As the next island became more defined, Law sighed at the familiar sight of a certain wreck of a pirate ship- messy, disorganized, and clearly coming back from the break of disaster, of course that man who owned that damned ship was still alive dispite having his arm completely ripped off not too long ago, and though the captain did regret not being the one to do it, he did like the fact that at least someone put that cocky brute in his place, even for just a moment in battle.

A moment of humiliation.

That single thought made him smirk even though he knew they'd eventually meet up once again on these seas, and inevitably start fight number eighty six, a fight that he was determined to win this time for sure.

As the sleek, yellow submarine lazily moved through the light blue hues and tropical greens of the salty ocean waves, Law already caught sight of a couple dozen of citizens giving rise to panic- preparing for an evacuation at the sight of his ship, the rumor that Law and Kidd both destroyed an entire group of islands in one of their little devastating scraps spread far and wide in the new world, and many believed it.

Yonko would often purposely cause one of them to change their course if the other was already on one of their islands, marines would immediately give up chase and abandon their assigned posts whenever the two of them were together, it became some sort of rule to keep them apart, and if that wasn't possible, run away.

But the gentle rays of sunshine that felt amazing paired with the soft eastern breeze suddenly made him feel like looking back in time- what was the word called again? Nostalgia?- as the crew finally started to pour out of their rooms, he couldn't help but compare their actions to back when they started their adventure of the new world by going to...that archipelago.

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Law looked up at the auction house in absolute boredom, how in god's name was he supposed to entertain himself with nothing to work with? All of the so called 'supernovas' that he's met so far were mere jokes, and not humorous ones at that.

Especially since the one and only rival he actually wanted to meet wasn't even sighted by any of the others, there was one pink haired bitch yapping away about the kid's lunatic first mate- albeit an interesting story, but he wasn't the captain he was looking forward to see, I mean, how could someone so supposedly flashy and outgoing not be seen by anyone whatsoever!?

Though he gave up trying to meet him after the fourth hour of searching, he was still pretty pissed at his unusual lack of success, he didn't like to fail, so his motley crew suggested that maybe watching other people being absolutely miserable would cheer him up and make him feel better, wow, they knew him pretty damn well, he'd better work on that.

The raven sighed and scrunched his nose at the sight of all the filthy pigs that called themselves nobles flooding the greasy insides of the room, and chose the farthest seats away from the lowly creatures, they were like peacocks to him, highly praised and high class, but still just a stupid, oversized, squawking pigeon.

As the auction went underway Law heard the doors open up but merely ignored the intruders until a light whisper caught his attention, "I've heard rumors about him, and they weren't pleasant"

The fuck? Was that directed at him?

That made Law turn around and face the annoying fucker, and boy was he not expecting to see one madly grinning Eustass 'Captain' Kidd, but that only made his sarcastic smirk grow even wider, was the 'oh so powerful' Kidd possibly intimidated by him? The thought amused him to no end- considering their differences in bounties, and made him playfully show the bastard his perky middle finger to show him how much he actually thought of the guy and his pathetic ass crew.

"..His manners aren't too good either" that only amused Law more and made his smirk more prominent, this Eustass Kidd was much fun to mess with, but there was something else that Law felt for him underneath his calm demeanor.

A strangely passionate hate, Law could just tell by looking at that sorry bastard that he was nothing but a smug asshole using his muscles and brute strength to get where he wanted to be in life, in control, and Law hated smug people like him, thinking that they could overpower his never before seen wits with such a simple thing like brawn and pure might of will.

But this was new to him, never has he felt so passionate and emotional about something, and that something being a someone as well, Law never let his emotions grow so powerful, he just hoped that his newly found hate wouldn't get out of hand, maybe the bastard wasn't as much of an asshole as he thought.

What Law didn't know though, was that very similar thoughts were buzzing in the redhead's mind as well, he had to admit, the surgeon had well enough guts to actually flip him off and then pretend it never happened- zero fucks given, such audacity was very rarely shown to him with how intimidating and terrifying others thought he was, but that little bitch actually didn't even bat an eyelash at the sight of him, that alone earned his respect to acknowledge him as a captain of equal standing, but it also pissed the hell out of him that such a person existed.

He was supposed to be superior to them all, he was supposed to be the most powerful pirate to ever rock the grandline, he couldn't have any equals if he wanted to be the best, but he immediately knew that this man was different from others, and that greatly unnerved him, just the way the north blue captain sat in his seat like it was some god damn throne made him feel like he was in the presence of a powerful force far greater than his own, and that angered him greatly.

He had to show this guy up, Kidd will never be the same unless he proved to the world, and to himself, that he was far greater than Trafalgar Law, and he could see it in the other's eyes, that he thought the same way, they both couldn't lose to the other.

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Well at least Law finally got to meet the so called crazy captain he oh so wanted to observe- and maybe get the opportunity to dissect, and all the rumors were right, he was batshit insane, quite interesting.

Who in the name of all that was holy, would punch a celestial dragon out in broad daylight with a ginormous crowd gawking at the scene? Oh, that's right, one Monkey D. Luffy, that's who.

Alhough the raven had to admit it, in a way he kind of asked for this, but if he knew that the teen was planning on pulling off one of his infamous crazy schemes at the sabaody archipelago with the marines just next door, then he would have at least thought twice.

Though strangely, while the curious 'rubberman' was literally marching side by side with him to go kick some bothersome marine ass, he had most of his attention on the flamboyant berserker on his left, which in a way one might consider ironic.

How dare that sorry bastard try and boss him around like another one of his deranged underlings!? Trafalgar Law took orders from no one except for himself! Corazon long ago made sure of that, and stranger yet, the thought of his beloved dork didn't depress him, maybe it was because of all the hate and adrenaline currently pumping through his veins, kept his eyes on the prize, and the prize was getting the hell outta there alive while showing that bastard who truely ruled.

When the maniac suddenly gave him some deranged grin from over his shoulder, Law could have sworn the bastard read his thoughts, biting his cheek in- embarrassment? Law swiftly turned away, feeling confusion swell up inside of his body now noticing the burning of his cheeks, only to have his ears flooded with the sound of mocking laughter.

Fuck him.

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What in the actual hell? A shichibukai!? At the fucking archipelago!? And not to mention it was that freaking government dog Kuma to top it off! Oh how Kidd hated these fuckers.

He blamed this all on that damned gutsy Strawhat.

But things weren't going exactly as planned, with his leg all gushing out, blood loss was making it harder for him to concentrate on using his devil fruit and actually staying conscious, he was starting to begin thinking that this might not end well, and then things took a turn for the absolute worst, Trafalgar fucking Law showed up outta nowhere and saved his ass from getting blasted into oblivion, oh come on! Not only was it one of his other rivals to come to his rescue, but it had to be the guy he just set himself to defeat.

This. was. humiliating.

Just as the not-actually-a-shichibukai collapsed onto the ground, the raven then had the fricken audacity to actually offer him a free treatment, fuck that shit! Who did he think he was!? Some useless shit!?

But then Kidd was suprised once again when he found out he had no choice in the matter, since the guy went to such great lengths as to chaining him down to the ground, again, so humiliating.

How did the other man even get him to submit like that again? Oh yeah, by giving him a lightning fast sucker punch that even Killer couldn't see, and then suddenly use that weird devil fruit to make those chains appear and bind him, how could he forget!?

Trafalgar took a hidden glance at his eyes, smirking down at him with some arrogant shine, damn how he hated that smile.

That was the exact moment when he decided that he absolutely despised Trafalgar fucking Law, and would stop at nothing to punch his smug little face in.

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Law relished in his happy thoughts a little longer before finally realizing that he closed his eyes during his little trip down memory lane, peeking one open to know his current surroundings, was he not suprised to see Kidd's entire crew awaiting their arrival at the docks, nearly armed to the teeth in anticipation.

Although their feelings of hate at first sight blossomed into a deep rivalry by now, Law's passion for the other man still never died down, maybe it was permanent, but the surgeon didn't like letting that get to him, and he focused himself back to Eustass and his small army.

Looks like another island's about to be wiped off the face of the new world, too bad, Law was actually looking forward to relaxing this time around.