Zoros exasperation quickly turned from confidence to fear. Ace release him from his grasp, while Luffy stood by with dried tears on his cheeks.
"So why the hell is Luffy crying?" Ace quickly asked without hesitation, rage filled his voice. His eyes were locked on Zoro; he could see Zoro tremble under his glare.
"Ace. Calm down I'm fine." Luffy tried to reassure Ace before he destroys Zoro. Ace only fakes a smile at Luffy trying to hide his rage, and motions for him to come closer. Luffy walks away from his spot next to Zoro and stands in front of his raging older brother.
"Luffy what happened and why are you crying and it better be a good reason or I'm going to burn this guy to a crisp." Ace says glaring daggers at Zoro while speaking.
Luffy stuttered, "Well umm… Zoro and I were umm…. Trying to decide how to tell you… well you know about me and him… he said we should just come out and say it, but I didn't think that was a good idea so… We argued." Luffy kept his head down as he talked feeling shame for making Ace want to kill Zoro.
"So the why were you crying?" Ace questioned Luffy, while still glaring at Zoro.
"I kinda got hot sauce in my eye. We got tacos." Luffy stated simply with his trademark grin upon his face. This almost made Ace fall flat on his face. He simply face palmed, and gave Zoro an apologetic smile, before looking back at Luffy.
"Are you FUCKING kidding me, Luffy you need to be more careful!" ace scolded before turning back to Zoro. "I'm sorry for over reacting. Hi I'm Ace." Ace apologized.
"I-its fin, no harm done." Except you scared the shit out of me, Zoro thought to himself. He reached his hand out and took Luffy's in his own. A slight shade of pink began to creep onto Luffy's cheeks.
Ace saw this and felt a ball of jealousy well up inside him. All Ace wanted to do now was to grab Luffy by the waist and kiss the sweet lips that were currently pushed out into a pout.
"So you guys have tacos?" Ace questioned, trying to hide his jealousy. Luffy suddenly jumps up with a taco in his hand.
"Yah! You want one?" He asks handing Ace a taco.
After supper Zoro decides to leave saying that he has to go do some more training. So Ace and Luffy were stuck doing dishes.
"So Luffy, why didn't you want to tell me about Zoro?" Ace asks while drying the dishes Luffy gives him. Luffy hesitates for a few minutes.
"Well I didn't know how you would react. So I thought we would wait until after Christmas to tell you." Luffy answered.
"Why after Christmas?" Ace asked.
"Because I didn't want to stress you out for the holidays." Luffy replied. Then looked at ace worriedly. "Are you ok with me and Zoro? Because I know you thought I was going out with Nami, but we never really liked each other like that." Luffy added.
Ace was taken aback by this question. "I'm fine with you two going out; I just wish you would have told me sooner that away I could buy you both Christmas presents." Ace reassured Luffy. Thou he really didn't like the idea of Luffy with someone else.
"Grate!" Luffy yelled before running to his room. Bet he's going to sleep. Ace thought to himself with a smile.