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When Law woke up the next morning, he found a head of black spotted white hair on his chest and a leopard's tail wrapped around his waist. He smirked upon seeing Ariun's cheek pressed against his chest with a peaceful smile on her face. One of her ears twitched occasionally as did her tail making him wonder about what she was dreaming of. He turned his head towards the clock in his room and noticed that he had slept for three hours more than he usually did. He glanced back at Ariun and saw that she was still deeply asleep. Mentally shrugging, he carefully maneuvered her off of him and got out of bed to get ready for the day.

Steam surrounded me and hot water curled around me. I glanced around and immediatly noticed that I was in Law's bathtub once again. Only this time, I wasn't injured. I contemplated what that meant when I heard a familiar chuckle, "Ariun-ya you didn't wait for me."

"Was I supposed to?" I replied with a soft snort.

"I suppose not," Law once against picked me up and got into the tub before setting me down on his lap.

Rather than lay against him, I turned so that my knees were on either side of his legs and I was facing him, "Didn't I tell you to not pick me up like that?"

"Didn't I tell you that I don't listen to anyone's orders," He replied as he reached out to cup my cheek and ran his thumb across my cheek.

I groaned softly before asking, "Must you do that?"

He chuckled in reply and leaned forward to capture my lips into a kiss. The kiss however was much diffrent from the others we had shared. Before they were slightly run of the mill with only a small amount of heat, the kiss we shared now was filled with passion and made me moan softly. Law broke the kiss as air became needed and kissed his way down my jaw to my neck. I gasped as he found my sweet spot causing me to moan softly as he nipped and sucked at it. He pulled away from my neck to murmur, "You're quiet in bed aren't you?"

I smirked at him in reply before pushed forward to initiate another kiss. One of his hands was running up and down my side as the other gripped at my hair. I pulled away and kissed my way down his jaw as he had done moments before. I nipped and sucked at various spots on his neck until-

"...iun-ya," Law's voice cut through my dream.

I groaned softly as I opened my eyes to glare at him, "Why did you wake me up?"

"You need to get up," He replied with an amused smirk, "I need to check your injury,"

"Couldn't you do that while I was asleep?" I asked while trying to ignore my dream for the moment.

"Yes, but you need to get ready for the day as well and I do not have much time to help you get ready," He pulled the blanket off of me and held out a hand, "Time to get up,"

Groaning softly, I grabbed his hand and let him help me sit up.

After Law had gotten Ariun up and ready for the day, they ate breakfast and he left to check on the crew. Amusingly enough, he only had to deal with four people with bad hangovers, two people with new piercings, and only one person with a broken finger. Law wouldn't admit it aloud, but the actions of his crew always amused the hell out of him especially when they got drunk. He left the two people with new piercings alone while telling them, "You deal with the consequences of your actions."

It had amused the hell out of him that one of those idiots had been Kuro and the other had been Shachi. The person with the broken finger had been Kuro as well prompting Law to somewhat forgive the idiotic brunette for being the cause of a missed chance to kiss Ariun. Once he had those people settled, he went to check on the navigators. Bepo was the first to greet him, "Hello Captain!"

The bear's voice was the perfect mixture of loudness and sharpness that caused the other navigators to cry out in pain. Law chuckled at the innocent way Bepo took revenge on his crewmates for their actions towards him. The fact that none of them realized that this was how the bear got his revenge just made the situation all the more amusing. It was one of the reasons Law had never bothered to correct their behavior though he did wonder when they would realize what the bear was doing and take the hint. Shaking those thoughts away, he asked, "How are we doing?"

"Currently we're traveling at a faster rate than normal due to the fact the currents seem to be with us today," Bepo answered gaining a smirk from Law, "If the currents stay with us the rest of the day, our travel time will be cut down a few days,"

"What is your current estimation of how long it'll be until we reach the next island?" He asked feeling pleased with how things were going.

"Currently we're two days ahead of schedule meaning we should reach the island within the next two weeks give or take a day," Ah that would mean they would be at an island by the time Ariun had healed fully.

"Good. Anything we should be worried about?" He asked gaining a nod from Bepo.

"We're approaching an underwater volcano field," Bepo answered with a slight frown, "From what we can tell, we won't be able to go fully around it and we'll need to surface fairly soon to avoid the tops of the volcanoes,"

"Can you take us to the edge of the field?" Law disliked the danger those fields provided.

"Yes," Law nodded at that.

"Then take us to the edge and surface when you must," He ordered gaining a series of nods from his navigators, "Send someone outside once we surface to watch for any ships. I do not want to caught off guard should there be someone waiting on the other side of the field,"

"Aye Captain!" He left the navigation room and made his way to his office.

I picked up the edge of my shirt as sweat poured down my front, "Damn it's hot," The door opened up and Law walked in, "Why the hell is it so hot?"

"We're passing over an underwater volcano field," He explained making me groan softly, "Feeling warm?"

"Yes," I panted softly, "I'm tempted to take my shirt off,"

The dark blue button down was becoming soaked in sweat which only made it worse. Law chuckled at that, "Then take the shirt off. You have bandages covering your chest up and no one's going to come in here other than me."

I took his suggestion and unbuttoned my shirt before tossing it towards the couch across from me. I sighed softly, "That feels a little better, but not much," I leaned back against the couch, "Is it almost time to check my injury?"

"Yes," He was walking over to me, "Are you in any pain?"

"It's just a dull ache," I answered as I moved my bag away, "It hurts if I move too much, so I'm staying as still as possible,"

"That's both good and slightly worrisome," Law replied as he reached me and began undoing the bandages on my chest after setting the things he needed down.

"How so?" I looked at him curiously.

"Good because it means you aren't stressing your injury too much which will allow it to heal faster," He answered as he quickly got the bandages off and peeled away the gauze over my stitches, "The worrisome part is that the pain medication I'm giving you isn't effective,"

Upon hearing the second part, I smiled in amusement, "Don't worry too much about it. When it comes to stuff like pain medication, I develop an immunity to it fairly fast."

"Why?" He looked over the stitches.

"I think it's due to the experiments that scientist did on me," I shivered as Law prodded at the sensitive flesh around the stitches, "It's probably a defense my body created after one too many times that man put me under or something,"

"If I have to do a major surgery, it means you'll be without the benefit of pain relief," Law commented while picking up a jar of some kind and unscrewing the lid after pulling on some gloves.

I watched as he got out some white cream and smeared it on my injury causing me to hiss as it immediatly began to sting. After the sting faded, I said, "I've dealt with pain before, so it won't be too bad. Sometimes it's better to feel the pain than not since it'll tell you if you're doing something to worsen the injury."

"True," He placed a clean thing of gauze on me before taking off his gloves, "I take it you learn by pain?"

"Sometimes," Law grabbed a fresh roll of bandages and began rewrapping my injury, "Law what's your goal exactly?"

"My goal?" He paused for a few moments, "I wish to become king of the pirates after getting rid of Joker," He looked at me, "What about you?"

He could tell she was surprised by the question and wondered if anyone had asked her that question before. She shook of her surprise fairly soon and said, "After killing Him, I guess it's to help you with your goals."

"What will happen after I succeed?" He asked causing her to frown softly, "Ariun-ya?"

She was quiet for a few minutes which was all the time it took for him to finish wrapping up her injury. He put everything away and sat down next to her. She finally spoke after a few more moments, "I...do not know."

"You don't know?" He pressed with some confusion.

She shook her head with a frown, "The thing is," She looked at him and he was surprised to see a small amount of hesitation, "I do not know if I'll survive fighting him. Sure I'll kill him, I know that much, but the question is: Will I be strong enough to survive?" She bit her lip, "I know that I'm nowhere near strong enough right now, but how strong will I be by the time we face him?"

Law understood her concern as he faced the same problem. The pink bastard was strong and he damn well knew that if faced with him now, he would be killed before he could do any real damage. He knew that they would need to train their asses off to become strong enough to at least face them with even a small chance to win. The question that always burned in his mind since he had come up with this plan came to mind: Would he be strong enough to kill the pink bastard and live as Corazan wanted him to? Law pushed those thoughts away for the moment as he spoke to Ariun, "We won't know until that point, so the best thing to do is train."

"I can't," She gestured to her bandaged chest.

"Not while your injured, I meant once you're fully healed," Law chuckled slightly in amusement while Ariun blushed lightly in embarrassment, "We'll spar as often as we can and train with our devil fruits,"

"I know most of what I can do with mine," Ariun looked at him with a slight frown, "I don't think there's much more I can learn about it,"

"Zoan users are slightly limited compared to other devil fruits, but I'm sure there's more to your devil fruit," Ariun bit her lip again prompting him to lean forward and press a kiss to her lips.

He took her bottom lip into his mouth and nibbled on it lightly. Ariun moaned softly from the contact. He released her bottom lip and decided to explore her mouth a little bit more.

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