A/N Sorry! I haven't had any time to write recently because of a show I had just this weekend. Thankfully, that's all over now and I don't even care how we pulled off the entire show relatively well when just last week it was a complete wreck. But it's done and I'm happy so back to this story!
I'm sorry I feel like I'm kind of off to a slow start, but I promise it'll start picking up soon!
This chapter is probably rated T
Chapter 2: Sticking Like a Devilish Glue
"What?" Sanji stared at the shorter boy in front of him, not even slightly trying to match the broad grin Luffy was giving.
"Mmhmm! Yeah, I'm going to work here every day and live with you in your house so I can eat with you, sleep with you, work with you, and do everything with you! We can be together always!" Luffy giggled with glee.
"Hell no!" Sanji immediately snapped, surprised that he felt mildly bad when Luffy's smile fell. When Luffy didn't let up with his kicked puppy expression, Sanji decided that he needed to do something. "Look, you can't stick with me all the time. I don't even work here everyday, I go to school most days, in fact. Sorry, it's just not possible."
Luffy perked up, "You don't come every day?"
Sanji shook his head, "Nope, I'm a college student."
Before Sanji even realized what happened, Luffy was gone. The sound of things breaking and crashing resounded through the restaurant, before the distinctive roar of "You little shit!" was heard followed by more crashing and banging.
When Sanji finally dared to look in the back room, quite apprehensive of the state of the room if the noises just minutes before were any indication, he saw Luffy pinned flat under Zeff's wooden leg, tiny tears of pain threatening to fall from his wide, pained eyes.
"Sorry…old man…ow…it hurts! Let me…up-ow!" Luffy whined.
"After breaking practically everything from the door to here, all you can say is sorry? You brat, you'd better do better than that!"
Luffy whimpered, but otherwise stayed quiet.
Zeff thought for a moment, "Tell you what! You are going to work, unpaid, for a year! Got it?"
"Ow…ok! I…got it! Let me up!"
Once Zeff's wooden peg left Luffy's back, Luffy bounced right up, giving Zeff a sheepish grin.
"Actually… it's fine and all if I don't get paid, but…I want to change my schedule."
"You WHAT? You dare say something like that after you broke all this?!" Zeff gestured towards the debris on the floor angrily, "You should change your schedule to work more if anything."
Some other employees filed into the room after their shift, curious about the noise.
"Hey…what's going on here?" Patty asked, looking from Zeff, to Luffy, to Sanji who was still standing semi-secretively by the doorway.
Before Zeff could say anything rude about Luffy, Luffy cut in, "I really, really wanna work here with Sanji! So since I just found out that he doesn't come everyday, I wanted to ask Boss for a schedule change. Then I can go to school with Sanji too! I'll be able to spend even more time with Sanji! Plus, I'm working for free sinceIkindofbrokealotofstuffjustnow but then it's fine if I just work really hard whenever I'm here, right?"
Carne looked around, "Wait…did you just say you broke all this stuff? What happened?"
"Er…it was an accident! I was just in a rush to find Boss. But you forgive me, right?" Luffy turned doe eyes at Carne and Patty, silently begging them to support him.
They both looked Luffy in the eye.
"Why, of course we do! I'm sure this wasn't your fault! Don't worry about it, it's no big deal," Patty answered, a slight blush and a wide smile on his face.
"Yeah, nothing to it! I think you should get your schedule changed too. Whatever makes you happy!" Carne said, blushing as well.
"Really?" Luffy beamed, "Thank you guys!" He turned towards the other employees standing around, "Do you guys think so too?" He innocently tugged on his bottom lip, tilting his head down while looking up at the crowd, taking on the form of a cute, innocent girl.
It was an instant K.O.
"Y-Yes, of course! Anything for you!" the men replied, a large majority of them holding bloody noses.
Sanji's face was slightly redder than he would've liked, but even so, he stomped over and pulled on Luffy's cheek. "Hey hey, wait just a minute. Who said anything about you coming to my school? It's bad enough you found out where I work, I don't want you following me to school too!"
"But…" Luffy turned his pouty lips up at Sanji, "isn't it natural to want to be with the person you love?"
Even Sanji couldn't take a hit like that, not with Luffy looking as cute and genuinely sincere as he was.
"You…you…" Sanji could only make unintelligible sputtering noises, too shocked and embarrassed to make much sense of anything.
Luffy looked curiously up at his beet red face. "Sanji…? Are you ok?"
"You… n-no! Don't come to my school!" Sanji finally managed to shout, before all but running away.
Sanji heard a loud call of "Wait!" followed by a louder crash, making him mentally wince at the possible damage. Even when he deemed himself far enough away and safe from chase, he could still hear the cursing of his old man, probably racking up Luffy's debt for all the damage he managed to do in the course of a day.
It seemed he wasn't far enough as he soon spotted the two rounding the corner towards him, an irate old chef hobbling forward as fast as he could with only one good leg and a wooden peg, giving chase to a teary-eyed Luffy.
Sanji noticed that they were in fact coming towards him, and at a much faster pace than he previously thought. He had to give it to the old man. He was just about the fastest old, one-legged man he had ever seen.
Luffy practically flew down the street, his tear-blurred eyes recognizing Sanji standing staring at them some ways down. With a cheery yell of "Sanjiii!" Luffy opened his arms seconds away from impact.
Sanji's one visible eye widened considerably, his mind barely registering the impending disaster that would undoubtedly happen. When he saw Luffy open his arms to receive him, yet not slowing down even a little bit, he knew he was in trouble.
"Wait! N–" Too late. The two collided with a strong enough force to knock both off their feet, sending them rolling head over heels some feet away before coming to a stop in a most unnatural angle. Sanji groaned, dazed and quite sure something was broken, and was mildly surprised it wasn't his head. When his vision cleared up, he saw Luffy lying on top of his chest the boy's arms clasped together around his torso, now pinned underneath his body. He noticed that somehow, Luffy also had one of his legs stuck underneath Sanji's butt, at what must have been a very painful angle. Sanji tried shifting a bit, just to see what was broken or sprained, and what body part was free enough to attempt to untangle the mess Luffy had gotten them into. A sharp pain travelled up his spine, making him stop his movements.
"Hey, Luffy. You ok?" Might as well try and make Luffy move.
He heard Luffy groan above him before lifting his head as much as he could manage, to turn and look at Sanji. "Yup! I'm good! Thanks for asking!" A pause. "… Are you ok?"
Sanji refrained from rolling his eyes. "No, shit-for-brains. Get off of me already."
Luffy opened his mouth in a silent 'o' in understanding, before starting to squirm around in an attempt to free his limbs.
"Ow… hey careful there I'm–OUCH!"
"I've had just about enough of the both of you for today," Zeff said, while pushing his wooden leg deeper into Sanji's side.
"You… damn geezer…" Sanji managed to groan out, not appreciating the added pain in the least.
Luffy, who had managed to free his arms when Zeff prodded Sanji non-too gently, wrapped them protectively around Sanji's head. "Don't hurt him!" He protested, giving a glare that was ultimately both unthreatening and extremely cute.
Zeff wasn't so easily swayed though. "Both of you get up and go home, you twerps! You're done messing with my restaurant!"
With two well placed kicks, Luffy and Sanji were sent flying down the street and in a heck of a lot more pain.
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Sometime later, they picked themselves back up, moaning and groaning at the painful bruises forming all over their bodies.
"Great. Just great. Now look what you did. You got us kicked out of the restaurant, you shit-head," Sanji muttered, dusting himself off.
Luffy giggled, "Literally."
A loud thump resounded from a powerful leg making contact with a certain someone's head.
Silence followed as a well-rounded bump formed under Sanji's foot.
"YEEOWCH!" Luffy cried, holding the burning bump tenderly. His eyes began to water from the pain, "What did you do that for? That really hurt!"
"You were asking for it," Sanji replied, turning and walking away.
"Hey, wait! Where are you going?"
"Home." Sanji answered easily, not turning around to look at him. If he did, he might get the urge to apologize for the large bump Luffy was sporting on his head, and he certainly didn't want that.
Luffy didn't seem to mind though, and perhaps he already forgot. "Really? Oh boy! I get to see Sanji's house!"
"Who said you would?" Sanji snapped, "Go back to wherever you came from already. And stop following me!"
Luffy pouted, easily keeping up with Sanji's quickening pace, "No! I'm staying with you! You're the one that summoned me here in the first place!"
"So I'm summoning you back! Or don't go back! What do I care? Just quit following me!"
"It doesn't work that way, stupid!"
Sanji resisted the urge to kick him for that. Being called stupid was one thing, but by him…?
"Idiot. Don't call me stupid," Sanji muttered, taking the last few steps up to his front door. He had considered not going home quite yet in hopes of losing Luffy somewhere along the way, but he had nowhere else to go and he didn't particularly feel like explaining the situation to his friends. He opened the door and the two of them walked in, Sanji closing the door behind them.
Once Sanji turned back around from locking the door, he found Luffy standing a mere foot away, staring intensely at him.
"What…?" Sanji asked uncertainly. He didn't exactly like the look in his eyes.
"We're finally alone now, Sanji," Luffy whispered, closing the distance between them.
Before Luffy could even touch Sanji, Sanji slipped away, walking briskly to the other side of the room. "Don't even think about it, you perv. I'll make you dinner and then you're getting out of here."
"But… I'd rather have you for dinner," Luffy pined, a tiny fang sucking on his lower lip.
"Well, that's just too bad," Sanji answered, gathering ingredients on his countertop, "Be grateful I'm even feeding you anything, got it?"
Turns out, Luffy was more than just grateful.
"Mm, Shaji! Thish ish amatzing!" Luffy complimented, his mouth full with practically all the food on the table.
"Hey… thanks for the compliment, but I need to eat too!" Sanji yelled, trying to stab some food for himself before Luffy grabbed it with his bare hands. "And don't talk with your mouth full!"
"Showwy," Luffy commented, though not stopping shoving food down his gullet.
"No you're not, you bastard!" Sanji said irritably. His stomach was still grumbling and winning over Luffy was just not happening.
"Ahh, that was good. Thanks Sanji!" Luffy praised, patting his bloated stomach happily.
"Glad one of us is happy," Sanji muttered, clearing all the dishes he didn't get to eat.
Luffy thought for a minute. "You're not happy?"
"Took you that long?!" Sanji asked, annoyed.
Luffy pouted, then gave a wide smirk, "I can make you happy~"
"Yeah? And how– oh HELL no!" Sanji exclaimed, turning around to come face to face with Luffy's wide grin.
As Luffy leaned in for a kiss, Sanji shoved his foot up into Luffy's face, trying to push the persistent boy away. Sanji sighed in exasperation, pushing Luffy away so they could both stand upright. "Alright, since I doubt you're leaving whether I kick you out or not, you can take the couch. But after tonight you're finding your own housing, got it?"
"Yay! Sanji's the best!" Luffy cheered, throwing his arms around Sanji's stiffened form.
"Alright alright, now get off me and I'll go get you some blankets," Sanji said, sighing in relief when Luffy let him go with another cheer.
He was not getting used to being touched by a guy.
Sorry not all that much happened, but next chapter, I promise. Would love a quick review to tell me how I'm doing!