Author's Note #1: So I've always wanted to make a collection of one-shots that would end with having 100 chapters and I finally figured out how to do it. I will be using a prompt-list. The one-shots will vary from drabbles, to actual full-length one-shots. I found this list online on a wordpress blog. And without further ado, here is the first one. Now, which pairing can I do 100 one-shots for and never be bored, nor run out of ideas? Well that's a pretty easy one. Zoro and Sanji, of course! You never know, I might elaborate on one and make it a story. I don't own One Piece. Please review. Let me know if you're going to read this in the long-run, cause it's going to be a long story. 100 chapters worth of ZoSan or SanZo. For now it'll be rated T, it might get upped, depending on things. I'm not concentrating on length right now, I'm just seeing where the prompt takes me. Also, is it just me or should there be a ZoSan/SanZo competition? For the best story? Other authors in other fandoms get to brag about how awesome their story is, ranking in insert-place-here in insert-competition-here and we don't get to do it. Anyone willing to come up with a competition we could do?
one, two, three
by: Setkia
prompt #1: introduction
length: 340 words
The first time Sanji sees him, he's bleeding out.
Well no, that's not right, he saw the swordsman with the green hair sitting at a table at the Baratie, watching his captain drink down a fly. But when his chest gets cut open and he falls into the ocean, that's the first time he truly sees him.
Sees his ambition, sees his drive, can tell he's really going to do something so outrageous as to challenge the greatest swordsman in the world who just cut down over a thousand men because he was bored, in order to get stronger.
It's not until long after the man has stitches going diagonally along his chest and they've brought down Arlong that he's able to properly introduce himself.
"My name's Sanji," he tells him. "I'm going to be the ship's new cook."
"Tch," is the only answer he gets back, but the man shakes his hand roughly. He can really get a feel for who a man is from the way he shakes someone's hand. Or the fact that someone like Roronoa Zoro will even shake your hand says that appearances can be deceiving. At least, that's what he thinks until the swordsman later tells him it was because he looked so pathetic standing there the green haired man figured he'd at least shake the love-cook's hand to shut him up.
During the first time they put him on watch he and the Marimo have their first ever true conversation. And it's interesting and the man opens up to him in ways he never thought he ever would. He lays everything on the table, a take-it-or-leave-it sort of deal and Sanji doesn't know how to respond by saying anything other than his own whole truth and story, which the swordsman listens to very carefully.
This is a new life and Sanji is okay with this.
They drink together that night and he silently drinks to a new beginning.
The burning taste of alcohol has never been so sweet.
Author's Note #2: To all those readers who write, I am submitting a challenge to you: write a ZoSan or SanZo story (don't care, smut, no smut, whatever, top, bottom, whatever) using the prompt "bandana" and including the phrase "It's like toothpaste, it's out of the tube!". I wanna see how many of you could write something like that. If you want to, that is. Send me a PM if you decide to do it and the link to it once it's done. I await responses. Hopefully.
