Yes, I'd say it's more presentation than style, the feel of a Western vs anime fic. I'd say what gives me the Western sense in your story is that it's playing out like an episode or movie, set (more less) within canon, with a plot appropriate to the show, and equal weight given to all the chars - it's not that anime fic like that don't exist, but they're relatively rare, while as a lot of Western fic tends to imitate the source more closely. Being raised on Western fic myself, I tend to prefer canon-close stories to a/u's and such myself, so...

I was lucky to find that my sister shared my sadistic tastes, and since then I've found a few more people who know that warm squirmy feeling in your belly that good h/c evokes...but we are a special breed ^_^

T'hy'la! wow! haven't thought of that in years!! Some of the early novels were absolutely delicious (there were a few semi-official publications from zines, out of print but discovered in used bookstores, that gave me the purest h/c I found until I hit the 'net) And yes, Kirk-Spock, totally, all the way. Presently I can see the slash there (really, with pon farr they made it unavoidable) but at the time it was all about the friendship. (have recently been reminded of some of the dynamics of Kirk & Spock by a certain other headstrong, emotional, impulsive captain and his long-suffering but impossibly loyal first mate ^___^ But then in my head Sanji starts up with the, "Dammit, Luffy, I'm a cook, not a xylophone player!" and it all goes to hell...)