Hello there this is Red Skipper I have written many fics but this is my first fic here in fanfiction.
I don't know if you guys have read " A Knight's Tale" I'm sure you haven't I will try to post it here... but I don't know if I can. Anyways this fic is about One Piece and It shouldn't contain spoilers...well other than the crew member and the ship...ship ( you know what I mean if you have read chapter 430) It's sort of a what happens next story. In this story Luffy is already the King of the Pirates and all the dreams of the other straw-hats have come true...all but one...Zoro. So please review and enjoy reading this fic...
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece... Eiichiro Oda does.
This story takes place 3 years after One Piece is over...
Prologue
The golden age of pirates was now getting to a close. Many pirates gave up their goals to go past the grand line and reach Raftel. Simply because
someone has finally beaten all those dreamers to it. Monkey D. Luffy was now declared Pirate King, despite the news didn't reach all over the world.
Monkey D. Luffy had reached Raftel and gone even deeper inward to sea than anybody else. And shortly after Luffy,became King of the Pirates
messenger birds from the King himself have been flown all over the world sharing finally a "complete" map of the whole 4 seas. It was not surprisingly that
when he and his crew returned home that they where opened armed by all even those same dreamers that hoped to accomplish what they did. Not only
have the Straw Hat crew gotten recognized by all people, but they have been recognized by their actual kindness. There has not been one Island that they
have traveled that they have helped whether it was economical problems, political problems, or captivity problems. And since all the Islands now truly
know what the straw hats stand for, many are starting to question the Justified Marines for their word. The Marines themselves actually have been
questioning themselves as well. Therefore many of the armed forces have asked their superiors to be released. And are now starting to live a life of a man.
And yet still there is problems with the Marine Executives, they have not only raised the bounty's of all the straw-hat pirates but have also acted and sounded more like dictators.
The individual members of the Straw-Hat crew have already accomplished their goals other than Roronoa Zoro. Luffy has of coarse been the king of the
pirates, Nami has made a " complete" map of the world and is getting a great profit from selling those maps she has made. Ussop has sailed all the seas and
has gotten a great moral of confidence like he always dreamed of doing. Sanji has found "All Blue" which turned out to be located at Raftel. All of the four
seas gathered where rafter stood therefore it was now official there where now 5 seas. He brought many types of fish that only seemed to appear in All
Blue and took it back to his old Restaurant where he lived and worked. And managed to impress his own mentor and has been finally been recognized by
him as well.
Tony Tony Chopper has found all different remedies and discovered many new diseases and ways to cure and prevent them. Nico Robin has
found her true history back at Raftel and actually found even more than she thought she would. She payed her respects at the temple in where she found
the legendary Rio Poneglyph. And is now currently creating a book and his writing everything she knows about Poneglyph. Nami has asked Robin many
of times to sell the books at a high price for profit. But she has denied to do so. " History belongs to everyone, there should be no price for that," she said
as she started her book. A few of the member that joined have left since they have things to have taken care of in their homelands like Franky who all he
wished and dreamed for was to create a ship to go all over the world and so he has. One member however has not achieved his goal. And that man was
Roronoa Zoro the first mate of the Straw Hat crew. And he grew frustrated each day that went by. He got conciliations from his crew that sooner or late he
would achieve his goal. That...that he hated the most, people feeling sorry for him. He couldn't understand what was wrong. He trained harder than
anyone... he knew what he was going for, he has cheated death multiple of times. So why couldn't he accomplish a simple goal? Is it that his goal is just
simply too high standards for him? No, he was strong it's just that he couldn't find Mihawk. And Zoro was getting rather impatient. It has been almost
three weeks now that he's been trying to find that man. It all started when the crew landed over at Luffy's old hometown Fuschia Village. After a long
period of relaxing and celebrating Zoro asked Luffy if he could take them over to deep of East blue where Mihawk usually was found. Luffy agreed and it
has now been at least three weeks with no trace of Mihawk. Some of the crew members were patiently aboard their ship, but Zoro knew that they all wanted
to go to their destinations and finish whatever it was they where now doing. Yet there they were, his friends trying to help him find what he needs to find,
to become the world's best...
Chapter One: Finding " that" man
Roronoa Zoro clenched his teeth as sweet pored from his forehead to his eyebrows. He started to grunt slowly and wouldn't stop moving around. He
was moving too much actually, that he fell of his hammock on the hardwood floor with an unsatisfying thud. He slowly opened one of his eyes and looked
at the celling. He sat up and moved his backhand to his forehead. It was full of sweet.
"That's the fourth one this week," said Zoro walking towards his hammock once again. He was having repeating nightmares for some reason. He never had many bad dreams...actually he never dreamed much despite he slept most of his daytime... and nighttime. But recently he has been having trouble sleeping.
As a matter of fact he couldn't sleep right this moment now that he was unhappily waked. So he sighed and walked out of the man's room quietly trying not
to wake up the guys. He opened the door towards the outside of the boat and he slowly headed towards the ships main balcony.
He quietly sat down and looked at the sea, as the waves soothly played against the ship. Zoro looked down at his hands that where slowly starting to
deteriorate the remaining youth in him. His hair was starting to grow very long. He didn't like it one bit. He tried "cutting" his hair, but since he wasn't much
of a barber himself he was afraid of making a bald spot in his hair...so he left his hair like it was. It did get annoying though, sometimes he'd have to where
his bandanna all the time from keeping his hair from disrupting his usual training or sleeping. But tonight he sat at the balcony just looking at nothing. He
thought he looked liked an idiot, but what else was their to do? Everyone was asleep by now, except Ussop and Robin who where each in their own rooms
working in their projects. For a minute Zoro actually thought of meeting one of them, but whatever it was it would usually be boring no doubt. Ussop with
his innovative and crazy projects, and Robin with her intrusive boring history. He didn't feel like training either, man was everything boring. If only Mihawk
could show himself to Zoro, that way Zoro would be the best and he could live back in his hometown. Finding that man was not going to be easy that was
for sure.
( Creaking noise from the kitchen is heard)
Zoro's hears rose as he slowly leaned back on the wall that was next to the kitchen. A quick snap noise was heard and he was now filled with interest.
Perhaps it was Luffy that was trapped by Sanji's mouse trap. It possibly was, but if it was Luffy would have yelled out angrily by now. He slowly rose and
turned from the wall and turned to the other side of the wall where the door to the kitchen was at. Zoro slowly reached for the knob, but he felt a smooth
and placed already over the knob. Zoro cursed as he could not see anything in the dark especially whoever was to his right. Fortunately he heard a, " Mr. Swordsman?"
He slowly released a sigh, " Ah just you."
" I heard something, I was about to cheek it out," she explained.
" Same here I think someone is here," said Zoro looking at a blank spot where he "thought" Robin was at, but she was actually next to him.
" Someone is here, there is a small boat outside placed right next to the ship," she said pointing out at the sea.
Zoro immediately grabbed his swords hilt, " Right, at the count of three we open the door and catch whoever this bastard is doing in action."
Robin raised her eyebrows, " you don't like intruder's much do you?"
" Tch, do you?"
"No, not really."
Zoro positioned himself ready for an attack, " Alright here we go... one...two...THREE!"
both Zoro and Robin opened the door and Robin using one of her devil hands turned on the light while crossing her hands ready for an attack as Zoro
held Wadou at his side.
The intruder was caught, he had a bag full of food from the fridge, and quiet remarkably he was able to disarm Sanji's trap. The man was crouched down
and he still didn't turn around to face Zoro nor Robin.
" Turn around already," said Zoro impatiently. The man flinched at the voice of the swordsman.
"...Anaki?" said the man turning around facing Zoro with a smile. Zoro looked at the man stunned but still he held his sword, " Yosaku...?"
Robin looked from Zoro to the man he called Yosaku, " Mr. Swordsman...do you know this man?"