Well, after three long years of planning and writing, this story is finally ready to be shown to the world. I got the idea for this story simply from wanting Ace to have survived Marineford and the need for an AceLu mpreg story that actually had a meaningful plot.

First off, this story will be a long one that will more than likely take a few years to finish completely as I have 70+ chapters planned out. However, I promise that this story will be finished to it's entirety, no matter how long that might take. Another thing that I must warn of is that this is an mpreg story which means that Luffy will be getting pregnant (at least two times) and Ace shall be the father.

As for future parings, I haven't completely decided as I only write Ace/Luffy romantic stories but I might add in Frobin (Franky/Robin) and Zosan (Zoro/Sanji). Nami may be hinted at dating another woman (possibly Vivi), but as I said before, these other parings are not yet decided and would not be the main focus of the story.

Now, without further adieu, here is Decisions We Make!

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece.

Going through life, it will become very clear that even the simplest of actions will have an effect on how a person's life will play out and it will start as soon as they are born.

When Luffy was born, though it wasn't in his power to choose, he had ended up in the care of his grandfather; a battle-worn Marine vice admiral, instead of with his parents. From there, he had been taken to a quiet little place called Fushia Village.

By living there on Dawn Island, Luffy had met Shanks, a captain to one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring pirate crews that had ever sailed the seas. This meeting had sparked something in Luffy and brought about the decision that would eventually change the world.

The decision that one day, Luffy would become the King of the pirates.

It was a big dream, one that suited the rambunctious seven year old, but like most children's dreams, not many people believed that Luffy would actually accomplish it.

After all, it seemed like an absurd idea for the people in Fushia Village and Shanks's crew to believe that a scrawny brat like Luffy would eventually hold such a powerful title.

Though their lack of faith didn't stop Luffy's conviction; he was determined to one day be Pirate King no matter what.

His determination would lead him to having to make some tough decisions later on in life and would force him to face many hardships and challenges along the way to accomplishing his dream.

However, all of that was farther down the line. The choices he made in the present were what he needed to worry about the most.

Like that of his rash decision to tell Garp, his Marine-to-the-core grandpa, about his plans of becoming a pirate.

This choice had ended Luffy's life living in Fushia Village and had brought him to Mount Colubo to life with Dadan and her mountain bandits. The purpose of which was to kill Luffy's dream and to make him want to become a Marine instead.

Despite this, rather than make Luffy stop wanting to become a pirate, by living with Dadan in her harsh, yet loving care, Luffy had met someone who not only strengthened his dream but gave him another thing to strive for.

This person was Ace, a freckle-faced child with a damaged heart, who believed that he didn't deserve to live. The cruelty he encountered in his life made him hateful and distrustful of those around him and it made Luffy want to change that.

To show Ace that it was okay that he was alive and that Luffy wanted him to be.

To let him know that someone did love and care for him. To have him no longer be insecure as to his worth, because even though Luffy had just met him, he already meant the entire world to him.

That was Luffy's new dream and he been determined to achieve it, because no matter how much the ten year old resisted, Luffy had already decided.

Ace was going to be his friend.

So even though each attempt that Luffy made at befriending Ace nearly resulted in his death, the seven year old never wavered, because once he had made his mind up, there would be no changing it.

As such, Luffy continued in his endless pursuit of Ace's friendship and yes, it did almost end up with him getting killed by Bluejam's crew but, dammit, it was worth it.

It was worth it, because when Luffy thought that he was finally going to die by the hands of Porchemy, Ace showed up and saved him.

He had chosen to not abandon him and after that, it had been easy to finally become Ace's friend and later his sworn brother, something that had truly made Luffy feel like he had a family.

That he finally had a place to call home and people that would love and care for him no matter what.

Then Sabo died . . . and Luffy felt like his world had ended.

Sabo had been as much of a brother to Luffy as Ace was. He had been the glue that kept them together and stopped them from fighting.

When all else failed, Sabo had been the voice of reason that would bring them together again and suddenly he was just gone.

For what seemed like the longest time after his death, Ace and Luffy had struggled to find their center again. However, both of them were hot-headed and it caused many fights, one of which almost resulted in the loss of Luffy's life.

After that, Luffy had found that they were okay again. Ace had started to make up for Sabo's absence and had started to becoming kinder and more protective of Luffy.

It had brought them closer than they had ever been and that bond was what had kept them strong even though their brother was no longer with them.

That was why while Luffy's choices, like choosing to befriend Ace and his dream of becoming Pirate King, had brought him thus far, it had been Ace's choices that would affect them further.

His decision that they would live their own lives and not interfere with the others once they turned seventeen and became pirates had been particularly life-changing.

It meant that Luffy would not be able to intrude in Ace's life, no matter what happened.

Yet, at the time when Ace had announced this rule, it hadn't occurred to Luffy that one day he might be forced to break it.

Why would he have? Luffy was used to listening to Ace and doing what he said. After all, Ace was the older, stronger, smarter brother and Luffy never wanted to make him angry, because he loved Ace.

Luffy loved making him happy, because when Ace was, he would smile and laugh and act like there wasn't this gnawing need to know if he deserved to live.

However, Ace had made this decision years ago when Luffy had not been currently faced with Ace's dawning execution.

With such a huge danger facing his brother, Luffy simply couldn't continue to follow Ace's rule anymore.

As such, Luffy had a choice to make—one that would affect not only his life and Ace's, but the lives of his crew, the Marines, the Whitebeard pirates, and probably a dozen more who he didn't even know.

This choice would undoubtedly make Ace absolutely furious at Luffy, but that didn't matter anymore and Ace could be mad at Luffy all he wanted.

There was no way in hell Luffy was just going to sit around and let his brother, whom he loved so much, be executed.

So really, the choice wasn't that hard to make.

"I wanna go save Ace!"