It's official , I have no life. *sighs* But, if it's for my precious readers I shall write!
Ace and Luffy walked back to the run down apartment complex. "I can't believe we were able to meet again,"Ace said putting his arm around Luffy's shoulder. 'Was Ace always this touchy? Must be because of his fever.'
"Yea, I'm so happy Ace is my brother! Hehe, who would've thought?" Ace smiled,'So I do like Luffy, but those were only the feelings of brotherly love. I'm glad I'm not gay.' "I can't wait to tell Usopp and Sabo!" Ace smiled, he liked that he had his precious little brother back.
"Speaking of Sabo, how is he? The last thing I remember was fighting with that gangster Bluejam with Dadan, how is she by the way?"
"Sabo is doing fine, I think, however Dadan and grandpa died in a house fire, which is why I moved here to live with Shanks." Ace frowned,'The old man and Dadan died? How on Earth could two of the strongest and most stubborn people die?' Ace sighed, he did have feelings for them. They were his caretakers since he was first born, Dadan would always be his mother figure, and Garp would always be, respected. 'Despite all our fighting I really did love them.'
"I'm sorry Luffy, I didn't know."
"It's all right I'm fine now. Shanks told me that we're gonna visit their graves tomorrow since It's Dadan's birthday, he said it'd be the right thing to do." Ace gulped,"Do you mind if I come with you two? I'd really like to visit them since it's been so long."
"Sure, the more the merrier you know!" Luffy opened the door to see the steaming hotpot on the table and Shanks staring at a newspaper, with a cigarette in his hand. Shanks looked up,"Oh, you two took a long time I was beginning to worry." Shanks tapped the ashes into the ash tray and put the cigarette in his mouth.
"That's because we found out we're brothers," Luffy said sitting down. "He lived in the mountains with Dadan and grandpa way before I did. When Grandpa took me into the mountains we became brothers! Exciting right? Never thought I'd ever get to see Ace again! He's also gonna come with us to visit Dadan and Grandpa!" Shank's mouth opened into a gasp,"You guys are brothers?! But I totally though Ace had a serious cr-" Shanks stopped when he noticed Ace's glare. Ace sat down next to Luffy and smiled.
"Well, it was my idea to drink the sake with Luffy and Sabo." Shanks put out his cigarette,"I'd heard about Sabo and Luffy becoming brothers but I didn't know there was another one."
"That's because you never met him and grandpa told me he died in Grey Terminal. You don't know how depressed Sabo and I were after grandpa told us that." Ace frowned,' Why did the old man tell them I died? Well, I mean I was kidnapped by some of Bluejam's thugs, but I still managed to beat them up! However, they had taken me to Tokyo and I had no idea where I was so I didn't know how to get back to the mountains. I didn't even know how to read a map so I got lost and ended up breaking into some rich guy's house. I was caught almost immediately, and was taken to meet Edward Newgate. Seeing how dirty and beaten up I was, he let me stay there for a few months then he officially adopted me.' Ace looked at Luffy who was gobbling up the hot, yummy meat. Ace turned his attention to the hotpot, 'He's taking all the meat!'
Ace giggled, when he remembered how they always use to fight for the meat at dinnertime. 'I really did want to meet the old man and Dadan again before they died. '
"Aah~ that was a good meal! Thanks, Shanks!" Luffy stood up and grabbed Ace's hand, dragging him into his room. "I'm sleepy, so you have to go to sleep to."
"You're sleepy? It's only 9 o'clock." Luffy frowned,"I like to go to bed early, simple as that." Luffy dug in his drawer,"Here, you can wear these, they should fit you and they're very comfortable." Ace quickly took off his hot uniform, neatly folded the pieces and made a small pile. Luffy stared at him the whole time he finally opened his mouth and walked over to Ace.
"Do you work out? If not, how on Earth do you get muscles like that?" He flexed," Even when I flex my muscles aren't as big as yours. Dadan told me girls like guys with muscles. It seems that no matter what I do, I just can't get big muscles." Luffy was clearly disturbed by the fact he didn't have big muscles.
"Well," Ace said slipping on Luffy's shirt and shorts. "A lot of the women like strong guys, like me, then again a lot also like sweet guys like you." Luffy frowned," I wanna be strong not sweet,"he grumbled. He crawled into the bed and turned his back to Ace. Ace couldn't help but chuckle,' Luffy really is to cute.'
"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be able to meet a nice girl who loves and cares for you." The moment Ace said those words he regretted it,'I hope he doesn't ever find a girl like that though.' Luffy turned around and smiled,"Do you really think so?" Ace smiled and nodded,' Even if he does, it'll never last since I'l- wait why am I trying to ruin Luffy's chance at happiness? I don't really understand myself anymore, there must be something wrong with me.' Ace crawled into bed with Luffy.
"Ne~ Ace do you remember what we used to do when we used to sleep together." Luffy leaned forward and kissed Ace's forehead, and giggled at his surprised expression.
"W-why on e-earth did you do that?" Luffy shrugged,"Don't you remember? It was a goodnight kiss, you used to always give them to me before I went to bed." 'I most certainly don't remember ever doing that!' Luffy frowned,"It's your turn now."
"A-aren't we a little to old for this?" Luffy shrugged,"Really? If you say so, I thought it was all right since we hadn't done it in a really long time." 'Is he really going to make me kiss him.' Luffy looked at Ace with his big eyes and a slight frown on his lips. Ace leaned forward and kissed him on the forehead,"T-there happy?" Luffy smiled, and nodded. 'Thank god it's dark! I don't want him to see the blush I have on my face.'
