I present to you my first attempt at this couple, which has grown to be one of my secondary favorites next to LuffyxUsopp.
For all youSanjixUsopp lovers out there, this one's for you!
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The whispers engulfing the table were starting to get on Sanji's nerves. Turning around once again to look at everyone, he could see them all bent over the table, whispering quietly and exchanging fits of giggles.
Everyone but Usopp, anyway. Still down there in the workshop with whatever contraption he was trying to make...
Whatever was going on, Sanji figured it best to ignore it and act as though he were perfectly fine. But how couldhe be when everyone's talking about something he has no idea about?
Honestly, sometimes he wondered if Luffy ever considered stuff like equality...
Striding over to the table with the most casuel look he could muster, he leaned down to hear the ongoing whispers, only to be greeted with total silence.
The whispering stopped instantly, and each pair of eyes came to look at him with either a snicker or a glint. Alright, NOW it was really starting to make him mad...
"Oi, what's all this damn whispering about?" It was already hard to ask without gritting his teeth.
"Why, it's nothing at all, Sanji-kun." Nami spoke in her sweetest tone, all the while waving her hand to make him go off.
At the sound of her voice, Sanji lit up with his usual loving tone.
"Ah! Nami-swan! You are concerned for me?" Kneeling to the ground by her, she could practically see the tiny hearts dance above him, only making her roll her eyes.
"Actuelly, no. I'm not." And with that, the large heart around him promptly split in two.
"N-Nami-swan! B-But why!?"
A few snickers immediately surrounded him, and he could feel their eyes practically staring him down.
Franky was the first one who dared to speak. stifling a smirk.
"Well, Cook-bro...It's just...You know." Nudging him the shoulder, it seemed he was only trying to make a joke out of it rather than help in some way.
"Yohoho! I am so happy that you have someone!" Brooke laughed cheerfully.
Now Sanji was getting more than just confused. What the hell were they talking about? 'Happy to have someone?' What was that supposed to mean?
The only thing that surprised him more when Luffy could finally stop his snickering and look Sanji directly in the eye.
"Don't worry, Sanji. We'll all be fine with however you are."
"WHAT are you talking about?" Standing up, he was beginning to figure out the implication just from their voices.
"Nami said she heard you this morning in the Galley."
Nothing unusual about that, was there? He had just been cooking like he always did in the morning. Quickly, he tried to think back to everything that had been done that morning, and it wasn't long before the image was pulled out from the back of his mind.
"...OH HELL NO! I AM NOT WITH THAT LONGNOSE!!"
"Never said you were, Ero-cook. You just said it yourself." Zoro's smirk was enough to tell that he was going to mock the blonde about this for a long time afterwards.
"Nami-swan!! You couldn't have heard what you did!!"
"It's your own fault. If you two had wanted to get together, you could have at LEAST done it somewhere more private than the Galley."
"WE NEVER DID ANYTHING!! I WAS JUST SHOWING HIM SOMETHING!!"
This could NOT have been happening to him! Five minutes alone in the Galley and everyone is thinking that they did THAT?!
It was wrong! Wrong! Unbelievably wrong!!
"You've been around Usopp a lot lately..." Chopper's little squeaked, only to hide behind Zoro when he was thrown a death glare.
In the calmest voice he could, Sanji tried to spell it out.
"I. Am not. In love. With. That. Idiot."
"But-"
"I'M NOT! I have NEVER liked him that way!! And I will not EVER like him that way! No matter how much freakin evidence you think you have, I WILL NOT EVER LOVE HIM!!"
The steam rising from pores could easily be seen, until the Galley door slammed open loudly. He didn't realize it right then, but Sanji had made one of the biggest mistakes he ever could have.
In the doorway stood Usopp, his eyes wider than usual, his hands clenching slowly into fists. He looked almost like he'd been turned into a zombie or something.
The silence in the room made minutes feel like hours. That glazed look in his eyes could only make it hurt even more...
"...Oi...Usopp..." Sanji walked towards him slowly.
"C'mon, don't do that...I was defending both of us. I mean, they freakin thought we were in LOVE or something! I don't understand how they could possibly think-"
In one swift second, Sanji fell to the floor, cheek stinging with pain while Usopp towered over him, his eyes showing nothing but fear and sadness.
The next second, he was gone, running up the stairwell and into the Boys Quarters.
'SLAM!'
And all was quiet. Deathly quiet...
If the first chapter seemed a little cheesy, I apologize. It should get better later though. I had to write the beginning of this story over five times until I settled upon this version of it, so I hope it's alright so far.