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28

I�d Do Anything

Luffy wasn�t sure how long he had watched the ladder before he apparently fell asleep, and he wasn�t sure how long he�d been asleep before he woke up, but he was very sure when he did that he heard those scratching noises again. At first he didn�t know what a good course of action would be, and he listened without doing anything. They stopped, and he curled up tighter in the bed for a minute, but then they started again, and he made himself get up and look around the room. He could see okay enough because the hatch was open for some reason, but he didn�t see the rat anywhere. He couldn�t even pin a direction that it was coming from, and that�s perhaps what bothered him the most--it was close to him but he couldn�t tell where.

But Sanji was sick and needed sleep, and Luffy wondered what had made Sanji volunteer to stay with him in the first place. He could shout for Usopp, because Usopp would run all over until the rat was dead, but that would wake up Sanji, who needed sleep. He knew that Sanji would better know what to do if he had an attack, but right then Luffy wished he was over by Usopp. Then they could�ve huddled away from the noise together and it wouldn�t have been so bad.

He wanted to be normal-sized again. He wanted to feel strong and confident again. He had made it this far, but he was done. Whether the RumbleBalls agreed with him or not, he felt done. He couldn�t do this anymore. This was insane. He rubbed his eyes and looked over toward Zoro� to see Sanji in Zoro�s place. Luffy sighed, feeling his throat stick. He was too tired to even cry, but he felt like more of him had been ripped away; not his confidence or his strength this time, but something more integral to his being--something Luffy needed to feel like Luffy.

He wanted to be with Zoro. He wanted it really bad.

If he won�t come to me this time, then I have to go to him.

But like everything else that Luffy decided on a whim, getting to Zoro was easier decided than accomplished.

He waited until he heard the rat making noise again and climbed slowly out of his hat and over to the edge of the table. Now came a challenge. Dangling his feet over the side of the table, he scooted off and tried to stretch his arms once he was dangling, but it didn�t work as easily without leverage and he just found himself dangling.

At least the table's low, he thought to himself before letting go and falling to the floor with a thump. The hit was disorienting, but painless. More disturbing was that the thump had distracted the rat from whatever it was doing, because it was quiet again. Luffy held as still as the rat did, wherever it was. Soon the scuffling returned, and Luffy took a deep breath and sprinted toward the ladder. He was up three pegs without thinking before he stopped to catch his breath and look behind him. No one had woken up� which was insane, really. How could everyone else sleep through that annoying rat? It was noisy as hell!

He shook his head and looked up. Zoro had left the hatch open so that he could hear if anything happened. Of course, Zoro hadn�t counted on Luffy deciding to take matters into his own hands rather than waking everyone else up. It was a good thing, though, because Luffy�s way was clear. The only problem is that I don�t know where out there Zoro is, he thought as he stretched his arms and flew up, overcompensating just enough to come back down and land on his bare feet. He hoped to find the first mate just outside sleeping against the mast or maybe a nearby wall, but when he got up as high as he could without exposing himself to the cold wind, he stopped and listened for said swordsman and didn�t hear anything.

That meant he was most likely in the crows nest. Luffy set his jaw and looked straight up again. Then he looked back to where he�d come from.

Taking a deep breath to prepare his mind for the cold, he reached up for the next peg, because he wouldn�t go back. That just wasn�t who he was.

His body followed his hand and holy shit it was cold!!! Reaching up for the next peg quickly, he managed to scramble up another six before the cold finally had him dropping down to huddle for warmth. It was too cold to breathe easily out here. He rubbed his arms for heat before forcing himself to move up another step. Then he had to stop and repeat the process three more times before he felt his first attack coming.

He didn�t want to be out here for an attack. Maybe this hadn�t been such a great idea. The wind blew hard blocking out all other sound and making his head throb with pain. His ears were cold, his nose was cold, his toes were cold, and that was all without mentioning his private areas. He was breathing hot air into his cupped hands when his chest locked up and his vision blurred. His subconscious must have had the sense that the rest of him didn�t because he dropped down against the peg and wrapped his arms around it so he wouldn�t fall. This action also minimized contact with the wind.

Luffy didn�t know how long it lasted, but when the shaking slowed down he was able to raise his hands back up and breath into them. This heated his hands, but more importantly it heated up the air he was breathing, and that was more important because his lungs were killing him. He was reminded of climbing the sheer face of Drum in the blizzard months ago, only without the added weight of Nami and Sanji�s bodies. And even though he was out in the open, there wasn�t a toucan somewhere that was going to come back and try to eat him. He tried to tell himself that it wasn�t so bad this time; this was easier. His nakama weren�t in any danger. Just him. And it wasn�t like he was away from the ship this time.

But he couldn�t convince himself because those times weren�t this time. Each experience was something new, and had to be viewed as such because he knew that this time the biggest danger was literally exposure, and healthy people died of that every day.

The cold made him feel naked, and the night made him feel alone in the universe. He couldn�t be out here for much longer or he�d stop breathing for good, and he was sure of that. He could feel it.

Taking another couple deep breaths, he pulled himself up using the mast for balance and made the mistake of looking down along the way. Wow, he was high. Luffy loved heights when they weren�t able to cause him enormous amounts of pain outside of battle for no reason. Luffy wasn�t fond of pain that he hadn�t rightfully earned.

He kept one hand on the mast and reached up with the other to grab the peg above him. Only when he had a good grip did he reach up with the other hand and snap up to follow it. He did this twice more, realizing that his movements weren�t as second nature as they usually felt. He was losing coordination. It was getting painful to stretch just that small distance to the next step up.

He strained to reach the next one, breathing hard and exerting all his strength� and managed to grab a hold of it.

�OW!� When he snapped up after it this time, it stung like hell and didn�t go away. �Ow ow ow�� he whimpered, trying to cradle both of his arms.

Tears formed against his will and it was all he could do to keep them from falling down his cheeks.

Couldn�t he catch a break? Couldn�t he just get to Zoro without having to suffer his way up his own mast? He felt ashamed. He�d put himself in his current situation, after all. Why hadn�t he woken Sanji? Why couldn�t he ever think about consequences seriously?

He looked over the side of the peg below him and assessed that he was about fifty miles above the deck right now and couldn�t go back anymore. He was only about six pegs away from the mast cross that the crows nest sat on--almost level with the furled sail. He was relieved that he�d put so much behind him, but the relief was shallow seeing as how six more pegs was starting to look like the entire distance he�d climbed all over again.

Looking forward and not behind, Luffy held his breath, gritted his teeth against the cold and the pain, and reached up for the next peg. It fell short and snapped back painfully. �OOOWW!� Luffy cried out. It hurt more each time, and the cold had become unbearable. His chest was locking up intermittently between gasps for air.

He tried again� and missed again. Now he was getting angry at himself. He couldn�t just stay here, and there was absolutely no good reason that he shouldn�t be able to--

Understanding hit Luffy so suddenly that his tears began to fall unchecked.

Not his powers. Not now. He couldn�t lose his powers now.

Starting to panic, he stretched up for the peg again, but his hand couldn�t even reach halfway. He tried again� and again� and again until finally his arm didn�t stretch at all no matter how much exertion he put into it. He strained until his face turned red, but it did no good.

He couldn�t stretch anymore.

Sobbing by now, he pressed his forehead against the mast, trying not to shake so hard that he might lose his grip.

It was hard to move at all with how cold it was, but Luffy knew he had to move if he ever wanted to get out of the cold. It would be cold everywhere except in his hat and with Zoro. Since he didn�t trust himself to get back down the ladder again, there was really only one option, and luckily it was the more favorable one. Gritting his teeth so they wouldn�t chatter, he unfolded his arms and took hold in the mast wood. It would be one peg at a time now. With the pain of half-frozen muscles he began to ascend in this new way, breathing evenly to control his mind so he didn�t freak out or slip. He made it up to the next peg and stopped to rub warmth into his arms and legs before setting himself to start climbing again, telling himself all the while that there were only three more pegs between him and the crows nest.

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Zoro laid back in the crows nest and looked at the cloudy and therefore featureless sky. He wasn�t really looking at the lack of stars, though, because his mind was full enough. Something was bothering Luffy, and he was very worried that the problem was him.

He told himself logically that Luffy had merely capped off on the treatment of the RumbleBalls and had closed off, but the non-logical part of his mind feared that he had done something wrong. And if Luffy had closed off, then how would he find relief? Wounds that festered never got better--only worse. Would he start talking again? Had the attack that afternoon been so bad? Or had it just been the straw that broke the camel�s back?

Zoro had the feeling it was the latter, but he didn�t know how to help. If Luffy didn�t come to him when he reached out, then he would be stuck. He wasn�t very knowledgeable about relationships sometimes. Especially complicated ones. Their relationship had been simple before. Now it felt more� involved. It hadn�t changed, but it so had. At least it had the way Zoro saw it. It felt different now. It was� more.

He hoped Luffy was sleeping soundly. The kid needed a break after the night before. Damn rat. Damn nightmares. Damn everything that scared the secretive captain who had so recently been nigh invincible to them all.

Zoro yawned. He was tired. His body was exhausted but his mind wouldn�t let him sleep, which was kind of good because he didn�t want to sleep--he wanted to be awake to hear if anything happened way down below him.

He used to think about Kuina on nights like this�

There was a little sound outside the crows nest, and Zoro quirked a brow. There was no way any rat would have come up the mast for no good reason, but as he listened to the scratching and squeaking sounds he didn�t know what else it could be. There weren�t a lot of possibilities in the middle of the ocean.

Whatever it was, it was slow coming, though. What would make a rat struggle so hard just to get into a tub at the top of a ship when it smelled no food inside of it? It was a nice night to go exploring, Zoro supposed, but the crows nest was a bit out of the way for an animal, he thought.

A rat would make a good meal later. He shifted a little so that he�d be able to kill anything that came creeping over the side.

He hesitated when something moved near the edge, but didn�t hop up and race along it.

What the hell?

Then he heard scrambling noises and a familiar little cry and even as �He wouldn�t!� raced through his mind, Zoro was up and instinctively reaching over the side to pull up the little body that he knew was about to fall.

He felt rather than saw his captain abandon the wood for his hand, and scrambled up to see Luffy as he brought him in close.

Luffy was very pale, curled into a ball and trembling as hard as his body would let him short of actually seizing.

�Luffy?!� Zoro pulled himself up and looked over the side of the nest to the deck that was so far below. �How did you- Did you climb up here?�

Luffy whimpered and curled up tighter.

�What the hell were you thinking? Why didn�t you wake someone? What if something had happened to you?! It�s way to cold for you to be outside. You could have fallen or--� He stopped when his eyes went back to Luffy and this time he really took him in. The captain was cold to the touch, still in his ball and drained of color, and his hands and feet were raw and bleeding. Luffy�d really struggled to get to him, and he hadn�t done it on a whim.

�Luffy--�

The boy let out a sob and shook his head wildly. �Don�t make me go back!�

�Luffy, what happened?�

The boy shuddered at the concern in Zoro�s voice. Making himself move again, he reached for Zoro�s shirt and tucked himself up against the strong chest where it was warm and safe.

�Luffy?� Zoro whispered again.

�Couldn�t sleep,� Luffy said softly. �The-there was� it was making noise again and I couldn�t sleep.�

�The rat?�

Luffy nodded. �It was moving around and no one else was waking up, but it sounded close and I-I didn�t know where it was.� He sniffled and whimpered, �I couldn�t find it.�

�So why didn�t you wake Sanji?� Zoro�s voice was gentle now.

�Be-because� I didn�t want the rat to hear me and come.�

�So you ran across the floor with the rat nearby to get to the ladder instead? Do you realize how dangerous that was?�

Luffy continued to shake with suppressed emotion and didn�t answer.

�What if you�d seen the rat? Those things carry disease and could tear you to pieces right now!� he didn�t care if his words hurt Luffy�s pride; the captain had to understand. �If you weren�t too scared to run across the floor and climb out of the hold, then I can�t believe your reason for not waking Sanji. What the hell possessed you to climb all the way up here when all the others were right next to you? You could have stopped breathing and died climbing up here, do you realize that? What on earth is worth that?!�

Luffy didn�t answer.

�Luffy, why did you really not wake Sa-�

�Because Sanji�s not Zoro!"

Luffy�s words cut through Zoro so sharply that they pinned him to the mast behind him and held him captive.

�It won�t stop, Zoro! I need it to stop! Make it stop� please make it stop�� he trailed off into painfully harsh sobs and babble.

The dam had broken and everything Luffy�d been holding in came rushing out and it was all Zoro could do to gather himself together enough to move.

�Take your arms out of your robe.�

It took a moment for Luffy to register that. �But it�s cold,� he hiccupped.

�That�s alright. It�ll be fine.�

Luffy didn�t understand, but he didn't have to because this was Zoro, so he pushed himself up a little and struggled to get his shaking hands to untie the knot he�d gone berserk on when tying. When he got it loose enough Zoro surprised him by moving down to pull it off altogether.

�Take it off and lay down again.�

Luffy was beyond questioning. He just needed� something. He needed Zoro to help him and he didn�t care how at that point.

He slid his arms out quickly, gasping at the blast of cold air on his skin, but made sure the cloth was still wrapped around him from the waste down as Zoro guided him back down again.

Then the massage started. Luffy had hoped that might be what Zoro�d been planning, but it felt different this time. Skin on skin felt hotter and better. Zoro would start at his shoulders and work his way down one half of his back and before moving to the other. His hands were warm and held the heat around Luffy well, but something in Zoro�s tone had Luffy thinking that there would be more to this than there had been before. Then Zoro stroked a place that felt really good that had never felt that way the last times Zoro had brushed it.

Zoro, for his part, was moving gently over Luffy at first before getting increasingly deeper each time, carefully watching for when it became too much and then backing off some to find that center pressure.

What he didn�t expect was for Luffy to cry out on the third pass. He wasn�t even really pushing very hard, but Luffy�s body wasn�t as pliable as it usually was.

�Luffy, you okay?�

The boy clenched his fists and didn�t answer.

�Is something wrong? Did I hurt you?�

Luffy shook his head, but Zoro wasn�t buying it. Something was off.

�What�s the matter?�

It was quiet. Zoro rubbed his skin gently to get the blood flowing through him faster. Then Luffy said something that Zoro wasn�t sure he�d heard right.

��What did you say?�

�I can�t stretch right now.�

�...Is�is it like an attack?�

Luffy blushed and hid it by wiping his eyes. �Doesn�t hurt��

Zoro pressed a little harder. Luffy grunted.

�Sorry. I just wanted to� Does it hurt when I press?�

�No� I�m just not used to feeling it like that. It-� he blushed harder. �It feels good. Don�t stop?�

Hearing those last phrases directed at him by Luffy had Zoro blushing too as he went back to touching Luffy with purpose. He decided to start over again since it was obviously working.

As Luffy�s skin warmed, his shaking slowed and finally stopped, eyes fell closed and he let himself enjoy what was happening, which was exactly what Zoro had been hoping for. He moved his fingers over Luffy�s arms for some more delicate work.

Accommodating for Luffy�s current limitations, Zoro slowly took his arm and rotated it around at the shoulder before bending it at the elbow and then straight again. He went down to the small hand and worked the wrist a bit before folding and unfolding the fingers and thumb. Then he gave the palm a squeeze before moving back up the arm, rolling the skin back and forth over the muscle before reaching the deltoid and laying the arm back down to move to the other one.

Luffy had tensed when Zoro had first gone for his arm because he didn�t know why Zoro would do something like that, and it took him several seconds to understand. First of all, it felt surprisingly good to have his appendages massaged, but more than that it meant that Luffy was relinquishing control of them. His arms were being moved, but he wasn�t controlling them. Really it was the same as what the RumbleBalls were doing, taking control of his body, except now it was Zoro. Luffy trusted Zoro, and that made giving up control easier--something he had secretly been struggling mightily with that day. Giving in made it easier than fighting it or holding back from it� was that like staying calm when he had an attack? Would accepting it temporarily make it easier? Would it help him to keep from panicking?

His thoughts drifted off in other directions as Zoro moved back up his right arm and switched to the left. Had he been moaning? He wasn�t sure. He couldn�t be embarrassed if he had, this felt good as sin. He�d stopped crying at some point, too. He�d been so right to come for Zoro.

As Zoro worked Luffy�s left arm he blushed harder at the sounds Luffy made. He was becoming hard as a rock. Then the moaning and the gasping was joined by arching and panting as Luffy abandoned control and gave in completely to whatever Zoro made him feel. The swordsman noticed that Luffy got especially loud when his lower back got attention, so he focused on that. The elasticity in Luffy�s body had not returned yet and that was working great for what Zoro was doing because he could really loosen the Rumble victim up when there was less give to his bone structure. That was good because of what Zoro was about to try.

Luffy had too much tension built up inside of him. It would take more than what Zoro had given him before now to release it. He would just make sure to watch if Luffy showed any signs of discomfort so he could stop.

Luffy�s mind was blank. Nothing had ever felt like this before. It wasn�t as relaxing as the last ones had been--those had put him to sleep whereas this one was waking certain parts of him up. He couldn�t help it, that�s just the way it was happening. What was more, he didn�t care. For the first time in days he wasn�t thinking about anything beyond what was happening to him right in that moment. He was thinking about nothing but Zoro, that he was with Zoro, that Zoro was with him, that right then everything was perfect.

Zoro�s thumbs moved to the crest of his ass and Luffy found it hard to resist thrusting forward. It vaguely occurred to him that he hadn�t jacked off in nearly eight days when he couldn�t manage to put up any resistance. He may have been a virgin and didn�t know what he liked yet, but that didn�t mean he hadn�t thought about it as extensively as the next teenager. He was now certain that he liked having his ass felt, though. He was leaking like a water fountain and he wasn�t even touching himself! That was a first.

Every frustration he held toward himself, toward his weakness and stupidity and fear; all the anger at the pain and the not knowing what would happen next; the self-loathing he had been feeling for putting Zoro through all of this for him--everything collected down south until the pressure built up like a geyser. He felt his balls tensing and tried to fight it because what would Zoro think?

Almost as if Zoro read his mind, Luffy�s test of wills between his brain and his dick was overpowered altogether when he felt a little more pressure thrusting him forward. He cried out in surprised pleasure as he came hard, body arched forward and trembling as release fired through every nerve in his body. His fists clenched hard enough to draw blood from his own palms and his vision faded until white was all that was left. He managed to take in a loud gasp of air and cry out again as his dick shot out another volley, and then a third, a fourth, fifth, sixth� nine rounds total until Luffy�s sensitivity became so strong that and he had to stop moving or start screaming from the intensity of it. There was such a thing as too much pleasure, and Luffy had found it.

When he finally collapsed into Zoro�s palm, chest heaving, skin flushed all over, he didn�t feel the least bit cold anymore. Afterglow hit him hard and made it difficult to think about the repercussions of what had just happened.

Zoro�s fingers moved back up to his shoulders, rubbing much more gently now than before. He was acting just as caring as before, which was really surprising and made Luffy think that maybe Zoro didn�t realize what had just happened, which was hard to believe� but he was too tired to think about it. Thoughts didn�t make sense anyway.

Yet Luffy realized that if it had been anyone else--anyone other than Zoro--this would have had him freaking out. Hell, he�d have gone all-defenses-up at the no clothes part. But being with Zoro, even being submissive to Zoro, felt so right. It didn�t matter in what way they were together as long as they were. He wanted every little thing that was Zoro. His caring nature, his strength and determination, his spirit, his voice, his scent, his attitude, his strange sleep patterns and little personality quirks, even his nervous habits were all part of what made Zoro so perfectly Zoro, and Luffy wanted it all, and he had it all right here against his body right now and he never, never wanted to let it go. Zoro was his� Zoro was�

And then suddenly Luffy had a thought that was so big and so obvious that he didn�t know how he�d possibly missed it for so long.

I've fallen in love with Zoro, he thought to himself, and laughed quietly in slight delirium when a wave of shock and happiness hit him like a wrecking ball. How long ago did that happen?

He could have thought more about it, but his mind was hazed over in afterglow and there was nothing else he wanted to think about. He was in love for the first time in his life! And it felt incredible! It felt so good to actually be in love with Zoro that nothing else mattered just then. He snuggled up to Zoro�s chest like he always did, but it was different now. Everything had changed.

He distantly felt Zoro covering him up again, and at four inches tall, inside of a crows nest, unable to stretch, basically naked and in danger of exposure, Luffy felt the safer than he had in years when he fell asleep with a peaceful smile on his lips.

The world made sense, and it was good.
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