Within Touch Yet Out Of Bounds.
Chapter five - Five minute journey
Taking out his fathers money, Law paid for a small ham salad sandwich with a bottle of water. He wasn't much of a big eater. Explains why he is slightly under weight. Passing on eating in the full canteen, he disappeared to find a small spot where he could eat and read. He'd checked out a book about the function of the heart and was dying to read it. Therefore, the young raven-head found a shaded spot under a old oak tree, opened his sandwich box and took his book from his bag. Indeed, he felt peaceful as he flicked though the pages and took in the knowledge. His legs tucked up so he could station the book on his lap while he ate his sandwich.
However, he was disturbed when one word in the book instantly sent him back to the beginning of lunch and to his conversation with the young Eustass Kid. He was grateful the man had accepted his apology. Yet, with that troubling thought gone, he was still left thinking about this man. Kid had been his savior on that drunken night and the question on why the man did it was still roaming in Law's head. Kid didn't look the type who gave charity or pity in this case. Why had he bothered? The book closed and Law discarded it besides him as he took his bottle into his hand and opened it. With a refreshing drink, he begun to wonder more and more.
While searching the file, he found out that Kid spent his childhood in the South. Law had heard horrible stories of crime and murder down there. Luckily for the redhead that he'd moved to the North. Nevertheless, Law had dug deeper and found that the man was raised by his single mother. Eustass Chase was her name. A pretty woman Law must add. She was around the age of his parents, Doflamingo and Crocodile. The women seemed to still live in the South.
As he placed the half empty bottle upon the book, he realized something. This was an expensive university to go to. How on Earth did Eustass Kid get in here? Moreover, how did his brother as well? That's two student fees. Did the men have part-time jobs? Law shook his head. Not even a part-time job paid for this place. What about the blonde that lived with them? Did he support them? Wait... It must have been their mother.
Alex sighed, as he rested his head in his hands, staring to the front of the class where his teacher stood trying to think of something to do. Music class was never really organised, but it was always a good laugh. The teacher of this small class just so happened to be a skeleton, his name was Brook. He was a great teacher and was always up for a laugh but sometimes he completely forgot what he had planned, leaving everyone in a bored silence until he remembered.
"I hope this doesn't take as long as it did last week." Usopp mumbled to Alex nudging him with his elbow. Alex grunted in response and let his head rest completely on the desk.
"For fuck sake." He grumbled to himself, realizing that this had been happening a lot more recently than it normally did.
"YOHOHO! I remember what i had to tell you!" Brook chimed pacing around the room in excitement. Alex almost jumped out of his skin at his professors outburst. "Professor Leech has retired, meaning I now have to take on a bigger class of music students. The few from her class will be coming in here in a few minutes after they collect all their things. YOHOHO! How exciting!"
"I thought she was a private tutor? Wouldn't that only mean that like two or three people were coming into our class?" Usopp questioned Brook, the rest of the class backing him and asking all sorts of questions. Then came the voice that nobody wanted to hear, it always meant a arguement was about to be started.
"Professor, do you know if they are religious or not?" Came the voice of the blue haired girl at the back of the classroom, the entire room audibly groaned at Vivi's voice.
"What's she's really trying to say is are they gay or are they straight Brook." Alex put in, he hated the only girl in his class she was such a pain in the ass. Trying to shove religion down people's throats. Brook chuckled under his breath.
"I'm afraid i don't know Vivi, not that it's any of our business really anyway? Why don't you ask them when they come in?" Brook spoke blankly, he couldn't care less if they were gay or a cross-dresser all that mattered was that they were now going to be part of his class, and would contribute wonderfully to lessons. It was only a small class after all, only six students in his room at the moment but all very talented. Although only two of them could sing, and they happened to be able to play a wide range of instruments which was obviously a bonus. But he lacked one thing, he need the vocals of a female voice, Vivi couldn't sing at all. Usopp and Alex's voice differed in tonality and depth greatly making it more difficult to harmonize. Brook sighed and sat down, he needed at least one another female student.
"You really don't like her do you?" Usopp turned to Alex who was relaxed into his chair, his grey t-shirt creasing as he slid even more down the chair till his chin was at table height.
"She fine when her mouth's shut." Alex uttered, but he wasn't answered with Usopp and his little chuckle.
"Never heard a guy say that before." A foreign voice chimed from the direction of the door, he turned only to be met with a bronze beauty with a smirk on her face. He smirked back taking in the woman's appearance, green eye's locked with golden ones. An awkward silence hung in the air before Brook broke it with one of his famous 'YOHOHO's'.
"Please take a seat Ladies, wherever you like there is plenty of spare seats." Brook grinned to the rest of the class, as the three boys at the back offered their seats almost immediately. "May i ask your names before we start?"
Justice strutted over to the vacant seat nearest to the wall on the front row, which just happened to be near Alex. The other blonde shy girl giggled at the new professor and sat down next to Usopp who was silently panicking at what to do.
"My name's Justice and this is Kaya. We can both sing, and i can also play the guitar." Justice pointed out, but before Brook could get a word in edge-ways Vivi piped up again.
"Are you both straight?"
"You're a right pain in the arse you know." Alex turned in his seat to face the annoying girl directly behind him. She just glared at him and awaited her answer while the boys at the back of the room laughed at his accent. 'What was that' and 'what is your accent' being shouted from the back of the room.
"No, i'm not straight, and what the hell is wrong with his accent? Will you stop yelling your giving me a headache." Justice turned in her seat and glared at the immature bunch at the back who immediately shut up. Usopp laughed heartily at the stunned boys at the back as he finally introduced himself to Kaya. Vivi huffed not bothering to get a reply of the blonde haired new girl as she moped about the amount of homosexuality in this school.
"So you bi then?" Alex questioned, trying to make conversation.
"Yep, more for guys though like 60:40." Justice added, the girl had to be extremely hot. "You?"
"50:50, if we are talking about ratio's here." Alex winked.
"Ah." Why did she sit here? This guy was ideally what she would look for in a one-night-stand. Tall, muscled, hot, and blonde... scratch the last bit, this guy suited his hair colour.
"Right class lets start, i first want to hear our newcomers singing voices if you will." Brook motioned the two new girls to the front of the class.
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The lecture theater filled with physics students as they rushed to find a seat. At the front was a teacher readying himself for the lecture. Kid searched the area for a seat. One seat at the front, another in the middle and one...one next to Trafalgar Law. The dark haired man was sat with his chin cupped in his hand as he dazed out the open window besides him. His hat was off and laying on his small desk with his open notebook and pens. The small strands of hair blew gently across his calm features. Kid already decided that he was going to sit besides the man. Law was the only student he knew in here and at least...okay Kid was lying. He wanted to sit next to Law. Strangely, he kind of liked this man. Not in a romantic way, oh no. In a rival type way.
He placed his bottle of pop on the desk and caught the attention of the man besides him. Law looked up with a smirk before greeting Kid, "Hello Eustass."
"I'm sitting here." Kid pointed out as he sat. He took out a note book from his bag and a pen. Kid flipped to a clean page in his notebook and rested his pen upon it. "Never realized you were in my class."
Law shrugged and nodded in agreement, "Same. How strange. Your brother is also in my sisters class."
"Your sister?" Kid asked. He never knew Law had a sister.
"Yeah, her names Justice."
Kid raised a naked brow. Wait, so Law had a sister called Justice...strange. "Law and Justice?"
Law scoffed, "Alex-Child and Kid?"
"Fair point. I'm shocked there isn't siblings called Apple and Pear." Kid joked and gained a small laugh from Law.
The raven haired man gave the man a small smile, "My parents are named after animals."
Kid looked shocked, "I knew your father was called Doflamingo but whats your mother called, Raven?"
Law shook his head, "No, his names Crocodile."
"Oh-two secs, you said he? Your parents are gay?"
Law nodded, "Indeed. Although they both act like they aren't."
"So they married?"
Law took a moment to think, "No. Actually, I can't label their relationship."
There was a short silence as the lesson begun and the professor begun to write on the board. "And you?" Kid whispered.
"Me?" Law whispered back curious.
"Well, considering you were all over me when you were drunk I guessed you're gay, am i right?"
Law blushed and looked shocked, "I did what!"
Most the students turned to stare at them but Kid gave a angry look and they all withered around. Law didn't speak after that and begun to take notes. Kid mentally slapped himself. Maybe it was a bad time to mention that. Law had been drunk and none the wiser. As the lesson progressed, a small breeze wondered in from the open window. It lingered past Law and gently blew the man's sweet cologne to Kid. The rich smell of mint and chocolate. Kid eyes snapped open from the refreshing smell.
"What is that smell?" Kid said enchanted as his eyes met with Law's.
"What?" Law said with his face screwed up.
Kid pulled a small smile, "You smell really nice, is it your cologne?"
Law shuffled in his seat as a light blush kissed his cheeks, "Ah, yeah." Get a grip you idiot the bastard isn't flirting with you he's being blunt.
And the rest of the day progressed like a blur, Kid and Law became more interested in each-other than either thought was possible. Whilst Alex and Justice talked casually like good friends, even shared lunch with each-other. It was strange for both of them but Justice was questioning her own motives more than anything else, she didn't even know this guy's background, he could be anybody, he might not even be in the same social class as her. Then if her parents find out she was interacting with him they would be so mad. She shivered at the thought, as she walked over and sat in the limo waiting for her brother to get in so they could begin the journey home. Not that she didn't like the guy, he was alright. Sometimes she wondered why the hell class mattered.
Law finally caught up with the red head as he was about to step on the bus to go home he dragged him by the arm and turned him around. "Eustass- ya, wait a second." Law tried to catch his breath. Everyone on the bus was staring at him wondering why the hell he was going near the public transport.
"Sup" Kid asked waiting for the man to re-gain his breath.
"I was wondering if you wanted to come round my place, you know. That's the kind of thing friends do right?" Law felt really awkward asking this but he wore his mask as usual.
"Errr..." Kid turned to look at his brother on the bus who just frowned and nodded, shortly later he received a text saying 'don't let me stop you, have fun.' "Sure why not, where do you live?" Kid didn't get a reply as he was being dragged back towards the car park of the university. Then suddenly he was sat in a black limo with tinted windows.
"Err, is your farther's alright with this man coming home with you sir?" The driver asked nervously as he started to reverse out of the car park.
"Yes." Law simply stated and relaxed back into the leather seats. But Kid couldn't relax he was sat in a posh car and to add to that Law's little sister was sat across from him gawking.
"Hi." Kid attempted but Justice just turned to her brother in confusion and started jabbing him in the side.
"Why did you get to bring a twin, does that mean i could have brought the other one? Is this some party your having without me?" Justice whined, Kid took note of the woman's interest in his younger brother by her behavior.
"I'm not having a party, we're friends." Law stated bluntly, he couldn't be doing with all these questions. Justice just looked at him like 'yea right' and moved her random ass questions onto Kid.
She looked intently at the red head, narrowing her eye's slightly. "Do you shave?" Kid was taken aback by the question and just looked at her in disbelief.
"Errmm... no. I don't need to."
"So you don't have any facial hair then, interesting..." Justice stroked the none existent beard on her chin. "How come your brother has stubble and eyebrows and you don't?"
"You've met him?" Kid was again surprised.
"Yea, turns out he's in most of my classes, only found out today when i got moved into his music class with Brook." Justice pointed out cheerfully.
Kid decided to be sneaky. "So did you get a good look at him? Like what you see eh? Think i'll text him now."
"Haha, of course i got a good look at him, you can't really miss him he's massive... oh no that sounded like i was calling him fat, ermm i mean that-"
"He's massive as in muscled?" Kid raised a none existent brow, this girl was clearly after his little bro, who was probably completely oblivious as usual.
"erm, yea." Justice blushed slightly and hid her face with her fringe, suddenly embarrassed that she had practically spilt-the-beans to the guys older brother.
"That's both of you then, do you go to the gym." Law asked un-phased by the fact he sounded like a pervert. His sister had just done a way better job than him at sounding like a stalker.
"Yea, we work at the gym, 'monster' ever heard of it?" Kid asked.
"Jesus, that gyms really popular, no wonder they hired you both."Law stated, not that he knew that much about gym's but he knew about how business worked. Kid just game him a blank look and Justice sighed.
"The gym would hire really fit attractive men and woman to promote the gym, and considering you and your brother are like machine's i'm not surprised they hired you, you know to attract more customers and such?" Justice explained, Kid looked as if he was starting to understand where she was coming from and that was good enough for her. "You trainers in there like?"
"Yep, 4 till 8 on weekdays, but our shifts are on different days so i'm in there tomorrow." Kid explained, Justice nodding enthusiastically.
"So Alex is in there now... training some person in gym uniform." Her eye's became clouded as her mind wondered and she gazed into nothingness.
"Jesus Justice, you've got it bad. You only met the guy today." Law growled un-approvingly.
"You've only known him two days, you drunkard." She stuck her tongue out." You don't get it." She waved a hand dismissively.
"I do get it, you're horny." Law added.
"Don't say that out-loud!" Justice screamed at her brother, Kid just chuckled in the seat opposite her. "What are you laughing at!"
"Your reaction, it happens to everyone calm down, no need to get defensive." Kid soothed, watching dark haired girl simmer down till she was layed back against the sea again with a sigh.
All conversations came to a halt as they arrived at the house. Justice exit first and mindlessly went inside, Law got out and waited from Kid. The redhead looked up at the expansive mansion. His eyes shot open in shocked. It was as if a queen or someone famous lived here. The mansion was orange bricked with a dark green roof. A strange combination but it worked.
"Shall we go inside Eustass-ya?"
Kid gawked for words but nodded.
A/n - Okay so yea... I hope you enjoyed this chapter please leave a review with your feedback. I know the Oc's were in this chapter quite a bit but remember it's a family fan-fic and these are considerably small chapters. xxx Thankyou for all of the reviews and follows so far it means a lot. XXX!