I gritted my teeth as I listened to the constant knocking on my door. I was sitting on my bed, with absolutely no intention of getting up and answering. I was angry and desperate at the same time, and although I knew the person on the other side wasn't the cause of my feelings, I still glared at the door with all my might. The sound eventually stopped and I heard footsteps leading away, so I sighed and buried my face into a pillow. I closed my eyes and the faces of my crew flashed before me. Most made my heart flutter, but one particular green haired swordsman made me yell out in rage and throw the cushion on the floor.

"That blunt foolish evil nasty gorilla!" I growled and pulled at my hair in frustration. "He's got no consideration for other people's feelings and he thinks our lives are a walk in the park!" I kicked the wall and yelped when pain shriveled up my leg.

And he's making me talk to myself. I rolled my eyes and kicked the door open without thinking. I saw many pairs of eyes staring at my fuming face in wonder, but none made a comment. My legs were picking up the pace as I was getting closer to Zoro's training room. As soon as he was in my sight, I was running. His head twiched in my direction to acknowledge I was there, but other than that, he kept polishing his swords.

I barely stopped, almost falling over in the process, when I was close enough and sure my expression showed how angry I was. "You. You!" I pointed at him and the man smirked. "You just lost the single drop of respect I've ever had for you! Just because you're stronger doesn't mean you get to bully me or listen in to my private conversations! If I ever catch you doing that again I'll - I'll..." My hand dropped along my body as I began to cool down.

"You didn't catch me." He said.

"W-what?" I sniffed and rubbed my hands to warm up. It was quite cold in this room.

"I said you didn't catch me listening. I told you." The swordsman laughed, showing his white teeth.

"That's not funny. Don't you care whether you hurt people at all?" I asked, meaning both emotionally and physically. He shrugged and put the swords down by his side. "Is that how you do everything? Just use brutal force and what comes along with it?"

"We're pirates and you're here, aren't you?" Zoro smiled and laid on the floor. I pretended to be anoyed when in reality, I was just amazed someone can be such a brute.

"You say that like you were expecting me." I said through gritted teeth. Zoro just shrugged and dusted his hands.

"I assume you're ready to train then." He raised an eyebrow and I paled. I fumbled with my fingers, attempting to form a normal sentence, but when I figured that won't be happening I just forcibly nodded. The man laughed as I began to shiver at the thought of what he was going to put me through. "Great, now do one hundred push-ups."

"Are you serious?" I gasped. "Weren't you going to teach me how to defend myself?"

"I changed my mind." Zoro smirked. "Besides, I saw you out there last night and you seriously need to build up your stamina. Now do the push-ups!" He threw a dirty rag into my perplexed face and I huffed to cover my shivers.

"Zoro, why is it so cold in here?" I scanned the room to see if there were any coolers inside.

"You'll warm up once you actually start working."

"But we don't have time for this. We'll be on that island in a few days and I need to be ready!" I groaned in attempt to avoid push ups.

"I won't give you a sword if you're not even strong enough to hold one, you idiot. Now stop saying unnecessary shit and do what I tell you or I'm calling captain." Zoro pointed at the floor and I laid down to begin exercising.

A minute and less than 15 push ups later I collapsed on the wood, my face flushed and body aching. Zoro raised an eyebrow and gave me a look of mockery. "You're joking right?" He scoffed.

"I'm a candy maker, not a body builder, okay." I hid my face in my hands.

"Right now you're a Straw hat pirate and unless you start acting like one I'm gonna throw you overboard. I don't care what Luffy says." I chuckled, thinking he wasn't serious, and continued to rest when I suddenly felt my body being lifted.

"Hey, let me go!" I trashed around as he slowly walked toward a railing with a pokerface. "Help!" I yelled. The others heard my pleas and ran over to see what was happening, but before anyone could do something, the arms around me were gone. Wind engulfed my body for a moment and then there was only water. I closed my eyes and flared around with my arms to get to the surface. After what seemed like an eternity, I finally arrived to the surface and took a long dragged out breath of air.

I saw Sanji near me, who just jumped in to help me. I swam closer to him and grabbed his shirt to stay above water. My body hurt from everything and I didn't really have the energy for swimming myself. We climbed up by rope and I fell back onto the ship, where all I could hear was yelling.

"Why the hell would you throw Candy off the ship?!" Luffy's hysterical voice echoed around.

Zoro rolled his eyes and answered with frustration. "It was to teach her a lesson." Captain's face twiched and he pulled at his hair.

"Are you stupid?! No lesson is worth losing my candy! That candy is the best." He yelled again. Sanji put an arm around my trembling body as we watched the exchange. What happened next was so fast I hardly followed, but in the end Zoro held Luffy by his collar against a wall and they both gave each other death glares.

"You think your candy's gonna matter when some pirate kills her because she was too weak to protect herself! Her cooking abilities are shit if she can't use them to kill enemies and if you're not man enough to tell her that, I will. Not everyone learns by staring death in the face and that kid definitely won't. She needs practice and lots of it, but most of all she needs courage and if you hadn't realized your candy maker lacks it more than the love cook lacks brains, it's you who's stupid. I will not be responsible for a little girl's death. Either we leave her on the next island or you let me do things my way." I gulped down saliva, feeling embarrassed.

"I'll be fine..." I whispered while Zoro let go of Luffy. The boy had seemed to lost all anger from his face. His eyebrows were furrowed and his eyes kept traveling between me and the swordsman. I thought he would say something, anything, but he just sighed and left the scene. Sanji bumped his shoulder into Zoro while leaving, but didn't say anything either.

I felt the man's burning eyes on me and my stomach did flips. "Do. One. Hundred. Push. Ups."

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I'm sorry, guys. T.T I've got not excuse for updating this late... You can kill me now.

But still, I hope you like it.

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