In the Course of a Year -- Happy birthday, Usopp~!

Apr 01, 2007 02:03

Title: In the Course of a Year
Fandom: One Piece
Characters: Usopp, the Usopp Pirates, Kaya, and the Straw Hats
Rating: PG
Dedication: Happy birthday, Usopp!

A lot of things can change in the course of a year, Usopp realizes as orange and red flames of the candles flicker before his eyes and he ponders on his birthday wish. This time, last year, he probably wished for piratical infamy and getting married to Kaya. He probably told the Usopp Pirates the tale of how he was born on from the mouth of a shooting star that had God’s personal signature on it (“But…do shooting stars have mouths?” “Now, now, Ninjin, don’t interrupt your captain…”). He probably fell and bruised his nose from leaning over too far on the tree branch, when Kaya agreed to give him a celebratory kiss. He probably went to his mother’s grave and told her every amazing thing he’d done since the last time.

This year, he doesn’t know what to wish for. He decides to put off the infamy for as long as possible; sailing with three bounty holders has given him more than a taste of what popularity with the marines is like. And while some part of his heart still beats for Kaya, she’s far away, at home, and he’s here, on a ship with two other women, and-as embarrassing and pathetic it is for him to admit it-he thinks he’d marry Nami or Robin in an instant, if given the chance. Hell, he thinks he’d marry any of them, for that matter.

So what else can he wish for, than to be right here, in this same spot, next year?
And that night, when the party is over and he’s had more birthday taps and birthday kisses and birthday drinks than he can count, he finds himself in the Crow’s Nest, with his head turned up to the shooting stars, and he tells his mother every (dangerous) and amazing thing he-and his friends-have done since the last time.

usopp, birthdays, one piece

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