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onepieceyaoi100Title: Exoneration (Whoa. Big word.)
Rating: G
Word Count: 300
Pairing: LuffyUsopp (I need to stop writing LuUso Water7 angsty shit)
Topic: Edge
A/n: Post-Water7 speculation, angst. Sort of. I don't do it as well as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mettathron does, anyway. TT The title nor the title of the lj-cut makes no sense, nor is it related to the content in any way. ...I think.
Smiling hurts like a blade, Usopp realizes, when he tries to grin at his captain like he’s always done and finds himself unable to utilize the face muscles required. What comes out instead is a sort of twitch and a hurried dart of eyes to the side before he settles for a nervous wave at the floorboards. Then he quickly makes his way to the aft for some alone time.
Like he would have gotten it, being with this crew. Luffy follows him, but stops some feet away from where he’s hunched over on his elbows at the railing, staring down into the churning froth of dirty milk white below as the ship surges onward.
“I’ve forgiven you, you know,” Luffy says, quietly.
But I haven’t. His hands grit into tight fists. I can’t. I don’t know how to. He thought he’d gotten over it, but spending a night in foreign territory, waking up to a ceiling he doesn’t recognize, the loss of a familiar, inexistent heartbeat pulsing through the wood beneath his feet as he walks about the alien ship, the feelings are coming back. He’s lost, he’s angry, he’s confused; he wants to smash something, anything, fist the walls to get rid of the inexplicable rage that’s boiling, bursting to get out of him.
He knows it’ll be a few days more before he gets accustomed to the ship, but right now he’s a muddle of volatile emotions and he can’t do anything stupid, because he never wants to see his captain cry again, knowing he’s hurt someone else, never wants to relive that empty crucifixtion of being alone.
Then Luffy steps forward, wraps both arms around him and murmurs, mouth twisting upwards bitterly, “I’ll wait for you to.”
Smiling, Usopp corrects himself, hurts like a double-edged blade.
Rating: G
Word Count: 300
Pairing: LuffyUsopp (I need to stop writing LuUso Water7 angsty shit)
Topic: Edge
A/n: Post-Water7 speculation, angst. Sort of. I don't do it as well as
mettathron does, anyway. TT The title nor the title of the lj-cut makes no sense, nor is it related to the content in any way. ...I think.Smiling hurts like a blade, Usopp realizes, when he tries to grin at his captain like he’s always done and finds himself unable to utilize the face muscles required. What comes out instead is a sort of twitch and a hurried dart of eyes to the side before he settles for a nervous wave at the floorboards. Then he quickly makes his way to the aft for some alone time.
Like he would have gotten it, being with this crew. Luffy follows him, but stops some feet away from where he’s hunched over on his elbows at the railing, staring down into the churning froth of dirty milk white below as the ship surges onward.
“I’ve forgiven you, you know,” Luffy says, quietly.
But I haven’t. His hands grit into tight fists. I can’t. I don’t know how to. He thought he’d gotten over it, but spending a night in foreign territory, waking up to a ceiling he doesn’t recognize, the loss of a familiar, inexistent heartbeat pulsing through the wood beneath his feet as he walks about the alien ship, the feelings are coming back. He’s lost, he’s angry, he’s confused; he wants to smash something, anything, fist the walls to get rid of the inexplicable rage that’s boiling, bursting to get out of him.
He knows it’ll be a few days more before he gets accustomed to the ship, but right now he’s a muddle of volatile emotions and he can’t do anything stupid, because he never wants to see his captain cry again, knowing he’s hurt someone else, never wants to relive that empty crucifixtion of being alone.
Then Luffy steps forward, wraps both arms around him and murmurs, mouth twisting upwards bitterly, “I’ll wait for you to.”
Smiling, Usopp corrects himself, hurts like a double-edged blade.
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Date: 2006-06-15 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-15 02:03 pm (UTC)Usopp..! ;__;
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Date: 2006-06-15 02:31 pm (UTC)Nice job. I wish I could think of more to say, but...man...
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Date: 2006-06-15 04:09 pm (UTC)Poor, poor Usopp. *shakes head*
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Date: 2006-06-15 08:09 pm (UTC)"...and he can’t do anything stupid, because he never wants to see his captain cry again, knowing he’s hurt someone else..." just... ouch.
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Date: 2006-06-16 12:25 am (UTC)Awwww...;_;*sniffs* It's so touching. I love Luffy's words.^^ The ending and beginning rocked.XD