"Hey, I caught you!" "Um... Yeah, you did. You caught me, thanks." BOOK ONE

after two years apart, the crew returns to the thousand sunny one by one-until she's the last to arrive. and when she does, something shifts. luffy moves without thinking, arms around her before words can catch up, like his body remembered what his heart hadn't said. just a moment-a quiet, sudden closeness-marking the start of something new between them, a love story unfolding slowly beneath the sails. ▸ canon-divergent au ⋆

𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐀𝐔! [𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐝 𝐥𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐲 𝐱 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫] 𝐆𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧, 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐃 𝐋𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝- 𝟐/𝟐𝟖/𝟐𝟒 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝- 𝟏/𝟐𝟖/𝟐𝟓