AI NO HANA SAKU chapter One
L.T: Hi guys! Sorry it took so long to start writing again, but my USB escaped, so I had to head to the jungles of Mexico in order to track down a wild one, and I've only just returned. This story is a One Piece LuNi pairing, as promised to Dorothy 4Nia, and there will be lemons, smexiness, blood, death, sad times, and happy times. I haven't gotten further than the Sea Restaurant Baratie arc, so bear with me if my story doesn't run to canon. Anyway, on with the story! Also, for any of you who are wondering, the title means "Love blossoms like a flower". I DO NOT OWN ONE PIECE. IF I DID, IT WOULD BE REAL.
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LOCATION: ON BOARD THE MERRY GO,
SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST BLUE
It was that time of year again. Every year, on the fourth day of the seventh month, Nico Robin, expert archaeologist of the Straw Hat Pirates, locked herself in her cabin, and refused to come out, even for meals. No one knew why, except Monkey D. Luffy, the bone-headed, meat-loving captain, and he wasn't telling anybody. He'd made a promise, on that fateful day, not so long ago...
Gum-gum...FLASHBACK!
Robin has not yet gained her devil-fruit powers in the flashback.
Robin awoke to darkness, and the smell of cold stone, damp earth, and smoke...her head ached...fading in and out of consciousness, she struggled to stand, slipping on the damp stone flags. Squinting around, she realised that she'd come to in a cramped, stone cell, barred with steel columns to prevent any chance of escape. "Well, well, well, so our liddle goldmine is awake, is she?"Came an unpleasant, grating voice, which sounded like the owner had swallowed broken glass and a bag of nails. Robin whirled on the spot, to see a tall, heavily-built man with a large gut, flanked by two others, subordinates, robin guessed, and, as they trio moved into the light, Robin and one of the guards gasped in shock. Robin gasped, because the younger guard was her long-lost brother, Barlow, and he gasped, because his sister was the latest victim of his leader's foul scheme. The bandit leader ran a sex-slave training camp out of an abandoned fort, and Nico Robin was the latest fly to be caught in his web. "BARLOW!" "SIS!" the two rushed to the bars, clasping hands, tears streaming down their faces and raining kisses on each other. As Barlow slowly pulled away, he looked as though he'd been gutted like a trout. He took a little time to compose himself, then stood back, and watched, almost hauntingly silent, as his little sister was raped in the ass by the bandit leader(A/N: LET'S CALL HIM CHUCK) and the other guy. Later that night, he came to the decision that this would no continue. Collecting his most prized possession, a fruit the size of a baseball, with funny, green and yellow striped skin, he brought it to the deep cell where his estranged sister was being held. Unlocking the door, he laid the fruit in her hands, whispered, "eat", and slunk off. A minute later, a strangled gurgle echoed faintly down the hall, and Nico, swallowing the last bite, tiptoed after her brother, who stuck his head round the corner, beckoning her to come with him. As she turned the corner, the slain body of the man who'd sodomized her along with Chuck lolled at her feet, head flopping on a broken neck. As she gingerly stepped over the carcass, Barlow reached back took her hand, and led her up to the surface. As they saw moonlight, Chuck's grating, rusty-gate voice boomed behind them. "So, where do we think we're going, Barlow?" At the sound of his name, Barlow twisted, drew his twinned swords, Akahime and Kurohime, the fabled "Red and black Princesses", lunging at his former boss. The big man laughed, parrying the strikes with almost contemptuous ease, and the ringing of swords against sword chimed out into the still night air, stirring the wind, as the two warriors battled like the Titans of legend, sparks ringing from the stricken blades, steel whirling and swooping, in a never-ending, intricately flowing dance, until Chuck swatted Kurohime from Barlow's right hand, and drove the cutting edge of his weapon into the chest of Robin's fallen brother, sending the blade crashing through the iron cuirass he wore in a spray of blood, and jutting out a foot from his shoulders. Ripping the claymore from his dying opponent, he swung back, aiming to decapitate this last valiant traitor, when a chilling howl rent the dark, blood-misted sky, and a thousand clawed hands seized Chuck by his ankles, wrists and throat, and pulled in opposite directions until he lay mutilated and ruined on the hard ground. Robin had activated her new powers, the Hana-Hana fruit, but she paid no heed to what she'd just done, instead dropping to her knees, sobbing brokenly across her brother's chest. Still clinging stubbornly to life, Barlow reached up with one trembling hand, stroked Robin's hair, and whispered, "I'm...sorry... I... wasn't there...for... *cough cough*. His head slumped back against the grass, and he breathed his last, as his grieving sister held him tightly, before gently laying him down, picking up his swords and placing them in his cold hands, so his spirit could rest easy. As she closed her fallen champion's still blue eyes and brushed the thick, spiky black hair from his brow, a shadow fell over her, and a hand came to rest on her shoulder. Looking up tearfully, she saw a teenage boy, no older her tender age of sixteen, gazing sadly at her, before withdrawing his hand, picking up the fallen claymore, bent the blade into a passable spade, and began digging with incredible speed and energy. Within the space of half an hour, he'd excavated a seven-foot pit, the same length as Barlow's body, which he gently picked up, laid in the grave, place the twin sword in his arms, and filled it in, leaving a stone slab with the words, "Here lies the body of a fallen hero, a champion beyond compare, who fought for the right, till his last breath." Taking Robin by the shoulders, the young man gently guided her towards the shore, where a ship lay at anchor, bobbing on the wine-dark seas. Robin asked softly, "what's your name", in a voice perilously close to breaking. The teen looked down at her, for he was a god six inches taller than her, and replies quietly, "Luffy. Monkey D. Luffy, and I'm gonna be king of the pirates."
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L.T: WHOOO! Another story has commenced! Whatta rush! I can't begin to tell you how much I've missed all of you, and it feels so good to be able to write once more. Till the next time, JA NE!