A/N: I've been thinking about this idea for a long, long, long (I'm exaggerating) time, and I'm now getting to it. Seriously though this place needs more sabolu fan fictions...
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece (wish I did), it's owned by Eiichiro Oda. I also don't own the Fanfic cover. It was done by d-op
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Please enjoy this long (or not so long) prologue.
Prologue
April 17, 1524
"I'm going to be late, I'm going to be late," a male repeated over and over. He wore a black V-neck shirt with a yellow jacket, black pants and black shoes. A small scar under it accompanied his left eye. What he held in his right hand was a bag, which was filled with papers and opened.
He looked like he was in a hurry; he would constantly bump into strangers on the street and quickly apologize. Some were nice enough to let it slide, while others gave him dirty looks, which he completely ignored. Picking up his speed he had collided with a male that was walking the opposite direction.
The male had neck-length blond, curly hair. He had a huge scar that through his left eye. He wore a blue buttoned down shirt with a black jacket, white pants and black shoes. He also carried a handbag with him.
"Are you alright?" He asked giving a hand to the impatient male.
He gladly took his hand and pulled himself up.
The blond male stared at the other thinking about something. Now that he could see the male closer, he couldn't help but think he looked quite young. He had wanted to tell him this but chose not to.
"Yeah, I'm sorry," The impatient male said looking at the blond and bowing before rushing off.
"That was weird," said the blond looking at the male oddly.
He watched as the impatient male was out of his sight before pulling out his phone. He quickly dialed a number and waited 30 seconds for the person to pick up.
"Hey Koala, are you coming over?" The blond talked into his phone
A feminine voice answered back, "Yeah, Sabo, I'm on my way."
"Me too, I just went to the store to get some paper and ink," Sabo said as he started to walk.
Sabo was an author who had published many books, four of which were best sellers. His assistant, Koala, was there to help him with his work. She was here to look over things, correct them... Honestly Koala felt like she was babysitting. She would sometimes find an unconscious Sabo, face on the desk. Other times when Sabo had a lot of free time on his hands, she'll find him procrastinating. It was a good thing that Koala was there, and really if she wasn't Sabo wouldn't even be in the 7th chapter of his book. They were currently working on a novel called "The Boy with the Hat" and it was to be done in the next 3 month, all 13 chapters.
"Okay, I'll see you at your place than," Koala said before hanging up the phone.
"So where did we leave off so far?" Koala asks as she leaned on the chair where Sabo sat.
"The boy gets hit by a car," Sabo says dully.
Koala took a sip of the Soda she held in her hands, "Wow this story sounds depressing."
"It's supposed to be," Sabo said as he started typing where they left off.
Koala spotted the many errors he made as he continued typing, punctuations, grammar, spelling, she was aware that Sabo knew of his mistakes, he just ignored them. Soon after Sabo had just suddenly stopped typing, he would just look at his final draft, staring down at it.
"Anything wrong," Koala asks Sabo as she picked up the notebook with the final draft on it.
"Don't you think that's a little too much," He says as he began to look over on his errors.
Koala read the page on the notebook, but couldn't find anything wrong with it, "What."
"So he gets in a car accident, goes unconscious and then falls into a coma," Sabo stared at Koala to see if she'd understand.
"It is possible," Koala took a drink of her Soda.
Sabo stared back at the screen, "let's just leave it at him breaking some bones or something."
Koala wanted to argue about this but couldn't find anything to say, she couldn't help but think he was right. Most car accidents didn't result in comas, but rather just body damage. She remembered the time when a friend of hers, from college, got in a car accident. He certainly wasn't in a coma, and he surely didn't lose all his memories.
"Okay, fine," Koala groaned, "Let me just change a few things first."
Sabo had wanted to ask what, but decided it was a good idea not to question his assistant. Really if it weren't for her changes than maybe his books wouldn't have become a bestseller, and his first one certainly wouldn't have been turned into a movie.
He got up from the computer, both hands in his pocket, "Okay, it's all yours."
"Thank you," Koala says as she sat at the computer.
"You're welcome," A female voice said to her friend as she watched him eat the cupcake, it was the impatient male.
The female had long, sky blue hair; she wore a white shirt with flowers on it, blue plaided skirt and a green sweater. She giggled as the impatient male left some stains on his lips.
"You sure do eat a lot, Luffy," The blue haired female said smiling at her impatient friend.
"Thanks Vivi," said Luffy as he gulped down the cupcake.
A loud scoff was heard next to Luffy as he took a huge sip of his orange juice.
"Don't encourage him," A female with orange hair said to Vivi.
"But Nami, he looks so cute," Vivi took one of her napkins and wiped Luffy's mouth.
Nami stared at her friend in disbelief, and then at Luffy, "He looks disgusting."
Nami had wanted to say more but she was interreupted by another one of her friends with a very long nose, and an Afro.
She flicked him on the head, "Usopp, I was talking."
Usopp flinched at the pain, but continued to talk anyway, Nami rolled her eyes at his rudeness.
"So as I was saying, why were you so late, Luffy," Usopp asked as he fiddled with his spoon.
Luffy took down a huge gulp of his juice before talking, "Well, I woke up late, I tried to hurry but the streets was packed with so many people, and I would constantly just bump into them. The thing that really slowed me down was when I collided with a man with blond hair, blue eyes, and he seemed to have a huge scar that ran through his left eye. "
The whole gang fell silent, and just shook their heads at Luffy's clumsiness, all except for Vivi. It looked as if she was in deep thought.
"Blond hair and a scar," Vivi whispered to herself
All three of them looked at her strangely, "Anything wrong," Usopp asked in a concerned voice.
Vivi had just ignored Usopp and quickly pulled out a book from her purse, the title read, "The Blind Eyes". She then turned to the very last page of the boook that read, about the authors. She faced the book to Luffy.
"The guy you bumped into, did he happen to look like this?"
Nami and Usopp both looked at the photo, with confused looks on their face, "Isn't he an author?"
"Yeah, thats the guy," Luffy said looking at the photo in a bit of surprise.
Vivi, Usopp, Nami, all fell in a silence, an outburst was soon made 5 seconds later, "You met an author?" They all yelled in disbelief.
Luffy took a closer look at the photo, squinting his eyes, "He's an author," Luffy asked just as surprised as they were.
All three of them couldn't believe it, Luffy meets (accidentally bumps into him) an author, who is well known for his novels, all around the world, and of course he wouldn't know who he was. Typical Luffy.
"Y-Yeah," Usopp stuttered, "let's head back to school grounds, and lunch will be over in 7 minutes."
All of them threw away their trash before leaving the store. They all had the same schedule, so they would just walk and talk as they headed back to the college.
"So you guys ready for the finals," Luffy asked.
Vivi, Nami, and Usopp gave Luffy surprised looks. Was Luffy really being interested in tests? Maybe this wasn't Luffy...
"It's surprising to hear you ask this," Usopp let out an exaggerated sigh, "but honestly, I'm really nervous about it."
Nami stopped walking and turned around, now facing the rest of them.
"We're not going to fail," her voice sounded determined. With that she turned back around, and started moving at her pace.
All of them looked at each other and smile; of course they would ace this test... Except Luffy, he at least would get a B on it.
The rest of the scholl day was just nuetral for the four of them. It was just like any other days... Come to school, do work, surprise quizzes, receive homework; nothing special really. They would pass by their other friends in the hallway; Luffy would try to skip some classes, but Nami would always stop him.
It was finally the end of the school day. They could now relax (they still had to do work...at home), hang out with their other friends. Nami, Vivi, Usopp and Luffy all met out of the school waiting for them, Zoro, Sanji, Perona, and Rebecca. They had more friends, but really who has time to name all of them...not me.
"Finally, we're finished," Sabo said resting his back on the chair.
Writing two chapters was just tiring. Having to look back at your draft than at the computer, oh the sore neck. Making some minor changes to the story, some times major.
"I can now go to Robin," Koala said as she stretched her arms.
"Why," Sabo looked at her with curious eyes.
Koala smiled to herself, "I promised that I would read with her to the little children at the library."
Sabo didn't say anything; he just quietly hummed to himself. After a few seconds he got up from the chair, he just wasn't aware that his foot was going to be asleep; when your legs don't work like they used to do... Being the kind sir he was, he opened the door for Koala. Well there she went, she'd come back, you know to finish the work and all.
It wasn't like Sabo was just finished for today; he still had one more place to be. The writing was his (and Koala) to do, but the illustrations were for someone else. Sabo had to send his two chapters he just wrote (with koala) to his illustrator. He would draw the images himself, but he liked the way his illustrator drew, such unique style it had.
He made a quick call to his illustrator telling him he was going to meet him at his work place.
While walking to his destined place, from a distance he could see the guy he bumped into hours ago. He seemed to be saying goodbye to a friend of his. Sabo watched from a distance, he wanted to approach him. His illustrator could wait, right?
"Hey," Sabo says walking up to him as his friend takes a leave.
Luffy was surprised to see him standing there, "Oh, it's you again." He gave him a content smile. Sabo couldn't help but smile also.
"I never knew you were an author," Luffy says with a bit of excitement in his voice.
Sabo chuckled, "Well you know now."
"My name's Luffy by the way," Luffy introduced himself, it was a good time to.
Sabo gave him a soft smile, he was about to say something to him, but he could hear the sound of a car in the distance. It was just weird, it sounded as if the tires made a screeching sound on the street. Then he saw it, it was a red truck heading towards Luffy, at full speed. Was someone drunk, or was this just his or her first driving lesson? At the corner of Sabo's eyes, he could see Luffy trembling. Quickly, he pushed Luffy out of the way, and the truck hit him instead.
Luffy watched as the red truck hit Sabo, and sent him flying; the back of his head was nearing a tree. The truck continued to drive on, but soon hit a streetlight. Managing to get out of his shock, Luffy rushed over to where Sabo was. Again he was in shock, his eyes began forming a waterfall, but he didn't care. Sabo's head was a mess, it was just bloody, and it was dripping on his face too. He stared at Sabo as he laid on the ground unconscious; this was bad, really bad. Soon he could hear an ambulance's sirens going off, it was getting closer. He turned around to see that there was an actual ambulance there, and three police cars. Had someone called the ambulance? Luffy turned back to Sabo, and sobbed hard, he couldn't bypass the feeling that all of this was his fault.
Sanji was on his way home to do work while looking at his "Play Boy" magazine.
Later he realized the police cars and ambulance that was heading in Luffy's direction. He couldn't pass the feeling that something bad had happened, maybe to Luffy. Finally reaching a decision, he headed back to the place he was before. Then he saw it, Luffy in the ambulance along with someone else.
Quickly Sanji ran the opposite direction, towards Luffy's home. He had to tell Ace, he too must be worried about him. He manged to pass a few cars while on the run, some honking at him, telling him to "watch the road."
Reaching Luffy's home Sanji knocked on the door vigorously.
Ace was surprised to see Sanji standing on his porch, out of breath with a worried look on his face. Just like Sanji had thought, Ace managed to ask about Luffy. Seriously he should have gotten here 20 minutes ago. He was about to call his phone, until he heard a loud pounding on the door.
"Are you ok, what happened to Luffy?" Ace asked feeling worried.
Finally catching his breath, Sanji spoke "Luffy...Ambulance...Hospital."
It didn't take a long time for Ace to put on a pair of shoes, a sweater, grab his car keys, lock the house door, and go. Ace wanted to here the whole story, but unfortunately Sanji couldn't tell him. He only told him what he saw.
Arriving at the hospital, Sanji and Ace both headed to the front desk. The woman at the desk had told them what room Luffy was in, and they quickly rushed to it.
Opening the door, Ace saw Luffy sitting on a chair, staring at the patient on the bed, silently crying. Ace had approached him, while Sanji had approach the patient.
"Luffy," Ace said putting his hand on his shoulder. Luffy didn't look up or say anthing, he just sat there staring at the male on the bed. The only person that managed to say something was Sanji.
"Hey, Ace, doesn't this kind of look like that Author guy who wrote 'If I Can'?" Sanji asked curiously.
Ace examined the face of the male; he was right, it was him, Sabo. How could Luffy know someone like this? Ace turned his head to Luffy, than the male. He was hooked up to a heart monitor, and his head was fully bandaged.
"How do you know him?" Ace was curious to this.
The room was silent for a while. Luffy had stopped his crying but said nothing; it was as if he was in a daze. Finally he managed to get a sentence out,"I met him this morning."
A few seconds later, Luffy had managed to say more. He told them both about how he met Sabo. He told them how he never knew who he was at first; this part was obvious to them, knowing that Luffy doesn't read much. He then told them about the car accident, which happened not to long ago. Luffy could feel the tears forming in his eyes; he clutched his knees and continued to tell them what happened.
Truth is, Luffy didn't care who Sabo was, he didn't care if he was an author or a stranger with a good paying job. He had managed to make a friend and now this happened. Luffy couldn't bypass the feeling that, there was something wrong with him.
What is wrong with me?
Why didn't I move out the way?
I'm such an idiot!
Sanji was about to say something, but the doctor had walked in. He had black raven hair, with a bit of a small rough beard on his chin. He wore a navy blue shirt, with a white lab coat with a nametag that said "Trafalgar Law". He had a stethoscope around his neck, wore black pants, and black shoes.
Luffy quickly got up from the chair, as soon as he walked in.
Law was surprised to see he earned two visitors but he shook it off. He then went to Luffy and slightly roughed up his hair. "Don't worry," It was as if he knew what he was going to say before saying it. It was all over his face too. Law gave him a small smile, but in all honesty Luffy didn't feel as if it was right for him to return that smile.
Law took out the results, from Sabo, from under the clipboard and told them that he had received some major brain injuries, such as trauma. He then told about how he was currently in a coma. He could hear the surprise gasp from Luffy.
That was it for Luffy; he quickly hugged Ace and started sobbing. Ace didn't like this side of Luffy, seeing it made him hurt, he hugged Luffy tightly.
"Ace," Luffy croaked out
"Yes, Lu?" Ace continued to rub his back
"What if he doesn't wake up?" Luffy looked at him with teary, beady eyes.
Ace didn't know what two say, I mean what if he doesn't. He couldn't bear to see Luffy like this, so he told thing that seems right, "He will."
A/N: I know I'm Evil. I'm sorry, not sorry. Really don't have much to say, I just hope that you enjoyed it. It would be great if you left a Review (well you should, it encourages the write, to well, write more). Don't forget to Follow and Review. :D