A/N: Set on the (future) third anniversary of Ace's death. On the same theme with 'Actions Speak Louder Than Words,' which you don't have to read to understand this. (edited) This had a slightly different version ending that includes Luffy's reactipn, those who want to read that, tell me, I'll give you that last different paragraph.

Usopp was partly confused, partly what the hell is going on but mostly, simply, and completely terrified because he had come to blows with Luffy once before, but even that had been nothing like this: Luffy and Zoro, on the deck in a face off, tense with a cold fury that was somehow worse than hot anger. It was with that same icy rage that Zoro had suddenly walked up to Luffy, who had been sitting quietly on Sunny's head, and said, "It's your fault."

Usopp couldn't believe what he had heard and judging by the stunned silence coming from all around, nobody else could either. The numbness was not too different from when one watched an oncoming shipwreck. Frozen with confusion and the magnitude of the situation. With the sheer impossibility.

"What?" Luffy's question was a mirror of Zoro's accusation: ice-cold, blade-edged and not like him at all.

"You heard me," Zoro answered and Usopp could see the dark glint in the gaze and coiled power in his frame, every inch of him the devil pirate hunter all of East Blue had feared. "You barged in without any real plan. If you'd had just stopped and thought for once, for once in your life-"

"Zoro!" Nami's appalled cry did nothing to deter him.

"Then he wouldn't have had to die 'cause things could have turned out differently," Zoro snarled, more in Luffy's face than Usopp had ever seen him. "If you had been smarter, hell, if you'd been stronger, Ace would have never had to die-"

At the name, Luffy had violently flinched back and Usopp was already moving foward because no matter how angry, how stupid you got, there were lines you didn't cross and this was goddamn one of them.

All of them knew what day it was. All of them knew why Luffy was sitting on Sunny's head, silent, and pressing his hand against a scar that would never really heal.

Usopp would kill Zoro, pirate hunter be damned, but first he had a murder to prevent and from the blur of movement around him, Sanji and Franky were thinking the same thing.

Of course Luffy was faster, having already recovered from his flinch and closing the distance again. He grabbed Zoro's collar, back stiff with pain and maybe real anger to snarl, "It wasn't my fault," and the admission was choked and terrible but fiercer than Usopp had ever heard him.

And Zoro stared back, searching, before the hostility was suddenly gone as if it had never been and he quietly replied. "Good."