(Au! Kidd X Reader X Law) The Nobles And Rebels

Host Family

The two adults bustled around the room, both wore excited grins on their lips as one other member of their family watched them from the guidelines, he sighed in content, already used to their easily excitable personalities, when one of them accidentally tripped over the rug and crashed into a decorative maneki-neko, "oh Cora! We do not have time to clean this up!" The female scolded the taller male as he rose up with a new bump, "sorry, Chloe" the man apologized just in time when somenone knocked the front door.

"Oh! Oh! It is them! Law open the door!" The raven merely rolled his eyes but lowered his book anyway and made his way to the door, he wasn't sure who exactly was coming and why his parents were so ecstatic, but he knew it surely ment bad things to come, and he already had enough of that.

Once he opened the door he was met with a buff chest, forcing him to crane his neck up to see the face of his hated 'rival' and number one annoyance, "White chase, such audacity to actually bring your ass here and try to send me to juvie" Law allowed a small smirk grace his lips but frowned when the police officer shook his head, "unfortunately not today brat, I'm here on a different business" he blew Law off with the wave of his hand.

Law was just about to question his motives when Corazon practically shoved him aside and greeted the man with the excitement of a puppy, "oh I just could not have been able to wait any longer!" Chloe soon appeared behind him and helped guide Smoker in, much to the teenager's distaste, last thing he wanted was that big ignoramus getting an advantage on his own home field and ruining everything.

But Law soon found that wasn't the case when he didn't even give the place any glances as the two blondes sat him in the living room, and the midnight haired boy just awkwardly sat in between the two, now wondering what the heck was going on.

"Now let's get to the point, are you two sure you really want to take care of this kid? I'm pretty sure the one you got there is trouble enough" Law almost felt his heart stutter to a stop in his chest, "what!? Why was I not told about this!? You are adopting another child!?" Oh hell no, Law was not ready to start some stupid sibling rivalry drama, he and other kids just didn't mix.

"As much as I want to burst your bubble Trafalgar, no, mister and missus Donquixote here aren't adopting a second youth, not officially at least, you're just going to act as a host family until we find a permanent place for them to stay, if we fail to find them one, then you can worry about having a new sibling" Law gave the cocky bastard a discreet scowl as his parents both happily started to sign some of the papers, "now enough about this legal crap, tell us about our new family member!" Chloe was straight to the point.

Smoker then hesitated for a moment, making the boy raise an eyebrow, "the kid is suspected to...have been abused" Law blinked in shock along with both of his parents and felt his stomach drop when Chloe tightened her fight in anger, "apparently the kid was ditched before they could even walk and lived on the streets the whole time, scraping with whatever they got in order to get by" he bitterly spat out.

Law felt his cheeks burn in embarrassment, he felt selfish thinking that he was just planning on making this kid's life hell just a moment ago, "mister Rocinante, missus Chloe, I advise you to treat them with the delicacy of a..glass, today when I took them in they were almost scared to death, and gave me this-" Smoker then took off his glove to reveal a stitched up bite mark, it was badly wounded and Law could tell that the damage was fairly deep, most likely going to leave few permanent scarring, "oh my.." Corazon rubbed his shoulders while Chloe raised a hand to her face in a silent gasp.

"So I'll ask you two again, are you really sure about taking care of this kid? You can always change your mind and we an send them to a guard orphanage" The two parents paused for a moment before looking down at the teenager in between them, "Law?" Chloe asked, "what do you think?" Corazon finished.

The raven looked at both of his parents and considered the possible consequences, "Smoker is there anything else you can tell us without breaking the laws of privacy?" The silver haired man lightly growled in thought before mumbling a few things, "after a few tests, we found that they are very knowledgeable in history, it's almost as if they were actually living during those times with the way they describe them, unfortunately though, it seems they have trouble in almost everything else, and if it makes you feel better, they are also around the same age as Trafalgar here, only much more polite and enjoyable to be around, not to mention not a thorn in my ass" the silver haired man grinned when Law scowled at the rude insult.

Chloe lit up at the description and almost shook Law's shoulder in excitement, "Law this sounds wonderful!" Corazon merely nodded in agreement making Law instantly cave in, "okay, they are in, I guess" he gloomily mummered.

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(Y/N) stood in front of the door, looking down she fondly handled the (F/C) duffel bag she was able to smuggle in with the other chunks of luggage Smoker got her, turning her head back she wondered how and where she was going to fit all the other boxes and bags stacked into a giant pile behind her, but even though she was nervous, she didn't know what to do.

She could take this moment to run, sneak away from this whole mess and possibly get back home to Kidd and the gang, leaving this incident behind her for good, but there was a little voice in her head that told her to take a chance, she spent years getting accustomed to the rebels and their traditions, why not try and learn about the nobles too? Even though it was certainly scary at first, she was beginning to think they weren't as bad as she was told, even if they certainly were more hostile than the rebels, she was starting to see some kindness in them as well.

Taking in a deep breath to help strike a nerve, she finally brought herself to make a choice, reaching her hand out, she meekly knocked on the door and stayed.

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Law paused in his studying when his ears caught a faint knock at the front, he hummed in acknowledgement knowing just who it belonged to, so not bothering to keep his new 'sibling' waiting, he calmly walked through the hall and down the stairs, not missing the loud crashes in the kitchen from his parents, seemingly trying to bake a welcome cake for the poor kid.

Without giving them a glance he passed them into the living room and stopped at the front door, pausing for a moment to steel himself, Law rolled his eyes as he opened the door, not bothering himself with looking at the kid at all before speaking, "welcome to my heritage, I am named Law, and under no circumstances whatsoever are you to refer to me as any sort of 'brethren', I do hope we understand each other?" He cooly said, he was willing to let the kid stay there, but that didn't mean he wanted to get chummy with them.

Though the teen was only met with silence, making him wonder if he was only imagining the noise from earlier, that was until a crystalline voice that shyly spoke above a whisper sounded into his ears, "I-I think..so" Law immediately melted at the heavenly tone and whipped his head to her in shock, then he felt his jaw slacken as his eyes widened, it was the girl from before.