+ ~ Seeing as of June 20th I have been an author here for a year already, I decided to make a re-write of my first story Hmmm. This version, unlike the original, will be in 3rd person looking down on everything as it happens, so you get all the action still, but just with less thoughts and more description of scenery, surroundings, and physical features of the characters involved; this time, these things will actually make sense with the whole thing being 3rd person. Ahhh... I hope this version is a whole lot better than the first attempt XD and so, read it maybe, and tell me what you think! Happy 1 year anniversary to me! lol XD + ~


Hmmm - Rewrite! : Chapter 1

The story will start off on a bed of fine, soft white sand on an island's beach, with the waves lapping at the beach calmly as the the sun peeked out from behind scattered clouds. It was a beautiful day. The ocean breeze kept the temperature to a comfortable range, the birds in the island's trees squawked to each other, and the ocean was calm and perfect for a swim or a nice sail around the island.

And none other then Roronoa Zoro, and the other members of the Straw Hat crew, were strewn about the beach, enjoying the nice day outside. Zoro had taken up a nice place for napping on the warm sand just beyond the shade of a palm tree, and listened to Usopp and Luffy playing tag off somewhere to the side. That was music to Zoro's ears: something other than the shit cook's pointless arguments and the witch's fiery lectures. Zoro smirked as Luffy fell on his face in the sand, and took a sip from his bottle of sake as Usopp burst out laughing.

"Ehhhh! Too sthandy! Bleh!"

"Ahahaha! How does the sand taste?"

Resealing his bottle, Zoro closed his eyes and relaxed, and he was about to sigh in contentment, he noticed that someone right next to him beat him to the punch and sighed for him.

"Oh no.. this can't all have been a-"

"Good morning, Zoro."

Yes, that all was a dream, and now two people welcome Zoro out of it.

Zoro tried to open his eyes to see who exactly greeted him with such a tone, and only managed to squint a little to his left. All he could make out was dark hair before he felt a peck on his cheek from the right side. Zoro opened his eyes fully and quickly turned to look at who kissed him, and, before he could process the thought, the previous person made their move.

"Zoro? Good morning!" Annnd, Zoro turned his head again to the left to receive an unexpected kiss on the lips from... Luffy. The other person smirked as he watched Zoro's expression grow from confused to even more flustered. Finally, after the 1 second that felt like 5 minutes, Zoro reeled back and swiveled his head to look at the two who had ambushed him.

"What?!.. Ace?"

Ambusher-1 grinned while he laid down on his side, right up against Zoro's side, and folded his arms over his naked chest. So.. the only thing that wasn't unexpected about this entire ordeal, in Zoro's mind, had to be that Ace was shirtless. However, that wasn't the only naked part of Fire Fist Ace. Zoro looked a little further down on Ace's body and saw only a pair of black boxer-briefs, and then bare legs. Zoro furrowed his brows in confusion and blushed profusely, looking back up at Ace who seemed quite amused. It was only then that Zoro realized how close Ace was to him, and that Luffy was looking almost exactly the same as his brother at that moment.

Speaking of Luffy, Luffy puffed his cheeks at his lack of attention, and as Zoro was propped up on his right elbow, he scooted up against Zoro's back and put an arm on Zoro's hip. Zoro visibly flinched, making Ace laugh.

"Hahaha! Zoro, if only you could see yourself right now!" Ace laughed, rolling on his back to comfortably laugh his guts out even more while Zoro's face lit up in multiple shades of red.

"S-Shut up! And, and, what are you even doing here?! And.. why are you both naked, and, in here?!"

"Oh, so now you respond?" Ace teased, looking up at Zoro with a humiliating smirk. Zoro bit his lip and looked down at the floor he had been.. apparently sleeping on, up in his training room/crow's nest. Luffy, meanwhile, still wanted attention badly (but wasn't willing to say anything, obviously), and so he slipped his arm up under Zoro's arm and rubbed Zoro's chest for a second before just resting his hand there.

"Luffy. Luffy Luffy, what are you doing to me?" Zoro asked frantically, looking anywhere and everywhere except for Ace's eyes, and in a futile attempt to save himself, he tried to get up off the ground, but Luffy forbid him and pulled him back down.

"Don't want the crew to see you in your underwear," Luffy mumbled, holding Zoro like a teddy bear while Zoro froze at the sudden realization of being in his underwear as well.

"What's going on?!"

Ace sat up and sent Luffy a glance that Zoro didn't know how to read, and maybe that was a good thing.. but maybe not.

"Zoro, you don't remember?" Ace asked in all seriousness, looking Zoro dead in the eye with a concerned expression. Zoro reciprocated the look and shook his head.

Luffy silently thought that Ace would be a good actor. "Really Zoro? After all that, you don't remember a thing?"

Zoro turned his head as much as possible and sent Luffy a confused expression, blanketed in blushing. His face was burning, and his right side was really uncomfortable against the floor, but, that was the least stressful thing right then! He woke up next to two mainly-naked brothers, and himself being the same way, and now there was some sort of thing that had happened the night before? It was too much!

Luffy shook his head in disappointment and Ace gave Zoro a contemplative look, biting his lip in 'thought'.

"You did drink an awful lot, even for you.." Luffy thought out loud, nudging his cheek against Zoro's shoulder blade. Zoro shivered at the touch, but figured he had no escape out of this one, though.

"Hmmm..."

"You really don't remember?" Ace asked again, sounding a little down, "it was kinda fun. Wish you remembered." Luffy nodded in agreement, or so Zoro could feel. Suddenly, Luffy detached and sat up, allowing Zoro to sit up as well. Though it made the swordsman at a little more at ease, to be sitting, he was still blushing under Ace's gaze and both of their close proximity.

Zoro reached an invisible hand down into his consciousness to try and excavate the lost memories of this supposedly 'fun' night. He tried, he bit his lip, he rubbed his forehead and finally opened his eyes to find.. no fun memories whatsoever. But, he did see Luffy's face very close to his own face.

Proceeding to reel back, as is the natural instinct, Zoro was caught off guard once more when Luffy ran his hand through short, green hair and held the back of Zoro's head. Zoro froze as Luffy leaned in closer to his face, bringing his other hand up to his cheek.

"Zoro.."

"L-Luffy?"

"Hmmm~?"

"What are you doing?" Zoro whispered, clenching his eyes shut; as if that could protect him. His cheeks were on fire, and that was no secret to the brothers. Luffy smirked and put his lips up to Zoro's ear, choosing his words while his own heart was pounding.

"What do you mean?"

Zoro heard Luffy's breath hitch a little as he smirked again, and Luffy could clearly sense the panic that seemed to be rising off of the swordsman like a mist. It was a rather amusing scene for Ace to watch. Wanting to tease his first mate as much as possible, without making his heart burst, Luffy ran a hand over Zoro's chest till he found one of the tan one's nipple to toy with.

"This is nothing," Luffy stated, taking Zoro by the lips as Zoro had his mouth ajar with shock. Ace frowned. Luffy was taking too long. Zoro needed a little from both of them.

"Slut," Ace tossed at Luffy with a dirty smirk and broke into a grin at Luffy's sideways glare. Zoro regained conscious thought and pushed away from Luffy, staring the opposite man straight in the eyes with his own wide ones.

"What's this about?" Zoro whispered more to himself than anyone else, looking from Luffy's left eye to the other nervously. Luffy narrowed his eyes and smirked while Ace soon crawled in to take Luffy's place. Zoro froze again; Ace was different. He knew it. Ace winked and took Zoro's chin roughly into his hand, and proceeded to force Zoro's mouth open and up against his in a matter of seconds.

Luffy crossed his arms and scooted to get a good view, watching the green haired teen get teased and taunted.

Ace ran his tongue along Zoro's collarbone and up his neck while tugging playfully on his 'friend's underwear. Zoro had his eyes closed and his mouth half open, with his hands weakly pushing on Ace's shoulders. Zoro whispered something nearly inaudible into Ace's ear..

"And I'm the slut.."

Ace pulled away and sent Luffy a silencing glare. Luffy raised an eyebrow and stuck out his tongue.

"But who's the captain?"

"..."

"And.. who's not even a first mate?"

"Shut up, Luffy."

"Why?"

"Are you jealous? Is that what it is?" Ace started, gently pushing Zoro away from him to look at Luffy. Luffy looked up and raised his hands.

"I think I should be asking you the same thing..." Luffy retorted, looking down from the ceiling at Ace's flaming eyes which caught his fancy, "slut."

Ace growled and dove after Luffy, which ended in Ace pinning Luffy's arms above his head, pushing Luffy's chest down to the floor with his own chest. Luffy let out a condescending sigh and looked up at Ace who gave him a brother-to-brother-only wink.

Meanwhile, Zoro had scooted away from the action, looking a bit terrified at the somewhat-awkward, underwear-only wrestling match. Then, all of a sudden, Zoro saw the trap door and sprang for it, landing his hands on the handle when a blast of heat hit him like a ton of bricks and he fell onto his side, sweating bullets within seconds of Ace's man-made sauna.

Zoro groaned and rolled onto his back, suddenly breathing hard and wiping the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand while Ace and Luffy watched him silently, pretending to be struggling still.

"Look at you, so desperate for attention that you're willing to take advantage of me," Luffy teased, craning his neck to touch noses with Ace who frowned in momentary annoyance.

"I think that you're just the one who's giving themselves up for me. Just like the slut you are."

Zoro had turned his head as the heat let up a little in Ace's distracted state and saw Ace and Luffy battling each other with words now, but he just then caught the drift of their conversation. Zoro sat up and watched with wide eyes. Ace turned his head away from Zoro and scowled, making Luffy laugh. He covered it up, though.

"Ha! Yeah right!"

Zoro had never heard or seen Luffy act this way before. Was the whole 'stupid and ignorant' thing just all an act? But in any case, it was amazing and still frightening the swordsman.

Ace then radiated more heat that made Luffy suddenly turn slick all over, making his body shiny and slippery with sweat. Luffy opened his mouth to breathe better and got a mouth full of tongue action from Ace instead. Zoro was panting then, and nearly choked on his own spit at the sight of the brothers kissing.

And, to Zoro's surprise, Luffy.. Luffy liked it?!