A/n: If you guys find any mistakes here or doubled words, please correct me and I will edit them right away.

Life before her

Don Quixote Water, it was the name that will hunt Trafalgar Law for the rest of his life. It's his forgotten name that was replaced by his self-proclaimed parents because they felt sympathy over him to experience a horrible childhood (even if Law didn't tell them about it, they know). They changed his name because he will never be free if he used that name. Don Quixote Water is a criminal, a kind of criminal by default.

It was not an overstatement or understatement but a mere fact about him. He was raised by Don Quixote Doflamingo, the Joker of the Underworld to become a bloody criminal who's capable of doing crimes and killing without a second doubt in order to survive in that kind of world. He was just a poor seven years old boy that time who needs a guardian after his father died in the hands of his own blood relative Uncle, Doflamingo.

Since then, he knew that his life had become pretty useless. His hands are full of untenable sins and he gave up long time ago to hope for change.

Until the Navy busted one of the dealings in the Underworld, no one had escaped and everyone in the scene are caught, even the Joker.

It's been a week since that incident and he didn't understand why the heck the marines treated him like he's one of them. In the first place, why did they even care about him? Every hour they will send a marine soldier to check on him if he's okay. They don't need to do that. They just need to kill him or put him in prison like what they did to his Uncle and be done with him but no. They told him that they won't.

"Is this the ways of the marines to torture a criminal? If it is, this is surely the most boring slow death torture." Law mumbled to himself while looking at the every marine that was passing by on his own cabin.

And that! Can anyone believe that? The marines gave him a cabin instead of locking him into jail bars. It's not like he didn't like it but aren't the marines a little bit relaxed that they gave a criminal on board a freedom? What if he attacked them when they are asleep? He can't be sure but he knows that everything is not right and it was so suspicious.

Everyone in the ship knew that he was like a living puppet of the Don Quixote Family. They even have a criminal record of him. Records of people he had killed in the orders of his Uncle and records of numerous crimes his hands couldn't count anymore.

Law took a deep breath. He realized that he's alone, all alone and he couldn't trust anybody… especially that damn geezer who abusively hits him on his head. Nobody had hurt him ever since his father died (well, he was hurt unintentionally by his father because his late father was a clumsy fool). But no one, no one had ever hurt him or laid hands on him because they are either killed by his Uncle, his uncle's underlings or him, himself before they even make a move.

The cabin door suddenly creaked and a white-haired man with two cigars hanging in between his mouth entered the room.

"I'm Smoker," the man said and Law nodded, agreeing at the smoking man.

"I can see that." Law said to the man with no emotion slipping from him but if there is, he's just being sarcastic.

Hina, the pink-haired woman behind the "smoker" guy snickered which Law didn't understand why. Smoker growled at both of them, pissed. And if Law isn't distrustful to the people around him and aware that they are his enemy, maybe he will join the fun of teasing the man.

Smoker inhaled from the cigar first before he faced Law to correct the brat.

"You misunderstand prick, my name is Smoker" Smoker said to Law and he narrowed his eyebrows, "…and you are Don Quixote Water, right? Don Quixote Doflamingo's nephew, the brat we took from that busted Criminal Organizations' dealings a week ago?"

"So the man's name is really Smoker? What an absurd name." this thought is coming from the guy named Water as he flashed a sadistic smile to hide his fear in front of Smoker and Hina, especially when he heard his Uncle's name again.

It was really an easy job to pretend a sadistic psycho for Law. He remembered the times when the Organization does its usual activities and dealings with the other Organization, Law had learnt that if he showed signs of being weak and that if he feared someone or anybody like the newbies, they will not kill him in one shot. They will torture him until he begs to them to kill him. Who knows that there are people around who finds joy in torturing the scared ones?

Hina sighed ignoring Law's sadistic smile before she took a death stick and puts it in between her lips, "Hina's annoyed to Smoker for being an idiot. Everybody knows including Hina that he's the only brat that the marines took from that dealing."

The woman is weird too. Who would use a third person's point of view to speak to someone like that?

"Hina's going to train the Marine Ladies especially that clumsy assistant of yours." Hina said as she finally lights the death stick, "Smoker better do his job well."

After she said that, she left the two men while tucking her hair behind her ears.

Silent passed until Smoker spoke,

"Follow me." Smoker simply said while looking at Law's sadistic smile, holding the doorknob firmly.

Law leaps from his bed towards Smoker's direction. He will come with Smoker wherever they will go but that doesn't mean that he trust the man… he didn't trust anyone on this ship… not yet.

Law followed Smoker from the lower decks cabin to the Admiral Sengoku's office. When they both entered the said office, Law's eyes caught the old damn geezer who abusively hits him on his head. The old damn geezer's face is hidden by his dog mask while eating boxes of donuts.

"You're Rocinante's child aren't you?" Admiral Sengoku asked and Law gaze at the Admiral, the young adult nodded as a reply.

"I know that you're scared-" upon hearing those words, Law cut Sengoku's words off.

"I am not!" Law growled but his expression is not showing that he's pissed.

"Ehem!" Sengoku coughed, "I know that you didn't trust us but your father entrusted you to us before he died." Sengoku explained as he grabbed a three pieces of rice crackers beside the damn geezer who hits him a lot.

"I don't quite understand and I'm lost. What do you mean?" Law asked in a very low tone, he was like a talking robot.

"Rocinante is a Marine Commander, working Spy in the Don Quixote Family Underground Organization of your Uncle before you had even born." Sengoku started explaining, "He's like my son and I adopted him when he was a kid, abandoned by his parents and lost from his brother. I'm really sorry that we are too late to save the both of you, I don't have any excuses myself."

The Admiral is in the verge of crying while nibbling a rice-cracker in front of them so he turned around, his back facing them and eats his rice-crackers silently, his shoulders are shaking.

"Senny, you're being a crybaby!" the old geezer who hits him, Vice-Admiral Garp laughed as he watched the Admiral cry his heart out as he mourns with the freaking rice-crackers.

No one dared to say any word, even Law who just stared at the Admiral's back. Somehow he felt warm at the Admiral's mourning for his father. His own blood-Uncle never cried for his father's death, of course he won't because his Uncle was the one who killed his father and they are freaking brothers.

Old damn geezer, Garp-ya shake his head at the minute of silence, "Roci didn't want to see you like that, Senny." He sighed taking his dog masked off. "I bet that my granddaughter and grandsons will smack you harder than I could just to beat the sense out of you and to stop you from crying."

They all could hear the Admiral's gulped and sobs while still eating a rice-cracker.

"You know how much the Monkey Family hated crybabies." Garp added.

"So, as I was saying." Admiral Sengoku said, he obviously cried when he faced them again. "Rocinante is like my own son and his son is my grandson."

Law slightly opened his mouth in shock as he look at the Admiral. It's the first time in his life that some stranger considered him as a family and not an underling or subordinate.

"I want you to make a decision, Water." Sengoku seriously told him as he folded his hands at the table. "Will you continue Rocinante's legacy as a Marine Commander or you will do something for yourself?"

Law is confused but those two choices that Sengoku gave him had changed his life.

At first, he didn't even know what to do but it was his very first freedom. Law is overwhelmed and happy but he didn't say it, he told Sengoku that he will think about it first. So he stayed at the ship for a while. He observe the Marines as they train, take orders and so on and on.

Sometimes Smoker will let him spar with Tashigi, the clumsy swordswoman assistant of Smoker. They said that it's his therapy to keep him away from his thoughts. Which Law didn't understand and honestly he really didn't care what they're talking about his therapy. He just wants to kill time while taking his time to decide.

Hina, the Marine Ladies' instructor in the ship is like a mother hen for Law. Although she's tough, she's too softie to Law and that annoys him. He didn't need to be babied because he's fucking twenty three years old turning twenty four.

When the time came that Law had decided, He knows that the moment he choose to do something for himself. The moment he chose to become a Doctor like his mother, he's not needed in that Marines' ship anymore.

When he told Sengoku his decision, Sengoku granted it to him without further ado. They even changed a lot of information about him for safety reasons.

"Here's the Birth certificate, so who will fill this up for him?" Garp said while waving the paper which crumples the paper a bit.

Law face palmed at the geezer and quietly sits at the chair inside the meeting room.

"Garp! Stop doing that!" Sengoku shouted, "You will ruin the Certificate!"

Sengoku then snatched the paper away from Garp's hand and gave the paper to Tashigi, so she can writes the information details at the said certificate.

"Hina volunteer to become Water's mother." Hina said as she enters the meeting room while flipping her hair before she sits down on the chair.

"His name first" Sengoku firmly said to them.

Garp suddenly raised his arms and shouted, "I know! I know!"

Law's eyes widened in horror as Garp shouted those ridiculous names such as: "Lion! Gorilla! Bear! Polar Bear! Monkey-"

"Shut up!" Sengoku silenced the geezer, in Law's relief.

"What? But Lion is a good name. My late eldest son name is Dinosaur." Garp said as he sighed as he remembers his eldest son's name.

"Poor Dino, his father gave him an idiot name." Sengoku muttered as he massaged his temple. "May his soul Rest in Peace."

"I'll accept any names that you will give me except from that geezer." Law finally said as he cross his arms and look at the marine officers, present in the room before he turn his attention to the book in his hands.

"What did you say? Do you want another Fist of Love for the day?!"

"Silence, Garp. He said that he didn't need your opinion."

"But Lion is still a good name,"

Sengoku glared at Garp before he looked to the officers, "Any suggestions?"

"Is Monkey D. Lion acceptable?"

"…except for you Garp." Sengoku said as he stressed the geezer's name.

"What? Okay…" Garp said as he sighed disappointedly as he grabbed a pack of rice-crackers.

"What about Justice?" Sakazuki said as he folded his hands on the table, looking around for agreement.

"I suggest Light~" Borsalino said with his usual tone and expression.

Everyone look at Kuzan, who slightly raised his sleeping mask when he felt that everybody is staring at him.

"Ara! You need my suggestion too? What about…" Kuzan said as he stared back at everyone, "You know that name…" he scratched his head. "His name… that… Forget it, I forgot. I feel lazy to remember."

Everybody sweat dropped at the laziness of Lieutenant Kuzan as they stared at him dumbfounded.

"Law" Smoker started to say in the middle of everyone's astonishment.

They all look at the silent Commodore, stunned. Law even lift up his head when he heard what Smoker said.

"I'll let him use my name, Trafalgar. So his name is Trafalgar Law."

Law smiled genuinely when he heard his name, he likes his new name. Trafalgar Law.

"Now, put Hina's name as his mother." Hina impatiently told them as she crossed her arms and legs.

"And Commodore Smoker is the father?" Tashigi teased and snickered as she writes down at the Certificate.

"Hina didn't like it but if Smoker agrees just put his damn name there." Hina said as she huffs and her cheeks flushed.

They filled the basic information about him and Law is very grateful to them. It's not only for his safety but also, it means change, new start.

"I'll take him to Eastern Blues and no one will dare to find him there." Garp finally suggested or more like an announcement when they discussed where they're going to leave Law with his freedom to study medicine.

"The Weakest Blues of all?" Law snorted when he heard, but then, Garp punched him on his head with what he now learned that Garp calls "Fist of Love".

"What a tough love." Law had thought.

"Eastern Blues is the most peaceful blues of the five seas." Garp told him while Law's hand massaged his swelled head-bumps from First of Love.

Law didn't care what Garp had told him about the Eastern Blues as the most peaceful blues of all the five seas. For Law that time, it was the weakest sea but he was wrong. Although it was really the weakest blues, it was also the most peaceful place.

He can testify that, he had found his peace at that blues after all.

Law is not really that surprised when old damn geezer, Garp-ya just dropped him into his Apartment then he left him after he introduced him to his two grandsons, Ace and Sabo who looks like two, three or four years younger than him.

"My name is Sabo, nice meeting you." Sabo politely introduce himself while bowing his head.

Law's first impression to the blonde is that he's a gentleman, which he learned half true and the other half is that he's missing some manners.

"The name's Ace, nice to meet ya!" Ace introduced himself while raising an eyebrow.

Law's first impression to the freckled raven is unusual like Sabo. Ace is unpredictable, sometimes he's polite and sometimes he's vulgar (he's missing manners is worse than Sabo's.) but most of the time he's really stupid.

Both brothers are reckless and impatient and no one can argue with that.

Garp had allowed him to occupy the room that was once owned by Garp, himself and his granddaughter who used to sleep there but since she moved to the Dormitory Apartment of the University where she, Ace and Sabo studies, with her friends. The room is now pretty empty.

When Law meets the granddaughter, it was not the usual "introduce yourself" moment like the one with Ace and Sabo.

When you first meet a Monkey D. Lucy especially if you're an arrogant, emotional, close to suicidal with a Despersonalization and lost in a few alleyways, who is truly unlucky and unfortunate enough that she's wondering around (probably lost like always), expect a non-discriminating yet violent introduction. In which areas, she will introduce herself by hitting you senseless, lecture you next and then comfort you last before she actually introduce herself and ask your name.

In Law's case, after she had hit him once and he regain from his senses. They began a little spar before they actually introduce their selves. Heck, Law will not allow himself to be beaten by a lanky girl just like that.

"Wow! You can fight." She exclaimed before she punched his jaw, hard.

Law take a few steps backwards as he tasted blood in his mouth, "You're not that bad either,"

She smirks at his remark but Law will not let her defeat him easily.

"…even if you're a girl." Law said as he spits some blood from his mouth and prepares to launch a kick on her stomach, which ends her up hitting the brick wall harshly and rough.

He didn't help her as she stands up on her own and it's obvious that she's hurt where he kicked her.

"I'm Monkey D. Lucy," she introduced herself, panting while leaning at the wall in the alleyway. "What's your name?"

Law looked at the girl who's now beaming at him and she didn't look like hurt at all.

"Do–" Law stopped when he realized who she is and the name he's about to give her. He's not Don Quixote Water anymore, He's Trafalgar Law now. "Trafalgar Law and are you–"

She cuts him off before he asked, "Tra… Tora… Hi Torao! Nice meeting you."

To Law's sudden surprise, she holds his hands to shake with hers. She's still grinning widely at him that her eyes are smiling to him, they actually closed.

Law can feel the rush of heat to his face and that spread through his ears. He never felt this so much awkwardness before and it was his second day in the Eastern Blues.

He recovered not immediately from the feeling and he's pretty annoyed that she gave him a pathetic nickname. She can't pronounce his surname properly and she had insisted to call him "Torao" instead of his name Law (which is really easy to pronounce) and Law can't protest to her… more like he can't say no to her.

Law only rolled his eyes in frustration to the young woman's stubbornness. For Law's peace of mind from her pathetic nickname of him, he countered a nickname to call her because she keeps calling him "Torao". The first thing Law saw on her is a tattered old straw hat that rest on the top of her raven hair that falls perfectly under her jaw.

"Mugiwara-ya" it was the first time for Law to call someone a nickname, and it was for the opposite gender.

She looked at him surprised. Law had thought that he had insulted her but then she smiled widely. She is not a beautiful woman but she's definitely not an ugly one too. Law can say this because she's adorably cute while smiling…

Law slightly parted his mouth as he realized that he just used the word "adorable" and "cute" to describe someone. He never thought that he will use those words at the same time! Heck he didn't even expect to use it on someone.

"Ne, Torao. Where do you live?" she asked him as she stands beside him and elbowed him, still grinning that wide.

"Foosha Apartments," Law simply answered her, lowering his hat and completely not looking and glancing at her from time to time.

"Foosha Apartments? That's where my cousins live!" she said as she sways her arms while walking beside him, "I used to live there too."

"I actually live with them…" Law informed her as he keeps glancing at the ball of energy young woman. "Your grandfather is Monkey D. Garp?"

"Yes, he's my grandfather and really? You live with my cousins?!"

"Ace-ya and Sabo-ya, that's their names aren't they?"

"Yeah, that's their names… Cool!"

Law and Lucy conversed while they walk together out of the dark alley and Law noticed that she is not a tall woman but she's not short either. Her height is just average for her age and she's just under his jaw.

"So you're saying that you are from Northern Blues?" she asked him and her tone is suspiciously excited while they walk through the market filled with different stores.

"Yes." Law answered her, He had told her earlier but he felt like to answer her again and he didn't know the reason why, though.

"Oh! That explains the fluffy hat you wear!" she said as she looks up at his white spotted furry hat.

Law can feel the faint heat on his cheeks again from her gaze. It worsened when she suddenly shoved her face to his while asking him excitedly.

"Is it really true that Northern Blues is the coldest blues?" she asked him face-to-face while waiting for his answers eagerly.

Law needed to distant himself from her awkwardly, she had offered him that she will accompany him while they are finding their way back to the Apartment. Luckily, she's too oblivious that Law is feeling awkward.

"What?" Law narrowed his eyebrows in confusion while looking at her, he still feels awkward and his flushing cheeks.

It's his first time interacting to a young woman with an almost same age as him and it's not like Law is inexperienced to women. He participated in a lot of sexual acts before but right now, Law feels lost and confuse. Note that he's also being sissy here for blushing a lot and it's not right for him to act like that.

"Never mind," she waves off her hands on his face as she cross her arms and puffed her cheeks.

Law had to control himself from looking at her and mentally praise her again for being cute.

"But welcome to Eastern Blues even if I am a little bit late."

"No, I just moved here yesterday." Law answered her and he's baffled at his own attitude towards her.

He's not really like himself today and luckily she didn't notice his reactions when she suddenly stopped and her gaze to the nearest Kushiage store.

"Oh! I love deep fried meat cuts on skewers!" she said while stars are shining from her eyes.

Law couldn't believe the stars on her eyes, they are so unrealistic. She runs to the store and Law followed her.

"Hey, want some?" she asked him while nudging him with her elbow as she eyed and drools over the meats on skewers.

At that moment, Law didn't know if he will feel awe or disgust at her drooling.

"I'll treat you as a welcoming gift since you're new here in Eastern Blues but the next time we meet again, I won't treat you so grab this chance." She told him as she grins at him widely.

Law never in his life had seen a wide-shit eating grin like that. She smiled and grinned so brightly, she can kick and replace the sun and he didn't know how to react in that. He just nodded and it was really, really, seriously… awkward.

"So do you still have your parents?" she asked as she eats her Kushiage in her both hands, full of sticks while they are walking again, together.

"Not anymore," Law honestly told her. "What about you?"

"I don't have my parents anymore, too but I still have Grandfather and my cousins." She said before stuffing her mouth with Kushiages and Law chuckled at the sight. "Do you still have a family around?"

Law suddenly froze at her question. Did he still have a family around? Is his uncle in a maximum prison counted? Are Smoker and Hina as self-proclaimed parents counted? Is Admiral Sengoku as an adopted Grandfather counted?

"Yes," Law slightly smiled when he remembered the warm feelings when he's around the Admiral, the Commodore and the Marine Ladies' instructor, even if they annoyed him sometimes.

A silent passed by the two of them and Lucy groaned.

"I hate walking quietly, it's boring!" she whined as she eats the last stick of her Kushiage.

"But it's peaceful." Law didn't know why he had said that it's peaceful. It's obvious that the street market is a noisy place.

"But still–" she suddenly stopped and Law noticed her as another wave of drool comes from her mouth.

"Takoyaki!" she gleefully shouted as she ran in the Takoyaki stall.

Law dropped his jaw at her sudden reaction. Like what she bought in the Kushiage store, she did the same with the Takoyakis. She had claimed that it was her second favorite food next to meat.

"Hey! Do you know that my family is originally from Western Blues?" she started as they walk again and eating.

"No?"

"We are, But Grandpa is born and raised here in Eastern Blues until he met our Grandma and decided to move to Western Blues."

"If you're from Western Blues, what are you doing here in Eastern Blues?" Law said to fill in some conversation while the two of them are walking.

Surprisingly, Law didn't want her to stop talking. He didn't know the reason, just because…

Well, he can also learn a lot of things about her.

"When my parents died, Grandpa took me here so that I won't be alone anymore." She answered him as she takes two mouth-full of Octopus balls. "Since Ace and Sabo are already here, three years before me."

Law nods at the information as she chewed her mouth filled with Takoyaki. She's a big-eater, Law notes as he observes her.

"Do you know that in snow countries, the people there didn't sleep at all?" she suddenly said out of the blues that made Law choked as he gulped down his Takoyaki.

"What?" Law narrowed his eyes when he recovered. His expression says something like "what the hell are you talking about".

"It's true! If they fall sleep they will die." She informs him as she throws the Takoyaki container at the nearest trash bin.

"And who told you that?" Law humoredly asked her.

"Shankie, he's an ex-apprentice in an Explorer's ship and he's the one who gave me this hat." Lucy said as she patted the Straw hat that rested on her head.

Law chuckled when he realized that she's really serious and not joking around, what a gullible!

Law raised his eyebrow as she smirked, "But what about the beds in their houses?"

"Oh yeah, maybe that's where they lay when they die." Her bluntness made Law laughed slightly loud.

She's an idiot but cute…

When the two finally arrived outside of the Foosha Apartments after a very long walk,

"So see you around, Torao!" she said while they are in front of the Apartment buildings.

Lucy is about to leave but Law stopped her, holding her wrist. Law wondered why he stopped her from leaving but then he realized that he's being rude here.

"Uh… Thank you for showing me the way back." Law started and Lucy stared at him. "Next time we meet again, I owe you a food?"

She grinned widely to him at the mention of owing a food, "I'll look forward to it!" she said as she leaves him waving her arms widely.

Oh no, Trafalgar Law didn't know what kind of trouble he will get himself into! He just told the biggest-eater in town that he owed her "food". But he just smiled not looking forward to that trouble. He looks at her fondly as he watched her back, as she slowly disappeared right in front of him, right from his eyes.