Ugh I just realize, I haven't been around lately. Too much lazying around because holiday~ hahahaha!
Without further ado, Let's go!
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CURSED or BLESSED [12] : Sange and Esenta
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His mind didn't work. His ears perked up a little from the calling, but he had no strength left to open his eye. He managed to let out a soft groan when the voice disturbed him – again. DAMMIT! How many times it had to call out for him? Didn't it know that the beast was so damn tired?
"Zoro!"
[Huuuh?]
"Zoroo! Wakey wakey!"
[Uuh…]
"Zorooooo"
['lemme sleep]
"Zoroo…"
[shut up!]
"I'll kiss you then."
[no!]
"You ask for it."
[stop it!]
Chuu~~
"Urg…" Zoro grunted, jerking open his eye just to saw,
"ZORO!" cheered the noirette brilliantly.
"Lu- ffy… What the hell -kkh, are you- doing here..?"
"To help you of course! What else?"
"Yo-u.. didn't kiss me, r-ight?"
"I did! On your cheek!" followed by a devastated groaned, "you don't want to wake! I have to do it!" whined the noirette.
"Fuck it. Are you al-one?" he tried to glance to the side, but his body writhed, betraying him, then he fell back to Luffy's lap. No wonder it was slightly better than the hard soil, like the one below his body, which was hard, ughh!
"Nope! I was with Ussop but then we got separated. Then, I found her somewhere along the road, and she follows me."
"Her?" Zoro frowned. And he saw a glint of red hair above Luffy.
"It's because you lost, moron! And I was in the wood, gathering some herbs for my sister." She stated.
"aahh! You- kkh!" Zoro tried to sit but to no avail, his body just didn't want to move and now his body was throbbing in pain, because of sudden restraint.
"Oh, another idiot." The girl sighed.
"What?!" Zoro retorted.
"Shishishishi~~ c'mon you two. We still have to search for Sanji." Luffy cut their bickering and picked Zoro up on his back, piggybacking the beast who was unable to move.
"O-oi! Luffy!"
"Huh?"
"Let me down! I can wa-"
"No, you can't. IF you can, you will still slow us down." Chided the girl.
"What's with you.." Zoro asked, annoyed.
"What's with you? You, Neanderthal beast."
"Why are you coming with us?"
"Well, I have too! Because he.. ah that reminds me! Give me that back!" she shouted. Luffy laughed it off.
"Not until we found Sanji. Beside it will be saver for us to walk altogether like this." grinned the noirete.
"It's better to be alone!" she hissed.
"Believe me. You don't like to be one." Luffy said, a little down but he still kept his childish demeanor.
"Just leave her if she doesn-" and suddenly the beast stopped talking. The girl hurriedly set her gaze to the beast whom was on Luffy's back and saw him,
"HE IS SLEEPING?!"
"Ahahahaha! It's very Zoro." Laughed Luffy.
"But how can it be? He was talking for fuck sake."
"He can. Shishishishi! He was very tired see." The noirette gave her a reason. The girl snorted.
"Say Nami… Can you help us search for Sanji?"
"Who is this Sanji anyway?"
"He is a vampire. And he is my other friend who I'm looking for."
"Oh.. he is- WHAT?! VAMPIRE?! ARE YOU INSANE? HOW CAN YOU BE A FRIEND OF A VAMPIRE?!"
"But he is! Because you never met him, and he is nice." Answered Luffy innocently.
"I can't believe it." She sighed, massaging her temple. Never in her life, she came across an absurd boy like this. wait, absurd? No! Maybe crazy would suit him better. Who in the world had a Vampire and Farligenete all in the same time? Even though he was a Farlig, but it was still crazy! Even A witch like her only had A Farlig friend, well before he met this idiot Farlig of course.
"C'mon. You promise me." He said pouting cutely. Nami sighed, she couldn't just reject a request like that, could her? Besides, her mandrake*1 was still with him. Fine!
"Fine... but after we found your Sanji, gimme back my mandrake."
"Sure~ I don't mind. I don't need it anyway."
"keep your promise, gaki*2."
"I'm a man of my word!" he reassured her. She huffed but she helped him anyway. She moved a little further, took her long skyblue staff. With both hand, she made a vertical line in front of her and closed her eyes. Soon, wind started to blow gently, which gradually became rougher but in only several minutes, she jerked open her topaz colored beads and the wind died down.
"Found him." she snickered.
"Really? Where?!"
"Soon you'll see. Now that thing back!" she commanded the boy, stretching her long slender limb.
"But I haven't meet him ye- SANJI!" the boy shouted, jumping happily towards the blond, neglecting the poor green head, falling down to the ground, which not that hard because Nami managed to held him for a while before fell together. That wasn't how you treat an injured person, Luffy!
"Lu-LUFFY! Why are you here?" Sanji aghast seeing the noirette who was jumping onto him, which he quickly caught him with a hug.
"I come to pick you and Zoro up!"
"Ah yes, that be- OOHH! Pretty angel~ what blessing do I have to see such beauty in an ugly bizarre wood like this?" Sanji twirled and took Nami hand, kneeling in a gentleman manner and praised her like she was an angel, while she was in a sitting position, massaging her aching butt.
"Cut that out!" She cut abruptly.
"Aaahhhnn…~ Even your angry side is cute~" Sanji said, nearly fainting.
"Oi Luffy! What's with this friend of yours, geez! He is a complete idiot!" Nami grumbled, looking up just to meet the calm dark night beads of the noirette.
"He is funny!" Laughed the boy, offering his hand to the red head. She took it.
"Here~ your mandrake." Grinned the boy, giving Nami the thing she asked from before. Nami stared blankly to him.
"Huh?"
"I- I thought... I thought I have to steal that from you."
"Why? You help me find my friends. and I promise you, I'll give this to you."
"Oh. If I say, that thing is fuckin rare and a great ingredient to make healing medicine, would you still give that to me?"
"Is it?"
"I don't know. I am asking."
"It depends."
"If I haven't promise you, maybe I'll keep this. But I promise to give this to you. So, here take it." He still grinned, widely.
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"Are you sure he will be alright?" Asked the blond worry. He bit his lower lip, afraid of what would happen. Because the Vill gave him so much blood, he looked so pale on Luffy's lap.
"As long as I know, a Farligenete couldn't die from blood loss as their Esenta could cover that for them. But-"
"Esenta?" Asked Luffy confusedly.
"Those Vills from just now also talked about this."
"You're a vampire but you don't know a thing about your arc enemy, do you?"
"Well, I don't clash nor fight them and I always stay in my human form."
"One strange vampire." She sighed. "How to explain this. Ah yea! Basically, Esenta works the same as Sange in your case." She continued.
"So you say?"
"He won't die from blood loss. But he is suffering. See, he is pale and his breath halts. He needs more Esenta. He is dying." Sanji felt a sudden lump in his throat, his heart sank down with fear. No! He couldn't! He shouldn't die! He shouldn't sacrifice himself for someone who had no worth to live like, like Sanji...
"What? No! Zoro can't die!" Whined the boy.
"But you say his Esenta-"
"Well he lost his blood in excessive amount at one time, I don't think his Esenta is enough to cover that. I wonder what, ah.." She glanced to the blond, the one and only who needed blood.
"I.. might sucked his too much." The blond sulked, feeling guilty.
"Wait! You- you drank his blood? Are you a fool or what?"
"I know I can't, but... He forced me to!"
"And you just obey that? You want to die?!" She roared.
"I am not..." He said dejected. [Yet, before I see him okay.]
"C'mon gu-uys.. I'm sleeping here. Could you lower your v-oice.." groaned the wounded beast, his voice throaty.
"ZOROOO!"
"Ah he wakes."
"Oh..."
Luffy hugged Zoro's head from above. Nami cringed either relieved or in fear. And the blond swept by a sudden wave of relieve and ease.
"I don't know should I be happy or not. You really are one hell of a monster." Said Nami with a grin.
"You still- .. here...?"
"What? It's up to me where I want to be!"
"Zoro... Nami is trying to help you know." Explained Luffy.
"Oh, well. Thanks. I think." The beast said curtly.
"Ohh... You are shy... What a cute little dog." Teased Nami giving him a pat on his green head which making Zoro grumbled, both in annoyance and delight from the sudden contact.
"H-hey..." Sanji called, switching the green head focus onto him.
"Why hel-llo there princess.. better?" Zoro replied with a smirked on his face, though it didn't change the fact that he was pale from the blood loss.
"Pri-shit! To think I feel guilty for a while." Sanji chided.
"Oh well, you should. You sucked me dry." Teased Zoro.
"I was." He sulked again.
".. oh c'mon! I'm just joking. Dimwit."
"Moss head!" He retorted but his tone sounded playful.
"Hey green idiot! What are you thinking? Making yourself half alive and let him drank your blood? Were you trying to kill yourself and him?" Asked Nami, remembering the whole mess.
"No shit! Like hell I kill him. This boy here will be furious." He pointed to Luffy weakly.
"Then?!"
"Troublesome to explain.. shiiiit... I am lacking blood. I'm tir...-" and Zoro felt his vision blurred - again. He was very, very sleepy and he couldn't resist to close his eye. But suddenly, a pair of lips plastered against his, roughly.
Zoro couldn't focus on anything, except for the swirling wave of Esenta from the lips of the others, waiting to be devour. And he did. Because right now he fuckin need that, if he wanted to stay alive. Hungrily, he captured those lips and sucked the radiating Esenta from them. Though it was a little hard for the beast to sucked them, because they were struggling, they still tasted amazingly delicious. An exquisite he never tasted before. They couldn't be compare even to a human youth Esenta. He was hungry for it, he still craved for it, but somewhere in between he succumbed into his nagging exhaustion.
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"Wh-wha-wwhaaattt was that fooorrr? Uurrgghh!" The blond whined desperately, rubbing his mouth with the back of his hand, face flustered a nice color, his lips were swollen a bit from all that sucking. Wait, sucking? That idiot marimo sucked him for fuck sake! He needed a deep fuckin hole right now! Nami gave him a quick glance before she retreated her hand from the blond's back neck.
"Saving your friend." She said nonchalantly.
"But why.. why-" Sanji couldn't finish the words because Luffy kept laughing like an idiot, rolling on the ground, his feet were flailing freely in the air, while his hands circled around his stomach. And he was crying while laughing for God sake! Fucking idiot!
"I know usually a Farligenete eat his prey to sucks their Esenta, but there is this rumor, that Esenta sucking thing can also be done with closing your lips on him together or something like that, so I take the quick one. Well, I can't figure how close it needed so, just make it as close as we can." Her smile so devilish, the blond felt her nose nearly bled.
"But, but he-"
"you do have some responsible for it. Don't you think?" Asked Nami. Sanji quickly pursed his lips into a straight line.
"Well, the point is, he is getting better. See..." Nami pointed. The blond set his gaze upon unconscious beast, seeing he was indeed getting better. His feature wasn't as pale as before and his breath gradually became steady. He then moved closer to the wounded beast, and picked him up. He was ugh.. heavy! Those muscles sure weren't just for display. Damn muscles idiot!
"You need my help?" asked Luffy grinning. Sanji smiled and he shook his head.
"Let me. I'll bring him back."
"That's mean you are coming with us, right?"
"For some time being. Until he recovered."
"Then, I also take my leave. Until we meet again." said Nami.
"Sure! Come to our place if you want. It's in Baratie in Sambas!" beamed the noirette.
"Nami-swaan~~~ we will be waiting for you~~~~" added the blond, wiggling like a dumb idiot. Nami sighed, starting to accustom to his antique – their antiques, counted in the hyper noirette.
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"FUCKING FUCK! W-what the hell happened to him?!" Wailed Sabo, helping the vampire to put Zoro on their couch in the living room. Luckily, Makino and Zeff were already asleep. Ussop backed with a quill full of lukewarm water and some towels.
"I also don't understand! When I met them, he was already like this." groaned the long-nose, dipping a towel into the water and wrung it dry.
"He saved me." Answered Sanji curtly. He didn't dare to face both Ussop and Sabo altogether. He just couldn't bear if they blamed him – though he knew this was his fuckin fault. He knew. But for the time being, he didn't want to know what would they scrutinized him for bringing this messed up trouble into their peaceful life. But, but that was the whole point he ran, right? So why… why did they want him back?
But a warm hand suddenly was on his shoulder, then it gave him a little squished. Sanji jerked up and saw Sabo was smiling warmly to him. His warm hazel radiated warmth and comfort, he didn't judge him, those eyes were honestly concern for his well-being.
"At least he is safe. So were you. And we lost nobody." He said, giving the blond several pats. Then he moved closer to Zoro, helping Ussop to patched the beast up.
"You know Sanji.." Luffy said from behind him. Sanji glanced back to saw Luffy was grinning his usual.
"Your only fault is, you ran. You didn't tell us anything. You just ran." Sanji gaped at his speech. "Well, you are our friend. You were badly wounded and haven't recovered yet then you ran. We were worried you know. We just didn't want anything bad happen to you. So, I and Zoro, and Ussop, also Sabo, Brook, everybody decided to run after you. I asked Zoro to make sure you were safe. And he did! So, if he wanted to blame someone who made him like this, he should blame me. Which I know he wouldn't, because he was also worry about you." Stated the noirette, keeping his warm genuine smile to the blond.
"But I-.. I am a vampire…" he still tried to reason, though he knew the boy wouldn't take it as one, he still tried.
"So? Zoro is a were-wolf. And Ussop.. Ussop is a genie."
"I am a Tengu, oi!" Ussop butted in, though he still worked on Zoro, helping the dusty blond head.
"I am cursed! You see, I have a curse since I was little! Even my kin despise me!" he said, voice louder than he meant to, but he couldn't control it any longer.
"I am too. Other humans think I am unlucky, and I bring despair for them. And they hate me." He answered back, this time, his smile seemed a bit off.
"Guys, you don't mind that Sanji is a vampire, do you?" asked Luffy suddenly to the others.
"Hey! I'm a Tengu! Don't think you are the only special one!"
"As long as you help us in the kitchen. If not…" Sabo replied with a cunning smirk, while working on Zoro's bandage.
"Hear that? I am sure Zoro will too agree with us." The noirette was back with his shinning grin.
Sanji eyes widen, he was quivering, aghast. He knew Zoro's answer, he accepted him as who he was, what made him aghast was the fact the others were also accepted him, with no but, with no exception. A warm peaceful feeling suddenly crept inside of him, eloped him whole into its comfort. A thing he only felt once in his life, hundred years ago. When he was with the head chef, when he got a love he longed for. And now, fate was giving him the second chance to felt it again. But now it was different. He got more, better, bigger. His feeling swelled with sudden happiness and joy, melting him with its warm. His face turned red, his eyes started to stung, tears was already on the brim of his eyes. Before tears fell, he quickly put a hand on his mouth and bit his lower lip, trying to stop it, but was in vain. Tears was falling like a broken dam, he couldn't hold it. He washed away with bliss and peaceful of mind. He might reach his impossible dream, to had friends who would accept him for what he was. He still could hope for his dream. In the next minutes, a harsh grunt was resounding in the air and Sanji found that he was smiling in pure happiness.
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*1 a type of plant, which proved to make a better medicine effect.
*2 Boy (sounds harsher than usual tone)
And there you go~ Sanji found his new home :D
And omg, in the original chapter, lately even though it was Sanji arc, Sanji was rarely shown. I am sooo disappointed. I hope the later will be great.
So until the next chapter, I hope you guys still enjoying this~
Jyaa na~~ ^0^/
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