Fairies and Pirates (Portgas D. Ace x reader)

Why you never associate Marco with pineapples (part 2)

Sorry I'm really late guys >.< I was kind of having some worrying problems, though the more obvious answer would be, I'm just lazy --" But I'm back now! So here you go! And thanks for liking this story guys! Shout out to all the commenters! ^^ (I just noticed that I forgot to put in like a review section for the last chapter 0A0" Forgive me guys Q.Q)
—
"I'll show you to your room."

"Thank you, Izo-san."

The older man just smiled at you. He placed a hand on your shoulder. "Please, Izo is just fine. Besides," Izo made a tiny smirk. "Ace tells me you'll be part of our family soon."

"Ace says everything..."

You mumbled, still a bit mad how you got forced onto the ship against your will. Izo laughed at that and the two of you continued down the hallway of the ship.

"By the way Izo-san..."

"Izo."

You felt a chuckle bubbling in your chest but you put on a smile instead. "Then...Izo." The man smiled. "What'd you want to ask dear?"

"Why is it that whenever pineapples is mentioned in front of Marco, he turns into a...a..."

"Ah..."

Izo laughed nervously, the both of you still walking. You just raised a brow.

"Well," Izo sighed, rubbing the back of his neck. "The reason why Marco hates pineapples is..."

"...Is?"

You stared at Izo as he sighed once again, stopping in front of a certain door. You guess that this is your room.

"His hair."

You blinked. Once. Twice.

"His hair?"

You must've been making a weird face because Izo chuckled at you, patting your head.

"His hair seems like an pineapple. That's why he gets made fun of with pineapples." You nodded, finally understanding. "Though mostly Thatch and Ace does that..." And you nodded at that too.

Now you get what happened on the deck.

"Well, that's that!" Izo smiled and faced the door. "This is your room."

Izo opened the door wide, signaling you to go in first. You walked in and took a look around. It was a pretty bare room, save for the a single wood bed on the right side of the room and three-draw cabinet on the left side of the room.

"You can style it with whatever you want as time goes."

Izo walked in after and smiled. You turned towards him and smiled as well.

"And how do you know that I'll stay here long enough?"

Izo laughed.

—

"And this, is the mess hall."

Izo smiled. You took a look around. A lot of people were here. A lot.

And all of them are pirates, is what you concluded.

"Don't worry, dear."

Izo placed a hand on your shoulder once more and gave you a reassuring smile.

You must've made a weird face again.

"Sorry Izo-san..."

This time though, it was Izo who made a weird face. You laughed knowing what the problem was.

"I'll be fine, Izo."

Izo smiled and laughed. You felt him pat your shoulder.

"With your attitude now," Izo lightly smirked at you. "I'm sure you'll be just fine."

You have him a chuckle in return. Then you remembered something.

"Say...Izo?"

"Yes dear?"

Izo turned towards you with a smile, that almost faltered at the sudden seriousness your face held.

"I forgot to ask before but..." you paused, looking down at the floor but raised your eyes to Izo's face again. "How did Ace get swept up in the—"

"Big trouble! Big trouble!"

Some unknown person you don't know came running into the room, causing everyone to look at him.

"What's wrong?"

Izo went up to the man, who was bent over trying to catch his breath. When he did, he stood up a bit and yelled again.

"Marines! We spotted some marines!"

Suddenly, the room was filled with loud whispers.

"Who would be so idiotic enough to come after us?" Was what you heard Izo whisper.

"Um..."

"(Y/N)." Izo turned towards you, a serious face on his...well, face.

You, who had no idea what was going on, looked at the man in front of you in pure confusion.

"What's going on?"

"(Y/N) dear," Izo sighed. "It's not...safe. Right now."

"I'm not a kid Izo." You glared at him. "I know when something's wrong if something doesn't seem right."

"Well...yes but," Izo sighed. "This is not a good time (Y/N). Just...stay somewhere safe until I return, okay?"

Before you could say anything else, Izo yelled at everyone to go up into deck–which everyone hurried up to do–before running after them, leaving up alone in the mess hall.

Now the big question was:
Where do you find a safe place in this ship?

—
Next chapter:

"Who are you?"

You shivered under the gaze–the cold, calculating, and uncaring state of the man before you.

"I should ask you the same thing."

You mustered as much courage as you could within you. Gulping, you glared weakly at the mean before you.

"Who are you?"

—

A/N:
Hey guys!
I guess I'm kind of back???
But back to the topic at hand, thanks so much for all the comments! I should probably reply back to some of them ehehe...^^"
Hope you guys are excited for the next chapter too!
My writing hasn't been all that good lately so the words in this chapter might be a little...funky --"
Sorry guys! ><
But don't worry! I'll try my best to do better next chapter!
And...that's all I have to say I guess?
Cya next chapter! Bye!