Summary: Drabbles and prompts and quotes.
WARNING: NOT MINE. No love nor attention on this chappy because I had my attention on the next chapter :) enjoy!
Breathing Just A Little
Sometimes I am saddened
by how gently I live,
how thin,
how subtle;
how barely I exist.
...
And I am afraid.
...
I am terrified that perhaps
I am not capable
of living any other way.
- Barely here
Sengoku is tired.
Well, that shows something about his age but he's physically fine.
Perfectly fine.
(Incredibly so but sometimes he cracks and everything he works hard for crumbles apart showing something he tried to keep hidden, showing darkness).
He sets down the reports he is to sign and just sits, silently, without a word.
When was the last time he did that?
Relax.
Silence.
Still.
But Sengoku knows he cannot do this forever and opens the first report.
Mariejosis:
Several slaves have escaped the building and have injured Celestial Dragon Xavier.
Permission to capture and if resistant kill.
Sign:
And Sengoku raises his hand to immediately sign but pauses, eyes wide.
When did he start doing this?
Capturing people and making them into slaves?
The old Sengoku would have never stood for this.
This was not the justice he stood for.
Why did he become a marine?
To serve justice and protect.
What was his favorite color?
Blue, him and Garp always argued which shade though...
When was the last time he's seen his family?
More than fifteen years ago.
Sengoku grits his teeth.
(Because when he became a marine he promised and when you make a promise you either make something or break something).
In this case, Sengoku broke (betrayed) his resolve as a marine.
His determination to be a hero.
Apart from Fleet Admiral, who was he?
Why did he tolerate slavers?
Why did he obey the Celestial Dragons?
"Because this is justice."
"This is not justice!" Young Sengoku spat and the World Government leaders chuckle.
"You may be strong but we are the world government. Remember, you are just the face."
So Sengoku gives his permission and remembers that he hasn't exactly broken his promise when he sends Garp out to find the slaves and house them.
But the World Government are right when they say he's the face.
And whatever he does shows their image as the marines, the World Government.
Of course when he tells this to Garp the man wants it to be illegal not to sell crackers in shops.
Sengoku sighs, he's too old for this.