His Grief ~[DISCONTINUED One Piece LawLu Fan Fiction]~

The Surgeon Falls

Two weeks! It has been two weeks since the Straw Hat Crew had first arrived at Punk Hazard and combed the city thoroughly. Now they were in a rented room at an inn in the neighboring city of Dressrosa and they were still no closer to having any sort of clue to Luffy's whereabouts.

"How is this even possible!" the green haired teen growled pounding his clenched fist against the solid oak table that immediately buckled under the pressure hitting the floor, two of its four legs splintering as they broke off.

Across him, Sanji clucked his tongue standing beside an open window as to let the cigar smoke slip out of the room. "Shitty emotional moss head." he muttered, though the rest of the crew knew that he too was ready to stomp on the next unlucky thing that caught his attention.

"Oi Zoro! We're not thrilled by the progress either, but it doesn't help us to get all worked up and beat up furniture." Chopper scolded immediately fussing over the possibility of Zoro damaging a bone as he studied the hand.

"He has a point though, doctor-san." Robin supplied as she tapped away at her tablet. "In the time that we have been in Punk Hazard, we haven't had a single lead. All the ones we get pointed towards have either disappeared... or worse. Multiple deaths and disappearances have occurred in this month alone, more than this city is used to in the span of a six-month period."

"M-multiple!?" Usopp cried out from the couch seat he was occupying. "Th-then why hasn't it been on the news?!"

"For the same reason Ace's death hasn't been publicized." Nami spoke up biting down on her thumb nail gathering everyone's attention. "I know I have no right to say any of this, but Luffy and Ace were both street urchins growing up from what he told us. And Ace wasn't exactly liked by the town he grew up in, then when he left Luffy to join the Whitebeards, that's when he made a name for himself a name that was widely known in the underworld. But here, to the mundane people of this city, Ace was just another guy. Robin, are any of those fallen men a big figure in this city?"

"None." the raven haired girl noted, she of course had already ran this theory through her head. "All of those missing and gone were low profiled people, unnoticeables ... and exactly the same people who run the communication in the Underworld."

"Yoho! You means The Billions?" Brook spoke up from his spot against the wall, precariously leaning against it at an exactly 45 degree angle, something the odd man enjoyed to do every now and then.

"But to completely wipe out the Billions, it's a SUPER intense task." Franky noted receiving a collective nod from the gathered group.

"And who is the only Warlord in the area able to accomplish such a feat. To be able to silence hundreds of Billions from speaking ill against them." Nami stated quietly, though with the stark quietness of the room, the sentence might as well have been shouted for they all heard it clearly.

"The Family." Zoro breathed out and began for the door before a small hand reached out to clutch onto his arm.

"Zoro wait! You can't go out there in the dark! Especially not against The Family! Sanji tell him!" Chopper cried out desperately trying to keep the swordsman at bay though failing miserably as his small form was essentially being dragged along with the green haired man.

Releasing a puff of smoke the blonde cook sighed, the nicotine was doing nothing to ease the irritation within him. Silently he stalked after the swordsman, the look on his face causing Chopper to release Zoro immediately as Sanji took hold of the back of Zoro's shirt and whirled him around to face him.

Blazing emerald eyes met equally smoldering blue ones as Sanji clamped a hand on the swordsman's shoulder "Would you calm the fuck down you stupid Marimo, you're scaring Chopper!" the blonde snapped his voice growing louder as he continued. "We get it! You know we do. No one cares about Luffy more than we do, but do you honestly think that blindly barging out there into enemy territory will help us get Luffy back! We're no good to him dead Marimo." the last of his sentence spoken in a harsh whisper.