(Personality Split AU)

Izo's brow furrowed as he stared out at the deck. Pink Marco was perched on Pops' shoulder, Grey was reading reports on his leg, all while Red was hassling Blamenco about his grammar in his reports, Blamenco who looked ready to cry. Orange was lying on the deck, fast asleep, and Purple was playing with Ace's hair by the mast, leaving him kisses every so often as he braided it.

Ace looked surprisingly relaxed too, snoozing against Purple Marco contently.

Izo's frown deepened.

Pink, Grey, Red, Orange, Purple.

They were missing one.

"Vista," Izo called.

"Yes?" Vista glanced up from his do to list, blinking.

"Have you seen Green Marco?"

Vista blinked again. "There was a green one?"

"Oh no..." Izo groaned. "Vista, he was mentioned in the report!"

"I forgot about the report considering Red and Grey have been inducing terror upon everyone," Vista pointed out, quite reasonably actually.

"We need to find out if he's on the ship and who last saw him," Izo said. "Pops! Have you seen Green Marco?"

Pops blinked, then looked about, and paled. Izo felt himself blanch, because their father never went that pale, not even in the most dire of situations.

"I forgot one of my sons!" Pops cried.

Pink Marco cackled, and Izo felt terrified at the sound. Marco never cackled. Not even during payback pranks against Thatch, Ace and Haruta. Of course he always went easier on Ace, but Thatch and Haruta were absolutely tormented during those times.

"He left two days after we all split up yoi," Pink grinned.

That was a week ago.

"YOU ONLY JUST TOLD US THIS NOW?!" Izo yelled. "WHERE IS HE?!"

"How should I know?" Pink raised a brow.

"YOU'RE THE WORST!"

"You're just not good at keeping track of people yoi," Grey huffed. "Despite the fact you even have one of the best Observational Haki's on our ship."

"DON'T YOU START!" Izo snarled, jabbing a finger his way.

.::.

Purple frowned as Ace groaned, stirring from his nap. He couldn't help but huff at Izo, being so noisy, as Ace blinked drowsily, rubbing his eyes.

"Wh-What's going on?" Ace yawned, sitting up.

"Nothing," Purple cooed. "Lie back down yoi."

But Ace was now awake, and he looked concerned as his eyes darted between Pops, who was still horrified, and Izo who was screeching. Vista looked ready to throw himself overboard at this point, which Purple couldn't help but chuckle at.

"Why is Pops so terrified?" Ace asked, he looked around, searching for threats.

But that made his neck arch and Purple couldn't help but purr, leaning closer so he could lay kisses on it. Ace shivered, even as Purple laid his hands on his hips, dragging him closer so he could wrap his arms around Ace's waist.

"Everyone's only just realised Green is gone yoi," Grey offered, the spoilsport, now Ace would be alarmed.

"Green?" Ace tensed in his arms. "Oh no."

"You could call him yoi," Purple mused, nipping on his skin, earning a yelp. He couldn't help but chuckle at the noise. "Any of us would come running for you."

"Wait," Izo twitched. "He took a den den mushi with him?"

"Of course he did," Red spat. "We're not idiots!"

"HE'S THE ONE WHO LEFT WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE!" Izo barked. "Give me a snail! I'll give that idiot a piece of my mind."

.::.

The deck was eerily silent as the snail rang. Ace was seated in Purple's lap, who was still pressing small kisses to his neck and rubbing his sides, trying to distract him. Normally, that would have worked, but none of them had any idea where the adventurous side of Marco was. Finally it was picked up.

"What is it yoi?"

"YOU LITTLE SHIT! I SWEAR WHEN YOU GET BACK ON THIS SHIP I AM GOING TO STRANGLE YOU FOR GIVING ME A HEART ATTACK!" Izo screeched.

"I was bored and needed to do something yoi."

"What did you do, son?" Pops asked, he looked so relieved.

"Well I wandered for a while, until I ran into King. The bastard was on his way back from a 'business deal', and he ended up pissing me off. So we fought."

"YOU PICKED A FIGHT WITH KING?!" Izo howled.

"There can only be one yoi,"

"ONE WHAT?!"

Red was nodding approvingly though, much to Ace's horror. He knew exactly what this was about. Marco complained about it every time him and King got into a fight. There should only be one flaming flight pirate about, and it was supposed to be Marco.

Normally Marco wouldn't risk such a thing, but apparently with his personality traits all split up, at least one or two of them would fight King. Pops began laughing, throwing his head back with his shoulders shaking, so obviously Pops knew about Marco's rivalry with King too.

"None of your business yoi. Anyway, he retreated after a couple of days, so I've just been wandering."

"GET BACK ON THE DAMN SHIP!" Izo snarled.

"Or what yoi?"

Izo gritted his teeth. "I'll kidnap Ace!"

"Eh?" Ace blinked.

Purple's grip tightened on him.

"Fine, loser, dragging Ace into this."

"DON'T CALL ME A LOSER!"

The snail ended up hanging up though, and Izo screeched. Ace grimaced, and even Pops looked unnerved.