Title: Unnecessary and Annoying
Pairing: SanUso
Rating: T
Warnings: Because they sneak into everything- boyxboy, language, spoilers up to the current arc
Summary: The men still have a hard time adapting to Franky's newest feature on his body.
Note: I was gonna keep SanUso out, but it provided one of the better instances. Please note that any story marked as Nakamaship focuses on the crew as a whole (with maybe some extra pairings on the side) and is only referring to general nakama interactions. Also, written because tumblr just exploded with nipples and such. Written January 2012.
During the night, and sleeping in the same room as seven other male crewmates, Usopp was willing to ignore the faint clicking noise as someone walked back into the men's cabin. It was dark outside, the room barely getting any light because of the lack of windows, so any kind of awkward movements or hushed curses aren't anything new when someone leaves to use the restroom.
Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't trust the noise and think someone was coming to kill the entire crew, but his mind registered the noise as someone coming in to return to bed. He was too tired to really fight off an intruder anyway, and he knew they were safe as Zoro chose to sleep on the couch, so Usopp yawned and turned in his bunk to fall asleep again.
There was a slight curse from the doorway before another noise clicked and sudden light filled the room. Usopp, along with Sanji and Zoro, were practically jumping out of their spots in beds or couches and preparing to fight. "What the fuck- Damn it, Franky!"
"Ah, sorry," the cyborg whispered, rubbing his head before slightly shielding his chest to block a bit of the light emerging from his nipples. His lights were bright, almost blinding in the middle of the night, but behind his huge hands they all found it just a little easier to see. "I had to go to the bathroom, couldn't sleep with a full-"
"Why the hell does it matter? Get in bed and go back to sleep, shithead!" Sanji groaned from the bunk under Usopp's. "And quit using your damn lights to find your way around."
"Really, Franky, shouldn't you know where your own bunk is?" Usopp asked as he rubbed his eyes.
"Ah, well, it's hard to maneuver when it's dark and all," Franky explained. He moved slowly through the room, even getting a small noise of confusion from Luffy, before somehow crawling into his own bunk and turning off his lights. "Sorry, guys! Night!"
The men still awake groaned before flopping back and falling asleep again.
The second time it happened, Sanji was scolding himself for not realizing it was inevitable.
Of course, Franky was the one who woke up because of noises coming from one of the bunks. It was the farthest from him, and since the room was too dark to let him see what was going on, Franky could only hear slight gasps and muffled moans. His sleep-deprived brain refused to piece them together, but he sincerely hoped he wasn't hearing when he thought was sounds coming from Sanji and Usopp.
He wouldn't be surprised of course- he had walked in on them a few times and knew just as much as everyone else that they weren't entirely shy about their relationship since coming back to Thousand Sunny. They never had the gall to do anything while the majority of their crew was in the room either.
Franky leaned up just enough to turn towards the bunk and whispered under his breath before the lights on his chest activated. He sighed a bit and grumbled when the light seemed to make the occupants of the other bunks cry out, especially the ones farthest away. "Oi, Sanji-bro! Uso-bro! I thought we agreed you were gonna keep your hands to yourselves when we're all trying to sleep!"
Sanji, who was laying on top, lifted himself just enough to shrug his shirt off his shoulder a bit more. "Oi, quit with the lights! If we're not waking everyone up, you will!" he growled.
Usopp, moaning a little underneath him, seemed to have one leg swung outside the bunk. Franky was slightly pleased to see he is still wearing his pants, at least he hoped he was. "I told you this was a bad idea," Usopp whispered. "I'm going to bed, get your hands off-"
"Damn it, Franky. Turn off the lights already!"
"Zoro, tell Sanji and Usopp to stop making noises and go to sleep. I'm tired!"
"Oi, Luffy, you're the captain! You tell them!"
"Ah, Sanji! I told you hands off!"
The last straw, the final nail in the coffin, came when Luffy rolled out of his own bunk and hit the floor with an unceremonious thud. Zoro was the only one that woke up to the sound, snorting and jerking forward a bit to look over the couch. He didn't really find it strange when Luffy grabbed onto the edge of the one of the bunks to pull himself up.
The rubberman somehow managed to trip as he started walking to the door though, and halfway there he stopped and turned back to the bunks. "Franky," he started to whisper. "Franky, hey, Franky."
Franky stirred and called back, his voice coarse from sleep.
"Can you turn on your lights? I gotta pee."
"Oh for fuck's sake."
Sanji even made an exasperated sigh from his own bunk, arm flinging out to hang limply over the side. "Someone walk the captain to the bathroom. Just don't turn on those shitty lights."
"I'll do it," Chopper whispered. "Come on, Luffy. I have to go too."
"Are we gonna have to start making everyone use the damn bathroom before bed?"
Franky ignored them all and light flickered from his bunk, all of the men yelling at him. They even heard a noise from above, one of the girls signaling that they were being too loud. When Luffy and Chopper left the room, Zoro chucked his pillow at the cyborg and yelled. "Franky, either quit using the fucking lights or I'm cutting them out!"
