Title: Growl
Fandom: One Piece
Prompt: Sound
Pairing: Luffy/Zoro
Words: 403
Rating: PG
Timeline: Post-Usopp's Village
Nami sighed and shook her head, looking thoughtful. “That’s not quite it,” she explained, tapping at her lower lip with her finger. “It was more … more cat-like.”
Luffy also looked thoughtful, and that was enough to make Zoro tense in suspicion.
“Oi,” he called to Usopp, who was lining up his fishing rod nearby. “What are they up to?”
Usopp glanced over his shoulder to where Nami was still shaking her head and Luffy was frowning in concentration, and shrugged with an easy smile. “Nami wants Luffy to growl again,” he said simply. “Like he did when that weirdo hypnotised him.”
Zoro scoffed and rolled his eyes. “Why would she want him to do that?”
“Who knows?” Usopp replied, turning his attention back to his fishing line.
“That’s it!” Nami squealed, and Luffy beamed with pride.
Zoro watched as her expression turned from overjoyed to devious in less than a second.
“Now go show Zoro,” she murmured, and her voice was low and rough and Zoro found his fingers wrapping around the hilt of his katana out of instinct.
“Okay,” Luffy said with a wide grin, and then turned in Zoro’s direction.
And then he wasn’t grinning any more, and his eyes were slitted and dark, hands fisting and teeth bared, and that familiar growl was swirling through the air.
“O-oi, what is this?” Zoro grumbled, trying to move backwards and realising he was already backed against the railing. “You don’t have to do everything she tells you!”
Luffy only growled with more menace and started advancing, and Zoro had absolutely no idea why but he could feel himself blushing.
Usopp quietly retreated to Nami’s side. “Uh, should we leave them alone?” he muttered out of the corner of his mouth as Luffy loomed over a wide-eyed Zoro.
Zoro let out a less than manly noise as Luffy pounced.
“Are you kidding me?” Nami snapped. “Go get the camera.”
Luffy didn’t stop growling, even as his teeth pressed against Zoro’s throat.
“Did you know he’d react like that?” Usopp asked, and he sounded half-frightened, half-impressed.
Luffy’s tongue started soothing over the bite marks, and the growling still hadn’t stopped, and Zoro’s eyes were beginning to roll into the back of his head, lips parted and fingers clawing at the deck.
Nami smiled to herself, and Usopp felt a shiver of fear. “Get the camera,” she said again.
Usopp didn’t need telling thrice.