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imagine going out to get your goth groceries and taking your goth boat back to your goth house and then on your goth doorstep by your freshly pruned goth shrubs lining the walkway there’s this girl with pink hair whining about how your goth house isn’t cute at all and you’re just standing there holding your goth bag of carrots and the roast you were going to have for dinner like “oh no”
#pulling out the goth den den mushi with matching hair and facial hat to ring up kuma#i’ll need a new post once zoro arrives omg#DOES HE GET BEAMED TOO?? that’s actually hilarious oh my god#mihawk’s going gray from the stress of going from bachelor > single dad in the span of 12 hours#zoro walks in on him dying his hair and that’s how he loses his eye#kate watches op
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When op characters throw their backs out
a/n - I watched househusband today 👍
Warnings ⚠️ - crack, g/n reader, shanks is a manbaby
- you thought an emperor of the sea could throw his back out??? Ridiculous!!
- … *crack* “OW DAMMIT-“
- literally on the floor struggling not to start bawling
- WHY WAS IT SO PAINFUL?!
- this was more painful than losing his arm 💀
- starts calling your name with that slight break in his voice at the end 😭
- he requires cuddles and absolute pampering right now
- will start crying like a baby 😐
- “Baby it hurts so bad- I want you to know that I love you so much.”
- “Shanks baby you’re not dying, you just hurt your back a bit.”
- *gasp*
- “I’M ONLY 40!”
- has an existential crisis about how he’s so old 💀
- “You were there when joyboy was born lmfao.” -yasopp
- “Yasopp now he’s sad again!” -you
- You start hugging him in your lap, running your fingers through his hair while trying to soothe his pain
- he loved seeing you take care of him so much that he literally got hurt more often??
- “Y/n I scraped my knee!”
- “Hehe I broke my leg-!”
- “I lost my other arm can you give me hugs and kisses?”
- so dramatic 🙄
- with that shrimp posture of his it’s no wonder he threw his back out
- have you seen the way this man walks during pre timeskip? 🦐🦐🦐🦐
- he stood up one day, already feeling uncomfortable tension in his lower back that day
- straightening his back pushed it, *crack*
- the way his eyes widened and he immediately just collapsed into the chair, struggling to support himself
- he’s usually very good with pain and has a super high tolerance, but why tf did this hurt so bad?!
- he knew he threw his back out- he specifically took steps to avoid this (minus fixing his posture)
- you walk in to see your poor lover struggling for his life
- he’s pretty much out of commission for the rest of the day.. So you mostly do everything for him (he’s not happy about this btw)
- “y/n, no you don’t have to hug me- I’m fine-!”
- “shut up and let me hug you.”
- “….fine.”
- “OW DONT SQUEEZE THAT HARD-!”
- lmao this poor guy
- he hates how you’re babying him all day, feels like he’s useless
- “Well I mean- you are.. But only for today!” -you
- “was that supposed to help me?”
- just cuddle him, he’ll start to calm down after a while lol 💀
- he’s like a pufferfish, he’ll deflate eventually 👍
- lifting 4099 lbs on a normal ass typical day 💀
- And then when he raised it over his head, he felt something snap in his back
- he grunted, falling backwards, the massive weight falling on top of his chest, trapping him underneath it
- literally choking on the weight while his back throbs 😭
- you’re struggling to kick 4099 pounds off this idiot
- “Y/n- *cough* it’s not that heavy!”
- “SHUSH.”
- Luffy had to come in and help you guys. He took about a minute or two to laugh first though
- “BAHAHAHAHA IT’S LIKE WHEN YOU GOT STUCK IN THE CHIMNEY!”
- *flashbacks*
- he’s literally running out of air pls 💀
- when he finally got out, he tried to stand up to get back to training, ignoring your protests
- “I’m fine! Just leave me be-“ *dies*
- literally on the floor in agony
- chopper comes over and gives him some patches while you let him rest his head in your lap
- ok he’s not happy about his back hurting.. but- if it means he gets to rest his head on your thighs? He’d hurt his back again if needed
- the soft flesh that cushioned his head was absolutely perfect, so much so that he wrapped his bulky arms around your torso as if telling you not to leave
- you both stayed there for the rest of the day while Zoro took the best nap of his life in your lap 💜
a/n - help I threw my back out once and I’m not even in my twenties yet 🫠
#one piece#one piece x reader#one piece hcs#anime hcs#trafalgar d water law#law one piece#law x reader#roronoa zoro#zoro x reader#law x y/n#zoro x y/n#zoro one piece#shanks x y/n#shanks x reader#shanks one piece#akagami no shanks#shanks#red haired shanks#shanks x you#zoro#straw hat pirates#worst generation#four emperors
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➡ nsfw. Demon! Roronoa Zoro x F! Reader x Sanji ~ Stay Away From The King of Hell ~
Hi guys! I wanted to write a little scenario and I ended up with an nsfw fic including Sanji into a bisexual fantasy 🤣 Also, my beautiful friend @the-witch-of-one-piece gave me the idea of making these demon! Zoro stories a serie! If you like the idea please tell me so I can keep writing them :3
tw: nsfw. Zosan action. dp. dom! demonic! Zoro. Sub! Reader. Sub! Sanji. Zoro is possessed so he will be acting like the devil, don't expect a romantic fic here :P
wc: 3.5k
He hasn’t been the same since Wano. Zoro has changed. None of you dared to say nothing, but every one of you noticed. A growing appetite for red meats… raw red meats. The bloodier, the better. Sanji is not trying to stop him any longer.
“What are we going to do?” every nakama ask when Zoro is taking one of his usual naps. Yet, things have changed there too… He only sleeps during the day and never during the nights.
“(Name), do you have any idea?” Nami asks you because you are Zoro’s predilect nakama. He has a special affinity for you, and you for him. Love? Yeah, maybe you two are in love. But Zoro doesn’t care. He protects you, yes. But he doesn’t care about the tags. Sex? Of course… but not since Wano.
Zoro has been avoiding sleeping next to you, touching, kissing, grazing you. And you been doing the same… all of you have. The image of his transformation still lingers your memories, from dying to that… thing. Feral, drooling, so ready to drink the blood of his enemies. Purple and green, he looked like the King of Hell…
Zoro is the King of Hell.
He grunts during his sleep, who knows against what he is fighting. Is that thing going to sprout from his insides once again? When you are asleep? During the day? During the night?
“You should go and talk to him, (Name)-chwan. You are the one who spoke to him the last time. I’ll be backing you up in case he goes feral” Sanji suggests, and he is right. The only voice able to calm him down was yours.
“Fine” you mumble, not sure. That man right there… is still your lover? Is Roronoa Zoro still? You take a look at his sleeping position against the mast of the Thousand Sunny Go as the Sun slowly hides over the horizon. His jaw tensed, his arms muscles spasming. His nails have grown slightly longer and now are carving in his own palms as he clenches his hands.
He has periods of normality, but usually he isolates himself. Away from you, from your crew. But for how long this situation will go on? It’s time to act.
An icy full moon shines now over a black firmament full of stars, and you, wary walk towards him. He is now awake, hands behind his head, his katanas on his right side (good sign) and steel eye fixed on the moon.
The sound of your steps over the deck alerts him, in a sudden and violent motion he looks at you and you freeze.
His aura it’s perceivable, more than always. Nobody has such an intimidating sight like him, and as now you all know, that aura comes from nothing else than a real demon.
You can feel Sanji’s flames igniting around his ankles at your back, yet he still says nothing. Normally, he would shout at him to stop but not now. The mission consists of talking to Zoro in the most peaceful way possible.
“Why are you coming, (Name)?” Zoro asks, once his sight has returned and fixed into the moon. “I- I miss you, Zoro” you mumble, because you do, and think that if you talk about your feelings he would somehow, treat you kindly.
“I told you not to come closer” Zoro grunts, the veins on his temple growing and pumping. “Oi Marimo…” Sanji grunts back, already losing the little patient he has left. How dare he speak like that to a woman?
“Cook, you too. Please” the green haired samurai says, surprisingly politely and trying to calm himself with all of his strength. Sanji’s brows twitch. That’s not how Zoro would normally talk to him, not even ask something with “please”.
You turn around to look at your blonde nakama, tears are flooding your eyes. “I’m sorry” Sanji mouths, and dares to place one of his hands on your shoulder. Wrong decision.
In less than a second, as fast as possible, even more than Sanji’s super speed, Zoro appears at your back. His eye fixes on Sanji’s hand and then into the blonde’s eye. You stay froze, eyes widened, a cold shiver running through your back. The tingling sound of Zoro’s sharp blades, and the draining effect of Enma could be felt on your and Sanji’s bodies.
You swallow, tilting your head to the side as Zoro’s big, veiny, calloused hand now rests on your free shoulder. Sanji’s blue visible eye holds a flame inside, and you could only think Zoro’s probably too.
“Sanji… why are you touching her?” Zoro whispers, holding a beast about to burst. Both, Sanji and you, gasp to hear Zoro naming him for the very first time. “Zoro… I was just comforting her. She wanted to talk to you, and you pushed her away” Sanji firmly, also naming him, says.
A silence, that seems eternal, you unable to move wait for the inevitable to happen in a matter of seconds. But none of them move, and it seems as if your body was the perfect shield, the only thing that was holding Zoro back.
But you were wrong and in a sudden motion, Zoro’s hand end up under your chin, squeezing your cheeks with his fingers. “You want to fuck her, don’t you?” he asks, completely unexpectedly. Zoro has never ever pronounced the world fuck in front of anybody, and you are sure not even in front of you either.
Sanji gets angrier and angrier, and he knows too well he could handle Zoro in his demon form just fine, but you are in the middle, and he has to protect you. “Marimo, stop this. Let her go, you are hurting her. You know that I’m not attacking you because she is in the middle” he says. “Let her go, now”.
“You haven’t answered yet. You wanna fuck her, Sanji?” Zoro asks again, pronouncing the chef’s name in a rather lustful tone. The green haired demon tilts your head to the side and licks in the most sinful possible way your cheek.
You react to his touch almost immediately, scared but so needy for it. “And I bet you want to fuck him, too… don’t you?” Zoro whispers into your ear, warmth breath, making your skin go all bumpy.
From Sanji’s nose, the most delicate little thin red line falls. Of course, this makes him aroused, but you seem to be in danger and inside him a storm of contradictions take place. “Let her go, Marimo” he screams, trying to kick him.
But your lips semi opened with ectasis expression, the teasing, even Zoro’s shameless speech is killing him, and he loses focus. So much he does, Zoro easily stops him from keep moving.
Enma’s edge to his neck, making his marked chin go up to avoid being beheaded. “Marimo… what…?” he stutters with a mix in between anger, hornyness and fright in his voice.
Zoro smirks and licks his upper lip. “Now you two are gonna get what you’ve been looking for. I told you not to come closer, and still you did. As the King I am you should comply” he states, passing his free hand now over your breasts.
You gasp and press your legs together; you need to give your throbbing sex some kind of release. You would lie if this weren’t something you have dreamt of many times but… is this moral? Is this safe?
“I can smell how wet you are from here, (Name)” Zoro mumbles, once again presenting beasty characteristics. “You want this, don’t you? Then turn around for your King, come on” he orders you and you do.
Sanji tries to tell you stop, but the metallic cold feeling of Enma’s blade on his Adam’s apple as it moves makes him shut up immediately.
Zoro’s hand land on Sandai Kitetsu that up until now was hanging from his hips so gracefully. “Marimo…” Sanji moans, this time he is really scared. “Shh I’m not gonna hurt her, just wanna get rid of those clothes”
Just the tip of his blade is enough to cut your shorts, shirt, and bra in the middle. Both pieces fall to the side exposing your whole anatomy to him. Your hands are behind your back, and your widened eyes express fear and lust.
Sanji’s nosebleed is now profuse, and that’s just more fuel to the flame.
“Sanji… you know how much I need blood, don’t you?” Zoro says, still with Enma to the cook’s neck and with a demonic expression. Sanji simply nods, barely moving any muscle and waits for the King of Hell’s next movement.
The little drops that fall from the blonde’s nose, trail a path from it towards his lips. Ferrous taste invading his mouth, inviting Zoro to drink from such ambrosia. “Stay still, Sanji” he commands, and the blade of his sword barely grazes the white skin up from his neck to his lips collecting drops of it in it.
Zoro takes Enma to his mouth, licking the blood off from it in the most lascivious imagery. “Zo-“ Sanji lips tremble, excitedly, horny? You don’t get exactly what’s going on and still rejoice on living it.
“Hah, they say princes have blue blood… but yours it’s so red and delicious” Zoro grunts, now taking his steely iris to yours. He is marking his next victim, and oh girl, your naked body in front of him it’s the one.
Your nipples get hard with the breeze of the night in the Grandline. Every nakama went to sleep as planned, you all needed full calm around Zoro in order to talk to him… but plans changed just a little…
“Come closer” the swordsman tells you, and as you do his mouth quickly land on your breasts. Sharp fangs, yet still human, nibble on your sensitive buttons. He pulls, bites and sucks. You whine, with your palm covering your mouth and closing your eyes as you feel despicable for enjoying this.
But Zoro is not ashamed, and nor seems Sanji. He sucks and fix his eye into his partner, showing him a lustful show and a bisexual fantasy. Will Sanji succumb to such thing? The Devil is known to tempt his victims and that’s exactly what Zoro is doing.
Zoro’s tongue sticked out plays with your nipple, the wind now freeze and make them even harder. Hard like Sanji’s crotch, hard, dripping, staining his black trousers with salty, sticky precum.
“Look at you, cook… so miserable” Zoro laughs, and moves Enma down indicating his friend to kneel on the deck of the Thousand Sunny go. “Come here crawling and undress me”.
You open your eyes, is this happening for real? Will Sanji comply to such orders?
And he does. You don’t know exactly if it’s just Zoro’s aura that’s able to make people move as he pleases or is that Sanji is really doing this because he wants it. But he does, and his skilful hands began unbuttoning Zoro’s green coat until the top half part of it hangs at each side of his hips.
Sanji’s pointy perfect nose barely graze Zoro’s hipbones, inhaling the scent of his caramel, covered in scars, skin. “Calm down, Sanji…” Zoro scolds him, as if he was lesser than a pet. Though Sanji seemed to be drooling over both of yours and Zoro’s half nudity.
“Let me ask you again, Sanji… Do you wanna fuck her?” Zoro asks, pushing the Germa prince, making him fall back on his ass. Sanji blinks, looking at him and then at you. “I- I…”
“Say you want it, Sanji-kun~” you moan, both because you want it and also because Zoro’s knee is playing in between your thighs now. “The little slut wants you, cook… come on”
Zoro turns you around and makes you walk towards the railing. “Arms on the rail, spread” he commands, using Sandai Kitetsu’s blade in between your legs. His heavy hand on your head, pulling from your hair to make you face him. “Are you gonna let the cook fuck you rough? Hm?” he asks, smirking and licking the commissure of his lips where a trail of Sanji’s dried blood rests.
You nod, panting as the excitement and exhilaration of this whole situation is making you act like a needy mess. “Good whore, serving your King as you should” he spits, putting your head down so your back arches and your ass ends lifted up.
Sanji still on the floor, startled to even say something look like a starving animal, drooling and needy to touch, to lick, to fuck you. “Come here, Sanji. Show me how you fuck her”
As fast as Zoro has said that to him, the cook is up walking towards you two to fulfil the duty of fucking you just as you asked him to. His soft, cared palms land on the small of your back and him, desperately, doesn’t even wait to undress he just lowers his zipper to stick himself inside you.
But the demon inside Zoro won’t let him do such terrible thing, oh no. And instead, Zoro wants to have a little bit more fun…
“As I thought, desperate. Cook, should I teach you how it’s done?” Zoro says, stopping Sanji as his arm passes from the back all across the cook’s belly. “Zoro- why?” Sanji pants and protests and lets you dripping wet as he hasn’t filled you up with his dick yet.
Zoro’s cynic laugh resonates in both of you. You are so drawn to touch yourself; you can’t take it anymore. “Look Sanji, look. Look how the whore is touching herself. She wants our dicks to fill her up” the swordsman whispers into Sanji’s ear, grazing it with his lips.
Sanji trembles, both because he wants to fuck you and because of the intense teasing, the sinful act of succumbing to a man’s touch. Him, Vinsmoke Sanji, a Casanova, getting harder because of a man doing that to him. What a contradiction, what a beautiful, libidinous temptation.
The blonde’s mind becomes blurry, he needs release, and the now drops of drools from Zoro’s bite on his neck ends up with him completely surrendered and whatever he wants to do with him.
Much to Sanji’s surprise, Zoro gently unbuttons his shirt as he asks for him to unbuckle his belt. “See her dripping cunt? She is getting off just by hearing us do this” he whispers, voice getting lower and raspier. And hell, Zoro is right. You can’t help but trace circles on your clit as you can barely see them so close, so lasciviously almost dancing with the other. What’s inside of Zoro is definitely changing everything, not only in between you two, but his whole relationship with his nakamas… specially with Sanji.
Zoro’s hardness pressed against the cook’s back. Calloused hands that now reach for white, scarless abs, go up and down. And Sanji’s nape rests on Zoro’s shoulder with his lips semi open, subdued to the most carnal desires.
“Give me your hand, cook” Zoro commands, and surrounding one of Sanji’s hands he takes it to his lower belly, going down in a painful slow-motion. “Zoro… please” Sanji begs, at this point he wants to be touched.
“Don’t rush, cook” the swordsman says, biting once again his neck this time feeling sharper than before. Zoro’s demon is blooming, manifesting in his physical traits… and none of you have a problem with it. The first time you saw that creature you didn’t thought it was horrible, but sexy, worthy of a dark God, hybrid human with a feral façade and attitude. Feral, scary, but absolutely irresistible.
Sanji’s hand with Zoro’s around it finally get to the prince’s throbbing shaft. The sticky wetness that has left the trousers of the cook damped bathe Zoro’s back of his hand. “Ah… Sanji…” he grunts, allowing the trousers that barely hang from Sanji’s prominent hipbones to slide down to the ground.
Exposed milky crotch, reddish, almost purple tip sprouting slippery arousal product. Fingers around his shaft, up and down, pumping together. Whet teeth carving marks on fair shoulders, making Sanji whine uncontrollably, with tears forming in the corner of his eyes.
“I’m gonna… cum” Sanji states, trembling, realizing Zoro has become fully transformed and even tiny horns have grown from his forehead. You on the verge of maybe the second orgasm already, have your sight fixed on them as they even haven’t noticed you are there.
“You are not cumming until I tell you so, Sanji. You, (Name) who told you to stop? Prepare your cunt we are gonna fuck you now” he conducts, and you, as fast as possible return to your position of hands on the rail and ass up for them.
Zoro stops jerking Sanji and makes him come closer to your entrance. “If you are gonna cum, you are gonna do it inside of her”. He doesn’t wait and guides his partner’s dripping dick inside of your clenching walls. You moan, loudly, causing your whines to be heard all over the Grandline vast ocean being plied by your ship.
“Sh, whore” Zoro let Sanji alone, who at this point is fucking you mercilessly. “Suck it” he commands, while the green robe ends up completely on the ground as well as his black pants. His hardness so tempting, multiplied by the effect of black patterns drawn over his skin, specially from his hip bones down.
You receive his sex in your mouth, allowing to be choked with salty delight sprouting from it. Thrusts at your back, thrusts on your mouth, pulling from your hair, and Sanji’s nails carving at each side of your glutes. Breaking you in half, the wings of the Pirate King destroy you. Your legs turn weaker and weaker. Almost impossible to stay standing, your knuckles become white from how hard you are gripping to the railing not to fall.
When Sanji show inevitable signs of bursting, Zoro who hasn’t ever stopped fucking your mouth snatches the blonde’s cheeks. “Look at your face, little whore” he smirks, enjoying the rapt expressions of Sanji’s upcoming orgasm.
A moan ripped from his throat, breathed into Zoro’s mouth as he bites the cook’s pinkish juicy lips. A moan followed by yours, feeling so full of Sanji’s release you also cum moaning around Zoro’s hard shaft.
“Good you too, but it’s not the end… who should I fuck first?”
Pushing Sanji back, making his cum drip from your entrance through your thighs and into the floor, Zoro turns you around. You gasp, still trembling for the past orgasm. The look into his eyes have changed even more, and the steel colour of his irises is covered by a purple gaze.
“Zoro…” you stutter. “King of Hell, little whore” he corrects you and lifts you up sitting you on the rail. Dangerously balancing yourself your legs surround his waist and your hands grab his little horns. “Hah, the whore found a good use for these” he laughs, looking up towards his little sprouting protrusions.
He doesn’t wait and impales you, even if your overly sensitive entrance would use some rest, he won’t give you the pleasure to do so. His hips, strong and merciless move in and out of you, and his sharp teeth graze your lips painfully making them bleed a little.
The ferrous taste of your red vital fluid makes him even feral, and you feel as if your insides are being ripped. But you don’t care, you want more, more and more. You want that beast to go in so deep, deepest every time. You look at the muscles of his body tense, his mandible, the perfection of the scar crossing his chest tensing too.
A quick look at the side towards the man who had just fucked you some minutes ago gives you the imagery of a blond already hard again, jerking him off, fixing his sight in the way Zoro fucks you and you enjoy being impaled.
“Sanji, little whore, come here” Zoro manages to say, in between guttural demonic grunts and sweaty temples. And Sanji, as if he knew exactly what his friend wanted comes closer to you too. You open your eyes and look at them kiss in the most passionate, lecherous way. It makes you wanna join, and so you do, slowly but surely.
Three tongues dancing with each other, strings of saliva forming in between them, the most sinful attitude, worthy of the very King and vassals of hell.
“Fuck her too, stretch this cunt with me” Zoro commands his friend and so that’s what the blonde does. Zoro walks a little back so Sanji can fit in between you and the railing and when it’s all set his dick slides inside you. It stretches you to no extent, the grazing of both of them sexes inside you, pumping in and out in unison. Sanji’s little whines on your ear, Zoro’s grunt on your lips…
Trembling, coming. Coming them too, your uterus full of their releases. Your skin with marks, scratches of Zoro’s longer nails, the dried blood of your bitten lips… Let’s descend to hell and never come back…
“That’s why I told you to stay away from me, (Name), Sanji… I haven’t still tamed my demon… and it’s so hungry”
“Let us help you to do so, Zoro…” ~
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A Child’s Understanding Final
(previous)
Sabo led them to the well in the middle of the town, deciding it was more practical to wait there instead of lurking in front of the Yew. While Honyo collapsed and became a lump on the side of the well the boys worked on drawing up some water. The cicadas’ symphony rose with the tidal wave of silence. A gentle breeze wafted by, breaking the almost stagnating heat pouring from overhead.
It was almost a perfect summer day.
Honyo sniffled, dragging the back of her hand across her face over and over again. It was useless though. No matter how many times she did it there were always more tears that would appear to replace the other ones. The anger smoldering within was cooling, but in the wake of its absence was a queasy feeling that hurt just as much as the throbbing in her head did. The cut on her head had swelled into a sizable, tender lump now.
She glanced back at the Yew. It was a good thing poppop had showed up. Those shitty adults hadn’t been taking her seriously even though she had shown them she could understand the things they said. Hopefully poppop would succeed where she had failed and get those assholes to take back the things they said.
The bucket hit the lip of the well with a dull thud as it was hauled up. Sabo pulled out a spare kerchief and dunked it inside. He wrung it out and crouched, gently tilting her head, and began dabbing at the cut. Ace sat beside her when she winced, slipping his hand into hers.
She thought, again, of how much she liked his hands. They were rough from years of hard work and training combined, covered in scars and scabs. His knuckles were scraped, red, from where he had bludgeoned the man with the oversized bow tie. They weren’t strangers to a fight and were capable of great feats of strength. But even for as rough and powerful as his hands were, they were also incredibly gentle things. How anyone could hate them― how anyone could hate the boy that they belonged to ―she just didn’t understand.
“What were you thinking?”
Honyo blinked, pulling her face from Sabo’s grasp to look at Ace, her good eye growing large. Ace was scowling.
“Why did you start a fight with them? And by yourself! I know you’re strong, but even you couldn’t hold out against all of them. And they hurt you because of m―” He choked. “Because you―”
His face twisted something awful then. The corners of his mouth twitched as he fought to keep a wobbly frown from fully taking over, settling on a grimace, teeth clenched in frustration. Thick brows bunched together. Dark eyes shined, pained.
A lump formed in her throat the same time warm, fresh tears blurred her vision again.
“It’s not fair!” Honyo exclaimed. Her lower lip trembled. “Adults always think they know better so that means they can say whatever they want and not deal with the consequences. They said such awful things that hurt you and yet you’re just supposed to accept it? We’re all supposed to just accept it? That’s not fair at all!”
“You’re right. He shouldn’t have to just accept it. No one should.” Sabo agreed solemnly. He placed a hand on her shoulder. “But you heard what they were saying about Roger. About his family. Ace has to hear stuff like that all the time and keep moving forward anyway, or else the world will know about him and they won’t let him be until he’s gone. It shouldn’t be like that at all! But unless someone changes how things are run then we’re all stuck dealing with this shit called the justice system.”
“They’re wrong though! They’re wrong be-because Ace is good and kind and― and is so warm, l-like the sun! And the sun isn’t bad because it brings life!” She was sobbing now, wringing the boy’s hand with both of hers. Thoughts continued to tumble out rapidly as she repeated herself with desperation. “You deserve to live! You deserve it, you deserve it, you deserve it! And I’m glad you’re alive!”
Ace shook. He was being twisted and pulled in all sorts of directions, the heart beating within him, the heart so many claimed belonged to a demon, growing warmer and warmer as Honyo laid her own heart out. It was impossible to see clearly anymore.
He reached out, wrapping his arms around small shaking shoulders, and touched his forehead against hers.
Hot droplets pattered against her lap. And then a sniffle reached her ears. A shudder ran through Ace.
‘Oh…’ Ace was crying.
Her arms wound around him, grabbing fistfuls of his shirt, tightly hugging him back.
“Thank you,” came a very wet whisper. “Thank you.”
Behind them Sabo smiled, scrubbing his eyes before throwing himself onto the sobbing pile. They all went tumbling with a shriek―
That went on much longer than any of the children actually screamed for. A crash resounded from the bar and seconds later the balding man with the bowler hat scrambled outside, throwing the doors open with so much force they bounced off the walls more than once. Bowler hat guy managed to trip his way down the steps before the rest of his group came stumbling after like newborn colts. They ran over each other in their haste to get away from the man calmly strolling out after them.
“Have a nice day gentlemen,” Shin called, waving and smiling pleasantly. “And do consider never coming back.”
The children stared at him, two in utter disbelief and the other with stars in her teary eyes.
“Honyo?” Sabo slowly detached himself from the pile.
“Yeah?”
“Remind me to never get on your dad’s bad side.”
Ace nodded in agreement, helping her sit up. “Seconded.”
Shin turned towards them, his cold smile warming up instantly. He continued walking in his easy going manner until he reached them. “All settled!” he cheered. “You kids won’t have anything to worry about from them ever again.”
He crouched, cupping his daughter’s face once more to examine the cut. Satisfied that it didn’t appear too grievous― she’d be smarting for a while for sure, and he wouldn’t take his eyes off her anytime soon just to be safe ―he pinched her cheek with a small sigh.
“Bean, I know you meant well, but please, be more careful next time you decide to start a brawl in a bar.”
Honyo nodded and swiped at her tears with the back of her hand again.
“That being said, I’m proud of you.” A large grin lit up his face. He ruffled her hair while casually looking over the boys. “That goes for all of you. You kids really know how to put the fear of god into a bunch of grown men!”
Shin laughed, the sound loud and comforting, as he scooped all three of them into his arms. They yelped and giggled at suddenly being squished together and for a moment the air was filled with nothing but glee. When the laughter began dying down Shin pressed his forehead against Ace’s crown, merely humming in response when he looked up in an unspoken question.
“Now, let’s get you guys home,” Shin stood, swinging the kids around once before setting them down again. “So we can tell everyone about Bean’s first bar fight!”
“Yeah!” they cheered.
Warm fingers tangled with her own. Honyo glanced down at the hand that was only just a little bigger holding onto hers, then up at a very freckled face. That smile was bright, like looking into the sun. Her chest fluttered, losing her heart, in a heartbeat. She quickly looked back down and pretended to not notice the fire consuming her face.
He squeezed her and she couldn’t help but grin.
Yeah. She really liked his hands best of all.
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Bonus:
“You got into a bar fight? And I missed it?!” Zoro’s spoon clattered into his bowl with a heavy plop, sending soup splashing in every direction.
Beside him Luffy pulled at his hair with a despairing wail. “I was fixing the turnips when I coulda watched Honyo trash a buncha geezers! Turnips!”
Chante placed a bowl in front of him and gave him an unimpressed look. “I wouldn’t call eating half the row ‘fixing’ it niño. And tomorrow you’re gonna fix the carrots. Teach you to slingshot yourself near the garden again, huh.”
She glanced at the three troublemakers wolfing down their food, running a worried eye over Honyo’s bruised face and Ace’s red rimmed eyes. Her gaze drifted towards Shin, who absently wiped at Luffy’s face― seriously, she just gave the kid food, how was he so messy already? ―and let out a short, quiet sigh. The kids only gave her a very slimmed down version of the story, enough so that she at least got the gist of what happened, but she was going to have to press Shin for more details later.
“What even was the fight about?” Adri asked around a mouthful of spoon.
Sabo and Ace traded looks before shrugging. Honyo frowned at her soup.
“Some worthless adults said some worthless things,” Sabo answered, nonchalant.
“I still didn’t get that guy to take back what he said,” Honyo muttered.
“Didn’t need to hear him say it.” She tilted her head, looking up at Ace. His hand landed on her head and mussed it playfully. “There were better things to be heard from better people afterwards anyway.”
And with that a large grin split across his face.
#scribe's work#{ficlet: A Child's Understanding}#aldfjksjf#i'm so sorry i took forever to conclude this#hooray for happy ends tho!#feel like i could have wrapped it up better but ya know#just trying to be glad i finished it at all asjflsdjfld
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Prompt suggestion: near death experience and/or accidentally hurting one of your friends? (sorry, I like pain)
I wrote this out in a possessed state and it has not been proofread and came out less angsty than I thought it would but here, have some Sanji with guilt issues over Zoro being reassured by Luffy and a half-dead moss ball
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Okay? (ao3)
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He didn’t mean. Sanji swears he didn’t mean to. It was just a normal argument, like they always have, in the midst of battle maybe but he didn’t mean to.
He didn’t mean to kick Zoro into the path of a bullet he couldn’t dodge (his blind spot, Zoro had one of those now).
He didn’t mean for Zoro to start dying.
But here Sanji was, in the midst of battle, crewmate struggling to climb to his feet as Sanji made his way over. There was a hole in Zoro’s chest, pierced straight through, dangerously near where Sani’s minimal medical knowledge told him the heart was. The lungs were.
(Maybe it had pierced them. Maybe this was a hallucination made of grief. Maybe Zoro was already a dead man walking.)
Blood, viscous red and fatal, was soaking Zoro’s shirt as he used Kitetsu’s hilt to hoist himself up. His face was focused, as if he lost concentration for even a moment he would lose something dear. Sanji could see how white his knuckles were as they gripped the sword, the squint of his eyes as he told his dumb sword to suck it up, the way his other had pressed to his chest but came away red –
Zoro had survived worse (Kuma-) but this was bullets and vital parts.
“ZORO!” Sanji shouted, dodging under a swinging sword and leaping over another. “GET UP!”
Because if Zoro could get up, he wouldn’t be dying.
(He was standing at Thriller Bark when Sanji found him. It didn’t stop his heart from stopping three times.)
“Shut up shitty-cook! I’m fine! Focus on your own battle!”
Ah.
Panic over.
Sanji didn’t mean it, and Zoro isn’t dying, and Zoro’s okay, which means he can go back to being Marimo and Sanji can go back to worrying about his own self.
-
Zoro is not fine because he managed to get kicked by Sanji into the path of the one bullet in the entire goddamn battle covered in poison, and is now pale and half-dead in the infirmary while Chopper tries to save him.
So Sanji didn’t mean it, Zoro’s dying anyway, his nakama are worried and Luffy hasn’t left Zoro’s side since he collapsed on the battlefield and carried him to the infirmary.
The crew doesn’t know who pushed Zoro away, held down his swords with a leg so he could yell in his face, who let him get shot then was stupid enough to get separated from him in the midst of battle.
So he sits there, a pile of ashes at his feet from the cigarettes he has been through in the past three hours, while guilt threatens to eat him from the inside out.
Sanji can’t stop thinking about it, despite Nami muttering things next to his ear, despite Robin rubbing a calming hand on his back, despite Usopp telling everyone that Zoro’s going to be okay (he’s a liar, can’t he know that that’s not going to reassure anyone?) despite Brook’s humming and Franky’s tinkering as they wait for news. He can’t stop thinking about it – the way the bullet entered and exited in a moment, the way blood started soaking the stupid hamaraki the idiot insists on wearing, the way there was so much blood, not as much as Thriller Bark but Thriller Bark hadn’t left bloody handprints on Wado Ichimonji had it?
There’s a rustle and a click at the infirmary door, and Sani would laugh at how they all stumbled up if his hands and heart weren’t shaking so bad.
Chopper walks out, small and quiet. There’s a smudge of red on his face, but no one mentions it. He takes a breath before speaking, as if he needed all the strength in the world to keep him going.
“Zoro… Zoro should be okay. He’s lost a lot of blood and I’m worried about how his body will react to the components of the poison because they tend to cause …” The rest of it’s a bunch of gibberish to Sanji, smart as he is he can’t compare to Chopper’s medical know how, but he gets it, the Moss-head should be okay.
(Should.)
It doesn’t stop the guilt from welling up though – the crews not curious as to how it happened, but the knowledge wails behind Sanji’s lips like a starving wolf screeching to get out.
Oh hell.
He has to tell Luffy.
(He can’t keep secrets like this from his Captain – not after Whole Cake.
Secrets cause his captain to go to drastic measures and he can’t have that.)
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Sanji’s the last one to visit Zoro (and Luffy) in the infirmary. The moment Chopper was done with his spiel, he had disappeared to the kitchen, to rustle up dinner for the crew and a snack for the captain.
(He doesn’t eat as much when his nakama are hurt and its quiet on the ship)
It’s quiet when he pads in, his shoes too loud in the soft silence of the room. Zoro’s pale, but not bloody any more, and his breathing is steady judging by the up and down motion of the straw hat laid like crown on his chest.
The owner of the straw hat sits at the head of the bed, next to Zoro’s head, a hand trailing in green hair as he murmurs senseless things.
Sanji can’t help but feel as if he has intruded on something private and secret (something he is undeserving of, he hurt Zoro, his nakama oh god - ) but he has to tell his Captain or else he has no place on this ship, this crew.
“Captain.” He addresses Luffy, slowing the stream of words trailing from said captain’s mouth.
“Sanji? Did you bring food?” As a matter of fact, he did (a peace offering for a battle Luffy didn’t know was coming), a plate stacked high with meat buns. “Yum!”
“Captain.” Sanji tries again, and this time Luffy listens. He gets it, now that he’s not thing with his stomach. He knows this is serious.
“Yeah?”
“I pushed Zoro into the bullet.” The truth slips out like poison
But Luffy doesn’t do anything but hum. “I know.”
“What?”
“I saw it happen. It’s okay.”
“No it isn’t! I did this! I hurt him! I damn-near killed him! He might die even now! How can it be okay?”
Are his hands shaking?
“Zoro isn’t going to die. He promised. Its okay. Because Sanji and Zoro are nakama, and nakama don’t hurt nakama, not on purpose.”
“But I- “ Oh god was he crying? He was crying.
Since when did he care about the shit-swordsman this much? Why did Luffy not seem to care? He hurt Zoro –
“I hurt him.”
“You didn’t mean to.”
“That doesn’t change what I did!”
In an instant, Luffy is up and out of his place besides Zoro, grasping Sanji’s shoulders in that reckless, confidant way of his. “No. It doesn’t. But it’s okay. You learn, right? Stop feeling guilty. You’re okay.”
“But-“
A groan came from Sanji’s right, and grey eyes peeked open. This interruption thing is becoming a problem. “Oi.” Zoro’s voice says, hoarse but convicted. “Shut up. Captain said its okay. I say its okay. Fuck off and stop your tears.”
Oh god, he’s going to kick him off the ship into a (safe, this time,) patch of sea once Chopper gives him the clear.
Still.
“See? Even Zoro agrees. You guys were fighting but that’s okay. You learn!”
“Ero-cook.” Mosshead pipes in. “You’re an ass but we’re nakama. Suck it up. Stop taking shit for yourself, I should have been able to deflect that bullet.”
Sanji opens his mouth with another protest, the ugly guilt seeping into his stomach like the red in Zoro’s bandages but this time they don’t even let him speak.
“Sit. Eat.” It looks like it phsycially pains Luffy to stay that. “We forgive you.”
Ah.
The tension in Sanji’s shoulder’s bleeds out. He’s forgiven, even if he hasn’t said sorry yet.
He takes a bite of the food he brought for his Captain, watched under Zoro and Luffy’s careful eyes, before Luffy goes back to murmuring to Zoro. Sanji lets himself breathe, without his lungs constricting for once with terrible guilt (he hurt him) and settles in the quiet comfort.
Maybe it is okay.
(Sanji still fights with Zoro in battle – its them, and it’ll probably never really change. But now he gives a little easier, allows Zoro to shove him back instead of the opposite, allows himself to take the risk instead of Zoro. He gives Zoro extra helpings of booze the following dinners, and in the secret dark spaces of the men’s cabin, helps Zoro rebandage the wounds without Chopper finding out.
(Zoro asks Sanji for help improving his observation haki, to cover what can’t be seen by a missing eye.
He too is not going to let it happen again.)
It’s not much. But neither of them had been men for words and servitude had always been Sanji’s form of apology.
It’s okay, he’s learned.
It’s okay.)
#aka the closest thing to zosan ill probs be able to write because I can't get their dynamic down fuck#anyway hope you enjoy!!! <3#zosan#I guess???#roronoa zoro#zoro#sanji#luffy#monkey d. luffy#straw hat pirates#zolu#because they are soft#whirlyanswers#whirlywrites#whirlywhat#junemel#I had so much more pain to put in lol#it didn't flow right tho#it still doesn't but like I said possessed state
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liar, liar
a post-apocalyptic au. inspired by this art. ao3
Zoro’s a goddamn liar.
That’s what he is.
Sanji distantly realizes that it could’ve been his last words. Zoro’s a goddamn liar, that is. Not that he’d be able to say it out loud, considering his lungs feel like it’s submerged in water. He doesn’t think he got a punctured lung — the bite was nowhere near his chest, if he recalls correctly — but what does he know about zombie science, really. For all he knows, people’s lungs do get submerged in water — or blood, if you’re feeling grotesque — before getting turned.
And the point is. The point is. Zoro’s a goddamn liar are some pretty good last words, if he could ever say them.
Because it’s the truth. Sanji remembers it clearly, as clear as a day, although days are rarely clear in this time of age. Sanji walking through deserted cities, fighting off those creatures, and seeing Zoro — like the fucking primitive he was, killing zombies with a goddamn sword.
What kind of lame ass hair color is green, he remembers that being the first things he told Zoro. In his defense, he hadn’t talked to another human being in three whole months that day — forgive him for forgetting a little bit manners.
Any attempt at formality would’ve been thrown out of the window anyways as soon as Zoro turned to him, smirked, and replied with, says the one with swirly eyebrows.
They had become enemies, then. But they had also become something else.
They travelled together since, because Zoro might be annoying and troublesome and downright infuriating , but he was also human . And that was a personality trait that was getting rarer and rarer, these days.
Sanji’s getting sidetracked though. He’s not trying to be sentimental, but it’s kind of hard not to, considering he’s slowly losing blood, feeling his focus slips as the blood from his bite wound drips onto the ground beneath them, a slow yet steady, drip, drip, drip . Bite wounds from these creatures can’t be fully closed up by any human means, and fucked if Sanji knows why.
He buries his face into the back of Zoro’s neck and finds enough strength to say, “you fucking liar.”
Zoro ignores him, opting to continue to trudge across the city. Where the directionless oaf is going, Sanji couldn’t care less. Not that he expects Zoro to be able to find whatever he’s looking, anyway. If Sanji weren’t carried in a stupid piggyback ride, he would’ve kicked the moss brain in the head for wasting his time. “We had a deal,” he rasps.
Sanji closes his eyes, mind returning to the day they first met once again. Of Zoro, blood on his sword, in his eyes. As their arguments subsided, the swordsman’s expression turned serious, and he pointed his sword at Sanji as he said —
“‘If you turn into a zombie, I won’t hesitate to kill you in a second’,” Sanji says, words echoing the Zoro in his memory.
Zoro visibly stiffens at the words.
“What are you waiting for?” Sanji plows on, his grips on Zoro’s shoulders tighten. “I’m going to turn anytime now. What happened to our deal? You promised you’d kill me, you goddamn liar —”
“Shut up!” Zoro suddenly yells, and the rest of Sanji’s sentences dies in his lips.
Zoro’s words echo throughout the empty streets. Sanji could feel the arms carrying him begin to tremble, and he isn’t sure if it’s only because Zoro’s tired.
And fuck, Zoro must’ve been exhausted right now. He’s been carrying Sanji’s bleeding ass for hours now, running away from those creatures at times because both of his hands are too occupied to fight back. Too occupied hauling Sanji’s useless, dying body because he’s a lying liar who lies.
They had become enemies quickly, Sanji remembers. But they had become quicker friends.
(And somewhere along the way, they had become something else —)
Sanji lifts his hand, slowly, and runs it through Zoro’s hair. It’s surprisingly soft, delicate strands brushing against his fingers, and Sanji suddenly wishes he had more time — to be with Zoro, to get to know him more. To figure out this side of him that doesn’t clash against Sanji, the side that keeps them returning to each other. There’s something, threatening to burst against his ribcage, but it’s too late now. Everything is too late.
“Zoro,” he says, and this time he doesn’t raise his voice. Softly, almost like a whisper. “You have to let me go.”
He can feel Zoro’s grips on his legs tighten at that, his whole body going rigid. When Zoro speaks up, it’s a broken, “No.”
Stubborn oaf. You’re killing yourself, Sanji thinks. He tries a different approach. “If I was in your place, I would’ve killed you.”
“No,” Zoro repeats, surer this time. “You wouldn’t.”
Sanji wouldn’t. They both know that.
A pair of bleeding hearts, aren’t they. Liars and over-sentimental bastards. Sanji could laugh at the irony if his heart doesn’t feel like breaking inside his chest.
There’s silence, for a moment, as Zoro continues to carry Sanji to god-knows-where. They’re usually good with silences, not needing a word to communicate to one another, but for once the silence is suffocating, thick with uncertainty.
Sanji shifts in Zoro’s hold, uneasy, and Zoro glances back. “You’re feeling uncomfortable, Cook?”
Uncomfortable. Zoro’s actually concerned that Sanji’s uncomfortable . “I’m fucking dying, Zoro. Being uncomfortable is the least of my concerns right now —”
“You’re not going to die,” Zoro cuts, flatly. “I’m going to find you a doctor, and you’re not going to die.”
Sanji huffs, skeptical. “Where are you going to find us a doctor?”
“I know this kid. From, you know — before,” he says vaguely, but Sanji understands what he means. Before the virus outbreak. Before the world fell into chaos. Before. “His name’s Chopper. Real smart kid, was one of the youngest to be on this research team.”
“How could a neanderthal like you get to know this kid?” Sanji couldn’t help commenting, and Zoro turns his head to glare at him.
“Shut up. Like you’re a genius,” he replies lamely. “Anyway, I remember him talking about the virus, long before it was known. Like, he knew this was gonna happen. But more importantly, he talked about vaccines, too. Cures.”
Sanji tries not to pay much mind on Zoro’s story — there’s no proof at all that there’s a cure out there, much less that this Chopper kid is the one who found it. The kid could be dead, for all they know. But Sanji can’t help the familiar feeling of hope, unfurling inside his ribcage.
Sanji doesn’t believe in tall tales and empty hopes, but — he realizes with a start — he believes in Zoro. It’s the only thing he could believe in, after all.
“I’ll keep my end of the deal if you keep yours,” Zoro suddenly says.
Sanji frowns, for once unsure what the mosshead means. “Huh?”
“When we met,” Zoro says. “I told you, if you turn into a zombie, I’d kill you. And you said —”
Sanji remembers Zoro, pointing his bloodied sword at him. Remembers taking a long drag on his cigarette, smirked, and said —
“‘I wouldn’t turn into a shitty zombie’,” he says, repeating what his past self have said.
Zoro nods. “Keep that end of that deal, then, shit cook,” he says. “Or you’re a fucking liar.”
“That’s not how this works,” Sanji says, but he’s disagreeing for contrary’s sake. Zoro is clinging to his life like a stubborn kid, hands clasping tight, unwilling to part with the things he loves. And what an experience it is, to be loved so fiercely by this man. Sanji needs more time, to figure out his own feelings, to respond in kind.
So he wraps his arms around Zoro’s neck, holding onto him. “Don’t get lost on the way to the doctor, then.”
He can feel Zoro’s posture relaxing, his steps still heavy, but less so. “I never got lost, shit cook.”
What a fucking liar. “I’m going to live,” Sanji says instead, gritting his teeth against the pain.
“You better fucking be, or I’ll kill you,” Zoro says, and his words barely make sense, but Sanji hears the truth in between those lies anyways. Live.
And Sanji will. He has a promise to keep, after all. And he’s no goddamn liar.
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Mixed Up 22 | I Don’t Want to Die (In the Hospital) |
Chapter Word Count: 6106
Pairings: Zoro/Sanji
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Chapter Warnings: Strong Language
Previous Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
Next Chapter: 23
The first time he dyed his hair was with cheaply bought store dye that didn’t last for very long and almost washed out completely after the first rinse. He had surprised everyone in the house he was living in at the time when he emerged from the bathroom with badly bleached, splotchy looking green hair. He remembers how Kuina had first looked envious, and then laughed outright at him. He’d been proud of his first attempt, but the shit she gave him for it wounded him. Not that he’d ever let her know, though; he’d merely accused her of being jealous and found out that he was right. She was, so she then demanded he go with her so she could pick out some cool hair colour of her own.
They didn’t do any research into which brand of dye was the best, but they picked up a different brand than the one he’d used originally after the results he got were far from optimal. He bought himself another bottle of a similar looking green, and when they got back home they dyed each other’s hair, laughing at one another for the way they looked while they waited for it to set. When it was done, Zoro’s hair was a solid, definite green and Kuina’s was a deep, dark blue that matched her eyes well.
He never did outgrow that colour. That perfect, absolute shade of green.
“You could lay down on the lawn and lose your hair in the grass,” Kuina had once said.
His hair was fading; he’d been in the hospital for too long.
Not only were his roots beginning to come in, adding a layer of dark soil for his blades of green hair to sprout from, but it’d been almost two weeks since he’d last dyed it. It was fading horribly, leaving him with the same look and quality he’d had when he’d first tried to dye it. One of his nurses (who had green hair of her own) kept making snide remarks about it, but the pain killers his doctor had him on and the fact that he was still pretty much bedridden prevented him from getting rightfully angry with her.
He could do little more than flip her off whenever she came to check in on him and taunt him with how brilliant her hair looked.
It’d been four days since the accident, and all Zoro really wanted to do was go home, drink a beer or six, and get Nami to help him re-dye his hair. Four days, and the doctor who’d removed his eye wanted to keep him there for who knew how much longer.
It didn’t make sense to him; they’d already explained how he would need to begin to care for his injury post-release, and even had a prescription written up for him for when he was able to go home- which they’d originally said he could do yesterday. The only reason they were keeping him hostage in the hospital was because those fucking painkillers they had him on made him too nauseous to leave his room. His only relief from the boredom and the irritating pain in his eye came in the form of visitors.
His whole team had come once, the day after the accident. They’d crowded the room and gave him a duffel bag filled with the things he’d left in his locker the day before and presented a huge, handmade ‘get well soon’ card to display by his bed. Even his coach had come with them, but he didn’t have any words to share with Zoro. They spoke of general things in an effort to keep the atmosphere light, but it eventually degraded into tearful apologies from those who had been on the ice with him when he’d been attacked and done nothing to help him. Zoro found it embarrassing, and so was quick to forgive them.
No one from his team had come back after the first initial visit, but he hadn’t really expected them to.
Nami came every day, but only stayed long enough to relay how Chopper was doing in her care and how work was going and who was giving his students lessons in his absence.
“It’s actually kind of cool to see Franky playing again, but he’s worried about you; we all are,” she’d said to him once, sighing melodramatically as she leaned over the railing of his bed.
“I’m fine,” he’d said, rolling his eye. “It’s just one eye; not like I went blind. I still have a backup.”
“Idiot! That’s not why we have two eyes!”
She’d made to hit him then, but showed enough self-restraint to keep it gentle. Their conversation had stalled out for a minute then as she somberly tried to avoid looking at the bandages across his face. She’d directed her attention to the small TV that was in the room Zoro shared with another man who also had severe facial injuries. The TV was locked on a channel that only aired soap operas, which had made her laugh at first but was now almost sort of comforting to her.
“I’ve been trying to get Sanji to come see you,” she’d said then, eyes flicking to the man who was happily watching the silent drama unfold on the television screen. “I don’t know what his deal is. He was so worried about you, but now it’s almost as if he’s afraid to see you.”
“I don’t need that idiot around here,” Zoro had said. “I’ve already got to deal with him.”
Zoro tilted his head towards his roommate, who’d turned a dumb smile onto the two of them that only Nami returned.
The man’s name was Duval, and he had, in both Zoro and Nami’s opinion, a rather uncanny resemblance to Sanji from what they could see around his bandages. His injuries were a result from what he’d called a ‘hate crime’ that had been committed against him because he was, in his own words, ‘too beautiful’.
“My looks sometimes make men act irrational with jealousy,” he’d explained on the first day that Zoro had been moved into the semi-private room with him. “It was a hate crime! The man’s girlfriend found my beauty too irresistible! He became enraged when he saw her talking with a man far more gorgeous than he, and yet he says I am to blame for flirting with her! I have no control over the way I look and how it makes women flock to me!”
Duval’s attitude and looks had reminded Zoro far too much of Sanji, but despite what he’d told Nami the day before, he did find that he almost sort of missed the bastard.
There was no one else in his life that could match his wits or rise to the physical challenges he issued. Johnny and Yosaku came close, but they were push overs and drug peddlers who only really chummed up to him so he’d buy their product.
Tashigi had filled that spot for him years earlier, but after the breakup-
No, fuck- he wasn’t going to think about her now.
Scowling, he turned his attention away from the TV he’d been mindlessly eyeballing and towards the various ‘get well soon’ cards and gifts he’d been sent during his time at the hospital. Stacked on the small bedside table was the huge card that had been signed by all his hockey teammates, and that one was surrounded by a few smaller ones that had come from his coworkers and students. Zoro didn’t care much for sentimentality, but if he were being honest, the card he’d received from Tony was his favourite.
The kid had neat handwriting, but his penmanship evidently didn’t transfer into his artistry, for the drawing he’d included of Zoro and him performing on stage together was shaky and scrunched up and overall very odd looking. The card itself didn’t tell him that Tony hoped his recovery was quick and painless, but instead included a rather thinly veiled threat that Zoro was certain the child’s grandmother had told him to write, as it said: ‘Don’t break your promise to me or else!’
If the doctors didn’t release him in time for the Solstice show, Zoro swore he was just going to walk out. Not that he hadn’t already tried that, but his attempt before had been so pitiful he didn’t think it’d work again unless he had some sort of help.
It was his legal right to leave the hospital if he were well enough to do so, wasn’t it?
And as much as his nurse Monet hated him, she wasn’t likely to help him slip out unnoticed. Zoro figured she enjoyed making his stay at the hospital as shitty as she could make it as much as he enjoyed making her job as hard to do as he possibly could. He’d even tried asking Nami once to help bust him out, but had gotten so severely reprimanded by her that he’d nearly decided to give up on escaping altogether.
That is, until Thursday came around and his way out appeared.
On the fifth day of his hospitalization, Sanji finally came to visit.
The door to Zoro’s room was closed when Sanji finally found it. The nurse that was working the station on the floor, though beautiful, had been entirely unhelpful in directing Sanji to the right room. As soon as he’d mentioned Zoro’s name to her, her demeanor switched from flirty to frosty before he could even finish blinking the hearts out of his eyes.
“Oh, that guy is somewhere on my floor. Down that hall somewhere taking up space,” she’d said icily, gesturing vaguely down the hall. Then she’d turned her back to him and proceeded to ignore him until he left.
He’d then spent the greater part of half an hour uneasily poking his head into various rooms to try and find where Zoro was being kept. Sanji hadn’t told Nami he was coming to visit, otherwise he would have asked her for his room number, but he’d been avoiding her the past few days. She’d been pressuring him so much to come that it had begun to make him feel uncomfortable whenever he caught her outside of his complex.
That, coupled with the guilt of knowing just made it seem… wrong, he supposed. Even if no one else blamed him, Sanji knew to blame himself. It had taken him days to work through the guilt and reason that, even if it was his fault, he should at least acknowledge what had happened to the man. He needed to see for himself the extent of the damage he’d caused, though he doubted very much that Zoro would want to see him.
The look on Zoro’s face when Sanji stepped through the door did little to change that feeling.
There was a huge, fierce scowl deeply embedded on his face that almost made Sanji turn around and leave until he realized that it wasn’t being directed at him. Zoro was sat upright in his bed with his arms crossed tight across his chest, frowning at the wall-mounted TV. When Sanji looked at it, he saw that it was airing some sort of drama that had apparently just reached a pivotal point in the story.
“No! How could she do that to him!?”
Surprised by the outburst, Sanji hadn’t realized Zoro was sharing a room with someone else until the other man burst out into emotional tears.
He turned to look at Zoro with a startled expression on his face before he took off the beanie and winter coat he’d been wearing.
“This,” Zoro said, gritting his teeth and finally turning to address Sanji. “This is what I have been dealing with for five fucking days.”
Sanji couldn’t help but smirk, relieved to see at least that the injury hadn’t changed Zoro’s attitude much. He set his clothing aside on a spare chair and pulled up another to sit next to Zoro’s bed. He glanced around the room, taking in how small the space was before he caught sight of the little bedside table full of gifts and cards.
“I didn’t know you had friends,” he commented, sounding bemused as he picked one up and read the standard Hallmark sentiment it contained.
“If I did, do you really think I’d be hanging out with you as much as I do?” Zoro bit out in reply.
Sanji was about to retort until he got a good look at the state Zoro was in. There was one large IV inserted into one of his arms, and a calmly beeping pulse monitor attached to his dominant hand. The bandages around his face did little to hide how tired Zoro seemed to be. His visible eye was dark-ringed and sunken, and his complexion was rather pale compared to how it usually was. They’d even taken out his safety pin earrings, effectively stripping him of his personality.
A twinge of sadness in his chest threatened to sour his mood and make him emotional, which was the last thing he wanted to do. Swallowing it down, Sanji replaced the card on the table and glanced back at Zoro.
“Natural brunette, huh?” Sanji couldn’t help but say.
“Christ. And this is why I was glad when Nami said you didn’t want to come. Get your rocks off by kicking a guy when he’s already down?”
Sanji winced a bit inwardly, but outwardly grinned.
“You don’t look that down to me.”
And that was true, for the most part. Apart from looking like he hadn’t gotten a decent night’s sleep in a few days and the bandages covering his eye, Zoro looked, well, as fine as he could have been given his situation.
He’d only been physically injured, after all; it wasn’t like he was sick and recovering from that. Sanji didn’t think hospitals usually held people who’d been hurt like Zoro had for more than a day or two at most. Hell, emergency rooms didn’t even keep people for that long.
Which begged the question, “What are you still doing here?”
Zoro looked at him levelly for a moment, and then away with a shrug.
“This shit,” he said, tapping the IV that was going into his arm. “Makes me nauseous, but the anti-nausea shit makes me sick. They’ve caught me in a loop and won’t release me because they think I have the kind of money to keep paying for it all.”
“Oh.”
Frustrated, Zoro sighed. Sanji gave him a pitiable look as Duval cried out about the injustices of the show he was watching and demanded that the characters make amends. Begrudgingly, Zoro turned his attention to the TV to see what his roommate had been crying about as Sanji read another one of the cards.
“One of your students?” Sanji asked, holding up Tony’s card.
Zoro didn’t turn to look; merely nodded as Sanji took his time in appreciating the drawing. Whoever Tony was and drawn Zoro a little too tall and a little too skinny, but the angry expression on drawing was as accurate as it could’ve possibly been.
The visit was going much better for him than he’d expected it to, which filled him with an immense feeling of relief. Comforted by the feeling, Sanji replaced the card on the table just as Zoro swore loudly under his breath. Before Sanji could say or do anything to stop him, Zoro had jerked the blankets off of his bed abruptly and swung himself around so that his legs went over the non-railed side of his bed.
“What are you doing-” Sanji tried to say, completely taken aback as Zoro interrupted him.
“I’m done sitting here. You’re going to help me get out,” he growled, holding his head for a moment before looking around to give Sanji a stern look.
“What? No- how would I even begin to do that?” Sanji shook his head in disbelief. “I don’t think it’s even legal to leave before you’ve been officially discharged-”
“Shut the fuck up and close the goddamn door!” Zoro all but shouted.
“Oh my god you’re serious.”
Sanji backed out of the chair with a screech and hurriedly went to shut the door to the room before their raised voices attracted Monet’s attention. He turned back around to see Zoro struggling with trying to peel up the tape that kept the IV in his arm and shared a look of concern with Duval, who had suddenly lost interest in his show.
“You’re trying this again?” Duval asked, cocking his head to the side as Zoro finally succeeded, wincing visibly as he and pulled the needle out of his body.
“Again?” Sanji asked, somehow unsurprised as the needle was dropped to the floor.
“Shut up. Yes, again. Get my duffle bag under the bed,” Zoro ordered, ignoring the fact that he had begun to sweat with the effort of getting himself up. The nausea that had been plaguing him for the entire duration of his stay was beginning to flare up again.
“Fuck,” Sanji muttered as he crouched down so he could reach for the bag and bring it up. He set it down on the chair he’d been sitting on previously and then looked to Zoro, who had stood up with a slight wobble.
“Get my clothes out,” Zoro said, turning towards Sanji who had had to look away when he realized the hospital gown Zoro was wearing was untied and open down the back.
He tried to hide the flush from his face by busying himself with rifling through the contents of the bag, but knew from Duval’s laughter that he wasn’t fooling anyone.
“I didn’t know there was supposed to be a full moon tonight,” Duval cackled, leaning back in his bed to laugh comfortably.
“Shut the fuck up! Can’t fucking wait to be rid of you,” Zoro growled, wiping the sweat that had accumulated across his forehead away. He was more annoyed than embarrassed.
Zoro stood there stupidly for a moment, watching Sanji go through his bag before he had to sit back down on the end of his bed. He must’ve stood up too fast or something, as his head was beginning to spin, bringing the room around with it. Ignoring it as best he could, he watched as Sanji pulled out his pair of pants.
Sanji stared at the piece of clothing aghast.
“If Frankenstein had been a fashion designer instead of a mad scientist,” he said, holding the pair of pants up for Duval to see. “These would have been his monster.”
The pants in question looked as though they were made from two different pairs. There was an even split directly through the middle of the jeans going through the crotch so that one pants leg was red plaid and the other was solid black. Both legs had black patches sewn into them that advertised bands Zoro evidently liked enough to wear around.
“What’d I say about kicking a man when he’s already down?” Zoro snapped irritably, snatching the pants away from Sanji before he could find anything else about them to shit talk. “Find my shirt.”
“What, no underwear?” Sanji asked, then wished he hadn’t as Zoro began trying to stuff one of his legs into the pants.
“Don’t wear any on game days.” Zoro grunted as he struggled to work his way through the tight pants leg. “’s what jockstraps are for.”
Sanji felt his face flushing again, but thankfully it seemed as though Zoro was too preoccupied with putting his pants on to notice. He tried to force himself not to think about it too much as he continued going through the duffel bag, pulling out a thick, patched hoodie and a plain t shirt.
He politely averted his eyes as Zoro continued the struggle, grunting as he stood up briefly to adjust himself. After he finally seemed to have gotten his pants on and buttoned, Sanji handed over his shirt.
Zoro took it, but made no move to put it on. Instead he’d grown quite still, sitting back down on the side of his bed with his face screwed up in concentration.
“What? What is it?” Sanji asked, concerned as he noticed that Zoro’s complexion had become steadily greener over the duration of his visit.
“This is why he didn’t get very far the first time,” Duval said knowingly.
Zoro looked like he wanted to reply, but instead closed his eye and took a deep breath as he felt his stomach begin to want to heave.
“Take this- the fucking- take the pulse monitor off,” he said, holding out his hand towards Sanji who looked at it doubtfully.
“Won’t that just alert the nurse if you suddenly start flat-lining?”
“Fuck,” Zoro breathed out, still unwilling to open his eye. He put his hand back on his knee to steady it as his leg began to bob up and down.
Second thoughts began manifesting themselves in Sanji’s mind as he saw just how bad Zoro’s body handled the nausea that came with the pain reliving medicines he was on. Zoro looked like he would barely be able to stand, let alone walk down the hall to the elevator or even out the building.
“Maybe you should stay here,” Sanji tried to say, but went silent when Zoro’s head snapped up to glare at him deeply.
“No.” Zoro was sweating heavily at that point, and he had to wipe his face clean again. “I’m not staying here another fucking day.”
“I’ll wear it.”
Both Zoro and Sanji turned to look at Duval, who held up his hand to wave it at them. They were both confused before he clarified by saying, “The pulse monitor. I’ll wear it so she won’t know.”
“Won’t you get in trouble when they find out you duped them?” Sanji asked with a frown.
“Not if I was asleep when you slipped it on me without my knowing,” Duval replied with a grotesque wink that made both Sanji and Zoro wince.
Despite being unsure that this was the right course of action to take with Zoro in the condition he was in, Sanji helped to transfer the pulse monitor over onto Duval’s free hand. It went quickly, and no noise or other indicator was made by the machine tracking his pulse other than an inconsistent beep for a second that a swap had been made. Zoro seemed relieved by this, but his nausea was still going strong and was actively trying to gain the upper hand over him.
He had Sanji help him into his shirt and hoodie with pauses in between as he tried to keep himself from succumbing to the overbearing sensations his nausea produced. His stomach was seizing, his head was spinning, and he’d already begun to sweat through the shirt he’d just put on.
Again, Sanji was faced with doubts with what they were attempting to do.
“Help me put my boots on,” Zoro said, using all his concentration to keep his body sitting upright instead of curling over to ease the sensation.
In any other situation, Sanji would have told him to fuck off and do it himself if he wanted to get out so damn badly, but he didn’t. Instead, he knelt down silently by Zoro’s feet and did his best with shoving them first into socks and then into his classic cherry red Docs. After he finished lacing them up, Sanji came to a stand and took a good, long hard look at Zoro.
He was still green tinged and sweaty, but appeared resolute and determined to walk out regardless. Sanji wasn’t sure he’d be able to, no matter how strongly he wanted to leave. He wanted to ask if Zoro was certain he wanted to try and go through with it, but instead asked, “Won’t the nurse recognize you if you just walk out?”
“She doesn’t care,” Duval and Zoro said at the same time.
Duval laughed, but Zoro could only smirk weakly.
“She watched him walk out the first time,” Duval said, smiling reminiscently. “Even walked with him a ways before he collapsed.”
“Okay, well, she might not, but what if someone else recognizes you? Like your doctor? You don’t exactly have what I’d call a ‘forgettable face’. Your hair alone sets you apart.”
“That’s the point,” Zoro said lamely.
“You dense motherfucker, I know that’s your whole shtick but even if we make it off the floor, I don’t think we’re going to make it out of the building if everyone recognizes and knows you’re still supposed to be hospitalized.”
Zipping up Zoro’s duffel bag, Sanji sighed and set it on the floor so he could reclaim the seat, trying to think of a solution that could work in preventing the punk from being recognized on his way out. The eye bandages that took up a third of his face were already something the staff of a hospital would notice; it would be hard enough trying to smuggle him out based on that fact alone. He could always wear his hoodie with the hood up, but given the anti-social clothing he was in, Sanji supposed that Zoro already cut too much of a foreboding figure to risk going out with the hood on.
Some self-righteous security guard or something was certain to stop them then, especially with the size of Zoro’s duffel bag that he would be carrying.
“Weren’t you wearing a hat when you came in?” Sanji looked up at Duval, who was smiling curiously at him from across the room. “Hats work well for hiding hair.”
“Shit, now you decide you want to be helpful?” Zoro said, still trying to keep himself from shaking. “It only took you a fucking week to do.”
“Well, if you leave I can finally turn the volume on for my shows and the season finale for this one comes on tonight! I’m pretty pleased to see you go, actually.”
Wordlessly, Sanji got up from his seat and grabbed his beanie that was lying atop his coat. He tossed it to Zoro, who grabbed it as it landed limply on the bed. He put it on and pulled it down, making sure his ears and forehead were covered entirely before he shot Sanji a ‘is this good enough?’ look.
“I guess that’ll work,” Sanji said, scrutinizing the way his beanie masked most of Zoro’s more recognizable features.
While Zoro didn’t look quite as conspicuous as before, the bandages on his face still stood out. There wasn’t much either of them could do about that, though, short of taking them off, which would have been a worse idea than this already was.
“Good luck, guys,” Duval said, giving the two of them the most horrific wink either of them had ever seen and which almost made Zoro throw up then and there.
Sanji retrieved his jacket and put it on hurriedly, opening the door to Zoro’s room to make sure the hall was clear before they made their attempt. Monet was still at her station, which was mercifully located at the opposite end of the hall from the elevator. They wouldn’t have to walk past her to get there, but it was in clear view of her desk; if she looked up from whatever she was doing at any point while they were moving, she’d definitely see them.
It was a risk they’d simply have to take.
Turning back around, Zoro had come to a stand and was waiting by the chair with his duffel bag on it. He was definitely paler than he had been and looked as though he’d be sick at any moment. He was swaying on his feet, and Sanji couldn’t tell if Zoro was aware of that or not.
“We’re going to have to walk fast,” Sanji said, going to grab the bag and hoist it over his shoulder so Zoro wouldn’t have to struggle with anything other than himself. He studied Zoro seriously for a moment, trying to find any last minute flaw he could to try and convince them that this was a terrible idea. He couldn’t. “Let’s go.”
Sanji led the way but quickly realized that Zoro wasn’t going to be able to keep up with the quick pace he’d set. He was already breathing fast and had a weird, disoriented glazed look about him as he followed behind. The elevator was only a hundred feet away, but it might have been a hundred feet that Zoro couldn’t walk.
His footsteps were hard and heavy as he sluggishly moved along, trying his best to concentrate solely on the effort of escaping and not letting his nausea get the better of him. He could barely even register where it was he was going, and only knew to follow after Sanji’s form. The lines on the linoleum flooring helped to guide him as he did his best to at least keep walking straight along them, but for some reason they liked to lean and curve at random points.
“We’re almost there,” Sanji said, speaking quietly as he fell back to match Zoro’s stride. “You can lean on me if you need.”
Glancing over his shoulder back to Monet’s position to make sure they were still in the clear, Sanji felt his heart sink in his chest when he saw that she was obviously watching them. She had a smirk on her face, but didn’t seem to be trying to alert anyone to Zoro’s escape. Instead, she blew Sanji a kiss and waved them goodbye.
Sanji’s heart fluttered for a moment before he felt Zoro suddenly grab hold of his arm. Startled out of his brief romantic longings, he saw that Zoro had taken him up on his offer and was now using Sanji as a support. Neither of them said anything about it as they finally reached the elevator, with Zoro breathing heavily through his nose and sweating profusely.
They thankfully only had to wait for about a minute after they pressed the down button before the elevator stopped to let them in. The only person that had been inside got off on their floor, but not before they shot a quizzical look at Zoro’s condition.
Sanji flashed them what he hoped was a reassuring smile before he hurried them onto the elevator and pressed the button to close the doors repeatedly until they obeyed. Zoro heaved a huge sigh as he shut his eye and rested back against the elevator wall, waiting to be transported down two floors. Sanji pressed the lobby button and hoped Zoro would last long enough to walk out the front of the building; the hardest part was yet to come.
There were going to be more people waiting in the hospital lobby, which meant there was more of a chance for someone who worked there to spot Zoro before they could leave. It was also a longer walk from the elevator to the sliding glass front doors, and if Zoro had struggled just to make it to the elevator in the first place, then how the hell was he going to be able to surmount that greater distance without drawing attention to himself?
One glance at the man told him that he probably couldn’t. All they could do was try.
“You can’t lean on me when we walk through the lobby,” Sanji said, adjusting the duffel bag’s strap as they descended. “It’ll be too obvious.”
“Won’t need to,” Zoro said in response, opening his eye to up at the ceiling.
He was nearly drenched in a cold sweat and had a hard time keeping his head from spinning but felt like he was getting a good handle over his nausea regardless. His stomach told him otherwise, but Zoro was certain he could keep it contained at least until they were outside and away from any prying eyes. The empty socket was throbbing now, pulsing in time with his rapid heartbeat but hadn’t yet begun to hurt. Despite the fact that it gave him debilitating nausea, the morphine at least did its job well.
“When we get outside, you wait out front off to the side somewhere and I’ll bring my car around to get you,” Sanji said, watching as the elevator counted down their floors. “I had to park in the deck. It’ll probably be easier for you to wait than to try and walk to it.”
“Fine.”
Before anything else could be said, the elevator dinged and opened to the lobby floor. There was a small crowd of people waiting to get on as the doors opened, prompting Sanji to quickly step out, hoping Zoro would keep up with him. It was obvious now that Zoro was struggling, but he managed to follow after him easily enough.
Sanji could hear the heavily labored breathing from Zoro as they slowly began to make their way towards the exit. They walked side by side, passing through the main lobby at a slow and general pace. Sweat was sliding down the sides of Zoro’s face as they progressed, but amazingly enough, he didn’t falter a single step. He kept his eye locked in a stern gaze at the doorway and focused only on moving with Sanji towards his perceived freedom as though he’d been jailed and just been released.
Perhaps due in part to the grungy clothing Zoro was wearing, Sanji noticed that as they walked through the lobby no one looked at them twice or tried to stop their progress. Zoro had a mean, deterring look about him that Sanji had noticed on the first day that they’d met, and was relieved to see that it worked on the general public as well. They made it out of the hospital without anyone trying to stop them, which was nothing short of a miracle in Sanji’s humble opinion.
Zoro sucked in a deep breath of the outside air as they moved quickly out of sight of the front desk, moving down the sidewalk several feet before the nausea finally demanded its host sit. He sat down as carefully he could on the side of the curb, resting his arms on his legs and letting his head hang down between them.
“I’ll get the car,” Sanji said, to which Zoro simply gave him a thumbs up in response.
He hurried away, hoisting the duffel bag up high onto his shoulder and disappeared down the walkway. Zoro hoped that the trick they’d pulled with Duval would buy them enough time for Sanji to pull around the car up and drive them off before anyone noticed and tried to reclaim him.
As warm as it was in the hospital, Zoro hadn’t minded being as sweaty as he was, but when the wind went by he shivered dramatically and remembered it was the middle of December. The sweat trapped two layers down against his skin had already been cold enough, but was now sticky and empowered by the chilled air.
His stomach heaved again, and this time he couldn’t stop it.
Thankful that he hadn’t eaten yet that day, all his stomach could force up was liquids. He puked hunched over with his head between his legs, his stomach coming up onto the pavement between his boots. There was a brief moment where he felt instantly better before his stomach convulsed again and started a cycle of painful dry heaving.
There was no one nearby to hear him groan as some of the pain of his eye surfaced in conjunction with the pain in his stomach. When Sanji finally pulled up, Zoro was still hunched over.
Parking as close to the curb as he could with the passenger side door closest to Zoro, Sanji got out and tried to help the injured man to his feet. At first it seemed as though Zoro didn’t want to uncurl, but after his stomach convinced him to spit up all the liquids it had left inside, he did finally come to a stand. He was trembling noticeably, but Sanji ignored it as he helped Zoro slide into the passenger seat.
Sanji didn’t badger him about buckling up as he pulled away from the hospital front, and in return Zoro didn’t have anything to say about the pop music that was playing through the car speakers. He sat with his eye closed, curled up as best he could on the car seat with his head pressed firmly against the cold window, breathing hard, yet still trying to fall asleep as Katy Perry sang to him on the ride home.
#zosan fanfic#zosan fanfiction#zosan#zoro/sanji#one piece fanfiction#one piece#punk au#modern day au#slow burn#mixed up
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Author’s note: I was bored.
KidLaw/LawKid prompt.
Title says it all.
@a-redharlequin @cucuxumusu and the rest of the Kidlaw chat +18
Eye candy means an attractive person
It simply started when he got laid last friday night with a young lady. An great eye candy and a pretty great lay. He had to ask for her number which she gave without second thoughts and left without a word. Kid noted a bit of limping as she left while staring at her ass. The rest of his Saturday was normal as it could be as he had to work with few papers for the company, he was working with as a assistant executive of his sarcastic, demanding, snobby little shitty boss named Trafalgar Law.
Law was the youngest company head of the Shichibukai group merged together and benefited to each other’s company. Law rose his company for scoring a 100 billion business deal with the government that automatically granted his riches beyond Kid’s dreams. He didn’t know how such man could make so much money with an age of 26. But even though, his boss was gifted with everything that anyone would be jealous of from looks to money, Law had a terrible personality and trust issues. When he got hired, Kid didn’t know how he deserve the job at all. He was a delinquent, bad grades, crappy college but he had skills on the field, the only thing that gave him courage to try his luck and apply. Not knowing, he would even get accepted three days after his interview.
His thoughts were interrupted with a phone call. Kid looked at his phone and the screen reads, Killer He quickly picked it up and answered.
“Busy.” He spats, knowing Killer would try to lecture him from his actions last night. He didn’t get that eye candy to his bed without any competition, that he quickly dealt with.
“Someone’s being pissy.” Killer spats back. “Just checking up on you if that eye candy you took home last night, didn’t murdered you. But hearing you being pissy means she either walked out on you or you fucked up and vomited on her.”
“That was fucking college days, Killer. Stop bringing up that shit.”
“It’s hilarious.”
“Oh, fuck you too.” Kid snarls. “She goes home limping and a number on my phone. I bet you didn’t think I’m capable of that.”
“Oh?” Kid could hear that sarcastic tone of Killer��s voice clear as the day. “I bet you can’t get her laid with you twice.”
That sent Kid on the edge. “Excuse me?”
“I know, you heard me right.” Killer scoffed. “I bet a thousand bucks you can’t get laid with her again.”
“A thousand bucks?! Since when were you this bloody rich, you bastard?!” Kid screamed, bolting off his seat. He kicked his chair down in frustration. There’s no way, Killer would do it. He’s bluffing. He definitely was.
He heard Killer chuckled, pouring gas to his head “If you do get her on your bed, I’ll pay a thousand bucks and you get to drive my bike for a week.”
Kid gulped, imagining himself riding, Killer’s rare edition motorcycle's that he’s been dreaming to steal away but Killer somewhat installed so much security bullshit on his own home it was next to impossible to even touch the said bike.
“What if I can’t get her then what? I’m not as rich as you, bastard.”
“I’ll set you up to date Lola.”
Kid’s eyes widened in despair. ‘You won’t dare, you fuckin bastard!”
“Try me.”
Kid clicked his tongue, weighing his pro and cons but found a quick thousand bucks and getting laid twice in the weekend was heavier than dating Lola, knowing the eye candy, he took home gave her number. A great advantage it was.
“Deal.”
“You got till the end of the weekend. Good luck~!” Killer mused, happily as he dropped the call..
As the Killer dropped the call, Kid realized his mistake. Never in his short life, Kid had gotten laid twice with the same person ever. It was his cocky ass pride that shoved himself into this. If only, his voice of reason existed in the first place. If only it bloody did.
He walked around this apartment, thinking what he could do if he ever wants the girl back but found not a clue how to do so. He grabbed his phone and texted Zoro. Another assistant of a top executive in the Shichibukai group and the only man, he could stand among the 7 others, he hated working with. Zoro was known to be stoic yet behind all that terrible personality and bad sense of direction, he was the only one Kid knew that get laid frequently like Killer.
Dude, how do you get laid twice with the same person in the same weekend? Kid quickly texted and waited anxiously in his sofa. Completely forgetting about the paperwork, he supposed to finish this evening.
I’m not a sex god, Kid. Zoro replied.
Help a brother here. Any ideas?
Nope.
Come on, bastard. I’ll buy you a sake if I win this bet.
Fine. Send a dick pic or something. You owe me.
K. Would that work?
Pray it does. Worked on my side.
Kid ruffled his red hair, frustrated. He have never done this before and never know if it ever works. Does it ever even work now?
Kid looked at his phone book looking for the girl’s name, he vaguely remembered. He ran towards the bathroom, striped of all his clothing and snap a quick photo. He didn’t even looked at it twice and send the said photo without hesitation. If he did, he’ll never get laid this sunday if ever that happens.
Kid took a quick bath and waited, anxiously but a reply never came that night. Kid fell asleep while he waited for a single text from the girl.
Sunday Morning
Eustass Kid was the biggest idiot that have lived in this solar system. He didn’t deserve to live this shame, he just have commited. It was a disaster and even an existence of a black hole in front of him would not help him recover of this shameful act, he have committed.
He stared at the photo, eyes widened as it could be. He throat felt tight, he couldn’t breath. He wanted to die on the spot now and then. To end this suffering, shame and all that cocktail mix of this feeling inside of his stomach.
The girl didn’t leave her number on his phone but changed a name in one of his contacts. Which would be Trafalgar Law’s number. His boss. His boss of all the person, that she could change it was him. It had to be him.
Kid looked at Law’s picture message. He was in the office, working on papers piled in his side. His hair was in different directions, his eyes looked he didn’t sleep a wink and his middle finger was raised. He looked at Kid, with a little smirk in the end of his lips.
Oh my god. He’ll fire me. Kid thought. Dying inside.
That whole day, Kid never had a courage to reply his boss but mentally preparing himself for monday morning. A day, Kid will never look forward to.
Kid was fucked. He was totally fucked. Killer laughed his ass off after knowing Kid accidentally sent the message to his boss. Zoro on the other hand didn’t made a single comment on the whole ordeal, as he knew himself what kind of person, Kid’s boss is.
Kid rested his knuckles on Law’s mahogany wood door. It was already night, Law asked him to come to his office. Pretty sure, Law wanted to save a bit of Kid’s pride by firing him privately in his office by night when no one else was around. Kid swore he’ll never send those types of messages ever again in his life and never say deal every time, Killer hands him a bet that he’ll lose on. Setting up a date in Lola was long buried in his mind. Kid would make sure, after the talk with his boss, he’ll move into south blue where he’ll spend his days as a senile old man, never once again laid after.
This shameful thing will be buried deep in the world and never once again be spoke again. Ever.
Kid took a deep breath before knocking on Law’s door.
“Come in.” He heard, Law ordered and Kid did. He slowly opened the door but surprised with office.
He have been in the office a handful of times only, rarely Law invites anyone his office. It was always on the meeting room, function hall or what not but never once, Kid remembered Law’s office was this...romantic looking.
There were scented candles in every corner of the room, a huge red sofa was in the middle of the office where Law sat down, legs crossed and looking at him rather unusual. A bit off of his character.
Law had a bottle of wine in his hand, popping the cap off and pouring in his wine glass. Kid noticed there was two wine glasses in the coffee table. Thinking, it might be Law’s way of burning him down, degrading him till he was dust before sending him off his way.
“Do you know why I called you here, Mr. Eustass?” Law asked him a question. Kid only gulped, mentally preparing himself of the stupid speech that he have been practicing since sunday afternoon.
“Because I accidentally sent you a dick pic.” Kid replied, his stomach clutched like a rope inside.
Law stops pouring wine on the second glass and looked at him, with wide eyes. “Accidentally?”
Kid looked at Law, eyebrows raised. “I was supposed to send that to this girl I me-” Kid stopped as he noticed Law’s hand on his mouth. Murmuring something that was loud enough for Kid’s ears.
‘I thought that was for me…” Law looked like he was about to cry. The Trafalgar Law who was known to be ruthless in business, who fires anyone he deemed unworthy and weak, the same man that he hated was on the verge of tears over a fucking dick pic, he accidentally sent.
“You thought, it was for you?” Kid shouted in disbelieved. He slapped his mouth with his hand, shutting him up.
“Uhm, yes? You sent it on my number. I assumed it was for me!” Law said, crossing his arms.
“Why would you assume it was for you?” Kid shouted back, clutching his hair. This was not what he imagined it would go.
“You’ve been sending me this weird signals that bastard flamingo noticed and I like you since the start. I mean, your personality is terrible bu-” Law said rather in casual manner but stopped halfway as Kid fell in his knees.
“W-w-w-w-w-what? You’ve liked me!?” Kid’s mind was stuttering at this point, unable to comprehend what level he was dealing with.
Law raised an eyebrow. “Yes, I’ve been sending you signals but you’re rather denser that I thought you’d be. Now, you’ve sent me that….photo. I was rather ecstatic you’ve now noticed after months being with you.”
“W-w-w-!?” Kid couldn’t talk straight at all. Law simply stood in his seat, stood in front of him and knelt in front of him. His long tattooed fingers brushed on his lips.
“Shall we make this night a bit more special, Mr. Eustass-ya?”
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