GUYS! ONE DAY!
ONE DAY SINCE I UPLOADED CHAPTER 3 AND I HAD LOADS OF REVIEWS N FAVS N FOLLOWS!
I WAS LIKE DYING BECAUSE I WAS KINDA SMUG AND FLATTERED AT THE SAME TIME LIKE OMG WHAT THE HECK-
*gets strangled by Inner Me*
Inner Me: SHUDDAP!
Ussop chews onto the rubber part of his pencil as he stares blankly at the sheet of paper in front of him. Put him in a stadium, under the pressure of the roaring spectators, and he could still shoot at a target yards away. But give him a test on math and he couldn't answer a damn thing.
After his father had ventured off on the dangerous seas to achieve his dreams (Ussop doesn't really remember what his dream was, he was really young when it happened), frankly enough, his mother had to struggle. Quite a lot. So it had been his mother's desire that Ussop should become a well-educated man who could pull himself out of any situation. His coach (more like his idol, and Ussop-sama doesn't need coaches), Dorry, and his bestfriend Broggy would often tell him that he was more than capable enough a sharpshooter and he didn't really need to carry out his mother's wishes anymore now that she was...well, dead. They never mean to offend and Ussop never took it that way. But Ussop knows that his mother has seen more of this world (he knows a lot about another world, a world where he stands, no stood, in the face of death and fought alongside monstrously strong guys and had seen all sorts of evil) and so he goes along with her decision, even if it sometimes grates on his nerves.
But that is not what is grating on his nerves right now.
You see, after a whole lifetime on a unpredictable sea, fighting off villains and keeping up with his rubbery captain, one might tend to think that Ussop lost his cowardice.
That, my dear friends, is certainly not the case.
Because one look at Luffy and a moment of remembering was enough to send Ussop scrambling in the opposite direction, running as fast as his legs could carry him.
Because now he was afraid of Luffy, and of what he would say when he met him.
He remembers Water 7, and he remembers everything, everything that he had said to his beloved captain.
He knows that if only he meets Luffy, the other boy will laugh it off because it is silly and that was in another lifetime and Luffy would never hold anything against him, anything against any of them. And he knows that Luffy will accept him with open arms, he just needs to go face him but-
But that's the thing.
Ussop doesn't think he will ever be able to face him.
Because no matter what, he can't forget what happened when he died-
Ussop shakes his head as if he was physically trying to get rid of those thoughts because he can't bear to remember that.
He lets go of his pencil because he doesn't think he will be able to think straight for a while, let alone solve math problems and he puts his head in his hands.
He doesn't know what to do. As much as a part of him is terrified, another part of him longs for it, longs for sunny smiles and warm hugs and a place to call home with one man leading them all.
Ussop doesn't realize when he fell asleep against his desk but his teacher won't be happy about the water droplets that will have soiled his test by the time he wakes up.
Yayyyy cliffhanger.
Go enjoy life till next time.
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