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Growing up in a forest surrounded by mountain bandits wasn't the most educational up bringing. Ace knew this from the start. When he met Sabo he began to understand how far behind he really was. If he ever wanted to go to sea he should have more knowledge than what he had now. He had asked Sabo to teach him and after Sabo he began to teach Luffy. He thought that he was pretty up to date with everyone and everything around him. There was only one subject no one taught him or ever discussed with him. Garp, Dadan and Makino all thoughts the other had taught Ace and Luffy about that.
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It was kinda quiet at the moment in the Whitebeard mesh hall. Most of the Whitebeards were eating dinner so there were plenty of pirates to fill up the quietness, but most of them didn't want to talk about anything at this moment. They were hearing crucial information about their youngest brother, his sex life. Their younger brother was enthusiastically talking to Deuce about the time that he was riding someone. It included information like;
"The first time I rode him was the best one."
"One time he got so wild that he almost threw me of."
"His hair is so very soft."
Deuce was listing to Aces entire story (as did the rest of the crew). However The masked man did not seemed faced at all when he heard all of this. When Ace was done eating he set his plates away and walked out the mesh hall with Deuce.
There was an uncomfortable silence left. One by one conversations began to spike up. "Was Ace gay?", "How many times did he have sex?" Or "Who was the mystery guy?". In an instant bets were being places all over. Everyone was interested now. They were going to figure everything out.
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Ace was bored. He was just laying in his bed. He wanted to do something and it just came to him. Luffy and himself had gotten their devil Fruit powers when they were young and he wondered if it will become harder to control or more exhausting to use when you get older. He didn't think asking Marco would help, when he could regenerate and asking pops might be rude. Who else was there to ask? Ace thought for a few minutes. Of course! He knew the perfect guy to ask.
He was walking around for some minutes before he bumped into him.
"Ah, Commander Jozu I was searching for you." The freckled pirate said.
"What is it?" Ace looked a little embarrassed, loosing his confidence. It just came to him that asking about someone’s devil fruit ability might make people uncomfortable.
"Well I don't know... it might be a rude question" Jozu was a little confused now. Ace knew that he could ask him everything, right?
"Don't be afraid to ask questions. I'll try to answer it to my best abilities." The diamond man encouraged.
"Well, I was wondering if you had any problems getting hard at your age?" Jozu's mind went blank. He could have thought of thousand other questions the younger might have asked him, but this one was not one of them.
It was silent for a minute. This is what he got for trying to be helpful and saying he would try his best to answer, now he would have to. Well it made sense he guessed. Portgas was at the age to be interested in that by now. But why go to him of all people? He looked at Ace again who was looking away. So the kid was also flustered. He sighed. "Well, the older we become the harder it will be to get hard, yes."
The kid looked up at him with sparkling eyes, as if he made a big discovery. "Thank you commander!" And then he walked away. Jozu sighed again. This kid was going to be the death of him.
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Our poor Birdy was the next victim. After Juzo had told the commanders that Ace was nervous when he would want to ask them something about sex left them thinking. They could understand that he would want more answers about that besides the information he got from the talk.
It was Thatch who came with an idea. Two commanders would go to Ace and try to make him more comfortable, those commanders being himself and Marco and Thatch hoped that maybe then Ace would tell them about the mystery man. The three sat down on deck and the (not very) inconspicuous plan began. Thatch has made some food and the three of them (mostly Ace) ate the food while talking.
First Thatch asked question about Aces past and in return Aces asked them. Thatch wanted to make the younger man comfortable. It was all going all and well until Thatch asked what Ace was a surprised about when joining the crew.
"What are some little things you expected, but that were different?"
"Uh well, there is one thing, but i don't want to be rude and all." Ace rubbed the back of his neck. Thatch slung a arm around Ace’s neck. "Don't worry, just say it. We don't mind and it can be helpful to future Whitebeards."
"But it's about Marco." Marco turned to them when his name was heard.
"Don't worry-yoi. I accept constructive criticism-yoi." Marco smiled encouraging.
"Constru what? well whatever, I just thought Marco would be hotter." Thatch choked on the food he was eating. "I mean he has a fancy titel and is pops right hand, I just thought that he would be I don't know. Just hotter."
After Thatch had recovered he bursted out in laughter. He was clutching his stomach and there were tears in his eyes. Marco was sending Thatch a death glare, but the man wasn't bothered. Poor Ace had absolutely no idea what was happening. "I'm sorry?"
"Oh no, don't apologize everyone has their own opinion." Thatch laughed. Marco dangerously loomed over him. Three seconds later a loud yell followed by a splash were heard. Marco turned to face Ace and put a hand on his shoulder. "That's fine. I guess that I'm just not your type. I'm sure you will find someone eventually-yoi." Marco walked away, leaving a still very confused Ace behind.
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So what Thatch had gained from these three experiences is that Ace is probably gay and into older man that didn't look like Marco. The pompadoured man came up with a genius plan. Just make the fire user drunk so he'll spill everything. Just in time too, because in a few hours there will be a Whitebeard party.
So when the party came, Thatch didn't stop pouring the now very drunk Ace a refill. But his plan was halted when the freckled man just disappeared. He had only looked away for a few seconds and the kid was gone. Now Thatch was going to have to find Ace again.
He gave up after a few hours. He himself was completely wasted and would just have to figure it out an other time.
An hour later Thatch ran into Ace again, literally. Well it was more like Ace ran into him. It send them both crashing into the floor. It took a few second for the two drunk man to be a little stable again.
"Ah Ace, I was looking for you. You see I-"
"Thatch! I want to sleep with you." This sobered the man up very quick. "What!?" Instead of answering the freckled man latched on to Thatch and snuggled into him. "Well your big, strong, warm and cuddly and I know you will take good care of me!" Thatch was laying there completely frozen. His now sober mind still catching up to what was happening.
Luckily, Ace passed out from exhaustion or narcolepsy or something else. Thatch didn't really care. He was just glad the fire user was asleep.
Now that is party spirit was gone he decided to bring Ace to bed. He lifted him up bridal style and carried him to his shared quarters. He didn't have his hat on so Thatch only had to remove Ace’s shoes and put him to bed. Thatch then went to his own quarters and flopped down on the bed, wanting to forget all the thing Ace had said. Hoping it was just drunk Ace speaking and that that were not his real feelings. Thatch was a very straight man and he didn't want to break his little brother heart if Ace had really caught feelings for him.
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Edward considered himself a very lucky man. He had a great family and all the freedom he wanted. He had never regretted one of his decisions. Until his youngest son slammed the dining room doors open and very loudly and excitingly declared that he wanted to ride Marco.
Yeah, everything went absolutely silent. The people currently in the dining room were either looking shocked at Ace, looking shocked at Marco or looking shocked at something else. Marco who had been in the middle of a conversation was left absolutely speechless.
"I-I thought I wasn't your type?" He stuttered questionably. Ace looked confused. "I don't know what you mean by that, but I want to ride you on you back, can I?" There was a moment of silence for the word to sink in.
"Ride Marco on his back?" Someone questioned.
"Yeah, you know fly through the sky and everything." There was an other moment of silence. The crew began to whisper among themself's, until one of them yelled "So not like in sex?"
Ace looked more confused. "Uh, I don't know? What is sex?" The whole dining area was silent again.
"You know the thing you did. Riding that wild guy you spoke of."
"Oh you mean the tiger lord from MT.Covo? Yeah, that was awesome! Have you ever rode a giant tiger? Wait, so riding a tiger is named sex? I didn’t know that."
"Wait Ace-yoi." Marco found his voice again "what did you mean that I wasn't as hot as you expected?"
"Well, with you devil fruit being phoenix I thought that your flames would be as hot as mine."
"What about the question you asked to commander Jozu?"
"I wanted to know if devil fruit powers would be harder or more exhausting to control if you get older. Guess what! Jozu said that it did."
"And the time you wanted to sleep with Thatch when you were drunk."
"Oh I don't remember that, but it might be because I used to sleep together with my brothers back on my island so that could have been the cause."
You could almost hear all the theories about Ace's sex life shatter.
"Ace, have you ever had something called the sex talk or something about that. You know, the making baby's talk?"
"No? Don't two people that love each other kiss and than a baby forms in the woman's stomach?"
There was a complete and absolute silence. Until one by one Whitebeards sons got up and quietly left the dining room. Muttering a "bye pops" or "good luck pops" on he way out.
Now Edward 'Whitebeard' Newgate and Ace were completely alone, no one else was there. Ace turned to him. An confused innocent look formed on his face. "Pops, what is this sex talk?"
Edward had never felt so betrayed by his own sons ever in his life.