(One Piece-General. 003. Lonely.)
Title: Night
Author: princeivy
Fandom: One Piece
Characters: Kaya, Merry, mentions of Usopp and the Usopp Pirates (Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piman)
Prompt: 060 - Lonely
Word Count: 299
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: None.
Summary: On some nights, Kaya finds herself missing Usopp.
Now that Kaya had decided to become a doctor, she found herself having very little time for anything. Merry had bought her textbooks and arranged for her schooling, and suddenly she was drowning herself in classes and papers and research and diseases with long names and lists of symptoms. On most nights, she collapses onto her bed and is asleep within minutes. But on other nights, when she lies in bed awake, these are the times she has free for herself.
Sometimes, on these nights, she finds herself missing Usopp. It wasn’t so bad in the beginning, when Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piman made up their own stories for her, in their captain’s absence. But they had moved on to other things; all of them had, so she held no blame for them, and never would.
But she sorely missed her dear Usopp. He had filled her days with laughter and happiness, even when she had lost all hope of ever smiling again. She owed him so much. And on nights when she looks to her window and remembers how every day he’d be there, rain or shine, grinning at her and making funny faces, the feeling of loneliness swells inside of her and she cries.
“You know, Miss Kaya,” Merry remarked over breakfast one morning, after noting how puffy her eyes looked, “I can always get a ship ready for you. We could find him, if you wanted.”
She thanked him for the offer, but declined it in the end. She knew that Usopp would want her to pursue her dream, just as he was doing now. He wouldn’t let a bit of loneliness get in his way, and neither would she. After all, she reminded herself as she smiled, a bit sadly, she only really misses him at night.
Author: princeivy
Fandom: One Piece
Characters: Kaya, Merry, mentions of Usopp and the Usopp Pirates (Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piman)
Prompt: 060 - Lonely
Word Count: 299
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: None.
Summary: On some nights, Kaya finds herself missing Usopp.
Now that Kaya had decided to become a doctor, she found herself having very little time for anything. Merry had bought her textbooks and arranged for her schooling, and suddenly she was drowning herself in classes and papers and research and diseases with long names and lists of symptoms. On most nights, she collapses onto her bed and is asleep within minutes. But on other nights, when she lies in bed awake, these are the times she has free for herself.
Sometimes, on these nights, she finds herself missing Usopp. It wasn’t so bad in the beginning, when Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piman made up their own stories for her, in their captain’s absence. But they had moved on to other things; all of them had, so she held no blame for them, and never would.
But she sorely missed her dear Usopp. He had filled her days with laughter and happiness, even when she had lost all hope of ever smiling again. She owed him so much. And on nights when she looks to her window and remembers how every day he’d be there, rain or shine, grinning at her and making funny faces, the feeling of loneliness swells inside of her and she cries.
“You know, Miss Kaya,” Merry remarked over breakfast one morning, after noting how puffy her eyes looked, “I can always get a ship ready for you. We could find him, if you wanted.”
She thanked him for the offer, but declined it in the end. She knew that Usopp would want her to pursue her dream, just as he was doing now. He wouldn’t let a bit of loneliness get in his way, and neither would she. After all, she reminded herself as she smiled, a bit sadly, she only really misses him at night.