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Title: Cruel to be kind
Rating: PG for sailor mouth
Media: fic
Characters: Zoro, the strawhats
Word Count: 247
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or any of the characters from it
Prompt: ‘loss’

Spoilers: for Water 7 arc

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Zoro stared blankly at the spot where Usopp would have sat. He knew where the marksman would have picked. He knew him. The rest of the crew stared at him like he had lost his mind, his words hung in the air.

Lost was fine.

Loss was not.

He was lost. Fine. He was used to it. Could get lost on the way to his own dick - as Sanji had so nicely put it - but he hated to fail. Hated to lose.

Hated loss the most.

After Kunia, there was always that heavy feeling that pressed down on his chest. It was like gravity, an empty blackness that forced the air from his lungs and made his heart ache like an old wound. No more loss after that. Never again. He would fight and fight and fight and always win.

He would never give in. He would never say die. He would never leave a friend behind, or give up on his nakama.

They probably wouldn’t understand what he was doing, but he knew it was the only way. The steel forged in the hottest fire struck most true. It didn’t matter if they understood. He knew Usopp’s mettle better than the marksman knew himself. A brave man isn’t brave because he has no fear.

He knew that now.
 

To watch your nakama risk their lives every fucking day…
 

They would go through this together or not at all, and only death would stop them.

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Comments

[sinisterbug.livejournal.com]

This is REALLY good. Thank you so much for sharing. :D

[synvamp.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I love your fic so I'm very flattered *blushes*