Shiromi

The Start Of Chaos.

"Soulmated so hard we're together in every universe..."

First Unoffical Date?

When Rouge opened the door and saw the situation her son was in, soaked to the bone with a dumb smile on his face, she closed the door after he stepped inside and turned to him with an angry look.

"Ace, where were you? You didn't even answer my calls!" Rouge raised her voice slightly, worry etched on her face.

"I'm sorry mom, I didn't hear when you called. The bus was packed." Ace replied with an apologetic smile on his face, lying through his teeth, he knew she was just worried about his safety so he didn't pay any mind when she raised her voice.

"I was worried sick, Ace! You could've at least sent a message!" Rouge cried out, placing her hands on her hips.

"I know, I know. I'm so sorry for making you worried, mom." Ace apologized again, but this time he took her hand in his since he couldn't hug her while water was dripping down from his clothes.

"I'll make us some hot chocolate after I shower, and then we can enjoy it together, okay?" Ace offered with a smile, nudging his mother's side. And Rouge couldn't stay mad at him for long, she sighed with a smile and Ace placed a big wet kiss on her cheek before he ran away.

Ace was in a good mood, anyone who looked at him could tell. He was walking to his class with a wide smile plastered on his face, greeting everyone he knew. He was hoping to greet her if he saw her by any chance, but unfortunately he didn't. With a sigh, he walked to his aircraft introduction lesson, wondering why he never saw her when he was searching for her. The class was boring, but Ace managed to focus, his narcolepsy hit him somewhere in the middle but he was woken up by his professor after some time. Well, it wasn't Ace's fault his professor had the voice tone of a lullaby. The torture went on for so long before they were dismissed, and Ace's stomach was begging a little too loud for food.

He walked inside the bustling cafeteria, taking a tray before he got in line. After a long while of waiting, he finally took his food and searched somewhere to sit. When his eyes catched a familiar blue head sitting on his own, a smile appeared on his face and made his way over him.

"Yo, Deuce!" Ace called out with a grin, pulling the chair in front of Deuce and sitting down, placing his tray on the table in front of him. Deuce looked up and spared him a side eye before he smiled back, they did their usual handshake before he kept eating.

"How's it going, future pilot?" Deuce asked, chewing on a meatball as he looked at Ace who was stuffing his mouth with food.

"Bad, since mid-terms are coming."

"Yeah, don't even remind me." Deuce sighed, he was studying graphic designing, and he still had to complete that newspaper before mid-terms.

Deuce and Ace catched up since they didn't come across eachother often. Then Ace switched to a topic he wanted to talk so much about.

"So, Deuce, do you know (name)?" Ace asked with a nervous smile, cursing himself for not asking about her full name yesterday. Deuce looked confused for a second, raising an eyebrow in question as he thought about it.

"You mean the car freak (name)?" Deuce asked back, well, he didn't know much about her and he wasn't sure if he and Ace were talking About the same person.

"Car freak?" Ace questioned with a confused face, why on the earth did she go by that? "Is that an inside joke or what?"

"Well, there was an inter-university race car design competition, her design got a huge amount of points from the judges. Our school won the 1st place award out of 17 universities, I wrote about her and her design in the school magazine. That's why most of the people calls her a car freak, I think it's pretty cool though." Deuce explained, he had talked to her an few times about the design she made and how she did it before writing the article. And (name) was someone that, well, she doesn't like the attention too much. Ace's mouth was agape as he listened Deuce, he had no idea something like this happened. Well, maybe because he didn't bother reading the school magazine every 3 weeks. He was amazed, no, he was more than amazed. But he couldn't find the right word for it.

"Why do you want to know about her anyway?" Deuce asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No reason, I was just curious." Ace replied with a shrug, Deuce thankfully didn't ask much further, Ace changed the topic quickly, both of them falling in another conversation.

After he walked out of the cafeteria and seperated ways with Deuce, Ace walked towards the spot where students hitchhiked. His class had been cancelled due to some important work the professor had suddenly so Ace had no reason stay in school anymore. After waiting for a while, he saw a familiar looking car coming by, the car slowed down to a stop before the window of the passenger's seat rolled down. Ace leaned down to look at her face, a smile playing on his lips.

"Where to?" (name) asked, facing Ace after she the the bag that was on the the passenger's seat to the back seat.

"Why do I always see you when I expect the least?" Ace questioned with a shake of his head, (name) only shrugged in response.

"Do you want me to drop you off to your house again?"

"If it wouldn't be a problem."

"I wouldn't have asked if it was a problem." (name) replied with a smile, and with that, Ace opened the door and got inside the car. (name) started to drive, they got out of the school's gates, (name)'s playlist playing at the background. Ace was silent for a while before he turned to her with an easy smile plastered on his face.

Lemon Girl.

"Soulmated so hard we're together in every universe."

Warnings!! : F!Reader, swearing, grammar mistakes, MODERN AU!!!

Portgas D. Ace x F! Reader

Prologue, Lemon Girl

The Greeting.

Ever since that dinner, everything in Ace's life became upside down. That mistake he did when he sent that follow request to her was just the start of the downhill.

It was wednesday, a few hours before his morning alarm, and Ace was looking at the ceiling. He wasn't sure what was keeping him up but he could not sleep at all. He turned and turned to no end through the night, he didn't even know what was he thinking. It was a blank space in his mind at the moment. Then, he sat up on his bed with a sigh, hair messy and eyebags heavy with sleeplessness. When he finally had the motivation to stand up and leave his bed, he made his way to the bathroom to take a shower. After he was done with it, he sticked one of his mother's eye masks under his eyes and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for both himself and Rouge.

When Rouge woke up to make sure her son was awake, she was surprised to see him already in the kitchen pouring coffee to cups, a small breakfast on the table for both of them. A confused expression appeared on Rouge's face as she watched her son place the mugs full of brewing hot coffee on the table.

"Ace? Why are you so early today?" Rouge asked, Ace gave a dry chuckle in response, pulling the chair for his mom to take a seat.

"Can't I prepare breakfast for my beautiful mom?" Ace asked back, making a dramatic pose as he did so. Rouge laughed at him, not making anymore comment and started eating. Ace was glad she didn't suspect anything.

Ace gave extra focus on how he looked that day, he chose his clothes carefully and sprayed some cologne that was actually Sabo's but since Ace liked the way it smelt he stole it. Sabo was still searching for it. He looked at his reflection one last time before he took his bag and walked towards the front door, Rouge came to see him off at the door and kissed his cheek like usual before Ace left the house. He walked to the bus stop peacefully, telling himself that he would find and have a nice, long conversation with (name). It felt weird calling her by her name. When he got to school, his gaze glanced everywhere for her, searching and praying he would see her again. But, to his luck, he couldn't see her anywhere even if he literally walked all around school. It was frustrating, he could feel his confidence breaking when he couldn't find her at the cafeteria during lunch as well. Out of hope, he didn't bother paying attention to class anymore. Much to his dislike, Ace's whole week went the same. He couldn't focus on anything at all, his narcolepsy hitting him more than usual and causing him to get lectured by the professors. On top of that, he was falling behind in his aviation law class, and he couldn't complete any of his homeworks. He was unable to sleep, too. He couldn't even go visit Newgate, which he usually did twice a week at least. Marco did call him a few times but Ace alwas replied with a sorry and that he wouldn't be able to come because of school work.

It was tuesday again, and Ace got his engineering physics test results, it was a disaster. He looked at the paper with a blank face, his eye twiching a few times as he thought about what to do about this. He just wanted to crawl in a hole and never come back out again. After a lecture from their professor about how they could do better than this, Ace got out of the class, making his way out of the entrance of his university. He was drained. Both mentally and physically.

And as the cherry on top, it started to rain.

Ace was soaked from head to toe as he stood at the bus stop, watching as the bus he was supposed to be in leaving. He slumped down on the seats placed underneath the bus stop and took his head in his hands, wanting this whole year to just end. He hated—no, he despised tuesdays. How could someone hold a grudge towards a day? Well, Ace was. Why nothing seemed to be going right? Why none of his efforts seemed to be useful?

He felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, taking it out and looking at the ID, he saw his mom's profile on the screen. She was probably worried about him. With a sigh, he placed his phone back in his pocket, afraid that he would say something mean to his mom out of frustration. Ace was there for a long while, the bus he took while going home only passed once in an hour. So he had to wait.

As Ace was cursing his whole life, a car pulled up in front of him, making Ace raise his head in question. He couldn't see the person inside because of the reflective glass on the window. Then, before he could question any further, the window rolled down.

And Ace was, not even figuratively, his mouth fell open.

"Do you need a ride?" she asked, slightly leaning her down so Ace could see her face. He was more than shocked, the girl who crashed all his week was now in front of him asking if he needed a ride. He couldn't give a response, he couldn't even move his mouth. Then, he realized she was still waiting for him to speak.

"No, I-" Ace started, did he really wanted to refuse? No. But he was soaked to the bone and he would get the seat wet because of it, and his house was a little away. "I can't accept that, but thank you for asking." Ace finally replied, god, why was he so embarrasing? Then, the door to the passenger's seat suddenly opened and pushed by inside, (name) was leaning down to reach the lock of the door as she looked at Ace.

"And I can't accept your refusal, sorry. Hop on." (name) replied with an unamused expression on her face. Ace felt that he couldn't possibly argue with her, because she looked like she was someone you could never win against, so he stood up from his seat and walked towards her car and sat down on the passenger's seat before shutting the door with a mumbled thank you. (name) locked the doors and waited Ace to fasten his seat belt before she started the car and took off.

"So, where to?" (name) asked, which Ace replied with his adress quickly. She nodded in response before she changed the route and turned a corner.

Ace didn't know what to say, or how to start the conversation. Usually, he was an easy-going person, and never struggled with socializing. But now, he felt like a freak otaku who never went out of his room and never ever saw sunlight. Then, before Ace could stop himself, he was talking.

"Have we met before?" He asked, finally turning towards (name) with a questioning look on his face. He knew he screwed everything up at the moment but he couldn't help himself. (name) didn't look confused from his question much to his surprise, it was almost like she was expecting it.

"I don't think so." (name) replied, although, she had more to say. "But I do feel like I know you as well." (name) finished, casting a glance at Ace but her attention was still on the road ahead of her. Ace let out a breath he didn't know he was holding, so he wasn't the only one? He wasn't crazy after all.

The whole ride went pretty silent after that, (name) would ask Ace about directions every now and then, bu other than that, they didn't share words. When (name) finally pulled up in front of Ace's house and Ace was ready to leave, she stopped him.

"Ace, right?" (name)'s voice called out, making his head snap towards her.

"How do you know that?"

"You sent me a follow request on Instagram." (name) said with an eyebrow raised, Ace could feel his ears burning up with embarrassment.

"Oh, yeah."

"Well, Firefist Ace, I'll see you around." (name) said with an amused smile, probably the first smile Ace saw on her face today as she called him by his username. Ace wanted the ground to swallow him whole sometimes. He could feel himself overheat, he decided the first thing he was going to do when he reached to his room was screaming into a pillow and kick his feet like a fangirl.

"Yeah-Sure. I see you-I mean, I'll see you around too."

"Okay then, take care." and with that, Ace was out of the car, he ran to the door and pressed the doorbell. Watching as (name)'s car took off.

"Soulmated so hard, we're together in every universe."

Portgas D. Ace x F! Reader

Warnings: F! Reader, a few curses here and there, bad english, written in Ace's pov, grammar mistakes. MODERN AU!!!

Prologue, Lemon Girl

Prologue: Something About Her

The Meeting.

It wasn't uncommon for Ace to be late. Everyday, he would stop his alarm and go back to sleep and sleep for one more hour. And he would only wake up after Rouge came shaking him awake, he was grateful for his mother, really. But now, he had less than 20 minutes to shower and eat breakfast.

"Ace! Won't you eat breakfast?" Rouge asked when she saw her son already putting on his shoes, his hair a little damp from the shower even if he dried it for 5 minutes but that isn't important.

"I'm sorry, mom. But I'll be really late for my class if I don't leave now." Ace replied, cursing himself for not waking up sooner. With a groan, he stood from the ground, the bus would be at the stop soon and he literally had to fly there to reach it.

"Okay, be safe on your way. I love you." Rouge smiled at his son that was now much taller than her, Ace leaned down a little so that her mom could kiss his cheek like she did everyday. He then took off, opening the door and leaving as fast he could to reach the bus stop, shouting a loud "I love you too!" back to his mother who waved him goodbye at the door. Fortunately, he reached the bus before it left, he really wished that Garp would let him take his car every now and then, but the old marine never let him or Luffy take his car without a responsible person, who was Sabo.

College was draining, Ace couldn't remember a day where he wasn't mentally tired. But he endured it for his mother who was really happy he was going to college and living his youth, at least she put it that way. Ace didn't know if this was the so amazing youth. He is studying piloting department, but god was it exhausting, especially on a tuesday like this. He hated tuesdays. Yes, he just decided that right now because he had a test today. After he scanned his student card at the entrance, he started to walk towards the physics building with a yawn, bag hanging from his shoulder. As he was dragging his feet up the stairs, someone walked down past him, he had less than a second to see the person but his sense of smell was filled with the scent of lemon an instant. Ace stopped in his tracks, his whole attention suddenly taken away by this person.

Did he know this person? Why did it felt so familiar?

His head was filled with thoughts, yet they were all blurry. Turning his head back slowly, his gaze locked on the girl that was now walking away. No, he didn't know her. He was sure he didn't know her, he was sure.

Was he?

Then why did he feel like this?

Before he let his intrusive thoughts of going up to her and asking who she was take over, he stopped himself and teared his gaze away from her receding figure. Ace started to walk to his class, searching the depths of his mind for the girl, someone from his class? No, it couldn't be.

Unfortunately, Ace couldn't focus on his test nor classes all day because of his thoughts.

"Ugh. I hate tuesdays." He groaned as he placed the cake his mom made in a bag, Garp invited Ace and his mother for dinner. And his mother made one of her delicious recipes because she didn't want to go there empty handed. Rouge laughed behind him, unplugging the plugs of the machines to prevent any incident while they were away.

"Is that why you're such in a bad mood today, dear?" Rouge asked before she walked away to take her jacket from the living room. Ace didn't answer, knowing his mother would be more than overjoyed if he even mentioned a girl. And that was the whole reason he didn't talk about it, his mom would probably squeeze answers out of him. He just sighed and took the large bag and walked to the front door, wearing his shoes for the second time that day. Rouge came and wore some slippers, they left the house and started to walk towards the Monkey D. household after Rouge locked the door behind them. They walked, Rouge talking About what she did when Ace was at school and asking about how his test went, which Ace replied with a timid "It was good." which was a big, fat lie.

When they arrived, Luffy opened the door with a big smile and hugged Rouge, both of them squeezing eachother with the same enthusiasm. Ace watced them with an amused look on his face, when Luffy was done embracing Rouge, he turned to Ace with a grin and jumped on him, a laugh escaping Rouge as they began to wrestle.

The huge table was donated with different kinds of food, Garp sure invited a lot of people. Come to talk about the owner of the house, he was now playing cards with Shanks and Rayleight, and was also losing miserably. Ace went to greet Makino after he threw Luffy on the couch, and when he was done, he looked around for Dadan, finding her setting the table. The woman who looked angry about there being too many people took her anger out on Ace, screaming at him about how he didn't visited her even once the past weeks, Ace laughed and apologized. The house was full of people, and Ace was running around to say hi to everyone. He saw Sabo when he came back to the front door, Sabo had bags of drinks in his hands, he and Ace did their handshake before Luffy came and jumped on them.

"What do you mean you felt like you have seen her before?" Sabo asked after Ace's mental breakdown in the kitchen as the two of them poured the drinks into glasses.

"Like, I felt like I have known her for my whole life but I know it was my first time seeing her." Ace replied, he knew how dumb it sounded but he couldn't help it. Was college finally getting to him and making him go crazy?

"Okay? Do you think she's in your class?" Sabo asked, Ace only groaned in response, he looked through literally all the girls in his class from the MicrosoftTeams, but he couldn't find her. He shook his head a no as a response, Sabo could feel his brother's frustration but he didn't know what to say or do. They didn't know the name of the girl, she wasn't in Ace's physics class either and Ace didn't see her face, only saw her from behind.

"Maybe try to search her instagram?"

"Sabo, I don't know her name nor what she looks like from front."

"You said you got a feeling when she walked past you, right? Maybe you'll feel that again when you come across her account." Sabo said, causing Ace to pause. Though, before he could take out his phone, Dadan came to shout at them for being so slow. Sabo and Ace carried the drinks to the terrace where the table was at. The dinner went pretty loud and argument filled, with Shanks teasing Garp for being so mad at card games and Garp shouting threats to Shanks about how he would throw him down from this terrace if he didn't keep his mouth shut.

After dinner, when everyone finished dinner and moved to the living room; Luffy, Ace and Sabo went to Luffy's room to hang out together. Luffy was telling them about why he got detention today, and Ace was...searching about the lemon girl, he decided he would call her that since she smelled like fresh lemons. Ace went through all of the followers of the people he knew from college, desperately searching for her account. He was so, so close to giving up. He then began to question whether he had really seen her or was it just his imagination because he literally looked through every instagram account that existed in the app. Luffy was still talking about his detention while Sabo listened, Ace wanted to pay attention too but he was more focused at the task in his hand. Just as Ace was about to give up and convince himself that it all a hallucination, he tapped on an account by mistake. He paused as he looked at the profile picture, his heart beating too loud for his liking in his chest, was this the same feeling he felt earlier this day? No, it wasn't. Was it? But he didn't feel like his heart would burst in his chest when she passed by him.

"(name)." Ace mumbled, Sabo turned his head towards him, a smile on his face.

"Oh, did you find her?" Sabo questioned, raising an eyebrow as he waited for Ace to speak. Luffy looked confused for a moment as he turned to Ace as well.

"Her? Who are we talking about?" Luffy asked, the room was silent for a few seconds. Both of them waiting for their brother to reply to their questions.

"It's-" Ace started, talking a breath as he turned his gaze towards his brothers who were already looking at him. "Does the name (name) sound familiar to you guys?" Ace asked, wanting them to say yes because he thought he was going crazy since he could swear he knew that name from somewhere. He just knew it.

"Uhh, no?" Luffy answered.

"Not that I know of." Sabo said as he shook his head as a no, Ace turned his gaze back to the screen, what was he going to do? He had to ask her some way, but how could he ask such a question without seeming like a crazy pervert? His thumb howered over the follow button, then suddenly he heard Luffy's voice beside him.

"Do you feel mushy mushy for her?" Ace let out a surprised yelp, jumping slightly and smacking Luffy's head because he startled him, then he looked back at his phone screen, his eyes widening in fear as he went pale.