Gold and Red [Law × Reader, Kid × Reader]

Twenty (Both)

Kid's side

Suddenly, everything is silent.

The battle can't reach his mind, his sore body feels distant and faint like the whole world collapsed, all its wonder locked away in the woman who fell into his arms a second ago.

He pulls her close, so close, praying that her presence will fill the emptiness that never left him since the defeat of his crew.

It has been so fucking long.

Three is panting heavily for air, but she uses all her power to cling to him, while Eustass Kid strokes her hair and kisses her forehead gently, her scent numbing his senses until he forgets that there is anything that's not her, now, in his arms.

"You shouldn't have gone with them," he whispers, his hands shaking as he sees the wounds around her neck, and feels the tension of her body that fights against the curse boiling inside of her.

"If I didn't," she answers with a delicate smile, the amber and gray eyes finally locked. "You wouldn't be alive. Nor the others."

Kid's heart drops as he remembers Killer's state, unconscious, at the edge of death.

He can't tell her, not at this moment because he feels like neither of them is ready for those words to be formed.

She shudders and moves away a little, looking back behind her shoulder.

Kid scowls as he sees Law fighting Wreny, both using all their strength even if every single movement only radiates how they want to drop their weapons and find comfort by each others' side.

Three turns back and reaches up, kissing him with all the love she ever felt. Kid embraces her again and kisses her back, even if it is a brief gift.

Since he breaks away when he feels her tears.

"Why are you crying, Three?" he rustles, his flesh hand running up to her nape, caressing the line of her neck. "You are back. We are together again, and we will be alright. I will do anything it takes."

"I love you," she says silently, cupping his face in her hands, running her thumb over the familiar scar under his glowing eye, his warm skin.

"I love you too," he answers, leaning a bit to the left to feel more of her touch. "But now, we have to-"

The man freezes when she smiles, brighter than the Sun itself, more beautiful than anything his memories would have a chance to hold.

The woman whose power reigns over the future and the past, the greatest treasure of the present.

He wants to spend every day of his life remembering that.

"Do you trust me, Eustass Kid?"

And he only nods shortly, as his racing heart misses a beat, his gaze softened by the infinite care only she could awaken in him.

"Then, close your eyes," whispers Three against his lips.

As the Kid obeys her, she presses her forehead against his skin, and he moves forward to feel more of her again.

And her Devil Fruit lights up between them to protect her love as it always did, by sending him away to the realm of dreams with the last bits of her humanity.

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Shanks' side

"What do you want from that girl, Mihawk?!" he yells, blocking the next attack, gritting his teeth as he redirects it, away from the others. "She is not the weapon the world thinks she is!"