Chapter 1

"Why am I carrying all the bags?" Kid couldn't help but ask, glowering at Law's back who only offered a small smirk his way.

"Is it getting too heavy for you Eustass-ya?" Trafalgar teased, amused.

"Fuck you."

"You wish."

"Yeah right you little shit I-" Kid however paused when he lost Law to the store window where a display of medical books where, making him nearly sigh and shake his head. "Really? You just ditched me for some dusty old books?"

"These are the newest editions." Law murmured, obviously well and truly distracted now as Kid turned away, shaking his head as he lowered the bags of groceries down.

They were probably gonna be here a while. Kid did pause though, noticing a familiar blonde out of the corner of his eye lingering about one of the alleyways and grinned when they caught each other's eyes, Bellamy jerking his head towards the alleyway before entering it himself. Kid glanced over, seeing that Law was firmly enthralled.

"Hey Law, gonna be away a minute." He said, wanting to give the quack doctor a fair warning.

"Mm?" Was Law's intelligent reply. "Yeah sure Eustass-ya."

"Yeah sure my ass." Kid repeated with a snort but went over to where Bellamy had gone into to be hidden from any passer bys. "Oi, got my stuff?"

"Duh, I got them here. I even got a hold of a new product. It's called 'Smile'." Bellamy smirked, leaning against the wall, seemingly trying to look as casual as possible.

They were standing in an alleyway, doubt there was much casual in that.

"Sounds like an anti-depressant or some shit." Kid sneered. "And I ain't depressed."

"Nah, it's good stuff though, most of the stuff I give you puts you straight out but you can't do anything when you're like that right? Smile however will let you do your shit and then once you've burned all that extra energy off you'll sleep like a log." Bellamy waved the red dust in it's clear bag, grinning. "Heh, y'know what though I got a few sample bags for myself, I'll give you your normal stuff for the usual amount and this one for free."

"Now I'm getting suspicious." Kid growled lowly.

"It's good. Look this stuff is gonna go high in the stock soon, it's made by Joker himself."

"The Underground Boss?" Kid bit his lip, the stuff that son of a bitch made was amazing but expensive as fuck.

And this free bag was one of his?

Bellamy smirked at that. "Yep, Joker had it made up."

"Fine, fuck it, I'll take it." Kid growled as he took out the money, scowling at the blonde's smug look.

"You should try it-"

"Hey! What are you two doing?!" A vaguely familiar voice barked out, a tall, muscular guy storming towards him-

Oh shit it was Ace's boyfriend!

"Captain Smoker!" A dark haired girl was running towards them, looking startled before straightening up at the sight of them. "Oh, good evening gentlemen. I take it something has gone wrong here?"

"They're dealing in drugs Tashigi." Smoker growled as he examined their hands. "So the blonde is the dealer and the redhead is the taker. Oi, you look familiar."

"Ah shit..." Kid cursed while Bellamy stepped back.

"Wait! I'm under orders to be here-"

"I don't give a shit-"

"Smoker-ya!" Oh thank god, Law's here.

"Trafalgar? What are you doing here?" Smoker raised an eyebrow before pausing, examining him again and scowling. "Oh, now I remember you, ain't you Trafalgar's room-mate?"

Kid growled, not too sure what to say when more footsteps echo down the alleyway, a tall man approaching from the entrance.

"Smoker-kun, what seems to be the problem here?" A man with a hamburger sticking to his cheek asked before his eyes trailed over to Law who looked horrified. "Law? Ah, now this is a surprise."

"Shit Vergo?!" Law sounded completely taken aback.

Kid was stunned at the sight of Law being slammed into the brick wall, his arm twisted up his back, earning a hiss of protest from Law but this Vergo guy only pressed him further up against the wall. "That's Vergo-san to you, Law-kun."

"Oi!" Kid snarled. "Let him fucking go, he didn't do anything wrong!"

"Law is a runaway troublemaker." The bastard said calmly. "His father has been searching for him for years now."

His father? Law didn't have a father anymore though right? Law's parents were gone!

"You would think I would be allowed to live by myself considering I'm twenty-six now." Law protested, gritting his teeth when his arm was further twisted up.

"You're coming back with me-" The bastard began but suddenly his trousers just caught fire.

What the fuck?

"Sir! Your trousers!" The girl cried out, horrified as Smoker stood there, looking completely bemused.

"What the hell? I know food sticks to your face all the time but now your clothes are exploding into flames too?" Smoker growled as he pulled Vergo away from Law, giving Kid enough time to grab Law and run for it.

He overheard Smoker shout for some water to put the flames out while shouting for people to grab them, making Kid press on harder. He was going to kill Law later for getting him into this mess with a fucking freak!

"Ace, I think Eussy is in trouble." Ace blinked at the sight of Luffy pointing down an alleyway, a blonde guy was standing beside Kid, their neighbour, with Tashigi and Smoker blocking off their exist?

"Oh no, I guess Smoker caught Kid buying his stuff." Ace frowned, spotting Law rushing over to them, speaking quietly to Smoker just as another man walked over, tensing before suddenly slamming Law against the wall, twisting his arm right behind his back. "What the hell?!"

"Oi! What's he doing to Traffy?!" Luffy snarled, looking ready to charge in but Ace grabbed him and yanked him back.

"Wait Luffy. If Smoker sees you trying to get involved he'll start chasing you again." Ace reminded him, making Luffy twitch. "I've got an idea though."

"You've got that look in your eyes!" Luffy grinned, excited. "What are you gonna do?!"

"Let's set his trousers on fire." Ace couldn't help but brighten up at his little brother's laughter as he summoned a small fire on the back of the dark haired policeman's trousers, the flames quickly growing.

Smoker was quick to pull Vergo off of Law who Kid grabbed and yanked out the alley, the pair running for it, Smoker and Tashigi getting rid of the flames after Tashigi ran to get some water. The poor girl tripped up though, spilling most of it on herself and on the grumpy looking guy that wasn't his boyfriend. Said boyfriend who was starting to look around, making Ace pale and drag Luffy behind some cover. He would be in so much trouble if Smoker caught on to him, no matter how funny it was.

"You should try that on Sabo next." Luffy sniggered.

"And get instantly murdered? Hell no." Ace denied. "Worse yet it might not even be Sabo who gets a hold of me first, it could be Koala."

Luffy shuddered at that, nodding in agreement.

Terrible plan. Absolutely terrible.

The worst part was that he still wanted to try it though, but maybe after he tried setting Smoker's clothes on fire. Now that would be hot.

"I thought your parents were dead." Kid scowled as he followed Law out to the bus station, the dark haired male looking grumpy now. "So why the fuck did that police officer say your old man's looking for you?"

"My adopted father is looking for me." Law stressed out. "The asshole's been trying to have me dragged back to him for years now for 'my own good'. I'm fine without him."

"Is this cause your health?"

Law didn't have the best of health, something to do with some lead that killed his race. He hadn't understood the whole story but apparently it had poisoned their kind and killed most of them, the government, who had them mine the lead, had covered it up, saying the Spirit Healers had some kind of disease and thus, they were pretty much all wiped out, out of sheer paranoia.

Law had to take some pretty strong meds to fight off the lead that was still trying to kill him.

Law groaned at that. "Apart of it, yes. He's an overprotective arsehole and needs to butt out of my life. He's been in my 'lives' for so many years yet the bastard still persists."

Kid frowned, startled. "Wait 'my lives'? He's your Lord? I thought you didn't know who your's was?"

"He used to be but I got away and I moved on to someone else. Someone else became my Lord..." Law trailed off, looking far away before shaking his head, frustrated now. "But I do not remember who. I probably have not met them yet, which is a shame since that bird bastard found me when I was a child. Again."

"Again?"

"Him and I always seem to run into each other. He calls it 'destiny', that I'm meant to be his pawn." Law grumbled, ordering a coffee from one of the stalls at the station. "Now Vergo's found me."

"Vergo one of his?"

"His right-hand man." Law said distastefully but relaxed when he took a sip of his coffee. "And you nearly got me into a lot of trouble you know. Been stealing more money out of people's pockets to feed your addiction?"

Kid growled at that. "You know why I take them."

"You could go to therapy perhaps? Try to recover from whatever you might have repressed."

"It ain't gonna help when I don't know what's wrong now do I?" The redhead sneered. "Besides why the fuck would I wanna go pour my heart out to some random stranger who has no idea who the hell I am?"

"Sometimes it's easier?"

"I'll deal with it. I've gotten better."

"Taking drugs from a random dealer isn't 'better'. You don't even let anyone know whose stuff you're taking or when you go collect it. You just disappear on us."

"Don't lecture me." Kid warned, snatching the bus ticket off his room-mate. "Besides why complain? I never steal off of you and I try pay you back as best as I can for letting me live with ya."

"You could be doing so much better Eustass-ya. Like that mechanical engineering course you were half-way through? You could go back and complete it, maybe get a job? You used to always want to do that."

"I was fine until I started getting the fucking nightmares. Now I barely sleep enough and when I don't sleep I can't focus." Kid pointed out. "And I ain't going to that insane lady doctor of your's!"

"Dr. Kureha is intimidating I'll give you that but she would help." Law urged.

"Forget it!"

"Why are you so difficult Eustass-ya? Are you really that scared?" The little shit instantly teased, making him glower.

"And why are you such a rude little shit Trafalgar?"

"You enjoy it."

"You wish." He snorted before grunting. "I'm confused though, you said your adopted old man was your Lord? How do you remember him then?"

Law tilted his head, considering. "I don't remember everything... Sometimes it's still fuzzy... But I assume I remember a great deal because he used to be my Lord, he hasn't been for quite a few games now I think? If I remember right I always tried to run from him when I became about twelvish, that's when pawns usually start remembering things."

"That seems pretty young."

"It is. Some of the older pawns I know say it's to give us time to prepare for our Lord's arrival. So we can try get strong while we're young so we're useful to them? Either way he's no longer my Lord as I had moved on to someone different."

"So you can drop and choose?"

"Yes, but it is quite difficult to ignore your former Lord. He's still apart of me even after all this time." Law said with a lazy shrug. "Which is very annoying quite frankly. He keeps reappearing in my life and I wish he would stop. He always finds me as a child, if I recall rightly there was one time I was a toddler and was even raised by him-"

"Holy shit really?"

"Yeah, it was really weird." Law frowned though, frustrated. "I can't always trust my memory though, the more Lord's a pawn has, the more fuzzier their memories are. The only thing I remember is that my Lord is human, while the blonde bastard is a Dragon-"

"A Dragon?! What the hell?!" Kid gaped.

"Not so loud!" Law hushed.

Much to his irritation, nobody gave a shit that they were talking! If they did they should mind their own fucking business. This was a private conversation!

"But seriously though? A fucking Dragon?" He couldn't help but repeat, making the shit smirk.

"Him and his brother."

"His brother's a Lord? I thought it was only one per species?"

"There have always been two Dragon Lords, I don't know why though."

"Traffy! Eussy!" A sudden familiar brat appeared seemingly out of nowhere, tackling Law who managed to brace himself just in time. "You escaped Smokey!"

"I managed to rescue your shopping." Ace said, holding up their grocery bags much to their relief.

"At least you're helpful Ace-ya, unlike someone I know." He could feel Law's glare, making him growl.

"It was that fucking Bellamy's fault not mine you shit!" Kid snapped, holding up the red powder bag. "He held me back by giving me this new stuff."

"New stuff? Are you sure it's safe Eustass-ya?"

"It's a good supplier. I'll be fine." Kid said as he took some of it, making Ace snap about how Luffy was here.

Doflamingo took a sip of his drink as he looked over the profit sheet made by Disco's group, grinning at the fairly large increase. "Oh my Disco, you seem to have increased your profits by quite a fair bit. Did you get a good find?"

Disco grinned at him from the video chat. "A giant was caught and he sold for a magnificent price. You should have seen the show, it was amazing."

"Fufufufufu, I'll have to try and drop in again soon. The shows must be doing well-" He frowned when someone poked his cheek, looking up at the familiar face and scowling. "Oi, what are you doing?"

"Joker? Is something wrong?"

He saw a mobile being waved at him and raised an eyebrow before returning his attention to his employee. "It's nothing Disco. I have to go though, we'll chat again another time."

He didn't bother waiting for Disco to speak, just hung up the call and took the mobile off his fellow blonde who wandered around to sit on the couch beside him, only to trip up, fall flat on his face and set his coat on fire. He chuckled fondly at the sorry state before picking up.

"Hello?"

"J-Joker! Something's went wrong with one of the Smile products!" Bellamy wailed over the line, much to his confusion.

"What do you mean?"

"One of my human clients is having a terrible reaction to it! I-I'm putting him on the camera-" Doflamingo turned on his live viewing, making him pause at the sight of a redhead, collapsed on the ground with a very familiar face over him, looking frustrated.

"Shit! His heart just stopped!" Law's voice snarled out, making the blonde next to him stiffen and sit up, staring straight at the video screen.

"AHHH! EUSSY'S DYING!" A boy nearby screamed, looking panicked, though Doflamingo frowned, taking a closer look at the boy.

"Fufufufu, ah, now I see, Straw Hat Luffy." Doflamingo noted, amused as he took in the sight of Law. "And look, Law's all grown up now."

He scowled at the sight of Law performing CPR on the redhead human, or apparently human considering what Smile just did to him. Smile poisoned supernatural creatures, not humans. He watched as an ambulance pulled up, pulling the redhead into the back and Law speaking with them quickly before jumping in the back as well.

"Bellamy. Follow them. Make sure the dark haired boy doesn't leave your sight."

"Yes sir."

Kid blinked, staring at the junk yard before him in confusion. He was at the bus station just before yet now he was here? Wherever the fuck 'here' was exactly? Did he pass out or something?

He must have, this must be a dream, it was an endless junk pile after all. He was right at the top of the biggest pile and yet it went on and on all around him still.

"What the fuck is going on?" Kid muttered to himself. "Did I pass out or something?"

"Your heart stopped." A distorted voice told him, startling him as he turned around to find a weird shadowy thing sitting before him, sounding amused. "Scared the living shit out of me too but at least I'm aware again."

"Aware? What the fuck are you on about? And who the fuck are you anyway?" Kid snarled, storming forward just as the fucker stood up so that they were face-to-face?

It was hard to tell because it's face was just a shadowy mess!

"Damn, you husks are as annoying as ever. I'm a being that wants to rejoin the game before it's over yet you keep suppressing me with all those fucking drugs you keep consuming." The being snarked, irritated.

"What the fuck did you just call me?! A husk?!" For some reason that really pissed him off, he didn't understand why but it really nagged at him.

"Of course I did you shithead." The creature sneered. "Fucking husks, always so damn clueless."

"Call me that again and I'll-" Kid drew his fist back but let out a startled noise as his feet began to sink into something.

He looked down, finding the junk around him dragging him down, letting him sink which made him struggle wildly, cursing up a storm as he tried to get away. The metal was dragging against him, cutting him which made him hiss in pain while the figure above just seemingly watched, amused.

"This crap would be so much easier to deal with if I could just kill you. Unfortunately I need to 'wake up' properly and get my key. It takes too bloody long and yet you managed to somehow make it even longer. How annoying."

He tried to snap back, having no idea what the hell was going on but his chest felt like it was on fire as he was dragged further and further down. Darkness soon blanketed him, making him thrash and try to escape but everything was fading away.

Law accepted the coffee from Ace, relieved to have his favourite beverage in hand as he sipped at it, glancing back at the closed door which hid Eustass-ya away from them. It was rather frustrating too but as soon as he had arrived Dr. Kureha had shoved him outside the room and told him his shift still hadn't started yet so he needed to park his butt down and stay out of the medical bay.

"I should be in there."

"Your shift doesn't start for another hour." Ace offered, glancing at the clock on the wall before he glanced back down at his neighbour. "Kid's strong, he'll be fine."

"I'm more concerned about Racoon-ya right now to be honest. Luffy-ya still hasn't stopped chasing him." Law pointed out, watching yet again as Chopper ran past screaming, Luffy right on his heels.

"Luffy!" Ace protested, jerking his feet out of the way when his little brother nearly tripped up over them. "Stop running through the halls! Someone could get hurt!"

"He's gone again." Law drawled out, the energetic teen long gone making Ace instantly sigh.

"Jeez, what did I do to get such a reckless little brother?"

"You adopted him." Law snarked.

"I think he more adopted me. I used to try and kill him when I was a kid."

Law considered that. "Alright, my apologises, the lunatic adopted you after all the violent ways you tried to murder him."

"That's more like it." Ace grinned.

The door to the room opened, revealing a scowling Kureha who grabbed him, making Law cringed and cling futily to his coffee, wishing for at least one last sip before whatever hell he went through next happened to him.

"The brat fell into a coma. I want you're handy little abilities to come wake him up." Dr. Kureha ordered.

"Wasn't I not allowed to start until my shift begins?" Law asked, arching an eyebrow.

"You're starting early and getting an extra hour in. Now get in here brat." The woman snarled, yanking him inside, telling Ace to either go deal with his brother or get lost before closing the door.

Eustass-ya was lying unconscious in bed, looking as if he was asleep but apparently he was in a coma instead. Law frowned at that as he approached, running a hand carefully through the red hair, feeling a bit peeved.

"You idiot. Always getting yourself into trouble."

"And you always manage to somehow drag him out of it."

Law snorted at that. "It's usually between Killer-ya and I. Bonney-ya just laughs."

"Think you can wake him up kid?"

"It might be a bit difficult but if he has any brain cells left I might just be able to." Law remarked as he laid one hand on Eustass-ya's head and closed his eyes.

It all went strangely after that.

Bellamy had decided that he was going to take the initiative, Doflamingo, the world's greatest Lord, had ordered him to follow Law and keep an eye on him but, he had another idea. The Young Master obviously wanted this 'Law' person for whatever reason so maybe he could capture the kid and deliver him to Doflamingo? He would get a proper acknowledgement for that, maybe even be accepted into the family!

It was all going according to plan when the dark haired man finally appeared out of the hospital, yawning into his palm as he walked down the street. Bellamy followed, drawing his gun when he got close enough but just as he reached out to grab Law the man swiftly turned around and Bellamy suddenly found himself on the ground, his gun kicked out his grasp and a hand clamped around his throat.

"Huh? Who the hell are you?" The freckled guy blinked at him.

"I'm here to bring you to the Young Master, Law." Bellamy choked out, clamping his hand around Law's wrist who just blinked at him stupidly.

Seriously, why was Doflamingo interested in this guy in the first place?

"Law? Sorry but I believe you have gotten the wrong guy. I'm Ace, it's nice to meet you." The man offered, looking polite and friendly before scowling. "And you said something about bringing Law to someone right? Considering that gun you're carrying I guess you weren't going to ask politely."

"Wa-Wait, you're Ace?" Bellamy tensed, he recognised that name from somewhere.

Oh shit. Whitebeard's kid.

Fire fist.

"I don't think that's your biggest concern right now. Law's busy at the moment but I'll happily take care of you." Ace grinned sharply at him, looking all the more threatening now.

Why did he always mess up?

"Chopper! Come back here! I'm bored!" Luffy yelled, charging through the hallway he swore Ace and Traffy had been in earlier.

They weren't here anymore though. Did they turn invisible or something? That would be so cool! Maybe he could do that too if he-

Only his senses were enough to make him duck as a blade swung right where his head had been, digging into the wall instead. He yelped at the sight of Chopper's mum, at least he thought it was his mum even though she's an old granny, glaring at him.

"Oi you little brat. What do you think you're doing causing such a rucus in a hospital?" The scary lady asked, armed and deadly making Luffy gap and run away.

She screamed and charged after him, making him scream in sheer terror as weapons flew by him, he swore even a chicken did somehow as he retreated for the doors where safety lay. She wouldn't follow him outside unless her shift was finished, she never did!

He leapt out of them, barely missing the axe that was now embedded in the door as he rolled down the steps. Luffy managed to leap back up on to his feet before running around the corner, panting heavily.

"Oh man! She's guarding Chopper and Traffy!" Luffy whined. "I wanted to play!"

He didn't notice the group slowly begin to surround him until he opened his eyes again, yelling in sheer panic when they all charged at him.

.:End of Chapter:.

Here we go! Another chapter up! I'm hoping to keep up the weekly updates for The Everlasting Turn because there is a lot of explaining to do for how this story works and I want it to make sense and that leave everyone hanging around confused? If you do have any questions you can ask, unless they give spoilers ;) :P

SEllen23, I'm glad to see you back for another story ;) xD Hope you continue to enjoy it :D

guest, Thanks, hopefully I can keep it up :) And about the waking up screaming part? It's a mix explanation, Law is very used to Kid's nightmares which is picked at in this chapter when he tries to convince Kid to go seek out help, Luffy on the other hand is different, I can't really explain him without spoiling things so I'll have to leave his explanation out for now ;) And hope you continue to enjoy it, I love getting reviews back on how the story is going so hope to hear from you again :D