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onepieceyaoi100Title: Love
Word Count: 239.
Rating: PG.
Pairing: Sanji --> Zoro.
Topic: Edges.
Love had edges, Sanji knew.
If you held it wrong, it cut you open, made you bleed, worked its way under your skin, twisted like razors in your gut. Sharp and painful, like hunger pangs but not for food.
If you held it right, it sliced through obstacles, cut away the dark places in your heart, slashed holes in the thick veil of loneliness that surrounds everyone. Full of purpose and wonder and life, like a boy setting out to find a sea that never was but had to somehow be.
And sometimes, if you clenched love in your fist instead of trying to hold it or use it or let it go, it would explode into a thousand glittering blades that sliced you to ribbons and left you to dry in the uncaring sun like strips of beef jerky. Sometimes you put yourself back together, whole but scarred, sometimes you dried up and got tough and mean, hard to chew, hard to swallow, hard to make bleed again.
The sun poured down on Sanji as he watched three shining blades trace patterns in the air, invisible ciphers of determination and love held the right way but pointed the wrong direction, away from Sanji, towards the man who had seen the shining of Zoro’s soul and let him live and the shadow of the girl who gave him a reason to.
Sanji turned away and clenched his fists tight.
Word Count: 239.
Rating: PG.
Pairing: Sanji --> Zoro.
Topic: Edges.
Love had edges, Sanji knew.
If you held it wrong, it cut you open, made you bleed, worked its way under your skin, twisted like razors in your gut. Sharp and painful, like hunger pangs but not for food.
If you held it right, it sliced through obstacles, cut away the dark places in your heart, slashed holes in the thick veil of loneliness that surrounds everyone. Full of purpose and wonder and life, like a boy setting out to find a sea that never was but had to somehow be.
And sometimes, if you clenched love in your fist instead of trying to hold it or use it or let it go, it would explode into a thousand glittering blades that sliced you to ribbons and left you to dry in the uncaring sun like strips of beef jerky. Sometimes you put yourself back together, whole but scarred, sometimes you dried up and got tough and mean, hard to chew, hard to swallow, hard to make bleed again.
The sun poured down on Sanji as he watched three shining blades trace patterns in the air, invisible ciphers of determination and love held the right way but pointed the wrong direction, away from Sanji, towards the man who had seen the shining of Zoro’s soul and let him live and the shadow of the girl who gave him a reason to.
Sanji turned away and clenched his fists tight.
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Date: 2006-06-20 04:26 pm (UTC)why??
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Date: 2006-06-21 12:27 pm (UTC)uhm ... thanx ...
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Date: 2006-06-20 08:47 pm (UTC)Uhuuh, I can but join the Wailing Club ;__;
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Date: 2006-06-20 09:53 pm (UTC)Aww, so sad but sweet at the same time. I love your descriptions of love being held in right and wrong ways.
invisible ciphers of determination and love *le sigh*
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Date: 2006-06-21 05:02 am (UTC)Your compliments don't make me happy~! *Chopperdance*
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Date: 2008-10-22 02:25 pm (UTC)I loved this drabble. The metaphor was sad but beautiful.