The greatest swordsman

[synvamp.livejournal.com]

Title: the greatest swordsman
Rating: PG 13; for something that resembles violence...
Media: fic
Pairing/Characters: Zoro / Sanji (no pairing unless you squint REAL hard)
Word Count: 165
Prompt: ‘skill’

 

Turning the blade ever so slightly; the end closest to strong, resolute fingers stays perfectly still.

The sharp tip rotates slowly, pure precision and control. He could thread a needle with that blade... A long slow stroke and the flesh peels away like butter. Severed neatly. Surgical and bloodless.

To some it would be disgusting; dead meat being sliced so methodically. A reminder of the raw vulnerability of all of us made of such tender stuff... To Zoro it is beautiful. A display of skill, of talent, of raw power bound and harnessed to serve the whim of a killing edge.

The perfect, tiny movements which leave no scrap to waste. The focussing of all that force into a single point, for a single purpose – one desire and one need.

He might be the greatest swordsman alive... Or close. But when it came to this mirror faced kitchen knife, sometimes in his weakest moments, he wondered silently if Sanji’s skills would put him to shame.

Comments

[dethorats]

Interesting! That final line and the bit in the middle about Sanji slicing really made this work for me.

[synvamp.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it, I guess it's not quite my usual writing style for One Piece ;) I've been thinking a lot about Sanji's blade skills (due to the great fic floating around recently on the topic) so it seemed perfect for this prompt.

[slaughterchichi.livejournal.com]

I really liked this; Zoro wondering if Sanji's blade skills are better than his own is an interesting thought. The idea that he likes watching meat and stuff be cut up is awesome too; in my personal canon, it's something he totally loves, so <3333

[synvamp.livejournal.com]

*sigh* plot bunnies of carve-offs using giant sea monsters cartwheel through my mind... I guess I figured that Zoro (being so competitve) would have to at least notice Sanji's 'way with knives', and most likely he'd decide that with a sword he was God but with a knife... well. Maybe XD

I tend to like your drabbles so I guess we think alike ;)

[dandywonderous.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I love it! Heck yeah Sanji pwns!! XD