As the sun started rising, Luffy jumped off the branch he'd ended up on after walking across the trees all night and made his way back through the park and to the entrance. He was bouncing on his toes as he walked, excited to be seen again today. If Zoro showed up. Luffy knew it hadn't been a dream because he couldn't anymore.

He walked straight across the creek, omitting any bridges. As he walked, he became less and less excited, the feeling being replaced by dread of Zoro not showing up. He could understand if the other had thought Luffy was a dream and didn't really exist. He assumed even he wouldn't have easily believed something like this was reality back when he was alive. He chewed on his lips and climbed up the much shorter tree than the others and sat on his usual branch to wait. He and Zoro didn't really set a time for their meeting, but he had an endless amount of time on his hands, so waiting in the place he usually stays at for a while was no big deal.

People arrived at the park early. One of the usuals went on her daily run almost right after the sun came up. Luffy watched someone drop off a box of puppies and leave them next to the red bench Luffy sometimes sat on. This wasn't a rare occurrence. Luffy would watch the puppies get picked up by bystanders or someone professional and be taken away. He went up to the little puppies t see them, and everytime they ignored him, though it happened whenever he went up to them, it hurt.

He waited on the branch patiently, but also nervously. No one is fifty one years had seen him, and the thought of Zoro not coming and Luffy risking being invisible for the rest of his existence wasn't a pleasant thought.

Zoro woke up next to his bowl of puffy and swollen cereal in the warm milk on his desk. Chopper had left it alone, surprisingly. Zoro thought last night had been a dream. A very interesting dream, and had decided he wasn't going to the park today, since he had to unpack more, but when he saw the window open with the car accident he'd looked up last night still on his computer when he turned it on, he realized it hadn't been a dream, which made him surprisingly very happy.

He quickly threw on a tanktop and shorts and barely grabbed his phone as he ran down the stairs and out the house, not locking the door behind him. He sprinted to the park as fast as he could and finally slowed as he entered the park entrance. He looked around quickly, not seeing Luffy at first until he looked at a large group of people and saw Luffy's slightly noticeable glow separating himself from the alive people. He was looking over the shoulder of someone, trying to read their book, but couldn't read the whole page.

Zoro called out his name, making Luffy's head perk up and smile as he looked around, finding Zoro quickly and silently running over to him. Luffy tried to make his grin a little smaller since he looked a bit crazed and walked with Zoro as they tried to get out of earshot from the other park visitors so Zoro wouldn't look crazy, talking to air.

"I'm glad you came!" Luffy said happily as he lead them down a random trail.

"I'm glad you're real or I'd feel like I've taken some hard core drugs," Zoro said flatly. "I almost didn't come because I thought it was a dream."

"What made you come then?" Luffy asked as he walked backwards like the night before. Zoro had trouble paying attention to their conversation because he was so fascinated with Luffy's feet going smoothly and silently through the underbrush.

"I had Googled your accident last night," Zoro said. He wasn't one to usually to sugarcoat his words and was pretty blunt, but Luffy wasn't offended, just confused.

"What's a google?" he asked curiously. He assumed it was something that had been invented after his death. He'd never been able to ask or learn what had been made after he died. He was so curious about the shiny boxes people loved to look at. He was excited to have someone to ask all of these questions he's been dying to learn the answers to.

"It's like a super dictionary and you can just uh… search something and then it will give you answers," Zoro said, having trouble explaining it to someone who doesn't know internet slang or vocabulary.

"Then you found out about my accident?" Luffy questioned. He'd long since gotten over his death. Yeah he missed company and was sad sometimes and missed life in general, but it happened over fifty years ago. He'd made peace with the fact he died a tragic death. That was in the past.

"Yeah. It was really brutal. Did… did you see your body afterwards?" Zoro asked solemnly. Luffy nodded.

"Yeah it was bad. I'm glad I'm not stuck all bloody though. At least I look clean for how long I'll ever be around. I wouldn't want to be covered in blood with glass sticking out everywhere," he stated simply.

"You're taking this awfully well. Doesn't it bother you? That you died like that?" Zoro was curious. Very curious. He was glad he hadn't offended the ghost.

"Well it was a long time ago. I think my family must have got where they were supposed to go, and it's not like it hurts to be like this. It's been really lonely, for a really long time, but it is what it is. I don't think there's anything I can do to change it."

"I see. Well good for you," Zoro said sincerely. He wasn't being rude or anything. "Can I ask you something?"

"Only if you let me ask a question afterwards," Luffy responded happily. They continued to walk down the trail, neither really paying attention to where they were going.

"Ok. What are the rules about walking through things?"

"Rules?"

"Yeah, like how does it work? It's really interesting," Zoro said almost eagerly.

"Well, I can touch stationary things, like this tree," he said as he put his hand against a tree they walked past. Then he continued, "But I can't touch anything that can move. Um, an example would be I can touch a car if it's not moving, but if it moved it would go right through me. I can't touch the leaves or grass because it can move."

"Is that why you can't touch people? Because they move?" Zoro asked as he climbed over a log Luffy had to hop over. "What if they aren't moving?"

"I don't really like to touch people. It feels like a shard of ice going through me. That's why I make sure to not be careless when walking around living people," Luffy finished. "My turn now."

"What's your question?" Zoro questioned curiously. What would Luffy want to know? There are probably tons of things he'd want to know.

"What are the shiny boxes everyone is so obsessed with? Everyone has one and they just keep getting thinner."

"Oh, those are cell-phones. Here," Zoro said as he pulled his own phone out of his short's pocket. He sat down on a big log and unlocked the screen. Luffy sat next to him, close enough to see but far enough to not risk touching the living person.

"Oh wow! You can touch it and it works," Luffy said in awe as Zoro scrolled through the menu. "When I was alive, I think that phones were big and you had to turn a dial to punch in numbers." Luffy sighed wistfully. "I wish this stuff had been around when I was alive. I think I would have liked it. "

"You don't remember it?" Zoro asked.

"I don't remember anything about my old life. I know a lot of words for things. Cars, trees ,park. Stuff like that," the ghost explained.

Zoro spoke next as he continued to play with his phone in Luffy's view. He opened up some games and smirked as Luffy became enthralled with watching him play simple games. "Why do you stay here? There are a lot of places you could go with seemingly endless amounts of time on your hands. Don't you get tired of here?"

Luffy paused for a moment, trying to find a good way to put his answer. "Where would I go? I don't like populated areas much. Too many risks of walking through someone or them walking through me. Too many eyes not being able to see me. Besides, it's nice here. And can be fun, like yesterday," Luffy explained.

"You mean when you jumped off a tree and gave me a heart attack?" Zoro asked a little sharply. He was still irked about how panicked he felt. He was glad he didn't call 911 or he would have looked crazy and probably gotten in trouble.

"Well, yeah. I've actually never done that before though. But it was fun!" Luffy exclaimed happily.

"Why don't you travel around the world? Since you're not alive and can't die, you could go to remote places and not worry about freezing to death or being attacked by animals or diseases. You could explore the ocean," Zoro said, trying and failing to understand why Luffy would just stick to one place for fifty years without considering going anywhere else.

"How would I get to these places? I don't know if I could even get on a bus let alone a plane. And I wouldn't find a way to get back here," Luffy replied simply. It just didn't seem worth it to leave. "Besides, if I had gone somewhere else, we wouldn't have ever met!" Luffy concluded with a grin. It was so big it looked like it would hurt to wear.

Zoro pursed his lips, but didn't have s response to counter Luffy's statement.

"Oh, and I can't explore the ocean," he added, still watching Zoro absentmindedly trail his finger across the screen.

"Why not?" Zoro asked, puzzled but interested. Luffy got up and told him he'd show Zoro.

Luffy lead him to the creek and walked into the water. Well, onto it. He walked across the surface.

"Are you Jesus or something?" Zoro asked, joking. "You can't go in at all? Ever?"

"Nope. I've tried countless times. My body just doesn't go past the surface." Luffy gracefully walked across the surface of the creek while he spoke "I sometimes wish I could. Like you said, I could go as far as I want and as deep. I don't need to breathe after all."

"Then why do you?"

"Habit I guess," Luffy replied as he silently walked back over to the land. "Can you show me more stuff on your phone?" he asked eagerly. Zoro agreed and spent the next few hours showing Luffy everything his phone could do. He eventually tried explaining the internet to Luffy, but it just wasn't clicking. He couldn't understand any of the vocabulary Zoro was using. He was becoming more and more frustrated that Luffy didn't understand any of it, though it wasn't the ghost boy's fault. Zoro had to remind himself that as he grew more impatient.

"I'll bring my laptop next time," Zoro said.

"What's that?" Luffy asked. Zoro replied that it was a portable computer. Luffy of course didn't know what a computer was.

"I'll just show it to you next time." Luffy grinned that there would be a next time. That he hadn't been boring the living teen all day. He decided he could trust Zoro with his secret place.

"I have somewhere cool to show you!" Luffy said to Zoro excitedly.

"Where?" Zoro asked, interested, to which Luffy said "I'll show you!" and led him back up the path they were on and turning at a fork in the paths.

"You really know your way around here," Zoro observed, somewhat unnecessarily. Luffy didn't mind the obviousness.

"Yeah, I know this place like the back of my hand. Not just the lower parts of the park, I can hike up to the pretty far if you walk a few hours north. I haven't climbed up the mountains yet, though. It would probably be relatively easy for me, but it would be hard for you, though," Luffy said, not meaning anything rude or challenging.

"And why is that?" Zoro asked. He could do it!

"It's really dangerous up there. Bears like to stay up there because of the fish in that area. It's like a giant pool full of fish that the bears love. And it's easy to fall. I followed a group up there a few years ago and one of them fell and broke their neck," Luffy said somewhat casually. "It was scary, and there were a lot of police up there for a while. It irritated the bears. I thought something bad was going to happen between them and the living people, but nothing happened."

The two finally reached the creek, only to walk along the shore until they reached where Zoro had lost him when he had followed him once. Luffy grinned at him and scaled the rocks easily, frustrating Zoro, who hadn't come prepared for hiking. Luffy climbed higher and higher until he reached the top and eagerly waited for Zoro to catch up. Zoro was an athletic person, but even he had trouble with this. The rocks were so steep and smooth it was hard to grab on to.

"It'll be worth it," Luffy said as Zoro huffed. Finally, the green haired teen reached the top and put his hands on his knees. "Now we have to drop down right there," Luffy said as he pointed downwards and into the creek. He didn't wait for Zoro to complain about jumping into the water, and that he couldn't just walk across the surface like Luffy could. Zoro sighed and dropped down after Luffy. He got more irritated when Luffy walked right through a waterfall.

Zoro sighed and pulled off his shirt so at least some of his clothes wouldn't get soaked and put it on one of the rocks he'd jumped down from and put his phone on top of it. He walked through the water like Luffy had, only to get soaked, unlike Luffy, who was completely dry. Zoro had to admit, it was worth it. It was a simple cave that was made amazing by Luffy's blueish seemingly natural glow. The sides of the cave glittered with the light and as Luffy moved around, the glittering shifted like there were bioluminescent bugs on the wall, scattering around. It was beautiful. Luffy sat down and leaned against the wall, just by moving making the alcove shimmer in color.

"Cool, huh?" Luffy asked happily. He could tell Zoro liked it. "There's actually something good from me glowing."

"You're like, your own nightlight. Does it just happen, or can you control it?" Zoro asked, sitting across for the glowing boy, his wetness forgotten.

"I always glow, but it's only really noticeable in the dark. But there's something really cool I figured out I can do," Luffy said excitedly. "Wanna see?" Zoro nodded. Luffy brought his finger up and stared at it intensely until it started glowing a bit stronger than the rest of him. Zoro watched in fascination as a small ball of blue light floated off of Luffy's finger.

The little orb floated around for a moment before it merged with the roof of the small cave above them and left a little glowing patch on the smooth surface. Luffy watched Zoro's expression of fascination and laughed. "Cool, huh?"

"Yeah. Is that the only thing like that you can do?" Luffy nodded.

"Took me years to figure out how to do that. I wish I could learn to fly," Luffy sighed wistfully.

"Yeah, typically ghosts can fly or at least float. Well, in stories and movies and shit." Zoro thought of another question. "Is this where you sleep?"

Luffy gave a small sigh. How he wished he could sleep. For fifty years it's been a never ending day. "I don't sleep. I can't." Zoro then questioned why, to which Luffy shrugged and pursed his lips.

"So it's been the same day for you since the 1960's?" Luffy nodded solemnly. It was one of the things he truly hated about his situation. He had no reprieve from reality. He couldn't dream or completely relax. He'd tried many times, but it never happened. His body never became tired, though he sometimes was mentally. It was difficult for him to even remember what sleeping felt like after all this time. All he remembered was that it was nice and he used to do it a lot.

Zoro looked at his watch in surprise. It was already evening, close to the beginning of sunset. Luffy saw him looking and walked through the water to see the sky turning pink. Zoro followed him, soaked once again, and went to put his shirt back on.

"Wow, today went fast!" Luffy exclaimed happily, but with a tinge of disappointment, so faint Zoro didn't notice its presence. Zoro held his phone since his shorts were wet and it wouldn't do to put his phone in their pockets. "I'll take you back to the entrance now," Luffy said as he walked across the water.

"Do we have to climb back up these rocks?" Zoro asked, hoping Luffy would deny it, which, thankfully, he did.

"There's another trail but it's longer, so it's either shorter after the climb or longer not climbing," Luffy explained. Zoro really didn't want to climb back over the rocks, so they went the long way. Zoro watched the foliage around the ghost being illuminated by Luffy's glow. Even if the sun was still up, some parts of the park were darker if they had thick trees. This path was a lot more wild and seemed to be fairly unused, so there were a lot of sticks and logs to climb over.

By the time the two reached the park entrance, it was late evening. Luffy waved Zoro off after Zoro confirmed he'd be back tomorrow. He'd suggested Luffy come over to his place, since Luffy showed Zoro his home, it was only fair for him to show Luffy his. Luffy hesitantly agreed, and was going to be picked up the next day.

Zoro was confused as he walked home. It was strange he invited Luffy, someone he just met, to his house. He'd never really invited any friends over to his place, and here he was inviting someone he just met and happened to be a ghost or spirit or whatever Luffy wanted to be called. He had enjoyed the day immensely. Luffy was great company and fascinating as well. He was looking forward to seeing his amazed face when Zoro showed him all of the technology Luffy'd never seen before the next day.

Zoro wondered how Luffy would deal with leaving the park. He felt kinda mean for making Luffy leave when he had expressed he never went or wanted to go anywhere different. But he had agreed, so it was his choice. Zoro decided he'd ask again if he really wanted to come with him when he saw the glowing ghost tomorrow.

Zoro was still digesting everything he'd seen today. He kept seeing the glowing cave and hearing the sound of the waterfall echoing around them. He kept remembering Luffy gracefully walking across the surface of the water, leaving no ripples or any proof he was there. But he also kept seeing Luffy's dead and bloody body. He now wished he hadn't looked it up. To see the smiling person who seemed to radiate light, a different type than his blue glow, bleeding out and his face contorted in pain was terrible. To think he was alive for a few moments in that condition was awful.

He finally reached his house, having not paid attention most of the way home. It was seven o'clock and getting darker out.

Zoro entered the house, where the door was still unlocked, and walked in. There was pizza in the fridge so he got three slices and walked past his parents' bedroom and up to his room. He had a lot of unpacking to do since he wasn't sure if Luffy would be crowded or just walk through everything. It was also intriguing that he was able to walk through moving objects but not stationary ones. Could he sit on Zoro's bed? Could he walk through doors or windows? He couldn't wait to know!

He spent the next five hours unpacking everything and putting his posters and things up on his walls but stopping frequently to do something else not productive. He took out the trash, folded down the cardboard boxes, cleaned the room, and moved on down to the first floor to clean whatever Luffy might see on his way up to Zoro's room. He didn't know why he cared if Luffy saw a mess. Usually he didn't give a shit about a cluttered house that wasn't well organized. At his old place, both his closet and hamper had been the floor in his room.

Zoro thought about getting snacks, but assumed Luffy couldn't eat. Poor guy. Zoro wouldn't know what he could do to not fall apart if he couldn't ever eat. Or sleep. Zoro loved to take naps.

He eventually went to bed around midnight, excited about the next day once again.