Galaxy Creator of Pisces: I totally think Luffy and Zoro are both asexual in cannon. They don't give a shit about beautiful women. Zoro wasn't even that embarrassed when a beautiful woman slept on top of him, lol. And yeah, zero romance at all in this one. None of my crossovers have romance (besides a sort of LawLu one).
Guest: Thank you! I'm glad.
Sorry about the late update, but it's on the right day! Only 8:00. This chapter has some bad ass twin moments. Before the summer camp, they have their finals. And who will they be put up against? Hmmm? Enjoy~
Ace and Luffy knew they weren't the only ones studying non-stop and exercising and training. They didn't need to study, but they wanted to go the extra mile. Like they always did. While they didn't mean to be, necessarily, they wouldn't deny that being near or at the top of the class was nice. It felt good to be rewarded by their intense work. Always going over the limit might not be great if they didn't get praised or recognized from it. Not just from the students but the teachers as well.
They loved being recognized and having people see worth in them. It felt warm and fuzzy, knowing people wanted them around, weren't pretending to be friends so they could get something from you and then ditch. Not show affection but once they grew more talented kicked them off and left them in the dust.
It just felt nice.
Each day of the written exams, a total of three, they both finished the exam within half an hour, checking over everything four times at least. Because of that, they weren't the first to be truly finished and turn the paper over. Momo did that first, and then Iida, followed by the twins and then Todoroki. They were the top five smartest in the class. Midoriya was sixth for this time.
After the written exams came the practical one, and Ace and Luffy weren't surprised to get to the place they were directed to see all of the teachers waiting for them. "Ahhh! Ace was right!" Ashido screamed in horror. If all of them were gathered, they were obviously all included. "How did you know?!"
Ace repeated, "Using bots would be useless. This was the only way to test if we improved or not.
They were all in their costumes, Ace and Luffy in the back, linking pinkies. They knew they'd be a pair since that was how all of the teachers were referring to them by now. Aizawa ignored the class's loud voices until they all quieted to listen to the directions.
The cheery thing he started out with was telling them that they could absolutely fail, and that if they wanted to go to the training camp then they couldn't make any stupid mistakes. The exam would be what let them go to the training camp. So, there was something at risk for those who failed. Not that all of them believed Aizawa's claim after he had lied to them about being expelled.
"You all seem to be informed a bit on what we are all doing here. Teams of two will be fighting the teachers. The pairs have already been chosen. Those who are working to be in pairs as heroes will stay in a pair," he said before one of the twins even had to ask. Some moaned, having wanted to be in a team with one of those two.
They were also already assigned to a teacher based on various reasons, including skill, smarts, and interrelations between both students in the assigned pair. Ace and Luffy wondered who they'd be up against. "All Might will be fighting two fights today. One will take longer than the other. It made sense for both of these groups to fight him." Then he listed who was with and against who.
Ace and Luffy were the first match against All Might. They both grinned. Todoroki and Momo were against Aizawa. Bakugo and Midoriya were in a team, the second match against All Might. They both gasped and the class looked nervous. This was clearly planned based on their relationship, not their fighting style or grades.
These two, especially Bakugo, weren't compatible, making it even more of a test for them to complete this when working together. Ace and Luffy felt sorry for Midoriya.
The other pairs made more sense, since they both had at least one thing in common which would make team work a bit easier for them than Bakugo and Midoriya. Ace and Luffy were first so All Might could have a rest in between them and his next match, which would be last. The time limit for the exam was thirty minutes, and they either had to handcuff the "villain" or get to the gate to exit.
Ace and Luffy looked at each other. "If it seems too hard and we're tired, to the gate. Otherwise, let's do our best to defeat the villain." Luffy nodded and they both adjusted their helmets. "I'll carry the handcuffs," the older said. All of them were told that damaging their surroundings was all right now.
After exchanging unnecessary banter and facts about running away being the right choice sometimes, it was time for the first match. The others wished them both good luck against the pro-hero that was steadily growing weaker. But he wasn't weak now, obviously. Besides, their haki would be great.
They headed to the right place, seeing they were at the building area that they'd been to before. Ace and Luffy were holding hands as they walked into the ring before they let go, and both silently went in All Might's direction, finding him to the left and halfway through one street. They walked into the street facing All Might, where they knew he was.
"I'm not surprised you were able to find me first. I won't go easy on you. I'm the villain," he said. Both of them knew what he was going to do first, he would send a blast of wind at them. It would slam them backwards. The moment he pulled his fist back. Ace grabbed onto Luffy and Luffy put up an air shield behind him and in front.
So when the bust of air came, it didn't move them one inch, keeping in the same place thanks to the vertical air stair that Luffy had put at his back. While the debris and dust was there, All Might moved and both of them dodged to the side, even through the rubble. They saw each other's hand movements, and one was to run to the nearest alleyway on the left.
They were going to make it to the rooftops. And Ace grabbed onto Luffy as he ascended silently and they both crouched down to watch what he was going to do. Luffy nodded to Ace, who leapt down, blasting fire at him, which he guarded against. It blinded the man for a moment and he wasn't expecting Luffy to jump through the fire and grab onto his face, linking his arms around the front of his neck and pulling backwards while Ace kicked in his knee.
Well, they tried to. He didn't move an inch. "I'm not like normal opponents, boys." And both of them jumped off and ducked under a punch. And then flipped backwards before a kick. He shot after them and both of them barely moved out of the way, but did. "It looks like this might not be a quick match after all." Ace and Luffy were silent, observing him with a blank face. This was a new experience, and they were soaking everything in. They didn't need to win quickly.
"We're not here to win overwhelmingly, we're here to learn as best as we can," Ace said darkly. All Might laughed at their words. Luffy instantly through fire bombs at him, compressed dangerously. All Might dodged and the building behind him exploded into pieces, throwing debris everywhere that Luffy guarded against.
"My, my that's quite dangerous. But you're not aiming at me, are you?" All Might asked, and neither responded. "So quiet."
Ace said, "Monologues are pointless and give away crucial information." And he shot forward, making All Might jump up as fire went under his feet. Ace threw luffy hard and he ended up flying above the target and pushing up against a solid piece of air and formed a lance of air that he aimed at All Might's head. He moved out of the way and a deep crater was formed as the spear penetrated the ground deeply before dissipating.
Ace was already on the other side, and grabbed All Might's leg and burned the clothing off before he was kicked into the nearest building, though he was able to stop his flames against the building, falling down. Luffy paid no attention to it, knowing Ace was fine.
The fight went on, Ace and Luffy landing hits but none of them doing any damage while they both dodged most of All Might's attacks with their observation haki. It was a fight that would last forever and it had already been ten minutes.
Luffy threw more bombs that missed but did severe damage to everywhere around them, blowing up buildings like they were nothing, eclipsing all of Bakugo's bombs. He was probably pissy about that.
Finally, they started to run, but only to get away long enough. All Might didn't sense the urgency and they ran around a corner, knowing that if they did this strong enough everything would burn away and they would have a chance at the gate. All Might better be prepared. The two were both panting slightly. This was much more intense and dangerous than when they fought one another.
They linked hands and started putting together their ultimate attack, breathing heavily as Luffy made wind swirl around them before Ace put his hottest flames in the mix. They both amplified the power and soon intense waves of heat were visible in the air, melting the buildings around and then wiping out the whole area into dust, showing All Might's outfit was burned away and he had heavy burns on his arms and legs.
He said nothing, and Ace threw Luffy as hard as he could at the pro-hero while he was recuperating precious seconds, and Luffy flipped, nearly putting the hand cuffs on but being slammed down on the ground. Luffy made a pained noise and All Might didn't notice Ace was there from behind until he felt the heat.
He had caught the handcuffs and kicked All Might hard into the small of his back before latching one of the cuffs on. He was fine while Luffy's helmet had cracked and he was bleeding from the side of his face. Ace picked him up asking if he was okay in worry.
Luffy nodded. "Good job," he said. Ace grinned and returned that.
"Boys, when and how did you learn that move?" he asked. They looked at his burns. "We all have Recovery Girl, you know." Both of them sighed, having forgotten that.
Ace put Luffy on the ground, whose ankle was a little swollen from hitting the ground so hard at the last minute. "We tried at home but it wiped out some of the backyard. Neither of us knew how far it would reach." They looked around at the decimated landscape. "We didn't think it would do this."
Luffy wiped the blood off of his face from the cut from one eyebrow to his chin. "We'll never use this again," he said. "If there were other people or animals here, their bodies wouldn't even be left. You're really strong, I don't know how you did that," Luffy said in awe.
All Might laughed. "I am the symbol of peace. I can't let some burns do me in." Both boys looked at him with wide eyes. Gunhead was the favorite, but All Might was completely different in comparison. And it was sad he was losing that power. "May I ask how you dodged so perfectly. I won't tell anybody else."
Ace and Luffy looked at one another before nodding. "We named it 'haki'. Ever since we were little we could sense where people are in our minds, like a sixth sense or something. That's how we found you, we sensed your presence. The stronger someone is, the stronger the presence. We can also see what they'll do less than a second before they do it. Someone without quick reflexes would be wasted on that part," Luffy explained honestly.
The gate was gone completely, so they just walked out of the area. That training ground would never be used again. "That is very interesting. I have not heard of that before. I will keep your secret. You two will make wonderful heroes." They both grinned. "I'm sure Gunhead will be proud. I recognize your moves. I will not tell anyone this either," he swore.
When they made it back to the observation room, everybody was shocked. Ace and Luffy were both tired and went to Recovery Girl to fix Luffy's face and ankle before All Might had his burns heal.
"H-How are you that strong?" Kirishima asked.
"Because we have each other. Neither of us could have done that by ourselves," Ace replied, sitting against the wall. Luffy sat next to him.
"Those explosions were huge! Nothing like the ones at USJ!" Kaminari shouted. Ace explained that the more compressed the air bomb, the more it exploded. Bakugo looked shocked and horrified. His power had been eclipsed by their bombs. Kaminari asked if that was what wiped out some of their yard. Ace nodded. "Wow. I'm jealous. I wish I had a partner to enhance my moves like that!"
Jiro said, "You two have great teamwork." They thanked them, and immediately fell asleep, exhausted. They captured All Might. Couldn't defeat him easily if he had survived that heal wave, if at all.
They woke up near the end of the last match and saw both Midoriya and Bakugo being decimated by All Might, clumsy and with little to no teamwork. They failed miserably compared to the brothers, and got out of the emergency gate in nearly the thirty minutes. They were both feeling better and more energetic and got up, a little sore from sitting on the hard floor that whole time.
Both of the last group were heavily injured by All Might. Ace and Luffy's haki might have saved them from those injuries as well. They would be staying longer in the infirmary. On their way out, with Ace and Luffy being covered in dust and ash still, people ran up after them. There were a handful who hadn't passed, but most of them did.
Ace and Luffy were still tired, having depleted a lot of energy with that final move. "You guys are crazy strong. I didn't think it was this much, I thought you were strong physically."
Luffy said, "We're strongest when we're together. I mean, I like to think I'm strong by myself, but we're definitely better together."
Tokoyami asked how Luffy wasn't burned by the heat, how he wasn't fried with everything else that was now dust and ash. Like a nuclear bomb had gone off. "My fire has never been able to burn Luffy. Like it knows not to burn its brother. Even when we were little and I would catch on fire when I was asleep, it never burned him and we often slept right through it."
Tsu said, "I guess that shows how much you adore one another." Ace nodded and Luffy smiled.
"We've been through a lot together," Luffy said simply. Those who had passed their exams were free to go home while those who lost were to stay behind and talk about what to do next.
When they got home, they passed out on the bed still in their shoes, not even taking their backpacks off. They woke up for dinner, Ace's phone buzzing. Gunhead probably made an alarm for them and they left to find he was making food. "Morning sleepyheads. How'd the exam go?"
Luffy yawned and both of them sat at the table. "We vaporized one of the ground beta copycats. Burnt All Might pretty bad, too," the younger twin said. Gunhead froze. "It was like a super version of what messed up the fence and grass."
"Wow. I knew you both were strong, but that's almost alarming," he said, serving the food. Ace laughed and said, "Don't worry, it was really hard to do. We won't do it in our sleep. We also used a lot of bomb balls and ruined a couple buildings."
"And All Might knows about our haki, but promised to not tell anyone," Luffy added, stuffing his face. They were both starving and ate thirds, which Gunhead made sure to make. The pro-hero said he trusted All Might to keep his word. He said he was proud that they held their own against the symbol of peace. They both smiled, and then went to bed early, at least changing into pajamas this time.
Two days later, and the semester was over. The summer camp would be held in a couple weeks. They were both pretty bored during the ceremony announcing the first semester over. They had everything they needed, not having gone shopping with the class for their things, but together, wanting to be able to talk openly about past things.
They bought all of the supplies needed and the big duffle bags. They'd never gone to a camp, and only just learned about it a couple weeks ago when it was announced. Everyone had been excited while the brothers had no idea what it was like. They'd sat a bit awkwardly before Midoirya explained what it was.
A few days into summer vacation, Midoriya called Ace and Luffy about going to the pool. They had just woken up, already slipping into the sleep-till-2 pm funk. They'd been playing their new video game console, which Gunhead got without asking them for a present for ending their first semester with perfect scores on almost everything. It had kept them up until 3:00, when Luffy passed out first and they woke up to the phone with popcorn everywhere.
"Pool?" Luffy asked with a yawn.
"Yeah, a lot of the class is going," Midoriya explained. "Mom says she can pick you up and bring you guys if you want. You guys sound like you just woke up, though." Ace said that was because they did. But going swimming sounded fun. They had swim shorts fitted for them by the school, so they weren't missing trunks.
They agreed to go, and pushed their sleepiness away. They'd slept enough to function just fine. Besides, if one of them drowns, the other will rescue him. They'd been forced to learn how to when they were little and had no quirks. Their parents didn't want them to be useless. So at four, they learned how to swim.
They didn't do it much anymore, but it sounded nice. A cold bath wasn't anything like swimming. They'd gone by themselves to the beach, but never a pool. They stood in the bathroom, conflicted. They had shirts to wear, and they weren't sure if they should bother.
Both of them had moved on from them, but they didn't want the scars and burns on their backs to make everyone look down on them. And they didn't care if the others thought they were silly for hiding them. They were bad. When Gunhead had seen them the first time they were brought to his house, he'd accidentally shattered his mug of coffee in his hand.
Thick scars and bright burn marks littered their skin. Their parents didn't treat them well and then when they were out on the street they got plenty of injuries. But, what if they showed them, and everyone saw how happy they were? Would they learn that you can be happy even with an upsetting past?
Well, they put the shirts on anyway so if they decided not to show them, they would have that opportunity. Not even Midoriya had seen the marks, and they'd had sleepovers at his house. Ever since school started, both of them felt like they'd drifted apart a bit. Midoriya now had other friends, and Ace and Luffy did as well. They didn't need to protect him or babysit him anymore.
They'd never seen their friendship as babysitting him, but he was confident on his own and didn't seem to need them around all the time. Things had been going great and they were all happy until that day on the bus, that they found out he'd been lying to them about something huge.
Both of them now have chipped away a lot of trust. They couldn't help it, they had a terrible reaction to lies and Midoriya knew that. He didn't know why, but he still knew that. That lies hurt them badly. Even if he had been gagged and said he had wanted to tell them… well, he could have told them the truth.
Say that he had a secret and he was not allowed to tell them. They wouldn't have been lied to if he'd done that. Being lied to was a staple when they lived with their biological parents. They would say they loved them, only to pour boiling water on their backs the next day. Say they'd go out for a nice meal when they'd end up with stale bread instead.
Lies were scars to them. Well, not scars, still open. Open wounds and lies just dribble salt on them. They still loved Midoriya, but were no longer as close. If Midoriya noticed, he was fine with it as well.
They went to the bus stop where Midoriya and his mom were waiting in their car. Both of them had their shirts on and towels. The four of them made small talk before they walked onto campus and Mineta and Kaminari asked Aizawa if they could use the pool for endurance training. Ace and Luffy hadn't heard about this.
Neither of them came here to train, they wanted to relax for once. And they also knew neither Mineta or Kaminari would ever volunteer for work like that. How was Aizawa trusting Mineta of all people on this. And Midoriya was completely fooled.
There were many people who showed up, and Ace and Luffy weren't shy to show they weren't here for training and just floated around on their backs, eyes closed. "Why are you guys wearing shirts?" Mineta asked.
Ace opened his eyes. "We didn't have the best childhood."
Many didn't understand what they meant, but Todoroki did. "Scars. You don't always want to show people proof of problems," he said. He touched his face, unable to hide the terrible burn. Ace nodded in agreement.
"I thought you guys had the best home life and that's why you're always happy," Sero said, sitting with his legs in the water. Luffy replied honestly.
"That's why we're happy all the time. We know what it's like to not be happy," he said with his eyes closed. There were some small "oh"s. But everyone moved on, sloshing the water around as some actually trained. But Ace and Luffy had not heard about that part and could not be told to do that when they didn't know.
Well, that was their excuse. Ace and Luffy stayed out of their way near the edge of the pool in the more shallow part. Iida actually asked, "We're supposed to be endurance training, you guys."
"We weren't alerted to that when we were invited. That argument is void for us," Ace said, hiding a smirk. Everyone gasped at their answer. "We don't never take breaks from training and studying, you know. We're here to relax. We trained for six hours yesterday, we deserve a break," Ace kept himself from pointing out that that was better than staring at the girls.
The beach ball from the girls was about to hit Ace in the face before he swatted it away, eyes still closed as they floated around some more. Nobody said anything about it, since they were in the corner and minding their own business. Nobody was watching them.
"Hey, Ace, Luffy! Do you want to play with us?" Hagakure invited.
"Maybe later. We're sore and this feels nice," Luffy said politely. The girls said okay, not at all bothered. Both of them felt angry presences from the side of the pool. Jealous, probably.
"Hey, hey, Ace, can you turn the pool into a hot tub?" Ashido asked. Ace nodded. "Guys, let's do that!" she called to the others. "You've been training hard, right? The hot water will let you relax," she said in a knowing voice. The others all agreed and jumped in, even Bakugo got in without a word.
Ace easily raised the temperature of himself and therefore the surrounding water until it was perfect and steaming, everyone melting into the water. "This is nice," Sero sighed. The others nodded in agreement and the pool was full of relaxed and lethargic students. Even Iida was relaxing. The water was slightly steaming, the perfect temperature. Just below boiling. Ace kept the heat coming off of him for them all.
The water got cold suddenly and everyones' eyes widened. "I thought this was for endurance training. Pool time has ended, go home," Aizawa said. He didn't sound angry at them, which was a nice surprise. They went home happy, walking since they weren't tired anymore.
"We gotta get back to the normal sleep schedule. And to train, we were lazy today," Ace said, Luffy agreeing. "I doubt the training camp will be as Midoriya explained it. It's gonna be hard and probably not like a vacation."
Luffy said, "There's nothing we can do about that, but let's try to have fun." Ace grinned and nodded, linking pinkies. "We'll have tons of fun," the younger twin said with a nod, finalizing the announcement.
