A is for Alone
Nico Robin wasn't one for being alone. Or rather, she didn't like to be alone. She despites it to the point that if the term had a physical body, she'd break it like she broke Spandam.
It all started back when she was 8, when the World Government destroyed her home island Ohara, essentially dragging both her good name, Blake's good name, and the entire island's good name through the mud. She and Blake each spent 20 years on the run from the world, being called demons, freaks, and the likes. They each went their own way.
Robin quickly awoke in the crowsnest of the Thousand Sunny, her breaths being quick and ragged. She almost felt like crying.
"Hey, you okay?"
Robin quickly turned to see her husband, Nico D. Blake, who also volunteered for night watch with Robin. He had a slightly worried, almost childlike worried, look on his face. His brown eyes easily showed it.
"Let me guess." Blake said. "That same dream again?"
"I didn't mean to wake you." Robin said, hiking the blanket up. The current user of the Flower-Flower Fruit wasn't wrong, though. She did have that same dream. She dreamt about that fateful night when Ohara fell, but instead of what fate had given her, Blake didn't survive, The Straw Hats lost in Alabasta and she ultimately died under the sandy kingdom, the name of Ohara finally snuffed out.
"Hey." Robin turned to Blake, only to receive a perfectly timed kiss to the lips. "You know I wouldn't leave you, right?"
"Right." Robin nodded. She turned to grab the teapot Sanji had brought up, only for it to be empty. "Oh dear."
"I'll go and get some more." Blake got up and walked to the door, teapot in one of his copied arms. He opened the door and sprouted many more arms, leading to the Sunny's kitchen. "Cien Fleur: Delphinium. And now, Ojos Fleur." As Blake opened the kitchen doors he conjured up a few of his eyes in the kitchen, just to make sure he didn't accidentally almost burn down the Sunny's kitchen again. After setting the kettle down on the stovetop, he let the water boil, added the extra tea leaves (Robin had been known to like a stronger tea for night watches), and he slowly put the kettle in the little holder Sanji likes to use and brought it back up, being careful where his hands were grabbing. After getting some cups, Blake poured his wife her cup. "Here."
"Thank you." Robin took a sip from her cup, taking a moment to savor the flavor. "It's wonderful."
"Well, I'm no Sanji, but I kinda know my way around a kitchen." Blake rubbed the back of his neck. It wasn't wrong either. While Sanji was normally the only one who would cook, Blake would, on the occasion, try his hand at making dinner. The results would vary from being best thing that they had eaten in their lives, even coming from Sanji, or it would end up being a complete and udder failure.
"Yes, I guess that's correct." Robin agreed. She noticed Blake was barely able to keep his eyes open. Smiling slightly, she brought her arms together. "Cuatro Fleur." Sprouting two separate p pairs of arms, Robin pulled her blanket over the two of them using two arms, while using the other two to reel Blake in, resting his head on her shoulder.
"I love you." Blake muttered before sleep finally grabbed him.
Robin kissed Blake's forehead as she stroked his hair. "I love you too."
Needless to say that they stayed like that until the sun came up.
So, I've been into One Piece for a little while now, and I've always had little stories floating in my head, but I could never bring myself to write one, mostly because of the fact that if I had wanted to write one, I wouldn't've known where to start, and I also had a bid sense of dread for when I would have reached the Dressrosa Arc, since that tackles a lot in the storyline, and that arc is SO FREAKING LONG!
Coupled with the fact that I've had a soft spot for Robin as a whole. Her character, hre backstory, and most importantly, her Devil Fruit. So I had figured to satisfy my want to make a One Piece story, I would do this. An A-Z alphabet story.
How this will work is that I'll pick a word that start with a letter of the alphabet, A in this case, pick a word that starts with A, and make a small drabble out of it. And what better "A" word to use than 'Alone'?
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