In the Beginning

[printfogey.livejournal.com]

Title: In the Beginning
Rating: PG
Media: fic
Pairing/Characters: Nami/Usopp
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Myth
Spoilers/summary: Nami likes Usoppian creation myths. Takes place whenever (in my mind it's on the Sunny, though).


"Tell me - tell me how the world began," she says impulsively one day, as they're sitting close together under her trees. Usopp blinks in surprise, but Nami's often hard to figure out, and soon he's spinning out a tale, half-made up and half-cobbled together from all over the place. She removes his bandanna and runs her finger through his hair, and at the end, she moves into his lap and starts to feed him a tangerine, piece by piece.

"Now tell it another way," she requests, and before he knows it his hands are on her hips and she's leaning forward so her hair tickles the tip of his nose. He blushes, even though they’ve done stuff like this before, but then he finds his voice and an idea and gets going again. About the dawn of everything, of the creation of the Red Line and the four Blues, the Calm Belt and the Grand Line and all the islands; why there is light and day and sun and moon and people. He leans back against the tree and she cuddles in closer, finally kissing him.

"One more," she whispers, in the mottled shade of the leaves, the afternoon sun sneaking through in small spots.

There's no need in her mind to explain it, how she wants to hear every story he can make up about this, every possible pattern and path that could have led to this moment - the sea all around them, the sturdy ship beneath them; all their crewmates and their dreams travelling on it - and the two of them here, together like his, his skin next to hers. The liar makes up a world for them to dwell in, while the thief steals them warmth and waves and happiness enough to get by.

Comments

[slowsunrise.livejournal.com]

Aww~ I loved he progress and the last line!

[printfogey.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad you liked it! (To be honest I only come up with the last line after I'd figured out the cut-text; before that I didn't know how to end the ficlet.)

[aoi24.livejournal.com]

*sparkles with unholy glee*

That's such an Usopp-centric piece and it's *so* suitable and perfect and that's our liar/storyteller/muthmaker/masked hero over thar!! ^_______^

Oh, it's just wonderful all over. C:

[printfogey.livejournal.com]

*^_^* Thanks! And thank you for the great prompt! I had several ideas for it which all circled on different kinds of creation myths but in the end it was this little Nami/Usopp moment that stayed with me. No space to get into the different versions of the myths, alas, but now they can all be imagined to be as wild and cool as possible. ;p

[featheredtips.livejournal.com]

This was gorgeous. omg. No words, seriously. alkjsdhlkajshd I never would've thought I'd like the scene the way it plays out, but, oh, I do, IdoIdoIdo. Sweet, bb. ♥

[printfogey.livejournal.com]

*^_^* *feels incredibly flattered* Um, thank you! This just turned up from somwhere - originally I'd planned to do something else entirely with Chopper hearing different stories of how the world was made from his crewmates, but space wasn't permitting - and then suddenly Nami popped up and took over. ;)

[printfogey.livejournal.com]

*melts from your reaction* ♥

[uglyyomithing.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I melted. <3 This pairing doesn't get enough love. <333

[printfogey.livejournal.com]

Thaank you. I wish I'd get ideas for this pairing more often.

[ryu19.livejournal.com]

This story was magnificent. You covered so much with so little! Keep up the fantastic work!