Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece. Oh, and I don't own 'You Don't Know Me' song by Michael Buble. Hehe, almost forgot to mention.

Author's Note: Sorry for not updating sooner as I was busy preparing for some test. I'm going to turn this one-shot into a multi-chapter instead because it's much simpler this way. Besides, this is going to be a long story with many things still needed to be explained. If it is a one-shot I have no idea how many it'll take, lol. I might need to change the title and summary later to better suit this story. Here's a new chapter, enjoy 

Chapter 2: Bad Day

Luffy woke up in the morning with a groan as the phone beside his bed rang. He had his face buried in the pillow. He had cried himself to sleep last night. Even now his heart still aches.

He reached out to grab the phone. "Hello?"

"Luffy, what the hell are you doing right now!? You're late for work like one hour ago!" It was Sanji on the phone. "Zeff is going to cut down your salary if you're not here by nine fifteen."

"Huh? Nine fifteen?" Luffy snapped out of his grogginess and grabbed the clock beside his bed. It was nine o' clock in the morning. He was so late. His work actually started at 8 o' clock.

"I'll be there," Luffy sighed and replied not too enthusiastically.

"You better be. You really don't want to get scolded by him, trust me." Sanji hung up.

Luffy got up and went into the bathroom to wash up. "I look terrible," he said to himself when he saw himself on the mirror. He eyes were red from crying last night.

He quickly washed up and dressed up in his sailor uniform which is the Baratie's uniform. He put on his straw hat instead of the white sailor hat. Zeff don't really mind he wore the straw hat instead to work. It was a special hat to Luffy. It was given to him by his childhood hero, Captain Shanks. Shanks is a infamous pirate that came to his hometown, long time ago. Shanks saved him from the Sea King and lost an arm in the process because Luffy couldn't swim due to have eaten the devil fruit and at that time he was just six. Luffy vowed to become a great pirate someday to return the hat to him. Shanks said he'll be waiting for that day.

But until now, Luffy couldn't go out to sea because of the duties that tied him here. After all these years, he had become a great assassin instead of a great pirate and he is just seventeen. He had a bounty of three hundred million belis over his head but since his face and real identity is not known, it is difficult to hunt him down.

He had debts to repay the guild. A debt that he was not sure when he can finish repaying. For an assassin, to leave the guild will be difficult. Until now, Luffy couldn't find the best solution to leave the island to go out to sea to become a pirate and find his family. He had been separated from his family for a long time and he wished to go out and find them.



After eating two pieces of bread and down a glass of milk, he ran to the Baratie as quickly as he could. He had only five minutes left.

Luckily for him, he reached there just in time. "You're finally here, lazy bum," Sanji said, when he saw Luffy entered the kitchen. He was in the middle of his cooking.

Luffy grinned as best as he could to conceal his sadness, "Yo, Sanji. I guess I overslept."

Sanji replied a 'cheh'. Then he noticed Luffy's eyes were slightly red with dark circles underneath. "Are you okay, Luffy?" he asked concerned.

"Of course I'm okay," Luffy replied with a smile. "Is there anything you need me to do right now?"

Zoro really did hurt his feelings, Sanji thought. "Yeah, go wash the dishes."

"Okay!"

Sanji watched as Luffy went over to the sink and started washing that pile of dishes. Even in the morning, the restaurant has many customers. Sanji couldn't help but wonder why such an infamous assassin wants to do the crappy job of a waiter. No, wait. He hasn't fully believed Luffy is one until he sees it with his own eyes.

CRASH!

The sound of broken dishes got him out of his thoughts. A plate slipped from Luffy's hand and fell on the floor, broken into pieces.

"S-sorry, it was an accident," Luffy apologized quickly, turning to his right to face Sanji. His shoulder accidentally pushed a stack of coffee cups piled high, and all of them went crashing down to the floor as well.

"Arrgghhhh! Luffy! What the hell is wrong with you!?" Sanji screamed. He was furious, he was clenching his head with his hands and his jaw dropped in horror at the disaster.

"I'm sorry! I'll clean them up," Luffy said quickly.

"NO!" Sanji yelled. He grabbed a note pad and a pen and shoved them into Luffy's hands. "Go take the customers' orders instead. I'll clean them up. Get out of here before you break anymore things!"

"Fine," Luffy sulked, and went out of the kitchen to take the customer's orders. He was upset about his emotions getting in the way with his work.

Unfortunately for Luffy, he was as bad as taking orders as he was doing the dishes today. He couldn't concentrate on listening to the customer's orders. His mind kept wandering about the incident last night.



"Hey! Are you listening!?" a man asked him angrily when he found Luffy staring into the note pad as if in a daze.

"Huh?" Luffy snapped out of it. "Um, yeah! I'm listening. Umm…what was it again?"

Now, that man is furious. He pointed at him angrily and scolded, "You useless brat! If you cannot do a job properly then don't do at all!"

"What seems to be the problem here?" Zeff suddenly came over and ask.

Uh-oh, I'm in trouble, Luffy thought darkly.

"He was daydreaming while he was taking my order!" that man yelled.

Zeff looked at Luffy and asked, "Luffy, what's the matter with you? You are not like this usually."

"Zeff, it's just that I-I'm…not in a mood to work today," Luffy said apologetically, lowering his head dejectedly.

Zeff sighed and slapped himself on the forehead. "Go home, Luffy."

"Huh?" Luffy wasn't quite sure what he heard correctly.

"Go home. Take a day off. You're in no shape to work today." Zeff said and sighed. He turned away from him walked to the kitchen in disappointment. Luffy felt bad for disappointing him.

"Go home, you stupid dummy," the man taunted. "You're best suited for the job of a garbage man. Hahahaha!"

Luffy glared at him in anger. He wanted so much to punch that man in the face. If he was in a dark alley with him right now Luffy wouldn't hesitate to kill him.

Luffy refrained himself from beating him up and said, "Be careful what you say to me or you'll find yourself dead in bed one day." After that he walked away from him.

"Oooohhh, I'm so scared. What are you going to do to me, you scrawny brat. Hahahaha!" he taunted after him. The other customers were staring at the commotion.

Luffy ignored him and headed home. When he reached home, he turned on the radio and flung himself onto his bed.

You give your hand to me
Then you say hello
I can hardly speak
My heart is beating so
And anyone can tell
You think you know me well
But you don't know me



No, you don't know the one
Who dreams of you at night
And longs to kiss your lips
And longs to hold you tight
Oh I'm just a friend
That's all I've ever been
'Cause you don't know me…

Luffy sighed to himself and let the music rocked him to sleep.

X X X

Well, Luffy wasn't the only one having a bad day, Zoro was as well. He was grumpy and snappish the whole day. Part of him felt guilty about last night but another part of him felt is wrong to love Luffy.

Unfortunately for him, he didn't have anyone to arrest to get his mind of things. He kept feeling something was missing and at last realized that he didn't have anything to look forward to after work. Usually he called Luffy up to chat every night and sometimes go out with him.

Get over it, Zoro, he scolded himself inwardly. What do I expect to happen between me and Luffy? He's an assassin and I'm the Captain of the Guards. He's working outside of the law while I'm working under the law.

But he knew eventually they'll have to confront each other as enemies. He has to capture him and bring him to justice.

Somehow the eagerness to capture him before to gain fame or perhaps promotion had diminished. He felt a sense of dread capturing someone he once loved and condemning him to a fate of pain and death.

Now he's sitting in the headquarters of the Guards with General Smoker. Smoker summoned him to discuss the next move in capturing Luffy or Stretch Raven.

"We got to gather enough evidence to arrest him or else he can still get away with his crimes clean," Smoker said, lighting a cigar.

"How are we going to do that?" Zoro asked, leaning back against his chair.

"His house is the best place to start," Smoker said.

"Why does it have to be his house?" Zoro groaned.

"Because he maybe has some equipments he used for his assassination and maybe you can gather some evidence of his guild," Smoker stated matter-of-factly.

"Don't you think is a bad time for going to his house to dig up his secrets now? I just broke up with him yesterday!"



"That's your problem. You shouldn't have overreacted. Think about the chances of finding out his secrets while you're close to him."

Zoro glared daggers at him for a while then finally agreed to do it. He got up and turned to leave.

"Just a moment, Zoro."

"What is it now?" Zoro asked grumpily. All he wanted to do right now is go home and sleep to clear his mind of things.

"I know this is personal but I have to know," Smoker asked hesitantly.

"What is it?" Zoro felt he wouldn't like that question.

"Ahem," Smoker cleared his throat. "Have you had sex with him before?"

Zoro's face turned as red as a tomato. "What the hell are you asking that for?"

"Because I just found out a valuable piece of information about the Ravens guild. They all have a tattoo of a raven somewhere on their bodies," Smoker explained quickly. "So I'm just asking if you had seen him naked before and seen that tattoo."

"No, I've never seen him naked before and I didn't have sex with him before," Zoro was still blushing madly.

"Hmm…that's surprising. I thought you had bedded him before," Smoker said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.

"Shut up!" Zoro snapped, opening the door to leave. "It's too early for that and he said he wasn't ready!" With that, he slammed the door behind him.

X X X

It was almost dark when Luffy woke up, he felt sad and depressed and…hungry. His sadness somehow made him feel tired like never before.

He turned off the radio and got up of bed, walking stiffly to the kitchen. "I can't go on like this," Luffy said to himself after drinking a glass of water. When he turned to look at the fridge, a note on the fridge caught his eye. He went over it and plucked it from the fridge door. It wrote:

Meeting tonight.


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