onepieceyaoi100 | First pairing of this ilk and AU as well...eek!

Title: A gift to manhood
Words: 298
Topic:lemon
Pairing: Usopp/Franky
Rating: pg13
Notes: AU…modern setting. Also first time with this pairing. Oh behold the melodrama. My apologies for any suckiness.

Usopp glanced casually at the mans arms as he handed him the wrench. The smears of grease added a glint to their massive girth. Franky could probably lift the car he was working on with one arm. Incredible.

“You’ve made your decision then? Are you sure you don’t want to work with me in the garage after high school?”

“I like working with you…a lot, too much actually. I love that you can take these broken down lemons and make them into perfectly functioning works of art…” Usopp realized he was about to start rambling and strengthened his resolve. “But I want to go create things on my own and see the world…have my own adventures.”

Franky finished the last few turns of the wrench and stood, wiping his hands across a rag hanging from his belt.

“Oh?” Franky struck a pose and Usopp felt a wavier. He wanted to run in those arms…clutch at his back but he held himself back.

Yet Usopp suddenly found himself in those arms anyway...as tears ran down the strong mans face and onto Usopps shoulder.

“Franky?” This was just a friend saying goodbye, right?

“Your journey of manhood…it’s just touching right? It would be wrong to try to keep you here right?” His arm trailed down the other mans back, not caring about the grease transferring to his friends clothes. His hand trailed down to Usopps waist a little more suggestively.

“Then I’ll give you something…so you will hurry back.”

Usopp pressed against him in a kiss. He wasn’t going to let this gift go to waste.

It wasn’t till a few hours later that Usopp learned that Franky had intended to him the car he had just finished. This journey to manhood…Usopp thought he was well on his way already.