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There will be two chapters telling the exact same storyline but in different PoV. First chapter is Zoro's, and the second chapter is Sanji's. Happy reading!
.SHOUNEN-AI (Boys' Love).
/ SUBWAY /
One Piece (c) Eiichiro Oda
Info(s): AU, human world, no magic
Pairing(s): ZoroXSanji
Warning(s): SHOUNEN-AI (BoyXBoy), OOC, cursing, bad English, bad writing
I own nothing except for the plot. I don't make any profit from this story. It's purely just for fun.
-Zoro's POV-
First time Zoro saw him was in the subway.
Blonde hair, holding his phone and a map, medium size suitcase on his other hand, and a bit of hesitation was clear when he hopped on the train, most likely a foreigner.
They accidentally exchanged look but it was cut short due to announcement of departure and the blonde immediately took an empty seat on the corner just before the train moved.
Zoro just shrugged and fixed his eyes back to his phone screen.
Just another stranger, he thought.
But it did spark a little curiosity because one, this stranger's wearing formal sleek black suit, very neat. Two, by the looks of it the stranger really came from far-far-away land (blondiest blonde Zoro had rarely or ever seen in that small town). Three, those long slender legs should be illegal.
Did Zoro just do a checking-out on a stranger?
The train stopped at a few stations, picking up and dropping off some passengers. Zoro noticed the blonde foreigner was still in the same spot. And no, Zoro wasn't checking him out. It's just hard not to notice that obvious bright colored hair in the middle of dull colored ones.
Another arrival announcement was broadcasted through the speaker, and the blonde guy slightly shifted from his position while checking on his map. And off he went out the train as it stopped.
Zoro paid one last glance at the stranger he thought he would never see again and knew nothing about.
But one thing he's sure. Those long lean legs were clearly damn illegal.
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What Zoro didn't expect was, blondie soon became his "travel buddy".
Their evening schedules often coincidentally collided with each others, forcing them to take the same train. And somehow they always chose the rear car so the meeting was inevitable.
Zoro knew the blonde was also aware of his presence. But never once the green haired dared to engage a conversation because let's face it, the only meetings occured were in the subway and therefore they're still strangers.
Conversations be damned, but Zoro couldn't stop 'examining' the blonde silently.
Finally admitting to himself that he's checking the blonde out after seeing him regularly.
Alright, Zoro's bi and he's never shy about his sexuality. But he never felt the need to announce it for the whole world to know, only few of his close friends knew and they're cool with it. He's comfortable with himself and that's more than enough.
So, back to blondie...
Another interesting thing caught Zoro's eyes was of course, the eyebrow.
It's curly. Swirly to be exact, like those snail houses. Was it genetics or what? Well, nobody's crazy enough to curl their eyebrows, so maybe it's genetics. Or was it? Zoro was also curious about the other eyebrow but it was hidden along with his other eye, covered by the bang.
And he almost, almost, fell when the train suddenly moved, losing his balance because of the stupid distraction. Why he chose that day to stand up inside the train? Nobody knew. Fine, it's to get closer to the blonde, yeah?
But no, Zoro didn't fell. He's the toughest, strongest, most athletic, children caretaker there ever was. Hey, no regulations prohibited a caretaker taking a good care of their own body, right? Even if there was, thank goodness 'One Piece Daycare' where he worked at didn't have the prohibition. Those children also loved him like that so there's no problem.
And since the gym was only 20-minute-walk from his workplace (but according to his co-workers it's only a 5-minute-walk?), there's no way he missed his regular exercise after work before going home.
Zoro was so busy with his own mind he didn't realize the blonde chuckled slightly at him.
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There was one time when the subway was a bit crowded and Zoro not-so-accidentally stood in front of the sitting (sleeping) blonde after giving up his seat to an elderly.
Not that he minded since he could do the 'examination' in a better angle and proximity.
Yep, his eyebrow was truly swirled in a ridiculous way. But his eyelashes, wow, they're long, full, and even blonde like his unbelievably smooth looking hair (seriously, what kind of hair product did he use?), albeit a bit darker. Faint freckles spreaded on his cheeks and his nose, and while some people hated those and wanted to have flawless skin, surpisingly the freckles looked good on him.
Going down to the lips. Ah... No comment. Zoro averted his eyes after he realized his mind started to wander to La-La-Inappropriate-Land. He really needed to stop. But sadly, he couldn't.
Next was the outfit.
While Zoro always wore long dark trousers, sometimes jeans, with casual shirt or t-shirt plus his favorite grey jacket, the blonde was always seen in his fancy suit. His new 'friend' seemed to always prepare to meet his best date (or worst enemy?). The black suit hugged his body tightly, wrapped it nicely like a burrito, a sexy buritto, ready to be unwrapped and eaten while it's still hot-
Stop it, brain!
Arrival station was announced but the blonde was still in his deep sleep. Weeks of travelling together had Zoro memorized that this was blondie's drop-off point, only two stations before his.
Hesitating, the green haired man touched the lean shoulder and shook him a bit.
"H-hey... I think this is your stop." Zoro said in attempt to wake the blonde.
Stirring up from sleep, Zoro was greeted with a sleepy, very deep oceanic blue eye.
Another broadcast totally snapped the blonde out of his slumber and he immediately stood up. "Oh my god, thanks for waking me up, man."
Blondie ran out of the car just before the door closed, leaving the speechless green haired man still sinking deeply in that ocean eye.
"... No problem, man..." Zoro muttered softly to no one.
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"Pour la dernière fois, arrête de me traiter comme un enfant!" [1] (For the last time, stop treating me like a child!)
Was the second time Zoro heard blondie's voice, yelling at his phone. But it was cut short as soon as he got on the train.
Italian? French? Japanese? Wait, there's no way it's Japanese since Zoro knew Japanese himself. Understanding aside, Zoro didn't mind hearing the unknown language since it fitted him wonderfully. What other things that beautiful mouth could possibly do, Zoro wondered.
"Here, have a sit, sir."
Enough about looks, good traits detected, blondie was generous enough offering his seat to the old guy and his toddler granddaughter. Or whoever needed the seat. Your typical nice guy indeed.
"Dear, my lady. Here's a seat I've saved for you."
Ah, yes. Infatuation made Zoro forgot to mention.
"A seat especially for you, princess."
This blondie.
"Of course you deserve the best treatment, my beautiful butterfly."
Was an extreme, hard-core womanizer.
"Mademoiselle! Reserved seat just for you!"
Mad-and-moan-sell?
Another reason Zoro didn't dare approaching the blonde was because of this. Blondie was straight as a spear. Judging by his idiotic treatments to every women he met, one would assume that way. Sure blondie there got 'the-look' (tall, lean, blonde, baby blue eye, even Zoro couldn't take his eyes off of him), and women mostly liked to be treated special, particularly by a gorgeous man.
Zoro frowned as he found the habit quite annoying since he's not that kind of a man himself. But who's he to judge? Again, they're strangers, so whatever.
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Due to periodically service and repairment, the subway schedules lessened. And the subway was far more crowded than usual. Especially in those rush hours.
Zoro saw blondie as the car door opened, shifting a little from his standing point as the latter stepped inside followed by few other people behind him.
One big guy suddenly forced himself into the already fully crowded car. And somehow the bastard managed to get in, pushing blondie farther in so his right side touching Zoro's front.
Between punching or thanking the big bastard, Zoro decided the second option because one, it's not a very wise decision to create a commotion inside a super crowded train where he himself couldn't move freely, and two, to have the blonde squeezed onto him (although his 'travel-buddy' refused to face the green haired man) was delightful.
Zoro noticed he's only a few inches taller. And the smell of blondie's shampoo mixed with smoke? Spices? Cooking fragrance? Those combinations were definitely appetizing Zoro almost buried his nose into the blonde lock.
If not eating him raw.
The only barrier preventing him doing so was their 'strangers' status. And public, of course.
Zoro returned from his 'adventure' only to find the blonde already looking at him.
Correction. Glaring dagger at him.
With his face flushed red.
Full of murderous intention.
Like if there's no one there Zoro would be skinned alive already.
Suddenly blondie jerked a bit, startling the green haired. He threw his reddened face away, bit his lower lip, and slight tremble was visible from his shoulders.
Was blondie sick?
As tempting as the sight in front of him, Zoro was a bit worried, seriously. Or maybe the too-crowded train disturbed him? Well, some people did have phobia with crowd, but did blondie?
After three more stops and more people got off the car, the blonde immediately moved to empty space in the corner of the car, trying to stay as far away from Zoro.
"Oops, sorry man."
Zoro looked at the voice owner who bumped onto him as he also tried to create more space between them. So the big bastard was still there? Whatever, answering with a shrug was enough.
It's finally blondie's stop but he didn't get off, which confused Zoro. Maybe he had to go to another place? How unusual.
Zoro was no stalker. As much as he's curious to where the blonde's heading, he still got off on his actual stop. And he decided to go to the public restroom inside the subway before walking back to his place. Luckily it's almost always empty so he could finish his biological business quickly.
"Hey."
Zoro turned his head after washing his hands and was surprised to see blondie was already standing there in the restroom. Just the two of them.
"Uh.. Hey-
BAM!
"Écoutez-moi, espèce de gorille vert." [2] (Listen here, you green gorilla.)
The situation Zoro's in wasn't comfortable in any way (but still, sexy language, sexy voice, he couldn't deny). His back was fully pressed against the wall, trapped by one of those illegal black legs stomped harshly next to his face (deadly flexible, how intriguing). Combined with pretty face full of wrath so close to him, Zoro couldn't help getting turned on.
Scared, he meant.
"I know you've been not-so-secretly watching me since forever. But I didn't expect you to be so low as to dare groping me." Blondie glared.
Zoro blinked in confusion because what? He didn't do any of that!
"Never, EVER, do that again to me or anyone, or your handsome face is as good as broken." The blonde pulled his leg off of the wall and started walking away, leaving the stunned green haired.
Before blondie could get out of the restroom, the big guy from the train came in. "Hey there, sugar!"
Zoro frowned, how dare that big bastard call his blonde 'sugar'? Not his, well, it's still inappropriate!
"I've been following you in the train, you know." Big guy said as he approached the blonde. "Thanks for the treat, by the way. Nice ass."
Both Zoro and blondie's eyes widened as they saw the pervert bastard wriggling his right hand fingers, proudly gesturing the harassment he did back in the train.
"How do you say we go back to my place and I can show you an even more great experience, sugar?" Big bastard grabbed blondie's chin and the other hand shamelessly slided to his bottom, again.
SMACK!
WHACK!
From right and left in the exact same timing, Zoro's punch and blondie's kick came in contact with the bastard's face. Very, very hard.
And down-down he fainted. Maybe with broken jaw.
They both stared at each other for a few seconds before other voices are heard from outside. Zoro's wrist was grabbed and he was pulled out of the restroom, escaping the 'crime-scene' together with the blonde.
Realized the foreigner didn't actually know where to go, Zoro took the lead, accidentally intertwining their fingers in the process. They stopped at the roadside outside the station, panting a little after the whole escape mission's over.
"So, it wasn't you?" Blondie finally spoke between the pant.
"No." Zoro answered shortly.
"Then why didn't you say so?"
"Well, you didn't exactly give me a room to explain myself."
"... Right, I apologize."
"Sure."
Once again they fell into silence. An awkward one this time. Then Zoro decided it was time for him to go back home, and after giving a slight nod, he started walking away leaving his blonde crush.
Zoro was kind of regretting his decision already for leaving. He should be taking this chance to be friends with blondie. But he didn't, he chose to not push the limit since the way they started the 'relationship' wasn't a very pleasing one.
Maybe later or maybe never, the green haired thought bitterly.
"Wait."
Stopped by the blonde grabbing his left elbow, Zoro asked, "Yeah?"
"I... I don't actually familiar with this area of town, never been here before, and my phone's dead, so..." Blondie said, refusing to meet the green haired's eyes.
Ah, yes. Foreigner.
"... Want to stay at my place for the night?" Zoro absentmindedly suggested.
"... I was wondering if you could escort me to a bus stop since I don't exactly want to squeeze myself inside the subway again, and telling me how to get to my place by bus."
Zoro was so embarassed he wanted to jump into a pothole.
Of course there's no fucking way this pretty boy would let himself be taken to a stranger's place! Especially after the incident. And now Zoro looked like a pervert asshole for implying something... SOMETHING.
The laughter sound returned the green haired to his sense.
"Hahaha! Y-you should see your face!" Blondie laughed while holding his stomach. "It looks so dumb!"
"Hey! You look stupid yourself with that swirly eyebrow!" Zoro returned the insult while still blushing.
"Ah?! Look who's talking, you green gorilla!"
"Idiot womanizer!"
"Brocolli brain!"
"Scrawny!"
"Moss head!"
They finally stopped after a few more insults at each other, ignoring people staring at them as they walked by.
"Fine! I'll just find the bus stop myself or ask another pers-
"I'll take you there." Zoro cut.
"... And why should I trust you?" Blondie squinted his eyes. "We don't even know each other!"
"I'm Zoro."
"... Sanji."
Sanji. Nice name. Zoro would love to voice it out over and over.
"Now we know each other. Come on, there's a bus stop over that corner." Zoro smirked.
"You sure it's the bus stop and not your place?" Sanji raised his eyebrow.
The green haired's face flushed again. "N-no! I mean- my place is over there the other way- I mean-!"
"Chill. I'm just messing with you." Sanji chuckled.
Zoro huffed, a bit relaxed.
"The fact that you punched that bastard for the nasty thing he did to me even though we're strangers? I admit you got yourself some dignity." Sanji said. "Nice punch, by the way."
"Ah, thanks. He deserved it, such crazy bastard. And you too, nice kick." Zoro scratched the back of his head. "So, uh... shall we?"
"Sure. Bus stop? Or your place?"
"BUS STOP!"
"Of course." Sanji giggled while following the green haired man.
Upon arriving at the empty bus stop, Zoro explained the route and which bus to take, fortunately to reach blondie's place there's a bus directly going there, so he didn't need to switch buses. They waited in silence for the blonde's bus to arrive.
"I don't actually mind going to your place." Sanji suddenly broke the silence.
Excuse me?
"After, we become acquaintances, and then friends, and then...? There are phases, you know? To be passed before you ask someone to come over to your place, especially stay the night." Sanji explained with his confident smile. "You're an 'okay' guy, surprisingly."
It's kind of obvious where the conversations were leading to, but Zoro didn't want to start speculating and being a pervert asshole again, so...?
"Dummy. Give me your phone." Sanji rolled his eyes as he started typing on Zoro's phone. "Here's my number, I couldn't add yours since my phone's dead."
"Ah, okay, thanks..." Zoro received his phone back awkwardly, at the same time the bus arrived.
"That's my ride." Sanji hopped on the entrance then turned his head to face Zoro with that dazzling smile of his. "Text me. Or call me. Or whatever."
The bus drove off, leaving the speechless green haired.
Zoro looked at his phone, Sanji's number was still displayed on screen. He smiled a little before started typing.
'Hey. It's Zoro. Was wondering if tomorrow evening you're free? Same time in the subway as usual.'
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.THE END.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Fun fact, I don't speak French at all. Those words Sanji said? I literally google-translated them from English to French. So forgive me if there are some errors. And once again, welcome to my new obsession in One Piece fandom!
I can't promise more stories but I'll try my best. Most of them will be random, fun, light-hearted stories, nothing too serious. Since what I need is to release some steam from real world. Haha.
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