Red Roulette

Ace yawned and rolled over in his sheets, trying to ignore the sounds around him. He felt a weight on top of him and growled slightly. The sounds grew louder and were getting really annoying.
"Ace! Ace! Ace! Oii~ wake up already!" His younger brother whined from the other side of the sheets and started beating him with a pillow.
"Shut up and let me sleep Luffy." Ace muttered into his pillow. He hadn't been able to go to bed until late at night because the damn thirteen year old brother of his had dissapeared so he had to look through the entire forest just to find him sleeping in a birds nest.

"ACE! WAKE UP!" A hard punch hit Ace in the back of his head and all the sleepyness dissapeared at once.
"Luffy you little...!" Ace yelled, sat up and gripped the collar of Luffy's t-shirt. The kid smiled a wide luffy-smile.
"Finally! Nee Ace, let's go to the beach today!" Luffy said with excitement in his eyes.
"Hah? The beach? Why?" Ace asked.
"I want to! Come on, it'll be fun!" Luffy stated. Ace slightly facepalmed and gave off a slight sight.
"Fine." He got up and scratched his head. He put his shoes on and grabbed his newly acquired orange hat.

After yelling to Dadan they were leaving, they walked through the familiar forest towards the road heading down to Fuusha village. At first, Ace had though Luffy ment the beach by the Gray Terminal, since that was the lawless area they were used to.
But Luffy led the way down to his old hometown and then turned from it going along the beach. He happily ran in the sand while stating what a good idea it was to come here.
Ace looked around. It was a nice enviroment. The sun was shining and being reflected in the blue water, and the yellow sand was very soft under his feet so he took off his shoes.

"Oi, Ace!" Luffy yelled from futher down the beach. Ace turned his head and saw Luffy bending over a pile of some sort. The pile was half still in the water and the waves kept it from drying in the warm sunlight.
He walked closer, curious as to what his brother had discovered. When he arrived next to Luffy he stared in shock at the 'pile' in front of them.
"A person?" Ace said and bent down to take a closer look. He noticed the body was a female, and moved the flaming red hair covering her face. Her eyes where closed and her skin was too pale for it to possibly be healthy. He also noticed that her lips shimmered in blue, as if she had been in the cold for too long. She was very filthy.

"Ace, we gotta take her to a doctor." Luffy said looking up at his taller brother.
"Yeah." Ace agreed and carefully picked the girl up.
"Woah! That's gotta hurt." Luffy said with a pained expression and pointed at the girls left arm. Ace twitched when he saw the horrible wound. The arm was swollen and twice as thick as her right one. The skin was purple and blood soaked. It was horribly twisted and he could even see part of the bone coming out.
"No wonder she's unconsious... We better hurry up." Ace said and tried not to look at it again.

After half running half walking back to Fuusha, Makino greeted them as they walked past her bar.
"Luffy! Ace! What on earth happend to her? Are you two alright?" She asked with a worried look on her face.
"We don't know. Found her on the beach." Ace explained. Makino gave off a 'oh my' and then showed them the way to the doctors house.
"Oi Mister Doctor!" Luffy yelled instead of knocking and barged in the mans home. Makino sweatdropped but Ace just followed his brother inside since it was an emergenchy.

The doctor gave them a suprised look but didn't mention the rudeness after seeing the girl Ace was carrying. He hurried to get her into a bed with clean sheets and started exemine her while asking questions.
After not really getting to know anything exept for how she had been unconsious the whole time since they found her, the doctor stopped asking. Luffy sat down on a chair next to him.
"She gonna be alright, Doc?" He asked.
"Yes I belive so. Her arm is broken and needs to be taken care of but otherwise she's just exhausted and dehydrated." The doctor replied without looking up from his work as he with a loud snap forced the bone in her arm back to its proper place. Both Ace and Luffy twicted at the painfull sight and Makino closed her eyes.

Makino had to leave since she couldn't leave the bar unguarded for too long, leaving the three men alone with the patient. The doctor had Luffy and Ace help him clean her off while he finished his treatment on her arm with desinfective cream and bandages.
Once she was clean, the doctor left the room to make her something to eat when she woke up and the two brothers stayed, with a slightly awkward silence on their lips.

"How's that for a trip to the beach?" Ace muttered and Luffy chuckeled, but instantly stopped when a small groan was heard from the bed.
The red haired girl slowly opened her eyes, which were bright blue apperently. Ace couldn't help but to think she was kind of good looking now that she was all clean and you know... Not smelling like a dumptser.
She slowly sat up and blinked a couple of times. She then yawned loudly and looked at the two boys, who looked back.
"Yo!" She said simply.
"Yo!" Luffy responded. "Who are you?"
"I'm Anne. Who are you?" She replied and Ace sweatdropped slightly at how simple they both were acting.

"I'm Luffy! And this is my big brother, Ace." Luffy said and pointed with his thumb at Ace.
"Nice to meet you. By the way, where am I?" Before they could answer her the doctor came back into the room with a tray stacked with food.
"Already up are you?" He said and put the tray down next to her bed. Ace had to hit Luffy to make him not snatch and devour the whole thing.
"For me? Thanks I'm starving!" Anne squeeled and started eating the food she was given.
"I bet. What on earth happend to you young lady?"
"Hmm well..." She said between bites. "My ship sunk, basicly."
"Your ship?" Ace rasied an eyebrow.
"Yeah, I'm a pirate. Ran into some marines and got my ass kicked, ship sunk but I managed to escape by fake drowning. A storm came and well here I am." She shrugged her shoulders and finished the food.

"You're a pirate?" Luffy said, completely unable to hide his excitement to meet a real pirate, since it had been a while since last time.
"Yup." She smiled and offered him one of the cookies the doctor gave her for dessert.
"Young lady, what's your name again?" The doctor asked.
"Venom D Anne." She replied simply.
"Alright. I'll try to remember it. Either way missy. Pirate or not, you need to rest." The doctor said, and started shewing Ace and Luffy outside so she could have the room to herself.
"Oi Anne! We'll come visit you tomorrow so rest alot 'til then!" Luffy said waving at her before leaving.
"I will!" She replied smiling.

Ace woke up from a really weird dream he couldn't remember much of, just the fact that it was weird, and rubbed the sleepyness out of his eyes. He turned his head to where Luffy was in the futon next to his. Luffy was still asleep and from the look on his snoring face he seemed to be having a nice dream. Ace smirked. Sweet sweet revenge.
"WAKE UP!" He yelled and trew himself on his sleeping brother, wrestling him.
"What are you doing?" Luffy yelled before fighting back. The two tumbeled around for a minute before they both let go of eatchother, sitting on the floor laughing their loungs out.

After breakfast (breakfast meaning eating two oversized crocodiles along with fried giant bird eggs they found the night before) the two of them went to visit their new friend in Fuusha like Luffy had promised the day before. As they walked down the road, Luffy started singing.
"The islands in the south~ are warm~. Paina-puru, their heads get really hot..."
"Where the hell did you learn that weird song?" Ace interupted with a large sweat-drop on his head.
"Gee-chan thaught me!" Luffy said before continuing. "...And they're all idiots!"
"Geez." Ace smiled slightly, as many times before embracing the weirdness in his life.

They reached the village and this time knocked on the doctor's door. Then they barged in.
"Ah you're here!" Anne said greeting them. She was wearing brown short-short jeans and a oversized yellow t-shirt with a panda on the front.
"Hey Anne!" Ace said while keeping Luffy from walking into the doctors kitchen.
"Where's Mister Doctor?" Luffy asked after giving up trying to overpower the grip Ace had on his shirt.
"He went out a couple of hours ago, said something about a sick kid." Anne replied while putting her shoulder lenght red hair into two pigtails using her single funktioning hand.
"Wanna show me around the island? I really can't stand just sitting around like this for long." She said with a small sight and Ace nodded.

Luffy was the first to leave the house. Ace followed, but when Anne did the same she tripped in the stairs and fell towards the ground. She landed extremely ungracefully on her butt.
"Oow, stupid thing!" She complained and the two boys laughed at her.
"Shishishi that's so clumpsy!" Luffy laughed holding his stomac.
"Totally un-cool." Ace teased, and a small rock flew by his head.
"Shut up and help me get up!" Anne said, reaching out her good hand. Ace took it and pulled her to feet. He pulled a little to hard though, and she bumped into him so he had to catch her. He twitched as his heart skipped a beat at the touch. He couldn't help it, he really wasn't used to being around girls.
"T-thanks." She said, apperently as embarassed as him.
"No prob." He muttered before noticing Luffy had already started walking.
"Wait up you moron!" He yelled and ran after him.

After catching up Ace, Anne and Luffy walked around toghter talking and enjoying themselfes in general. Before they knew it, they had walked around almost the entire island and the sun was starting to set.
"Ah. I'm hungry!" Luffy complained.
"Should we go eat something?" Anne asked.
"Yeah sure. We can go to Makino's bar." Ace replied.
"Yay! Makino's food is the best!" Luffy shouted and bashed towards the village.
"O-oi! Don't just run off! Luffy!" Ace yelled after him. Anne laughed loudly.
"He's so funny!" She said wiping a small tear from her eye.
"Yeah, that's why he worries me." Ace said but smiled, and the two of them followed Luffy in a far calmer manner then him.

Makino gave them a warm wellcome as they got inside, and they both saw Luffy was already there. He was sitting at the counter eating tons of meat like a boss. Other then him, there was only a couple of men in the back guesting the bar.
"Wellcome you two! I take it you're feeling better then yesterday young lady-san?" Makino said smiling while polishing a glass.
"Yes, thank you. You must be Makino-san?" Anne said politely.
"Why yes." She said and put the glass down. "Ace, don't be shy. Come and sit down you two! What would you like? It's on the house."
"Just give me anything with meat in it." Ace said and sat down next to Luffy.
"You're starting to sound like Luffy." Anne teased. Makino chuckeled and gave the two of them eatch a plate with fried chicken and rice. Accually, she gave Ace three plates.

"Ah! Aschwe! Ahn! Yoh fwhinalie cahmmne!" Luffy said with his cheeks pouting inhumanly far out due to all the food inside of them.
"Luffy you moron, you react to slow." Ace scolded him. Anne stared with facination at Luffy and poked his cheek.
"Man, how do you do that?" She asked and pinched the cheek. Luffy swallowed all of the food at once and answered.
"I ate the gomu-gomu fruit, so I'm a rubber man that stretches." He said and once again stuffed his mouth full with food.
"Oh a devils' fruit? I ate one too!" Anne smiled and pulled his cheek again. "But yours seems way more fun then mine."
"Really? You ate a devils' fruit? Which one?" Ace asked.
"Mizu-mizu." She said and let go of Luffy's cheek.
"But if you ate a devils' fruit, wouldn't you have drowned when your ship sank?" Ace raised an eyebrow.
"Well mine is special... I'm a water human right?"
"Oh I get it, water won't be weakened by water right?" Makino said, leaning over the bar.
"Nope, but temperatures will... I remeber spending a week as a cloud after falling asleep on deck. Without me noticing, the sunshine got me too warm and turned me to steam." She shrugged with a pained look on her face. "Ended up raining down in the middle of a village and got stuck in a barrel they put out to collect the rain."
Ace stared at her for a second, then couldn't stop the laugher from brusting out of his mouth.

Hope you enjoyed the first chapter! This is my first time making an OC, and I'm terrifyed she'll become a Mary Sue if I'm not carefull... and if that happens I'll hate both her and myself for it. =w=' Do tell me what you think and if I need to change something, or if you have any other tips. ^^

Quick list of the japanese words I used just in case anyone was wondering or confused over any of them:
Fuusha = Windmill (Name of Luffy's hometown from chapter 1)
Gomu = Rubber
Mizu = Water