"Hey Chopper." I called him as we were about to continue our journey. He hummed and turned, "What is it, Eri?" he asked.
"Can I ask you about something?" I whispered, glancing at Ace's back, who was stretching up.
"Sure, ask away." He replied and smiled a bit.
I paused for a moment as I looked around, hoping that no one will eavesdrop and whispered at him, "Do you think I'm sick?"
"Sick!?" he yelled and I shushed him, which unfortunately taking everyone's attentions. They looked at us and we just grinned nervously before got back to our conversation.
"Not so loud!" I whispered at him and he nodded in understand.
"Sorry." He apologized softly. "So are you sick? What sickness?" he asked as we started to walk, continuing our journey to Yuba.
"Well," I started and hummed a bit as I was thinking, "Every time I saw Ace's smiles and when he's around, my heartbeats always get faster than usual and my face getting hotter." I said softly. "And then I really want to see his smiles or see him like that forever." I finished. "Do you think I'm sick?" I asked as I finished.
He was in deep thought as he heard my statement and I was waiting for him to respond. He finally snapped out from his thoughts and giggled softly before turning to me. "Its okay, Eri, your sickness isn't that dangerous." He said with a smile, which confusing me a bit.
"So I'm sick?" I asked and he nodded. "What sickness?" I asked again and he giggled.
"It's a Love Sickness." He answered with a grin.
…what?
"L-L-L-L-Lo-Love Sickness?!" I whispered loudly and blushed darkly, "Wh-what are you saying, Chopper!?" I exclaimed in embarrassment as my face flushed in deep red.
"Your reaction shows it." he pointed out with a smile.
'Me? In love? With Ace? Seriously?! But it can't be possible right?! H-he's to awesome and handsome for me! I'm not pretty! I'm not awesome like him! Well, I'm badass, but that's another matter!'
"A-are you kidding, Chopper?" I asked softly, hoping that he was lying.
"Doctors never lie about his patients' sicknesses." He stated firmly.
'SERIOUSLY!?'
XXX
I was so lost in thought at Chopper's statement a moment ago and unbeknownst to me, Ace was looking at me with worried look before turning back to Sanji-san, having another conversation. So lost in thought as I didn't even realize that the sun is getting high and the temperature is getting hotter, so sweats started raining down from my whole body.
Then I stopped when I finally realized that the temperature is killing me.
"Wait, so it's been so hot like this the whole time?" I asked as I wiped out the sweats from my face.
"What, you didn't realize it?" Zoro asked in amazement as he pulled Chopper on the slide.
"Not until now." I replied softly as I pulled out my bo staff and use it as a walking stick.
"So slow, aren't you?" Nami stated as she sweat-dropped.
"Shut up." I snapped and huffed in exhaust. I looked up and saw high mountains of sands with some of the Straw-Hats already ahead. "Is it still far?" I asked with a little bit loud voice to Vivi, who was already ahead of me.
"Well, yes. We're not even a quarter to Yuba." She replied with a pity smile while I jaw-dropped widely before looked down in depression.
"Good bye my life, hello to you hell that full of heats." I cried comically with an imagination of Level 4 Impel Down and I was dumped into the hot pot there. I heard a chuckled and a pat on my head.
"Come on, Eri, it's not that bad." I heard Ace said, "If you're tired, I'll carry you if you want." He offered while I felt my face heated up and I shook my head fast.
"No, it's alright! I'm perfectly fine!" I replied and walked faster, away from Ace, who was confused by my antics. I sighed as I just realized that my heart is beating faster than before and a tingling sensation in my stomach. 'So this is love felt like? It's kind of weird…' I thought and glanced from my shoulder, looking at Ace, who was talking things to Sanji-san.
'But I like it.' I turned back forward and shrugged at the thought. 'Let's just hope Ace won't mind with this kind of feelings.' I finished.
After a few, I dunno, maybe a few hours and the sun is high above us, I finally gave up and am being carried by Ace in a piggy-back ride. Luffy was lost in janken* and he carried almost all of the supplies we brought. He's whining all the way while the others are telling him to shut up and pull it all.
"Hey! Rocks sighted dead ahead!" Usopp announced, which snapping Luffy and me as we looked up in excitement.
"REALLY!?" we yelled and I jumped off from Ace and ran along with Luffy as we yell, "BREAK TIME!"
"Damn, they're fast!" I heard Usopp exclaimed while the others just sweat-dropped at the sight and Takao flew after us.
"Aaaahh! Shade! So nice!" Luffy said as he flopped down on the sand beside the rock, along with me. I didn't say anything as I thanked the god for the shade. Then we both realized some birds lying around the rocks, looking dead. Luffy went hysterical and he ran toward where everyone is, leaving me alone with the supplies and Takao landed next to me with Ro on his head.
I told those two to watch on the supplies while I approached the birds, which also known as Warusagis*. I grabbed one of them in the neck and slowly choking it while I just stared at them in blank face. Then I grabbed another one in the neck and choked them both, and at the same time, Luffy came with the others and he yelled at me because I tried to kill them slowly.
"What? If you don't want them suffer, why don't we just kill them on the spot? It will stop their sufferings." I told them.
"Stop saying nasty things like that!" Usopp yelled at me.
"Besides, they're Warusagis, not just mere birds." I told them as I glared at the birds in my hands as I tightened my clutching. "Right, Vivi?"
"Yes, they're Warusagis. They are called the 'Thieves of the Desert'. They fool travelers and steal their luggage." She confirmed, "Thank goodness that Eri-chan able to trap some of them and Takao-san watched over the stuffs." She said. Now that you mention it, the only birds here are the ones that in my hands now. Damn, I shouldn't let them get away earlier.
"Alright, Sanji-san, cook them for our lunch." I told him and offered him the birds, which already fainted because lacks of air.
"Haaai, Eri-chwan~~!" he replied and grabbed the birds to cook them, with the boys (along with the animals except Ro and Luffy) helped him out.
After a few moments, lunch is finally ready to serve.
"FOOD!" both Luffy and me exclaimed and we ate fast, with a few times of stealing foods from others' nearby, like Usopp and Chopper for examples.
"Oi! Stop stealing my food, both of you!" Usopp yelled, shark-teethed as he realized that we stole his foods.
"Too late!" we laughed and ate our food again.
After a few moments, we finally finished and we just realized that some of our stuffs are gone, like one barrel of waters and some of our supplies of foods. Then Luffy spotted the Warusagis with our stuffs and ran after them, only ran back toward us a few moments later with panicked expression as he screamed with a big thing behind him.
"He's being chased!" Nami pointed out while Usopp jaw-dropped far.
"It's a Sandora Dragon!" Vivi exclaimed and I spotted a familiar camel beside Luffy.
"I suppose we should save that camel running beside him." Sanji-san said.
"What star was I born under that give me all this damn trouble?" Zoro pointed out as he took out one of his katanas and I took out my bo staff, connecting the bisento blade on it.
"Let's beat it and if we can cook it, let's do this." I said as I grinned while the lizard is getting closer. We ran toward the lizard and prepared out our weapons as we braced our attacks.
"Gomu Gomu no…"
"Tatsu…"
"Epaule…"
"Ryuu no…"
"MUCHI/MAKI/SHOOT/SETSUDAN O!"
Right after we attacked it, it plumped down in a boom to the sands, dead, and turned the staff back to baton length and grabbed the blade piece before slipping the baton back to the belt. I grinned as sweats started trailing down hard, damned heats.
"Sanji, is this thing edible?" Luffy asked.
"Yeah, looks like it." the Cook replied.
"Perfect timing." Zoro said. "I'm still hungry because of a certain person kept stealing my foods." He continued before glaring at me, while I just looked away still with trailing sweats hard.
We walked back as we pulled the lizard up and started cleaning it up from the skins before cooked the meats on the stones, which acting like nature's frying pans.
"What's up with the camel?" Zoro asked as we wait for the meats.
"Dunno, when I was chasing the birds, he came running up." Luffy answered as he ate the meat in his hand, "Then I saw the lizard chasing him, so I started running too." He continued.
"It doesn't look wild. It's got a saddle and everything." Nami pointed out.
"We can ride it! That'll be so nice!" Luffy cheered.
"Yeah, good thing. I bet two or three people could ride on it." Usopp said, "You really do need camels in the desert."
Then after Luffy finished with his meat, he tried to ride the camel up, only get bitten by the camel because of it.
"'I am just a passing camel. Thanks for rescuing me.'" Chopper said, translating the camel up. "'I'll let you ride me, but I won't let any guys ride.' That's what he says." Takao finished. That, of course, causing the boys to beat the crap outta the camel, but Nami apologized and stroked the camel's chin, which actually having a nosebleed with love-shaped eyes.
"What should I call you?" Nami asked softly.
"Idiot." Luffy said.
"Moron." Sanji-san said.
"Dumbass." Usopp said.
"Ero-camel." I said.
"Okay, how about 'Eyelashes'?" Nami finally said as she rode on the camel.
"Vwo." The camel replied.
"That's worse than the other names." Zoro said as he sweat-dropped.
"Get on, Vivi, Eri!" Nami said as the camel sat down.
"No, I'm fine. I can still walk." Vivi refused softly.
"Nah, I'm not going to ride that ero-camel." I refused.
"It's okay." Nami replied and Vivi finally get on the camel. "Now we can get to Yuba a little faster." Nami said and the camel stood up before started to run fast, with the others following behind after they yelled at the girls and the camel.
"Hurry up everyone! If you get lost, you'll never make it out of the desert alive!" Nami exclaimed in distance.
"SCREW YOU!" the boys but Ace and Sanji-san yelled.
XXX
"So…" I started as I looked around with Ace right beside me.
"Where are we?" I asked softly as the wind blew up the deserted desert around us, which only both of us remains.
…
"Why the hell did we got lost anyway?" I grumbled.
"Well, you actually accidently ate a cactus that cause an illusions and you ran off by yourself. I ran after you and when I got you and about to go back to the others, they're already gone and none of their footprints remains." Ace answered and I face-palmed myself.
"I did that? That's so lame." I sighed and fell on my knees, sweats trailing down. "Now how are we going to go back?" I asked before Ace pat my head as he crouched down to my eye-level.
"Don't worry, Eri, we'll find them soon." He said and grinned, which making the tingling sensation in my stomach come back and I blushed slightly before I looked away.
"Y-yeah." I replied and stood up. "L-let's go that way!" I pointed a way to my left and walked that way, leaving Ace with confused look.
"But the others went that way before we got lost." He pointed to his right and I stopped before U-turned and walked toward where Ace pointed about. I heard a snicker and I turned to Ace, who was snickering before laughing hard.
"W-what's so funny!?" I exclaimed in embarrassment as I blushed.
"You're bad sense in direction is still remains, eh?" he said and chuckled softly.
"S-shut up!" I replied and pouted as I puffed my cheeks and walked toward the direction that Ace pointed about.
He still chuckling but he eventually stops as he's right beside me before he tried to apologize to me, which of course I looked away as I puffed my cheeks and kept walking.
"Come on, are you still mad at me?" he asked softly with a defeat grin.
I just huffed before I detect something underneath the sand in front of us and I jumped away as the thing emerges out from the sand, along with Ace.
The thing is revealed as a giant scorpion. It saw us and about to attack us, but Ace quickly burned it up and we decided to eat it. To be honest, scorpion meat is like shrimp's. Kind of weird, cause shrimp is not my favorite seafood food, but whatever.
We continue our journey until two certain geckos that walked in their hind legs. We stared at them at first before we moved to the other side, which followed by the geckos. This happened for a few moments before my patients is finally died down and hit both of the geckos' head, which scaring them and we decided to ride on it to decrease the time in search of the others.
"Wait a second…!" I stopped the gecko I rode, which causing Ace to stop also.
"May I ask you something, Ace?" I asked with seriousness and he nodded.
"What do you think of me?" I asked openly, "Not as a little sister, but as a girl." I continued.
There is an awkward silence but who cares. I need to clear this out by asking him about me and these stupid sensations I got.
"You…" he started and I gulped in nervousness, waiting for the answer. "You're actually the prettiest, the kindest, and the best girl I ever met." He replied and smiled at me, which making my heart beats faster and I felt the heat on my face as I felt I blushed. The tingling sensation in my stomach is there again and I turned my head to the front, hoping that Ace didn't see my red face, which kind of late as he saw it but didn't say anything on the sight.
"O-oh, okay." I replied softly and continued our journey, Ace following behind.
"But still, your stubbornness is annoying." He added and laughed as he's right beside me. "But, I find it kind of cute too." He continued with a wide, bright grin that possibly could be match with the sun.
That, ladies and gentlemen, officially made me blushed hard, like, real hard. As I felt my face is on fire and my ears are hot, not to mention my heart is beating faster and the tingling sensation in my stomach.
That actually took Ace's guard off as he widened his eyes because of my reaction and blushed a bit before looked away. I looked away too as I kept telling myself to calm the fuck down.
The ride was so awkward, as none any of us want to say anything. As the day was about to change into the night, we finally spotted everyone else and we cheered as we saw them. We ran toward them and yelled as we got closer to them, which taking everyone's attentions and they smiled in relieved.
"Yo minna!" I greeted with a grin. "Does any of you miss us?" I asked playfully.
"Probably these 'family' of yours." Zoro replied as he pointed his thumb to the rest of my 'family', who were looked so happy to see both Ace and me up and jumped on me first before Ace.
"I thought we're gonna lost you two for sure!" Luffy exclaimed as he hugged me again, tight.
"Luffy…! Can't… breath…!" I struggled up as the oxygen started to leave from my lungs and he quickly apologizes (which totally didn't sound so sorry at all) as he let go of me. I started breathing heavily and pinched his cheek in anger, which cause him to apologize properly.
"Alright then everyone," Vivi called and we turned to look at her. "It seems the day has end, why don't we end the day by resting near the rocks right over there?" she pointed at some direction, showing the said rocks.
"Alright then!" both Luffy and me exclaimed in sync and we ran toward the said rocks fast, which shocking most of the Straw-Hats while Ace is shooing the geckos away as he thanked them for the ride.
We plopped down next to the rocks and sighed in content while everyone else is gone after us. After a few moments, a bonfire is built and I was writing on my Log Book as we all waiting for our dinner (which fortunately still there as they eventually found some monsters in the way and kill it for our food supplies.
As I were writing about the monsters and our journey in the desert to Yuba with Ace, I felt someone sat down beside me and peeked from my shoulder, and I can felt the breath of the person that blowing my ear. My face flushed from the sudden blow and I jerked away from the person, which revealed as Ace that looked interested by my Log Book.
"What, it's just you…" I said as I rubbed my chest where the heart is and sighed in relief.
"What are you writing?" he asked and grabbed the book, looking at it page per page from the first page.
"Our journey from both Luffy and me first set sail to our journey now." I replied as I tried my best to calm myself down, as I still can feel his breathing in my ear.
"Hee…" he hummed as he looked at the pages before it stopped right at the end of the book, where a photo resides. He took it out and stared at the photo.
"You still have this photo?" he asked as he smiled nostalgically.
"Of course!" I replied and huffed as I pouted, "It's a family photo, baka! Of course I still have it!" I continued and he chuckled.
The photo is a picture of me, Luffy, Ace, Sabo, Takao, Flame, Ro, Garp-jii, and Dadan back at the crappy hut. The four of us were beaten and full of bandages and band-aids, via Garp-jii's 'training'. The only ones that smiling were only me, Luffy, Sabo, Ro, and Garp-jii, while the others just wearing an annoyed or straight faces.
"Actually, I found it kind of funny that you changed drastically from your younger self to now." I pointed out with teasing smile.
"Shut up." he snapped playfully before putting the photo back into the book and gave the book back to me.
"Dinner's ready!" Sanji-san exclaimed and both Luffy and me perked up and cheered up at the announcement.
We ate in a ruckus. Why? Because both Luffy and me are strikes again, back at stealing foods. Mostly on Usopp and Chopper, cause those two are easy preys.
"Stop stealing our food, you bakas!" Usopp yelled at both of us, who just kept eating.
"Yeah! Stop stealing!" Chopper added and I quickly took his meat because of that. "Hey!" he yelled again.
"Then stop complaining and back to eat if you don't want your food are gone because we stole it." I told them and back to eat while those two were yelling again cause their foods are already gone because of both of us.
'What a normal dinner time…'
XXX
'Love, eh?'
I was leaning on the rocks while everyone else is already asleep, thinking deep. I'm actually never believed in love. Love is bullshit, especially if it's a love at first sight. That's more absurd.
"Love…" I muttered, "Words of Feelings…" I paused for a moment before I stood up and walked away for a bit. I looked back as I assured myself that everyone is asleep and nodded.
Kotoba Kimochi – Hatsune Miku
(A/N: try listening the song too)
"Guuzen mitsuketa oto ga enogu ni kawatte yukunda, hikaru wo maite tobu kotoba kimochi sagashiteru" I sang softly and smiled.
"Mirai wa tekitou dakara watashi wa oboete okunda, anata ni todoketai kotoba kimochi aishiteru" I smiled as the night breeze was blowing.
"Aishiteru… Aishiteru…"
"Honto wa samishikunaitte anata ni uso tsuiterunda, hitori ga kowai kara kotoba kimochi kakushiteru" I remembered the time back on Earth, I was always alone. I don't have many friends, and even if I did, it's not that many and they're not close to me. I always said that I'm not alone, but I actually am feeling lonely.
"Mirai wo egaku dake nara enogu wa hitotsu de iinda, anata ga soba ni iru sore wa kitto suteki na prism" I smiled as I remembered all my Nakamas and my family here, hoping that I can made them happy, and protect them for all my might.
"Mirai tekitou dakara watashi wa oboete okunda, anata ni todoketai kotoba kimochi aishiteru" then my memories traveled back to my families and friends back on Earth, hoping that the song I sang can reach them or whatever.
"Kotoba kimochi aishiteru"
Unbeknownst to me, Ace stirred and sat up as he heard the soft tune of my voice. He turned and saw me in distance, singing softly.
"Aishiteru… Aishiteru…"
"Guuzen mitsuketa oto ga enogu ni kawatte yukunda, hikaru wo maite tobu kotoba kimochi sagashiteru" I sang slowly as the tune get a little bit solemn, while Ace is listening to me from distance before decided to approaching me slowly.
"Mirai wa tekitou dakara watashi wa sakende mirunda, anata ni aitai yo kotoba kimochi aishiteru" I smiled as I sang before I felt a hand on top of my head. I turned, only to face to face with Ace, who was real close to my face as I could feel his breathings on my face.
Aishiteru… Aishiteru…
My face immediately flushed in deep red, along with my ears, and my heart is beating fast. I stared into his eyes, which are clear as water, not clouded like a person just woke up from sleep, as he started to close the gap between our faces before I felt something wet on my lips and I widened my eyes.
Aishiteru… Aishiteru…
The wet thing, which revealed as Ace's lips, was touching mine. I felt his hands on mine and I closed my eyes as we intertwined our hands and fingers together, feeling the surprisingly soft lips that connected to mine and surprisingly great feelings.
After a while, we finally unconnected our lips and panting because of lacks of air, as we forgot to breath using our nostrils. I leaned to his chest while he rested his chin on my head. I looked up and he also looked down. We stared at each other's eyes as both of our faces are red and our still intertwined hands clenched a little bit tighter.
"I…" Ace started as I heard his voice is quivering, while I stared at him as I waited for him. "I… love you… Eri." he said as his big hands clenched tighter around me. "And… as a girl… not a little sister…" he added softly.
My face flushed deeply in red again as I looked down in embarrassment. I clenched my hands around his big hands.
'Is this… Love?'
"I…" I paused for a bit and looked up, his grayish eyes twinkling in the dark night. "I think… I… love you… too…" I finished and looked back down in embarrassment. After a little while, he let go of my hands and hugged me tight. I hugged him back as I buried my face into his chest.
'Maybe it's not so bad after all…'
XXX
The next morning, I was so in daze, as I even didn't realize that Luffy is kept stealing my food right now. Flowery auras were around me as I was dazing off to somewhere, which making everyone but Ace (who also in daze but not as bad as me) was looking at each other in confusion and sweat-dropped at my flowery auras.
"Eri-chan… are you alright?" I heard Vivi asked in worry.
"Yes…" I replied as I smiled softly, flowery auras still around me and beaming with happiness, "I'm extremely fine today~" I continued and put in a meat on my fork to my mouth.
"Uhh… what's wrong with her, Chopper?" Usopp asked in low tone to the reindeer hybrid, "Is she really fine? Doesn't looks like it to me…" he continued.
"Well, she's actually in the second stage of her sickness right now." Chopper replied as he also sweat-dropped at the sight.
"Sickness?! What kind of sickness?" Usopp asked.
"It's Love Sickness." Chopper replied and laughed nervously as almost everyone shouting 'what' loudly.
"L-Love Sickness!?" Nami exclaimed in disbelief. "She? In love?" she asked again as she pointed at me. "With who!?"
"That, must be ask to someone here that obviously loves her…" Sanji-san said as almost all of them turned to a certain fireman, who is obviously realized the staring at him.
"So, did you confess your feelings to her?" Sanji-san asked softly while Ace is blushed a little before nodded in excitement with beaming smile.
"Yeah, I did it yesterday night." He added with beaming smile. "But I never thought that it will affect her THIS badly…" he trailed off as he turned to his beloved little sister, and now his girlfriend, who was so lost in thought before I snapped out of it as I just realized that all my food are gone and quickly kicked him away hard.
"Luffy you bastard! How dare you stole all my foods!" I exclaimed in anger as the flowery auras around me earlier were replaced by fiery auras of anger.
"Geh! I've been found out!" he exclaimed and screaming in fear as he ran away from me, who was fuming with my staff in my hands.
"Stop running so I can kill you!" I yelled as I ran after him with shark-teeth.
"NO WAY!"
This kept going for a minute until I felt a hand yanked my arm and made me turned around, only to face-to-face with Ace. It was happening so fast as I felt a peck on my nose and then I saw him smirked at me before my face flushed in embarrassment before I heard cooing from the Straw-Hats.
"Look at that… it's so adorable…" I heard Nami said and my whole face is completely red, maybe as red as Buggy's nose.
"N-Nami!" I yelled in embarrassment and she giggled at my reaction.
"But just so you know, Ace," she called and Ace looked at her, "If you ever hurt her, even once, we won't hesitate to hunt you down to the end of the Grand Line, even though you're her brother." She continued with devilish smile. Then I felt a hand on my head and pulled my head to someone's chest, which Ace's chest and I could felt that he's smiling.
"I won't and I will always protect her." He said and grinned at me, which making me to blush a bit and grinned back and we laughed together in happiness.
'They're so adorable.' everyone thought as they saw the sight, while Luffy grinned at the sight in happiness, as his brother and sister are finally one.
'Love really is a mysterious but wonderful thing, eh?'
XXX
We continued our journey and the sun is finally high above us again. I was being carried by Ace in piggy-back ride as I can't stand of the heat-stroke like ever while the others kept walking but the girls, which on the ero-camel and were talking to each other, who knows about what.
"Vivi…" I heard Luffy called in exhaust, "Can't we take a rest now?" he asked.
"It's just a little bit further, Luffy-san. Just hang in there." she replied apologetically while Luffy whined in disappointment. "Maybe we could take a rest later at the rocks nearby if we found it." she continued.
After who knows how long, probably around two to three hours, we finally in shade and we were resting for a moment while Sanji-san cooked for late lunch. I leaned on Ace as we finally in cool place and I drank on my flask of water until its empty. I huffed in content as I finished my water and I heard Ace chuckled.
"You seems happy with this break." He said with a smile.
"Of course!" I replied enthusiastically, "Besides, I'm hungry." I continued and giggled, "Geshishishi."
He chuckled and pecked my forehead, "It will be always food." He said and we grinned together.
"Lunch is ready!" Sanji-san exclaimed and we ate again cheerfully.
After a while and we finally finished our meal with Zoro went angry to both Luffy and me.
"Just how many times do I have to tell you about stealing my food!?" he yelled.
"I dunno, probably hundred times or more." I chirped cheerfully, which is earning a glare by the marimo and I laughed.
After a few moments, we saw the last chicken leg is floating and Luffy yelled at it before ran after it. I just stared at the figure of my big baby brother that running away before shrugged it off before decided to ran after it by myself using haki. I jumped on the rocks and detected two small figures running away while my brother is far away from the small figures. I jumped on the haki as I followed the figures with my haki, while the others were following me from behind before I stopped and Ace is right beside me while the figures are right below us.
"You know that it's bad to steal from someone." I pointed out with a smirk, which making the figures to flinched and showed themselves. They're actually kids; they have similar faces so they're brothers then.
"W-who are you!?" one of the kids, possibly the older brother, yelled at me.
"You know it's rude to yell to older people and asking them their names before giving theirs." This time, Ace pointed out.
Then the older one pointed out a gun at us, but I can felt that he's scared as his hands were trembling. We just stared at those two while they were talking to each other before the older one suddenly shot his gun towards us, only get repelled by Ace using a small stone. Those two looked surprised and scared about it, but a loud cheering from distance was heard and we turned, only to saw an ostrich with two figures on it ran toward us.
The old man yelled things about Ace and he stopped while a familiar figure AKA Luffy jumped off from the ostrich and walked away from those two. Then the old man started preparing things, along with the ostrich, before he started attacking Ace, which of course dodged by him and attacked the man back. The man was about to attack back, using his 'special weapon' or whatever, but only to being stopped by the kids, who were revealed as the man's children named Chip and Dip and the man himself revealed as Scorpion, AKA the only characters in anime scenes.
Then suddenly the rocks behind him rolled over and about to crush the three, but Ace quickly saves them and approached them. He asked about the rumor is true, which of course replied by Scorpion that it's a lie and Ace sighed softly, as the rumor about Blackbeard isn't true.
That evening, Ace said we part here.
"Eeehh… can't you stay with us a little bit longer?" Luffy asked as he whined about the fact his brother is going to leave again.
"Well, I'd love too, but with that man roams around, I can't stand still." He replied with apologetic smile.
"Are you really going to leave?" I asked and he smiled at me before pat my head gently.
"Are you sad?" he asked teasingly and I pouted.
"Of course, baka!" I replied, "What do you expect?" I asked back as I huffed and puffed my cheeks, which a little bit red because of embarrassment and I heard him chuckled.
"Well then, Luffy, Eri," he called and throws two folded papers to us. We caught it and Luffy opened it, which there's nothing written on it. "Always keep that with you." He said.
"What, it's just a paper." Luffy said.
"Well, that paper will let us meet again." He said.
"Wow…"
"Don't want it?" Ace asked to Luffy.
"No, I'll keep it." Luffy replied.
"Oh and Eri," he called and gave me another piece of paper with my name on the center, only this one is real big, maybe about a meter. "You know what these are, right?" he asked, pointing out the papers.
I nodded, "Yep, they're Vivre Card, or 'The Paper of Life'." I replied and he smiled.
"Well, this one is yours." He said, pointing to the big sized paper.
"It's mine?" I asked.
"Yep." he grinned, "Don't you remember two years back at the letter that I asked you for your fingernails?" he asked and I was thinking about it for a moment before nodding. Then he took out many papers and gave it to the Straw-Hats, including Luffy, Takao, and Flame. Then he took the paper with my name on it from my hands and folded it before put it into his pocket.
"Well then, take care of my brother and my girlfriend-slash-beloved little sister for me." he said with a grin and the Straw-Hats smiled back at him before Ro meowed loudly as he ran toward Ace and Ace took him and put him on his shoulder. But then the Scorpion guy with his sons yelled at us, bidding a thank you and farewell, which of course taking almost all of us' attentions and bid them a farewell as well.
But my attention is still at Ace with solemn look. He chuckled as he grinned in defeat before pecked my lips, causing me to blush again.
"You're still blushing every time I kiss you." He pointed out with a smile and I pouted.
"Shut up. This time, I'll kiss you for a good luck charm." I said and yanked his scarf down, closing the gap between our faces and I pecked his lips softly before looked away in embarrassment. "There, it's a good luck charm." I said as I blushed and he looked at me with shocked look as he also blushed before hugging me tight.
"You're just too cute to resist!" he exclaimed as he hugged me tight before letting go and kiss me hard, which slightly surprising me and I gasped in surprised. That eventually made him put in his tongue into my gaping mouth and licking inside my mouth. I moaned a bit as he used his tongue to lick my own tongue before the kiss is finally over, which earns both of us to pants heavily and he grinned at me while I pouted.
"You know Ace, you're such a pervert." I pointed out as I panted, slightly embarrassed by the fact we just French kissed.
He grinned apologetically, "Well, I'm a man, just so you know." He pointed out before kissed my forehead and bided a farewell as he walked away with a grin. I smiled back and waved at him, silently praying for his safety.
'I hope you're going to be alright…'
A/N: HOLYYYY~~~! SHIIIII~~~T!
THIS IS TOO MUCH! BOTH OF YOU! STOP THAT ERO-NESS!
Well then, it seems those two are officially a couple, eh? Damn you Eri-chan, I envy you to get a kiss from Ace and you got his heart. Not to mention you two just French kissed, goddammit.
Is it just me or I felt that the progress of these two is too fast?
REVIEWING TIME!
For Freddie4153: Yes she is, so she needed to trigger to make her realize. But they're a couple now! But is it just me or it really is too fast to confess?
For Pikachu17: Thanks!
For gamelover41592: Thank you!
For IsraAl'Attia-Theron : You have a super long and difficult name, but I like it! Thanks! I hope the cute moments here could satisfy your needs, thank you very much~! Aww, don't worry about it. Why don't we just wait for the Arc in the future?
For imafangirlforever: I HOPE THIS ONE REPLENISHES YOUR NEEDS! I worked real hard on the cute scenes and… ya' know, the last kiss. *hides under a big stone of embarrassment* Yep! I update fast because of him! And sorry if this one is kind of slow, schools at it. NO MARCO SMOKER! COME BAAAACK~~! (Let's fangirling together~~)
For One piece fan #1: Thanks! They're couple now~~! Isn't that awesome!?
For Guest: Which one is far romantic, this one or previous one? Their children, eh? *thinking deeply with creepy smile*
For One piece fan #2: He did! Yay! You read it twice? Well thanks! But how about this one? Sorry if the progress is too fast!
ALRIGHT! I THINK THAT'S ALL! THANKS FOR FAVORITING/FOLLOWING/READING/REVIEWING THIS STORY!
DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ONE PIECE AND NEVER WILL BECAUSE IT WAS OWNS BY THE GREAT ODACCHI-SAMA!
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