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Woo, a new update this quick. I'm just overwhelmed with the support I've received so I ended up writing a new one. I hope you'll enjoy it as it's quite light and joyous compared to the last two chapters. It's not as satisfactory to me, so do tell me what you think!

Three figures were sprawled out on the floor with two pair of eyes watching them. Thatch was sleeping at the bottom of them three with Haruta resting her legs over his chest and Ace using his stomach as his pillow. Three of them slept soundly, occasionally stirring and hitting the others with their hands or legs.

"They are so cute when they fall asleep. So harmless and unlike the troublemakers they usually are, yoi." Marco sighed, putting one hand on his waist.

Of course they had fallen asleep behind Whitebeard's huge chair. After painting Marco's room with bright colours and changing his shampoo to pink hair dye, they had to hide somewhere. And the safest spot would be somewhere near their captain. They hid well, but to think they had the guts to fall asleep while Marco was still hunting them down. Now, what should he do with them? Throw them into the sea or tie them to the crow nest?

"Gurararara," Whitebeard chuckled. "They are still children at heart."

Marco let out another sigh.

"The same goes for you, Marco." Whitebeard grinned down at the Phoenix and he raised an eyebrow at that.

"I'm too old to be called a child, oyaji."

"Never too old, Marco, never. You're all my sons and as long as I'm alive, you're all my children."

Marco suppressed a smile. "You're spoiling us, yoi."

"And nothing's wrong with that." Whitebeard grinned again, and Marco found himself doing the same.

The first division commander let his gaze fell upon the three pranksters in front of him. They were snoring lightly and somehow that ticked him off. There was no way he would leave without doing anything.

"What should I do with them now, I wonder." He mused.

"I certainly saw them putting away some leftover paint."

Marco raised an eyebrow at his captain. Usually, he would tell him to drop the matter whenever the three pranksters ran up to him for protection. Well, perhaps he could act as a child for once too. He chuckled and left to where Whitebeard had point at. "Thanks, oyaji."

When Ace, Thatch and Haruta woke up, they were terrified. The three of them woke up in their own rooms and were surprised to find all the walls painted in rainbow colour. Not just that, Thatch's pompadour was gone and his hair was cut short four inches. Haruta's hair was now green. Ace's Striker was all but painted in bright pink and polished to shine. He even had make up on (most probably thanks to Izo's help)!

From then on, they promised themselves to think thoroughly before pranking Marco again.

And Marco could only laugh, along with his captain over two cups of sake as three identical screams resonated across the Moby Dick.

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