Monkey D Luffy blinks as he saw his new home, his new 'step-brother' was already outside the house looking miserable. Beside the seventeen old year was standing beside his mother who was waving happily at them.
Luffy slightly looking at his father from the corner of his eye, wondering why he married this woman. He had been living with his grandfather since as long as he could remember then suddenly his father came along and told Luffy he needed to live with him. After he explained that he was working as a spy and needed to get close to the woman's son who had dealing with the underground.
Monkey D Dragon or Portgas D Ryo as he was now known, of course his name before had not been Monkey since he was lying. 'Ryo' and Rouge met on the internet and the poor woman fell in love with the man. Luffy had gone through four weeks training on just how to lie right. At last he too could lie through his teeth, making the young man very unhappy.
However that lie meant that Luffy now had to call himself Portgas D Ruffy.
As the car came to a stop Luffy unclipped his seatbelt and climbed out the car. The woman came forward and rushed over to Dragon, leaping into his arms. Luffy felt his heart drop at the sight, he hated his father for doing such a thing. The woman was not to blame couldn't his father watch them from afar.
'No, they been doing that for years...' Luffy remembered his father saying, 'Portgas D Ace has connections since he was just ten years old or so they say... but how are these 'they'?'
"Ace!" His fathers voice broke him out of his thoughts, "You're looking well, it is nice to see you again! I hope we can get along!"
Luffy watches the older teen glare at the teen. Then even his new 'mother' glared at his father.
'Huh?' Luffy thinks as blinking, while his father was not looking Rouge had been glaring but it had been to quick to, 'Am I seeing things?'
"I'm sure you can get along with Ryo," Rouge spoke gently to her son, those eyes quickly softy as he gazed at his mother, "Please for my sake."
Ace let out a loud sigh as he closed his eyes, on opening them he glared at Dragon once more.
"Old man I'll be watching your back, if you were you." Ace says darkly with narrow eyes, "This happened far too fast! You th-"
"Ace!" Rogue said loudly stepping forwards and standing in between the pair, "Please..." she stressed out, reaching a hand out cupping his cheek, "Please just wait and see."
"Fine!" Ace spat out as he step out of reach from his mother's hand, "One wrong move and you're dead old man."
"Why would you want to marry us into this family?" Luffy suddenly asks his father with mild interest, the mother and son jumped and stared at Luffy, "If they want to kill us?"
"They don't want to kill us." Dragon says firmly as he frowns at his bored looking son, "It is just his greeting."
"Greeting?" The fourteen old year said frowning that matched Dragon's, "Can I greet my new teachers like that?"
"NO!" Dragon suddenly shouted then hissed out, "Don't you dare."
"Ryo!" Rouge said coming to them, "Who is this?!"
"Ah!" Dragon as he turned, "I never told you I had a son as well!"
"Oh come on!" Ace spat out coming over now, "You really want me to believe you suddenly have a son now! How dumb do you take me for?!"
"Shishishishishi!" Luffy snickered as he held his stomach slight, "Oi Ryo!" He grinned up unwilling to call him his father, "Can I answer that?"
"Ruffy..." Ryo sighed out as he rubbed his temple looking very tried suddenly. Then he turned to Rouge, "I'm sorry I never mention him... when you said you wanted to be a family, I thought this was my chance to do the same for Ruffy."
"Who is he?" Ace hisses out as he stares at the younger teen, "Why didn't you mention him before?"
"Because he didn't want to!" Luffy spoke out catching everyone's attention, including Dragon, "This man in a failure of a father. I hate him. I don't want to be here."
Everyone fell silence as they stare at the boy.
Dragon slapped out of it first and faced Rouge, "Please let's go inside and I'll explain in more detail."
"Yeah you do that." Luffy said as he turns on his heels and walks back to the car, "Like you can."
Ace was watching the younger frowning at the boy, he was confused now he had been so sure that Ryo was someone chasing other him and not his mother. If the man was really trying to wiggle his way in, wouldn't he be offering his mother the best side of himself and show himself a perfect father.
Luffy grabbed his backpack and looked out the corner of his eye, Rouge was walking toward the house back she was looking back, Ace was standing there also until he too started heading towards the house.
"Ruffy..." Dragon says with a sigh, "Come on."
Luffy quickly followed his father holding his backpack to his chest, they walked up a couple of steps and onto a porch, it was long wooden porch with a swing chair at the end. The house had a nice big door in the front and two large windows ever side.
Walking in there was a massive hallway with a staircase right in front of him, but against the wall. There was double doors in either side and down passed the stair at the end of the hallway was another single, door.
Luffy followed his father through the door on his right and came into a lovely living room which seemed to big just for two people. Ace and Rouge was no where in sight as he and his father flopped down on the four seater sofa.
Luffy glanced around he knew he was being watched, his father told that Ace planted camera all around the house. 'Creepy...' Luffy thinks as he looks around until he sees his father's frowning face.
"Why did you do that?" Dragon asks making Luffy frown, "Are you trying to show me up? You're doing a good job, I'm trying to make it up to you for not being there. Ruffy things don't work one side, if we are going to be a family again then you are going to have to help me up."
Luffy bowed his head while unashamed of with he did he really did not want to be here.
"I only told the truth..." Luffy mumbles out as he looks away with his whole body and found the doorway very interesting.
"I love Rouge." Ryo stated this fact as if he meant it, "I want to change for her. I want to be a good father to her son-"
"So for her son but not your own?" Luffy asks this was a real question from him, "Should I care? You only wanted me here to show what a good father you can be? But Ryo, you are not."
"Ruffy." Dragon slapped a vein popping out of his head, "I been through this with you many times."
Luffy blinks at this, this was the first time he ever said this. He tilts his head trying work out what to ask. Truthfully he did not mind much that his father was never around, he never even given it a second thought, his world went around his grandfather, Shanks, Makino and Dadan.
"I don't want to be here." Luffy said frowning with a pout crossing his arms over his chest and leaning into the seat, "You show up take me away from my home and friends, wanting to be a family for the sake of your new wife and son? I didn't even know you married anyone! And now you want me to be brother and son to people who clearly don't think much of you!"
"You noticed that?" Dragon said with a heavy sigh, "I think she is having second thoughts."
"No kidding." Luffy mutter as he rolled his eyes and sulked, "That Ace guy is right, it was too fast."
"I'm sorry..." Dragon says sadly as he sighed once more, "Ruffy...just you forgive me for leaving you alone."
"No." Luffy said as he sat up and looked him right in the eye, "I don't see you as my father, your just a sperm donor."
"Sperm donor...?" Dragon says as he raised his eyebrows, he did not think his fourteen year old son would come out with something like that.
"I heard Dadan saying that...she had that a lot..." Luffy said with a little laugh, "Mmmm..."
Dragon laughed at this, Luffy blinks and joins in.
"Dadan...? She was your adopted mother yes? The one my father left you with?" Dragon asks as he smile to his son.
"Yeah," Luffy said cheering not, "Dadan is great! I love grandpa, but I like staying with Dadan better! Can I go home now?"
"No." Dragon said firmly giving Luffy a pointed look, "This is your home now, Rouge is your mother and Ace your brother. Please try and be a good son to my wife."
"I-" Luffy began but stopped as Dragon glanced over his shoulder and looked at the doorway. Turning he saw Rouge smiling at both of them.
"Ryo and … Ruffy wasn't it...Dinner will be ready at seven," Rouge said as she looked between the part. Ryo stood up and walked to her, smiling he kissed her fully on the lips.
"Gross they're kissing!" Luffy cries out as he covers in eyes over with his hands but was laughing.
"How old are you?" Ace asks causing the younger to jump. When had he come in and gotten beside him?
"Fourteen." Luffy says blinking owlishly up at him.
"Welcome to the family I guess..." Ace says with an annoyed sigh. Luffy jumps up suddenly making Ace startle, he hugged the other boy around the middle and placed his head on the older's shoulder.
"Nice to meet you! I'm Ruffy!" Luffy says as he rubs his head against Ace freaking him out, "I like hugs! Music! Sailing! And eating meat! Shishishishi!"
"er..." Ace says looking down at the boy with his arms raised, he looked up at his mother and then back down to his new brother, "I'm Ace...nice to meet you too..."
Rouge laughed into her hand and letting go of Dragon she came forward and wrapped her arms around both Luffy and Ace.
"Welcome to the family Ruffy." Rouge says to Luffy as she smiles kindly down at the boy's one eye that he was showing her.