Captivity

14 - Time to move

"Gurarararararara!!!"

Marco face-palmed, pitying himself and fearing what Luffy would have brought into his life. His Captain was enjoying every bit of the little mayhem the raven was about to cause. Sabo was pale.

"Lu... Lu-nii... Are you..."

"I'm sure." Luffy's smirk said it all. "I'm believed dead. It's the least I can do to someone that has always treated me well."

Sabo, defeated, slumped down on the floor. In his eyes was reflected the notion that he couldn't do anything to stop his brother. Marco sighed, slipping his hand from his face.

"And how do you plan to come back unscathed?" He was not going to lose him again.

Luffy turned to him, smirk softening a bit. "With my power, of course."

Oh, right. He still didn't know what it was. Marco narrowed his eyes at Luffy, that smirked even more. He understood that literally no one could have stopped his lover and sighed, defeated.

"What's going on?"

The pirate didn't diverge his gaze to look at Ace. Luffy was still communicating something through his eyes. And he somewhat liked it.

"I want to forget it..." Sabo wailed.

Whitebeard just laughed more.

*-._.-*

Law smirked when the island came into view. It had a softer edge, but he was enjoying the situation. It was like... A new way to play against the marines, though he wasn't exactly their enemy... Being a Shichibukai and... With Cora-san's legacy...

He was still a bit... confused and overwhelmed by how things had gone.

...

Who could expect a call by Mihawk, a pirate known for his dislike of people in general, because of a marine wounded? And what were the chances that said marine would have been the one that was trying to finish Cora-san's job?

Impossible.

Yet, that had been the case.

Impossible as it sounded...

Law had first met Monkey D Luffy on an island. He didn't remember which, but the strange marine had simply smiled at him knowingly and left. He would have discarded the whole thing if the marine had paid his food and the barman had not noticed the exchange, pretending that Law paid in his stead. He was forced to, because he was still a small fly trying to escape Doflamingo's radar and he had not wanted unneeded attention. Least of all by the Government, considering they had his photo because of those damn doctors that had refused him and Cora-san's pleads. A wanted poster with his image of a child and quite the reward because he'd been ill...

Back then, he hadn't known the bastard was a marine. He'd been irked and irritated, because the bill had been damn high! And he'd been poor... So, he'd made his purpose to find the scoundrel and punish him soundly.

Little had Law known that he would have found the bill even less of what he really owed Luffy...

The second time they met, Luffy had been wearing his uniform of Captain and the reality of it all had dawned on him. A marine, a brat his same age, already at such a level, that had recognized him, smiled at him, let him go and forced him to pay for his food... He had promptly filed that strangeness into craziness.

It had happened during a mayhem Kid the Proud – as per his personal way of naming idiots, especially after this event – had caused because someone had joked about his pirate name... Idiots. All of them, idiots. And not the joking way of calling them so. Kid had gone so far as to destroy the pirate's crew and target then the whole city. At first, Law had cursed his luck at being on the same island, but he'd had to take that back.