Note - I made a mistake in chapter 5. Luffy was a slave for a couple of months, not years.

"AMBER LEAD DISEASE!?" The doctor screeched.

"It's been around for a while, do you have medicine for it?" Rosinante asked, crossing his arms. Sitting on his lap, Luffy followed Rosinante's posture, and tried to look as intimidating as possible, though he just looked adorable trying to frown.

"Excuse... me... but where... are you from?" The doctor stuttered.

"Flevance..." Law mumbled, looking away. He already knew what was going to happen.

"THE WHITE TOWN!?"

"YIKES! NO! I'M GOING TO GET INFECTED! BRING ME ANTISEPTIC AND A GAS MASK NOW! AND CALL SECURITY AND THE GOVERNMENT!"

"Forget it." Law gulped, getting off the chair.

"Law!" Rosinante yelled.

"See? I'm not even human anymore!" Law hissed, and he ran out of the hallway.

"WHITE MONSTER! PLEASE LEAVE, I BEG YOU!"

"Hey you! How dare you bring such a kid here?! How many patients do you think we have!?"

"SHUT UP! How dare you make Law-nii cry!" Luffy leapt off Rosinante's lap, faster than anyone could blink, and took out his pipe. He bashed both doctors into the wall.

"Emergency announcement... we have a child with the Amber Lead Disease in this hospital..." Was blared over the loudspeakers.

"Law-nii!" Luffy called, racing after the older boy. "Oi, Corazon! Hurry up!"

Law was just in Luffy's sights, as doctors, patients, marines, parents, children even, screamed as Law ran by.

"WHITE MONSTER!" "GET AWAY FROM US!" "FREAK!"

Luffy saw red. He didn't know what he was doing. Screams of shock and pain rang out as Luffy raced to Law's side, for what reasons, he didn't know why, before Rosinante caught the two smaller boys with his large hands and stomped out of the building in a rage.

For once, he didn't trip, or set himself on fire.

Instead, he set the entire hospital on fire.

Rosinante stared, as Law ran down the hallway. He could hear the screams of fear, disgust, against the poor, sick boy. Law... he was just a child. He didn't do anything to warrant the hate of anyone.

Then, he watched as Luffy chased after Law, smashing anyone, everyone, young or old alike, anyone who even uttered a bad word about Law. All of them ended up with their heads stuck in the walls, or peeling off and crumpling to the ground with a crack and blood as proof of where their skulls kissed the walls harshly.

He pinched the bridge of his nose. These people were too much.

He grabbed the two boys, and hastily made his way out. With his free hand, he plucked his cigarette out of his mouth, and lightly, tapped it against the potted plants that lined the hallways of the hospital, sprinkling the burning ashes over the leaves.

He watched with a solemn mirth as the flames danced throughout the hospital.

They deserved it. F*ing pieces of shit.

"That was a bad hospital." Rosinante said, with Law in one hand and Luffy walking on the ground beside him, holding one of Law's hands. His bloody pipe was hung on his back. "I'm sorry. Did it bring back bad memories?"

"That's why I told you! I don't wanna go to a hospital!" Law cried out, tears brimming in his eyes and he used his free hand to cling to his hat.

"That one was terrible. But I'm sure they'll be a good doctor in the next one." Rosinante said.

"Let's go to the next one. You'll get cured in the next one!"

"Look, Law! The people in this town look kind!"

"This is a horrible hospital! The next one will work for sure!"

"It's okay Law! The next one can cure you!"

"We'll find a doctor for you in the next island, kay?"

There wasn't.

Every single hospital they went to, the second they mentioned "Amber Lead", it seemed like everyone just shut off. No pity for the fourteen year young boy, who was barely in his teens and he knew he was dying.

Just fear. Fear that they would get infected.

They were met with crossed fingers, den den mushi calls to the government, panicking and screaming doctors, yells of fear. Hell, in all of the hospitals they went to, all of them refused treatment for the teen. Just because of a disease.

That wasn't even contagious, gods be damned.

2 months left. That's all Law had, and Rosinante wished, to his supposedly godly ancestors, to whatever god that threw lightning and thunder about during storms like a tantrum, that salvation for Law could be found.

"AMBER LEAD DISEASE! BE GONE!" A doctor screeched, reaching out for the very-conveninetly-placed scalpels and threw them at Law.

Stunned, the boy sat there. The first one nicked Law across the cheek, before he was harshly shoved out of the way by a small rubber boy.

Five scalpels found themselves stuck in Luffy's body.

"Luffy!" Law yelled.

"I'm fine, Law-nii!" Luffy gave a small grin, and carefully extracted the blades from his skin. As each blade left his skin, a trail of blood formed.

"How dare you call yourself a doctor?! Screw you!" Rosinante demanded, knocking the doctor out.

He promptly snatched up a roll of bandages sitting on the table, grabbed Law, and dragged him out of the hospital.

As for Luffy, he was wrecking the hospital in a rage.

"Corazon... Luffy... not only have I not been cured, but I'm also at my limit..." Law trembled, tears rolling down his cheek as he tried to bandage Luffy's cuts.

"Nonsense. Stop whining. You'll be cured at the next one." Corazon said.

Luffy just stared at the teardrops, and wiped them off Law's cheek, "Ne.. Law-nii... we'll find a cure, okay?"

"It's either find the cure or death! Your life is on the edge now!" Rosinante backed Luffy up, "Stay strong!"

"Why do you even bother about me!? I'm not even considered human! I'm a monster! I'm worthless!" Law cried.

"Who cares!?" Luffy retorted, "I don't care if you were a demon or cyborg or a skeleton or a reindeer or a tanuki! You're still Law-nii!"

Rosinante blinked as the younger boy snaked a rubber arm around Law's waist, before pulling him in for a hug. He watched as Law blinked out more tears, and he let out a small smile, before enveloping the duo in a feather clad hug.

Law was out of time.

1 month left.

Rosinante sighed, sitting at a cliff, before guzzling down some sake.

"What am I doing? I'm making the poor kid repeatedly relive the tragedy, and he hasn't gotten any better... is it because he's a D." He glanced behind him, to the fourteen year old from Flevance, and the seven year old that they had picked up on that island.

Law was lying on the ground, sleeping. Luffy was curled up behind him, his rubber limbs wrapped around Law tightly.

"No... I don't care about that anymore! I have...been feeling so sorry for him... Law... I'm sure you don't want this idiot who just keeps hurting you to say something like this... You're still a rude little boy... but hearing you say, "I'm going to die soon" is so heartbreaking... You stabbed me that day... but it didn't hurt at all...I knew you were the one in pain! You poor thing, Law!" Rosinante sighed, before breaking down quietly into tears.

Behind him, Law flinched slightly, shocked at Rosinante's words. Sensing Law shift, Luffy pulled Law closer, and snuggled his head into Law's chest.

Law let out a few tears, before going back to sleep.

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