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Telling a Story

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A Taste of the Forbidden Fruit

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The snake sneaked up into the tree.

"Taste it," it whistled to the woman before him.

The woman plucked the apple and bit into the forbidden apple.

It tasted delicious.

She went home to share the taste with her soon-to-be husband.

"Taste it," she said "Taste the forbidden fruit."

He took the apple, looked at it, and ate it all.

Her brother smiled knowingly at their side, as he tasted the same forbidden fruit

in the kiss from her soon-to-be husband.

"Taste the forbidden fruit." He mumbled into the kiss, and ate his soul.

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"…please… no more…" Zoro jolted awake as a hand touched his shoulder and gasped as had he just returned back from the surface of the sea. He sat up at once, but regretted it immediately as a pain shot up through his body and sent him back down in the ground. He winced and groaned as he twisted in pain. Fuck it hurt!

"Oi, lay still, damn marimo!" he heard the blonds' voice say angrily from his right. He couldn't stop smiling, even though that he was in pain. Yeah, this was the real, couldn't be anything else… right? "…else you're just going to hurt yourself even more, your damn boor!" He chuckled, even that hurt… but only a little.

"That, was a new one," he said and then opened his eye again, not even knowing when he ever had closed it, and looked up to face the irritating cook… but then again, he still couldn't stop his heart from beating an extra time or two. He moved his hand up to touch his chin and brushed a tear away. So, the idiot was worried about him anyway?

Sanji slapped the hand away as he realised what the oaf had found, and mumbled some more curses. He was about to stand up but a hand grabbed his head and pulled him immediately down. He widened his eyes as their lips were crushed together in a brutal attempt of a kiss. His teeth hurt and he opened his mouth to curse at the bloody, perverted swordsman, but instead he suddenly felt a tongue sneak into his mouth. He tried to pull away. He tried to think of a way to kill the swordsman at the same time, but lost it completely as the tongue brushed over his palate, pulling a moan out of him and sent shivers through his body. His tongue moved on its own, daring to touch the other and was immediately met with a passionate lick. He gasped, the tongues rubbed against each other. Wrong, so wrong, he wanted to get away, drown himself in the sea, jump out from a cliff, throw the marimo out from it, taking his swords and filet the motherfucker… but then again his mouth seemed to have other plans. Fucking traitor.

Zoro tasted him one last time before pulling away with a triumphing smile on his face, before his eye closed and his hand slid down from the blond head, landing with a hollow bump, once again drifted off to sleep.

Sanji scrambled away from him, panting, and looked at him. He felt his lips bleeding, he touched them carefully, almost as did he fear that the touch would burn his fingers. The kiss … the fucking marimo had just kissed him…? He kept staring at the sleeping form before him. His hand slid down from his lips, down to his jaw, brushing over his beard, and down along his throat. He winced at the touch and groaned as he automatically swallowed. It still hurt, he could still feel those fingers around his throat, squeezing, strangling him, breaking his windpipe, though those hands were long gone.

"Bloody swordsman," he cursed and stood up. He licked the blood off his lips. As his tongue brushed over the split lip, he imagined the scene again, Zoro's lips against his, Zoro tasting him, his tongue sensually rubbing against his. Imaginating how it would feel like if the man had gone further, how it would feel like if those hands ran down from his hair, down his throat, gently brushing it apoligically, those strong hands on his naked his… running fur-

He shook his head and kicked to a skull of his latest prey. He grumbled loudly and no, he defiantly wasn't blushing all of a sudden! It was just the heat outside, for cry out loud! Right? Of course it was! He stopped as he looked down at an amused Momo.

"Oh, don't give me that face, damn cat! There's nothing into it!" he could swear that the tiger-kitten just smiled at him… laughed at him… or was it just him going crazy? Damn tiger shouldn't even act this peacefully! "Damn shitty good for nothing marimo…!" he mumbled, but loud enough that anyone nearby could hear him.

What he didn't know was that someone actually did hear him, but wasn't watching him. Zoro smiled, hearing the curses. Okay then, so he had just fallen in love with the cook, now hadn't he? He couldn't run away forever from the truth. Sure, it was in another man, it was wrong, but he felt excited all the same: Doing the forbidden, eating the forbidden fruit in the garden. He didn't care if he'd be kicked out of Paradise, if just he could have the blond near him all the time. He couldn't stop himself from chuckling; knowing pretty well that the chef was looking at him this very moment, the kick in his ass and the loud shouting's indicating that he was right. But he didn't open his eye, not yet, and just listened to the entire world's curses being thrown at him right now.

'Who would have thought that I was not only to turn into a faggot, but even fall in love with the idiot of a curl-brow, womanizing, love-cook?' He pulled a wicked smile and made it comfortable for himself on the ground. 'You're going to pay for this, Aho-cook,' and with that, he let out a sigh and fell into a peaceful sleep. So, that was what all those dreams wanted to tell him about, huh? Oh well, why not then?

"Marimo? Don't you DARE just fall asleep with that fucking smile of yours on your stupid ugly mug…!" the rest of it Zoro never heard, but damn, he couldn't wait to get all healthy again.

Weird enough he was now happy that they were the only two people on this island. Now the others could take all their time to get here… he wasn't in a hurry, not yet, not before he had time to teach someone a special lesson. He chuckled again and fell asleep.

"SHIT-HEAD!" Sanji cursed and screamed out his frustration.

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~To be continued~

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