The Revolutionary Pirate,

Chapter 7: Brothers in All but Blood

Disclaimer: Huh so this is still a thing. I guess the only time I have not been doing this is has been the prologue. Anyway, I own nothing but the plot and story you are reading. Everything else goes to Oda-Sensei.

VxG: So another chapter another day of excitement. Are you excited Sun dear?

Sun: Yea, probably? :D

VxG: Hehe thought so. So we have hit 119 followers at the time I am writing this. It is kind of funny, how we have not even uploaded the fourth chapter and I am just about to write you the seventh chapter, it is kind of strange, we are not even past the month where I have published the story. It is kind of hilarious isn't it Sun?

Sun: Yea, especially because this chapter will come out after a long pause…

VxG: So yeah without any further ado. Here is the seventh chapter, enjoy.

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Law woke up with a banging headache, sitting up he noticed something wrapped over his waist. Sitting up he saw the reason for said 'something' or should he say someone.

Law was lightly pressed against the wall with a raven haired boy wrapped around him from the side. Law tried to nudge the boy off him, but the boy held on to him like boat does to water.

The boy was sprawled out across the side of the older teen's legs and arms around his waist. Rolling his eyes, Law noted a secondary bed across the room, to be honest the bed looked like it had been just recently put together and in it - there they were, the other two, deep asleep in each other's arms.

Sighing once more, he just activates his powers. Noticing a teddy bear on the floor next to the shelf. "Room"

And just like that, he was free. This was a lot easier to get out of than being stuck to the floor covered in ice.

Watching that Luffy cuddled into the bear, he walked out the door, his mind spinning a mile in a minute.

Walking down the hallway, not really knowing where he was or where he was going, he just felt like walking to clear his head. The conversation yesterday had pulled up a lot of unpleasant memories. The way that the three boys acted towards each other, the way they cared for each other… It was something he had not thought of since he lost his family to the massacre. And he cared very little for the others at the Donquixote family.

Slapping his face, he got the stupid images out of his head. He walked on, he had Cora-san, that was all he needs. And if he didn't wake up from his comatose sleep. Then so be it. Not much he can do on that end. Just go on, and go where the water takes him he supposed.

Not noticing where he was going he rammed into someone, thankfully none of the two fell to the ground. Shaking his head he shrugged his light dizziness.

Turning his head towards the person he bumped into. He noted that it was a woman, the said woman had long strawberry blond like hair. She was wearing an island blue dress with a brown vest covering the top of her body, going down to her waist. She had piercing brown eyes and they had a look of concern.

The woman grabbed onto the teen's arm. "Oh dear, I am terribly sorry about this. I should have seen where I was going. Are you alright?"

Law lightly nodded his head shrugging the woman's hand away from him, he lightly reached his arm out to introduce himself. "I am fine and it isn't your fault. I was the one who didn't see where I was going. The name is Trafalgar Law. May I ask what yours is?"

The woman smiled and took the teen's hand in a light shake. "My name is Rouge, Portgas D Rouge. It is nice to meet you Law, you must be the one Dragon-san brought with him. I am sorry you have to go through all of this. It can't be good for your health."

Law stiffened ever so slightly. Another D... This woman is a D? "I… I'm fine...Umm, are you the mother to that... Luffy-ya?" Thinking that it was the name of the boy almost forgetting it for a moment there.

Rouge was shocked. Blinking she managed to compose herself slightly. "No, I am not Luffy's mother. His mother sadly died giving birth to him. She will forever be missed. I am Ace's mother... Why don't you come with me for a moment?"

Law got lightly caught off guard from this. "Umm... sure... Why not?" Not really certain whether he was asking a question or not.

Rouge smiled slightly, grabbing onto the teen's arm gently escorting him down the hallway.

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Rouge had simply left the teen outside the door to the infirmary, telling the boy to stay as long as he wanted. Confused Law entered the room, only to be greeted to the unconscious form of Corazon.

He is breathing deep and relaxed, if Law didn't know any better, he'd say that the man was asleep. But he knew that was far from the truth. The longer Corazon stayed asleep the higher the chances got for him not to wake up at all.

Sitting down on a chair next to his - well you could call him Law's mentor - but Law could only see the man as one thing after all the years they had been traveling together trying to find someone to stop Doflamingo. The marines where corrupt and there were too many cruel pirates that could help them. That was when Corazon said they should try and find the Revolutionary army.

Law shook his head they had somehow, miraculously found a small thread to the Revolutionary army and made their way there. They had been attacked by pirates, Corazon had fallen. Yelling for Law to get out of there, Law had a good grasp of his ability, but he still didn't understand all that much he could do with it yet.

It had been pure luck that Law had ran into a Revolutionary officer. By the time they had managed to return to Corazon, he had already fallen unconscious. Soon enough they had found their way to the headquarters for the Revolutionary army.

Sitting here in front of his mentor's unmoving body the teen was unable to hold it in any further. Mentor… what is he saying… Corazon has been nothing more but like a father to him.

Putting his elbows onto his knees, his hands cupped in his face. He refused to cry, he simply refused to do it.

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Law had no idea for how long he had been sitting there, but when he felt a hand lightly pressing onto his shoulder, he noted that the blond boy from the other day stood there, his eyes shrouded in concern. Law lightly groaned. "What do you want?"

The blond only smiled. "I just thought you must be hungry, dinner is going to be served in a few minutes."

Law turned his head towards the boy in shock. "Dinner! But I just got up from bed and by then the sun had barely risen."

The blond only chuckled a bit. "That has been a long time ago when we found you in here, we let you be. But you have not eaten in a while and I believe the last remnants where kind of forced out of you last night."

Law gave a slight nod in acknowledgment he was kind of hungry now that he thought about it.

The blond stood up with a small smile on his face. "You don't have to get up, I managed to get some food for you, I just wanted to let you know that dinner is closing in if you want to join, but you don't have to."

The blond placed a medium sized box in the teens lap. "Oh I am Sabo by the way we didn't really have the chance to properly introduce ourselves yesterday, sorry about that."

Law only stared at the boy a faint smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

"So are you a 'D' as well, or is it just Sabo?" Sabo laughed. "As far as I can remember it is Sabo, at least that is what I believe to be my name at any rate."

Law got slightly confused at that. 'Believe?' what the hell does that mean? "What do you mean by believe? It is your name right?"

Sabo only nodded his head. "As far as I know, yes, for you see I have amnesia. I hardly remember anything before Dragon-san rescued me from a burning and blasted to pieces boat."

Lightly pressing a hand to his scared, burned face while shaking his head he continued. "I do have slight visions of something I believe to be of my past, like a big forest and three people I believe to be my relatives. I don't remember the date my birthday is, so I am using the date Dragon-san found me - March twentieth. It was actually Luffy's idea to use it, because no matter how much he asked, I could never remember. And even the name Sabo was more of a vague feeling than anything."

Smiling he turned to Law again. "So Sabo became my name because it is the only name I could remember and with all that said and done... hmm what was it Luffy called you again? Torao? Is it?"

Law could only sigh. "The name is Trafalgar Law, if you can't pronounce my name call me Law instead, it isn't that hard. Why can't that idiot brother of yours understand that?"

Sabo just starts to laugh uncontrollably. "Luffy is Luffy, nothing you are ever going to say about it is going to change that fact. You better accept the nickname fast, because you are not going to get rid of it. Torao~"

Sabo laughed and headed out of the room with Law screaming after him that it was 'Trafalgar'. Sitting back in on his chair with a heavy sigh he opened the box Sabo had given him. The box contents were five neatly stacked rice balls and two sandwiches.

Law had realized that after his little ordeal at his home island. He had gained a very weak stomach. First time he had tried to eat bred with the Donquixote's. He had almost immediately puked it out.

There had been some trial and errors with trying to find out what he could eat. He can eat anything green: like fruit and vegetables. He can easily down some light soup and a few other sorts of food as well. Ignoring the sandwich he took to eat the rice balls. Gently nibbling on it he savored it as much as possible.

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After his meal Law decided to go stretch his legs for a bit. After a while of walking he bumped into Ace who seemed to be a little down to be honest. Looked like was a little angry for some reason.

"So, what has you so heated up?" Law asked with his arms crossed.

Ace only gave a heavy sigh. "Lu is my problem, I love that brother of mine to death, but there are times where he is so infuriating annoying it is not even possible!"

Law scrunched his eyes ever so slightly. "Lu? You mean Luffy-ya? What have he done to make you angry? Last I saw you, you were really close, how can you be mad at him?"

Ace gave a hollow chuckle. "I see you are of the thinking type. You would get along with Sabo you know, he has a smart head on his shoulders. But I am not angry at Lu, no I am just annoyed by his antics. We kind of promised to have the entirety day today dedicated to fist fighting. But no, instead Luffy goes ahead and tells me he feels like working on his swordsman ship instead."

Heaving a sigh he continues, his hands tucked deep into his shorts pockets, a small pout onto his face. "I know Luffy is being Luffy, but we did promise each other a full day of fist on fist today." Sigh. "I know Luffy is becoming amazing with a sword, he has worked with Shanks for two years with it. Heck, even Mihawk have come in and given him some pointers. He got a nick for swordsmanship. But at the same time he likes to punch your guts out. I should know, I fight that kid daily."

"Luffy-ya mentioned something about training the other day, what was that all about?"

Ace's face grew a little somber. "Around three years ago, we got visited by the Red Haired pirates. They had business with uncle-Dragon, something about giving him something because they didn't know what to do with it. Luffy and I where in the kitchen together with my mom, we had just finished up a little sparing round that uncle-Dragon had started with me and Lu. Luffy got into an accident, revolving around that scar he got under his eye, have you noticed it?"

Ace turned to Law who in return lightly nodded, remembering that, yes Luffy did have a small scar under his left eye.

Taking Law's silence as a clue to continue, he went on. "After the little accident mom barged in to the conference room with Lu in her arms and me at her heels. After a lot of chaos Luffy's eye got fixed I, wanting to help my brother soothe his crying, I found this chest with two fruit in them. And I guess you probably already know what kind of fruit they were?" Lighting his hand on fire to empathize his point.

Law's eye where scrunched. "How old were you when you ate your fruit?"

"I am eleven now, so I was around eight when I first ate mine, Luffy was five. Let us just say that the next few hours were utter chaos at the time both Luffy and me had little to no control over our abilities. All it took for Luffy to lose control of his powers was a sneeze. He encased the entirety of the floor along with part of the walls in ice. I know uncle-Dragon didn't want to send us away, he did it with our best interest in mind. And I don't blame him at all for what he has done. That was all in the past and only after a few days, weeks or months after we had returned from our two years long training. Dragon came back from a journey. And with him he brought back Sabo."

Law's eyes widened slightly. "So what, you have only known him for a little under a year then? How are you three so close?"

Ace gave a slight chuckle and scratched behind his head ever so slightly. "It is kind of hard to explain, it was Luffy who asked if he could be our brother. I have known Luffy ever since he was born and I think Luffy just liked the idea of having another brother. And to be honest it felt right, you know. Like we were destined to find each other or something, it's hard to describe. But that's the feeling we have for each other. Having one brother is cool enough, having a second brother is amazing. And as the oldest of the three it is my duty to protect both of them."

Law gave a faint nod. "I know the feeling, I had a younger sister." Law tilts his head down, fists clenched hard, lightly drawing blood. Ace was quick to place a comforting hand on his shoulder. Of course 'trying' is a better word for it as Law is fairly taller than Ace.

Law just sat down on the floor, leaning against the wall. "Her name was Lami. And..." Law was unable to talk, he missed his sister dearly. True, she, along with their parents were long since dead. But he still missed them so very, very much.

Ace had a hand on the teens shoulder and suddenly an idea popped in his head. "Oi, Torao, come with me for a bit."

Ace all but dragged him away, Law had no chance of even registering that Ace had called him by that ridiculous nickname Luffy had placed upon him.

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Ace had run around the entirety of the headquarters trying to find his two brothers.

He found Sabo in the library, silently reading in a book about navigation, only for Ace to grab onto the poor boy and push Sabo and Law into their shared bedroom. Exiting the room and leaving the two stunned.

Ace soon found Luffy in the training hall, a wooden sword in hand, practicing hard, only for Ace to once again drag his poor brother into their bedroom. After Luffy got thrown in there (sword still in hand) he told the three to stay put and that he would be back soon.

It didn't take Ace long to get back, he had reentered the room with what looked to be a bottle and four small cups. Placing out everything for each of them on the table he finally revealed his plan. "I heard from Shanks that when one share a cup of sake with someone you become brothers."

Law was quick to jump in surprise. "Brothers? Are you crazy? I know next to nothing about any of you. Why would I become your brother?"

Ace only held out the sake cups he had filled for the four of them. "Because you said yourself that you liked the feeling of being a brother. We can never replace your real family, but we can at least become your new one."

Law just stared at the cup Ace held out for him. "I do have family member, his name is Corazon. And he is all I need, so no thank you. I do not want this... I don't..."

Sabo spoke up, taking ahold of the cup Ace held out for him. "Corazon is in a deep sleep. You said so yourself yesterday. He may never wake up and I am not against the idea of calling myself your brother. What do you say Luffy?"

Luffy, also after gently taking the cup held out to him, turned to Law. "I agree with Ace's decision. You are an awesome guy Torao. Sure, you got one hell of a backstory, but so do all of us, I would love for you to become part of our brother circle Torao!"

Law did not have anything to say to that; to be honest he did miss having a family. He had spent so much of his time with the Donquixote's family robbing and pirating the world over. He had forgotten the peaceful times of his youth. Looking over the three boys, he could almost feel the presence of his birth family. And for a moment he would almost swear he saw his sister's ghostly shadow behind Luffy. The image of his diseased sister gently nodded and disappeared into the non-existing wind.

Law stared at the cup Ace was holding out to him, he took it from the kid's hands, holding it in his own.

Ace, Sabo and Luffy smiled and almost simultaneously the four of them clinked their cups and drank them.

Law was not alone anymore, from now he had a family once again. No, not family, brothers and man… what a feeling that was.

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VxG: Sooo, I tried to make this chapter small, but it kind of turned out long. And I know Sun is kind of moping right now. Mostly due to the fact that she wanted me to pair Law and Luffy together, I am sorry Sun. Are you alright?

Sun: Of course not! I still hope to change your mind though… :D

VxG: Sorry dear, I am a LawLu fan myself, but this was never intended to become a yaoi fanfic. And I kind of like the fact that Law is Luffy's brother. Just imagine all the things that opens up with interactions between the two in the future. Can you forgive me?

Sun: Maybe, we will see… *narrows eyes*

VxG: Thank you dear. So with that all set and done. This has been VxG hoping to write more for you all in the future. See you all in chapter 8.