Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece.
Spoiler warning: If you have NOT read up to chapter 435, don't read this fic (unless you want to be spoiled). You have been warned…
Summery: Thoughts of different people on the straw hat crew after Enies Lobby.
--- A moment of happiness ---
--- Zeff ---
A dream is an unbelievable powerful thing. If combined with a strong will it can crush you like nothing else. I have always known that. And I used to hope that my will would bring me to the All Blue.
But it seems that it wasn't enough. I was lacking something. Now I have realised what this one thing was. Fate. Or maybe I wasn't fated to fulfil my dream myself but to raise the one who would and fulfil it through him.
Yeah, that could it be. After all the little eggplant seemed to be on the best course to find, what I haven't.
It has been so long now since he left. And he's still alive. When I visited the Grand Line, it had been a fight for surviving.
I look at the only picture I have of him. Thought it wasn't worth much. It was just a very bad facial composite. The little eggplant would probably love to kick the drawer for it into the next wall. Or through it…
But as bad as the picture was, if the marine is good for something then it's naming.
Sanji, the Black Leg… defiantly a fitting name.
My lips twitch and I fight the urge to smile.
I hear the noises from the kitchen. Patty and Carne are fighting again… I wonder if they already saw the bounty.
I guess a normal person would be worried. But I am not. I survived a whole year on the Grand Line. And, unlike me, the stupid eggplant is with a very tough nakama. A nakama, who is his family, who still believes in the era of dreams…
My old nakama hadn't; they hadn't been worth the word nakama… And now the staff of the Baratie is my family. The little eggplant too will be always part of it.
I'm happy that he has gone away to chase his dreams. He already had itched to go long before the straw-hat kid hat came to the Baratie. I had seen it in his eyes every time somebody mentioned the Grand Line in front of him.
I wonder how his photo will look like once the marine manages to get something proper.
Though I already know, that I will see that shimmer in his eyes.
The shine of dreams and happiness…
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Author's note: Thanks for all the reviews. Next one is Kaya. I will take in Shanks , Vivi (BoLiN, HubiKoshin, Cybertoy00), Makino, Buggy (HubiKoshin, Cybertoy00) and Mihawk (Cybertoy00). I also want to give Smoker a try. I won't make Dragon since there isn't enough material on him (Sorry Kez-o the Brave). If anyone has other suggestions please tell me.