7 Rainbow Prompts -- Sit Back and Wait -- Blue Set
Title: Sit Back and Wait
Fandom: One Piece
Pairing: Zoro x Sanji
Rating: PG-13
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Zeff had taught him something once, not about cooking, but about life, and about love, specifically. It was right after his first kiss, right after the first time a young woman had given him that look and had pressed her breasts against him while her tongue was down his throat. He’d said not to rush things, that devotion could take a shitty long time to arrive, and not to take the first offered pass of affection without sitting back and waiting a while.
He’d brushed off the advice at the time, being too young and hormonal to even considering waiting, but it remained somewhere in the recesses of his mind, lurked somewhere deep in his subconscious to resurface with a vengeance when some pretty little thing fluttered her lashes or exposed a sliver of thigh. Though he would dote and swoon and fawn over such girls until his dying day, something would hold him back from completely accepting their invitation. Part of him-the part that was there at night behind a locked galley door with quick, embarrassed breaths and hurried strokes beneath the belt-hated whatever that something was, hated that piece of lousy advice that kept him from jumping into bed with the first girl he saw.
But another part-the part that lived for fighting with a certain green-haired swordsman, that lived for meeting each intense and challenging stare, that lived for the brief brushes of contact in the lifting of cargo or the passing of a wine bottle-knew that it would be worthwhile in the end.
So he did sit back and wait for the swordsman to realize it on his own and approach him with nervousness poorly disguised in an anxious hold on the swords at his side. He did sit back and wait for that first-kiss-all-over-again that left him breathless, wanting and ready for more. He did sit back and wait for that scarred, bare chest to press flush against his, and for those words to be whispered-more muttered, really-against his neck.
But it did take a shitty long time.