❰❰ ALMOST ❱❱ our muses almost kiss but don’t or are interrupted before they do *fucKING EYE ZOOM!!!!!*
@aliibiis / answered .
One would expect that he’d be exuberant about this sort of thing, in all honesty, not shy to display his affection. But for Luffy, moments of quiet, face to face intimacy like this (quite literally) are hard to come by. He never sits still, he’s always a group person, so it only goes to show how special it was that he handle this situation correctly, for Usopp to be able to wrangle him down like this. Surely this was about the difficulties they’d had over the past stretch of their journey, the one that threatened to tear not one, but two of them from their newly burned ship. It was lucky, then, that Franky had accounted for so much in his plans for the Sunny, it gave them plenty of space to hide away like this.
Presently, entering upon this conversation wouldn’t elucidate much about what they’d discussed. One could probably only hear that muttering Luffy was doing, so close to the sharpshooter’s face as he did so.
“...There’s no way I coulda’ turned around and left you behind without a second thought. I don’t just wanna go on cool adventures...I wanna go on them with everyone. And that means you, too. You’re here...you’re?” He fidgets, clearly having trouble articulating his thoughts. Luffy is better versed in feeling his emotions than putting them to words. “...You’re my people. You’re part of home to me. If you were just gone, what’d I do then? I’d just stop...! I need you here...”
There’s a lull there, the kind that implies direction or hesitation. Some kind of follow-up inevitably to follow. At least, it would, if it weren’t for Chopper suddenly entering, wondering where the bathroom is.
Upon which Luffy fumbles to the floor, bonks his head on a crate. “Gaahhh!! You totally threw me offffff!”
