Well this first started out as a random roleplay with xDreamingHeartx, with lots of plot holes and well, just generally random roleplaying. But things were mentioned, and story seemed to build up well, and as we found interesting reasons for things happening, I decided this needs to be a fanfic so you can read it too! :'D
Pairings: Ace/Luffy, One-sided Marco/Ace, Zoro/Sanji
Including: Swearing, Mentions of rape, Almost rape, Mature content, OOCness...
but only swearing for this chapter. c:
- Rating will change in later chapters.
"Luffy?! Snap out of it." Nami yelled in annoyance, flicking Luffy's forehead in attempt to let him come back to earth. He had been spacing out for a few minutes now and it was annoying Nami quite a lot. There was several rules that followed with Luffy, and spacing out was not one of them. "It's lunch break, yet you're not even eating. This isn't like you. What got you so out of it today?" She asked in wonder. Luffy didn't seem like reacting in the slightest. "Hellooo?" She tried to wave in front of his face.
"Huh? W-what?" Luffy snapped out of his daze, looking at his friend questioningly. "I'm just not in the mood, Nami..." He muttered, sighing. "I don't feel like eating... and don't flick my head!"
In fact there was a reason for Luffy's sudden distantness. Lately he couldn't seem to get a certain student out of his head. The boy is question, Ace. Yes, it was a boy. And exactly there laid his current problem. There were several reasons he hadn't just waltzed over to this guy and confessed. First, yes of course, he just had to be of the same gender, and who in this world approved of such nonsense? Not the popular kids of the school, that was for sure and that was exactly what Ace was. Luffy was nothing in status compared to Ace. Luffy was like a peasant, falling hopelessly in love with a prince. It didn't work out at all and since because of Ace's popularity, and not to mention looks, all the girls was fawning over him, but he never looked as though he paid attention to them. Luffy didn't want to end up like that; he had enough people bullying him at school already for no apparent reason. No, thanks and to top it all, his friends, absolutely hated the popular kids. So even if he did love him back, would they ever approve? It would be like kind of Romeo and Juliet for them wouldn't it?
No, it simply wouldn't work out and that's why Luffy had no choice but to admire him from a distance.
"You don't … feel like EATING?! Luffy what's wrong with you?!" Nami shrieked in surprise. This was surely taboo.
Luffy shrugged and sighed. "Yeah, sorry." He excused himself, laughing nervously. "Guess I'm ill or something..." he mumbled, stealing some glances at Ace only a table away from where he was currently located. He was sitting with the other, popular teenagers of the school. Suddenly he noticed Ace throwing some of his food onto his pineapple of a friend's face (He couldn't help but find it really similar), giggling childishly.
He... Is … Luffy began to think, but was interrupted by his small friend, Chopper. He looked strangely similar to a raccoon, his clothes was almost identical to one. Yet he always kept denying that fact with that he was trying to look like a reindeer, and no one, believe me, no one was to deny this fact once they knew.
Chopper's eyes sparked up. "Does that mean I can have your dessert?"
Nami pressed her palm against Luffy's forehead, checking if he had a fever. "You don't seem very..." She tried to look for the right word, but failed to and rebuilt her sentence. "Did something happen? You're not even looking at me when I'm talking." She was frowning; Luffy noticed that easily now that he looked at her fully for the first time that day.
"Yay!" Chopper cheered in the background as no one cared to reply, digging in happily on his new piece of chocolate pudding.
"Um... ahah, maybe I'm tired. Sorry, Nami." Luffy sighed. Looking down into his plate of food, which was normally empty at this time of the day. Zoro sat down next to Chopper, taking notice to Luffy's flaw in his eating habits. "Hey guys." he said in a bored tone, not seeming to care so much, but asking anyway. "Why isn't Luffy eating today?" All of the Straw hats shrugged in unison. If only they'd knew. Luffy sighed for the umpteenth time that day. "Just cause I'm not eating today doesn't mean-"
"You stop that, Brat!" Marco raged at Ace on the table nearby. Ace laughed, jumping up from his chair and fleeing to the closest 'safe' Marco-free place.
"Ugh, get off." Nami grumbled, as Ace had chosen the spot in between her and Luffy. "Hey!" Luffy snapped, and hesitated for a moment, wondering if he really should be saying that. "...Go away!" he yelled to Ace, trying to act as if though he despised this person deeply, which he definitely did not.
"Sorry, just for a little bit? That last throw seemed to get that pineapple over there really pissed." Ace said. He pointed to Marco, who was swiftly approaching them. Nami rolled her eyes in annoyance, why did these popular idiots always act like this? Like they owned the place?
Zoro seemed to just peacefully eat his food, not minding anyone as the events was played out.
"Ace! Get back here so I can smash your skull in!" The tropical fruit head yelled to his 'friend'.
"No, thanks! Don't you see? I got a new buddy." He flung his arm around Luffy's shoulders, like they were the best of buddies. Marco sighed and headed back to his table. Seeming to despise the contact of Ace and Luffy deeply.
"H-hey..." Luffy could feel the blush slowly creeping onto his face. This idiot is so close to me … it feels weird. He thought. "w-would y-" he was going to tell him to get off of him before things got too weird for his liking, but Nami got to it first.
"Don't touch Luffy. You're disgusting!" Nami spat, using her dinner knife to stab the table right where Ace's hand were as a warning if he didn't comply. Ace retracting his hand quickly in shock. He let go of Luffy, thinking something along the lines of 'what a crazy woman', obvious from his expression. He got up from his seat and bowed politely. "That fruit just has a serious temper sometimes, thanks for letting me stay. Very sorry for interrupting your lunch." he said and walked off, to the group's surprise. Was he making fun of them? It was obvious that everyone was thinking the same by the looks they gave each other.
Zoro got up to leave, sighing at this bothersome event. "I will you see you guys in maths." he turned to leave to class, just to escape Nami's new found gloomy mood...
"Wait..." Chopper looked up from his dessert. "Don't we have English with him now?" he tilted his head in confusion.
"Oh god, that idiot." Nami face palmed. Luffy laughed in return." Well, I have art class. See ya." Nami said, waving to the group. She smiled at Luffy: "Cheer up." and then she took off after the group exchanged their good byes for now. Luffy and Chopper decided to head for their English classes.
As they entered Luffy noticed Ace sitting down by the window, currently staring outside the window, seeming to be deep in thought. Luffy couldn't help but wonder what he must be thinking of. Hopefully it was nothing bad? But his biggest fear was that it would be probably a girlfriend. With that thought, he couldn't help but frown slightly as he sat down.
Ace was 3 years older than him, his last year at the school. This meant, if Luffy wanted to get involved in his life, he had to do it now. And that thought both troubled and stressed him greatly. They shared English classes together despite the age and class difference. It was decided that a month of each year was set off to prepare for the upcoming school festival, and then the classes were to be merged so that everyone could join the show, the highlight of the festival. This year they were supposed to have a play. For which, Luffy had no clue what play exactly. That's all the info they got by now.
"Yo Usopp!" Luffy smiled, sitting down beside his friend followed by Chopper: "Hiii!"
Usopp greeted them back, pushing aside his books and other things aside so that they could sit.
Ace looked over to them, wondering what was the sudden outburst of happy greetings in the quiet classroom, before turning attention to Hancock, their teacher for this subject. She was writing "Romeo & Juliet" on the whiteboard. This could only mean, the play was definitely that.
Luffy frowned at the sigh. "Ugh... Romeo and Juliet..." Some pansy love story, why can't we do a play about food?
Usopp beamed in happiness, getting up from his chair. "I love that play!" he burst out. He sat down again awkwardly upon hearing Luffy's complains, trying desperately to pretend nothing of that just happened. "Oh uh, geez, I don't know." he managed to utter. Ace snickered.
"Ahah, you weirdo!" Luffy laughed, to Usopp's dismay. "n-no... I..." and so he was left to dry as everyone else drowned in Hancock's speeches. "Sit down class!" She said rather scarily, before turning to 'her' Luffy with a sweet smile and a high pitched voice just as though she was talking to a cute puppy. "Oh, and it's nice to have you here, Luffy~"
Apparently, for some strange reason. Hancock had taken a great liking to Luffy of all people. The hottest chick, who looked like she was one of the students (If it wasn't for her height) took a liking to one of the most unpopular guys you could find at the school. And about all the guys at school was jealous of this, trying desperately to find out the reason why she was adoring him so much. Because of her looks she also had a great deal of power, unlike the other teachers, her class was considerably quiet. All she had to do was smile, do some ridiculous pose and the whole class would shut it. Yes, even the girls fell for her. All this, and yet Luffy didn't notice Hancock's affections.
He was glad Ace was one of the few people who didn't seem to care for Hancock's looks. It kind of gave him hope.
"Ok, listen up! I'll make this quick and I'm not saying it again!" Hancock yelled angrily, pointing at the whiteboard. "We're going to do my favourite play: Romeo and Juliet!" then she suddenly started giggling, mumbling Luffy's name as she squealed, and obviously being in some kind of absurd daydream about him. "So we'll draw lots of who gets to have the main roles!" she said, suddenly getting back to 'normal'.
She had written down the students' names on each note and put them in a bowl earlier that day, so whoever who got their name drawn, was supposed to be the main characters of the play. She of course went to her favourite student to let him pick. "Nooow Luffyyyy, would you like to try and see with me who will play Juliet?" She said happily, excited to see who Luffy would be picking. She was hoping it was her that was no doubt. Someone honestly forgot to tell her teachers' wasn't allowed in the play, well who would stop her anyway. The bowl was probably filled with countless of notes with her and Luffy's names.
"Yeah sure, miss Hammock!" The class sweatdropped at Luffy's stupid reply. Hammock was certainly, and never would be, her name. He opened the note, not caring much of who it was going to be before he noticed whose name it was. "I'm … Juliet." he said in defeat, hanging his head before hitting his head onto the table from embarrassment. He was a guy, not a princess or whatever the fuck it was!
He could hear several classmates of his, laugh over his dismay. A boy playing as Juliet? That was certainly something new.
"Whaa?!" Hancock shrieked in surprise, not expecting such a turn of things. "I specifically put you to be Romeo..." she mumbled to herself, although it was quite clear what she was saying to others around her. She sighed heavily. There was no helping it then.
"Now you try." She said, handing the bowl of names to the person sitting beside Luffy, Usopp.
"H-huh me?" Certainly Usopp wasn't expecting Hancock to actually talk to her, she never talked to anyone else but Luffy, with the exception if she wanted something from someone really badly.
"Yes YOU." She snarled, not bothering to be nice to her student. She didn't see why she should, he was ugly as hell and nothing compared to her Luffy. "Okay..." Usopp nodded in shock, drawing a note from the bowl and unfolding it to look whose name was written there. "Uhh, Ace? Is what it says."
Hancock blinked, not seeming to catch it. "My sweet Luffy is going to be with-" she didn't finish the sentence before she lied sprawled out on the floor, fainting from the shock of not getting to be with the love of her life.
Luffy looked up in surprise. Ace? Did he just hear right? He was going to play Romeo and Juliet with Ace?
He could see Ace staring at him for the first time ever from the corner of his eye; probably just curious to who he was going to do the play with. Whatever it was, it felt awkward. And he did enjoy the sudden attention from his secret crush, but he was rather scared what he must be thinking of him. He was probably judging his every move in that moment.
"Well, then I expect you two to practice well." Hancock said, having to get up from her earlier meeting with the floor. She did not seem amused in the slightest, and was glaring daggers at Ace. She handed them both their scripts for the play as the bell rang, dismissing the class for the day.
Everyone started packing their stuff, getting up from their spots and heading home. Luffy proceeded to do the same thing before Hancock stopped him in his tracks, having started yelling to his new partner. "AND YOU." she yelled. "be nice to Luffy or else!"
Ace didn't seem to pay much attention to her, taking his bag and turning to leave casually. "Sure sure."
"BE. NICE. TO. LUFFY!" She yelled, kicking his desk down much to people in the room's surprise. Ace sweatdropped. Control your temper, he thought. Geez, was that woman weird.
Luffy wasn't sure what to say, he was partly glad that he was doing the play with Ace, and not that Ace was doing it with someone else. But, this would only add fuel to the fire as his love would probably blossom even more, and that's exactly what he didn't want to happen. He had enough problems ignoring his feelings as it was.
"Ehh... anyway, bye miss Hammock!" He waved to their teacher, walking out of the class together with his friends.
"Good luck on being Juliet, Luffy." Usopp said, secretly disappointed he didn't get the role himself.
"Shut up Usopp! It's not like I want to play the girl." Luffy sighed. He really wasn't his usual self, was he?
"You're going to be okay? With h-him I mean?" Chopper was worried, seeing as Ace was not apart of their group, ranks or had anything in common with them, and nobody of them knew how Ace was except for what the rumours was telling them. Like for example how he had tons of fangirls at schools, and any girl would love to date him. It was also sure that he had slept with probably ever girl he'd met too.
And that's why both Usopp and Chopper gave him a judging stare as Ace approached them. They stepped aside, knowing exactly who he wanted to talk to.
"I need to go somewhere now, but 5 at my place to practice, sounds good?" He smiled.
"Ehm, yeah. Sure." Luffy blinked, and tried to smile. He was going to his place? That was … He wondered how his house was like. Hopefully it wasn't a shit hole filled with thrash. He really didn't expect much since his grades wasn't the best either. (Yes, he couldn't have helped but to notice when the teacher kept yelling "detention" in the halls as he left different classes.)
Nami, whom was just exiting her own classes, noticed how Ace was standing way too close to Luffy. She ran over to them both immediately, pulling her friend away from him. "What is it that you want now?" She asked, glaring at him.
"Hey Nami!" Luffy tried to appear cheerful. "Don't worry; we're working on a play... so Ace was just talking about that." She let go of him, nodding. "Alright then."
Said person didn't pay any attention to the girl between them, giving Luffy a note with his address. "Great." Waving to him as he walked off to do whatever business he had to do. The younger waved back rather shyly, before turning to his friends. "I'm hungry!" he whined. "Let's eat!"
"Oh, so no you're hungry, huh?!"
"Well, let's go to the café then!" She exclaimed rather happily, Luffy agreeing fully to the idea as he pulled at Nami's arm and dragged her along enthusiastically to the nearby café not far from the school yelling "Come on, I want meat!" repetitively. Usopp and Chopper followed closely after the pair, not minding the idea and not having any other plans to attend to.
At the café in some messed up way Luffy had finally, as once in a lifetime thing, gotten a free meal from none other than Nami herself. But she had made sure to reassure him that it was only one and the rest that he ate, which was probably the whole café if the limit of money didn't stop him, was to be paid himself. She wasn't exactly a big fan of wasting money, quite the opposite. Why she gave him a free lunch was hard to tell even from herself, but she felt it would be nice cheering her loveable idiot friend up a bit considering Luffy was never the one to bring out a frown.
"Hey Luffy." Chopper started, pulling at the sleeve of said person's shirt. "Can I look at your script? I just want to see how much you're going to do."
Luffy nodded after awhile, having been drowned in thoughts of nothing but meat, more meat and just how amazing this café's meat tasted. "Yef, sfer." He mumbled with his mouth full, handing his little friend the papers as he accepted it and began to look through it. Luffy going back to swallowing down every last piece that was left on his plate in one go, none of his friends paying much attention to it as it was what he always did, however the people around gave him weird glances, wondering where in the world he had learnt his manners. Luffy didn't pay much attention to it, he never really cared what others thought. Never noticed that people were staring at him for that matter.
"Are you sure you want to meet up with Ace later? Of all people he's pretty much the worst person you could have a play with. ... I mean what if he harms you or even rapes you?" Nami said doubtfully, rather worried about her friend considering she had no faith in the popular students of the school whatsoever.
"What? Nami, I don't think he is that kind of guy. Be realistic." He could feel a blush creeping onto his cheeks if it wasn't for that Chopper suddenly yelled in surprise: "You're going to do that?!" He gasped. "You're so brave!" His eyes turned to stars in admiration for his older friend, amazed at how Luffy could manage to pull such a thing off.
"I guess you're right. ...He doesn't seem like the type to do that, even for him." Nami continued, not paying attention to Chopper's sudden outburst.
"I can handle myself, Nami~" Honestly, she was being too doubtful of him. He wasn't weak just because he wasn't born with a muscular body, like a certain somebody— no. He shouldn't be even as much as close to the subject of dreaming about Ace. He shook his head as if it would shake the whole folder of thoughts away, clearing his mind from any topic on Ace, or any bits of depressing thoughts that would come with.
Luffy looked down to Chopper in confusion, wondering what was up now. "Do what? I haven't even read it yet." Unfortunately he hadn't gotten around to ever seen or read much about "Romeo & Juliet", the closest, and the reason he knew what genre it was at all, was because his dear friend Robin had showed him a few, for a boy not so indulged in sappy love stories, disturbing scenes. But by all means the teachers couldn't possibly be thinking of putting them at work to learn how to well, do it. Could they now?
And then Chopper shouted the least thing he wanted to hear right now: "Kissing!"
"ALOOOOT of kissing!" Chopper pointed at a specific part of the play indicating for his friend to look at the part that said so. The red head beside them choked on her water, coughing several times as she tried to clear her throat and voice her opinion about this matter.
"W-What?!" Luffy found himself stuttering in utmost horror. Kissing… Ace? That was terrible! Just simply horrid. No, Just no! He told himself repeatedly. He felt like he wanted to choke like his friend just did moments ago, and that seemed like a much better option now then being left as a blushing stuttering mess. He really couldn't find the words to say, and he was sure his friends probably started to wonder by now. It was just a kiss, and it was sure to be a typing mistake, either that or they could just clarify it with the teacher the next day, he shouldn't be panicking like this. But all in all, he really didn't want to do that either. If he could kiss Ace just once he'd sure he'd find himself in heaven.
Luffy shook his head, whining in desperation. He should get another serving of meat; all this much thinking was giving him a serious headache and fever. He should really see a doctor.
He laughed nervously, after his short mental fight with himself. "I'm not kissing that guy, no way!" He said, trying to sound as displeased and sickened as he could possibly ever pull off.
Usopp, the slowpoke of the group spat his food back out on his plate, much to the others' disgust. "W-what?" He stammered in awe. He had only realized now what the topic at hand was.
"Why not? You two would be cute. He's like... Your prince!" Their reindeer friend shouted gleefully, not understanding much of the consequences behind those words. He was the only one of the group not caring, or rather noticing, the huge gap of status between them and the group Ace belonged to was. He probably didn't even understand the meaning of status and neither did he understand the abnormality of being gay in this town. It wasn't completely uncommon to love a guy, but not all too regular either.
Luffy really wished someone would just hit Chopper with a baseball bat and knock him out at this moment, along with his other friends if possible too; he was just positive he was blushing again because of that statement. He looked down and noticed how very interesting the empty plate could be if you tried hard enough. He mumbled out a quiet protest to Chopper's statement about Ace, but no one seemed to catch it.
Nami did not appear to be dazzled by this idea in the least, and so much was expected. She despised those groups of people highly. Why you ask? Her mother had been shot and murdered a few years ago, and she and her older sister hadn't been particularly living the sweet life after this. Though of course a group of kids couldn't possibly pull off the difficult task of assassinating someone; they didn't in the least go out of their ways to make the traumatizing memories less painful for her.
Bullying someone only to get the attention directed to you, the smirks and mocking laughter that came with. It was no great feeling, at least not to herself and she couldn't possibly understand how they could find it so very intriguing.
"WHAT? Chopper! Don't say that! Of course Luffy isn't going to be forced to kiss that guy! No way!" There was really no way she would ever allow to let Luffy become apart of such a society. Ever have someone like them lay their dirty hands on the innocent teen either, as who knows how many girls that jerk Ace had slept with.
"Wow!" The long nosed guy of the group jumped up from his seat in astonishment. "Oh my god! L-Luffy, you will have to kiss Ace!" He exclaimed, realizing what all this meant. "...good luck!" He said, Nami giving a roll of her eyes and a mental obvious facepalm at "The great Usopp's masterpiece of thought", seriously.
Nami looked at her clock at her phone, it almost being 5 already, meaning it was Luffy's time to meet up with Ace. She sighed at this, she really had no choice but to believe in her silly friend.
"Huh? Ohh, I guess I'll meet up with him then." He said, shrugging. Getting up and smiled to his friends as he left the café. "See ya later guys!"
"Good luck, Luffy!" Chopper grinned and waved as he watched Luffy leave.
Usopp turned to Nami, suddenly remembering something he should have kept in mind earlier. "We have to pay his share again, don't we?" Nami groaned. "Not again!"
Upon arriving at Ace's house, which he had searched for a good while (despite the surprisingly very well drawn and written map he got by Ace earlier that day) Luffy found himself on his crush's doorstep, debating with himself on what to do.
What am I supposed to do? I can't kiss him! He thought.
A sudden image of Ace leaning down to press his lips onto his own planted itself in his mind for a brief moment.
"AHH! I DO NOT LIKE MEN!" He screamed in a hopeless attempt to convince himself. He noticed people walking by giving him some strange glances, probably wondering what was up with the poor boy. He laughed nervously wondering, and praying to god, Ace's house was more or less soundproof. "Hehe... Ok." He reached out to knock on Ace's door after a few good minutes of quarrelling with his own mind.
He heard footsteps, what sounded like someone was running down the stairs. It took a moment, but finally the door was opened to reveal none other than Ace. "Ohh, hey!" He stepped away from the door to let him in.
The house was dark, he could hardly see anything at first, but as he got further into the house his eyes adjusted to the dark and he managed to see the silhouettes of most things in the house. The house was fairly large. He stepped through the small hall and reached the living room. It had a TV by the wall followed by a couch, and a whole lot of stuff laying around it; Note papers, Some pencils in different sizes, an eraser and markers. Was that Ace's stuff?
There was a bookshelf in the corner of the room and it was filled with books and plants, obviously there was a woman in this house.
He didn't already have a girlfriend did he?
Judging by how the house seemed to be cleaned and tidied up in every shape and little corner he would more be going for that it was just his mum. Hoping even.
Though it really was quite dark in there, despite the windows it still seemed like it was all of a sudden night time. There were several lamps in the room so why wasn't he turning one of them on...?
He turned to notice Ace closing the door behind him soundlessly, putting on several different types of locks on it with a small click, leaving Luffy nearly blind to his surroundings.
What
The
Hell...?