Wow, I'm so sorry for not updating this story in so long, I totally broke my promise to update everyday. But school started up again and my sleeping rotaion was messed up, violently. So I didn't get enough sleep so my brain turned to mush and all my creativity and will power to work on this drained out of the crack right behind my left ear sort of near my temple. And I kept thinking that those creepy mutant things in the Descent were going to jump out at me when my back was turned so I've been a bit paranoid, and I chalk that one up to the crack that's leaking out my common sense. If your wondering the crack is about an inch above my spine. If you've never seen the Descent so you have no clue what I'm rambling about, go watch it it's sort of scary.
I don't think I need to put this anymore but what the hey! I don't own One Piece!
Imperfect
Portgas D. Ace was what many would call a mild tempered and well mannered young man except for the minor fact that he was indeed a pirate, not just any pirate mind you, for he was the commander of the second division of the Whitebeard Pirates who's captain was said to be the only one who could ever stand a chance against the late but still legendary pirate king Gol D. Roger or as he was better known Gold Roger. But ignoring that fact Ace was as close to 'perfect' as a person on this chaos filled earth would allow. He was kind to many, trustworthy, loyal, and not to say quite influential in this dismayed world, the perfect man in many a mother's eyes for their daughters. He was even the idol to some boys who dreamed of a life of adventure and glory.
But a fact that many didn't know, a fact that would have those hopeful mothers breaking down in tears with dismayed expressions, a fact that would have a negative effect to some of those boys who idolized and a positive to others was that he was already taken. Yes, he was already spoken for and by someone that many feared to cross.
For the one he was with had a gentle nature, that is until someone tried to take those who were precious, and without a doubt Ace was a precious person, a person who was to be revered as a god like figure in some ways. The mystery figure that many a women cursed for taking Ace was powerful, so powerful that the women who strove after Ace the hardest, who would do anything to prove to Ace that they were worthy of standing next to him would most likely quiver in fear of the name then take a look of shocked horror; for they had with the pursuing of Ace almost signed their own death warrants.
For the person Ace was attached too was a legend in his own rights. For he had done many a thing that others deemed impossible, he had broken into Impel Down and had come out dragging with him some of the most dangerous criminals of their age, he had had a hand in the destruction of Enies Lobby, he had survived a Buster Call, he had attacked a Celestial Dragon, he had defeated a Shichibukai, and for all he had done he was only a 'rookie'. Yes, Ace was 'with' his little brother, the captain of the growing menace known as the Straw Hats, Monkey D. Luffy.
And just like that, just with that one relationship Ace was no longer 'perfect', he was far from it. He was cracked, flawed, shattered, tainted, he was imperfect. Those that looked at him in awe turned away in scorn and disgust. The mothers that wanted their daughters to wed with him scoffed at him and made cruel comments about how he could never be good enough for their perfect daughters. The women that had flocked to him stared and sniffed with disdain at him in revulsion for the fact that he was in love with his brother. The boys that idolized him now portrayed him as a villain, a mockery, someone that they could use as an insult to each other.
But Portgas D. Ace in all his flaws didn't care what they thought because he had the thing that made him imperfect to all of them, he had his little brother Luffy and that's all he needed in this giant power game called life. And so Ace excepted being imperfect with perfect grace.