Hello, thank you for clicking my fic.

I know I'm probably not the first to be making a Strawhat Coby fanfic, but this is my own take on it.

I, to be quite frank and honest, cannot bring myself to rewrite all of One Piece to include Coby in it. So instead, I have created a fic that is a series of drabbles in this little world I created in which Coby has joined Luffy and Zoro in their voyage instead of staying behind in shell's town. The chapters will not be posted in any particular order and will be posted by what I manage to have written up.

A lot of things has be changed to accommodate to a lot of headcanons I have.

So given that, I must warn everyone that this fic is incredibly self-indulgent. I have a great love for Coby as a character and I invest a lot in my own headcanons of his character and that has all been injected into this fanfiction.

Even with that warning, if you somehow find it in you to enjoy this little monster, I would be very much obliged!

Chapter Title: Parental Guidance

Timeline: Some time after Skypiea, before Water 7

Featured Characters: Zoro, Coby

Summary: In which Zoro contemplates on how much Coby has grown... which leads to a crisis.

"496… 497… 498… 499…" Coby panted, his arms were screaming from pain and his palms felt numb holding onto the bar of the dumbbell he was pushing himself against. legs raised high into the sky as he basically did a handstand against that slim bar while doing push-ups, the weights of the dumbbell threatening to roll away, forcing him to keep his balance, the added difficulties of the task making his arms shake like jelly, ready to give in at any second as he lowered himself slowly until his chest touched the bar and that little drop of sweat on the tip of his chin touch the wooden deck. "… 500." He uttered pushing himself back up only to quickly lose balance and collapse onto the deck, turning into a pile of panting and tired mess of limbs and sweat. "DONE!" He yelled in absolute exhaustion.

"Good Job. Put the dumbbell away and after that, get ready to do a thousand sit-ups." Zoro smirked as he hopped off of the railing he had been sitting and observing Coby on his physical training. "I'll come hold your feet together after this nap." He claimed and yawned.

"Y-yes sir!" Coby immediately sat up as if the exhaustion had flown off into the horizon faster than one could blink.

Zoro just rubbed at his eyes and headed towards the upper deck for a nap, turning around he watched Coby, expecting to see the scrawny brat that had nearly pissed himself after seeing him over the Marine base walls, only… Zoro didn't see him.

What he saw was a young man nearly as tall as he was, muscles more defined, hair a little longer, face no longer as round as it used to, but his form still petit- almost like Luffy's, but Luffy was still taller by a slight bit. He'd never really noticed any of it before, but he suppose Coby had been growing more and more as their adventures continued, just as the rest of them.

His eyes then went to the round rimmed glasses resting atop of the bandages on Coby's forehead, covering the wound he received from Enel to protect Robin. He vaguely remembered Chopper talking about how it was going to scar- which was something they all found as odd. They all received some sort of lightning inflicted wound from the faux God, but Coby was the only one to receive a permanent mark. "You don't wear your glasses too often anymore huh." Zoro pointed out, though he was going to ask if the wound still hurt after this month or two, he couldn't help but notice the glasses first. The loss of them really affected how visible Coby's eyes were to others.

Coby blinked before turning to look at Zoro, lifting the dumbbell with slight ease. "Oh- I guess you've noticed, but I'm actually far sighted. I used to wear the glasses often so I don't trip on anything close by, but I think the Mantra helps me from tripping these days." He revealed.

Zoro hummed before another bout of yawn crawled out of his mouth. Time for a nap. He sat by the railings, getting ready for a much needed (not really), and well deserved (not really), nap. Though as he leaned his back to the wood, he couldn't help but allow his mind to drift off to how Coby had grown up from being so tiny and squishy; to someone more reliable, and to be honest, Zoro somewhat missed the tiny wimp that followed after him. Sure Coby still did follow him and give him better shortcuts to go through than his own (his way was still a shortcut, it's just that Coby's was also a shortcut and happens to get them to their destination in time. Shut up.) but it didn't feel quite the same. He no longer needed a third eye on the back of his head, to watch out for Coby.

Dare he say, it almost felt as if one of his sons were growing up- Wait.

Sons?!

With an 's' at the end?!

He had more than one?

Whose the other?

No wait, in the first place, Coby was too close to his age to be considered his son.

Plus he doesn't even wield a sword.

A son of his would definitely be a swordsman.

Yeah.

No!

He doesn't have a son!

He's not that old yet!

"I'm only nineteen, damn it!" Zoro yelled out without meaning to, sitting up like he had a bad dream, causing a worried Coby to run up the stairs.

"Zoro-san is something wrong?!" Coby cried out as he got up the stairs.

Zoro flinched and decided to play it cool. "Nothing. Just a dream." He claimed.

Coby blinked at that before sighing squatting down to look at Zoro eye to eye. "Did the authorities finally figure out you're drinking while underaged so they took away your swords?" He asked looking relieved and amused.

"I'll fucking shred you." Zoro threatened, which only caused Coby to chuckle.

Well, if there was one thing he didn't miss, it was how Coby had been afraid of him. He much preferred this Coby. This one who looks him in the eye and laughs with him, from the one that had thought he was a scary demon.

I hope you all enjoyed it.

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Thank you for reading!