A change of ships
Chapter 1 I no longer wish to serve you
He had just turned 17 and his mind was made up, he no longer wished to serve him, to be part of his crew, or to train under him. Zoro no longer wished to be part of The Red-Haired Pirates. He laid there pretending to snooze while he spent the last night with the pirates he had spent most of his life with. His birthday had been eventful, no one would deny that. Right in the middle of Shanks yelling a big Happy Birthday when Zoro calmly interrupted the man with the new of him leaving tommorrow. All the cheering, the drinking, and the happiness drained from everyone around... including Shanks. Now as he lay here listening the the crew snoozing away he thought back to the day that Shanks had picked him up on his home island in the East Blue, calmest of all seas. He had been but a boy of 9 when the Red-Haired Pirates had come to his islands to pick up some supplies. Kuina had died 2 years ago and Zoro had been iching to get off the island and achieve their dreams, but her father had asked him to stay till he had learned everything from him. It was the only way to get the young boy from leaving until he was old enough. The day they had arrived the first sight they had come upon was a young green-haired boy taking out a whole hoard of mountain bandits which had attacked the town. But no one from the town came out to thank the boy, no one would even look at the boy, in their eyes he was nothing, no one, and was not needed. Most orphens recieved simular treatment no matter what island they came to live upon.
Green eyes pierced red ones, Shanks could hear the unspoken words, who are you? What do you want? Do you want to fight too? Bring it on. The two had stared at each other for over three minutes and the crew had shifted uncomfortably behind their captain, waiting for something to happen. The young boy turned his back to them sensing no danger and made his way to the bar. The pirates appearence soon boomed across the town, if no one had come out before they were definetly not coming out now. This caused quite a problem for all they wanted was some supplies. With a heavy sigh Shanks and crew made their way to one of the only two places open, the bar the boy had walked into earlier. The crew instantly made themselves comfortable like they would have done in Makino's bar. Shanks walked up to the beautiful lady behind the bar and ordered the lot of them some grog. Thats when the boy from earlier caught his attention, he had been planning on ignoring the little tyke while they both occupied the bar, but the lady who later became known as Selene had served the boy a bottle of sake first before starting on his own order. His jaw dropped, What the hell! He is a little kid, what the hell is she doing serving him sake! Zoro glanced over at the awe-struck red-head and scoffed. That was it, Shanks was going to teach this kid to be cute like his little Luffy that he had left at the last island.
Zoro rolled over the lay on his side. That had been an eventful night with his kiddnapping and such. For the first couple years Shanks had always been spouting off about how he should be cute like 'his' Luffy. Zoro had always assumed that this Luffy was the man's child that he had left at some island, it didn't matter however. Zoro was not a child and he was definetly not cute, nor did he want to be. Their relationship had grown a bit werid as Zoro grew up. Shanks no longer pestered him about being cute or wearing more clothes so a kid like him wouldn't get sick. When he had turned 15 Shanks had taken him out for a sail around the island, just himself and the older man. Thats when things had turned werid. The man had coaxed him and had taken him that night, Zoro had struggled much. He didn't understand at first, but everything that had happened before had started to make since now. Shanks no longer wanted him to look cue cause then he would still look like a kid and that would be harder on him. He no longer cared if Zoro wore a shirt or not cause he liked to look at the teen's bare chest. The whole crew had known their captain's feelings and had accepted them long ago. Zoro, however, was completly indifferent to the whole situation. He neither loved Shanks nor cared for his pawings. But as his captain he had accepted them everytime. Zoro had considered leaving serveral times, but something had always kept him there. It was a couple nights ago the first mate, Ben Beckman, had approached him and had told the boy that it was best if he leave also. Perhaps he had known that that was what the teen had been waiting for.
Zoro audibly sighed as he felt the needy hands of his captain probbing his back. "Roronoa..." He sighed in the youngers ear as his took to licking the three earings that he had gotten pierced when he was 12 on a trip to town with Beckman. Shanks wasn't happy at first, that was until he had tasted the metal on his tounge which only ever turned him on even more. He shoved Zoro's shoulder on the ground so that he was completly on his back. Again with the softest of voices, "Roronoa... why are you... r-running from m-me?" Shanks wasn't one to show weakness in front of people, but often found himself slipping around the teen. He sighed again as he pushed his captain on his on back and planted himself so that he was stradling the older. "Its time for me to leave...No, its probably past time for me to leave." He slowly started to unbutton the man's shirt when Shanks had grabbed his hands with a feral gleam in his eyes. "If you are so eagar to leave then why are you doing that?" Zoro slowly smirked into the others eyes. "Why, Captain-san... I know your needs better than anyone else, isn't that why you came over? For one las taste of me?" Zoro really didn't enjoy it like Shanks did, but he liked to please his captain. With a weak mewl of defeat the other began by rubbing his hand down Zoro, starting at his face then slowly moving down to his neck, his pecks, his abdomen, and lastly to pull at the haramaki willing it to come off. Shanks had always liked to be on top, captain's postition guessed Zoro, but he knew he liked it just as much, if not more on the bottom. Though he would never voice such things. Zoro leaned down to plant a firm kiss upon the others lips which quickly yeilded to his tounge.
Several hours later Zoro was aboard his own little boat, it had been the boat he had often used when traveling by himself on little expeditions. (Its roughly the size of the going merry) Just when he was about to set sail one of the few girls came running up to the boat and hopped aboard. "Kairi? Just what do you think you are doing?" The girl was petite and looked like she would break at any minute, but Zoro knew better... the girl was quite strong she probably ranked 8th in the entire crew. Zoro ranked 3rd and it irked him that he at least wasn't leaving 2nd strongest, but Beckmen was the first mate... he should be 2nd only to the captain. "Roronoa-san! I thought I would navigate you to wherever it is that your going..." She had a timid look to her, like she wasn't trying to upset the man. She had often accompanied him on his little quests just to make sure he never got lost, of course it was the direct orders of Shanks most of the time. This time however, she was just worried about the man. Said man scoffed. "Even I can find my own way home, do you think I am stupid?" Kairi sweatdropped. "Roronoa-san... then could you let me come along... this can be our last adventure together." He seemed to consider this, he knew her game... he was often good at reading girls. He sighed in defeat and looked to Shanks for permission. The red-head looked at him and slightly nodded his head, after which he adverted his eyes quickly. "Hey... Zoro." A slightly tall man came up to him and clapped him on the shoulder. "If you see my kid Usopp on your journey... keep him safe would ya?" Zoro looked at the man, Yasopp, he was a good man and also a good fighter. When he had been young the man had saved him quite a few times. He had his pride so he nodded his head and the man sighed with relief.
An hour later he had finally managed to set sail with Kairi steering the boat. It took a little over a year to finally reached his hometown... the one where he had been taken such a long time ago... but in reality he hadn't put up much of a fight in the first place. Kairi started to tear up when the island had come into sight, Zoro had been her role model. She had wanted to be as strong as him and some nights she had wanted to be the captain, but she would never admit that to anyone. When he set foot on land and she pushed off to reunit with the rest of the crew that was supposed to meet her somewhere in the east blue she let the tears roll. Zoro felt a little lost without his crew and on his home island that probably could have cared less that he was taken.
He found solace in his former sensei and the bar keeper. And thus a year later... he set out to sea again.
Author's notes: Ok ok... I know that was kinda painful... I had to get all the introductory stuff out of the way. Next chapter is when Luffy sets out to sea and meets his new first mate... :) I haven't decided any couples yet... should it be Zoro/Luffy Zoro/Sanji Sanji/Usopp Luffy/Robin Franky/Robin... hmmm... soooo many options.
Leave me reviews on what you would like to see. I thought it would be cool to follow along with the original story a bit... but of course with a lot of changes, but simular none the less. I can't wait for Zoro and Luffy to run into Shanks crew! Hmmm I have so many ideas for that... especially if I decide to have a Zoro/Luffy pairing. Ok ok... well I am rambling on... Leave me reviews! I aim to please!
