I didn't end up getting drunk that night. Sanji said the situation didn't call for that and cut me off after my eighth round. He was right about everything as he usually was.
~Ryu's POV
I woke up in Luffy's arms. Having embraced me after waking up screaming because of the nightmares. I knew this wasn't fair to him. It wasn't fair to me either. But I couldn't tell him because I didn't even know myself.
~Sanji's POV
He was hopeless but not completely. He didn't find it hard to look at Ryu despite how much she resembled Nami. But all of us knew it was because deep down he still loved her and that he was still waiting for her to come back.
~Zoro's POV
Sanji let me off from my shift at the restaurant that day. Told me to take some time to clear my head, talk to Ryu about everything. So I did.
Ryu sat in front of my her legs crossed on the sofa. She had huge bags under her eyes and I could tell she hadn't slept well.
"Did you have it again?!" I asked, "The nightmare?!"
She nodded not looking up at me.
"Ryu, you can talk to me about these things. About mum!?"
She shook her head tears beginning to form in her eyes.
"I can't dad," she began, choking on the tears as they streamed down her face.
I stood up and moved to sit next to her engulfing her in a hug. She put her arms around my neck and cried into my shoulder. She brought up her head quickly for me to see her pained smile. Ryu let go of me and wiped her eyes before saying:
"I can't because I know you're still in love with her."
~Nami's POV
I sat at the kitchen as Masamune and Sora whizzed around the kitchen preparing my breakfast before going off to university. Jiro sat across from me at the table, glaring at me. As the youngest he'd had a hard time accepting me even though I'd been around almost five years. Their father was hardly ever around these days; always being off on business. The oldest two adored me and there wasn't much of a gap between our ages them being in their late twenties. Jiro however being only being six at the time that I married Kisa had thought only of me as a replacement of his late mother and a terrible one at that. Kisa only had one daughter.
"Could you pass me the butter, Apis?"
"And re-enter Nami."
For now on the story will have more Nami and Zoro POVs and less Ryu POVs. Sorry to those of you who didn't like the Ryu parts. Luliyah x