deathsdoctor | 022 [Action] Backdated to the 6th

[Happy Birthday, Trafalgar Law. You’ve managed to survive to the ripe old age of twenty seven.

The thought is sardonic in the morning as he shaves and prepares for the day. There’s a couple of silvery blue-gray hairs present in the mirror this morning; easily covered by the hat he always wears. Honestly he never thought he’d live long enough to see them and the emotions are mixed. Law doesn’t allow himself to dwell on them… his fiance’s waiting for his turn. He wonders if he’s in for a surprise later, and that sparks some anticipation in him, though it quickly dulls after the bright, initial flare.

The face that stares back from the mirror as he cleans out all his whiskers in the sink is quiet and subdued. Well… after everything… he supposes that’s normal. Even if it’s now been remarked on many times that he barely smiles these days and Itachi nets most of those. It’s normal. It’s to be expected.

It’s what it is.

The pirate has business to attend to. He looks for Raine Sage to inform her of the information found during the mission that didn’t come up on the locked network. If he can’t find her, Albert will do just as well. Katara he looks for specifically to tell her in person that he’s getting married. Not to mention he wants to just spend time around family for a while. Other people are not avoided, but not precisely sought.

He does keep an eye out for Luke and Marco though. As well as Sasuke. Gai. Nagato. Konan. Various different reasons there, but he wouldn’t mind talking to them.

However the day goes, the close will find him waiting for Itachi silently on their couch. He’s holding a beach ball sized Room, and there’s a sense his Haki’s active. Not terribly out of the ordinary except for the leaf stuck to his forehead and a slow smile, perhaps the first of the day. Success in balancing the three arts finally.

It’s not much, but it’s something. He’ll take it.]

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[While having Law continue to do those in the middle of foreplay might have been a good test, the ninja isn't really interested in seeing it. And besides, that leaf would probably ruin the mood. He shakes his head.]

Drop it.

[He's done very well, anyway.

The clone vanishes, and Itachi starts walking toward the stairs. He hasn't forgotten about the pirate's birthday, and he still means to show him that.]

Dropped.

[Said as the Room shatters, his arms turn to their normal colour, and the leaf flutters to the floor. Law follows, a curious and intrigued expression on his face.

Now what does his partner have in mind?

He just can't wait to find out.]

[He'll just have to be a little patient.

Itachi says nothing else as he heads up the stairs, and there's nothing along the way (or even in the room once they arrive) that's out of the ordinary. He might very well just be offering nothing more than the obvious.]

[Patient he can do.

As it is, he peers around as they go upstairs and into their room. Nope, nope, nope. Which means the present is hidden is some manner (out of sight, under genjutsu...) or the act itself is the present. Which he's perfectly content with. This could go all sorts of places, and his imagination is happily throwing out possibilities.]

Well, I'm up here now. [Law smiles winsomely as he steps forward, looking to wrap his arms around Itachi and run his fingers through his fiance's hair a little.] You had something in mind?

[Then he leans forward to brush his lips against the shell of Itachi's ear.]

[There's a tapping at the window. A single crow sits on the sill. It taps again with its beak. Itachi has left it open enough that, as more birds begin to make an appearance, the sheer amount of them are able to lift it enough to allow a few inside. They seem to be carrying something between them.

Itachi doesn't move from where he's standing as the crows deposit a dark silk house robe on the bed. It's nothing Law doesn't already have, save that it has his pirate logo embroidered in gold on the back of it and the outline of several crows around the base and cuffs.

As soon as they've arrived, the birds depart. He can shut the window when he gets around to it.]

...Perhaps.

[What's that tapping?

A crow?

... a whole lot of crows. Law watches stunned at first, then as it dawns on him what's going on, his face lights up as it hasn't since the night of their engagement.

Pulling out all the stops, huh? He owes Itachi's flock a good feeding, even though they aren't Itachi's. They tend to hang around the house anyway.

And Itachi. He owes the ninja some special thanks. He obviously went through some trouble to set this up. Make it special.

Going to pull the man closer now.]

The perfect thing in mind. [He needed that, he thinks. ... after everything.] Thank you.

Mm. It's hard to come up with ideas here sometimes.

[But he'd done his best. He leans into his fiance's grip, having finished this particular performance.]

Yeah. [Neither were natural romantics after all.] But this was a great one.

Do you want to see it on me?

[There's a hint of suggestiveness as he winds a lock of hair around a finger. Because it'd be best modelled if the robe was the only article of clothing on him.]

It would be nice to see if the size specifications were correct, yes.

[He knows they are. This isn't the first time he's gotten clothing for Law, after all. But it's as good of an excuse as any.

Not that he really needs one.]

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