It Washes Me Away (PG) Luffy/Usopp
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onepieceyaoi100Title: It Washes Me Away
Rating: PG
Word Count: 325 (Every time I look at this it just gets longer. FAIL.)
Pairing: Luffy/Usopp
Topic: Song Lyrics
Notes: I randomly selected this song and it started as Usopp POV but it rebelled. Then I realized I couldn’t think of much LuSopp written from Luffy’s perspective and decided to try that. Now I know why there isn’t much: because it’s hard. -_-; Luffy’s thought process is beyond that of ordinary mortals and should stay that way.
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When asked if he loved his crew, Luffy would say yes, of course. And possibly add that every captain should love his crew, the Pirate King most of all because he should be the best captain.
So he wasn’t worried when something inside him said he loved Usopp. Of course he loved Usopp. Love was good, love was right, love was what he should feel.
But when Sanji talked about a special kind of love… that seemed to fit only Usopp. Which concerned him.
A captain shouldn’t love one member of his crew more, or in a different way. But… even though he was happy when his crew was happy, and he wanted all of them to accomplish their dreams just as badly as he wanted to accomplish his own…
He didn’t long with the same intensity for anyone else in the crew to keep moving always, never stop running and jumping and tinkering and reacting. He didn’t want to pin anyone else down, freeze them in one frame forever.
He didn’t understand anyone else when they talked in their sleep. When every word was nonsense but somehow made sense anyway…
No one else made him feel so… clean. Freshly washed as if he’d never noticed the salt sprinkled on his skin, weakening him, until Usopp came by and washed everything away with a story or plan or explosion. He’d never realized how singular he’d felt in his unstoppable joy for life until he met this boy.
So when his sharpshooter was shaking in his arms, frantically babbling that it couldn’t be love, shouldn’t be love, if it were love they’d have to worry about the consequences, if they were in love what would the crew think and what if it didn’t work and what if they were wrong and oh gods, Kaya…
…Luffy had nothing to say. All he could do was tighten his arms and reassure them both that it would be ok.
Counting Crows - Anna Begins (DOWNLOAD) lyrics:
Bold is the more direct inspiration, though I pulled abstractly from a lot of it.
My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned.
My friend implores me, "For one time only,
make an exception." I am not worried.
Wrap her up in a package of lies,
Send her off to a coconut island.
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned
with the status of my emotions.
"Oh," she says, "you're changing."
We're always changing...
It does not bother me to say this isn't love.
Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love.
And I guess I'm gonna have to live with that.
But I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey,
Or something in between,
And I can always change my name
If that's what you mean.
My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."
But I am not really worried, I am not overly concerned.
You try to tell yourself the things you try to tell yourself
To make yourself forget. To make yourself forget. I am not worried.
"If it's love," she said, "then we're gonna have to think about the consequences."
But she can't stop shaking and I can't stop touching her and...
This time when kindness falls like rain
It washes her away. And Anna begins to change her mind.
"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days," she says.
And I'm not ready for this sort of thing.
But I'm not gonna break and I'm not gonna worry about it anymore.
I'm not gonna bend, and I'm not gonna break. And I'm not going to worry about it anymore.
It seems like I should say, "As long as this is love..."
But it's not all that easy, so maybe I should
Snap her up in a butterfly net and pin her down on a photograph album.
I am not worried 'cause I've done this sort of thing before.
But then I start to think about the consequences,
And I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and...
This time when kindness falls like rain
It washes me away. And Anna begins to change my mind.
And everytime she sneezes I believe it's love and,
Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing.
She's talking in her sleep.
It's keeping me awake. And Anna begins to toss and turn.
And every word is nonsense but I understand and,
Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing.
Her kindness bangs a gong,
It's moving me along. And Anna begins to fade away.
It's chasing me away. She disappears, and
Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 325 (Every time I look at this it just gets longer. FAIL.)
Pairing: Luffy/Usopp
Topic: Song Lyrics
Notes: I randomly selected this song and it started as Usopp POV but it rebelled. Then I realized I couldn’t think of much LuSopp written from Luffy’s perspective and decided to try that. Now I know why there isn’t much: because it’s hard. -_-; Luffy’s thought process is beyond that of ordinary mortals and should stay that way.
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When asked if he loved his crew, Luffy would say yes, of course. And possibly add that every captain should love his crew, the Pirate King most of all because he should be the best captain.
So he wasn’t worried when something inside him said he loved Usopp. Of course he loved Usopp. Love was good, love was right, love was what he should feel.
But when Sanji talked about a special kind of love… that seemed to fit only Usopp. Which concerned him.
A captain shouldn’t love one member of his crew more, or in a different way. But… even though he was happy when his crew was happy, and he wanted all of them to accomplish their dreams just as badly as he wanted to accomplish his own…
He didn’t long with the same intensity for anyone else in the crew to keep moving always, never stop running and jumping and tinkering and reacting. He didn’t want to pin anyone else down, freeze them in one frame forever.
He didn’t understand anyone else when they talked in their sleep. When every word was nonsense but somehow made sense anyway…
No one else made him feel so… clean. Freshly washed as if he’d never noticed the salt sprinkled on his skin, weakening him, until Usopp came by and washed everything away with a story or plan or explosion. He’d never realized how singular he’d felt in his unstoppable joy for life until he met this boy.
So when his sharpshooter was shaking in his arms, frantically babbling that it couldn’t be love, shouldn’t be love, if it were love they’d have to worry about the consequences, if they were in love what would the crew think and what if it didn’t work and what if they were wrong and oh gods, Kaya…
…Luffy had nothing to say. All he could do was tighten his arms and reassure them both that it would be ok.
Counting Crows - Anna Begins (DOWNLOAD) lyrics:
Bold is the more direct inspiration, though I pulled abstractly from a lot of it.
My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned.
My friend implores me, "For one time only,
make an exception." I am not worried.
Wrap her up in a package of lies,
Send her off to a coconut island.
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned
with the status of my emotions.
"Oh," she says, "you're changing."
We're always changing...
It does not bother me to say this isn't love.
Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love.
And I guess I'm gonna have to live with that.
But I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey,
Or something in between,
And I can always change my name
If that's what you mean.
My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."
But I am not really worried, I am not overly concerned.
You try to tell yourself the things you try to tell yourself
To make yourself forget. To make yourself forget. I am not worried.
"If it's love," she said, "then we're gonna have to think about the consequences."
But she can't stop shaking and I can't stop touching her and...
This time when kindness falls like rain
It washes her away. And Anna begins to change her mind.
"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days," she says.
And I'm not ready for this sort of thing.
But I'm not gonna break and I'm not gonna worry about it anymore.
I'm not gonna bend, and I'm not gonna break. And I'm not going to worry about it anymore.
It seems like I should say, "As long as this is love..."
But it's not all that easy, so maybe I should
Snap her up in a butterfly net and pin her down on a photograph album.
I am not worried 'cause I've done this sort of thing before.
But then I start to think about the consequences,
And I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and...
This time when kindness falls like rain
It washes me away. And Anna begins to change my mind.
And everytime she sneezes I believe it's love and,
Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing.
She's talking in her sleep.
It's keeping me awake. And Anna begins to toss and turn.
And every word is nonsense but I understand and,
Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing.
Her kindness bangs a gong,
It's moving me along. And Anna begins to fade away.
It's chasing me away. She disappears, and
Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing.
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Date: 2006-10-04 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 06:43 am (UTC)Glad you think it came out well though! (and I have to ask... is there a reason there are sometimes one or more 'b's at the end of your replies? ^^; )
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Date: 2006-10-04 07:29 am (UTC)d ^___^ b
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Date: 2006-10-04 07:33 am (UTC)THAT'S SO ADORABLE! I shall now covet all past and future b's bestowed by you.
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Date: 2006-10-04 07:40 am (UTC)(Robin thumbs-up. XD)
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Date: 2006-10-04 07:48 am (UTC)or Robin hands... kinky*I shall sleep well tonight, I can already tell! *snuggles*
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Date: 2006-10-04 07:54 am (UTC)Niiiiiiight!
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Date: 2006-10-04 05:25 am (UTC)I really really liked this. Luffy not wanting to love any of them differently and Usopp stil hung up on Kaya is just so perfect to me.
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Date: 2006-10-04 06:48 am (UTC)This was going to be a happier Luffy-coming-to-terms-with-loving-someone-in-that-way fic, but... there were just too many things to work through first. Glad the character reactions worked for you. ^^
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Date: 2006-10-04 07:45 am (UTC)And dirty thoughts are always ok. ^^ I will admit I thought about changing my word choice there but didn't find anything else I liked as much, so you're not alone in your sexual interpretations (could you ever be, in this fandom?).
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Date: 2006-10-04 08:25 am (UTC)♥
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Date: 2006-10-04 11:09 pm (UTC)Thanks for the coment. ♥
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Date: 2006-10-04 07:48 pm (UTC)sequelno subject
Date: 2006-10-04 11:13 pm (UTC)You can take any happy LuSopp fic and decide it's the sequel! *shrugs* There may be more from me, I'm enjoying my explorations into new pairings (even if most of them have been adapted from ZoSan ideas @_@).
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Date: 2006-10-07 05:07 pm (UTC)Sounds fine to me. Ideas are ideas. They can work for a lot of different things.
Why do I babble on forever at you? Honestly.
Date: 2006-10-04 11:28 pm (UTC)..."how it's something not quite innocent but as far as possible from tainted".... YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO USE LINES MORE DESCRIPTIVELY POETIC IN THE COMMENTARY THAN ARE FOUND IN THE DRABBLE, YOU UNDERMINING WHORE! Save lines like that for your own writing... or replying to mettathron, or chibi or something. =P
...Luffy with salt reminds you of a snail?! YOU WANT LUFFY TO SHRIVEL UP AND DIE?!?!? ;__________; But no, thank you for your lovely compliments and the thought of Sanji giving "the talk".
Sanji: "When a man wants to fuck another man... he has... different sorts of feelings around that man. These feelings often show up as tendencies towards extreme violence."
Luffy: "But I don'wanna hurt him." @_@
Sanji: "Oh... then maybe you're just friends."
Luffy: o.ô
I'm glad to see I'm writing more as well. ^^ Being back in a college environment has done good things for my creativity levels... plus... ya know... not working 8 hours a day at a desk job does good things too.
and more sleep, and I've picked up some of the anime episodes again, and introduced one of my friends to the anime, and he tolerantly listens to my yaoi theories, and... yeah ^___________^Oh good. Then I'll continue.
Date: 2006-10-05 02:08 am (UTC)hotterjust as bad! ...He finally got fed up with all the meat disappearing and is getting ready to switch to an alternate food source. OH NOES!Poor Sanji and his messed up views on love. I wonder what happens to his brain when he later tells Nami-san he loves her. ...And Luffy totally does want to hear Usopp scream and beg, don't make him lie like that. =P
Isn't it great? It's even reached the point where he won't flinch (too much) at the weirder pairings and will take screencaps of possible Zoro/Sanji moments to share with me! I LOVE GEEKY GAMER/ANIME GUYS! THEY HAVE SUCH HIGH TOLERANCES FOR WEIRD SHIT!Well, I'd never refuse to do something good for your body, so...
Date: 2006-10-05 02:34 am (UTC)Interesting point. He has the remarkable ability to multitask normal!Sanji, fanboy!Sanji, Mr Prince, and SuperUke!Sanji. And can switch between them whenever the need arises! Between this and the recent chapters Sanji needs to start getting more credit (hopefully expressed in more topping and generally winning).
THEY ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. TO FIND ONE YOU MAY BE SHUNNED OR GLARED AT BY MANY A BOY. UMMMM... MOST OF THEM THAT ARE NOT ZOSAN, ZOLU, OR... I THINK HE ACCEPTS ACE/SMOKER BECAUSE IT MAKES ME HAPPY. XD IT STILL MAKES ME HAPPY THAT I HAVE SOMEONE I ACTUALLY KNOW WHOM I CAN SQUEE TO... AND SEND SCREENCAPS.YOU'D RATHER EAT UNHEALTHY LUFFY CHIPS AND YOU KNOW IT.
Date: 2006-10-05 08:00 pm (UTC)And yeah. Sanji should just continue to have lots and lots of sex. In all kinds of positions... though I personally wouldn't mind if some topping replaced some of the bottoming. I know, blasphemous. (GET ON THAT, ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO MAY EVENTUALLY RUN ACROSS THIS!)
YOUR LOSS THEN, LAWL! AND I'LL WORK ON THAT, I SUBTILY MENTIONED THE FOURSOME AND GOT A ODD LOOK AND A SHRUG. OBVIOUSLY I NEED TO LOBBY MORE, AND POINT OUT THE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF HOTNESS OOZING OUT OF THEM (both abstractly and literally XD).no subject
Date: 2006-10-05 08:26 pm (UTC)Thank you! Stomach fluttering is fantastical and everyone can always use more of it (the happy kind at least).
...I keep getting distracted by your dancing bunny...
I need to watch the rest of Ouran one of these days...But yes, so glad you enjoyed!