Eustass Kid x Reader - Softie

No matter how you looked at it, there was a fact about Eustass that no one could change. It was funny, especialy in contrast to his looks and normal behavior.

The thing was he was in fact a huge softie.

Well, at least when it came to you that is. The problem was simple; Eustass could only display affection in private. In front of others Kid was the same asshole Kid as anytime else. And sometimes...

"[Name]! Wait!" SLAM!

It just got annoying...

"[Name]! Come on! You know I didn't mean it!" He opened the door you slammed in his face a second ago, slipping inside the room after you.

He closed the door carefully behind himself, as if careful not to break it after you slammed it so hard. He heard shuffling and turned his head over to you, seeing you lying on the bed on your stomach, apparently reading a book.

'Wow, she sure is fast...' He noted at the fact that he remembered you putting the book in your night table before.

"[Name]...?" He walked over to you, dropping his coat his chair and slipping out of his boots.

He sighed and laid down on you, careful not to crush you under his huge weight. He lifted you under him a bit to slip his arms around you and buried his face in your neck.

"[Name]." He spoke, though it sounded more like a grumble as it was muffled by your flesh against his lips.

No reaction.

Oh come on! You didn't glance at him! After he lifted his head he took note of your pupils fixated on one place, meaning you were paying him some kind of attention, only pretending to be reading. This little in-head self-celebration was cut short when your eyes started trailing over the letters again.

Eustass glared at the book.

With a sigh he lifted himself off you and stood up "Fine..." He grumbled and dissappeared out of the room.

You stayed fixated on the book, not sparing a look to the man who left the room. You heard a pleasant sound coming from outside the room, then it stopped. After a while there was a sound and a click, signaling Kid has come back and closed the door.

He growled a bit "Here. Is this what you wanted?"

You didn't need to look at him to guess what he did. The sound from before was making it even more obvious.

He sighed for the third time today at your lack of response. He made his way back over to you, sitting on your bed. One of his legs hung off the bed, while the other was bent to rest on his other knee. His eyes trailed over the back of your form.

'Maaaan... No matter from what angle you're looking, she's always hot... Or beautiful to put it more gently...' He inwardly smacked himself for his use of words.

Geez, he only spoke like this when he wasn't alone. He didn't want it to start brushing off on his normal behavior. He didn't use terms like 'hot'. Though towards you he thought it fit you, he felt like a pervert calling you that. After all, despite the fact he loved you, thought you were the most beautiful girl alive and would give up the world for you, he would often find himself thinking he wasn't worthy of you. His tough exterior and usual lack of affection wasn't helping either. He often found himself getting embarassed when he had dirty thoughts of you, finding it sick and filthy of him, someone others viewed as a strange-looking brute, to have impure thoughts of someone as perfect as you. How could you ever say you love him, he had no clue, but hey, there wasn't a thing that'd make him happier than hearing you say those words.

He was angry at himself for always acting towards you the way he did.

~*~*~Flashback to earlier that day*~*~*~

"Alright everyone! Before we sink this shit of a ship, grab all the treasure you can and bring it on our ship!" Kid commanded to his crew who made a group sound of aproval.

In matter of minutes, treasure was claimed and another Big Mom ally ship was sunk.

"Wow these guys sure got some nice stuff on them..." Wire commented, looking through the treasure.

Kid smirked at the pile of gold and wealth Wire was rummaging through.

"Yo Kid! Hi guys!" You appeared out of nowhere, obviously having picked on the fresh smell of new gold on the ship.

"'Sup [Name]!" The crew greeted.

You yawned "What's wrong, sleeping beauty? Had a nice nap while we were all beating ass, huh?" Kid asked, rather mockingly too.

"Well excuse me! I don't remember, me having to win all the battles you start for you, being part of our deal! Plus, if you wanted me to help, you should have sent someone to go wake me up! You know I'm a heavy sleeper! It's not my fault!" A tick mark appeared on the side of your head as you resisted the urge to point your finger in his face.

He always acted so rude and indifferent towards you when you weren't alone! What the hell was his problem?!

"Well maybe if you weren't a lazy bitch, you wouldn't have been sleeping all day while us, who actually so something, have to stay awake and fight to keep your little ass cozy!" Kid snapped at you.

"What did you just call me?!" You gasped.

You never called him names, well at least not in front of his crew. Then why the hell was he always so rude to you?!

"You heard me! Lazy bitch!" He bent down to your eye level and glared down at you.

You eye twitched as tears appeared in the corners of your eyes, your face reddening slightly from your anger.

"You know what?!" You yelled in his face, starting to lose patience with him.

This was barely the first time he's acted like this with you. Actually, he's always been like this. But after he confessed to you, you thought things would eventualy get better. But they just seemed to get worse.

You knew why it was that way though. He felt embarassed showing affection in public and if he knew others knew he loved you, he felt a need to make them think he didn't have such a soft spot for you as one would have guessed. His way of proving that was by being mean to you in front of others, making them think you weren't as significant to him as it was with normal couples.

It was the very opposite in private though.

He was like a big cuddly teddy bear then. He loved simple things such as little kisses, hugs and cuddling. Of course he liked for things to get heated from time to time, but otherwise he was such a softie!

You loved him, sí, but you just hated the way he handled you in public. It just angered you how he just seemed so selfish. If he truly loved you, couldn't he prove it at all times the same?!

You had enough of his behavior, not to mention it was embarassing. You had a feeling even the crew started treating you more lowly after that.

"You know what?!!"

"What?!" He yelled back at you.

"Go fuck yourself, you bitch-ass prick!" You yelled in his face the loudest you could.

His eyes widen.

The crew stared at you, completely and utterly confused, not to mention surprised.

You never cussed at captain, so why know?

You barely cussed even normaly, yet alone at the captain.

With tears still in the corners of your eyes, you forced them back, turned on your heel and stormed off.

"O-Oi! [Name]! Wait!"

~*~*~*End of flashback*~*~*~

Kid still sat on the bed, in the same position, thinking over the way he's acted with you today. Maybe he should really learn how to show more affection in public...

He reached out his hand and started massaging the back of your right leg which was closer to him.

"[Name]." He called, but again there was no response.

"[Name]. At least look at me."

Nothing.

He sighed.

He bent over to you, his breath washing over your shoulder and ear.

"[Name]." He grabbed you by your chin and gently turned your head to him.

He stared at you 'She's so beautiful...'

He looked in your eyes, seeing your long eyelashes and sparkly orbs.

You finally smiled at him and spoke.

"You washed off your make-up..." You noted.

That was the sound from before. When he left the room you could hear water running. He was washing his face. To remove his lipstick and eye shadow. He knew you thought he looked better that way. You told him so many times.

You leaned him and kissed him on the lips. Oh yes his clean lips felt so much better against yours when there was no lipstick sticking to your face when your lips connected.

You two parted shortly after as you stared at him, oserving his natural features when his make-up was gone.

"You are so handsome..." You mumbled, taking in his looks.

He blushed and looked away.

"A-Are you still mad at me?" He asked, trying to change to subject, as well as geniunely worried.

"Nah. I can never stay mad at you for long." You confessed.

He smiled and nuzzled noses with you, going into his full-out private cuddly mode.

"[Name]-chan~~~ Aishiteru~" He purred, cuddling into you more.

You chuckled at him.

"Yeah, yeah I love you too..."

Who would have thought this huge, short-tempered red-head was such a softie...

*~*~*~Meanwhile outside your room (Law: Did somebody say 'Room'? Author: N-Not yet, Law-sama! We love you, but seriously get out of Eustass-san's one-shot!*~*~*~

"See? Told ya she'd forgive 'im!" Heat grinned as the two of them spied on you two behind the door.

"Whoa man. You're good. Here's the 500 beli I promised." Wire said, genuinely surprised, giving Heat the money.

'Oh Wire... You've always been really bad at reading people... So easy to rob of money when it comes to this kind of bets... Hehehehehe...' Heat laughed on the inside at his friend's naivety.

"Hey you two."

They turned their heads to see Killer standing there.

"You're destroying the atmosphere. Get the fuck away from here."

"Y-Yes, sir!"