Beta'ed by lunarshores. You can once again thank her for the ending ^^
Ace slammed him chemistry book shut as more boisterous laughter reached him ears. He scowled put a pillow over his head in an attempt to muffle the noise. When that didn't work, he rolled off the bed and fell to the ground with a thud, before getting up and making a beeline for the front door of his apartment.
He had just about had enough of his new neighbor. Ace walked out of his apartment, not bothering to lock the door behind him. He started angrily making his way in the direction of the noise. Ace forced the scowl to leave his face. It wouldn't do to start off rude, after all. He took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
There was no response.
He clenched his other fist, before knocking on the door again, this time a little louder. Just when he was about to knock a third time, he heard the click of the lock. The door was suddenly pulled open. Ace examined the man's face with a slight amount of curiosity. His hair was blond, shaved on the sides, and left to grow on the top of his head. All in all, it was a very unique hairstyle, and it reminded Ace of a pineapple. The man's piercing blue eyes looked at Ace's face. He was slightly flushed, and if Ace had to guess, he would say it's because of the alcohol he just knew they had to be consuming at a party this loud.
"Can I help you?" the man asked. Ace cleared his throat.
"Uhhh… yeah. I'm Ace, and I live next door," he started. "I was wondering if you could please be a little quieter, because the noise is really bothering me." At a time like this, Makino's lessons on manners really came in handy. He didn't want to get on his new neighbor's bad side already. He almost shuddered as he thought back to his last neighbor. Akainu hadn't been an easy man to live next door to. He did everything he could to make Ace's life hell.
"Oh, sorry about that. I'll try to get my brothers to quiet down a bit," the man said. "My name's Marco," he added as an afterthought.
Ace was just about to thank him and go back to his apartment, when two obviously drunk men appeared behind Marco.
"Who's this?"
"Oh, Marco, you didn't tell me you had a new boyfriend! He's so cute!" The man wearing a traditional kimono grabbed Ace's hand before either Marco or Ace could protest. The next thing Ace knew he had been pulled into the house and was sitting next to man who'd introduced himself as Izo, Marco's brother, trying to answer an avalanche of questions. He never got back to his chemistry book that night.