Urgh... this is quite hard topic... Drabble: What Happened in That Island

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What Happened in That Island
Rating: Pg-13
Genre: General (romance in disguise)
Pair/Characters: Luffy (xAce in memory), Rayleigh
Topic: Training
Word-count: 296
Disclaimer: Odachi owns One Piece
Warning: fluff, missing scene, down to memory lane…  

What Happened in That Island

“Listen, Luffy. Training your devil fruit is like training to use magic.” Ace pointed.

“Magic?” Little Luffy’s eyes sparkled at that.

“Yep. It’s about control.” Ace nodded surely. “Use it wisely. Not too much, not too little.”

“…”

Luffy looked at Ace dumbly and Ace sighed, sweat dropping. “I guess it’s too early for you to understand.”

“No! Don’t give up yet! Tell me how to do it! I’ll learn!” Luffy jumped Ace and hugged him until both boys tumbled down together on the ground.

“Whoah! Luffy! Get off!” Ace struggled to breathe as Luffy’s weight, rubber arms and feet surrounded and choked him in a tight grip. “That’s why you can’t do it yet. You can’t hold back your pow-…”

“—er…. Luffy, are you even listening?”

Luffy blinked and looked up in startle as Rayleigh’s annoyed face came to his sight.

“Huh?” Luffy set his dumbfounded look. “Uh… sorry, Ray-ossan, a bit distracted there,” he shook his head.

“What are you thinking about?” Rayleigh looked concerned for a moment. Probably it was too soon to be training Luffy’s haki. He was still recovering after all.

“Ah… just when you said ‘control’, I can’t help thinking about magic.”

Ray looked baffled at that. “Magic?”

“Yeah. It’s Ace… you see, when we were training together. He said training devil fruit power was about control, like training magic. This haki thing is much more like magic than devil fruit power so…,” Luffy chuckled heartily. “It’s strange! I keep remembering the training Ace and I did together!”

Ray was surprised at first before smiling gently at the cheeriness in Luffy’s tone and face. “Well, pay more attention then. You want to get stronger, right?”

“Ough!” Luffy shouted in spirit at that and focused once more on his training.

~End~

 A/N: Uwa… I hope it isn’t strange. Really, this prompt is a bit hard to write… well, I hope you can enjoy it though. Comment is always welcome ^_____^