shanks, four years younger than mihawk, is usually granted the "starry-eyed crush on the cool older boy" trope (with good reason!), so i was thinking it'd be cute to grant that dubious pleasure to mihawk in an age swap au instead.
mihawk, scrappy nine year old, gets picked up by roger for a trip on the oro jackson to the next island (roger just wants to feed the kid lol), and gets sweet talked into it by dangling a duel with rayleigh, the current world's greatest swordsman, as bait. when mihawk gets there, rayleigh says mihawk has to be able to beat his apprentices first, and gets his ass summarily handed to him by a thirteen year old shanks, who both impresses and embarrasses mihawk, as shanks beats him without even trying but he's so cool when he does it.
and so mihawk declares himself shanks's rival, and when he wins, shanks will have to listen to a request. and years and years later, when mihawk finally does win, that request--which he's never changed his mind about--is permission to start formally courting shanks. charmed, and absolutely having seen this coming after years of observing an obvious crush and slowly warming up to it as mihawk grew and changed between their meetings, laughs and just kisses mihawk straight-up.
Been thinking about Sukuna carving you up to lick you and taste you while he’s double stuffing you and telling you how much of a worthless vessel you are…the way his two dicks carve you out on the inside before he takes a bite…
started idly writing this mihawk & rayleigh fic cuz ive been taken by those mishanks fics where ray basically adopts mihawk, so here's a snippet i find funny lol. happens after mihawk, 11, loses his duel with rayleigh.
"Well, I won, so you're coming with me."
"Of course," Mihawk says haughtily. "I accept my loss, and I keep my word. I will win next time." He goes to take a step forward, toward his sword, and then he promptly collapses face-first onto the ground.
Rayleigh looks at this small, skinny, malnourished, and now thoroughly exhausted child lying in the middle of the road, and thinks, I don't even know what I expected. He sighs, picks Mihawk up and tosses him over one shoulder, briefly looks around and sees the kid apparently didn't bring anything else with him including a sheath and so sticks the kid's sword in his belt beside his own, and then bends down with an old man grunt to pick up his neglected bag of groceries. A quick peek shows him that the five cartons of eggs he bought all seem intact, and he mentally fist pumps.
When he starts walking, he realizes that his glasses have slipped down the bridge of his nose and his hands are too full to fix them. Rayleigh spends the rest of the way back to the Oro Jackson trying to use his occupied shoulders to straighten up his glasses, to no avail.