[One Piece] All the seas in your hands
Nami during timeskip at Weatheria, and shortly after timeskip (slight spoilers, maybe?).
All the seas in your hands
One Piece | Luffy, Nami | G | 1069 words
She believes that he will sail across the oceans, even if he cannot swim.
“There, there, that should be all right.”
Nami winced as cold water ran down her slightly burnt arm. Pain did not arrive-only numbness. Her stiffened body eased at once.
“I’m sorry,” she said, a little embarrassed. “I almost destroyed the entire garden…”
“Now, child,” Haredas said, “at least your life was saved, and no countries were damaged.” He let out a short guffaw before handing her some bandages. She returned a small, reluctant smile.
It had been three months since she arrived at Weatheria, and time was passing both slowly and fast. A part of her longed to see her friends again, so two years-even at her Captain’s command that she knew every single one of them would follow without question-seemed an unbearable time of separation. But two years, she realized, might just be enough for them to get back on their feet again. Three days would barely let them recuperate to their feeble health. Two years could do much more if spent wisely.
What Nami understood was that feeling torn between the two was of no use to her strength. She wrapped the bandage around her arm carefully and lied down on the bed to relax. Ten minutes, and then she would be back to work.
.
Fearless. Reckless. Daring.
She wished to be the words that described her Captain.
“No, you musn’t!” Haredas’s voice echoed from behind her. She restrained the storm cloud’s energy just in time before an uncontrolled lightning bolt could have stricken anything: a plant, a house, herself.
Nami gasped and fell on her knees, barely resisting the urge to rest on the clouds beneath her. She could feel their worried looks on her back, but she managed to turn around and give them a wave with her hand. “I’m all right, grandpas!”
She felt them shaking their heads in her direction, too, as if to say, that’s what she always says. She appreciated their concern-after all, where would she be at this point in time had it not been for their shouts and lectures of “that is far, far too dangerous” or “what were you thinking? You could have gravely injured yourself!”?
She was overdoing it-just like Luffy had done for her. It was her turn to go to great lengths for him and the rest of their crew.
.
The first thing she noticed when she saw Luffy again was, plainly, the scar on his chest. No one said a word and she didn’t either because they all bore scars of their own from the past two years. She could only assume how great their Captain’s were, besides the apparent ‘x’ that crossed his heart.
The crew’s tumultuous journey began in the same way: with Luffy and Zoro not listening to a word she said, Sanji even more dramatic than she remembered, Usopp and Chopper too distracted by Franky’s antics, Brook’s rude and impossible request, and Robin’s bemused smile.
Nami noticed a number of them dozing off as the Thousand Sunny settled more comfortably into deeper waters, and that was when she spotted a familiar sight out of the corner of her eye.
Luffy, after having eaten heartily from the lunchboxes that Boa Hancock had given him, started to snore on the grass floor of the ship. He stretched his arms and legs in odd ways and took in deep breaths that he normally did not.
“This isn’t so new,” said Robin with a chuckle.
Nami glanced at her wrist once more to check the direction, but a hint of a smile was spreading across her lips. “No,” she said, “he’s probably dreaming of swimming again.” A small laugh, and then: “Robin, can you help me wake everyone? We’re approaching deeper water levels soon and we need everyone to adjust.”
“Of course,” Robin answered, and waved to sprout hands on their bodies. The hands began tapping at the shoulders of her crewmates.
“Nap’s over!” Nami yelled, walking around to see who needed an extra hand to wake up. She ended up having to reach over to Luffy and shake him by the shoulders-only then did he open his eyes and reach for her hair.
“Oranges…”
She gave a sigh. “No, Luffy, now please get up.”
Luffy sat up quickly, as though compelled by some force. A grin slowly colored his face, and he barked out before Nami could even start explaining the situation: “I was having a dream about fruits! I was swimming in a sea of them and all of a sudden, our ship turned into a banana. Then I got hungry, so I started eating a part of our ship-”
“All right,” cut in Nami, “you can continue telling us a little later. But I need to tell you guys about the deeper depths.” She first spotted Luffy reluctantly closing his mouth, and then turning around to face her. He nodded in understanding without the slightest hint of disappointment in his eyes and she was somewhat ashamed to feel surprised-after all, he was the Captain who would throw down his life on the line for the rest of them. Had it really been so long that a small, genuine gesture from him would take her aback?
.
“I never let you finish your story,” she said. The Thousand Sunny was 8,000 meters below sea level and still descending.
“Huh?” Luffy managed, between bites of meat. He struggled to swallow his meal. “What are you talking about?”
“The dream of you swimming in a sea of fruits,” she said, casually. “I didn’t know you still dreamt of swimming.”
“I always do,” he said, his eyes filled with a grin, “I always dream of swimming!”
.
He told her that it felt as though he were out of his own skin when he imagined himself in the waters, and that he didn’t know why he dreamed of being in the sea so often-a sea of anything and everything that he could feel at his fingertips.
But she never-not once-thought it odd that a boy who could not swim wanted to conquer the seas one day. She may have questioned it if he were another man born in another time. As he stood now, he was going to travel to the ends of the seas, and she would see to it that he did.
.
“But I’ve never been to an island like that before… It’s like I just made it up!” he said with his arms in the air.
“Oh, I’m sure we’ll get to an island like that eventually.”
“Made entirely of fruits?! Wow, that’d be incredible.”
She smiled. “I wouldn’t doubt it.”
All the seas in your hands
One Piece | Luffy, Nami | G | 1069 words
She believes that he will sail across the oceans, even if he cannot swim.
“There, there, that should be all right.”
Nami winced as cold water ran down her slightly burnt arm. Pain did not arrive-only numbness. Her stiffened body eased at once.
“I’m sorry,” she said, a little embarrassed. “I almost destroyed the entire garden…”
“Now, child,” Haredas said, “at least your life was saved, and no countries were damaged.” He let out a short guffaw before handing her some bandages. She returned a small, reluctant smile.
It had been three months since she arrived at Weatheria, and time was passing both slowly and fast. A part of her longed to see her friends again, so two years-even at her Captain’s command that she knew every single one of them would follow without question-seemed an unbearable time of separation. But two years, she realized, might just be enough for them to get back on their feet again. Three days would barely let them recuperate to their feeble health. Two years could do much more if spent wisely.
What Nami understood was that feeling torn between the two was of no use to her strength. She wrapped the bandage around her arm carefully and lied down on the bed to relax. Ten minutes, and then she would be back to work.
.
Fearless. Reckless. Daring.
She wished to be the words that described her Captain.
“No, you musn’t!” Haredas’s voice echoed from behind her. She restrained the storm cloud’s energy just in time before an uncontrolled lightning bolt could have stricken anything: a plant, a house, herself.
Nami gasped and fell on her knees, barely resisting the urge to rest on the clouds beneath her. She could feel their worried looks on her back, but she managed to turn around and give them a wave with her hand. “I’m all right, grandpas!”
She felt them shaking their heads in her direction, too, as if to say, that’s what she always says. She appreciated their concern-after all, where would she be at this point in time had it not been for their shouts and lectures of “that is far, far too dangerous” or “what were you thinking? You could have gravely injured yourself!”?
She was overdoing it-just like Luffy had done for her. It was her turn to go to great lengths for him and the rest of their crew.
.
The first thing she noticed when she saw Luffy again was, plainly, the scar on his chest. No one said a word and she didn’t either because they all bore scars of their own from the past two years. She could only assume how great their Captain’s were, besides the apparent ‘x’ that crossed his heart.
The crew’s tumultuous journey began in the same way: with Luffy and Zoro not listening to a word she said, Sanji even more dramatic than she remembered, Usopp and Chopper too distracted by Franky’s antics, Brook’s rude and impossible request, and Robin’s bemused smile.
Nami noticed a number of them dozing off as the Thousand Sunny settled more comfortably into deeper waters, and that was when she spotted a familiar sight out of the corner of her eye.
Luffy, after having eaten heartily from the lunchboxes that Boa Hancock had given him, started to snore on the grass floor of the ship. He stretched his arms and legs in odd ways and took in deep breaths that he normally did not.
“This isn’t so new,” said Robin with a chuckle.
Nami glanced at her wrist once more to check the direction, but a hint of a smile was spreading across her lips. “No,” she said, “he’s probably dreaming of swimming again.” A small laugh, and then: “Robin, can you help me wake everyone? We’re approaching deeper water levels soon and we need everyone to adjust.”
“Of course,” Robin answered, and waved to sprout hands on their bodies. The hands began tapping at the shoulders of her crewmates.
“Nap’s over!” Nami yelled, walking around to see who needed an extra hand to wake up. She ended up having to reach over to Luffy and shake him by the shoulders-only then did he open his eyes and reach for her hair.
“Oranges…”
She gave a sigh. “No, Luffy, now please get up.”
Luffy sat up quickly, as though compelled by some force. A grin slowly colored his face, and he barked out before Nami could even start explaining the situation: “I was having a dream about fruits! I was swimming in a sea of them and all of a sudden, our ship turned into a banana. Then I got hungry, so I started eating a part of our ship-”
“All right,” cut in Nami, “you can continue telling us a little later. But I need to tell you guys about the deeper depths.” She first spotted Luffy reluctantly closing his mouth, and then turning around to face her. He nodded in understanding without the slightest hint of disappointment in his eyes and she was somewhat ashamed to feel surprised-after all, he was the Captain who would throw down his life on the line for the rest of them. Had it really been so long that a small, genuine gesture from him would take her aback?
.
“I never let you finish your story,” she said. The Thousand Sunny was 8,000 meters below sea level and still descending.
“Huh?” Luffy managed, between bites of meat. He struggled to swallow his meal. “What are you talking about?”
“The dream of you swimming in a sea of fruits,” she said, casually. “I didn’t know you still dreamt of swimming.”
“I always do,” he said, his eyes filled with a grin, “I always dream of swimming!”
.
He told her that it felt as though he were out of his own skin when he imagined himself in the waters, and that he didn’t know why he dreamed of being in the sea so often-a sea of anything and everything that he could feel at his fingertips.
But she never-not once-thought it odd that a boy who could not swim wanted to conquer the seas one day. She may have questioned it if he were another man born in another time. As he stood now, he was going to travel to the ends of the seas, and she would see to it that he did.
.
“But I’ve never been to an island like that before… It’s like I just made it up!” he said with his arms in the air.
“Oh, I’m sure we’ll get to an island like that eventually.”
“Made entirely of fruits?! Wow, that’d be incredible.”
She smiled. “I wouldn’t doubt it.”