I'm ALIVE!

Sorry this has taken me awhile but the stress of college applications is a horrendous monster that just creeps up on you, like parents that are always looking out for whatever mistake you make. :)

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First order of business for Luffy was to go yell at a certain alcohol-loving, moss head.

He ran to Zoro's dorm, which he shared with Sanji, the other member of his band, and pounded on the door at a constant rate that would definitely wake a deep sleeper like Zoro.

"What the HELL are you doing-!" Zoro had opened the door and stopped his rant when he realized he was looking at the angry face of a normally cheerful Luffy. Crap, was the first thing Zoro thought.

"I think that's my line Zoro!" Luffy was glaring at Zoro and looked as if he was gonna strangle him. Which was not far from what he was considering to do.

"Luffy, I can explain!" Zoro quickly said in hopes of pacifying him. Before he could continue, the sounds of more people coming there way grew louder.

"Luffy! Don't just leave when we still need to finish talking!" It was Ace and Sabo. They had followed Luffy after their current problem, Trafalgar Law, had just left because they still had unfinished words to say.

"Good!" Luffy turned to his older brothers and then pushed them all into Zoro's and Sanji's room. Thankfully Sanji was not there at the moment. The dorms in their college were a good size; there were two distinctly opposite sides: one was painted in greens and the other in blues. Between the two spaces was a window that had a view of the courtyard where Luffy and Law had just been earlier when they met Ace and Sabo so there was a good chance Zoro heard and saw it all. The side of the room that was green and had a few swords, weights, and a fridge full of sake was obviously Zoro's. The other side had books about cooking and magazines of girls on the desk, all of which belonged to Sanji. The bedding for both of the roommates matched the color of their spaces and were at a considerable distance from each other since the two hated the other person very, very, very much. Zoro took a seat on his bed while the two older brothers were standing next to him. "Since you are all here, we can get this over with."

"Fine!" Ace then sucked in a long breath and began his rant. "What were you thinking going out with that bastard?! Do you realize that since you didn't tell us he could've done something terrible to you?! You can't just go on a date with a person we don't approve of! Were you even thinking of the consequences when you left with him?! There better not been any physical contact other than holding hands or I'll kick his ass!"

After all was said and done Luffy sucked in a long breath of his own. Knowing what was gonna happen Sabo and Zoro covered their ears so that it wouldn't make them go deaf.

"You will not harm Traffy!" He shouted at the top of his lungs with all his anger. "Traffy is a nice guy, I don't need to worry about being in danger because he wouldn't do anything to hurt me. I can also take care of myself just fine thanks to all the training you, Sabo, Dad, and Grandpa gave me. I don't care if you don't approve of him, you never approve of any guy I like! I wanted to be with Traffy and I got to have a great time with him!"

Once all the anger was let out, Luffy was feeling a little better. Then he turned to Zoro, who had a rare look of terror.

"And you! Don't you dare think you can just interfere with my life and think you know what's best for me! I will never forgive you Zoro if you keep on trying to ruin my relationship with Law and if you try to control me like Ace and Sabo do. I'll never speak to you ever again." He stuck out his tongue at Zoro and gave him a childish pout.

"Luffy, I was just looking out for you!"

"Bullshit!" At this, Zoro and Ace flinched while Sabo observed calmly. Luffy didn't normally cuss unless he was really serious or really angry. "I'm old enough to make my own decisions, I don't need you all to worry and fuss over me all the time."

"But-"

"But nothing! If any one of you so much as hurt Law or continue to get in our way I will never ever speak or look at you for the rest of your lives!" Ace stared at him like a fish while Zoro was stone faced. Despite how ridiculous his threat was, they knew he was stupidly stubborn to a fault, so much that he would actually keep to his word and go through with his threat.

"I'm leaving, and I don't want you to bother me again about Traffy." He turned around and made his way to the door. Before he left he had one more thing to say. "Oh yeah, guess what? We got to make out today at the beach and Traffy is an excellent kisser!" He blew them all a raspberry and then gave a slightly mischievous smile before running towards his dorms, the echoing shout of "LUFFY!" behind him.

Law had just arrived home and to his chagrin, saw that his three closest, and only, friends were already waiting for him in front of his apartment. All he wanted to do right now was wait for Luffy's phone call, but knew he never really could get his friends to leave when they really wanted to know something. Penguin saw him approaching and then waved at him. Noticing this, Shachi and Bepo saw him too and were greeting him.

"What took you so long Law? How was your hot date?" Shachi asked him as he gave him a sly smile.

"It was good. Luffy and I had a great time." Law replied nonchalantly.

"Oh?" Shachi's grin grew wider. "What happened that was so great?"

Law grimaced at what Shachi was trying to get out of him so he didn't answer. Instead he went into the elevator with the others behind him.

"So Law, did something happened?" Penguin, the more sensible one, asked. "You seemed a little upset about something."

Law figured he should be honest about what was bothering him, it might make him feel better plus it was going to be discussed eventually. He gave a deep sigh as he recalled the events after that phone call that said how that marimo pest was butting in where he shouldn't to try to get Luffy.

"That was a pretty deep sigh, Law?" Bepo asked with concern. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine Bepo."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Bepo apologized.

"Don't apologize for no reason!" Shachi and Penguin yelled. This was a problem for Bepo and it bothered the two a lot.

They reached Law's floor and went inside the spacious apartment. As if they lived there, Law's friends let themselves in and took various seats in the living room while forcing Law to sit with them, adding more to the suspicion that this was going to be a rather torturous conversation for him.

"So... what was the 'bad' thing that happened on your 'great' date?" Shachi asked the first question immediately when they all sat down. "You didn't meet his family did you?" That last part was said as a joke because what person meets their date's family on the first one.

"Actually, I did." Shachi's and Bepo's eyes opened wide in disbelief while Penguin lifted one brow. "I met a part of his family, his older brothers." Law said 'brothers' rather bitterly.

Shachi gave a low whistle. "That sounds tough, were they the usual over-protective maniacs or were they pretty chill about you dating their baby brother?"

"After the first meeting, I'm inclined to believe that they are more over-protective than what is considered sane."

"Wow, were they violent?" Bepo asks anxiously.

"Only one of them was outright violent, the other one hide it very well. The one that attacked me when we had just arrived at the college is named Ace-ya and the other one is Sabo-ya." Law once again recounted how the events unfolded at the campus. "Sabo-ya is probably the one I don't want to get on the bad side of, he seems like the smarter of the two and more dangerous. Ace-ya is definitely dangerous, but he acted pretty stupidly majority of the time."

Somewhere on the campus of Grandline University, a certain freckled youth sneezed.

"I already accepted the fact that they don't like me, and possibly will never, but I am trying to not antagonize them so they can at least tolerate my relationship with Luffy-ya." Law smiled softly as he thought of Luffy's bright smile.

"Wow, you really have it bad for that kid." Penguin smiled too, feeling glad that Law finally found someone.

"Yeah, wonder how your family would react to this piece of news." Shachi said with all intentions of teasing Law. Hearing the mention of his family and their responses to him and Luffy-ya mad him grimace and his brief good mood soured. He sure as hell was going to make sure that for as long as possible, Luffy-ya would not meet his family, especially an annoying pink flamingo.

Suddenly, Law's phone was beeping, signaling that he was getting a call. After looking at the caller ID, showing it was his ball of sunshine, Law eagerly answered even with his friend's straining to hear the conversation.

"Hi Traffy!" Luffy greeted him.

'Traffy?' Shachi mouthed at Law while trying so hard to not laugh. Law flipped him the bird.

"Hello Luffy-ya. How are things with you and your brothers?"

"I ditched them and am now in my dorm." Law could practically feel the smile Luffy had on him at that sentence.

"Ditched them?" Law asked in an amused voice.

"Yep! After you left I had a good talk with Ace, Sabo, and Zoro."

"Oh." Law felt pissed when he thought again about that green haired man that was being a real pest. "What did you talk to them about."

"That if any of them tried to stop me from going out with you or hurt you I would never speak to them again! Shishishishi!" Luffy was enjoying causing trouble for his older brothers and Zoro.

"That's good Luffy-ya... but I don't want to be the cause of you not getting along with your brothers." No need to make your brothers hate me more than they do now, Law inwardly thought to himself.

"It's fine, they'll eventually get over it, Sabo first but Ace will take awhile, he's stupid that way."

The faint yell of 'Luffy!' could be heard in the background on Luffy's end. No doubt Ace heard that comment.

"Hey kid!" Shachi grabbed Law's hand that held the phone and started talking. "So did Law do anything embarrassing on the date?"

"Who are you? Are you a friend of Traffy?!" Luffy was getting excited about meeting friends of Law.

"Yep, I'm Shachi, one out of three friends that Law has." Penguin was enjoying toying with Law, even if he knew he was gonna pay for it later.

"So cool! Who else is there?"

"Hello... my name is Bepo... I'm sorry." Bepo chimed in timidly.

"Eh? Why'd you apologize, that's pretty weird! Shishishishi!"

"I'm sorry..."

"It's okay! My name is Monkey D. Luffy, Law's boyfriend!" Luffy felt proud that he could say that aloud. Law did too, if the small smile and light blush was anything to go by.

"So Luffy, was Law all grumpy and had his usual frown on his face?" Shachi asked.

"Traffy was super nice! He bought me food, took me to the beach, and I had so much fun! Traffy, can we go on another date soon?" The happiness in Luffy's voice made everyone smile, Law especially.

"Sure I'd love that." He said while ignoring the 'awwwws' from the audience.

"Great, there's a festival next Friday, do you think we can go?"

"Let me check." Law made his way to the calender and checked his schedule for August 30. He had to work a bit in the morning but after four he was free. "I'm available after four that day, is that alright?"

"That's fine! We can meet up at six, it's really close to the college in the huge area where the Reverse Mountain temple is so I'll meet you there. It's going to be so much fun! There will be games, food, and fireworks! You could bring your friends too Traffy, I really want to meet them, and I'll bring my other friends too! Don't worry, only Zoro is a grump. Shishishishi"

"That's nice to hear." At least it sounded like only that Zoro guy and the older brothers were against their relationship, he did not need more people interfering.

On Luffy's end, Law could hear more shouting and banging.

"Oops! Looks like I got to go. I'll send you a text later Traffy, bye bye!"

"Goodbye Luffy-ya, talk to you later." Law was just about to hit the end button until Luffy said one other thing.

"Oh yeah, I told Zoro, Ace, and Sabo that you are a great kisser! Shishishishishi!" On that note, with more choruses of yelling from no doubt Ace and Zoro, Luffy hung up. At the same time, Law's supposed friends heard the last part and exploded in laughter, only Bepo had enough sense to not do it too loudly while the other two were on the ground and holding their stomachs.

"Oh my god Law! That kids a real keeper!" Shachi said through all his laughing.

Ignoring his friend's, me muttered something to himself so softly that only he could hear it. "Yeah, he is."

Thank you so much for reading and sorry for the long wait. I hope this was better and that you enjoyed the story so far. If you have any advice on how I can make this better then please send me a review, even if it's criticism. Thanks so much!