Hey! Author here, So! I have a tendency to write, publish, and then two days later go back and re read stuff and be like "oooooh, grammar mistake! and ouch, don't like how that's worded. And now I want to add this new emotion!!"
Which, is probably not a good thing. so I PROMISE I'm gonna keep publishing new stuff. I feel especially bad for this chapter cause I ended up re-publishing it like 3 times with significant changes. BUT! This is my author promise to STOP doing that and get this story/show on the road:)
Anyways, all this to say that if something says that it was republished, I definitely only updated very minor things (other than this chapter). Also thank you for reading! I hope you like it! Totally leave comments and ideas on anything if you want! I love hearing from people who read so I know what people like and what I can do to make it better too:) so yeah. BACK TO THE STORY!!!!
Zoro POV:
We spend the rest of the night concocting ideas and plans. No one ever suggests going to sleep, although different ones wander off to take a short nap before coming back to keep throwing in their two cents. The entire night, I watch Tashigi's hand constantly stray to the sword at her side, and while she tells everyone she feels confident, I can see her fingers shaking ever so slightly.
"I can't protect anyone, I'm so pathetic!"
Who is she trying to protect? The world?
Its 3 in the morning, and the thought makes me smirk as I sit on the floor against the wall away from the main table. She would feel guilty for not protecting the world. I glance up at her, a swinging light illuminating her profile. Large eyes and a small curved nose framed by wide yet proportioned cheeks, and modest lips quick to smile. It's a face I'm all too familiar with and yet, she seems especially fresh and new tonight. more like herself than I've seen in a while. all trip actually.
My head tilts to the side as she leans forward to hear a suggestion from Chopper on some random part of the gold stealing plan. Something about dynamite? From the snippets I've heard all night, this is gonna be a bat crap crazy plan. I snort at the thought and lift my mug of sake to take a few chugs, the alcohol washing down my throat with a bitter aftertaste.
"ahhhh," I sigh, satisfied, as I lean my head back against the wall and look at the crowded table.
"Wait, no! Why am I helping you with this part of the plan!" Tashigi steps back, throwing her hands in the air in exasperation. I suppress a chuckle as a sparkle of existential panic flashes in her golden brown eyes, before she sits down and plops her head in her hand, pouting.
I wanna know. Why you care about the world so much. Why your so quick to reward everyone with large smiles and selfless kindness. I want to know you.
The thought is sudden, and unfamiliar.
Luffy suddenly stretches his arm across the table and grabs her glasses off her face, and she glares at him, indignant.
"Will these help me see better? Sometimes everything looks so blurry Tashigi!" He yells, not paying attention at all to the attempts of serious planning in front of him. Her eyes soften, and I watch as she starts,
"Oh Luffy, if you can't se-"
Her voice stops, as if realizing the rubber man didn't have a serious bone in his body, and her eyes crinkle as she laughs at herself.
Gosh she's beautiful.
I blink at the statement, before ripping my gaze from watching her and chugging the last of my drink. Why is it so damn hot in here? And why does that unnaturally kind marine keep, fitting. Here on the ship with my people. I glance up as she laughs again.
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