A/N: Just to let you all know, I edited the first chapter and added a scene at the beggining. Please read it again if you've only read the first version.
Luffy woke up to screaming.
He didn't think much about it at first. After all, Gramps used to wake him up really loudly, shouting about training and preparation to be a police officer. Ace and Sabo weren't much better - sometimes they couldn't contain their laughter when they were pulling a especially funny prank on him while he slept. And often some teacher got exasperated with him and Zoro when they found the two of them in empty classrooms in UA, skipping class to nap. Waking up from loud noises wasn't exactly an alarming thing.
But then he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen when he tried to get up, and he remembered the whole fight, and how desperate Sabo and Ace had looked, and he knew this wasn't a prank. His brothers never went that far, to the point of hurting him.
"You were supposed to pretend to fight us, not use your full power! What the hell were you thinking? I couldn't even get close to the blond guy!" shouted an angry male voice. He sounded like the fat dude that had propellers for limbs. Oh shit, Luffy had been captured, hadn't he?
"How is it MY fault that you didn't prepare a better attack? I thought you had a plan to trap at least one of the fire guys! Now we brought a student who doesn't even have a good quirk! What the hell is the young master going to say?" screamed a frustrated girl. Wait, wasn't she the chick with the maid outfit? Wasn't she a hero sidekick? Why was she with the helicopter man?
"You say that like you actually did anything in order to capture the boy. We decided to get him so at least we wouldn't be empty handed. And who knows, maybe the young Lord will find a way of testing his quirk. He certainly isn't as dumb as the rest of you," sneered a cold voice. Oh, the harpy girl. Luffy was seriously pissed at her. His stomach hurt like hell, and she hurt Ace and Sabo too. He wanted to leave and kick her ass already.
The people outside his room kept shouting, but Luffy ignored them. He knew it probably was important, but his head and stomach hurt too much. Where was this place, anyway? He seemed to be in some sort of prison cell, grey bars all around him. His hands were locked in a handcuff in front of him, and his abdomen was wrapped in bandages. The cell was positioned in the end of a clear, white room, full of medical equipment Luffy didn't recognize.
Looking up, he noticed he wasn't alone. A tall guy with tanned skin was sitting from across the room, outside the cell and next to the door. His hair was dark, and his eyes were closed, his body learning against the wall behind him. He was wearing a black coat and black pants, and he seemed to be around Ace's age.
"Hey! Who are you? And where are we? And why am I here?"
The guy didn't move or reply at all. Luffy frowned.
"Hey! Are you dead? Oh shit, I don't want to be with a dead body in this place," Luffy mumbled to himself. "Maybe he's not dead and needs that thing they mentioned in class - what was the name again? CPR? Damn, I wish Chopper was here. Oh wait, I don't, he'd probably be scared if he was kidnapped. I wish Robin was here, she'd probably like to deal with a dead body. And she wouldn't care if she was kidnapped; she's smart so she could get out on her own anyway."
The guy sighed, apparently realizing that he wouldn't be able to ignore Luffy, and opened his eyes. He looked like he hadn't slept in ages. "I'm Trafalgar Law. We're in the chambers in the underground of the Joker's house. I don't know why you're here."
"What kind of name is that? Traf- Trafa- ugh, I'm just going to call you Traffy. Yeah, that sounds better. I'm Monkey D. Luffy and I'm going to be the number one hero! Isn't the Joker that villain the police are always trying to catch? Why would he capture me?"
"Your name isn't exactly a common one, either. And I already told you I don't know. They were supposed to bring a guy with a fire quirk, but I'm guessing that isn't you. And my name is Trafalgar."
"That's right, my quirk is way cooler than that! My body is made of rubber, you see. My punch is as strong as a bullet!" Traffy didn't look convinced at all, but Luffy ignored that. "My brothers have fire quirks. Why would you need that?"
Law looked at him, annoyed. "It's none of your business."
Luffy frowned again. This guy sounded really boring. Oh well, he wasn't exactly best friends with Robin and Franky when they met either, and now he loves them. Sabo always said he shouldn't judge people so quickly anyway. "Are you a villain too? You look like one, considering the way you're glaring at me."
"I work for the Joker, if that's what you're asking."
"That sounds boring. Why would you be a villain? I don't see the point; you guys can't even fight without being chased by the police. At least heroes get food and money when they save someone. But I have to admit dealing with reports is kinda boring."
Law didn't hear him, or at least pretended not to. Luffy spoke louder. "Hey, are you deaf? Not that I mind if you are, I have a friend who is mute and I had to learn sign language to talk to her. I would talk using my hands but I can't with these handcuffs. Oh, that's right, I wonder if I can get them off." Luffy tried to inflate his arm to break the chain, but his limb didn't stretch. What. He tried pulling his finger, but was surprised when his skin started hurting, instead of stretching like he was expecting. The fuck?
"You're going to hurt yourself if you keep doing that. They've injected a quirk suppressant in you. Your quirk isn't going to work."
"That's lame! Villains are so annoying. Why would they do that?"
"To prevent you from escaping. Are you seriously an UA student? I thought you were supposed to be the best of the best."
Luffy didn't understand what that was supposed to mean. "Of course I am! Gramps made me get in by recommendation. Are you in school too? Is there even a villain school? I've never heard of one."
Law went back to ignoring him, opting to open a huge book instead. Luffy pouted.
He was about to start talking again, when the door opened, and the girl with the maid outfit entered the room. "Oh, he's finally awake. Law, the young master asked you to keep him alive until he decides which tests you're going to run."
Law didn't look up from his book. "Yeah, I assumed that to be the case when you've been screaming for the past hour."
"Don't be ironic with me. You know he's going to be pissed if you mess this up."
"He's probably already angry, considering you failed your mission."
The girl crossed her arms and furrowed her brows. "You sure you want to be antagonizing us? The sooner you find a use for his quirk, the better for everyone."
"The sooner you leave this room, the sooner I can go back to working on my quirk research," he snapped.
The girl glared at Law, obviously pissed, and left.
Luffy smiled. Oh, Traffy had a sense of humor after all! It was kinda funny watching him argue with the maid girl. "Hey, you sure you're a villain? You didn't seem very happy to see your villain friend."
"Please shut up, Luffy-ya."
"Traffy, I'm hungry. Do they give us food here?"
Law rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming. Luffy had talked non-stop for the last hour. Law was already sick of being here, but it was better than pretending to care about what people were arguing about in the other room.
He looked around the cell, not bothering to move when the shouting started again. It had been like that for the past few hours. If he weren't stuck with a talkative UA student, he would have laughed. Hearing Monet, Baby 5 and Buffalo lose their minds like that was kind of funny. He was sure even Cora-san would have appreciated the irony. Doflamingo's elite squad, full of strong Paramecias and Logias, unable to capture a newbie sidekick and kidnapping a dumb UA kid with a lame quirk instead? That was hilarious. Law wished he could see the Joker's face when he heard that.
But then again, he wasn't in any position to be making fun of others. He was missing class to be here, he had to help Doflamingo or Cora-san would probably die, and he would have to perform experiments on a kid in a few days. Well, at least he wouldn't have to help Kaidou make an unstoppable army of people with synthetic fire quirks, though.
"Traffy! Seriously, are you deaf?"
Law sighed, again. "Stop being so loud. I'll give you food at night."
"But I'm hungry now!"
"You've been kidnapped! You're not in any position to demand things! Aren't you at least scared of being here?"
"Not really. Someone's coming for me. Probably my brothers or my friends." The boy smiled widely, showing his complete trust in the people he mentioned.
He kind of reminded Law of Cora-san. They had the same stupid optimistic personality. Law didn't need another person to take care of. He had enough on his plate by trying to expose Doflamingo as a dangerous villain while keeping him and Cora-san alive.
"Whatever. I don't care about it. Just stay quiet, please."
The boy looked at him, his expression unreadable. "Is it true what that girl said? That you're going to experiment on me?"
Law stopped in the middle of flipping a page on his book. He didn't know what to say. Regardless of what people said about him, he wasn't a villain. He was just doing this to get Doflamingo arrested. He tried as hard as he could to be kind to any victims of the Joker. He didn't even kill anyone before. Cora-san would be too disappointed with him if he did.
"Well, yeah. But it's just a bunch of blood tests. It's not going to hurt you." At least Law hoped so. He wouldn't deny that torturing a boy who barely started high school looked like the kind of thing Doflamingo would be into, though.
"Oh." Luffy looked like he was thinking about something.
"What?"
"Eh, nothing. I was expecting a kidnapper to be weirder, I guess."
"Have you even wondered about what a kidnapper would be like?"
"Of course! Shanks has told me lots of cool stories about defeating all sorts of villains. He always mentioned kidnappers were all really weird and dark and mean. So far you only have dark clothes," Luffy wondered aloud.
Law completely stopped reading his book, lifting his head. "Shanks? Red-haired Shanks, the pro hero?"
"Yeah! He gave me my straw hat, and I promised him I'd be a cool hero when I got older and then I'd return the hat to him. He's really cool! I miss Shanks. Haven't seen him in a while."
Oh, great. Law was stuck with a kid who had one of the top 4 pro heroes in Japan on his side. He was lucky if he survived this.
Sanji couldn't help a mock salute when Zoro finally showed up at Robin's apartment. "Well, now we can start this meeting. Although I said it wouldn't make any difference if we started without you, mosshead."
Zoro glared back, annoyed. "It's your fault I'm late. You said we were going to meet at Usopp's house."
"I told Brook to go to Usopp's place so they could go together. How can you be so dumb? That text wasn't even for you!"
"Listen here, curlybrow, I'm-"
Nami threw her shoe at Zoro, her expression pissed. "Can you two be serious for five seconds? Luffy's been kidnapped! He may be suffering right now, and you two are messing around!"
As soon as it started, the light, playful moment ended, every person in the room showing how truly devastated they were. Chopper started weeping quietly, snuffling a little, like he was about to cry.
Sanji sighed, lighting a cigarette. He had beaten his record of cigarettes in a day since the news. Their entire group had decided to reunite immediately after Ace had texted them what happened. He still couldn't believe it. Luffy had been fine just one day ago. They spent the previous afternoon at Franky's place, playing video games and messing around with the cyborg's inventions, Luffy just as lively as ever. Now he was god knows where, with some piece of shit villain probably starving him.
Usopp got up from his seat, expression firm. "We have to look for him. We don't know how long the police and the pro heroes will take to find a lead." People at UA would probably be surprised to see that he was being so brave, but Sanji knew that when it comes to one of their friends, everybody in this group was fiercely protective. Usopp was probably terrified, but he wouldn't let some villain keep Luffy, and neither would any of them.
Jinbe sighed. "You do know you can be punished from acting on your own, right? Vigilantism is prohibited. Mihawk would probably expel you right now if he heard you."
Zoro waved his hand, dismissing him. "Most of us don't even care about being a hero anyway. I can still be the best swordsman even if I'm not in UA."
"Speak for yourself. I have to stay in that school if I want to go to college," Nami replied, but didn't protest against acting.
Sanji moved to the kitchen, looking for a kettle so he could make them some tea. He always needed to keep his hands occupied when he was nervous. "I'd rather not be kicked out of school because Zeff would kill me, but I don't want to sit and wait for them to do something. Who knows what they're doing to Luffy right now."
Brook spoke up, "I think we all agree we have to act, clearly. But how are we going to find him? The police obviously won't share any info with us. I'm assuming we're going to do some illegal stuff, as usual? Yohoho~"
Nami smiled, looking a bit devilish. "I used Bellemere-san's password and checked the police's report. Apparently Luffy was taken by three guys that work for a villain named Joker. They were supposedly after Ace and Sabo, but for some reason captured Luffy instead."
Chopper shivered after hearing that. "Doctorine says the Joker has a sadistic surgeon working with him, and that he can remove people's hearts without killing them!" The reindeer's fur was up, obviously stressed with the whole situation.
Robin petted his head, comforting the little guy. "Although this is certainly not the method we should use in front of heroes in-training, I'm sure Franky, with his fascinating skills, would be able to hack into the accounts of any subordinates of the Joker. This way, we could establish our plan of action, depending on what we find out."
Franky scratched his head, clearly pleased at the compliment. "I guess I could try. Nami, you have their names?"
"Yeah, I saved all the files I could. Let me send them to you," the girl replied.
While they worked on their smart people thing, Sanji checked his phone. He had eight new messages.
- piece of shit 1 has added mr. prince to the chat –
piece of shit 1: hey guess what? that loser with the strawhat has been kidnapped.
piece of shit 4: Oh, is that why Sanji was crying all sad during lunch today?
piece of shit 4: Sorry to hear that your boyfriend's been taken away.
piece of shit 4: Though to be honest, I'd prefer to be kidnapped than to spend time with you.
piece of shit 1: maybe he planned his own kidnapping so he could get away from our dear brother.
piece of shit 2: i thought the guy with green hair was his bf?
piece of shit 1: they're probably into polyamory or some shit
piece of shit 2: lol
mr. prince: fuck off, assholes.
- mr. prince has left the chat –
- piece of shit 4 has added mr. prince to the chat –
piece of shit 2: cranky because youre not getting laid arent you
mr. prince: niji, you haven't dated anyone in your life.
piece of shit 1: you're not in any position to say that.
piece of shit 2: anyways we thought youd like to hear this
piece of shit 2: dad said his agency would probably be requested to work in this case
piece of shit 2: everybodys crazy because an ua kid getting kidnapped is kind of a big deal
piece of shit 2: so maybe we will be able to save your dumb friend
piece of shit 1: yeah it'd be a shame if we accidentally hit him while trying to save him :/
mr. prince: like you'd be able to do any rescuing at all. the villain would probably knock you out before you had the chance to do anything.
piece of shit 4: Wouldn't you like to know? At least we'll be able to do something, while you stay at home cooking like a lady.
piece of shit 4: Unless you'll try to save him on your own?
piece of shit 4: It would be a shame if you were expelled for trying to rescue your little boyfriend.
mr. prince: shut the fuck up, you sick piece of shit.
- mr. prince has left the chat –
"Sanji? The water has been boiling for a while now," said Chopper, looking curious. The one who was patting his head now was Usopp, both sitting on the sofa.
"Oh, shit. Sorry about that." He turned to Robin to ask where her teacups were, but she was already by his side, picking some mugs from the cupboard.
"Is something the matter?" Robin asked, looking at him. Sanji sighed and showed her the phone. They had been friends long enough to know about his terrible relationship with his family now. He didn't want to bother his friends with something like that, but he learned the hard way that they would always try to solve his problems for him.
Sanji wasn't even sure of how they all became friends in the first place. They certainly didn't have anything in common. At first it was only five of them - Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp and Sanji - hanging out together at UA High School. They were all in the department of heroics, although in different years. Then one day Zoro got really hurt in training and Chopper was at the infirmary that day, helping the school's staff. Usopp used to hang out a lot with people from the support department, and he met Franky through them. Nami met Robin when she was trying to get an internship at Ohara, known for being the most resourceful agency in Japan. They all met Jinbe during a school seminar about quirk prejudice, and he was instantly "adopted" by the group. Nobody had any idea of where Luffy found Brook, probably not even those two.
Robin smiled after reading the conversation, her expression calm. Sanji knew her enough to know when she was deadly calm or happy calm, and it looked like the first one, but her voice was smooth when she talked. "I'm sure your brothers are lying to annoy you. They don't have any evidence of the fact that you'll try to help Luffy. I wouldn't worry about that. And if they try to be violent during a rescue, they will be punished by the police working with them."
"You're right, as usual, Robin-chan. Thank you for being so kind."
"Don't worry, we'll get Luffy-san back! We have quite a lot of skilled heroes here, after all. Although we're not being very heroic by hacking, yoho~" Brook said, while polishing his violin.
Sanji smiled. Of course they would. Luffy never let any of them alone, always destroying parks and kicking villains and rescuing them from dangerous situations. It was their turn to help him.
A/N: Yes, Sanji named his brothers "piece of shit 1, 2 and 4" in his phone.
Also, I'm sorry, but I can't see the Strawhats as really good and perfect heroes. Even in a world that idolizes heroes, I believe they will always be a bit shady - therefore in this fic they will use some illegal methods, lol.
Next chapter: people start preparing for Luffy's rescue. Meanwhile, he and Law slowly get to know each other.
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Guest, sdkop21 and PerdidoKitsune: thank you very much! I hope you like this chapter!
rikuai12: thank you so much! writing fight scenes is a bit weird, haha. I hope you like this chapter!