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The sound of the ambulance resonated in his ears. Paramedics were trying to talk to him, but the teen was completely frozen in place. The world around him was blurry and so far away, the only way to grasp what was happening around him was to listen to the loud sounds all around him, but he couldn't, his attention had been sucked away by the empty space in front of him where a blue-haired girl had been not so long ago. Zoro looked at his father who was being dragged away and at his mother who was half-scared and half-happy the man was being led out of their house.
Someone was trying to talk to him, but he wasn't listening at all. He took a few steps back and entered his room, eyes still wide and unblinking. He closed it behind himself and opened his bag to get his homework like it was a normal day. He wanted to ignore what had just happened. But it wasn't exactly a normal day.
First of all, Zoro would never really do his homework. He would normally train in his room and think, but he needed his mind occupied right now, doing his homework would probably do the job, wouldn't it?
His mother entered the room with a paramedic. They looked at the teen as he was staring at the exercise book in his hands like he had never seen it before and tried to get his attention.
"Zoro, we are going to the hospital to go see your father." The green-haired teen didn't respond.
"Little boy, come with us please." Zoro was still fixated on the book in his hands. He couldn't even read his math problem, his mind was spinning too fast for him to process the words written in black on the sheets.
"Zoro..." He lifted his eyes for them to meet with his mother's. Seeing the pleading expression in her eyes, he nodded and got up without really thinking.
"I'll just call Sanji..." Zoro made his way to the living room and took the phone, dialing his blond friend's number.
"Hello, this is Judge Vinsmoke, who am I speaking to?"
"Hello sir, this is Roronoa Zoro, may I speak with your son Sanji?" Zoro said stiffly, his and Sanji's father would be strict most of the time with how you should talk to them.
"Of course..." He waited. "Hello, this is Sanji."
"Sanji... my father is in the hospital."
The swirly-browed teen paused. "Did you slash him with your katana? Did you hit him back? Was he drunk and he fell out the stairs? What happened?"
"I don't know..." Zoro gripped the phone as hard as he could, stopping himself from shaking.
"You didn't see it happen then?"
"I saw it happen, I just... don't know what happened. Can you guys come meet me at the hospital please?"
"Okay, I'll call the others." They both hung up.
Zoro went back to the paramedic and his mother. They were both analyzing him to see if he was injured. The teen huffed stiffly before he took his coat and went out the front door. The sound from the ambulance had stopped since it had been driven away from the house not too long ago. Zoro's got out of the house too, right behind him and sighed. She didn't like the father of her single child as much as she had before, but she always thought it was important for a child to grow up with a father.
Now that the man was injured and not herself or Zoro, she couldn't bring herself to feel bad or sad for him. Not even one tear could lodge itself at the corner of her eye. She had no sympathy for him and almost felt bad for being glad he was dragged away from her by that ambulance. She closed her eyes and sighed. It was like a heavy burden on her shoulders had been lifted. Even if it was temporary, the man's absence was appreciated. If only she could always feel as relieved as she was right now. The man had always forced his wishes and his 'law' on her and Zoro. Wouldn't it be better with him out of their life completely?
"Zoro... I think I am getting divorced." Zoro didn't react. He just looked in front of him with empty eyes, still thinking about the blue-haired girl...
"Damn it Kuina! What the hell did you think you were doing?! You know this is the first step towards becoming a poltergeist!" Sabo shouted angrily as the blue-haired spirit looked at the ground in defeat. Luffy was in the dining room, at the table with his homework, trying to make his pencil levitate over the exercise book to write from farther away while Ace was trying to help him by giving him unhelpful tips. Both of them were eavesdropping on the spirit's conversation though, making Luffy's writing really awful, but he was still getting better and more accurate than before.
"Well, I was mad at that man and I couldn't think of anything else!" She answered half-heartedly as she tried to come up with an excuse. The blond spirit brought a hand to his face and sighed annoyingly.
"Soon, you'll need to cross before you start losing control completely." Kuina looked up at him.
"No! I can keep control over this, I can deal with this myself! I won't hurt people and become a poltergeist, I promise!"
"You can't promise that nobody can control it! We will all have to cross eventually! I will... I..." All the lights in the house turned off and the temperature suddenly dropped.
"Don't finish that sentence." Luffy was standing by the door with a neutral expression. "Ace and I need you."
Nobody spoke for a few seconds. Ace followed him in the room with the same empty eyes.
"... I'm sorry..." Kuina breathed out. Tears were threatening to fall out of her eyes as she grasped the gravity of her situation. " I understand... I will have to leave before I lose control..."
"You are fine for now, this can take months, you know," Sabo said without real energy. "... Just, don't do it again." The lights turned back on and the temperature came back to normal. Luffy's expression lightened up as he walked back to his homework, but Ace stayed behind for a few seconds, staring at his best friend with a saddened smile before turning around and following Luffy back in the living room. The two brothers went back to their earlier psychic ability training and Kuina left the house while Sabo was standing straight, not moving from the spot he had been all this time.
"I won't ever lose control. I can't leave." His voice was soft and almost uncertain, but as he peeked at the two raven haired brothers laughing in the other room, his resolve hardened.
"I can't do that to them. They... are my brothers." He smiled.
"Zoro, are you alright?" Vivi said as she approached her friend who was sitting in the waiting room. Their group of friends had all come, except Luffy who was still busy with his homework, apparently.
"I am, I just wanted company, no big deal." Sanji looked at his friend's smile and saw the way it was forced. He frowned.
"Did you get hurt too?" Zoro shook his head.
"Nah, just my father got hurt."
"Hey, where's Luffy?" Usopp asked.
"Not here, he was busy..." Sanji answered. As he thought about it for a few seconds, his eyes widened. 'Luffy isn't here...'
"... Hey... Guys... Am I the only one who noticed Luffy's... strange sometimes?" Everyone fell silent.
They all looked at the blond, waiting for him to elaborate, even if they all knew what he was saying was true.
"I mean... Sometimes, he just... knows things without having to ask anyone..." Zoro nodded.
"Like with what he told me at school."
"Or, all the weird 'coincidence' that happens around him..." Nami nodded.
"Yeah, like when I told him about my mother, he found her not long after when he took a stroll down the river on the other side of the town."
"...And he said he knew Kaya and would say he used to talk to her at school, but we all know he didn't talk to her at school." Sanji said as he looked at Usopp. The curly haired teen closed his eyes and stepped forward.
"I don't see why we should be alarmed by this." Sanji looked at him as if he was crazy.
Usopp explained himself. "None of these things were negative. Luffy helped me move on after Kaya died, he helped me mourn. Nami doesn't have to deal with Arlong anymore and whatever he told Zoro was probably full of good intention, if you ask me." They all thought about Usopp's words, but could only agree.
"Aren't you curious though?" Usopp shook his head.
"No, if Luffy is hiding anything from us, well, he is or a blessing or a guardian angel... Something like that." The blond couldn't accept this as an answer.
"Are you Sanji's mother?"
"What are you going to do now?"
"I can't explain."
"You want to know? Why does everyone want to know but never say anything themselves? You won't tell me your secrets since we started talking a few days ago, I won't tell you mine!"
He couldn't ignore this. "But... There's something else, Luffy knew my mother's name and I never told him!" Usopp shrugged.
"Angels probably knows people's names." Sanji sighed angrily.
"Usopp, I am not kidding! We aren't talking about angels, this is not a game, this is real life and I want to know what is Luffy's deal!" Zoro put his hand on Sanji's shoulder to make him sit down on a chair. "Calm down."
The swirly-browed teen breathed in and out and sat down. They all accepted this to easily, but Luffy was keeping secrets. They were friends, weren't they? Whatever Luffy was scared to say, wouldn't it be better if he just told them before they started being mad at him? They were closer now, maybe he would open up soon.
"Luffy, What are you doing?"
The boy was standing on the tip of his toes in the living room while making weird grimaces. His face was twisted as if he was doing something that asked a lot of effort as he seemed to try to lift something invisible with his hands. Sabo chuckled as he saw Ace's confused eyes.
"He is trying to lift himself up to levitate." Ace burst out laughing as he finally noticed everything in the room, the couch, the small table, the lamp, the tv, were all pinned to the sealing or floating in the air. Luffy stuck his tongue at him as he put them all back down and started concentrating on Ace who had sit next to Sabo.
"Fly," Luffy smirked as Ace slowly lifted from the floor until he couldn't touch it anymore and yelped as he tried to grab anything to pull himself back down. Sabo was laughing loudly now, having a really good time watching Ace struggle like he was in space.
"Put me down! Put me down!" As Luffy put Ace back down, the young psychic teen fell back on the couch and gripped his head.
"My head hurts now! Lifting an object and a person is completely different! People move around! Objects don't do that!" He was panting and he laid down on the couch with his eyes closed as he regained his breath.
Sabo smiled. "You have a way better control of your ability now, you are getting better! It's really good!" Luffy giggled.
"Yeah, now, when I want to close the lights, but I am too lazy to stand up, I can just turn them off from far away! I can also make the room colder if it's too hot in the summer!"
Ace went into the kitchen and came back with a bag of ice that he placed on top of his little brother's head. "You still can't levitate though." He teased.
"Meanie... I'll be able to do it soon!"
Sabo stood and walked to them next to Luffy. "You should sleep now, your headache will be gone when you wake up."Luffy nodded and started to go to his room. He turned around and looked at the blond in the eyes.
"Thank you, Sabo..." Ace and Sabo sat next to each other on the couch where Luffy had been a few seconds ago and started to talk softly.
When they all went to school the next morning, Luffy seemed to not be very attentive, always lost in his thoughts. Zoro looked like he wasn't bored like he was usually, he actually seemed to be on edge. It was strange, according to the others, Luffy would usually talk a lot and Zoro was never bothered by anything before.
"Are you both okay?" Luffy didn't respond. He was looking at his sandwich and was having a hard time finding his appetite. Zoro lifted his gaze to look at who had just spoken, which was Nami and shrugged.
"Seriously, what is wrong with you two? Are you this sad your father got hurt?" Zoro's eyes twitched.
"Of course not." Nami's eyes turned back to Luffy, who was still not paying attention. "Luffy? What's your problem."
"I don't want him to leave... But he'll have too, one day." The raven-haired teen said, almost inaudibly. Nami frowned before she returned to the green-haired teen.
"Why are you so on edge today?" Nobody else was talking. Usopp was particularly scared of Nami when she was mad, her hits could really hurt. Sanji was just watching the scene in silence and Vivi continued to eat her lunch, even if she was worried about the two boy's abnormal behavior.
"I'm fine," Zoro said firmly. The ginger girl hit him over the head.
"Of course you aren't! Say the truth! We are your friends, your problems are our problem! Spill!" Luffy's eyes widened slightly at Nami's words. 'Maybe...'
"Fine... When... My dad was hurt, I saw... Kuina." Sanji froze. He knew that name. Zoro had spoken of her a few times before. She was dead. Nami, Vivi and Usopp didn't understand what he meant. They had never known this girl.
"...What?" Luffy said as he suddenly came out of his unfocused gazing. His eyes were wide as he soon understood what had happened. The group turned to look at him and he stood up.
"I... don't feel good... I will leave now." Luffy took his lunch box and started backing away on wobbly feet.
"Wait, Luffy! Don't go now!" Usopp shouted as the boy turned around and started sprinting back to his house. Sanji narrowed his eyes and turned back to the group of friends.
"That is what I meant by 'Luffy is strange'! He just ran off!" Zoro stood up and pulled Sanji angrily by the collar really close to himself.
"Did you tell him about her? You are the only one who knows!" Sanji pushed Zoro back.
"Of course I didn't! And nobody told him my mother's name either!"
Vivi came between the two. "Maybe Luffy was really feeling sick?" She said, almost pleadingly. Zoro and Sanji both shook their heads.
"Something's wrong." But they didn't want anything to be wrong, Luffy was their friend.
"Yeah, Luffy's situation is wrong." Sanji frowned.
"What do you mean?" Zoro sighed.
"I told you the other day, right? Luffy's home situation is worse than mine. I don't know how much though." Sanji nodded in remembrance.
"About Kuina... You said you saw her?" Zoro nodded.
"Are you sure you didn't hallucinate? Maybe it was someone else?" Zoro shook his head.
"No, nothing like that. We were inside my house and she appeared out of nowhere with her katana in her hands and she cut my father across the stomach before she disappeared."
"Who is Kuina?!" Nami said angrily, she hated being left out of a conversation.
"She was a girl at my dojo," Zoro answered without any enthusiasm.
"Was?" Vivi said softly.
"She died." The green-haired teen said sternly.
"Sabo! Ace! I have a problem! Zoro saw Kuina when she attacked his father and they are all getting more and more suspicious!" The young psychic said as he burst through the front door of the apartment. Ace wasn't there, he was at work, but Sabo had stayed behind and ran to Luffy's side as soon as the younger teen had bolted through the front door.
"Well, maybe it's time." Luffy bit his lips.
"I can't do that, they'll hate me!"
"Ace doesn't hate me, he never hated me, even after I told him the truth."
"You and Ace are different."
"No, we aren't. Now, since I made the decision to tell him, we are best friends now."
"But... What if they think I am crazy and start hating me?"
"That will only mean they were never meant to be your friends. You'll have to find someone who accepts you for who you are."
"I don't want to search for anyone else. They are my friends and I don't want to lose them..."
Nami... Vivi... Sanji... Usopp... Zoro... can they accept me even if I tell them about my abilities?
End of this chapter!
I hope you enjoyed it, I decided to break the chapter into two different chapters so I could release this sooner, but I will try to update soon!
Hey, do you guys know any good one piece fics? I don't know what to read right now... I would like it if you would leave your suggestions. It can be something you wrote, I don't really mind. However, I am not a fan of fics that are centered around OCs. Thank you in advance!
Until next time!