Autumn Island:Fall Equinox Challenge(MikixLaw)

This is an OC short story. I own my OC Miki. I do not own One Piece. This is some Law x Miki fluff (if it can be called that) Maybe I'll see if I can get away with a Miki x Ace one next time.

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    Leaves spiral down with a flurry of red, orange, brown, yellow, and golden hues. There's a defined crisp edge to the air and a noticeable chill to the breeze indicating the presence of an autumn island. Today the skies are murky with greyish clouds, but not a drop of rain seems willing to fall, yet. Many trails cut through the thick vegetation of the island, a dense and colorful forest covering a majority of the island.

"Oi Law!" a voice shouts out.

A tall man, the only person who had been on walking through the leaf covered paths, looks up just in time for a smaller body to collide with him. He lets out a grunt as he is flung back, landing hard on the ground. The collision of his back-to-forest-floor sends a cloud of dirt into the air.

"Aheaheahea!" a voice cuts through the air, laughing with a bubbly brightness only two people he knows can pull off, and this voice has a clear feminine tone.

Law forces his eyes open. He lazily glares at the female on top of him. Arms release his torso. This isn't exactly the first time he's been knocked over from a tackle-like hug. With said female how much force is put into the "hug"  is way more than what a normal hug should have. The young woman pushes her upper half off of him completely and sits back on his stomach without a care.

"Hey Law!" the female chirps. A wide grin splits across her face. An almost loving and fond gleam comes off of it.

Her eyes open, having been closed when she was smiling at him. He catches the flash that goes through her eyes before the woman's mood does a 180.

"Oi! Did you get lost or something! I've been looking for you and Ace for hours!" the female rants childishly. She lets out a huff, her scarred cheek puffing out at the pout she most definitely does not have (she is pouting). Arms cross in a grumpy manner. She stares stubbornly up at him with an annoyed, unwavering gaze.

Law lets out a heavy sigh. Headaches are common when he's near her younger brother and her.

"No, I did not get lost. You wandered off." he corrects.

Actually, he's been walking through the forest looking for her. He originally wanted to spend the day with her, this being a difficult thing to do with a certain freckle commander following her around like a lost, combustion prone puppy. Alone. Without said person who feels the need to steal Mikina away from him at every chance he gets. Sure, he does fail. Actually, he fails a lot, but who wouldn't with this particular stubborn female who will listen for the heck of it, and then deliberately go ahead and do what she wants. She actually wanted to be with him today. That is until-

"Oh yay! I saw this really cool animal thing with tiger stripes and scales. It was like a lizard mixed with a bear! It was so cool looking!" Miki, or Mikina if you go by her full first name, immediately beams. Her grin is back on her face like that- like it was there a second ago and not a small frown. The set look leaves her eyes leaving sparkling, currently starry eyed, orbs. Anyone else might have sweatdropped at the switch. Law isn't one to usually express his emotions so freely, and he is very, very familiar with the female's antics.

It doesn't do much for the headaches though.

Law closed his eyes. Another heavy sigh is repressed. A gust of winds blows by him. A finger pokes his cheek.

"Law~?" a voice whines quietly when he gives no reply. A dignified huff. "Are you mad?" she asks.

He peeks an eye open. Her eyes are staring at him questioningly and with confusion. Her eyebrows are knitted together with worry at his lack of response, or lack of a smart comeback for that matter. Her cheeks are slightly puffed out, an unintentional (and unintentionally cute) move. Before anything else can happen a strong wind catches both them off guard and makes her almost loose her balance and fall forward.

The fluffy, spotted white hat on her head, his old hat to be exact, abruptly slumps down over her eyes. Her arms fling out to the sides and flail momentarily at her sudden blindness. Her fingers clutch the rim of the hat and she pushes the old hat back up. Messy brown curls are pushes back under the brim of the hat before anything else. It's almost funny how she doesn't give a care about her hair, preferring to let it curl however, but only if she has all strands of hair off her face. Miki glares up at the hat with a silent "try that again" type of glare.

Law lets out a chuckle.

Her eyes look down at him. Purple eyes blink at him. She huffs before sitting back again, on his lap. Law pushes the rest of his upper body from the ground. "You really are something." Law mumbles more to himself than her. He lifts a hand to brush some of the wild brown curls behind her ear. Her hair is soft to the touch, despite it's unbrushed and messy appearance. His thumbs rubs along the scar marring her cheek.

The almost beautiful moment does not last.

Her stomach lets out a loud growl. Cue blinking. "Neh! Law, I'm want to get something to eat!'" the female exclaims flailing her arms at the new rush from her current dilemma.

"I'm so hungry." she grumbles against the fabric of his jacket, slumped forward against his in a lifeless manner. She rests her cheek against his chest, turning her head lazily. A depressed expression crosses her face as she stares off at a tree.  

"Come on." he sighs reluctantly after a minute.

The female springs up to her feet. Her mood lifts like that. "YUSH! Food!!" she hollers gleefully, arms shooting up in the air in a cheer. 

Miki locks eyes with Law. One of those wide beaming, not to mention dimpled, grins spreads across her face. Her hand grasps his, and before he knows it she starts dragging him in a direction he can only assume leads back to town.

"C'mon! I think there was a ramen place by the one store place!" she laughs. She pays no attention to the fact she's leading him off the path, in a literal straight line in the direction of the town.

Was she really lost earlier? To her she was wandering for the fun off it- not exactly getting lost on purpose, but there was no way she was actually keeping track of where she was going. It's not like she couldn't figure out where she is if she really wanted to. She has her haki and the trees are tall enough that you can climb them to look out at the rest of the island. It's way more fun to just go where the wind, or cool looking animals, take you. Danger does equal adventure. Adventure is fun. This is Miki logic. Not very logical in the long run, but effective when needed.

The female jabbers on about food/town related gibberish that Law half listens to. He looses himself in thought as he studies her grinning face. Her hand move around in gestures that half match what she's talking about. The grin is ever present on her face, and he's one of the reasons she's smiling right now. That thought alone can make a warmth spread through his chest. Will he admit this aloud. Never.

A sly smirk crosses his lips as a funny thought passes through his head.  

'Fire Fist-ya isn't going to be happy about having his body switched with Mugiwara-ya's.'