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Trafalgar D Water Law: Age 14

Portgas D Ace: Age 10

Outlook Sabo: Age 10

Monkey D Luffy: Age 7

Chapter 1: ASL meets the Ope Ope no mi user

A year since Cora-san's death… I've lived a year longer than I was supposed to, because of him…

Trafalgar D Water Law silently follows Marine Hero Garp the Fist, who had found him on an island in the North Blue. Garp had found him practicing his Ope Ope no mi powers, and had deemed him 'too young', for some reason.

… Garp's one crazy geezer…

So there he was; he was taken onto Garp's ship and then shipped off to the East Blue, to an island called Dawn island. At least Doflamingo had a very low chance of finding him here…

"Kid, we're here." Garp's voice brought the teen out of his thoughts, allowing him to see a run-down house and the fact that he was now in a forest. Just how long was he thinking…?

Garp knocked on the door of the house, and a-

Law wasn't sure if the person was male or female, but judging from the voice the person was likely female...

-person exited the house and left the door opened. He was able to see three boys inside; two seemed to be older than the third. He blinked, slightly surprised to see the children.

Garp and the person -he still couldn't really tell the person's gender, and he was too distracted to learn their name- began to walk off to talk, which allowed the three kids to see the fourteen-year old doctor-in-training. Immediately, the youngest ran up to him.

"Hi! I'm Monkey D Luffy! What's your name?" the boy asked, bouncing up and down. Law replied before he could think,

"Trafalgar D Water Law." his voice was just higher than a whisper. He found himself surprised that he gave out his full name. Strange... he only ever said Trafalgar Law... If you didn't count when he told Baby5 and Buffalo his true name, and Cora-san happened to be listening.

"Nice to meetcha, Law!" Luffy exclaimed, raising his arms into the hair. Law blinked. This child was strange…

The two other boys walked up.

"Law, was it? My name is Sabo, its a pleasure to meet you." One of the older boys were blonde and wore a top hat; Law couldn't help but feel like it was a trend between these three. All three had hats. Luffy wore a straw hat, Sabo wore a top hat, and the last one wore an orange cowboy hat.

Sabo elbowed the third boy, as if to tell him to introduce himself. The freckled boy reluctantly did so.

"Portgas D Ace."

Luffy, Sabo, Ace…

Law could sense how protective the older two were of Luffy. It… kinda felt like the protectiveness for him that Cora-san always showed, and confirmed with some of his final words to him…

"I love you, Law…"

"Walk, Law… Unnoticed… quietly… far away… far, far away… nothing will bind you anymore… not the iron borders of the White City… nor your shortened lifespan. Nothing will restrict you anymore… You are now… truly free… "

Before long, Law was in a full-on flashback of his past; something that happened more and more often after Cora-san had sacrificed himself. Perhaps his mind's way of telling him that he was the reason Cora-san was dead…

He saw all the hospitals that Cora-san had brought him to in hopes of curing him…

He saw Cora-san throwing him from a window…

He saw himself stabbing Cora-san…

He saw Cora-san's final smile to him-

He felt himself being shook,

"Law! Law!"

He came back to his senses, feeling Luffy shake him in hopes of waking him up.

… Did he scare the 7 year old…? How strange… He looked at the younger boy, noticing that there was indeed fear in his eyes.

Law's fur hat shadowed his eyes, "My apologies if I scared you…"

He really did feel regret for scaring the boy.

"Its fine! Hey, wanna go hunting with me an' my brothers?"

Law was taken aback for two reasons;

The first was how trusting this kid was.

The second was that the trio were brothers.

However, he simply nodded.

"...Sure, I guess."

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