Author's Note #1: To celebrate Nami's birthday (which I didn't realize I was posting on), Independence Day (even though I'm Canadian and our independence day was on the 1st), and the one year anniversary of Beautiful Disaster existing on this site, I decided to make a one-shot around Nami and how she finds out about Zoro and Sanji's … activities, but then I started writing and it turned more into a lesson for Usopp. Whoops. It also allows you to see other characters who aren't usually seen. I do not own One Piece. I hate to be technical, but in here Kaya says gender and sex as separate things so I just want to clarify that they ARE separate things, even though not everyone sees it that way. Your sex is biologically your anatomy, biologically I am female, so my sex is female. However your gender is what you identify as, for example, I identify as female, which makes me cisgender (that means my gender aligns with my sex), however say my gender is male, biologically I am still female, but my gender is male. If you already understood this or can't understand my weird way of explaining, sorry for wasting your time. Also, at one point which was interesting: there were exactly 8 favorites, 8 follows, 8 reviews and 8 thousand words in this story. May I just say the Death the Kid in me is very pleased? I needed to write something happy, because I saw episode 483. Basically my friend only watched dubbed, but I got him to watch 2 episodes subbed but I was like I'm going to go insane without the rest of the crew, let me get to the time-skip ahead of you (cause the dubs stop at 470 until July 26th where they put till 490), and then I was like I'll go back to like Skypiea, and stuff but the last episode I had seen was 481 and that didn't sit well with me so I was like, "watch till 485", but I COULDN'T BECAUSE THEY RIPPED OUT MY HEART! Extra credit to anyone who can tell me without looking it up what happened in 483 that tore out my soul.
Beautiful Moments
by: Setkia
Hand It Over
Moment Summary
Because Nami had to find out eventually.
Takes place during chapter 36 in which Usopp learns about Sanji and Zoro's new development in their relationship.
While laying on the couch with his girlfriend it suddenly struck Usopp what a jerk he had been to Sanji. No, jerk wasn't the right word. There had to be a more intense word to describe his ignorance about Sanji's relationship with Zoro.
True, he wasn't usually negative about progressive times and such, he appreciated the fact that the LGBT community was going farther than it had before and was reaching new heights, but he supposed he had never had to confront such an issue so head on. He could advocate for it as much as he wanted but until now it had been something apart from his life, something that never truly impacted him. Just because he couldn't understand it didn't mean he was supposed to give up on ever understanding it. Suddenly his comments about how feminine Sanji was struck a chord in him. One should never insult someone's manliness, that was one of the first rules of being friends with a man and yet he had broken it so horribly by saying all sorts of things to him that Usopp wished he could take back. He didn't fully understand it yet, but still, he had crossed a line.
"Usopp?"
Kaya's gentle voice pulled him from his thoughts.
Usopp turned to his girlfriend and smiled. He still couldn't believe it sometimes, that she was his and he was hers. She had all the money in the world and he was a lowly apprentice at some old man's workshop, but she loved him. Miracles really do happen.
"I was just thinking," said Usopp. "Do you remember Sanji?"
"That well-dressed man from the dinner we went to?" asked Kaya.
"Yeah, that's him. Blond hair—"
"And the weird eyebrow, right?"
They both laughed.
"Yeah, that's Sanji."
Kaya nodded and paused. "He's in a relationship with Zoro, isn't he?"
Usopp tried to stop his mouth from dropping, but it didn't really work. Instead his jaw tensed up and it just hurt when it fell about two feet to touch the slightly dusty floor. Maybe they should clean his apartment … "Um, well they weren't when you saw them."
"Are they now?" asked Kaya. "I could see the way they looked at each other, they were totally in love." One thing about Kaya that Usopp always found amusing was how she enjoyed playing matchmaker, she was a huge fan of helping other people find happiness.
"Yeah, I think it was soon after that dinner actually."
"Oh that's wonderful!"
Usopp nodded. "You don't … have a problem with it?"
"What do you mean?" asked Kaya.
"I mean the whole fact that they're both men."
"Do you?"
"No!" Usopp said quickly, almost too quickly. It wasn't that though, he didn't have a problem with it. Just that it made things awkward for him and he couldn't quite ignore it, now could he, that they were both men? Didn't that make the relationship different?
"I'll be right back," said Kaya.
She left the room for Usopp to watch the strange show that she enjoyed. He tilted his head to the side as he stared at the screen, unsure of what to think of the girl who was now hugging a suit of armour, which apparently held the ghost of her long-dead grandfather who was killed at the age of twenty-three due to a strange time travelling paradox, which meant she was slowly on her way to disappearing from existence, not that she knew that as she serenaded him with a voice that reminded him of Zoro when he got drunk enough to try karaoke. Even if he wasn't slurring, Zoro couldn't sing. At all.
When Kaya came back, her hair was kept underneath a baseball cap and her chest … It was flat. Usopp frowned. "What did you—"
"If I told you right now that I'm transgender and that I want to be a man, that I want you to call me Kyle and that I still love you, would you be with me, even if I cut off my hair and wrapped my chest?"
Usopp stared.
After a few moments of shaking his head in disbelief, he said, "of course I would. You're still you, aren't you?"
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," Kaya quoted. "Now imagine the name was gender." She sat down on the couch next to Usopp once more. "Love isn't about what you see, it doesn't know boundaries like sex exist, it's not about appearances, nothing can stop it since it's not tangible. I would love you if you decided you were a woman named Ursula, because you're you and I fell in love with you. Your gender and sex have nothing to do with it."
"I think I get it now," Usopp said slowly. Taking off Kaya's baseball cap, he let her beautiful blonde hair flow. "Well, Kyle," he said, "I would have to urge you not to cut your hair, I'm rather fond of it."
"Anything you wish, Ursula."
They both chuckled softly and Usopp leaned in—
RING! RING!
That Goddamn phone. Usopp grabbed the phone from next to the couch and sighed. "Hello?"
"Usopp?"
Usopp froze. It was Nami.
"Don't tell Nami."
There was pure desperation in Sanji's voice at the time, there was no way he could betray the man again; first stomping on his manliness and then damaging his pride and his genitals with how much Zoro was going to throw a fit the second he knew that Nami knew. Besides, he had money on the line too.
"Hey, Nami, what's up?"
"Usopp, you sound funny." There was a beat and then— "Did they do it?"
"They? Who are they?" Usopp said weakly, trying to play dumb. It so wasn't working.
"Zoro and Sanji, did they do it?" asked Nami, getting anxious.
"Do what?" Oh she was so going to kill him.
"Did Zoro and Sanji fuck?"
"Do you have to be so blunt about it?"
"So they did?" Her voice was getting way too excited.
"I never said that!"
"But you didn't deny it! Ha!"
Usopp groaned. Kaya looked at him worriedly but he just placed his hand on hers and gave her a smile. This wasn't her concern, more like his bad life decisions that made him think to bet against Nami. Not even Luffy was that stupid.
"I'll be picking up my earnings next time I see you."
"Earnings?" Usopp hissed. "More like your stealings."
"Hush, someone's a sore loser," Nami said. "Better save up, Goggle-Boy!"
There was a click and she hung up.
Kaya rubbed Usopp's arm. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, fine." He bit his lip. "Since love's intangible, then it won't care that I'm about to be broke, right?"
Kaya laughed.
Author's Note #2: The thank-yous! A much bigger turn out from last time.
veryfineautumn4869: Sorry, it wasn't meant to be so emotional. I actually wrote the first part of Zoro's speech (the one about introducing Sanji/the summary of this fanfiction) first before the whole depressingness set in. It was mainly based off of Junjou Romantica, my favorite couple in there of Shinobu and Miyagi, when Miyagi takes Shinobu to his deceased teacher's grave, who he fell in love with when he was a student, so he asked for her approval by showing him off and insulting him at her grave.
HollyWoodFix: So you should totally do that for Soul Eater. I have like 2 other Soul Eater stories (besides the one I am working on now) in my mind for the summer. Anyway, the problem is that this series of one-shots centers around Zoro and Sanji during Beautiful Disaster and to fill in the gap of 6 months in chapter 41 and 42, so there will be no proposal since they were't engaged in chapter 42. I have a sequel in mind for Beautiful Disaster, and am thinking of making it into a 3 part series (well, 4 if you count these one-shots), if you guys wouldn't mind putting up with these versions of them. I've grown quite attached to them.
KleinXDgirl: I can't, because uh, they were never married. This one-shot series covers the moments in between chapter 41 and 42 (there was a 6 months speed ahead), and any other moments DURING Beautiful Disaster, since no one was married during this time, I can't really do that. Sorry.
Shizuka Taiyou: I'm writing Soul Eater stuff now, as if you couldn't tell by a look at my profile and my comments from before, my friend told me I should cosplay as Death the Kid. But anyway, I do actually have an idea for a Death the Kid centric story. With romance of course because I can't resist. The fandom somehow made me love Liz and Kid together. Course the fact that Eustass Kidd exists throws me off when I say Kid, but whatever.
Raigon: I have not seen your name in quite a while. Soul Eater was the first anime I actually saw in its full entirety, which means it's got a special place in my heart. And the whole madness thing was quite ... maddening. If you feel like it, check out my other Soul Eater stuff and leave a review, let me know if I got you to check it out myself.
QUESTION: IN EPISODE 483 OF ONE PIECE, WHAT HAPPENED? I saw it recently, please don't look it up. Can you guess why I'm crying myself to sleep?
