I utterly fail at presents.
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ptps, since there seems to be a lot of suck in her life right now. I know it's short and stupid and doesn't really make a difference, but hey, it's the longest and most coherent Luffy/Usopp fic I've ever written and it's vaguely fluffy. Not crossposted unless I get permission from the person it's gifted to. Crossposted to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
onepieceyaoi.
Title: Foolish
Series: One Piece.
One Piece: Not mine.
Word Count: 375.
Rating: PG-15? for implications.
Summary: Usopp thinks too goddamn much.
It was slow, and warm, and sweet, on a gilded late afternoon with rich thick sunlight pouring through the porthole and turning the dust in the air into flickering golden lights. Canvas-pale limbs wrapped around the slim mast of Usopp’s torso, tangled impossibly, vibrated with tension, and then relaxed, going damply limp, almost melting. Calloused, stained fingers brushed sweat-sodden black bangs away and traced the scar below Luffy’s fluttering eyelashes with a thumb, as if trying to remind their owner of what he had just done.
Usopp worried constantly; it was part of his nature. His mind saw situations and immediately started looking for possible dangers, things to flee and hide from. This arrangement wasn’t precisely dangerous, but it wasn’t safe either. His heart said one thing, his head another, and his gut something else entirely.
When it was happening, when Luffy hooked his thumbs in his shorts and grinned at him that way and the storeroom somehow became mysteriously unpopulated at just the right time, his brain shut down and was mercifully quiet for once. But after, fear and doubt usually gnawed into him with a vengeance, as if making up for the brief time they had spent locked away. Even now, he felt acutely conscious of Merry’s presence and the vague feeling that he was cheating on the girl who had loved him enough to give the ship to him.
Luffy smiled, broad and easy, eyes still closed. His face was blithely absent of concerns, like whether this was wrong, what tomorrow would bring, misgivings of favoritism and girls back home and discovery. It just looked like bliss, pure and simple.
Nami half-joked that the reason Luffy was never afraid of anything was because he was too stupid to realize he was in danger. Usopp wasn’t sure if it was foolishness or bravery, but he wanted it, whatever it was, especially now.
Luffy’s hands slid up Usopp’s hips, gently rested in the small of his back, and then gave a squeeze, the most miniscule and understated of hugs.
If this is foolish, let’s be fools together.
Usopp sighed, dropped his head to Luffy’s chest, and let his guilt and worry and almost imperceptible tension drain away like rainwater soaking into the accepting earth.
ptps, since there seems to be a lot of suck in her life right now. I know it's short and stupid and doesn't really make a difference, but hey, it's the longest and most coherent Luffy/Usopp fic I've ever written and it's vaguely fluffy. onepieceyaoi.Title: Foolish
Series: One Piece.
One Piece: Not mine.
Word Count: 375.
Rating: PG-15? for implications.
Summary: Usopp thinks too goddamn much.
It was slow, and warm, and sweet, on a gilded late afternoon with rich thick sunlight pouring through the porthole and turning the dust in the air into flickering golden lights. Canvas-pale limbs wrapped around the slim mast of Usopp’s torso, tangled impossibly, vibrated with tension, and then relaxed, going damply limp, almost melting. Calloused, stained fingers brushed sweat-sodden black bangs away and traced the scar below Luffy’s fluttering eyelashes with a thumb, as if trying to remind their owner of what he had just done.
Usopp worried constantly; it was part of his nature. His mind saw situations and immediately started looking for possible dangers, things to flee and hide from. This arrangement wasn’t precisely dangerous, but it wasn’t safe either. His heart said one thing, his head another, and his gut something else entirely.
When it was happening, when Luffy hooked his thumbs in his shorts and grinned at him that way and the storeroom somehow became mysteriously unpopulated at just the right time, his brain shut down and was mercifully quiet for once. But after, fear and doubt usually gnawed into him with a vengeance, as if making up for the brief time they had spent locked away. Even now, he felt acutely conscious of Merry’s presence and the vague feeling that he was cheating on the girl who had loved him enough to give the ship to him.
Luffy smiled, broad and easy, eyes still closed. His face was blithely absent of concerns, like whether this was wrong, what tomorrow would bring, misgivings of favoritism and girls back home and discovery. It just looked like bliss, pure and simple.
Nami half-joked that the reason Luffy was never afraid of anything was because he was too stupid to realize he was in danger. Usopp wasn’t sure if it was foolishness or bravery, but he wanted it, whatever it was, especially now.
Luffy’s hands slid up Usopp’s hips, gently rested in the small of his back, and then gave a squeeze, the most miniscule and understated of hugs.
If this is foolish, let’s be fools together.
Usopp sighed, dropped his head to Luffy’s chest, and let his guilt and worry and almost imperceptible tension drain away like rainwater soaking into the accepting earth.
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:29 pm (UTC)I think you've just summed up the reason why I love the Luffy/Usopp pairing so much. The first paragraph I kept rereading because it was just so - it's like... I don't know but when I read it I felt like I was watching different batches and types of honey mixing together. Weird description, but it's that kind of imagery I got, lol.
I am not making sense.But nggh. ;__; Thank you so much. This was really sweet and... and just daaw and sad and squeeble and gfjdrtjaerh. T__T And yes dammmit you're free to cross-post, it's your work, and it's awesome, and I shouldn't put limits on this.
*hearts, sniffles* ♥
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Date: 2006-07-23 05:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-23 04:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-23 05:47 pm (UTC)for liking my inconsistent metaphors, I should have stuck with the ship metaphor for the whole fic but it seemed awkward oh noes. And I'm full of words--some days they even spill out of my head in something resembling order.(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-23 11:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-24 02:19 am (UTC)Well...I like love. ^_^
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Date: 2006-07-24 05:11 am (UTC)yesnomaybeI really like serious Luffy/Usopp >_>...(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-26 03:16 pm (UTC)This was so sweet you've left me wanting to read more. Just have to find the time.
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Date: 2006-07-26 07:08 pm (UTC)