Life's full of secrets.

Chapter 1 and murder

The teen looked around. No one was in sight. The old corridors were creepy and had a sickly smell to them. It was a hospital. A hospital that looked normal on the outside, but inside was a different story. This hospital was a threat to the world. A very, very sick man ran the place. It was the teen's job to stop that man.

The boy quickly dashed down the hall to another nook. The old hospital creaked as if asking the boy to let it out of its misery. The building would get what it wished. The way the teen was supposed to do is to kill the head than burn down the century old hospital. It was supposed to look like a freak accident.

That meant even the patients who had a slight possibility of surviving would have to perish. Though the teen doubted that there was still a person in here that wasn't already a victim if the quack docs treatment. The doctor had been revered as the greatest in the world, but he slipped.

The teen kept running down the hallways. The screams and cries for death from those who could still talk rang in his head. The boy tried to keep them out. He was not to show emotion on the missions. A figure walked out in front of him. The teen went into the shadows as a little girl walked out into the hall. She had glazed eyes and was only wearing a shirt that barely covered the important parts. She couldn't have been more than twelve, the same age the teen's own brother.

The boy shook his head, knowing he couldn't think about his family know. That would just hinder his mission. The little girl looked around seeming lost. The teen looked slightly forward to get a better look at the thing in front of him. The girl had scaly blue skin and grey wings that were falling off. They looked painful and the boy just shook his head.

This was more of Hogback's doing. The doctor was trying to create a special human. One that could hold more than just one implantation. The teen had one too. Hogback had done one to him, before he had gone all weird that is. Now a lot of doctors knew how to do the surgery, but none were as good as Hogback had been.

The girl had disappeared while the teen was thinking. The boy sighed and continued towards the place that held the doctor. The teen knew just what he had to do. He would slam the door open and shoot the doctor in the head. Then he would run out of the building and it would burst into flames. The fire would spread quickly with the gas that was all over the place.

The boy ran to the door that had indicated that it was where Hogback always was at this time of the night. That information was correct. The doctor was working on a person when the teen high kicked the door. The doctor flinched at the intruder. The boy took no time to worry about the patient in front of him. He gripped the rifle that was firmly clenched in his hands and shot the doctor in the head.

Hogback fell cold and dead on the ground. The teen didn't flinch at the murder he had committed. It was something he was used to, the deaths of people he didn't know. The teen pulled out a time bomb and placed it on the ground. The teen began to run down the halls and continued to the stairs. The bomb would give him less than a minute to get to the outside and hide.

The teen made it to the exit and quickly ran out into the empty alley. He went behind a dumpster as the whole hospital went up into flames. The gasoline that was poured in the hell hole had lit it up nicely. The teen watched as the place was licked by the flames. He wanted to go stand in the dancing light. It wouldn't hurt him. Not anymore. It had years ago, but not now. The orange flames danced as if they were eagerly waiting to see if the teen would try and walk into its grasp.

"That was good work Ace."

The teen turned to see who had said his name. There few people that could say his name in public and this wasn't one of them. The voice belonged to Diamond. Diamond was a higher ranked officer than Ace, but he knew better than to say an organization members name out in the open like he had just done.

Ace narrowed his eyes at this. The older man gave a small chuckle than pointed to the flames.

"No one could hear me over the flames and the engines." The man said his hair in its usual fashion. It was almost like a Mohawk but instead of one there were three. The same with the man's beard. The fifteen year old Ace stared at the man.

Jozu and his permanent frown told the boy to follow him to a more private alley that was away from the flames that Ace so wanted to bathe in.

"Here's your pay for this mission." Jozu said handing a bulky envelope to the boy. Ace took it and put it in his shorts pocket. The teen needed to get home. That mission had taken longer than he had thought. It was almost morning.

Jozu chuckled even with the frown at the boy who was staring at the slow rising sun. "Go on boy. That brother of yours will worry if you aren't home when he wakes up." The older man disappeared and Ace began to race off to his small apartment on the other side of the small city. He would have to hurry before Luffy realized that he wasn't there anymore.

The kid would most defiantly freak out and he would have to soothe him till he was asleep again. It was a good thing it was Saturday and that he didn't have school. Not that it mattered. Neither of them liked it anyway. The only thing Luffy was good at was reading and writing. Both of them were just too lazy to give a shit about it.

Ace quickly walked into the apartment that the organization he worked for had bought for them. He took of his shoes and quickly changed into the pajama bottoms that were on the floor. He saw the little lump of his twelve year old brother in the comforter. Ace smiled and slid into the bed next to the black haired kid.

Soon he was asleep. That night had been very tiring. He had had to crawl around the last place anyone in the world would want to go, than he got denied the pleasure of letting the orange flames lick at his skin. Ace stopped complaining though. That's how it always was. When he had settled down next to his little brother, Ace looked at the clock. It read five in the morning.

Luffy began to squirm as he felt the body behind him. The boy knew very well that it was Ace. Though he did wonder why he had felt the older boy know but dismissed the thought. He had probably just gotten used to the boy sleeping with him and his older brother had needed to go to the bathroom or something and was getting back into bed. Luffy twisted until he was facing the older boy. As usual, Ace wasn't wearing a shirt. He did that all the time. The only time Ace did wear a shirt was when they went out to eat or buy something. Luffy was perfectly fine with the scar that tattooed his brother's back.

Luffy nestled against the older teen than went back to sleep. Ace couldn't help but smile at his little brother's innocence and naïveté. The boy was always like this. He would follow Ace like a puppy and than for no good reason look at him and with the biggest smile and get over excited for no good reason. The boy wondered why at first, but then dismissed it as just being Luffy's personality.

It was around ten in the morning before either of them had woken up. Luffy just liked to sleep and Ace knew that he would probably fall asleep at random times during the day anyway. The two slowly got up and got dressed. Ace in a pair of black shorts and a yellow hooded shirt that he left open, Luffy in a pair of jean shorts and white shirt that had the word 'ANCHOR' in red letters.

The little kid grabbed a straw hat that had a red ribbon and put it on his head. Both of them left the bedroom and tiredly went into the small kitchen to get food. Ace grabbed two mugs and the milk while Luffy grabbed the Trix cereal. Ace got there breakfast ready while Luffy got the spoons. They ate there cereal out of mugs because they both had narcolepsy. Though Ace was the one who had it the most.

"Ne, Ace?" the little black haired boy asked with a big mouth full of cereal.

"What is it Luffy?" the teen asked still sleepy.

"We going somewhere today?" Luffy asked pointing out the fact that Ace was wearing a shirt. The older boy chuckled and nodded his head. The little kid's face lit up and he jumped up and down. Ace shook his head at his little brother's enthusiasm and put the mugs in the dishwasher. Luffy ran upstairs to brush his teeth and Ace got his boots on. His brother was really predictable.

Luffy came running down the stairs. One hand on his hat the other holding Ace's red bead necklace. The younger boy handed it to his older brother than got his sandals on. Ace smiled and put the necklace on. He locked the door and grabbed onto Luffy's hand as they began to walk down the street to the local grocery store.