(*awkwardly looks away* I totally know I said I'd write more for this book then I didn't LMAO. Sorry- I got like, focused into one piece and then I ended up graduating high school and forgot I'd said I'd write more for this book-)  on episode 135 no spoilers

"Do you know where you are?" I asked crouched looking up at a man with buzzed green hair. "Absolutely." The man scoffed crossing his arms, I stood up. "So you know your trespassing." I asked and he blinked looking around before stopping when he saw the sign that says no trespassing. "It seems I am." I almost wanted to laugh at his dumbly honest words. "Alright, go back to the town before someone else see you, I'm not going to fight you but someone else would." I sighed resting my hand in the back of my neck as he slowly nodded. "Your lost aren't you." I asked again and thankfully the man nodded  still scanning the woods that he just came from. "Okay, yup. I'll take you back." I started walking making sure he was following and thankfully he was. Well at first. More than once I had to go find him and then start walking again. "Whats your name cuz God knows your going to walk away again." I asked the man who confidently walked the wrong way even when he was supposed to be following me. "Zoro." The greenet answered simply, eyes scanning the trees. "Like the Pirate?"

"Yeah, strawhats." I almost laughed at how casual he was being about it. "You like being a pirate?" It was small talk but maybe if he was talking he wouldn't try to walk away from me. "Yeah." Okay maybe not, this time I did laugh at him and his dull answers. "Alright, we're close." Three more times I had to grab Zoro, the last time I kept my hand on his shoulder. This walk took way to long because of Zoro, someone definitely knows I left now. "Okay, where did you last see your crew?" I asked the man slightly looking down at him, he was tall but I had two inches on him. "Some stores." Zoro shrugged and I forced myself not to sigh as I started to lead us agin. There was multiple different shopping areas. As I lead Zoro around I pretended not to see the glares or the spat insults towards me. Zoro on the other hand was watching, much closer than he had in the woods, like this time he was aware something  was off. "What was that place in the woods?"

I was silent as we kept walking for a few minutes before I sighed. "Some gangsters hang out." I answered and Zoro raised an eyebrow at me, he seemed to do that often. "Are you not one of them?" Zoro asked and I shrugged quickly tugging him closer so he didn't walk into a booth. "Not by choice really." I didn't see a reason to lie, half of the gang didn't want to be apart of it. "Then why stay?" Zoro asked and I smiled down at him, a little sadness in it. "Where would I go? Plus I like fighting sometimes." We walked in silence after that, though Zoro seemed more relaxed. "ZORO!" I jumped at the very angery woman's voice as we both turned around. "Your crew?" I asked as the women, with ginger hair came towards us stomping a blond following her with plenty of bags. "Yeah." Zoro sighed and I snorted at the defeated tone he used.

"Where have you been! And where is Luffy! You was with him!" The girl wasted no time to scold Zoro who just crossed his arms and took it. "Wait, someone else was with you?" I asked Zoro who nodded and I groaned pinching the bridge of my nose. "And who is she!" The girl looker ready to start hitting Zoro, honestly I felt the same a little bit. "Uh, what's your name?" I laughed and the lady face palmed cussing under her breath. "I'm Y/n, we need to go look for this Luffy in the forest before he finds something he shouldn't." The others were about to agree before there was an explosion in the forest. "Well." I sighed as we all started running towards the smoke. I still kept my hand on the sleeve of Zoro's shirt just in case. It was Chaos, people were fighting every where fuck did Luffy start a riot against the gang? "Well, you said you didn't want to be apart of it any more, here is your chance." Zoro stated and I laughed running to join the Chaos the three joining too.

"Who are you?" The man asked eyes wide as I stopper him from hitting one of my friends. "Ah, a friend you want to fight the ones with the jackets, those are the bad guys." Thankfully he grinned thanking me for telling him. God it felt amazing to beat the shit out of the people who put me down everyday. Who killed people just because, they spat on us, but now it was our turn. "Watch out!" I yelled at that girl who was clearly getting overwhelmed with three men trying to corner her. She jumped back just in time for me to tackled all of them. "Holy crap!" She gasped as I Laughed before going back into the crowd. We won. Honest to God we won. I sat next to Zoro as he cleaned his swords, my nose sluggishly bleeding, someone broke it. "What are you going to do." Zoro asked I shrugged crossing my legs and arms as I looked up. "You think your Captain would mind if I hitched a ride?"

"Sure you can!" I laughed when he suddly appeared in my vision looking down at me. "Thanks." I said after I was done laughing, he grinned at me before taking his stretched head back. "Does he do that often?" I asked Zoro who nodded sagely, I chuckled wiping away the blood away from my mouth. I met the crew for real once we made it onto the ship. The lady with ginger hair was Nami, the Blond was Sanji, Usopp who was watching the Ship with Chopper, and lastly Robin who was in a library. They were and odd group but at least I wouldn't be bored when I travel with them.

"I'll bite you." I was pointing my chopsticks at Luffy who was staring back at me. Debating if I was bluffing or not, I was not but we'll see what he does. "Leave Y/n-swan' food alone!" Sanji scolded hitting the back of Luffy's head. Even so Luffy and I were still watching each other, the hat boy was still waiting. Luffy reached for my sausage and I grabbed his hand biting into his wrist. Multiple things all happened at once. Zoro was laughing at us, Sanji was yelling at Luffy, Nami was yelling at Luffy, the man himself was screaming because I actually bit him. I let Luffy go once he stopped trying to grab the food, Luffy held his arm up to his chest. "That was so disgusting of you Y/n." Nami sighed and I grinned as I restarted on finishing breakfast. "Not the first time I've bit someone for trying to steal from me, men are like Dogs. It's easy to assert dominance with them." I grinned making Nami laugh and Robin smile at my words.

"Rude." Zoro spoke up and I laughed giving Luffy my toast in the end, it was too lightly toasted for my taste. "Where the fuck do you store those on the ship." I asked Zoro with his 100 ton weights, the man looked at me then his waits. "By the Canons, you wanna see my other weights?" Zoro asked and I stood up grinning at the shorter. "Uh, fuck yeah!" I clapped and Zoro smirked leading the way below the deck. Zoro had a shit ton of weights, clearly his progression with them was pretty quick. "You want me to teach you how to use them?" Zoro asked and I grinned nodded as we sorted thoroug them to find a good starting point. "Okay, we can start with dumbells, easy and good for the arms." Zoro started handing me two dumbells both reading 50 ton, sounds good enough. "Do some bent over row, good for shoulders, 15 reps. Shoulder presses also 14 reps, 10 lateral raises. Lastly Dumbbell Reverse Lunges a rep of 10 also." Zoro listed off on his fingers and I nodded. "Sounds good to me."

My two favorite parts of the day was watching Sanji cooking Dinner as Luffy watched him like a hawk. And working out with Zoro, it was nice to feel strong. Nami made it better when she Whispered to Robin now they had two gym freaks. I laughed thankfully Nami didn't realize I heard her but Robin had and covered her mouth, hiding her own smile. Months passed, fights we always won but more scars join us as we moved. Every island I looked but decided it wasn't the place I wanted to stay. I had gotten closer to everyone, the closest with Zoro though. "Bro, bro please." I begged as Zoro gave me a dead look, I tried not to laugh. "No." I groaned as Dramatically laid across his lap, trying to get pitty points. "Bro, come on, my brother in Christ." I egged on as Zoro stared down at me, raised eyebrows. "Call me bro one more time." Zoro faintly threatened making me pout up at him crossing my arms "I'll buy A bottle sake." I wiggled my eyebrows trying to butter him up, so he'll agree.

"Three bottles." Zoro said and I crossed my arms huffing at him. "Three but we share it." I shot back and Zoro looked away in thought before looking back down at me. "Deal." I grinned throwing up my hands cheering making Zoro scoff pushing me off of his lap. "Come on! Let's go." Zoro sighed but let me Drag him up to me, locking our arms together. "Stand still." I scolded as I held the shirt up to Zoro who was like an toddler. "I regret ever agreeing to this." Zoro grumbled and I grinned grabbing a couple different options. "Oh you big baby, it's not my fault you let the rest of your clothes completely got ripped to shreds." Zoro huffed and puffed, but knew better than try and defend himself at this point. "Go try these on, all of them are green per request." Handing the man the pants as I went back to looking at different shirts that could be a possibility.

"They fit." Zoro announced, thankfully finding me, I had moved into a different area. "But did you like all of them?" I asked not looking up from the rack of shirts, pulling out one I liked. "Not really." Zoro sighed and I nodded looking at him, holding out my arm. "Give me the ones you like." Thankfully it was four pairs, I had originally gave him 8, so half he liked. "Good, now try on these shirts." Zoro took them before pausing at the last shirt I put onto at the Last minute. "I'm not trying that on." I pouted looking at the nice button down, a soft shade of pink. "Come on humor me, everything else I made sure to stay in your comfort zone." I smiled at him and he kept his frown as he looked at the shirt then me. "Fine." Zoro buckled, shoulders dropping I grinned following him back to the dressing rooms. "I want to see that shirt on Zoro!" I warned as he closed the door behind himself, waving me off. Zoro gave me shirts he approved of as he slowly tried the pile of shirts on. The said shirts were more picked than the pants had been.

"Happy?" Zoro asked, he didn't even bother to button it all the way up, stopping just as his chest began. "Very, you look handsome Zoro." I smiled before gigging when his face and ears stained red. "I'm not buying this." Zoro stated and I whined begging the man to reconsider. "I'm not going to dress like that shitty cook!" Zoro bit and I paused tilting my head to the side amused. "But your not in a suit?" I pointed our and Zoro glared at me this time I was the one to raise an eyebrow at him. "We're buying it." I declared as Zoro threw his hands up in the air before going back into the room to get back into his shirt. "Be glad I'm buying you clothes and sake you brat. I could have left you to be in debt with Nami again." I scolded Zoro as he began to pout as we left, thankfully at my words Zoro sighed. "Well I didn't ask you now did I?" Zoro shot back and I rolled eyes at him, he's being a child.

"I could always leave, I don't have to buy you the sake still." I glared and Zoro crossed his arms turning his nose up at me. "Yes you do, for torturing me you woman, I could have been doing a million things better with out you." Zoro spat the words at me, we always banter but that hit a spot. An insecurity. That everyone would be better if I was just gone. "Fine! Take the fucking money!" I took the rest of my money I had and dumped it into his hands before stomping off. When I had made it back to the boat Usopp was the first to talk. "Where's Zoro Y/n?" Usopp asked tilting his head to the side, an innocent question. I mean Zoro and I was normally attached to the hips. But this time it rubbed salt into the fresh wound. "Hopefully fucking lost! And I'm not finding him." I yelled at Usopp before storming into the males room to dump Zoros shit off. I added the last part because in the months of riding with the crew I always some how knew where Zoro was.

"I heard you yelling at someone are you okay Y/n-swan?" Sanji asked looking at me from his cook book he bought a couple weeks ago. I glared at Sanji who just passively looked at me face tinted in concern. And I bursted into tears, it was so stupid! I didn't cry when I was forced into a gang! Or when I killed some one! Or I was free finally free. It was almost funny when Sanji squawked like a bird when I bursted into tears infront of him. "Are you hurt? Ah shit, come here love." Sanji was quick to scoop me up into his chest, even if I had to bend down to let him. "S-should I leave, I-, have I stayed too long?" I asked almost forcing the words out as the tears burned like acid. "What? What are you talking about honey." Sanji asked the pet names coming easy in his worry for me. "Everyone is better with out me, no?" I laughed even if it was too loud, to forced, awkward as I clinged to the front of Sanji's suit. "Oh, oh no Y/n no. Your not, God. We never want you gone, why would you think that?" Sanji asked hugging me closer to him, I stood up more so he could hug me better as I instead hid my face in his shoulder.

I bit my tongue as I shook my head no, God I can't believe I liked him so much. How could I be so fucking stupid and not know. "Please, let me help you honey." I let Sanji cup my face so he could look at me. I was always told I was a pretty crier, I thought that was always a stupid thing to say. "Zo, zoro did." I mumbled my nose starting to run, trying to desperately not look at Sanji. "Oh." Sanji sounded like I had hit him, I groaned covering my face with my hands. "I'm pathetic." Sanji pulled me into a hug again, this time silence other than soft promises that I'm fine the way I am. When Sanji and I had finally made our way out of the room dinner was late and everyone was waiting in the kitchen. For once even Luffy seemed to be okay with a little late dinner. I froze up when Zoro was sitting I'm his normal seat, I knew my whole face was still red, my eyes puffy.

I quickly backed out of the room, ignoring the call From Nami. God I felt like a little kid, too many emotions for such a small body. "I brought you dinner." Usopp whispered peeking up at me, I sat quietly in the crows nest. "Thank you, and I'm really sorry for yelling at you earlier." My voice was horse but quiet as I apologize to the sniper, who put the plate next to me. Usopp then took another step up so I could see his whole face. "Sanji was extra mad at Zoro at dinner." Usopp mused as I pulled the plate onto my lap. "Is that so?" I asked, Sanji had made my favorite for me. "Yeah, Nami had to yell at him, I think Sanji was actually trying to hurt him this time." Usopp looked up at me eyes innocent but clearly he knew something was up. "Sanji is such a good guy, you too Usopp, I'm glad I met you two." I smiled at Usopp gently cupping his face before pinching his cheek teasingly.

"Your avoiding Zoro." Nami pointed out as I looked up from my book borrowed from Robin. "Just noticed?" I asked she gave me an unimpressed look before continuing. "You've never avoided him longer than a day, it's been a week." Nami pressed, I looked down at my book, well glaring. "What happened with you two?" I slammed the book closed standing up, not looking at the girl. "Drop it Nami." I stalked Into the kitchen, now days that seemed the only place I could hide in peace. "Want a snack?" Sanji asked not looking at me as he looked to see what we had in the kitchen for meal planning. "We have any juice left Sanji?" I asked instead laying my head on the table, crossing my arms over my head. "Yeah, don't tell Chopper I'm giving it to you." Sanji joked as he gave me the cup, I sat up and smiled at him. "Thanks Sanji." We both jumped when the door slammed open. I froze when Zoro looked between Sanji and I, glaring at the blond. "Y/n, let's go."

"No, why should she." Sanji scoffed crossing his arms with a glare. I tapped my fingers against my other forearm. "We need to talk. Got a problem Shitty cook?" Zoro puffed out his chest and I sighed rubbing my eyes. "Okay." I answered before Sanji could start an actual fight, both were looking at me. "Are you serious?" Sanji asked and nodded taking my juice with me patting Sanji's arm. "Yeah, better to get it over with." I joked as Sanji just nodded stepping out of my way. I followed Zoro as he lead me back into the males room, that was completely empty for once. "You've been avoiding me." Zoro stated glaring at me, arms crossed tightly. "The sky is blue, your hair is green, the boat is brown. Look at us, using our eyes and brains." I rolled my eyes crossing my arms, looking down at the stained wood. "Fucking. Why have you been?" Zoro asked making my eyes snap up to meet his hazel ones.

"You seriously don't know." I asked my crossed arms turning into more of a hug. "No! I don't! Stupid cook won't tell me either! I can't do anything with knowing nothing!" Zoro threw his hands up like he did often when frustrated and flustered. I turned to look at the shared desk on the wall to the left of us. "You hurt me." I felt Zoro's eyes on me I didn't want to meet them again. "We always bicker." Zoro said, quietly, nervous almost if I had to pin point the emotion. "It, it wasn't bickering, like you were mad, mad at me. You said you didn't want me around." I reached up to cover my mouth, biting my finger so I'd stop talking. Pathetic. "I didn't mean it." Zoro sounded like I had physical hurt him. "So? It still hurt Zoro and you didn't care to even apologize or realize something was wrong." I held my chin tightly maybe if I held my mouth just I could just melt away. "I did but you wouldn't let me near you! It didn't help that shitty Brow kept fighting me! I've been trying." Zoro's breath caught bringing my eyes finally back to him. Zoro's whole face was red, as he frowned, fists tightly closed.

"I am sorry Y/n for saying that, and not fixing it quickly. I'm not good with people, I've never been and never will." I held out my other arm palm up as Zoro stared at my hand, looking at me then my hand. "I think I love you, asshole." I whispered as he sat his hand in mine, clasping our hands together. "Good, because I don't apologize to just anyone, ever." I laughed, it still stung but Zoro tugged me closer his free arm looping around my waist. "Only to me?" I asked and Zoro smiled nodding before pausing. "And Nami, she'd kick my ass." Zoro said honestly and I laughed relaxing my hold on my chin. "Understood." Zoro looked down at me Hazel eyes observing ever detail on my face. "You better." Zoro huffed kissing before I could resort, I closed my eyes kissing back the stupid moss head.

(Wrote this in hours times, did not edit because I wanted to get it out, I'm pretty sure this time I mean it that I'll post more but clearly take it with a gran of salt lmao)

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