Okay... I really need some kind of cure or medication for these ideas to stop coming to me!
Sanji: Do no worry Cupid-swan, you're ideas are wonderous and unique.
... Sanji... How did you get here?
Sanji: The front door was busted open.
(sighs and shakes her head) I swear I need a metal door if it keeps getting busted open.
Sanji: I'll have Franky know that.
Not now, we have to introduce my lastest new idea that wouldn't leave me alone until I put it down and wanted to show it.
Sanji: 'We', Cupid-swan?
Yes, since you're here, you may as well be my new co-host for this fic.
Sanji: Oh! I'm so honored to be your co-host for this wonderful fic! (does his bliss dance)
... Don't do that please...
Sanji: Hai!
... Enjoy everyone.
Chapter 1: Dropped In at a Good Moment
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Raftel was the biggest city in all of Grand Line. The sky scrapers seemed to really look as though they could kiss the clouds on a good day while the streets below have to manage in these buildings' shadows. The buildings were clean and range in heights, but still the same plummeting height that no sane human being would be able to scale across.
But then… there's always those brave, daring, and stupid enough to pull it off.
-XxX-
The door to the roof platform swung open and a young man of seventeen ran out. He panted as he looked around the area before seeing a board that pointed to another building, which was far if he jumped, but there were pipes on it which he can grab and climb up to.
"Hurry up!"
He heard some one call as he ran to the board, jumped and grabbed the pipe. He sighed as he looked down to see that he was a good forty to fifty stories high before he climbed up the pipe as quickly as a monkey as bullets missed him and got up to the roof. From there he started to run, jumping over vents and looking around before seeing a cable leading to another building not too far, but too far to jump. He grabbed the cable with his gloved hands as he practically flew down to the building with a rolled landing before quickly getting up.
"Luffy? Are you okay?" Said a man through his ear piece.
"I'm fine Shanks." The young man known as Luffy said.
Luffy is a lanky young man that still built athletically, messy ebony hair, bright brown eyes that even sparkle with some of the blue specks in around the iris. He has a scar under his left eye and a smile that went from ear to ear.
He was wearing a tight white tank with a slightly loose red tank, shorts that were slightly loose around the legs, but only a little pass the knees, and sandals that had an extra string that wraps around the ankle, so that it wouldn't slip off. The choice of shoes was unusual for a runner, but everything else was exactly what's needed to for this certain person.
"Jeeze Anchor, you gave me a scare there when the sirens went off."
"Not my fault, the stupid instructions Nami gave me to break the code to the jewelry safe and get the All Blue diamond."
"Did you get that?"
"Yeah, right here." He patted his pocket, which bludged out, showing it does indeed carry something.
"Well, as long as you're okay, I'm fine with that."
"That's what that bastard gets for stealing something that didn't belong to him." He said as he heard a helicopter. "Gotta go."
"Be careful! I heard they're sending out the Guard Droids on you."
"Because I stole from a crooked government candidate, which we're just going to deface and bring him to the spotlight anyway?"
"Yes."
"Well, there's nothing new about that." He said. "See ya back at the base."
"See ya."
Luffy could see the helicopters reflection from the glass windows of the building and started to run, opening the door to get inside the building. He ran down a few hallways, getting into room after room, even having to disarm and knock out guards that were in his way. He found his way to the basement, which he turned the earpiece to a new person, still running and jumping over pipes.
"Nami! It's Luffy."
"About time you called. Is the diamond safe?"
He checked and saw that the diamond was just a blue as the depths of the ocean and shined brightly even in the dim room. "Not a chip on it."
"Good. I got your location and you're damn lucky. The basement you're in right now connects to another building. But you're going to have some trouble getting there."
"Since when have I have trouble on a mission."
"Luffy, you're the only person without a partner in this team. One of these days you're going to be in a tight spot that you can't do alone. Even the Guard Droids are giving the rest of us hell."
"I'll be fine Nami. I'll find myself a good one to be my partner soon."
"I just worry Luffy…"
"I know, but I haven't gotten to a pickle for a month now."
"That was lucky, next time wouldn't be so great. You're a magnet for trouble."
"Like right now?"
She sighed. "Just get back to base so we can get the reward for that thing."
He chuckled as he sharply turned every corner before seeing an elevator and pressed the highest level it can go up. He took this time to breathe and stretched out his legs so they wouldn't cramp on him with the next bout. He looked at the news bulletin and saw a picture of the president with another man who created a new security weapon.
The Guard Droids.
Theses 'guards' were actually genetic human beings with the intellect that could match a super computer and always learning. In a way they were androids without the technology similar to robots or cyborgs.
-XxX-
The elevator stopped and he went out, looked for anyplace with a signs saying stairs, because he needed to get to the roof. And once he did, he went up and out the door, back into the sunshine and looking at some of the taller buildings that outmatched the one he was on.
He looked everywhere for some place to keep moving, but found that he was on a building that had no ramp and the other buildings were too tall and far for him to jump to.
Then a helicopter appeared before him on the edge, which a crazy idea came to mind. He waited and timed it before he backed up from the edge and ran, jumped, and grabbed the rail under the helicopter.
He grabbed, literally, as if his life was on the line as the helicopter went up higher. He looked at the buildings and thought about his next plan of action. When he saw a building he can jump off to, he took the chance and nailed it. His legs were in pain due to his landing before rolling, but he shook it off and started to run to a door to go down stairs and started to run around the halls.
He heard some one coming and saw a trash vent to the wall. He went in, slide down the vent, smelling the garbage as well as getting covered by it before getting into the final destination of the trash sight.
He emerged from the trash and was about to get out when he heard someone come into the place and had to stay put.
-XxX-
"Damn Guard Droid… Looks like a demon and goes haywire."
He felt something being thrown on top of him, moving the trash that was hiding him, and saw green hair.
"Damn it! It was my first test run and it turns out to be a dupe! It's a good thing nobody knows that I finished this one. All I have to do is do the whole thing from scratch, and not make something that has a stupid hair color. Who the hell is going to be intimidated by a guard with green hair?! Honestly! How the hell did that computer make that happen?!"
-XxX-
After sometime, the footsteps disappeared behind the door, and he felt that it was safe to move around.
He moved the body so that it was lying on top of the garbage while he's getting out from hiding in it then took a good look at the 'guard'.
He moved the sheet that was covering the face and had to hold his breath at the calm, almost how the samurai would look on those statutes, and almost looked asleep. The man seemed strong with a sculptured, athletic body, even though it was wrapped in the sheet. Overall, his body seemed angular and matured with a nice tan skin.
As Luffy looked at this abandoned 'project' and one thing came to his mind. 'He looks so cool!' He smiled as another idea came up. 'I just found my partner!' He thought happily when he heard someone shouting and running towards where he was.
"Crap." He whispered as he moved the garbage so that it hid the other as well. "Gomen, I'll make it up to you." He whispered as he covered himself with the garbage and waited, using the small space to look through to see the men coming in.
"Find anything?" Said a man who casually walked in with a Guard Droid next to him.
"No sir." Said one of the men.
"Hmm… Scan!"
'Crap!' He thought, knowing that if he was found, he was in deep shit… Not the one he's hiding in at the moment.
But it seemed Fortune herself cut him some slack as the dumpster moved out of the building before the Guard Droid could find his heat signal.
-XxX-
Once out in the open, he moved the garbage off of him so he could breathe before quickly doing the same for the other, who looked like he was still asleep.
"That was a close one!" He said as he looked around to find the best way possible to get back to base with a 'guard'.
He saw the building where his base was located and, as if Fortune was favoring him today, saw that the place was closed off for construction, therefore it was open to him.
As the dumpster stopped at the light, he lifted the other on him and jumped to the ground before walking to the front of the doors, which was taped off and ignored by him and went up to the elevator. He typed in a code to make the door open and operative before pressing the button to go up.
"Luffy?" Nami's voice was heard through his earpiece. "What the hell happened?"
"I had to find a new route to get back."
"On the ground?"
"Yeah. You never guess what happened!"
"Save it! Knowing you it has to be something crazy. And I'm not in the mood for that. Is the diamond still with you."
He checked, and was relieved that it was till there. "Yep!"
"Good. Seeing that you're at base, I'll see you in a few minutes."
"Can I stop by my room first. I had to take a dumpster to get back here."
"Gross, okay, but you got five minutes. Got it?"
The doors opened. "Got it." He said as he balanced the body on his back and quickly went to his room, which was basically a couch, a desk, a dresser, a personal bathroom, and a computer.
-XxX-
"I have to talk to Nami for a moment, okay? I'll try to figure you out once I get back, okay?" He said as he placed the other on the couch. "Jeeze, you and I need a bath after this. And you need clothes…" He took a moment to think. "What was I going to do?"
"Luffy!"
"Ow! Hai! Hai!" He ran out of his room, closing the door as he did and headed up the stairs to one door that lead him to a large room with a round, 'C' shaped table.
"Anchor!" A man in his early to mid thirties with red hair and three slashes on his left eye went up, only to back away a little. "You smell ripe."
"I know, I have to get away in a dumpster."
"That's original."
A young woman of eighteen, ginger orange hair a bit above shoulder length, and dark hazel eyes marched up and whacked the young man. "You baka! You were close to being caught!"
"Ow… That hurts Nami!"
"It's going to hurt more if you don't show me the diamond!"
He took it out of his pocket and she immediately took a quick look at it.
"It's still in fine condition. Good job." She said.
"Thanks." He said with a grin. "You never believe what I found!" He was going to explain about him finding a partner when three figures jumped through the roof opening.
"About time you got back!" Nami shouted.
"Gomen, Nami-swan, those guys don't know when to quit." Said a man of nineteen, who was thin, poised, has sun blonde hair with a lock of it covering his left eye while the visible one showed the dark blue iris and the unique curly brow.
"You better get what you guys were assigned to get." Nami said.
"We did Nami." Said a young man of seventeen, who looked thin, but not as poised with a semi-dark tan skin, thick lips, thick curly black hair tied to a pony tail, and a long nose. He reached to his pocket and took out a computer chip.
"What's this for again?" Asked a small, light brown furry figure that looked like a reindeer, but often mistaken as a takanuki, or a raccoon-dog.
"It's for one of our clients who suspects foul play in his company." Nami explained. "How did Chopper do, Sanji?" She looked at the blonde.
"He did great for his first try. The different forms he's able to do came quite in handy when we're going from one building to another. Even saved Usopp from falling."
"I thought I saw my life flashed before my eyes." The young man, Usopp, said.
"And yet you're still running with us."
"Well, yeah, no one else would take me in. And I'm not that bad at running."
"We know." Shanks said. "Everyone here is good at that."
"I better get cleaned up and rest a bit." Luffy said as he looked at Sanji. "What's for dinner?"
"Give me time to breathe Luffy, I just got back."
"What the hell happened to you?"
"I took a dumpster back to the base." He said. "And you know something!"
"We don't want to hear it Luffy." Sanji said. "Just get cleaned already before you stick up the place."
"Okay. Oi, Nami, when are Robin and Franky coming back with Brook?"
"Soon Luffy, now get washed."
"Okay!" He said as he left the room, deciding to surprise everyone with his new partner over at dinner.
-XxX-
As he went back to his room, he saw that the other hadn't moved and inch. He locked the door, which he rarely does, but this was important, and went to the bathroom to ready the tub.
Once he got it to what he liked, he went back into the room to go to a dresser next to the couch and took out his clothes, as well as opened another drawer for some bigger clothes for his new partner.
"You're lucky that I got a huge tub! Otherwise this will be a little hard. And that my brother left some of his clothes here as well." He said as he took them to the bathroom before returning for the other and balanced him on his back and went back into the bathroom.
"It's a good thing you're not some kind of robot… or this bath idea wouldn't be possible. I don't want to be shocked to death you know."
Once in the bathroom, he set the other on the floor carefully and removed the sheet that covered the body. When he did, he had to make sure his eyes were in their sockets.
The man's torso was perfectly muscularly built and toned with the light sun kissed tan.
He put his hand around one arm and found it impossible to wrap his hand around the muscled arm. "Damn… Your muscles are bigger…" He pouted as he looked at his own arm, which was lanky, but has some muscle to them as well. "Maybe you can help me be stronger, and I'll help you out as well. Everyone says I'm a piece of work." He smiled as he took of the rest of the sheet, and had to hold his breath. He shook himself to calm down before lifting the other up to put into the bath, which was filled up to the man's chin.
"You're a lot more trouble when you're 'asleep'." He said as he took out the shampoo, which was also his brothers, but he figured the other wouldn't like the smell of vanilla and strawberries. So he went with his brothers original and started washing his hair.
-XxX-
After a half an hour of washing both the other and himself, he pulled the plug from the tub and the next task was drying when someone knocked on his door.
"Luffy? Are you okay?" It was Usopp.
"Hai! The garbage stuff was really hard to get the smell off! But I'm out now!"
"Oh, okay. Well, dinner is almost ready, so you know."
"Thanks!" He said as he sighed. "And they say I'm a piece of work." He looked at the other. "And you don't have to do anything."
After drying he put on his clothes quickly first before starting with the other, with the underwear first, which he had no problem doing since they were both guys, then the knee length pants, then finally a plain light blue, button up top that was left open. Once that was done he started to lift the other up and headed to the room with the couch.
Once he placed the other on the couch, he took a huge breath when the door knocked.
"Luffy? Is everything alright?" It was Shanks.
"Hai! Just not decent yet."
"Aye! Dinner is ready so you know."
"Hai!" He said but he looked at the man on his couch. 'But I wanted to introduce him to everyone. How the hell do I turn this guy on?' He thought as he bent down a bit too closely towards the man's face, as if trying to find the answer on the other's face.
Of course, Fortune has been helpful all day to him and now wants to play.
Luffy had great balance in many situations, but this time he found himself getting too close and reacted too late as his lips were on top of the others. He backed up soon after it happened, but noticed that the tan skin seemed darker and the other's hand twitched before the face scrunched, then relaxed before the eyes opened to reveal pearl green with light specks of emerald.
He watched as the other sat up, looked around the room before the sharp gaze fell onto him.
"I'm Roronoa Zoro, who the hell are you?"
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Okay! Here's my new fic that has been plauging me for sometime, along with others, but they are not fully... tweeked to the way I like it yet.
Sanji: It's an interesting idea.
I got it when I was watching my brother play Mirrors Edge and read the manga Ultimo. I don't know, it just seems good at the time.
Sanji: And it still is Cupid-swan.
Just call me Cupid please. I don't really like the '-swan' thing.
Sanji: (puppy pouts)
Okay! Okay! You can call me that. Just don't do that! It's a bit scary.
Sanji: (chuckles) Sorry, just had to.
(sighs) So, what do you think guys?