BON VOYAGE!
Random Word Generated: Missing
Muse Selected: Monkey D. Luffy
Requested by lizard-senpai.
Something was missing, and it was staring like a big, gaping eye at the boy. It was almost like he could visualize the picture beneath the frame, two grinning faces crossed out with red markers, leaving the shortest one unscathed and alone. It hurt to breathe the words, whether it be 'Ace' or 'Sabo'; no matter how many times the Surgeon of Death confronted him, he was always left screaming.
Luffy had constructed that family, had chased the back of those boys until they declared brotherhood. He wanted something he rarely had, with an absent father and mother and a smothering grandfather. He had a family; that is the very thing he is missing. His family.
Three became one and he hadn't even passed twenty yet. Promise after promise was broken, first to set sail together that splintered separately, almost like the canon fire that day, and the second to always live, stained in the blood of the dying man. Everything he loved about the world seemed bitter in contrast to that picture, three young men and two marked out.
Something was missing, intangible, and fleeing. It was Luffy's love for this world, and his anchor to remain in it longer.
It was enough for Jimbei to take action.
Tell me what you think! I love how my natural reaction is to take the depressing route.
-Soul Spirit-