed behind, making sure the threatening man didn't follow or continue to shout like the barbarian he was.

"Oh, Luffy! You're joining? It's going to be suuuuuper!" Franky laughed as he pointed at the empty seat for Luffy to take as they finally began.

As the competition to see who could drink the most shots went on, one by one, people would either yell out 'I'm out!' or just run to the bathroom to throw up.

Luffy on the other hand, was ten shots in, and still going.

Law watched and laughed to himself as the teen kept shouting 'PASS ANOTHER ONE!'. Soon, it was Luffy and a rather large older man who looked like he could be in his late 30's to early 40's.

"I'm not going to lose to some god damn brat!"

"Well I'm not going to lose to some old geezer!"

the two of them went back and forth and took a couple more shots before the man brought his hand up to his mouth, probably to hold back the impending vomit that sat in his throat.

Luffy looked over and stared the man in the eyes as he downed one last shot of vodka and flashed a cocky smile. That was all it took to get the man to run off his seat and to the bathroom the same way previous contestants had.

"Well it looks like we have a winner! Congratulations Luffy!" Franky cheered alongside the other people in the bar who we're probably just as drunk as Luffy was now, and hadn't even entered.

"WOOOOOOOOO! I WON! LAW LOOK, I WON!" Luffy screamed as both his arms shot up and he started to flail them around.

"Lu-" Law began before he was cut off by the eccentric drunk he now had to deal with.

"LET'S DANCE! FRANKY TURN THAT SHIT UP!"

"You brat… not so fucking fast." The man Luffy had just beaten and sent running to the washroom walked back with a more than furious expression on his face. Law watched the man closely to ensure he wouldn't try something stupid.

"You fucking punk ass son of a bitch…" the man slurred as he slowly approached Luffy. Law could tell off the bat that the man had some sort of anger problem. It was a damn drinking game, why the hell was he so worked up over it?

Luffy sat in his seat eyeing the man, who got closer and closer with each step, when he noticed the mans hands turn into fists as he lunged towards Luffy. Law was too far to react quickly enough to intercept, but he was surprised to see Luffy quickly dodge the flying fist that was aimed for his jaw and punched the angry drunk in the face. He jumped out of his seat when Law hopped over the man on the floor and stood in front of Luffy to prevent him from hitting him any more. It was self defense, but Law was worried Franky might kick him out and not let him back in considering the fact he was underage and he just punched some guy in the face.

A few shouts of 'holy shit that kid just sucker punched that fucking fat guy in the face!' and 'YOU GO DUDE!' quickly filled the air as the people in the bar all crowded around Luffy and the man on the floor.

"Oi don't go attacking teens in my fucking bar! Get the fuck out! You're not welcome here anymore do you understand me?! Get out now, before I have the cops come take you away for trying to assault him!" Franky threatened as a few people, who law assumed were the man's friends, embarrassed friends at that, shoved through the circle of people surrounding them and picked up the drunk to exit the bar.

"I don't want to see him around here ever again, make sure when he wakes the fuck up he knows that!" Franky yelled.

"I am awake you piece of-"

"THEN GET THE FUCK OUT!" He demanded once more before the group exited the building as their heavily intoxicated cursed loudly the entire way out.

The red head man from earlier stood nearby and shouted at Luffy.

"Didn't think you had the balls kid!" while the group around him laughed. The man was pretty impressed with him and somewhat regretted not starting a little brawl with him. He looked innocent and harmless but damn could the kid throw a punch.

Law's attention turned from the annoying and persistent red head to Luffy, who just stared back at him.

"I'm surprised you were able to dodge that. You took fourteen-"

"Fifteen. I took… fifteen fucking shots, Law."

He gave a low chuckle. "Hah. Fifteen shots and you were still able to avoid getting a broken jaw. Pretty impressive." Law was actually shocked. The teen peaked his interest even more now. He admitted he was still annoying as fuck, but interesting.

"How'd you learn to punch like that? I'm sure if you were sober you'd have knocked him out."

"Zoro taught me." Luffy slurred "I can kick too wanna see?"

"I think I'm fine. Are you sure you're okay?" Law observed the teen who was swaying side to side on the bar stool singing some Christina Aguilera song. Law felt like his brain was melting and about to start oozing out his ears. The teen couldn't sing to save his life. It was painfully bad and he even caught a glance from Franky who practically screamed 'Good lord make him stop' in desperation.

"You're a fucking terrible singer." he said, getting Luffy to stop to look back at him. What was he staring at so seriously? He couldn't take his eyes off Law. It could just be the alcohol. Or…? Luffy tried to get off the seat but Law didn't move. He still stood over him in an attempt to maybe get him to sober up a bit.

"Law mooooove I wanna dance! I'm a great dancer!"
"I have a feeling your dancing is about as fucking terrible as your singing."

"WELL EXCUUUUUUSE ME FOR NOT HAVING AN ANGELIC VOICE LIKE YOU!" he exclaimed. Angelic? Really? Law felt a bit awkward at the unexpected compliment and just kept staring at Luffy.

"WELL ARE YOU GONNA MOOOOOVE OR DO I HAVE TO PUNCH ANOTHER GUY TONIGHT ILL DO IT LAW ILL FUCKING GO!" he started getting worked up and Law just looked back before stepping to the side to let him pass. Hopefully his "dancing" would tire him out so that he'd be able to go home at the end of the night, which to Law, couldn't come soon enough. He now had to watch over the wild teen since he had come alone.

Luffy walked off in the direction of the dance floor before turning back to Franky and shouting with a wide smile on his face.

"TURN UP THE MUSIC FRANKY, I WANT TO DANCE!"

Luffy was drunk. Like, really drunk. Law watched as the teen striked up conversations with everyone he came across on the dance floor. After about thirty minutes of dancing, the boy was tired out and looked like he was about to hurl all over Franky's floor.

Law walked over to him and caught Luffy just as he was about to fall over and supported him on his shoulder.

"Don't you know your limit?" He asked the teen who was laughing and yelling random words.

"ONE MORE TIMEEEEEE, WE'RE GONNA CELUHBREAAAATTTTTEEEEE"

"Lu-"

"OH YEAAAA, ALL RIGHT, DON'T STOP THE DANNCINGGG!"

Law let out a sigh as Luffy kept singing the popular Daft Punk song that was blasting throughout the bar.

"LAW DANCE WITH ME!" he begged as he reached out to grab Law's hands but was caught by the tattooed man who'd grabbed his wrists.

"You're such a pain." He told him as tried to get Luffy to leave. It was probably around 1:30 and he wasn't really one to stay out late anyway. He'd much rather get a relatively goodnights sleep than watch some stupid kid try to dance for three more hours. He put one of Luffy's arms around his neck as he began walking with him leaning on his right side, towards the door to take the drunken teen home.

Once outside, Luffy started naming random constellations that weren't even present in the sky considering there were what, six stars visible? Scratch that. That was a plane. Five stars visible.

"LOOK LAW LOOK, CANIS MAJOR!" Luffy yelled while pointing at a completely black section of the sky.

"Right, right, where the hell do you live? I'm taking you home."

"148 DARTMOUTH STREET! OH WOW, WOAH LOOK, IT'S THE BIG DIPPER!" he continued shouting more random constellations that quite frankly, Law was surprised he even knew.

"Most people wouldn't even remember their names after drinking as much as you did and yet here you are naming random as fuck shit in the sky."

"Me n big bros would stargaze all the time! MAN THOSE WERE THE GOOD OL' DAYS HUH!"

"I wouldn't know."

"I CAN TEACH YOU!"

"Alright, alright," Law said, agreeing as long as it'd get him to shut up as he brought Luffy to the passenger side of his car. "Get in."

"Sweeeeeeeeeet ride! What are you like a gajillionare?!" Luffy asked as Law practically shoved him into the car and slammed the door, making his way over to the driver side.

Law got in, sat down, and put the address Luffy had given him into the GPS and set his course. Before he buckled his own seatbelt, he leaned over and buckled Luffy in since he looked too distracted by the lady outside who was walking four… five dogs. Law groaned and rubbed his face before starting the car and following the GPS.

'148 Dartmouth Street.' Read the sign in front of a bakery. A fucking bakery.

"What the fuck? You telling me you live in a bakery?" Law asked the teen that he'd noticed, had passed the fuck out. Just his luck. Now he had a dumbass nineteen year old in his car who had probably never been this drunk in his life, fast asleep.

"Oh come on." He groaned to himself as the car just stayed idling outside the pastry shop.

"Hey wake the hell up, I'm not your damn babysitter." He sighed as he shook Luffy's arm. No use. The kid had gone out like a light. He didn't look like he'd be waking up anytime soon, and a part of him was a bit thankful he was asleep and not hurling all over the inside of his Mercedes.

Law decided it'd be best to just take the boy back to his place to sleep and kick him out the next day.

Since Luffy showed no signs of waking up, Law carried him up to his condo and put the sleeping boy on the bed in his guest room. He sighed and walked out to grab a couple of lighter blankets to put on him. Once Law returned to the room, Luffy was gone. He was nowhere in sight. What the fuck? What the fuck?

"Luffy." Law said in a low voice before repeating himself a couple times, getting louder with each call of the boy's name.

He walked into his room to see Luffy standing in the middle of it looking around.

"What the hell are you doing?" Law asked him seriously while throwing the blankets on his bed.

"You have a cool room. It's way cleaner than mine."

"You were just knocked out a few minutes ago, you should go back and rest, you drank quite a lot you know." The older man said while staring at the still intoxicated boy who simply turned a few degrees every couple of seconds to observe the décor and surroundings. Law's room was quite simple and clean, the complete opposite of Luffy's. But he liked it. It suited Law.

Suddenly a loud grumble came from Luffy.

"You're hungry? That's why you got up?"

Luffy was about to reply, before his stomach did for him. Law groaned at the teen who kept wobbling side to side, unable to stand still.

"And I mean, I woke up and I had no idea where the hell I was! I thought some creep kidnapped me or something!"

"Don't sound so sure. For all you know, I could be a creep." Law said smirking to Luffy who'd now plopped himself at the edge of Law's bed, unable to stand any longer. His stomach grumbled once more, but this time was much louder than the last.

"Oh man, I feel like I'm gonna hurl… but I'm so hungry…" he moped.

"Don't you dare. The washroom is to your left if you really have to. If not, don't move. I'll be right back." Law said as he walked towards the door before Luffy told him to stop.

"Where are you going?"

"To get you some water and a change of clothes. Don't. Move." He told him once more before leaving the room.

In the kitchen, Law groaned to himself and rubbed his temples as his eyes darted towards the clock. 2:15 am. At this point, Law just felt lucky he didn't have work the next day. Especially an early shift. He got a glass of water and headed back to his room where he'd rummage around through his clothes to find Luffy something more comfortable to wear, then send the boy to sleep. To his surprise, Luffy had already fallen asleep. In Law's bed. His bed.

"What the fuck?" he spat as he put the glass of water down on the table next to Luffy and groaned again. He'd managed to take his shirt off and unzip his shorts but never took them off. Law quickly found himself staring at the rather large 'X' shaped scar on the teen's chest and wondered what he'd been through to have acquired such a mark.

Law was irritated. Who the hell did the kid think he was just making himself damn comfortable in other people's beds? Didn't he have any manners? It was bad enough he'd brought him back to his place to stay the night but now he was staying the night, in his bed. Law stared at the now fast asleep boy and felt himself getting a headache. He changed out of his jeans into a pair of sweats and took off his shirt before heading to the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth.

He groaned at the fact he had to share his bed with the mess that Luffy had become due to his lack of self-control around alcohol. He'd much rather sleep next to the boy sober. Wait. Did he really just think he'd be content sleeping next to Luffy if it was a mutual thing? He groaned once more before sliding under the covers and turned his back to the teen, turning off the lamp on the bedside table and mumbled a grumpy 'goodnight' before shutting his eyes.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2014

A rather loud groan came from a certain hung over teen who's arms were hanging off the side of the bed.

"What the heeeeelllllll?"

"You're awake. Rather, you're alive. I wasn't too sure whether you'd survive the night. You kept getting up to go throw up every hour." The man behind Luffy said in a husky voice. How'd even that sound good to Luffy? He was literally talking about how many times he went to puke and it sounded good.

"You… you did this to me!" Luffy shouted, while quickly sitting up only to press his palms to his temples and groan once more due to the hard pounding his head was doing.

"I didn't do anything but provide you with a bed to sleep in after you told me you lived in a fucking bakery, mind you it wasn't supposed to be mine... yet here you are." Law mentioned in a grumpy tone.

"Drink some water." Law said pointing at the glass that he'd left there during the night. "When you feel better I'll take you home."

"No it's okay!"

"Lu-"

"We can just hang out the whole day!"

Law stared back at the teen wondering if he was joking or not. He had to be joking, right?

"What? Isn't it a great idea?!"

"No."

"Why not?!" Luffy whined. He'd much rather stay over and hang out with Law than go home and be bored out of his mind doing homework.

Law kept a blank expression and looked at Luffy who stared back at him eagerly awaiting his response. But he got nothing. Luffy was about to open his mouth again to ask why he couldn't stay when he was interrupted by the loud noise of his stomach growling.

"Hey, do you have any food?"

"It's not a good idea to eat right now, you'll throw it all up."

Luffy pouted at that. He couldn't eat!? What the hell!?

"Well if I go home, I'll just eat so… you should let me stay here!" Luffy grinned. Bingo. He figured now Law had to let him stay.

Law sighed and rubbed his temples. How could a teen so hung over be so damn lively and annoying at… 11 in the morning?

"How much did I drink last night anyway?" Luffy quickly asked while rubbing his eyes.

"You really don't remember?"

"Mmmm, nope!"

"About fifteen shots. You even got into a fight."

"Really?! DID I WIN?!"

"Yeah."

"AWESOME!"

"Do you like fighting? Is that how you got those scars?" Law asked.

"Hm, what?" Luffy asked him. He'd been too busy thinking of possible scenarios that might have happened last night when he totally whooped some guy's ass.

Law leaned in closer. Too close. Luffy looked at his rather soft expression as he noticed Law's hand reach out for his face. Law stuck out his index finger and pointed at the scar under his eye. He felt like if they hadn't been almost complete strangers, that Law might have even went over the scar with his finger.

"Where'd you get that scar?" he asked the teen.

Luffy snapped out of the little trance he'd been in while watching Law's expression as he analyzed the mark on his face.

"Oh! I was seven and I wanted to show off to Shanks. I remember he told me I sucked when I told him I could play guitar just as good as he could, and he didn't believe me. So I went to his room and took one of the guitars and came back with it and I played maybe four cords before one of the strings snapped and hit me in the face really hard. I didn't cry though!"

"Hm. Sounds like you were a real dumbass."

"I was not! I just wanted him to take me seriously!"

"You were seven."

"Seven is old enough!" Luffy retorted while frowning. Law stayed quiet knowing the teen probably had much more to say anyway.

"You should see my brother's scar though, it's way bigger! It covers his entire left eye! He got it messing around with firecrackers when he was ten! I still remember it too, I laughed so hard I almost puked! Oh god…" he gagged before slapping his hand over his mouth, breathing deeply for a few seconds before continuing.

"But then we saw how bad it was and I couldn't stop screaming! I thought he was going to die!"

"Sounds like you had quite an interesting childhood, you and your brother."

"Oh no, I have another brother! His name is Ace! None of us are actually related though, but Shanks took care of us. He's the only one without a scar on his face so he's left out."

"Shanks?"

"No, Ace! Shanks has three claw like marks over his left eye because he had some crazy rabid cat that he'd refuse to get rid of. One day he forgot to leave food out while he went to work and came home to a pretty pissed Lucy. Even Gramps has a scar, dunno what from though."

Law chuckled at the story and was curious to know more.

"And what about this one?" he said as his finger pointed the large 'X' shaped scar on Luffy's chest. He didn't remember getting undressed, but didn't really question it considering he couldn't remember most of the night anyway.

"Oh." Luffy said with a frown. He never liked talking about it to people, but for some reason felt comfortable telling Law.

"Ace just turned sixteen and got his license and it was a pretty rainy day. We were stuck at home but we really wanted Mcdonalds. Like really badly. Shanks was asleep so we took his car keys and snuck out of the house. We were right there! About to pass another light before turning into the drive thru when someone T boned us on the passenger side."

"You got into a car accident at thirteen?" Law asked just reassuring himself what he'd heard was correct. Luffy nodded. "Yeah. Ace was okay but I was pretty banged up. Ace says I was dead even, or at least looked like I was. I don't really remember anything, but I know I needed a few surgeries. And yeah, that's how I got it!"

Law continued to eye the boy and wondered how the hell he even survived his childhood, it was definitely the work of some higher being.

"Hey. I reek, can I take a shower?"

"I thought you'd never ask. Having to listen to you tell that story with puke breath was not how I planned my morning to go."

Luffy laughed and jumped out of bed, still a bit wobbly from last night.

"What, are you still drunk? I wouldn't be surprised."

"No! I'm just fine!" Luffy shouted as he picked up his shirt off the floor, when he noticed a few chunks of… whatever the hell that was on it.

"Gross, hey Law, can I borrow a shirt?"

Law sighed. He got out of bed and walked towards the dresser and pulled out a black t shirt and threw it at Luffy.

"Bathroom is… well you know where it is." He smirked reminding him of last night.

Luffy told him to shut up as he ran into the bathroom and slammed the door.

"No damn manners." Law mumbled to himself before walking to the kitchen.

Law set the plate of food he'd just made for himself down on the counter when Luffy walked in.

"IS THAT FOR ME?!" he shouted while running over to sit on a chair at the table.

"No, this," he said while opening up his cupboard to take out a box of plain saltines, "is your breakfast. And this," he opened up the fridge and took out a bottle of Gatorade, "will replenish your electrolytes."

"Electro what?"

"Just drink it, slowly. And nibble at the crackers."

"This is the shittiest breakfast I've ever had!"

"It's what you get for entering a stupid drinking competition."

"Did I win that too?!"

"Why do you think you got into a fight?"

"AWESOME! Hahaha!" Luffy cheered as he took a big gulp of his drink, not obeying the advice Law had given him.

Law ate his food while Luffy eyed him, unhappy to be stuck with just plain old crackers.

"Law I feel fine so… can I have some of your bacon? PLEASE?" he begged. He wasn't about to go the rest of the day just eating saltines and drinking Gatorade. He needed meat.

"What'd I just tell you?"

"Yeah yeah I heard all that! But that looks so good I can't help it!"

"No."

"You suck." Luffy moped as he took the box of crackers and went to sit on the couch. He observed the clean and modern looking living room which again, was the complete opposite of his and Zoro's. There wasn't much on the walls, but the large shelves that surrounded the TV. He walked over to examine them and noticed the entire left half was filled with old vinyls and books, while the right side had even more books, along with CD's and DVD's. He took out one of the vinyls to read 'Led Zeppelin III' across the graffiti style cover.

"Lucky…" he whispered, rather loudly though. Law heard him as he put his dishes in the sink and smiled to himself. He was surprised the boy even knew who the old band was. Luffy placed the vinyl back and walked over to the couch, crossed his legs and flashed Law a quick cold glare before looking around for the remote. Luffy stuck his hand between the crevices of the couch but had no luck. Where the hell else do remotes just up and disappear to?

Law came and sat next to him, sticking his hand in the box of crackers, and eating one.

"Here." He said handing him the remote. Luffy took it out of his hand but kept his pouty face on in hopes Law might just feel bad and let him eat some actual food. He turned the TV on and immediately put on TLC. Zoro and him always found the shows on it amusing as hell. They were weird as fuck, but amusing. The show that was on was 'My Strange Addiction'. The lady on the show was shown holding an urn of some type and began explaining her… strange addiction.

'I'm eating my husband'

"What the fuck?" Law spat, and Luffy burst out into immediate laughter.

"That's fucking disturbing, and disgusting." He said as he felt his stomach turn." For God's sake, change it. How can you watch this garbage?"

"What are you talking about?! THIS IS GRADE A ENTERTAINMENT!"

Law reached over and grabbed the remote out of Luffy's possession and changed it to the news earning an immediate reaction from the teen.

"What the hell this is so boring, I hate the news!"

"Well then go home."

"No! We're going to hang out the whole day!"

"You're so damn persistent." He groaned and Luffy flashed him a toothy grin.

They sat in silence for the next twenty minutes, Luffy allowing Law to win this round and keep the television tuned onto the news. It actually didn't turn out to be as boring as he had always thought the news to be. Of course, being the kind of person he was, he never really did sit down and watch the news, he hadn't had a clue of how informative and yet depressing it could be. A lot of what would be discussed were minor social issues, but since it was local news it was just one bad thing after the other. Crimes, illness, anything to bum a person out. It made Luffy want to scrunch his nose in disgust in a way, he hated that much negativity but he figured for a person like Law it was perfect. All the talk about death and robberies, it probably was sweet talk to the tabooed man's ears.

"Hmm…"

"What?"

"You honestly do enjoy this junk, huh?" the teen asks honestly.

"Better than watching a woman eat her husband's ashes."

"Hey! I was asking a genuine question! I didn't need your sass!" Law looked back at him with an evil smile. "Doesn't all this crap depress you?"

"Nope. It's reality, all truth. Why should I get sad?" Luffy felt a bit dumbfounded by the older man's response. It was weird to be around someone so dark, his whole life had really been full of cheery people. He didn't mind though, it made Law into an interesting person and gave him even more of a reason to stick around.

"Well it kinda buns me out. I mean look at that!" The teen pointed to the screen. "That lady died on her birthday! That fucking sucks!"

"Death is inevitable."

"LAW! I know but come on! It was her birthday, that's kind of cruel."

"I don't believe it to be. It's actually kinda funny in a sense." he smirked.

"Oh okay Dr. Death! So you wouldn't care if you died on your birthday!? I would, because that means I wouldn't be able to party. I'd miss out on the cake, all the food! Man I'm so hungry…" No vocal reply came from the other, only a series of glares and disbelief. The teen pouted back before a sudden burst of questions dawned upon him.

"Hey can I ask you some questions?"

"Go ahead." Law told him before leaning over to sip his tea.

"When's your birthday?" he grinned.

"October 6th."

"That's like, in a week!"

"Incredible. You learned how to read a calendar in university too?" he teased, taking another sip of his warm drink.

"Shut up!" he yelled and Law chuckled.

"You aren't going to kill me now, are you?"

"Nope, like I said that's cruel! Maybe the following day though!" the teen winks at Law. "You should have like a birthday band bash or something! I don't know, just play again, that'll be awesome!"

"Mm," was all the tattooed man managed to reply, completely unenthusiastic. He was really the complete opposite of Luffy.

"Come to think of it… How did you even start your band? You should tell me how you and your band met!"

"That's long-"

"I don't mind." Luffy grinned eager to hear the story behind the band's meeting.

Law sighed. "Fine. Bepo and I are childhood friends. We met Penguin during out last year of high school, he was in our music class. He'd just moved from San Diego and he'd talk to us frequently about bands and we just became friends. We all went to the same university and met Shachi during first years homecoming. He was so damn annoying and persistent. He kept saying he'd seen us somewhere and heard us play whatever fucking song he'd think up that day and eventually became our friend too. Then in second year, Bepo had the idea to form a band and play gigs and we just… did it."

"Wow, that's it? That wasn't long at all!"

"Oh shut up, I just didn't want to talk about it." The teen hums in response, as if he already got the idea.

"Hey, we're watching a movie, enough of this fucking news shit." Luffy abruptly claimed out of nowhere, grabbing the remote before the other could think or speak twice. "The movies you have here didn't look so interesting. A lot were actually documentaries so I'm using on demand, okay? Law figured it was useless to debate with the teen, sighing and nodding his head to allow Luffy to continue to browse through a list of films.

Suddenly a movie caught his eye and he smiled widely and clicked it.

"Pulp Fiction?"

"Yeah! Law it's like my favorite movie, I love it!"

"No shit? I didn't picture you as someone who liked crime related movies. Here I was so sure you'd click Madagascar." He said sarcastically, earing a little bit of an eye roll from the teen.

"Hey wait," he said as the beginning credits began playing, "Can we make popcorn?!" he asked the way a giddy child would.

"No."

"WHAT?! Why not?!"

"I don't have any, that's why."

"I don't believe you! Who doesn't have popcorn?"

"Me. Eat your crackers."

"Fuck the crackers I'm not a parrot!"

That got a little laugh out of Law before he told him to shut up so he could pay attention to the movie.

The two sat mostly in silence as they watched the movie, Luffy making little commentary to certain scenes he particularly enjoyed, Law responding in a hum and slight curl of his lip.

I was looking at myself in the mirror.

Uh-huh?

I wish I had a pot.

You were lookin' in the mirror and you wish you had some pot?

A pot. A pot belly. Pot bellies are sexy.

Well you should be happy, 'cause you do.

Shut up, Fatso! I don't have a pot! I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did "Lucky Star," it's not the same thing.

I didn't realize there was a difference between a tummy and a pot belly.

The difference is huge.

You want me to have a pot?

No. Pot bellies make a man look either oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a woman, a pot belly is very sexy. The rest of you is normal. Normal face, normal legs, normal hips, normal ass, but with a big, perfectly round pot belly. If I had one, I'd wear a tee-shirt two sizes too small to accentuate it.

You think guys would find that attractive?

I don't give a damn what men find attractive. It's unfortunate what we find pleasing to the touch and pleasing to the eye is seldom the same.

"What the fuck? Who would want a pot belly?"

"What?! They're cool! I want one!"

Law looked over and stared at Luffy with an expression of disbelief.

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah! Don't they look cool? I'd be skinny everywhere else but have a huge pot belly that'd be great."

"You're fucking with me now."

"Well she doesn't care so why should I?!"

Law looked at him with his mouth open but no words came out. Was he fucking serious? The more he thought about the scene the more it started to make sense to him that it probably meant the chick wanted to be pregnant considering she wanted the rest of her to be normal sized but her stomach to be bigger and he was absolutely certain Luffy didn't have a single fucking clue about it. He chuckled to himself and looked over at the boy who had started shoving one of Law's couch pillows under his shirt to pretend he had a larger belly.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"C'mon Law, you cant tell me I don't look great like this! I gotta show my brothers oh man they're going to laugh so hard!"

"Will you sit down and watch the movie?"

"But Law I look so good I might break my back if I sat like this-"

"So take the pillow out of your shirt and sit-"

"OH MY ACHEY BACK~"

Law looked up at the teen who was holding his back as if he had suffered from years of chronic back pain and let out a sigh. Luffy noted that he wasn't particularly amused and took the pillow out of his shirt, threw it at Law and sat down in a huff. About two seconds of peace and quiet was all he got before Luffy opened up his mouth again.

"Law do you think people have souls?"

"What? Now you want to talk about human souls?"

"Yeah!"

"I thought you wanted to watch-"

"Just answer!"

"Fine. Well, from a scientific view, maybe. Might take a long time to determine but I don't doubt it could be done. Philosophical view, maybe. Read up on Aristotle and Socrates. Plato too if you really want to know. A religious view… well that's for people to determine for their own. Each religion has different properties but the theories are more or less the same."

"COOL! How?!"

"How what?"

"How do they exist in those ways c'mon tell me! I don't wanna read anything so you should just tell me!"

"That's way too long to get into now. Aren't we watching the movie? We can talk about it another day."

"So you plan to hang out with me another day?!"
"Don't get ahead of yourself."

"But you said-"

"Shh. Movie."

Law turned his head back to the TV, ignoring Luffy's subtle mopes and scoffs nntil a certain scene came on which made Luffy feel a bit awkward. He'd always hated this scene for reasons, and now he had to watch it with Law and felt even more awkward.

Law looked over at Luffy who looked rather restless.

"You look kind of tense."

"What?"

"I said you look kind of tense. What's wrong, make out scenes not really your kind of thing?"

"It's not that they aren't my thing, it's just… I don't know." Luffy looked away almost instantly.

"You don't know what?"

"I don't know! Because they're weird. Awkward."

"It's only awkward if you make it awkward."

"Whatever!"

Law grinned. "You don't know how to be kissed like that?"

"Does it matter?"

"Did I hit a nerve?" Law asked grinning once more at the teen.

"No."

"No you've never been kissed like that or no I didn't hit a nerve?"

"Both. Why are you asking anyway? Why do you care?"

"I don't."

"Oh. What about you?" Luffy asked although the answer was seemingly obvious for someone of Law's age and appearance. He was a good-looking guy and the second the question left his lips, he already found himself with an answer.

"What do you think?" Law answered with a smirk, turning his attention back to the movie. Luffy stared at him wondering what sorts of things he'd done in his past.

"What so you're super experienced or something?"

Law chuckled. "Surely more than you are."

"Stop making it seem like I haven't done anything!"

"Well you haven't even made out with anyone, I hardly see how you can claim you have even a single ounce of experience in you. Jackin it to porn in your bedroom doesn't count."

"So? How's that a big deal? If I wanted to I could just grab someone on the street and do it!"

"If you enjoy contracting countless STD's then by all means, be my guest."

"What the hell?" Luffy spouted, making Law chuckle once more. He really enjoyed teasing the teen.

"I can have as much experience as I want to!"

"Then why don't you?"

"Because it doesn't matter!"

"Okay, okay." Law said sarcastically, turning his attention back to the movie once again when he felt hands cup the sides of his face and turn him to face the teen who pressed his lips against the other man's.

Luffy had no idea what he was doing. It was impulse. Something inside him was screaming 'just kiss him and get it over with'. So he did. And here he was, on his couch, with his mouth on Law's and he had no fucking idea what he was doing.

Law smirked before closing his eyes and kissed him back. It was nothing too into it, just simple lip on lip contact. Luffy hesitated at first, and then he slowly felt Law's mouth moving on his and that could have very well sent him into shock. Law took hold of his chin, bringing their mouths closer together, kissing each other slowly and Luffy somehow releasing a noise that sounded like a grunt from his throat made Law pull him closer, pressing against each other even more. He felt Law's tongue trace over his teeth and inside his lower lip, asking for permission before he opened his mouth to allow Law's tongue to slip in. He let out another moan when the older man's tongue pressed against his and licked down the roof of his mouth. It was all so different. He had chills down his spine and entangled his fingers in the tattooed man's hair. Soft, silky black hair.

Law couldn't help but smirk into their kiss once more at Luffy's awkward inexperience and his eagerness to kiss him with more hunger than he had that morning. Actually, it kind of turned him on too. The thought of being the first person Luffy had ever kissed like this, it was impulsive and maybe he shouldn't have teased the teen that much, didn't really care as much as he probably should have though. He was enjoying himself and by the way the teen fervently pulled him closer every time he'd teasingly pull back pushed aside the sense of care he should have had even further. And honestly, for someone with no experience, he didn't waste time in learning which way he should move his mouth, flick his tongue and press against him. He needed to stop, not for his sake, but for Luffy's knowing him he'd probably jump the teen and take him as he lay on his couch that instant.

But it's Luffy who pulls back, swallowing a bit of saliva, his cheeks hot and burning, assumed he looked as red as a tomato now.

"Are you satisfied?!" he yelled as he tried to catch his breath. Law leaning back into his seat to resume watching the movie that had sparked the conversation between the two,

"Hardly. But I'll settle." He mumbles with another quick smirk at the teen that fumbled in his seat, unable to process what he'd just did and who he did it with.

Law shifted in his seat, pretty fucking uncomfortable as the bulge in his pants ticked him off, begging him for release but his mind focusing on other things that'd kill the throbbing like his work, and the now gory scene that the movie had ended up at. He took a quick glance over at the teen that was playing with his bottom lip and looked back at the TV, cursing himself for even thinking looking at the boy would do something to help get his mind off it.

Luffy on the other hand watched the movie, but paid no actual attention to it. His heart felt like it was about to hop out and take off leaving him to die on the couch he'd just made out with the undoubtedly good looking musician that sat next to him.

About to speak up to create some kind of conversation to ease him back into a state of non-anxiousness, Luffy was cut off with his phone ringing. He looked around and Law just pointed to the closet by the door where he'd hung his jacket. Luffy gave an awkward smile and shot up out of his seat, walking over and taking his phone out of his pocket.

"Hello?"

"LUFFY! Jesus Christ man, we've all been calling you the whole day! Where the hell are you?"

Zoro. Shit. He'd forgotten to call him in the morning to tell him he'd be home later, that was before he declared he'd spend the entire day at Law's, and then well, got carried away.

"Oh Zoro! Hey! I uh- I'm at a friends!"

"What friend? Where'd you fucking go, you didn't answer any of us and we all thought you died or something."

"Sorry! I'll be home soon okay? ORDER SOME PIZZA I'M STARVING!" he shouted, avoiding the questions and hung up on his roommate abruptly.

He walked back over to Law and stood a bit to the side so he wasn't rudely blocking the TV.

"I uh- gotta go home. My roommate's kinda worried and I feel bad I forgot to tell him and my friends-"

"Yeah? That's a shame, here I thought we were just beginning to have a bit of fun." He teased and smiled at the teen who gave a sour pout in return.

"Yeah right! You're the absolute worst." He grumbled, walking past the living room to retrieve his clothes.

"You can keep what you have on, I doubt you want to go home in puke drenched clothing." Law yelled a little from the couch to the teen who was reminded of the disgusting dried up food and alcohol on his shirt and pants. He scoffed and came back out to ask for a bag, then back to the room to shove his clothes into it.

"Do you want me to take you home?"

"No! I can go home myself." He looked away oddly feeling shy at the offer the older man had made. He'd seen movies where people would take their date home and then they'd kiss or something before the other got out of the car and he did not want a replay of what'd just happened.

"Suit yourself."

"I WILL!"

Law laughed and walked to the door where Luffy stood, jumping around as he put his shoes on and Law handed him his jacket to which he grabbed out of his hands in a huff.

"I hope you enjoyed your time." He spoke in a husky tone, leaning closer to Luffy. He wasn't going to kiss him again, although it was a challenge to resist the urge, he just wanted to tease the teen a bit more before he left.

"How could I have enjoyed my time?! You barely fed me!"

"That's your own fault for drinking so much, anything you'd have eaten you'd just throw back up. And not that it wasn't fun having you around, but I do not want to be cleaning your vomit off every square inch of my place."

"Whatever! I'm going home to pizza, so I don't care!"

"Yeah? Do you ever eat anything you know, healthy?"

"What?"

"Like vegetables. Fruits?"

"I think Zoro bought a couple of kiwis once. Those were good."

"Once?"

"Yeah!"

Law sighed and opened the door for Luffy who scowled at the gesture. He might have been older than him but that didn't mean he had to treat him like a kid! Then again he couldn't really count what'd happened as something a kid would be welcomed to.

"You can return those," he said pointing at his clothes that hung off Luffy's body, "the next time I see you."

"What if I said I didn't want to see you?"

"You wouldn't say that, it's written all over your innocent little face. Or shall I change that to moderately innocent?" he grinned at the boy who's face now grew a light shade of pink. Teasing him was just too easy and too fun that Law couldn't resist.

"Whatever! I'm leaving!"

"Yeah, so you say. You'll be back. They always come back."

"Who the hells they?!"

"I'm just teasing, go on. Get." He shooed the teen out the door in a joking matter and watched Luffy walk down the hall then waited until he got into the elevator to go back inside. God, he let out a groan and rubbed his face, deciding it'd be best if he took a cold shower. Preferably ice cold, to numb his entire body of the feeling the damn teen had sent down his spine and burned through his core.

Luffy walked through the front door. It was 11pm and he wasn't exactly sure if Zoro had work the next day and was sleeping early or not.

"Where the fuck have you been?"

There was his answer.

"Zoro! Hey!"

"You're avoiding the question, don't you know I know you better than that?"

"What! I'm not!"

"Luffy."

"Okay, okay! I went to the bar, yesterday after- well during practice-"

"You got some kind of problem I should be worried about?"

"What?! NO! Look who's asking!" he said pointing at the beer in Zoro's hand that had evidently gotten too warm to drink now.

"Fair point. Continue."

"I went to see Law."

"Law? The creepy band guy?"

"Yeah him, and then we hung out for a bit, talked, Franky held this drinking competition so I entered and I won Zoro! Free drinks for a month! But I got in a fight- well that's what Law told me. He said I knocked a guy right out how awesome is that, you should have been there to see it! It was self defense though that crazy man got mad at me for winning and tried to attack me like some rabid animal I tell you Zoro it was wild! Well then I was really drunk, I took like 50 shots or at least it felt like it, I cant remember how many I think Law said 20? Anyway, then I danced around for a bit and felt sick so Law was going to take me home and I don't really remember what happened after that but I woke up at his house and he told me I'd puked like ten times and we just hung out the whole day, I even kissed him! I didn't mean to, he was just teasing and I just-"

"Wait, wait hold up, back up, rewind and pause. You did what?"

"I puked like ten-"

"No after that."

"Oh, I kissed him!"

"You kissed him?"

"Yep."

"Like on the lips?"

"Where else would I kiss him?"

"I can think of a couple of places."

"No! It was just one… really long… kiss!"

"So you made out with him?"

"Pretty much."

Zoro stared at Luffy in awe. Who the fuck was he? He laughed at the thought of one night of heavy drinking leading to Luffy's official first kiss.

"So what, you like him or something? You've known him for like two whole minutes and you've already exchanged spit and had each others tongues down your throats so what?"

"Mmm…" Luffy hummed and he looked up at the ceiling before letting out a deep sigh, "Dunno."

"What the fuck is 'dunno'? Are you six?"

"I don't know!"

He let out a deep sigh and stood up to stretch.

"Well okay, if that's what you say."

"It is."

"Alright then. I'm going to bed now, I was up waiting for your ass to come home, and now that you're here, I'm going to k.o."

Zoro put the half full beer back into the fridge and waved, Luffy knowing he was saying goodnight.

That's when it hit him that he had an early class the next day and was much too tired to stay up to do anything. He was about to walk towards his bedroom when he thought to himself that a quick snack wouldn't hurt.

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