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

Clumsy Like Corazon.

You wake up in the morning, blurry eyed but well-rested. You just know you must have fidgeted like a pain in the butt last night since you're...then you realize it...you're face down in Ace's abs, a light blush making it's way to your face as you slowly lift your head. Oh. Dear. Lord.

You fell asleep on his chest so you must have shimmied down his body in your slumber. Jeez, at least you didn't go any lower. A smile reaching your lips as you set your sights on the sleeping male. One of his arms were still loosely wrapped around your waist while his other rested by his head, a little like how a baby sleeps. His mouth ever so slightly ajar and his breathing was light, his chest gently rising before falling. He's so adorable!!!

It was in this moment, you come to realize you had a bit of a cotton-mouth feeling going on. Looking at the clock, you see it's 9am and although it isn't necessarily early, you still don't wanna wake Ace when he looks peaceful, so instead you slowly and carefully lift his arm from your waist, squirming out of bed before laying his limb down again, a slight flinch reaching your face when the boy lets out a quiet groan. You'd thought for sure you had woken him, readying yourself to apologize your ass off. But thankfully, he just rolls over and snuggles into his pillow.

You just about contain the urge to squeal at his cuteness. So with that, you decide to quickly but quietly pad over to the door, taking about 5 minutes alone just to turn the handle and open it. Once you finally got out of the room, you waddle your way to the stairs, trying to be as quiet as possible in case Sabo and Whitebeard are still asleep too. 

I feel like some sort of spy, sneaking around like this.

Your body freezing up half way down the staircase when you hear Shanks' chuckle. Honestly, is this guy following me?!  You hear Marco's tired voice speak up soon after. 

"I'm sure Makino's being real unreasonable yoi..." He's not at school either?!

"She is! She won't even let me see the messages, I think she's just saying it because she's bored of me or something. I've never cheated on her with a student, I'm not that stupid!"

"Bullshit yoi."

"What?"

"Sorry, reading a newspaper article. Why can't you stay with Ben? He likes your company."

"He does but he doesn't like how much company I bring back with me, you know what I mean?"

  By listening to the crackling sound in the background, you come to the conclusion that Marco's just on the phone to the redhead, Thank God. You then realize that you're sort of unintentionally eavesdropping on his conversation. You start to make your way down the rest of the stairs a little louder but not too loud to wake any sleeping people.  

"Pops won't really like it either, you know. Maybe you should ask Iceberg to have you, he doesn't care about the women you bring home, right?"

"Are you sure you're worried about Edward here? Or are you more concerned for Ace?" You stop in your tracks, just before reaching the doorway. Did he say Ace? "He probably noticed his girlfriend checking me out during English. Maybe he doesn't satisfy her enough in the bedroom, but she's just a dumb highschool girl. I don't like her or anything so Ace doesn't need to worry, she's all his."

Fuck this guy.

"What a fucking joke."

"Eh?"

"Newspaper article again, sorry yoi. Anyway, I'm not concerned about Ace. I know he's an attractive guy. And I doubt his girlfriend likes you, if I remember correctly, she said that you were an old man." Marco playfully snickers, although anyone with a brain could tell he wanted to punch Shanks square in the face for dissing his little brother like that.