Heartbeat Aflame
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Drumbeat in my chest (fire under my skin) by Grech for hiroasu_akika
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
26 Jan 2024
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Luffy runs a careful finger over the skin of the fruit in his palm. He found it today, in the patch of yellow-wilted grass farther into the forest than Rayleigh usually takes their training to. He thinks it's a little weird, that Rayleigh hadn't found it despite scouting the entire island all those months ago for the probable marine intrusion, as if it hid from him. Luffy doesn't know if the guess is true, but he knows Haki, now, as unstable yet as it is, and it was- is really hard to miss. It's like the first star in the night sky. Like a beacon in the dark sea.
He cups it with both hands, like it's suddenly made of glass, his senses mapping how it feels. How it pulses with power, a second heartbeat to his own.
(It's red and uneven. Hot, in the way it's not supposed to be under a tree's shade.
He wonders if his brother looked at this fruit, the Mera Mera no Mi, and thought the same.)
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Luffy finds an interesting fruit in a forest. It derails a couple of things.
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- Part 9 of pieces of one (one piece fics)
- Part 1 of Heartbeat Aflame
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The boy gasps; doesn't even try to fight the steel-tight grip Ryleigh has on him. There's a coughing, shuddered inhale drawn with a wheeze. He's not pinned to the point of inability to breathe, or speak, but the hand holding him down is locked in this position, muscles taut with tension.
For a second time today, the forest becomes eerily still.
(Surprisingly, Rayleigh's hands are not shaking.
He feels like they should be.)
He works his jaw, trying to form words that aren't there.
"...Luffy." Rayleigh starts after a moment, tone somewhere between bewildered and completely dead, "What was that?"
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Luffy finds an interesting fruit in a forest. Rayleigh now knows of it, too.
Series
- Part 2 of Heartbeat Aflame
- Part 10 of pieces of one (one piece fics)