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late night stories
I waited in the kitchen for a while now.The small clock around the door way told that it is fairly late, and that Monkey.D.Luffy was about to be punished as soon as he sets his rubber body inside this house.the coffee has been long cooled, and his dinner set in the fridge, uneaten and also cold.
I sipped at the cold coffee, and made a face at its revolting taste, but continued anyway.
Luffy just turned fourteen.
He just got his first girlfriend.
He also moved a grade up, and time changed him into something diffrent than the rubber boy pirate wannabe.
He Suddenly got taller, and his limbs grew with the change.
His face began to lose that "half-baked" features of pre teens and he suddenly became this testostrone fueled person.
He began to talk back to me, and even became a bit rebellious.
The most unbearable thing he began was the fact that he stopped thinking of me as his parent.
I sighed a loud sigh as the grandfather clock upstairs ranged two in the morning.
Everything changed too fast.
I never said i'll say this,but being a parent was just too hard for me.
God knows i'll never have kids of my own.
Febuary wind rattles the windows and i blankly stare at the door.
I have been sitting here for about four hours.
I have work tomorrow but that doesnt stop me from sitting up at this hour.
NOt so long after I hear giggling girl and laughing sound of my brother.
I hear them mumble about something.
The foot steps move away, towards the back of the house.
I got up with chair banging down on the floor, and walk towards the back door.
There i met up with my brother and his girlfriend.
"Good evening. Or should I say, Good morning?"
Luffy just frowned at me.
The girl was clutched to his chest, and she clearly wasnt sober.
Distinctive smell of alcohol filled the space between him and I.
"Hello, Amane-chan. You need to go home. its abit late in hour, dont you think?"
I said, and she smiled stupidly at me.
"Oh, i didnt know you were going to be up this late.. luffy said you'd be asleep..or something"
She began to mumble and there was no end to it.
"Luffy. Take her home. Now."
"And why should I listen to you?" I felt a rush of blood at my face.
I crossed my arms and repeated.
"Take her home. NOW"
"No."
In times like this, Portgas.D.Ace can lose his patients just a bit.
As soon as i made up my mind to use force, the girl at his chest passed out on the floor.
"Amane-chan!" I yelled out as i rushed to her side.
She fell head first, but she was okay.
Just passed out.
I lifted her up and laid her down on the sofa.
She smelled like a drunken pirate.
I knoticed the red marks of teenage biting and sucking down her neck, and into her lowcut shirt, but i didnt say nothing.
I felt an odd pang of jealousy, but i shut my mouth about it.
Than i realized Luffy hasnt followed me at all.
...Was he still standing by the back door?
I left the living room and to the back door.
He was standing there.
His head hung down.
His shoulder, shaking.
His nose, sniffling.
His hand flew and wiped furiously at his eyes.
Another sniffle, to make it worse.
"Luffy. Why are you crying?" His face was red, and i have to say, i havent seen him cry for a long time now.
It awoke my brotherly instinct, and i walk towards him with my arms raised in welcome.
He smacked them away with force.
"LUFFY!" I screamed.
And with force i did not meant, i smacked him across his face.
My little brother stepped couple of dizzy steps back, and leand against the door.
"What is your problem? What the hell is wrong with you? Where is all the respect for the one who takes care of you??"
What am I doing.
"Who do you think you are? Who the fuck do you think you are to be talking back to me? Do you think you could've lived to be who you are now with out me?!"
Stop. You dont know what you are saying.
"Do you Seriously think I need to live like this if I didnt need to take care of your little Ass?"
Portgas.D.Ace, You just lost it.
Than, suddenly, He began to speak.
"...you dont know..how I feel...You dont know anything..Nothing..."
"What the fuck are you talki.."
"LISTEN! You have NO fucking idea HOW much SHIT im in-OKAY?!"
I stared at his face.
Tear smudged, red, and swelling cheeked- face.
"Do you know...how it feels...to be someone... like I am?"
His voice quivered and tears kept on falling out of his eyes.
"...to be diffrent...to Have no real parents...to be..heh, made out of rubber..and..And..."
He broke into a sob.
I didnt dare to touch him.
"...And,,,to be in,,,,in love with,,,,your own..flesh and blood...to be..in love...with my own... perfect...Ni-chan.."
Luffy than broke into fits of sobs, eventually kneeling on the floor, his whole body shaking.
"I...Feel,,,,,so,,,wrong..it feels...so,,,dirty...but...But...I..cant...help it..."
My heart sanked to the bottom of the floor.
Then it was up in my throat.
I slowly snapped out of my shock and began to think logical thoughts.
I moved closer to him, and i wrapped my arms around his form.
Though grown bigger, he still was small to me.
Always my little brother.
"...What ever you feel, What ever you think of yourself, How ever many times you go against my words...I'm not gonna leave you alone.."
He burrowed into my chest.
His hands clutched at my shoulders and he cried.
My heart rate began to rise.
I closed my eyes to remember what he had said before.
He told me he liked me in a childish manner, so i have except.
He has kissed my lips in a childish manner, that i have also except.
But this...I will except.
"You are not the only dirty one here.."
He cried untill he fell asleep.
I sighed and i carried him off to our room.
He clutched onto me for dear life, so i had a hard time prying him off me.
As He slept, i brushed stray hair out of his face.
His usually large eyes were kept away with eyelid, and his rather long but sparse lashes sometime quived on their own accord.
His nose made a little turn upward at the end, and underneath, his pinkish lips.
That made marks on his little girlfriend.
I wonder, has he made those marks thinking of...me?
In a sudden raging jealousy fit, i coverd his lips with mine.
He didnt resist.
He raised one hand to my shoulder and kissed back.
How wrong can this be?
We parted soon.
And i left the room to take his girlfriend home.
The rest of the night was shorter than the time i waited, but it felt longer than before.
I could not sleep.
The morning came finally, and luffy walked down stairs yawning.
He looked at me and smiled sheepishly.
"Good morning, Ace." Stupid. Acting like nothing happend last night.
"Good morning, Luffy." But i played along.
And I didnt stop him when he came close to kiss me.
"eeck." Luffy said shortly after.
"What?" I said, with fake annoyance in my voice.
"You taste like thousand cups of coffee."
"Heh. dont like, dont kiss."
"Neeeyya." He stuck his tounge out at me.
My little brother.. My little Luffy.. hmm.
Maybe I did wanted this.