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Salmon Pink ([personal profile] salmon_pink) wrote2008-08-31 12:16 am

(One Piece) Minuet

Title: Minuet
Fandom: One Piece
Pairing: Brook/Zoro/Sanji
Rating: R
Words: 1355
Timeline: Post-Thriller Bark
Notes: Voyeurism. For [livejournal.com profile] 50_smutlets, prompt "music".
Summary: A gift, from somebody who knows what happened.



Zoro didn’t like owing favours. He considered them a weakness, something for the enemy to exploit. Potential for blackmail and debts, and Nami’s smirking face always swam into his mind, with her calculations and her interest.

There were some favours, however, that were worth the sacrifice.

Getting the love cook to stop staring at him was one such example.

There shouldn’t have been any way Sanji would really believe Zoro would just stand back and let him put himself on the line for Luffy’s sake. Sanji should never have thought, for even a second, that Zoro would allow it, would allow Sanji to take his place.

Apparently Sanji did believe it though, because he’d been shooting Zoro weird looks ever since they’d left Thriller Bark, dark looks that made his face appear drawn, and he always averted his eyes when Zoro turned to glare back.

Whether it was anger or jealousy or whatever the hell else that kept the idiot cook up at night, Zoro really didn’t like it being directed at him.

Sanji didn’t know what had happened, and that was the way it was going to stay. For everyone’s sake.

Brook was older than them, had been even before he’d died. Fifty years alone, but he still was apparently as shrewd as his age would suggest, as experienced. He reminded Zoro of Robin, with his weighty silences that clashed terribly with his Luffy-like exuberance at the dinner table.

Zoro would catch him, when Brook wasn’t burying his face in his plate or belching, staring back and forth between Sanji and Zoro’s own face, and knowing someone else caught those looks meant that they were definitely real and not his imagination, and that just made him more pissed off.

He’d challenge Sanji, but he had no desire to even bring up the subject.

Not to mention he’d strained his body far more than ever before at Thriller Bark, and there was no way he was letting the damn cook get any kind of advantage over him.

He had been training specifically for the purpose of forcing himself back to his best and beyond when Brook had quietly sat beside him.

“You wish he’d stop staring at you,” Brook had said simply, and Zoro’s attention had been caught.

He’d given Brook the requested five minutes, before setting off to find them.

He’d almost forgotten what it was like to walk into a room and not have Sanji’s gaze turn to him, the temperature of the room dropping around them in a way that had nothing to do with their usual fire.

He didn’t know what Brook had done. A part of him didn’t really want to know.

Whatever it was, Sanji’s eyes remained closed, sprawled across the couch, and there was a smile on his face that wasn’t troubled or false or bitter, one that Zoro hadn’t seen since they’d left the rubble of Moria’s mansion.

Brook was humming, and it blended with the notes of the violin tucked under his chin that filled the room.

“He’s been waiting for you,” Brook said quietly, and Zoro might have wondered at that, but Sanji’s eyes fluttered open and fixed on him, and Zoro was completely distracted.

There wasn’t any of the cold silence that had been in his gaze of late, nor any of the usual irritation that usually simmered between them. It was something else, something lazy and serene and deep, and it felt wrong in a way that Zoro didn’t understand.

Sanji wasn’t angry at him in any way, shape or form. It was as if he had been waiting for Zoro, only any waiting on his part was usually accompanied by insults and annoyed little gestures and chain-smoking.

The look in his eyes was like a welcome.

Something in his stomach lurched, and Zoro wasn’t sure what was going on, but Sanji was still staring at him like that, and the sound of violin was surrounding him, and Brook was still humming.

Zoro took a step forward.

“Don’t mind me,” Brook murmured.

Zoro didn’t.

There hadn’t been time, not since Water 7, and he could almost admit to missing the taste of nicotine on his lips, the feeling of Sanji moving under him. There was none of their usual rush, none of the familiar sensation of trying to get at every part of Sanji he could reach without ripping the prissy bastard’s clothes. Just Sanji surging up against him, arms reaching for him in an instant, tongues sliding over each other, hungry for it as Zoro leant over him, and his body gave an insistent throb at the position, lust and awkwardness of still-sore muscles, but Sanji only wrapped his legs around Zoro’s waist when he settled over him more comfortably.

It was lazy exploration, the hundred kisses before never quite enough, as if they’d never taken the time to really enjoy it, and the violin throbbed along with Zoro’s pulse, the pace catching and increasing so subtly that he barely caught it over the noise Sanji was making against his mouth.

His hands were no longer content to brace themselves against the couch cushions, and they seemed to move of their own accord. Sliding up, framing Sanji’s face, one thumb following the curve of his eyebrow, but Sanji didn’t flinch away. Only undulated beneath him as Zoro’s fingers ran through his hair, and it distantly occurred to Zoro that he’d never touched Sanji that way before, almost like he was petting him, discovering him. He kissed as the corner of Sanji’s mouth, let his lips and his instincts guide him as he kissed at Sanji’s face, feeling Sanji’s fingers stroke lightly at his wrist, and at some point Brook had moved closer, but Zoro barely noticed as the sound of humming seemed to vibrate through him.

Sanji’s hips were rolling up into him, steady rhythm that didn’t feel quite like his usual restless energy, and Zoro’s fingers needed skin, had to slide under Sanji’s shirt, just resting his palm against Sanji’s stomach, feeling the heat there. Rolling down against each languid thrust, and the tempo of the humming had increased and it seemed only natural that Zoro should match it. Hearing Sanji whimper beneath him, his features relaxed in a way that Zoro wasn’t used to and couldn’t stop kissing at, breathing him in, and there was pressure against his back, thin and sharp and running along his spine, and he shuddered to realise it was Brook’s fingers, and that humming was right against his ear.

Sanji’s arms wrapped tighter around Zoro’s neck, leaning up to bury his face against Zoro’s throat, and he was shivering almost constantly in time to the tune, and the air seemed to shimmer with it, shudder and swirl with the music, and Zoro was breathless with it. Pressing his lips almost desperately against Sanji’s face in senseless patterns, feeling Brook’s fingers explore him, running over his clothes, and it felt like it could last forever, but Zoro’s body didn’t agree. There was pain in his joints and a suffocating warmth in his stomach, and Sanji was mumbling against his throat, and Zoro was grinding his hips down against Sanji’s, needing release and relief from the ache, one of Brook’s fingers drawing small circles over the back of his neck. Brook’s voice was so close, soft and soothing and stoking the heat within him, and Sanji whined high in the back of his throat, and it fit the tune so perfectly in Zoro’s mind, splintered through it and wrapped around it, and his body trembled and gave in, arching crescendo, and he instinctively knew Sanji was falling over the edge with him, as if something in the air commanded it.

Sanji’s breath was against his neck, and Zoro felt winded and shredded and as close to content as he could ever remember being, and Brook’s chuckle was barely a whisper in the back of his mind.

“Yohohoho, quite the performance,” he said softly, but sleep was already creeping into Zoro’s vision, and Sanji’s breathing was growing more shallow beneath him, and the door clicked shut behind him.

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
When I first finished this fic and checked through it, I'd managed to switch between Brook and Brooke pretty much every time I wrote his name, so I wouldn't worry about it. XD

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Besides the frankyxrobin comm and I'm Not Crying (http://frobinfan.ironpuncher.net/index.html) I can't really think of any F/R stuff off the top of my head. :(

[identity profile] paperteacup.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I've submitted some there! Ah but-- Seriously, like Hatchan/Camie, I do not know why the fandom in not swimming in Franky/Robin. It's...Strange! I am sure I've seen more Franky slash (and not just Iceburg) than Franky/Robin ):

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I love Franky and I love Franky slash, but the idea that there's more of it than Franky/Robin just seems weird. Especially if it's not mostly with Iceburg. Odd, really.

[identity profile] paperteacup.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
I would not mind as much if it was done any good at all-- But most of it I've seen was downright weird just for OMG SHOCK value. I think I'm that sort of prude that does not like 'crack' fics of my favored characters so that might be it.

[identity profile] halflight007.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Worrrrrrd. (I'd write him, but I'm in the middle of another ZoSan fic I started before I read about Brook's winningness, and I wanna finish up with that before I attempt anything with him.)

[identity profile] horusguard76.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Ahh, I see your point. Yes, it is always a bit risky to write for/about a character when one doesn't have enough data on him. I'm going through a similar thing with two side-characters from Bleach - there is still so much untold about them... almost drives me crazy. lol

Oh yeah, we need new chapters. Lots of them. So many things are happening. *is excited* Ccan't wait how will play out. But I have the feeling that the current arc is just an entree for something even bigger.

[identity profile] springinstep.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
As soon as you announced you'd caught up, (blimy, I should get going myself), I just knew there's be some fic featuring Brooke soon. And so I eagerly waited. :D

Damn, what did Brook do. I was knawing the back of my hand a little wondering but, then again, I do so love it when a writer sometimes leaves the reader's mind to wonder.

I love that the music theme continued throughout practically all of this, especially with things such as Sanji’s hips were rolling up into him, steady rhythm that didn’t feel quite like his usual restless energy,

Brook's line and signiture laugh at the end didn't seem out of place either, which I imagine is something you need to be careful of.

[identity profile] ohsnap9292.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah I like Usopp now after the whole Sogeking thing but before that I was always like "Get outta here! I want more Zoro Sanji interaction!"

[identity profile] ends-of-time.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
So hot! But soooo sweet! I love those two, and Brooke! Oh god! Humping assisted by music is possibly the hottest thing I've seen in months. It's glorious! Thank you!!!

[identity profile] lys-cookie.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You mean you're too kind to us, all of us!!

Yeah, I can see Oda coming back to that, soon hopefully. But I love Sanji's asertiveness at the moment. He's becoming almost as much of a captain as Luffy. And Luffy's a problem as well because both Zoro and Sanji were willing to die for him, and I guess Sanji feels something close to left out now. Like he's not as valued as a nakama, even though Luffy has no idea, and that's why he's taking so much action now. That, and he doesn't want someone he loves get hurt to badly again.

Meh...I could go into a complete rant but I'll leave you a few un-ruptured brain cells XD

Also, latest chapter - WHAT THE HELL??!?!?!?! No one I know is up to date with the manga, and it's driving me crazy because I can't talk about it!!

[identity profile] stark-black.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I love this story because I've been a musical person my whole life. I've been doing concerts and things since I was three. I was big into music in high school, did music in college, and now preform for weddings and sub in symphonies surrounding the Seattle area. I connect with Brook because of our musicianship, and the fact that we play the same instrument, lol. (I've played violin for almost 22 years)

This fic hit on parts of me that have never been touched before while reading fanfiction. I really enjoyed it. I think you did Brook really well, no worries there.

Thank you for sharing. x)

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I don't mind writing crack pairings, but I have to make them feel believeable to me or I can't be bothered. None of this 'character X/character Y don't even meet or exist in the same time period, but here they are having sex with no explanation'! That doesn't excite or challenge me, so I don't want to even try and write it. XD

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you want to explore them, but at the same time you don't want to delve too deep, in case the canon stomps on all your ideas.

Oh yeah, definitely something bigger. I swear it makes me tremble with excitement just to think about it. With any other manga I'd think we were getting ready for the final battle, but they're still only halfway through then Grand Line! By the actual ending I'm going to burst into flames! XD

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh Sogeking, wonderful powerful Sogeking, he lives in our hearts. *dreamy siiiigh* XD

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I know how that is. Once those plotbunnies bite, they must be exorcised at all costs. XD

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
(I feel safe talking about the latest chapter because the threads on this post have collaped, but if anyone else is reading this comment and hasn't read 512, look away!)

ZORO! What the fuck!?! I am so confused and I NEED MORE! WHERE IS HE??! I did a keyboard-mash post when I first read it and one of the theories put forward was that he's wherever Ace is, which would tie in with the Straw Hats needing to save Ace. Which would be cool. But at the same time the common consensus is that Zoro better not disappear for ages. We must be kept updated on his awesome!

And Sanji tried to save him, because Sanji knows how hurt he is!

I love any time Luffy isn't around and Zoro takes control, because he is the First Mate and it's also hot as hell. Like the bit where he's riding the Sea Train. But it's awesome to see Sanji stepping up, and I love that he called Duval straight away, no matter how much he may have hated to, instead of letting everyone run in circles looking for Camie. He's maturing, and he knows that there's far more to what he does for the crew than simply cook and kick things and I love watching him grow. And, yes, it must have killed him that Zoro just cut down his attempt to put his life on the line for Luffy, and he's trying to be reliable in a new way and he must still be pissed at Zoro but he's treating him slightly differently, even if it's not to Zoro's face.

And when Luffy finds out what happened, it's going to kick off. His reaction could be one of many and it would still ring true. He could be megapissed at Kuma. He could also be pissed at Zoro for doing that, and for not telling him, it could be really bad for their relationship, or it could be really good. Oda is gonna make it damn emotion, either way.

Well, I went into a complete rant, so feel free to go off too. XD

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, there had to be Brook smut, didn't there? I love being predictable. XD

I'm hoping that by leaving things a little vague, if my theories are ripped apart that this fic will still stand, and if they're proven true the vagueness won't matter.

I gave a bit of an explantion here ( http://salmon-pink.livejournal.com/63003.html?thread=1262875#t1262875 ) if you're interested.

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Dry humping is my favourite kink (as is probably obvious after a quick poke at my Memories) so it was definitely fun to switch up with some Brook music in there. XD

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, thank you so much for the amazing comment, I'm so glad to have been able to write something that could speak to you on such a personal level. Thank you, thank you so much. ^___^

[identity profile] kotszok.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
wahoahraufhjfkld wow. that was... cosmic.

[identity profile] ohsnap9292.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
His speech about sharpshooter island gets me every time.

"Don't you have any questions for me since this is our first meeting?"
"..."
"Like, 'Where is Sharpshooter Island?'"
"..."
"It's in your heart."

[identity profile] stark-black.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no. Thank you. You're awesome. x)

[identity profile] salmon-pink.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just a cosmic girl. *boogies*

[identity profile] kotszok.livejournal.com 2008-09-01 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
from another galaxyyyyy

MY HEAAAART'S AT ZEROOOO GRAVITYYYY

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