Yume:Well here you go my best attempt at a second chapter I'm just too impatient for my own good. I do hope you enjoy it though
Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING Xs however many chapters this will be(not sure if i did this in the previous chapter)
Warnings: Yoai male x male (just a kiss though), OOC, cursing, implied sexual themes(i think), and if encourage enough a lemon in a future chapter
Zoro watches in amazement as Ace slaughters five Sea Kings with a single fiery punch as if reminding the swordsman just how strong his traveling companion is. Ace turns to face Zoro with an easy smile and a confident gleam in his eyes. Looking back on it now Zoro realizes it was this strength and attitude that won his trust, respect, loyalty, and admiration back in Shells Town.
Flashback
Landing soundly outside of the base Zoro stands up straight as he notices Rika pacing back and forth in front of the base gates. Ace lands deftly behind Zoro placing his hands on the swordsman's hips while resting is chin on Zoro's right shoulder.
"Hey Rika look what I got," Ace called victoriously grabbing Rika's attention as she looks up in time to see Ace wrap his arms around Zoro's waist. Zoro swiftly elbows Ace in the stomach resulting in the pirate staggering a step back as Rika rushes over to the two young men. Rika ran right up to Zoro and threw her arms around him in a gleeful hug.
"Zoro-Chan!" Rika cried out in relived happiness unshed tears welling up in her eyes. Zoro smiled gently down at Rika as he rubbed her back soothingly. Ace walks up next to Zoro patting the swordsman on the shoulder.
"Now why don't you two head over to Rika's, while I finish up my end of the deal Zoro. And if my little birdie did his job right Captain Morgan should be here any minute now," Ace stated walking up to the base's gate and stopping ten feet away. Rika gasped in surprise and slight fear at the mention of the Marine base's Commander. Zoro looked over at the pirate in slight interest as marines could be heard heading towards the front gate.
"It's Marine Captain Morgan," Rika's whispers trembling as everything went silent and the base's front gates began to open. A whole battalion of marine officers stood on the other side of the gate and right in the center of them all was a freakishly tall man with scarred tan skin, blond hair, wearing a captain coat, and an axe for a hand (Captain Morgan). Captain Morgan raised his axe hand pointing it straight at Ace with a smug look on his face.
"See men even Fire Fist Ace of the Whitebeard pirates recognizes my strength and challenges me to a fight," Captain Morgan hollers looking back at the marines behind him voice filled with ignorant confidence. Fearful and nervous whispers broke out among the battalion of marines.
"Nah I'm just here to take you down, so I can steal your interesting prisoner over there," Ace begins to reply gesturing over to Zoro, "but, don't worry this won't take long. It'll all be over after a single strike," Ace finished coolly holding his right fist in the air and resting his left hand on his right bicep. Rika looks at Ace in wonder and concern as Captain Morgan lets out an angry grunt glaring.
"Who do you think you are talking to you pirate scum," Captain Morgan shouts as Ace closed the distanced between them in the blink of an eye. Captain Morgan stared in shock at Ace as the fire user fell towards him right fist set ablaze. Ace brought his fist down on Captain Morgan's face harshly sending the tall blond man flying into the base as the fire user landed effortlessly. Standing up straight while fixing his hat Ace turns around to face Zoro and Rika with an easy smile on his face and confident gleam in his eyes.
End Flashback
"Wow that was a lot of Sea Kings huh," Ace laughed smoothly bright amber eyes staring directly into Zoro's gray. Zoro hums briefly while adverting his eyes away from Ace's intense gaze blushing slightly. The pirate often had this effect on Zoro especially after discovering Ace's sleeping habit of cuddling and apparent disregard for personal space. Upon seeing the slight blush spread across Zoro's face Ace relaxed smile turns into a pleased one. Zoro glance at Ace from the corner of his eye a slightly curious look in his grey eyes.
"Hey Ace um why did you set out to sea," Zoro asks Ace in an indifferent manner but the fire user could detect the underlining curiosity. Ace turns his attention to the far off horizon as the striker they're riding skids across the ocean's surface.
"To find the answer to a question that only life can answer," Ace replied reminiscing on his childhood before turning to face Zoro with a somber expression on his face. Zoro finds it impossible to look away from Ace's eyes as the fire looks at him like that.
"And what about you Zoro why'd you go off and become a bounty hunter wandering the East Blue," Ace inquires the swordsman the somber expression never leaving his face.
"I made a promise with a friend that one of us would become the world's strongest swordsman she died the next day so now it's my goal and dream to keep that promise," Zoro answer with a tender smile on his face and fierce determination reflecting in his grey eyes. Ace hums thoughtfully at this new piece of information he just learned about the swordsman.
Ace turns to face the horizon again with a puzzled look on his face. When Ace first laid eyes on Zoro three weeks ago he had to have the swordsman that why he made that deal with Zoro in the first place. As Ace got to know the difficult ex-bounty hunter more and more something started to stir inside him. Zoro was true to his word, loyal, brash, tad lazy, (though Zoro denies it) has a horrible sense of direction, compassionate, honorable, and honest so unlike many others that Ace had encountered and bedded. This only furthered Ace's desire to claim the swordsman as his and only his. From everything Ace has learned about the swordsman he could tell that Zoro lived by strict personal morals that would keep him from engaging in Ace's usual type of relationships. And Ace was perfectly fine with this because he didn't want to have one of his normal flings with the swordsman he actually wanted something more much more with Zoro.
Zoro knew exactly what the feeling stirring inside him were. Though Ace annoyed the swordsman at first Zoro quickly learned there was a lot more to the fire user than an easygoing attitude. Ace was a lot cleverer than he let on; there was also a serious side to him that sent shivers down Zoro's spine; the fire user also had a kind and caring side to him that evoked nearly anyone to trust him; the pirate was polite to everyone they came across; extremely reckless; and tremendously loyal. Zoro knew without a doubt that he was quickly falling for Ace and there was nothing he could or wanted to do about it. Zoro looks slightly to the right side of the striker and sees a faint outline of a whale shaped ship.
"Oi Ace is that ship over there the Moby Dick," Zoro shouted over the rushing wind pointing in the direction of said ship. When the swordsman didn't get an immediate response Zoro turned his attention on the fire user. Ace was still looking out at the far off horizon in front of him and didn't even seem to hear what Zoro said, but instead lost in thought. Zoro sighs irritably gripping the striker's mast tightly with his left arm he leans forward grabbing Ace's hat and swiftly pulls it down and off the fire user's head. The side straps of the orange hat catch on Ace's chin yanking the fire user's head roughly back and snapping him out of his thoughts. Ace turn around to face Zoro left eyebrow rose in an incredulous look.
"That ship it's the Moby Dick right," the swordsman states simply frowning while pointing directly to the right and at the distant ship. Ace gives Zoro a once over before turning to look in the direction the swordsman's pointing in. Eyes widening slightly in surprise at see the ship was in fact the Moby Dick and he almost sailed past it.
"Oh! Yeah that's the Moby Dick alright," Ace replies embarrassedly veering the striker towards the Moby Dick and tuning his entire legs into flames hurtling towards the Moby Dick. Zoro let out a grunt of surprise as he grips the striker's mast even tighter than before so he wouldn't fall off and tucks Ace's hat to his chest so it doesn't fly off. Reaching the Moby Dick in record time Ace jumps off his striker before it even got close to the ship's hull and skillfully landing on the railing in a crouching position.
"Hey everybody I'm back," Ace shouted out to the entire ship gaining the attention of nearly all the men on board. Thatch, Marco, and Haruta walk over to where Ace is quickly to welcome the young fire user back home.
"Hey Ace welcome back" Thatch said cheerfully slinging his arm across Ace's shoulders laughing merrily as he gestures Haruta and Marco to do the same. Haruta simply give Ace a quick hug before stepping back with a huge grin on his face.
"It's good to have you home Ace," Haruta declares honestly while nudging Marco in the side. Marco grunts in slight discomfort and mock glares at Haruta for the uncalled for aggression which the small brunette returns. Thatch and Ace simply laugh as they watch the exchange of mock glares
"How was your trip did you see your little brother," Marco asks curious about the fire user's answer as a smile spreads across his lips as he ruffles the raven's hair. Ace simply chuckles playfully swatting Marco's hand away as he steps off the railing and stands up on the deck. Zoro was startled when Ace jumped off the striker but was glad he did otherwise the two would have crashes into Moby Dick's hull. But instead Zoro coasted to a stop just before reaching the hull thanks to Ace's reckless move. Zoro sighed looking up to the railing where he could see Ace standing near talking to a blonde and two brunettes joyously. Zoro grudgingly puts Ace's hat on as he looks for a way to safely reach the Moby Dick's deck. Seeing a rope hanging down over the railing Zoro grabs it and gives an experimental tug. When the rope grew taunt the greenette figured the other end was tied securely to something on the ship. Zoro quickly secures the rope to Ace's striker so it wouldn't drift away before he starts climbing up said rope.
"Man so you went all that way just to see Luffy only to have just missed him by a day or so! That must have sucked," Haruta states amazed as Thatch and Ace continue to laugh while Marco rolls his eyes in mock exasperation.
"I told you that'd be the outcome Ace but did you listen no," Marco halfheartedly scolds the younger fire user giving while lightly punching Ace in the shoulder.
"Haha yeah I know you did Marco but the trip was still worth it in the end," Ace declares between chuckles and a very pleased smirk on his lips. Marco and Haruta exchange a knowing glance before shaking their heads sigh while Thatch grins ear to ear laughing even harder than before.
"Ace did you go and piss the Marines off again," Thatch asks contentment lacing his every word as he eyes Ace suspiciously. Ace rubs the back of his neck chuckling happily.
"Well I probably did but that not what made this trip so worth it," Ace replies shrugging his right shoulder nonchalantly.
"You ran into Luffy anyway," Haruta asks curiously looking at Ace demandingly while crossing his arms over his chest. Ace shakes his head negatively at the three men surrounding him.
"Although that would have been nice but no," the young fire user replies to Haruta's question none the less before turning to Marco for his guess.
"You fucked a married man." Marco states blatantly raising his eyebrow curiously looking at the younger fire user. Haruta face palms for not thinking of that earlier while Thatch chuckles pleased and waiting to hear about Ace's latest sexual escapade.
"I wish," Ace merely states before bursting out in amused laughter due to the face his three nakama's reaction. Thatch nearly chokes on his own saliva, Haruta gaps at him in bewilderment, and Marco flinched back a bit with a pure dumbfounded expression on his normally calm and collected face.
"If not any of that then what," Haruta probes the still laughing Ace once his shock wore off. Ace held up is hand in a gesture for them to wait until he stopped laughing and caught his breath. Once Ace managed to catch his breath Marco and Thatch were over their shock as well and both of them plus Haruta were giving Ace their undivided attention.
"Well-" Ace started to say but was quickly interrupt.
"Oi Ace next time you decide to pull a stunt like that give me a little warning so I can save your ass if you mess up and fall into the sea you baka," Zoro growls at Ace practically straddling the Moby Dick's railing right foot resting securely on the deck with the young fire user's hat on his head and his left hand resting on the railing. Before either Marco, Thatch, or Haruta could think to even ask who the new comer was or attack the greenette Ace was already next to Zoro.
"Zoro," Ace purrs tenderly but there was an underline of desire in his voice that he three nakama picked up instantly. This was further enforced when Ace wrapped his arms around Zoro's waist while nuzzling the greenette's neck.
"Looks like Ace brought another one of his temporary partners home," Thatch whispers to Marco and Haruta while watching Zoro blush a light pink as the swordsman attempts to hit Ace off him. Marco and Haruta nod grudgingly giving Ace displeased looks. A fellow Whitebeard pirate who also came to welcome Ace back walks up to the raven and greenette.
"Hey Ace who's the hottie you got there," the man asks curious to who the open game was. Ace stops nuzzling Zoro's neck to turn and face his nakama smiling politely at the man.
"This is Roronoa Zoro and he's mine, so hands off," Ace states voice dangerously low and putting emphasis on the word mine as his eyes shined murder for anyone who dared defy him.
"Or not," Haruta says sweat dropping at Ace's unusual display of possessiveness while Thatch dumbly nods in agreement and Marco shrugs nonchalantly.
"Well he is wearing Ace's hat," Marco comment off handedly causing those around him to hum in agreement.
"Excuse me who the fuck is yours," Zoro seethes at Ace pulling on the raven's hair so the fire user would face him. Ace swiftly turns to look Zoro directly in the eyes desire and affection shining in his amber eyes.
"You are Zoro," Ace states huskily before suddenly closing the gap between them and capturing Zoro's lips in a fiery kiss. Zoro gasped slightly in surprise at the sudden kiss which Ace took full advantage of by thrusting his tongue past the parted lips and inside the swordsman's mouth. Zoro knew this was bad that if he allowed himself to be caught up in the kiss he'd become addicted to the taste of ash, spice, and kiwis that was Ace, but before he could push the fire user away the raven's tongue left his mouth. Though instead of ending the kiss Ace simply bites Zoro's bottom lip dragging a slight moan from the swordsman causing the fire user to smirk into the kiss and wrap his left arm around the swordsman's waist while the other tangled in green locks. Thrusting his tongue back inside Zoro's mouth Ace coxes the swordsman's own tongue to play causing the greenette to groan in pleasure. Throwing caution aside Zoro's uses his right hand to grip Ace's shoulder drawing the raven closer as he battles for dominance within his mouth. Only then does Ace break the kiss and nuzzles the blushing and slightly panting Zoro's neck.
"All mine," Ace murmurs against Zoro's neck happily pulling the swordsman off the railing and hugging the greenette to his bare chest. Zoro sighs blushing madly not even bothering to resist anymore.
"If this is your way of asking me to be your boyfriend your even more reckless than I thought," Zoro murmurs exasperatedly looking up at Ace who merely smiles sheepishly in return.
"But I suppose that's one reason why I like you so much," Zoro sighs out embarrassed to have confessed in front of so many of Ace's nakama. Several groans of disappointment and sighs of sympathy were heard throughout the gathered Whitebeard pirates while Ace simply chuckles.
"I like you too Zoro enough to keep you and not let anyone else touch you," Ace tells Zoro tenderly with a smile to match while caressing his right cheek. Zoro's grey eyes soften as he returns the smile with a red blush still adorning his cheeks.
"Now c'mon let me introduce you to my family," Ace states happily grinning widely from ear to ear as he drags Zoro to the center of the ship to begin official introductions of his family and boyfriend.
Yume: I'm so sorry i failed you but the next chapter will be better i promise! Leave your thoughts in a review plz. If you have any suggestion or ideas you'd like me to do feel free to pm me or leave it in a review cuz i'm open to them.