Galaxy Creator of Pisces: Thank you! They're really close and I really enjoyed writing them. They have the best teamwork.

Archer headass: It is way more fun for me to write him having a different power other than his rubber one.

Guest: Thanks! Their haki is a really big thing in this fic.


We get to see Ace and Luffy's improvements in their fighting in this chapter against a certain somebody.


After another two weeks, Ace and Luffy had finished their first book that wasn't for elementary school. It was fiction, not history or science, but they did their work on it. They summarized each chapter, and took quizzes and then wrote a five page essay at the end. The tutor said she had never had children this dedicated or learning this fast.

Gunhead came in to get a bite to eat between classes and heard this. "You two seem like fast learners. You are skilled with your quirks, are learning quickly from my sessions, and are plowing ahead in your studies."

And they had gotten better at their quirks in a safe environment and someone giving them hints and encouraging. And the pro-hero trusted them to not damage the house and dojo. Ace had learned to cover his whole body into fire, and was able to turn his hand intangible. Only his hand, as it was very tiring.

Luffy was learning at a faster pace. He'd come to a huge milestone in technique when he found he could manipulate air in a different way, turning it solid when he touched it. He was able to climb up air like a ladder and stand on top of it like it was an invisible floor. He couldn't keep it hard unless he was touching it. So nobody else could use the air ladder or air floor.

Gunhead told them that he honestly thought that with more training, they could become strong heroes. It made both of them give watery smiles. "Our parents, they always told us that we'd go nowhere in life, even if we were good at our quirks."

Gunhead balled his fists, a show of anger. "Those aren't your parents. I'm your guardian now, never them again," he said firmly. Luffy hid his tears in his hands while Ace rubbed his back, sniffling as well. They were almost thirteen, but being told that somebody wanted them as family really touched them. Of course they'd cry, somebody genuinely wanted them around, of their own will and not by force.

"I'm glad you two ran into me back then," he said, putting his hands on their heads. They nodded, getting their tears under control. They turned the lip biting into grinning. They smiled so much here that it felt almost unnatural. But nice at the same time. And they liked seeing one another smile. It made them happy to see their twin happy.

Finally, they'd learned what they needed to start school, two months earlier and barely able to make the deadline to the nearest school so they could walk there. They had completed six months of work in four. And they asked the tutor for quizzes that they could have after she left so they could make sure they didn't forget.

They made flashcards, her pointing out the most important things to remember about science, math and history. They were fine with reading and writing now. She was genuinely sad to leave them. They were nice to be around, good students that never whined or complained about their workload, which they took on their own.

-x-

"Don't let anyone bully you. Don't let them anger you, and don't forget to eat, you'll have free lunch. Be careful on your way, okay? Good luck, don't be scared, you'll do fine," Gunhead said on their first day of school. He was more flustered than they were.

"We'll be fine. And we'll message you at lunch to say how things are going," Ace said, hiking his backpack up a little higher. "Promise."

Gunhead nodded, and patted both of their hair. "Make me proud," he said, a smile in his voice. Ace and Luffy promised they would with bright smiles. They walked to school, nervous but excited. They had expected to start in the middle of the semester, but that was gone. All that work paid off, and they were nearly normal.

They linked their pinkies as they walked there. They had made sure they were in the same room, and went to sit inside next to each other. Apparently, nobody was expecting new students. They all seemed to know one another. Both of them were taller than they were before after they started eating healthy food and hearty amounts.

Somebody sat in front of them. "Yo, haven't seen you guys before," he said. He looked nice enough, but did sound a bit cocky. They weren't easy to anger, mostly happy with life, even if it threw trouble at them. They'd been through worse than bullying.

Ace replied, "We're new here. We moved so this school is closest." When they were asked their names, they said Luffy and Ace. They discarded their last names long ago. They asked if those were their first names, and Luffy nodded, saying they didn't like their last name. They explained they were fraternal twins.

"What are your quirks?" an angry looking kid asked, blonde and spikey hair, who just gave off a bad feeling. Like he was angry at everything and everyone. Luffy easily said they wouldn't be saying them, that they'd rather make friends without their quirk being known. "Lame. Bet your quirkless like Deku," he said, looking in one direction.

Both of them wordlessly went and sat next to Deku. Ace sat in front of him and Luffy sat next to him. "What's your name?" Luffy asked pleasantly.

"Midoriya Izuku… Why are you sitting here? You heard what he said," Midoriya said quietly. Ace smiled and said he looked a lot nicer than some of the others. "But I'm quirkless," he pointed out, like that was what made people like one another.

Luffy asked why that mattered. Midoriya looked shocked, and asked if they were quirkless like he was. "No, we just don't want people knowing them and thinking of us differently. We won't judge others on their quirks unless they use them in bad ways. So it's not a big deal for us if you're quirkless. Wanna be friends?"

He smiled a watery smile and nodded, shaking their hands. The angry one looked at them with a pissy look. Like he was angry they were friends with Midoriya. Well, hopefully would be friends. Ace turned around and asked why the blonde guy kept glaring at them. He made an irate noise and looked forward.

Midoriya said, "He doesn't like me. I don't know exactly why, but he's never nice to me." Luffy frowned, and said that wasn't cool. Ace said he didn't understand why people hated other people when they did nothing bad to them.

Bakugo, as they heard his name, said, "You're two vanilla pansies, aren't you? Your quirks suck so bad you won't even tell anyone." They didn't take the bait. Being alone and then with someone as kind as Gunhead, it wasn't easy to get them angry.

Ace simply said, "Think what you want. It's not like you have to be friends with us." The others looked shocked, while Ace and Luffy were perfectly fine. They turned to Midoriya and asked him some more questions about himself. His hobbies and such. He seemed more than happy to have two friends when he had said nobody liked him because he was quirkless.

"You want to be a hero, too?" Luffy asked excitedly. Midoriya nodded, a sad smile on. He said he couldn't be a hero without a quirk.

"Maybe you could develop it late. Besides, if you get strong, you can be a hero, just not like the super ones," Luffy said enthusiastically. "We want to be heroes, too. A pair since our powers complement each other." Midoriya smiled, and asked if they would tell him their quirk. Ace politely said they wouldn't. "We don't want you to think of us differently either. We won't use them unless of an emergency, so you could think of us like you. That we don't have one."

Bakugo scoffed. Why was he listening to them, it wasn't like they were speaking to him. They didn't care what his quirk was, but when their new fellow freckled friend turned white, they looked over to see Bakugo's hand make small but loud explosions. The twins just turned away, not looking very impressed, and showed some more interest in Midoriya.

Once class started, Ace and Luffy found out that they may have over studied since they knew the answers to so many of the subjects taught or questions asked. And they were used to answering and asking questions, so they did. Luffy was braver than Ace to answer questions, but Ace did as well.

Finally, the teacher needed to say, "Does anyone know the answer besides Ace and Luffy?" they heard whispers calling them stupidly smart. Ace sent Luffy a grin, that both of them were smarter and also knew they were more powerful than anyone in the room. Their haki, as they decided to call it by randomly choosing paper letters from a jar, had been trained alongside their bodies and quirks.

Meeting Gunhead was the best thing that had ever happened to them, by far. He gave them so much help with talent and skill, and he also gave them affection that they'd never gotten from somebody other than one another. Life was genuinely happy now, knowing how bad things could be.

Life was wonderful now, and they smiled more than they frowned. Laughed more than they cried. Gunhead said their transformation had been a privilege to see firsthand. It was a small family and all, but still a good one. During the break for lunch, Ace, Luffy and Midoriya went to get food. Ace and Luffy paid extra for larger servings. They sat at a bench outside, under a sakura tree.

"You guys are really smart," Midoriya commented as they ate lunch. It wasn't the best food, but it also wasn't terrible. The twins weren't picky with food. Food was food, and it should never be wasted.

"We have never been to school besides this year, so we were homeschooled for a couple months. We kinda went overboard to make it to this year. Finished six months of education in four. If that hadn't been the case we would have come later in the semester," Ace explained. Midoriya was shocked, and asked if they hadn't been to school at all.

Luffy grinned and said, "Nope! But learning is fun. Knowing when something clicks, when you can do something better than before. It's awesome. Improvement in anything is great." Midoriya actually smiled, a real smile. They exchanged phone numbers, and then went to class together. It was pretty clear that Ace and Luffy were the talkers and Midoriya was a listener, who didn't seem to be upset about it.

Next was english, which they'd studied as a side project, but not too in depth. They could pronounce things okay, but it was normally challenging. Not too bad, but they weren't experts in English. Math, reading and writing, along with science and brief history were the easy parts.

"Where do you live?" Ace asked Midoriya after school was out. He said he lived in an apartment, and asked where they lived. "We live in a house with a built in dojo. It's really cool. But it's a secret who we live with."

Ace and Luffy felt Bakugo's presence from behind. "He's behind us," Ace sighed. Midoriya turned around and didn't see Bakugo before he was in front of them. "Can we help you?" Ace asked politely. Bakugo was already angry at their nonchalance.

"You two are quirkless, too? Losers like stupid Deku," he spat.

Luffy replied, "If we were, that would be none of your business. We're not interested in whatever you're here for. Bye," and the two turned around, though they kept their haki on him, knowing when he went after them. Ace said he'd take care of it.

Bakugo started exploding his hand, and jumped at Ace, who easily side stepped him, grabbed his forearm, pinned it behind his back, swept under his legs and slammed him over his head. He was hurt by the intensity of the impact. Ace and Luffy stared down at him, Midoriya and the others around shocked. "Not to be rude, but we don't need to use our quirks to deal with bullies. Have a nice day."

Bakugo was coughing and swearing, the wind knocked out of him. Ace and Luffy gave high fives. "We gotta tell him about that," Ace said with a laugh. Midoriya looked shocked, but impressed.

"You guys took him down so easily. He's made everyone else afraid of him. Because he attacks people," the smaller boy asked. Ace said that it shouldn't be legal to do that. Though it was clear Bakugo didn't care. Luffy pointed out that you could be strong even without a quirk, proving what they'd said earlier. "Just gotta have lots of training and dedication, right?"

The green haired one nodded, and smiled, thanking them. They had just inspired him a bit. "That's great! I think you could be amazing, Mirodiya. Heroes have to be nice, and you're really nice. Just gotta harden your body," Luffy said happily. "We'll our place is this way. See you tomorrow!"

"Y-Yeah," Midoriya said. Ace and Luffy linked pinkies on their way back home.

Luffy said, "You were so cool, Ace. And then what you said! Wham, that was probably a bigger burn to his pride than you bypassing his power and showing him who's stronger!" Ace grinned and rubbed under his nose. "We were lucky to be saved by Gunhead, huh?"

Luffy nodded in agreement, and they went home to tell Gunhead about the last half of their day. He was angry at the bully, but so proud of them for standing their ground verbally and not just physically. The two went straight to the table after talking and started on their homework. They multitasked and asked how Gunhead's day back went.

"I caught three guys. There are heroes patrolling where you used to live. I checked it out. There are no kids on the street anymore. Meeting you there ended up helping a lot of people. We all feel guilty for letting that area slip past us," he said, sounding ashamed.

"There's no need to feel bad about it anymore, the heroes helped people," Luffy said cheerily. "Hey, can we bring Midoriya over so you can teach him?"

Gunhead sounded like he was smiling when he said, "I think you two should be doing the teaching." Ace looked to Luffy and said that they couldn't let people know the dojo in their house is Gunhead's. So, they both agreed, looking forward to helping him out.

Luffy commented, "He seems nice, but really insecure. So giving him the chance to fight well might make him feel better. I don't want us to have to protect him and make him possibly feel useless. Even without a quirk, he could be strong." Ace and Gunhead nodded in agreement.

The next day, it ended up as expected. Word that the new kid with no known quirk had stopped Bakugo, the supposedly strongest student at school with his quirk. But now, not the strongest physically. That went to Ace at the moment. They were glad they hadn't said what their quirks were. Maybe Midoriya would have felt really outshined if both of them were powerhouses and everyone knew it.

Bakugo glared at them furiously, and every time they passed him outside of class, he blew his hands up. Ace and Luffy didn't flinch once, and didn't even look at him. He was insignificant and they weren't going to bend to him and be victims. They also weren't instigators. They just avoided him to keep out of trouble.

Though after the day before, people showed more interest in them. A couple of girls approached them awkwardly, and asked if they could help them with some math. They agreed, not really caring that they were girls. They were just fellow students. Ace and Luffy didn't care about relationships. It would be a distraction from getting to the top, and Gunhead was perfectly happy being single. But Ace and Luffy were close enough that they didn't need anyone else. But, Midoriya was nice. And another friend was fun. It'd always just been them, after all.

Though they had made friends with the two at the dojo. They all went to the library and sat at the table, Midoriya sitting next to Luffy, looking a bit uncertain. "You understand this perfectly, right? Cause you're smart," Luffy commented. Midoriya's notebook already had everything finished, with extra notes on the side for himself.

The twins helped the girls until they started to do what seemd to be flirting. Ace and Luffy weren't interesting. "If you don't look at the paper you won't learn anything," Ace said after seeing one batting her eyelashes at him. She turned red and looked back at her paper and got to work. Ace was the better and older looking one of the two. Luffy was shorter and looked younger even though they were the same age.

He didn't mind, Ace seemed annoyed by the attention. "Well, these notes should help. You should make notes on the side in a way that you understand it instead of just copying out of the book. It'll really help, I promise," Ace said with a smile. The girls nodded and thanked him, their flirting over after Ace subtly rejected it.

Midoriya was clearly holding in a laugh. "Those girls are super popular here, you know?"

Luffy responded, "So? Relationships would interfere with our future dreams. Besides, we'd have no time for them like they might want." Midoriya asked what he meant. "Well, we do our homework and then some, and then almost the rest of the day is spent training without a guardian and our quirks."

"Ehh, so you do have quirks," he commented.

"Yup! I think mine is cool, and ours work together well. But were twins, it might be expected, who knows?" Luffy replied. Midoriya said they were cool. The kind of people he'd never met before. Strong and kind. And smart, too.

Ace closed the notebook and said, "We went through some stuff as kids, so we always look at everything in a positive light now. Being angry or sad all the time isn't a fun way to live your life, right? And being strong helps, too. You can protect yourself and not feel like a burden. And it's fun, too, right?" Luffy agreed. "We might seem too cheery to you, but that's just how it is. Life is good."

Midoriya said that their cheeriness doesn't bother him at all. It was a lot better than moping and being on his own. "Bullying is the worst," Luffy said.

"You got bullied?" Midoriya asked in shock.

"Before we were taken in by our guardian. There were tons of bullies," Luffy replied honestly, though he left a lot out. Ace agreed, and put his pencils and pens away. There were people in the library staring at them, before some came over, from their class but not the mean ones. They sat at the table, and introduced themselves.

"You guys, how are you so happy all the time?" Jeri said, the tallest of them who could make his fingers longer. "I haven't seen you frown once other than when he defeated Bakugo. Which was super cool! Even without quirks you guys held your own." Ace and Luffy weren't expecting this, but maybe they could have more friends. Maybe Midoriya could, too.

Ace shrugged and said that they just try to look at the good in life. Being upset and angry doesn't get you anywhere. "I'm not just talking about Bakugo, just in general." It was weird, but they seemed to be engaged in the two. Some were even talking to Midoriya.

A red head looked at Midoriya, seeming ashamed. "I'm sorry I make fun of you. After seeing someone else stand up to Bakugo, it made me think. Bullies may be safer to be around, cause they might not target you, but you don't need to be mean to be powerful. Even without a quirk, Ace took on him."

Midoriya had a watery smile, eyes wide with disbelief. Luffy bumped his shoulder with a grin. "Remember, look at the happy stuff in life, right?" he asked. The green hair nodded, looking down at his hands. The group talked about their quirks besides the twins and quirkless one. Midoriya was taking notes, and they let him, saying it might help him out in the future. They also didn't fear him from him knowing, but that wasn't the main point.

When they returned to class, many changed their seats, as it was only the second day, so they were sitting closer to Ace and Luffy. It really looked like being positive and not telling their quirks made them some friends. Who weren't interested in them for their quirks, even though they thought Ace's move was awesome.

Luffy saw Bakugo sitting around two people instead of five. He looked furious, and Luffy could see a bruise on his back of his neck. The rest of his body was covered by the black uniform. He also looked a little pouty, and Luffy felt bad for him. He was a bully, but he still deserved friends. Maybe true friends would make him not so angry and volatile.

Maybe he had a life like Ace and Luffy had. Depressing and stressful. So he took it out on others, like some of the kids had. Maybe they could be friends. So, after class, he told Ace he was going to talk to Bakugo, he nodded. Ace knew what he was going to do easily by his expression.

Midoriya asked Ace what Luffy was doing, why he was willingly talking to Bakugo. "Luffy doesn't like seeing people upset. He probably wants to see if they could start over, and maybe be friends," he explained. "I'm gonna wait for him here, if you want to stay, too." The other students around looked shocked.

"Why would he try and be friends with Bakugo? He's the opposite of you guys," Jet said. Ace said that Bakugo might have a bad home life or something, so he took it out on others. Well, if it didn't help anything, they just wouldn't talk to him. It wasn't a big deal, and Luffy could take care of himself.

Luffy called his name when he was stomping down the hall. He stopped and turned to glare at black haired teen. "What do you want?" he barked.

The positive one wasn't deterred by his tone of voice. "We were wondering if we could start over. If you wanted to be our friend," Luffy said, gauging his body language and expression. He looked baffled and angry. Luffy waited silently for his answer. He didn't know what it would be. He didn't know about Bakugo's life, but everyone deserves a second chance. Maybe he could become happy and not always angry like he seemed to be.

"Hah?! You wanna be friends with me? That damn Deku said something, didn't he? I don't need your pity! I'll beat you two, without even using my quirk. Fuck off, I'm not interested in friends," he snapped.

Luffy frowned. "It's easy to see you're angry at the world. It doesn't have to be that way. Everyone needs friends," Luffy said and turned to walk away. Bakugo was still for a bit, and Luffy heard his hand explode in some sort of strong emotion. When he went back to his brother and friends, he explained what happened.

Jet said, "It's not a surprise, though. But it was good of you to try, and all." And all of them went their separate ways. Ace promised Midoriya that they'd teach him some easy moves that weekend if he wanted to. He nodded, and then looked down. Ace and Luffy didn't walk away, knowing he was going to say something.

"Thank you. People talked to me today, people who usually hate or ignore me. Even If it fizzles away, today was a great day. So thank you very much!" he said with a bow. Ace grinned and Luffy laughed, telling him it was fun to be happy. "Yeah," the green haired said and walked away, head held high.


So, throughout the story, Ace and Luffy could possibly be seen by some as Mary Sues (Gary Stus, whatever lol) but it's explained later on why they act how they do. It's based on severe childhood trauma, so they aren't just happy perfect people. It goes into much more depth way later in the story. I just wanted to get that out there. See you next week!