Hi everyone! Here's a new chapter. I hope you enjoy it and review please. I already got some messages from people adding this to their favorites and I am honored *Bows* Thank you.
~Rebecca

Luffy skipped down the street, humming to a song he didn't know the name of. He glanced at the flat rising up before him and he smiled. With a soft giggle he gripped onto his straw hat and walked into the building. The woman at the desk looked up at him and smiled as she recognized the young boy.

"Are you here to visit Shanks?" she asked.

Luffy nodded his head and smiled brightly. "Yeah, gotta tell him some stuff."

The woman nodded and returned to her paperwork. Luffy walked towards the elevator and waited till it came down from whichever floor it was on. Luffy stepped into the elevator and stared at himself in the mirror. He pressed the button to go up and selected the right floor. Then the doors closed and Luffy leaned against the railing. He whistled another tune and watched the red, digital number go up slowly. The elevator came to a stop on the 20th floor. Luffy skipped out and turned left. He glanced at the numbers of apartments and stopped at the last one. Number 346. He grinned and knocked on the door.

"What do you want?" a loud voice asked as the door was swung open.

"Hi Shanks?" Luffy beamed at the red haired man.

Shanks stared at him and a smile slowly appeared on his face. He grabbed Luffy by the shoulders and hugged him tight, turning circles on the hallway. Luffy grinned and hugged Shanks back. Shanks set him down and beamed at the young man.

"What are you doing here! I haven't seen you in forever!" the red head asked.

Luffy grinned and stepped into the apartment, Shanks on his heels.

"I'll tell you in a minute. Do you have any meat?" Luffy asked with gleaming eyes.

Shanks laughed and nodded. "Yeah."

Shanks lead Luffy into the kitchen and began to prepare a meal for the two of them. Luffy sat down on a bar stool at the kitchen island and watched as Shanks cooked.

"Law came back."

Shanks froze. "What?"

"I said, Law came back," Luffy said.

"Yes I heard, but why now?" Shanks asked as he turned to face Luffy.

Luffy shrugged, "Don't know actually. He just texted me yesterday saying he'd come back today. He was going to do something here, but I don't know the rest. He also texted the entire club by the way."

Shanks nodded slowly, turning back to the sizzling meat in the frying pan.

Law hadn't been back in America since he left two years ago. He was just suddenly up and gone. Shanks had been a little shocked, and Law's friends had been too. A few months later they heard about him on the news. It said he was a famous doctor in Africa, together with the 15 year old Chopper. Apparently Chopper had gone there when he was 13 and Law had gone to look for him. Shanks knew they had been good friends, both being a doctor and all. He smiled at the memory of the two teens talking about their patients and their studies a few years back.

"Will you come to the party?" Luffy suddenly asked.

Shanks lifted the frying pan and placed the meat on a plate. "Don't think so, I have to work tonight," he answered.

Luffy pouted and smacked his lips together. "But that's no fun! We're all going to be there, even Zoro."

Shanks raised his brow at hearing the mans name. "So you managed to get a hold of that kid?" he asked.

Luffy nodded his head and shoved a piece of meat into his mouth. "Yeah, Sanji found him a few months ago. Said he was gonna visit him a few times." Luffy chewed on his meat with a thoughtful look. "Zoro hasn't gone to the club for a long time. We've lost a huge amount of money because of that, but Sanji has been keeping it up a little." Luffy shoved another piece of meat inside his mouth and chewed carefully. "But Zoro brings in all the bucks. We need him to come back. But I think he is kind of busy with that Hawk-Eye stuff and avoiding the police," he finished.

Shanks frowned. "The police, what's with them?"

Luffy stuffed the rest of the meat into his mouth and chewed for a while. Then he answered slowly, "He got that Mafia on his tail remember. They said that if he'd fight for the city again, they'd do something to his loved ones, or so I heard." Luffy got a hard look all of a sudden. "But nobody is going to take anything from him. He's gonna kick their ass in time and then we'll be in the clear." Then he grinned like an idiot. "Well, that is if the police doesn't find out about the fighting club."

Shanks laughed, loud and long. "So the club is still going? I thought that was ancient history?" he asked.

Luffy shook his head. "No, we're still running. Nami and Robin have everything under control. Sanji brings in the bucks now, together with Franky and Ussop." Shanks nodded, confirming that. "Then Brook is still the entertainer and Chopper is still the doctor, but he's in Africa."

"And you still have that scar," Shanks said.

Luffy glanced at him from under the straw hat. "You too," he said.

Shanks laughed. Yes it was indeed so. The scar he got from Teach hadn't faded in the slightest. But he didn't mind it, it was a sign that he had survived. Though Luffy's scar was also still very visible. Shanks shook his head at the memory of the day he got it.

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"I'm going to become a great fighter!" the small boy exclaimed.

"Stupid! Get out of the ring, Luffy!" Shanks yelled.

The boxer had enough and was prepared to end it. He stalked at Luffy and punched the kid right in the face. Luffy screamed out in pain as the skin under his left eye ripped and bled along his cheek. Shanks rushed upon the stage and fell down on his knees next to the boy. The referee stopped the match between the two boxers and eliminated the one that punched Luffy. The fight was over.

"You idiot! Why would you do that!" Shanks yelled.

Luffy was crying and screaming, but also laughing. "Look Shanks, my first fight!" he cried.

Shanks shook his head and hugged the small boy to his body.

"Your one weird ass kid, Luffy," he said. "Let's go home."

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Shanks got shaken out of his memory as Luffy jumped of the bar stool.

"I'll be leaving, I need to go to Sabo's for a sec," He said.

Shanks nodded. "Did you leave Ace with him?" he asked.

Luffy nodded and Shanks smiled at him. Luffy left Ace with Sabo every time he went to Shanks or anywhere else for that matter where the dog would be in the way.

"You go do that, I'll see you Sunday, right?" Shanks asked.

Luffy nodded again and hugged Shanks. Then he walked to the door and opened it. Shanks watched him leave and waved goodbye at the kid. But before he left, Luffy said,

"Thanks for the food, dad."

And with that, he was gone.

Hey everyone! I know this chapter is short. Sorry for that. I don't really know what to put in next but yeah. Anyway, I know Shanks is not Luffy's dad, that's Dragon. But I changed a lot in this fanfic so please don't hate me for that. I do try to keep canon things in the story, like Shanks' scar and Luffy's.

By the way, everyone has a dog in this story, almost everyone. I took that idea from a picture I saw. This person made a few drawings of the Straw Hat crew (+Law) and their fitting dogs. I don't actually know the name of this person, I couldn't figure it out. But I am grateful to them. They have given me a good idea for this story and I hope you like it.

I don't intend to make money of this or anything. And of course the copyright of those dogs and ideas go to that person. If you want to know which dogs is with which person go check out this link.

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Bye~

~Rebecca