Yes this is real. Continue. Really not a lovey dovey story but its something.
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A loud growl lulled you out of sleep, your eyes immediately rolling to the back of your head.

"What do you want arlong?"
"I don't want anything you human! I want you out of this room!"
"This is my room, ya know?"
"Its my room for the time being you pathetic shrimp of a species!"
"Oh my god..."

You groaned as you stretched, standing up from the floor you'd slept on the night prior to today.

"I don't want to see a speck of your trace around me the rest of the day, I already had to let you sleep in the same room as me."
"Perfectly fine by me, but don't start complaining when you get hungry and want me to bring you food."
"I can bring myself to get up and get it myself, I don't need a puny humans help!"
"You weren't complaining when I dragged your huge fish ass into this bed when you couldn't walk!"

Nothing further came out of his mouth to your relief, the fish man's gaze traveling to land on the covers that wrapped around him.

You crossed your arms as you leaned against the bed, raising an eyebrow to him.

"Do you want breakfast or no?"
"Yes.."
"That's what I thought."
"Don't get cocky with me you inferior wench."

Your eye twitched and you cleared your throat.

"What do you want."
"Anything I can put in my mouth."
"Like my fist right?"

You looked back at him with a glare as a growl resounded from his spot on the bed.

His light blue eyes glared right into your e/c ones.

"You pathetic waste of space! If I was able to, I'd kill you the first time you threatened me!"

Your face began to heat up at the anger surging through your body, the absolute disgust you had got caring for this overgrown piece of tuna.

You ran your hand through your messy hair, secretly shaking out of anger.

"Wonderful, I'll be right back."
"Sadly."

You glared back at him over your shoulder as you slammed the door shut.

You slid down the wall and buried your face in your lap, thinking to yourself.

"Why the hell did I even rescue him from those fucking pirates? I could've easily just walked away, now he's complaining about everything I do for him..."

You lifted your head onto your knees and stared at the wall in front of you.

"I can't just toss him out either, I don't want to die; not yet anyway."

You stand up and brush yourself off, running your hands down your face before walking off into the kitchen.

You opened all the cabinets, searching through them to find something to eat.

"Oh well, fruit for breakfast it is then."

You grabbed a plate and a knife, grabbing a bag that you had gotten from the market.

You started to slowly cut up different fruits, setting them on the plate and deciding whether or not to spit all over them.

"Mm, let's save that for a worse day."

You grabbed the plate, slowly making your way back to the room.

"Sorry, I was contemplating my life before you were a part of it."

You frowned as he didn't look up from his lap, his hands holding something between them.

"Yo, fishboy."

You heard him growl as you set the plate beside the bed, glancing to his lap.

"What's.."

You snatched the item from his palms, holding it close to your chest.

"What the hell!? Just because you're in my room, it doesn't mean you're allowed to go through my shit!"
"Well it gets quite boring in here when I can't yell at anybody!"
"Then stop yelling!"
"I'm not going to stop yelling until you finally realize how superior I am to you and all of your kind!"

That did it.

You didn't know what was happening until you were, quite literally, on top of him.

"Stop being so fucking proud, I swear if I wasn't taking care of your demanding shark ass I would've left you out to dry two days ago! I could easily give you up to the fucking government and let them take care of your large ego!"

Your hands were now wrapped around his thick neck, pressing him down into the bed forcefully.

You knew it didn't hurt him in the slightest, but it was either this or you'd most likely go crazy.

You sighed and leaned away, letting a large breath of air pass through your lips.

"But, I didn't. And you're here complaining about everything under the sun."

He sat up, making you fall onto your back as his massive form hovered over yours.

"Who do you think you're talking to human?"

You closed your eyes and sighed.

"I'm talking to Arlong, the exact fishman I was talking to earlier."
"And you're human mind can't quite understand the dangers of speaking up to me, can it?"
"Apparently not."

A grunt left his lips as you felt the bed shift, your eyes opened as he sat cross legged in front of you.

You sat up and looked up at him, noting the many bandages that wrapped around him.

"Tell me why you, a human, would want to help me, a fishman, a supposed dangerous species that could easily kill you."

You shrugged and looked to the side, put off as he took your action from earlier off of his mind.

"I thought I could get to know more about you all I guess, i didn't think of you all as much of an obvious threat as I do now.."
"Naive human, you took in a fishman with the potential to level a town; a whole city. Yet here you still are tending to me and taking all of my talk, still my question is; why."

You sighed and let your body fall back on the familiar bed, staring up at the ceiling.

"Well first off, this human has a name, and its Y/n."

You glanced at him and back at the ceiling.

"Not that you'd care much, but I like it better than human. And I guess..I just...couldn't really stand to see anyone get left to all of that. Its hard to let anyone get that low; no matter what they did in the past or what they were planning. And I.."

You clenched your eyes shut, knowing you were going to regret what you were about to say.

"And I felt...I felt sorry for you.."

You braced yourself for some kind of hysterical laughter, more harsh mockery of words, anything that would make you regret saying what you had.

But nothing was said.

Nothing was heard.

You slowly raised yourself up as your eyes opened.

His face was blank, and his body was still as you did so, sitting up on your knees.

"Arlong?"

Nothing.

"Arlong."

Still nothing from the fishman.

"For the love of tuna will you say something?"
"...I uh..."

You blinked at his uneven state, his eyes following everything but you.

"Can..you just go get me something to drink.."
"Yeah..sure, what do you want?"
"I don't know..something.."
"Okay, I'll just get you some water or something.."
"Yeah okay..Y/n.."

You hummed quietly as you made your way out of the room and back into the kitchen.

"Did I break him?"

You shook your head, pouring out a glass of some alcohol you stored in the freezer.

"Oh well, maybe he'll stop shouting at me."

You walked back to the room and stepped in, seeing as he had dozed off.

You sat the glass beside the bed and sighed as you looked him over.

"Well, if you're going to sleep on it, I might as well too.."

You sat on the floor beside the bed and laid down on your back, closing your eyes.

"Y/n?"

You popped an eye open and looked up at Arlong as he drank down the glass.

"Yes?"
"This is your room after all, why don't you.."

He smoothed his hands over the covers of the bed, glancing down at you.

"Why don't you join me up here.."

You sat up and looked up at him.

"You sure.."

You stand up and inch your way to the side of the bed.

"Yes..its the only way I know how to really apologize.."

You smiled slightly and slowly raised up to the side and slid down onto your back.

"Well...apology accepted I suppose.."

You heard a small chuckle beside you, and the bed shifted again as he moved to make room for you.

"You don't have to move Arlong, I don't have anything against touching you."
"Obviously.."

His hand traveled up along his neck and stopped as he rubbed around it.

You grinned and rolled onto your side.

"Yeah, obviously."
"Well.."

He laid down on his side as his eyes closed again, his chest rising and falling evenly.

You slid a bit closer and smiled at the warmth he emanated.

Your eyes closed, an arm wrapping around your waist as you were pulled against a warm chest.

"If you don't have a problem touching me...I don't have a problem touching you..."