A.N. Okay… this time it's gonna be romance for sure… :D Enjoy Stephanie-san ^-^ (and everybody else)

Warnings: yaoi – manxman, AU.

Disclaimer: if for every time I had a nickel for saying I don't own One Piece, I would probably wouldn't know what to do with those dollars 'cause I live in Europe and we don't have dollars here…

Problems

Ace felt hot and bothered. How couldn't he? There was a perfectly fine man working out in front of him. The man's muscles were moving repeatedly under his skin, his torso was perfectly displayed as the man had taken his shirt off ages ago. The man's chest was simply made for Ace's hands to caress it and his face, oh goddess gracious. Ace simply loved that man's face.

He had a slight frown ruining it, but that was something Ace believed he could easily fix with a little time. but his face… it was just the right shape, his eyes were sharp and a little bit cold, when he looked through Ace earlier the freckled man couldn't help, but shiver. Those eyes were so deep he simply wanted to get lost in them…

This man was a man of his dreams by looks alone and even though Ace didn't know that he had dreams like these, he was sure of that fact. The freckled youth was eyeing the man like a candy, the trail of sweet going from the man's grey hair down his temple through cheek and down the jaw. Yes, the man had grey hair, but that didn't make him look old and to tell the truth the hair color was more silver than grey.

This interesting gene trait made Ace wonder, he liked this stranger and was going to take him… as soon as he finds out if he's available. Which Ace prayed really hard for, 'cause if he had someone Ace knew he will have to stand by. He wasn't going to break people up, he wouldn't like if someone did it to him, so he wasn't going to do that to anyone else…

Now the problem laid in knowledge, how do you get to know if the guy is dating someone? You can't just go and ask, he will think you're mental… Ace started going through his head trying to think of something, anything that could help him. Maybe start training in front of him and see if he's interested…? But even people with lovers look over other people if they're good looking, after all looking isn't a crime…

Suddenly a memory of some stupid love comedy jumped into Ace's thoughts, he sure could try it… A small smirk formed on Ace's lips, this better work at least somehow.

He stopped his running track and whipped his forehead with a towel he had next to him, time to start the show. The freckled youth slowly walked through various work out equipment towards his silver haired interest while looking through the weights. He picked some machine not too far from the still training man.

Ace purposely picked weights that were too big for him and started doing exercise with slight mistakes, silently praying for the man be the kind that can't help himself, but help out others… that would be a very nice addition to his I-like-these-things-about-this-particular-hot-guy list. Luckily several minutes after Ace started working big, rough, but warm arms stopped him and corrected his stance. "Do it like this."

The low, a little rough from smoking voice that reached Ace's ears almost made him shudder, but he got himself together in time. The voice could give him an instant boner if it said the right things… Ace almost sighed happily, oh the things he could get out of that mouth, the moans… No! Bad Ace! Bad! Ace mentally scolded himself, he doesn't need a boner now.

The freckled youth started doing as the silver haired man said, but his hands were shaking way to much from the too big weights. "Stop." Ace almost moaned, that voice will be the death of him… "Your weights are too heavy, take them off, they weight almost as much as you do, it's miracle you even lifted them… you need a lot of training for that…"

Ace smiled sheepishly at the man who was starting to look annoyed and started admiring his interest's facial expressions as he talked. "Help me pick weights?"

The man narrowed his eyes, but still helped the younger male who was making his I-like-these-things-about-this-particular-hot-guy list longer. Soon the weights were changed and as Ace was standing up his legs tangled and he fell forward the weights…

Only to be caught by the new object of his future sexual fantasies. He crashed straight into the man's chest and the older one wrapped his arms around Ace's waist to keep his balance. Ace felt redness come up his cheeks as he took a deep breath of the shirtless skin beneath his nose. The man smelled of sweat and cigar smoke and Ace found out that it's his new favorite scent.

But there was one thing Ace didn't took into account, and that was the older man's arms around his waist. So when the two pulled apart silver haired male narrowed his eyes. "You have a six-pack, you know how to work out, what do you want from me?"

Ace almost pouted as the older male looked at him suspiciously, he scratched his head. "Well my name is Ace and maybe we could talk this out with beer?"

The freckled man was set to surprise when he shot his most suggestive smile only to receive glare in return. The older male stared at smaller male for several moments till he spoke again. "Smoker. Leave me alone kid, I'm way too old for you, you're what? Nineteen at best? Between us is ten year gap, so just leave me alone." And with a slight shake of his head and annoyed grump Smoker walked away.

Ace grinned and shouted after the leaving man. "I'm twenty four!"

This was a challenge. Ace smirked to himself, and Portgas D Ace accepted it, no matter the challenge was intended or not. He will win over this man, it will be worth it. And when he has him… Well, Ace always liked to brag about his wins and show off his trophies. And Smoker will make the best trophy ever… and he won't be swapping him for any other…