One-Shots

Tokyo Ghoul/One Piece: You Are What You Eat

What if Luffy and Ace were ghouls, Ace being a half ghoul because with his "daddy issues," it makes sense? What if Sabo always got attacked, and both of them always saved him after knocking him out? Based on a prompt from tumblr by horomin.

Ace and Luffy raced through the trees, determined and scared and desperate.

Eventually, in front of them stood a woman with two black and red eyes, a sharp blade poking from her shoulder as she grinned manically down at a small boy with blonde hair and blue eyes, a top hat with goggles lying on its side only a few meters away.

His face was contorted with fear as the woman cackled, but suddenly the small boy's face went blank and eyes dropped shut as he toppled over onto the grassy floor.

Behind the unconscious child stood an even younger Luffy, arm out, signaling it had been him who had struck the boy in the head.

Ace, the same age as the blond victim, wasted no time in letting flaring burning orange wings burst from his back as he let loose a barrage of spikes at the woman.

She had no time to dodge as the projectiles buried themselves into her limbs, torso, neck, and head, causing her to drop to the ground, bleeding and cold and dead.

"She wasn't even that strong," Luffy's small voice was a whisper as he spoke, worried and sad with the smallest tint of disappointment.

"Better that way," Ace licked his dry lips hurriedly, shuffling over quickly to his brother's side as he gently hefted the unconscious blonde into his arms, wings returning back under his skin. "Took less time than it needed to. 'Sides, Sabo needs medical attention, or at least what can pass for it back home."

"Dadan?" Luffy murmured a quiet question that needed no confirmation.

Ace said nothing and turned, making sure his right eye was its normal dark, almost black, brown and not a dangerous, deadly combination of black and red before rushing back to the mountain bandits hideout.

Of course, Luffy never needed an answer when it came to things such as this, so he merely let a small amount of relief seep into his worry just enough to let some weight lift from his shoulders, and followed his older brother.

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Ghoul attacks were not something common, not when they were believed to be a myth.

The species had died out long ago, or so the people who knew about the existence of the creatures thought.

They were not real, didn't plague the world, according to everyone and everything.

Of course, the few ghouls that did exist did not protest to this for their safety, but they did know that this was not true, for they and any others like them were proof of this lie.

Ace and Luffy knew this best.

While ghouls were rarely seen, and people who had come face to face with them rarely lived, Sabo seemed to always be a target, but always came out alive though not unscathed, which was too much to ask for, in all honesty.

Ace, Sabo, and Luffy were brothers, there was nothing that would change that. Not diets, not species, not myths, and not anyone's opinion.

Because of this, even with Luffy and Ace being ghouls, even with them having to survive off of the exact thing their dear brother was, even with the myths telling people that ghouls were heartless and evil, they refused to leave Sabo to die. They refused to leave Sabo in general because they loved him, and dangerous or not, they were selfish and couldn't bear losing Sabo, whether it be from separation or death.