So… FINALLY! Here is: da da da da daaaaa! Chapter 3! Thank you, thank you everyone… and sorry for taking so long… please don't kill me!
Zoro: Please do… then we don't have to witness such kind of shit!
Me: Aww, Zoro… why you saying that?
Zoro: Because you're almost making me and the shit-cook to villains!
Me: …No I don't…
Sanji: *bites his shirt* Pernille-chwaaan… what I've done to deserve this? *sniff* *sniff*
Luffy: Is there any meat in this one?
Everyone: LUFFY!
Luffy: *looks innocent* …what?
Me: *sighs* So… a big thanks to one of my craziest readers and one of my best friends; Silvey115! Thanks for hanging on and for the help^^
Sanji: MEI-CHWAAAN! We all love you!
Zoro: …speak for your self, Aho-cook!
Luffy: Heya Mei-Mei! Great to see you! *big smile*
Me: … 'Mei-Mei'?
Luffy: Yup! That's what I'm goanna call her… right Mei-Mei? *Bigger smile*
Silvey115: Oh! Um sure Luffy! You're the best in the world! *hugz tight* And you too Pernille-chan! And of course I can't miss out Sanji-kun!
Zoro: I don't really care but what about me? huh?
Silvey115: *pokes tongue out* I don't care about you! You're the meanie in my story!
Luffy: Zoro? Meanie? Those words don't fit in together...
Silvey115: You'll see! ^^ anyways this is not mine either nor did I deserve anything from this story but please enjoy!
Zoro: *Ignores Mei-chan* Thanks to what ever God there may exist that she doesn't own our series: One Piece… Eiichiro Oda-sensei does! *Looks up in heaven* Thank GOD SHE DOESN'T!
Sanji: Oi, moss-head! Since when have you started to believe in any kind of God?
Zoro: *Mumble* shut the fuck up, Cook! *grumble*
Sanji: And here is the wonderfully story from our beloved Per-
Zoro: Cut it out! …And read, now!
Me: *looks up in heaven with spread arms* Thanks!
Whispers in the snow
雪のささやき
(Rewritten)
3. Chapter
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恐れか。
-Fear?-
事が収拾がつかなくなる時
-When things gets out of Control-
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1. A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.
2. A specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling: an abnormal fear of heights.
3. Concern or anxiety; solicitude: a fear for someone's safety.
4. To regard with fear; be afraid of.
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Nine hours later:
The sound of the waves hitting the sides of the ship, and the rocking lullaby was almost making him drifting away into a deep sleep again. He could feel the scratchy fabric under his hands… the soft pillow there where supporting his head. But everything was still so black… so dark!
Oh! His eyes where still closed, that was why…! He tried to open them, but it felt like they weight more than a ton each. The sound of the water pulled him back to the darkness. A steady beeping sound kept on nagging in the back of his mind… what was that sound? He had never heard such an irritating beeping sound before.
He tried to make a move… he decided to take a deep breath at first. But he couldn't move… he felt like he was trapped. His whole body seemed to be bounded by something, stopping him from moving too freely, and that made him somehow frustrated. At last he managed to open his tired eyes, only to be greeted by a sudden flash of light. He closed them again and this time opening them slowly… adjusting them bit by bit to the sharp light. The brightness finally dimmed and he could make out the shapes of what it was he was staring at.
He laid there on his back, staring up in the wooden ceiling. There was another sound as well… a scratching sound. He tried to turn his head to take a look though the movement hurt like hell, but he didn't care… he wanted to see! A blurry shape of something brown, blue and pink, was sitting on a stall and seemed to be working on something. But Luffy couldn't make out what it was the thing was, nor what the thing were doing. He blinked several times before he could make out what the brown, blue and pink ball-looking shape was.
"Ch-Chopper?" The black haired boy mumbled with a cracked voice… his throat hurt, and felt dry as sand-paper.
The little brown, furry doctor stopped scratching down words on his clip-board and twisted one ear, like he was waiting on to hear it again.
Luffy lifted his right hand slowly up, wincing when he realised his arm was bandaged and he was having quite a hard time moving. About to groan in response to his new found fact, he immediately bit his lips, trying not to have Chopper to realise that he was in too much of a pain… too late. The shape of Chopper dropped his clip-board on the floor and jumped off his chair… making his way to him.
"L-luffy? Can you hear me?" his voice was shaking... why was it shaking so much? "Can you hear me, Luffy? If you can hear me, squeeze my hove!"
Squeeze his hove? Oh! He had dropped his hand again… didn't Chopper see him reaching it out for him?
"Luffy, pleeeaasee! If you can hear me, please squeeze my hove!"
Squeeze… Squeeze hove… sure. Come on hand… squeeze hove… squeeze…!
"The hell you mean about it's all my fault, Moss-head?"
"I mean what I said, Shit-cook! It's all your damn fucking fault!"
"Guys, guys! Easy now, o-okay?" Usopp tried to say calmly but failed miserably when he stuttered, and having the big body of Franky behind him instead of in front of him, protecting him from these two maniacs there was supposed to be two of his crewmembers, wasn't making his life any easier. But at least it was the shipwright who tried to split the two shipmates from ripping the head off each other, since he really wasn't too fond of having a bruised face or something of a sort. But that did just make them more angrily at each other… Had everyone around them all forgot about it?
"It's not my fucking fault for what happened back then, you shitty marimo!" Sneered Sanji "Where the hell where you, Shit-head? I didn't see your ugly face around when we needed you!"
"Oi!" the shipwright tried to break up the two of them. "Stop it already, will 'ya? Before anyone will loose a head… or something else!" But none of them cared to answer him anymore. Not that they did in the first place either.
"You just so fucking mad about because you couldn't sense the danger in the air!" The chef spitted out at the furious green haired swordsman "Your damn son of a fucking bitch!"
"Sanji!" Nami shouted with a warning tone, but the yellow haired chef didn't hear her at all… for the freaking first time ever!
"It's thanks to you that he… that it almost… because of you and your fucking sense of direction, you damn miss born demon!"
Zoro's eye widened and even before anyone could make a blink, the swordsman had already twisted himself out of the blue-haired cyborgs humongous hands and now stood face to face with the surprised cook. Sanji didn't even blink twice before the over furious swordsman had planted his hands on his face and smashed it into the wall a few feet behind himself.
Nami screamed in horror while the others only stood shocked and stared with terrified eyes as Zoro didn't do it just once, not even twice, but four, five and six times full powered smashed the chef's head into the wooden wall, before he pulled the cooks head away… which was now all covered in blood. Sanji gasped for air as he got shoved face to face with his opponent. His sight was getting blurred and the urge to pass out overwhelmed him more than ever. The shit-head had taken him by surprise!
"Listen, Cook," Zoro spat back at him and with a dangerous tone in his voice. "Don't you ever dare say that ever again! You fucking hear me, Cook?" It was more a statement than a question. But Sanji just pulled on a thin smile across his face and started to chuckle.
"Waz wrong, shit-head? Don't have the guts to finish it of? Hah? Demon-child?" Sanji literally spat at him. What the fuck was he saying, finish it of? Did he really care that less about his own life? Well, why the fuck should he care… it was the marimo's own fault that he almost got burned alive… but it was his own fault that his captain now was -Shit! He felt really dizzy right now! If only that darkness just soon would come and overwhelm him, taking away all that fucking pain in his head… if he still had one!
Sanji stared with his almost lifeless eyes, hair shuffled, giving a glimps of the eye there once had been visible, and now was half hidden, into Zoro's one dark eye, before he could feel the man's nails digging into the flesh there was covering his skull, and then got lifted away… to the few final blows… fucking crap-life…!
"STOP IT!" Zoro froze as he woke up to Nami's hysterical scream. He tried to make a move, but he couldn't even move a muscle. He blinked a couple of times before he realised that Robin's multiplies hands was keeping him from make a move. He looked up and stared directly into the sharpshooter who was aiming his weapon directly to his face… under his chin he could feel the cold blade from Brook's thin sword and right behind him he suddenly could sense Nami's clima-tact starting to loading up with electricity.
"Make one move, and I swear, Zoro, that I'll damn hell will use this one without any hesitations!" Nami said and showed him the clima-tact, so he could see that it was full uploaded by now.
Zoro's gaze wandered down along his one arm where Franky's enormous hand was holding him from making the final moves… His eye widened as he now saw the chef's bloody face… what the fuck had he done? Sanji looked more dead than alive! Zoro started to tremble all over his body, even his fucking hand started to shaking like mad. He opened his hand and let go of the chef's head… Sanji landed on his knees with a loud THONK-sound filling the hollow kitchen and just managed to stop himself from slumping down on the unforgiving floor and worsening his current condition.
Sanji stared blankly down at the floor, blood dripping down from his head, creating a little pool of red liquid underneath him. He felt bad… really fucking badly inside of his head! His whole brain felt like it all soon would explode and leave nothing but a bigger pool like the one underneath him. A white noise started to fill his ears, leaving all the other sounds around him unheard. A sickening feeling suddenly cut its way through his brain… he started to tremble through his whole body as well, the sweet feeling of darkness surrounding him the moment he would pass out, was now more welcome than ever before.
The white noise started to fade again and he could now hear the singing voice of a beautiful angel calling for him. He fought to lift his head up towards this wonderful voice he heard, and was greeted by Nami's beautiful face looking at him.
"…ji… anji…" Sanji blinked a couple of times and bowed his head. Shit! He was about to pass out any time soon. "…Sanji…?" he now heard the red haired navigators shaking voice. Sorrow overwhelming her as he didn't answer her. "Sanji…? C-can you hear me? Sanji, p-please… answer me…"
N-Nami…swan…! His hand suddenly slipped, but before he landed head first down at the floor, someone grabbed him and he felt someone hold around him. He looked up and smiled by the sight. "Nami…san…" he said with a soft voice. "S' okay… I'm fine, Nami-san, just a little tired… and dizzy." He tried to help himself up, but was hold back by the young navigator, who stubbornly held his arm tightly into her chest.
"Stay down, your idiot," she tried to say with a firm voice, though failing miserably "Or it'll just get worse! And try stay awake a little bit more till Chopper shows up, understand?"
"Ha-Hai, Nami-swan…" he sighed, knowing that he wouldn't get anywhere further if he dared to start arguing with her. Nami hugged him, her arms tightening around him before she sighed deeply and closed her eyes for a few seconds. She changed her soft eyes and covered up with dark, cold eyes when she opened them again and turned around to glare at Zoro. The swordsman didn't move from his spot, even though the others had moved away from him.
"Zoro!" The mention of his name sounded cold and empty for any feelings. Zoro slowly turned his gaze towards her, but the look in her eyes, that disappointment, that hate there glowed in them, even scared the hell shit out of him. He just starred back at her, trying to do anything to hide his shock and fear. There where a moment of silence before Nami spoke again. "What do you think, what Luffy would have thought or said, if he ever had witnessed… this?" Zoro's eye widened by the thought, but didn't say anything. Nami's eyes where starting to well up with tears. "What would you think, he would have said… if he had seen his first mate do…this?"
"Nami-san… S'okay…" Sanji whispered, trying to calm her down. "It was my own fault that it-"
"What the hell is wrong with you, Zoro?" she interrupted the young chef, who suddenly looked wide eyed up at her as a tear landed down on his cheek.
"…Nami-san…?"
"You're supposed to be the first mate! The one who is next after the captain! The one who is responsible for this crew… did you ever know that?" Zoro's bandaged fist tightened inside the sling there hang around his neck. He winced at the action as his wounded hand and arm hurt like hell, but he didn't care nor did he show anything to the others. "You're not supposed to attack your own crewmember," she continued a bit calmer this time, "and not even wanting to try killing them…!"
"I didn't want to…" Zoro trailed off and sighed as he turned around to leave the galley. "…what ever…!" he said with a crumbly voice, he opened the door that lead out to the deck and slammed it shut.
The others remained silent, staring at the door, as another door suddenly flew open and the breathless little doctor ran in, yelling in a cheering voice: "He's up! He's up! Luffy has woken up again! Ehm… what happen- ARRGH! Sanji! What happened to you?" Chopper ran around in circles and yelled up about needing a doctor, until he remembered again that he was the doctor, and ran over to make an examination on him. Nami told him what just had happened before he came in, as he looked at the wounds and open gashes on the blonds' head. Chopper frowned when he saw the biggest gash right under his hairline. This didn't look all too well, he had to get Sanji into the infirmary, and that was now, before he would loose unconsciousness!
"But you say that Luffy have woken up again?" Sanji asked and winced as Chopper touched the gash on his temple. His head was still throbbing like mad; it felt like ten blacksmith was hammering down onto his brain with their huge burning hammers. And then there was this irritating white noise there had woken up again together with the dizziness. Chopper just nodded and sighed.
"Uhm… he's going to be fine…" the little reindeer answered, but slowly trailed off to a sadder mood.
"….But?" Sanji asked and suddenly grabbed to his head. 'Shit it hurts!' He thought, screaming in his mind. When he pulled his hand away, it was full with his own blood. 'Double shit!'
Chopper didn't move his eyes away from him as he turned into his Heavy-point and started to lift him slowly up into his arms. "As long as he stays in bed so he can rest out, then he'll be okay… it was some pretty bad burning injuries he had got back then…"
"Thank God…" sighed Sanji in relief as he leaned his head into Chopper's furry chest and smiled back up at the now tall doctor. "Don't worry, Chopper, he'll be fine in no time!"
"Yosh! That's how our captain is!" Usopp backed up cheerfully, and putted on a big wide smile as well. Chopper's big smile returned back on his lips as he nodded again.
"Uhm! I know!" he then said and went back to the infirmary with a now drowsing chef in his arms. He had to hurry up… before he loosed too much of blood!
Luffy glanced around at all the shelves and saw all of them filled up with some sort of medicine and other stuffs he didn't knew what was. Chopper was gone now and even though the young doctor stated that he absolutely has to stay in bed, Luffy found this to be too boring and decided to not listening to the young doctor's words, and instead ripped off those tubes and other things that were attached to his chest and wrist. After taking them all off a long howling tone filled the infirmary. He took a last glance to the direction where he last had seen Chopper, but the door was shut and since there were no sign of even anyone going near any of the doors, there leaded in to the infirmary, taking the chance, the raven haired teen gradually sat up, wincing ever so slightly in the process. Finally getting out of the bed, he slowly dragged himself towards the door, leading out to the deck. Man, this was even harder than what he first had thought!
Once out on the deck, he saw the familiar swordsman standing at the railing. When he woke up the first thing he knew of, was to find either Zoro or Sanji. He was about to call at him with his always so cheerful voice, but hesitated in the doorway… what should he say right now to them? Would they just shrug it off like normally or would they get angry at him? He looked at the green haired swordsman a bit longer and now saw that his right arm was hinging in a sling… how could Zoro get hurt like that? Zoro never got hurt like that, not what he knew of. He stood there a little bit longer, thinking on what to do… Either way, Luffy was going to take the risk and walked up to him, calling to him like nothing was wrong.
Zoro stared out in the air, not focussing his eye on anything special. His thoughts where racing around inside his head like a mad: Why the hell had he done that? They where often up in a fight with each other, but never like that… And he never, ever, did lose his temper like that! His nails dig further into the wood on the railing. 'Fucking Shit!'Zoro thought. 'What the hell is wrong with me?'"Shit!" He said out loud and hammered his hand down on the railing. 'Why the fucking hell am I loosing control over myself like that?' After a little while he sighed deeply and looked down on his wounded arm. He grabbed it with his other hand and squeezed it slightly, which caused him to wince a little. Damn it! He had been too slow, back then…
~flashback~
"It's impossible to get in there!" Sanji called over the roaring sound of the fire and just managed to jump aside as a flame wanted him for breakfast. "It's useless! We'll just end up getting burned alive, if we dare to go into that! We have to get the water at first!"
"There's no time for that!" Zoro called back as he was looking through the flames, searching for a certain idiotic rubber-captain. "Luffy is still in there! And if we don't get him out, he'll be burned alive!"
"You're to no use if you get yourself killed!"
Zoro glared at him and then threw his swords over to him. Sanji grabbed them in time and looked shocked down at the swords and then up to the green haired swordsman. "He's my captain and I have promised to protect him. I cannot live with the thought about that I never had tried to save him… then rather die in the prosess, as I try to!" with that he found an opening and jumped into the flames. Sanji called with his full lungs at him, but only the wild flames answered him back.
"Shitty swordsman!" he yelled out to no one in particular and then disappeared out through the door, out to get help and water!
~end of flashback~
Zoro dropped his head down in his arms, there laid on the railing, and sighed deeply. His nails started to dig down into his arm, down in the flesh, so the new wound slowly started to bleed through the bandage. But he didn't care about the pain at all.
~flashback~
The heat started to get on his nerves and the poisonous smoke tried to make its way down his lungs. Zoro coughed a couple of times before he finally found what he was searching for… right there at the middle of the floor, surrounded by the wild flames.
"Luffy!" he called, but did not get any response from the young captain. "Shit! OI! LUFFY! Can you hear me?" he called once again as he made his way through the flames, but he still didn't get any response. He kneeled down at the younger teen's side and was about to shake him a little, when he saw the red blooded and black burned flesh. He bit his lower lip and cursed under his breath, as he carefully tried to get his hands underneath the young captain without hurting him too much. He lifted him up in bridal-style and was about to turn around to get out, as he froze. "Where the hell is the exit?" He glared around, but everything was painted in red flames and black smoke, there once again found its way down into his lungs. Zoro coughed again and held Luffy closer into his chest. "Fucking Cook! Where the hell is he with that damned shitty water?"
Finally he found an opening between the flames and jumped that way, but as he got through it, he found himself standing at the crushed window, where the black smock and red flames where searching out at. The idea of jumping out the window got destroyed at once as he heard a creaking sound above his head and before he knew of it, the wooden beams, there once supported the library's ceiling, broke and headed down towards them. Zoro made a move to jump away, but his foot got caught by something he couldn't see clearly, and thus, he fell down on the floor… Luffy's body rolled a bit away from him. He stretched his arm out towards him, screaming his name, and then everything went black.
~end flashback~
He didn't remember how he ever got out, and he didn't remember how he could carry Luffy with him out, without hurting him too much, and with a broken, burned arm. He still cursed at that damn, fucking cook for taking too long to get that water and for the others to come up and help. Lucky enough the most of the books and other stuff where saved, thanks to… well… thanks to that blond haired cook. He had to admit that if he hadn't thrown those things out through the window, nothing would have been left by now.
He felt eyes watching him now from his left and heard unsteady running steps nearing him. From the corner of his eye he caught something black, red and white coming closer… he should have been glad that he was up… he should have been happy for he was breathing again… he should have been delightful to ever could see his smile again and hear the cheerful voice mention his name again, but he wasn't.
"Zooorooo! Ooooii! Zorooo…!" he called with a cheerful tone. "There you are. What are you doing? Haah? Ne, Zoro… what happened to your arm? You've been up in some kind of fight? Aww, why wasn't I awake to be there? I wanted to fight too!"
"Shut up …" the swordsman said coldly.
"W-what..?" Luffy panted quietly, surprised, and slowed down a bit; that short distance he had tried to run almost took the breath out of him. Zoro murmured something else that was inaudible for Luffy to hear, due to his heart pounding loudly in his ears. He could feel that something wasn't right; as soon as his firstmate could see him, he felt a cold chill running down his spine. Luffy dared to take another step towards him, reaching his one hand out for him. "Z-zoro…?" he asked with concern.
"I said: Go away!" he pushed himself away from the railing and went over to sit down at the mast, one hand behind his head as he leaned back and closed his eyes. Hoping on that he soon would leave him alone again… but Luffy remained on the same spot, staring at him, what annoyed him endless. Why the fuck wouldn't he leave? Just leave him alone… just for now? Those eyes… those fucking sadly and innocent eyes kept staring at him, like a concerned puppy who didn't know what it had done wrong.
The atmosphere in between the two of them where starting to feel thicker and somehow colder. Even though the sun still shone warmly above, the cold hit him right into his bones… a shiver ran through Luffy's body and he slung his arms around himself to keep himself warm. The air stung in his lungs as he tried to keep a bubbling feeling of sorrow from coming out… he hadn't felt this feeling since the fight against Usopp, back at Water 7, since the split up, since he lost his older brother.
No, wait! What was that right now? This wasn't right! He shouldn't be feeling like that, like this. What was it there was tricking his mind to have these sudden sad feelings? What was tricking Zoro to seem so… mad…? Was it because of the fire back then? Of course it was! How could he be so stupid to forget about that?
"Zo-" Luffy started but got interrupted at once by one open, cold eye there felt like staring right through him.
"I thought I told you to go away?" Zoro said coldly, but Luffy still didn't move an inch. The swordsman sighed irritably and smacked his healthy hand down onto the floor. "Fucking hell, Luffy? Didn't you get me? Just. Fucking. Leave. Me. Alone!"
Luffy bend his head down and bit his lower lip. Feelings fought to take control of him, and it annoyed him to no end. Sighing, he tried to get eye contact with him, but Zoro kept staring away from his eyes, and instead directly into his soul. He was mad. He was really mad 'No wonder that he is.'
"Zoro, I'm sorry…" Luffy said with a timid tone and ducked his head low, his right hand now grasping the cloth near the area of his heart.
"Saying that won't cut it you know," there was no anger in Zoro's tone any longer… only pure disappointment.
Luffy shot his head up and raised his voice "Please listen to me! I really did try to help!" he said, hoping to cover up the sadness in his voice as well. 'Stop sounding so weak! Stop sounding so weak!'
"Stop bitching around here! Get your fucking ass outta here!" Zoro now sat straight up and glared at him with a demon like eye. "Get the fucking point of what I'm saying?"
"Believe me! I was trying to help!" The teen said stubbornly, cursing as his voice betrayed him and started to crackle just a little.
Zoro stood up abruptly and marched towards Luffy.
Deep inside Luffy where hoping for that Zoro was going to give him a slap on the shoulder, ruffle his hair teasing and telling him that nobody would be cross at him any longer… but he knew for sure that it wouldn't happen, defiantly not now as he literally could feel a deep dangerous aura surrounding the swordsman.
Without a warning, Zoro slapped Luffy right across the face, enough force to have him flying to the railing and hitting hard onto the hard, steel like, wood… nearly tipping over to fall into the sea. Zoro grabbed him by his collar and pulled him up so they where staring into each others eyes.
"Damn it, Luffy! Don't you understand a fucking thing?" Zoro hissed through gritted teeth. But Luffy kept staring dumbfounded at him, what annoyed the swordsman to no end. He let go of his collar again, so the young captain fell to the wooden floor with a high thump, and turned around to walk away.
"Zoro, wait…!" Luffy pleaded him and walked after him, but was only greeted by a swinging arm that hit him right in the chest with such a force, that he this time hit the railing, and fell over board, no chance to grab in anything at all.
Zoro kept walking away, letting his anger and sorrow blind him from any good senses, and ignored the scream of his name from his captain.
Usopp, just in that time dared to show up out on the deck. His eyes widened as he saw Luffy fall over the edge of the railing and Zoro who where just walking away from the place. "O-Oi! Z-zo-zoro!" he finally screamed up as the sound of something breaking through the seas surface was heard. Zoro didn't hear him at first, but as Usopp kept calling at him, higher this time, and pointed bewildered towards an empty railing, Zoro now knew what had happened. Shit! What the hell had he done this time?
A loud splash was heard as Luffy got swallowed by the ocean. Once in, the young captain's chest started to burn. Being a hammer he already couldn't swim but with his injuries, it wasn't making his life any easier. The pressure got harder; the surrounding water became darker as well. Above him he caught a glimpse of the now darkening sky. He couldn't hold his breath much longer. A ringing noise filled his ears, the deeper he where sinking, the louder it became, then suddenly it disappeared… with his last breath escaping his mouth. Bubbles surrounded him as darkness overtook him… the last thing he saw was a black shade, with something white and green on it moving fast towards him. Then he didn't remember anything more.
Zoro's lungs stung, wanting some air. Everything had gotten dark down here. He was getting nauseous as the stinging salty water had soaked through his bandages and into the open wounds on his left arm…. more so as he forced his arm to move in the water, helping to push his body forward. He looked around, bewildered, but still searched everywhere with calmness. Damn it! Why did he run after him again? He could just have leaved him alone as he asked him to… no… why the fuck did he hit him in the first place? He quickly went up to the surface for air and dived again.
Minutes passed and Zoro slowly started to panic… Damn it! If he didn't soon would find him, Luffy would no longer be alive! Or for that sake, he himself wouldn't be alive! His arm started to cramp, his lungs once again screaming for air, but this time he didn't listened to his bodies begging's. Finally, not far away from him his eyes caught a glimpse of something red and white. He forced his exhausted body to dive deeper and shut off to listen to his own screams of pain wanting to break out through his mouth. He grabbed the unconscious young captain and hurried back up to the surface, where he was smacked by a large wave that immediately pushed them back down underneath the surface, even before he ever managed to breathe in some air. Zoro immediately swam back up and swallowed a big mouthful of air, coughing some water out of his lungs, before a new wave pushed them back again underneath the surface. Zoro shortly tried to swim back up, but as he tried to make a move his left arm gave up and released its grip on Luffy's body. He grabbed him just in time with his other hand and pulled him closer against him. 'Shit!'Zoro thought. 'I have to get back up! He needs air! Air… air…!'He wrapped his legs around the younger boy's skinny body, letting them both sink deeper down into the ocean, and then grabbed the back of his black hair so he was facing him. He looked at him for a second before he pressed his lips against the young captain's own cold lips. He forced his tongue in between his lips and blew in the air that he had been holding on, into the raven haired teen's lungs, until he didn't have more for himself and closed his mouth with his free hand. He grabbed around the skinny body, released his own legs from him and swam back up to the surface, using only his legs to push them upwards.
Zoro gasped for air as soon as his head came over the surface once again and pulled Luffy close into him. "Come on, Luffy!" he coughed and spat, trying to make a move to shake him a little. "Breath! Breath for God sake!" But Luffy gave him no response. Zoro looked around with panic clearly on his face; Shit… the ship where no longer in sight! A new wave caught him off guard and pressed them both underneath the water again… this time deeper than before. Zoro did the same as before, without thinking twice about his actions, and pressed his lips against the others and forced his tongue into his mouth, so he once again could blow in some new air into his lungs… still no response. He blew in the last air and was about to head back up to the surface as a pair of hands grabbed his cheeks, turned his head the other direction and suddenly his lips got pressed against the owners own cold lips. Zoro stared with surprise into Luffy's onyx dark eyes and tried to part away, but even that Luffy was so weak under water; he kept his hands on his cheeks, strong enough to hold it still, and his lips on his and blew back in some of his air into Zoro's lungs. 'Lu-luffy? Stop it! Stop it God damned! STOP IT!'Finally Luffy parted away and smiled at him, not with that normally goofy smile, no… but with a serious calm and honestly smile. Suddenly a thought hit him: Luffy didn't care to loose his own life, if just he could safe his own nakama's life… Shit!
Zoro wrapped his arm around Luffy's body once again but tighter and hurried back up to the surface, before Luffy would be locked away in the darkness for eternity.
"Can you see them yet?"
"No, not yet…! Damn! It's too dark to see clearly down here!" Franky cursed as he searched around the area where they had last seen them. The Shark Submerge III was one of his favourite inventions and one of the best and fastest submarines ever!
"Huh- But they must be somewhere around there!" Nami's voice said half irritated and half worried through the loud speaker. "What about turning on the light?"
"You don't think that I thought 'bout 'at?" The cyborg grumbled back irritated and looked out through the large window again. Nami mumbled something unviable through the loud speaker, but the cyborg pretended like nothing was said. "Oi! Afro-bro! You've seen something?" He turned around to face the afro skeleton since he didn't get any response. "Oi! You hear me?"
Brook broke his gaze away from the sight of the underwater world outside the window and looked at the cyborg with a smile. "I never seen anything so beautiful before in my life… even when I'm dead! Yohohohoho-!"
"OI! Stop lazing and keep your eyeholes out after sword-bro and strawhat-bro!" Franky said irritated and mumbled something as he faced the front window again. Suddenly he froze as his eyes caught something out in the dark and he immediately turned the submarine that way so the spotlight was hitting the object. "What the…?"
"Did you find anything?" Brook asked calmly, but he didn't get any answers… but he didn't need one either. The skeleton stared with horror when he saw what kind of 'object' the spotlight had hit and dropped his jaw. "Is it… who I think it is?" he dared to ask. Franky nodded but didn't say anything. Out in the spotlight where two figures… one man and one teenager, the one holding the other in his one arm and with his legs wrapped around the smaller frame.
"Franky? Brook? You there?" Sounded Nami's worried voice in the loud speaker. "FRANKY? BROOK? Answer me God damn it!"
Zoro slowly opened his eyes as he sensed someone nearing them and where greeted by a blinding light directly to his face, but he didn't do anything to shelter it from his eye. He stared tiredly at it and slowly turned his gaze down at Luffy's little frame there no longer where moving in his arms.
Franky looked with awe as he saw the green haired man staring back at him. His one eye where empty and cold to look into, like when you're staring into a dying persons eyes. Then he looked away and down at the 'sleeping' captain. He grabbed his chin and pressed his lips towards the others... air bubbles where forming around them. Short time after he pulled away and his head fell tiredly down at the captains one shoulder.
"What is he doing?" the skeleton asked shocked.
The cyborg immediately woke up from his trauma as he heard the words from Brook, and hurried to find the joystick to stir the mechanic arms of the Shark Submerge over to grab them both, before they sank any deeper down in the ocean. Then he started to locate up to the surface again.
"You think they'll make it?" Brook asked this time, almost in a whisper… but Franky didn't answer back.
"Oi! Nee-chan! We got them!"
"You do? Good! Bring them back up!" Nami said relieved and then her voice turned away from the microphone; it sounded like that she was telling the others about their 'catch'… everyone behind her cheered happily. Franky came with a deep sigh and dried his temple with his backside of his hand.
"… Oi… Nee-chan!"
"Hm? What is it, Franky?" Nami questioned happily.
"Get Doc-bro down in the Soldier dock system at once…!"
"…"
"Franky, what happened?" Silence appeared on the other side.
Franky sighed again. "They're 'sleeping'…!"
Silence filled the whole ship; no one was talking to anyone at all. When Zoro woke up, no one talked to him neither… not even that shitty cook he had shared the infirmary with earlier, didn't even bothered himself to insult him as he saw him standing at the stew. He walked out of the kitchen, ignoring everyone's gazes at him as he passed them. The silence around him hung heavily in the air as a pest; trying to breathe it in could almost be deadly. He hurried out from the kitchen, away from everyone else; their staring presence felt almost claustrophobic.
Out on the deck he saw the blue haired cyborg who was standing at the railing, staring out in the blue ocean… the sea had now become steady and almost mirror clear to look at. He moved slowly towards him, clutching his hand into a fist… his other hand lying lifeless in the sling. Franky felt his presence when he was about ten feet away and turned around to face him… smiling calmly when he saw him. "Oi! Sword-bro!" he called cheerfully and pushed his sunglasses upwards with his thump so his eyes where now visible. "You okay?" Zoro just nodded and placed himself beside him and shared the same view as the cyborg, who had turned his gaze towards the sea once again. They didn't speake for a long time, just shared this relieving silence together.
The sea… the silence… somehow Franky's presence finally gave him the chance to relax and think over things. He didn't remember much of what had happened, the last thing he remembered was that he jumped in the sea… searching for Luffy. Then… he saw him, wrapped his arms around him and tried to get back up to the surface… the constantly pushing waves… Luffy not breathing… trying to give him air… g-give him air….? Oh shit! Had he literally kissed the idiotic captain? KISSED… HIM? THE IDIOT? No...! Nononononono! He didn't kiss him; he was just trying to give him some air… right? Of course that was right! But those lips… that mouth, when he tried to…! Zoro groaned irritated and dumped his head hard down onto the railing… the loud GONK-sound startled Franky so much that he almost jumped overboard from shock.
"Oi! Bro… you sure you're okay?" he asked a little worried but got nothing else but a deeply sigh in answer. "…Zoro?" he asked again, daring to take a step closer towards him, but didn't dare to lay a hand on his shoulder as a comfort… never knew if he suddenly would turn around and chop it off! Even that that would have been a thought, because, of course Zoro wouldn't do that… right?
"Yeah, I'm okay…" Zoro finally answered with another sigh and with another groan of irritations. "I'm just…" Oh God…! Zoro thought, horror suddenly started to light out through his eyes, as he stared with terrified expression at the blue haired cyborg, who only looked with concern back down at him. He didn't… or did he? He was down there… the blinding light… It was him, right? Did he see… did he see me… doing… that? Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK! Fucking shit in HELL!
A twisted and an embarrassing silence surrounded them for a long time, before Franky spoke up with a smirk growing on his lips.
"Yo Sword-Bro…" he started… the smirk was getting too big for Zoro's liking. The young man looked with worry up at him.
"W-what's up?" he tried to say calmly. How big could that smirk even become? It wasn't far away from getting as large as one of Luffy's loony smiles.
"How was the kiss down there?"
"…" Zoro stared wide eyed at him, feeling all the blood in his entire body leaving him… his face became almost as pale as a sheet and he felt like he soon would pass out.'…Shit!'
Sanji stared into the space, clearly unfocused, while he with mechanically movements stirred the boiling soup… his thoughts was far away from the place he was at right now.
"…Sanji-kun?" Nami asked in a worried tone. Sanji snapped out of his thoughts -what ever thoughts he where thinking, he didn't remember about it now- and looked sleepy up to the red haired navigator.
"Huh…? Yes, Nami-san?"
"Your soup is boiling over." She pointed down at it. First he didn't get her and just followed her fingers pointing direction, and then his visible eye shot wide open as he now saw the mess he was making and turned off the fire underneath it.
"Shit!" he cursed under his breath and moved the pot over to the sink, cursing more as he spilt some of it down on the table and on his own hand. He turned on the faucet and let the water cooling his reddening skin. Nami stood a bit behind him and stared at the young chef, still with the worried expression on her face.
"Sanji-kun…? You're sure that you are okay?"
"It was just a little burn, my dearest Nami-swan!" he said with a calm smile on his lips.
"No. It wasn't what I meant. Sanji, you where close to the brink to pass out just a few hours ago… It's not good for you to run around like that with such a-"
"Nami-san," Sanji interrupted her. She looked surprised up at him. "I am really fine, I promise you." He looked down on his red hand and after a little while he turned off the faucet and dried his hand carefully, still staring down at it as he spoke once again. "Besides, Chopper said that there where nothing to worry about…so… its fine, really…"
"Really?" she asked sceptical with a lifted brow and her arms crossing over each other. Sanji looked up at her again. "Then why do you keep staring out in the blue air like an idiot?"
"I… was just thinking, Nami-san."
"About what?"
"I… don't really remember…" he answered honestly and sighed.
Nami shook her head, but then tried to give him a supporting smile. "Go in and get some sleep, Sanji. A lot of things have happened today and I don't think that Chopper would appreciate to see you out here and cooking, ne?"
"But, Na-"
"No but's!" interrupted Nami stubbornly with a lifted finger. "Now, go in and get some sleep!"
"Hai, Nami-swan…" Sanji sighed defeated and walked back in to the infirmary, where he was supposed to be, and sat down on his bed… now staring down on the wooden floor. Thoughts ran through his mind like an endless stream, so much that it almost caused him a headache. He sighed once more and lay back on the bed. So many things had happened today, yes, so much that it almost felt stupid; the fire, Luffy's close to dead experience, the fight with the fucking moss-head, the 'fight' there had been between the marimo and the stupid captain who wouldn't stay in bed when Chopper had told him to stay, and then when the fight had ended, the fucking shit-head had 'pushed' Luffy over board, where they both almost drowned… the moss-head closer to it than the damned rubber-captain.
He closed his eyes with his arms behind his neck, trying to get some sleep. It was actually nice to be alone for yourself and with no other people around you. He and the moss-head had shared the infirmary with each other, since the both of them now were in a more bad state than the rubber-captain… Luffy where put on an observation down in the men's quarters, where both Chopper and Brook where keeping an eye at him. Okay, Chopper where only down there the half of the time, since he also had to take a look on his other 'patients'. But what he could understand is that he was told, Luffy were out of danger, thanks to Zoro –what ever that meant- and were now only sleeping.
"Yo Sword-Bro…" He now suddenly heard the cyborg call.
Sanji cursed under his breath. "Damn it, Franky! You're too noisy!" he spoke out to the ceiling, knowing that he never would hear him. He clenched his eyes completely shut and turned his head away from the 'yelling'.
"W-what's up?" he now heard the shit-head answer back… honestly, if they both wouldn't soon shut their fucking mouths, he was so going out to kick their sorry ass'.
"How was the kiss down there?" Sanji's eyes shot open and he fell out of the bed from surprise.
"K-kiss?" Sanji gasped, stunned, and looked shocked at the door where the voices came from. "What the hell?" Was he going insane and was starting to hear things, or was the crew starting to go insane? No, wait, they where all (except the ladies) insane! He scrambled over to the door and pressed his one ear to it so he could hear it all better. He must have heard wrong. He must have heard wrong. He must have heard wrong! He kept on telling himself that and cursed, unable to hear everything of what they said out there.
"Fucking shit-head, speak at least a bit louder…!" he mumbled for himself.
"…don't fucking tell it to anyone! Promise!"
'What the hell, marimo?'Sanji yelled inside of his head, couldn't even believe what he was hearing.
"Naa! I understand!" Franky's voice now sounded with a couple of laugh afterwards. "Wouldn't be any good if anyone heard about it… could mistake some things!"
"What the hell is there to misunderstand about it?" Sanji now said with a higher voice and clasped his hands over his mouth as he found out that he had been speaking that out loud. There was silent out side on the deck for a very long moment now, before Franky finally spoke up again, but not high enough for Sanji to hear. Sanji leaned back up against the door and frowned. "Shitty perverted bastard," he said to himself "taking advantage of him when he's in such a weak state!"
"You should go in and get some sleep!" He now heard Franky say. Sanji froze.
"Uhm!" Zoro sounded, and he heard as the heavy footsteps from the swordsman's boots turned around and got fainter to hear. 'Good!' Sanji thought. 'Don't want him in here now!'
"Oi Sword-bro!" 'Shit!'
"Oi what?" Zoro asked irritated.
"Not that way…"
"Franky, shut the fuck up!" hissed Sanji through his gritted teeth. "Let the perverted bastard sleep wherever he want to… So I can sleep in peace without worrying about getting involved in one of his perverted thoughts… or needs!"
"That way!" he now heard him say.
'Damn you, Franky!'
"I'm fine, thanks!"
"Good!"Sanji said to himself.
"Sorry, Doctor's orders!"
"Shit!"
When Luffy woke up he was met by a weird feeling lying on his face… when he opened his eyes he at first saw the face of the green haired man close to his face, when he blinked a couple of times he now found out that it wasn't him but something scratchy… He sat up, blinked a couple of times more before his eyes went wide and his jaw turned into a big 'O'-shape.
"Boushi!" He laughed so much that it even started to hurt his stomach "Man, I really thought for a moment that you had run away from me! Shishishi!" He held his strawhat high up in the air, as he turned over the edge of the bed, and propped it down on his head with a big smile plastered on his face. "How you got back here?" he asked the strawhat, of course not expecting any answer from anyone (or the strawhat), and just smiled by the thought that one of his friends had found it and delivered it back to him. He did a move to jump down from his bed, but suddenly realisation hit him and the pain from before started to turn back. Luffy fell promptly back down on his back and bit in his lower lip for not screaming out, as a blinding pain suddenly overwhelmed and tortured his body more than before.
"Shit… it hurts…!" Luffy said painfully, biting harder down in his lip, so hard that he even came to tore the flesh so the blood could run freely down at his mouth, and was almost biting completely through it as it hurt more than ever before… a cold, salty tear ran down at his cheeks, torturing the now reopened burn marks there still hadn't got plastered, duo to that it needed some fresh air after being in the oceans salty water.
How long have he been asleep? And… where was he? This didn't look like Chopper's infirmary…
"It would have been better if you staid in your bed," A calm voice spoke up from somewhere in the room. Luffy's head popped up and he stared around the room, until he found the owner of the voice, sitting at the low sofa and drinking some tea. "The young doctor wouldn't appreciate to see you jumping around again, he's pretty unhappy about that."
"Brook?" Luffy sat up in his bunk bed and looked surprised at him. There where no cheering in the skeleton's voice when he spoke. "What happened?" Brook didn't answer him at once but just took another sip of his cup of tea.
"After what I understand, you and swordsman-san where up in some kind of an argument there turned out to a fight… there brought you to fall over board." He said calmly, but didn't look up at him.
Luffy looked down on his own hands, trying to remember, then it hit him and he jumped down from his bed. "I have to go see on Zoro!" he said.
"Zoro is fine!" Chopper's little voice said coldly. Luffy turned around to find him on the bed below his.
"Chopper?"
"Go to bed, Luffy… Doctors orders!"
"What in the hell are you staring at?"
"Why the hell should I tell you that?"
"…"
"…"
"Crazy Cook!"
"…Perverted bastard…!"
Sanji stood in the doorway to the library, staring into the black mess. After he had overheard the conversation between the marimo and Franky he didn't want to share the same room with him, he felt… disgusted by the thought. If the perverted marimo could take advance of Luffy when he was unconscious, what would his shitty mind make him to do against him when he fell asleep? He shivered through his whole body by the thought of it, and cursed his mind to start thinking that way. Suddenly he ran up to the bathhouse upstairs, feeling his whole stomach turn, and just made it to the toilet as he threw up the remains of food into the toilet. 'Shit! I'm still a bit marked by that damn fucking fight!' He cursed under his breath and collapsed between the toilet and the sink. His heart was pounding like a mad and his mind was fuzzy…the whole room started to dance around him and a white noise clamed his hearing. 'Not good, not good…!'Then everything got dark and he felt his head hitting the unforgiving hard floor.
"Sanji! Get out of here!"
"What?" Sanji opened his eyes and stared around… but there were no one to see.
"Sanji-!"
A roaring sound rumbled through the walls… making everything around him to shake. He crawled tiredly over to the ladder and stared down. His eyes went wide when his face got met by a humongous heat, there took the breath away from him… everything under him was on fire… and between the flames stood Luffy and yelled at him.
"Luffy? What the hell are you doing down there? Get the fuck out from there!" Sanji shouted back. The young captain screamed something back, but he couldn't hear what it was. Suddenly he found himself standing in between the flames, beside Luffy and with a lot of books and other stuffs in his arms… but this time he couldn't feel the heat. Suddenly he felt a couple of hands hammering right into his stomach and he was sent flying right through the large window… small glass splinters surrounding him together with the big flames, there tried to catch him. He looked up and met Luffy's eyes… they looked calm and relieved at him. He shouted something at him, but his voice was taken away. Then the flames surrounded the captain completely… swallowed him. He wanted to shout out his name, tears appeared in his eyes, his heart wrenched… but the air around him had already claimed his voice.
"…Grab him Zoorooo!" he heard the raven haired boy call, fallowed by a scream… and then there where nothing more to hear.
He looked down and could now see the deck coming nearer underneath him… and Zoro who were waiting at him. Sanji felt relived for a second, until he saw the one open dark eye of the swordsman, there was fixed up on him. A thin cold smile appeared on his lips and he stepped back… stepped away from the spot where he last time had caught him. Sanji's eyes widened even more, disbelieving what he just saw… the deck came nearer… Zoro were smiling at him like a sick maniac. Now he only where a few metres away from it… the air gave him his voice back and he screamed of his full lungs as he hit down towards the deadly wooden deck… "NOOOO!"
Sanji woke up with a scream escaping his throat and sat up at once… unfortunately the sink where just right above his head, and the whole bathhouse where sounded by a ringing Gong!-soundas he hit it. He grabbed his throbbing head in his hands and rested it on the floor. 'Shit it hurts!' He thought. 'Fucking shitty hell!' His heart wrenched as his mind suddenly started racing… it had all just been a stupid, fucking dream… right? There was no roaring fire in the room underneath him right now… right? As soon as his head was slowing down throbbing so much, he crawled over to the ladder, just in case, and looked carefully down. He sighed relieved as he 'just' saw the black and burned library underneath him. He slowly crawled down the ladder and placed his one foot carefully on the floor, then the other. His head were still throbbing like crazy, he still felt a bit dizzy, but managed to stand up without too much of a problem.
He stood there for about a minute or so… taking in the surroundings once more, it hurt him like an arrow through his heart, every time he looked at the destructions. Damn shitty, fucking captain! What the hell did he think that he was doing back then? "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!" Sanji cursed and slammed his hands down on the black burned out table, not caring about that the high sound went strait into his brain. What. Had. He. Fucking. Done? His fingers scraped in the burned wood, he bit his lower lip and was about to scream up in frustration as he suddenly felt another persons present behind him.
He turned slowly around and faced the young captain, who was staring worried at him. He blinked a couple of times, not believing in what he saw. Impossible! He couldn't just stand there…and walk around like that… not after all that what had happened! Luffy's worried face suddenly turned to a much brighter and a more happy big-smiling face, and he started laughing with his idiotic laugh.
"Heya Sanji! What 'ya doing?" That damn fucking, irritating dumfounded smile of his! Sanji's brow narrowed and he gritted his teeth as he turned around to face him fully. What he was doing? What he was DOING? He clenched his fist, so much that his knuckles where turning all white. That damned fucking captain! How dared he showing up like this? Ask like this? Looking like this? Luffy tilted his head and looked quizzically up at him. "Sanji, is something wrong?" 'Wrong? Wrong? …WRONG?'Sanji was about to open his mouth to shout something at him, but let it go and turned away from him with a deep sigh.
"Go away, Luffy…" he begged him with a low tired voice, his one hand rubbing his throbbing temple. He couldn't take all this much longer, he couldn't stay cool for much longer… not after all that shit there had happened today. He was about to loose it soon… he could feel it.
"Sanji?" The raven asked worried, no happiness in his voice any longer… only sorrow. "Why?" Luffy asked quitly. "Why don't you wanna talk to me? Why…" he looked down on the black smeared floor. Embarrassed over his own slowly break down… damn irritating weak feelings of his! "…why won't anyone wanna talk to me any longer? Chopper is mad at me… Brook hardly talks to me… Robin doesn't even look at my way and Nami just glares at me… she looks so… disappointed. Franky and Usopp ignores me, but when I look at them... they all look so disappointed and, and…" He sighed and kicked something away there laid on the floor. "…and I can't even find Zoro anywhere…"
'And why the hell does he want to find that perverted bastard?' Sanji thought. 'He only took advance of you when you were… aargh shit!' Sanji clapped himself down to find his pack of cigarettes. "Why do you wanna talk to that shit-head, anyway?" 'Ahh shit! Where the hell did I put my… Ah!'Finally he found them in his pants pockets, short time after he found his lighter. He lit the cigarette and took a long drag of the relaxing cancer-stick, letting the wonderful poison fill his lungs… and calm down his nerves. He blew out some of the smoke, the rest of it he let stay in his mouth, letting it find its way up through his nose and then blew it out that way. Man how he had missed that smoke for a long time… even that it only had been for one day! During the time he had spent in the infirmary and in the near of Chopper's waking 'eagle eyes', he haven't been allowed to take one of his 'calming'-sticks (as he more preferred to call them), and that irritated him to no end. After a couple of puff on his cigarette he once again remembered the answer he wished coming from the damn fucking captain. He looked coldly into the raven haired boys eyes, claiming an answer this time, but then he found out that he actually had heard him mumble about something he hadn't could understand. "I beg your pardon?" Sanji asked, still trying to keep his cold and cool attitude. Luffy's head snapped up from thinking on other kind of stuff.
"I said: because that he had saved my life two times… and I need to thank him for doing so. That's the only right thing to do." Sanji mumbled something that Luffy couldn't make out what was, and walked past the raven haired captain, heading to the doorway... not saying a word to him. "…and I wanted to talk with you too, Sanji!" Sanji stopped promptly and glared at him from the corner of his eyes. He didn't say anything, just stared at him. Luffy sighed and looked up at him… small crystal drops threatened with to soon release and slide down at his red cheeks. "Sanji… why are you like this? Why are you all… like this?"
Sanji puffed on his cigarette once again, without bothering to turn around and face him completely. "Don't you really not know why? You don't know what you have done?" Luffy dropped his head again and only few seconds later he knelt down on the floor, and bowed his head so much that it touched the floor. Sanji looked surprised down at him… almost dropping his cigarette from his lips. What the fuck?
"I'm so sorry, Sanji…" Luffy said quietly down in the smudged floor. Sanji still stood a few feet's in front of him… completely stunned. "I'm sorry for what I've done…! It was stupid of me doing such a thing, I-I should had thought twice before I laid it there… right in the middle of the sun."
'What…'
"I-I'm sorry what I did to you… I… wasn't thinking straight when I pushed you out like that… you could have got hurt badly and, and that would have been my fault…"
'…the…'
"I'm so sorry… I even ruined Nami's precious maps… her dreams! I destroyed her dream… I broke your faith to me… I-I ruined all of your precious things… your books… Franky's proud… Robin's love… You all loved this library and I… I ruined it… destroyed it completely!"
'…HELL?'
"I'm so sorry what I've done… It's all… It's all my damn, shitty, fucking fault!" Sanji's curled brows narrowed; he bit hard down on his cigarette.
'What the fuck is wrong with him?' He thought. 'When the hell have he started to curse like that? Is that fucking brainless shitty captain really THAT stupid?'Sanji clenched his fists, so much that they where shaking, and the knuckles turned white. This could not be fucking true! His captain… for God sake his Captain, were kneeling, bowed his head for him and fucking apologized towards him!
Sanji ripped his cigarette out of his mouth, threw it down on the floor and smashed it under his sole before he turned around and once again headed towards the door. Luffy's head snapped up as he heard the cigarette butt get crunched under the chef's black sole and jumped up. "Sanji, wait!" he pleaded. But Sanji kept going. "Sanji, please… Won't you please… stay?" Sanji stopped promptly, but didn't turn around. His silence almost scared the hell crap out of the young captain, who immediately pulled away from him. "S-Sanji…?" he asked concerned. Sanji sighed and waved at him to come closer... but Luffy remained on his spot.
"Come here," he young chef said calmly… too calmly… there where something about him there scared Luffy a little. "Come on… please…" Luffy nodded hesitantly and slowly walked towards him, until he stood at his side, where the chef where pointing. Sanji lowered his hand and sighed once again.
There was a long painful silence in between them… a damn fucking creepy silence, there only got disturbed by Sanji who was lighting a new cigarette. He puffed on it a couple of times before he blew out a white sky of smoke.
He didn't know for how long that they were standing like this, but it surely slowly was starting to get on his nerves…! After a while it pissed Luffy so much that he was about to open his mouth and shouting something up in the chef's face, as a flat hand suddenly slapped him hard on his right cheek and send him tripling backwards… backing a few feet away from him.
Luffy stood there all stunned and looked rather shocked up at his chef... did he just... hit him...? Did he just... slap him in the face, using one of his hands?
Sanji stood hovered over the raven haired teen; every breath was deep and filled with anger. "You..." He started slowly, threatened anger shaking his voice. "You damn, fucking, idiot! The HELL you think you where doing back then, hah?" Luffy looked surprised up at him... Sanji had never looked at him like that before. That visible eye... he couldn't decide if it were filled with anger, disappointment or pure sorrow... That eye... even hurt more to look at, than the slap in the face...
"Wha...what do you mean, Sanji? What about before?" he asked, trying to calm himself down... what was that feeling there where starting to boiling inside off him right now... in his heart? It hurt so much. Sanji's brow lifted in a dangerous way and his eye stared coldly down at him, like the way he looked on his enemies. "I just said that-"
"I don't fucking mean what you said right before! You know very well... what the hell I'm talking about, you damn, freaking asshole!" Sanji grabbed the collar of his captains red shirt and pulled him up so he was staring at him directly into his eyes and shook him hard. "YOU DAMN HELL KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK I'M TALKING ABOUT, YOU DAMN SHIT-HEAD OF A CAPTAIN!"
Luffy stared surprised into his chef's blue eye, there slowly got filled with water. "S-Sanji…" the raven haired teen murmured. Sanji's eye widened, realising that it threatened to spill tears. He bit harder down on his smoking cigarette and threw another fist right in the middle of his face, so Luffy was sent flying across the room once again.
Luffy didn't make it up to his feet this time, before Sanji once again stood over him. He pulled him up and smacked him right into the wall behind him. He only stood there shortly and stared into his eyes before he lifted his one hand once again and hit him in the face several times, one time harder than the other.
Luffy didn't say a word, he just took the hits as they came, but strangely enough... every hit he got... did hurt as hell...! After the tenth hit in a row, the taste of blood filled his mouth and soon ran down at his lips. But Sanji was filled with so much rage that he didn't see the blood, and punched him two times more before he let go of him. Luffy at once collapsed on the floor and started to cough hard. The blood ran out of his mouth and landed on the floor, making a little pool underneath him. "S-Sanji…?" he questioned silently. Why was he so angry? He did apologize towards him! And… why did his punches hurt so much? Why could he feel the punches, first of all? And why… why did he sent him such a hateful stare? "S-Sanji…" his voice started to quiver a little as realisation started to come forth. Did he hate him because of what he had done? Hate… Hate him…?
Luffy dared to look up but he only got a glimpse of the furious chef before he lunched a kick towards him and sent him right into the black, charred table. Sanji grabbed him by his collar once again and just clutched harder in the fabric in his shirt. His hands started to shake a little as well, as harder he grasped in the fabric. Luffy looked fearfully into his cold, now two visible blue eyes as the chef started to open his mouth again. He closed his eyes and tried to look away; now all the hatefully words defiantly would be shouted right in his face. 'Sanji… I'm scared…!'He thought. 'You're scaring me!'
"…"
"Luffy…" sounded a weak, sadly voice right in front of him. He dared to open one eye as Sanji released a little of his shirt and pushed him away as soon as his feet barely touched the floor again. Luffy stumbled a little but remained on his feet and looked back at his chef, who stared down at the floor. "Don't you…? Don't you get it…?"
"I…"
Sanji looked furies up at him, tears falling down his cheeks, his eyes mixed with sorrow, anger, and… hate…? "Don't you fucking GET IT?" Luffy shock his head slowly in a no gesture, but didn't say anything. Sanji threw his arms out to show the scene around them. "Look! Look at this!" He tried to keep his voice cool, but failed miserably. "Look at the damn thing you have done! You almost burned it all down!"
Luffy bowed his head and bit in his lower lip. "I, know… that's why that I,"
"That you, what?" Sanji asked harsh. "What is why that you,"
"I-I'm… sorry…" Luffy quickly interrupted, still facing the black floor. "I'm… sorry… Sanji…"
"You… 'Sorry'? YOU'RE… 'SORRY'?" the words where fallowed with an awkward, stilted laugh, there where caring a hefty note of desperation with it.
"S-Sanji… you're scaring me!" He wasn't sure if he said that out loud or if it still only was heard in his own head, but the chef silenced at once and looked at him… no, not coldly, but disappointed at him… disappointed with a slight of anger in it.
"You could… you could just… right back then…" Luffy's unknowingness made Sanji's blood to boil over. Before Luffy could blink the chef suddenly stood right in front of him and punched him hard in the face again, so hard that he landed just a few feet away from the door. Sanji clenched his fist tighter and looked down at the beaten captain; the tearful eye was now filled with pure anger once again. "God damn it, Luffy! You're just such a damn, fucking, stupid dick-head! What kind of captain are you, anyway? Hah?"
Luffy's hand, there slowly had worked its way up to his aching chin, suddenly stopped halfway from it. "Wha-at…?"
Sanji sighed and turned him the back. "Just… leave me alone… will 'ya…?" he said and waved him away with his one hand. But Luffy didn't move away from his spot.
"I…"
"Just go…"
"But Sanji,"
Sanji turned around at once and kicked him out through the closed door. "JUST GET YOUR DAMN, FUCKING ASS OUT OF HERE!" he roared up with a cracked voice… him crumbling in front of the captain, in front of someone else,only made him even angrier. "You shit of a captain…! Just keep the hell away from me and this place. Okay? Or else I personally will be the first to success breaking that damn, fucking neck of yours!" He slammed the door shut and roared up in anger. Some loud noises was heard coming from inside of the library, fallowed after things there crashed and splintered. Luffy curled himself into a little ball on the deck, listening to Sanji's furiousness getting out; breaking things and crashing things… but since that most of the things there were inside that room belonged to Nami and Robin, could it only be the out burned things or the things there belonged to himself or the others that he was in th middle of destroying.
Luffy curled up in a tighter ball as his body started to shiver; getting even worse for every minute there went, and the loud sound of crashing things and roaring curses. A sob deep down in his chest, released from his throat and soon afterwards got fallowed by small, rolling tears, sniffing and a silently murmuring of a wish for never had done what he had done… a wish for never had hurt them… a cursing for being the one he was…
"I'm sorry… S-Sanji," he sniffed under his breath, hating his own breakdown. "I'm so, so sorry for, being so…stupid… I'm sorry Sanji… Sorry everyone… So, so sorry…!"
To be continued
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AN: Thanks to all of you for all your beautiful reviews! I'm glad that you like my story that much, and that I have succeeded to make a good Cliff-hanger! ^o^ and then also thanks to you, MintCa! And uhm... thanks for... ehm... pointing out one of Luffy's spellings problems...! I have helped him writing it correctly now.
Luffy: Hey! It wasn't me who wroh- mmwohf! *clasp hand for his mouth*
Me: *sweatdrops* yeah, that's right, Luffy, you have to learn to spell better... and even thought that it is your favourite word. Eh he he hee *nervous laugh*
Luffy: *removes my hand from his mouth* so, MintCa... do you have anything for me?
Sanji: *sweatdrops* He just never will give up, hah?
Zoro: *sweatdrops as well* I thought that you just got some from another reader…
Luffy: Really? Where? Where?
Me: *Points on a huge mountain of meat* from one of over beloved readers…
Zoro: Oi! Don't push it too much…!
Me: *continues as I never had heard him* …Kamiam714! A life time supply of meat for… enough to feed you for ever!
Luffy: *Jumps around the huge mountain of meat* *laughing like a maniac* SAAANJIIIII! COOK IT FOR MEEEEEE!
Sanji: *drops his cigarette from his mouth* I'll never get out of that kitchen ever again the rest of my life…!
Zoro: *thin smile turns bigger* Heh! Just what you deserve, Cook!
Me: and before I forgets it; our wonderful, ahemcrazy, Silvey115 who had this time been so nice and helped me with the Beta-reading, have now written a really good ZoroxLuffy fanfic for the first time EVER! It's a really great story that I think you should try checking out, it contains yaoi and foul language, rape and adult themes in later chapters! The name of this fanfic is: Regretful Love. She's already out with one prologue and the first chapter! She have let me take a little sneak peek at it, and I can promise that you all (zoroxluffy, sanjixluffy and oocxluffy fans) have something to look forwards to^^ here is the link: .net/s/4577450/1/Regretful_Love
Nami: And finally we says goodbye!
Me: (when did you come along?) See ya! And take care!
Luffy: Ahm wewehmber two revieb! (And remember to review!)
Sanji: *kicks him in the head* don't talk with your mouth full!
Luffy: Fworry Fhanji! *Gulp* More?
Sanji: AARGH! *pulling his hair* your driving me crazy!
Zoro: *Big smile* …plate 45…