---------------- Chapter 11 / The Bounds that Tie & Hamsters
Sanji opened his mouth wide to the bathroom mirror, using the reflection of him self to help him get at his back teeth with his toothbrush. It had been two and half days since Sanji had ran from Zoro and Ace. He had not slept more then a few hours here and there since then either. Though he had been eating as it was something to do even though it was more or less torture for him, though he felt he earned a bit of torture for everything that had happened. He was not really sure what Ace and Zoro thought of him now …after attacking them and running …maybe they hated him? Or worse still wanted to help him.
He had to stop thinking about them, all of them but it was hard…Zoro was parked out in front of his apt. building and had been since Sunday afternoon. Sanji had found this out when he had planed to go out to the bagel and coffee shop he normally went to yet had to come back in the apt building due to Zoro getting out of his car as soon as he saw the cook. So Sanji was trapped in his apt. Surly the green haired bastard would need to leave soon at some point to use the bathroom or get food …something geez. Until Zoro did leave though Sanji was hiding in his apt. and ordering take-out. Thankfully Zoro must have not caught on to that fact else he would probably be trying to get in the apt. building when Sanji buzzed in the delivering guys.
Then there was Ace and Chopper who had been phoning him and texting him…Chopper only a few times but Ace… in the hour nap he had taken yesterday Monday morning Ace had left him a combined whooping 20 calls and text messages. It was getting rather much and Sanji could not turn off his phone in case Doflamingo called. He had wondered at first how Ace had got his number but then it was pretty clear that Chopper must have given it to him.
Oh well surly they would give up soon, Sanji thought and spit into the sink and rinsed his mouth out to spit again. After cleaning up from brushing his teeth Sanji looked himself over in the mirror of the bathroom again.
He was wearing white and blue sneakers with white thick socks and a pair of short, tight dark blue jogging shorts that had small slits up the sides giving even more glimpses of his cream milk thighs. On top he wore a designer dark blue and white sweatshirt that was not really much of a shirt at all. It cut off at his tummy and the neckline was slanted so that one bare shoulder was exposed at all times. It was one of his basic workout outfits.
Sanji gave his hair once more a once over with his long fingers then flicked his golden locks on his right side and headed out of his bathroom and to his home gym room the penthouse suite offered him. He went over to the large wall window and peeked out the drape that showed over the street. Zoro's car was still there.
"Fucker…" muttered Sanji and trudged over to a corner of the room and got up on a chair and turned on the TV that was hanging in the corner from the ceiling. He had lost his remote last month to this damn thing …well that was untrue. Sanji knew where the remote had gone … out the large glass window during one of Sanji's fits of rage, having a (yelling) fight with Bellamy, Bellamy thinking just because Sanji did as Doflamingo said that he should do as Bellamy said as well. Sanji had wanted to kick the man's ass ... 'again' but after the last time Doflamingo had said he was not allowed to attack Bellamy unless he attacked first. So now that fucker just taunted him …and things tended to get broken since Sanji could not break his foot off in that bastard's ass. Never the less the window had been replaced but Sanji kept forgetting to get a new remote. So till he remembered he was stuck working it manually like if he was fucking in primitive times of like the 1990's or some shit.
Huffing Sanji got on his treadmill and started it at a steady jogging speed. Nothing to fast that would upset his stitches. The run he had pulled a few days ago had surprisingly not popped any but rather to be safe then sorry. In fact now it looked like the stitches could come out maybe tomorrow. A grin came to Sanji's lips as he could just hear Chopper going off at him for thinking to remove the stitches himself. Maybe he would give Chopper a call and ask him to come over to do it. Sanji really didn't want to lose the friendship he had with Chopper. It was not much but it was enough to help him get a single slice of a normal life. Sanji also maybe could talk the doctor into having his friends back off. If they kept on poking their noses in his life Doflamingo was going to start to noticing and Sanji would feel awful if something were to happen cause surly the man would try to use it to his advantage and control them too. Chopper was a special case. No one knew he was in a gang and he was a doctor and very respected in the Water 7 Arena ring of people.
Sanji frowned as he finally now focused on what the TV was playing. "What the fuck is this crap?" he asked out loud to the TV as it showed a little purple hamster farting on a green hamster and many other little hamsters laughing. He was right in the middle of his run now too and didn't want to stop to have to go and change the station but as well didn't want to have to watch this shit… what person, kid or not would find this amusing? The person to laugh at shit would have to have an I.Q of a carrot Sanji raged on as he went on to watch one of the hammers now dressing in drag and rubbing another hammer's face in its fake boobs.
An ad then came on to promote the show, 'Giggle Hams' it was called, asking kids to draw themselves as hamsters and the winner would get a load of crap of mangas and movie disks and plushies all from the show. Sanji's mind wandered then as the TV displayed the all hamster characters on a big running wheel as they showed the address for the kids to send the pictures to. Sanji could not help but make the connection of him self being on a treadmill and trapped in his apt. caged like a fucking hamster running on its wheel. He just needed one of those giant fucking water bottles and a bowl of pellets. Humm if he were to be drawn as a hamster he would be a little yellow one with a white belly undercoat and little yellow hair fur hanging over the left side of his face. His mini hands and feet would be light pink and his nose black and of course his one visible eye big and blue.
The little image of the Sanji hamster he had cooked up in his mind swirled around giving him it's back then looked over its little shoulder at him and with a big pink heart in its visible eye blew him a kiss. Sanji stopped in his tracks at the image of it all as it sent a chill through out him. Stopping abruptly on the treadmill however had not been a good idea and he went flying back to land flat on his back. Sanji just lay there now staring up at the ceiling. He so needed to get out of here before he went anymore crazy.
It was at that moment he herd the front door unlock and open. "Sanji?" called out a voice from a few rooms over where the front door was.
Great just what he needed another reason to help him go crazy.
In few moments later Doflamingo walked into the gym room. He was dressed in white slacks and a loud white and green swirls pattern silk shirt. His pink feather coat gone, most likely having been dropped off in the living room like normal.
Doflamingo looked about the room then lifted his dark shades to rest on top of his head and stare at Sanji laying on the floor his feet resting on the bars of the treadmill as it was still in motion. The Monarch cocked an eyebrow at the display before him. "What are you doing on the floor?" he questioned.
"Thinking about hamsters." replied the blonde in a flat tone.
"Hamsters?" questioned Doflamingo.
"Hamsters." confirmed Sanji.
The next question from Doflamingo was only logical from anyone's standing viewpoint. "Are you high? God dammit... I thought I told you not to be strung out when I got back!" growled the man in irritation and then preceded to marched over to Sanji then went to his knees by the man to grab the blonde's face turning it to him and checked Sanji's pupils.
"I'm not high." pouted Sanji. Every upset on the fact he was not. His whole drug stash had been left in his coat jacket …which had got left in the van when he had been trying to get away from the Mugiwara gang.
Doflamingo frowned seeing no signs Sanji was lying so let it be and just assumed it was more of Sanji's odd behavior mood swings that were becoming more frequent of late. He then slapped a large envelope on Sanji's chest that had been under his arm.
"What's this?" Sanji asked picking up the envelope and starting to open it.
"It's your next job, and I want you to make sure Captain Garp of the GL police dept. is pleased with the results. He wants to make sure wins the election of mayor this year and can't do so with those two hanging over his head." Doflamingo informed.
Sanji nodded and pulled out some photos and it was like a blow to the gut. The pictures were of Luffy and Ace.
"Your not to kill but bring them in alive and not to bruised. Garp will be sending the younger one off to military school and the older over seas to of Arabasta for some Peace Corps work."
Sanji shifted through the pictures looking at the two men. Fate was a cruel mistress… and if Sanji was not so against speaking ill of a lady fiction or not he would also had a real bitch to.
Doflamingo pulled out one of the photo's to point it out to Sanji. "Originally this task was giving to Detective Smoker to do since it was found out he had a relationship with the older of the brothers but he denies it and claims not to know where they are. Your starting point should be with him." Doflamingo tapped the photo he gave back to Sanji that showed Smoker and Ace in a tight lip lock on some pier with fair in the background behind them.
Sanji's grip on the photo tightened and his breath paused for a brief moment before he could control himself. Ace looked so happy in the photo with the man and the next photo of them as well and the next one after that and the next one….Zoro had said they had been fucking… he remembered that but…Ace seemed so happy.
"Smoker will know where the brothers are for sure?" Sanji asked.
"Garp is sure of it but Smoker claims he just happened to be drunk that one day and does not remember the man. So you are free to do whatever you need to, to Smoker to get the information." Doflamingo shrugged standing back up now and brushing out the wrinkles of his white pants.
"Who is Garp running against in the up coming election?" Sanji questioned.
"Just Judge Spandam as you know the current mayor will be stepping down so this will be Mayor Wapol's last year." Doflamingo pulled out his phone checking something. "The rest of the information you need is in there just remember to accommodate the Captain, I'm getting a real nice fee out of this so be sure to please Captain Garp with your results."
Sanji looked at the photo again of Smoker and Ace in that hot lip lock as his jealousy roared. "Of course." Sanji then nodded. It could just not be helped then. He would talk to Garp to work out the rest of arrangements and then he would go and personally take care of Smoker. It's not like he wanted to do what he was going to be doing but… he saw no other choice in the matter.
Sanji sighed and looked up at the TV screen again as the cartoon had came back from commercials and he scowled at it.
Luffy laughed out loudly, his mouth open wide showing the mouth full of cereal he was eating as he did so. He was seating on the sofa with his brother watching one of his favorite cartoon's 'Giggle Hams' Ace however was not so interested in it as he normally was. Even his favorite cereal 'Cookie Flakes'n Marshmallows' sat in his lap in its bowl getting soggy in the milk and going uneaten.
Ace sighed heavily and stared at the cereal remembering just a few days ago when the lovely blonde cook had sat in his lap and they had … sorta shared a bowl. The gun slinger pouted and reached out to grab his phone but was stopped by his brother's hand on his arm. He looked up with a questioning frown.
"Ace we will get him back but its best to let him have a little breathing room. You have already called him five times this morning…which is better then the twenty times yesterday morning but still …let him call you back when he is ready." Luffy reasonably said which was pretty fucking scary since normally Ace was the voice of reason between the two.
Ace nodded and pulled his hand back.
"Everyone is doing their best." Luffy pressed on and that was true. Nami and gone over a copy of the contract Zeff had that night after Sanji had ran off though she had found no loop holes or anything they could use there and after dinner they had then left the boat restaurant with even less clues on how to get Sanji out. Zoro and Ace were still not talking to each other … in fact thought Ace the back stabbing boyfriend trying to steal bastard had not been around at all of late. Ace had been told by Chopper he was staking out Sanji's place and Ace had wanted to do the same on hearing that but had been talked out of it by the others. So all he could do was call and text and be ignored. He knew the others were working on plans but he just didn't have the energy to care since they were all on egg shells around him anyways ... well besides Luffy. They would not even tell him what their plans were, most likely not wanting him to be disappointed when the plans failed or some such thing.
Ace's phone went off then and Ace nearly dumped his cereal in attempts to reach for it quickly. For a brief moment in time Ace's face was lit up with joy then as he looked at the caller ID and his face dropped to gloom to see it was just Smoker. Ace let it ring and set it back on the coffee table where it had been. No way was he talking to that fucker not after the way he had been dumped by the man. They had been on the most romantic fun date of dinner and a movie that followed up with an amazing hot night at Smoker's apt. Yet the next morning the bastard had the nerve to tell him it was all over and he could not do it anymore. That his job had to come first and he wanted Ace to stay away from him and not call him anymore. Well Ace gave him his wish and would not break it now. No way would he talk to that man! Besides his heart now belonged to Sanji!
Ace lay his head to his brother's shoulder at the feel of pin pickles of tears, "Why…why wont he call me back?" he asked in a soft whimper. Maybe …maybe if Sanji were to tell him just at lest to stop calling or something, anything just to hear the man's voice again it would not hurt so much.
Luffy frowned and put his arm around his brother. "I'm sure he will. It's only been a few days." Luffy encouraged yet was a little tore as what more to say since his brother and his best friend /second in command in ranks of his gang were after the same man's heart that he Luffy wanted to bring into the gang.
"Eh you remember how much fun we had at that party for Sanji right?" Luffy said having an idea.
Ace nodded rubbing at his red eyes.
"Well we all got so well along with each other then and the bounds that tie like that don't just fade away. So it really is only a matter of time before Sanji comes back." Luffy nudged his brother to look at him and he gave Ace one of his big goofy grins. "He is worth waiting for right?"
Ace could not help but smile back even if it was a bit of a weak one. "Yeah." he answered truthfully. He then pulled his younger brother into a hug around the boy's neck with one arm and used the other to give him a noogie. "You know I got a great little brother to bad he can't be this smart all the time." Ace laughed softly.
Luffy wiggled, "Ahh cut it out Ace! Your gunna make me spill my cereal." whined Luffy yet then gave into laughing as well.
Ace let his brother go and Luffy happily returned to watching 'Giggle Hams' and Ace's phone went off again. He reached out and tilted it to see who it was and made an un-approving grunt at the sight of Smoker's name again. Ace let it ring and lay his head back to his brother's shoulder trying to watch the show too as he cuddled his bowl of soggy untouched cereal to his chest wondering why it could just not be Sanji calling.
Smoker gritted his teeth down on his cigar as Ace's phone rang and rang then finally went to voicemail. Damn little cocky bastard answer your phone this is important. Smoker fumed with in his mind. The case of finding the brothers Luffy and Ace had been lifted from him and been passed on to one of the 7 Monarchs. Garp was not playing around anymore. Smoker had thought he could protect the brothers by breaking up with Ace and keeping misleading leads on their whereabouts but it seemed his lack of results had only delayed the matter.
Smoker leaned back against the open door frame of the pet shop where he and his partner Detective Tashigi's new case was. It was a murder case, someone had shot a John Doe in the chest enough times to make it look like ground beef and folded him up putting him in the hamster bin. The little critters had been nibbling on the guy since he was put in there sometimes last night. So they were having to take the hamsters in for evidence due to what could be found in their little bellies.
A loud crash rocked Smoker from his thoughts and he turned around in the doorway as Tashigi yelled at him, "Quick shut the door they knocked the hamster bin over!" And sure enough some of the little fuckers were running right for the door.
With annoyance Smoker tossed his cigar out to the sidewalk and kicked back one of the little furballs so he could shut the door. "Who was the dumbass that knocked it over? My foot wants to congratulate their ass!" growled out the man as he was then forced to spend the next 2 hours picking up and tracking down hamsters.
On the way back to the station he let Tashigi drive for once and tried to call Ace again. Still he got nothing. He could not run the risk of texting the warning to the man for who knows who would see it and most likely if Ace was not answering calls from him he would not read the texts anyways. It would be bad if he went to see the man in person as Smoker was not 100% sure or not if Garp had someone still following him. After he had seen the photos of himself and Ace he had gotten the mission to bring the man in. Smoker did then the only thing he could do and said meeting Ace had been a fluke and then had one last fling with his lover before ending it. Maybe it had been wrong to have that one last fling but it was something for the road that he still cherished. He had not wanted to give up Ace but if it was a mater of Ace's safety or his happiness it was an obvious choice. Thus also the reason he didn't tell the kid the truth of the matters.
Smoker said nothing when they arrived at the station just got out and headed in the doors and to the elevator to the third floor with Tashigi rambling on at his side about the case facts he already knew pertaining to the pet shop case.
Who knew what Garp had in store for the boys. Sure they were his grandsons but that didn't mean anything. The man was very strict on the law and enforced it with an iron fist. Smoker just knew neither Ace nor his brother Luffy would last in one of the government prisons. They were too much of free sprits; it would be like killing them just slowly day by day. There was no way Smoker could just stand by and let something like that happen.
Smoker stopped at his desk and his eyes open wide at the sight he saw coming then out of Captain Garp's office.
A tall man lean hansom man in a pair of black slacks and a dark blue silk shirt slightly unbutton with a black suit jacket over top of it. The blonde hair over one eye was a dead give away on who it was. Mr. Prince. What the fuck was he doing here? A memory of about four days ago flashed in his mind of Mr. Prince with that Roronoa bastard parked on the curbside going at it. Mr. Prince did work for one of the seven Monarchs. Crap had he got Zoro to talk and found out where Ace and Luffy where?
Smoker gritted his teeth as he watched Garp shake Mr. Prince's hand and then the Captain headed back in his office as Mr. Prince headed for the elevator. Smoker kept his eyes on Mr. Prince and just as the elevator doors shut he would have sworn he saw the blonde wink at him. Smoker narrowed his eyes at the now closed elevator doors. It would not do any good to go chancing a man like that. Each second around someone as dangerous as that blonde was a risk to ones own life due to how the man lived his life. The best thing Smoker could do was to keep his nose clean not ask to many questions and keep trying to call Ace. So that is what the detective did for the rest of the day between paper work that is.
By the time the detective got home he was dead tired, it having been a really shitty long
day and now all he wanted to do when he got in was have a stiff drink and go to bed…of course first trying to call Ace again he thought as he moved down the long hallway of his apt. building his keys softly rattling in his hand as he shifted them to look for the right one. He then paused and looked back over his shoulder to see…no one. Weird. He was getting the feeling something was very off here. Maybe he was just still paranoid from all those little hamsters running about. Nothing that small and creepy should have fur dammit. They were like wigs for midgets running around on feet.
Smoker turned back around and walked the rest of the way to his door. He slid his key into the lock turning it and opening his door to his dark apt and stepped in and at once froze as a long cylinder tube was pressed to his neck. His eyes shifted down and with there being just enough light he was able to see the black object was a gun. Great the shitty day just kept getting better. His dark eyes then slide over the hand that held it and up the dark suit jacket getting a good look at the person's face as the man sucked in on his cigarette he held with his other hand. The end of the cancer stick lighting up the face to relive it none other then Mr. Prince himself.
A/N: Thought I was kidding about those hamsters didn't ya? Tee hee!
Ok so kinda a short chapter this time but it was a transition period and I had to work to shift things around so this was mainly a set up for many of the other little mini plots going to be happening yet as well letting you see what the characters have been doing and how they feel…well everyone but Zoro he is left out in the cold alone aww. Don't worry you Zoro fans he will have his time to shine! It's still a few chapters away but he does get some Sanji love so look forward to that!
In other news I have now listed this story under Sanji / Zoro as a friend said I should once I get near the half way mark…this story is a SanjixAce but its also a SanjixZoro but the thingy only lets me list 2 people so we are taking turns xD
Also in other news still! I put a poll up on my profile asking you all which story I should do after I finish this one! Yes I have plans for a sequel to this story! It is also one of the choices, so make sure you check that out!
Next chapter! Sanji kills Smoker or Smoker watches Sanji have sex? Which is the lie? Did I mention someone in this story dies? Just throwing it out there! Don't forget to review show me love ne? *wiggles on the edge of the cliffhanger* Look ma no hands!
Reviewer Replies:
datErdbeerschn – Awe you forgot to show me love T.T Its Okies though you remembered this time yay!
Lol it's true! Guys get all bitchy about something about dicks getting rubbed raw due to, to much sex or some silly shit. xD Not that I would know *coughs* ^.^;
Lol Sanji didn't have a choice to eat it and it's not like it was for culinary curiosity xD
Yay! Hehe got to love two hot guys fighting over another hot guy right ^_~
Woot for funny flirting!
Yush Doflamingo is a evil one and one of the main reasons I used him for this story as the main baddy was so I could use that manipulating power he has yet here its wit and cleverness that helps him control people *shrugs* there might be another way *whistles and looks away* Not that I will tell though tee hee! =P
tazx x x – Hey good to see ya again ^.^ Glade ya like the story so far. Lol well it's a ZoroxSanji & AcexSanji story so who knows who at the end will end up with Sanji …maybe Doflamingo gets to keep him? *grins devilishly* I shale give nothing away! But! There will be more Zoro and Sanji romance to come! Even a hot sense between them! Yush we could not have Sanji going around boinking everyone and not are fav swordsman that just would not be right xD So I guess I will give up that info but nothing else! xD
bettywhitesan – LOL Who does not? Slutty Sanji ftw!