So here is some cute Luffy babysitting Perona for the first time alone, well not exactly alone completely. Enjoy it ;)
ASL: Ace & Sabo (16), Luffy (13)
Whitebeard: Fossa (25), Blenheim (24), Jozu & Atmos (23), Vista (22), Curiel & Kingdew (21), Namur (20), Marco & Thatch (19), Izo (19), Blamenco (15), Haruta (14), Rakuyo & Jiru (10)
sdkop21: I'll see. But it will be confusing as I will jump around with their ages the whole time. So some chapters will have spoilers for later or somethings stay unexplained. ^^
~Babysitting Luffy's time - teething~
Luffy was bored. His brothers were away. Sabo was doing something important for school and Ace. He didn't know. His black-haired brother only told him he had something important to do and didn't want to be bothered. Makino was working in her bar or was she helping out grandpa, and Shanks was on a business trip. Luffy sighed.
What could he do?
His thoughts were interrupted by the doorbell. The thirteen-year-old boy jumped up and raced down the stairs. Luffy opened the door only a little to see that it was the wife of an old friend of his father. The cool one with the eyes like a hawk.
„Hi, I'm sorry for not calling. But could your mom take care of Perona again? There is an important meeting I can't miss. Everything you need is in the bag", the woman said and put a carrycot with a bag, a pillow and a blanket inside next to him and pushed a baby in his arms. Luffy blinked and wanted to say that his mother is away, but the other one already was away.
„Well, looks like I got something to do." He grinned at the baby, who gave him a toothless smile as he rocked her slightly in his arms.
Caring for the little one was easy. He had seen Makino done it a lot and his mother even he led him feed her oneth.
But after one hour Luffy was near crying himself. He had done everything he knew what he could. Changed her diaper, not very good, but she was clean. Feed her. Try to rock or sing her to sleep. But nothing helped to make the little girl stop crying. It hurt him inside to be unable to help her.
Luffy walked up and down with her while he searched his handy for someone who could help him. His mother wouldn't hear it, Shanks wouldn't be able to pick up, Sabo would hear it but he would get his blonde brother into trouble if he called. Ace would pick up and just hang up most likely. So who could he call?
His best friend Haruta? No, she may have two younger brothers, but Luffy knew she didn't remember much from the baby phase of Jiru and Rakuyo as she was only four or five around that time.
He scrolled through his numbers and stopped at one of his emergency contacts, after his parents and brothers.
Marco. Haruta's older brother who often took care of them when they met up to play, who picked him up from school if his parents and brothers couldn't or who drove him and Haruta around since the blonde got his driving license at the age of seventeen. He remembered that Thatch, another brother of Haruta, called Marco often a mother-hen. So the blonde would definitely know what to do.
„Shh, Perona, everything will be fine", the boy mumbled while he tapped the call sign on his phone and waited. The little girl cried more.
„Marco, I need your help", Luffy immediately said as a sleepy voice answered. „Is this a baby, yoi?" „Yes, I don't know what to do. She won't stop crying, you have to help me there is no one else here and I…", Luffy whined. „I'll be over as fast as possible, yoi." Then he only heard the beep-sound.
Luffy breathed out. „Everything will be fine. Help is on the way", the boy mumbled and rocked her gently. He hoped Marco would be here quick. Luffy wandered to the window in the living room and looked outside. Switching sometimes to caressing the baby's head.
When he saw the black car of the blonde, he carefully laid the baby girl in the carrycot and hurried to the door. Marco stood at the door ready to ring the doorbell but was surprised as Luffy hugged him and buried his face in the purple shirt. The blonde looked tired if he had seen that right and he felt sorry for calling.
„I don't know what to do. I fed her, I changed her diaper, I rocked her like mama did, but she wouldn't stop crying. It hurts… it hurts to hear her crying", Luffy mumbled and couldn't hold a few tears back on his one.
A hand patted his hair. „How old is she, yoi?", Marco asked and guided the boy inside, closing the door behind them. „One year, I think", Luffy said and wiped his tears away. „She is in the living room."
„It can be that she is teething. If the mother left you a bag of things for her. Look for a teething ring. Otherwise, we have to improvise, yoi", Marco told him, before he shortly went to the kitchen. Luffy could hear water but decided to look inside the bag.
When the blonde came back his right hand was still a bit wet. So he had probably washed his hand. With interest, Luffy looked as Marco carefully lifted the girl in his arms and sensed her gum softly with his right thumb.
The crying stopped a little. But tears still shimmered in Perona's eyes.
„Looks like I am right. Did you find the ring, yoi?"
Luffy lifted an unknown thing for him. „Is that the teething ring?" Marco nodded and sat down on the couch. Luffy stood up and seated himself next tot he blonde. „Hold her that way and hold on the ring so that she can chew on it, yoi", Marco explained and corrected Luffy's hold on the girl.
The girl seemed like she wanted to cry again as the blonde's finger left her mouth, but no cry came over her lips as the teething ring was quickly in her mouth.
A smile appeared on Luffy's face as the girl seemed happy now.
„Thank you, Marco", the boy said quietly as Perona started to seem sleepy. The blonde just waved his hand and yawned.
The boy turned his head to look at the older one. Marco looked very tired. More than usual. „I'm sorry for calling you…" „It's fine. You couldn't know. Just wake me up, if something is wrong with her again, yoi", the blonde mumbled and leaned against the back of the couch with his eyes closed. „I will", Luffy said and stood up. „You can just lay down."
He didn't expect a reaction as the blonde was already asleep. Luffy smiled softly and went to get a blanket for Marco while holding still holding the little girl. „We have to be quiet now so Marco can rest. He overworks himself often… so I shouldn't have called him", the boy mumbled to Perona who looked up at him with big sleepy eyes.
„But perhaps we should take a nap with him. That sounds good, doesn't it?", Luffy grinned. He swore there was a nod from Perona.
Makino was only home for a short time. She had to pick something up before she could drive to Garp, Luffy's biological grandfather who was unable to take care of his biological grandchild and two adopted and had to put them up for adoption while also asking her to do that task.
It worked out well.
Makino was surprised that the house was quiet. Luffy was supposed to be home. Her youngest was only quiet when he slept. For some reasons she didn't believe that Luffy would be asleep.
So it was a surprise to find him asleep on the couch with Marco and Perona. The black-haired boy had snuggled himself into the blonde who was laying on his back. The baby was on Marco's chest and was held by both sleeping boys.
A smile appeared on her lips. She quickly pulled out her phone and shoot a picture. Maybe she should finish some quick meal for them to heat up when they would wake up.
Little Note: I mentioned Garp and the explanation why Luffy stays with Makino and Shanks is a bit short. But I don't know if I get back to it in another one shot. So here is the explanation.
Garp adopted Ace, because even if Roger was a rival, but also some kind of a friend. When Ace was four, Sabo got adopted by Garp as well when the blonde ran away from home and landed in their little garden.
Both boys were five when Luffy got too them. His parents died both and Garp had to deal with the money business. Making it impossible for him take care of the children and work.
Makino already babysat the boys sometimes and Dadan, a friend of him helped, too. But he didn't want his boys to live that way until he found a solution to the money problem. So he put them up for adoption and also told Makino about it, as she would get a high chance of getting financial help and she was close to him so that he would still be able to see his grandchildren.
Does that sound logical to you or should I try a different way to explain?^^'