One Piece- "Nakama Cycle"
Well. Here's pretty much everyone BUT the happy couple? ^^;;
Title: Nakama Cycle
Author: Celeste
Feedback: (yes!) keviesprincess@netscape.net
Theme: 100-150 word drabble cycle in "Courtship Rituals" universe.
Universe: One Piece
Pairing: ZoSan
Rating: PG-13
Time: 1:23 (minor edits)
Word Count: N/A
Summary: Companion Cycle to “Marriage Cycle”- Reactionary shots.
Dedication: scuttlebutt_inc- for keeping my interest in OP fic alive and well, despite you know, my not writing it for a long ass time. ^^;;
A/N: I wrote this last night again, right after that Bleach fic because I was still nervous. I guess I get twitchy when I’m anxious and just try to write and write and write to get my mind off of it. I don’t think I write particularly well when I’m in that mode, but it just happens anyway. I don’t actually know what I think of this except that maybe it can illuminate a little more, the really short stories I wrote for “Marriage Cycle”. Or not, it remains to be seen, really. O.o Anyway, this is probably a bit confusing, but I tried to make each of these ten drabbles correspond in some way or another, to its matching number in the previous cycle. Obviously, I suck. -_-;;
Disclaimer: Not mine or I would be rich! Filthy rich!! Yeeah.
Distribution: Just lemme know.
1. Vivi
She’s so thrilled when she hears the news that she immediately fires a letter to Nami, bubbling over with enthusiasm.
Oh, how romantic! I can barely think! Is it much different now? I’m sure they never fight anymore. Sanji-san was always so sweet, after all. You have to reply and tell me everything that’s changed; there are just too many possibilities! Oh, I can’t think in my excitement! Congratulate them for me!
-Vivi
After several months of waiting, a response in Nami’s handwriting arrives at the palace. She feels her heart flutter in anticipation at the thought of the stories it must contain.
Um… it really hasn’t changed a lot. Except now they… do other things, I suppose. Heh. Zoro says ”thanks.” Sanji says “mourn for me, Vivi-chan.”
-Nami
Despite her disappointment at the brevity of the missive, Vivi can’t help but giggle a little as well.
How like them.
END
2. Usopp
He thinks that maybe the Honeymoon Suite was a bad idea now that they are where they are, because really, a single screen is not nearly enough.
He mutters and wraps his pillow around his head with both hands and thinks about throwing something at them.
Sanji cries out.
Zoro chuckles, grunts, and his breathing can be heard for miles.
A few minutes later there is blessed silence, and the canoneer hopes that maybe now he can get some sleep for real.
Several minutes later he hears scuffling and a few muffled curses.
Sanji cries out.
Usopp sighs and rolls on his side to face away from them and tells himself that maybe tomorrow it will be time to invest in putting up a real live wall.
END
3. Zeff
He reads about it in the papers- some story about how the infamous Straw Hat Pirates defeat so-and-so and cause so much belis worth of damage to the surrounding property.
It’s not the focus of the story, to be sure, but the unmistakable line, “several buildings felled by Roronoa Sanji” is there, followed sometime later by, “the most fearsome pirate union on Grand Line,” etc. etc.
He snorts and folds the paper and tosses it into the fire, pulling on his beard in disappointment.
“Damn ungrateful brat,” he mutters, vowing to give Sanji a good kick to the head the next time he shows his sorry face around here.
“What the hell’s wrong with ‘Red Leg’ huh?”
END
4. Chopper
Chopper sighs as the bullet makes a metallic clang in the dish after he manages to fish it out of Zoro. Zoro grunts his thanks and the little reindeer works on stitching and bandaging the wound as quickly as possible.
When he’s done, he packs up his bag and scurries topside hastily, because there’s more to a doctor’s job than simply fixing up the patients. “Uh…Sanji?”
The blonde turns around at the sound of his voice, looking bored as he finishes off his umpteenth cigarette of the night.
Chopper politely pretends not to notice the steadily growing mound of ash at the chef’s feet. “You can um… see him now.”
“Che. Like I wanna see that idiotic, dumbass, death-wish stupid bastard,” Sanji drawls, sounding surprisingly calm as he heads towards the door anyway.
Chopper waits until the blonde is gone before he smiles a little and brushes the ashes overboard.
END
5. Luffy
Nami explains that babies can’t grow in either Sanji or Zoro, and sorely disappointed that he won’t get to be a “favorite uncle-Luffy ever,” Luffy wonders if Sanji and Zoro know they can’t have babies too.
Then he thinks that if they did know, they’d be a thousand times more disappointed than he is. The thought of his friends being sad makes the captain think even harder.
At the next port, Nami gapes when Luffy goes up to a lady with a stroller and pointing, asks if he can have it.
He gets slapped. The lady leaves.
Sighing in defeat, Nami takes him to a stall they’d passed earlier.
There, she haggles down the price for a blonde kitten that Luffy thinks kind of has Zoro’s face.
Luffy is thrilled of course, and Nami supposes that if anything, Sanji and Zoro’s reactions will be worth the money in the end.
END
6. Ace
Ace instinctively feels eyes glaring hard at him when he leans forward and smiles, offering Sanji a light from his fingertip.
He turns and finds Zoro looking straight at him from across the room, posture relaxed to the untrained eye, but very obviously poised to defend what is his.
Hadn’t he been sleeping just now?
In either case, the message is crystal clear. Ace shrugs mentally and leans backward then, snapping his fingers to spark the end of the cigarette to life instead.
Zoro grunts in satisfaction and leans back against the wall, letting his eyes drift shut again.
Sanji notes the strange atmosphere in the room and from around his smoke asks, “What’s going on?”
Ace grins and tips his hat. “Nothing.”
Behind them, Zoro begins snoring.
END
7. Robin
At first she doesn’t remember what day it is herself, but when she strolls into the kitchen with a book in hand and finds shrimp skewers, swordfish steaks, garlic beef roast, and lots of other foods that need to be cut up into lots of tiny pieces on your plate sitting on the table, she smiles and strolls right out again, before Sanji even really notices her presence.
She finds Zoro sharpening his swords on deck a few moments later and gently asks, “Ne swordsman-san, is today something special?”
Zoro looks up at her voice. On her question, he blinks, thinks about it, and a moment later, realization dawns. Much faster than she’d expected.
He grins. “Yeah, it is.”
She turns around to face the water then, but not before she catches him moving to polish his ring.
END
8. Johnny and Yosaku
They call Sanji “aniki” just like everyone else, but now there’s special reverence in their voices when they do it, because to them, the person who managed to win their Zoro-aniki’s heart is someone particularly worthy of respect.
They also treat Zoro with a sort of super-reverence after finding out that he’d somehow, gotten Sanji to quit smoking. Their earliest memories of the blonde all involve cigarettes, after all.
Both chef and swordsman have attained the previously unattainable.
And so they sob and cling to one another, declaring that truly, this is the power of love.
Zoro, red-faced, looks around to make sure Sanji didn’t manage to hear that or anything, and tells them that yeah, maybe they better not mention that kind of stuff in front of the chef.
Sanji gets violent when he’s reminded that he used to smoke.
And that other stuff will probably get Zoro killed.
END
9. Nami
Zoro is pacing the deck like a caged tiger, muttering all sorts of profanities.
She notes that most of them are directed at Sanji and not his abductors.
Everyone is very obviously keeping their distance from him except for her. She watches the proceedings with a mixture of worry and amusement.
After his seventieth round of back-and-forth, she looses her patience. Moving down the stairs so she’s directly in Zoro’s pacing radius, she forces him to stop when he finds her blocking his way.
He glares.
She ignores it. “Ne, Zoro…”
“What?”
“Do you think Sanji-san will be very grateful when you save him?”
Zoro blinks.
Then, very slowly, a small grin splits his face. “Che. Bastard better be.”
She doesn’t know if he’s thinking of reunion-sex or simply having one up on the chef, but she supposes it’s probably the same thing to the two of them anyway.
END
10. ????
He sighs.
They’re yelling at one another again, and that either means sensei will show up early for practice in a foul mood and work them super hard, or he’ll show up late and in a good mood that makes everyone wince because they know exactly what sensei did to get there.
The girls think it’s cute.
He tells them it only gets in the way of training and that he certainly won’t waste time on those types of things when he becomes the world’s greatest.
Whenever he says so, the girl who always kicks him in the head mutters that it’s probably for the best because nobody would willingly put up with an idiot like him anyway. He doesn’t get it. But he knows it pisses him off.
He complains to sensei about her all the time, but Zoro only laughs and tells him not to worry about it.
END
EDITS PLEASE. And I am off to rehearsal. Again. For the NEXT project. -_-;;
Title: Nakama Cycle
Author: Celeste
Feedback: (yes!) keviesprincess@netscape.net
Theme: 100-150 word drabble cycle in "Courtship Rituals" universe.
Universe: One Piece
Pairing: ZoSan
Rating: PG-13
Time: 1:23 (minor edits)
Word Count: N/A
Summary: Companion Cycle to “Marriage Cycle”- Reactionary shots.
Dedication: scuttlebutt_inc- for keeping my interest in OP fic alive and well, despite you know, my not writing it for a long ass time. ^^;;
A/N: I wrote this last night again, right after that Bleach fic because I was still nervous. I guess I get twitchy when I’m anxious and just try to write and write and write to get my mind off of it. I don’t think I write particularly well when I’m in that mode, but it just happens anyway. I don’t actually know what I think of this except that maybe it can illuminate a little more, the really short stories I wrote for “Marriage Cycle”. Or not, it remains to be seen, really. O.o Anyway, this is probably a bit confusing, but I tried to make each of these ten drabbles correspond in some way or another, to its matching number in the previous cycle. Obviously, I suck. -_-;;
Disclaimer: Not mine or I would be rich! Filthy rich!! Yeeah.
Distribution: Just lemme know.
1. Vivi
She’s so thrilled when she hears the news that she immediately fires a letter to Nami, bubbling over with enthusiasm.
Oh, how romantic! I can barely think! Is it much different now? I’m sure they never fight anymore. Sanji-san was always so sweet, after all. You have to reply and tell me everything that’s changed; there are just too many possibilities! Oh, I can’t think in my excitement! Congratulate them for me!
-Vivi
After several months of waiting, a response in Nami’s handwriting arrives at the palace. She feels her heart flutter in anticipation at the thought of the stories it must contain.
Um… it really hasn’t changed a lot. Except now they… do other things, I suppose. Heh. Zoro says ”thanks.” Sanji says “mourn for me, Vivi-chan.”
-Nami
Despite her disappointment at the brevity of the missive, Vivi can’t help but giggle a little as well.
How like them.
END
2. Usopp
He thinks that maybe the Honeymoon Suite was a bad idea now that they are where they are, because really, a single screen is not nearly enough.
He mutters and wraps his pillow around his head with both hands and thinks about throwing something at them.
Sanji cries out.
Zoro chuckles, grunts, and his breathing can be heard for miles.
A few minutes later there is blessed silence, and the canoneer hopes that maybe now he can get some sleep for real.
Several minutes later he hears scuffling and a few muffled curses.
Sanji cries out.
Usopp sighs and rolls on his side to face away from them and tells himself that maybe tomorrow it will be time to invest in putting up a real live wall.
END
3. Zeff
He reads about it in the papers- some story about how the infamous Straw Hat Pirates defeat so-and-so and cause so much belis worth of damage to the surrounding property.
It’s not the focus of the story, to be sure, but the unmistakable line, “several buildings felled by Roronoa Sanji” is there, followed sometime later by, “the most fearsome pirate union on Grand Line,” etc. etc.
He snorts and folds the paper and tosses it into the fire, pulling on his beard in disappointment.
“Damn ungrateful brat,” he mutters, vowing to give Sanji a good kick to the head the next time he shows his sorry face around here.
“What the hell’s wrong with ‘Red Leg’ huh?”
END
4. Chopper
Chopper sighs as the bullet makes a metallic clang in the dish after he manages to fish it out of Zoro. Zoro grunts his thanks and the little reindeer works on stitching and bandaging the wound as quickly as possible.
When he’s done, he packs up his bag and scurries topside hastily, because there’s more to a doctor’s job than simply fixing up the patients. “Uh…Sanji?”
The blonde turns around at the sound of his voice, looking bored as he finishes off his umpteenth cigarette of the night.
Chopper politely pretends not to notice the steadily growing mound of ash at the chef’s feet. “You can um… see him now.”
“Che. Like I wanna see that idiotic, dumbass, death-wish stupid bastard,” Sanji drawls, sounding surprisingly calm as he heads towards the door anyway.
Chopper waits until the blonde is gone before he smiles a little and brushes the ashes overboard.
END
5. Luffy
Nami explains that babies can’t grow in either Sanji or Zoro, and sorely disappointed that he won’t get to be a “favorite uncle-Luffy ever,” Luffy wonders if Sanji and Zoro know they can’t have babies too.
Then he thinks that if they did know, they’d be a thousand times more disappointed than he is. The thought of his friends being sad makes the captain think even harder.
At the next port, Nami gapes when Luffy goes up to a lady with a stroller and pointing, asks if he can have it.
He gets slapped. The lady leaves.
Sighing in defeat, Nami takes him to a stall they’d passed earlier.
There, she haggles down the price for a blonde kitten that Luffy thinks kind of has Zoro’s face.
Luffy is thrilled of course, and Nami supposes that if anything, Sanji and Zoro’s reactions will be worth the money in the end.
END
6. Ace
Ace instinctively feels eyes glaring hard at him when he leans forward and smiles, offering Sanji a light from his fingertip.
He turns and finds Zoro looking straight at him from across the room, posture relaxed to the untrained eye, but very obviously poised to defend what is his.
Hadn’t he been sleeping just now?
In either case, the message is crystal clear. Ace shrugs mentally and leans backward then, snapping his fingers to spark the end of the cigarette to life instead.
Zoro grunts in satisfaction and leans back against the wall, letting his eyes drift shut again.
Sanji notes the strange atmosphere in the room and from around his smoke asks, “What’s going on?”
Ace grins and tips his hat. “Nothing.”
Behind them, Zoro begins snoring.
END
7. Robin
At first she doesn’t remember what day it is herself, but when she strolls into the kitchen with a book in hand and finds shrimp skewers, swordfish steaks, garlic beef roast, and lots of other foods that need to be cut up into lots of tiny pieces on your plate sitting on the table, she smiles and strolls right out again, before Sanji even really notices her presence.
She finds Zoro sharpening his swords on deck a few moments later and gently asks, “Ne swordsman-san, is today something special?”
Zoro looks up at her voice. On her question, he blinks, thinks about it, and a moment later, realization dawns. Much faster than she’d expected.
He grins. “Yeah, it is.”
She turns around to face the water then, but not before she catches him moving to polish his ring.
END
8. Johnny and Yosaku
They call Sanji “aniki” just like everyone else, but now there’s special reverence in their voices when they do it, because to them, the person who managed to win their Zoro-aniki’s heart is someone particularly worthy of respect.
They also treat Zoro with a sort of super-reverence after finding out that he’d somehow, gotten Sanji to quit smoking. Their earliest memories of the blonde all involve cigarettes, after all.
Both chef and swordsman have attained the previously unattainable.
And so they sob and cling to one another, declaring that truly, this is the power of love.
Zoro, red-faced, looks around to make sure Sanji didn’t manage to hear that or anything, and tells them that yeah, maybe they better not mention that kind of stuff in front of the chef.
Sanji gets violent when he’s reminded that he used to smoke.
And that other stuff will probably get Zoro killed.
END
9. Nami
Zoro is pacing the deck like a caged tiger, muttering all sorts of profanities.
She notes that most of them are directed at Sanji and not his abductors.
Everyone is very obviously keeping their distance from him except for her. She watches the proceedings with a mixture of worry and amusement.
After his seventieth round of back-and-forth, she looses her patience. Moving down the stairs so she’s directly in Zoro’s pacing radius, she forces him to stop when he finds her blocking his way.
He glares.
She ignores it. “Ne, Zoro…”
“What?”
“Do you think Sanji-san will be very grateful when you save him?”
Zoro blinks.
Then, very slowly, a small grin splits his face. “Che. Bastard better be.”
She doesn’t know if he’s thinking of reunion-sex or simply having one up on the chef, but she supposes it’s probably the same thing to the two of them anyway.
END
10. ????
He sighs.
They’re yelling at one another again, and that either means sensei will show up early for practice in a foul mood and work them super hard, or he’ll show up late and in a good mood that makes everyone wince because they know exactly what sensei did to get there.
The girls think it’s cute.
He tells them it only gets in the way of training and that he certainly won’t waste time on those types of things when he becomes the world’s greatest.
Whenever he says so, the girl who always kicks him in the head mutters that it’s probably for the best because nobody would willingly put up with an idiot like him anyway. He doesn’t get it. But he knows it pisses him off.
He complains to sensei about her all the time, but Zoro only laughs and tells him not to worry about it.
END
EDITS PLEASE. And I am off to rehearsal. Again. For the NEXT project. -_-;;