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onepieceyaoi100Title:: Work-Related Stress
Rating: PG13, for business-like mentions of violence (this is CP9 we're talking about, not the Salvation Army)
Word Count: 299
Pairing: Kaku, Lucci
Topic: Bad Company
Summary: Because a busy schedule of undercover missions and assassinations isn't hectic enough...now Lucci is going to impose this on his partner. (CP9 stuff, humour, neither of which should be mixed but there you go...)
Work-Related Stress
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Twenty-four hours ago, Lucci and Kaku had been burying a body in a basement. Back at Enies Lobby, they were looking at an all-night cram session to prepare for their next undercover assignment, starting tomorrow. There was no rest for the wicked, but Kaku knew the good guys could have used a break...
He headed towards the percolator. Lucci was already sitting at the rec-room's table, Water 7 file in one hand and coffee in another.
"Shipwrights...could be worse." Kaku poured himself a cup, added sugar and glanced through his own folder as he stirred. "The hard part will be getting near the target. This Iceburg knows he's in our sights. He's being careful." A long-term assignment of months, maybe more, to learn a trade and gain the mark's trust. Seemed like a waste of their talents, but orders were orders.
"He's apparently got a soft spot for 'original characters'. That might be my ticket into his inner circle." Kaku could do 'original'. He read the next page as he sat opposite Lucci. "His foremen have to be tough, skilled...that's easy, but we have to catch his interest, too. How will you-..."
Kaku stared, cup halfway to his mouth.
"Lucci...why is there a pigeon on your shoulder?"
"My name is Hattori!"
Kaku spilled his coffee.
"I'm a carrrrrier-pigeon habituated to Zoans. I'm part of Lucci's coooover on this mission."
Kaku absently blew on his scalded fingers. He hadn't known his stone-cold killer of a partner could do that. Project his voice. To a pigeon.
"Lucci...the file said original. That...might qualify as insane."
Lucci, still reading, sipped his coffee; the bird bobbed its head at Kaku. "What doo-ooo you mean?"
Kaku stared at the pigeon. "...This is going to be a long mission."
"Tell me about it," cooed Hattori.
END
Rating: PG13, for business-like mentions of violence (this is CP9 we're talking about, not the Salvation Army)
Word Count: 299
Pairing: Kaku, Lucci
Topic: Bad Company
Summary: Because a busy schedule of undercover missions and assassinations isn't hectic enough...now Lucci is going to impose this on his partner. (CP9 stuff, humour, neither of which should be mixed but there you go...)
Work-Related Stress
---
Twenty-four hours ago, Lucci and Kaku had been burying a body in a basement. Back at Enies Lobby, they were looking at an all-night cram session to prepare for their next undercover assignment, starting tomorrow. There was no rest for the wicked, but Kaku knew the good guys could have used a break...
He headed towards the percolator. Lucci was already sitting at the rec-room's table, Water 7 file in one hand and coffee in another.
"Shipwrights...could be worse." Kaku poured himself a cup, added sugar and glanced through his own folder as he stirred. "The hard part will be getting near the target. This Iceburg knows he's in our sights. He's being careful." A long-term assignment of months, maybe more, to learn a trade and gain the mark's trust. Seemed like a waste of their talents, but orders were orders.
"He's apparently got a soft spot for 'original characters'. That might be my ticket into his inner circle." Kaku could do 'original'. He read the next page as he sat opposite Lucci. "His foremen have to be tough, skilled...that's easy, but we have to catch his interest, too. How will you-..."
Kaku stared, cup halfway to his mouth.
"Lucci...why is there a pigeon on your shoulder?"
"My name is Hattori!"
Kaku spilled his coffee.
"I'm a carrrrrier-pigeon habituated to Zoans. I'm part of Lucci's coooover on this mission."
Kaku absently blew on his scalded fingers. He hadn't known his stone-cold killer of a partner could do that. Project his voice. To a pigeon.
"Lucci...the file said original. That...might qualify as insane."
Lucci, still reading, sipped his coffee; the bird bobbed its head at Kaku. "What doo-ooo you mean?"
Kaku stared at the pigeon. "...This is going to be a long mission."
"Tell me about it," cooed Hattori.
END
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Date: 2006-12-02 03:08 am (UTC)I
♥
YOU.
I LOVE YOU MORE WITH EVERYTHING YOU WRITE. IT'S HUMOROUS BUT STILL IN-CHARACTER LUCCI. IMAGINE HIS LEVEL OF INDIGNITY AT HAVING TO DO THIS. YET HE'S PROBABLY QUIRKING A LIP JUST SLIGHTLY (inside of course) AT KAKU'S STUNNED AMAZEMENT. XDDD
IT'S A PIGEON. THE SHEER RIDICULOUS OF IT JUST HIT ME AGAIN. AND IT'S LUCCI THROWING HIS VOICE AND PUTTING TONE IN IT. WUT?!?!? (I've only read the manga up to Water 7 and the actual implimentation of this plan hadn't really gone through any mental imaging. It's just... XDD )
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Date: 2006-12-04 05:22 am (UTC)Yeah, Lucci's the kind of guy who'd sacrifice even dignity to The Mission, but I bet that still...annoyed him a little. Ah, the look on Kaku's face helped though. And annoying Jyabura before he left helped too ^_^ 'DAMMIT LUCCI DON'T TALK TO ME THROUGH THAT %*^%$ BIRD!!' - a bit like Paulie, later :P Confuse and confound your enemy, and if all else fails, annoy the heck outta them.
'the actual implimentation of this plan hadn't really gone through any mental imaging'
Same here. Lucci started off as 'weird ventriloquist guy', going abruptly to 'scary as hell assassin guy'. Then recently I reread an older chapter with undercover Lucci talking through a pigeon and just the thought of him having to put up with that- well, hence the drabble :P Glad you liked it!
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Date: 2006-12-02 03:43 am (UTC)But you hit it right there! XD GRAH! Perfection!
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