Moment of Peace
Rating: K
Pairing: Sanji+Zoro (no slash)
Summary: Everyone has hidden talents.
Beautiful twangs and strums slowly resounded throughout the wooden walls of the Thousand Sunny. Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing and tilted their heads, trying to hear with greater clarity the beautiful notes that seemed to flow with such amazing ease, as if the player had been born to do it.
Robin sat up from her deck chair and closed her book. Nami placed her quill and compass aside and stood up from her desk. Franky stopped tinkering and removed his welders' mask. Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper stilled in their movements and looked towards where the sound was coming from.
Nami stepped out of the galley and smiled. "Pretty~ What lovely music."
"Yes, they are quite skilled. It's been a long time since I've heard music from a koto." Robin remarked as she closed her eyes, reminiscing about some event in her hectic and troubled past.
"Do you think it's Brooke who's playing? He does have a knack for musical instruments." Usopp offered, thinking he'd solved the mystery.
"Yeah, it's gotta be Brooke."
"No one else can play like him~"
"Ah, but that's not me, yoho!"
"So cool! He's in two places at once!"
"Brooke certainly has a wide range of—"
Everyone spun their heads around to see the skeleton standing not too far behind them.
"W-Wait, if it isn't you..." Usopp looked back up at the crows nest, instantly feeling at peace when he let the soft music overtake his senses.
"Then who is it?" Nami finished as she cast her gaze upwards, ignoring Usopp's stupidly happy face. The crew, after listening for only a moment more, was once again lost in the captivating melodies. Everyone got comfortable down on the grass lawn and enjoyed the music, the midday sun, and the simple joy of just being together.
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Smoke slowly wound upwards towards the ceiling as Sanji stared at the strings of the koto with great intensity. He was lost in his own little world as those ivory colored finger picks drew gentle notes from the long strings.
"It's beautiful." He murmured. "It's not something I'd expect you to be capable of...Zoro..."
Zoro cracked one eye open and looked up at Sanji before closing it again. "You learn things when you travel. I wouldn't expect someone who's lived his life on a pervert-filled, floating restaurant to understand."
"Tch, shut your mouth, baka Marimo." Sanji said, not letting what Zoro said really get to him, though still a bit annoyed. He took a look outside and saw the people he valued most in this world all lying out on the deck together, smiling contentedly as if they had not a care in the world. Even Sanji couldn't help but smile as he watched and listened. He turned back to Zoro who sat at the instrument, all frown lines gone from his brow and the slightest hint of a smile on his face. 'It'd be perfect if he had on a kimono.' Sanji thought, but left it alone. The softhearted moron was bringing everyone peace, even if for just a moment, and Sanji didn't want to be the one to break it. He too eventually lay down, and allowed himself to be drawn into the group's feeling of safety, calm, and contentment as Zoro strummed away, sharing all of Sanji's feelings and putting them out into the air through the beautiful music of his koto.
The End
Author's Note
I finally did it. I've finally made one of those 'drabbles collections' that it seems everyone has. Well, hope you enjoy!
A warning: some might seem like they abruptly ended, but that's just how it is, since I find ending to be very VERY hard. There was actually a color spread done by Oda-sensei where Zoro's playing the koto 83
-PD
