Treasure Hunters
Author Notes: I definitely need to pay more attention to these things.
First, to clarify something from last chapter. I mentioned Franky using "FPS." I neglected to explain- Franky Positioning System! Whoever has the receiver will be on Franky's map, showing the quickest route to Franky! Hence, how Franky found Sanji so fast.
Thank those of you who reviewed! To those of you who sent in name suggestions, thank you very much as well! I will be sure to keep them in mind. If you have any baby name suggestions, go ahead and leave them in your review or send me a message!
Also, in case you have not guessed, italics indicate a flashback.
Disclaimer: Still not mine at all!
Chapter 4: Maybe Memories
Late in the night, someone rowed out into the Briefer's Wake bay, and a note had been tagged to the Thousand Sunny's figurehead. Luffy had woken first due to an unnatural urge to use the toilet, and he found that he couldn't bring himself to go back to bed in the stretching sunlight. He noticed the note in his special seat, and picked it up.
"Straw Hat Luffy-
Come alone and unarmed to the Brass Pendulum Inn. I will do the same. I will wait all day if I must. I will buy us a meal. This is not an attempt to arrest you, nor an attempt on any of your crew. Consider it a long-overdue conversation between friends.
- Chief Petty Officer Coby"
"Coby? Hey, I haven't seen that guy for a while!" Luffy grinned. "Plus, he's offering food!" He scrawled his own message on the back of Coby's, and bounded off the ship into the town.
The sun was still stretching its way up the street as Luffy followed his gut towards the suggested tavern. His food-finding instincts were on target, and he soon saw Coby in Marine uniform waiting at the sign post.
"Straw Hat." Coby nodded to him. Luffy smiled.
"Coby." The pair faced one another, before Luffy rushed forward and hugged Coby. "It's good to see you!"
"It's good to see you too!" Coby laughed as Luffy put him down. "Hey! Why'd you eat breakfast before you came?" Coby poked Luffy's belly.
"Huh? Oh, I didn't, I'm starving!" Luffy grinned. "I know exactly what I want."
"Let me guess- meat?"
"No, a mushroom omelet!" Luffy laughed. "And meat!"
The twosome went in and got a booth, and Luffy quickly placed his order of the omelet, bacon, sausage, ham, and a strip steak. He also gave Coby some money to cover his gluttony. Coby simply laughed and told the waitress he still needed time to think, and as she left, Luffy leaned forward.
"I wish I'd had more time to talk to you on Waters 7. I didn't want to say too much in front of Helmeppo." Luffy grinned. "It's actually pretty convenient, I didn't get the chance to tell you before. Now, this is supposed to be a secret, but I have a daughter."
"What?!" Coby gasped. "You-you do?" Luffy laughed wildly at the shock on Coby's face.
"Yeah! She's three and a few months. Her name is Gilea. Gilly for short."
"Ah! No way! Roronoa D. Gilea is-"
"Don't tell anyone, okay?" Luffy chuckled. "I'm surprised Grandpa didn't tell you, because I know he knew. I'm tired of hearing the Marines keep calling her Zoro's daughter. I just like the name Roronoa better."
"Wow, no wonder Vice-Admiral Garp is so interested in pushing her bounty higher but requesting that she be turned in alive." Coby scratched his chin. "I guess he wants to get his great-granddaughter."
"Yeah. I was really upset the first time he met her…" Luffy looked away, thinking for a moment on that day on Waters 7.
As Garp pounded nails into the wall, Luffy watched as toddling Gilly made her way up to him. She watched him for a moment, before beginning to imitate him by pounding the boards with her tiny fist. Luffy laughed, and Garp noticed her. "Well, who's this?"
"Hey, leave her alone!" Zoro stepped forward. "She's just a baby-"
"Hah! You! That's right, I wanted to meet you!" Garp reached down and picked Gilly up by the back of her jumper in one hand.
"Put her down!" Zoro snapped.
"Now, now, moss-head, let me meet my new little girl!" Garp laughed raucously, and Zoro gritted his teeth. Gilly stared at him in curious wonderment as he continued to pick his nose with his free hand while he scrutinized her head to toe. She stuck her tongue out and made a face.
"Ick, nema. Shunna nose icky nema."
"Don't be so rude to your great-grandpa!" Garp snapped a finger against her forehead. She whined and squirmed, and both Zoro and Luffy started. "You might be a girl, but you certainly have a lot of potential. The women in our family have always been smarter, you'll be no exception! Maybe even more brains than all your male ancestry combined! Haha! Where should I start with you?" He poked her forehead. "I bet you'd benefit from a night at the bottom of a well, or alone in the jungle… No doubt, you can be just as strong as any boy! Where I messed up with your father, I'll have to correct with you. Yes, you'll be a fine Marine. I would be surprised if you didn't turn out to be a fine Admiral!"
"That's your dream for her, old man," Zoro growled, stepping forward. "She's going to have her own dreams." Garp turned to Luffy.
"Luffy, you're my grandson and a lost cause, but this is my great-granddaughter, and she's still salvageable! I'm not going to haul you in today, but I want the girl!"
"No. Never." Zory and Luffy's voices were indistinguishable as they spoke, and both moved towards the Vice Admiral.
"She's not going to chase your dreams. She will chase her own dreams," Luffy growled, advancing on Garp.
"Da'ey, adda geddaa nao nema!" Gilly shouted, waving her arms at Luffy and Zoro from Garp's grasp.
"Talk right!" Garp snapped, and he swung a fist back to drive the lesson home. "You'll never be a Marine like that!" Luffy stretched out and caught the fist of love, and Zoro rushed forward and sliced through Gilly's jumper. The toddler slid from Garp's grasp as the little dress slid off, and Zoro caught her against his chest. Luffy took the punch instead, but once he could get up, the rubber man still rushed to his now-wailing daughter.
"It's okay, Gilly. You can be scared," Luffy whispered to her, before speaking aloud to Garp. "You couldn't kill my dream, and you won't kill hers either. You can't kill her dreams before she even has them!"
"I'm almost glad I didn't see the Vice-Admiral that way, I mean, stealing a child from her father? That's just sinister." Coby shuddered. "I guess he has a point, though. What sort of morality will she learn being raised by pirates, even if it's you guys!" Luffy scowled. "Well, then again… you were raised by the Vice-Admiral, and you and your brother still turned out pirates."
"Why do you have to bring up Ace?" Luffy muttered, glancing away and watching for the waitress to return with their food.
"Actually, your brother is the main reason I'm here. Ace asked Vice-Admiral Garp to send a message to you, and I thought you should at least get it. But before we get into that!" Coby leaned in and lowered his voice. "Luffy, I really want to know: who is Gilea's mother?"
"I am," Luffy chuckled. Coby gaped in utter confusion.
"Wait, what?"
"I'm her mother, sort of. Zoro's her father. That's why she has his last name, silly. She calls us both Daddy!" Luffy grinned, and Coby's eyes went wide in realization. His nose dripped blood.
"You mean- you mean- you mean- you're gay with Pirate Hunter Zoro?!" Luffy laughed at this- the word "gay" had never come into his mind before!
"Well, I wouldn't say that! He and I just respect each other a lot, and we're good partners, and we have good sex." Luffy scratched his head. "And then, you must know about the whole Devil's Fruit baby-making thing-"
"Yeah, I've heard of it, but I thought that sort of thing only popped up with lower-rank Devil's Fruit user pirates getting raped by their superiors! They try and get rid of it! You're talking about her like she was a l-l-love child!" Coby squawked anxiously. "You're the captain and you- you were with your first mate?!"
"Whoa, calm down!" Luffy laughed, as Coby hyperventilated. "You're acting like a kid again! I don't even want to know what you'd do if I told you we were gonna have another! Because we are." Coby stopped screaming.
"Congratulations. Good luck." He shook Luffy's hand briefly, and promptly continued freaking out. Luffy laughed wildly as the waitress approached with food. Coby managed to subdue himself to shivering, and, unable to pick up his breakfast sandwich, watched as Luffy devoured everything before him. "My god, as much as you usually eat, I can't imagine you eating for two."
"Actually, I feel a little less hungry, especially when I get really big," Luffy chuckled through a mouthful of bacon. "And I want to eat weird stuff, like mushrooms!"
"That's so weird," Coby chuckled. "I know you can eat forever, but apparently when you eat for more than yourself, you eat less!"
"I know, but it's cool! I get to give my little girl a baby brother- except nobody's supposed to know it's a boy, so forget I told you." Luffy grinned. Coby laughed aloud; it was impossible to tell if Luffy was being serious or facetious, but he did know that he wouldn't tell anyone.
"So, you're still hungry all the time?"
"Well, right now maybe a little less than normal. I only feel like four and a half meals a day." Luffy grinned through a mouthful of sausage. "But this is my first meal today, and I don't feel nauseous in the morning, so I'm hungry!"
"You must be pretty lucky." Coby smiled and leaned forward. "What's Gilly like?"
"She's really clever. She knows how to get around rules really well." Luffy was still smiling and eating. "She's a lot of trouble, but I like her a lot. I don't just love her, I really like her too. Even if she is in trouble all the time!"
"Has she actually done anything to earn that bounty?" Coby frowned curiously.
"Nah. We protect her as much as we can, you know? She needs protecting, because she's small and wouldn't hurt a fly. She's never done anything wrong." Luffy's eyes were wide and focused on the table as he spoke, the smile on his face nearly plastic. "If you could help her, I'd really appreciate it. She's my little girl. I can't lose her."
Luffy remembered the Davy Back Fight with Foxy the Silver Fox, and watching helplessly as Zoro and Sanji argued over who would be the Groggy Ring ballman. He could hear Porche and Foxy talking about which of his crew they would take next. Gilly was cradled to his chest in a sling, waving her little hands and making soft baby noises. He was trying to look into her eyes and chatter back to her while half-listening to the bickering, pointing things out to her and naming them.
"There's Daddy. There's the Merry. There's Uncle Sanji. There's a split-headed blockhead. There's Uncle Chopper! Wave to Uncle Chopper!" He pointed to where Chopper had been taken. She gawked, wide-eyed, and waved her hands at him and squeaked. Chopper didn't notice; rather, he was sulking and couldn't bear to look at them.
"Foxy, what about that cute baby?" Luffy heard Porche say. Foxy cackled.
"Oh, how horrible would that be! I think that's Straw Hat's daughter!"
"But she's so cute!"
"Now, Porche, what purpose would that baby serve us? She's listed as their good luck charm. A baby that tiny could do nothing."
"I would play with her, just like Choppy! Come on, Foxy. Look at that face! She's the cutest thing ever!" Porche giggled and rubbed her blushing cheeks as she glanced at the tiny, fluffy-haired infant. "And if we do get tired of her, we could just throw her overboard. It'll just break their captain to have his little girl taken away." Luffy stopped talking to Gilly and looked at Foxy and Porche with his nastiest scowl. Foxy hadn't noticed, but he cackled to Porche, his nose twitching.
"Taking the baby would probably lower their morale, or even cause the captain to join our crew in pursuit of her! Yes, I think that would be an excellent idea, Porche. Besides, last I checked, she had a bounty."
"Zoro!" Luffy roared. "You have to win! You have to win or they're going to take Gilly!" Zoro looked over at Luffy, briefly looked at Gilly, and then glared at Sanji.
"Oi. You hear that? That's my kid. Now, you're going to be the ballman, and you have to win."
"Zoro, Sanji, if you don't win, I'm going to kick your asses!" Luffy stomped his feet, and Gilly looked up at him, her baby straw hat brushing against his chin. Her eyes welled up with tears, and Luffy wrapped his arms around her. "I'm not mad at you, Gilly. For a few months, you were all that could make me happy. I don't want to lose you…"
"I don't know what I'd do if I lost her." Coby chewed his lip as he saw at the look on Luffy's face.
"Luffy, you know I can't… I don't want to take her from you, even if you are a pirate, I just…"
"What's Ace's message for me?" Luffy looked at Coby. He hadn't thought of Ace since first noticing that his Biblicard was shrinking, and had put him out of his mind.
"He wants you to know that he's sorry. He said you'd know what for."
"God, that fucking bastard," Luffy scowled and looked away. The rest of the meal was silent, and Coby couldn't help but wonder what memories the mention of Ace brought out in Luffy.
Luffy remembered a particular sunset on a Spring isle. He and Zoro had taken Gilly clothes shopping, as she was getting too big for some of her baby clothes. He was very happy to walk around the market with Gilly riding his shoulders. She would get to ride if the area was especially crowded or if she was extremely tired- after all, she was barely a year old, and very small. He would plop his hat on her head, set her on his shoulders, and she would straddle his neck and clasp her hands onto his forehead. Zoro walked at Luffy's side around this particular sunset, occasionally tapping the bottom of his infant daughter gently up Luffy's shoulders. Despite her tiny size, it was already apparent that she was somewhat precocious, and her first few words were already starting to make sense. Luffy and Zoro could always translate.
"Da'ey," she started, as she grabbed a handful of Luffy's hair, "Ad canny."
"Not right now, Gilly," Zoro chuckled in response. When he spoke to her, he was sure to enunciate. He may have made funny faces at her, but he never used baby talk. "You have had breakfast, lunch, and snack, and we will not have dinner until we find the ship. You have to have your dinner before you have your candy."
"Buh Da'ey! Canny! Can-can-can-can-can-canny! Ah essa verdully, kemmi gubu! Ah-ib-canny!" Zoro shook his head, and Gilly pouted and yanked Luffy's hair. "Ehn!"
"Whoa, kiddo!" Luffy reached up and removed Gilly from his shoulders so he could look her in the face. "Now, there will be no candy at all if you behave like that. You may have been very good while we were shopping today, but if you make bad choices now, you will not be rewarded with candy. You must eat your dinner, and we have not had dinner yet." Gilly stared at him, eyes growing wider at Luffy's reprimand.
"Buh-buh-buh-"
"No buts. Besides that: young lady, you did not say please. End of discussion." Zoro folded his arms, and Gilly began to screech and wriggle. Luffy set her down on the ground, and both men crouched down by her. They knew it was time to nip the tantrum in the bud before she escalated.
"That's not okay." Luffy said firmly, and held one finger to his lips. Gilly pouted and put her finger to her lips as well to imitate him, though glaring as spitefully as a toddler could. "Now, you can be upset, but you will only look silly like that. You will not change our minds."
"Wow, Luffy!" A familiar voice laughed, and Luffy jolted up to see Ace in a Marine uniform, his arms folded across his chest. "You're really channeling Grandpa there!"
"Don't be an ass, Ace," Luffy replied, standing upright, and he grinned at his older brother. "What are you looking for? You want to fight now?"
"Hah! Yeah, right. Nah, I'm still on assignment. I'm a Marine, not a pirate, stupid." He rapped on Luffy's head. "Now, where did you get that?" Ace's eyes focused on Gilly, who had stopped crying altogether and shoved her thumb firmly in her mouth. Zoro rose and stepped forward protectively, as Ace seemed to tower over the child.
"This is my daughter," Zoro said calmly, and he picked Gilly up from the ground and held her close to his chest. She stared at Ace, dumbfounded, and reached for his goggles in an urge to get a closer look. Ace, however, snickered.
"Aha, I heard you abandoned your crew for a while, Pirate Hunter Zoro. I guess you took the bastard off her dam and ran?"
"No," Zoro growled, starting forward, but Luffy stopped him. He glanced at Zoro, knowing how sensitive the man still was on the topic of running away from his daughter's "mother."
"Ace, this is our daughter together, Roronoa D. Gilly. She's mine, too. Remember? You saw me a couple months before she was born." The smile faded from Ace's face.
"Luffy… you mean you actually had the kid?" Ace edged towards Zoro and Gilly, examining her face. "God. She does look a lot like you. Like both of you." A wide grin split Ace's face again. "And with him? Hah!" Ace began to laugh. "I probably should have thought about that last time! I didn't even think about who fathered the shrimp! Man, I should have known! It couldn't have been your sharpshooter, because no doubt even if you did bang him, he's probably as barren as his brain. The perv-cook is definitely straight, and you wouldn't sink so low as to screw the reindeer. And unless you had a one-night-stand somewhere, that only leaves your excessively-masculine swordsman." Ace cocked his head back and laughed. "No wonder, you're really just like Luffy!" Zoro grinded his teeth, but Ace went back to looking at Gilly. "But hey, I'm an uncle!" He began to mess up Gilly's hair. "Hey, how cute are you? You look just like your Uncle Ace!" He continued to laugh, but Zoro scowled.
"She's adorable. Keep your paws off of her," Zoro grumbled. Luffy ribbed Ace, but Ace simply cackled and mocked him.
"Such a proud papa! Or does she call you mama?" Ace continued laughing.
"She calls both of us Daddy," Luffy replied. He seemed to be growing increasingly less tolerant of Ace's scornful mirth. "You shouldn't call us names when you don't know anything."
Ace kept laughing. "Luffy, I can't believe you! I could cry!" He was, indeed, laughing so hard his eyes were beginning to tear, and Zoro's glare was hot enough to melt a diamond. "Oh-god-and you're wearing a wedding ring! Shit! Hah! Married pirates! Are you actually married?!"
"Uh, yeah." Luffy scratched his head uncomfortably. "Is something wrong with that?"
"No, it's just hilarious! I saw it, but I didn't believe it! Roronoa Gilea, ten million Bells!" Luffy finally frowned.
"Don't say that so loud. Look, is there any reason you're talking to me?" Ace forced himself to stop laughing.
"Nah, but when I saw- heh- her, I had to come and get a closer look. Hey, let Uncle Ace hold his ickle baby niece!" Ace suddenly snatched Gilly from Zoro, and held her up. "Hi there Gilly-Billy! Silly-Gilly-Lilly-Billy-Willy-Nilly-Gilly!" He babbled some baby talk, and Gilly laughed. "Say Ace! Say Uncle Ace! Say it! Say Ace! Eeeey-ssss."
"Ess!"
"Bwahaha! She said it! She said Ace! Hee! Oh, this is awesome!" Ace reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of crystallized ginger, which looked fire-red in the low light. "Okay, say Ace again and I will give you the candy."
"Ace, she doesn't get candy until after she has dinner," Luffy muttered. "If we gave her candy whenever she wanted, she'd eat nothing but candy." Ace laughed at this, despite Gilly's insistent reaching for the candy and shouting "Ess! Ess!"
"You are a good father, huh? Heh, never thought that'd be you. You're just a kid yourself. Still, I am glad to see you're doing something right." Ace grinned. "Almost makes me feel bad about Buggy the Clown."
"Buggy?" Both Luffy and Zoro shot their eyes to Ace. Ace blinked a few times.
"He… he did go after you, didn't he?"
"How did you know about that?" Zoro growled. Luffy's eyes darkened, and he hung his head. Zoro knew very well that he and Luffy did everything in their powers to never speak of that particular day, and especially not that part of it.
"Well, uh…" Ace looked away, and chewed his lip nervously. "I… I gotta run, little brother."
"Oh, no you don't!" Luffy snapped, grabbing Ace's shoulders. "How do you know about that?! And don't you lie to me!"
"Fine. Buggy and I were drinking buddies for a while…" Ace laughed nervously, looking over his shoulder and away from Luffy. "And he told me he might have some information on Blackbeard. And he asked me for some information on you… On your status at that time. Because of the rumors that were going." Ace looked away. "I might have told him…"
"Might you have known what he was going to do to Luffy?" Zoro growled, drawing one sword.
"Well, I figured he was going to confront you, and he told me he… he told me he killed you and the kid." Ace smiled sadly, and covered his forehead with his hand. "I didn't believe a word of it, but I was sure you'd lost the kid."
"You… you stupid ass! You knew he would have killed her!" Luffy roared.
"I knew you'd be able to handle yourself, and I thought you would have been able to protect it! She wasn't alive, Luffy. Buggy had good information, and I needed to do this for Whitebeard! I have to live for the living, Luffy, it's not like I wanted to kill her, but I need Blackbeard-"
"She's your niece, idiot!" Zoro shot back. Ace flinched and put her down, and she toddled back towards Luffy, oblivious to the brewing storm.
"You almost murdered her! We're brothers, and you wanted to take my first child from me!" Luffy snarled. "She's your niece, and you would have killed her for nothing!"
"It was a stupid mistake, Luffy! I… I didn't think-"
"I'm leaving," Luffy muttered. "Ace, you're my brother, and you've never given me reason to be angry with you before, and I will accept that you would defend your crew over my kid. But I guess that means you chose that family over this one. You'll always be my brother, but you'll never be her uncle." Luffy scooped Gilly into his arms and held her tight to his chest, and he and Zoro turned their backs on Ace and walked away from him. even as she reached over her shoulder for Ace.
"Ess! Canny! Ess!"
"Ace can't be forgiven until he shows me he knows why he was wrong," Luffy finally said simply, shaking his head. "So, I guess you're here for information on Gilly, just like he was." Luffy's eyes darkened. "She's a child. She was born in Spring on a Fall island. Her favorite foods are apples and sugar candy, especially candy apples. She wants to learn to be a swordsman, just like Zoro. We love her and want her to be happy. She's never done a thing wrong in her life, and was born with a clean slate. She's going to have dreams too, Coby, just like you and I have. Do you really want to take that away from her?" Luffy finished his last bite of omelet and picked some scraps of mushroom off the plate. Coby was silent, looking down at his own barely-touched meal. "I've kind of got to get back. I hope the money I gave you covers this meal."
"Yeah, why did you insist on giving me money? I said I'd pay."
"I don't want to owe you." Luffy left without another word, and Coby watched his back vanish into the sunlight. He sighed to himself and rubbed his forehead.
"Luffy, you don't even know what happened to your brother, do you?"
Gilly had woken early, like most children do, and was watching Sanji make breakfast. He was, oddly, missing a shoe, and he still wore the clothes he'd worn the day before, but Gilly didn't seem to notice or mind. The others who were awake, Brook and Franky, had noticed, but Brook was too busy chanting for breakfast from the dining table to care, and Franky didn't think much of it. Sanji didn't seem to care either, but was instead talking with Gilly as she stared at the steaming pot.
"Alright, Gil, tell me what I'm making."
"You don't know?" Gilly giggled. "It's rice porridge."
"What kind? Sweet or savory?"
"Sweet."
"How can you tell?"
"The smell! You're using basmati rice. Basmati has a natural bittersweet flavor that matches well with a sweet preparation." Gilly grinned. Sanji laughed. "And you're going to add jasmine, saffron, and honey. You're going to serve it with lavender-infused yogurt, aren't you?"
"Don't know why you want to be a swordsman, kiddo, you'd be an excellent chef!" Sanji laughed. He'd been discreetly slipping facts to her, teaching her like he'd been taught as a choreboy, and he almost knew she had that memorized, but it was fun to hear her dissertate on it. There were footsteps in the stairwell, and Zoro emerged into the dining room, yawning. Robin came shortly after him, and Usopp after her.
"Has anyone seen Luffy?" Zoro asked, scratching the back of his head. "He was gone when I woke up."
"You only woke up a minute ago, and only because I told you Luffy wasn't in bed," Usopp muttered darkly. He was ignored.
"Yeah, Luffy's out on the figurehead. He was there before Brook even played the morning wake-up," Franky replied, pointing out towards the bow. Zoro looked, and saw Luffy was indeed there, staring forward at the island and Marine base. "Found this on the main mast, so Sanji's said he's not getting breakfast." Franky handed Zoro the note Luffy had found, but on the back, in Luffy's handwriting, was "FOOD!" Zoro flipped it over and read Coby's message.
"Huh." Zoro shuffled out of the cabin and across the deck towards the bow. "Hey, Luffy, where were you?"
"I had some things to take care of!" Luffy called back to him. Zoro jumped up to the front and leaned against the pole, staring up at Luffy's back.
"You met Coby?"
"Yeah, he deserves to know the truth." Luffy shrugged a little. "I'm hoping that… maybe if he sees that our kids aren't a threat, he'll do what he can to help us." Zoro was silent, considering Luffy's words for a moment. He knew that Luffy had found a moment of clarity in the mess that was his mind. He scaled the figurehead and kissed Luffy under the ear, nipping gently.
"You know what you're doing," he mumbled, and sat directly behind Luffy and straddled him. He rested the tips of his fingers on Luffy's waist, and rested his chin on Luffy's shoulder.
Luffy leaned back against Zoro and sighed, closing his eyes. "Zoro," he mumbled, opening one bleary eye. "I want everything to be perfect." Zoro looked at Luffy's face and saw how serious he was suddenly. He smiled reassuringly.
"I'll do what I can. We are the best family our kids can ask for, and we'll show everyone."
"Thank you," Luffy whispered, his smile spreading wide across his cheeks. "I love you, Zoro. I will even prove it." Luffy turned and kissed Zoro's cheek, then across his neck and back to his lips. Zoro groaned under his tongue as Luffy turned around, his pudgy belly pressed against Zoro's muscles, and Zoro kissed Luffy's forehead. Luffy grinned and wrapped his legs around Zoro's waist and cuddled himself into his lap. Luffy nipped his neck a few times, leaving little bite marks on Zoro's tanned flesh, and shifted to kiss and suck his lower lip. Zoro moaned softly, gripping his hands on Luffy's hips and rubbing the hollow of his pelvic bone. Luffy gasped as Zoro bucked his hips up towards Luffy, and Luffy ground himself against Zoro in response. Then, Luffy pressed his mouth into Zoro's again, tracing the inside of his cheeks with his tongue. Zoro curled his fingertips into Luffy's back, and Luffy finally rested himself fully against Zoro. They rested there in a tight, mutual embrace.
Not even when Sanji called Zoro for breakfast did either move. They were too content.
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