#gyro.rtf

He rests his head against Shakky’s shoulder. She leans her own back, cheek pressed to his hairline. When he hums, “They’re all going to die, you know,” he feels her nod against him. “Not without a fight,” she says, and it’s not malicious—just blunt in that way she’s always had. “And Roger stopped being your responsibility a long, long time ago.”

pairing: luffy/zoro; shakky/rayleigh; luffy & rayleigh; zoro & rayleigh

word count: 3,779

Senku stops, brushes Tsukasa off to inspect the edge of the blade again, running his finger along the bevel as he carries on, “When you get a bur like this, you’ll switch to honing, which is—are you even paying attention?” Tsukasa blinks and knows he hasn’t moved properly, still staring down at their hands—close, so close—as Senku glares up at him. “Mm,” Tsukasa grunts with a curt nod. It’s not technically a lie. Even though Senku squints, he lets it slide, vaguely skeptical. “You’ll have an easier time with swords because everything’s scaled up, but with this you’ll change your grip and move in a single direction.” He adjusts, then, and spreads his thin fingers wider across the spine, holding it steady—gliding it across the stone in sweeping, smooth, even strokes before flipping and slowly sliding the heel toward their bodies again, pressed together. And Tsukasa hovers, wanting the touch back but not, as he watches the delicacy of it—the confidence with which Senku handles something so dangerous—transfixed. It’s only a chef’s knife but he feels the absence of Senku’s hands on his own like a burn and wonders, distantly, if Senku handles all of his weapons with the same sort of care.

pairing: shishio tsukasa/ishigami senku

word count: 57,166 || chapters: 2/3

She has felt, she thinks, a little more insane every morning since Orange Town. full fic written for the "Somewhere to Belong" @rdtriozine

pairing: luffy & nami & zoro

word count: 5450

“I have watched you,” it says, “and to kill you would not be punishment enough.” “I don’t give a shit about dying—” Zoro snarls. “Where—” “You will not have the mercy of oblivion.” And there is a slimy, melting sort of laugh that gurgles up from the wet depths of it. “You will not die because you’re dead. You will die because they are gone.” “The fuck does—” “I am alone,” it hisses, “because of you.” Then it reaches up with its last rotting hand and grips the lapels of his coat, lifts itself up even as the motion drives his sword deeper. “So you will live ten thousand lifetimes as I have lived, you piece of shit—”

pairing: monkey d. luffy / roronoa zoro

word count: 17,071

ao3 tags: graphic depictions of violence; death loop; canon timeline; it's about the Yearning and the Devotion; spoilers for wano; angst with a happy ending

Lily’s smile is all sharp new-grown teeth and trust, and Gountess wonders, for the first time in his whole life, what little birds must feel when they fly.

pairing: gountess knock/too lily

words: 2,125

“Everyone’s been killed,” the transmission says, and he knows Minami will translate and Yuzuriha will understand and someone will follow through and somehow, someway, any of this will matter because it has to, because there’s no other option, because—

pairing: ishigami senku/shishiou tsukasa

word count: 4,732

A storm-heavy wind crosses, but the movement through underbrush is something else entirely and he doesn't need to wonder if the traps here have caught game. He brushes aside leaves and reminds himself that he's always let those who've suffered for his survival rest comfortably before their deaths—has always asked for understanding from what he’s killed. There’s a limp, hung thing snared by the throat through the first wire trap he checks—white fur matted from the struggle that broke its own neck, blood-red eyes glassy and staring into the distance. Tsukasa tries, more than anything, not to think about the fact that he’s never done the same for Senku—asked—not because he’s afraid of the question, but because he knows the answer already and doesn’t want to hear it. A dead thing can’t forgive, but a live thing can, after all.

pairing: shishio tsukasa/ishigami senku

word count: 96,772 || chapters: 3/3

Senku's got big plans—huge plans for the rest of forever—whether Tsukasa's aware of them or not.

pairing: ishigami senku/shishio tsukasa

word count: 3207