As the chapter titles says, this is completely unrelated to One Piece
But somehow, I have always imagined it as in One Piece
So here it is: Yami to Hikari
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Yami's dark crimson hair was stained with blood. His already ragged shirt was ripped in various places, so cleanly by a knife. Bruises covered his handsome face, but barely visible in the dim light of the tavern. One arm hung at an awkward angle, just dangling. Bystanders stood, wincing as each blow hit Yami. But despite all this pain, no emotions crossed his face. His eyes were dark and shaded, as if a marionette, with no life force behind them. One of the gang held up a beer bottle, a furious look on his face. "You'll pay for what you did! You'll pay, Yami!" Yami looked up to face the man as his torn and bloody back made contact with the bar's wall, looked up to the man he once called his father.
A wave of green flashed before him, seconds before the sound of the bottle shattering and the rain of glass on the ground. A collective gasp ran through the bar. Yami's eyes widened as a familiar face flashed before him, a nonchalant grin on her face. "Yo…" "Anata…nande?" Yami whispered. His eyes focused on the trickle of blood dripping down the side of her cheeks. "I told you, don't bare the pain to yourself. Watashitachi wa nakama yo! Shinjite…" Her voice downed to a hurt whisper. Yami clenched his fists. "No! Leave me alone! This," he gestured to the mob. "This is my life! You wouldn't want to be with someone like me! You-" A flat sound of her hand against his cheek ran through the air. "Baka…You think I don't know? Yami, you're an important person to me, that's not going to change." A wave of pain washed over Yami, a new kind he had never experienced before, deep in his heart. Slowly he slid to the ground, covering his face with his hand, propping it up on his knee. "Go-gomen…" A soft smile crossed the girl's face. "Don't worry, I'm here now…"
"Oi! Matte!" Yami's father shouted to the girl, who had propped the unconscious Yami up by one arm. "Kisama, what do you want with Yami?" In a split second, she was up to his face, which was more than ten feet away a second ago. Her eyes were cold and murderous, not at all the same as before. "Don't call Yami's name so easily," she hissed. Then before he knew it, the girl's foot had flown out and sent him across the room.
Yami woke up a few days later, bandaged and cleaned, laying in a clean bed. "What the…" he muttered. Then the memories of that night flashed in his head. "Anoko…" Glancing around, he spotted the girl sleeping on the table, her head propped up on her arm. Yami quickly ran towards her, ignoring the throbbing pain through his body. "Oi, omai… wake up." He shook her by the shoulders, which threw her off balance, resulting in her head falling off her hand. Yami jumped at the loud bang of skull against maple. "Ide!" she yelled as she woke up from her sleep. Slowly blinking her eyes, her gaze fixed on Yami. They stared at each other for a few seconds, then she muttered with a sleepy smile, "Hello beautiful, who are you?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! But you didn't have to wake me up that way!" Yami turned around at her voice, only to look away again in embarrassment as he saw only a towel was wrapped around her. "Put on some clothes!" "Can't, the only ones I have are wet 'cause somebody threw me under the shower!" "Well you wouldn't wake up!" Yami argued weakly. The girl sighed. "Good thing you're awake though. You have no idea how worried I was." Yami blinked in surprise as she walked past him. "You were worried…?" Sensing the tense mood between them, the girl answered, "Well yeah, I mean, even asleep you have a huge appetite. I was running out of food to feed you." "Anona…" he muttered, vein popping. Then, he seemed to have remembered something. "Right. I never asked you, anata no namai wa?" A teasing smile crossed her face. "Sa na… What do you think my name is?" But to her surprise, Yami wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close to him. "Hikari. Anata wa… anata wa watashi no Hikari."