Not Alone Anymore (Luffy x OC)COMPLETED

Chapter #19

(Red's POV)

When I opened my eyes again after they closed in the water, I felt like death. Which was reasonable. Because I had just died.

I always thought that waking up from the dead would leave you confused, that you wouldn't remember what had happened or that you had died. It's weird, waking up and knowing that you had just been dead.

The crew was surrounded me closely, asking me questions, but none of them would meet my eyes. Except Luffy, who wouldn't stop staring at them with disbelief.

He kneeled on his knees at my feet and leaned over me, his hands on either side of my thighs as he stared intensely at me. 

I groaned and pressed a hand to my forehead, "Luffy-san what?-" I didn't get to finish my sentence.

He pounced forward and scooped me up into his arms, crushing me in a tight hug and burying his face in my neck, "I thought you were gone..." he spoke gently. I could feel his heart beat erratically against his chest. 

I froze my hands as they were about to shove him away and instead hugged him back, "no...I'm fine. But how?" I tried to make eye contact with the crew again but they avoided my eyes.

"I-I need to bandage your side properly..." chopper said beside me, looking at my shoulder.

"...okay..." I let Luffy go and he backed up slightly. Slightly.

He still hovered at my side, holding my hand like he was scared I'd disappear if he let go.

Chopper had to remove whatever was left of my poor shirt, leaving me in just my black bra. But I didn't mind, Luffy had seen me in the bath and the rest of the crew have seen me in a bikini so this was practically the same.

Chopper had to clean the wound first before he could bandage it, and from the wooden beam and Lisa's claws, there was a lot to do.

I tried to distract myself by talking to the crew from chopper pulling out slivers.

"How am I alive? OUCH!" I asked and then immediately cried out when chopper pulled out a nasty piece of the wood beam. Thankfully that was the last of it and he began to wrap it up.

It was Nami who answered me. If you could even call it an answer, "we pulled you out of the water..."

"Well no duh," I rolled my eyes, "but how am I still alive. I mean, I died, I felt it."

Nami rubbed her arm and looked off to the side, "uh? We don't-" then she sighed and faced me, kneeling down next to Luffy and holding my hand over his, "listen Red, we're really sorry. There was nothing we could do, it was the only way."

I furrowed my brows and looked at the other crew members, they all looked guilty. But it was the absence of a certain someone that scared me the most, "where's Reeth?"

Nobody said anything, Nami shifted nervously and Luffy squeezed my hand.

I ripped my hand from his and he reached out after it but I didn't let him hold it again, "answer me!!! You cowards, look me in the eye!!"

They couldn't.

Tears filled my eyes and I clenched my fists so hard blood ran down my palms from my nails, "how could you let him?" My voice showed my emotions. Betrayal, hurt, fear, and sadness.

"Miss dragon," Robin reached out a comforting hand to me but it only felt cold, "none of us knew what was happening before it was too late..."

"You could've stopped him!!" I screamed and smacked her hand away, standing up, I pointed an accusatory finger at them, "but you didn't!! You let him kill himself!! And you call us your nakama!?! You don't deserve that!!"