Law lay awake that night, unable to sleep. How was he supposed to sleep when he was the cause for someone's death? Does that make him a murderer? Or at least an accomplice? If he turned the thing in what would he say? Yeah, this is a demon I made a contract with a few weeks ago and he took it upon himself to murder my dead-beat uncle to grant my wish? Of course not! He'd be locked up inside a hospital before he could even explain himself.
He groaned in frustration, turning to face the plain walls of bedroom. No matter how many times he let his eyes drift close, his mind would start to wander to thoughts he didn't want to think about. He laid with his eyes closed for several more moments before he finally came to the conclusion that he would not be sleeping tonight. Grabbing his phone of the shelf above his head, he clicked that bright screen on; sliding his finger over the screen.
After some hours, he checked the time noting that it was already 3 in the morning. He still didn't feel like sleeping, but after hours of mindlessly scrolling through nothing he had nothing left to do; that's when he noticed that a certain cynical demon wasn't passed out next to him like normal. Out of nowhere, a loud thud echoed throughout the apartment causing Law to let out a deep breathes, "What did it do now?" He whispered into the darkness of his room.
He walked into the pitch black hallway, turning into the open area where the living room and kitchen connected only to find the only light in the room was the dim white light of the moon and the obvious glowing fridge light coming from the kitchen. He sighed, knowing what he was going to find.
Law flipped the light switch, startling the demon out from behind the fridge door with food stuffed in its face and crumbs all over its clothes. "Are you serious?"
The demon stared at him like a deer caught in headlights, after a few moments; it began chewing what was in its mouth and gulped before coughing. "I thought you were sleeping."
"Why aren't you?" Law questioned, the demon normal went to sleep before him and he doubted that the thing was awake for the same reasons Law was.
The demon shrugged in response, turning back to the fridge for more food. Law felt his blood rise in anger, who the hell does this thing it is? He stomped over to the fridge; slamming the heavy shut on the demons wrist, a loud crack following.
Luffy looked at him with surprised eyes. "Someone's brave."
"No, I'm just tired of your shit, stop eating all my food." Law challenged, he knew the thing wouldn't hurt him.
The demon hummed in response, pulling his wrist out from the door. Law watched with disgust as it snapped its bone back into place. Okay, that was just gross.
"You're annoying, you know that?" Luffy sighed, walking back over to the living room couch which he had made his bed for the night.
Law laughed lightly, "I'm annoying? You're kidding."
"It's true, you've always been pretty annoying."
Law's mouth dropped in shock, this thing had to be joking. "What do you mean 'always'? You've known me for a week! If anyone's annoying around here it's you."
The raven demon muttered to his self, annoyed with the teen's loud voice. "You never used to be this difficult."
Law shook his head and his foot hit the floor with loud bang. "There you go again saying ridiculous things! We just met, what the hell are you talking about?!"
The demon huffed in annoyance, turning back to the couch; exhausted from this conversation. But, as Luffy laid his head against the pillow he had stolen from Law's room; he was flipped off the sofa and onto the floor.
"No, I am not done talking to you, you piece of shit. Answer the question." Trafalgar's eyes were burning with anger; he was not having no more. All the demon had been doing was running around his questions, covering its answers up with insults and insisting that he knew the teen prior to the week they had spent together.
It was silent for a long moment, the only noise that could be heard were the driving of cars passing by every so often. Law stared down at the demon that lay out on his floor; eyes closed pretending that it's asleep. The teen was not patient enough to wait any longer; just as he brought his foot back to kick the thing, Luffy sighed with irritation clear in his breaths.
Opening up one eye, to revel a questioning raven look, "you ever hear of the Great Pirate Era?"
"…" Law was completely confused. What did pirates have to do with the current situation? But, seeing the demon look serious about this; he chose to play along. "Yeah, we studied it freshman year. Why?"
Luffy sat up crossing his legs, motioning for the teen to sit down as well. "I see, well did you study a pirate named; Monkey D. Luffy?"
"Yeah, the pirate king, right? He was pretty cool to read about."
The demon smiled at this, "I'm Monkey D. Luffy, king of the pirates."
The teen stared wide eyed at the demon in disbelief. "He's dead, there's no way you're him."
But, when he began to think about it everything fit together. Monkey D. Luffy died at the age of 21 but, in his young age he had achieved the world's greatest treasure; the One Piece, naming him the King of the pirate's right before he died in battle. His crew went on to fulfill his dream of absolute freedom on the ocean and their dreams as well, most of all of them becoming famous figures in history to this day.
Everything clicked together; this demon's form had to be at least 20 years old. "Holy shit…"
"I see you've put it all together, but to answer your question; I know you because I used to date you or well, the you from 500 years ago."
"Eh?!"
Luffy averted his eyes to stare out the window into the night sky. "I died saving the Law back then; he was seriously injured to the point where I knew Chopper couldn't fix him. He told me that it was okay, and that I'll be fine but, I knew wasn't going to be fine; nothing was ever going to be fine again if I lost him too. So what did I do? I cried and screamed, I did not want to lose another person I loved, I didn't want to feel that pain again. That was when something came into my mind and asked if I would give my life to save his…" He trailed off, turning to look at the teen who was still complete blown away from this whole confession.
Noting the look on Law's face, the demon continued. "…Of course I said I would, and just like that I felt my life slowly drifting away from me. I didn't even get to tell him I love him."
Law shook his head. "Wait, from what I read about you; they say you were a one of the good pirates that didn't hurt or steal from people, so, then how the hell did you end up a demon?"
The raven's eyes sharpened with such intensity that the teen felt like he was being stabbed in the chest with a sharp knife. "Because even though I wasn't a bad person and even if I did what I did to save someone's life; I still sold my soul and that is a sin that tops all good deeds."
"This still doesn't make any sense, how could you have dated me 500 years ago, if I'm right here?" Law questioned, what was happening? He was gay in a past life? Could he really believe this story?
"Doesn't matter if it makes sense or not, you look exactly like him; and that alone was the only reason why I accepted your impossible request. If I had known you were such a pain now, I would have denied you."
Law felt the anger that had subsided start to fill him up again when Luffy spoke again, gripping the teens hand within his own. "And that is why I will make you happy. No matter what I have to do."
Going of the events that occurred today and the way this demon was looking at him with such an unfading determined stare.
He knew that Luffy really meant what he said, that he will absolutely anything.
And strangely, he was okay with that.
A/N: Sorry, this took so long. I had school and such to deal with; but I didn't want to keep you guys waiting any longer so, I stayed up late to write this for you guys. I hope you enjoy this chapter; it only gets crazier from here. :)