Hey guys! Long time no see! I know I should be writing for my other story but this plot bunny has been haunting me since forever so here it is! Anyone under the age of 18 should clear off, or, you know, not get caught reading this. It's set before Luffy became a pirate but Ace is captain of the Spade pirates.

Warning: Yaoi, Shy! Bashful! Luffy, Boy x Boy, sort of incest!

Ages for characters:

Luffy: 16 Ace: 19

It was mid-afternoon when Luffy spotted a familiar flag from the cliff he was sitting on, but it wasn't until the ship came closer that Luffy was able to recognize the flag. It was the Spade pirates!

"Oi! Ace!", Luffy yelled at the approaching ship. He got up and raced down the cliff to town to see Ace. Luffy wouldn't admit it, but he had missed his older brother. His feelings for Ace went far beyond that of a brother though, and Luffy was afraid that his relationship with Ace would change if he told him that.

Luffy kept running until he was at the shore, where Ace and his crew already were.

"Yo, Luffy. It's been a while", Ace greeted with a grin. Luffy grinned back. He felt so happy to see Ace again after the elder had set out to sea to become a pirate. Luffy slowed down from running to walking as he got closer and finally stopped about a meter or two away from him.

"Do you have a bounty?", Luffy asked.

"Yeah, It's pretty high too", Ace said, bragging in order to impress his cute little brother. Ace had always felt protective of Luffy, even if he never showed it. In the past, when some brats were bullying his little brother about his abilities he would beat them all up and assure Luffy that he wasn't a monster.

"I'm sure Dadan would like to see you Ace, it's been a long time", Luffy told him. No matter how many times Luffy had dismissed the very idea of confessing to Ace, his heart still wanted to tell him, so Luffy was afraid that he might suddenly slip and blurt out his feelings. In front of Ace's crew too! That would have been embarrassing, hence the subject change.

The fact that Ace was wearing an open shirt that revealed his abs was not helping either, Luffy was having trouble dragging his mind out of the gutter thanks to the perfect view in front of him.

"Maybe", Ace admitted reluctantly, "but I'd rather not, we just needed to restock on food and medicine so I took the chance to see you".

"But you just came!", Luffy whined, and then pouted in a way that had Ace thinking lewd things about those lips. Very lewd things. Thankfully, he was barely able to contain his emotions but just smiled. Luffy had more power over his brother that he had previously thought.

"I suppose we could stay for a night or two", Ace announced, even though he decided this as soon as he saw Luffy's grin from afar.