Chapters: 23/?
Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga), One Piece (Live Action TV 2023)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro
Characters: Roronoa Zoro, Monkey D. Luffy, Dracule Mihawk, Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks, Portgas D. Ace, Perona (One Piece)
Additional Tags: Courtnapping, Blood, Blood Drinking, Eventual Smut, Angst, Drama & Romance, Minor Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks/Dracule Mihawk, Minor Ace/Perona, Minor Nami/Vinsmoke Sanji, Zoro's swords telepathically talk to him, Alternate Universe - Demons, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Slow Burn, (sort of), Mutual Pining, Minor Dragon/Female OC, Several other characters make appearances - Freeform, POV Roronoa Zoro, POV Monkey D. Luffy, POV Third Person, other povs added in but mostly those two, Goth Family (One Piece)
Summary:
In this world, there are none quite as feared as Crimson Demons. The kind of fear that is without respect. Zoro has long accepted reality's hatred as a natural curse for being born as one of the most dangerous demons alive.
Luffy's just too much of a naive, mortal idiot to accept the truth.
OR:
Luffy breaks all the rules and Zoro loves him for it.
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Tags: Demon AU; Goth Family; Slow Burn (ish) Minor MiShanks; Minor Ace/Perona; Minor Dragon/Female OC; Minor SaNami; Luffy and Zoro POVs as well as others; Courtnapping; Blood; Blood Drinking; Angst; Drama & Romance; Eventual Smut
Summary:
In this world, there are none quite as feared as Crimson Demons. The kind of fear that is without respect. Zoro has long accepted reality's hatred as a natural curse for being born as one of the most dangerous demons alive.
Luffy's just too much of a naive, mortal idiot to accept the truth.
OR:
Luffy breaks all the rules and Zoro loves him for it.
Series: One Piece
Pairing/ Characters: LuZo
Rating: G
Words: 1268
Setting / AU: Childhood LuZo (matches w/ my College AU)
Day: August 2
Prompt: underwater
Ao3 Link: here
i grab your hand because you’re mine (all mine)
Zoro slapped the bug catching net down, glaring at the flying beetle that escaped. The net he owned wasn’t really good for actually catching the bugs, but he still felt a little satisfaction seeing the bug flying through the broken holes in the net. If he had better equipment, he would have caught at least five bugs this afternoon alone.
This was a perfect place to be alone - down by the old town section of the riverbank. The American Naval Base could be seen in the distance, but from here, on the outskirts of the bustling city, in the ruins of an old bombing site, Zoro could be all alone. No one yelled at him for getting in the way or not doing his chores correctly. No one hit him for being another mouth to feed. No one bothered him and talked about how his father shouldn’t have left him here, how a yakuza member should be able to take care of his own spawn.
Yeah, he liked being out of that house as much as possible. Being alone was way preferable to all that mess. He couldn’t make friends with other children in this forgotten outskirt of a town. He was too dirty, too smelly, and too weird according to the other roaming children. He couldn’t blame them, really. He wore a stained white t-shirt, a set of baggy black and white shorts, and muddy sneakers that hadn’t been washed in weeks.
So down here in the weeds and bugs by the river, Zoro played alone.
When someone rolled down the hill right in front of Zoro, he stopped in place and stared with wide eyes. The person plopped into the river and took a while to surface before clearly struggling to swim. Zoro stared some more. He couldn’t understand what they were saying, this stranger, but he knew when someone needed help.
Jumping into the river, Zoro pulled the other kid to the riverbank and patted him on the back a few times. “Are you okay? What happened? Where’d you come from?”
The kid coughed water out of his lungs and then rolled over on his back, arms outstretched. Then he spoke in English, so Zoro pinched his eyebrows together and tried to make out what this person was saying. “Thank you,” he could understand and something about being “sure I was dead.”
Zoro pulled back, sat on his legs next to Luffy, and placed his hands on his knees as he worked to speak English. “Oh. Uh. English? Uh. American? Are you…okay?”
“Mhm,” the kid said before sitting up quickly. “Wait! Where’s my hat?”
While it took a while for Zoro’s brain to translate and understand, he did have (supposedly) an American mother and his aunt spoke in English around him sometimes when talking to other Americans. So he could manage a little. He pointed to the large straw hat that had fallen on the riverbank before the strange American kid could fall in the water.
Zoro watched with wide eyes as the kid jumped up and ran over to the hat, as if it were the most important thing in the world. He could sort of understand that. He had some sticks he had worked on to be decent stand-ins for swords. He would be upset if anyone took those from him. He had worked hard on them, after all, and they were his one personal possession that his aunt or her boyfriends couldn’t touch because of where he hid them.
The American adjusted the hat on his head, then rubbed at the white shirt with the anchor on it, and patted at his shorts before grinning over at Zoro. “I’m Luffy.”
“Oh. Uh. Okay,” Zoro mumbled, standing up awkwardly and holding out a hand because that was what Americans did when introducing themselves, right? “I am Roronoa Zoro. Nice to…meet you.”
Luffy grinned and then yelped at the sound of adults further up the hill. “Come with me! We gotta hide!”
The other kid grabbed his hand and yanked him forward, running faster than Zoro expected so he didn’t have much chance but to go along with it. “H-hide? From what?”
Luffy dragged them both into bushes and then put up a finger to his lips. “Shhh! I’ll explain once they’re gone!”
“Ah - uhm - okay.”
Tilting his head, Zoro waited for his brain to process every word, then went along with Luffy’s request. Stay still until “they” were gone. He wasn’t sure who Luffy was hiding from, but he understood the need to hide from adults. So he kept eyes on the American as Luffy stared out beyond the bushes.
Adult voices came and went. A glance through the bush revealed two men in military uniforms, and Zoro felt a spike of panic run up his spine. His aunt would be mad if he got in trouble with the military. He wasn’t supposed to go near the base. He wasn’t supposed to be attention to him or the family. He shouldn’t -
Luffy chuckled and leaned back, stopping Zoro from spiraling into panic. “No school today~”
Another closer look outside revealed the adults had moved on, so Zoro breathed a sigh of relief. He was safe. “Did they hit you? You’re hiding? Are your parents there? Are you running away?”
Luffy tilted his head with a frown and Zoro realized he had spoken really fast and might have even switched into Japanese because he hadn’t been thinking too straight. “You sound weird. Anyway. I’m sick of sitting in a classroom on that base learning about all the cool stuff around here. I wanna see it all myself, and you’re gonna show me!”
Zoro blinked as the American stood up, hands on his hips and pointed at Zoro (after pulling them both out of the bush, of course). “H-haaaaaaah? You want me…to show you…uh…what is ‘cool stuff?’”
“Fun things! Awesome things!” Luffy said, grabbing Zoro by the hand again to tug him along down the riverbank. “Let’s go! Show me something cool!”
“Ah - uh - L-Luffy?” He wasn’t sure what to do about some strange kid dragging him around like this; he’d already left his bug catching net behind, but this close touching from a stranger was kind of awkward. “You - uh - you shouldn’t grab my hand like that.”
“Hm? How come? I don’t want you getting lost. At least, that’s what Ace always says. And Grandpa.”
Eyebrows pinching together again, Zoro stumbled along, trying to keep up with Luffy’s pace. “Huh? I won’t…get lost. I live here. And it’s…weird. I just met you.”
Stopping in place, Luffy looked back at him. “But you saved my life so we’re friends now.”
“F-friends? But I don’t have -” He blinked, staring back at the smile on the kid’s face, and then looked away. “Do you mean it? It’s not a trick, right?”
“Duh! I always mean what I say!” Luffy said. “I wouldn’t trick you about being friends. You seem really cool, Zoro. So show me something cool!”
“Cool…”
Zoro frowned, trying to understand exactly what Luffy meant by this word because he wasn’t using it how Zoro had learned it. But he understood the part about showing something to Luffy. The kid clearly wanted to explore. It had been a while since he had explored anything with anyone. There wasn’t much he hadn’t seen yet in this area of the town, but showing it to someone…
…now that could be fun.
Squeezing Luffy’s hand, he sprang ahead and pointed forward. “Come on. I know a place.”
Maybe he didn’t have to be alone all the time anymore.
Series: One Piece
Pairing/ Characters: LuZo, Ace
Rating: T
Words: 1000
Setting / AU: College AU
Day: August 1
Prompt: sunglasses (prompt list taken from here)
Ao3 Link: here
the things i do for you, little brother
Ace realized after two hours in the car that offering to drive Luffy and his boyfriend was one of the worst decisions of his life. For one, the kid would not shut up, and for another, said green-haired boyfriend snored ridiculously loud in the backseat. How could Zoro even fall asleep that fast? How could he stay asleep with the racket that was Luffy going on constantly? Getting the two of them tickets to a festival in the capital city hadn’t been the mistake - offering to drive when he realized the broke ass college kids couldn’t transport themselves had been the mistake.
The worst mistake.
“Hey, hey, Ace,” Luffy said, arms practically wrapping around the driver’s seat from behind. “Are we gonna stop at that cool alligator farm on the way?”
Ace groaned and ran a hand through his hair before setting his arm back on the open window. “What are you talking about?”
“I saw a sign for an alligator farm!” Luffy exclaimed. “I haven’t been this far south in a long time. We’ve got to do all kinds of -”
“We’re not going to every little thing you see on a sign.”
Luffy whined in his ear. “Awwwww why not? This is a road trip, isn’t it?”
“No, it’s not a road trip!” Ace snapped. “I’m taking you to a festival down south. That’s it. Once we’re there, I’m separating so you two can go have a fun time as a couple, dumbass.”
Luffy huffed, finally sitting back. “Aw, whatever. Shanks always told me to explore everywhere. He said it’s no fun to travel and not see everything you find interesting. How do you think I met Zoro?”
Ace rolled his eyes. “I know how you met Zoro, and it’s not because you wanted to explore Yokosuka. It’s because you wanted to disobey Grandpa.”
“Yeah, ‘cause Grandpa sucked, but once we met Zoro, we explored all kinds of places in that city. Right, Zoro?”
A confused grumble answered and Ace glanced through the rearview mirror to see the green-haired swordsman shifting awake. Zoro rested with his head against the backseat window, and he barely moved even as Luffy threw that energy toward him. Luffy had pulled the seatbelt out so much there was barely any point to having it on, so when he climbed halfway into Zoro’s lap, Ace could only roll his eyes.
Who fucking cared about rules of the road when you were part of a small town gang anyway? In Luffy’s case, the crew leader of his own gang, too. Ace was just the big brother doing something nice for his little brother since he’d been let out of jail recently. While he’d been locked up, apparently these two had gotten together. Ace had known they would with one look at that green hair because he wasn’t a dumbass who forgot the little kid from Japan.
But, well, this was his little gift to the two of them for surviving all the bullshit.
He watched as Luffy wrestled with a barely awake Zoro, messing up the kendo champion’s open blue Hawaiian shirt - a gift from an older gang member for their festival experience, apparently. Zoro made all kinds of cute, confused noises as Luffy continued to touch and mess with him until the Japanese swordsman finally woke up enough to toss Luffy to the other side of the backseat.
Ace laughed - and then cut it off at the sound of something breaking when Luffy sat up. “What the hell was that?”
“Oops,” Luffy said, leaning down and picking parts of something up from the floor. “I think I broke your sunglasses, Ace.”
“Are you shitting me?!” Ace screamed, doing everything in his power not to slam on the brakes and beat the ever living hell out of his little brother right then and there. “That’s the one luxury item in this car I told you not to touch!”
“Sorry, Ace,” Luffy said, putting on his puppy dog eyes. “I’ll get Nami to buy you another pair when we get back.”
“That’s not the point!”
From the other side of the back seat, Zoro yawned. “We could get another pair at that alligator farm. They have a gift shop. There’s always sunglasses in places like that, right?”
“That’s not -”
Two sets of absolutely clueless eyes gazed back at him from the backseat, and Ace sighed. What did it matter? He’d get Luffy back later. It was his own fault for not putting those in a safer place. (He’d honestly forgotten he had them until he saw what Luffy had broken - problems of being in prison for over a year).
The two idiots back there grinned at each other and the look they gave each other made Ace soft on the inside. He’d teased the hell out of Luffy for making a childhood promise to not fall in love with anyone else except that one kid from Yokosuka. He’d been shocked to find out that Zoro and Luffy had actually found each other in the end, unknowingly going to the same po-dunk college in the same po-dunk town in the same po-dunk state of America.
But seeing them together, smiling at each other like that, how could he even remain angry? The way Luffy curled up under Zoro’s arm. The way the green haired swordsman held Luffy tight like nothing else in the world mattered. How could he be mad at either of them?
“Fine,” he said eventually, “We’ll stop at that stupid alligator farm.”
“Yes!” Luffy exclaimed, lifting his face to drop a kiss on his boyfriend. “Told you I’d show you an alligator one day, Zoro!”
Zoro practically squeaked at the surprise kiss - the kid could be so prudish about public displays of affection - but then settled back and ignored Ace’s knowing grin. Yeah. Those two had been through a lot. Let them be happy.
After all, Ace could always hit up some new hot, gay sugar daddy to feed his interest in small luxury items.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 15/?
Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga), One Piece (Live Action TV 2023)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro
Characters: Roronoa Zoro, Monkey D. Luffy, Dracule Mihawk, Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks, Portgas D. Ace, Perona (One Piece)
Additional Tags: Courtnapping, Blood, Blood Drinking, Eventual Smut, Angst, Drama & Romance, Minor Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks/Dracule Mihawk, Minor Ace/Perona, Minor Nami/Vinsmoke Sanji, Zoro's swords telepathically talk to him, Alternate Universe - Demons, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Slow Burn, (sort of), Mutual Pining, Minor Dragon/Female OC, Several other characters make appearances - Freeform, POV Roronoa Zoro, POV Monkey D. Luffy, POV Third Person, other povs added in but mostly those two, Goth Family (One Piece)
Summary:
In this world, there are none quite as feared as Crimson Demons. The kind of fear that is without respect. Zoro has long accepted reality's hatred as a natural curse for being born as one of the most dangerous demons alive.
Luffy's just too much of a naive, mortal idiot to accept the truth.
OR:
Luffy breaks all the rules and Zoro loves him for it.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 17/?
Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga), One Piece (Live Action TV 2023)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro
Characters: Roronoa Zoro, Monkey D. Luffy, Dracule Mihawk, Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks, Portgas D. Ace, Perona (One Piece)
Additional Tags: Courtnapping, Blood, Blood Drinking, Eventual Smut, Angst, Drama & Romance, Minor Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks/Dracule Mihawk, Minor Ace/Perona, Minor Nami/Vinsmoke Sanji, Zoro's swords telepathically talk to him, Alternate Universe - Demons, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Slow Burn, (sort of), Mutual Pining, Minor Dragon/Female OC, Several other characters make appearances - Freeform, POV Roronoa Zoro, POV Monkey D. Luffy, POV Third Person, other povs added in but mostly those two, Goth Family (One Piece)
Summary:
In this world, there are none quite as feared as Crimson Demons. The kind of fear that is without respect. Zoro has long accepted reality's hatred as a natural curse for being born as one of the most dangerous demons alive.
Luffy's just too much of a naive, mortal idiot to accept the truth.
OR:
Luffy breaks all the rules and Zoro loves him for it.
Chapters: 14/?
Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga), One Piece (Live Action TV 2023)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro
Characters: Roronoa Zoro, Monkey D. Luffy, Dracule Mihawk, Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks, Portgas D. Ace, Perona (One Piece)
Additional Tags: Courtnapping, Blood, Blood Drinking, Eventual Smut, Angst, Drama & Romance, Minor Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks/Dracule Mihawk, Minor Ace/Perona, Minor Nami/Vinsmoke Sanji, Zoro's swords telepathically talk to him, Alternate Universe - Demons, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Slow Burn, (sort of), Mutual Pining, Minor Dragon/Female OC, Several other characters make appearances - Freeform, POV Roronoa Zoro, POV Monkey D. Luffy, POV Third Person, other povs added in but mostly those two, Goth Family (One Piece)
Summary:
In this world, there are none quite as feared as Crimson Demons. The kind of fear that is without respect. Zoro has long accepted reality's hatred as a natural curse for being born as one of the most dangerous demons alive.
Luffy's just too much of a naive, mortal idiot to accept the truth.
OR:
Luffy breaks all the rules and Zoro loves him for it.
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