A.N: Set in the childhood of the ASL brothers, no major spoilers.
Hatch 3: Snowball fight
"Take this!" Ace yelled as he threw a snowball towards both of his little brothers. Sabo dodged the one aimed at him with ease, but the one aimed at Luffy hit its target perfectly.
"You gotta work on your aim!" Sabo yelled at Ace mockingly, throwing a snowball at Ace who dodged "So do you- mph!"
Ace wiped snow from his face, aiming an annoyed look at Sabo. The blond had thrown the first ball with his left hand and then another almost immediately after it with his right hand "No fair!"
"Using a strategy is fair!" Sabo yelled back "It's not my fault that you guys don't even know the meaning of the word!"
"I know what it means!" Ace yelled back.
"Me too!" Luffy yelled as he threw a snowball at Ace who dodged it easily.
"Oh yeah?" the freckle faced boy asked, looking at his brother disbelievingly "Then tell us what it means!"
"It's what Sabo's doing" Luffy said, the proud smile on his face falling as Sabo managed to hit him with a snowball "Hey!"
"Pay attention!" Sabo yelled to the straw hat wearing boy, sharing a glance and a nod with Ace. Together they both made a bunch of snowballs while quite easily avoiding their little brother's attacks. After they'd made enough they both started attacking Luffy at the same time, the amount of snowballs stopping the younger boy from returning the fire.
"No fair!" Luffy yelled. It ended up being a mistake since Ace managed to throw a snowball straight in to his open mouth. After Ace and Sabo ran out of snowballs they laughed at their snow covered brother.
"You lose, Luffy!" the eldest one yelled. Luffy pouted, saying: "This isn't fun anymore."
"Maybe we should change the target" Sabo suggested. His brothers looked at each other and then at him, nodding.
"Good. Now-"Sabo was cut off by a snowball that landed on his face "What the hell!?"
"You said to change the target" Ace explained. A vein popped on Sabo's forehead as he yelled: "I didn't mean I'd be the next target!"
Luffy blinked, then scooped up some snow and threw it at unsuspecting Ace, hitting him right in the face for once.
"You'll pay for that!" Ace yelled, attacking his little brother. Sabo sighed, sitting down. He decided it was better to let them fight for a while before he explained what he had in mind. After few minutes Ace was satisfied enough with the way he had beat up Luffy and stood up.
"You guys done?" the blonde asked.
"Yeah" Ace said "Now what?"
"Like I said, let's change the target" Sabo said, casting a meaningful look towards the mountains. Ace smirked, saying: "I get it."
"I don't" Luffy said, picking his nose "Will we throw snowballs at the mountain?"
"No, at someone who lives on the mountain" Sabo said with a smirk "Get it?"
Luffy blinked, stating simply: "No"
"...just follow us" Ace said, making Sabo add: "And try to be quiet so we won't be spotted, okay?"
"Okay" Luffy said with a grin and followed his brothers to the mountains.
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"I get it now" Luffy said as he hid behind a pile of snow near Dadan's house with Ace and Sabo "We're going to play snowball war with Dadan!"
"Be quiet!" Ace hissed "We can't let her notice us!"
"Shh!" Sabo hissed "Someone's coming."
Indeed, someone was walking towards the house. And the person was huge.
"It has to be Dadan" Ace said "No one else here is that big."
"Shall we go then?" Sabo asked, making his brother nod.
"Ready..." Ace whispered, waiting for few seconds before yelling from the top of his lungs: "Attack!"
The three brothers each had a few good hits at the unsuspecting figure, causing them to cheer. Their happiness however was short lived as the figure coughed.
"You boys think this is funny, huh?" Garp asked with crossed arms, causing the boys go pale "Well?"
The three gulped and Sabo took a step back before yelling: "Run!"
His brothers instantly obeyed and the three ran towards the forest, but Garp caught them easily. And so the brothers learned to always check who they were throwing snowballs at.
A.N: In the next chapter we'll see how Kohza spends his first white winter.