Title: Revive
Rating: T (for language and sexual content)
Genre: Romance/Drama, slight humour and angst
Pairings: Luffy x Nami, also some other pairings but won't tell you what they'll be shi shi. Read and see! ^-^
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece or any of its characters. One Piece belongs completely to Eiichiro Oda, I'm just experimenting.
A/N: So hey ya all, I'm very glad that you decided to give Revive a shot~ It's not really my first fanfic, I've written plenty of fics (and stored them all to the drawer of my desk XD) However this is the first one I've ever posted on the Internet. I'm still not sure my writing skills are good enough for posting stuff here but.. Oh well. (Thank my fiancé for that, he spell checked this for me and told me that he liked it~ So I found the courage to post it here~) Critique is very welcome. English is not my first language so it's more that possible that I've made some really stupid mistakes or used silly language in my fic. If you notice something like that, please let me know! Ok here we go~
Chapter 1 – Changing nameplates
Luffy stood motionless in the doorway of his apartment. The key was forgotten to the lock and his black leather jacket he had been carrying carelessly on his shoulder all the way from work to home had now fallen to the ground. The hall was full of cardboard boxes and he saw a glimpse of a particular huge bird cage in his living room. Between the boxes a flash of familiar blue hair could be seen. Luffy blinked a few times and swallowed.
"Vivi.. What on earth are you doing?"
The girl straightened up with an armful of clothes and an eager smile on her face.
"Surprise! Happy birthday! Isn't this just wonderful? Kohza helped me to carry the boxes up here. I was thinking of moving into a bigger flat which has a lift. If I get pregnant I can't possibly climb any stairs you know."
Luffy scratched his ear and looked confused. He didn't get what Vivi was saying at all. How did she get in? Why did she bring so many boxes? And why was she talking about getting pregnant? Luffy decided to start with the easiest question.
"How did you open the lock?"
Vivi's smile spread even wider. "Sanji-kun told me where you keep your spare key."
Luffy sighed. Of course Sanji was somehow involved. When it came to women, Sanji would do anything to please them. And Vivi certainly was the apple of his eye. Luffy could get the picture. Vivi tickling Sanji under his chin in the staff room of their working place and Sanji telling his employer excatly what she wanted to hear. Luffy rolled his eyes at the thought.
Vivi took the small silver key from her pocket and threw it over to Luffy.
"You can have this back, I already made a copy of it."
"You.. WHAT? Why?"
Vivi's smile softened a little bit and she tilted her head to the side.
"Haven't you figured it out yet honeybunny? I'm moving in! How exciting! I wanted to surprise you!"
Luffy dropped the key and let his mouth fall. He stared at Vivi with disbelief. She was moving into his flat without asking him first?
"Y-you? Moving in? Here?"
Vivi giggled and started walking towards Luffy's bedroom with the clothes. Luffy hesitated a little and then followed her. He didn't like the idea of sharing his apartment with the blue-haired girl. She was already all over him, wanting attention and taking offense when Luffy was too busy or tired to babble any sweet words to her.
Luffy certainly didn't dislike her, if he did he wouldn't ever have agreed to go out with her in the first place. But he couldn't get around the fact that Vivi was sometimes awfully bossy and got angry when things didn't go the way she wanted. Getting Vivi out would be very hard at this point but Luffy definetily wanted to keep his own space.
Luffy swallowed. How would he reject her plan without offending her? To get Vivi crying wasn't something he wanted to do.
"Viv- erm.. Darling, it's very thoughtful of you to want to surprise me but don't you think this is too fas- HOLY SHIT WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY ROOM?"
Luffy's bedroom was full of Vivi's things. The desk was filled with different kind of mascaras, hairsprays and nail polish. Vivi had organized all of Luffy's clothes into a small space in his wardrope and was now filling the rest up with her innumerable collection of clothes. She had put an extra pillow and blanket on Luffy's bed and placed her alarm clock onto his nightstand.
'..she has even set the alarm already.' Luffy noticed and frowned. This was bad, his determined girlfriend had obviously come to stay and there seemed to be no way he could get her out without any tears and broken dishes.
Vivi gave Luffy a satisfied smile and clapped her hands together.
"I arranged some things so we can both fit into this tiny room. I had to place Carue to the living room though, he's too big to live in here. I can't believe you don't have any more clothes! Is this really all you have?"
Luffy found the ability to nod. Vivi shook her head with an excited look.
"That won't do! I know a really good mall just a couple of miles away, let's go there someday and buy you some new cool clothes! I can't even imagine how good you would look in a pair of jeans, can't believe that you don't wear anything besides shorts."
"I like shorts. Nothing wrong with them" Luffy murmured as Vivi passed her to find something from the cardboard boxes. When passing Luffy she briefly stroke his rear and gave him a small peck on the cheek. Luffy's frown softened a little and he stepped into the hall after Vivi.
Luffy nervously switched his weight from a leg to another. He knew that Vivi meant no harm with her little coup but he still had to find some way out of the situation. His mouth felt incredibly dry and he noticed that he had bitten his lower lip for a good time now. He licked his lips and took a deep breath. It seemed like he had no choice but saying it out loud and clearly.
'Everyone has their lines' Luffy thought. And Vivi had just stepped on a major line of their relationship and Luffy's privacy.
"Listen now, Vivi. I don't want to sound rude but-", he started nervously.
"Found it!" Vivi smiled and showed Luffy a small metal plate with some text on it. She then walked over to him. "Would you put this on the door, honey?" she said and caressed Luffy's palm as she placed the plate on his hand.
Luffy read the text and felt horrified. 'V. Nefetari and L. D. Monkey' was written with golden letters and small hearts were engraved on either side of the text. Luffy slowly pulled his hand off from Vivi's caress, placed the plate on the hall desk and walked out, not even bothering to take his favorite hat with him.
Zoro laughed hard and placed his beer bottle onto the table.
"Zoro, this isn't funny! She fucking moved into my apartment without my permission! Damn, she's already even got a freaking nameplate!"
Zoro lifted one of his eyebrows and stared his best friend with somehow compassionate look.
"Why don't you just kick her out?"
"Zoro, we're talking about Vivi! She would get upset and start crying!"
Zoro snorted.
"See, there's your problem. You're too soft with her, you've always been. That ero-cook has brainwashed you to believe women are something that shatter into pieces if you don't always give them what they want. You're twisted around that girl's little finger." Zoro rolled his eyes. "Pseh, I'm so glad I don't have any woman to order me around. And even if I did I wouldn't stand for stuff like that."
Luffy stared into his bottle of lemonade, his forehead deeply lined in thought. He knew that Zoro was somehow right: he WAS too soft with Vivi. He had never had a relationship before and he felt as he didn't want to ruin anything. Somehow this insecurity felt extremely frustrating. Usually Luffy was confident and unhibited but around Vivi he had to watch everything he said. He had come too familiar with the effects of a careless "urusai" or a rude grunt for the past few months.
Like Zoro had said, with Vivi it was all about 'that little missy's feelings and emotions'. He looked up to the green-haired man with almost desperate look in his eyes.
"What should I do?"
"Well kick her out or let her stay." Zoro said and shrugged carelessly. "Not that bad of a decision."
"Easy for you to say, you've never been in this kind of situation", Luffy said and looked really anxious.
"That's because I don't let myself to end up in these kind of situations, baka." Zoro shot back and patted Luffy's head gently over the table.
Luffy sighed out.
"Both of the choices make me feel uneasy."
"Well how about this then: let her stay for a couple of weeks and see what happens. If she annoys you after that, kick her out."
"Well if I can't kick her out now you can only imagine how hard it'll be after two weeks." Luffy said with a gloomy look on his face.
"Tell it to her beforehand?"
"Yeah right. 'You have two weeks to prove that you can behave yourself and if you don't, I'm kicking you out.' After that the crying can be heard all the way here." Luffy chuckled though he found nothing funny with the vision in his head.
"Well of course you don't express it like that, baka. Try something like 'Oh my little honeybunny-' "
"I never call her that!"
" '-your thought of moving in with me was very sweet but could we first see if it works for a couple of weeks. Just for me, my juicy little clementine, my-' "
"Shut up already!" Luffy shrieked but felt a little better. Zoro's suggestion didn't sound that bad.
Luffy took a deep breath and when he opened the door he tried to look as natural as possible.
"T-tadaima." Luffy noticed that his hands were shaking a little.
"Luffy? Where were you? Why did you leave so suddenly?" Vivi was instantly in the doorway of nowadays their bedroom, staring at Luffy with worried but also somehow indignant look. Luffy tensed up and hecticly thought about a good thing to say.
"I-I went to Zoro's place. I needed some time to think all this." Luffy gulped. This was it.
"Why? Is something wrong?" Vivi spread his eyes wide and pursed her mouth to a worried pout.
'Oh god please don't start doing that, I'm having hard time already'
Luffy fixed his gaze to the ground. He then took slowly his shoes off and walked past Vivi to the living room. A small huff was let out when he sat on the couch. Vivi followed him and sat astride his lap, circling her arms around his neck and giving him a worried look.
Luffy raised his hand and caressed Vivi's cheek gently. Sanji had told him that it would always make women milder. It did work: Vivi relaxed a little.
"So? Baby what is it?"
"Well.. Vivi, don't get me wrong, I really appreciate that you made the effort to surprise me but this is all so sudden. It would be better if we saw how it works for a month and then discuss this again, ok?"
Vivi didn't hide the disappointed look. "You mean you don't want me here?"
"NO! I do, Viv, I really do! I just don't want to rush a decision this big. You understand, don't you?" He gave Vivi a hopeful smile.
Vivi stayed silent for a while, staring past Luffy's face at his shoulder and finally pulled Luffy for a tight hug.
"I understand. We'll give it a shot and see what happens, right?"
Luffy felt relieved. "Right", he confirmed and smiled widely. Vivi took a gentle grip of Luffy's chin and pulled him in for a kiss. Luffy closed his eyes and focused on the feeling. Vivi was softly biting his lower lip, her hand now caressing his neck while the other had risen to his hair. Luffy sneaked a hand around Vivi's waist and pulled her shirt up a little, wanting to feel her bare skin. The other hand caressed her thigh, his finger circulating small circles into her jeans. Vivi moaned and lay down on the couch, pulling the black-haired man on top of her.
Luffy let Vivi take off his hoodie and trembled as the blue-haired teen snaked her hands inside his shirt, caressing his hard back and tickling under the waistband of his shorts.
"Luffy I have another birthday present for you. It's somewhere in my body, look for it." Vivi giggled and smiled cunningly as Luffy started to examine her with a confused frow. He took off her pants and shirt and noticed something peeping from between her breasts. He brought his hand up and carefully pulled the something out.
It appeared to be a gift card. Luffy raised his eyebrows. He straightened up and moved to sit beside the half-naked Vivi.
"What's this?"
Vivi sat up and encircled her arms around Luffy's shoulders and bit his earlobe.
"I know your muscles get awfully tense because of your work so I decided to pay you a massage. In that gift card you can have 10 massages . This place was recommended to me. Do you like it?"
"I do."
And with that Vivi pulled Luffy back down with her.
Nami was trembling uncontrollably. She had curled herself up in her bed and waited. The little accusing voice in her head (the one that scolded her whenever she did something the other way her boyfriend wanted to) told her that she was a bitch. She had no right to kick him out and she would suffer really bad when the karma was going to get her.
Nami closed her eyes and focused on thinking what her best friend had told to her five minutes earlier when she called her.
"What is done is done. Now you'll just have to face the consequences. You had every right in the world to do what you did. Just stay strong."
Nami breathed out and tried to calm down. That was right. She needed to be strong and defense her rights. But she was so unsecure! Kicking him out was one of the hardest decisions in her life but she knew she had to do it
'It's not my job to work as a babysitter for my own man. He can't do anything on his own. He doesn't even pay any rent for this place.' Nami sighed.
Nami liked the man at some level. She just coudn't stand for his irresbonsibility. She had tried to teach him to be more independent but the man had only ended up getting too attached to Nami and it made her distressed. This man was just so completely lost. He didn't work but he loved to gamble. Nami had tried to wean him but it didn't help. She didn't want to hurt the man but less she wanted him to stay any longer in her home.
'Robin and Nojiko are supporting me. I need to do this now, I can't let them down'
"Just stay strong", she whispered to herself. Then she heard noise from the front door and immediately tensed. She took a long look of the picture on her nightstand and then slowly got up, heading towards the door.
She gave a small glimpse of the nameplate on the hall desk as she passed it. Curvy golden letters spelled out two names. 'G. Kijin and N. Tangerine'. She had placed a new one with only her name on the door just to make sure her intentions struck home to the man standing by the opposite side of the door. The last time she had tried to get rid of this man he had used his keys and visited her every day, begging her to take him back until Nami felt too sorry for him and let him move in again.
She wasn't going to make the same mistake again. That's why the locksmith had changed the locks earlier that day and Nami had carefully packed everything that belonged to his soon-to-be ex boyfriend and sent them to his parents' house. The only thing left to do was telling the man it was over.
There was a long silence and then Nami heard the voice that caused her to sob a little.
"Nami? I can't get the door open.." Nami took a large breath and fought back tears. He sounded so pitiful.
"I know."
"Could you open it for me?"
"..No."
"Nami? What's going on? Is this some kind of joke?" Nami could hear the anxiety slowly rising in his voice.
"No it's not, Gin. I'm sorry. I think we should break up. Living independently for a while is gonna do only good for you." She tried to sound couraging but failed miserably.
"Nami, baby, please open the door!" Nami closed her eyes as she heard Gin's crying growing even louder as the realisation hit him. He started begging.
"I can't live without you. Don't leave me. I promise I'll change, I'll stop gambling, I'll-"
Nami forced herself to continue and ignore Gin's crying. She had seen this coming. "I've sent all your things to your parents' house and informed them about this. You don't have any business here anymore, Gin. Please leave."
"Nami?"
Nami didn't answer. She slid down the wall of the hall and buried her head to her knees. Silent sobs filled up the room and Nami just hoped that Gin wouldn't hear them. Nami could hear her name to be called several times but she didn't react. After some time she heard Gin's footsteps draw away from the door and moving down the stairs. Nami cried for a while and then reached to get the cellphone from her pocket. She sent the message to both Robin and Nojiko.
'He's out.'
A/N: Thanks for reading, please review! Don't worry, you'll get to know a lot more about Nami's and Luffy's life. This was just some kind of prologue~ I'll have to apologize to all Vivi-fans out there. I know she's kinda OOC but the fic requires it so please understand T_T And yeah.. Pairing Nami up with Gin was certainly something really random XD Dunno what that came from myself. Nhihi~ I'm starting to write t a new chapter today so if you liked this one, please be sure to read the next chapter!
Ja ne~