"Familiar Faces"

Prologue

"Nami . . . Nami . . . Nami!?" a nineteen year old boy shouted as he ran around his ship, the Thousand Sunny, looking for his navigator. He was Straw hat Luffy of the Straw Hats Pirates. He had been at this for the past thirty minutes, and was slowly driving his crew insane.

Two men shouted, "Will you just shut up and be quiet for once," at the same time which annoyed them greatly. They turned their heads sharply and staring daggers at each other.

"Shut it, Marimo head," the blond haired man mumbled angrily under his breath. Sanji's leg was poised getting ready to kick the man next to him.

"Stupid, love cook", the green haired man replied just as annoyed if even more so. Zoro reached for his swords preparing to chop this idiot to pieces.

They stared menacingly at each other and just as the others expected they broke out into a fight. But just as soon as it had started they were hit sharply over the head by a girl with long straight orange hair. Where they had been hit large comical bumps, that were smoking slightly, started to form. They looked up to Nami scowling at them.

"Why can't we just have a peaceful day for once, huh? Sanji! Zoro!"

"Hai, Nami- swan!" Sanji said as he jumped to his feet and stared dashing towards the kitchen to prepare lunch.

"Yeah, whatever," Zoro said walking away. They could only guess, but he was most likely going to train or hide somewhere quiet to sleep. No matter where he hid it always seemed Luffy knew exactly where he was. The rubber kid would rush to his side and pester him, he was a nakama, of course, but sometimes he was just so annoying. However, Zoro felt like he was the one who was supposed to watch out for Luffy. The whole crew did look out for him, but Zoro felt he was an important figure in his captain life and he needed to be behind him the whole time.

As soon as they had gone a red blur rushed up to Nami. He was rocking on the balls of his feet babbling incoherent words as Nami stared at him wonder what on Earth he wanted. She zoned him out and took this moment to study his appearance. She had not seen him in two years and thought it quite startling that he had not changed as much as the rest of them had. He was made of rubber though… The only change in his appearance was a large gash that covered most of his torso. They knew he got it for fighting at Marine Ford, but they didn't pry.

He was now literally bouncing up and down with excitement.

"Oi, Nami are you listening to me?"

"Umm yeah. What did you want again?"

"I wanted to know when we would get to the next island." Luffy asked cheerily despite Nami's face slowly getting darker. Anger was boiling up inside her and her face became red. He was sent flying into the wall, denting it, but sitting up unscathed. No wonder his bounty was 400 million beli.

"Luffy, that is the sixteenth time you have asked me that this morning! Like I have said the other time we are a bit behind schedule because of you being an idiot! If it wasn't for you wanting to keep those seakings as pets and getting us stuck in that storm we would be there by now!" She sighed deeply trying to calm herself down with no prevail.

"So then what time will we get there?" He asked again still in a happy tone despite Nami beating on him.

She sighed again, "We will be there tomorrow afternoon, alright?" She started to walk away, but heard him mumble something under his breath. It sounded to her as if he had said 'well, you don't have to be so mean about it'. She snapped and shouted "what did you say?"

"I'm gonna go see what Traffy is doing." He stood up and ran away. Nami shaking her head at his back.

"Okay, but you know he doesn't like it when your loud and your loud all the time… he is just going to kick you off his ship!" she called after his disappearing figure, he brushed her off dismissively. She heaved a great sigh once more and walked away to go make some new maps on the island they had just left. She was almost done with the last few maps and was quiet eager by her progress.

The Straw Hats had been travelling with Law for quite a while now and they were starting to trust him. He was a rooky pirate just like the Straw Hats and he was captain of the Heart Pirates. They had first met Law two years ago at Sabaody archipelago, while they had been trying to save their friend Caime, a mermaid, from being sold as a slave to the nobles. They had just recently seen him again at Punk Hazard and he had asked Luffy to join an alliance with him. Luffy being Luffy had agreed even though there were many discouraging thing to be said about Law by the Straw Hats. Luffy had thought it through in his mind and only said yes because Law had said they were going to try and take down one of the Yonko or one of the four Emperors of the grand line. He also just thought Law was being nice and wanted to be friends.

The sound of Luffy shouting gomu gomu no as he reached the back of his ship could be heard within a ten mile radius. His arms stretched out reaching the deck of the ship that followed closely behind their own. There was no reason to stretch his arms. The gap between the two ships was small, small enough for Chopper, smallest crew member, to easily get across. So as he sling shot himself over a ten maybe seven foot gap it was no surprise to anyone that he slammed into the deck's wall dragging some people with him. He got up laughing like a mad man and looked around to see who he had thrown into the wall. It was Chopper and Bepo. The two got up unsteadily and glared at Luffy who continued to laugh is head off. Chopper and Bepo then started to yell at him and tell him not to be so reckless.

He looked at Chopper and then to Bepo. He couldn't decide what Bepo was, he looked like a polar bear, but he could talk just like Chopper. Bepo said he didn't eat a devil fruit which is what Luffy thought he had did, but then remembered that Chopper had eaten the devil fruit that gave an animal human like features and powers. Whatever Bepo was he did not care he just thought it was awesome.

"Luffy! Are you even paying attention to what I'm –"

"Hey, have you seen Traffy anywhere," Luffy asked cutting Chopper off.

"What is it Straw Hatter," a voice said calmly from behind them. It was Law. He too had a thing with pet names. He wore a long black coat that had his jolly Rodger on in a pattern at the bottom. He too had a hat it was fluffy and there was a cheetah print on it. He looked menacing with the large sword he carried on his back and the tattoos on his knuckles that spelt out 'DEATH'.

"I was looking for you, Traffy." Luffy stated simply.

Law groaned, "Can you please address me as Law. Traffy is not my name."

"No. I don't like Law and I can't say trl-tralge-"

"Okay okay stop" He pinched the bridge of his nose. "Is there something you wanted to tell me?" His expression was cold.

"Nami said that we will be at the next island in a day."

"Hmmmm, thank you for telling me that, but you have already told me this several times this morning." Law was not so patient. "Now will you please get off my ship, you are far too loud."

"No, I'm bored I wanted to see what you were doing," he whined like a small child.

"Now, get off. I formed an alliance with you I did not become your best friend!"

"What . . . isn't that the same thing?"

"Why would you think it is," Law was getting really mad now and he picked Luffy up under the arms, like you would with a small child or cat, and threw him off the ship. "I shouldn't even be travelling with you. I should only be with you when you call me on the den den mushi for help or when we decide to take down the Yonko."

Luffy landed on the back deck of his ship and called out to Law. "Well then I don't want to be in an alliance with. I want to be your friend." After that was said Law stormed off into his office to go and work on whatever I was he said. "Why is he so mean sometimes? I just want to be nice, so we can get along together." Luffy thought to himself as he walked to the kitchen to see if dinner was ready. It was and he sat down stuffing his face and stealing everyone else's food. He got hit a few times by Nami and Sanji and then it was over in the blink of an eye and he found himself in bed slowly drifting off into what he thought would be a peaceful sleep.

A/NI know this may seem boring, but I promise I will get better.

This is my first fanfiction so be nice. I don't mind criticism I really want to know what people think of this crap I call a story. I will try to update as soon as I can and if I am taking too long you can bombard me with messages.

9/15/13 EDIT- I went and changed this cause it was really bothering me. I don't know why but it was, so I changed it.