3 months later...
Today everybody on Moby were busy, like really busy.
Sabo was here with them and the reason was because today is 5th of may means luffy's birthday.
(I know it's not 5th of may but for the sake of the story let's assume that today is luffy's birthday)
the Moby Dick was docked at an island that had a town filled with shops in the grand line. It was on this day that Ace and Sabo were in a panic, thankful that Luffy was spending time with Marco, who had agreed to let him ride on his back.
"Everybody's been trying to prepare a surprise birthday party for him but,We haven't even been able to get him gifts which we planned to get using our treasure." Ace said, wringing his hands.
"You are right, I'm glad Marco decided to take on role of distracting luffy but what about the gift" sabo said, sadly.
Ace sighed, about to wring his hands but Sabo promptly slapped them.
"Stop that, you're stressed enough as it is." Sabo said sternly.
"B-but it needs to be perfect! Everything has to be perfect for our little brother, this is his, our little brother's birthday after all." Ace said.
"Bro-con." Thatch coughed, causing Ace to get pissed.
"Why you! I'm not a bro-con!" Ace yelled before slumping and attempting to wring his hands once more but yet again Sabo stopped him.
Seeing that Sabo was right and Ace was really stressed right now Thatch decided to speak up.
"I'll talk Marco into keeping an eye on Luffy for a bit longer, and we will handle the preparations while you guys get your gifts for him." Thatch said.
Sabo let out a relieved sigh.before picking up the pieces of paper and handing them to Thatch. Thatch looked questioningly at Sabo, as if asking what they were for.
"They're our ideas for the party, all we could really agree on was the cake and food. We weren't sure if there should be a theme." Sabo said.
"That's cause the only theme we could think of was pirates but that'd be rather pointless." Ace murmured.
It was true, they were living with the Whitebeard Pirates. So the theme itself was redundant because there was no way for it to be more 'pirate-y' unless they broke out the stereotypes. Which would cause Luffy to not be amused because for some reason Luffy hated those stereotypes. Personally, Ace blamed Shanks because the man had to have had something to do with that hatred. From what he heard from Luffy's stories and saw with his own eyes the man wasn't your typical pirate.
"Alright then, we'll see about getting everything together. You two go and get your presents." Thatch said, rolling up the paper.
They then made their way into town where the large amount of shops were located. They were looking around trying to find a place to start at when Sabo spotted a paper shop and wandered in, Ace curiously following after.
"Why are we in a paper store?" Ace asked, not really knowing why.
Sabo didn't answered him instead went towards the counter.
At the counter was a middle aged women. She looked at the boys curiously, wondering why they were here.
"Whatchya handsome boys in here for? You don't look like the type to need a large amount of paper." She said.
(Sabo and ace are 17 and this is luffy's 11th birthday )
"Ah, do you have Vivre Cards?" Sabo asked.
The woman was rather shocked at that question. Most people who hadn't been to the New World or at the very least Sabaody didn't know about Vivre Cards. And people in this part of grand line definately don't know about it.
Suddenly Ace knew exactly why they were in here. It'd be a wonderful gift for Luffy, for him to be able to know where his brothers were even when they departed for their own adventures. As well as letting the brothers know where Luffy was.
"Well i do have that, when my husband went to sabaody he bought a bunch of them" the women replied after recovering from shock.
"Mhm how much would it be for two full sheets?" Sabo asked.
"It's seventy thousand Belly a piece now." She said.
Sabo and Ace breathed a sigh of relief. They had brought two hundred thousand Belly with them, not really understanding pricing. So, they'd have one hundred thousand left over to buy Luffy other presents, because Luffy deserved to be spoiled. So Sabo handed over the hundred thousand Belly she needed. The woman then produced a pair of nail clippers and gestured for them to hold out a hand. They did so and the woman clipped off a finger nail from each of them.
"Alright, come back in an hour and it should be done." The woman said.
The two boys nodded and made their way out of the store to spend their free time before they needed to get their Vivre Cards. They then started to look around for other places to buy other presents for Luffy. They ended up finding a Jewelry Shop where they got a silver locket and had it engraved with 'ASL Forever' on the back for thirty-five thousand Belly. Sabo told Ace that they'd get a picture for it later.
Thankfully by the time that they finished buying everything it had been an hour so they made their way back to the Paper Shop. There the woman presented them with two pure white sheets of paper that seemed to radiate energy.
"Here you go, two Vivre Cards. One attached to each of you. Hope your little brother enjoys the gift." The woman said, shocking the two.
"How did you know it was for our little brother." Ace asked, a bit suspicious, causing the woman to laugh.
"Oh enough with that. You mentioned a Luffy earlier and nine times out of ten the people who are buying Vivre Cards are getting them for their younger siblings or someone similar." She said.
"How do you know that we're not the one time out of ten?" Ace asked.
"Are you?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No." Ace muttered, blushing.
Sabo quickly dragged Ace out of the store before he could embarrass himself even further. The woman thanked them for their business as they left. They then made their way back to the ship, hiding their gifts in their bags. They made their ways to the kitchen where they expected Thatch to be and Thatch was in the kitchen with his assistants seemingly preparing the cake for the party in the evening. The man let his assistants continue as he walked over to the two.
"Did you get your gifts?" Thatch asked.
"Yeah but we need stuff to wrap it in." Ace said.
"Hmm, two medium sized rectangular boxes, a small box and uh a roll of wrapping paper." Sabo said, thinking about the gifts they got him.
Thatch seemed to think for a second before speaking.
"Hm, then you'll need to go see Izo. He'll more than likely have the items you're looking for. He has a surplus after his shopping spree from last Christmas." Thatch said.
The two boys thanked him and made their way to the infirmary to check for Izo. On the door to the infirmary was a note telling them if they needed him he'd be in his room.
They knocked on the door and were told to come in. Izo was there at his desk working on a large banner that read 'Happy Birthday Luffy!'. It was in really nice handwriting and the designs that Izo was working on were really cool. The crossdresser looked up and smiled when he saw them.
"So, I'm assuming you got your gifts for the birthday boy?" Izo asked, the boys nodding.
"We're here for some items so we can wrap them." Ace said before repeating what Sabo said they needed.
"Mhm, I should have all that and how long and wide do you need the medium boxes?" Izo asked.
Sabo gave the man the size that the Vivre Cards were for the medium boxes, not telling the man what exactly they were wrapping. Izo then gave them the boxes, a roll of wrapping paper that was sea blue and had tiny ships all over it, as well as a thing of tape.
"Can't forget the tape." Izo said.
They nodded and then let Izo get back to his work.
To be continued...
(This is where our chapter ends, thankyou for reading and voting on my story)