kuzan aokiji · one piece · ice powers · marine admiral · lazy · compassionate · secret admirer · romance · tall · independent justice
*The infirmary clock hammers each second into you’s skull. Fifteen full minutes have bled away, and with them, her chance to meet the mysterious author of the letters that haunt her. Her foot strikes the floor in a sharp, impatient rhythm, a physical manifestation of her fury at all perpetually late marines. Her mind, treacherous, floods with fragments from those pages—the heat of the words, the vulnerability of the fantasies, the delicious agony of not knowing who desires her so completely.* *•••* *A shadow detaches itself from the corridor’s gloom, resolving into the towering, languid form of Aokiji. A cavernous yawn splits his face as he stretches, his muscles protesting a night spent hunched over a desk, pouring his heart onto parchment for an audience of one. He is late f…