Wow!
It took me so long to write another chapter! Hope you guys forgive me!
Next one will be soon!
Till there!
"Bepo? Where are we and who are these people?"
Bepo, Sachi and Penguim looked happily at Law that was awake and looked at the place and the people present with great suspicion.
"Captain!" Bepo cried and hugged Law getting him out of bed and spinning him around.
"... Bepo! Bepo! Tell me who these people are!"
Bepo placed Law on the floor, straightening his clothes, and then immediately lowering his head and apologizing.
Sachi and Penguim came from out of nowhere and gave a slap on Bepo's head.
"Stop apologizing!" They said, but their smiles faltered a little when they saw the face of their captain, serious and a little annoyed with the lack of answers.
"So Captain ... they are our allies."
Law looked at them and then at the straw hat bunch, looking not quite sure of what was spoken, but Sachi had never lied to him, so there was a possibility of it being true.
The question was why he didn't remember those people?
He was in doubt about what to believe, when out of nowhere someone shouted "TORAOOO!" and threw himself at him.
Law thought it could be an attack; he activated his 'Room' and cut off the head of the one who advanced on him.
Seeing Luffy's severed head rolling toward them only to smile at them, made Usopp, Chopper, Nami and Brook scream like crazies.
Zoro quickly drew his sword, ready to attack Law, noticing that Sachi, Penguin and Bepo were prepared to defend his captain.
Fortunately before anyone could do anything, Sanji stepped in front of Zoro.
"Out of my way, Cook!"
"No, I will not. You will attack him and things will only get worse, he is not to blame if Luffy is an idiot and jumped on him!" Sanji said angry without getting out of Zoro's way.
Zoro in turn while seeing no problem in removing the cook out of the away using brute force, was hesitant because of the baby on the EroCook's arms, and more than that, Robin had said there was something strange about the baby.
While Zoro pondered the situation on one side, Law wondered on the other.
He really thought that the chlorophyll haired swordsman was going attack him, but the blonde guy got in the way, and that was a reaction he didn't expect - he even wondered the possibility of cutting them both in just one blow, but there was a baby present. Not that he had a problem with that, he could just put together the baby's parts, but it would generate unnecessary commotion, since there were three women present – and women tend to be hysterics when babies were involved.
Amid all this, Robin and Franky seemed to be the only ones to keep certain tranquility.
Franky remained on guard, knowing that if everything went out of control, he and Robin could immobilize Law for a few precious seconds.
Robin in turn decided to talk to Law.
She could see that he was still young, no beard or goatee on his face, but he already had many of the face characteristics that he possessed when they met.
He probably was a little over twenty.
"Law, you probably don't recognize us, but we've been through this before. Your companions are telling the truth, we are allies." Robin spoke in a quiet tone but making it clear that she was older, experienced and had everything under control.
Zoro in turn tensed when he saw the situation, the only thing he didn't need at the moment is Robin being cut in half like Luffy, but the Shitty Cook simply didn't get out of his way.
Angrily Zoro snorted and moved forward only to be stopped by Sanji.
"Let Robin-chan take care of it, Marimo. It is our best chance, how do you think Law will react with to your beefy form, grumpy face and swords, huh?"
"Hmph ... probably as a little girl."
"Dumbass, stop being so insensitive, you know he doesn't get along well with men, let the subtlety and delicacy of a woman solve this, okay."
Zoro kept his swords ready but didn't take action, he simply huffed and before sitting down he gave to Sanji a smirk.
"I'm beefy, right?"
Sanji turned red and kicked Zoro.
"Shut up, your pervert!"
"I'm the pervert? You're the one calling me beefy!"
"I didn't … no … wait, why I'm discussing it with you!"
"Because you can't resist me?"
Sanji kicked and Zoro argued and then pushed Sanji that with his arms busy arms holding the baby couldn't keep his balance and fell on his ass making the baby cry and interrupting Robin and Law.
The situation and the lack of information adding with the baby's annoying crying were already bringing Law to the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Robin in turn cast a disapproving look on the two men, to which Sanji apologized but didn't seem to resist the urge to pull Zoro's foot.
But the situation was stopped before it could get worse when Nami interjected punching them and telling them to behave as adults, immediately trying to get the baby to calm down, she grabbed him from Sanji, taking him away from the danger that was those two idiots.
But the baby started crying even more, stretching his arms toward Sanji.
"Go get it, Curly."
"Shut up Marimo... And it is not a 'it', it is a baby"
But as Sanji got near the baby, it grabbed his hair making Sanji scream.
"Aaah! He grabbed my hair! Let it go, let it go, let it GO!"
The baby laughed and Sanji screamed while Nami asked him to take it easy.
"He is now eating my hair! Let go of my hair, you little monster"
That was the limit, if they don't want to give him explanations, so be it, Law was prepared to cut that whole place in two.
Sachi, Penguin and Bepo noticing this, moved to try to stop Law, but before any of them could do something, Luffy throw himself so aggressively at Law that he send him flying back and hitting the wall.
In shock Law didn't have time to react and Luffy was already facing him, holding his sword, preventing him to withdraw it.
"Don't even try." Luffy said seriously.
"How did you recovered so quickly?" Law still confused asked - usually people entered in shock when they saw their separate body pieces.
"Shihihi, silly, I know your abilities. I just need to get my head and put it back on its place and everything would be normal again."
Law gritted his teeth and a small wave of electricity could be felt.
Luffy was quick and grabbed Law's other hand holding it against the wall.
"I also know about that, don't even try it. It's completely usel ..."
"Counter Shock!"
And Luffy was electrocuted, but unlikely Law had thought, Luffy simply stood there for a second or two before looking at Law as if he was an idiot.
"As I said, it's useless against me."
Luffy and Law were face to face for a while before Luffy continue to speak with an unusual seriousness.
"Look, I know you are confused and have no idea about who we are, but we're in this together, you and I are allies ... friends. And even if you don't trust me, I know you trust your nakamas."
"He's telling the truth, Captain." Sachi said.
"So why I don't remember it?" Law questioned.
"It's because you were attacked and the attack make you go back to being a child." Penguin explained.
Law looked shredded, he didn't remember having heard about a Devil Fruit with this ability, however, this does not mean it does not exist.
"Okay, let's assume I believe it. What do you want to do?"
Luffy let go of his hands and began to scratch his head.
"Now that you asked, we were trying to bring you back to normal."
"Normal?" He asked him.
"Yes. The normal Torao, the grouchy, grumpy and humorless one." Luffy said, smiling.
"Who is Torao?"
"Law is Torao."
"I doubt that I would let someone call me that."
"Oh, but did, that and much more." Usopp said already feeling comfortable enough to do so
Law looked murderous at him and Usopp squealed and hid behind Brook, his legs trembling in fear.
Law ignored Usopp and asked what they mean by normal. Robin then replied calmly.
"Until a few minutes ago we didn't know why this occured, we thought it was an unfortunate incident, but as soon as we knew the reasons, we find out that you will naturally return to your age, that is 26 years old and with it all your memories would be back as well."
"No, it will not."
Bonney was tired of so much dilly dallying, she thought that with Law waking up the Straw Hat would start to questioning him about something, but nothing happened, all they did was fooling around.
"And who are you?!" Law said getting up.
"What do you mean who I am?"
"Look, lady, I've never seen you in my life." Law said calmly and Luffy at his side explained an important detail.
"So it was her who made you younger."
"Oh, really? I wonder why." Law said with a sly smile, his hand already on his sword.
Law no longer seemed to see Luffy and the others as a threat, but his posture with Bonney was quite different.
Bonney in turn was undaunted, she stood, head up, chest out and full of confidence approached them.
"I want answers, simple answers. Starting with Doflamingo."
Law closed his eyes, everyone present knew that it was a delicate matter, but Sachi, Penguin and Bepo only sighed meaning that they knew that Law's answers would be something that no one present would understand.
"Look, if you want to talk to him, I can help you. But don't blame me when you or a colleague of yours suddenly disappears."
Disappear?
He would help her?
But wasn't Law running away from Doflamingo?
Sachi stood and awkwardly interjected.
"So..."
"What Torao talking about? Didn't you ran away? "
"Yes, but didn't you listen us? We and Doflamingo got in touch shortly after, after all, what happened, happened, and none of us wanted to complicate things. "
Law looked at Luffy and Sachi without understanding what was happening.
"Sachi, what are you talking about?"
"Eeeeerrmm ..." Sachi was speechless and Penguim jumped on with a forced smile, "It's nothing, Captain."
Law began to feel suspicious, something was going on and those people were hiding something from him.
Bonney then saw an opportunity.
"They are talking about what you did at Doflamingo's behest, the people you killed and used as a guinea pig for yours powers. How you know about that psycho's plans and how you helped him and when not help you just stood quietly letting him do whatever he wanted. "
"Listen, I didn't participate in anything."
"You participated!"
"I will not spend my energy with you. I don't owe you satisfactions. "Law said turning his back at Bonney and ignoring her.
"You owe me answers! What he did to my mother ?! "
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
Bonney moved forward and Law called another 'Room' which was broken as soon as it was made. Law fell to his knees holding his head and Bepo already predicting what would happen caught him before he fell to the ground and put him lying on the bed again.
"What's going on?" Chopper asked.
"That's what we told you, he woke up on the third day, but only fully returned to normal weeks later." Sachi said again.
"Weeks ?!" Bonney said in a frustrated tone. "I can fix this." She got close to touch Law again, but was stopped by Nami.
"No no no no… not! You want answers and we have the answers. What do you think of negotiating for them? "
"Nami!" Brook, Chopper and Usopp said surprised.
"We have the baby's diary with us; I bet he written something about what Law spoken while on middle of one of his attacks. Don't you want to know what he found out? "
"Hmph, as if a marine would find something I didn't already know."
"Don't underestimate them. The Marine had informants inside Donquixote's Family for years." Robin said, expecting a very specific reaction.
"What?"
Robin shook the little book and she and Nami smiled.
"So, what do you say? What you have to offer us in exchange of this information? "