Pairing: NamixVivi
Rating: PG
Warning: Shoujo-ai.
Word count: 1,074
Disclaimer: I own nothing in connection with the characters used in this fanfiction

Cherry Kiss

After the heat of the day and the noisy games that Luffy, Usopp and Chopper were playing became too much, Nami had moved her map making into the galley. Vivi sat opposite her, holding a book open in one hand and idly scratching the feathers on a dozing Careu's head with the other. The only other presence in the galley was Sanji, who was spinning around in a giddy daze as he made the girls an afternoon snack.

Just another ordinary afternoon.

"Here you are, Nami-swan, Vivi-chwan," Sanji cooed as he set a small plate down in front of each of the girls. "I've made you some miniature cherry shortcakes to go with your gorgeous lips. Would you like any tea?"

"Thank you Sanji-kun," Vivi looked up from her book and smiled. "I'd like some, please."

"Me too," Nami nodded.

"Right away!"

Just as Sanji was within an inch of reaching for the tin where the teabags were kept, the peace of the galley was disturbed when something small, black and round suddenly came shooting through the open window and crashed into the sideboard. Luckily, it narrowly missed the mugs that Sanji had already set out.

Carue squawked in alarm, flapping his wings in a frenzy. The cook jumped back, cursing harshly in surprise, then swiftly turned to apologise to the girls for his language in their presence. Nami had stopped what she was doing to stare wide-eyed at the black ball that was now sitting in the dent it had made on the sideboard, still holding her pen over the large sheet of paper. Vivi, meanwhile, was trying to calm her distressed spot-billed duck.

The cries, that were a curious mix of excitement and panic, provided enough explanation.

"You idiot!" came Usopp's voice, along with the unmistakbleable sound of him clumping Luffy over the head. "If you keep damaging Going Merry I'll kick you overboard! Then we'll see what's so funny."

"Pretty good though, wasn't it?" Luffy continued to laugh. "I got it right through the middle of the gap."

Sanji picked up the black ball and, sure enough, Usopp's logo was scrawled over one side of it in white paint.

"What the hell are those idiots trying to do," Sanji muttered to himself. "I'll kick 'em overboard myself." Then he turned to Nami and Vivi. "I'll be back momentarily, Nami-swan, Vivi-chwan. I'll make your tea as soon as I get back."

Then Sanji left the galley with the intention of kicking Luffy's and Usopp's asses for disturbing his "precious princesses".

Nami sighed, turned back to her work and frowned. In the sudden turn of events she hadn't been watching her pen and now a blob on ink had fallen and was spreading across the page. She looked around, trying to find something to distract her long enough to calm the desire to go out there and kill the troublesome pair herself. Her eyes settled on the book that Vivi had gone back to reading now that Carue was quiet again.

"What's that?"

"What?" Vivi looked up, surprised for a moment before she realised what Nami was asking and blushed. "Oh. This. It's just a book of love stories I found on the bookshelf. I hope you don't mind."

"No," Nami shook her head, smiling. "I didn't even know it was there. Must've been included when we first got Merry. You like that sort of stuff huh?"

"I enjoy it," Vivi said, her blush deepening. "I know lots of people think romance is full of clichés, but I still like reading them."

"I don't know. I don't think all clichés are a bad thing." Nami smiled and plucked the small cherry off her shortcake. "Did you ever try this one?" Poking out her tongue, Nami balanced the small fruit on the end and winked at Vivi. It was hard not to laugh; each time she thought Vivi's blush couldn't get any deeper she was always proved wrong.

Vivi's eyes flickered downwards for a second to memorise her page number before setting the book down. She had to stand up to lean over the table properly, stretching her neck and poking out her own tongue in an attempt to grab the cherry away.

When she was inches away, Nami took her by the shoulders and dragged the princess towards her. The navigator stood as well but by that time their lips were crushed together so he cherry did not fall. Such a sudden pull almost caused Vivi to topple over, but Nami's arms securely wrapped around her prevented that.

Vivi's own arms came up snaked around Nami's shoulders. Her tongue slid through Nami's parted lips, over her teeth and curled around the small cherry. Nami was reluctant to let go and Vivi was just as unwilling to break the kiss even as she managed to draw back her tongue to pull the cherry into her own mouth. And so neither of them parted, content to have the edges of the table digging into their stomachs as they explored the mouths that each had come to know well, took in the faint scent of perfume and tangerine shampoo and felt soft lips against their own.

But they had to breathe sooner or later and so they were forced to part, their breathing now much heavier and Vivi's lip-gloss smeared slightly.

The remainder of the moment quickly passed and was gone when Sanji came swirling into the galley once again.

"So sorry to keep you waiting, Nami-swan, Vivi-chwan. The problem has been dealt with and I shall get on with the tea that you've been waiting so patiently for right away."

He seemed to be gibbering and twirling about far too much to notice that Nami and Vivi were still clinging to each other. Nami glanced over her shoulder and, as the door to the galley swung shut, caught a glimpse of Chopper wrapping bandages around the lumpy heads of Luffy and Usopp.

Rather reluctantly, she let go of Vivi and drew out a fresh piece of paper from the pile next to her to continue her map making now that her stress level had gone down. Vivi returned to her book, her face still as red as the cherry she chewed and swallowed. Carue quaked softly, which prompted Vivi to idly scratch as his feathers again.

Nami stretched out a leg, starting to run it up and down Vivi's calf.

"Any romance clichés you like?"

END

AN: The lip-gloss on Vivi is a reference to another fanfiction in this collection called 'Dancing on Deck'. It was put in just for fun.