Here's S. I kind of made Luffy all broody in this letter, but I think it turned out ok. But I want your opinions so review and tell.
I don't claim any ownership over One Piece.
Survive
At first his crew had questioned his judgment; they had all thought 'Kidd? Why him?' they had all wondered if he was off his rocker. Then slowly one by one they had all submitted and accepted that Kidd was who Luffy had chosen to be with. But even that acceptance hadn't stopped some of them from questioning him further.
"Luffy, just answer this question and we'll be happy for you, why him?" The dark haired teen turned his now serious gaze to some of his most cherished nakama. Zoro, Nami, Chopper, and Robin had all gathered and it seemed that they weren't going to leave without an answer.
With a pensive sigh Straw Hat Luffy stared at the collected group of friends. "He survives." With that answer the for once serious teen turned once more to look out at the rolling waves of the ocean.
"What do you mean by that Luffy?" The small reindeer spoke with an unusually quiet and calm voice. What did Luffy mean by 'He survives'? Chopper had stayed with Luffy through thick and thin and had yet to see his captain like this out of battle. Luffy was tense, as if he suspected something bad to happen. He was so serious as well, Chopper had looked at his captains eyes when he was turned to them and had seen something surprising. Luffy's eyes had darkened even more; his eyes were hard and cold. He had never looked at them with those eyes before. Even when he had fought Usopp for the Going Merry Chopper had been able to see some of the warmth that seemed to radiate from Luffy in his gaze, but now his captains eyes were like flint.
Luffy turned around once more but this time with a grin larger then normal and a familiar flare in his formally cold eyes. "Ah, let's not talk about this. I'm hungry!" With those parting words Luffy bounded away from the assembled group and could be heard whining to Sanji for food.
"But Luffy."
"Just let it go Nami, he won't answer further." Chopper turned his gaze to the previously silent swordsman.
"But Zoro, that wasn't even an answer!"
"Zoro's right Nami just let it go." The petite doctor's eye was drawn to Robin who was slightly frowning with a calculating look in her onyx eyes. "Luffy said as much as he thought we'd need to understand." Chopper watched as Nami turned her sullen gaze to Luffy before huffing and walking away.
When Luffy was sure that the others were going to leave him alone he allowed himself to relax some. They had been pestering him for over a month about his choice in relationship, he in truth thought that only Brook and Robin understood. They knew what it was like to be alone, so alone that it felt like a thousand knives where being pushed into you at a centimeter a minute pace never stopping. He had over his time with his crew felt like that not often but it was there. When they could not even comprehend why he would make such a choice, like when he would rather give his life for all for all of theirs within a heartbeat. They could not understand the pain he had felt when they had all one by one been taken away from him by Kuma.
They could try and sometimes he thought they all understood perfectly, but it wasn't so. They didn't know the feeling of knowing that they were the only person that stood between their nakama and death every battle. He wasn't calling them weak no they were all very powerful but when their powers failed them he had to protect with all he had and he feared that one day he wouldn't be able to. He was sure that it was possible now though, before he could have brushed it off but now he couldn't because it had happened. This knowledge separated him from his crew somehow; he couldn't be as carefree as them.
He acted carefree sure but he was always on the alert now. The knowing that his crew had the ability had the chance to relax completely and utterly was out a kind of barrier between them and sometimes Luffy felt like he was alone. Kidd to knew what it was like to be alone, he had his own crew to watch over. And Luffy knew how hard it was to not break completely under the stress that that kind of responsibility was. He knew some men cracked under the pressure and failed his crew but Kidd hadn't. He had survived all his way to the New World and that was why Luffy knew he could be with Kidd.
Because Kidd would survive and so would he.
I can imagine that being the captain would put some kind of barrier between the captain adn the crew to some extent.
