Watching the intense flames and raging snow storms of Punk Hazard fade into the distance, a smile spread across Luffy's mouth as that distinctive laugh tumbled out of him.

"So! Where's our next destination?" he asked openly, spinning around to face the crew.

"Dressrosa," Law answered. "The home of Doflamingo. It's the next stage of our plan,"

"Alright~! Nami! How's the weather looking?"

"We should be fine as soon as we get away from Punk Hazard's crazy climate," she replied with a smile.

"Then I suggest a party!" Luffy announced.

There was a cheerful call from the Straw Hats as they agreed to their Captain's wishes. Law, on the other hand, hung his mouth open in slight shock and annoyance.

"Straw Hatter! You all already had that banquet back on the island. You're being too reckless, we need to be on our guard now that we know Doflamingo and his cronies are going to be after us!" he protested.

"Lighten up, Traf! The banquet was just a starter party, this'll be the real thing... We're gonna party all night!"

Law tutted slightly before sitting down on the bench around the mast and lowering his head so as to cover his eyes with his hat.

The afternoon turned to evening as the Sun sunk sluggishly over the horizon. The howls of laughter of the Thousand Sunny floated into the orange air, mixed in the strums of Brook's guitar.

"Oi, Law! Want some beer?" Usopp called out to the figure of Law, offering a jug of alcohol.

"No thanks," Law muttered.

"Hey, come on, Warlord! It is a party after all!" Zoro laughed loudly, his cheeks being brushed with a slight shade of red having drunk too much already.

Law didn't respond and so everyone gave up trying to entice him into the fun. All except Luffy...

Creeping up next to him, Luffy plonked himself down next to Law, startling the latter slightly.

He put his arm around Law and lifted a jug of alcohol up to his face.

"Are you sure you don't want any?" Luffy asked, smirking slightly.

"No,"

Luffy laughed then before grabbing the back of Law's hat and tipping his head back so that his mouth was fully accessible and open in shock. Not wasting a moment, Luffy poured the contents of the jug into Law's mouth.

Law spluttered with the sudden pouring of liquid, but a lot of it made it down his throat.

"Damn Straw Hatter," Law muttered, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand as Luffy fell off of the bench in a heap of laughter.

Luffy wouldn't stop laughing and so Law observed the stupid boy with the straw hat sprawled out in front of him. He could see the details of Luffy's face, from the creases of laughter near his eyes to the almost delicate fanning of his short eyelashes beneath his closed eyes. 

While no one was looking, Law allowed himself a smile before Luffy's eyes snapped back open once more.

"Ah~ You're funny, Traf!" Luffy tittered, wiping the tears that had formed in his eyes.

"And you're annoying," Law retaliated, but Luffy had won the fight.

Law picked up the jug and began to drink.

Night set in and the party became more rowdy as everyone drank more than was necessary for such an arbitrary occasion. Everyone laughed too hard at jokes that weren't even that funny and swayed side to side, giggling softly to themselves.

Law had managed to restrain himself somewhat, but he had drank more than he often did. 

Standing up, he decided to take a bath after the days events.

"Where's your shower room?" Law asked, addressing the party.

"Up the ladder in the room at the top of that mast!" Nami said cheerily with a laugh, gesturing upwards grandly.

Law followed her directions and sure enough came to the shower and bath room. It was nice enough and had a wonderful view of the night sky. 

Stripping off his clothes and leaving his sword and hat by the door, Law ran a bath before stepping into it. He sat down with a sigh and felt his cheeks grow red with the warm steam rising from the water. 

He leaned over to the window and looked out across the vast ocean that had been a striking shade of blue in the light of the Sun, but was now an almost terrifying shade of black. His eyes narrowed as he swore to have seen a shape lurking out in the distance...

"SURPRISE!!"

A pair of arms flew around Law's neck, taking him by surprise and making him yell out in shock. There was a moment of thrashing as Law toppled forwards into the water, bringing his guest with him.

Law resurfaced, gasping for breath as the other person did the same.

"Straw Hatter!! What the fuck do you think you're doing?!" Law yelled, stumbling backwards and trying to cover himself with the bubbles.

"I wanted a bath!" Luffy smiled, shaking his mop of black hair out.

Law looked down and saw Luffy had already stripped naked. 

"Couldn't you have waited till I'd finished?!"

"Nope~!"

"GET OUT!!"

"Aw, come on! Fine, I won't look, see?"

Luffy turned his back on Law. Law cautiously moved away from the corner of the bath, but as soon as the sound of moving water hit Luffy's ears, he glanced back over his shoulder.

"YOU'RE LOOKING!"

"Sorry, sorry!" Luffy laughed, turning back around.

Law spun around quickly and put his back towards Luffy as well so that they were both facing in opposite directions. 

Law glanced out the window and could see his reflection looking back at him. His face was bright red, a shade so bright he couldn't play it off as heat from the steam.

Sighing, Law allowed Luffy to stay. Partially because he was still a little drunk from the alcohol and... Well the rest doesn't matter.

"Hey, Traf~?" Luffy called at one point.

"Huh?"

"Can you wash my back?"

"Like hell I would!" Law growled.

"Please?" Luffy whined, leaning back into him.

The skin on skin contact that Law now experienced with Luffy set his heart racing. Luffy's skin was warm and soft... he wanted to bury his entire face into Luffy's exposed back. He looked back over his shoulder ever so slightly and found Luffy already looking back at him. Luffy's eyes were big and always seemed to be filled with a childlike curiosity that had never dwindled from when Law met him for the first time at Sabaody. Who could deny eyes like that?

"Fine," Law muttered, turning around.

He grabbed a nearby sponge and began to scrub up and down on Luffy's back. Luffy began to sing:

"The island's in the south are warm! Their heads get really hot! And they're all idiots!"

It was a childish song, one Law himself had heard as a child. As he sung, Luffy swayed side to side with the beat of the song, but Law wasn't focused on that.

He had long since abandoned the sponge and now worked the soap into Luffy's back with his own hands. He ran his hands along Luffy's spine softly and then over the back of his shoulders a little rougher so he could feel the full muscularity of them. As expected, Luffy's skin was even softer when you touched it with your bare hands.

"Are you done yet? You're taking forever!" Luffy complained after he had sung his song twice through.

"Ah, y-yeah," Law stumbled, realising how long he had taken washing Luffy's back.

He turned back around once more.

"Alrighty then, my turn!" Luffy laughed.

Before Law could object, Luffy's hands were on his back and scrubbing up and down. He wasn't as methodical as Law had been and only seemed to scrub up and down in a horizontal line, but Law didn't care as long as he had an excuse for Luffy to be touching him. Luffy was singing again and scrubbed up and down in time. Law caught himself mouthing the words to Luffy's song, but stopped as soon as he realised.

Once Luffy had finished, Law grabbed a towel and carefully stepped out of the bath, concealing his body from Luffy's view.

"That was fun!" Luffy giggled. "Hey, Traf! Pass me a towel!" 

Law obliged as Luffy hopped up and out of the water. He grabbed the towel and wrapped it around his waist, but as his foot got caught in an attempt to step out of the bath, he fell down.

"Watch out!"

Luffy crashed into Law in his descent, bringing both of them onto the floor.

"You idiot!" Law muttered as Luffy laughed into his chest.

Luffy had landed on top of Law and now lay sprawled over him. He lifted his head so that he was dangling in front of Law's face, smiling down at him.

The smile soon faded as Luffy took into account the situation he had found himself in. Law could smell the faint scent of alcohol that lingered on Luffy's every breath as could Luffy with Law. Law fell into a trance as he gazed into those big eyes of the boy above him as Luffy stared right back into the steely eyes of Law. 

Luffy's lips seemed to protrude outwards more than usual and glistened in the light of the room. They were parted slightly as he breathed more intently than usual, his heart not allowing anything less. 

Luffy was the fist to move after minutes of staring at each other. He bent his head ever so slightly so that it rested on Law's forehead. He expected Law to object, but quite the opposite in fact. He lay his hand on Luffy's back and pulled him in, wanting to be closer to him.

The two were now so close that their breaths intermingled with one another: the very action that allowed them to live flowing into one another's bodies. Noses touched as both observed the others finer details at a closer level than ever before.

"Luffy! Where are you?" a voice called from below on deck.

A sudden jerk of surprise drew the two away from each other as Luffy clambered off of Law and stood up, Law following suit.

"You go, I'll follow later," Law said.

Luffy smiled then, not a half-hearted, shy smile that often came after an intimate moment between humans, but one of his genuine broad smiles that set Law's emotions racing once more.

He threw on his clothes before running out of the door, leaving Law to his own thoughts. 

A short while later, Law came back onto the deck to find Luffy laughing his head off at the performance happening on deck.

The girls had already fallen asleep from too much partying, their faces showing signs of content along with their blushed faces. The rest of the Straw Hats were asleep too, save for Sanji and Zoro who were at each other's throats.

Law sat down with his back to the railing, burying his face in the feathers of his coat.

"I told you not to challenge me, you stupid moss head!" Sanji said, his words stumbling over each other as his tongue refused to listen to his brain. 

"You actually think you have a chance against me, you shitty cook?" Zoro slurred in response. "You couldn't hope to beat me!"

"Yeah?! Well we'll see about that..." Sanji's sentence trailed off as his hands fell to his sides and he fell to the floor, fast asleep.

"Well, well, well! Who's the weak one now, Mr Swirly Brows?" Zoro laughed, but he soon followed suit, collapsing on top of Sanji.

"They never get old!" Luffy laughed.

Law closed his eyes, feeling drowsy and wanting nothing more than to fall asleep.

A sudden thump in his lap sent his eyes snapping open as he glanced downwards. Luffy lay there, smiling up at him.

"Straw Hatter, what are you-"

"Shh!" Luffy silenced, raising his finger to Law's lips. 

His eyes were half-closed and his smile was sleepy. 

"We sleep now..."

Luffy fell asleep almost instantly, his finger that had been poised upon Law's lips slowly slipping down to rest on his chest.

Law moved slowly, taking Luffy's hand into his own and tracing the lines in his palm with his index finger, smiling slightly when Luffy flinched subconsciously to the ticklish sensation. 

He removed Luffy's hat and began to stroke his black locks, running them through his fingers and feeling each and every strand.

Before he realised, Law was bending down, reliving the sensation he had felt back in the wash room. He lay his head upon Luffy's, still continually stroking his hair. He stayed there for a while, feeling Luffy's slow breathing dance across his face. He withdrew his hand from Luffy's hair and traced the bridge of his nose, over the tip and down over his lips. Luffy's lower lip bounced ever so slightly as Law dragged his finger over it.

He was closer to Luffy's mouth than he had been before and in the heat of the moment, he placed his lips upon Luffy's. 

It was a simple kiss, but to Law it was everything. Withdrawing, he made to place his head back upon Luffy's head, but he found Luffy awake and looking right at him.

"Straw Hatter!! I-"

Luffy silenced him once more, not with a finger, but  a passionate collision of lips.

Law was stunned at first, but found his instincts taking over. 

Inexperienced though they both were, their kiss became more passionate. Law's tongue brushed Luffy's and he couldn't help but smile into the kiss whenever Luffy accidentally bit his lip in the moment. His hands were back in Luffy's hair as he pulled Luffy further into him, wanting nothing more than the two to merge into one being to be together forever. 

When they finally withdrew from one another, Luffy couldn't stop smiling and for once, neither could Law. The light from the moonlight and the sounds of the breathing from the surrounding forces of life enveloped them like a shroud as they stared lovingly at one another.

"You're an idiot," Law murmured as Luffy lay his head back on his lap.

Luffy responded with a smile before he fell back into the depths of sleep, Law sending him off with one final forehead kiss and a nose boop.

***

The rays of morning shone down onto the deck of the Thousand Sunny as Law came back into reality. He groaned slightly, his head throbbing from the previous nights antics. He placed his head in his hand and scrunched up his eyes.

Everyone else was still asleep and so Law was allowed a moment of recovery before the inevitable shouting and thundering footsteps began.

He found his hand being taken away from his face by another gentle hand. 

Luffy.

He smiled up at him from where he still lay in his lap, eyes still half-closed from having just woken up. Sitting up, he planted a kiss on Law's lips, one not as passionate as the night had allowed, but one with just as much love behind it.

Maybe this hangover recovery wouldn't be as bad as Law had anticipated.