Anniversary

[tanarill]

I realized that Emmy and I must have been internet girlfriends for about a year now, us having celebrated my first Purim on LJ shortly after becoming such. So! Anniversary Drabble Exchange!

Title: Bittersweet
Fandom: One Piece. I get no monies.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Kiss


Usopp was not used to being respected. It just didn't happen on his island, where he woke everyone up mornings by yelling warnings of pirate attack. And then there had been Klahadore, and actual pirates, and there was no time to be a child anymore. He loved his home, but he had a dream to follow.

So he left. So Miss Kaya gave them the Merry-go, a caravel to be their pirate ship. So she smiled her sweet smile and he knew, knew, that she would be all right, even without him to lie to her.

She took him aside, first, and he wasn't quite sure what to say. Thank you didn't quite cut it, sorry didn't convey the right emotions. So he said, softly, "the pirates are coming."

Kaya held a finger up to his lips, silencing him. And then, in a motion so smooth it might have been practiced, they fell into one another. He held her; how could he not? She kissed him.

She did not kiss like a sister, like a friend. She kissed like a lover, all gentle questing and exploration and unsaid declarations that he was, maybe, too frightened to follow deeper. She said what needed saying.

Later, when they had returned to the group, Zoro the swordsman and Nami the navigator and the boy who would be the pirate king, he waved goodbye. Kaya had not told him not to go. He would not have left if she had.

But he would come back.

Comments

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D'awwwwwww. Oh this is so sweet and nice and yay. Thank you Tanheart! [snuggles]