Chapter 7 - Mistletoes and Kisses

Lucy - 10, Ace & Sabo - 13, Coby - 12, Law - 17

Ace wanted to cry so bad. Every year, Lucy's friends kept on adding up.

Don't get him wrong, he's not that possessive - unlike a certain blond top hat wearing bastard - in Lucy, he's happy that Lucy is making friends but Lucy's choices in friends is stressing him out. Lucy kept on attracting dangerous friends. Not really dangerous for her, but dangerous for him and his position in competing for her heart in the future. Yes future because Sabo will kill him if he makes a move to his sister.

All of Lucy's friends were boys. Not just some normal boy that you see once and never remembers, but very talented boys.

I mean will you blame him if he wished that Lucy would find a female friend? Even just one?

It started with Law, because of course everything started with their shitty old man.

When they visited, and they regretted that so much, the marine headquarters for the first time Garp introduced Sengoku's adopted son and adopted grandson to them.

Corazon was a funny guy, and clumsy, very clumsy. I mean the guy kept on lighting himself on fire and kept on falling on his face. And of course since it's Lucy, she likes it because Corazon is funny.

He was somewhat okay, for Ace because for Rogue it smelled like a new parent that wanted to steal Lucy's attention (she was not wrong) especially when Corazon bravely said that he wanted to keep the girl. Rogue almost killed Corazon that day shouting "If I can't keep Lucy then you as hell can't!"

But then Garp introduced Law. Law was 7 years older than Lucy so everyone didn't really think much of it until the succeeding visits. They should have known better. It was Garp for crying out loud.

In every holiday or just family event, Garp would bring Sengoku, Corazon, Coby ,and Law to their house to celebrate. Both him and Sabo learned early on that Coby was somewhat okay. Coby might have a small crush on Lucy but Coby idolizes her as a person more than like her as a girl. He strives hard for Lucy's approval as a strong person and wants to make her proud of his accomplishment rather than to make her happy. So Coby was immediately welcomed in their little group of friends with open arms. Well not literally, just figuratively but you get the idea.

Well Lucy did welcome him with a hug, but a glare from both Sabo and Ace made him stop from giving Lucy a hug. But then again, it's Lucy. Instead of noticing the glare of both him and Sabo, she literally ran towards Coby and gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheeks. Garp was celebrating when he saw that. And Coby blushed so hard that he almost fainted, either from embarrassment or fear they don't know.

So Coby was okay in their book. But Law, dear Oda Law, is very hard to differentiate if they like him or not.

Being 17 years old, he was of course mature, and is studying medicine so they know he is very smart. He was somewhat cold to everyone else - even to Sengoku and sometimes Corazon, everyone else except Lucy.

Law has a saint's patience whenever Lucy is involved. Even Ace is surprised at this.

Being a person that is always studying, Law tries to get every peace and quiet he can have to study so that he would even snap at people who kept on disturbing him. Everyone else except Lucy.

In every event they spent together, Lucy would bounce to Law to bother him even when he's studying or even sleeping and Law would just smile at the girl and play with her or just hug her until they fall back to sleep. He would never snap at her or just yell at her. The worse he did was sigh and shook his head at the girl. Everyone knew that Law was already under Lucy's spell.

Of course Garp, Sengoku, and Corazon was excited with this because they knew how special Law treats Lucy and everyone know that those three are shipping Law with Lucy.

When Dragon found out of the plans of his old man, he almost killed Garp and almost, almost kidnap Lucy to hide her from the world. He was regretting ever introducing Lucy to anyone outside their family.

Stacy was forever amused at everyone's distress but quickly reassured a crying Rogue that she's still an AceLu fan.

Sabo, poor Sabo almost died of a heart attack one Christmas because of a stupid mistletoe.


"Toroa!" Lucy yelled running towards Law who is sitting in a corner reading a book "Look, I draw everyone!" Lucy beamed showing her drawing of stick figures of everyone present in the Christmas eve celebration

Law picked up the drawing and smiled, it was a bad drawing but still it warms his heart to be included in the girl's drawing even though they just met a few months ago. "Did you really draw this?" Lucy nodded "Then can I keep this?"

"Sure!" Lucy smiled and started to point each stick figure telling Law who is that suppose to be

It was a very innocent scene but then, Garp ruined it.

"Ehem!" Garp faked cough earning the attention of everyone. When everyone is looking at him he points at the single mistletoe hanging right above Law's head

Law glared at Garp "What is the meaning of this Garp-san?"

Lucy looked up and saw the small ornament "What's that? It looks pretty!" Law frowned, stood in front of his chair and pluck the ornament off the ceiling

Garp grinned challenging Law "There is something wrong with you Garp-san." Law frowned and kneeled in front of Lucy and kissed her forehead making the girl giggle "That was a thanks for the drawing Lucy-ya." Law smiled

"Shishishi, Toroa is weird." Lucy giggled

"Lucy-ya, remember this ornament okay?" Law said, showing the ornament to the girl who is staring at it with wide eyes. "When you see this above your head, destroy it."

Lucy tilted her head to the side "Why?"

"There is a tradition that when two people walk beneath it they have to kiss." Law explained

"What is wrong with that?" Lucy asked making everyone facepalm

"You shouldn't kiss everyone Lucy-ya." Law deadpan

Lucy gasped like Law told her that meat no longer existed in the world. "Why? But I like kissing everyone!"

"You shouldn't Lucy-ya."

"What about mommy and daddy?" Lucy panicked "Or aunt Rogue or uncle Roger?"

"They're both fine Lucy-ya. Adults that you're close to are fine. Only when you're close to and it's only on the cheek or on the forehead, okay?"

Lucy nodded, "What about Ace?" Ace blushed hard earning a teasing smile from Sabo and his mom.

Law looked at Lucy with a blank stare and glanced at Ace who was glaring at him. He smirked "No." Sabo roared in laughter. The guy is growing on him.

Lucy gasped again "Why? But it's Ace!"

Law could feel the threatening glare of Ace "Lucy-ya you shouldn't kiss other boys okay?"

"What about Coby?" Coby froze

"No." Law saw Coby sigh in relief

"Then what about Sabo?" Lucy asked almost pleading

To Sabo's horror, Law smirked "No." Scratch that, Sabo now hates Law with his entire being.

"But, Sabo is my brother!" Lucy tried to oppose

Law sighs, he could feel now all the glare of everyone in the room, and some amused glance "Lucy-ya remember that kisses are special. You should only give it to people who are special to you."

"But, everyone is special to me!" Lucy said

"You should still not give it to everyone else, okay? You can give kisses only on special occasions."

Lucy pouted but reluctantly nodded "How about hugs?"

Law smiled softly, "Hugs are okay."

Lucy smiled at that "Okay then! Hugs are okay but kisses are not." Law smiled "All kisses are only for mommy, daddy, auntie Rogue, and uncle Roger!" she beamed but then frowned "Then how about Grampa, Grampa Sengoku, and Cora-san?"

To the horror of the three, Law said "Nope." popping the 'p'

"Shishishishi, okay Toroa!"

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Ace is now sitting on the top of the tree on their backyard. He was waiting for the firework display. Since he met Lucy he grew fond in watching fireworks. He was also low-key waiting for Lucy to show up because watching fireworks was their thing. Every year in every holidays they would watch the fireworks together. Just the two of them on top of the tree.

He sigh, each year new people are arriving in their life. He was surprisingly okay with more people coming to their house to celebrate holidays together. But deep down Ace is scared that the more people enter their life the less special Ace will become in Lucy's heart.

"Ace!" Lucy called as she sat beside him "I was looking all over for you!"

Ace smirked "Well you were busy so I climbed up to wait for you."

"Meanie, I got popcorn for the fireworks!" Lucy said

Ace lift his eyebrow "So, where are the popcorn?"

"I ate them while looking for you!" she pouted

He laughed "It's okay it's okay. I know no one can stand between you and food." Lucy only laugh nodding her head in agreement

The emptiness in Ace heart quickly left when the fireworks display started and Lucy holds Ace hand as they watch it together. "I really like fireworks!" Lucy said looking at him "I reminds me of Ace. Shishishi"

"Yeah, so I've heard." Ace smiled

"Here!" Lucy gave him a piece of grass

"A grass?" He was about to question Lucy at the weird gift but stopped when she kissed him on the cheeks. "What!" he blushed

"Merry Christmas Ace!" she greeted

"W-what?" He was holding the cheeks where Lucy kissed with one hands and the other holding the mistletoe. "I- I though Law told you not to kiss someone else."

Lucy tilted her head on the side "Eh, but its Christmas! And Ace is special to me. Shishishishi." she pointed at the mistletoe still in his hand "And theres a missile-too, so I gotta gave you a kiss." she laughed again

"Idiot." he whispered to himself staring at the mistletoe and getting up all his courage to do the same. "Merry Christmas Lucy." he whispered enough for her to hear before giving her a quick peck on the lips.

Immediately after giving Lucy a kiss, he jumped from the tree and run inside the house blushing madly.

Too bad he run immediately because he failed to see the cute blush on Lucy's cheeks as she touched her lips.

Or just too bad that he forgot that Lucy is naive and forgot to explain to her what kissing on the lips mean. Because the next time he saw Sabo the next morning, the blond almost killed him for stealing his sweet innocent little Lucy's first kiss.

Of course since Sabo was yelling so loudly, everyone present heard it. Rogue and Roger high five, proud of the bold move of their son. Dragon frowned while Stacy was laughing her ass on the floor. Garp was about to kill Ace but was stopped by Sengoku and Corazon. Coby madly blushed, and Law glared at Ace before dragging a confused Lucy to a corner to give her a long talk about not kissing anyone else on the lips. Especially Ace.

Too bad Ace forgot that Lucy was stupid and naive, and that she was surrounded by over-protective to almost possessive family members. If he only remembered that, he wouldn't have spent the Christmas day with a bloody lip, a black eye, and a lot of bruise from an angry blond top hat wearing brother of the girl.

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"Sabo!" Lucy yelled as soon as she saw Sabo waiting for her on the base of the tree

"Merry Christmas Lucy!" Sabo greeted

"Here!" Lucy gave another mistletoe to Sabo which he accepted hesitantly

"What is this fo-" Before he can ask what is the ornament for, Lucy quickly leaned and gave him a peck on the lips.

"Merry Christmas Sabo!" She greeted with a wide smile as soon as she leaned back and face a madly blushing Sabo

"What!" Sabo yelled trying to calm himself

"I said Merry Christmas." Lucy pouted

"I know. But why did you kiss me?" Sabo asked trying to cover his still blushing face from Lucy

"Because its Christmas and because Sabo is special!" Lucy said

"But why on the lips?" Sabo asked

"What's wrong with kissing on the lips?" Lucy asked tilting her head

"You should only kiss someone on the cheeks Lucy. Not on the lips!" Sabo exclaimed still trying to calm his beating heart

"Why?" Lucy asked again but before Sabo could say anything Lucy continued "But Ace kissed me on the lips after I kissed him on the cheeks. So I thought it was okay." she pouted when she saw the now shocked face of Sabo staring at her

"Ace. did. what?" Sabo asked slowly, pausing after every word.

She pouted again "After I gave Ace the missile-too, I kissed him on the cheeks then greeted him Merry Christmas! Then he also greeted me Merry Christmas and kissed me on the lips.

"That asshole." Sabo gritted his teeth in anger

"What's wrong? Are you mad?" Lucy asked concerned that Sabo is mad at her

Sabo tried to calm himself to reassure Lucy, he was failing so bad. "No, I'm not mad at you Lucy." Sabo smiled a more calm and soft one before kissing her on the cheeks "Merry Christmas Lucy."

Lucy's face light up again then hugged Sabo tightly "I'm glad I thought you're mad at me. I don't want Sabo mad at me."

"Not at you." He whispered to himself. After the hug Sabo gripped her shoulders "Lucy promise me you'll never kiss anyone else on the lips okay?" Sabo said "Especially that asshole Ace."

"Why?" Lucy tilt her head on the side

"I promise I'll explain you in the future. But you trust me right? I'm your brother so you gotta believe me."

Lucy frowned but smiled anyway "Okay, I trust Sabo!" she giggled

"So if someone tried to kiss you on the lips, punch them, okay? Then tell me." Lucy nodded seriously "Tell me Lucy, okay? Especially if Ace tried to kiss you again."

"I promise." Lucy said seriously staring straight into his eyes.

Sabo smiled before nodding to himself. "Okay now let's go to sleep." he stated to drag Lucy back to the house

"But I gotta give kisses to everybody! It's Christmas!" Lucy protested pouting "I can't give kisses to everyone after Christmas! Toroa said so!"

"Its still Christmas when we wake up so give it tomorrow, okay?" Sabo said

Realization hit her and she nodded letting Sabo drag her away. "Are you going to sleep beside me Sabo?" Lucy asked

Sabo hesitated before smiling and nodding

Lucy cheered "Yey! Sabo is the best-est in the entire world!" she hugged him and gave him another kiss on the cheeks.

"I know." Sabo grinned


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