We Began Here

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Title: We Began Here
Rating: G
Media: fiction
Pairing/Characters: Gen, Luffy + nakama
Word Count(if applicable): 218
Prompt: Beginnings
Notes: Future fic



It was a moment of joy and a moment of sadness, returning his hat to its rightful owner. A culmination of everything Luffy had worked for; sweating, bleeding, fighting for this one defining event in his young pirate life.

The Red Hair's and Straw Hat's celebrated together that night, loud and shameless and full of songs and booze and fast-disappearing food. The festivities went long into the early hours of morning, the light of dawn accompanied by Brook's songs of their crew's many adventures on the Grand Line.

And Luffy paused, oddly solemn for just a brief moment, hand reaching instinctively to his head for a treasure already returned.

Hands reached out and clasped the captain's hand as it hovered lost above Luffy's head. Startled, he glanced at the smiling faces of his crew quietly gathered round him.

"We are still the Straw Hat's, hat or no. We began here," and a hand pressed to his vest, as if sealing a sworn oath, "And here, we shall always be."

Luffy smiled, then, and the party continued until all were too exhausted to eat another bite, drink another draught or sing another note.

When the captain next awoke, a familiar presence sat upon his brow, a note tucked in it's brim.

"Straw Hat you began, and Straw Hat you will always be, Pirate King."

~fin

A/N: It's kinda campy, but I really want to get back to writing again, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Enjoy!

Comments

[synvamp.livejournal.com]

So sweet and solemn. Adorable! *squees of moe*