After everyone had spun the bottle, it was Luffy's turn at long last. As he was the first one to spin it, he had to wait for everybody else to take their turn to play.
As soon as the speed decreased, the bottle slowed down and ended up pointing to Zoro. The duo stood up from the floor.
"Your seven minutes start now." Luffy looked down when feeling an odd restraint on his right hand.
Not saying a word, Zoro lead the boy into the empty room, confusing him by locking the door behind them.
"Luffy, let me see you for a minute. Come here." His voice was deep, with not even a slight hint of softness or compassion emitting from it.
"I'm right here, Zoro. Don't you see me?" Luffy teased, sticking his tongue out at the Swordsman who grabbed onto him by his red collar.
"W-what are you..." The man popped open Luffy's shirt as if his buttons were a zipper, letting his fall to the floor as he stretched his neck back, examining it.
This, of course, made the Captain feel confused. The invasive procedure felt unnecessary to the younger boy.
"Enough, stop that!" He pushed Zoro away, bending over to pick his shirt up from the floor but was denied the privilege of doing so when getting pinned up against the wall.
"What did you do in here with Usopp." His handler asked, interrogating the young man.
"W-what?"
"..'What' isn't an answer, tell me!" Luffy hissed at Zoro while feeling under pressure by him.
"We made strange sounds for fun! Just for fun. What are you so mad about, Zoro..." He sighed. But his explanation wasn't enough to convince the older man.
Luffy struggled in his grip, using his Devil powers to release himself from the man, backing away from him.
"That damn Cook lied to me just to get out of the closet earlier, then. I swear, I'll cut him in his sleep one night..." Zoro snickered, explaining what Sanji had told him.
Luffy started to laugh, pointing at the man.
"Well, if you didn't like being locked up with him, I doubt you'll like being here with me as well." The Captain said, sitting down on the hardwood flooring.
He moved over, watching Zoro sit down beside him.
"I was actually hoping the bottle would land on you." His first mate confessed.
"Really? What for?" Luffy lowered his gaze, playing with the fabric of his shriveled shirt.
"You know, at first I thought this was a stupid game. But come to think of it, it's not so bad."
"And," Zoro continued. "I wanted you as a partner for a few reasons. One being that you make everything less awkward. But there's more to it." Luffy crawled towards the man, sitting closer to him.
"And what else? Anything in particular?" He smiled, searching for a clearer answer from Zoro.
"There is one thing we could do to pass the time here. Remember what you and Usopp did before?" His reminder brought back funny memories to Luffy
while he agreed.
Zoro held the boy's arm, bringing his body up against the wall, keeping his bottom on top of his lap.
Luffy remained silent, seeing what was about to unfold before his wild eyes.
"What if we try recreating that right now. Hmm?" His lover suggested, running his thumb across the waistband of Luffy's pants.
The Captain gulped, feeling the air grow dense around him when Zoro's lips caressed his own, waiting for a response.
As a reply, Luffy started kissing him back, watching his lips travel down to his neck. A ticklish sensation lead the boy to chuckle, then urged him to moan when Zoro sank his teeth into his tender flesh.
The skin around Luffy's neck turned a dark shade of red as his boyfriend left a hickey on him, taking his time to leave a perfect mark.
"A-aah... That hurts a little, Zoro." He furrowed his eyebrows, screwing his eyes shut until Zoro pulled his mouth away, leaving a round mark with his teeth markings carved into him.
Taking in some fresh air, Zoro whispered "not enough," underneath his breath while the younger nodded.
He placed his hand behind Luffy's waist, lifting his bottom from below to slide his pants down but the younger stopped him.
"Zoro... We only have seven minutes. There's no time for both of us to take everything off." Taking heed into the warning his Captain gave him, Zoro had a change of plans.
"Then we'll just have to make do with this." The man agreed to leaving his own clothing on, but when it came to Luffy's, his clothes had to go.
He quickly stripped the boy, struggling with his jeans and belt that had gotten tangled with his own robe.
"It's taking forever, just pull it harder!"
"I'm trying, it just won't budge." Zoro took out his sword, protecting the young boy by pushing his head back against the floor.
Cutting through the fabric of his robe, the Swordsman kept Luffy flat on the floor, simplifying the access to take his pants off after there was nothing keeping them from unzipping.
Luffy looked up at his significant other, staring into those dilated eyes of his that were eating him alive.
"Touch me..."
~Seven Minutes later~
"Should we go check on them? Maybe they fell asleep." Chopper suggested, removing the earplugs from his ears.
Originally, the friendly doctor volunteered in knocking against the closet door, but things changed when a loud noise left everyone in shock.
The door was being pounded continuously at the unforgiving speed of light, causing it to quake.
"EH!!? WHAT WAS THAT?!" Chopper got closer to the door, placing his stethoscope against it. For awhile, there was just silence coming from the young deer, but his curiosity came to an end after hearing something that left him flustered.
"Chopper?" Everyone watched him place the pair of ear plugs that were given to him, back into his ears, while he hid his face in his pink, top hat.
"What could be going on in that room..."
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