Hallo and welcome back!
Important notice right here, if you haven't reached Wano there might be spoilers from here on. Nothing major (because nothing real major has happened yet….) But I refer to some things that happened. This chapter first episode of Wano should have you covered I think.
Hiyori kozuki… I don't know what to tell you other than that you probably will not like what's coming. For the "I love you", you're gonna have to wait a long time if it even happens at all. I can't imagine a situation where it would come natural to him and quite frankly that's just not how I picture them for myself or how I've set this relationship up in general. Yes Robin had that insecurity with Emilia, but they are way over that stage by now. I hope you can enjoy this fic regardless!
Ghost, what should I say, the slut thing was kind of a heat of the moment thing, I was taken aback, Zoro was taken aback, Rexica was taken aback and now you too… remember when Robin thought about how she had blacklisted blowjobs and found that she actually wanted to try it? Guess we can also cross the degrading pet-names from that list. Also, I love you.
Now as always a huge thank you to Rexica for beta reading this!
Last time we got an introduction to Wano and just how the two had adapted to their undercover roles, this time we witness what happens right after Zoro's wanted posters are distributed
Admittedly, there weren't many things that could shock her. She had seen things, done things, endured things that were more horrible than most people could even imagine. For something to petrify her like that, to root her to the spot, to make her blood freeze without Aokiji close… it had to be something big. She clutched her hand to her face in absolute horror, just how was this possible? He'd been doing so good, six weeks undercover, visiting one inn after the other, sampling all the different sakes they had to offer. He had seemed almost content when visiting her, and now? Now he'd, quite frankly, fucked up, the adorable idiot.
The wanted poster in front of her shouldn't really come as a surprise. She had felt the massive amount of destructive energy he had released even before the ground started to shake. Of course he couldn't just let himself be killed like that, but to blow his cover to this magnitude? The execution site had been closed off; apart from the few officials and guards, nobody had been there. He could have taken them out easily, destroyed the evidence and chan- she stopped herself right there. Her man was many things, but he definitely wasn't a spy. He just didn't do stealth and subtlety.
It was a good thing people thought her to be oppressed by him, forced by him, that her affection stemmed from conditioning and not actual love, because if that wasn't the case, he would have jeopardised her mission just as much as his own.
"Is something the matter?" her Okaasan asked behind her, and she shook her head. All she could do now was to incorporate it into her role, pretend to be relieved to be free, but maybe somewhat terrified that the fiend would come for her at some point. They'd need to get a hold of that wanted poster though. They'd caught him quite nicely there. Would be a nice addition to their poster wall.
What actually worried her about this whole situation though, was the fact that if her observation haki was correct, he hadn't left the capital since the incident. She knew that he didn't value his life as much as he should when it came to the crew, and after what she had pulled in Water 7, she really was the last person that could ' give him shit' about the decision he had made on Thriller bark. But this right now? This was foolishness with nothing at all gained. Well, maybe not exactly foolishness, right? More like … there really was no nice way to put it, was there? Her ingenuous man was lost, wasn't he? She had tracked his erratic movements all across the city the last few days, and there really was no other explanation.
They turned from the crowded mainstreeton their way to meet the fabled oiran Komurasaki, it would bring her one step closer to actually getting into the shogun's castle. Now with fewer auras to interfere, she could feel him closely, although she had noticed no matter how little she concentrated, he always seemed to be there somewhere in her periphery. This time though it was like a beacon of light beckoning her to come closer. Could he do that on purpose? She readied herself, called upon her power, and instead of a startled gasp, she released a perfectly cloned version of herself onto the streets when a calloused hand closed over her mouth and another pulled her backwards into an alley.
He looked irritated, and she knew that he didn't want to ask for her help with the directions, but after three days of aimlessly wandering about, he probably didn't see another way. For a moment, she just held his gaze, waiting for him to cave but when she saw the honest desperation in the scowl that sent others cowering, she took mercy on him.
"Good to see you're alive, Kenshi-san. If I recall correctly, you do still owe me a few orgasms," she voiced with her usual casual indifference.
He scoffed at her, but his fists unclenched and his shoulders relaxed. "You spend way too much fucking time with Nami if you start lording debt over me."
"Fufufufu, just making sure you return in one piece."
"Fuck you, I always come back. I was the first at Sabaody, if you recall," he retorted with that adorable grouch of his.
Yes, of course he always returned, but he was also the one of them most likely to not return in one piece . She trusted in his abilities just as much as all the others, but that didn't mean she couldn't worry about him like all the others, right? Well, not Luffy of course, but as much as she loved her captain, the boy was a naive idiot most of the time with no inkling of consequences whatsoever.
He sighed and let his head hang, hand rubbing through his hair, and like recently, tangling in the topknot at the back of his head. The tint of pink around his ears told her that he had finally caught on.
"I'll be careful, Robin."
She hummed. That was all she could hope for in that regard. "Any chance I can get a down payment on your debt?" She asked more as a joke than anything else.
He barked a laugh before placing his lips on hers in an uncharacteristically meek and loving gesture.
"Just get me out of this fucking maze, and I'll pay you back in full when all this is over," he said with that cocky grin of his.
She should have known that it wouldn't be that easy. Should have also figured that their captain wasn't the only strawhat with irrational, boundless optimism.
Thanks for reading, let me know what you thought of this. Unfortunately Shōganai will be on break next week, but then we skip Wano's presumably great and epic boss battle and head straight for the victory celebrations!
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