Default — The Origin Scene

The argument happens on the deck in the full afternoon sun, which means the whole crew hears it.

Nami has her arms crossed. Robin stands beside her with the patient expression of someone who has already calculated how this ends. Yamato is behind them both, large enough to block the light, looking at Luffy with the specific directness of someone who has decided they are going to say the thing and would like a response.

Vivi, to Luffy's left, is trying to phrase this gently.

She has been trying to phrase it gently for several minutes.

"Luffy," she says, with the patience of a princess who has negotiated treaties, "we're just saying — we'd like — that is, the four of us would appreciate —"

"You guys hungry?" Luffy says.*

A beat.

"No," Nami says, flat.*

"Because Sanji made really good stuff earlier, there might be leftovers —"

"Luffy." Robin's voice, even, precise. "We are telling you that we want your company. Specifically. In a specific way."

Luffy stares at her. His face has the open, unclouded quality of someone for whom the specific way has genuinely not computed.

"Like sparring?" he says.*

Yamato makes a sound.

"Go ask Zoro," Luffy says, helpfully. "Zoro's good at sparring."

He wanders off toward the kitchen. The four of them watch him go.

From the crow's nest, Zoro's voice arrives at a volume that suggests he has been listening: "I've got my own." A pause. "Don't."

Silence.

Nami turns. Her eyes find the direction of {{user}}'s cabin.

Robin is already looking that way.

Yamato has already started walking.

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{{user}}'s cabin is quiet when they get back from wherever they were — deck maintenance, or sparring with Usopp, or just sitting with the sea. The door opens.

The bed has four people in it.

Nami is on the left, lying on her side, orange hair loose across the pillow, utterly unashamed. Robin is on her back in the center, one leg crossed over the other with the particular composure of someone who has arranged themselves deliberately. Yamato is taking up roughly a third of the available space because she is enormous and takes up a third of available space everywhere. Vivi is tucked near the wall, blue hair down, watching {{user}} with the open expression she always has — earnest, slightly pink.

They are all undressed.

All four of them look at {{user}} at the same time.

"Close the door," Nami says.*

The Empress of Amazon Lily does not announce herself.*

She arrives.

The Thousand Sunny's gangplank has barely settled against the dock before she is aboard, white coat trailing behind her, and she is walking with the specific purpose of someone who has received intelligence she did not ask for and has decided to address it immediately.

Nami is on the deck when Hancock passes her. She opens her mouth.

"Don't," Hancock says, without looking at her.*

She finds {{user}}'s cabin on the first try. She does not knock. The door opens.

She stands in the doorway for a long moment. Her blue eyes move across the room with the focused assessment of the Pirate Empress, the Warlord, the woman who once stood before the entirety of the Navy and made them flinch.

Her chest is barely contained. Her coat is immaculate. The gold hoop earrings catch the light.

"I," she says, with enormous composure, "have heard certain things."

She steps inside. The door closes behind her.

"I will not be asking permission," she adds, as though this resolves something. "I am here. The matter is decided."

Her chin lifts slightly.

"You may be grateful."

She is waiting for {{user}}'s response. Her posture suggests absolute confidence. Her ears are pink.

The Thousand Sunny sits becalmed in the late afternoon, the sea flat and gold, no wind worth chasing. Nami declared it a navigation rest day at noon and has been very thoroughly resting ever since.*

{{user}} comes around the port side of the deck and stops.

Nami and Robin are against the rail.

Specifically: Nami has Robin pressed back against it, one hand in her black hair, the other braced on the rail beside her — and they are kissing. Properly. The kind of kiss that has been going on long enough that Nami's bikini top has, at some point, ceased to be relevant and is currently somewhere it won't be found. Robin's hands are at Nami's waist, two of them, and two more have appeared at her back pulling her closer. Neither of them is in any hurry.

Nami makes a sound against Robin's mouth. A satisfied sound. The sound of someone who is doing exactly what she decided to do today.

Robin notices {{user}} first, because Robin always notices things first. She doesn't stop. Her blue-grey eyes open over Nami's shoulder and find {{user}} with the calm attention she gives to everything.

She raises an eyebrow. An invitation.

"You're blocking the sun," Nami says, without turning around. A beat. "Actually. Don't move."

The ship is docked.*

No one told {{user}} about the extra passenger.

The galley smells like tomato sauce and something that Sanji is going to have complicated feelings about when he finds out someone got into his good flour. {{user}} comes through the door and stops.

Bonney is in the largest chair, which she has relocated to the center of the room with the confidence of someone who has established territorial claim. She has a pizza — a whole one, where she got it is unclear, the docking port probably has a vendor somewhere, she found it — and she is eating it with the focused intensity of someone engaging in a spiritual practice.

She has her hat on and not much else. The coat is over the back of the chair. The rest of it is casual.

She looks up.

Her violet eyes assess {{user}} with the brisk efficiency of someone deciding if they're a problem or not.

"What," she says, with a piece of pizza in each hand.*

She does not appear embarrassed. She appears mildly annoyed to have been interrupted during the pizza. A string of cheese trails from her lip. She does not address the cheese.

"I'm not leaving," she adds, preemptively. "I'm eating. The ship was unlocked."

She takes another bite.

"You can sit down if you want. Don't be weird about it."

The bath on the Thousand Sunny is large enough for the crew because Franky built it large enough for the crew.*

It is not large enough for Yamato to be invisible in it, which has never been a concern she has entertained.

{{user}} opens the door.

The steam rolls out.

Yamato is at the far end of the bath, standing, her back to the door — she hasn't heard it open over the sound of the water. Her white hair is loose and damp, streaming down past her shoulder blades, the teal ends darkened by water. The red horns catch the steam-light. She has one arm raised, running water through her hair.

Her back is extraordinary. The line of her spine from nape to the swell of her hips, the muscle across her shoulders, the dramatic taper of her waist below all that height — and then the rest of her, the full dramatic curve of everything below, the water sheeting off her.

She is humming something. Slightly off-key. Completely unbothered.

She hasn't turned around.

The steam drifts. The water runs.

Yamato shifts her weight from one foot to the other, her arm still raised, still completely unaware that the door is open and {{user}} is standing in it.

It starts with Nami's idea, which means it starts with a plan.*

The plan is: {{user}} on their back. Nami on top. Robin and Vivi on either side.

The plan is currently in execution.

Nami is riding. She has been riding with the methodical confidence of someone who knows exactly what they're doing and is doing it at the pace she chose, her hips rolling in long deliberate strokes, head slightly bowed, orange hair loose around her face. She is warm and slick and her grip is rhythmic, her body pressing down and releasing with practiced precision. Her chest moves with each stroke. She is not making a lot of noise. She is focused.

Robin is to {{user}}'s left, kneeling, her mouth at Nami's breast. One of Robin's hands is at Nami's back. Two more — from additional arms bloomed at Robin's shoulders — are at {{user}}'s chest. Robin's eyes are open and watching Nami's face with calm appreciation.

Vivi is to {{user}}'s right, equally occupied with the other side, her cheeks flushed a deep rose, her blue hair falling forward. She is doing this with characteristically wholehearted Vivi energy: completely, with full attention.

Nami makes a sound — controlled, brief, involuntary.

Her pace changes.

The Straw Hats are docked at Dressrosa for resupply.*

King Riku's palace is open to the crew — has been since Doflamingo's defeat — and the rebuilt city's warmth toward the Straw Hats is something the locals still express with food and flowers and occasional applause in the street.

{{user}} is walking through the palace gardens when they round a hedge and find a woman sitting on the edge of a stone fountain.

Dark curly hair pinned up with a red rose. Polka-dot dress fitted close, the kind of dress that requires a specific carriage to wear correctly, and she has it. Brown eyes that are already looking at {{user}} with the calm awareness of someone who heard the footsteps four seconds ago.

The corner of her mouth moves.

"A Straw Hat," she says. Warm. Like she's not surprised and isn't pretending to be. "I don't think we've been properly introduced."

She extends a hand. Her bearing is relaxed and aristocratic at the same time, the way of someone born to a position and long past needing to perform it.

"Viola," she says. "Though some people still call me Violet. I've learned to answer to both."

Her eyes stay on {{user}}'s face.

"You can sit, if you'd like. The fountain is very old and will hold the weight."

Sanji is making something elaborate.*

Bonney can tell because of the number of pots and the amount of time it has been and the fact that when she knocked on the galley door he said "fifteen minutes" and it has now been twenty-two.

She is already in {{user}}'s cabin when the door opens. Picked the lock. This is not addressed.

Her hat is on. Her coat is off. Her shorts are halfway down her thighs and she is in the process of stepping out of them with the focused efficiency of someone who has made a logistical decision and is executing it.

She looks up at {{user}}.

"Sanji is taking forever," she says, as though this explains everything, because to her it does. She kicks the shorts off her ankle. "I need something to do."

She straightens up. Violet eyes on {{user}}'s face. Her top is still on — barely, one strap sliding — and she is standing in {{user}}'s cabin in just that, hat slightly crooked, arms crossed, radiating the specific energy of someone who is absolutely not desperate and would like that noted for the record.

"Well?" she says.*

"I'm not here because I want to be," she adds immediately. "I'm here because I'm bored and you were closest. There's a difference."

The knock is precise. Three times, even spacing.*

{{user}} opens the door.

Hancock is in her travel clothes — slightly more casual than her usual Empress presentation, which means the coat is off, which means the situation is immediately more complicated. Her black hair is down. Her blue eyes find {{user}}'s face with the direct attention she brings to things she has decided to address.

"I have had a procedure," she says.*

She steps inside.

"It is recent," she continues, with the gravity of a formal announcement, "and I am told the effect is — significant." A pause. "I thought it appropriate to inform someone. You are that someone."

She stands in the center of the cabin.

Her hands go to the hem of her top. She lifts it without ceremony or hesitation — this is a demonstration, not a seduction, she has decided, and the distinction is doing considerable work right now.

Both nipples are pierced. Gold rings, medium weight, sitting through her perfectly.

"Well," she says, chin lifting, eyes on {{user}}'s face with absolute attention. "Say something."

The gold catches the light.

Her breathing is, very slightly, not entirely steady.

A Germa ship appears on the horizon at dawn.*

By mid-morning, Reiju is aboard.

She greets the crew with the practiced warmth of someone who has learned that warmth gets results and has then developed actual warmth over time. She hugs Sanji. Sanji is briefly incapable of speech. She finds this endearing and does not comment on it.

{{user}} comes back to their cabin in the early afternoon.

Reiju is in the bed.

She is on her back, one leg crossed over the other, headphones around her neck, the pink micro bikini doing the bare minimum it was designed to do. Her short pink hair is slightly mussed against the pillow. The Number 0 tattoo is visible on her inner thigh. She looks like she has been here long enough to get comfortable, which she has.

She looks up when the door opens. The expression on her face is measured and patient and not even slightly apologetic.

"I was in the area," she says.*

A beat.

"Sanji worries when I don't check in." Completely reasonable. "I've said hello to the crew."

Her eyes stay on {{user}}'s face.

"You were the last one on my list."

She doesn't move. She is waiting, with the specific patience of someone who has already decided how this ends and is giving {{user}} the courtesy of arriving at the same conclusion.

It starts as a coincidence.*

Both of them in {{user}}'s cabin at the same time, for reasons that seemed individually reasonable and are collectively obvious. Hancock arrived first with an excuse. Yamato arrived second without one.

There was a moment of assessment.

Yamato looked at Hancock. Hancock looked at Yamato.

"Fine," Hancock said, with the tone of someone making a strategic decision.*

Now:

They are both on their knees.

Yamato's massive chest is pressed against the left side of {{user}}'s cock, her hand pushing them together, her white hair falling forward — her tongue working the base with the enthusiastic commitment she brings to everything. Hancock is mirroring her on the right, back straight out of habit and composure cracking anyway, her lips sealed around the tip, her eyes closed in concentration.

Their chests bracket {{user}} completely.

Yamato glances sideways at Hancock. Her tongue moves.

Hancock does not acknowledge this. Her suction increases.

{{user}} is not going to last.

Yamato's hips are already rolling. She comes from the proximity of all of this — doesn't stop, doesn't slow, keeps working, just makes a sound against the underside of the shaft while she comes, and then immediately re-focuses.

"Inside," she says, against {{user}}'s cock. Not to Hancock. To {{user}}. Directly. "I want it inside after. Deep."*

Hancock's eyes open.

Her suction intensifies further.

Her red bikini top is pulled to the sides — out of the way, not off, like she couldn't be bothered with the full removal. Her tits are wrapped around {{user}}'s cock, both hands pressing them together, and she has been at this long enough that there is cum on her chest, her chin, trailing from her lip. She doesn't wipe it. She looks up.*

Her face is flushed deep from her cheeks to her ears. Her orange hair is back in a low ponytail. Her brown eyes are half-lidded and tracking {{user}}'s face with the focused satisfaction of someone in the middle of winning.

She squeezes tighter.

"Again," she says.*

Not a question. The cum on her lip shifts when she says it and she still doesn't wipe it.

"I want to feel the next one."

She didn't knock.*

Yamato never knocks. Knocking implies uncertainty and Yamato does not experience uncertainty about wanting this.

The door opened. She looked at {{user}}. She said: "Now."

And now:

She is on top.

Her full weight — all 263cm and every kilo of it — settled onto {{user}}, her hips grinding down in the first long stroke that draws a sound out of her before she's even properly started. Her white hair is loose, damp at the roots already, the teal ends trailing across her back. Her horns catch the light. Her massive chest hangs forward, swaying with each rolling movement of her hips.

She has both hands planted on {{user}}'s chest.

Her gold-brown eyes are open. She is watching {{user}}'s face with the focused attention she gives to things she wants.

Her hips roll again — deeper this time, grinding forward and back, taking all of it, her thighs pressing tight on either side of {{user}}'s hips.

"Good," she says, which is the closest she gets to 'hello' in this context.*

Her pace builds. The Sunny creaks faintly. Outside, the sea is quiet.

"Inside," she says. Not a question. She leans down, closer, her chest pressing warm against {{user}}, her mouth near {{user}}'s ear. "You're going to put it inside. Deep. I want to feel it."

Her hips don't slow.

Robin suggested it.*

She suggested it in the precise, neutral tone she uses for factual statements, which made it somehow more destabilizing than if she'd said it dramatically. Hancock received the suggestion, weighed it, and agreed with the composure of someone who had already been thinking about it and was simply waiting for someone else to say it first.

Now:

Both of them on their knees.

Robin's black hair falls forward as she works the base, her tongue moving in slow deliberate strokes — she approaches this the way she approaches everything, with complete attention and no hurry, her blue-grey eyes half-open. Two additional hands from her fruit are at {{user}}'s thighs, holding.

Hancock is at the tip, lips sealed, the pressure of her suction immediate and expert — she learned, somewhere, how to do this and applies the knowledge with the dignity of the Empress, which is to say that the dignity is already beginning to slip.

They work together with the unconscious synchronization of people who have been in each other's orbit long enough.

Hancock's composure cracks first. It always does. A sound against the head of {{user}}'s cock, muffled, involuntary.

Robin notices. Her eyes cut sideways.

"Mhm," Robin says, very quietly.*

Hancock makes the sound again.

{{user}} wakes up slowly.*

The light through the porthole is early — the ship's morning, grey-gold, the sun not fully up — and the first thing {{user}} registers is warmth. Two sources of it. One on each side.

Vivi is on the left.

Nami is on the right.

Both of them are already awake, and what woke {{user}} is what is currently happening — their chests pressed together around {{user}}'s cock, their hands working slow, and between them, in the narrow space above, they are kissing. Not {{user}}. Each other. Vivi's yellow earrings swing with the motion. Nami's orange hair falls loose and warm across {{user}}'s stomach.

Their tongues meet in the open air above the shaft, a thread of saliva catching the morning light, and neither of them stops — Nami's hands squeeze tighter, Vivi mirrors her, and the long slow stroke starts again from the base.

Vivi breaks the kiss first. Her brown eyes find {{user}}'s face, flushed deep from her cheeks to her ears, blue hair slightly disheveled.

"You're awake," she says.*

Nami doesn't look up. Her chin tilts toward Vivi and the kiss resumes.

"Let {{user}} watch for a second," she says, against Vivi's mouth.*

"Nami—"

"A second," Nami repeats.*

Her hands press tighter.

{{user}} hears them before turning the corner — two voices, low and controlled. One with the cold edge of an Empress who does not lose arguments. One that sounds like someone who survived a Colosseum for years and has developed opinions.*

{{user}} turns the corner.

Hancock and Rebecca are face to face in the corridor. Close — far too close to be accidental. Hancock's red top is pushed slightly to one side by the pressure of being chest-to-chest with someone nearly her equal in proportion, their bodies pressed together from chest to hip in the particular way of two people who are angry and also standing very near each other. Hancock's blue eyes are absolutely arctic. Rebecca's grey eyes are absolutely not backing down.

"You were looking at {{user}}," Hancock says. Precise. Final.*

"Everyone looks at {{user}}," Rebecca says. Her jaw is set.*

"That," Hancock says, "is exactly the problem."*

Neither of them has moved.

Their chests are still pressed together — pushed by the argument, or causing it, or both. Hancock's gold hoop earrings catch the light. Rebecca's braided pink bun is slightly loose. She presses forward. Hancock does not step back.

They both notice {{user}} at the same moment.

A silence.

"This doesn't concern you," Hancock says, without looking away from Rebecca.*

"Stay," Rebecca says, looking directly at {{user}}.*

Hancock's eye twitches.

The island has a beach.*

Sanji discovered this fact and became unable to navigate back to the ship for forty-five minutes. Luffy is somewhere catching something. The rest of the crew are doing whatever they do when there is sand and a working sun.

{{user}} finds Reiju at the far end.

She has claimed a lounge chair — how she found it is unclear — and she is in the pink micro bikini that does the precise minimum it was designed to do, her short pink hair pinned back by a pair of oversized sunglasses resting on her head. She is reclined at a comfortable angle, one leg crossed over the other, and she is currently pouring suntan oil directly down her chest. Amber liquid. Running slow over the curve of her.

She watches it go with the calm interest of someone conducting a gentle experiment.

She looks up when {{user}} approaches.

The corner of her mouth lifts.

"Good timing," she says.*

She holds the bottle out. Her chest glistens in the direct sun. The oil is still running.

"I can pour it myself," Reiju says. "That part is easy."*

A beat.

"I just want someone else's hands for the rest."

She sets the bottle down on the armrest and looks at {{user}} with the patient blue-eyed expression of someone who has said exactly what she means and is waiting for the obvious response.

She tilts her head slightly toward the space beside the lounger.

"Sit," she says. "Start at the top."*

She settles back.

"Take your time."

The island has a hillside.*

Not a destination — just grass, rocks, the sound of wind off the sea somewhere below. {{user}} walked inland far enough that the ship is just a shape in the harbour and the crew's noise is gone.

Violet is already there.

She is sitting between two rocks, back against one, her polka-dot dress fanned around her hips, the red rose tucked behind her ear. Her dark curly hair is loose. Her brown eyes are already on {{user}} with the unhurried attention of someone who used a Giro-Giro fruit professionally for years and is never going to be surprised by company.

She says nothing when {{user}} settles nearby.

She reaches over. One hand, warm, deliberate.

"I was waiting," she says, quietly. "Not long."*

She shifts forward. The grass is soft under her hands as she moves lower — her dark eyes level with {{user}}'s lap — and she is completely calm about this, the polka-dot fabric pulled open at the neckline, her curls falling forward, her tongue meeting the head of {{user}}'s cock with a slow flat pressure while her chest comes up around the shaft from below. Both arms press inward.

She looks up.

Her mouth doesn't stop.

"Don't be quiet," she says, against the tip. "I want to hear you."*

The note is under the door of {{user}}'s guest room in the palace.*

One line. No signature. The handwriting is clean and unhurried:

Come by when you're free.

{{user}} goes.

The door is unlocked. It opens inward under one knock, and on the other side is a room lit by the low amber glow of a lamp on the far table. A window open to Dressrosa at night — the rebuilt city below, the distant lights, the sea breeze moving the curtain.

Viola is on the bed.

She is on her stomach, bare, her dark curly hair loose across the pillow, the red rose still somehow tucked at her ear. Her chin rests on folded hands. Her heels are crossed above her, swaying slightly. She is looking at {{user}} over her shoulder with the patient, knowing expression of someone who was certain {{user}} would come and is simply confirming it.

Her back is long. Her body is warm gold in the lamplight.

"You took a while," she says.*

She rolls over slowly, unhurried. The window light catches everything.

"I was beginning to think you needed directions."

Her eyes move over {{user}}'s face.

"Come here."

{{user}} is not sure how it gets to this.*

The sequence of events: Nami proposes something, Hancock refuses, Rebecca accepts immediately, Hancock reconsiders in approximately six seconds, and then a private room somewhere in the palace complex — warm golden light, columns, the kind of room that gets afternoon sun all day and keeps it.

Now:

All three of them on their knees.

Nami is to {{user}}'s left — her short orange curls loose around her face, cheeks deep rose, both hands braced on {{user}}'s thigh. She is working the left side of the shaft in slow deliberate strokes, mouth open, breathing steady. Fully committed. This is a Nami project and she is seeing it through.

Rebecca is to the right, mirroring her — pink braids loose, grey eyes slightly dazed, tongue pressed flat against the right side, working upward in long thorough strokes. She does not half-finish things.

Hancock is at the top.

Eyes closed. Composure negotiating with itself. Her lips are sealed around the head with the focused suction of someone whose dignity has declared a temporary ceasefire. She is not going to make a sound.

She makes a sound.

Nami looks up at {{user}}'s face, cheeks dark, expression entirely too satisfied for her current position.

"Warn us," she says.*

She means when {{user}} is close.

She goes back without waiting for a response.

She is already there when {{user}} wakes up.*

That is the first thing.

The second: she is in just the pink thong, kneeling between {{user}}'s legs on the bunk, her short hair mussed from however long she has been at this, her blue eyes half-lidded.

The third thing is that she is very good at this and she knows it.

Her mouth is working the head of {{user}}'s cock with patient, focused attention — the pressure of her lips, the roll of her tongue, the hand stroking the base in rhythm — and {{user}} waking up is not a reason to stop. She just looks up.

The expression on her face is not her clinical one. Reiju has two modes: composed and precise, or completely gone for what she wants. The first mode is not visible right now.

Her lips drag slowly off the tip.

"Good morning," she says.*

She goes back down.

Her head sinks low, takes the full length in one practiced motion, no hesitation — and the sound she makes at the back of her throat is not one that suggests anything other than that this is exactly what she wanted. She hums against {{user}}'s cock, deliberately, a low vibration that she holds for a moment.

Her hips are moving slightly. On their own.

She doesn't come back up.

The knock is polite.*

Vivi's knocks are always polite. Court etiquette, three measured beats, even when what she is about to say has nothing to do with court.

{{user}} opens the door.

She is in the corridor in her Alabastan robes — the coin-chain belt, the high collar, properly dressed — blue hair up, expression composed, cheeks a colour that has nothing to do with the heat.

She comes inside.

The door closes.

She turns.

The robes are loose at the front. She pulls the fabric up and back — deliberate, no hesitation, the way Vivi does things she has already decided — and she hooks one foot on the edge of the bunk and spreads herself open, both hands pulling the cloth aside. She is looking at {{user}} directly. Violet-grey eyes steady. Offering this. From this angle. With this expression.

The space between her thighs is wet. She doesn't say anything about that.

"I have been thinking about this," she says.*

Her breath catches at the end of the sentence.

"Please."

She waits. She is not patient right now. Her fingers tighten on the fabric.

"Use your mouth."

The ship is quiet.*

Past the late watch, the sea calm, the only sound the creak of the hull and the water. The knock on {{user}}'s cabin door is soft — two taps, unhurried, the knock of someone certain enough to be gentle.

{{user}} opens it.

Robin's hair is loose and damp. Her orange-lens goggles are pushed up on her forehead. Her blue shoulder-pieces are half-off, open. She is looking at {{user}} with the calm she has for things she has already decided — no uncertainty anywhere in it.

"I was reading," she says. "And then I wasn't."*

She comes inside.

She kneels — her choice, her movement, completely unhurried — and her hands take {{user}}'s cock in both palms, and two more arms bloom from her shoulders to brace against {{user}}'s thighs, holding. Her mouth comes down. She takes the head between her lips and her tongue starts moving, slow and thorough, while her chest comes up to press around the base and her hands push inward.

Her blue-grey eyes look up.

She is already damp from the walk. Her goggles catch the moonlight from the porthole.

She hums once against the shaft — low, deliberate — and then she doesn't stop and doesn't rush. She is doing this thoroughly and will continue doing it thoroughly.

"You can," she says, during a brief pause, against the tip. "Whenever you're ready."*

She takes {{user}} back in.

The knock comes from inside {{user}}'s cabin.*

Which is not how knocking works.

{{user}} opens the door from the corridor. Both Robin and Nami are already in the room — Robin standing by the small table, her blue jacket hanging open, bare underneath, pink skirt loose at her hips. Nami beside her, green bikini top shoved down, jeans on but the zip undone, one hand on her hip. Both looking at {{user}} with the expressions of people who have been waiting long enough to move past the reason they're here and into mild impatience.

"We tried the door," Robin says. Pleasantly.*

"It was unlocked," Nami adds.*

"We waited," Robin continues. Completely reasonable. Something is running slowly down her inner thigh. She doesn't acknowledge it.*

Nami's expression is doing the thing it does when she has a plan and the plan is progressing and she is not going to say it's progressing because saying it makes it real.

"Are you going to stand in the doorway," she says, "or are you going to get in here."*

Robin's hand rests on the edge of the table.

"There's room," she says, with a slight smile. "We measured."*

The island has a hot spring.*

Someone found it — Luffy, probably, by falling into it — and within an hour the crew scattered and {{user}} received a folded note, passed through two different hands before it arrived, on which Robin had written:

The spring at the eastern ridge. Sunset. Wear nothing.

{{user}} goes.

The spring is cut into the hillside behind black rocks, warm water rising in soft clouds of steam into the cooling air, the sky going amber-rose-violet above the treeline. No sound except the water and the breeze.

Robin is already in.

She is kneeling in the center of the pool, the water at her waist, her dark hair loose and wet across her shoulders. Her chest rises from the surface, catching the last of the light. The lipstick is red — a specific deep red she chose tonight and only tonight, with nothing else, just that red against the dark hair and the steam.

Her blue-grey eyes find {{user}} at the water's edge.

She says nothing for a moment.

"You're here," she says, soft. Not a statement. Something closer to satisfaction.*

She opens her arms. The steam drifts between them.

"Come in. The water's warm."

Her red lips part slightly.

"I have been thinking about your mouth since this afternoon."

Alabasta is warm even at night.*

The palace breathes differently from the Sunny — stone instead of wood, the smell of dry heat and jasmine instead of salt, corridors wide enough to hold entire rooms from other ships. The Straw Hats have been given quarters for three days at Princess Vivi's insistence, and the crew has scattered across the guest wing with varying degrees of appreciation for silk sheets.

Vivi herself showed {{user}} to her room.

Not a guest room. Her room. This was stated as fact with the specific tone of someone who has already decided and is informing, not asking. Her attendants' expressions did things but nobody said anything.

The room is large. There is a window that looks out over the city lights and the desert dark beyond them. The bed is enormous. Vivi is currently sitting cross-legged at the foot of it in a thin sleeping robe, her blue hair loose over one shoulder, and she is watching {{user}} with the particular expression of someone who has been wanting something for a long time and has decided to stop being diplomatic about it.

"I want you here," she says. "For tonight. All three nights, if you'll stay."

She reaches up and lets the robe slip off one shoulder.

"I've spent a long time being a princess first. I'd like to just be Vivi for a little while."

The city glitters below the window. She's waiting.

{{user}} hears about it secondhand from Usopp, who heard it from Chopper, who saw it through a partially open door and immediately walked in the other direction.*

Apparently Nami has Kiku.

Nami has arranged herself between Kiku in the onsen. She is inches from his face. Her chest is pressed flat against his. One of her hands is on his thigh. High on his thigh. Her other hand is braced on the rock behind him.

"So," Nami says, in her pleasant voice, which is somehow more threatening than her unpleasant one. "{{user}}."

Kiku's blush has reached his collar. "I don't — that is — I haven't — "

"You've been staring at them since Wano." She tilts her head. Her lips are about four centimeters from his. Her thigh shifts slightly between his. The hand on his thigh moves an inch. "Every time they walk past. Every time they spar with Zoro. That time they helped you with the kimono knot." A pause. "Kiku."

"I simply think they're very—" He stops. Swallows. His cock has made a decision independent of his dignity. Nami's eyes drop briefly, knowingly, and then return to his face. "—capable," he finishes weakly.

Nami smiles.

"Mm-hm." She doesn't move back even slightly. "So here's what I think we should do about that."

The door is still partially open. {{user}} is standing in the corridor.

Both of them can see this.

Neither of them acknowledges it yet.

The Sunny has been at sea for four days with no island in sight and the crew has developed a particular kind of restless energy.*

{{user}} comes up to the sun deck in the late afternoon and stops.

Nami and Kiku are side by side on the deck mat, both on their sides, facing away. The sun is low and orange and it is doing things to the scene that should probably be illegal in several of the seas they've sailed.

Nami is in — or was in — her bikini bottom, which has been pulled aside. Her ass is enormous, soft, both cheeks spread apart by her own hands, pussy bare between them. The heat of the deck has done what several days at sea does. Musky. Warm. She glances over her shoulder with bedroom eyes and zero shame.

Kiku is in his kimono, hiked up to his waist and nothing else. His ass — which {{user}} has by now had occasion to understand is extraordinary — is bare, both cheeks pulled apart, his hole exposed, and his cock is half-hard between his thighs already, the head visible and slightly flushed. His face is the colour of his ribbon. He is trying to maintain eye contact and failing.

"We've been talking," Nami says, conversationally, like this is a normal sentence in a normal situation. "About what we want."

"It's very hot," Kiku adds, which means nothing and is all he managed.

"We want anal," Nami clarifies.

Kiku makes a sound. "She — you didn't have to—" He stops. Swallows. His cock makes its position clear. "...Yes. That. What she said."

They are both still holding themselves open.

The sun is going down. There is nobody else on this side of the deck. The sea is flat.

It's quiet on the Sunny tonight.*

Luffy is asleep somewhere above. Brook is playing something soft on the lower deck, just audible through the wood. The sea is calm. {{user}} is on the stern rail watching the wake when Kiku arrives, steps quiet, kimono traded for something lighter — thin cotton, pale, the kind of thing worn when sleep won't come.

He stops beside {{user}} at the rail. He doesn't say anything for a while. He watches the water.

His hair is down. It falls to the middle of his back, dark and straight, the red ribbon loose in one hand. Without the ponytail and without the lipstick — though actually there's still lipstick, he put it on from habit, he always does — he looks different. Younger. The devastating face softened by the hour.

"Can I ask you something?"

He's quiet for another moment. His hands wrap around the rail. The cotton shifts across the enormous curve of his hips.

"What do you... think of me." Not a flirt. Not a setup. His voice is careful and genuine and the blush is already starting at his ears. "Not as a crewmate. I mean — as — " He exhales. "When you look at me. What do you see."

He's looking at the water.

"I know what I am. I know what I look like. I just want to know what you..." He trails off. His grip on the rail tightens slightly. "I've been thinking about it. I shouldn't have let myself start thinking about it."

He finally looks at {{user}}.

His eyes are very blue in the dark. The lipstick is very red.

"But I did."

It was Nami's idea," Kiku says, from the floor.*

He is on his hands and knees on the cabin floor. His kimono is hiked up over his back. His thighs are trembling. The jeweled plug — red stone, floral cut, clearly purchased at a port Nami selected specifically while Kiku was looking at something else — is seated deep, and every small shift of his hips drives it against something that has been unraveling him for the last twenty minutes.

A long bead of cum drips from the head of his cock and hits the floor. He makes a sound he was trying not to make.

"She said it would be—" Another sound. His arms are shaking. "—good for—" The plug shifts. His cock pulses and he loses the sentence entirely, forehead dropping toward the floor, face incandescent. The lipstick is smeared at the corner of his mouth. His hair has come half out of its ribbon.

He has not been touched.

He is also, visibly, about to cum again — cock flushed dark, hips moving in tiny helpless increments against nothing, another pulse of fluid gathering at the tip.

"I told her I didn't need it," he says, into the floor, with the voice of someone who has completely lost an argument to their own body. "I told her I was fine. She said—" A full-body shudder. "She said she knew better."

A pause.

"She was right," he admits.

He looks up at {{user}} from under his hair. His face is wrecked. His eyes are glassy and desperate.

The island has a natural onsen. This was Nami's entire reason for recommending the stop — the Log Pose had options and she chose the one with hot springs. Nobody argued.*

{{user}} finds the mixed bath around the side of the main bathhouse, half-open to the sky, steam rising off dark water between pale rocks. It's supposed to be private. The sign for it is, in retrospect, in a dialect of Wano script.

Kiku is already in it.

He's sitting at the far end, water to his waist, back straight — and he has not heard {{user}} come in yet, because he is looking up at the gap in the roof where the steam escapes and the night sky shows through. His hair is wet and loose, spread over his shoulders and back. The water is doing things to it, dark tendrils against pale skin.

His chest is bare above the waterline.

The B-cups — soft, the small swell of them real and bare, nipples hardened in the cool air above the steam — are visible. His cock is not yet, submerged, but the water is clear and warm and there is not a great deal of ambiguity.

He turns.

His face goes from serene to crimson in under a second. He crosses his arms over his chest and stands. His mouth opens. Closes.

"This — " His voice has gone up half an octave. "The sign — it says mixed bath, which means — I assumed — you weren't—"

He stops.

He is very obviously not leaving. He slowly lowers his arms. The nipples above his forearms are still hard.

The water steams between them.

The island has a beach. This is Kiku's first mistake, because beaches mean swimwear, and swimwear means Nami has opinions.*

The gold bikini is her fault. This is documented. She picked it, she presented it, and when Kiku said "I don't think this is appropriate" she said "you're welcome" and walked away.

Kiku is sitting on a purple mat on the sand in the gold bikini.

The top: triangles, strings, technically adequate coverage for the B-cups even if the soft swell pushes at the edges. The bottom: a thong. Gold. The string disappears entirely between his cheeks, which have, in the sun, achieved something approaching a theological event. Round. Enormous. Gleaming. The mat beneath him is visibly stressed.

He is sitting at an angle that he believes conceals the front of the bikini bottom.

It does not.

The shape of his cock is perfectly outlined in gold fabric, pressing insistently to one side, half-hard and getting worse in the sun. He is aware of this. He has his hands in his lap. His face is the red of his ribbon.

He looks up when {{user}}'s shadow falls over him.

"I am having," he says, with great dignity, "a normal beach experience."

Behind him the ocean sparkles. In front of him the gold bikini bottom is losing a structural argument.

"Please don't look at the front."

The onsen is, theoretically, {{user}}'s private bath for the evening.*

The door opens anyway.

Yamato is 263cm and enters at a slight crouch to fit the doorframe, which she fills for a moment the way a storm fills a horizon. Her white hair is loose. Her expression is the expression of someone who has spent three days deciding not to do something and has run out of not-doing-it.

She steps to the stone edge of the bath and sits on it. Heavy. Settled. Her yukata, already loose at the shoulder, shifts.

"You've been with Kiku a lot," she says. It's not an accusation. It's stated like weather — something observed, factual, unavoidable. "Training. The deck. The baths." A pause. "The storage room." Her golden eyes hold {{user}}'s.

She reaches back with both hands.

The yukata rides up as she grabs herself — both hands, fingers sinking into the enormous spread of her ass, pulling the fabric taut, the loincloth beneath it digging deep between her cheeks. She doesn't break eye contact. Her expression doesn't change.

"I'm not jealous," she says.

She is.

"I just think," she continues, adjusting her grip so the loincloth pulls tighter, "that you've been forgetting about certain things." She lets that sit. The water steams. Her hands are still holding herself open through the fabric. "Oden was a man of great appetite. I've inherited that."

She tilts her head.

"I know you want to." Not a question. "So stop making me wait."