The Dragoness(Ace x Reader)

Misunderstandings

Ace's point of view

While I was starting to wake up, I slowly noticed that something was different from usual. There was an unfamiliar weight on top of me, but surprisingly enough it didn't feel all that uncomfortable.

Then I came to my senses and opened my eyes wide to see what the hell was going on. That's when I saw what or more like who was on top of me. It was (y/n). She was still soundly sleeping. I've never actually seen her sleeping before because she was always the last to fall asleep and the first to wake up.

Seeing her like this made me happy. She seemed so peaceful. Not at all like a dangerous pirate captain with a bounty of 5 billion berries on her head. But what was a mystery to me was why she was sleeping during this time of day and even more importantly... Why was she sleeping on top of me?!

I really did want to find out the answers to my questions, but I didn't want to wake her up either. So instead I just laid there looking at the gorgeous girl nestled against my chest.

About an hour or so later she finally seemed to start to wake up. I instinctively started caressing her beautiful (h/c) hair. "Good morning sleepy head."

(y/n)'s point of view

I rubbed my cheek against my warm pillow still half asleep and mumbled a response. "Good morning."

"Ummm... I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but..." Ace trailed off.

With my eyes still closed I asked with a sleepy voice. "... What?"

He finally managed to get the words out of his mouth. "Why are you on top of me?"

Right as he said that, I opened my eyes in a panic and looked down. "What?!" When I saw that he was right, I freaked out and fell to the floor with our shared blanket, hitting my head on the edge of the bed opposite to ours.

Ace quickly got up to make sure that I was alright. "Are you okay? Don't tell me that you hit your head too hard!"

He was so close to me, checking my head for any injuries. Not only was that enough to make my heart go crazy, but he was only in his boxers, which made things even worse. (Why is Ace only wearing boxers? Easy. The first like weak he didn't have anything besides the few items of clothing he was wearing so he slept in his boxers. Afterwards he had gotten used to it and didn't bother with changing clothes for bed.) I had no idea why this was happening.

"I... I... I'm fine! I... I... I th... Think I have to go g... Get some f... Fr... Fresh air." Before he had a chance to say anything else, I was long gone already.

When I got to the deck I desperately grasped for air, trying to make some sense of what just happened.

"I see you slept well tonight." When I looked to see who that sentence came from, I saw a mischievously smiling Mirajane and right next to her was an also a blushing Erza. I immediately punched the both of them in the head fully enraged. "It's not like you think!!!"

Then I heard laughter right behind me. I slowly turned around just as enraged as before. The ones who were stupid enough to laugh were Natsu, Gajeel and Happy. For which they suffered the same fate as their other two crew mates. After that I turned to the rest of my friends, who were on the deck, while I probably looked like a demon straight from hell. "Anyone else want to say something..?"

They all shook their heads no in fear.

"Good." I walked into the bathroom to get a bath to cool down a bit. When I did, I passed Ace who I bluntly ignored.

When I closed the door to the bathroom from the inside, I got the bath ready. Then I stripped down and got in.

I thought it would be nice and relaxing and it should've been, but it wasn't because all I could think about was that stupid pirate! I could've just explained things as they happened, when he asked, but for some reason instead of doing the reasonable thing I freaked out like a total idiot.

Not to mention, why was I bothered by him being so close to me? It's not like it's anything new. Plus, we've even kissed before! A few times... And I'm pretty sure that we both liked it, but... It was a long time ago. Why am I even thinking about that?! "Urghhh!"

"Mind if I join?" I suddenly heard a familiar voice from the direction of the door. "Hey Cana... Sure, that's fine..."

"Are you sure? You don't seem all that convincing."

I sighed and sat up a bit more. "Sorry, there's just a lot on my mind right now."

Cana joined me in the gigantic bath. "Wanna talk about it?" I hesitated. "Yeah, well I'm not all that sure what the problem is... So..." she finished for me. "It's kind of hard to talk about something if you don't even know how to put it in to words?" I scratched the back of my neck and laughed nervously. "Yeah, that's right."

"Then don't sweat it and just know that whenever you want to talk, I'll be there, okay?"

"Thanks, Cana!"

That's when she started thinking about a few others who had been a little different from usual this morning. "No problem. Now that I think about it... Both Mira and Erza have been acting strangely today as well."

At the moment even just thinking about those two, especially Mira made me so annoyed. "Don't. Even. Start. With them."

Cana was surprised by my actions at first. "What ha-" Then she stopped and started grinning. "Did something happen? I mean... With Ac-"

I quickly cut her off while my face had turned completely red from both anger and embarrassment. "NOTHING HAPPENED!!!"

Ace's point of view

I was following after (y/n) since she ran out of the room without saying anything, but all I found was her already storming in another direction. When I went to see what exactly happened, I saw Erza, Mirajane, Natsu, Gajeel and Happy with bumps on their heads. "What happened?"

Levy nervously answered. "W... Well, my guess is as good as yours. All I know is that Erza and Mirajane must've done something big to make (y/n) mad." Lucy added right after just as nervously. "She's also probably one of the few people who Erza will actually let get away with something like that."

Just as I was about to say something, (y/n)'s yelling could be heard pretty loudly. "NOTHING HAPPENED!!!"

I wasn't sure what she was talking about and most of the others were just as clueless as I was. Gray was the first one to speak up. "What the hell was that all about?" The usually quiet Laxus added a concern of his own. "That's not like her at all..." And then Mirajane came up to me with a mischievous smile on her face. "So something did happen, didn't it?"

At first I didn't understand what she was referring to, but then I remembered the way today started. My face immediately turned red. "Wh... What are you talking about?! Nothing happened!!"

She started giggling right after hearing my answer. "If you're both saying the exact same thing, it can't be a coincidence?" I immediately denied everything. "Of course it can!" The white haired maiden didn't stop her questions. "But... You do like her, don't you?"

I was entirely caught off guard. "Wh... What? Th... That's none of your business you idiot!!"

She started crying at my comment. Happy immediately commented judgingly. "Now you've done it." Romeo agreed with the flying cat. "How could you?"

I honestly never thought that I'd be judged by a cat and a child... Then I tried to calm Mira down. "Hey, look I didn't mean it like that!"

(y/n)'s point of view

When we finished with our bath we dried off, put on some clean clothes and then headed back to the deck, where there was still chaos apparently. From the looks of things it was apparent that Ace had made Mirajane cry. Although in this certain situation I'm pretty sure she probably deserved it. "Mira... That's exactly why you shouldn't mess with people like that."

Ace seemed both surprised and relieved to see me. "(y/n)!" He ran over to me and whispered in my ear. "Thanks for the save. I owe you one."