A/N: D brothers are love.
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Character/s: Luffy, Ace, Marineford people
Rating: T
Spoilers for: Marineford arc, Chapters 555 and up.
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You are going to be executed.
Perched atop a high platform, you watch as your comrades attempt to make their way to you. You watch as some of them succeed overtaking a few enemies, and you watch as some of them fall to the ground and perish.
Yes, that's all you could do, right? Just watch. Just watch how everything unfolds, like Sengoku and the geezer beside you.
Just watch who will survive, who will win, and who will become justice.
You can't do anything. You're chained, you're trapped, and you're guarded. You're well guarded. You can't even scream for them to go back. Somehow, you just lost your voice.
And just like before, as one of your comrades falls right before you, you can't do anything but watch.
Watch as he falls and as he tries to reach out his hand to you, while hearing the sound of mockery and laughter around you, all said by your enemies.
You want them to go back.
You want them to, but you can't find the words to say it properly.
You don't want to see anymore of them getting hurt.
If only…
"Why didn't you live like I told you to?" the geezer beside you says.
Yes, why didn't you? You should just have subsided, never created a name for yourself… look at what you've done. Your precious comrades are dying, and yet, they're not giving up.
Why?
"Gramps…" so… the old man did care. He did care. You just never thought it was actually to THAT level. You remember things in your youth, how you answered back at the geezer and protected...
Protect.
Yes, that's something you can't even do anymore. Back then, you were protecting your little…
Speaking of, where is he?
"Something's falling from the sky!"
You look up. That was unexpected. What is that? It looks like…
A battleship? Yes, it is a battleship. Where did it come from?
Something emerged from what's left of the battleship before. That looks familiar, you think.
"There he is!"
NO. That voice… no, it can't be. Why…?
It's not him. It's not…
"LUFFY!" you suddenly scream. What is he doing here?!
"ACE~~! Finally, I found you!" he waves. He even waved. What—
You suddenly realize. The Shichibukai wasn't lying at all. He was there, he went there. He went to that hell, that Impel Down, and tried to break you out. He didn't give up.
Now he's here.
"Garp, it's your damn family again!" Sengoku beside you shouts.
"Luffy!" the geezer looks troubled.
Somehow, there's a part of you that feels proud.
Maybe being connected to the geezer is not so bad.
Suddenly, it all became so noisy.
People are commenting about your little brother, about the people that accompanied him there… Crocodile… and Jimbei. Jimbei. You feel relieved. So Jimbei managed to escape as well. That makes you feel relieved.
But still, you're worried.
Luffy, you…
"So you came to save your brother, huh?" your father, Whitebeard, asks.
"That's right!" your little brother answers back.
"Someone like you won't even come out of this alive!" your father points out to him.
There's a part of you that begs that he should listen.
"Shut up! It's not up to you to decide that! I know all about you! You wanna be Pirate King, right? Well, I'm gonna be the Pirate King!"
You think he's a stubborn bastard.
He really is your brother, all right.
You watch.
That's all you can do.
You watch as your brother jumps off your father's ship, and rushes toward you.
You think he's an idiot.
You think he doesn't know what he's doing.
But in reality, you know that it's YOU who doesn't know what HE'S doing.
You watch as he charges, passing marine after marine, until he comes across a Shichibukai.
Moria.
"LUFFY!" you scream. The second time you screamed his name out loud.
You're worried.
You can't take it anymore.
"STAY BACK, LUFFY!!!" you scream.
"I shouldn't have to tell you this! You're a pirate, just like me! We both sailed the oceans as our hearts guided us!"
In your peripheral vision, you see the old man look down and shake his head while smiling.
You continue.
"I have my own adventure to live! I have my own comrades! I don't remember asking you to interfere!"
You never asked. You never asked him to go there, or to Impel Down. You never wanted him there. Nor you ever wished for him to be here.
"A weakling like you, coming to save me?! Do you really believe I'm going to forgive you for that?! This is a humiliation!"
If one single insult from you would make him go back, you would say it.
And you just did.
"Get out of here, Luffy!" you scream at him. This is your problem, and you don't want to drag him down with you. You didn't want any of this.
"WHY DID YOU COME?!!"
You never wanted him there.
And you never expected him to respond.
"'CAUSE I'M YOUR BROTHER!" he screams.
You remember the time you became brothers. It seemed like a long time ago, but...
"I don't give a crap about those stupid pirate rules!"
You clench your teeth.
Stubborn bastard, indeed.
You can't hear anything.
People are reacting about your brother's bloodline and lineage, and you don't care.
You don't care what they say; how they would react… none of it mattered anymore.
It didn't matter to you, because right now, the very person they're talking about is trying to save you.
Even the geezer beside you doesn't care.
So, why should you?
"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY!"
You realize he doesn't care too.
"I'M GOING TO SAVE YOU EVEN IF IT KILLS ME!"
You find that unbearable.
You find that terrible.
And yet, no matter how stupid his statement was, it only seemed to prove to you that this 'flesh and blood son of the Revolutionary Dragon' is still your brother, the idiot you grew up with and the idiot you used to look after.
The same idiot who's trying to save you, and currently looking out for you.
The same idiot you called your brother.
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A/N: I totally squeed, you know. Ace/Luffy is so awesome.