A.N. Let's all give thanks to psychotriton for suggesting/asking me to write a happy, more detailed second part for 'Gold'. Because 'Gold' was a sort of a song fic I decided that there's a fitting song for this story too, so once again – enjoy ^-^

Song credits go to Imagine Dragons and their song 'Summer'.

Warnings: yaoi – man x man, AU, mild sexual content, indirect character death.

Summary: When it's summer and you're lost in the warmth of arms of someone you care about you don't care that your body is killed and your soul is finally released…

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Summer

If only for a second

Let me have you

Tell me all your secrets

Let me know you

Luffy's world has become a thick fog of nothingness, a window to a life he somehow evaded living and strong arms of the former dragon – Law. Luffy wasn't sure how long it had been since he had entered the cave, but it was enough to understand that thanks to something Law did Luffy didn't have to be a killer, didn't lose his mind or like Law told him he-himself was – be imprisoned in his own body. The former knight was quite grateful, but the uncertain future, vast fields of nothing and the rarely changing view of the pile of gold his transformed body now slept on was bad entertainment.

The small brunet was a man of action, of adventure, he lived to travel the lands, fight monsters – be it human ones, or animal ones – and be in constant move, constant communication with other living beings – be it animals or humans. Now, he found himself in quite predicament, he wasn't certain if Law was always like that, or the years as dragon changed him, but Law wasn't one for conversation.

In fact, the former dragon spent most of his time with one of his limbs – Law could grow tail whenever he wished, and wasn't that freaking awesome?! – wrapped around Luffy or completely wrapping himself around the former knight. Luffy dubbed him a Cuddle Monster and Law had been very wounded by his nickname, but it only encouraged Luffy further into calling Law the blasted nickname. And when he wasn't somehow touching Luffy Law spent his time exploring the Nothing-Fog – as Luffy dubbed it – because apparently for Law it was more than fog, Luffy couldn't quite understand what Law meant by that.

Paint me all your pictures

Hang them on my wall

Show me all your colors

Show me all

One good thing that came from those explorations were the things the former brought to him. On one of the first trips Luffy got a dummy to practice his combat skills, on other trips he would get board games Law would later play with him or adventure books filled with people and things Luffy never heard of.

Little by little the little place where Luffy stayed was filled with all kinds of things: a sofa, even a bed, a table and a couple of stools, Law even brought food at some point and it made Luffy realize he hadn't been hungry up until the point he saw food… which was completely crazy as the former knight found food to be one of the best things in the world, how come he forgot about it? Didn't feel hungry?

Gradually with everything that happened in the fog there were… things happening to Luffy too. Law's somewhat possessiveness had become his comforter. Whenever Luffy would become distressed about what he could see through the window Law would take him away from the spot the smaller raven haired male stood and would hide the two of them in bed, beneath a large layer of blankets. Wrapped up in the bigger male's arms Luffy would forget what he saw, even if temporarily, and would fall asleep easily.

Open up your eyes
Open up your mind
Fall in love with what you mean to me

At first it was strange, but soon Luffy was so used to it he found himself looking for Law's company and body comfort more and more often. Their relationship was a bit too close to be friendship, but not of the kind to be brothers. The meat loving knight was pretty sure he found new way of having a close relationship and he was proud of himself.

But with time he started feeling different things, Law's touch started burning, leaving his skin always hot after it was touched, Luffy noticed his face becoming red quite often and his stomach was doing things like that one time when he ate bad meat. Law had looked at Luffy per his request, but said there was nothing wrong with Luffy, leaving the young male wonder what was wrong with him.

A fire burns into you purifying gold
But what I saw was opulence
And that's not for me
That's not for me
No, that's not for me

All it took for everything to change were simple five minutes.

As always when night came (meaning when Luffy got sleepy, because you couldn't tell time of the day through the fog) the young knight was sleeping in one bed with Law (there was not enough space for second bed). The former dragon's arms were wrapped around Luffy's waist as if around teddy bear (Luffy let him because he figured Law was feeling lonely from being alone for so long) when Luffy woke up suddenly not understand why.

He wasn't a light sleeper so the sounds from the fog never woke him up, what apparently did wake him was some sort of prodding to his backside. It took a full minute for the small brunet to understand exactly what was pointed into his backside and it completely blew his mind when the next thing he heard was Law muttering Luffy's name and nuzzling into his neck.

Luffy laid there with eyes wide open and mouth slightly ajar for quite a while trying to understand ,if it was really happening; maybe Law was simply sexually deprived? But even then you wouldn't fantasize about a man, right? What if Law really did fantasize about him? Was he entitled to do something because of that? Why wasn't it bothering him that much?

The younger male turned around to face the other, sleeping male and blushed as he saw the obvious tent in the other's pants. What was he doing?

Luffy swallowed and let his arms slide down Law's hard, muscled torso to the problem the other was sprouting. He took a deep breath and slid his arm in the pants, shuddering when his arms touched the other's manhood. Quickly glancing at the sleeping face of his companion he closed his eyes and grabbed the throbbing length in his hand gasping in surprise at the warmth and the idea he actually did it.

Feeling his cheeks blush more than he thought it could ever be possible Luffy began slow strokes through the length. It was hard to move his hand because of the skin on skin resistance and Luffy was starting to consider ways he could lessen the uncomfortable friction when a hand touched his cheek. The smaller brunet's eyes shot open as he looked into Law's open eyes. There was a small smile on the latter's lips and a challenging look in his eyes, Luffy was never one to back down from a challenge.

Only in summertime
Only in summertime
Things will change with time
But only in summertime

All Luffy knew about outside world was that it was summer. His dragon body burned down the village nearby and taken to flying around nearby forests all day long. The view was a mazing and Luffy found himself more and more often watching the window. To say that he didn't expect to see an ambush from a big group of knights was understatement.

The dragon had no chance of winning, the knights were skilled and the had big numbers, Luffy noticed some of the knights were his friends and it warmed his heart to know they came to avenge him. The dragon killed one or two people, wounded some, but soon was overwhelmed. It took only several successful hits for the dragon to collapse, that was the moment Luffy understood his dragon body was dying. He turned his worried gaze to Law who was sitting next to him. "What will happen now? Will they all become dragons?"

Law shook his head. "The dragon curse is no more. Thanks to me blocking myself from my actions it weakened and let you stay away from the body completely. The curse has weakened and only one person could become a dragon, because there is more than one person alive the curse cannot work properly and is slowly breaking."

Luffy frowned. "What do you mean?"

"Look around and tell me what you see."

The once knight turned dragon looked around and felt his eyes widen as he saw that the fog was no more, instead he found himself in a room that harbored everything they had in the clear spot. The window to dragon's eyes had disappeared and he could hear people talking from the window on his right. "What?"

Law stood up. "We've always been here, this is the city of dead, because you were between life and death you could not see anything while I saw everything from the beginning." Law smiled. "Welcome to your new home."