#oh look motivation and muse hit me up x_X

[jiyunokaizoku-closed-blog]

@pilawforhire [ cont. from h e r e ]

“…All the time,” Law murmured. He stared melancholically out at the rippling waters that surrounded them. Pale moonlight glimmered down through a blanket of dark clouds and a whispery night breeze carried his words out to sea, that they may vanish without anyone else but Luffy made cognizant of them, of vulnerability revealed in his tone.

Law turned a heavy head toward Luffy. With both confusion and concern, Law studied the glazed look in Luffy’s eyes. Law had to wonder if, in his distraction, he had misheard—or worst, switched Luffy’s and Robin’s souls by accident and then forgot all about it.

“You continue to surprise me time and again.” Law plopped himself down on the deck of the Sunny and settled cross-legged with his back slumped against the railings and his gaze on the wooden floorboards.

“Who’s to say it’d be for the better or the worse? We can’t predict the outcomes.” If such a thing were possible, mankind would forever be living in the past. There would be no end to traveling back to an earlier time to change things, over and over and over, until everything was perfect. But could such a ridiculous notion exist? A perfect life?

“There’d be many a thing to consider. Do I get unlimited chances to return to the past? Would I retain all my memories? What if I told you, you could go back and redo things, but you’d never have met your crew? Could you sacrifice them, Strawhat?” Law rose to his feet and shuffled his heels. He propped his elbows on the railings and clasped his hands.

“What if we went back, and we tried our damnedest to fix things, but we failed, and the future played out the exact same way? We could keep going back, keep fixing things, trying to right our lives, but surely, there’d be a hefty cost. Something else would go awry instead, for each success that is had.”

“Guess we’d never know,” Law mumbled. He turned sideways to Luffy and raised his brows quizzically. “Why? What would you change? Our alliance? Do you regret it now? Finally?” The corners of his lips lifted into a faint smile.

“I don’t believe we’d ever get it ‘right’. Fate can’t always be in our favor.” Law pushed away from the railings and stepped restlessly towards Luffy. “Hey.” Law jutted out his chin and cracked his knuckles. “You. You can’t sleep? We could…spar. I’ll bombard you with all the bread in your galley, and you’ll have to catch them, all, using only your mouth, without missing a single crumb. A single crumb hits the floor? Our friendship is over,” Law said, maintaining a grim expression.

“How ‘bout it? You should be exhausted once we’re done. Consider this…my goodwill gesture. Or has all that talk already made you sleepy?”

Hearing the other ones reply Lu couldn't really say he was surprised about it. Actually he expected something like this already, even though he wasn't prepared for the other one to use a tone like this. It just... wasn't fitting Law. On the other side his own words weren't fitting him to beginn with so it probably was just fair for the other one to be a little bit off himself as well.

Tilting his head to the side he looked towards the other one, not really sure what to reply at all. Well he was full of surprises, so the other one shouldn't exactly be surprised by the fact that he was full of surprises right? Or... was that even making sense?

In the end he really tried to follow the other ones words but honestly. Lu didn't expect him to get so much in detail and Law probably had lost him after his second or third sentence or something. He certainly wasn't really listening anymore at all, a little bit lost in his own thoughts about things that should have been supposed to end different, but in the end he was pulled out of this thoughts probably at the right time.

"What? No! It's just..." Yeah... he couldn't explain it himself, could he? Not really but still.... "Why should I regret that? And what's this finally stuff? This alliance was your idea, you remember?"

Well.. .it had been before. A lot of things had changed since than. And even more truths came to light so why was he surprised at all?

Maybe because he already got used to have the other one around again. It was a reminder of the good old times. With 'good' still being something not easily to define.

"I'm not talking about having fate in my favor. I just... if I would have acted different before... could their life be better than it is now?"

It was probably a question with no real answer. And even more so... none he should break his head about. He should think about stuff like this at all but still... Damn he was so tired..

He didn't realise the other one was getting closer to him until he stood right in front of him and honestly the ravenhaired couldn't tell if Law had actually walked over to him or just used his room to teleport. It probabyl would remain a mystery.

"That sounds like a stupid game Torao? You're okay or did you hit your head somewhere?"