Chapter 2: Sexual Tension
It had been weeks since the forced French kiss, nothing seems to have change in the regular routine between all the members of the straw hat pirates. They still survived during heavy sea storms, still fought against strong sea monsters and still ran away from marines that are after their heads. Everything WAS COMPLETELY NORMAL. Luffy was still a glutinous idiot, Zoro still did monstrous training exercises, Nami was still a bossy money grubbing witch, Sanji was still love struck cook for the ladies of the crew, Ussopp was still an obvious liar, Chopper was still a gullible reindeer, Robin still loved to read and knows a lot about almost everything, Franky was still an excellent inventor/shipwright, and Brook still entertained everyone with his music and told skull jokes. Yup, nothing changed indeed.
"I'll kill you, you shitty marimo!" Sanji yelled at the resident green haired swordsman as he tried to land a kick on him.
"Fuck you, shitty cook!" the said swordsman retorted along with a swing of his unsheathed sword at the cook's direction.
More blows were exchanged, earning the attention of the rest of the crew, who were all at that moment relaxing on the deck of the ship of Sunny Go.
"Ne, what do you think they're fighting about now?" Chopper, who had stopped mixing herbs for medicine to watch the two, was the first to voice his concern.
"Probably about something stupid," Ussopp said.
"This is the fourth fight just today, it ain't super you know," Franky stated drinking his cola as he watched the duo.
"Yohohohoho, should we stop them?" Brook asked.
"Be our guess, though I believe it would be hazardous to do so," Robin said a strange yet scary smile appeared on her face making the walking skeleton shiver.
"Hmph, leave them be, those idiots will stop in their own time," Nami said dismissively and then turned back her attention to the magazine she had been reading.
"Ne, Ussopp, Sanji and Zoro have been fighting constantly lately, do you think something's wrong with them?" the talking reindeer asked the long nosed snipper.
"Who knows, the only thing I could think of is that they've reached the maximum in their stupidity level," the other answered.
"Eeeh?! There's a level for stupidity?"
"Yup, and those who reached it's maximum level end up doing the most stupidest things. Of course, I could never experience such because I have reached the maximum of the genius level!" the snipper gloated earning starry eyes from the young doctor. He then started telling more exaggerated tales about how he attained such level of his so called 'genius'ness.
The rest of the crew were about to return to what they were all doing when their esteem young captain voiced his own opinion about the two's strange behaviour.
"Hey, maybe they are experiencing Sexual Tension?!" he said with great enthusiasm as though he just made the greatest discovery.
The deck became eerily quiet, even the two fighting idiots stopped what they were doing, and stared wide eyed at their captain.
"What?! It's true! They've been acting like this after that kiss. It had built a tension between them that drives each other to fight each other to take the tension away. And that tension is called sexual tension. It is when two people constantly do stupid or over the top things to get the attention of the person he/she feels, may it be conscious or not, a bond to. Either the pair would constantly and heavily bicker with one another or just plain can't stand being close to each other because they most likely want each other. And both Zoro and Sanji experience these two things!" the captain tried to explain to his crew.
A few seconds of even more silence ensued before the entire crew burst in a huge wave of multicolored reactions; from surprise, to amusement, to embarrassment, to dread, to confusion, to agreement, and to anger
"WHAT!?" everyone yelled in unison.
"Did you just say Sexual Tension, Luffy?!" Franky voiced in surprise.
"It would seems so," Robin said clearly finding the situation once again amusing.
"O-oi L-luffy! Don't say such things so casually!" Nami stuttered as her cheeks adorned the color red.
"Luffy's talking smartly and about sexual tension! It's the end of the world!" Ussopp screamed.
"Guys, what's sexual tension?" Chopper asked not understanding the situation.
"Hmmm, Luffy-san may be spot on with his deduction," Brook muttered his agreement.
"Like hell he is!" Zoro and Sanji, who both heard the statement, yelled simultaneously at the walking skeleton. "I ain't having something like that for this shitty cook/swordsman!" they defended in perfect unison and pointing at each other.
It was a chaos that was issued by a simple explaination of a simple phrase that was said by the world's largest simpleton. And, it would seem that the said simpleton, who at that moment wasn't so simple, decided to continue explaining his theory.
"But Sanji, Zoro it's also said that the pair would just deny every kind of allegation anyone would throw at them because their head would keep telling them that what they truly feel was wrong or what they wanted was not possible!"
This statement had affected the two said individuals, effectively shutting them up and making them contemplate on the reality of the statement.
"Shit! How did this idiot know about that?" the two inwardly asked themselves.
"See! You two aren't denying it anymore! It means I was right and sexual tension is going on between you two!" the young captain said happily.
"Baka! I was simply thinking how ridiculous your theory is," Sanji said trying to repair the damaged caused by his own temporary silence, "Me and this shitty marimo? Really Luffy, what are you thinking? I'd rather die than to consider growing feelings for this good for nothing brute."
"Feeling's mutual ero-cook," Zoro stated with a deathly glare.
"But-"
"Give it up, Luffy. As much as I hate to admit it, but the cook's right. We aren't experiencing sexual tension. We just can't stand each other more than usual because of how long we've all been at sea in the same boat with each other and it's just fucking us up," the green headed man told the teen.
The raven head seem to be contemplating on the other's words, before finally asking so innocently, "So you don't want to French kiss Sanji again, corner him to the wall and have your way with his body?"
Zoro just stared stoically at the younger teen before answering with a simple, "No."
"Oh! Okay. Then maybe what you guys are experiencing isn't sexual tension," Luffy said with a wide smile and decided to let the issue slide.
But the raven-head's resignation on the issue was enough to stop the topic because it still illicited a few comments from the crew. The fact Luffy had opened the topic in the first place earned curiosity to some of the mature members of the crew.
"So you thought they had sexual tension because they were always fighting?" Franky asked.
"Yeah, because they were acting like they did. But Zoro said no to wanting to do Sanji, so maybe I was wrong," the teen answered.
"How did you even know about these things, Luffy?" Ussopp asked incredulously.
"I read about it from that book!" the captain answered happily.
"You mean that book you read about the French kiss, Luffy-san?" asked Brook.
"That's the one!"
"Wait you still have that book?!" asked the long-nosed the snipper.
"Yeah. I found it the other day while waiting for Sanji to finish cooking. I thought the book could take my mind away from hunger and I read some chapters from it.
"What chapters did you read?" inquired Robin who suddenly found the topic interesting.
"Well, let's see, I read about the different kinds of kisses, what is dating and it's importance, sexual tension, foreplay, oral pleasuring that includes how to do a perfect blow job, oh and some parts about how to have sex! By the way, I never knew there were so many ways it's done!"
By then the everyone on the deck knew that their innocent captain was no longer as innocent as they had all thought, and it didn't suit well to someone in crew.
"Luffy, you will give me that book this instant!" ordered Nami who was as red as a tomato.
"Eh? Why?"
"Because I'm gonna burn it! A book like that should never exist! It corrupts the innocent!"
"Eh?! Yada! I haven't finish reading about fetishes yet!" the boy defended.
"All the more reason to do it! Now give it to me or I'll take it from you forcefully!"
"No! You can't do that because I don't have it with me!"
"Then I'll find it in the men's quarters," she said storming towards the rooms.
"Noooo, I won't let you!" Luffy cried running after the orange haired navigator and leaving the rest of the crew.
Once the two left.
"Oookay, that was a really weird conversation we just had," Ussopp commented.
"I don't think so Ussopp-san," Brook started, "I think it was a natural conversation to have considering we are all adults in this ship. Conversations about sex and such are natural to have especially in a pirate ship. As a matter of fact I am surprised that this is the first time we ever had one."
"That's cause there's a dominant number of virgins and innocent minds in this ship that it kinda makes the topic hard to breach without offending someone," Franky stated, "I mean you saw Nami's reaction. So it's kinda a taboo until now."
"I'd agree with that," said Robin, "Though I believe we will be talking more about these subjects in the near future considering our captain's penchant desire to ebb his curiosities. I was more surprise he didn't asked anyone to demonstrate what he had read like the last time."
The men shuddered at the thought of Luffy ordering them to demenstrate a blow job.
"Hey guys. I was just wondering about the things that Luffy said. What did he mean about them? I didn't understand half of those things. Can you guys tell me? I understand what kissing, dating and sex were, they were a requirement for couples and essential in reproduction. But what did he mean about the rest? Like sexual tension! How come he thought that Sanji and Zoro have it? And what made him think Zoro wanted to kiss Sanji again and pin him to a wall?" The cute doctor asked innocently.
"Like I said, a dominant number of virgins and innocent minds!" Franky stated indicating the reindeer and ignoring the questions that were asked.
"You're right about the fact that a large majority of virgins are in this boat, Franky-san. Demo, I believe the innocent mind around here is only Chopper-san," the musician informed also ignoring the reindeer's questions.
"Oi, Brook I'm still innocent just so you know!" Ussopp yelled indignantly.
"Yeah right!" Franky said sarcastically.
"I am!"
"Yohohohoho! Ussopp-san it's not really necessary to lie about these things. We are all men here, we won't judge you for not being one," teased Brook.
"I'm not lying!"
"Oi, guys don't ignore me," Chopper told the three older men who still didn't took notice of him. Then he felt a hand pat his head, making him look up to find Robin next to him.
"Daijoubu doctor-san, it's not time for you to think of such things," she said with smile.
"Demo, everyone seems to know about it but I was lost from the start. I feel left out," the cute talking reindeer sadly admitted.
"Don't be, because it shows that you are a very good and clean person inside out. Don't worry about it too much. You'll know about these things when your a bit older. Okay?"
"I guess," he conceded. Then he realized something. "Hey where are Sanji and Zoro?" he asked the older woman noticing the two's absence.
"They left a while ago. I believe cook-san went to his kitchen, while swordsman-san went up to the crow's nest," she answered him.
"Well, Sanji must be starting to prepare for dinner and Zoro must have gone to train," he suggested.
"Perhaps," she said with a knowing smile that confused the doctor.
Then she left him and returned to her seat and opened the book she had been reading earlier. She took one last look around the deck and noticed that the three men were still talking to each other about x-rated topics, while the good doctor opted to return to his own task of mixing herbs trying to ignore the three. She also sneaked a glance at the kitchen door and the crow's nest above her that induce another amuse smile from the dark haired beauty.
"Sexual tension indeed," she muttered before turning her attention to the old tomb in her hands.
DeAmOnQuEen: Hey guys! Me again so the one-shot is no longer a one-shot! Hurray! It took me this long though to finally rewrite it though because I lost the original when my phone got stolen. Anyway, I decided to write this so I can continue the sequel to this other story I'm writing which is entitled "Princely Lessons". I needed the references from this story before I could continue that one. Well I hope you liked this chapter because there will be more! Thank you for the support and please review!