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Family Reunion
Title: Family Reunion: Home
Characters: Ace, Luffy & their crews
Rating: G
Pairings: one-sided direction!fail/Zoro
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Summary (byfashi0n_mistake): the Strawhats have to hitch a ride with Whitebeard because they forgot to secure transportation of their own.
Because they are special that way XP
Home
Marco’s supporting arm was, at this point, probably the only thing keeping him still standing. Ace couldn’t remember ever being this exhausted in his life. Not after training with Garp, not after Whitebeard beat him within an inch of his life, not after his disastrous loss to Teach. Not even during the whole ordeal of Impel Down. But now Ace could feel every hurt, strain and all the weariness from the past several weeks weigh on him like a physical thing. It didn’t even matter that the seastone chains were finally – finally – gone. He was drained.
But he was home. Back, at long last, on the Moby Dick where he belonged, and his crew seemed as thrilled by the thought as he was. Hands reached out, ruffled his hair, clapped him on the back, squeezed his shoulders affectionately. Voices called out to him, laughed, cheered, and sang very rude songs about Sengoku’s Marines. It was overwhelming – in more than one way. Ace was touched, and deeply humbled by the lengths his captain and crew – his family – had gone to in order to save him. But the press of bodies, the noise and commotion were jarring and discomforting. After weeks of pain, stress, anxiety, frustration, despair; after the day’s shocks and emotional upsets – his deepest, bitterest secret revealed to the world – Ace couldn’t take anymore. Not with the memory of Luffy’s stupidrecklessSUIDICAL assault on Impel Down still fresh in his mind – and the thought of his brother brought with it a wave of soul-centring warmth “HE’S MY BROTHER!” and the memory of sickening terror “Your brother too is a pirate – he was doomed the moment he set foot in here.”
It was too much. He needed space, he needed sleep, quiet, (food, his stomach helpfully interjected), he needed… not to have some many eyes trained on him when he was about thirty seconds from passing right out in front of everyone – and hadn’t they all seen enough of his weakness already?
To his great relief, the crowd pulled back slightly, attention shifting from Ace to some disturbance just beyond his greying field of vision. And then he heard his brother’s voice.
“You’re going the wrong way.” And had he well and truly lost his sanity in prison or was there really a petulant Luffy somewhere on the ship?
“Whose idea was it exactly to let the Marimo lead the way?”
“Shut up!”
“Turn left.” Luffy..?
“Zoro, that’s right.”
And there they were, the group he’d met in Alabasta – a lifetime ago – with three additions (a skeleton? what!?). And in the lead, Luffy, slung piggy-back style, over Roronoa Zoro’s shoulders. The swordsman was holding a suspiciously familiar piece of paper cupped in his hand. The damn Vivre Card! Of course, no wonder Luffy had come after him – though Ace wondered who had finally explained to his brother what the “mysterious” paper was. He owed them a broken kneecap.
Marco, an arm still around Ace’s middle, hailed the group. “Strawhat, over here.”
Through ears that were almost too exhausted to work anymore, Ace heard his brother made a faint gleeful Luffy-noise and laugh weakly.
“You guys have a really big ship! Zoro got lost.”
“Zoro would have gotten lost anyways.”
“Idiot gets lost walking in a straight line.”
“Shut up!”
Luffy looked terrible. He was bruised and bloody, and terribly pale under layers of grime. His entire body was draped limply over his crewmate eyes half-closed, head lolling. Ace looked half-dead and he knew it – he certainly felt it. Luffy looked like Death had picked him up, shaken him like a rag doll, chewed on him with murderous intent, and then decided it didn’t want to deal with him quite yet.
Ace wanted to rage at him. You idiot, he wanted to shout, what were you THINKING!? But shock and exhaustion sealed his mouth and all her could do was stare at his brother in numb disbelief, while he leaned ever more heavily on his fellow commander.
He watched Luffy lift his head woozily off Zoro’s shoulder and look vaguely in Ace’s direction. “Mmm, good, you’re okay.” And then he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Ace did not feel okay, wasn’t sure if he would ever be okay again. Except… his brother was alive – was safe with his crew – his captain (father) was alive and, miraculously, no one had died for his sake.
“Sorry for barging in like this,” the blond-haired smoker jerked a thumb in Luffy’s direction. “He wanted to see his brother before we headed off.”
An earth-rocking laugh interrupted them. “Gurarara! You’re popular today Ace.”
Ace could feel knots of tension vanish from his body as his captain came into view, smiling with great amusement at the small pirate crew intruding on his ship.
“Oyaji-”
Whitebeard gently clapped a massive hand on his shoulder and Ace could almost feel strength flowing into him.
“So that’s Shanks’ protégé. He going to be as much of a pain in the ass as Red-Hair?”
“Define pain in the ass,” one of the women muttered.
A blue-haired man Ace did not recognise stepped forward. “We’ll be out of your hair in a minute but – ah, this is embarrassing – could we borrow a life-boat or something? Our ship is still at Shabondy and we didn’t think to steal one from the Marines before boarding your ship.”
“Gurarara! None of that now, we’ll give you a lift – and a chance for the little one to rest.” The little one in question was currently drooling into his crewmate’s neck and seeming so much younger than his seventeen years. Asleep, Luffy looked small in ways he never did while awake, actual physical size notwithstanding. He looked fragile and vulnerable and Ace ached to see him like this.
But at the same time, he reflected, Luffy – surrounded as he was by the nakama he’d gathered – had probably never been safer.
It was a reassuring thought, and the last coherent one Ace would have for a while. The grey that had been gathering at the edges of his vision was now a thick fog turning everything hazy and indistinct. His ears too, were buzzing and everything sounded like it was coming at him through water.
“…than… ou… much…”
“…rarara… rco… lie down… ounded… infirmary.”
If he so much as took a single step, his legs were going to give way right beneath him, he knew it. He refused to faint in front of everyone. He would not faint in front of everyone. Ace felt himself being steereddraggedmoved and focused on the last shreds of his consciousness. He was not going to faint.
Don’t faint. Don’t faint. Don’t faint. Don’tfaintdon’tfaintdon’tfaint-
Unlike his brother – and for the first time in his life – Ace managed to hold out until he was properly bundled into a bed before passing out.
~Sweet dreams, Ace
I actually started this one before Ship Without a Rudder and then that went and hijacked my brain. So here is some fluff-ishness to hopefully counter the angst from that piece
There may possibly be a sequel...
Characters: Ace, Luffy & their crews
Rating: G
Pairings: one-sided direction!fail/Zoro
Beta: this one needed so much editing that's it, from now on I stick to drabbles and
naye was fantastically helpfulSummary (by
fashi0n_mistake): the Strawhats have to hitch a ride with Whitebeard because they forgot to secure transportation of their own. Because they are special that way XP
Home
Marco’s supporting arm was, at this point, probably the only thing keeping him still standing. Ace couldn’t remember ever being this exhausted in his life. Not after training with Garp, not after Whitebeard beat him within an inch of his life, not after his disastrous loss to Teach. Not even during the whole ordeal of Impel Down. But now Ace could feel every hurt, strain and all the weariness from the past several weeks weigh on him like a physical thing. It didn’t even matter that the seastone chains were finally – finally – gone. He was drained.
But he was home. Back, at long last, on the Moby Dick where he belonged, and his crew seemed as thrilled by the thought as he was. Hands reached out, ruffled his hair, clapped him on the back, squeezed his shoulders affectionately. Voices called out to him, laughed, cheered, and sang very rude songs about Sengoku’s Marines. It was overwhelming – in more than one way. Ace was touched, and deeply humbled by the lengths his captain and crew – his family – had gone to in order to save him. But the press of bodies, the noise and commotion were jarring and discomforting. After weeks of pain, stress, anxiety, frustration, despair; after the day’s shocks and emotional upsets – his deepest, bitterest secret revealed to the world – Ace couldn’t take anymore. Not with the memory of Luffy’s stupidrecklessSUIDICAL assault on Impel Down still fresh in his mind – and the thought of his brother brought with it a wave of soul-centring warmth “HE’S MY BROTHER!” and the memory of sickening terror “Your brother too is a pirate – he was doomed the moment he set foot in here.”
It was too much. He needed space, he needed sleep, quiet, (food, his stomach helpfully interjected), he needed… not to have some many eyes trained on him when he was about thirty seconds from passing right out in front of everyone – and hadn’t they all seen enough of his weakness already?
To his great relief, the crowd pulled back slightly, attention shifting from Ace to some disturbance just beyond his greying field of vision. And then he heard his brother’s voice.
“You’re going the wrong way.” And had he well and truly lost his sanity in prison or was there really a petulant Luffy somewhere on the ship?
“Whose idea was it exactly to let the Marimo lead the way?”
“Shut up!”
“Turn left.” Luffy..?
“Zoro, that’s right.”
And there they were, the group he’d met in Alabasta – a lifetime ago – with three additions (a skeleton? what!?). And in the lead, Luffy, slung piggy-back style, over Roronoa Zoro’s shoulders. The swordsman was holding a suspiciously familiar piece of paper cupped in his hand. The damn Vivre Card! Of course, no wonder Luffy had come after him – though Ace wondered who had finally explained to his brother what the “mysterious” paper was. He owed them a broken kneecap.
Marco, an arm still around Ace’s middle, hailed the group. “Strawhat, over here.”
Through ears that were almost too exhausted to work anymore, Ace heard his brother made a faint gleeful Luffy-noise and laugh weakly.
“You guys have a really big ship! Zoro got lost.”
“Zoro would have gotten lost anyways.”
“Idiot gets lost walking in a straight line.”
“Shut up!”
Luffy looked terrible. He was bruised and bloody, and terribly pale under layers of grime. His entire body was draped limply over his crewmate eyes half-closed, head lolling. Ace looked half-dead and he knew it – he certainly felt it. Luffy looked like Death had picked him up, shaken him like a rag doll, chewed on him with murderous intent, and then decided it didn’t want to deal with him quite yet.
Ace wanted to rage at him. You idiot, he wanted to shout, what were you THINKING!? But shock and exhaustion sealed his mouth and all her could do was stare at his brother in numb disbelief, while he leaned ever more heavily on his fellow commander.
He watched Luffy lift his head woozily off Zoro’s shoulder and look vaguely in Ace’s direction. “Mmm, good, you’re okay.” And then he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Ace did not feel okay, wasn’t sure if he would ever be okay again. Except… his brother was alive – was safe with his crew – his captain (father) was alive and, miraculously, no one had died for his sake.
“Sorry for barging in like this,” the blond-haired smoker jerked a thumb in Luffy’s direction. “He wanted to see his brother before we headed off.”
An earth-rocking laugh interrupted them. “Gurarara! You’re popular today Ace.”
Ace could feel knots of tension vanish from his body as his captain came into view, smiling with great amusement at the small pirate crew intruding on his ship.
“Oyaji-”
Whitebeard gently clapped a massive hand on his shoulder and Ace could almost feel strength flowing into him.
“So that’s Shanks’ protégé. He going to be as much of a pain in the ass as Red-Hair?”
“Define pain in the ass,” one of the women muttered.
A blue-haired man Ace did not recognise stepped forward. “We’ll be out of your hair in a minute but – ah, this is embarrassing – could we borrow a life-boat or something? Our ship is still at Shabondy and we didn’t think to steal one from the Marines before boarding your ship.”
“Gurarara! None of that now, we’ll give you a lift – and a chance for the little one to rest.” The little one in question was currently drooling into his crewmate’s neck and seeming so much younger than his seventeen years. Asleep, Luffy looked small in ways he never did while awake, actual physical size notwithstanding. He looked fragile and vulnerable and Ace ached to see him like this.
But at the same time, he reflected, Luffy – surrounded as he was by the nakama he’d gathered – had probably never been safer.
It was a reassuring thought, and the last coherent one Ace would have for a while. The grey that had been gathering at the edges of his vision was now a thick fog turning everything hazy and indistinct. His ears too, were buzzing and everything sounded like it was coming at him through water.
“…than… ou… much…”
“…rarara… rco… lie down… ounded… infirmary.”
If he so much as took a single step, his legs were going to give way right beneath him, he knew it. He refused to faint in front of everyone. He would not faint in front of everyone. Ace felt himself being steereddraggedmoved and focused on the last shreds of his consciousness. He was not going to faint.
Don’t faint. Don’t faint. Don’t faint. Don’tfaintdon’tfaintdon’tfaint-
Unlike his brother – and for the first time in his life – Ace managed to hold out until he was properly bundled into a bed before passing out.
~Sweet dreams, Ace
I actually started this one before Ship Without a Rudder and then that went and hijacked my brain. So here is some fluff-ishness to hopefully counter the angst from that piece
There may possibly be a sequel...
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I think this needs a sequel for more happy Ace and Luffy bonding, though there will probably be some scolding from Ace's part XDD
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Oh brothers &hearts
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I love the description of Ace's fatigue and how he's happy but it's too much, and then Luffy is there. And Ace worries about Luffy even though they're both half-dead. Big brother-instinct. ^_^
The vivre card! Ace will have to kick Lola's ass for that! And thank her, maybe. XD
Luffy's entire crew just barging in on Shirohige is hilarious! Especially since they don't really have a ship of their own at the moment. And Luffy just falls asleep, worrying about nothing now that Ace is safe. ♥
I'm very much looking forward to the sequel! :DD
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I know!! Luuuffyyy hurry up and let your brother know that you're not dead!
Ace will have to kick Lola's ass for that!
Pfft, please, no way he could take her XP
Luffy's entire crew just barging in on Shirohige is hilarious!
This essentially began with me thinking: "you know what would be funny? Luffy and Shirohige, on the same ship, interacting"
Clearly I need to stop thinking. >_<;
Except then I would miss out on the lulz of Zoro trying to locate someone with their Vivre Card and failing
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Glad you liked it, and lol, Marco's face in your icon! &hearts
just as wonderful as Ship Without a Rudder, but happy!
I start a happy & lulzy Ace & Luffy & Whitebeard fic and so my brain immediately has to balance it out with deathfic and Ace angst...*rolls eyes at brain*
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serious love for the Straw Hats having to hitch a ride with Whitebeard because they have no transportation of their own.
Lol! AHAHAHAHA, that is the best summary of this fic ever!!
Luffy and Ace, I love those two to bits and pieces (in case my journal didn't, you know, already give that away ^^)
part two is in beta stupid Ace, won't get out of my brain =_=;
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but worse!
even with Luffy on his back pointing him in the right direction he can't do it
the Straw Hats have to hitch a ride with Whitebeard because they *forgot* to secure transportation of their own.
I...may have to use that as the official summary, may I?
I would be happy for you to friend me! XD
Pretty icon is preeeettyyy *is transfixed*
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...and then there are the character who are made of fail, like Buggy, lol
Yay new friends.
*runs off to add lulzy summary of lulz*
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XD
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Ace will have time to yell at Luffy later but he probably needs some rest. And then the brothers can fight and he can tell his senseless brother off
Thanks for sharing!
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I think I love the image of Luffy collapsing into Zoro’s arms or just anyone (I don’t ship them but I love the friendship
Me too! Aw, nakama &hearts
I have to say, I am very much looking forward to Ace yelling at Luffy, lol *evil glee*
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I love fail!Zoro. You must make a sequel.
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sequel is in beta and soon to appear
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Welcome to my obsession.
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I-I HOPE THE MANGA HAS A NICE FLUFF CONCLUSION TO THE ARC LIKE THIS, AND NOT ANGSTY DEPRESSANT FUEL ;-;
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I love your icon - did you animate it yourself?
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And Ahah thanks! Yep, I did animate it myself - I took the lineart from this B&W parody vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe7EH5bAiw8), coloured it and animated the short Zoro section you see. :V
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Thank you for shaaariiiing!!! &hearts _ &hearts
Oh they're so cuuuuute!!! &hearts&hearts&hearts
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN5r_l65u64
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D'AAAAWWWWWW they are so kyooooote!! &eharts&hearts
Hahaha, Zoro's angry little face XD
And Luffy! So. Adorable!
Sanji looked...less irate than I would expect him to in such a situation XXPP
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May I friend you?
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Sibling-love always hits me hard &hearts
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Yeah he might be half beaten but hey, he's happy, and happy Ace is pretty damn cute.
Of course Zoro would get lost @_@ The Mobe Dick is like huge, I'd bet anyone would get lost.
Classicadorable Luffy makes my heart melt <3
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Oda! Make him better!
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Of course Zoro would get lost @_@ The Mobe Dick is like huge, I'd bet anyone would get lost.
Hahaha! Yes, agreed - then again, if he's following a Vivre Card he really has no excuse XP