Day 12
It was indeed Sunday, December 15th, 4 days after the brothers had officially declared their mutual feelings of love for each other. The night before the 15th, the power surprisingly returned to the D-brother's household just in time for the return Portgas D. Rouge, or, Mom from her extended business trip overseas. She opened the front door and called out her sons names only to see her two boys casually holding hands while exchanging playful kisses on the couch. The two turned very pale at the sight of their mother however, and Luffy nearly passed out right then and there. Rouge made sure to remain calm and cool about it, and put her suitcase down near the entrance and opened her arms wide.
"Ahahaha! Come give your mom a big hug!" she said with a large smile, completely ignoring what she saw. Rouge couldn't deny that they looked adorable and got along so well together, so who cares, right? She was just a bit scared as to how her husband, Dragon, would react if he ever found out. Luckily, she would do anything to prevent that from happening, because she's awesome like that.
So, back to Sunday. It was about noon in Monkey-Portgas home, where Ace, Luffy, and Rouge sat 'round the table happily enjoying a delicious home-cooked meal made by Rouge herself. The boys asked her all sorts of questions about her trip, trying to avoid the topic of the witnessed incest. Rouge answered excitedly, telling of all the beautiful sights and architecture in Italy. She expressed how much she wished to stay home for a while and bond with her family whom she loved so dearly. The boys just rolled their eyes and laughed at her soft-ness.
"So kids.. How're the grades? Still up there?" Rouge asked, leaning her head on top of her hand, focusing her attention on the eldest son.
"Could be a bit better, but not so bad as to get a whipping from Drago- Ahaha! I mean, 'Dad'" Ace responded, rubbing the back of his head. Rouge laughed with a smile and Luffy gave his brother a quick glare before joining the laughter.
"And Luffy, do you finally wanna let me see your journal? I bet you've added a lot more to it since I've been here last!" Rouge said enthusiastically. Luffy's jaw dropped dramatically, seeing as he was completely unaware of his mom's knowledge of his precious journal. Once the young one's mind recovered, he blushed and quickly shook his head. Rouge sighed a put a hand on her sons arm.
"Even if you don't let me right now, don't think I don't know where you put it, Luffy," she said in almost a whisper, sending chills down Luffy's spine. He held onto his chair and scooted away from his mom without hesitation, receiving quite a bit of laughter from the other two. However, now Ace was curious.
"Mom, how would you know where he put it? Only Luffy and I know where it is!" Ace said whilst waving his arms around with confusion. Mom squinted her eyes and took Ace's chin in her hand.
"You two are exactly the same, that's why."
The two brothers looked at each other and then towards their mom with identical quizzical expressions. Rouge giggled and then leaned even more toward Ace.
"Ace keeps his important and supposedly 'secret' things on the highest shelf in his closet, so I assume you do the same, Luffy," Rouge said with a smirk, patting her older son's back. Ace covered his face, trying to hide the blush that was burning his face to ashes at that moment.
"M-Mom.. you mean.. you know that I have those?!" Ace questioned, about ready for his head to explode with embarrassment. Luffy sat on his seat looking even more confused than ever.
"Yes honey, and Dragon and I wanted to tell you that we miss them," Rouge said, about ready to burst into laughter, "Well, mainly I miss them! Ahaha!" Ace, meanwhile, fell off his chair and landed harshly on the floor with a loud thud. He looked like he wanted to crawl into his pit of despair where he could cry till he died; sadly, such a thing does not exist.
"Can't I have a little privacy around here?!" Ace yelled before abruptly standing up and storming off to his room. Rouge erupted into a fit of laughter that took her nearly 10 minutes to recover from. Luffy didn't know what just happened, but he laughed with her anyway and had a good time eating the rest of Ace's lunch before going up to check on his older brother.
"Ace nii-chan?" Luffy said with a smile before slowly pushing Ace's bedroom door open. Ace lay face-down on his bed, suffocation himself with a red-checkered pillow and uttering an un-earthly groan all the while. Luffy laughed at his brother and then sat down on the bed, sticking a hand up Ace's
t-shirt to rub his back.
"You're not gonna die, Ace! Besides, whatever Mom and Dad know you have is only between our family, right?" Luffy said trying to console Ace the best that he could, "Oh, and Ace?" Said teen groaned again in response, which can be translated into 'what?'.
"What exactly do you have that made you so embarrassed?"
Ace rolled over onto his back staring at the cream-colored ceiling like it were an ugly baby.."You don't wanna know, Lu." Luffy tilted his head in question and put a hand on Ace thigh.
"Whatcha talkin' 'bout? I just asked you, meaning that I do wanna know!"
The older teen sat up with a slight smirk and pulled his love into his lap, face to face, for a tight hug, gently pressing his slightly stiff manhood against Luffy's innocent virgin-self.
"Nevermind what I said, and it's just stuff to help me relieve this.." Ace whispered into Luffy's ear, the smirk etched onto his freckled face beginning to disappear. Luffy's face went red very quickly and he scooted back enough to remove the awkward contact. Ace looked at his brother with a questioning look, and that same look was reflected on Luffy's face.
"Don't tell me you've never had a boner, Luffy.." Ace said with a facepalm. Luffy shook his head and blushed, looking at the wall next to them like it was very, very amusing. That was impossible in Ace's mind though. So he pulled his brother up against him again, rubbing a bit more than before and earned a gasp from Luffy.
"Oh you little liar, you have one right now!" the firstborn said with a grin and a slight blush as well, holding Luffy in place. Luffy pouted as a pinkness crept over his cheeks and then they both laughed for a while. Then the synchronized throbs reminded them of their problems. The brothers looked away from each other and Luffy silently moved to get off of Ace and go to his own room when the older bucked his hips against Luffy's growing problem with a mischievous grin.
"My bad," Ace said, sticking his tongue out at his younger brother. Luffy tried to hold back any sort of groan and gave his brother a playful glare before getting up and heading to his own room. At the last second before the younger closed the door, though, Ace grabbed a small plastic bottle of liquid from under his bed and threw it at the back of Luffy's head.
"What the hell was that for, Ace?!" Luffy said while rubbing his head, turning around to see what hit him. The shorter then bent down and picked up the plain bottle, looking it over and was obviously confused.
"Thank me later.." Ace said with a grin before standing up and pushing Luffy out of his room so he could shut his door and get it over with.
