Red Roulette

"Alright you idiots, time to wake up!" Dadan annouced as she entered the two brats' room. She normally didn't wake them up unless they had duties to do, which she had given up trying to get them to do a long time ago, but today they had a visitor so she had no choice.
"Hm? What is it shitty Dadan?" Ace said after a large yawn.
"WHO YOU CALLING SHITTY? Be gratefull I've taken care of you for sixteen whole years!" Dadan yelled and punched Ace in the head. Luffy woke up as well as she did this.
"Yosh. Get up. You have guests." The large woman left the room and the two boys got up from their warm futons.

"Ah! Makino!" Luffy said, and ran off to hug the green haired lady at the fire pit.
"Good morning, Luffy-chan!" She laughed and hugged him back. Ace smiled slightly at the scene, and noticed there were two other sitting by the fire.
"Aa! Mayor! Anne! What are you guys doing here?" Luffy asked before Ace had gotten the chance to do so himself.
"Don't be so rude." Fuusha village's mayor said in a strickt tone.
"Mornin' Luffy and Ace." Anne said with a smile. To Ace's suprise, she was wearing a skimpy pink dress with a wide black belt around the waist. The fabric had a really strange pattern - it was covered with a mix of blue monkeys, ham and books, and the large bandage around her left arm was decorated with yellow smilies all over. A large silver bracelet was covering her right wrist.
Makino seemed to notice his stare, as she looked at him and said, with a slighty sly smile:
"Doesn't she look cute in it? I gave her some of the clothes I used to wear when I was fithteen."

Ace blushed, why he wasn't sure, and tried to defend himself.
"Ace has always been shy." Luffy laughed.
"Oi you bastard!" Ace yelled at his brother, who just kept on laughing. He let his eyes wander down Anne's bare legs towards the fire and...
"OI! What happend to your feet?" He yelled in shock and pointed.
"Hm? AH CRAP!" She yelled and pulled her legs away from the fire then looked around.
"I hate when this happens..."
"You loose body parts often?" The mayor asked, just as shocked as the rest of them.
"There!" She said and pointed at a small cloud of steam hoovering just beneith the ceeling. The lot of them sweatdropped. With a move of her hand the steam went down to her legs and retook their original shape.
"Good thing they cooled down." She sighted and wiggeled her toes.

They were all snacking on some melonbread Makino had baked and brought with her when the pack of mountain bandits came home after their normal robbing people.
"We're home~." Dogra and Magra said together as they entered, then stopped on the spot as they noticed the three visitors.
"What are you doing here?" They asked and pointed at Anne.
"I'm visiting." She tilted her head. "You seem familiar somehow..." The two men froze and started sweating, then they quickly ran into another room.
"Anyway nice to meet cha!" They yelled from behind the door.

"Phew! You think she recognized us?" Dogra whispered.
"I sure hope not! She's scary!" Magra answered.

/Flashback/
"Look over there! A young girl walking all by herself!" One of the bandits whispered to Dogra.
"Yosh, easy target. Let me and Magra handle this one." He answered with a confident smirk. The two of them jumped down from the tree they where hiding in, scouting for people to rob. They walked behind the girl who seemed quite stressed to get home. As they got closer they heard her mutter to herself.
"God I hate the dark! Kami-sama help, I'm Scared... I'll sing something to calm down... Going to deliver Bink's sake~..." She really did sound scared but the two men didn't have the time to take pity on her. They were bandits after all, it was part of their lives to make people scared. They also noticed she was wearing a bandage on her left arm, with a piece of it going around her neck to support it.

They jumped at her with a roar, but she tripped and fell flat on her stomac in the last second so they missed and went flying in the air above her head.
"Oow! ...Eh? Anyone there?" She said and got up after regaining the ability to breathe properly. The two men hurried to get up themselfes, hoping to make themselfes look as threathening as possible.
"Give us all your money and valuables!" Magra growled.
"Oh thank god it's just men." The girl sighted in releif with a hand over her chest.
"Yeah well there's two of us so I wouldn't get too cocky if I were you." Magra said.
"We can take you down even if we were alone." Dogra backed up. "Little girls like you shouldn't wander around alone like this you know."

The second he had said that her stare turned ice cold.
"If that's true then why gang up on me huh?" She said with a low voice and stepped closer.
"And just what does me being a girl have anything to do with it?" She took another step closer. Magra and Dogra both froze. The girl was emitting pure rage, matching her flaming red hair. She stopped right in front of them and stared into their eyes.
"Men think they rule the world but you would be nothing without women!" She yelled and kicked them both in the nuts, leaving them in their pain as she went back to walking down the road.
/End of flashback/

"Who where those weird guys?" Anne asked.
"Just Magra and Dogra. They live here with us, and so does the other mountain bandits." Ace said.
"Hmm... I'm bored." She said and layed down on her back, staring at the ceeling.
"Wanna go out?" Ace asked, and Makino giggeled.
"My, you got bold all of a sudden Ace-chan!" As she said that, Ace froze.
"I-I meant go OUTSIDE! Outside! Not out..." Ace stuttered and felt blood flowing through his neck to his cheeks, coloring them bright red.
"Yeah sure! You coming too Luffy?" Anne sat up and noticed Luffy wasn't there anymore.
"Eh? Where'd he go?" She blinked and looked around. Ace, Makino and the Mayor looked aswell but couldn't see him anywere. Ace face-palmed.

Makino and the Mayor had headed home to Fuusha to get their daily duties done, and the two teens had gone out in the forest to find the missing Luffy. Ace hadn't been able to sit still after noticing Luffy had vanished so Anne agreed to help him look.
"You and your brother are really close huh?" She said with a smilie, it wasn't a question.
"Well yeah. He's my only brother." Ace responded and kicked a rock which seemed to large for a normal person to kick without breaking toes. "Besides he's so reckless! If I let him out of my eyesight for even a second, he always manages to get into troubble."
"You both get into alot of troubble, especially when you're together." Anne teased.
"You're one to talk... Didn't you loose your feet less then an hour ago?" Ace teased back.
"It doesn't count if it's done quickly!" She defended herself.
"What kind of resolve is that?" He said with a sweatdrop.

They kept walking, passing the ruins of the tree-house Ace, Sabo and Luffy used to live in. Ace stopped and looked at it. Anne stopped aswell and followed his eyes.
"Woah, been a while since I last saw this place." Ace said with his hands on his hips. Anne didn't have the time to respond before a loud smash was heard from a bit futher into the woods. They hurried there, and found Luffy with half a tree on top of him. He looked up, apperently not feeling any pain.
"Ooh! You guys! What are you doing here?" He was smiling as always.
"OI LUFFY! What the hell are YOU doing?" Ace yelled and rushed to help moving the tree, followed by Anne who did the same.
"I was just training when this stupid tree fell on me." Luffy answered.
"Trees don't normally just fall randomly." Ace growled.
"Well it was coz I punched it." Luffy said as the tree rolled off him. "Yatta! I'm free! Thank y-"
"Then it's your own fault!" Ace interupted and punched Luffy in the head.

Ace agreed to practise fighting with Luffy like they had done since they were kids. Luffy rubbed the large bump on his head and took his oh-so-charakteristic starting pose.
"Gomu gomu no pistol!" He yelled and fired off his fist, making Anne clap her hands in exitement as his arm streched. Ace dodged it easaly, and leaped forward stepping past Luffy's defence. He then punched poor Luffy sending him flying several feet back before slamming into a tree.
"Still so weak Luffy?" Ace said with a victorious smile.
"Shut up! You're older then me!" Luffy defended himself with a vein popping out on his forhead.
"So what? There are lots of people older then you out there! Are you gonna let them kill you just 'coz they're older?" Ace yelled back. They stared with lightning at eatchother for a couple of seconds until Anne interupted them.

"You guys are so cute!" She said while laughing.
"By the way, you've been on the sea for a while right? You must know how to fight?" Ace said.
"Well you kind of die if you can't defend yourself as a pirate." She said and tilted her head.
"Let's fight then!" Luffy said, smiling widely.
"Sure." She walked forward and stood two meters or so away from him.
"Gomu gomu no pistol!" Anne took a step aside to avoid the attack then raised her hand.
"Lock." Water shot out of her fingers and took the shape of handcuffs around his legs, waist and arms. Luffy tried to get loose but the water drained his strenght as a devils' fruit eater.
"My turn." Ace declared. Anne let go of Luffy and faced Ace. She was the first to attack this time. She jumped into the air and aimed a kick at his head, but he was far to fast and easaly dodged it. He stepped behind her as she landed and kicked at her ankels. When he did this he noticed a pair of scars on eatch of then but didn't let himself get distracted.
Anne fell forward and tried to redeem herself by spinning around on the way down. She accedently hit Ace's feet when doing so and he fell forward himself.

Anne was on her back with the back of her head aching after hitting the ground. She looked up and noticed her chest was covered in blood. In the middle of the mess Ace was knocked out.
"ACE! Crap, did he break his nose?" Luffy said, oviously worried.
"Eh? Nose? But he didn't land on the hard ground so he should be ok..." Anne said, oviously confused and probably slightly brain damaged at the moment.
"But but... He fell then he screamed and held his nose then it started bleeding like crazy..." Luffy whined as though he was about to cry. A cold shiver of realisation went down Anne's spine. Several veins popped out on her forhead.
"Ace you PERVERT!" She yelled at the unconsious boy and tossed the poor guy off her.