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Chapter 7 - Rebuild
'Those wings aren't strong enough to fly me anywhere…' she blinked and faintly opened her eyes 'And those blades don't cut deep enough…' she felt a steady heartbeat next to her left hand 'Still weak. Weak weak so weak. I can't afford staying this weak!' she looked around the dark room, the Polar Tang's infirmary. She glanced down and saw Law's sleeping figure on a chair next to her, resting his upper body on the corner of her bed. Her growling stomach annoyed her ears and she closed her eyes again frowning 'Such a shame… getting defeated that easily!' the sound of waves outside the sub soothed her mind, she smelt something delicious from the right side of her head. With her eyes still closed, she reached out her hand and touched a cube, she grabbed it for a second, then dropped her empty hand hanging from the side of the bed. She sighed and opened her exhausted eyes, staring up at the ceilings and her mind wandering around the recent events. At least she managed to get Garp's touch without trouble. Her eyes widened for a second as she remembered the conversation she was involved in before things start to get messy. 'That geezer said something about Yonkos acting out of order!' she focused and started tracking Garp's mind among all the people she had ever touched 'There!' she closed her eyes and searched through his memories, mostly the recent ones. She saw an image through Garp's eyes, a conference room, it seemed like. Fleet Admiral Sengoku, and the three Admirals, Akainu, Aokiji and Kizaru were there too, she couldn't recognize the rest. The memory was at least two months old. She listened, and listened, and she got more confused as she kept listening to their conversation. 'What IS that?!' she thought shocked opening her eyes. Law moved slightly and opened his sleepy eyes. She looked at him sitting straight and stretching his arms, his eyes landed on her face
"You're awake." he said calm.
"Hmmm…"
"How are you feeling?"
"Miserable!" she growled annoyed.
Law stayed quiet for few seconds, studying her face. The cubes next to her bed were still untouched. He sighed "We need to get stronger, both of us. Much stronger."
She didn't answer. He was speaking her mind, they were already stronger than many other people out there, but it wasn't nearly enough.
"What happened?"
Lilou looked back at his face again, he looked exhausted. The dark circles under his eyes were grown larger since she last saw him, and his face held a darker impression than any other time.
"I got ahead of myself." she mumbled and looked away "Murata crashed me like an insect!" she smirked "Side effects of being overconfident with my strength!" she said with bitterness coating her words.
"Did you find anything useful?"
"Not really. Nothing new about Doffy that we don't already know. I got Garp's touch though, it'll be useful once he's back in the HQ."
Law nodded and stood up. He stopped for a moment, searching for a comforting thing to say and make her feel at least a bit better, yet he couldn't come up with anything good.
"We'll reach Loguetown in the morning. Get some more sleep." he said while walking towards the door, he stopped in the doorframe "And eat."
"Ok." she mumbled absentmindedly. He stayed still for a moment, his back to her laying figure, struggling to find a less embarrassing way to say what he wanted to.
"Lil?"
"Hmmm…"
"I… before you left I…" he exhaled and clenched his jaw "It was a foul move, what I did that morning."
Lilou turned her eyes to the back of his head and arched an eyebrow, waiting for him to continue, she stayed quiet for a minute. He looked at her over his shoulder, finding her staring at him with her head tilted, he frowned "What's with that face!?"
"Oh you're done?!" she raised her eyebrows and asked. Law frowned deeper and grumbled as he turned around "I'm trying to apologize here!"
"For kissing me?"
"For hitting you, moron!! Why would I apologize for that?"
"I don't know you do weird things. You're weird." she shrugged. His eyes widened
"You're weird! I'm just saying I shouldn't have hit you and I'm sorry that I did!"
"Long as it never happens again, fine." she calmly said and threw her arm on her eyes, a sign for ending the conversation Law noted. She wanted him to leave the room and let her be alone with herself.
"It won't." he mumbled then closed the door behind him. She moved her arm and kept staring at the empty space before her puzzled eyes.
Caesar's escape wasn't something Law would find important or useful. Caesar was Lilou's prey to hunt, not Law's, not anybody else's, only hers. And now he was lost… again! She remembered Garp's words ~more than ten battleships attacked the Navy's ships and took Caesar. No banners on their vessels, even their faces were covered with cloths. They left us no trace to follow~ the thought made her clench her jaw and fist her hands so hard that her nails jabbed into her palms, causing blood to drip on the mattress from inside her tiny fists. She rolled on her side and stared at the cubes, she was feeling hungry but didn't quite felt like eating in bed and getting her clean clothes all bloody and wet. "Whatever, I'll eat in the morning." she growled to herself and closed her eyes, trying to get some sleep and avoid the useless overthinking.
It was six thirty in the morning when Ikkaku knocked on the infirmary's door and waited for few moments as she was holding a pair of boots and few pieces of clothes from Lilou's closet.
"Who's there?" Lilou's voice shouting from inside the room made her hesitate to go in for a second, as she remembered Law's statement about Lilou going berserk and eat her up.
"It's Ikkaku, Lilou-chan."
"Who?!"
Ikkaku opened the door and gasped soon as she stepped inside. She covered her mouth and stared at Lilou with widened eyes as she saw her lounging on a chair beside her disorganized desk, resting her head on her crossed arms behind her and playfully rolling a piece of bloody bone between her lips while the morning paper was laying open on her legs, which were thrown on the desk. She was still in the white shirt Ikkaku dressed her with last night and her feather coat was resting on her shoulders. Lilou narrowed her red eyes "Who're you?!"
Ikkaku hardly pulled herself together and uncovered her mouth
"My name's Ikkaku I'm… one of the new members… of your crew…" her voice slowly dropped under Lilou's calculating gaze. She looked at Ikkaku upside down "Oh? Ok!" she shrugged and turned her eyes back on the newspaper "I saw a lot of people up there yesterday now that I think about it."
"Yeah… we were waiting for you."
Lilou twinkled her nose "You smell familiar." she looked at Ikkaku coldly from the corner of her eyes "Were you taking care of me last night?"
"I was, Lilou-chan." she said, still slightly terrified from her. Lilou turned her face to her again and grinned, her eyes turned to their original color and they suddenly looked kind and somehow childish "Oh?! Well, thank you!" she said cheerfully "You seem nice, Ikkaku." she grinned at her again. Ikkaku released the breath she was unconsciously holding and smiled at Lilou "Eeeh yeah it was nothing." she said shaking her hand in the air "I'm glad you're fine."
"Yeah I slept pretty fine." she said as she threw the paper on the desk and stood on her feet.
"I brought you some clean clothes." Ikkaku handed her the clothes, she grabbed them and cheerfully grinned "Ah thanks! I was just about to go change."
Ikkaku smiled back at her, now feeling more comfortable in her presence "Come join us in the kitchen, everyone is gathering there. Oh! And Bepo asked me to inform you that we'll arrive at Loguetown in five hours."
"COOL!" Lilou laughed out and started to take off her clothes already. Ikkaku chuckled to herself as she turned to head out, this fragile Ghoul wasn't the terrifying monster she was expecting her to be at all.
Upstairs, the kitchen fell into a heavy silence once Lilou stepped in. Seven pairs of eyes locked on her figure for few seconds, then they suddenly jumped at her all at once while cheering out loud.
"Welcome back Lilou-chan!"
"We missed you so much!"
"Why are you always doing this to us?!"
"LILOU-CHAN! WE THOUGHT WE'RE GOING TO LOOSE YOU!"
"Aaaah I'm so happy that you're back captain!"
"Please stop doing this to us!"
"AAAH FINE FINE YOU'RE KILLING ME BEPO!" Lilou yelled out trying to pull Bepo off of her head. She laughed out loud happily looking at their excited faces "I MISSED YOU GUYS TOO BUT STOP WHINING ALREADY FOR GOD'S SAKE!" she shouted cheerfully and laughed out again.
Lilou placed her coffee on the table and leaned her face down between Clione and Uni's heads "So you're the new guys. I see." she sniffed them "My! You smell delicious!" she licked her lips playfully and smirked amused, watching them shiver as sweat drops appeared on their foreheads.
"Give them a break, Lil!" Law said nonchalantly from the other corner of the kitchen, his face hidden behind the morning paper he was holding up.
"Ahahahahaha! What can't I have a little fun with my new friends?" she laughed out standing straight and patted the terrified pair's heads.
"They're not used to your weird sense of humor. Just look at their faces, you're scaring them!" he growled at her.
"Oh?! Oh! You are scared!" she looked at them surprised "Hahahaha sorry sorry! I'm not really the kind of person who eats her nakama!" she laughed cheerfully. Clione and Uni laughed too and released their tensed bodies. "Unless" she leaned down again with her kakugan activated "They smell as awfully delicious as you guys do." she mumbled into their ears with a terrifying voice. Their frightened eyes widened as they looked at her red irises and their faces turned purple.
"Lilou!" Law nearly shouted. She stood straight again, uncontrollably laughing as she walked away from them and sat down beside Shachi "Oh my God! I'm so sorry Clione, Uni, I really am!" she chuckled as she wiped her crystal-red tears "I just can't help it, it's so amusing!" she bursted out in laughter again.
"Is it really?!" Shachi growled at her and then giggled "No you're right it really is! Hahahaha!" he laughed at Clione and Uni "Oh God look at your faces!"
The four of them continued arguing for several minutes. Ikkaku chuckled "It's much more lively with her around here." she said to Bepo.
"Yeah she just can't keep it down." Bepo chuckled with amusement too.
"Lilou-chan is the exact opposite of Law!" Penguin laughed out.
"I said I'm not gonna eat you!"
"Well how do I know you won't?! I'm not even gonna sleep at nights anymore!"
"My! Stop with that already, you don't even smell good I was just teasing you!"
"EeeeH?! Of course I smell good! Who wouldn't want to eat me?!"
"Oh ok so" she turned her face to Law "Law? Would you please collect his body part in the infirmary?"
"WHAAT?!"
"What you're advertising for yourself!"
"I'm not! I'm worried about my life!"
Clione and Lilou were still at it while Uni and Shachi were heaving for air as they couldn't stop laughing at the hilarious fight.
"Drop it already, both of you!" Law grumbled at them and sent a threatening glare their way. Clione sent another annoyed look at Lilou and pouted as she teasingly laughed at him again.
"Fine I'm not even hungry now. I ate already, ask Ikkaku if you don't believe me." Lilou poured another coffee for herself "Alright I'm gonna get to work until we reach Loguetown." she said looking at the clock on the wall.
In the infirmary, she kept searching through the research files sorted by date for few minutes until she found what she was looking for. She pulled out the files and sat behind her desk, her brain filled with so many question marks. She chewed on her bottom lip as she read the files all over again carefully.
-Damaged organs: Lungs, stomach, Liver, Cerebellum, Occipital lobe-
-Cause: Confliction between Human DNA and Ghoul DNA-
-Treatment: Severing the parts hosting Human DNA from the listed organs-
-Side Effects of the Treatment: Slow regenerating process, Loss of energy, Weak performance of Kakuhou, Occasional loss of sight, Occasional dysfunctional attacks in muscle movements-
-Second Treatment: None recorded as successful-
"Hmmm…" the last file dated one year ago, None recorded as successful could be seen at the bottom line of every single record. She frowned as she leaned back on the chair. 'There must be something, we've just been missing it the whole time, there has to be something else we haven't tried yet.' her eyes widened suddenly, leaning on the desk she pulled a notebook close and started to write down sloppy sentences hurriedly before they vanish from her mind. "Yosh! Long shot but it worths giving a try!" she mumbled to herself.
Light footsteps from outside the door gained her attention, she didn't bother to turn around and see who entered the infirmary as Law's scent filled her nose. He walked towards her and read her notes while standing behind her sitting figure.
"Seriously?" he arched an eyebrow and asked.
"I've had enough of this bullshit. I can't survive the Grand Line in my current state." she mumbled still adding to her notes.
"Lil this isn't possible. It's not even a treatment it's a fantasy!" he frowned.
"Worths a shot." she said standing up and walking into the storage room. Law frowned deeper and followed her
"You can't be serious!"
"I am Law!"
"You may die!"
"Or not." she answered stubbornly as she grabbed a cube holding a human lung inside and walked to her desk again. He followed her, now really annoyed
"What are you doing?"
"Testing my theory."
"Drop it! It's not rational in any way!"
"This whole thing was not rational to begin with!" she smirked "Make a Room Law."
He kept frowning at her stubbornly with both of his hands tucked into his pockets. Lilou sighed "Please?"
He sent her an angered look and sighed "Fine." he mumbled a 'Room' and a blue spherical shaped in his palm, encompassing them in whole within a second. She cracked open the cube with her nails and placed the human lung on the clean metal surgery table in the middle of the room, filling a syringe with Rc serum, she injected a low dose of the liquid into the lung. The Rc serums Law had made years ago, were carrying her DNA as a Ghoul, injecting them into a human organ would kill the human cells residing in the organ, thus, it would turn into an organ as it could exist in a Ghoul's body. However-
"You do know that I never managed to completely erase Caesar's fuck up, I just severed the damaged parts. It's not gonna work." Law said calmly as he was standing still, watching Lilou staring at the lung like she expected it to do something special.
"The Rc serums are containing my DNA as a complete Ghoul! They're not the same as those crude Rc cells Caesar was using to create Ghouls. I can't believe I never noticed it!" she nearly whispered, with tracks of surprise and excitement in her voice.
"Even if it transforms perfectly, which I'm not expecting it happening, it'll be like doing it all over again. You'll put yourself through the whole transformation process again, and it's near to impossible for you to survive it considering your current state of physical strength."
Lilou turned her big grey eyes to his, looking at him like he was some kind of a crazy person "Of course I'll survive it! I did it once, of course I can do it again!" She walked around the table and stood in front of his tall figure "Law! It was right in front of our eyes the whole time! It's stupid not to do it now that we know it can work!"
"You'll have to go through an operation, and your body will have to bear the pain of turning into a Ghoul once again, and it might not even cure you as you're expecting it to do! The transformed organs could start to react anytime, and then I'll have to do the whole damned thing to save you from dying, AGAIN!" he grunted while leaning his upper body low enough to lock his furious glare right into her hopeful eyes "You will need me to do the operation, and I am NOT going to put your life on the line for something as stupid as this!" he continued as calm as it was possible for the amount of fury he was feeling towards her. Lilou kept staring at him in disbelief, desperately looking for the right words to convince him, to make him understand just how much she needed this misery to end.
"Law!" she whispered with her heart feeling heavy in her chest and tried to push back the desperate tears that were begging to run from her eyes "You have no idea how important it is for me, do you?"
He straightened his figure and looked down at her with his ice cold eyes. He stayed quiet and kept staring at her without saying a word for a minute. She was acting crazy, irrational and even irresponsible. Even if she was right and the organs would perfectly pass the transformation process, her body would definitely reject the new organs. It happened once, and he was sure it would happen again! And yet there she was, staring at him like a lost poppy, like it was the one and only thing she wanted him to do for her, and he didn't got much surprised when he caught himself thinking about the drastically low possibility of actually doing the crazy job she was asking him to do.
"I'm not living the life that Corazon died for. All I was was doing lately was avoiding fights and lurking behind illusions, I can't even protect myself anymore! I'm getting weaker every day!" she cupped his face with her delicate hands and mumbled "If I keep living this way, I'll get killed in another fight like the one that happened a few days ago, it's just a matter of months. Even if not, I would become a burden!"
"You won't become a burden." he said steadily, trying to keep his mind from wandering into her magical eyes and holding on to his cold gaze.
"I'll become a burden to myself." she tried to swallow the painful lump in her throat "I can't live with myself like this anymore, Law!" she hardened her hold around his face still staring into his steel-like eyes. Law studied her face, she looked hopeless, helpless. 'Why in hell can't I just ignore this madness and say no?!'
"What do you want me to do?" he asked calm, 'Oh of course! It's her!' he thought pissed at himself.
"To trust me and to help me." she whispered. He kept staring at her angel-like face for minutes, fighting a war behind his solid exterior. She was basically asking him to kill her, how couldn't she see it the way he was seeing it? What was making her believe that she can actually put herself through that awfully dangerous process and come out of it alive? He freed his face from her hands and walked towards the lung. He frowned as he studied it. Grabbing a scalpel, he severed a tiny piece from the organ. It grew back in less than a minute.
"We'll wait one year. If it was still unharmed and uninfected by that time, I'll do it. That's the condition." he said serious as he made another cube around the transformed lung. Lilou frowned and held one finger in front of his nose
"One week."
"No."
"One week, that's the longest I'm going to wait."
"NO."
"YES! One year is not even an option, even a month is too long. I was going to do it before entering the Grand Line. But I'll wait just to respect your decision. One week is the latest I can afford." she said firmly and crossed her arms under her perky breasts. Law frowned as he recognized the look on her face. Her mind was set and no one could change it at this rate, arguing was only pointless. He turned his back to her and walked into the storage room with the cube.
"I'm responsible for whatever happens to you during the operation and afterwards. There's no way I'll do a half assed job concerning your very life."
"I'll take full responsibility for it. I compromised with your condition and gave it a week, just do the damn thing for God's sake!" she nearly shouted with annoyance pouring her voice. He came back to the room and headed for the infirmary's door. He knew she wouldn't drop the issue that easily and he definitely didn't want her to follow him around and argue about it everyday, that was way too annoying.
"I have to study your theory more carefully. We will decide on the date whenever I concluded it's safe." he ended the conversation and left the room without giving her time to say anything in response. She sighed 'Better than a No at least!'
Staying in the infirmary, she kept drowning herself in documents and medical files for another two hours until Bepo informed her that they have been arrived to their destination. She dropped the whole subject that was filling her mind since earlier that morning, soon as she stepped on the deck.
'This is it! We're here! The last island before the greatest ocean in the world, GRAND LINE!' she thought as her grey eyes were shining with excitement. She grabbed the railings and stared at the city before her, Loguetown. The place where the Pirate King born, and the place where he got executed and died. She wondered how the execution place would look like. Oh how she wanted to see it. How she wanted to walk in the same streets that the legendary man, Gol D. Roger used to walk in, visit the places he used to, drink in the bars that he did, embrace every inch of the city that he used to live in. She had never aimed for his title, nor his treasure, yet she always thought of him as the greatest man that ever sailed through the seas. She was aiming for the kind of freedom only a man like Roger could have had.
"I'm guessing it's quite what you expected it to be, Saru."
She turned her head and faced Law's smirking face. "It is! I can't wait any longer!" she turned completely to Law's direction "I want to visit the execution platform, Law!" her eyes were literally sparkling with excitement. Law frowned "We don't have time for pointless wandering Lil! You're dragging too much attention with your careless attitude! Besides, you know captain Smoker resides in this town-" he stopped and stared at her grinning face, he knew her well enough to know she's not gonna act lowkey, she never did. He took a deep breath and desperately asked "You cannot care less, can you?"
"Aaaah it's alright Law! Hahahaha! This is the last island we're visiting in the four Blues before entering the Grand Line! If nothing wrecking a havoc only makes it more awesome, hahahahah!" she looked around impatiently "Where's everyone? What's taking them so long? I can't wait any longer!" she then placed her hands around her mouth and shouted "OOOOOIIII GUUUYYYSSSSS! HURRY YOUR ASSES UP I'M GONNA LEAVE FOR THE CITY NOW!"
Few minutes later, the whole crew was on the port except for Bepo who was supposed to watch the sub while they were gone, and he also didn't feel comfortable outside in warm and sunny days like that. Law was watching Lilou as she was climbing down the ladder, wondering how could an annoying little girl like she used to be, turn into a woman who her beauty could compete with even Boa Hancock's and easily defeat it, not that she cared about something like that though.
And Law didn't fail to notice the lustful gazes she was receiving from every single man she passed by. He frowned at the idea and added speed to his steps until he was walking beside Lilou and Clione, sending threatening gazes at anyone who dared to look at her. The tight white top she wore was boosting the magnificent display of her perky breasts as her velvet-like skin was glowing under the sun. Her splendid legs moved in such harmony as if she was dancing as she walked down the street.
"-that's where that kid from earlier said it was, Captain-chan!" Clione said.
"YOSH! Got it. Then, I'll catch up with you guys for dinner!" Lilou said to Clione cheerfully. She turned to Law's questioning grey eyes "Hey Law! You wanna come too? I'm going to see the execution platform! Yehihihi!" she laughed out as she was almost jumping rather than walking.
Law narrowed his eyes "No. I'm staying with the guys buying ingredients and fuel, I want to stop by some bookstores too." she stared at him with her magical eyes and he felt his heart skipping a beat as she smiled at him. For the thousandth time, he thanked God for she couldn't see what was going on inside his mind at that moment, and for he had such an outstanding power to keep his exteriors calm and solid.
"Oh! Then would you mind keep an eye for those alchemy books I told you about earlier?" she asked with a wide grin on her face.
Law turned his eyes back to the street again "Fine." he shrugged his shoulders. 'Like I could say no!' he thought.
What was she doing to him? It's been about three years for God's sake! Could it be that she really was seeing him as her closest friend who just randomly kissed her once and nothing more? That would make sense considering the fact that she never actually seemed to care about the countless amount of women he kept hooking up with! But to be fair, she was even better with fake expressions than Law, and he knew it very well. It was clear to him, no matter how hard he tried, it was just impossible to deny his feelings for her, he was already deep into trouble.
"Arigatō." she said still smiling "I'll get going then."
"The city's full of Marines, Saru! Don't get yourself in trouble." he warned her.
"Aaaah yeah don't worry about that I won't let them catch me while I'm inside their base. I've been wanting to see this Smokey guy anyways." she said casually. Law's eyes widened
"I JUST told you to stay out of trouble! What kind of a BAKA are you?!" he barked at her.
"AHAHAHAHAHA!" she laughed out again as she ran towards the alley to their right. "Seee yaaa…" she shouted childishly and waved at them as she ran inside the alley. Law exhaled with exhaustion and shook his head. Shachi laughed out from behind him and said "Don't worry captain! She'll be fine."
"Just a little while earlier today she was giving me this whole speech about avoiding fights and hiding behind illusions! This woman will be the end of me!" Law growled more like he was talking to himself while walking towards the rest of the crew which were stopping by a mechanical shop, picking out engine materials for the sub.
It was starting to get dark as Lilou absentmindedly walked in the direction of that local bar she was meant to join with her nakama in. Her brain was overworking and causing a buzz in her ears as she was recalling her spying session in Smoker's base earlier that day. She knew Luffy was here a couple days before. What triggered her was what she heard about the way he escaped from Smoker. She had heard rumors about that man before, and from what that Navy soldier defined, she was pretty much sure that it was none other that him who messed with Luffy and Smoker's fight, leaving her brother an escape route to take and run away. But what was bugging her at the moment was that tall hooded figure who walked past her an hour ago. Her sharp eyes been catching glances of him -didn't look like a woman's shape- ever since she parted from Law and the others, too much in fact. To the point that she was sure he's following her around. On the rooftops, in the shadows of the walls, amongst the people, he was everywhere. And then when she was finally walking alone in an empty street, there he was again in front of her, slowly walking past her and when she turned back, he was gone. Like gone gone! Why was he here? What could possibly cause him wandering in some random city stalking her and Luffy? And just WHY Smoker and him seemed to get along with each other to the point that he literally stopped chasing Luffy after he interfered. She never really knew him anyways, but she didn't think he was simply hanging around there just to set his children off to the Grand Line. 'Dammit! Of all the people, why is Monkey D. Dragon, my FATHER has to be here?! Coincidental situations just don't work like that!' she thought annoyed before she entered the bar where everyone was waiting for her.
She readjusted her fluffy hat and hid her puzzled eyes soon as she caught a glance of Law's nodachi by the bar. A sudden rush of rage heated up her ears soon as she saw a blonde whore leaning her head down towards Law's sitting figure, seductively whispering something in his ear as his left hand rested on her waist. 'Sick! sick sick sex addict monster!' she growled in her head. She quietly sat in the right side of Law and detached her katanas from her back and placed them next to Law's nodachi. Law suddenly realized her and his eyes widened for a very short second. He turned back to the blonde by his side and said
"Why don't you go to my friend over there, Ginny?" he pointed at Uni with slight movement of his head. He wasn't even enjoying her company anyways, he was just desperately looking for a way to keep his mind from wandering around Lilou. The blonde stroked his sharp cheek bone and said "Well I like what I'm seeing here more, Mister Surgeon Of De-" she stopped soon as she saw Lilou's murderous gaze on her. She smiled at Lilou and stood straight. As she was passing them she said "That can't be helped though, if you insist." and sent a wink to Law as she walked away.
"Jeez she was hot! Did I ruin your fun?" Lilou said mockingly as she grabbed her bottle of sake from the bartender, the visor of her hat still shadowing her big eyes.
"No. Just a random." Law shortly answered and watched her bare arms as her puffy coat fell down on the chair. Her skin was glowing under the amber lighting of the place.
"Oh I see." Lilou mumbled absentmindedly. He looked at her shadowed face in the dim light and immediately noticed something was off.
"How did it went? Since I can't see a bunch of Marines running after you I suppose we can leave without wrecking a havoc." he smirked. She giggled and said "Aaaah yeah… What a shame, leaving so peacefully." Law laughed in amusement. Of course she wanted a good warmup before leaving for Grand Line. "Did you see Smoker?" he asked.
She paused before answering him. Law never knew who her father was, she wasn't hiding it though, the subject just simply never came up.
"I did, the White Chase looks just like his name. Also…" she turned to Law completely "I gathered some odd informations about a certain man who by the way is still in the city, in fact, I ran into him an hour ago." Law tensed by her serious voice, something was bugging her.
"Who's he?" he narrowed his eyes. She stayed silent for a minute, as if she was trying to gather her thoughts and a little shrinkage took place on the corner of her heart shaped lips. It was her overthinking signature and Law knew it very well. She drank from her bottle and frowned.
"You remember that article from few days ago, about my brother, Luffy, the one that said he escaped this island after fighting Smoker?" she finally spoke. Law nodded his head. She continued
"Well from what I found out today, this man I told you about interfered the fight and Smoker seemed to made peace with that. And the same man was following me around the city today, and I'm guessing he wanted me to notice him. And then on my way here, he just walked past me and then completely vanished. Based on what I gathered today from Smokey's base and matching them with previous pieces of information I had, I can conclude that this man is the head of the Revolutionary Army, Dragon." her gaze fixed on Law's surprised eyes "My father." and she fell silent. Law's mind was filling with millions of questions. What business does the first man of the Revolutionary Army could possibly have here? He's the most wanted man in the whole world, not to mention the most dangerous one, and captain Smoker seemed to be involved with him in some way? And…
"The head of the Revolutionary Army is your father?" he asked out the weirdest one.
"Yes. However, we never saw him, Luffy and I. But about time I was learning to read, I saw his name in a newspaper and asked gramps about it since our surnames matched. He told me he's my father."
Law was tapping his chin with his index finger. "Well that explains why the Navy is so obsessed with you. But why is one of them is getting along with Dragon?" he mumbled.
"That's exactly what bothers me the most." she frowned. She looked at the crowd and found her wasted friends singing and dancing around the bar. She attached the two katanas to her back again and placed her coat on her shoulders. "Well, I'm gonna try and see if anyone knows anything about him since we're here…" she said as she grabbed her sake and walked away, leaving the confused Law alone with his thoughts. He stayed there by the bar and kept drinking while his mind was lining theories and possibilities for him to struggle with.
After an hour or so he looked around searching for Lilou. He was rather drunk after finishing two and a half large bottles of sake and it all just went to hell soon as his eyes caught her sitting among a group of men, clearly flirting with the biggest one of them as his hand was slowly moving with the intention of touching her butt. Touching HER! Law jumped and grabbed his nodachi. What the hell was she up to! He walked as fast as the crowd was letting him to. His blood was boiling with anger as he saw her following the man who was holding her waist now to a door at the end of the bar. Law clenched his teeth and growled like a wild animal and ran to them. He then walked in front of them and met Lilou's surprised eyes, her cheeks were flushed and her long black eyelashes were batting on her heavy eyelids. Law gazed at the man and noticed he was seeing Lilou through a phantom since his expressions seemed cockier than someone who would actually knew it was Monkey D. Lilou walking with him.
"Mind explaining where are you taking this young lady?" his voice was cold as ice. The man arrogantly showed his teeth and growled
"It's none of your business, you fucking brat!" obviously having no idea who Law was.
"I'm afraid it is, now get your fucking hands off my lady unless you don't mind loosing that filthy head of yours." Law calmly answered with the deadliest voice Lilou ever heard coming out of his mouth. 'My lady?!' Lilou thought shocked. Law unsheathed his nodachi halfway and stared at the man.
"Law! Stay out of this!" she coldly said staring at his angered face. His eyes were still fixed on the other man's face. The man narrowed his eyes and barked "Law you said? Could you be that infamous Trafalgar Law by any chance?"
"Chances are high I am. Now move your hand and get lost."
The man stilled for a second, then he laughed out as he turned around and said "Well, one spoiled whore isn't worth the trouble I gotta say. Here, have your lady." he added a mocking tone to his last word and left. Law roughly grabbed Lilou's wrist and dragged her behind him outside the bar.
"Just what the fuck did you think you were doing?" he shouted in her face once they were outside.
Lilou shouted back as she was struggling to free her hand from his painfully strong grip "I was doing my damn business until you jumped in ruining it! The guy was a smuggler with connections all over the town! I was luring him into a private room so I could beat some information out of him and you just fucked it up you idiot!"
"Luring him?! So is this how you do your job while you're gone? Whoring around like the bitch you are with whomever it is, letting them fuck you so you can get information?" he yelled at her and slammed her back to the wooden wall of the building behind her. Her face turned red at his statement.
"Watch your mouth now you shitty monster! Whoring around like the bitch I am?! How dare you how fucking dare YOU of all the people to call ME a whore? The only whore I can see here is YOU! AM I THE ONE WHOSE SHARING BED WITH EVERY DAMN WOMAN I SEE? I had never even kissed anyone before YOU! HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU LETTING YOURSELF CALL ME A WHORE HUH?!" she screamed at the top of her lungs as her whole body was shaking in rage. His face turned pale. He fucked up! He loosened his grip around her wrist
"I didn't mean that, you know I didn't! Stop screaming." he said calmly, probably the worst thing he could say as a response, he realized as soon as her eyes widened and she slapped his face with her free hand. His eyes went black for a second by the amount of power she poured into that slap.
"You disgust me, Trafalgar!" she said with a shivering voice. She just wanted to rip him apart at that moment. "You're a sick pervert and you disgust me to the point that I want to throw you into the sea and never see that face of yours ever again."
Her words hit him like bullets and he pressed his eyes shut as the taste of blood filled his mouth.
"So you think I'm disgusting. I see…" he steadily said with his low, male voice "Then you should know that the idea of you sharing bed with others is disgusting for me!" he looked deep in her wet grey eyes. He made her angry enough to cry, he noted.
"Why in the world do you even care?! Have I ever argued about your sex life all these years? Why do you think you have the right t-"
He grabbed her throat with his other hand, pressing her through the wall he yelled "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU! THAT GIVES ME THE RIGHT TO BE DISGUSTED WITH THE IDEA OF ANYONE ELSE FUCKING YOU!"
Lilou froze. Her mind went shut by the shock of what he just said. How could it be possible that right at the moment she thought she couldn't hate him more he managed to make it possible? Loved her?! Bullshit! How could he love her when he constantly made it obvious for her that he never cares for women in any way rather than fucking them?! How could he say he loves her while he was almost chocking her to death and breaking her hand at the same time, right after calling her a whore?! Just how this childhood friend of hers ended up being this fucked in the head?!
Law studied her puzzled face as he was breathing hard and heavy. Was she that stupid? Wasn't it obvious from the beginning? Or was it simply because of his awful way of expressing his emotions? This whole thing was still new territory for him and he was doing nothing but trying to handle it the best way he knew! Didn't she know him at all?! He suddenly noticed how hard he was grabbing her throat and immediately let go of it. His eyes noticed the bruises on her delicate skin as they slowly started to heal. 'Dammit!'
"Lil…" he desperately whispered and rested his forehead on the wall and her face got buried in his strong chest. He let go of her wrist and punched the wall right next to her head. She jumped at the sound. She had never seen him this desperate before. It was like he's struggling to keep his sanity. Lilou understood him, that didn't change the fact that she was still disturbed by his disgusting behavior, but she partly understood. It was the only way he knew.
"All I wanted was for you to react in some way, any way! So I know it's not going to be a complete failure like it turned out to be! I never wanted you to disgust me…" he mumbled above her head.
She lifted her hands slowly and hugged him. His eyes widened. She exhaled with exhaustion and whispered
"My… so you are a complete baka after all."
He lifted his head from the wall and looked down into her eyes. They were soft now. No trace of anger could be found in them. Only surprise and slight amusement and 'Affection?!' he thought in disbelief.
"I believe I am." he whispered, then held her little angelic face with both hands and leaned down. Their hearts were beating loud and fast as their grey eyes locked on each other. Her warm breath was tickling his face, making him want to make love with her right there. She inhaled his scent, pine leafs mixed with a slight smell of steel, her favorites. And his steel grey irises looked like the most soothing things she ever laid her eyes on. Hearing him saying those words was something she never even dared to wish for, it felt unreal, more like a scene from a dream.
He stroked her silky hair and inhaled her sweet scent of carnation flowers. She brushed the tip of her soft finger on his lips. He was loosing his mind, how close she was to him at that moment, and it was literally his last chance to win her heart. Alcohol finally spoke those words in his place, and the thought of loosing her to his ego once again made him want to burn the whole island to the ground. Thinking about the operation she wanted him to perform on her, he noticed that even loosing her to herself was enough to drive him insane for the rest of his life. He gently leaned closer and pressed his lips on hers. She was burning. She kissed him back and ran her fingers on his chest. He continued kissing her with more passion, savoring her taste, her touch, her scent, she was the center of his universe, she was his treasure to protect and cherish with all his might. Loosing her was not an option, not having her all for himself was not an option.
Their scorching lips parted for a second, looking deep into her red irises he realized the only option was for him to keep her safe and alive, and to love her with everything he had.
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