Aryes: Hey guys! I like this pairing a loy and i always have prompts so yay! I also love One Piece so...yay! So yeah, I like this pairing even though it is unpopular (Usopp is adorable though that I ship him :) he reminds me of myself somewhat XD) I like Sanji and Usopp~! Gah! This will be a weird narration story/actually story. I am weird and like to change up my style so enjoy this beginning chapter.
WARNING: YAOI (MALE X MALE) STUFF IN THIS FANFIC, ALSO SWEARING AND ALCOHOL WILL BE IN THIS FANFIC, IF THESE THINGS DISTURB YOU THEN I SUGGEST NOT READING THIS FANFIC. TO ALL WHO ARE GOOD WITH IT PLEASE ENJOY~
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ONE PIECE!
Weak Thoughts
Chapter 1: Breaking the Ice
It was such a long and heinous process to get accepted into the school New World Academy, it was a university known for its rather odd acceptance of odd applicants. The students came from all sorts of backgrounds and it was a true miracle to be accepted by the school because no one really knew what the requirements were. Not even the staff in the school knew how the selection process worked, but no one really questioned it, to do so would only probably confuse someone further. After all, the man who made the school and its application process was one of the craziest wealthiest men to ever roam this world, Gold D. Rogers. He was infamous and famous for his grand adventures and oddness, he was extremely known for his good weird hearted nature. For him to open up a school and settle down with a woman named Portgas Rose was a surprise to the world to say the least, but everyone welcomed the change with open arms. Education was something every country needed help in and when a wealthy man opens up some college with no need for extra government help, they were happy to oblige.
So, in short, Gold D. Rogers ran the school however he saw fit as long as he didn't start trouble around the world again. Now back to the main reason why i bring this up is because of our poor main character of this story. His name was Usopp and he was quite the odd one to say the least. He never excelled at academics or anything, but he was here for something he did tremendously well, inventing. He was bright in a creative way, he also looked really strange so that only added to his reasoning of why he was chosen to come here to New World Academy. Usopp looked a little like Pinocchio from the fairy tale with his ridiculous long nose, especially since he did find that he lied a bit more than he intended, but that was where the similarities stopped. Usopp was not thin like Pinocchio anymore, he used to be when he was younger, but recently he had outgrown his awkward pubescent body into one he felt more confident in. He now had muscles and had broader shoulders, his hair grown out into black long curls which he usually bunched into a big poofy pony tail. It was hidden somewhat hidden by the man's white fluttery sun hat, which really was helpful for the hot days where he had grown up in.
Usopp was new to New World and was getting his dorm today, he had seen the dorms and was impressed by the amount of space that was available. He had registered for a bigger room, but he would have to share it, that was the only downfall. It wasn't that he didn't like people, he usually was good with all sorts of people in a general sense, but you just didn't know if you would hate who your roommate was or if you would be the best of friends. At New World Academy, that was just another strange thing, no roommate requests were available, and to be honest that was Usopp's real problem. He didn't know what he was going to get, or rather who he was going to get. It was stressing him out as he got to campus and looked around at all the other students. Many looked capable but then there were others that set off an alarm in his head, guys with piercings, tattoos and other clothing choices that screamed, 'Beware me' to him. Needless to say, Usopp hoped and wished that his roommate wasn't a psychopath or something awful like that!
The raven felt his legs start to shake and he mentally cursed his weak mentality, he was scared but he thought he had controlled it enough so he didn't get scared over small things like this. Usopp breathed in a deep breath and walked briskly toward his dorm room, he had already sat through the orientation waiting so he could anxiously see who his roommate was. He reached the Merry Hall, it was where his dorm room lay on the second floor. It was a co-ed dorm room and he opened the door to the dorm entrance. It was quiet as he opened the wood door silently and saw there was a hallway that led to a shower room, but mostly doors everywhere down the hall. Apparently, the kitchens were on the second floor and on the main floor and there was a shower room on every floor, it was a strange dorm. Usopp liked the design of it and the bricking of the building, it was a stronger building so if there was any natural disasters, this dorm was one of the safest.
Usopp saw elevators down the hall and walked past them, he hated elevators, he needed a staircase. He paused when he heard a sound from behind him, it sounded like a door. The raven haired man turned and saw a womanin black clothing come out of a room. She was wearing leather pants and a jacket with a white collar sticking out the top, she had dark medium length hair and she had darker skin like him. She had seen him for only a second, her eyes bright and then she smiled and said, "Do you need help finding something Mr. long nose?" The offer was kind and genuine despite the nickname and it made Usopp want to hide, he felt bad for asking her for something, but it wasn't too much trouble to locate something. "Umm...yeah. Do you know where the stairs are by any chance?" She nodded and pointed in his direction, "Down the hall before you hit the showers to the left."
He nodded and said, "thanks," before continuing on his journey, he found the stairs easily. The woman from before might have been above him in years, she looked so mature, but then again he was late in his move in. Most students had come a day earlier while he had been late working his last shift at his old workplace, his coworkers had even had a goodbye party. It had been nice, it was probably the sweetest thing he'd ever gotten from his workplace. Usopp made a noise as he hit his shoe into a step on the hard stairs, he kept going till he reached the top and pulled his rolling suitcase and bags behind him. He didn't have much to put away and his classes started in a week, so he could have time to get used to this place. So far he liked it, he just was still worrying about the roommate, and what about neighbors?
The dark skinned man sighed as he reached the door handle and pulled it open with a little extra force than necessary. He walked out cautiously into the hallway and remembered his room number, 213. He never liked the number 13 even when it was with other numbers, man he hated this. Usopp willed himself to move and stop worrying as he walked down the hall, this hallway a bit louder but nothing over a quiet roar, maybe he had quiet neighbors? Well that was until a door suddenly slammed open and then the yelling started, "Luffy! Get to the window! Don't go out the door!" Then, Usopp saw only a flash of a pale arm before it disappeared behind the doorframe, "Luffy RUN!" That was all Usopp heard before he heard a male sounding in pain and the door slamming and some more yelling. The brown skinned male was frozen in the hallway, what just happened?
"Shocked?" asked someone and Usopp turned around to see the woman from earlier come out from where the elevator was and walk to where he was. Usopp didn't have a response, but the women seemed to guess that as she spoke, "They are quite interesting people. The people in that room have stayed here for a week before us and have made friends. I moved in yesterday and am already caught up in their groove. My name is Nico Robin, pleasure to meet you again Mr. Long-nose. What room do you have?" Her voice was very suprisingly amused and Usopp looked confused and said, "Room 213". The woman smiled and pointed to the room across from the ruckus and said, "Your room is right there. Seems i will be seeing you around Mr. Long-nose." Usopp made a small face and muttered out, "My name is Usopp," the woman smiled but said nothing in return as she glanced at my lugagge and walked toward the room that still sounded loud. "Welcome to New World Academy Long-nose-kun," she said with a smile, and then she opened the door and the screaming sounds became louder then faded as she she shut the door.
One of the screams being, "Robin! Help Luffy please!" It unnerved Usopp when the hallway was mostly silent except the muffled yelling from that room in particular. It sounded loud and clamoring and Usopp looked over at his door and grimaced a bit, he was going to be bext to some loud neighbors, but at least they didn't look mean so f- "Law! You fucking asshole! GET BACK HERE!" the yell or rather the roar was heard as a door swung open wide right where Usopp was, the wooden object almost hitting Usopp. Luckily the tan male dodged the door with a small sound of surprise as he watched a raven haired man with a strange snow leopard hat flying by. He was turned toward the kitchen at the end of the hallway and then came a large, and by large Usopp meant way bigger than him guy who was pale and built like a mountain with hair bright red. "LAW, YOU LITTLE SHIT! IF YOU THROW MY MAKEUP DOWN THE DRAIN I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!" the red haired man yelled Usopp stared wide eyed as the tan slim raven ran to the sink with a dark smile thrown at the big red head.
Usopp could only come to the conclusion that everyone was slightly insane here as the red head caught up to the raven haired man and they proceeded to start brawling in the middle of the kitchen. Usopp debated for only a second whether he should try and stop them, but instantly made the smart decision of 'no' as he quickly whipped out his key instead for the door and unlocked it. He could hear the men in the hallway struggling against one another and it seems the red head had won this round, wooting and laughing at the raven. There was then a sound of distress by the red head, Usopp could guess the raven snuck the makeup back in his clutches, but at that point Usopp safely closed the door behind him and sighed, sinking heavily against the door to his room. His room and another's, he didn't know the guy's name yet, but by looking at the very sparse room he could guess that he was the first one here. That fact made Usopp smile a little, knowing that he would have peace and quiet for a moment and if he was lucky, enough to unpack his stuff completely.
He stood up again sighing, he really didn't have much to unpack really, just some books, a poster, some essential tools, and clothes. Nothing really that crazy in his few bags, but the space in the room looked huge in every way. The raven haired boy breathed in with a smile, the room was clean, and as he went to inspect the beds he was happy that they too were a bigger size. They were at different walls, each bed apart with 2 dressers in the middle against the wall and at the end of one bed were two desks right next to each other. There was also a closet on the end of the other bed, each side of the room with their own perks. Usopp decided on the right one that had the desks next to it since he would probably be using it more than the other male might, unless of course he was in a very studious major. That brought the room mate topic back again! What if his roommate was like the two guys at the kitchen, what if they were rude and mean or worse, they wreck his inventions and ruin his plans for them!
Usopp was silently cursing everything in the world right now as he panicked, his low expectations were better than having high ones, at least you can't get any worse than the low expectations. With that in mind Usopp pulled the rubber band on his hand that slapped his wrists, it was a trick he learned to pay attention and focus on other things. It really worked as he went with his bags over to the bed and hiked them up onto the sheet less mattress when he heard a noise from outside the door. He paused, he heard voices talking, but he really couldn't make out what they were saying, but he guessed they were the guys before talking until the door of his room started to open. The voice was heard clearer, the voice was deeper than his but not too much that it sounded intimidating, but then the door opened wider. Usopp saw blonde hair that stole his attention and light colored skin, not as light as the pale man in the hall, but decently bright looking. Also the man was wearing a black suit and pants, the blonde man was still talking out the door to someone, "Yeah, this is my room. Thanks for showing me around."
The blonde sighed and turned towards Usopp now, and the raven noticed astonishingly blue eyes, eyes that paused on him. Usopp stood up straighter when the eyes narrowed at him, it was sort of angry and Usopp internally screamed in fear. He needed to introduce himself now, "H-hi. My name is Usopp, i'm your um...roommate." There was a silence that followed his introduction and Usopp stared at the man for a minute longer before the blonde walked in a step and shut the door behind him. The dark skinned man noticed that the blonde had three times as many bags as him, and that he wore very nice shoes. The man sighed and said in a very monotone voice, "Okay, mine name's Sanji. I am a cook, and am in a cooking major. Also don't ask me to cook anything for your sorry ass, I only cook for the ladies, just saying that now." Usopp stilled at the cuss word, but relaxed when he realized he was not using it in a threatening way. The blonde looked over at his stuff and the bed and spoke, "So, I assume you are taking that bed right?" The raven looked down and over at the other bed and said sheepishly, "Yeah, uh, I use desks more than closets and I don't really need one that much, but I can switch if you want. I don't mind at all."
Sanji shook his head and said, "Nah, I like the closet space anyway. I was just asking in case you were gonna change it." Usopp looked back over at his stuff and said, "I'm good here." He turned to unpack again and heard Sanji speak again, "What major are you in?" The raven turned and said "Inventing." Sanji gave him a weird look and Usopp explained more, "It has a better name, but basically i will be inventing new machines, technology, art, and stuff like that." The blonde looked at him blankly and Usopp felt a little panic at the fact that he couldn't really read the other man's face. The raven paused though when he really looked at the man's face there was one thing that stood out, his eyebrows curled into a curly-Q. "What," asked the blonde a bit testy, and Usopp said "nothing" in reply. Our main character Usopp did not know then that he had just evaded a landmine, for Sanji's biggest pet peeve was when someone asked about his eyebrows. Usopp will eventually know this but for now we all simply laugh because our main character was lucky enough to not point it out, and the imagery that one could conjure if he had said something is simply amusing for all to think.
That is how our story begins for our main character Usopp and his roommate Sanji, the blonde cook with curly eyebrows who has a bit of a short temper with men, met.
-2 months later-
Within the two months, our main character Usopp and his roommate had found a pattern of life in their dorm room, silence. Since the first day there had been no conversations between the two other than general dorm room comments like "pick up the towel next time" or "I am going to shower". Nothing very special and both men preferred it this way it seemed, and really it was better than Usopp imagined, even if he felt lonely quite a bit. He really hadn't made many friends at all, he had been so busy and he really was a quiet person in general so it didn't come naturally. Sanji and him had no classes together this first part of the year, and their schedules kept them from actually even seeing one another in the day at all. They only saw each other at night by coincidence, nothing more than that.
Sanji seemed to be making friends though, though it was mostly just women, none of which being called a friend really fit their description. Sanji mainly was just a gentlemen that women sorta liked that treatment, but he took it too far to the point where he could be called sexist by his gentlemanly ways. Usopp really didn't know what to think of him to be honest, he was just a strange human being like him except more social. He did gather a few things about him from his room items, one thing was that he liked soccer and martial arts. Usopp didn't know if he played either sport but he could tell that he followed the sports closely from the recent posters on the wall. Two was that Sanji really liked suits, or rather he was very dressy male. He wore something every day that by normal terms wouldn't be called casual at all, but Usopp could care less what the other wore, it was his business after all.
Usopp also noticed the hallways were always very noisy, it was a constant stream of normal chaos, you couldn't go in the hallway without some scene happening. While the raven liked the fact there were no drugs or partying with loud music and alcohol, the constant noise was something you needed to adjust to. The hatted male also noted that the raven woman, Robin, came upstairs with a women with orange hair who was introduced as Nami. They often went to the room with the biggest amounts of noise, the room right across from his. The name Luffy seemed to be a popular one to scream and he often heard Nami yelling at him, but Usopp had never seen this Luffy or any other occupants of the room yet. It was odd, but Usopp didn't really care, in fact he was glad he wasn't involved. There was an odd incident though where Sanji came back to their room while Usopp was studying and Usopp couldn't help but notice that the man's desk wasn't ever used. Plus, the dark skinned male never saw Sanji working at his bed so briefly Usopp wondered if he did his work during the morning hours at all.
Now most people wouldn't find that odd, but Usopp, our main character, was a bit of a creatively strange thinker. In fact, he made an adjustment to his desk, one that allowed him to recycle pencils and pens. You would simply use a writing utensil and when you are finished using it you deposit it at the top of the desk where a hole was made for a cup. Usopp had built a device that catches the utensil in the hole and turns it sideways so it is horizontal and drops it onto a strip of metal underneath the desk that the pencil/pen rolls down. The metal piece at the end is bent to catch the pencil/pen before it falls off onto the floor, the pencil held directly underneath the corner of Usopp's desk. Usopp only had to reach down to grab a pencil or pen from underneath the desk now, and it was an easy make. He had once caught Sanji staring at it and noticed that he looked at it for a moment before walking back to his own bed. Usopp was proud that the device had actually caught the attention of the blonde, and hoped that maybe when they became friendlier towards one another he could tell him how it works, how he made it, and things like that.
-4 months-
Ah, our main character Usopp was floored entirely, and by floored I meant he is literally on the floor. He should probably get up, that's pretty disgusting, ah, that's better. *clears throat* Anyway, our main character Usopp was floored by the fact that the schedule was moving again, and just when he got into a good routine, it was going to change. The reason why our thinker is on the floor was because he had a nightmare again about being shot. It was an innocent nightmare considering his own father was a sniper in the army and he had always believed as a child that someone would turn a gun on him. He himself was great with a gun as well, but he never liked them like his father did. To his father, guns were special, but to Usopp, he could only really see them as tools. There was a clear divide in thought at a young age, and a fear of guns being used on him. So much fear that this nightmare was not uncommon, but the falling out of bed was rather new to him. The dark skinned male sat up and scratched his head looking at the clock that said, "5:30". This was the usual time that Usopp got up to go to his classes, but he remembered that his classes now don't start till 11:00.
Our main character made a very whiny noise before crawling back into bed to attempt again to sleep, but after about 30 minutes he gave up trying. Usopp looked over at Sanji who was still sleeping and smiled, this might be the first time they would be able to spend a morning together as roommates. Usopp decided to get a quick shower like he usually did, it was a quick shower and there was plenty of warm water for sure. After he came back to the room he decided to draw some inventing designs, just till 9:00 or something. The raven drew and drew, the sound of skitch marks making the room sound filled with noise. He had decided to build something strange again, like a table that could change from a tall to short table, or maybe a small box shelf that could arrange itself on a wall. Usopp was so lost in his own designs that he hadn't noticed Sanji waking up or leaving the room, it was easy for the dark skinned male not to notice things about others when he was working, that is until he saw a plate of scrambled eggs laid down to the side of his plan. Usopp jumped and turned to see Sanji hovering over him with a discerning eye, his other eye was covered up mostly, but the blue eyes were looking at his plan.
"Had some leftover and you look like you haven't eaten,"Sanji muttered and walked over to his closet, but Usopp's eyes were on the eggs, they looked very nice indeed. "Thank you," Usopp responded as he took a bite and he felt his hands go to his cheeks. There was so much flavor in the eggs, thy had hints of bacon in them but none in sight, and then there was something about them that made them fluffy and cheesy all at the same time. "This is amazing Sanji!" Usopp commented as he smiled at the blonde who scoffed and dug into his clothes in the closet speaking up, "Yeah, well don't ask me to make 'em again. This is a one time thing understood." Usopp nodded with a smile because the food just made him smile, he wanted to eat it all and savor it all at once, but then he looked at the time and cursed, "Shit." The time was 10:30, he had to be at class by 11. "What," asked the blonde as he looked at avery stressed out main character who was trying to get out of the chair but was having a difficult time of it.
"My new class starts at 11!" Usopp said a little panicked as he finally got of the chair and got over to his satchel to put in his English books, Sanji saying nothing in reply to his nervous outburst. Eventually, the raven threw on his headphones and hat, his brown shorts and yellow shirt already ready to go as he took the plate of eggs with him out the door. He stopped by the kitchen to rinse off his plate real quickly and noticed that Sanji already washed his and it was laid neatly to dry. The kitchen looked as though not a soul had been in it, it looked clean and nice, and most importantly, unused. The raven disregarded that fact as he quickly put away his plate after he washed it and rushed toward the door only to see Sanji coming out with his long black satchel. He wore a very tired expression and had on a yellow button up shirt and black slimming pants that made models fall to shame. They looked good on him as everything he wore, Usopp mentally hit himself, he needed to stop doing that.
Recently, our main character had noticed more 'details' about the blonde, one's that were less innocent than before like how Sanji really did look good in everything. Our main character paused at the sight of Sanji, their eyes meeting for a moment and once again, Sanji was the first to speak, "Language 101 right?" That was the name of the class Usopp was going to, and now Sanji as well. He had a class with Sanji now and the raven felt his heart do a little jump, he would get to learn more about the cook. "Y-yeah," the blonde nodded at Usopp's response and walked with him all the way to the new English class they had together. If only they knew who else was in that classroom with them and the encounters they would have, our main character is a fairly decent coward so he would have ran away to the office for a transfer if he had known. Ha ha, poor poor Usopp the inventor, you are in for an interesting first year starting right...now.
Aryes: Hi guys, i tried making this fic more comical, and it will only get funnier as the story goes. How do you like my narration? Is it okay or better without our narrator perspective? I need an honest opinion about that! It's a new thing i am trying XD How are my characters too. I made Usopp a quiet guy...well for now...there will be character development. Sanji is also kinda a quiet guy unless there is a lady around you know, and also he doesn't smoke yet, he's too young for that habit man. Hope you guys liked the first chapter or Weak Thoughts~
~Aryes
