Meat Thieves
Ace and Luffy peeked in through the butcher's back window; he was cutting up some meat. The two brothers loved meat but Luffy liked it the most as it was basically the only thing he ate, every dish had to have meat in it; which was part of the reason they were here. The boy's were a bit short on money at the moment and couldn't really afford anything. Usually when this happened Makino would give them free meals at the party's bar but Makino was sick at the moment and the bar was closed, they didn't want to disturb her. Also they wanted to go on a camping trip in the nearby forest and didn't have any food to take with them.
The boys watched as the butcher minced the meat to make sausages, burger patties and meatballs. The bell at the front counter rang and the butcher walked out. This was the chance they had been waiting for. Ace quickly picked the lock on the back door; he was skilled for an eleven year old. Ace snuck in followed closely by little Luffy.
"Shhh... Did you bring the cooler bags?" Ace whispered to Luffy.
"Yeah!" Ace could tell his little brother was excited, he had a huge smile on his face; this was Luffy's first time stealing something from a shop.
"Okay now, we have to be quick, we don't want to get caught okay!" the boys went to work grabbing as many pieces of meat as they could at a time and putting them in the two cooler bags.
"Ace do you think this will be enough?" Luffy asked his older brother.
"Don't know... you eat a lot so maybe you'll just have to cut down on the food when we're camping, okay?" Luffy pouted he hated cutting back on food. Luffy went over to the freshly cut up meat the butcher had been doing before the bell rang and grabbed some. Unfortunately Luffy could barely see on top and didn't notice that his hand was close to the big knife. Ace saw this and tried to warn Luffy but was too late.
From the front counter the butcher was talking to the mayor where he heard a loud "OUCH" from out the back. He and the mayor went to investigate.
"Shit Luffy! Why can't you be more careful!" Ace whispered looking at the large slice in Luffy's hand; lucky it wasn't deep. Then the boys heard people coming towards the back. "Come on let's go!" Ace picked up the bags and put them over his shoulder just as the butcher walked in with the mayor. "Crap! Run!" Ace yelled and pulled Luffy roughly out the back door.
"I'm sorry Ace! I was too loud." Luffy apologized to his big brother as they were running full speed down the street followed by a very angry knife wielding butcher and the mayor.
"Stop you thieves! Get back here!"
"Just wait until I tell your grandfather you two!" The Mayor shouted at them. Luffy had climbed on his brothers back because Ace was running too fast for his little legs, even though Luffy was a really fast runner himself, and was laughing hysterically. Ace couldn't help but laugh along with him; he was hyped up on adrenaline. Ace and Luffy ran all the way to the forest with the butcher and mayor still following them. When they disappeared into the forest the two stopped giving chase and went back home, they weren't about to get lost in there. They would just have to wait until they came back home.
