Ship of Lub

A Thirty-four-Chapter Adventure in Love
Featuring all of your favourite Straw Hats ravaged by hormones
Brought to you by Kanthia's Dirty Mind and Extra Crispy Fingers
Rated T for Teen and Not Some Kids

...It's because it's one giant great big hunky-dory ship of love.

Chapter the First – Poison
Zoro ecks Luffy
 Word Count: 642
Pairing: Kuromarimo x Siam
Rating: Extra Poisonous
Disclaimer: Kanthia owns at MapleStory.

Well, this was a great mess.

After a misinterpreted conversation with the marksman, their captain had decided that he was the official taste-tester of the Straw Hat Pirate Crew. Just in case anything was poisoned. Because, he had been told, there was once this king named King Usopp who was powerful and wise and yadda yadda, but there were these evil assassins who were trying to poison his food…

Luffy must have missed that last word. For the first day or so, he only tasted food and nothing was really different; it wasn't as though he suddenly started stealing from their plates. He soon grew bored of stealing food and the stupid dartboard cook sure as hell wasn't going to let him taste it before it was set out for a meal. So the captain, undaunted, set out to check other things.

It started with wooden boards. He amused himself for a couple of hours checking each one, one by one, for poison but mostly quality of taste. He graduated to larger things- the mast, his possessions, the possessions of his crewmates, his crewmates.

At least his swords were safe. It took Luffy one taste to decide that they were too sharp to be poisonous.

He woke up once to a hanging moon and the sound of something chewing on something else. Chopper woke up next to the sound of Luffy chewing on his fur, and consequently made enough noise to wake up the rest of the men except for the Magic Eyebrow who was on lookout (who slept too deeply to be woken by a reindeer about to be eaten anyways).

It took a while to calm down the doctor.
It took a longer time to calm down Luffy, who was convinced that Chopper was poisonous.
Chopper had to be re-calmed.

He mumbled something about sunrise and went outside to start his daily regiment. Having Luffy running around saying things about poison this and poison that was bad enough without him trying to eat his own nakama. Next thing you know, things will start disappearing at night; wood, planks, the Ero-cook (hopefully)…all because of something stupid Usopp said. Damn the mind of their captain, or lack thereof.

"Zoro?"
Damnit.
"Zoro?"
"Yeah?"
"Zoro?"
"What?"
"ZORO!"
"WHAT?"
A pause. "What'cha doing?"
"Training."
"Oh." Luffy appeared from the crow's nest, landing with a thud next to his first mate. There was a look in his eyes that revealed both a perilous mission and a lack of any common sense.
"Zoro, are you sure you aren't poisonous?
"What?"
"You know, poi-son-ous. Ha ha ha, Zoro can't spell."
"Luffy, I don't care what Usopp told you, but-"
Luffy took his opening. Pulling down rather roughly on Zoro's shirt, he leaned in close to the source of poison and stuck his tongue (poison resistant, mind you) into Zoro's mouth.

Hours passed- minutes passed- seconds passed-
They were all the same thing.

Well, this was a great awkward mess.

If it had been anyone else, he would be laughing right now. Luffy was (albeit for all the wrong reasons) so damn gentle when it came to –uh, poison-tasting; gently prodding, pushing, checking the inside of his swordsman's mouth. The feeling was foreign to the loveless, weak little kid reeling on the ground after being defeated for the two thousandth time. He had never felt that kind of a chill from cold or that kind of knot in his gut from being stabbed.

He wasn't sure of how to respond. Luffy's eyes were closed in concentration and seemed to be oblivious to any kind of prodding, mental or otherwise. Zoro finally relaxed, stopped thinking so damn much and returned the favour. Before he could get in, Luffy pulled back and smiled the kind of smile that only Luffy was capable of after a first kiss.
"See? Zoro's not…poisonous."

Zoro grinned. "Yeah, but are you?" He used the surprised silence to close the distance between them again.

/owarai

inspiration for this mess:
the song 'poison'
a sketchy conversation about the 'poison-osity' of the sandai kitetsu
and that ice-cream zolu that still owns.

to all the marimosiam fans...
please don't come to kanthia's house with burning objects.
shifty eyes

kanthia