Surprise
"Once upon a time there was a Brave Sniper. He was known throughout the world. All of his 8000 subordinates held him in great respect. The Brave Sniper spent all his days slaying dragons and rescuing beautiful maidens. It was certainly no wonder that everyone practically adored him. In fact, they adored him so much that they thought the ground he was standing on was holy. Yes, the Brave Sniper was just like an angel descended from heaven. One day the people read from the paper that a horrendous natural disaster would be coming. 'How horrible, what are we going to do?', they all wailed in desperation. Then the Brave Sniper jumped up, blurted out: 'I'll take care of that stupid disaster!' and ran like the wind, fearless, towards the danger, staring death in the eye... And all the people yelled: 'No, Brave Sniper, come back, you can't sacrifice yourself, you're too valuable to us..."
"What are you mumbling about, Usopp?"
Usopp lifted his gaze from his screwdriver, which he had twirled around absently already for a minute, and saw his captain's curious face right in front of him. Realizing he was back in the reality, he frowned, shifted his gaze back to the grassy deck and started to twirl the screwdriver once again.
"Come on, what is it?" Luffy pressed on, as he was never one to give up.
Usopp looked sour. "... My birthday was ages ago, and none of you even noticed", he said finally. "So I'm making up my own story where I'm appreciated like I should be...-"
"What are you talking about, dummy?", said Nami, who had just come from the kitchen, wiping her hands on a towel. "We haven't forgotten your birthday!"
"That's right!", said Sanji's voice from inside the kitchen. "Sorry it took so long, but you don't do a cake like this in just a few days!", he said, coming out of the kitchen door which Nami held open and carrying the biggest cake that Usopp had ever seen. He inhaled sharply. On top of the cake was a huge decorative slingshot. "Ta-dah!" Sanji grinned broadly.
"You... didn't forget...?", Usopp could barely say.
"Of course we didn't!" Luffy laughed, as if that would've been the most obvious thing in the world. "We just wanted to surprise you!"
At that moment Usopp looked at all of his crewmates around him who were all smiling at him, and broke into a smile himself; in moments like these he realized that they were the real presents. In moments like these he realized that he didn't want to be the Brave Sniper or even Sogeking. He was happy being just Usopp.
