Young In Love - LawLu AU

Chapter 05

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"I thought you wanted to live by on your own. So why are you asking for my help?!" Ace questioned letting his temper get to him.

"Oi Ace that's not nice-" Sabo interjected, clearly not liking the tone.

"You heard him too right Sabo? He said he wanted to be able to live alone so he should learn to do things by himself!"

"I am sure he didn't mean it like that." Sabo then turned to Luffy who looked on the verge of crying. "Luffy-"

"Fine then! I will leave and live on my own! I don't need your help!" Luffy yelled getting equally angry as Ace who was ready to throw hands with his younger brother.

"Fine!"

It was the harshness of the memory that woke Luffy up from his long slumber. He was disoriented. He saw that in his dream nearly every day but this time it felt different. Luffy wondered what was different, he was still in that hellhole so what had possibly changed.

Strange... Luffy thought, it doesn't hurt.

He focused on his lack of pain and tried remembering why it didn't hurt. Had he finally died? Or did someone give him painkillers again so he could be ravaged beyond recognition? Either way he was not looking forward to opening his eyes and finding out. But the more Luffy focused on why he wasn't in pain, he felt something on his face, in his arm and then some things all over his body and then there were sounds that he had never heard before and that triggered the memories from before he collapsed.

Now his eyes were wide open and he tried to take in where he was. The surroundings looked all metal. That something which he felt was on his face was a mask thing and there were rounds things stuck on his skin, even his clothes were different. Luffy looked around more, trying to gain some sense of orientation because if not that, he would spiral down panicking.

He heard footsteps and no sooner two guys came in. They didn't look all that old but Luffy didn't recognize them and that was enough to put him on guard but when his eyes went to their clothes and the mark on their jackets, Luffy was out of control. It looked like the same mark he had on his thigh.

Before the men started noticing, Luffy had gotten on his feet on the bed he was lying on and had started detaching stuff from himself. He wanted to get out of there and wanted to get out fast.

"Oi calm down-" The one with red hair started saying but Luffy threw his mask thingy at him. It didn't reach him but made him back up.

"I am getting out of here! Let me go!" he yelled.

"Stop it!" The other yelled when Luffy threw his pillow in feeble attempts to make the two older boys back up. Where was that grumpy teenager who helped Luffy? He didn't want to see unknown people anymore. He wanted to hide behind his hat.

His hat...

"WHERE IS MY HAT?!" Luffy yelled, startling both the guys and making them stop in their tracks. Luffy was absolutely angry at the misplacement of his hat and he no longer cared about getting out but wreaking havoc so he launched himself at the taller one and started throwing punches but he was just grabbed from under his arms and held up at a distance.

"Call Captain, Shachi." And the redhead left. Luffy was still thrashing in his grip when there was a voice from behind the guy who was holding him.

"What the fuck?" Luffy took the guy's distraction as an opportunity and lifted his arms up his head and wriggled out of the grip. Once his feet landed on the solid floor, he dashed to the side making for the exit but the guy caught him by the collar and lifted him back up but now Luffy was facing the person with the new voice. It was the grumpy teenager. "I go through the trouble of saving your ass and you have the nerve to thrash around in my sub? In the med bay of all places?"