Everyone Has Their Limits

[lacquerdragon.livejournal.com]

Title: Everyone Has Their Limits
Rating: light PG
Pairing: Luffy/Zoro
Word Count: 186
Topic: Territory
Notes: Hand-counted, so it might not be totally accurate.

Early on, Zoro had established his boundaries with the rest of the crew. No unnecessary touching, no stealing his swords, no stealing his booze, no swiping food off his plate, and absolutely no stepping on his face during naps.

As the Mugiwara number grew, Zoro found it necessary to add more rules. The enforcement of such, however, grew increasingly lax. No unnecessary molestation, no pantsing, no using his swords as some kind of fiendish jungle gym, and absolutely no tongue-kissing during naps.

One morning, though, he woke up and discovered that he was pants-less. The captain, snuggled fluidly around him, was currently breaking more than five of the swordsman's Rules to Live By. Zoro considered shoving him off, turning to face the wall, or bellowing; he decided against all of these courses of action, and instead slung a protective arm around the rubber man's shoulders.

The little tiger in his head was lolling on a sun-warmed rock, grinning lazily at the antics of the little monkey in the trees above. If he's going to invade my territory, the tiger told himself, he better bring some booze next time.

Comments

[fenm.livejournal.com]

Awwww... cute! Luffy gets away with so much that no one else can, especially when it comes to Zoro. ^_^
BTW, in the last paragraph: "The little tiger in his head was lolling on a sun-warmed rick," "Rock", ne?

[lacquerdragon.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ^_^ When one doesn't get a beta reader, things pass one by like that.

And thanks for the review!

[yuki-kokoro.livejournal.com]

Lol, nice rules Zoro. And so handy and useful since you let Luffy break all of them. XD No unnecessary molestation makes me wonder what qualifies as necessary molestation and the first two times I saw "fiendish jungle gym" I totally read "fetish jungle gym" and was confused... but possibly intruiged. ^_^

Very cute visual overall and a nice Zoro/Luffy moment.

[crystal-chan.livejournal.com]

Hehe, no rules apply to Luffy, not even Zoro's. XD I liked the little bit at the end with the tiger and the monkey, it's very cute. X3

[lacquerdragon.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And jeepers, it's great that you think it's cute, because that's what I was going for. o_o But I was worried because it didn't sound fantastically cute, but you said it did, so... that's good!