This is Chapter 10 of Just Another Day.
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A black haired teen started off his day with a yawn. Normally this boy would be full of energy and excitement, but today was different, all his friends were away doing something for the summer, and his big brother was always out.
The blackette wondered on to the kitchen. One the fridge a note was left saying, 'Luffy, don't eat everything in the fridge, I went grocery shopping last night, this needs to last us for the week, love, Ace.'
The boy shrugged then poured himself a bowl of cereal. 'No Sanji to cook delicious meats.' He sat down then looked at the newspaper, it was Sunday so it was huge. He threw on the floor all the black and white page's until he found the colorfully printed paper.
'Morning comics.' He thought with a smile. He took a bite of the colorful cereal and read through the comics.
He finished his lonesome breakfast and wandered back to his room. He looked at his favorite wall and smiled sadly. "I wanna see them!" He shouted out then wandered back into the living room.
He played play station for about an hour then threw the controller, annoyed. His got up again and wondered to the bathroom, leaving the door open. "No use shutting it." He grumbled.
After exiting the bathroom he started shouting at no one. "I'M BORED!" He then plopped down on the couch sighing.
Ace walked into the room to see his little brother sighing. "Sigh, sigh, sigh, sigh." Luffy started saying over and over again. "Luffy, why are you actually saying the word 'Sigh'?" He asked shaking his head a little.
Luffy looked over to his brother boredly. "SIGH!" He seemed to complain tossing his head backwards.
Ace rolled his eyes at his sibling and smiled. "If you're so bored, why don't you take a walk, the house is probably making you go insane." He looked over to his younger brother.
"Couldn't you just play with me?" Ace shook his head. "I have to do something in a little bit, so I need to sleep some."
Luffy's shoulders slumped more. Though, that seemed a bit dangerously low, by human standards. Ace sighed and patted his brother on the head. "Go for the walk, clear your head of this boredom, and you'll enjoy yourself a little better, now go on and scare some pedestrians in the park."
Luffy jumped up. "Ok!" The younger brother dashed out the door.
Ace shook his head, smiling about his stupid brother. "I just hope he remembers to come back...nah, he'll get hungry soon enough." With that comforting thought, the older brother went to his room and stripped down and fell asleep.
Luffy wondered around the town, still bored out of his mind. He looked over at the Baratie, which was where Sanji usually worked. "Why does everyone have to be somewhere else during summer?" He pouted and kicked a rock.
He wondered over to a bank and thought of his orange haired friend Nami. "I always thought she'd rob a bank!" His eye's got tearful. "I MISS THEM!"
He ran toward the park and sat down in a huff next to the small lake. He sat down on something much more cushiony, yet harder, than grass.
He looked at what, or rather, whom he was sitting on. What he was looking at looked back at him.
Luffy continued to stare at the other. "Oi, are you gonna get off of me, or not?" Luffy started grinning like an idiot. "You're a swordsman!" The boy shouted happily.
"Yeah, what of it?" He asked growling. Luffy laughed as he jumped off the man. The man stood up and rubbed his head. The man had a black bandana on his head and a pair of black pants and a white t-shirt that was cut down the center about three inches.
Luffy smiled at the man again. The man got up and walked away. Luffy shrugged and walked home.
He walked in the door and saw something odd. His older brother was making out with another guy on the couch. The other man had white hair and a white coat on and a pair of pants.
"Err, Ace?" Luffy asked calmly. Ace fell off the man and stared at his younger brother with wide, scared, eyes. "Y-yes, Luffy?" Ace asked nervous fear evident in his voice.
"You don't need to hide things from me." Luffy said calmly as he walked out the door, angry at his brother for not telling him.
He started running away from the house and toward the darkening park. He looked over to a pole, seeing the man from earlier handcuffed to it. A little girl was trying to give him some rice balls, though he rejected them and told her to leave.
Luffy felt compelled to walk up to this scene. He did so and tilted his head. "Hey, mister, why are you handcuffed to that pole?"
The man glared at the boy. "Oh, because I thought it'd be fun!" The sarcasm came out in venom drips.
Luffy chuckled and looked at the little girl. He smiled at her, then noticed a young man with a strange haircut coming their way.
"Hey, no talking to the criminal, or helping him!" The Strange man had shouted. Luffy looked over to the guy, then turned back to the man stuck to the pole.
Annoyed with being ignored, the guy started yelling. "My name is Helmeppo, son of Captain Morgan, so you better not mess with me!" Luffy turned back to him and said in a tone that was oddly friendly.
"I don't care!"
Helmeppo glared at Luffy then kicked the nab on the pole. "So, what's his crime then?" Luffy asked poking the man. "He killed one of my dogs!"
Luffy tilted his head at the restrained man. "So, why did ya do that?" He looked up at Luffy and pointed to the little girl. Luffy nodded then punched the weird Helmeppo guy.
"Didn't you hear me my father is..." Luffy had punched the guy in the head and knocked him out. The little girl had long since left, leaving Luffy and the man alone with an unconscious Helmeppo.
"Hey, I'm starving, give me that rice." The man mumbled to Luffy. He picked up the messed up rice balls to the best of his ability and tossed them into the others mouth.
He gulped them down and sighed, thankful for the food. He looked over and saw Luffy searching the unconscious person on the ground. When he saw Luffy pull out a small set of key's his eyes widened.
Luffy walked over to the man with the keys and smiled. "I will unlock your cuffs if you promise to play with me all summer!"
The man stared at the boy with a wide spread blush and a dropped jaw. "W-what?" He shouted. "What, I only want to hang out with you!" Luffy said simply. The man let out a sigh of relief. "Alright, I'll play with you over the summer."
Luffy cheered, having found someone to play with, and unlocked the other's cuffs. "Let's get out of here before this guy wakes up!" Luffy shouted as he dragged the other toward the park.
The man continued to be dragged until they made it to the spot from earlier. "This is where you sat on me." He said glaring at the boy. "Yup!"
They sat there, listening to the cars on the road and random voice's from afar.
Luffy suddenly spoke up. "What do you think of people being gay?" He asked not even looking at the other.
The man tilted his head in Luffy's direction. "I'd have to say, it's not really any of my business what other's do, if someone love's a person, does it really have to matter what gender they are." Luffy looked over to the man with a surprised look, then smiled at him.
"Yeah, your right!" Luffy laughed at himself for being worried. "So, what's your name?" Luffy asked after his laughter had calmed.
"Roronoa Zoro." He replied pulling his bandana off. He turned to Luffy and revealed a short mass of green hair. Luffy studied the other's face then smiled. "I like your hair!" Zoro laughed at the statement. "I like your scar." Zoro said in reply.
They laughed together for a while, not really knowing why, but they just continued to laugh.
The sun had set and the park was dark. "I gotta get home, my brother is probably worried about me." Luffy said as he stood up. "I don't really need to go home, so I'll walk with you to yours." Luffy smiled at him. "Ok!"
They walked together, both smiling for reasons unknown. Zoro looked over to the younger boy. "So, how old are you?" Luffy looked up at him and smiled. "I'm 17, how old are you?" Zoro smiled back, tonight was a smiley night. "I'm turning 19 in November."
Luffy and Zoro made it to his house. They looked at each other. "Na, remember, you have to hang out with me all summer!" Zoro nodded. "Yeah, I will, though, I have bad sense of direction, so can we just meet in the park?" Zoro asked as he rubbed the back of his neck, embarrassed.
Luffy nodded. "Ok, I can do that!" Luffy walked into his house with a huge grin.
Zoro walked away also grinning.
Luffy walked to Ace's room and knocked on the door. "Yeah?" A muffled answer came. "Are you alright, Ace?" He asked quietly, though loud enough for his brother to hear. "Yeah, I'm fine."
He went ahead and entered his brother's room. "That's good, but why are you so worried looking?"
Ace looked back up at his brother and sighed. "I didn't want you to know about my relationship with Smoker." He said in a timid tone.
Luffy hit his brother on the head. "Why?" He asked with a calm straight face and a blank voice.
Ace looked over at his brother, now sitting upright. "Because, I didn't think you'd approve." Another hit to the face.
"That's stupid." Luffy said glaring at his brother now. Ace started chuckling. "Yeah, I know."
They both kept laughing. "So, little bro, what did you do today?" Ace asked, wiping the tears from his eyes.
Luffy looked to his brother and smiled. "I ran around town, sat on a guy in the park, saw him again on a pole, then hung out at the park!" Ace stared wide eyed at his brother. "Pole?" Ace was starting to form odd ideas then.
"Yeah, a street pole!" Ace sighed. 'Ok, so it wasn't some male stripper. "How old was this guy?" Luffy tilted his head. Remember only the number nineteen. "Nineteen years." Ace nodded. "And what else did you guys do?"
Luffy shrugged. "We laughed."
Since that night Luffy and Zoro hung out every day, always meeting at the park to hang out. Ace still worried about his idiot younger brother but decided Luffy knew what he was doing and decided to relax with his own boyfriend.
Luffy ran up to the park the day before school. "ZORO!" He said glomping the older male. "What?" He asked rubbing his head, he had been sitting on the ground, though now he was on his back with a monkey sitting on his stomach.
"Do you like sitting on me?" He asked a little irritated. "Yep." Luffy answered with a blank face. "Do you like to run around?" "Yep." "Do you like meat?" "Yep. " Do you ever wonder what you could be doing besides hanging out with a green haired swordsman?" "Nope." The both smiled at each other and laughed. The next day they'd start school together. Taking the only open class left to be in a class together, in Sewing.
Well that was chapter 10, which incidentally was written before chapter 9.
I wanted to show how Zoro and Luffy became good friends in this fic!
Well I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I will write the next one soon.