ApatheticAlways



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    Part One: Love Is, After All, A Curse of Suffering - KRS!Rayan's POV before canon

    Part Two: Now It's Only Me - Og!Cale's POV before canon

    Part Three: Sometimes It Is Just Too Challenging to Be Alone - Final Part of the Series, follows canon somewhat

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    The first time Zoro meets Monkey D Luffy, he's a sulky eight-year-old dressed in a little sailor suit and an over-sized "Marines" cap slipping down over his eyes.

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    When they’re on the forecastle, with the helm just behind them and the figurehead casting them further in shadow, Usopp calls, “Raise the sails!”

    Luffy’s gasp next to his ear is the best part of his entire day. 

    The sails unfold in a great rolling crash of canvas. Even the striped gaff swings out, catching the wind. The whole sloop gives a powerful lurch as if she’s eager to sprint out of port on the back of whatever gale blows along next. 

    And painted on the foresail, bold and bright and proud, is a grinning Jolly Roger in a yellow straw hat. 

    “That’s mine,” Luffy whispers, hushed and awed. 

    “Told you so,” Usopp says smugly. 

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    When he leaves Dawn Island, he has a red-orange mark on one arm, and an ash-gray mark on the other. Sabo’s color faded the day he died. Luffy misses it more than everything else he left behind put together—the treehouse, Makino’s bar, the funny gibbons he grew up with, everything. It’s strange that it’s been gray longer than it had a chance to be blue.

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    ace survives the summit war, but not everyone else does

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    “I bet that some people, who fought in that war for Ace, who loved him and didn’t even know me, wish that it had happened differently.” Luffy still doesn’t look up, expression unreadable when he adds, “Sabo loves us both, but he loved Ace longer.”

    If Sabo had been stabbed with sea stone, it would have hurt less. If he had burned with the Grey Terminal, or drowned at sea in front of the Celestial Dragons, it would have hurt less than this.

    He’s on his feet before he’s aware of moving, seat tipping over and rolling away behind him. He can feel the steam start to lift off his super-heated skin as Ace’s fire inside him reacts to the way his heart is racing.

    “Don’t say that,” he says, too loud, almost a shout.

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