Still not own One Piece, still not making money with this! YESSSSSSSSS!!! Beta readed!
A big THANKS to my wonderful Beta- reader Princess Darkcloud, who is able to make a good story even better!
Hope you like it!
Warnings: Yaoi, language
Pairing: Zoro x Sanji
Please review and be gentle! Reviews are welcome! Thx!
Hi! This is a story I thought very long about. I wasn´t sure whether to upload or not, because, well… You´ll see, it's a little bit strange and different from my other stories.
I hope you will like it nevertheless!
Have fun!
Prologue
"MARIMO!!!!" the blond cook of the Thousand Sunny yelled. He stomped out of his kitchen over to the green haired man sleeping against the mast of the ship. Standing in front of the man, he lifted up his left leg and kicked him hard in his face.
Zoro woke up, tilting his head back with a nosebleed. As his vision cleared, he looked up at the cook, hatred and anger burning in his eyes.
"What was that for, shit-cook?" He yelled back as he quickly jumped up to his feet.
Both men were now standing in front of each other, faces just a few centimeters away.
"Where's the good Sake I bought one week ago in the village, huh? It was very expensive and only reserved for the Ladies!" Sanji hissed.
Zoro smirked. "Well, you're right, shithead! It was really good." He grinned darkly.
"No! Not AGAIN! Can't you just steal some of the cheap booze, asshole??" Sanji shouted loudly into the other man's face.
Zoro leaned back, the little finger of his right hand in his right ear, looking at everything but the blonde in front of him.
"Nope!"
The blonde snapped: his face got red in anger, he stiffened his body, and leapt at the Marimo with his left leg extended before him. The swordsman blocked the attack with his arms crossed before his chest and pushed the cook back. The cook flew some meters away, landing safely on his feet.
"Ok, you asked for it!" Zoro whispered darkly as he unsheathed his swords.
"I asked for it!? Who stole the good Sake!?" Sanji asked in total confusion.
"If you would give it to me voluntarily I wouldn't need to steal it!"
The blonde gasped; he had rarely seen such impudence in his life…
"Oh well, here they go again!" Nami said quietly as she walked across the deck.
Sanji and Zoro were already a cloud of fighting bitches. Nami had never seen two people so stubborn and stupid, so dissimilar but still so equal in their personality and their way of life. And she had also never seen two guys who were not able to live together, but were still unable to live WITHOUT each other. They were so annoying! In the last three days she had been running a light headache and these two guys weren't helping her get over it!
They had actually found a treasure map at a market in a weird and old looking village. An old woman practically jumped on Sanji and Zoro in effort to get rid of it. She said it would lead them to the biggest treasure in the whole world, a treasure you were not able to balance out with gold. The treasure the old crow meant would be, for some people, even more valuable than the famous treasure 'ONE PIECE.' And so Nami had just seen Berries and nothing more until they were in the cavern, just to find a big, old, and ratty coffer cast out of steel— or something even harder— that they didn't have the key to.
Franky and Usopp were now trying to open the coffer; Robin hadn't been outside for about three days, trying to translate the old inscriptions on the artifact. Another loud cry from the blonde cook set her head on fire, also fueling her anger. That was enough!
Actually, Sanji had two of his hands and his right foot on Zoro's swords, which were crossed in front of his chest in defense. Both men were pressing into one another, yelling and cursing and swearing and spitting in each other's faces.
Nami took the Clima Tact Usopp had made for her out from behind her back, stomped over to the two idiots, and knocked them both square in the head. Now they were leaning against one another, back-to-back and unconscious with bleeding noses; both were now sporting a big bump on their heads.
Nami walked away to join Robin below deck with a grave look in her eyes while talking to the other conscious idiots behind her. "I've got a headache… So could you PLEASE be so kind as to be not too noisy?"
A loud shout of "OK, got it!" came from both men behind her back… Sometimes Nami could be really scary!!!
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"So, what do the inscriptions say, Robin?" Nami asked the raven-haired woman in front of her. Robin sat at the desk in her beloved bibliotheca, surrounded by piles of books, old rolls of paper, and notes.
"Well, actually I think it says something like:
'Remember.
Always.
Love and Hate go hand in hand.
No Love without Hate.
Remember.
What will to be chosen?
Love or Hate.
Light or Darkness.
Remember.´"
Nami looked at her with a puzzled expression.
"What???" the one and only semi-intelligent thing she was able to say.
"I couldn't tell you. I—"
A loud explosion from below deck caused both of them to jump up in surprise.
"W-What was that?!?" Nami yelled in fear.
"Are we being attacked?" she looked at the surprised archeologist. Both made a serious face, nodded, and ran out the bibliotheca and up the stairs.
The whole crew but Usopp and Franky were out on deck.
"What was that, Nami? Are we being attacked?" their Captain asked confused, unknowingly repeating Nami's words. He looked around with a slightly insane grin on his face; he loved to fight. Zoro stood there, his swords unsheathed, scanning the area, back to back with Sanji.
´Well, now they are able to get along with each other…´ Nami thought, rolling her eyes.
Chopper stood behind Luffy, attaching himself onto the rubber legs of his Captain, light trembling.
Then, suddenly, the door from under deck slammed open. Franky and Usopp stepping outside, coughing little clouds, both of them surrounded by a cloud of thick, black smoke.
"We— cough— we got it— cough— YAY!!!" Usopp shouted. "We were finally able to open it!!!"
"ARE YOU ILL OR SOMETHING???" Nami screamed at them, teeth like a shark, and death in her eyes. "Are you planning to destroy the whole ship?!?"
"The ship can't be destroyed by such a little rumble, sis!" Franky answered.
Oops, one word too many, though just one sentence had been spoken…
Nami's headache had increased into real pain caused by the loud explosion and the whole situation. She walked over to Franky ever so slowly, death still in her eyes… Franky stepped back, lifting his hands up.
"Don't do anything you'll regret later, sis…" he said.
"Oh- I won't…" Then she caught a glimpse of Usopp, who was standing beside Franky. He actually held a little chest in his trembling hands. Nami stopped, staring at the chest.
It was almost about 30 cm long on both sides and 10 cm high. It was made from metal— gold and silver— and depicted angels and demons fighting against a black, not-easy-to-be-seen enemy that was surrounding them.
She started to walk in Usopp's direction. Usopp started to tremble even more, sweat on his forehead. He swallowed hard at the look the Navigator was giving the chest. This was too much! He screamed out in horror, as Nami was just about 2 meters away, throwing the little chest up into the air. He turned around on his tiptoes and fled below deck just to look out the door between him and Nami.
She REALLY could be very scary sometimes.
Nami caught the little chest in mid-air. Surrounded by the crew, she looked at it with interest. Turning it to every side she scanned the little chest systematically. With a light scent of Berries in her eyes she gave it to Robin.
"What do you think?"
Robin also scanned it systematically. She saw all the little figures and the scenes of the fight on the chest. Upon the top of the chest were more writings, done in a language she didn't actually know. She could only say that they had to have been very old.
"Hmm… I don't recognize the language, but maybe I can translate some of the words; some of the letters are familiar to me. It has to be very old, about 1,000 years or so, I think…"
"So it could be very valuable?" Nami asked with Berri symbols growing larger in her eyes.
"Maybe…" Robin answered. "But I have to look at it more closely and that will take some time."
That was everything Nami wanted to hear. Spinning around surrounded by Berri symbols, she hit the ground, drooling out of the right corner of her mouth.
"Oi, Nami-swaaaaan~" the cook yelled, leaping over to her to help her up and to stand properly.
Slightly unsteady on her legs, she thanked Sanji-kun, turning to Robin.
"The next, bigger island is about one week away. You can use this time to do with it what you want, except for giving it to these idiots or destroying it."
"Thank you." Robin gave a slight bow in Nami's direction and walked away.
This could become very interesting…
To be continued…