𝗚𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 & 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝘁𝘀 ┃One Piece [SLOW UPDATES?]

24. Boyfriends

"I'm telling you the truth, this guy has been with me for a day and a half and now he treats me as if I were some kind of niece."

You punched Shanks in the ribs to get him to stop hugging you, they all stared in silence after hearing the story of how you met by sheer chance, despite the sudden tension created when he arrived, after a while everything went back to being more or less normal, at least you no longer received looks that could send you to the underworld if they wanted.

"I can understand why if what he says is true..."

Whitebeard crossed his arms, adopting a somewhat more serious look along with a touch of nostalgia, that was a separate issue, but apparently the old man who took care of you was a famous pirate who traveled not only with the king of the pirates himself, but not also with his opponent, every time they talked about him you thought that you knew him less and less, but after all it is not that your caretaker told much about his previous life, his diary was not very illuminating either because there were only things vague about his adventures, he was never a great writer, that's for sure.

"At least I'm glad that guy had someone to call a daughter, he always looked for a family, you know? but the women just ignored him."

The captain burst into loud laughter, you frowned concerned because you didn't know if he was laughing or choking because his laugh was curious to say the least. You had a good time talking quietly about the past of both yonkos along with some of their antics, although you mainly focused on doing silent staring contests with Ace, at a certain point you both got bored of listening to the two, already a little drunk because they had been drinking all the time, so together with the one you knew as Marco you went to the kitchen because someone was hungry.

"I'm not going to cook anything for you-yoi."

"I didn't want anything from you anyway, Tatch is there for something!"

"I remind you that they forbade him to cook for you because you ended up with a whole week's rations-yoi."

Ace crossed his arms, inadvertently bumping into your shoulder, you didn't pay attention to the conversation so when the boy wrapped his arms around your neck you hit him on the chin as if you were being attacked, well at least your self defense had only improved, although it was kind of sad that you felt attacked just by being touched.

"Shit, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I was in my own world, I didn't mean to hit you."

He brushed it off as he rubbed his chin, glaring at the doctor who was silently laughing at his misfortune, before he wanted to ask you to cook for him, which you would surely deny, but now you felt bad so you had no choice but to prepare only a small snack.

"Ace, I told you that you were prohibited from entering-" a boy dressed in white with a large combed brown hair yelled as soon as he saw the glutton set foot in the kitchen, however his words were forgotten when he exchanged glances with you "since when do you have a girlfriend?"

Both you and him went to a corner, leaning your heads against the wall while an aura of disappointment filtered through the place as if Tatch's words had depressed you, the cook watched in silence as you "cried" for having called you a couple for the second time.

"Oh, so they are ex couple?"

He muttered elbowing Marco, who had the palm of his hand against his mouth to hold back his laughter, he simply denied, briefly explaining the situation, when you got over being mistaken for a sloth's girlfriend again, you introduced yourself correctly to the cook, who allowed you to cook some food with supervision mostly because of the amount of stuff you had to use.

"So... is the lady free?"

Your hand was taken as soon as you finished plating the small portion of food, with a completely blank expression you watched Tatch's eyebrows go up and down after placing a short kiss on your knuckles. You closed your eyes with a deep sigh, offered a toothy smile, gently removing your hand from his grasp.

"Well, look, I do have a partner, with big fangs, fearsome tattoos on his face and... mmh spiky green hair, a real man, he'll slit your throat if you just look in my direction, heh, sure"

"W-what!?"

"Oi I didn't know you had a boyfriend either!"

"Well you know, now eat and shut up."

You crossed your arms squinting, the cook completely defeated because he thought he could hit on you while Ace just devoured ─falling asleep a couple of times in the process─ Marco's look was the only thing that was bothering you at the moment, since you could feel his eyes boring into your figure without moving away.

"What?"

"It's a lie, right? That's the worst description of a boyfriend I've ever heard."

"Pfft- yeah, I just made up some random characteristics mixed with some of my likes, I don't think there is such a person anyway."

"I wouldn't speak so lightly if I were you, the world is bigger than you imagine."

"Whatever, as long as neither of these two finds a similar person, it'll be fine."

You really hoped that if there was someone with those characteristics that would not appear in front of Ace at least, because he would be anything but silent if you count on the fact that the person is supposedly your 'partner', but hey, it was just a silly resource to get rid of the flirtatious cook, you weren't looking for anyone special at the moment.