Did you know that I'm not the biggest fan of the cold? I can put up with it but when your fiancé is teasing you about how he isn't cold at all with his shirt off while its a blizzard outside. You get shot in the face with snow while it doesn't seem to even tough him which he also teases you about. You start to ask why the hell did we have to land on a winter island?!
well the upside is that he is just like a huge walking heater and I'm forcing him (I would never thought I would say this) to wear a coat since he keeps attracting attention with the locals. That's my revenge.
"Ace put it back on!" Mitsuki instructed him for the umpteenth time that day
"why do I even have to wear it?" He moaned with the coat over his shoulder "it's not like I'm cold or anything"
"no it's more to do with no attracting unwanted attention like in the last town" she groaned at the memory
In the village on the north of the island winter had just set in (it does that early on winter islands though they never do have much of a summer) and had snowed over the place over night. When I first saw the snow I told him to put a jacket on and guess what? He didn't. I know that because of his devil fruit powers he doesn't get cold but when he was walking round the snow heaped town with shorts and no top it leaves questions for the villagers. At first they were amazed by it (of course who wouldn't?) but then they started asking questions and the town marines came and then we had to leg it out of there for the south village where we should find someone who can take us to the next island. Such fun tracking in the snow! (Sarcasm)
to avoid this happening again though I'm having to convince ace to put the blasted coat on.
"Ace just put it on for gods sake" she snapped obviously irritated by now "do you want to get ran out by the marines again"
he could of argued back but he was just as sick as her at the bickering and he could kinda she her point; with a stubborn sigh he put the thing on.
"thank you" she continued in a calmer tone "we aren't far from the town so we should get there by evening"
"just in time for dinner then" ace smirked
"are we dashing and dining then?" She smiled remembering that every restaurant they had been on this journey they hadn't paid once for a meal - which kinda did save money.
"is there any other way?"
"are you gonna fall asleep in someone's meal again" she teased
"hey not my fault and mash potatoes make great pillows"
she had to laugh at was a some kind of ping against her skin.
ace stopped and turned to look at her "something wrong?"
mitsuki shook her head "not really, forget about it"
"ok then" ace shrugged as the two continued on through the snowy hilled Forrest.
"Now this is nice" ace looked round the highly decorated room "even if we did lie our way in" he chuckled.
he knew how to get meals for free but mitsuki knew how to get free rooms from without anyone knowing who they were. Apparently some rich people book rooms in advance but may not turn up for some reason so all mitsuki had to do was get a look at couples that had cancelled and book in as them; who ever actually booked the room got stuck with the bill. Tonight they were pretending to be this newly wed couple called the fishers or something who had been held up due to snow so were a day late but they had booked the week so their room was still free which happened to be the bridal suite.
"Nice isn't it?" Mitsuki smiled walking into the bedroom were ace was happily lying on the bed with his hands behind his head "it's rare to get rooms this nice so the real fishers must be pricks to turn down such a nice room"
"stuck up rich people are cause they don't know the real value of money" ace agreed as his hat slide down his face "not true for all rich people but alot of them are like that."
" Could give you a few names" mitsuki crawled onto the bed next to ace
he lifted his hat above his eyes and gave her a quizzical look "how would you know?"
"do you not remember who my step father was?" She sighed "his family was pretty loaded and they wanted me to be some pretty little house wife trophy for a business contact to marry their son when I was 16 even though they made these plans when I was like 2 years old. I never even met the guy and never want to really"
"oh really you were a aristocrat?" Ace chuckled - no way could he imagine mitsuki as one of those high class ladys
"not really, I didn't like it" she groaned "it was too restricted for me. I wanted adventure and to live my life, not cooped up in some big house. My mother wanted me to have a good safe life because of the danger if the marines found out about my paternity but it just wasn't for me, I promised my mother I would make it work for her but when she died another reason I had to get away was just the trapped life style of if I had stayed."
"well don't you only become a aristocrats at 17?" Ace commented casually
"how the hell do you know that?" Mitsuki looked up at him in surprise "your not telling me something again"
"I overheard it somewhere" he muttered vaguely- he knew that giving her any details of any kind would be bad.
"it's not exactly a popular topic" but with a sigh she decided to let it go "so..hey I remember this place that Mihawk told me about once that we could get to do the catering"
"I thought we were getting sanji to do it"
"with what 3 crews plus family and luffy do you really think sanji could do it all himself without killing someone in the process?" She gave a sly grin "plus it could get pretty interesting"
He knew what that grin meant "sounds fun then and as long as there's alot of food"
she laughed "between you and luffy the rest of us would be lucky to get something" she kissed his nose "we need some more stuff for the journey plus I need to cash in some of the stuff buggy let me have"
"does buggy by chance know about this?"
mitsuki thought to herself
"WHERE'S MY FLASHY TREASURE?!"
"By now he proberly does and I didn't take all of it just enough to get us by" she smiled sliding off the huge queen sized bed
"sly, manipulative and criminal cunning" ace shook his head "and yet I wouldn't have it any other way" he thought to himself for a second "are you sure your not related to nami?"
she stuck her tongue out at him
"don't tempt me" he followed after her off the bed and walked over the her as she put her coat on "be careful ok?"
she had to stop herself from laughing "ditto for you as well" she pulled her hood up "love you"
"love you more" he grinned pulling her into a quick goodbye kiss before she walked out the room with her bag of treasure to be cashed.
Ace didnt know how long he had slept but when he woke up she still wasn't back, he wasn't worried about her though since he knew that it must take a while to cash treasure in at a rate that wouldn't attract attention then go shopping while it was snowing like that. plus if anyone tried anything with her, he would hear them (not mitsuki) screaming and then he would go running.
he didnt quite liking being by himself much with nothing to do cause then he would start thinking about things he didnt especially want to think about, he could start off with something he loved dearly like mitsuki or his idiotic brother to then find himself thinking about things that wanted to curse his being.
fortuantly he wasn't alone for long...
"ACE! I KNOW YOUR IN HERE!"
'oh crap' ace knew that voice right before the wonder came crashing through the wall
garp smiled to himself looking down at his shocked grandson "and it only took 87 tries" he beamed dusting the wall rubble off his suit with his lackys in tow fixing the wall "mind your not easy to find or kill apparently"
ace looked hopefully at the window assessing if he should try to jump out or if garp would just stop him.
"here's your laundry by the way" he dumped the neatly folded laundry "and for Petes sake stop leaving it with me! Do I look like a hotel maid to you!"
now there's a disturbing thought...
"gramps..nice to see you" ace chuckled still slightly afraid of the man who regularly beat him up as a child.
garp raised a eyebrow "is it?" He marched up to the young man "you made me worry so badly and grieve for 2 years before showing your head again! Do I look happy to you?!"
"technically I was in a coma so not my fault" ace shrugged then he wish he hadn't of used that tone as a throbbing vein appeared on garp's forehead.
"That's everything I guess" mitsuki muttered with the bag of supplies in her hand " I must be having a off day if I can feel garps presence here, why the would he even come here anyway?" she shook her head "but boy does that man hate me" she laughed in her head
'I'm bored" tsuki tsume moaned
'your always bored' mitsuki replied back
'I wanna go fight someone'
'Yeah and I want a day without you moaning in my ear but we don't get what we want do we'
'bored bored bored so very bored' tsuki tsume sang.
mitsuki was about to tell her to shut up when there was a cry from a nearby resturant, with a groan she ran towards the resturant 'oh come on'
at least tsuki tsume cheers up when she thinks someone's going to die because she's a sick twisted little creature like that.
turns out it wasn't ace but still a man on the floor with another man standing over him: must of been a doctor or something. Thing was from the symptoms she could see he was treating him wrong.
"hey!" She ran over "your meant to be treating for tretodotoxin not regular food poisoning" she knelt on the other side of the man "paresthesia of lips and tongue, hyperventilation, sweating, paralysis, abdominal pain. All early signs of tretodotoxin" she pointed out
"I checked he hasn't ate any fish that would give him tretodotoxin" the other man replied "I think it could be a fatal unknown allergy"
"what was he eating then?"
"octopus of some kind there's not much left to look at it"
mitsuki stood up to look at the plate where the man had been sitting, it was true that there wasn't much left but from her expertise she knew what it was "it is tretodotoxin since a recent studied showed that blue ringed octopus also carries the poison too"
the man swore to himself but kept calm "that's what I get for being a sea for so long without checking any new medical journals" he chuckled "we'll have to pump the stomach then since there is no current antidote"
"pumping wont work if its already in his blood stream as we can see from the total paralysis" she teased before kneeling down again "tsuki tsume"
"what the hell are you doing?" The man asked eyeing to unusual weapon
"shut up and watch" mitsuki stabbing the man with the blade in the arm, he winced in pain for a second as the black mark appeared on his arm
"why did you..." The man cut himself short as he noticed the symptoms of the poison subside quite quickly
"tsuki tsume's poison is maybe the most powerful poison in the world, it can easily counteract other poisons in the body but it takes two strikes of the same poison to kill someone" she quickly explained
"like a vaccine" the man nodded "you seem to know your stuff then, your not by chance a doctor?"
mitsuki laughed "no, I just know my poisons that's all"
"ahhh a toxicologist" he nodded
"if you want put it like that" she shrugged "my guess is that your a doctor yourself"
"that I am" he smirked dusting himself down before putting his hand out for a hand shake "law, trafalgar law"
she looked at the hand "mitsuki le roux" she replied but didn't shake his hand
"oh what did I do for the red hair pirate crew to send the red reaper after me?" He laughed
she leaned against the bar "if they had you would be dead" she replied bluntly
he just smirked "true, so your here on business?"
"kinda" she shrugged as a bottle of sake was placed infront of her "I'm traveling back to my crew after I completed some business, just taking my time since I'm not in much of a rush"
"I can see that" he walked over to the bar as well "so is your division with you?"
"no" she opened the bottle and took a drink
"so your by yourself"
She stopped in the middle of drinking to look at him "I didnt say that" she looked round the resturant "where's your crew then?"
law opened his mouth just as said crew burst through the doors of the resturant all shouting "vice admiral gasps here!"
mitsuki groaned wanting to slam her head into the top of the bar, her sensing was never off even if she wanted it to be.
"COME ON IS THIS THE WAY YOU TREAT YOUR FAMILY?!"
That was what everyone on the other side of the hotel heard right before the sound of a wall breaking and rocks falling to the ground as a man who may or may not of looked like fire fist ace rtherefrom the building carrying his stuff with another man who may of looked like vice admiral garp the hero following behind.
"hell where did you go mits" ace a looked round as he ran for his fiancé unable to spot her
"ACE COME BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!" Garp rumbled after him like a huge grizzly bear
"like hell" he shouted back; there and then he spotted mits walking out of a resturant "mits!" He called over but he had been too distracted to notice that garp had jumped and then landed right infront of him.
"now we're gonna have a nice family discussion" garp smiled
"shouldn't we invite like luffy and dragon over then?" Ace replied sarcastically "or mabe even better you can ask my wife" that threw garp off
"WHAT!?" didnt look like he could get any angrier as the vein soon had a couple of friends "since when have you been married?!"
"well technically fiancé" garp felt cold metal being pressed to his throat as mitsuki appeared from behind
"assassin huh?" He laughed gruffly "attack from behind where you can't be seen"
he tried to elbow her in the stomach but by then she had moved and was standing next to ace, that's when he recognised her.
"FUCK NO!" Looks like he could get angrier
"nice to see you too garp" mitsuki grinned, for empathise she lifted her plait over her shoulders so that it was infront of her and resting on her bust
"Red brat" he spat - looks like he did remember her
"What the hell are you doing with that hat! Take it off this instant!" Veins popped out on his neck and forehead as he roared.
Surprisingly, Luffy stood his ground. Garp was taken aback by the boy's sudden determination. "No! Shanks gave me this hat." Luffy tugged at the brim of his hat, pulling it closer to his head. Inside, Garp's blood boiled, he thought the time in the mountains would of straightened him out from such reckless ideals but it had just made him worse. Shanks, a remnant thorn in Garp's side of the good old days, had been stirring up trouble while he had his back turned. "I'm going to be a pirate!" Luffy's smile covered up nearly his whole face.
"NO YOU AREN'T! YOU'RE GOING TO BE A STRONG MARINE!" The boy didn't know what he was talking about, Garp forced himself to remember. As much as he wanted to pulverize the boy, he had to remember that Luffy was young and didn't understand these things; he'd have to make sure Luffy grew out of this romantic idealism of being a criminal. So he hit his grandson again. Luffy bounced back up and now had a sizable tower of bumps which he rubbed gingerly.
"Ow…" Came a soft murmur out from under the infamous hat.
Garp crossed his arms and took a sturdy stance. "Now listen up Luffy! Marines are even better than pirates! You'll be a strong marine and be a hero of the people! I want you to forget all that silly nonsense that Red-Hair put into your head and get back to your training."
"It's not nonsense! Don't talk bad about Shanks!" What Luffy did next caught Garp off guard. The boy, only a quarter the size of the veteran at best, through his arm far back and then snapped it forward. Garp easily stepped to the side, dodging the poorly-executed punch, which hit a tree and recoiled back to its origin, before hitting Luffy square in the chin. "Oof!" The boy fell to the ground and looked up at the towering shadow of his grandfather. Garp's shoulders heaved, and Luffy let out a small gasp. Garp cleared his throat to suppress his laughter.
A different laugh echoed through the Forrest, Garp looked up to see his other grandson sitting on his favourite rock, watching him pulverise the younger one. "Luffy your so weak, I would of landed that punch if it was me! You wouldn't last a day being a pirate which is why I'm gonna be a better pirate than you hands down!" Of course that also earned him a tower of bumps on his head too.
garp snarled at the two children rubbing their sore heads "FOR THE LAST TIME YOUR GOING TO BE MARINES NOT BLASTED PIRATES!" he shouted "AND I DON NOT CARE WANT SHANKS SAID" he poorly imitated the red haired man "NOW GET THAT INTO YOUR THICK HEADS OR AM I GONNA HAVE TO POUND IT IN FOR YOU IN BLOOD"
"hey guys, sorry I'm late, I finally got away though" mitsuki ran into the clearing unaware of the danger before her; at the sight of garp she stopped to study the old man "who the hell are you?"
the old man twitched noticing the hair colour instantly.
"ummm mits" ace whispered up to her "I would start running"
"YOU!" all of a sudden mitsuki felt quite scared and legged it through the Forrest with the old man just being able to trail her although he was a able and fit marine vice admiral
She swore every word she knew under her breath as she ran 'bloody hell, I can still see him' she thought to herself as she briefly looked back - no one had even been that close to her when she ran like this though he was still too far away to grab her. "This is why I don't like marines!"
of course something as equally bad happened, she ran right into benn.
"brat" he gave her a evil grin - she had just snuck off the ship. AGAIN.
she swore under her breath again; well she was going to die if she went back there A and she would only possibly die if she went with benn.
"RED BRAT!" The vice admiral came thundering through the Forrest on her tracks like a starving beast.
benn looked down at the little trouble maker "what did you do this time?" He picked her up and threw her under his arm as he ran to the ship
mitsuki looked back "why aren't you gonna frighten him off?" She asked
benn laughed "you know the story of how me and your dad met?"
"yeah, about how you didn't want to be a pirate no matter how much my dad pestered but you got mistaken as a pirate after you were spotted by a crazy marine and you both got captured because the marine caught you and dad stayed to help you but you both failed and were gonna get locked up by the marines. then you escaped and had to run for your lives away from the town and then you said you would be a pirate" she recalled perfectly summarising the story using her most childish voice
"yep" benn smirked, not even caring that he had dropped the cigarette in his mouth "that guys behind us is the crazy marine"
"oh" she nodded "well he's catching up"
"COME BACK HERE BRAT!" Garp continued to shout.
"do you think gramps would like mitsuki then?" Luffy asked impels he simple minded moron he was, unable to take into account what had just happended. Ace hit his brother on the head as the answer. "Oww! Ace" luffy moaned under the pain then pouting at his older brother. "What was that for?"
"for being a moron" ace snapped, he picked up his pipe that had fallen out of his hand before and raced after the trio "I have got to see this" he smirked.
"YOUR MARRYING HER?!" Garp really wanted to kill his grandson since the boy knew that he hated the red hair pirates especially their captain who had strayed luffy into a life of piracy.
"yes" ace replied bluntly
"WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU MARRY THAT" he shook a accusing finger at the red haired girl who just rolled her eyes
"I have a name you know" she muttered but was plainly ignored by the man
ace smirked, pulling mitsuki closer into himself "because I love her" which earned him a smile and a kiss on the cheek form mitsuki
of course mt garp soon blew its top completely "YOU LOVE HER! I DO NOT AGREE TO THIS MARRIAGE AT ALL! I'LL CUT YOU OFF! STRANGLE YOU WITH YOUR OWN GUTS! PULVERISE YPU TILL THERE'S NOTHING LEFT! YOU WILL WISH THAT YOU HAD DIED IN MARINEFORD!..." it pretty much became gibberish after that...
ace shrugged "I don't care what you think. It's my life and I'll choose what to do with it"
"DO YOU EVEN CONSIDER WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU HAVE KIDS!" Garps mind was reeling back to the conversation he had with Gol D. Rogers
'kids when did we start talking about having children? We aren't even married yet' mitsuki thought to herself
'well you would think your trying by the way you two go at it' tsuki tsume giggled
'shut up' mitsuki snapped
"I won't leave her" this had clearly hit a sore spot for ace "it doesn't matter what you say old man" he pushed her further into his chest
"ARE YOU EVEN THINKING ABOUT THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THIS?" Garp swung a arm out that totally destroyed the building behind him without a thought
"this is just because its shanks daughter isn't is? She doesn't care who I am and I don't care who she is." he held her even tighter into his chest
"Ace I can't breath!" She shouted against his chest
"I DO NOT GIVE YOU MY BLESSING AND I AM NOT COMING TO THE WEDDING!" Garp shouted finally stomping away back to the ship with a beet root purple face.
"I don't care about your blessing! And I don't care if your not coming! There's more than you in this family!" Ace snapped right back watching the old man finally stalk away from them: ace smiled in satisfaction he finally won a argument with garp and had come off with minimal injuries. " he looks so pissed right now doesn't he mits?" Ace chuckled before realising he was still suffocating her "opps sorry mits" he relaxed his arm letting go of her.
Thump.
"oow! Mits!" He groaned stroking his growing bump from where she had hit him
"Since when have we thought about children?" She a stated still having what garp had said earlier in her mind; ace then too realised it right before a narcoleptic attack.
CNK corner!
you've heard of SBS corner right? (standing for shitsumon wo boshu suru - I'm taking questions)
well this is CNK (standing for chosha ni kiku - ask the author)
so if you have any questions then send it in either by the comments or PM me and I will answer any that I get at the bottom of each chapter like right now.
and ta da I introduced Law after getting comments about adding him into the story.
keep reading and commenting thanks. :)
peace out!