Pirates of the Arisu :: 1st Storm :: Tiny Islands
Title: Pirates of the Arisu
Genre: Alternate Universe, BL&Yaoi, Action&Adventure, Comedy, Slight Drama&Angst
Pairings: ShouxHiroto, etc.
Summary: Kohara Kazumasa had a dream to sail the seas and explore every bit of land he could. He shared that dream with Ogata Hiroto and made a promise to come back for him. When he finally did, he decided that he can't possibly go back to Kohara Kazumasa and took on the name "Shou" -- the captain of a pirate crew -- with his own agenda.
Warnings: Sexy Shou in one hell of an eyepatch and sexually implied things. XD
Prologue
[1850]
In the world of pirates, there wasn't really much to do. If you didn't have money, you'd steal. If you couldn't steal, you're screwed. Now, if you did have money, you'd steal anyways--because everyone's a cheapskate like that.
"Captain!" my trusty thief onboard cried out to me, sprinting towards me dressed in his black garbs. Turning around, I grinned at him--teeth strangely pearly white for a pirate. (All of ours were, honestly.) His cheeks visibly flushed pink as he slowed down.
"Sagachii says we need to stop somewhere later to stock up on our supplies. He said if we don't get more citrus, then, after a while, we'll get scurvy... Sagachii did go into medical school for a while until he decided to escape his father's wrath... Nao-san says there's an island nearby, too. It's tiny, but it's rather infested with fruits and delicious foods." His brown eyes flickered over my blue one (the left eye was covered by a black eyepatch that was studded with small silver pyramids) for a moment before staring at the floorboards below him. "What do we do?"
I smiled softly. Hiroto was much too cute. Even when we had suggested abandoning our old names of the past and creating new personas for our new life out at sea, he had kept his name the same. Hiroto. I had very much doubted he would change his name anyways, so we just ended up calling him "Pon" as an affectionate nickname. I ruffled my hand through his soft blonde hair (bleached from all the sunlight he's in, yet he somehow remains fair-skinned) and told him, "Tell Nao that we're going to stop by that island."
He nodded curtly. I chuckled and cupped his chin before tilting it upwards, so he could face me. Another enchanting smile bewitched my lips as I told him to look at me more. Of course I had to tease him. In fact, I rather fancied him. The blonde flushed royal red before he snapped his head away and scurried off to the rest of the ship. One day I'll have him in my cabin.
[With Hiroto]
Hiroto dashed around the deck of the ship, trying to get away from that pervy captain. Okay, he was charming, but he was also very flirtatious--especially around Hiroto himself. He was handsome--hell, he was beautiful!--but Hiroto knew his place as the ship's gunner and best thief. He couldn't fall for him.
Caught up in his mad dash, he bolted past a tiger sleeping on the poop deck--the captain's first-hand and the master of the ship, the one who delivered out punishments (although he deserved quite a few himself for sleeping on the job). "Tora-chan!" he cried out before reversing his pace. He leaned over the dark haired man before narrowing his brown eyes at the sleeping figure. "Wake up!" he snapped before grabbing the older (and taller) man's shoulders and shaking him to no end.
"Pon! I'm going to kill you after this!" Tora grunted as he pushed the smaller young man away. "I don't care about the Captain's sexual needs anymore, so I'm going to fully punish you if you ever dare to wake me up during a good dream!"
Hiroto rolled his eyes. "Did this one have big tits, too? Or was it a nice, round ass?"
Tora scoffed. "Both. It is a dream after all. Anyways, you better have a good reason to wake me up."
"The Captain wants to return to his cabin for a while, so you need to take over at the wheel until Nao-san gets there with the directions. We're stopping at an island nearby, so we can stock up and restock and all," Hiroto notified. "I have to tell Sagachii and Nao-san now!" The blonde darted off, leaving the raven haired man to relax for a moment.
"I better get going or else our blondie of a captain will start to doze off and dream about that squirrel while waiting for me," Tora muttered to himself. "The last thing we all want to see is his hand down his pants, drowning in self-pleasure. The last thing that Pon wants to see." Amber eyes flicked over the tranquility present on the ship. "I have a strange feeling that this peacefulness won't last within ten more seconds."
As the tiger set off on his trek to the wheel, he was proven correct when there was a screech in the air--a screech belonging to no one other than Hiroto. He probably saw what Saga was cooking, Tora mused as he shoved his hands into the large pockets of his black jacket.
Meanwhile, Hiroto was pointing at the large tentacles trying to lift whatever's body out of the silver pot over the fire. "Sagachii! What the hell is that thing?!" Hiroto squealed.
Saga blinked innocently. "It's an octopus, can't you tell?" he replied with a big grin. "I caught the most delectable things on my fishing trip today! Big fish, a big octopus, a few crabs and lobsters, and a delicious looking squid."
"Aren't you supposed to kill it first?!" Hiroto whined as he backed away.
"Pon, it's an octopus--not a kraken. Stop freaking out. It's not going to attack the ship," Saga drawled before popping a knife into the top of the said octopus. "And, I was getting to that. I was making sure it was pretty clean first in a nice hot bath."
Hiroto blinked, tilted his head 45 degrees to the right, and questioned innocently, "What's the point if it's going to get bloody later? And you still have to take out its insides before boiling it or whatever you do with it."
Saga's eyes narrowed at the youngest member aboard the S.S. Hofu. "Listen, Pon, it's not a bad thing to take caution before finishing it off. You should do that more. You rely on instinct too much," Saga advised. Hiroto stuck out his tongue childishly. Saga smirked and used this to his advantage. "You know, if you keep sticking out your tongue--especially around Shou--you'll never know what'll happen to it." Hiroto's cheeks flushed once again at the mention of the seductive captain before retracting his tongue and keeping it within its chambers.
"Well, Sagachii, you should rely on your instincts sometimes, too," Hiroto retorted, "and I hope you'll do it soon--like on the island we'll be on within approximately two days. Is that enough time for us to live on the remains of our citrus and vitamin D?"
"Vitamin C, Pon," the curly haired chef corrected. "We get vitamin D from the sun."
Hiroto pouted and nearly stuck out his tongue until he remembered Saga's comment.
"I'm going to tell Nao-san now," Hiroto grumbled before retreating from the kitchen. The pirate found Nao the navigator in his office, drinking mugs and mugs of coffee while circling islands that have caught his attention and sketching routes to them. "Nao-san...? Can I come in?"
Nao lifted his head up immediately and grinned. "Hiro-Pon! What's up? Did the captain approve of my and Sagachii's plan?"
Hiroto shyly smiled and nodded. Nao was the relatively normal one of the crew, from what Hiroto found, if you took away his coffee addiction. Somehow, Shou brought up the suggestion that Nao didn't even need coffee to stay awake. He just drinks coffee for kicks. Nao was unlike any other pirate. (Pirates usually preferred rum over coffee.)
"Well, I should go meet up with the one handling the ship's wheel with the directions, huh?" Nao chirped, running a hand through his bright pink hair. Somehow, the navigator had some exotic fruit, magenta in color, drop onto his head. The fruit ended up dying his hair, resulting in this bright, bubbly image--however, there remains some chunks of black and blonde. It was often hard to disguise the young man at times they need to, but, somehow, they managed.
"Okay! Let's go!" Nao chirped. Hiroto blinked twice before letting out a confused "eh?" as he was dragged away from the office by the pink haired pirate. He soon found himself escorted by Nao to the quarterdeck, and then they were at the helm. Shou was steering the ship, as usual, with Tora in the background. Hiroto ever rarely saw a serious look on Shou's face. It was usually on when he was steering. Shou took the seas very seriously, and he loved his ship (even though he pretty much named it after tofu)--He probably loves this ship more than he loves me, the thief mused. Not to mention, Shou would also hate himself if he got his crew lost at sea.
Hiroto silently observed as Tora, Nao, and Shou exchanged comments, directions, and terms that he didn't quite understand before Tora shifted the wheel, making the S.S. Hofu sail in another direction.
"We're stopping by Île du Roi de Mer," Shou announced.
Nao grinned before adding merrily, "That's French for 'Island of the Sea King'! Saga would be so happy! There's so many fruits and seafood and delectables there!"
Tora added, "It's also French territory, so we got to be careful when we're entering it. You know what that means, right, Pon?"
Hiroto sighed before reciting one of Shou's rules, "Page one, rule number four: when approaching a territory with rough defenses, pack unvaluable weapons that can bite but are easily discarded when needed to. You may have to rely on physical and mental strength or extremely small, microscopic weapons." Hiroto was infamous for sneaking weapons inside countries that don't like weapons and passing through normally until he was in a pinch--like some freak smacking his ass or touching him where he shouldn't.
Everyone there clapped; Hiroto was sure to get a present if he actually obeyed.
"After we stop by Île du Roi de Mer, we're going to continue to Royale SuGizo," Nao added after the applause. "We may spend approximately two or three days at Île du Roi de Mer; however, with our eccentricity and the fact that this is a leisure stop, we might have to...leave within an hour."
The group of four sighed--and they deadpanned when they heard Saga's loud cackles because of his finishing the seafood soup.
[ELSEWHERE]
"Ruki, what the hell are you doing?" Reita questioned as he sat down beside the shorter man--pulling up his bandana to cover most of his face as usual (despite the heat of the island). Reita liked it when people didn't see his face for some strange reason Ruki didn't understand. He had a rather nice face. Scratch that--it was pretty drop-dead gorgeous.
"I'm fanning myself with this book, can't you tell?" Ruki retorted before sighing. "Uruha sure reads some strange things. Last week, it was some psychological thriller; now, I think this is porn."
"How much have you read?" Reita inquired curiously.
"One word that is slurp," the redhead responded nonchalantly.
There was an awkward silence between the two pirates.
"I wish our ship would hurry up and fix itself sooner," Reita commented. Ruki nodded before putting down the small book and standing up and stretching like a cat. Koron prodded over to his owner, who gladly patted the chihuahua's head. "What is Aoi doing? I mean, we sent Kai out to go shop for groceries, so he doesn't have any distractions. Uruha is off scouting, too, so he can find us something to do...but he hasn't come back. All we're doing is sitting in the sun."
Ruki narrowed his eyes in sudden realization.
"That's weird," Ruki mumbled. "It's been five hours. It usually takes Aoi one to three hours to fix the bowspirit. Uruha doesn't take long to scout the local area either. Kai should have been back by now, too. He said he'd only take an hour or two."
Reita sighed.
"I didn't really want to think about this until you mentioned that. Rumor says there's a mermaid watching over the island--she entices you with her voice and makes you stay forever. She usually watches the marketplace and the docks," Reita mentioned.
"But Kai and Aoi are gay for each other," Ruki snapped.
"I said 'entices you with her voice and makes you stay forever,' not 'makes you fall in love with her,'" Reita remarked.
"Île du Roi de Mer, huh? What a weird island," Ruki murmured--ignoring Reita completely.
BEHOLD! MY INSPIRATION!!
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