Luffy woke up to the sound of the smoke detector going off. He was not happy that he was woken up by the annoying sound at- he glanced at the clock, sleep still making his vision blurry and the numbers were fuzzy and the smoke detector was still going off- six forty-five. He had stayed up until the earlier hours of the morning doing his school work, something that Law had to basically force him to do instead of playing video games with Ace. So Luffy did not get that much sleep and he was ready to throw someone out of a window if the smoke detector did not stop in the next two milliseconds.
It did not stop and Luffy was about to do something about it.
He threw the covers off of himself and angrily stomped his way to the living room where the accursed item continued to make noises. When he entered the living room he saw Sabo waving a rag at the smoke detector to make it stop beeping. He looked a bit worried as he continued to frantically wave the rag in his hand. Behind him in the kitchen Ace was lecturing Zoro and Law about how many fires start in the kitchen and how they should have been prepared for anything to happen. Zoro and Law didn't seem to be listening to him as they threw glare at one another and scrapped something black out of a pan.
Luffy was starting to piece together what had happened when Sabo saw him. He stopped waving the rag and began to speak but cut himself off when he realized that the smoke detector wouldn't let him get a word out. He began to wave the rag again and finally got the thing to shut up. Luffy mentally thanked him.
"Luffy! I'm so sorry, did the smoke detector wake you?" At the mention of Luffy's name the other three poked their heads out of the kitchen.
Luffy sighed and nodded. He looked at the kitchen and saw that there were more pans containing the same black substance than he thought. He looked at all four of them, "What happened?"
Sabo started again, "Well, you see…"
"Law decided that he was going to make you breakfast to win you over but we're not going to let him get ahead of us. So we thought we would all make you breakfast and the one that you liked the best would get to have you." Ace stepped out of the kitchen to stand next to Sabo. Zoro and Law said nothing as they also exited the kitchen, the mess forgotten now that Luffy was awake.
Luffy had completely forgotten that they were all fighting over him. Well, he knew that they were all flirting with him and sometimes he would flirt back but he forgot that they were all from an otome game where their main objective was to date him. Their company had made him so happy that he forgot that they weren't supposed to be real. Weren't supposed to be with him.
He shook those thoughts from his head. Now is not the time to be thinking like that; now is the time to be thinking about his poor kitchen and all the food that was probably wasted. He scratched at his head as he did his best to hold back the yawn that was coming up. He glanced at all of the boys again, "Why are you all trying so hard to impress me?"
"Did you not just hear me explain?" Ace crossed his arms across his chest, "We're trying to make you fall in love with us."
"You have to choose one of us at some point, Luffy-ya." Law leaned against the door frame and stared into Luffy's eyes intensely. Luffy held his gaze before turning his head to Zoro when he began to speak.
"Kind of hard to choose when none of us spend any time with him. Three out of five of us go to school and we never have more than a few hours to ourselves that we spend together instead of separately with Luffy." Zoro shrugged when everyone turned to look at him.
"You've got a point there. We need to do something about that. We all need some time with Luffy to allow him to properly choose." Sabo put his hand on his chin as he thought about what they could do.
"What, like we all take him on a date?" Ace turned his head to Sabo and looked at him curiously.
Sabo snapped his fingers, "That's it! Ace, you're a genius!" Ace grinned and moved his hair put of his face, silently gloating. Sabo turned to Luffy, "What do you say? We'll all take you out and whoever you have a deeper relationship with you choose them."
Luffy thought it over for a second. He likes them all them the same, he didn't want to single one of them out. The others would be lonely and Luffy knows all about what it feels like to be lonely. But if he doesn't let them do this then who knows how long they'll continue to fight with each other for his attention. Plus, he is rather curious to see who he would get along with better. He's always wanted to get close enough to someone that they could be in a relationship. He doesn't think about it much but it's always lingering at the back of his mind. Having a relationship was harder than he thought when he realized that he wasn't exactly attracted to anyone, not to mention that he never really had anyone to hang out with to see if they were the one. Otome games was something that could take his mind off of being lonely and it could also give him the feeling of being in a relationship.
Luffy smiled at them, "Alright! Sounds good to me. When will we go out?"
"How about we each get a Saturday with you. It gives us time to think of what to do and it's spaced out so that you're not completely overwhelmed with what we do." Sabo looked around for any objections. When none came he nodded his head, "Great. We'll start next weekend."
"Who is going to take the first date with Luffy?" Zoro raised an eyebrow at Sabo.
"Me obviously. It was my idea so it's only fair that I get the first date." Ace glared at the others as if daring them to say anything.
Law ignored the glare, "I want the first date with Luffy-ya."
"How about we fight for it. Winner gets first date while loser gets the last one." Zoro had his hand on his katanas, ready for a fight if someone actually agreed to his idea.
Sabo rolled his eyes, "Don't be stupid. We'll draw straws. Shortest gets last date and the biggest gets first date." He watched as Ace pouted, his idea to get the first date obviously getting shot down on the first go without any discussion on it. But he seemed to get over it as he turned around to go retrieve the straws.
"Okay, have fun drawing. I'm going back to bed," Luffy turned to go back to his room, "Wake me up when the food is good…well, good enough for me."
"Not burnt and charred. Got it." Ace's laughter was the last thing Luffy heard before he collapsed on his bed.
Luffy was awakened hours later by Law telling him that the food was ready. He didn't waste any time in heading to the kitchen. Law was left behind thinking how those few extra hours seemed to return Luffy to his normal energetic self.
"So, did you guys get the date order?" Luffy asked the group while he filled his plate with food. He began eating before anyone could respond.
Ace smiled at him, "You bet! And yours truly has the honor of taking you on the ride of your life for the first date. So prepare yourself for the best time of your life." He wiggled his eyebrows at Luffy who snorted in response.
"Then it's me." Sabo pushed the plate of bacon towards Luffy when he reached out for it.
"I've got the next date with you after him." Zoro flashed him a smile.
"Is Tora-o last?" Luffy looked at him from the corner of his eye as he continued to stuff his mouth with the rest of his breakfast. Law nodded at him. Luffy swallowed the food in his mouth, "Where are we going?"
Ace clicked his tongue and waved his finger back and forth, "ah, ah, ah. That is a surprise for you and for us as well."
"What he means is that he has no idea." Sabo dodged the spoon that was thrown at him.
"That is not true, Sabo you jerk! For your information I already know where I am taking Luffy and he is going to enjoy it so much that your date is going to be so bland compared to mine." To rub salt into the wound Ace stuck his tongue out at Sabo. Sabo rolled his eyes and leaned over the table to flick Ace's forehead.
"Doesn't matter if you have it or not. You have all week to think of what you want to do with Luffy." Zoro finished up his own plate of food.
"Use that time wisely or else you'll be a sitting duck while someone else snatches Luffy-ya away." Law smirked at Ace. Ace glared at him and gave him the middle finger.
"I don't know what I'm going to do, Smoker! I don't want to blow this chance. I need something good or else they'll take Luffy away from me." Ace sighed dramatically and draped himself over the chair in Smoker's office. He found himself in the office a lot when he was having troubles with something. He was actually surprised when he found himself enjoying Smoker's presence. Smoker, however, was not enjoying it too much.
"I don't care, nor do I have any intention of helping you. Now get out of my office before I cuff you and take you in." Smoker did not look up from the paperwork that was on his desk. He had a lot to get done and Ace was just making it harder for him to finish what he needed to do. He has told Ace countless times that he did not want him in his office, or anywhere near him for that matter, but Ace never listened to him.
"You know that threat doesn't work on me anymore," Ace smirked at Smoker before pouting, "Come on! I need ideas that would blow someone's socks off. I need something that Luffy would enjoy! Something that will make his eyes light up in that adorable way that he does when he sees something cool. Something that will make him smile that smile that puts the sun to shame. Something that will-"
"If you're just going to sit there and talk about that brat then you can leave. Actually, just leave." Smoker started fi8lling out another paper. The noises from his pen were the only thing that could be heard for a moment before he sighed and put the pen down. He looked up at Ace, "You two are pretty similar. If I didn't know any better, I'd think that you two were brothers."
"What's your point?"
Smoker sighed again, "If you two are so similar that you could be mistaken as siblings, then why don't you take him somewhere that you like. You two like the same things so whatever you choose he will enjoy."
Ace jumped out of his seat, a huge grin pulling at his lips. "Smoker! You are absolutely right! We do like the same things so if we go somewhere that we both like then he'll have a good time," Ace turned towards Smoker, "I could kiss you right now!"
"Please don't."
"I'm not going to. If I was going to kiss anyone it would be Luffy," Ace grabbed his bag from beside the chair and headed towards the door, "Bye, Smoker. Thanks for your help. See you next week." Ace was already out of the door before he could hear Smoker's request that he does not come in next week. Ace walked to his class with a little pep in his step as he started to brainstorm ideas about where he could take Luffy on their date.
"Why are you following me again?" Sabo was this close to turning around and throwing something at Bartolomeo. He had been following Sabo for the past three groves. At first he had thought it was some sort of stalker and was thinking of a plan in his head to either lose or attack his follower. He was getting ready to turn around and fight when he realized that it was a stalker but no one that was dangerous to him. More annoying than anything.
"I just want to see what your daily activities are. Are you meeting up with Luffy-senpai at any point? Maybe he'll see me and we'll talk and then I can join his gang. That would be the greatest moment of my life." Bartolomeo had turned his attention away from Sabo and was now inside of his own day dream.
"Well stop it. And Luffy has school for the rest of the day so no, I am not meeting up with him. Not until dinner." Sabo continued on his way, now trying to ignore his unwanted companion. He thought about what he needed from the store in order to make dinner but soon his mind drifted off to what he was going to do for dinner on his date with Luffy. Then he started thinking about what to do on his date. "What am I going to do? If I can't amaze Luffy then I'll lose him."
"What was that, great-senpai? You're losing Luffy-senpai?! What have you done to him?!" Bartolomeo was exposing his rather sharp teeth to Sabo.
"I haven't done anything to him, now shut up." Sabo thought for a minute before turning to Bartolomeo, "If you could have one date with Luffy where would you take him?" Sabo knew that never in a million years would Bartolomeo ever get a chance but it would be nice to have an outsider's opinion.
"A date with Luffy-senpai? Well, where do I start? First I would take him to whatever restaurant he wants to go to and I would let him eat all he wants to. Then I would take him to museum, even though art is not what Luffy-senpai is super interested in he would enjoy messing around with the statues and he would like to see the art but to me Luffy-senpai is the real masterpiece. After that I would take him to see a movie or maybe I would take him shopping for whatever he wants and then-"
Sabo had a mental lightbulb light up over his head. "That's it. A museum would be a pretty good idea. It would be nice to see the art and enjoy it together. If that doesn't work out then a movie would work just fine. Dinner afterwards would be a good idea too," Sabo gave Bartolomeo a smile, "Thanks."
Bartolomeo looked like he was going to faint, "A-Anything for you, great-senpai."
"Oi, shitty cook."
Sanji could already feel the headache coming. He didn't have to turn around to see who was calling out to him. But he turned around anyway, glare and frown evident on his face, "What do you want, marimo?" He was trying to enjoy a nice day at the park but no. His day just had to be ruined.
"I need help with something."
"And why should I help you?"
Zoro smirked, "Why wouldn't you want to help me?" He easily dodged the kick that came his way, "I need help with figuring out where to take Luffy on our date."
Sanji stopped his movements. "You got a date with Luffy? What did you bribe him with?"
"Nothing. Just help me… please." Zoro looked away from Sanji with a slight bluish dusting his cheeks.
Sanji couldn't help but smirk in triumph at the fact that he had gotten a please out of Zoro. Maybe his day wasn't so bad. "Alright, let me hear what your ideas are. What are your plans?"
"I was thinking that I could take him to the park-"
"Yes, that's a good start. Luffy likes nature very much so he'll love the park."
"-So that we could train together." Zoro dodged Sanji's kick again.
"You idiot! You don't take someone on a date to train with them! If you were going to train why don't you just have your date at the gym!" He attacked Zoro again when he saw that the other was actually considering it. He sighed and dragged his hand over his face, "Okay, here's how you're going to do this. You're going to take him to the aquarium, he's going to have the best time of his life, and you're going to fall in love with him, and then you'll leave me alone for the rest of forever." Sanji nodded at Zoro and turned away.
Zoro turned him back around, "But what If he doesn't have fun? Then what do I do?"
Sanji waved his hand around in the air, "I don't know. He'll love the aquarium so you don't have to worry about it. But if that does fail, probably because of something that you did," He ignored the glare given to him, "Then you can take him to the gym and train like you had originally planned. But you don't have to worry because Luffy will have a good time and you will thank me by staying away."
"But if I leave you alone then you'll miss me, won't you?" Zoro smirked at Sanji.
The rest of their evening was spent fighting with each other, ignoring all of the other people in the park who were wondering why they were fighting.
"Oi, Trafalgar. A little birdie told me that you've got a date with Luffy." Kid grinned at Law as he sat in the seat across from him.
Law glanced up from the paper he was working on. There goes his peaceful lunch break.
"What about it, Eustass-ya. You jealous?" Law smirked at the red-haired man.
Kid scoffed, "As if. I just came to see if you had any plans for it yet."
Law stared at Kid, confusion clear on his face. All of their interactions so far ad been mostly sarcasm and anger. Hell, at one point Kid had lunged towards Law with the intent of beating him senseless but his friends had caught him before he could reach the other. So Law was trying to figure out what made Kid have a change of heart all of a sudden. Maybe he was ill. Maybe he had some sort of undiscovered illness. If that was the case then it would give Law the perfect opportunity to open Kid up and put his learning to the test.
"As of the moment, no." Law turned his eyes back to his paper, continuing to work on it.
It was silent for a few seconds before Kid spoke up again, "You know, the amusement park is always open."
Law glanced up again, "Amusement park?"
"Yeah, you know. The park on groves thirty to thirty-nine. Huge park with rides, games, and food stalls. You could always take him there. Luffy lives off of adrenaline so the park would be a great place for him to go to." Kid chuckled to himself, "Just be careful he doesn't get into a fight there. One wrong word and he'll go off like a cannon."
Law grinned, "You've got a point. Luffy-ya does tend to be reckless. But he doesn't get into a fight with just anybody because they said something he didn't like."
Kid nodded, "Yeah, he normally only dies it if someone says wrong about his friends."
"You think someone is going to say something bad about me?"
Kid smirked at Law again, "Yeah, just look at you. You look like shit."
Law smirked back at him, "You don't look too good yourself, Eustass-ya."
Kid felt his eye twitch. Law knew just how to get under his skin, even if all he did was say the exact same thing Kid said. What was the thing that the school counselor told him to do when he got mad?
'Oh god, stop throwing things please! That was my mother's favorite vase!' No, that wasn't it. Go back a few more minutes.
'Whenever you feel angry just breathe throw you nose calmly. In, out, in, out. Do it for thirty seconds and if you're still angry try to think of something else to take your mind away from the anger.'
He took in a deep breath and exhaled through his nose. He repeated the process until he felt himself get a little less angry. Good enough.
"Whatever," He got up from his seat and started to leave Law, "Just don't forget the amusement park."
When Kid was completely out of sight, Law let out a small smile at his paper. He'd have to lay off on teasing Kid for a while in thanks for giving him an idea for his date. He thought about it for a split second before chuckling to himself as he knew that he would not ease up on the teasing.
GUESS WHO'S BACK! THAT'S RIGHT! Unexpected update! Aren't y'all happy to see me again? I'm sorry I haven't updated for like... 4 months? Honestly, it felt like I haven't updated in a year. I was so worried no one liked the story anymore.
I am so sorry if this chapter seems so OOC. It's been a while since I've written these characters so everything is so foggy for me, I am so sorry.
So, all that's left is four chapters until there is a week break for... THE VOTE TO SEE WHO LUFFY DATES! Yaaaaay~ So the date chapters will revolve around the pairings so you can see who you like with Luffy better.
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