Day 3: Those Damn Brats!
(The only time Dadan tried to bond with the ASL brothers, they drove her thoroughly crazy. Inspiration: post/150636548174/aslbrosweek-day-3-those-damn-brats-tfw
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Dadan knew she was going crazy that was the only reason she had sat down with the three tiny monsters and attempted to bond with them over a book.
Sabo forever the calmest child of the three had plopped down on her right hooking his arm through hers as he looked at the book in her hands with a curious smile. He was still squirming in excitement as his gaze shifted between the book and her face.
Luffy had crawled up to her shoulder trying to escape Ace's annoyance. The tick mark on her temple was starting to develop. "Ace leave Luffy alone!" Dadan almost snarled at Ace who was holding onto her left arm. Ace glared back, defiance raising his hackles
as he reached for Luffy once more.
Dadan sighed this was going to be a lot harder than she thought it was going to be. "Boys! Sit still will you?! I wanted to show you something." Luffy looked at Dadan, noticing her growing temper and flushed cheeks he settled down a bit.
"Now, look here, it's a pirate's log book! Don't tell Garp I showed you this or he'd kill me!" All three boys' rapt attention was now on the small book. They gazed excitedly eyes hungry for any information they could take from it.
"Is it a logbook from the grand line?" Luffy asked, a finger in his nose as he looked to his older brothers, Sabo shrugged he didn't know but of the three children he was the best reader. Ace looked to him as well silently asking him to look it over later
and explain it to him.
Ace was almost illiterate. He could spell his own name and that was about it. Makino was currently teaching him, but it was slow going. Yes he was learning, but not as quickly as he would like. He needed to read and write if he was ever going to be a
captain. By the time he was the captain of the spade pirates Ace would be reading and writing like a fiend, he enjoyed books more than anything in the world besides a good fight. And his logbook was written in small precise writing neat and tidy,
exactly where it needed to be. And when he became the second division commander of the white beard Pirates he would surprise Marco and the other commanders with his love of books and writing, though it was all a memorial to Sabo in his mind.
Luffy on the other hand was completely illiterate. He had promised Makino and his brothers that he would start lessons soon, but he kept putting them off. There were so many things to do! He didn't have time for reading! In the future he would be literate
enough to read and write, but his handwriting would be terrible so he generally would leave that sort of stuff up to Nami. Due to this the Strawhat Pirates generally thought Luffy illiterate, he didn't bother showing off. e kept his little secrets
reading in the dark of the night where could he could imagine Sabo sitting my side him, encouraging him when he got to difficult words.
But both Ace and Luffy started taking Makino's literacy lessons much more seriously after being introduced to the logbook in Dadan's large hands. They were entranced by it, just as Sabo was. All three were lured by the freedom the book offered. Dadan
shook her head and sighed. "These damn brats!"