Title: Crossing Border
Fandom: One Piece
Author: lunaryu
Rating: T/15+
Genre: Drama/Humor/Romance
Pairing/Characters: ZoroSanji/Luffy, Nami, Robin, Franky, and everyone else that's gonna come out later
Disclaimer: All One Piece Characters are Eichiro Oda-sensei's boys and girls. I only borrow them without permission, not that I gain any money from it, just experience in releasing desire and ideas. Thank you.
Warning: foul language, might be oOC-ness of the characters, the mention of dead characters, the idea of getting reborn, shounen ai/yaoi (boyxboy relationship), ah! And AU—, all the characters wouldn't be in Pirate Era anymore in this story, but as students of university. What more…well, that's it I guess… at least for now. Still, I promise I will put warning in every chapter if there is….
Summary: Love crosses everything. It crosses time, crosses gender, crosses age, and even crosses life….
A/N: I don't even know why I made this…ok. I have to say sorry for everyone who wants me to continue the other stories…KHR and Naruto, but I just couldn't ignore the sudden inspiration that came into my head. I love writing, and I am not gonna stop even though I am busy.
Yes, this is the FIRST One Piece fic that I have ever made, ever. That's why please; be good readers, critiques and reviews are very welcomed, but please no flame. Well, I think that's all for the blabbing. Please…take your time slowly and nicely…and enjoy the drama/humor/romance of the characters inside One Piece with open mind….
Chapter 1: You Who Are in My Dream
Tatap matamu bagai busur panah (The gazes of your eyes are just like the arrows of bow)
Yang Kau lepaskan ke jantung hatiku (that you shoot straightly to my heart)
Meski Kau simpan, cintamu masih (Although you keep it tight, your love is still…)
Tetap nafasmu wangi hiasi suasana (The scent of your steady breaths beautifies this moment)
Saat kukecup manis bibirmu (when I kiss your sweet lips)
Cintaku tak harus miliki dirimu (My love doesn't have to have you)
Meski perih mengiris-iris segala janji (Even though the pain slashes every promise)
Aku berdansa di ujung gelisah (I am dancing on the tip of the nerve)
Diiringi syahdu lembut lakumu (tagged along with your soft gentle behaving melody)
Kau tebar benih anggun jiwamu (you spread the seeds of your elegant souls)
Namun Kau tiada menuai buah cintaku (still, you do no harvest of the fruits of my love)
Adanya sekuntum rindu (there's a sway of loosing)
Cintaku tak harus miliki dirimu (my love doesn't have to possess you)
Meski perih mengiris-iris segala janji (even though the ache slices all the promises)
Malam-malamku bagai malam seribu bintang (my nights are just like a night of a thousand stars)
Yang terbentang di angkasa bila Kau di sini (which are spread across the universe if you're here)
Tuk sekedar menemani, tuk melintasi wangi (for only accompanying, for crossing the sweet fragrance)
Yang selalu tersaji di satu sisi hati (which is always there inside a side of the heart)
Cintaku tak harus miliki dirimu (My love doesn't have to seize you)
Meski perih mengiris-iris segala janji (even if the sore slits the whole promise)—"Roman Picisan" sung by Dewa 19
It was really strange. Sometimes you only wanted the thing in front of you, so focused, so badly that you never realized what you had beside you.
It was a story of love, a second chance that was given to people who regretted their previous lives so badly that they even brought the memory of their past lives to the present…
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Love is such a strange feeling. I don't remember where it comes from, when and how. The thing I know is…it's been there when I realize it. Still, human is such an egoistical proud creature. I am really a stubborn one. I can't really accept it, the strange, unfamiliar warm and gentle feeling that resides inside me for you: the one I am supposed to hate.
"Why…?"
My eyes can't move away from your gaze, when you're lying there on the ground, in the middle of the pooling blood.
"Why?"
I can only manage to say that word, confused, angry, sad, feeling so miserable I feel like crying.
You mutter something under your unsteady breaths, suppressing the pain from those bloody injuries. Still, you manage to smile, a satisfied smile that infuriates me so much I want to kick your ass and wipe away that smile.
"Don't smile you shitty stupid marimo! You're supposed to be in pain right now!" I shout, annoyed, but you just grin even more, as if you were trying to tease me. You even laugh, making the blood flow away faster than it supposes to.
I detest you, you know that? You're so strong it's almost impossible. You're just like a demon, a freaking horrible monster with monstrous power, but you can smile innocently as well, that sometimes makes my heart flutter whenever I see it.
"Sanji," you speak and I move closer to you. "You know…there's something I really want to tell you."
You soften your smile and look at me in my eyes. Somehow, looking at your face, your expression, I get a hunch that you will say something I have wanted to hear since forever. However, judging from the condition you're in right now, I know it will be the last chance I have to hear it.
And I am scared…. I am so scared to hear it that I snap. "STOP!"
You raised your eyebrows at my unexpected reaction.
"I don't want to hear it," I say slowly, looking at another way.
You go silent briefly and chuckle after seconds. "Scared?" you even manage to smirk, that freaking annoying smirk.
"Like hell I am," I reply quickly, annoyed, but ashamed as well for you knowing such a cowardice side of me.
"I am," you confess, and it surprises me very much I even widen my eyes in disbelief.
"Zorro…."
"Hey, don't make that kinda face," you say slowly, breathing slowly, but unsteadily. "I want to see a good smiling face of yours before I depart from this world," you continued.
"Don't say such an ominous thing like that, moron," I reply slowly behind my teeth and you laugh again. I even wonder how you can laugh like that despite those injuries. You're indeed a monster.
"Sanji…," you call my name again, but more weakly now. I am alerted as you cough out blood and your face looks so much in pain, breaths raging, as if you're fighting something invisible to remain staying in this world.
Then you say those words…, those words I've been dying, desperate to hear these past few years. And you just have to say it in the verge of dying. Oh, God…I really want to punch you in your face, really want to kick your ass if I was given a chance to.
Still the chance never comes to me as you close your eyes as if you were sleeping. You set that satisfied smile again and I can only watch as your skin gets paler and paler, gets colder and colder.
I stare at you without expression, but then…when I think that I will never see your angry face, your powerful gazes and will never hear your annoying voice again I….
I realize how hurt I am….
I can't stop the tears that begin to gather in my eyes. Drop by drop of those warm liquid wets my cheeks. "Stupid…bastard Marimo…!" I grit my teeth, trying to suppress the pain that begins to spread from the deepest part of my heart through my DNA to my cells and then to my tissues, to my organs and to my skin.
And I feel broken, broken so much I feel dead.
I hug your body while crying hard. I am crying so hard my throat hurts. I clutch you tightly and yell your name, hoping that you will be back one more time; that I will be given a chance one more time.
I just want to return your feeling. You're such a cheating bastard.
"How am I supposed to live…if you're not around anymore?" I ask you loudly even though I know you will never hear it.
No, it's because I know you will not hear it that I can yell like that, such embarrassing phrase that surprises even me.
"Damn, damn, damn, damn! You're such a moron! Don't die on me like this, Zorro! Not like this! DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE!" and I scream, I scream so loudly that—
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Sanji opened his eyes and jerked in a shock, waking up to reality with his entire body sweating. He sat up suddenly, breathed shakily and felt chill all over his body.
He looked around. He was in his room, on his bed. He tried to steady his breaths as he took a deep breath before he released it again slowly.
Sanji covered his face as he sighed long. "Damn it…. Another stupid freaking nightmare…!" he muttered slowly as he glanced at his clock: 6 a.m.
Time to get up, I guess. I have a greeting ceremony today at university at 8 o'clock. I ought to get ready and prepare breakfast.
Sanji then got up from his bed and walked to his bathroom to take a quick shower before he made breakfast.
Sanji looked at his charming face on the mirror after he brushed his teeth. He looked at his reflection on the mirror with unreadable gaze.
Hi, my name is Blackleg Sanji. I am 18 year old this year and a freshman of a university student. Huh? Don't you dare make fun of my curly eyebrow! It's a nice gift you know, being different. Ah, why my hair is blond? That's not your business, shit head. I live with my foster parent, Redleg Zeff in Jipangu. He's a cook, a wonderful one, no; the best one if I can say. He owns a very famous restaurant named Baratie and I have been his assistant head chef since I was a kid.
I don't know my real parents, but I don't give a shit about that. I feel enough if I can make Zeff happy for he is the one who raises me up until now. I like women VERY MUCH. I don't belong to one person but every pretty woman can have me, a handsome prince on white horse, if they want to. Wait, what's with that reaction!? Are you puking!? You're gonna pay for that, ass holes!
I like cooking best…hey, don't say it is girly! That's how Zeff and I make money, bastard! And I also practice Taekwondo, so if you don't shut your big mouth up, I swear I'll kick your ass literally, morons.
My live has been very normal it's almost boring up until my 18th birthday. If I know I will keep having this stupid nightmare since the day I turned 18, I wish I could never grow up.
You see…I keep having this weird dream about a certain world… I don't even know if it really exists or not, but…I am one of the residents of it. There is a wide blue-blue sea; I go to a journey full of action and adventure, sailing to the sea with a big voyage ship, crossing those dangerous lines of that world. I am…with my nakama I don't really remember. How they look like, how their voices were, it seems there a thick fog preventing me to see the whole case. Well, I indeed remember there's a guy with strange straw-hat, and a girl with orange hair (I bet she's a real babe!), then a guy with a long nose, a woman with straight black hair, and one more guy with big body, oh, there's also a pet...a very cute one I guess, but I can't really note what it is, and...ah, almost forget that there's also a very skinny man…or is that a skeleton, I don't really remember.
However, there's a scene, an only scene in that dream that I remember very clearly. It is a scene where someone died, someone with green hair and annoying smirk. It seems in that dream…I love this guy so much, so much it feels so painful watching him die. Strange huh? I am pretty sure I am not a woman in that dream, so why do I feel like that towards him? That's a real wonder of the world.
Worse, I remember how I treat him when he was about to confess his feeling. Because I am such a coward, I don't want to hear it. I am scared that I will be attached to him and the feeling of him getting away from me scares me so much I can't deal with it.
"DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE!"
I can even still remember how I yell, shout and scream…while hugging his limp lifeless body. I even still feel the feeling I get when I watch him die. My heart still aches so much.
Sanji sighed once again and brushed his hair. "Hmm, I am indeed such a sinful creature aren't I? Aaah, how can any woman escape from my evil beautiful charm if I am such a handsome guy? I can even fall in love with myself," and he began to behave like an idiot, to praise himself as always like a narcissist moron.
"Yosh, perfect," Sanji tightened his necktie and left bathroom to make breakfast.
"Zeff, are you still alive?" the blond young man knocked his father's bedroom door.
"You're so rude as always, shitty brat," and a big man with red hair and pigtail-mustache (?) came out from the room. Sanji grinned seeing his father's annoyed face.
"I've prepared a special soup for you, shitty old man," Sanji bragged while smirking confidently.
"Hump, you're still far to go as a real cook, damn brat," Zeff snorted and walked to the kitchen to eat Sanji's cooking.
Sanji only sniggered as he followed the old man to the kitchen. They indeed always exchanged insults, but they were more like nick names for both of them. They showed their affection and respect and even their love in strangest way. Still, both of them understood each other so well, very much it's almost envying.
"You're going to your greeting ceremony, aren't you?" Zeff asked while they're having breakfast.
"Yep," Sanji replied proudly.
"I can't even believe you manage to enroll that university…. Isn't there a mistake here?" Zeff muttered while shaking his head.
"Hey! What's with that!? You don't believe your own son's talent in studying!?" Sanji protested in annoyance.
"Well, just look at your burning studying report during high school. It's really hard to believe you can enroll that GRANDLINE University with your low IQ," Zeff continued.
Sanji turned red in anger at that. "My IQ isn't low! And that report was burnt not because I didn't understand the lesson, but because I hardly came to the class as I had to help you in restaurant!"
"Barking dog," Zeff rolled his eyes.
"HEY!" and Sanji shouted.
Zeff chuckled at him. "Well, whatever. I am happy you've got to enroll your favorite university, Sanji," he said while smiling softly now.
Sanji practically blushed, embarrassed suddenly. "That's because my brain is brilliant," and he bragged more. Zeff only laughed hard at Sanji over confidence.
Speaking about Grandline University…I find it a little weird. No, not the university that is weird. It's just…the familiarity of the name that makes me…odd. Grandline…I've heard that name before, somewhere…far-far away from this world….
Ah, yeah…I and my nakama are in Grandline…the fiercest sea in that world. There's a reverse mountain, strange islands, desert kingdom, golden city, sea's monsters…and many more. Such a dangerous and cruel place, yet so beautiful and interesting, I wish I could live there instead of here.
Sanji smiled to himself at the thought. Heh, he felt his current world is not challenging enough to live in. He loved adventures and he enjoyed the dream very much, but…
I don't want to see anyone dying in my dream….
If there was no scene like that…then Sanji wouldn't mind even if he didn't wake up anymore, forever…living inside that adventurous world.
Sanji chuckled at that and it caught Zeff's attention. "Have you begun to get crazy or what? Chuckling at yourself like that…creepy brat," he said while raising an eyebrow.
"That's not your business," Sanji spat his tongue out at Zeff while cleaning up the table and hurriedly brought the plates and other cooking utensils to the sink in the kitchen.
"Jeez, brat…," and the older man only rolled his eyes again.
"I am going to college now," Sanji took off his apron and grabbed his bag on the sofa.
"Don't die on the road, son," Zeff said.
"Shut up, and you too old man," Sanji just sniggered again at him and then he got out of the house to Grandline University.
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This nation was called Jipangu, an archipelago which was under government of a kingdom. There are four main islands in Jipangu: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku.
Sanji was currently living in Honshu. There are four big universities dominating the students living in this island: Grandline, Redline, Calm Belt, and Seablue. Grandline was the biggest and the most famous university in Honshu, no, even in Jipangu, and now Sanji was attending its greeting ceremony for freshmen.
"This is really awesome!" Sanji couldn't help appraising the college as he looked at the very big yard and a lot of Sakura trees that were blooming beautifully and its petals were falling like raining. It's so beautiful he couldn't choose a right phrase to express it.
I am an official student in this place now! Isn't that wonderful!?
Sanji was still amazed as he walked under the Sakura trees. He stares upward to the trees, not very minding his surrounding as suddenly he tripped on something and fell down.
"WHOA!" he snapped in surprise, but he didn't hit the grassy ground, instead he landed on something…soft?
Sanji opened his eyes and met a very annoyed looking young man, and more, he could only widen his eyes as he looked at the man. He had dark sharp eyes and unusual green hair. He had a strong, nice built up muscular body that every woman's dying to get as their lover's. And those earrings on his left ear...Sanji looked like he just saw a ghost.
It's impossible…! He's…
"Sanji…."
A memory about a certain man with the same freaking look flashed inside Sanji's head.
He's…, the guy in my dream!?
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Love is indeed a strange sensation. When you found your love once again, crossing the border named life, gender, and time…what will you do?
End of Chapter 1
Tbc…
A/N: This is it for the first chapter. Hope you like it. Comment please?