Day 24
Friday, December 27th
Luffy was sitting at his computer focusing very hard on the text on the screen, his eyebrows scrunched in slight confusion as he took in the information as it jumped from the page at him like a small hail-storm.
Reading wasn't exactly Luffy's forte or hobby, but somehow, for some odd unknown reason, he had gotten the urge to read something and in turn learn something new and unexpected, like something no ordinary boring school would teach. So he had gotten online, looked up some random words that sounded like they were educational, and eventually found himself reading a book written in 1851, published in London, by the title of-
The Ancient Britons: A Tale of Primeval Life
The writing style was hard for the boy, and Luffy had to look up a lot of words in the dictionary, but after a while of reading, he was starting to enjoy this tale of a Roman soldier, Octavius Scapula, who was abandoned by Caesar in ancient Britain, left to be captured by the 'rude' warriors that inhabited the island in 54 B.C.
As Octavius was being led to the Briton's political leader, Luffy nearly had a heart attack as he felt a hand on his shoulder. Looking up at the person who touched him with a look of near-death, he sighed when it was just Ace. He laughed and laughed while Ace just stood there with an awkward smile, not knowing what happened. Then the older spotted the online book on Luffy's laptop and then he nearly had a heart attack.
"Luffy!"
"W-What?!"
"..Sorry, but- you're... you're reading?!"
"Yeah..?" Luffy responded, looking at his laptop protectively. Ace stood wide-eyed and shook his head in disbelief.
"Whatcha reading, then?" Ace asked, scooting Luffy over to share the chair to his desk. Luffy then told him the title, maybe a bit painfully as he strained to A) remember it and B) pronounce "Primeval" correctly. Meanwhile, the highschool senior stared at his younger brother with a blank look.
Luffy stared back.
"That sounds.. like the most boring book in the world, Luffy, next to the Bible. Why didn't you choose like, ya know, Harry Potter, or maybe The City of Ember, or maybe even The Hunger Games!"
Luffy sulked with arms crossed, pouting up at his brother.
"You just insulted so far my favorite story AND the Bible! Ace, you should feel terribly guilty!" Luffy grumbled, poking a harsh finger into Ace's shoulder repeatedly till he responded with a slight sigh and a shrug.
"So... you actually like this story?" Ace spoke, pointing a nonchalant finger at the laptop; Luffy nodded excitedly, "...what's it about?"
And so Luffy went on and on telling Ace about this soldier dude who broke his body or something and then was taken by these weird like Indians and was forced to stay with this Indian slave until the slave's master returned, and so the soldier dude became like the slave's boyfriend from then on, and blah blah blah words. Ace thought it sounded.. pretty amusing if it was really as Luffy was describing it to be, but figured that it wouldn't be so. But after that point, he was just glad that at least someone in the family had a somewhat-love for literature.
Ace rubbed his eyes, remembering a slight nightmare that he had had overnight, and then remembered that it had to do with Luffy and books. Odd.
"OH YEAH!" Luffy said, springing up from the chair abruptly, nearly sending Ace off the seat that they were sharing.
"What?!" Ace questioned rapidly, a scared hand against his chest.
"I forgot I'm in the spelling bee," Luffy stated calmly, stopping all movement. Ace looked up at his brother with wide eyes.
"...really?"
"Yeah!"
With a leap up from his seat, Ace hugged Luffy tightly, kissing the top of his head repeatedly while Luffy laughed at him.
"Oh I'm so proud of you, Lu! That's great! Oh, so we should study, right?"
And so they studied for a while, knowing that they still had plenty of time till the bee, but wanted to be ready anyway. Ace looked up a list of freshman grade spelling words online and then read them to Luffy, having the boy repeat the word in confirmation that he had heard it right, spell it, and then say the word again.
Audacious.
Sotto Voce.
Anthropomorphic.
Prognosticate.
The words went by, Luffy taking his time to think them through, sounding them out in his mind.
Agitprop.
Dodecahedron.
Annihilation.
Scintillation.
Ace was thoroughly pleased with Luffy's skill, smiling every time Luffy got the word right. He never knew his brother was so smart, at least in this aspect. But it was probably because Ace had practically raised him.. yeahhh, that was it.
"Damn, Luffy, how've you been hiding this from me?" Ace asked more to himself than Luffy.
"Hiding what?"
"Oh.. nothing," Ace smirked, ruffling Luffy's hair with his hand. Luffy looked up at Ace's golden-brown eyes curiously and then grinned, throwing an arm around his brother's waist.
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"For being the best big brother ever."
"In that case, you are very welcome, Best Younger Brother Ever."
Luffy grinned up at his brother and placed an innocent kiss on Ace's cheek earning a mumble of appreciation.
"How 'bout we go eat something. It's already 3:15," Ace suggested, pointing a thumb towards the bedroom door.
"But you're so much better than real food~" Luffy purred jokingly, nuzzling closer to Ace's warm body.
"Don't you dare do that to me right now," Ace warned, standing up with a slightly dreading, flushed expression, as he turned from his brother and crossed his arms.
"Aw... 'kay!" Luffy gave in, playfully pouting and sticking his tongue out at Ace as they passed through the doorway. Seeing an opening, Ace bent down and bit Luffy's tongue.
"Ow! Whad wad dat for?!" Luffy yelped, jumping back and half-clutching at his tongue. Ace laughed and clapped a warm and heavy hand on Luffy's shoulder, steering him back down the stairs.
"For tempting me," Ace replied with a smirk as they walked into the kitchen.
At the table, Luffy started talking to Ace about weird Zoro could be sometimes, and how long Usopp's nose was, and how good Sanji's food was. Ace smirked and took it all in, filing the words away in his "Luffy's friends" folder in his mental filing cabinet of a brain.
Luffy also talked about how he sort of liked school, but then again didn't because of homework and cranky teachers and such. Altogether though, Luffy was happy with most of his classmates, which is always a pretty good sign. Ace couldn't exactly say the same, though he had pretty much gotten over his fighting-phase; pretty much.
"-oh yeah, and this one guy kept annoying me and beating me up, ya know, pushing me into lockers and stuff-"
"Luffy."
"- so one day I just took him out side and BAM! In two punches, he was begging for mercy," Luffy concluded, wearing a proud smile as he looked up at his brother. Ace looked down at his brother next to him with a blank face, putting a hand on his brother's shoulder.
"Good job."
"Thank you."
"Who..?"
"Who what?"
"Who did you beat up?" Ace questioned, a stoic expression resting on the man's unfitting features. Luffy stared off into space in front of him, thinking.
"I don't know his name, but he always wore this weird penguin hat. I don't even think we can wear hats in school, can we? 'Cause if so, I'll be wearing my strawhat everyday!"
The last comment made Ace smirk, happy that Luffy loved his Christmas gift, but subconciously looked his file-cabinet for a picture and bio of a penguin-hat-guy. Ah, there it was. Ace picked up and opened the folder, realizing that no one really knew the guy's real name, but this wasn't important as the next line of info underneath the random fact. He was Law's underling; Law's.
"Hey, did Law seem to be talking to you more, or paying more attention to you before Christmas break?" Ace asked, acting as if it were a normal everyday question, leaning back in his chair as he threw an arm around Luffy's chair. Luffy payed the abnormalty of the question no mind and puffed his cheeks as he tried to recall if Law had done any of those things. His face became red, his mind pushing past its normal limits, and then it hit him like a ton of bricks.
"He kept looking at me. Like, a lot, since he's in a lot of my classes. Does that count?"
"Yes, it does.." Ace replied, closing his eyes to imagine a stealthy stalker-Law grinning creepily as he watched Luffy struggle to do his classwork with everyone else around him talking and whatnot. It sent shivers down Ace's spine to know that A) Law was interested in Luffy for some reason and B) Law just raped Zoro; big, strong Zoro.
"Oh no you don't, honey, you gotta marry 'im first," Ace thought to himself, imagining to himself a hungry Law and a bent over Luffy. He shook his head, noticing that Luffy was staring up at him with a laughing/curious expression.
"Why is there always so much fucking gay competition?!" Ace sighed in his mind, leaning forward to bang his head on the table, where he managed to knock narcolepsy into him and fell asleep right then and there on the table. Luffy blinked once at his brother, poked his freckled cheek, and when Luffy didn't get a response, he grinned an evil smile with narrowed eyes as he snuck away to plot a prank on his brother.
An hour later, Ace awoke from a slightly wet nightmare to find himself set back in his chair, shirt off, pants and underwear pulled down to his knees with his hand on his cock.
"Hmmmm..." Ace though to himself, pulling himself together while Luffy laughed from the other room, enjoying the panicked look that his brother was wearing. If only he hadn't laughed, though..
"Luffy."
Luffy froze as he was about to sneak off, turning his head slowly to meet his brother's blushing face and burning amber eyes.
"How ya doin' today?" Ace began, sauntering up to his brother before he could sneak away, "I don't believe I was jerking off in my sleep."
Luffy paled and attempted a mad dash but was caught by Ace's hands clamped over his mouth, and was dragged lifelessly up the stairs to his room where Ace managed to teach Luffy his lesson.
"Ace~!" Luffy moaned out, and would've came if it weren't for Ace's hand locked tightly around the base of his dick.
"Nope." Ace replied, texting with his left hand casually as if his left hand had no clue what the right one was doing, licking his brother's manhood maybe once or twice to keep things interesting. Luffy groaned and moaned trying to get Ace's hand off of him, but to no avail and just continued his moaning and begging while Ace smirked, texting Bartolomeo about it.
Reply; From: Bartolomeo :P To: Portgas D. Ace : 4:30 P.M. EST
best form of punishment ever :3 maybe i should try that on zoro sometime ;)
"Dear lord.." Ace thought to himself as he read Bartolomeo's response (unconciously imagining Bartolomeo punishing Zoro), letting go of Luffy, and smirked as Luffy came with a scream of relief.
Law sat back on his couch in his man-cave, watching the 4 television screens up on the wall in front of him.
On one screen, there was a non-changing picture of Zoro's living room.
On the second screen, a scene of Bartolomeo's bedroom, with Bartolomeo laying back casually in his chair as he texted someone.
The third screen showed Zoro's room, the said owner laying flat on the floor while groaning. Law couldn't help but laugh at what his 1-time fuck-buddy was doing.
Finally, the bottom right screen showed no picture, but only sound. Sounds from Luffy's room. Ah, Law smirked as he crossed one long leg over the other, head in hand as he focused on the 4th screen.
"Ace~!"
Groaning, shifting, possibly a yawn.
"Nope."
"Nnnrg!"
What in the absolute fuck was Ace doing to the poor thing, Law didn't know or care, really. It provided very great entertainment for he and whoever else would join him eventually.
Bartolomeo laughed from his place on the second screen, shaking his head while he answered the text, and then stood up to leave his room. Law became interested, and slightly dissapointed as Bartolomeo walked out of his sight.
Then, Lufy sceamed out in pleasure and nearly jolted Law from his chair. His eyes wide, he grabbed at his heart as he listened to Luffy moan out for a few seconds longer, and then an exhale of a smirk from who other than Ace.
Finally adjusting to the sudden quietness again, Law jumped as a deathly squeak came from both the 2nd and 3rd screen. Law watched Zoro jolt in surprise, suddenly sitting up straight. He and Law both sighed in relief as Bartolomeo popped up in the screen.
"Hey."
"Why are you in my room with that creepy fuckin' grin on your face?"
"Because your best friend's brother finally told me how to keep you in line."
"..Oh?"
Law watched and listened in amusement, finally processing all the information that was flying at him. So Bartolomeo was texting Ace. Wait, Ace was texting while he was laying Luffy? No, maybe just a handjob, but still, how rude.
"Yeah. Wouldn't really have done it myself unless you asked me to, but now that Ace does it.."
"Oh god."
"C'mere babe~"
With that said , Trafalgar looked away and laughed his guts out, managing to dial a number into his phone, and almost immediately someone picked up.
"Ahahaha, oh my god, you need to get over here now," Law gasped, clutching at his gut.
"Why?" responded a voice, Kidd to be exact.
"Ahhh.. just listen!"
Law held his phone up to the 3rd screen's speaker as Bartolomeo tried to coax his brother out of his pants.
"Damn it, Bartolomeo, what are yo-?! nnnhahhh~!"
"Bahahahaha! Is that Zoro and his damned rapist of a brother?! Be there in a second!" Kidd croaked through his own laughter.
"Bring Killer!" Law added.
"He's already with me. On our way, you damn pervert-stalker."
"It's what I do best," Law ended with a shrug, closing his phone to quickly go and usher his guests into his man cave to witness the fruits of planting video-cameras in Zoro's house and a small sound recorder in the band of Luffy's strawhat when the kid wasn't looking the other night at the party.
The three of them then promised that there would be no blackmail of any sort, for once, but definetly would not, could not, look at the brothers the same way ever again.
~ + Hehehehe... bet you didn't see that coming. :P lalalalala-Law, Stalker of Death. Review, Follow, Favorite, do whatever, I don't care, but remember, some sort of feedback leads me to another chapter. XD + ~
