AN: Hello everyone! Thank you for all the loving reviews on the last chapter, seriously I much appreciate them! You have no idea how happy they made me and motivated me to keep writing more xD seriously glad you all like the story, hope you enjoy reading this new chapter. (:

Daisy comes running into the apartment not even bothering to close the door as she entered. Her face is light up like a Christmas tree as she makes her way over to her uncle who was currently at the dinner table with his eyes locked onto his laptop. He doesn't notice to tinny ball of energy running to him and planting herself on top of his lap. And even when he does notice her, he doesn't bother to act surprised anymore because this had suddenly become a daily routine between the two. Without looking down at her, he smiles while keeping focus on the screen of the computer, placing his hand over her head and tousling it softly as he continues to do his work with the other hand.

It has been a week since the last time Law had seen Luffy, a week since the boy had stopped by at his apartment, where he had him pinned against a wall devouring his sweet luscious lips.

He tries not to think about it, but it's too damn hard not to. It drives him crazy every time he's at work and at home, doing his own thing and then all of a sudden the image of Luffy with his big bright smile pops into his mind. Law can't figure out when and how he had fallen so deep for the teen, at first he thought it was just a simple attraction he had, but as time went on and he would catch the teen at work with his niece being his care free self, it was like a completely different kind of light began to shine over him without Law even noticing.

His eyes grow tired from staring at the screen all day and decides now would be a great time to call it a day and spend some family time. He closes the laptop and takes off his glasses, placing them next to the computer as he rubs between his eyes with exhaustion. Daisy steals the glasses away and puts them on her face while finding a new place to sit on top of the kitchen table. Law only then smiles at her and picks her up between his arms, carrying her to the living room so they could talk about her day at school.

Before taking his seat he notices the front door still wide open and wonders if Baby even came inside. But before he could think any further Daisy interrupts his train of thoughts, answering them for him.

"Mommy is on the phone outside."

Law looks back at the door again "With who?"

She only shrugs her shoulders and picks her backpack up from the floor, reaching inside to pull out all her belongings until she came to the one paper she was searching for. She pushed the paper in from of Laws face so he could read it, but all he could see is white with a bunch of scribbles, he takes the flyer from her hands and begins to read it from a normal view.

The flyer is painted with bright neon colors with circus flags bordering all around the edges. On the center is written in bold capital letters of blue, green and red: Drum Spring Carnival! Free Entry! Friday, May 15th 5:30-10:00 pm.

Law never even knew schools did these kinds of things. He had only wished that his school would have done something like that back in his time, maybe then more students would have been excited to attend school and actually learn a thing or two.

Baby finally comes walking though the wide open door of the apartment, closing the door as she entered and laying her body on the couch while using Laws lap as her head rest. Daisy watches her mother's actions and decided to follow in on her footsteps and rest her head onto Laws lap as well. Both girl's lay there quietly with Law in the center of the two, he wants to act like he's annoyed by the abuse of being used as a head rest, but he would only be lying with himself, so instead he gives in and takes a deep sigh as he rests his head back on the on couch, rubbing his tattooed hands over both the girls heads.

Baby makes a delighted humming sound by the gentle massages and with her eyes still shut she begins to speak. "How was work?"

Law still has his eyes closed as well. "Busy, like always…who where you on the phone with just earlier?"

"That's none of your business Law" Baby quietly teases, trying not to wake up Daisy who had quickly knocked out not to long ago. "I could talk to whoever I want; I'm a grown woman ya know."

"Not if it's a guy you just met without me meeting them first. You know I don't trust you when it comes to dating, you trust men too easily. Always thinking that they need your help and crap like that, when are you going to learn?"

Baby puffs her cheeks to her older brother looking straight at him "This guy is different I assure you"

"And how is that so?" he looks down at his sister with his arms now crossed, lifting one eyebrow up in question of her response.

She begins to look at her index fingers in front of her as she pokes them together repeatedly "because you've already met him before . . . at my job when you came to pick me up that one time. Do you remember a guy named Eustass Kidd?"

"That guy with the bright red hair!?"

"Yeah that's the guy, see you've met him before." She beams up happily, now sitting on her lap facing her brother. She reaches over and gently takes Daisy into her lap, cradling her as she breaths softly in her sleep. "We've been talking for quite a while now. He's never asked me for anything, and—and now he wants to meet Daisy too. . . He's different Law, very different."

Law doesn't say a word after; they just sit together in the silence of the living room with the only audible sound coming from a clock over by the book shelf. He stares at the coffee table in front of their legs, suddenly noting the flyer with the bright neon lettering. Almost forgetting about the paper, he bring it back to him, reading it one more time then handing it over to Baby to take a look at.

She skims it quickly then turns her head to look back up at Law who was staring back at her with a waiting response.

"That's this Friday, but I've already made plans since it's my day off." Baby responded with a half lie because technically it was her day off, but no plans where intended. She just needed to make up some excuse for Law to volunteer and take Daisy.

"Doing what?" he questioned

"I—uhh, Kidd asked me out on a date and I said yes. Yeah, he even made reservations at some fancy restaurant across town . . . but hey, what are you doing Friday evening?"

"Oi, I haven't approved of him yet! What makes you think you could just go out there on your own? And who's to say I haven't made plans myself for his Friday, I have a life too."

"You plans? A life? Please Law, the only time I ever see you go out without it evolving work is when you need to go grocery shopping. And just what makes you think I can't go out on my own? I'm 22 years old! You're not my father, you can't tell me what to do." This time she was really getting mad over her brothers over protectiveness, sure it was cute and all but damn was it annoying on times like these.

"I know I'm not dad, you think he would have allowed you to make all the mistakes you've made over the years? Dropping out of school, sleeping with different guys, getting pregnant—" he stopped himself before he could say anything more he'd regret. Baby was looking at him in utter disbelief after hearing the last word, she was holding onto Daisy tightly, her face going from total shock to teary eyed furiousness in a matter of seconds.

"Baby, wait, I'm sorry I didn't mean that, I swear. I don't know what got over me; Daisy is definitely not a mistake. Besides you, she's the only person I have in my boring life making it a little more exciting."

"Then you should change that" she confirms, crossing her arms over her chest with a not as pissed off expression as before. "Go out and make friends, find a boyfriend, anything. You keep yourself locked up in your office the whole time; you'll never notice the best thing for you could be standing right in front of you. You gotta stop looking straight at what you want and start looking all around it, you might actually see more to the picture."

"More to the picture?" he mumbles "what are you talking about?"

"Eh, I'm saying that..." she looks down at the flyer, grabbing it from the couch and pushing it to Laws face "that this would be a great opportunity to make friends or possibly boyfriend. Take Daisy to the carnival and you'll see!"

He takes the paper from her hands looking at it with wonder. Maybe Baby was right, maybe he did need to go out more. Maybe Luffy just wasn't meant to be for him and his possible future match could be at this carnival waiting for him . . . Maybe.

"Okay ill take her this Friday. Happy?"

"Very." She sends a victorious smirk over to him. "This would be great Law, and who knows you might met someone when you go through the tunnel of love~"

"Tsk, do they even have those anymore?"

"You know I'm not really sure? Probably not huh? Okay then, when you go on a romantic Ferris wheel ride~"

Fed up with his sisters teasing, he lifts himself off from the couch heading to the kitchen to get them something to drink. "And what makes you so confident I would actually meet someone?"

She rests her body on the couch with her arms behind her head, shutting her eyes and smiling mischievously to herself where her brother couldn't see her. "It's a carnival Law, it just screams romance."

Nami relieves a ping from her phone later that same day, she smiles at the screen before reading who it's from. Baby had sent her a message confirming that operation carnival was officially a go, now all Nami had to do was convince Luffy to go to the carnival as well, but how?

In the living room of Ace and Luffys house, the three sat together watching the new Spider-Man movie that Ace had bought for them to see. Luffy was on the recliner, cross leg sitting while hogging the bowl of popcorn and watching in full fascination how Spider-Man takes down Electro. Ace sat by Nami on the couch with a blanket pushed over their legs, his arm was rested over Nami's shoulder as he watched the movie, however as soon as he heard the ring come from his fiancés phone and the mischievous smile she wore on her face, he couldn't help to wonder just what evil plan she had lurking around this time.

"Was that Baby?" he asked so casually without even taking his eyes off the movie screen.

"Mmm-hmm. Law volunteered to take his niece to the carnival this Friday, so now I need to find a way to have Luffy go, that way they 'meet' again." She quietly whispers back to Ace

Ace looks at his younger brother across the other side, he thinks of an idea of how he could help his fiancé out with his clueless brother. He knows Luffy likes carnivals, hell anywhere that promised rollercoaster's and food, Luffy was sure to be there. But this was different, ever since last week Luffy had avoided going out, choosing to stay home and play video games and study on his certificate exam. These were all great reasons to avoid going out but Ace knew Luffy more than anyone else, and right now that was exactly what he was doing, making excuses.

If only they had a child around that they could use to make Luffy take, that would make a hell of a lot of things easier and—

—and how stupid of Ace to forget that there was a child in there group of friend, of course how could he have forgotten about Chopper.

"Why not have Lu take Chopper to the carnival?" he recommend, secretly feeling proud of himself for coming up with such an brilliant idea.

"Of course, Chopper. Why didn't I think of that!" she picks the phone back up from her lap, scrolling through her contacts until she gets to Kaya's number. "I'll be right back. Thank you Ace, you're a genius." She says as she gives him a kiss on the cheek before making her way up the stairs to Ace's bedroom.

Luffy turns around and catches Nami exiting the living room, he looks back at Ace and gives him a questioning nod. Ace only shrugs his shoulders, mouthing the words 'bathroom?' in his brother's direction. But before Luffy could turn around again, Ace opens his mouth and gestures his hand in a shooting form, sinking into Luffy that Ace wanted him to shoot popcorn into his mouth from where he was sitting. Luffy gladly responds to the request and begins shooting countless popcorn pieces in his direction, leaving both men in a sea full of scattered popcorn all across the floor.

The weather was warms with a light breeze that Friday evening. Law wore his yellow and black hoodie with the sun-like smiley face in the center with some regular blue jeans; he hardly dressed this casual out in public, most of the time it was always a black vest with a white long sleeve underneath. Daisy wore her peach colored sailor dress with a pink bandana under the rim around her neck and a red hat with a tiny skull imprinted over it. Hand in hand they strolled by each booth, stopping often at some that carried a larger crowed.

Throughout the day Law ended up walking around the park with a large polar bear hanging in his other arm. Shockingly, Daisy had won the bear in a balloon dark popping booth, and decided to give it to him knowing very well how much his favorite animal was polar bear. After a long stroll around the park, Daisy dragged her uncle in line for some cotton candy where they each got a stick of pink sugary goodness.

From afar Daisy spotted a familiar blue hate next to the cart with the balloon animals, she smiles widely and heads over to her friend.

"Chopper!" she shouts in excitement, scaring the little boy, and causing him to jump high "Are you here with Ms. Kaya and Mr. Usopp?"

"Daisy you almost gave me a heart attack!" he shouts back "But no, mom and dad are at a dinner party, im here with Mr—"

Chopper was cut off though when a tall man with tattoos on his hands came over to them and gently pulled Daisy by the arm "Daisy how many times have I told you not to wander off like that hmm?"

"I'm sorry Law, it's just, I saw Chopper over here and I just wanted to say hi to him. I didn't mean to run off." She apologizes.

Law makes a deep groan only being thankful that he didn't lose the kid . . . again. "Its fine, just don't do it again okay?" he notices the little boy standing next to them, remembering him as the kid who was at dinner at the Baratie that one night. Chopper was his name and Daisies teacher Kaya was his mother, so if that was the case then where was she or his father Usopp? He squats down at the little boy, giving him his pink cotton candy that he caught him eyeing earlier. "Where is your mother or father, Chopper?"

Chopper takes the sugared candy with delight "they went to a dinner party, I'm here with Mr.L. He just went to get some hotdogs and— oh here he comes!" he waves his hands over to Luffy so he could see him.

Luffy makes his way over to them, carrying a cup of curly fries and bag of two hotdogs. He spots chopper waving at him and notices the two other figures standing next to him, but as he makes his way closer his body begins to heat up and his heart begins to race out of control. He begins to take slower steps, mentally asking himself what on earth Law was doing here. When he gets to the small group he puts on a surprised smile, avoiding eye contact with Law as he gives Daisy a high five in which she couldn't reach.

"Look Luffy! Law gave me a cotton candy! And Daisy has the same color one too!"

"Look Mr. L, Chopper and I are matching! Hehe. Oh and look at the polar bear I won for Law, he named him Bepo, his favorite animal is a polar bear and he said he's going to sleep with it every single night."

Luffy was holding onto the polar bear that Daisy shoved in his hands, thankfully Chopper had took the food away from him otherwise this poor white bear would have been sporting red and yellow smudges. He didn't know what to say, all he knew was this conversation had to end and quick before he was forced to talk to Law, and right now he couldn't handle hearing his attracting voice.

"That's awesome Daisy, good for you." He hands back the polar bear to his student "well it was nice seeing you, we'll see you around—"

"Chopper! Daisy!" A the little boy with a high pony tail shouts. He ran up to them carrying a blue cotton candy just like them two, hugging them both as he approached them.

"Momo!" they both happily shout in unison.

"Hey I'm about to go see a cool magic show with Sind, Mocha, and Ginko. Come with us!" Chopper and Daisy both face their guardians with a pleading face, both begging to go along with their friends. In the end Law only sighs in defeat and lets Daisy run along to have her fun with the rest of her school friends. Luffy does the same for Chopper and both kids run off in excitement to see the show, leaving Luffy and Law once again alone with each other.

Luffy breaths out loudly, sulking his shoulder down as he turns to look at Law who was also looking at him with his arms crossed. He offers him some curly fries and Law take a few before continuing to walk away again. Luffy follows, knowing very well that they needed to talk about last week sooner or later and now was a better time than any other. He knows Law feels the same; the only problem was who was going to bring it up?

"Babysitting tonight?" Law breaks the silence.

"Kinda, Nami sorta volunteered me into doing this, not that I don't mind because I love watching Chopper and going to carnivals, especially the foods they have!" he replies with an open smile.

There was that red heads name, a name Law really didn't like to hear coming out from Luffys lips, a name that made him feel envious. "Oh, where is she tonight?" he pretended to ask with interest, but deep inside him he really didn't give a rats ass.

"Its ladies night or whatever you call it, so she went out with her sister Nojiko and our other friends, Robin, Vivi and. . .Boa" he says the last name hesitantly, making an unsatisfied face in the end.

"Don't get along with Boa I assume?"

"She has this crazy obsessive crush on me and Nami keeps inviting her wherever we go and pairing us up together. Boa's cool and all, sometimes, but Nami only does it just to piss me off."

Law found it strange that Luffys fiancé would invite another girl over, one that had a thing for her man and yet she would still pair them up together to tease him. It was a strange relationship, but who was he to judge.

"What about Baby, working late tonight?" Luffy breaks Law from his consecration.

"No, today was actually her day off, but she's out with a coworker having dinner or something, I don't care. I'm just glad she's able to have days off from work now, though I wish she would find a better job where she doesn't have to deal with drunk bastards hitting on her all the time."

"Dang, what does she work as?" Luffy asks while shooting his balled up bag of finished fries into a trashcan bin, but failing to miss the basket.

"Bartender." Law replies, picking up the crumbled bag and throwing it away properly inside the bin.

"Did she go to school for that?" Luffy turns to Law in excitement "Can she do all those cool tricks with the bottles and make fancy drinks!"

Law snorts "No, and no not really, that would be pretty nice though. When she got pregnant with Daisy she dropped out of school and never bothers to go back and finish. I keep pressuring her to go back but instead she insists staying with shitty job, fooling around with one guy after another."

Now it was Luffy turn to find the relationship strange. What kind of person stays with someone who fools around with other people? Was it because they had a child together, was that why? This only made him angry; Law didn't disserve that kind of relationship, nobody did.

"Why do you stay with her then?" he questions with a somewhat angry tone.

"Because she's my family and as much as she drives me crazy, I still love her with all my heart. I could never hate her, you understand right? "

"I—I guess so..." Luffy wanted to disagree "Nami drives me crazy sometimes. Working with her is one thing, but her practically living with me is a totally different story. She's always getting mad at me for leaving food all over the place, and saying that I never clean my room, it's so annoying. But I guess aside from all her nagging, I still love her too, especially now when she's officially going to be part of my family."

Law felt like he was going to throw up.

"I guess we both have that crazy woman in our life. But that's a good think in a way because they put us in our place when we really screw up" Luffy continued.

Without even knowing, they both ended up stopping by a circular fence that had the giant 'swing ride' inside it. There were many other people circling the fence to watch the ride begin. All that could be seen where little feet dangling from the seats as the ride began to lift off and rotate slowly in the air. They were holding onto the rail, watching as the swings spun around, not really paying attention to the ride or their hands that were slowly creeping closer and closer together.

"True, can't live with them, can't live without them I guess." Law agreed.

"Woman huh?" Luffy smiles straight ahead at nobody in particular. "Shishi, well it's a good thing I prefer guys instead, much easier to deal with."

"Same here—" Law agrees, with his mind slowly processing what the younger teen had just confessed and what he had just responded in return. "Wait, What!?" he reacts in shock, both now staring wide eyed at one another as the ride in front of them began to spin faster with a bright yellow light circling around.

"What me, what about you? Are you telling me you're . . . bi?" Luffy questions in alarm

"Well no, I'm actually just gay. Are you bi or something?" Law fires back

"That's impossible" he looks at Law in disbelief "What about Daisy and…and Baby?"

Law looks at over to Luffy with a confused look on his face "What about them? Baby already knows, and I'm pretty sure she already told Daisy as well, though I think she's still too young to fully understand…But what about you? Are you bi? Does Nami know about that?" he begins to question

"I'm not bi either, I'm just like you. And all my friends and family know that I am, especially Nami. She's one of the first that helped me find out, well besides Ace of course."

Okay, things were definitely not making any scene at all at this point. "But isn't Nami. . .I mean aren't you two, you know, engaged?"

Luffy tilted his head to side, looking at Law like he was suddenly speaking a foreign language to him "Eh? Who said that? Nami and I aren't dating, she's engaged to my older brother Ace. He just proposed to her just a couple weeks ago at the Baratie, that same night you saw us all there actually—wait! Did you think I was her boyfriend this whole time?"

Well damn, now Law felt like a complete idiot standing in front of Luffy. How was he supposed to know the boy had an older brother that was dating the red head? How was anybody supposed to figure that one out? But suddenly it felt like a wave of relief had crashed onto him, like a door to possibilities was starting to open up, and maybe, just maybe he could finally have a chance with the teen.

"Okay so you're telling me that you and Nami are not dating, that she's with your bother, and you don't date girls because you're gay? Is that it?"

"That's pretty much everything." Luffy said as the swings from the background started to reduce speed and slowly makes their way back down. "Wait, I'm still confused! If Baby knows that you prefer guys than why are you two married? Is it for Daisies sake, so she could be properly raised by a mother and father? Because I've read about that somewhere in a text book once."

Law felt like he needed to sit down somewhere, all this confusion here and there was beginning to mess with his head. He spotted a bench not to fare from where they were standing and nudged Luffy with his chin to follow. They sat close together above the table bench; Law crossed his arms between his legs while watching the rides in front of him, Luffy only stared at him, patiently waiting for a response.

"Baby is my little sister, and Daisy is her daughter as well as my only niece. They both live with me because of financial issues. I just met Daisy for the first time not too long ago, because before that, Baby was off living with Daisies dad or some other guy, I really don't know actually."

"So you two are siblings?"

"Yup, and apparently you and Nami are just soon to be in-laws."

And what irony that as soon as Luffy and Law cleared up this Misunderstanding, a sound of explosions coming from the sky began to go off. Breaking Luffys concentration, both men suddenly shot their attention to the sky, watching as fireworks painted the sky with radiant colors. Their hands slowly began to slide closer and closer to each other, and when their pinkies touched, Law lifted his finger over, smoothly moving the rest of them on top of Luffys hand and locking them with his.

This, all of this definitely felt right for both of them.

"Well now that we have this misunderstanding cleared up, there's something I've wanted to ask you a long time ago" Luffys breaks his attention from the fireworks and focuses his attention to Law who was looking back at him. The younger boy sat there patiently waiting to hear what he had to say next. "Luffy, would you like to go out on a date with me sometime?"

Luffys heart begins to beat faster; his smile begins to grow wider. He tightens the grip from their hands while smiling up at Law who smiled back at him. "I would like that a lot Traffy."

"Shall we start a pre first date right now then? There's a ferris wheel over there that we could get on together, I heard they could be pretty romantic for when you're on a date, at least that's what Baby told me."

"Let's do it!" he jumps off the bench, still holding onto to Laws hand as the doctor lifts his body off the table as well. They begin to walk hand in hand down all the booths and rides, not caring whether people stared at them or not. All that really mattered was the two of them, and the big colorful wheel standing in front of them, the one that gave out a breathtaking view of the town's enchanting night lights from above. "Say, Traffy, you think we could stop and get some cotton candy after? The one you gave to Chopper looked really good."

The night was dark and fresh; people shortly began making their leave to head home from the carnival. Law walked Luffy to his car with Chopper who was silently sleeping in the teen's arms. Even Daisy had long since knocked out in her uncle's arms. Luffy strapped Chopper in the back seat of the car, buckling him up and after throwing a blanket over him. When he was done, he turned back to face Law, leaning his body against his car as Law made his way closer to him. He caressed Luffys cheek, moving some strands of his jet black hair behind his ear with the free arm that wasn't caring Daisy.

"Thanks for the pre date; I had a really fun time with you."

"Me too. I'll see you on Monday then, okay?" Law says softly to the teen.

"Definitely! Have a good night Traffy."

Law leans in closer than before, breaking the distance between them and claiming his lips all for himself finally. Luffy quickly responds back, throwing his arms around Laws neck, being very careful not to wake up the sleeping girl next to him as he deepened the opened kiss. The kiss continues to go on for quite a while until both couple break apart quietly gasping for air. Law places a long gentle kiss over his forehead, and then one on his cheek, then neck, Luffy stands in front of him, eyes closed in bliss as he allows the older man to kiss every inch of his skin.

When Law stops the kisses, he looks straight into Luffys eyes, not wanting to end the moment just now. He couldn't wait three more days to see him again, he's done plenty waiting, however his little niece said otherwise as she shifted her body uncomfortable in his arm. He smiles back at Luffy one more time, throwing in a final goodnight kiss before turning away and heading to his own vehicle. He passes the open view of the carnival, watching as the bright glowing lights shut down, seeing nothing but darkness as he enters his car with Daisy. He smiles in his seat, remembering this whole chaotic misunderstanding and how it led him to where he is now. He guessed Baby was right all along, carnivals did bring out the spark to finding romance.

Thank you for reading! Hope you enjoy! (:

Also I might make an Epilogue for the next chapter, but I'm not sure when I'll have it up by because I'm currently working on another lawlu fic for you guys. So in the mean time, stay tuned! ^.^