i love kinto-un so much.
ace stared down the sea king. it was the one thing that seemed reasonable around him, funny seeing as how the sea king was the menacing lord of the coast.
but that was easier to handle than the two people he had never seen and according to the stubborn brat were from the north blue. half an ocean away.
it was making a funny face, at least ace thought it was funny, just as much amusing as it was terrifying. the sea king was snarling at him but the way its mouth formed gave away that it was trying to do something different.
ace scratched his head, and it hit him. it was smiling or its best attempt at a smile. that crazy brat taught a sea king to smile. only luffy would do that, ace thought fondly.
ace scrunched his nose when he realized what he said, why did he seem confident in that statement. why did he know what that boy was like. he'd never seen him til a month ago.
ace quickly put that thought process to a halt and threw it in a burning garbage can, if it didn't make sense right away, it belonged in the trash.
which was such a luffy thing-, ace cut that thought short, he was done with that.
ace returned the sea king's smile and the sea king huffed. ace had just won.
he stepped closer to the sea king, maintaining eye contact.
he slowly sat down when he was half way up the cliff, and promptly laughed at the sea king. ace quickly muffled himself, he was going to die because of a stupid mistake.
the sea king was resting his head on the cliff and was purring like a demented cat. the connection was so funny that ace couldn't help himself.
the sea king huffed at the boy's giggles, seemingly resigned to his fate of no longer being terrifying to pint sized brats.
'sorry, kinto-un,' ace apologized with what he hoped sounded like sincerity and the actual name of the beast. it was hard to hear the name when the brat spoke so lowly.