Teacher!Shanks x Student!Reader x Ace. {One Piece AU}

English With Mr. HolyShitHeIsHot.

Since you sit next to Ace in English, you decide to wait for him at the door.

Once he reaches you, he sends you a friendly smile as you begin to walk out with him.

"I'm really sorry about Sabo, I didn't expect Kid to start picking on him." You mumble, looking down at the floor as you walk. Admittedly, you did feel bad. Sabo didn't deserve that shit and Kid wasn't the sort to give it a rest once he'd started. Like with Law. 

"It's fine, Frogface wont bother him again. And if he does, I'll just beat him up." Ace confidently hums as he opens the door into the English classroom. "Luffy said this Mr. Shanks guy is awesome too, so hey, we might be lucky."

"He knows him already?" 

"Heh, yeah. He used to be a teacher at Luffy's elementary. He let him eat during lesson so naturally, Luffy's fond of him." Ace informs, taking his seat at the front. You smile as you take a seat next to him.

"Sweet. So we can do what we want as long as we work at the same time, huh?"

"Seems like he's that kinda guy." Ace nods, his eyes travelling to the window. You always found it sorta cute when Ace sat next to a window, the guy would just gaze out there for ages in a world of his own. 

The sound of the classroom door opening caught your attention, looking over you see a handsome man with red slicked back hair and a light stubble. You notice that he also has three faint scars down his left eye.  

"Hello class, I'm Mr. Shanks. Sorry I'm late. I had to make an important call." He smiles as he sets his things down on his desk, his voice sounds calm and oddly quite soothing. You couldn't help but stare at the man.

Jeez, Nami was right about him being a hottie.

"So the lesson planner says that all you guys have to do is start reading Romeo and Juliet." Mr. Shanks states with a cheerful smile. "If you have any trouble reading a word or sentence, don't hesitate to call me over. I get it, the book is as old as hell, so naturally people your age will struggle." He chuckles, causing some of the class to smile, a few girls to giggle.

"I think I'll misread sentences on purpose." You hear Nami whisper to...Boa Hancock? The hell is she doing here? She graduated already! The two were sat behind you and Ace, Boa sitting where Vivi should be sat but due to her headache and high temperature she was sent home. 

"HE HAS NOTHING ON LUFFY!" Boa calls out loudly, instantly catching the attention of everyone, including Mr. Shanks. Good.lord. "OI, YOU!" Boa calls out, pointing to Ace and causing him to turn to look at her, his face filled with confusion.

"Me?" 

"DID YOU GIVE LUFFY MY NUMBER LIKE I ASKED?" Boa asks loudly, causing the whole class to either facepalm or sigh dreamily at the 'romance'.

"Yeeeah...?" Ace answers slowly, his eyes glued to her finger that was still pointed at him as if to accuse him of something. 

"THEN WHY HASN'T HE CALLED ME?!"

"I think he said you weren't his t--" Before Ace could finish, Mr. Shanks interrupts hesitantly, rubbing the back of his head.

"Excuse me, miss? I'm sure you're too old to be in this class...Or even this school. Will you please leave?" He asks, seemingly trying to be as polite as he can be. However it only bought the look of utter horror to Boa's face. 

"O-Old..." You bit your lip in attempt to hide the small smirk that crept it's way to your lips, you don't have a problem with Boa, of course. But the situation was simply priceless to you. It's not every day an older woman sneaks into a high school to track down her crush.