Inheritance (One Piece Fanfic)

Recovery

It was getting late, not much longer and the sun would disappear behind the horizon.

Nami and Usopp were tending to Robin's bleeding wrist. She didn't seem to mind it really, even as the disinfected it and bound it tight she didn't flinch. Her mind was going a mile a minute yet she seemed out of it. The others seemed to notice it too. It wasn't in her nature to be so distant and silent. She'd tried her best to kick that after she opened up to her crew family. Yet still whatever she experienced just now baffled her still.

What the others didn't know was although she wasn't physically there she was still present with the boy's. She fabricated a hand with them as she absentmindedly coiled her fingers around Zoro's wrist. She held her focus on pulse which thankfully still remained. Unfortunately she hadn't realized just how much she'd checked out.

"Robin!" Nami called out, a little harsher than she'd wanted but she didn't know what else to do. Still she couldn't get a reaction from her. Robin had no idea how long Nami had tried to get her attention before touching her shoulder. Which surprised her more than it should have, figuring her body was still fueled up.

"I'm sorry.." Robin rubbed her temple with her free hand, avoiding the worried look of these two.

"Oh no, no I'm sorry! I didn't mean to yell, it's just.. you seem. Are you ok? I mean I don't know what happened and I can't imagine what you've been through." Nami recovered quickly although she beginning to feel more anxious. She'd never seen Robin like this before, so extremely shaken up. She narrowed her brows as she tied off her bandage pulling it tight.

"We're here for you. Just like everyone else we stand by each other." Usopp spoke with full confidence, something he rarely displayed.

"Zoro's going to be fine. I've seen that man go through hell and bounce back proud to show off his battle scars."

She cringed at the thought of all that blood. To take so much damage, over and over again. Usopp knelt down beside her, catching her eyes. "He's as tough as they come."

He knew Zoro had it in him to be the world's greatest. Everything would be fine just like always. It had to be.

Still he hasn't been able to shake the feeling lurking in the back of his mind. It was that pessimism he knew too well. Zoro had been in bad shape. All in all he truly hoped he was ok. But still there was this hard lump in his throat he just couldn't swallow.

He was good at hiding it but he couldn't fool Robin, she knew he was scared. So was Nami. They all were, for his safety and that uncertainty was eating them alive.

She was done sitting idly by while he was still fighting for his life. She squeezed her fist. Even though they were miles away she focused on his warmth. He was still hanging on. She exhaled deeply. They needed to be on the move. Just as Robin pushed herself up Franky emerged from bellow the ship along with Brook.

"Oi!" His attitude was balls to the wall as he hurled some sort of strange gadget onto the beach. It detached and expanded into what seemed like a motor powered turret that would carry all of them.

"Come we don't have time to waste, Zoro-bro needs help! Climb on and we'll be there in a flash!"

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"Sanji, Zoro!" There was a tiny high pitched voice that traveled past the trees and immediately after appeared Luffy with their Doctor clinging to his back as he charged.

"Hey!"

Sanji's eyes shifted towards his captain as he hurried closer but he never dared to take his attention away from his friend. He was barely able to hear them over the sound of his heart thudding off in his ear.