Here is chapter two! I hope you like it! It was a bit hard to come up with an idea for this one, but in the end I'm happy with how it all came out, although it was a lot longer than what I expected it to be at first! Well, I will make this the last chapter of this short story. It was fun writing, but expect more drabbles of these two soon! I love these two so much. Well, I'll stop here now, on with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece, Oda owns it. I do however own this story.

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I was currently sitting on the floor of the forest, waiting for Luffy to appear so we could continue doing our daily trainings. I had known him for about four years now, and never until now had he been so late to one of our trainings. It was a tradition since we knew each other, fighting a hundred times per day and me winning the younger boy each one and all of those times. I had to admit that right now it was more difficult though, since Luffy had finally learned how to control his punches, and was on the process of discovering other ways to attack, and this had forced me to use even more energy on each fight, since the other by was strong, a lot more than before and he could now at least control a bit more his rubber body. However he still wasn't strong enough to defeat me, and probably would never be or would take an awful lot of time until he was. I smirked at this though, momentarily forgetting how long Luffy was taking to come to where we always trained. I wondered where he could be, since he had dashed out of Dadan's house this morning while saying that he had to finish doing something that he hadn't told anyone about. I sighed, annoyed at Luffy for taking so long and wondering if what he wanted to do was skip today's fighting, and decided to try and find him.

I decided to try and find him first at the Terminal Gray, and I spent quite a lot of time there trying to find him without result. However some time later I saw him coming out of the city that we had robbed so much at over the years and where we were extremely infamous. . Luffy seemed to be running away from an angry group of people, and he was carrying two roses with him. A red and a white rose. I felt a pang of jealousy build suddenly in me. Who were those roses for? Was it that he preferred to be with that person than with me? Did he hate me that much?

Luffy then continued running through the terminal gray, avoiding the people that were chasing him. How in hells name had he managed to get so many people to chase him for just a single rose? I thought about helping him get rid of them, but my jealousy and curiosity prevented me from doing this, and I instead decided to follow him to see who he was going to give it to.

Luffy then went towards the forest, going through a path that I knew that took to Fuschia village. What was he going to do there? And why was he grinning like that? Who was he going to see? I wondered mentally, feeling that feeling of jealousy in me grow. I followed him for some time, knowing that he wouldn't notice that I was following him. He was always like that after all. It wasn't long until he finally reached the village, and I did too not too long after he did. He continued running through the village, probably to Makino's bar.

"Bingo" I said with a low voice, as I saw him entering the bar that he had taken me to a few times.

I limited myself to watch Luffy through a window, and I saw that he was talking animatedly with a girl that was in the bar, and was looking at him with... interested eyes. Eyes interested in Luffy not in a friendly way of course, but in a romantic way. I saw Luffy handing the girl one of the roses, with a smile while he said something.

I then turned around and decided to go back to Dadan's house, quite sad inside. So he had given her the rose, and the other one, probably the white one, to Makino. I was sad, and I felt jealousy eating me inside. "If he prefers to be with her he can be with her all day from now on. I don't want to see his face then" I muttered, a bit angry, as I was going through the jungle. Soon enough I arrived to where we usually trained and I slumped, closed my eyes and rested against a tree, trying to order my emotions. Why was I so sad? Could it be that I...? No. It was definitely not it. It couldn't be it. No way could it be that. I was so sad because Luffy had decided to leave me alone and betray me. Yes. That was the reason. But why was I so jealous then? I was so concentrated that I didn't hear Luffy arrive until I heard him talk.

"Ace" I suddenly heard my little brother say, which caused me to open my eyes and almost jump up. Why was he here?

"You're late" I said, with an annoyed tone of voice, to hide theh fact that I was feeling said.

"I was just getting something" Luffy then replied.

I stared at him, for several seconds, with an emotionless face. "You were in Fuschia village, weren't you? With that girl that you prefer over me" I then said, with some hurt and sadness appearing in my eyes.

Luffy was surprised at this. Surprised and with a look on his face that immediately told me that he had in fact been with that girl. "It's not like that Ace!" Luffy shouted with a worried tone of voice.

"You went with her instead be being with me! And you even gave her a rose!" I shouted then, with a bit of anger fuelled by jealousy.

"You were following me?" Luffy then asked aloud.

I blushed lightly. "You prefer her over me" And why wouldn't I? You're my little brother, who knows what could happen to you!" I shouted. "But if you prefer to be with her you can be with her all the time from now on! Don't bother looking at me again!" I then shouted, as I turned around and started walking in a random direction, which turned out to be towards Dadan's house. It was almost dinnertime by now, and it was starting to get dark.

Several seconds passed until Luffy spoke. Seconds during which I felt the anger, sadness and jealousy in me increase more and more as I remembered what I had seen. "Ace! It's not like that!" Luffy shouted, as he ran towards me and grabbed my hand, which made me turn to face him.

"Yes it was!" I shouted at him.

"No it wasn't! I did give the girl a rose, but it was a white one, because of all that she helped me!" Luffy shouted.

I was surprised by this, but I didn't say anything and instead continued staring at him, as the anger started to disappear a bit. Some time passed until I spoke again. "Helped you with what?" I asked, with a suspicious and jealous tone of voice.

Luffy then grinned, and instead of answering me he revealed two things that he was carrying behind him, hiding them behind his back. I was surprised by this. I didn't expect it a single bit. I didn't move or say anything then and for a long time. I didn't know what to do.

"Happy birthday Ace" Luffy then said, with an even wider grin on his face, and cheeks slightly tainted by a red colour, as he handed me both things that he had been hiding.

I then looked at both things that he had given me. One was an orange cowboy had that I had to admit that I liked a lot, and the other was... a red rose, the one that I had seen him carrying earlier. I blushed with a deep crimson colour, feeling a bubbly feeling in me and butterflies infesting my stomach, and all jealousy left me. I didn't know what to do then, and I couldn't help but wonder if Luffy knew the meaning of the rose that he was giving me. However, the cheeky grin that he had suggested that he did know what it meant, and perfectly well.

Before I knew what I was doing I found myself hugging the younger boy, with those butterflies still infesting my stomach, the bubbly feeling in its place and my heart beating at a hundred miles per hour."Thank you, Lu" I said in a low voice, noticing how the other boy soon returned my embrace and the blush on his cheeks became more evident, but still less than mine.

"Shishishi" I heard him say, or rather laugh, with that cheeky grin and blush on their place. I felt his heart beating fast too and him slowly hugging me tighter.

Did he really? Did he? He probably did, and now that I thought about it, it all started to make more and more sense in my head. Why was I though feeling like this? Why was I blushing? Why were there butterflies in my stomach? What was this feeling? And above all, why was I so happy because of Luffy...? Could it be that I...? Could it? "It probably is that" I thought then, realising what the bubbly feeling was. Yes, I loved Luffy, and I had just realised that. I loved Luffy and there was nothing that I could do about it.