A/N: Hey there everyone! Oh I just want to say that my answering of reviews on the last, last chapter was a whim of mine. I said that I will just give PMs but completely forgot about it ^_^ so yeah (again) starting from chapter 6 reviews will be answered through PMs!

ATTENTION: I'd like to say that the 100th review (I wish I can reach that high first though) there will be a special chapter depending on my mood. It can be flashback chapters, sad chapters, happy chapters, full of hilarity chapters, sadistic chapters, chapters that has no real connection to the main plot or the hundredth reviewer can suggest on what he/she wanted to be written! Then after that the special chapters will be in every 50th review. So yeah, I just wanted to say that.

Enough of my talks let's start chapter 8 already!

Title: Daddy is the New Title

Author: gdesertsand

Pairings: I decided here in the first arc it will be just a Family Fluff…don't know about the second arc but I already have couples in mind sadly the only yaoi pairing I have in both arcs was ZoSan and they are not the main ones.

Disclaimer: Everyone knows by now that I do not own any anime, manga or songs right? Yeah, sadly that's the truth.

Chapter 8: Daddy is the New Title

"P-please don't kill me, Doflamingo-sama…" poor guy pleaded as he kneeled on the ground, forehead pressed on the ground in fear of meeting the man in the eyes. He was trembling in dread that any minute he would be food to the crows. He would be lucky if he will die with no pain instead of dying slowly.

"I told you to silence Akagami and destroy the evidences," Don Quixote Doflamingo said as he played to the dagger on his hand. He twirled it a bit before speaking, "But what did you do? Aside from the fact that you killed the man without the skill of torturing him you didn't manage to destroy any evidence at all." He snarled and the poor guy flinched when the dagger was thrown at him. Good thing he has good reflexes so it didn't pierced his hand. Though it was clear that one of his boss was really angry.

"I-I didn't expect that he had a partner."

"That was because you are an idiot. Didn't it occur to you at all," he picked up a gun and started to aim it at the poor guy, "That you should have captured him first," he fired at the stomach making the guy screamed in pain, "Then make him talk before you silenced him?" he fired again this time on the head leaving the guy lying on the ground. Dead.

"Why does everyone in Baroque Works with high numbers were all morons." He spat in disgust. If only his cute Law was here then everything will be solved. The kid knows how to entertain guest after all. Doflamingo will never doubt his own masterpiece.

"Stop dwindling the numbers of my agent, flamingo shit," the smell of cigar entered the room an indication that Crocodile was in the room closely followed by a dark, muscular man who was commonly known as Mr. 1. A sign that he was one of the most skilled agent of Baroque Works.

"But 'gator the members of Billions were all idiots! They can't make a proper mission because they do not use their brains!" Doflamingo protested as he stepped on the corpse. These people do not deserve his mercy. They were all junk to him. Unlike his Law he carried his job like an elegant cat. Oh, how he missed his pet.

"Tch, have you already forgotten who saved you from being burned alive?" Crocodile could not really deal with the selfish attitude of this ball of pink but the man was a huge figure in the underworld transactions.

Doflamingo cringed his nose in disgust. It was true that Crocodile saved him from the building being swallowed by fire when the government pets attacked his base. Other members of his family were saved also. Except for one, his very own Trafalgar Law. The last thing he heard was that the kid was taken by the government and now was under their protection. But, the time was already near for him to claim what his.

Doflamingo broke into his maniacal grin, "Time is near to take my Law."

^_^ Oh no! Doffy finally appeared! ^_^

Dracule Mihawk was busy in analyzing the evidences he and Akagami found in their case. He wanted to bring justice to his partner though he was not out for revenge. Of all the people he knew that revenge gets people to nowhere. Blood only begets blood. He also knew that Shanks will not be happy if he will draw his sword with such intent.

He was really focus in his tasked that he could not help it but feel irritated at the tapping noises his only companion for the day was making. He put down the photos he was examining as he glared at Smoker or 'White Chase' as people tend to call him, also his new partner, who was looking like he could not decide on what to give as a gift to his girlfriend or something like that. He did not want to pry on others business but the tapping was really getting on his nerves.

"Smoker will you please stop making that noise?" Mihawk finally asked after five minutes of listening to it.

"What?"

"That tapping of your fingers on the table," he pointed at it to emphasize his point, "It's really disturbing me in here."

"Really?" Smoker was not sorry at all but he did stop and pick up two tobaccos from his shoulder. He was about to light it but stopped. Even smoking could not help him to ease his mind.

Smoker was having a conflict right now when he agreed to Law that he had his permission to adopt the kids. Why did he agree again? Because of the determined eyes his adopted son giving to him. Right. But he was still worried on what effects the children will have on Law when they finally entered the surgeon's life. Smoker knew what kind of hell was still inside Law's mind…Okay, maybe not all but he had enough data to form what it was.

When Smoker was tasked to order his group in attacking the base of one of the underworld Warlords he was prepared to any cruelty he would witness. Being in the line of job he had for years he already expect on how people could turn into monsters. That was the thoughts he had instilled in his mind. How wrong he was back then. The moment he opened the metal door he saw a pile of bodies littering the whole room. The smell was enough to make you vomit there was no need to see it to get someone sick to the core. Still he let his eyes roamed the room that was then he found a child, probably twelve or thirteen, sitting on the farthest corner with his right ankle chained on the ground.

The kid didn't even bother to look at him. He just stayed on his crouched position hugging his legs closer to his chest and stared in nothingness. When Smoker walked in front of the kid he didn't expect the words he heard,

"Which one Doffy expects me to kill?"

Those words were said in a hollow voiced that it seemed like it was said for million and million times. It was liked a taped recorder installed inside a doll. From that Smoker could put the pieces together and without further thinking he destroyed the chain with his gun and lifted the child on his arms. As he expected there were no protests made. The kid did not care anymore on what will happen to him.

It took him years to get the boy to speak.

It took him so long to see him laugh again.

When Law finally attended school he was a little worried. Law has no doubt a genius that was why at the age of eighteen the kid managed to enter One Piece University. But all these worries vanished instantly when Law and Eustass Kidd started fighting. Yeah, it was common that he should reprimand such actions but that was the first time Law expressed what he really feel about others aside from Smoker and Vivi.

But now things were getting a little bit awry and Smoker still contemplates if his approval would not backfire on him.

He hoped that nothing bad will happen to Law and the children.

Smoker went out of the room to make a phone call, "Tashigi, I want you to send me some adoption forms."

"Hai?" the female on the other line answered uncertainly, "Ah… Smoker-san if you don't mind my question, what will you do to the adoption forms?"

At this Smoker snorted, "To give it to my idiotic son."

^_^…. Nya!...^_^

"I really hate doing the groceries," Law complained as he picked up some snacks in the shelf. He should have asked Shachi or Penguin to do this but his friends were too busy to be bothered. Oh well, he could relate at that part. Though he still do not like this type of tasked at all.

He pushed his crate to the meat section and bought five kilos of sea king's meat, chicken and pork. Then he bought various vegetables and fruits and finally to get some spices. Good, this could last for one or two week's right? There were also a wide variety of cookies and sweets, even though he was not a particular fan of sweets it helped him to stay awake during night shifts.

He was about to go to the cashier but then he passed the candy section where the main attraction were different shapes of lollipops. He stared at it for a while, eyes going blank as he remembered something,

"I brought some souvenir for the good boy…"

Law hunched a little and covered his mouth to prevent himself from vomiting. Why was it always like this? He wanted to forget damn it! But the more he tried the more he remembered. How much damaged he was? Could he still be fixed? Shaking his head out of his morbid thoughts he proceeded in paying for everything he got.

"Please come again!" the girl in the cashier said in good nature as Law picked up the bags and went out of the building.

He walked for a while until he stopped to the parking lot where he left his car. Well, the good thing was he would not walk to his house carrying four bags of groceries. That would be another tale of suffering on his part. After settling his goods on the back he opened the driver's side but freeze when he heard a familiar nickname rang in the air.

"Traffy!"

Turning his head on his right he saw the trio that was currently the cause of one of his headaches. Oh great. He was planning to visit the kids and tell them his plan in adopting them. Hell! He even tried to make a speech in a piece of paper and tried to memorize it! Sadly sentimentality was not one of his strong points. Damn that speech, it was a piece of crap anyway and that was one of his greatest lost. Why could he not make something heartwarming once in a while? Even Kidd had an ability to make the atmosphere fluffy when he wanted it to be so why Law could not do it?! Why was it so difficult for him to do something like that?

One of these days he will really be damned.

He was about to acknowledge the presence of the kids but then he noticed the smile plastered on Ace's face…

Weird…

Was that a sarcastic expression that was saying 'Why the hell are you here? I don't want to see you at all' or was that a sincere expression saying 'Nice seeing you again I'm glad we had the chance to meet each other.'?

Either way that smile was creeping him out.

"Hi, Traffy!" Luffy greeted again when he was already face to face to the surgeon. Law returned the beaming smile with his awkward one.

The atmosphere among the three was very disturbing…

Wait he took that back,

The atmosphere between the two older brothers was very disturbing to him at all. Why was that? To him it looked like Sabo had just woken up from a nightmare and still remembering it judging from his sour face like anytime something scary will jump out of nowhere while Ace looked like he was having the happiest day of his life by smiling like mister sunshine and all.

Seriously what happened to them?

Clearing his throat—he realized that they were waiting for him to say something—he caught the attention of the youngest,

"What are you guys doing now?" he directed the question to Luffy because Law thought that if he would make an attempt to asked one of the two older brother then he might regret that action for the rest of the day.

"School is out! The teachers have meeting so they dismissed us early!" Luffy answered enthusiastically, glad that he would not stay that long in school because seatworks were boring him.

"I see," Law contemplated the answer. If that was the case then surely the kids were on their way home. Checking his wristwatch he saw that it was already 11:30AM it was almost lunch time, "Have you guys eaten yet?" the question escaped his mouth without thinking that was then he remembered how Ace and Luffy ate. Oh boy, he would be a poor man by the end of the day.

"Not yet!"

What kind of star he was born to? The unluckiest star or the mocking star?

"We were on our way home to eat lunch." This time it was Sabo who spoke, having the energy to finally join the conversation, "but first we need to buy the ingredients so we took a detour here." He started pointing on the grocery store where Law had gone too minutes ago.

"Who will do the cooking?" Law asked curiously.

"Sabo."

"Me."

Both Luffy and Sabo answered at the same time without missing a beat. Hmm… so the brothers could be in sync in some things huh…

"Normally it was Makino-san who was doing the cooking for us but since we got out early then it means she was still in her shop." Sabo offered an explanation to the doctor.

His eyebrow twitched as the words were finally processed inside his head. Possible dangerous scenarios were appearing inside his mind as the thought of the ten year old boy cooking in the kitchen without any supervision of an adult.

"Then what you eat during lunch breaks in school?"

"We buy our foods from the cafeteria." Sabo stated without care.

Cafeteria foods…right…

If Law could still remember cafeteria foods were not that healthy to be intake every day. Sure there were some nutrition in it but not that balance enough for the surgeon's taste. One of the reasons why he always hang out with Sanji and Zoro during his student days, the blond—no matter how much he protested—always prepared bentos for him and their green haired friend. How he missed those days.

He having the itch to asked the kids if he could cook for them but he stole a glance to Ace who was being quiet the entire time they met him. Law shivered as he saw the same eye blinding smile from the freckled child. Was this the Ace he met that rainy day? Or was he hypnotized to be a good kid?

Hypnotism? What a ridiculous theory Trafalgar Law.

Oh well, it was worth to give a shot.

"How about I cook for you guys?" he offered finally as he bend his knees a little so he and Luffy could see each other eye to eye.

"Really? You will cook for us again, Traffy?" Law's lips twitched at hearing the nickname again but paid it no mind. He already understood that he would not have the chance to correct it.

"Yes, I will."

"Yay! You're the best Traffy!" Luffy started jumping in joy proclaiming that he would have a chance to taste 'Traffy's cooking' again.

Law was expecting some kind of protest but not from the person who just spoke, "Are you sure? We don't want to bother you." Sabo asked as he was too reluctant to be added on the doctor's schedule. He was well aware that Law had a hectic time since he was a doctor or so what he thought inside his head.

"It's fine, I'm on night shift today…I think I should say tonight…whatever." He waved his hand in the air expressing that he did not care if what he said was right or wrong but one thing was for sure he had the night shift.

"But-"

"Oh come on, Sabo," for the first time Ace finally spoke, "Trafalgar-san was offering that he will cook for us we should accept it. It's rude to turn down such a good offer."

It was like he received an electric shock from the sky. In short lightning. Did his ears were playing tricks on him? Did Ace called him 'Trafalgar-san' instead of 'Creepy Doctor'? Did he just accepted him instead of pushing him away?

It was clear that his shock was shown as he heard Sabo groaned beside him. Law turned his head and he saw that the blond was covering his face with the palm of his right hand.

"He had been like that since yesterday…" Sabo muttered under his breath but Law still caught it.

Yesterday?

It was the time that he scolded Ace for thinking such negative things…wait… does this mean the freckled boy was out for revenge for the slap?

If that was the case then he was having second thoughts in accompanying the kids to their home.

"Let's go, Traffy!" Luffy snapped him out from his thoughts and took a hold of Law's right hand, "Today is your first time going to our home right? Let's go!" looking at Luffy's face was a major mistake Law had done. He could not say no to that face!

Actually Law already had been in their place since the funeral but he didn't mention it because he didn't want to dampen the mood.

No backing away now Trafalgar Law. This chance was too good to pass. If the kids were willing to let him cook for them then this might be the good opportunity to tell them that he was going to adopt them.

"Then hop on," Law said with force enthusiasm as he open the door of his car for the backseat.

The ride was deafening as Law expected having Luffy with them. The kid was speaking in the entire journey about nonsensical stuff. He talked to Ace about the cartoon they watched last night on how cool the character was then he talked to Sabo about school and finally to Law about how their house looked like. Funny thing was not even once did Ace tried or scold Luffy to shut up. From what Law had witnessed since he met the trio Ace did not like it when Luffy was too noisy around people he did not taken a liking to. One example was Law himself.

Another theory, Ace had formed a split personality.

Now Trafalgar Law that was a probable theory,

He should stop arguing with himself. If he continued this then next time he might saw an angel and a demon hovering on each side of his ears.

When they finally reached West Blue the kids jumped out of the car and Luffy dragged Law inside their home having the doctor to trip on his own feet a few times.

"Hey, Ace," Sabo called out when he saw that Luffy successfully grabbed the attention of the surgeon, "Are you sure you're not sick for suggesting this idea?"

"Huh?" Ace mumbled out as he put Luffy's bag on his right shoulder while his own bag on his left, "What do you mean? I told you I'm fine! And I agreed 100% in having Trafalgar-san as our new 'Daddy'"

"That's what I'm talking about!" Sabo snapped as he raised his hands up in the air, "For the past month you were hell bent in refusing any forms of adoption from any adults!" the blond stressed out his point by crossing his arms in front of his chest then brought it down again creating slashing movements, "But now you were all sunshine and roses in accepting Trafalgar-san? Are you sure you didn't accidentally drink a different medicine for your narcolepsy?"

Ace scowled a little. Well, at least he had retained some of his usual expressions.

"I'm serious Ace," Sabo pleaded, "I don't want to think that you were forcing yourself for our sake. And how can you be so sure that Trafalgar-san will adopt the three of us?"

Ace stayed silent for a moment. How could he explain his thoughts to Sabo? He was not that good in using his words after all to express his feelings. Ever since Trafalgar scolded and slapped him on that rainy day he had some kind of….enlightenment, for lack of better words. The doctor made him realize that yeah, the world was cruel but things could be good also if you will look at it in other angles. He may be weak now but Ace would make sure that he will be strong so he could protect his brothers. Ace could also feel that Trafalgar wanted to took care of them. He could see it in Trafalgar's eyes.

"He is a good man, a little bit creepy yeah. But he had already proven himself to me," Ace finally answered as he walked towards their front door.

Sabo raised an inquisitive eyebrow at the vague answer he got but didn't press anymore. One thing was clear to him; Ace finally saw what he had not seen before because of his own grief. And for the first time since they met the blond was truly happy for this changed of his brother.

After they entered the house they heard the clattering of metals in the kitchen, a sign that Law was already starting to cook their lunch. Ace and Sabo went into their own rooms to put down the bags, of course Ace went to Luffy's room also. Then they joined their little brother who was talking nonstop to the doctor. Law simply smiled to Luffy but it was obvious that he was not really listening though the youngest didn't noticed it at all so he kept on talking.

The food was delicious. For someone who lived alone he could really impress some women in his cooking. Law had an inkling of satisfaction inside as he watched the children eat the foods with vigor. In just fifteen minutes the table that was once full of edibles was now left with empty plates. The doctor sighed, if his meals will be this fast he did not know if he would ever get the hang of it.

The children helped him in washing the dishes and as a reward Law treated them some cakes. Originally he bought it for himself but the circular sweet was too big for him to eat it in one day even one week he would not manage to finish it. The kids on the other hand cheered at the sweet treat. It was a chocolate cake after all who would not eat such a delicious thing?

As they ate the cake Law took a deep breath. As he said before it was now or never.

"Ace, Sabo, Luffy," he called the name of each boy to gain their attention, "I know this subject could bring back unpleasant memories but I just wanted to asked," he paused for a while thinking if he should be really doing this, "Can I have your permission to adopt all of you?"

There was a moment of silence as the boys stared at him with different expressions.

"Do you mean that you will adopt the three of us?" Sabo asked as he put down his fork.

"Yeah, I'm not planning to separate the three you to each other," he assured the blond the next scenes was not expected at all.

"I told you he would adopt us," Ace said in a smug voice.

"Oh well, I'm not really against it," Sabo finally voice his approval.

"Yay! Traffy will be our new Daddy!" Luffy cheered as he raised both of his hands in the air.

That's it? No protests at all? No 'we can take care of ourselves so shut up' moment? Let's face the truth he was expecting all those to come out from Ace but the…wait was Ace the oldest? Anyways he was expecting the freckled boy to say something negative against him but instead now he was hearing was nothing but approvals.

"Wait, you're not angry?" he directed the question to Ace who just stared back at him like he was dumb.

"No, why should I be?" Ace returned the question with a raised eyebrow.

"I mean, aren't you the one who protested against Ms. Makino's idea in adopting the three of you?"

"Oh please," Ace took a bite from his cake before continuing, "Makino was trying to separate us. You on the other hand were trying to keep us together so why should I be angry?"

Law put a hand on his face. In which side of reality did he wake up to?

"Okay, you're right about that part but what changed your view to me?" after all Ace had a strong hostility against him.

Ace beamed a smile at him like he was really expecting that question, no, like he was waiting for it from the start.

"I just realized that you can really be a good 'Daddy'" he answered leaving no added explanation.

Unable to comprehend what was happening around him Law chose to ignore everything. In other words he fainted where he was sitting. Pretty much on what happened to Sabo.

"Ace, I think you shocked him," Sabo commented.

A/N: One question, how can I make line breakers?

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