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onepieceyaoi100Title: Steady
Word count: 298
Rating: G
Pairing: Luffy/Usopp
Topic: Storms
Setting/spoilers: Anytime after Enies Lobby. Though spoiler-wise it could be anytime at all, really.
Summary: Usopp thinks he can’t be in love with Luffy.
ETA: Now crossposted to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dualcaptains, the Luffy/Usopp comm.
ETA II: Changed the title.
"Love is like a hurricane," Sanji sometimes proudly proclaimed, and despite his silly-looking heart-eyed spinning, Usopp felt he could well be right. Certainly love often seemed like that in stories – emerging from nowhere with great force, tossing people around, making them lose their footing and turning everything upside down. Much like a storm at sea, when you might slip on the wet deck and careen headfirst into the strong rubbery arms and wild laughter of your captain; when all you could do was to cling on for dear life.
But when Usopp thought about it, it wasn’t really like that at all. Luffy was more like a well-built ship that always had the wind at its back. He swept you up and took you far away, but there was always strong, solid wood underneath. Luffy didn't make you lose your footing. He was the footing.
So it probably wasn't love, then, Usopp thought as he and Luffy sat huddled together under a blanket – in their underwear, teeth chattering - next to the kitchen stove after the storm had passed. Sanji was making them hot toddy while loudly bitching them out for being careless idiots, the ship was swaying quite gently, Luffy’s hair was tickling his ear and Usopp’s cheeks were hot even before he was given his hot drink and gratefully took the first sips. Then he joined Luffy in pressing their luck and trying to cadge cookies out of Sanji.
Not Love-the-Hurricane - only something that was there, there always, as omnipresent as the sea, as constant as the waves; as wonderful as Adventure and closer, even, than Luffy's skin right now, only a good deal warmer. He didn’t know what to call it, but he felt that was okay. Even for him, words weren’t always important.
Word count: 298
Rating: G
Pairing: Luffy/Usopp
Topic: Storms
Setting/spoilers: Anytime after Enies Lobby. Though spoiler-wise it could be anytime at all, really.
Summary: Usopp thinks he can’t be in love with Luffy.
ETA: Now crossposted to
dualcaptains, the Luffy/Usopp comm.ETA II: Changed the title.
"Love is like a hurricane," Sanji sometimes proudly proclaimed, and despite his silly-looking heart-eyed spinning, Usopp felt he could well be right. Certainly love often seemed like that in stories – emerging from nowhere with great force, tossing people around, making them lose their footing and turning everything upside down. Much like a storm at sea, when you might slip on the wet deck and careen headfirst into the strong rubbery arms and wild laughter of your captain; when all you could do was to cling on for dear life.
But when Usopp thought about it, it wasn’t really like that at all. Luffy was more like a well-built ship that always had the wind at its back. He swept you up and took you far away, but there was always strong, solid wood underneath. Luffy didn't make you lose your footing. He was the footing.
So it probably wasn't love, then, Usopp thought as he and Luffy sat huddled together under a blanket – in their underwear, teeth chattering - next to the kitchen stove after the storm had passed. Sanji was making them hot toddy while loudly bitching them out for being careless idiots, the ship was swaying quite gently, Luffy’s hair was tickling his ear and Usopp’s cheeks were hot even before he was given his hot drink and gratefully took the first sips. Then he joined Luffy in pressing their luck and trying to cadge cookies out of Sanji.
Not Love-the-Hurricane - only something that was there, there always, as omnipresent as the sea, as constant as the waves; as wonderful as Adventure and closer, even, than Luffy's skin right now, only a good deal warmer. He didn’t know what to call it, but he felt that was okay. Even for him, words weren’t always important.
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Date: 2010-08-26 07:29 pm (UTC)I love these two together ^_^
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Date: 2010-08-27 06:43 am (UTC)As I know you like nitpicks, Luffy didn't make you loose your footing.
It should be lose rather than loose.
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Date: 2010-08-27 07:12 am (UTC)I'm very happy if it feels authentic!
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