Title: Please grant me this single thing...
(Challenge:) Memory
Character/s: Kaya / Usopp
Song: Airplanes
Artist: B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams
(Words:)
Rating: K+
Warnings: Nothing, really ^^'
Disclaimers: I don't own One Piece, nor this cool R&B song (w)
He had made her believe in miracles, even if his stories had been hilarious lies and fantasies, she had started to believe in a world where she could be stronger by herself. But right now, as the stars twinkled down on her from the night sky the miracles seemed so very far away. One year and a half, that long had it been since she had last heard about the Strawhats, about her dear liar's and his friends' adventures and escapades...
One and a half a year since that horrible war had wracked havoc in distant seas, once again putting the world on fire with flames burning from every man's heart and blazing through the sky. And even if she knew that Usopp had had those flames burning in him from the moment he was born, she still clasped her hands and closed her eyes. The silent wish fell from her lips over and over again, hoping that a star would fall and fulfill it for her so that she could sleep at night, eat and not go around worrying about that silly man.
But as she looked up at the night sky again, there was no falling star to ease her heavy heart. So as she walked over to her bed and removed her robe and draped it over a chair by the nightstand, her memories flooded her senses when she looked back at the window where she had knelt.
Memories of warms days when she had been told stories about a giant goldfish, of freezing cold winter days when Usopp's nose had been blue from the chill as he told her about his brave fight against a huuuge mole over a cup of hot cocoa. Those happy, calm days...
The days he had made her forget her pain over her dead parents, put a smile on her face and mirth in her heart. How she wished those days could come back to her, that they could play over and over again in a long loop. So that Kurahadol never showed his true colors as a murderous pirate, so that Usopp had never left with Monkey D. Luffy to adventures which seemed to have resulted in their-
No, she couldn't even think about it! They were alive, he was alive and when he came back he would tell her about his adventures. And this time they wouldn't be lies, but real happenings, frightening creatures and amazing people. As she slipped beneath the heavy quilt, that silent wish kept repeating in her mind, since no matter what she told herself, she could really use a wish right now, to calm her once again breaking heart.