"Zoro!"

"What?" he asked clearly already knowing the answer.

"You suck." Ace told him slumping over in the back seat of the jeep.

"Like you could do any better."

"Anyone could do better." Ace yelled throwing his hands up in the air as he looked at the forest around them. Either this place had two different identical ranger houses with identical rangers working at them or they just went in a giant circle.

"Were lost."

"No way." Zoro insisted, "I know he lives right around here."

"I don't think anyone lives in the Forrest." Sabo added as kindly as one could when telling someone they were wrong."

"Okay so make a left here at the tree." Sabo told him leaning up and pointing.

Ace's mouth fell open as Zoro turned Right. Nobody could actually be this bad could they? He bet Luffy was.

XXX

Luffy lay on the couch and looked out the window curiously. It was going to get dark soon. He looked up as Law entered the room.

"That was Zoro, he was worried about you."

Luffy laughed lightly as he flopped onto his back ignoring the pain from the movement. "I made Zoro worry?"

Zoro wasn't exactly the mother hen type, especially when it came to Luffy. He had a pretty good idea how much it took to keep Luffy down. The two had faith in each other. He wondered what might have happened. Whatever it was Luffy's head hurt way too much to deal with right now.

Law sighed and came to sit on the couch with him. "Luffy that wasn't all." He looked down at Luffy with a sigh. "You know what never mind. You will find out later."

Luffy shot up suddenly interested. "Is it food?"

Law frowned frustrated. "Why does everything always revolve around food with you?"

He laughed and settled back on the coach. Shanks had asked him that once. So had some of his friends, especially Nami. He thought the better question was why he was always hungry.

The two of them trailed off in comfortable silence as Law began to do his deskwork.

The two gangs were still just as shocked that the two of them were friends as the first day it happened. They were a very unlikely pair. Luffy with his exuberant kindness and obnoxious energy. And Law the creepy shut in geniuses with limited social skills. Still it felt natural to them, Luffy did the talking for both and Law did the thinking. They did make a nice team.

His eyes drifted shut tiredly as his head gave yet another painful pound. It must have been the concussion law mentioned but to be honest Luffy wasn't really listening. Law's medical explanations were always kind of boring. He really should start heading back he would get into more trouble if he didn't come home tonight. But for some reason he couldn't seem to get up.

So Luffy lay there falling deeper into sleep so to escape the pain of his injuries and the pounding of his head. He had a dream. A good one at first. He was with Shanks and his friends at Makino's bar, then Ace and Sabo came to pick him up at the end of the day. Luffy hadn't dreamed about any of them in a long time and it was really fun to see them again even if it wasn't real.

He shifted slightly pressing his cheek into the coach cushion as voices floated around him. He recognized Zoro's cool tone anywhere. There was Laws calm and sarcastic one as well as two new ones that sounded concerned. He felt a gentle hand run through his hair and shifted towards the warmth of it. He wanted to open his eyes but he couldn't seem to wake up. The pill Law had given him for pain was wearing off and the dull throbs were slowly dragging him back under. The last thing he noticed before falling asleep was being lifted up off of the coach and carried somewhere.

XXX

"It looks like this is going to be harder than we originally thought."

"Things with him usually are."

"Still we might be able to use this to our advantage. Both the rebels and Whitebeards are anxious to start a fight with the military, if we can convince them to do it here then we can free him."

Luffy felt like he was floating in water. He felt heavy and weightless at the same time. As much as he wanted to he couldn't seem to break the surface. Instead he was let floating in and out. Every time he came close he would be dragged back down again. It must be the pills Law had given him, that or his insane headache. Either way he had gotten beat up pretty bad last night and unfortunately the night before that one as well. It was a stupid idea to come to school today, he didn't even like school. But he did like his friends, a lot. In fact they were who he lived for. Without them then he wouldn't have a reason to smile anymore. It was because of them that he had stopped trying to run away, (almost stopped).

So he lay there clinging to consciousness by listening to the voices.

They were the same voices from Laws house. They must be friends of his. Which was strange because Law didn't have any friends. Maybe they were Zoro's. But Luffy didn't think Zoro had any friends either. Why were all his friends so antisocial?

"So we are going to start a fight?"

The more Luffy listened the more the voices sounded familiar.

"You never change." A new voice laughed. This one sounded more mature.

"If we fight now I bet I could kick your butt."

There was another laugh as they denied the threat. All traces of maturity were quickly vanishing. They sounded like little kids again despite the deepness of their voices. Eventually they trailed off into comfortable silence each wrapped up in their own thoughts.

"He definitely has gotten older."

"So have we."

"I know it's just…"

"I know what you mean. I was sort of expecting the same little ten year old from before."

"He looks really banged up, Sabo what do we…"

Sabo? And Ace?

All dizziness immediately left his mind as he was jolted back to reality. His eyes shot open as he forced his sore muscles into a sitting position. All the pain hit him full force as his bruised muscles were forced to work.

He was in the backseat of a moving car. That was the first thing he noticed. The second thing was a familiar set of grey eyes watching him in surprise.

"Luffy?"

His eyes grew bigger as he recognized the man driving as Sabo. The two of them were watching him in concern trying to see what he was going to do. The two of them knew him really well, so they were preparing themselves for him to do something really unexpected and weird and possibly violent. Throw a punch, jump out of a moving car, tackle hug them who knows what else. When cornered you could always count on Luffy being predictably unpredictable. He did not disappoint.

He reached out his hand slowly and booped Ace's nose. He froze once again as Ace and Sabo exchanged looks. He thought this was just a hallucination brought on by the concussion and fueled by the pain pills. But it felt so real, he could touch them, none of his dreams ever let him do that before.

"Luffy are you…" Sabo began but was cut off as Luffy launched himself at Sabo hugging his waist fiercely. He buried his head in his coat and squeezed his eyes shut praying that they would still be there when he opened them again. He let Ace gently pull him away so Sabo wouldn't crash and kill them all. To his surprise Ace wrapped his arms around him tightly resting his head on Luffy's shoulder.

Unlike Luffy Ace was never one for physical contact, over the years he got use to Luffy's personal space issues and using him like a jungle gym, but he still didn't really appreciate it. Luffy couldn't remember an occasion where he actually initiated it. Apparently Ace had changed in the last four years.

Luffy tilted his head back to look at him questioningly.

"You are such a crybaby Lu."

Luffy blinked and wiped his eyes. He hadn't even noticed that they'd gotten wet. He was just worried that they would disappear.

"Like your one to talk." Sabo laughed at Ace as he scrubbed his own eyes.

"Hypocrite."

Luffy glanced at both of his brothers in surprise he had never seen either of them cry before and now they both were. What kind of weird parallel universe was this?

"Well Luffy? Say something." Ace prompted.

"It's not like you to be so silent." Sabo agreed.

"I missed you guys." He finally said his trademark smile creeping over his face.

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Tadaah! I finally did it after like five chapters of procrastination. I hope you liked it. Its not quite over yet, I am going to start the next chapter right now and it is going to be very short but hopefully up by tomorrow. It is going to be Ace/Sabos reaction because Luffys perspective was sort of boring (he slept through most of it) Sorry if they are acting out of character, I really tried but I feel like the real Ace Luffy and Sabo reunion wouldn't be any fun at all. Did you see a few chapters ago with Luffy and Sabo? I feel like if they were actually in this situation they would just have a really long stare full of bro angst and then ninja flip out of the car to go save whatever country is in peril. (Kind of what happened with Sabo and Luffy) And then his older brothers would leave again after like five minutes not to be seen again for another hundred chapters. Lol sorry I'm ranting. Anyway please tell me if you liked it or if anybody is still reading after my very very late update. As always sorry for the spelling mistakes.