Chapter 21: Law's Annoyance and A Piece of Luffy's History

Law groaned as he left his room and more importantly Luffy. He was going to kill Penguin and Shachi. Those two just had to get to in stupid fight over who scrubbed the dawn toilets. Now Shachi had broken nose and possible concussion from getting his face smashed into a sink and Penguin had what looked like a broken jaw from getting hit in the face with a removable showerhead. The two of them may have been best friends, but when they got into a fight it always ended with them in the infirmary. Normally Law didn't mind it as much since their fights gave him plenty of practice and quite a few interesting injuries try his skills on over the years. Once Shachi actually got his foot stuck up Penguin's ass. To this day Law still didn't know how he did it. But today he actually had something that was better then fixing up the two morons, which was Luffy since who knows when he will get a chance to see her after they drop her and Rayleigh off on Rusukaina.

"Well we haven't been underwater for even six hours and you idiots have already put yourself in infirmary. That's gotta be a record," Law grumbled as he stepping into the infirmary.

"Sworry Aptain," Shachi mumbled softly.

Penguin groaned something that sounded like 'Yeah, Sorry Captain.'

"No talking Penguin," Law ordered as he carefully inspected Penguin's jaw.

"Sorry about this Captain I went to check on them and found them both knocked out," Bepo apologized.

"It okay Bepo I don't blame you," Law as he studied Penguin's injury, "Lucky for Penguin his jaw is only badly dislocated. I just need to wire it shut. You'll be stuck eating only liquids for the next few weeks, but other then that you should be fine."

"What about Shachi?" Bepo asked softly as he straightened the ice pack the Heart Pirate's head.

"One second Bepo. Penguin I need you to hold your jaw in this exact position okay," Law commanded as he placed Penguin's hands under his jaw, "Don't move an inch or you could end up dislocating it even worse. After I check on Shachi I'll wire your jaw. "

"Do you want me to give them some pain medicine Captain?" Bepo asked.

"Nope."

"Why not?"

"Bepo I have less then nine days left before my girlfriend who I just got together with gets stuck on an island for the next two years to train. Meanwhile I still need to collect 50 hearts so I can get a position as a Warlord. After that I still have the probation to deal with and tracking down Caesar. So only God knows when I will actually see her again. But instead of relaxing and actual spending as much time as possible with her before we go our separate ways I'm here fixing these two morons after they get into a fight on who has to clean the damn toilets. So they are both going to suffer until I'm done with them. They can have painkillers after I'm done patching them up," Law explained he began to examine Shachi's head.

"Harsh, Captain," Bepo mumbled, "Sorry."

"It's okay buddy. Shachi do you feel like your going to vomit or pass out?" Law asked.

"Uh-ah. 'Ey Aptain?" Shachi slurred.

"Yes Shachi?"

"Wen id you ie oar hair ed?"

"What'd he say?" Bepo asked confused.

"He asked when I dyed my hair red," Law said as he set Shachi's nose, "Definitely has a concussion. He'll need to rest the next few days in his room. Bepo could you go grab Luffy a snack. She said was getting a little hunger earlier. Let her know I'll be back in an hour."

"Okay," Bepo mumbled as he left infirmary.

"Now then Penguin I'm going pop the jaw back into place."

Penguin groaned something that sound like 'Is it going to hurt?'

"No of course not," Law said with smirk as he popped the jaw back into place.

"OOOOOOOUUUUUUCCCCCCHHHHH!"

Meanwhile

Luffy looked up at the sudden cry of pain that echoed through the sub. Sounded like Law was going to be busy for a while. She shouldn't be surprised. He was the main doctor of the Heart Pirates after all. Everyone on the crew had some medical knowledge, though it was mostly basic stuff to help Law during surgeries and how to run the equipment. Luffy wasn't mad or anything. Law was the Captain and doctor of the Heart Pirates so he would be busy. Besides it had been a pretty nice day so far. Law had given her a small tour of the sub. She got to watch Bepo and a few others have a sparing match and after they had all eaten lunch made by the crew's chef in the cafeteria. Then Law had taken her to the wreck room where Law, Rayleigh and a few others played card games while she had roped Bepo, Shachi, Pengiun and even Jinbe into playing hide and seek with her. After a while she had begun to feel tired and Law had taken her back to the to his room so she could rest. He said to it would still be a while before she was back at full strength so she would tire easily. It was only about an hour later that Bepo came and told Law that Shachi and Penguin were in the infirmary and Law was forced to check them out.

Luffy walked over the bookshelf and picked up the book she had been looking at earlier. She couldn't believe that Law actually had a copy her family's book. Her Great Grandmother Scarlet on her mother's side had written The Voyage of the Red Dawn. It was the true story of a female pirate that went by the name Crimson D. Rose who set sail to defeat King Draker Devilheir to avenge the deaths of her beloved father and fiancé. Her grandmother had actually been a member of the Crimson Pirates and had written of their adventurers. Before her death she had the book published though it was very rare to find a copy. The Government considered it to be sign of anarchy as Crimson D. Rose was one the biggest names in pirate history. Not only was she the first female Captain, but she was also the captain of an all female crew and was one the most famous and wanted pirates to ever set sail. Luffy smiled sadly as she remembered her mother reading her the story when she was five years old. They had only gotten to the middle of it when her mother had died. When her father had taken her from Aurora Lily the book was left behind.

Luffy was suddenly glad that she had let Robin convincer to teach her to read. Luffy had only ever been able to read the basics since she had never gone to school and the bandits and her grandfather never took the time to teach her. She could read her wanted posters and simple stuff like that, but usually let Nami or who ever read out loud from the paper find out more details. It was one of reason she got so lost at times. No had even realized she couldn't read until Robin notice her looking at her book about the Rainbow Mist that one time. Everyone just assumed she didn't like to read. Robin had ended up convincing Luffy to let her teach her how to read in secret. Luffy hadn't wanted her crew to know she couldn't read at the time. So they started having little reading lessons. Now Luffy could read much better though she still had trouble from time to time.

Well Law was going to be gone for a while and she hadn't practiced in weeks. This would be the perfect time to catch up on her lessons. Robin was a slave driver when it came to their lessons and was sure to check and make sure that Luffy had still been reading when the crew got back together in two years. Luffy sat down on the couch and opened the book. Before she knew it she was lost in world of her grandmother's adventurous past and memories of her forgotten childhood.