dating the love and deepspace boys | domestic moments
featuring: rafayel, xavier, and zayne x gn!reader
(´• ω •`) ♡ modern au! can you guys tell raf is my favorite..?
rafayel
a year younger than you. lies to everyone (including you) that he’s actually two years your senior. you only found out he was younger than you when you met his parents, who have his birth certificate framed.
hates cats. despises them. they fill him with rage (fear). says he’s allergic (he’s lying).
“oh shit raf, this sucks! i guess you can’t move in with me.. i have cats”
“...you have cats?”
“yeah. 3.”
“i’m not allergic. i can move in tonight.”
chronically online. minoring in marine biology and majoring in annoying you. texts you over 200 times a day and if you don’t respond, he’s faking a horrible chronic illness. again. it’s amnesia on wednesdays, appendicitis on thursdays, chronic migraines on fridays… etc..
he has 2 followers on his private twitter. you and thomas.
over 700k followers on instagram for some reason? he sells paintings on depop (he says it's depop but you’re convinced he sells them for heinous prices on the black market)
cooks on occasion? has an apron that says kiss me im irish (he's not irish?) made you a tuna cupcake once??
pescatarian. not in the vegan/vegetarian way where he refuses to eat red meat but because he’s absolutely feral over fish. (is this cannibalism? he says its not)
lives in a 2 bedroom apartment with you but doesn’t use his bedroom. says your bed is comfier. turned his bedroom into a painting studio (IT’S for the black market you say!!) and sleeps with you.
“raf,” you sigh. “don’t you have.. homework or something?”
he sits between your legs, back against your chest as he scrolls through his phone.
“yeah,” he says. you flick the back of his head because you know he’s smirking. “it’s called assignment: you. due in two minutes.”
with his free hand, he reaches back mindlessly to grab yours. you sigh, fingers intertwining with his, a reflex as he leans his head back. his eyes meet yours and you can’t help but laugh.
“well?” you ask, brushing his hair out of his eyes as he squeezes your hand. “what are the assignment details?”
he chews on the bottom of his lip as he thinks, humming while his eyes wander across your face. he swings your interlocked hands in circles. it’s raining outside, the heater is on, and rafayel is warm like hot chocolate.
“what?” he says, his cheeks a tinge pink. “you’re looking at me like that again.” a pause. he turns, his head now buried in your chest.
“just studying my homework.” you say, hands instinctively wrapping around his back. the laundry machine is running in the background, rain is falling against the window, and you faintly hear your rice cooker dinging in the kitchen. home, you think, is with rafayel.
“i can hear your heartbeat.” he says, voice muffled. “it’s super fast. you like me or something?”
“i really like you.” you say, without skipping a beat. rafayel groans into your chest, sighing in discontent.
“no fair. i’m supposed to be the flirter.”
you press a kiss onto the top of his head and you feel his body melt into yours. the two of you fall into a warm silence, his breath steady as he traces paintings into your neck.
“raf?” you mumble, eyes drooping. he hums in response. “did you pass your assignment?”
he smiles. “with flying colors.”
xavier
chronic napper. (yapper?)
has 100 late assignments. failing all of his classes yet got into the top university in your country because he got a perfect score on his entrance exams. you thought he was a nepo baby (turns out he’s just.. smart?)
his procrastination rubs off on you… he is the WORST distraction and he knows it. so smug about it and uses it to his own advantage. will perch on top of you when you’re studying and kiss down your neck until you go to sleep with him.
lives in the apartment on top of yours but is at your house most days, if not all. you ask him to move in.
“am i not already.. living with you?”
“don’t you still have your apartment, though?”
“yeah..?”
is that good for the economy?? is it financially smart? not at all, but he’s too lazy to move out and put his apartment up for lease.
xavier sleeps with his legs entangled with yours and his arms wrapped tightly around your chest. the air conditioning hums in the background as you scroll mindlessly on your phone, dimming the brightness as you hear xavier stir.
“sorry xav, did i wake you up?” you ask. he doesn’t respond, blinking the sleep out of his eyes as he glares at your phone.
“xavier?” you question, swallowing a laugh at his ruffled hair and disheveled clothes.
“phone down.” he says, voice raspy with sleep and an octave lower than usual. you raise an eyebrow at him.
“can i get a pretty please in this economy?”
xavier’s eyes narrow as he snatches your phone away, snoozing the device and placing it on the nightstand next to you. his lips ghost your neck, pressing kisses against your skin as he mumbles incoherently in the dark of your bedroom.
“xavier-” you breathe, giggling at the sensation. “that tickles!”
he nips at your neck.
“bedtime. now.”
zayne
3 years older than you
he literally has his whole life together at 27 which scares you so much
“my credit card is your credit card” typa boyfriend
cooks. cleans. has a 9-5. you’re interning at the hospital that he works at (he’s head doctor!!)
you’re just a sweet little intern and zayne is the big bad monster!! everyone at work thinks he hates you because he’s extra strict on you. doesn’t give you any special treatment, ‘ignores’ you most days (but also slips meals into your locker and hands you heat packs on cold days in the hospital)
no one knows he’s dating you until one day someone sees you leaving in zaynes car.
“oh, you carpool with doctor zayne?”
“huh? no, we live together.”
“you WHAT???”
he’s a virgo……. erm……
the two of you get ready together in the morning. his guard is down when he’s sleepy and he’ll cling to you as he brushes his teeth and does his hair.
you wake up to the cold night breeze, blinking the sleep out of your eyes and shivering as you scan your surroundings. you yelp as you meet the attentive gaze of your boyfriend.
“huh? whuh? huh?” you splutter, squirming as zayne holds you tighter. he’s carrying you bridal style in his arms, his jacket around your shoulders as the two of you walk to his car. you see the bright lights of akso hospital fading away behind the two of you.
“it’s two am,” he says calmly, placing you down gently as he opens your car door for you. “you waited for my shift to end. again.”
you smile bashfully, rubbing the back of your head. “well, i didn’t wanna just leave you!”
zayne clicks his tongue against the roof of his mouth, eyebrows furrowed but gaze warm. he guides you into your seat, clicking your seatbelt in place.
“you can nap on the way home,” he says, closing the door and sliding into his side of the car.
the heater’s on already- courtesy of his super expensive electric car. he fastens his own seatbelt and hands you a hot tea and bread from the hospital vending machine.
“drink up. doctor’s orders.”
you grin before he leans over to press a kiss on your lips.
“thank you for waiting for me.”
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๑ keep safe : we made it! (23)
one piece x male reader
fell on hard times a year ago,
was hoping you would let it go.
and you did.
『 prev 』
by the time [name] got back on the surface, chopper was already treating the person that dragged them under. [name] had to be held back by zoro since he very badly wanted to beat some sense into the chestnut headed man.
he was still fuming even when chopper was explaining his condition, clicking his tongue in annoyance before walking off. unfortunately, just as he was going to walk off outside to cool off from his annoyance, two monkey brothers slammed into him.
their sudden appearance sent him tumbling backwards. usopp and chopper began shouting as they recognized who it was instantly, while the rest of the crew was just staring in intrigue. in luffy’s case — confusion since he didn’t recognize the creatures at all.
“what the fuck is going on with everyone?! i’m so pissed!!!” [name] shouted, rushing over and slamming his fist down onto each of their heads. they immediately groveled to the ground, muttering apology after apology as they could sense how angry [name] was.
chopper and usopp began singing praises of [name] for dealing with their enemies, but then their personalities switched when they found out that the monkeys began thanking them.
“seriously, this is all giving me a headache,” [name] muttered to himself as he listened in on the explanation.
apparently the two were very close with the chestnut head guy that was currently passed out. and they were both very thankful of chopper for saving the guy’s life.
when the old chestnut guy did wake up, though, luffy wasted no time in berating him for answers to whether or not the sky island was real. he began to explain that he was a descendant of noland the liar, the character from the picture book, and that there was no way of knowing if the sky island was really real.
[name] wasn’t really paying attention to what he was saying. but he heard the gist of how he was actually a pirate for a couple of years until he reached the island they were standing on. his crew abandoned him and he spent the rest of his time on the island searching for the gold. to set the record straight with his descendant.
“and those two out there?” usopp asked in interest, looking at the man, who they learned was called cricket, for some sort of exciting answer.
“they’re just fans of the picture book!”
“hey, are they really monkeys?” [name] asked out of nowhere, making cricket only laugh in amusement.
it seemed luffy was beginning to get impatient now, pressing for more answers in an annoyed tone, “how do you get to the sky island!!”
cricket provided them with a logbook, leaving them to listen to the past adventures of the liar, making [name] smile softly. he was sat at the table with sanji, looking at nami who was telling the story with such passion it was hard to not listen.
sanji perked up when he heard the mention of skyfish, immediately looking to [name] — knowing that they shared an interest in seafood.
“so they do have seafood, sanji?!” [name] excitedly asked, making the blonde break out into a wide girn.
”man, now, i really wanna get to this sky island!”
“it must be so yummy!” [name] moaned, falling onto the table in exasperation, “we gotta go now! now! now!!!” sanji laughed at his exclamations, taking a drag of his cigarette as he imagined cooking the food that was on the sky island. a dreamy look was on his face.
after reading a good portion of the logbook, the crew decided to head outside where they could all gather without it becoming too stuffy. and then cricket began explaining everything he knew about sky island. [name] was kind of nodding off, right next to the chronic napper that is zoro, but woke up instantly when he heard the mention of food from sanji.
he darted up and ran inside, making the blonde curse him under his breath, and began getting ready for a feast. he laid out all of the plates and took the booze out from the fridge. his eagerness and efficiency to prepare the table for a feast earned him praise from nami.
and soon everyone was digging into the food. [name] was sitting right in between cricket and nami and across the table from him was luffy. the both of them were demolishing any dish that was placed in front of them, grinning ear to ear as they relished in sanji’s delicious cooking.
“hey, girlie, why don’t you come sit over here?”
[name] perked up at the question, seeing nami wave her hand at the invite. and seeing that she didn’t want to, [name] turned and shoved another bottle of booze down cricket’s throat, “instead of bothering nami, how about you give some lip service to this bottle of sake, old man?” he passive-aggressively asked with a seemingly innocent smile on his face, successfully distracting the man from nami.
she shot him an appreciative look, which he genuinely grinned at. out of nowhere, a hand sprouted from the table and wiped the messy crumbs off of his face.
“thanks, robin!” he shouted out to the woman, who didn't even lift her head up in acknowledgment and merely flipped the next page of the logbook that she had been catching up on.
“yes, thank you robin, that look on his face was frankly disgusting,” nami added in, making [name] dramatically fall over into her lap, clutching his chest.
“oh, nami-san, you wound me with such mean words! oh!! but you’re still so beautiful!!! even when you’re so mean!” he said, adding the respectful ending to her name and familiar love sick mannerisms in reference to their cook. it seemed everyone got his joke, beginning to laugh and poke fun at how accurate his depiction of sanji was.
the chef, however did not like it, and began trying to stomp on [name]’s head. this caused more laughter to erupt from everyone as they saw the two chase each other, like a cat and mouse.
the only way the two settled down was by sanji wrangling [name] into his arms and choking him out, making the rest of the crew continue laughing.
but in the blink of an eye, their celebration had to come to an end since the monkey-duo and chestnut head cricket remembered something rather important. something they definitely should have remembered earlier in the morning.
the crew needed a specific bird that was almost like a compass, in order to know where knock-up stream even was. and the only way to find them was in the southern forests.
“why didn’t you tell us this sooner?!” [name] shouted in annoyance, having to once again be restrained by zoro to not jump and attack the trio where they stood, “now we have to go out in the forest with full stomachs — don’t you know!!!! that!!! doing exercise after eating causes stomachaches!! do you want us to have stomachaches until we reach sky island?! assholes!!”
“that’s really not the main cause for concern right now, dumbass!! we need to get this bird or else we are never gonna reach sky island!” zoro said, struggling to keep [name] controlled in his arms.
the h/c haired man puffed out a breath of air and groaned in annoyance, “but zoro!!! my stomach is gonna start hurting!”
“quit bein’ such a baby- and why am i even still carrying you?!” zoro exclaimed, chucking [name] into the air the moment he realized he was being used as a free ride for him. this made [name] land, barely, on his feet and cross his arms over his chest in annoyance.
“this is really terrible!” [name] said in exasperation, looking around the pitch black forest, “not to mention that i can’t even see anything. there’s too much wildlife around to even differentiate if something is a bird or not!”
“wait?!” nami and usopp scurried over to hide behind [name], trembling where they stood, “what do you mean, wildlife?! too many wildlife?!”
“like i said, there’s a lot of creatures surrounding us now — i can’t make out their proper shapes and i can’t even tell if they look like that golden thing we saw back at circket’s house,” [name] sighed, unknowingly making their worries worse, “this is a pain,”
just as he finished saying that, a weird calling came from in the forest. nami and usopp grabbed tight onto his waist and torso, shouting in fear at the sound.
“if we have three nets, let’s split up into four teams and try out luck in finding the bird,” sanji said, making the rest of them make sounds of agreement.
the groups were designated as usopp, nami, and [name] since the two didn’t want to leave his side. robin, zoro, and sanji were together, the blonde had gruffly put his trust in [name], but refused to let zoro be left alone with a woman. and that left luffy and chopper to be on their own.
“if anything happens to me, [name], your debt increases by 50,000 beri,” the man sweatdropped at the threat, looking around in a hurry to find the bird, “and if— AHHH!”
[name] turned around in an instant in worry, but when he saw that nami was simply yelling because a spider landed on her, he eased up. and instead he had a mischevious look on his face.
”oh, nami, you don’t like spiders?” he asked her, even though the answer was obvious. behind the duo, usopp was crouched down and picking up a different spider of the same species.
“of course i hate them! get it off, [name], get it off!!” she screamed, covering her ears with her hands as if to stop the spider from crawling any closer.
”if you deduce all my debt i will protect you from all the bugs!” he challenged, a proud thumbs up being thrown in her direction. she glared at him, about to spit out some venomous comment, but stopped when she felt the spider on her back beginning to crawl up.
“fine! fine! all your debt gone, but that means zero bugs coming in contact with me, you got it?!”
[name] grinned, slapping the spider away and grabbing her by her waist, “if you stick close and don’t run off, i can guarantee your safety!” he said confidently. this made usopp shiver where he stood, hearing the words “guarantee your safety” making him worry for his own.
“and me?! what about me, [name]?!”
“what? you weren’t scared of the bugs a second ago?” [name] asked, slapping another spider that fell from a branch away from him and nami.
“that doesn’t mean i’m not scared of everything else in this forbidden forest!!” usopp cried, running over and latching onto [name].
nami shoved his face away, growling in anger, “hey! this is my spot, i’m the one that actually is here for a reason! why don’t you be a man and defend yourself, usopp?!”
”the only reason [name] decided to protect you was because of his debt to you!! unlike you two, me and [name] have a very solid bond and understanding of friendship of one another, right [name]?! tell her i have every right to be here as she does!”
“you guys are arguing more than searching!” [name] bit back, eyes glaring at them over his shoulder and teeth sharp, “if i’m gonna be making sure nothing comes our way, you two need to be on look out! we can’t leave this forest without any stupid bird!”
“alright, count on me, [name]! i won’t disappoint!” usopp determinedly said, bringing his goggles down to cover his eyes.
“if i feel even the slightest feeling of an insect on me, [name], i’m never letting you eat any of my coffee beans ever again!” nami threatened, as she continued to hug his waist to make sure she didn’t get separated from him, aka her human shield to the disturbing forest around them.
there were all sorts of sounds in the forest, but none were sounding weird enough to be that bird they were searching for.
“[name]! [name]!!” usopp cried out in fear, shaking as he latched onto [name]’s back like a backpack, “they’re right behind us!!!”
looking over his shoulder, he saw that a bunch of pigs were running after them — hunting them. and maybe they more-so resembled boars. nami let out a shriek, “kyah!!” as she saw that they were gaining on them. and now [name] had to carry the two of them as if they were backpacks.
“hey! this is seriously unfair!!” he grunted in the pain of the two of them strangling the hell out of his neck.
“just keep running!! look, there are even cockroaches!!! quick run faster!” nami shouted in fear, her legs now wrapping around [name]’s waist and holding on as tight as possible.
“hey, nami! quit it!! you’re taking up all the space, move over, woman!!” nami shook her head violently, not giving up on her tight hold on [name].
“i’m telling you both to get the fuck off right now!!!” [name] screamed, kicking one of the pigs that were close to his heel away and cursing in annoyance as he felt his balance tipping at their uneven weight.
out of nowhere, a huge swarm of flying insects came towards them. and since [name] had lost his balance and footing there wasn’t much that he could do in terms of dodging. so instead, he resorted to attacking.
they were coming in a horizontal, straight line towards them and he unsheathed the dagger on his hip, slicing them all. even though he had dealt with the annoying bugs, he was still free falling down the hill and had to quickly put the dagger back into its protective sleeve.
he turned around, grabbing usopp and nami and hugging them to his chest as he roughly slid down the hill on his back, gritting his teeth at the sharp prickly feeling that pierced through his skin.
“wait! wait! we just came from this way! we can’t go all the way back!!” nami shouted, gripping onto the front of [name]’s shirt and ducking as she noticed a branch was coming their way.
“[name]!! are you alright?! what the hell is wrong with this forest?!” usopp screeched, seeing that on their trail was a huge crowd of overgrown lady bugs tumbling their way.
“i’m sick of this shit!!” [name] grunted, deciding that he had no other choice but to bear through the pain until they stopped at the bottom of the hill.
and when they finally came crashing down, they were all laid out for the rest of the crew to witness.
“huh? it seems [name] was unsuccessful too,” sanji said in a bored tone.
this made [name]’s eye twitch as he shot up and began shaking sanji back and forth, “i want to throw you down the hill and make you go through what i just went through, you shitty perv!! where’s your find then?! huh?! were you even able to see it!?”
sanji growled in annoyance at the confrontational front [name] was putting on, butting his head against [name]’s and glaring at him, “don’t even think about raising your voice at me, i’ll teach you a lesson right now!”
“why are you two even fighting if we all came up empty handed?” usopp said, standing up and brushing the dust off of his clothes, “what a predicament we are in.”
“oh, right,” [name] released sanji from his grip and walked over to nami and usopp, his eyes shadowed, “i don’t mind you guys using me as a human shield, i really don’t — but how about actually searching for the bird while we run for our lives!!!”
nami and usopp shivered as they were now subject to [name]’s wrath, “we’re sorry!!”
“sorry might not cut it this time around, you twerps!” [name] said, bringing his fist down to their heads. they flinched and cowered away, but at the last second [name] changed the amount of power in his punch and only lightly tapped their heads with his fist.
the two cried in fear of [name]’s, muttering apologies under their breaths. the h/c haired man only sighed, roughly pressing on their heads and messing up their hair.
“don’t do it again,” he easily scolded them, making them cry out in relief that he wasn’t going to seriously lecture them that hard. “now, we just really need to focus on seriously finding that stupid bird,”
“we only have a couple hours left before we have to catch the knock up stream, i don’t think we will even be able to make it,” chopper said, sighing in fatigue as he too was running through the forest the entire time with luffy.
“no, we can’t get to sky island without it!! we need to find it!!” the captain stubbornly fought back, kicking his feet back and forth as if he were a kid throwing a temper tantrum.
just as he said that, a bird that resembled the gold bullion that was at cricket’s face landed right above their heads. he began speaking in that weird calling of his, which chopper translated, “you really think you can catch us? idiots!!”
[name] clicked his tongue in annoyance, about to take care of the stupid bird and bring him down using his powers, but robin had easily taken care of him too. she wrapped her arms around his wings so that he wouldn’t fly away and threw him down to the ground with another sprouted arm.
“all i needed was to see one,” she explained easily, shrugging her shoulders.
zoro walked over to the bird and held it up like it was a prize, “well, let’s go back then,”
this made everyone sigh in relief that their running from the dangerous and odd forest was finally done and they were free to go back to merry and the old man cricket’s house.
as they ventured out to the forest though, some picked up on how something was seriously wrong. cricket was resting on the ground, blood dripping from all his wounds, masira was also beat up, and shojo was floating in the ocean equally beat up too.
not to mention the state merry was in was truly terrible. luffy went to question cricket about what happened and [name] walked to the inside of the house along with nami.
the two barged inside and looked around for clues as to what happened, but the only thing they could deduce from the wreckage of the home was that someone had come to steal all the gold that the three had collected.
[name] walked out of the house first, tightly holding the handle of his sword to calm his anger. nami announced to the rest of the crew what they had found, making luffy’s eyes darken in realization.
“oi, luffy,” zoro called, pointing his thumb to a pirate marking that was on the wood of the home.
“bellamy’s mark!” nami said in shock, imagining the blonde pirate that they had encountered earlier.
“need any help?” zoro asked simply, looking at his captain for answers.
“no, luffy! don’t be stupid!! we set sail in only three hours,” nami shouted in exasperation, but the look on her face showed that she was conflicted as well. she hated what that captain and his crew had done to humiliate them earlier, but to be logical: there was no time to waste.
”if i run along the coast, will i reach the town?”
“yes, you will,” robin answered without wasting a breath.
cricket was very obviously opposed to the idea, going to argue that luffy had to focus on his crew, but the captain wasn’t having any of it. he went running off, leaving the rest of the crew to work on repairing merry. now that there were more than three people fixing merry, it should be done by the time luffy was supposed to come back.
they worked tirelessly, not even sleeping or resting for a moment. also everyone was on edge about luffy coming back in time. especially nami. she was rambling on about how they were going to miss the current and [name] couldn’t help but feel dejected at hearing all of her negativity.
“c’mon, nami, being a downer isn’t gonna make luffy come here faster,” he pestered her, shrugging his shoulders, “how about we adopt a more positive mindset! it might even blow off some steam,”
at his suggestion, she cleared her throat and spoke in full confidence, “if that stupid captain of ours doesn’t come back very soon, i am positive i’ll beat his ass into the ground!”
“that’s obviously not what i meant!”
as if he knew they were talking about his disappearance, luffy emerged from around the forest lining and was holding up in his hands, “look!! a hercules!! it took me forever to find one!!”
everyone else turned to become angry at their captain, unbelieving of his antics. but [name] only had stars in his eyes, “LUFFY! NO FUCKING WAY! A HERCULES!!”
luffy and [name] danced around, the captain holding the beetle up as if it were his most prized possession. they celebrated the finding of the rare insect, wooping and shouting in delight.
“you idiots!! come on deck already we need to set sail now!!”
nami dragged [name] off. luffy, on the other hand, dropped the gold off to cricket very quickly, shouting a thank you, and then was running off to the deck of merry — who was now dressed like a chicken.
“thank you guys!!” he shouted, this time it was directed at masira and shojo, “as thanks you can have my hercules!!”
“wait! luffy, no!” [name] objected immediately, but his mouth was covered abruptly by nami, who had no more patience in either of their antics.
“just hurry on board already, luffy!!” she shouted, making the rubber man hurriedly throw the beetle at one of the other two ships and hop on their deck.
everything started moving so fast from there. the ship now desperately chasing after the current that would send them up to the air, the crew looking ahead in hope. apparently, their journey would amount to a total of four hours. in that time, [name] decided to take a nap on the side of the ship, feeling exhausted at his lack of sleep.
zoro was slumped next to him, another person on the crew who didn’t see the point in anxiously awaiting for something bad or good to happen. zoro leaned his head onto [name]’s shoulder, uncaring as he was lulled away to sleep.
the two were napping for a good amount of their trip, but were suddenly awoken when the ship started shaking uncontrollably.
“what?” [name] yawned, sitting upright and making zoro lose his human pillow. this then woke up the swordsman, who too blinked awake as confused as [name].
“the both of you, get ready for something to happen! the clouds are just up ahead!” nami directed them, making [name] eagerly get up while zoro sluggishly leaned against the ship in fatigue.
“it’s way earlier than we expected!!” masira shouted in panic, sending their divers into the ocean to see if there was a current that they could find.
[name]’s eyes sparkled as he knew that they were closer than ever in finding the sky island. apparently, though, in order to reach said sky island, the entire ship had to allow itself to get dragged into whirpool beneath them.
the h/c haired man cringed at the realization, clutching his stomach, “i might be sick,”
“now is not the time for that?! why so sudden?”
“whirpools give me tummy aches,”
“GET SERIOUS!”
“i am serious, shut up!”
in front of merry, there was a giant whirlpool with nothing to be seen at the center of it — it was all just a darkened abyss. he tried matching luffy’s excited energy because he truly was excited to go, but the state of the water surrounding them made him feel sick to his stomach.
“can we just shoot up in the sky already?! i can’t handle this!”
“why are you so eager to see merry torn apart?! i beg of you to stop this, [name]!! don’t you have the power to do that!!” usopp begged, getting down on his knees and into a praying position as he stood beside [name].
“usopp, if you come any closer i might vomit on you!” [name] said, pushing the long-nosed man away and rushing to the railing. “and of course, there’s a sea king right in front of us!”
“a sea king!!” usopp, nami, and chopper all shouted in fear. they were sent into a state of begging and panic, turning to luffy as a means of begging for an escape out of the whirlpool before it was too late.
luffy declared that they were going to stay on this course, not even thinking of escaping as an option.
and just as the ship fell through the center of the whirlpool, it completely disappeared. [name] was too busy trying to not vomit everywhere that he didn’t realize that another ship had come into close contact with them.
“strawhat luffy, roronoa zoro, and you — cursed orphan! i’m bringing in those bounties of yours as mine!”
”i’m gonna kill myself,” [name] said in exasperation, tired of fighting his seasickness.
his image right now completely erased all intimidating that his high bounty had done for himself. his face paled, almost turned blue from how seasick he was getting. how he was sweating uncontrollably and drool pouring out of his mouth. yeah, he didn't look at all like the so called demonic pirate that the government wanted so badly back in their grasps.
“and now that…you’re fucking with me!”
“what? what’s going on?! use that power of yours and tell us what’s going on!!!”
“just hold on tight to something or else you’re goners!” [name] said, resting his entire body on the railing and holding on tight.
and in a single second, the water beneath them shot up and sent them flying into the air. [name] breathed a sigh of relief, the sickness in his stomach settling down almost instantly. plus the view around them was pretty remarkable. they were higher than he’d ever been before — including when he was in alabasta.
“go, merry!!” luffy shouted in glee, finding that they were getting closer and closer to the sky island.
“hold on, just a second! we can’t get too excited now! look, the front of the ship is lifting off of the sea! if we don’t do something about that, we are going to be crashing down and this will all be for nothing!” sanji shouted, sending panic into everyone on deck.
“well, what do we do?! we’re so high up in the air, this is something out of our control!” zoro said in return, arms crossed as he tried to wrap his head around their situation.
nami snapped out of her daydream, looking at the current they were riding and then began shouting orders, “spread the sails, right away!!”
“huh?” [name] asked, still looking around in amazement.
“this is the sea we are dealing with!! not just a pillar of water, it’s a rising current! and the wind blowing from below is a rising air current oduced by a geothermal heat and steam explosion!! if we’re dealing witht eh wind and sea, i can navigate it!! whos’ this ship’s navigator?!”
a confident grin washed onto [name]’s face as he shouted in unison with sanji, “you are nami / nami-san!!”
[name] roughly patted nami on the back before continuing on to follow the rest of her orders. she smiled at him, a cheeky grin on her face as she commanded the entire crew around. none of them questioned her, following her orders obediently.
after all, she was right. if this was just the sea, all their trust should go into her as their ship’s navigator.
“catch the starboard wind and pull the helm to point! align the ship with the current!”
[name] cheered in relief and glee, taking nami into his arms and swinging the both of them around as they celebrated their success.
the going merry was flying up the stream with no resistance. he held her tight to his chest, hugging her entire body with his own to show his immense gratitude and happiness. he had an arm wrapped around her shoulders while the other held onto the railing, making sure that they didn’t fly off.
“you did it, nami!! thank you! thank you, we get to see sky island now!!” he cheered, earning a chorus of agreement from everyone else on board.
“are we close nami?! are we close?” luffy excitedly asked, hugging the head of merry as she flew through the sky.
“if the sky island exists, it’s right on the other side of the clouds!!” she answered, her one arm wrapped around [name]’s waist while the other pointed ahead.
and when they did break the barrier of the clouds, the whole deck was soaking wet with water as everyone was catching their breaths. [name] still had nami tightly held in his arms, sitting the both of them up to take in the sight.
when he saw that the only thing around him was pure white, he jumped up and down — the navigator holding onto him for dear life — and chanted over and over, “we made it! we made it! we made it!!!”
nami laughed into his shirt, pushing her wet hair aside and looking at their beautiful surroundings.
the crew all took in a deep breath of relief to see that their journey wasn’t for nothing.
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