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laxuscouldnever · 4 years

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Rorona Zoro x Child!Reader pt.3

Soft snores filled the boys’ dorm, most of them coming from Zoro and Luffy. Although the snores were noisy, it was comforting.

A low whine broke through the snores and filled the room. Y/N sat up and grabbed his side. His eyes filled with tears as a sharp pain shot through his body.

“Z-Zoro,” Y/N said quietly, trying to wake up the man sleeping next to him. Y/N shook Zoro’s arm as hard as he could until Zoro’s eye cracked open. Once Zoro saw the tears flowing down Y/N’s cheeks, he gathered the boy into his arms.

“What’s the matter?” Zoro asked, now completely awake.

“M-My side hurts and it feels all wet,” Y/N cried into Zoro’s chest. Zoro felt the boy’s side and it was, in fact, wet. Zoro pulled his hand away and could see the blood in the dimly lit room.

“Jesus, you’re bleeding!” Zoro said, voice loud and full of panic.

“What the hell are you being so loud for?” Sanji peeked his head over the side of his bed to look at the duo underneath him. Zoro quickly stood up, Y/N still crying in his arms.

“Wake Chopper up and tell him to meet me in the infirmary. Y/N is bleeding from his side,” Zoro ordered as he rushed out of the room, not waiting for Sanji to answer.

When Zoro entered the infirmary, he placed Y/N on the bed. Zoro walked over to the counter and lit a candle so he could see better.

Zoro placed the candle on the bedside table and walked over to Y/N. The boy was still crying and seemed to be in a lot of pain.

“I’m just gonna look, okay?” Zoro said. Y/N nodded and let Zoro lift up his shirt. Zoro carefully pulled off the soaked bandages from Y/N’s side.

There, on Y/N’s side, was a deep cut from what looked like a blade. Blood was still flowing and dripping onto the bed.

“When the hell did this even happen?” Zoro asked, even though he didn’t really expect an answer.

“Z-Zoro, it hurts really bad,” Y/N cried. He wanted the pain to go away so badly.

Chopper suddenly burst through the door, catching the attention of the pair.

“What happened?” Chopper asked frantically.

“He woke up in pain. His side is bleeding pretty badly,” Zoro said, moving away from the bed so that Chopper could start aiding the boy.

“Please make it stop.” Y/N’s voice was strained and you could almost feel the pain in his voice.

Zoro had to leave the room because he couldn’t stand to see Y/N like that. He felt responsible for the kid and was ashamed he let something like this happen.

“Marimo, what happened?” Sanji appeared out of the boys’ room.

“I-I don’t know. He’s bleeding, and there’s a huge cut in his side.” Zoro was scared. He wasn’t going to let his kid die, not as long as he was alive.

“Is everything okay? We heard yelling.” Zoro turned around and saw Nami and Robin walking towards them.

“I don’t know.” Zoro walked away from the group and found himself sitting in the crowsnest.

How did this happen? WHEN did this happen? Who the hell did it?

Zoro couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. Just until he remembered what had happened that day.

Those damn marines, Zoro thought.

Y/N must’ve been knicked when Zoro was distracted and was too full of adrenaline to notice he was injured.

An hour or so later, Zoro heard Sanji calling for him. Zoro climbed out of the crowsnest and met the cook by the infirmary door.

“How is he?” Zoro asked. Sanji sighed.

“He passed out a couple of minutes ago.” Zoro’s heart sank to his stomach. “But Chopper said he’s going to be okay. Y/N is gonna stay in the infirmary tonight.”

Zoro nodded and walked into the infirmary. Chopper was finishing wrapping up Y/N’s side in thick bandages, just in case the stitches tore.

“You’re keeping him in here tonight?” Zoro asked.

“Yeah. It’s safer for him to be in a bed by himself.”

Zoro grabbed a chair and pulled it up next to Y/N’s bed.

“I’ll look over him tonight. You should go back to bed.”

Chopper hesitated for a moment. He wasn’t sure if Zoro was in the right mindset to see Y/N in such a state, but he also knew that Y/N would be safe with Zoro by his side.

“If anything happens, come wake me immediately,” Chopper said and left the room.

Zoro leaned over and let his hand rest on Y/N’s forehead. His head was burning, but that was probably because he lost so much blood.

“I’m sorry this happened, kid. I’ll make sure this never happens again, even if it kills me.”

Zoro wasn’t exactly sure how long he was awake, but when he looked out the infirmary window, he saw the sun starting to rise. He looked back at Y/N. If the boy hadn’t been so badly injured, you would’ve thought he was having the most peaceful sleep.

“I brought breakfast,” Sanji announced as he opened the door. “Let me know when he wakes up so that I can bring him something,” Sanji said, handing Zoro the plate. Zoro just nodded.

Sanji lingered in the room for a moment, watching as Zoro paid all of his attention to Y/N.

“It’s not your fault, you know. None of us were aware of it. There’s nothing you really could’ve done.” Sanji tried his best to comfort Zoro, but it was no use.

“I promised to protect him, Sanji.” Sanji was a little taken aback at the fact that Zoro used his actual name. He must’ve really been upset.

“This never should’ve happened. If I had been there, this-” A sob that had slipped out of Zoro’s mouth cut him and left the cook in stunned silence.

Zoro quickly rubbed his eyes to stop the tears that threatened to flow.

Sanji went to say something but was stopped by a quiet groan. Y/N forced his eyes awake and looked around the room.

“Zoro? Sanji?” Y/N’s voice was low and raspy.

“Hey, kid. How do you feel?” Sanji asked.

“I’m okay, I guess. Am I okay?” Y/N asked, looking at Zoro.

“Yeah, you’re okay.” Zoro ran a hand through Y/N’s hair, a small smile on his face.

“How about we get you something to eat? You need to help your body regain the blood you lost,” Sanji said.

“Can I have some pancakes?” Y/N asked. Sanji chuckled.

“You sure can. I’ll be back.” With that, Sanji left the room.

“Zoro? Were you crying?” Y/N asked.

“Yeah...”

Y/N was confused. Zoro didn’t look hurt or anything, so why was he crying?

“Why? Are you hurt? Do you need to get Chopper?” Zoro gave Y/N a soft smile.

“No, I was just upset with myself. It’s not a big deal.” Zoro didn’t want to make the kid feel any worse than he already did. Y/N nodded but was still a little unsure.

“Y/N?” Zoro spoke.

“Yeah?”

“I want you to know that I really care about you. I really need you to know that, okay? I would give up my life if it meant you got to live yours.” Y/N was a little shocked, to say the least.

Y/N didn’t want Zoro to die. Who else would train with him? Who else would carry him to bed when he fell asleep on the deck? Who would wrap their arms around him when a clash of thunder practically shook the ship? Zoro was basically his whole life and here he was saying he would die for him.

“Zoro.” Y/N’s cracked voice made Zoro’s body cringe. “Please, don’t die. I wouldn’t be able to live the same life without you. I-I need you, a lot.” Y/N tried wiping away as many tears as he could, but some of them slipped by and stained his cheeks.

Zoro quickly joined the boy on the bed and lifted him onto his lap. Y/N buried his face in Zoro’s chest and clung onto his shirt. Y/N let himself be calmed down in Zoro’s grasp, relaxing with every passing second.

Zoro looked down at Y/N who was trying his best to stop crying, but a couple sniffles and hiccups sounded every so often. Zoro placed a soft kiss on the top of Y/N’s forehead, something that always seemed to calm Y/N down.

The room went silent and the two could hear Sanji’s footsteps making their way to the infirmary.

“Alright, one plate of pancakes, just for you.” Sanji entered the room and walked the plate over to Y/N. Y/N took a bite and it felt like his mouth was in Heaven.

“Mmm. These are so good, Sanji,” Y/N said, his mouth full of food.

“Don’t talk with your mouth full, you’ll choke,” Zoro warned. Y/N gave Zoro a thumbs up and went back to eating.

“If you guys need anything else to eat, I’ll be in the kitchen.” With that, Sanji left the room to go prepare breakfast for everyone else.

Even though the circumstances weren’t the best, Zoro and Y/N enjoyed each other’s company as they sat in the infirmary together.

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luffylaws · 7 years

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The Space In Between

10 Days of Lawlu Day 8: A is for… Alternate Universe

Summary: The spaceship Thousand Sunny crashlands on a lonely planet, and with their only medic injured the Strawhats need to find someone to treat them on the planet's surface.

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Luffy really, really hated when anything broke on the ship and neither Franky or Usopp could fix it in time. He especially hated it when it meant an emergency landing on a planet he had never heard of before.

“We’re coming down hard!” Franky announced loudly over the comms. “Better brace yourselves.”

The Thousand Sunny hurtled towards the surface of the planet they had only wanted to pass and Luffy looked out the observation window to see the ground coming closer with every fraction of a second. Then they were flying over a lake, only barely making it to shore, water most likely spraying up behind them. He told himself he could feel them skimming the top of the waves.

“I hope all your seatbelts are on!” he yelled.

He gripped the armrest of his captain’s chair hard.

Then the Sunny hit the ground. He would have been thrown out of his chair if not for his harness, which dug into his shoulders and chest uncomfortably. They skidded across the beach and onto a field until coming to a stop at the far end of it.

“Is everyone alright?” Luffy asked.

Everyone on the bridge nodded, albeit they were looking a little pale. Nami was shutting off all essential flying and landing mechanisms – they didn’t need them anymore now, and conserving energy was key on an unknown planet.

“Uh, Usopp’s hurt,” Franky said over the comms once again.

“Bring him down to med bay,” Luffy said before switching channels. “Chopper, are you there?” No answer. “Chopper, come in please.” He grimaced, meeting his navigator’s eyes.

“I’ll go check on them,” Nami said and unbuckled her belt. She got up and vanished through the doors towards the stairs that led down to med bay.

She came in over the comms about a minute later.

“Uh, we may have a little problem.”

“What is it?” Zoro asked before Luffy could.

“Chopper’s unconscious and they’ve got a pretty nasty headwound.”

“They must’ve slipped out of their harness again,” Robin mused.

Luffy was already out of his chair and halfway to the door. “I’m coming down!” he yelled. He didn’t even know if Nami could hear him or not.

“Guess I have the con…” Zoro mumbled behind him. He was already used to Luffy running off, so Luffy didn’t worry. The ship wasn’t going anywhere anyway.

He hurried down to med bay and burst through the doors to Nami pressing a compress to Chopper’s furry head.

She looked up at him and breathed a sigh of relief. “Come here and hold this,” she instructed and Luffy immediately kneeled next to her to take Chopper from her. She got up and retrieved a spray from one of the cabinets.

“Take it off,” she said as she returned and Luffy slowly removed the compress, hoping that no more blood would come rushing out. Nami immediately applied the spray to the wound.

“This’ll seal the wound for now,” she said. “But they need actual medical attention to make sure nothing is broken or concussed, and they can’t do that by themself.”

“Especially not if they’re unconscious,” Luffy said. “But… we don’t have a second doctor.”

Nami sighed. “Guess we’ll have to go out there and find one.”

She was about to press the comms button on her shirt when Franky came through the doors, leading Usopp. He was bleeding from a cut on his arm but seemed otherwise fine.

“I thought I’d come check up on this mess,” Franky said.

“Good timing,” Nami said. She waved Usopp over to sit down on the bed so she could clean and seal his wound. “We need one of those gurney’s you made. We gotta go out and find a doctor for Chopper.”

Then Luffy pressed his comms button. “Sanji? Come down here, you gotta help Franky with Usopp and Chopper.”

There was an excessively loud sigh, then Sanji replied: “On my way.”

Luffy stood up, satisfied, and carefully picked up Chopper and set them down on the biobed next to Usopp. Nami had just finished dressing his wound.

“Let’s go evaluate this planet and put together a landing party,” he said to her and she nodded.

“Don’t let either of them move,” she instructed Franky before Luffy and her hurried out of the room, back towards the bridge.

They had barely entered the bridge again when Luffy was already throwing around questions.

“We need to get out there and find a doctor, and probably somewhere we can get parts to repair the damage the Sunny sustained. Robin, Nami, what kind of planet is it?” he asked as Nami was sitting down on her post again to inspect the readouts.

“Nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere,” Nami said. “A little thin, but we’ve been in worse. So I don’t think we need suits.”

“The terrain seems fine and I have seen no signatures of larger animals so far,” Robin added.

“There’s a settlement uhhh about two kilometers from here,” Nami said.

“So they’ve probably already spotted us,” Luffy said. He turned to Zoro. “Any suggestions?”

“Landing-party wise?” Zoro guessed. “Someone needs to stay and watch the ship, and Franky needs to assess the damage properly, so I’d suggest the four of us” – he motioned to Nami, Robin, Luffy and himself – “plus Chopper, with Brook, Usopp, Sanji and Franky watching the ship.”

That was what they agreed on, and after preparing some gear they exited the Sunny about ten minutes later.

They walked down the ramp and Luffy ran his hand over the skull painted next to the doors. “We’ll be back,” he promised the ship, as he did every time he had to leave her unable to fly on any planet.

The Thousand Sunny wasn’t a big ship, but it had enough room for everyone, and it was Luffy’s and Franky’s pride and joy. She wasn’t his first ship, and it had hurt like hell to give up the Going Merry a good four years back, but she had been falling apart from under them, and getting parts for her had been literally impossible. So Franky had built them the Sunny.

Luffy tore himself from his thoughts and hurried after the others.

They hadn’t been able to take the speeder, for one because it wouldn’t fit five people, and also because it had taken damage in the landing and wasn’t a priority.

Chopper was on the hover gurney, flanked by Robin and Franky, while Nami was in the lead, her tablet with a rough map of their surroundings guiding them towards the settlement.

The settlement was much smaller than Luffy had expected. It was basically just a village settled into the spot between a river and a forest.

“I really hope they have a capable medic,” Nami said as they passed between the first, rundown looking houses.

Luffy just knocked onto a random door. “There’s only one way to find out,” he told the others.

An elderly, frail looking woman with skin in tones of dark reds and browns opened the door. “Oh, hello.”

“Hi,” Luffy said, putting on his brightest smile. “We’re not from here and were just wondering if you had a doctor in this town?”

She smiled right back. “Of course. Take a right at the next one and it’s the best maintained house on that street. The fourth on the left, if I remember correctly.”

“Thanks so much, granny!” Luffy waved and took a step back to fall back in with the others again.

“Let’s go.”

The house really wasn’t hard to find. All other houses on the street were in various stages of decay and seemed vacant, but the one the woman had described had a fresh paint job and the roof looked nowhere near caving in.

This time Luffy didn’t even knocked on the door but barged right in.

“Hello! Anyone home?”

“Luffy!” Nami hissed. “Manners.”

“What?” he asked over his shoulder. “It’s a doctor’s office.”

Then he felt a blade at his neck. “Who are you?”

The others gasped and Luffy could hear Zoro unsheathe his own sword. He held out a hand in the direction he knew his first mate to be and met the eyes of the man in front of him. They were yellow, and piercing, and the skin around them was dark, although part of the man’s face was discolored.

“Just someone in need of help,” Luffy said calmly. Yeah, maybe it hadn’t been so smart to just walk into the house but hey, it had always worked for him so far.

“We’re not here to cause trouble,” Nami said. “Although our captain here may cause some anyway. We crash landed a good way outside your village and our ship’s doctor sustained an injury in the process.” Luffy knew she was motioning at Chopper on the gurney, even though she was behind him.

The man looked between them and then slowly lowered his sword – which was just as long as he was tall. Luffy raised his eyebrows. “Get a lot of bandits here?”

“No, I just don’t like surprises,” the man said.

“Fair enough.” Luffy nodded. “Sorry for barging in on you. I’m Monkey D. Luffy.”

“Trafalgar Law,” the man said. “Get them in here then.” He waved at them and Robin guided the gurney further into the house.

Law bent over Chopper. “I think it’s safe to move them,” he said and pushed the gurney through a door into an examination room. “Wait here.”

“Nuh uh,” Luffy made and followed him. “No way. I’m not leaving them alone with you.”

“Suspicious, huh?” Law made and grinned. “Fine then, but just you. The room’s small and I can’t have all of you annoying me while I work.”

Luffy followed him into the room – although Zoro looked like he wanted to protest – and shut the door behind them.

Law was a good doctor. Luffy had only the most basic of medical knowledge, but he knew a good medic when he saw one. His hands were steady and he worked precisely.

“There’s no fractures in their skull,” he said after scanning Chopper. “And the brain seems alright too. Your navigator did a good job patching them up. I’ll give them a shot and then we’ll wait for them to wake up so I can run some response tests.”

Luffy nodded. “You know any places that make or fix ships around here?” he asked while he watched Law load up a hypo. “We need some parts for our ship.”

“My friend runs a garage on the other side of the village,” Law said.

Luffy grimaced. “A garage? I don’t know if that’ll help much. We have a mechanic, just no spare parts.”

Law leveled him with a stare. “Shachi and Bepo used to work on the base on the other side of the planet. They know their shit, and they can get you your parts in no time.”

“Okay then,” Luffy said. “We’ll check it out later.”

Chopper woke up about a minute later.

“Where am I? What happened?”

“Some godforsaken town on some godforsaken planet,” Law replied, leaning over them and testing their pupil response again. “Your ship crash-landed and you got hurt so your crew brought you to me.”

Chopper’s eyes focused on Luffy. “Luffy!”

“You’ll be alright,” Luffy said.

“I’d appreciate it if you didn’t give medical opinions,” Law said drily but then, turning back to Chopper, nodded. “Although you most likely will be.”

“I’m glad,” Luffy and Chopper said at the same time.

“You should get some rest, just to be sure,” Law said.

“We’ll just drag them after us on the hover gurney as long as we’re here,” Luffy said cheerfully and opened the door back to the waiting room of the office. “Guys, Chopper’s gonna be fine!”

“That’s a relief,” Robin said.

There was a deep sigh from Law while Chopper hopped from the biobed back onto the gurney. “Come on, I’ll show you the way to my friend’s garage, because it’s hard to find if you don’t know your way around here.”

“I appreciate it,” Luffy said. “Zoro would probably get lost otherwise.”

“Oh haha,” Zoro made, annoyance clear in his voice.

So Law led them through the village, past houses with their roof missing, and houses with no doors or windows.

“What happened here?” Luffy wanted to know.

Law only shrugged. “People moved away.” He rubbed his arm uncomfortably. “There was a bout of illness about twenty years back and a lot of people died.”

Luffy opened his mouth but Nami elbowed him in the side so he didn’t press it further. He did know when to shut up.

“We’re getting close,” Law said, a little clipped.

“Franky? Any word on what parts we’ll need?” Robin asked over the comms.

“Ah, there you are! How’s Chopper? We need a new alternator,” Franky said immediately. “I’ve got spare fuses, so that’s alright. But as much plating as you can get so I can repare the damage to the hull. Cola would be good if they had any because our supplies are running low, but we can manage if they don’t.”

“Gotcha,” Robin said. She turned to Nami. “You got all that?”

Nami waved her tablet. “Yup. And I assume you’ll remember anyway.”

Robin grinned and didn’t say anything further.

The garage was just as small as Law’s office, but well maintained and the two mechanics seemed cheery.

“We’ve got a bunch of plating out back,” Shachi told them. “There’s a ship graveyard a dozen kilometers or so north of here, and we love salvaging – not much to do here besides that. There’s probably also an alternator out there.”

It took a while to find everything, but they managed eventually.

Getting all the parts back to the Sunny proved a little difficult, but Bepo loaned them a transport speeder that Nami took back to the ship while the others opted to walk back.

Law trailed after them to the edge of the village; hovering, silent, a little unsettling maybe and a mystery to Luffy. There he stopped.

“I hope you fix your ship and get off this godforsaken planet,” he said. “Good luck.”

“You should come with us,” Luffy said, impulsively, as he did so many things.

Law shook his head. “If I’m leaving it’s on my own terms,” he said. He seemed like someone who did want to leave to Luffy and Luffy really wanted him to come with them, but he also knew that he couldn’t force people to do anything.

So they left without him, and fixed the Sunny, and were soon back on their way to Raftel, the last planet on the edge of the Universe, but Luffy kept thinking of the lonely doctor on the lonely planet.

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