One Piece- "Letters Home"
ONE MORE REQUEST AND I'M DONE!!
Title: Letters Home
Rating: PG-13
Pairing/Character/s: vague hints of Luffy+Nami, ZoroxSanji, Nojiko, and the appearance of most of the rest of the crew too.
Word Count: 1,379
Warning/s: Stupidity, OOCness… randomness. XD Also, obvious spoilers for the Arlong Park arc.
Summary: Side story (future fic) in the “Courtship Rituals” universe-Nami on the occasion of Nojiko’s engagement.
Dedication: tokki_chan- You steal from me, my first Luffy+Nami fic. XD Hopefully it’s not too crappy a steal. Also, thanks to kyrakitty and arrakas for helping my stupid memory. XD
A/N: The theme requested was “Mail.” I am still too lazy to write outside of this crack-ass universe I have made. XD
When she got the letter in the mail announcing Nojiko’s engagement she smiled and thought that that was nice, that her sister deserved something like normalcy after all the things they’d been put through at Arlong’s hands.
A marine no less-he looked sweet and calm and very responsible in the picture enclosed, and Nami thought that they seemed like an oddly perfect match in all their apparent… well, normalcy. She was very happy she and her sister had both found something that suited them after they’d won the freedom they’d wanted for so long.
Smiling to herself, the navigator of the straw hat pirates took her favorite seat out on the deck of the ship and began to write her sister a response.
Dear Nojiko,
In the background cannons fired and explosions blew the water out from around them, but the ship was kept steady enough by the crew’s defense that her writing didn’t smudge.
Luffy laughed in excitement and launched himself headfirst through the keel of one of the attacking marine ships, landing on the deck of the galleon behind it. “Gomu-Gomu no HARPOON!”
“My, that’s a new one, isn’t it?” Robin observed calmly from beside Nami, and disarmed all the sailors currently storming their peaceful little ship with a quietly ominous crunch.
“Mmm,” Nami agreed absently, and thought about what to write back to Nojiko about.
Congratulations on your engagement! He looks like a good catch, I think. Or if he isn’t you’ll eventually beat him into one, ne? As for me, life’s been pretty calm here on Grand Line…
The cry of indignant Marines cut through the air as Luffy stormed their ship and attacked-their kitchen.
“Wooo sashimi!!!”
“Mugiwara’s raiding the galley! Attack!!”
I guess the big news on board lately has been the fact that Sanji and Zoro have since gotten married as well…
“Idiot marimo, didn’t I tell you to duck!?”
“I already told you to duck first!”
“Well I wasn’t going to duck unless you ducked!”
“Dumbass!!”
“Fucker!”
“ATTACK RORONOA, MEN!”
“Don’t call me that!”
“They were talking to me, aho-cook!”
…hehe, I think they’re a surprisingly loving couple.
“I’m going to kill you later, mosquito-target brow!”
“Yeah? You won’t find anyone else who'll have sex with your ugly, smelly ass in all the damned world, stupid ox!”
Luffy is well too, I’ll tell him you asked about him. He’ll be glad to know you remember him, I think. It’s always been the simple things that make him happiest.
“Mugiwara raided the galley!”
“GONE! It’s all gone!”
And while we're on the topic of Luffy I also want you to know that I think your oh-so-subtle accusations are a little bit unfounded-we’re not living in romantic sin with one another on the high seas like in whatever trashy romance novels you’ve been reading lately. He’s the kind of idiot captain whose greatest loves will always be food, drink, and adventure, after all.
Usopp’s panicked cry interrupted her missive writing for a moment and she glanced up, just in time to see him grab desperately at the fallen form of his captain with his eyes full of tears. “Luffy! Luffy get up!! There’s still more marines!!” the frightened cannoneer shrieked and shook Luffy fiercely.
Luffy grinned back at him happily despite the shaking and rubbed his swollen stomach. “Gomu-gomu no food coma,” he announced, and belched right into the sharpshooter’s face.
Usopp mibbled and shook him harder. “Wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup!!”
Luffy promptly did the exact opposite. His snores sounded quite content, even from where Nami was sitting.
With tears in his eyes, Usopp stood and solemnly announced, “Captain down!!”
And then, in a smaller voice, “Zoro, Sanji, Robin, I leave it to you!”
Robin smiled. “Of course, nagahana-kun.”
Behind her, a galleon sprung arms and was dragged forcibly under the water.
Nami went back to writing.
Luffy’s not the kind of man one falls in love with in any case-can you imagine how badly suited we would be for one another? I hope your engagement to Marine-kun isn’t founded on the same basis as your assumptions about me and Luffy, Nojiko! Haha well. I’m sure it’s not-he looks like he’ll be a very responsible type of husband. Not at all like Luffy. Actually, he’ll probably be more like-- surprisingly-- Zoro. Though hopefully more tactful.
“Is that the last one?”
“We can’t sink them all, dumbass, how’re they gonna get home?”
Zoro sighed. “Fine, lemme go fuck up the cannons at least, so they’ll stop shooting at us.”
“You sound disappointed.”
“I was expecting more of a workout.”
“Figures.” Pause. “How worked up are you, anyway?”
Pause back. Then, a distinctively happier sounding, “I’m pretty damn worked up.”
“Wanna…”
Grin. “Hell yes. But first go get Chopper to wrap up that cut on your leg, stupid eyebrows.”
Sanji scowled. “Che. Fine.”
They surreptitiously exchanged a quick kiss on the cheek before Sanji went off to go find Chopper and Zoro went off to fuck up some cannons.
Anyway, I should keep this short because it looks like everyone is about ready to head out again. I’ll include a longer letter later, after I’ve found a fitting wedding gift for you. I’m sorry I can’t be there to see it myself, but take lots of pictures for me, ne?
Love,
Nami
The sound of cannons being fucked up told her things were just about done, and standing, Nami padded over towards Luffy’s side as she held the letter between her hands, blowing on the ink to help it set faster. “Oi, Luffy.”
He made a generally happy noise in the back of his throat, but didn’t wake up.
She nudged him with her shoe. “Oi, Luffy!” she repeated, and her voice had a dangerous edge to it (i.e. one that suggested the nudging would turn to stepping would turn to stomping if it got to that).
“Mmmph, Nami?” The captain’s eyes blinked open then and he grinned up at her happily. “I saved you some meat!” he reached into his pocket.
She made a face. “Um, that’s okay. You can have it.”
Luffy sat up, eyes shining. “Wah, really?!”
She nodded. “Yeah, really.”
He hugged her ankles. “You’re being so nice today!!”
Her eyebrow twitched at the “today” part, just a little bit. “But in exchange I need a favor.”
He was busily munching on his meat, but nodded up at her around a mouthful of it anyway. “Mppph!” (Translation: “Sure!”)
She smiled. “Nojiko’s getting married next month and I need to stop somewhere nice to get her a present…”
The captain’s eyes got big. “We should send her lots of meat!!”
Nami sighed, patiently. “Maybe something that won’t smell when it gets to her.”
“Oh, good idea, Nami! I guess I’ll just eat the meat then…”
“WE HAVEN’T BOUGHT IT YET.”
A few weeks later, a package arrived at Cocoyashi village for Nojiko, brightly wrapped and suspiciously heavy.
The letter attached to the present read as follows:
Dear Nojiko,
Congratulations again, I hope this present suits your tastes. Not a WORD about the inscription on the card-he insisted.
Nojiko smiled at that and went straight to the card taped to her nicely wrapped gift next, laughing out loud when she saw the two parts there-- one with her name in Nami’s familiar, elegant script and just below that, a self-portrait that any four-year-old could have drawn with crayon.
Hi Nojiko-san!! This is me! the writing read, and pointed to the self-portrait. Do you remember me?
She remembered him very well, actually.
I wanted to buy you meat for your present but Nami let me have it instead! She’s being really nice today! So… here’s something she picked out! I don’t think you can eat it though. Too bad! Have a happy wedding! Make lots of babies!
And there, at the very bottom of the card,
From Nami…
And me! Luffy! From both of us!
Nojiko laughed again and promptly went to pin the card and letter up in the same spot where she kept the rest of Nami’s rare and precious missives.
Smiling to herself, she supposed that on a place as strange and wonderful as Grand Line, you didn’t always need a ceremony to show the world how things stood.
END
EDITS PLZ.
Title: Letters Home
Rating: PG-13
Pairing/Character/s: vague hints of Luffy+Nami, ZoroxSanji, Nojiko, and the appearance of most of the rest of the crew too.
Word Count: 1,379
Warning/s: Stupidity, OOCness… randomness. XD Also, obvious spoilers for the Arlong Park arc.
Summary: Side story (future fic) in the “Courtship Rituals” universe-Nami on the occasion of Nojiko’s engagement.
Dedication: tokki_chan- You steal from me, my first Luffy+Nami fic. XD Hopefully it’s not too crappy a steal. Also, thanks to kyrakitty and arrakas for helping my stupid memory. XD
A/N: The theme requested was “Mail.” I am still too lazy to write outside of this crack-ass universe I have made. XD
When she got the letter in the mail announcing Nojiko’s engagement she smiled and thought that that was nice, that her sister deserved something like normalcy after all the things they’d been put through at Arlong’s hands.
A marine no less-he looked sweet and calm and very responsible in the picture enclosed, and Nami thought that they seemed like an oddly perfect match in all their apparent… well, normalcy. She was very happy she and her sister had both found something that suited them after they’d won the freedom they’d wanted for so long.
Smiling to herself, the navigator of the straw hat pirates took her favorite seat out on the deck of the ship and began to write her sister a response.
Dear Nojiko,
In the background cannons fired and explosions blew the water out from around them, but the ship was kept steady enough by the crew’s defense that her writing didn’t smudge.
Luffy laughed in excitement and launched himself headfirst through the keel of one of the attacking marine ships, landing on the deck of the galleon behind it. “Gomu-Gomu no HARPOON!”
“My, that’s a new one, isn’t it?” Robin observed calmly from beside Nami, and disarmed all the sailors currently storming their peaceful little ship with a quietly ominous crunch.
“Mmm,” Nami agreed absently, and thought about what to write back to Nojiko about.
Congratulations on your engagement! He looks like a good catch, I think. Or if he isn’t you’ll eventually beat him into one, ne? As for me, life’s been pretty calm here on Grand Line…
The cry of indignant Marines cut through the air as Luffy stormed their ship and attacked-their kitchen.
“Wooo sashimi!!!”
“Mugiwara’s raiding the galley! Attack!!”
I guess the big news on board lately has been the fact that Sanji and Zoro have since gotten married as well…
“Idiot marimo, didn’t I tell you to duck!?”
“I already told you to duck first!”
“Well I wasn’t going to duck unless you ducked!”
“Dumbass!!”
“Fucker!”
“ATTACK RORONOA, MEN!”
“Don’t call me that!”
“They were talking to me, aho-cook!”
…hehe, I think they’re a surprisingly loving couple.
“I’m going to kill you later, mosquito-target brow!”
“Yeah? You won’t find anyone else who'll have sex with your ugly, smelly ass in all the damned world, stupid ox!”
Luffy is well too, I’ll tell him you asked about him. He’ll be glad to know you remember him, I think. It’s always been the simple things that make him happiest.
“Mugiwara raided the galley!”
“GONE! It’s all gone!”
And while we're on the topic of Luffy I also want you to know that I think your oh-so-subtle accusations are a little bit unfounded-we’re not living in romantic sin with one another on the high seas like in whatever trashy romance novels you’ve been reading lately. He’s the kind of idiot captain whose greatest loves will always be food, drink, and adventure, after all.
Usopp’s panicked cry interrupted her missive writing for a moment and she glanced up, just in time to see him grab desperately at the fallen form of his captain with his eyes full of tears. “Luffy! Luffy get up!! There’s still more marines!!” the frightened cannoneer shrieked and shook Luffy fiercely.
Luffy grinned back at him happily despite the shaking and rubbed his swollen stomach. “Gomu-gomu no food coma,” he announced, and belched right into the sharpshooter’s face.
Usopp mibbled and shook him harder. “Wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup!!”
Luffy promptly did the exact opposite. His snores sounded quite content, even from where Nami was sitting.
With tears in his eyes, Usopp stood and solemnly announced, “Captain down!!”
And then, in a smaller voice, “Zoro, Sanji, Robin, I leave it to you!”
Robin smiled. “Of course, nagahana-kun.”
Behind her, a galleon sprung arms and was dragged forcibly under the water.
Nami went back to writing.
Luffy’s not the kind of man one falls in love with in any case-can you imagine how badly suited we would be for one another? I hope your engagement to Marine-kun isn’t founded on the same basis as your assumptions about me and Luffy, Nojiko! Haha well. I’m sure it’s not-he looks like he’ll be a very responsible type of husband. Not at all like Luffy. Actually, he’ll probably be more like-- surprisingly-- Zoro. Though hopefully more tactful.
“Is that the last one?”
“We can’t sink them all, dumbass, how’re they gonna get home?”
Zoro sighed. “Fine, lemme go fuck up the cannons at least, so they’ll stop shooting at us.”
“You sound disappointed.”
“I was expecting more of a workout.”
“Figures.” Pause. “How worked up are you, anyway?”
Pause back. Then, a distinctively happier sounding, “I’m pretty damn worked up.”
“Wanna…”
Grin. “Hell yes. But first go get Chopper to wrap up that cut on your leg, stupid eyebrows.”
Sanji scowled. “Che. Fine.”
They surreptitiously exchanged a quick kiss on the cheek before Sanji went off to go find Chopper and Zoro went off to fuck up some cannons.
Anyway, I should keep this short because it looks like everyone is about ready to head out again. I’ll include a longer letter later, after I’ve found a fitting wedding gift for you. I’m sorry I can’t be there to see it myself, but take lots of pictures for me, ne?
Love,
Nami
The sound of cannons being fucked up told her things were just about done, and standing, Nami padded over towards Luffy’s side as she held the letter between her hands, blowing on the ink to help it set faster. “Oi, Luffy.”
He made a generally happy noise in the back of his throat, but didn’t wake up.
She nudged him with her shoe. “Oi, Luffy!” she repeated, and her voice had a dangerous edge to it (i.e. one that suggested the nudging would turn to stepping would turn to stomping if it got to that).
“Mmmph, Nami?” The captain’s eyes blinked open then and he grinned up at her happily. “I saved you some meat!” he reached into his pocket.
She made a face. “Um, that’s okay. You can have it.”
Luffy sat up, eyes shining. “Wah, really?!”
She nodded. “Yeah, really.”
He hugged her ankles. “You’re being so nice today!!”
Her eyebrow twitched at the “today” part, just a little bit. “But in exchange I need a favor.”
He was busily munching on his meat, but nodded up at her around a mouthful of it anyway. “Mppph!” (Translation: “Sure!”)
She smiled. “Nojiko’s getting married next month and I need to stop somewhere nice to get her a present…”
The captain’s eyes got big. “We should send her lots of meat!!”
Nami sighed, patiently. “Maybe something that won’t smell when it gets to her.”
“Oh, good idea, Nami! I guess I’ll just eat the meat then…”
“WE HAVEN’T BOUGHT IT YET.”
A few weeks later, a package arrived at Cocoyashi village for Nojiko, brightly wrapped and suspiciously heavy.
The letter attached to the present read as follows:
Dear Nojiko,
Congratulations again, I hope this present suits your tastes. Not a WORD about the inscription on the card-he insisted.
Nojiko smiled at that and went straight to the card taped to her nicely wrapped gift next, laughing out loud when she saw the two parts there-- one with her name in Nami’s familiar, elegant script and just below that, a self-portrait that any four-year-old could have drawn with crayon.
Hi Nojiko-san!! This is me! the writing read, and pointed to the self-portrait. Do you remember me?
She remembered him very well, actually.
I wanted to buy you meat for your present but Nami let me have it instead! She’s being really nice today! So… here’s something she picked out! I don’t think you can eat it though. Too bad! Have a happy wedding! Make lots of babies!
And there, at the very bottom of the card,
From Nami…
And me! Luffy! From both of us!
Nojiko laughed again and promptly went to pin the card and letter up in the same spot where she kept the rest of Nami’s rare and precious missives.
Smiling to herself, she supposed that on a place as strange and wonderful as Grand Line, you didn’t always need a ceremony to show the world how things stood.
END
EDITS PLZ.