Chapter 1.
A/N: I've never wrote any fanship-story so this is my first time and I actually don't know whether I should continue or not, so if you like it, tell me!
And if you hate this, share it with me, so I can try my very best on improving this~~
Enjoy!
Yet, it was another cheerful night aboard at the Thousand Sunny and everyone was enjoying this peaceful night for as long as it would last;
Sanji had once again prepared masterpieces in the form of snacks as Brook graced the atmosphere by striking his bow over the strings of his wooden violin.
Luffy, Copper and Usopp danced their lives off Brook's songs whilst Franky was steering the ship in the right direction by Nami's commands.
Robin had accompanied the rest by reading a book which was almost Chopper's size. The sound of the turning pages just added the necessary complement but Robin herself was not reading even ONE word out her thick book.
Sitting in the deck with the others, she narrowed her eyes and peeked at the grumpy swordsman who stuffed himself with alcohol, he did not know limits.
With joy she stared at how lost he stared in front of him, arguing with their cook (who had looked weird when he caught Robin on looking at Zoro) and how he was at the edge of falling asleep.
Her lips curled up when his eyelids grew heavier, how could someone so intimidating be so adorable at the same time?
But even though she wanted to share her feelings with him, she could not do that. They were comrades, friends and nothing more. And besides, Why would he even be interested in a woman who's almost ten years older than he is?
"Robin-chan, here's your coffee," Sanji had smirked when he passed her by and served her a hot drink in one single movement as gesture of succumbing.
A lot of people succumbed to Robin's beauty, her mysterious brown eyes caught every men's attention, her tan skin had been fitting her raven black hair. Not to speak of her athletic body, she might be one of the oldest crew members but she had the body if a eighteen year old woman.
But she was not only pretty, she also was smart; she could get any man she would like to have.
"Thank you," she whispered smiling as she forced her eyes to look away from Zoro.
Sanji had been standing next to her for another five seconds, wondering what her odd behavior meant, but he decided to not ask her; he would never bother a lady.
Her silence nor her weird behavior affected the crew's joy, everyone seemed to be appreciating this night without marines chasing them, weird islands separating them or having to fight monsters; even Luffy, whose addiction was fighting, was haply with this night of dancing and singing.
For some reason, they could even feel Sunny's presence at the ship as if he was a real person, and if he was he would be happy; everything was fitting the mood perfectly.
"So ..." Nami said when she joined the lone Robin who was sitting behind a round table, having a great view over the Grand Line's sea.
They were in the first half of the Grand Line, but they were soon approaching the second half; The New World.
Their navigator, Nami, had been telling it wouldn't be more than one month before they reach Fish Man Island, the last island of the first half of the Grand Line.
Did this mean their journey was almost over?
Robin shocked awake from her trance, but her calm attitude covered it.
Nami rested her chin in her folded hands and slowly bowed closer towards Robin.
"Why are you acting so weird lately? Explain me e-vry-thing," Nami had said with an accentuation on 'everything.'
Her lips curled up, and she slowly blinked her eyes hoping to get some information out of Robin.
But Robin smiled back, shaking her head innocently.
"There is nothing going on," she lied.
"Oh yeah? But everyone is noticing you're acting odd lately," Nami said, knowing for sure her friend lied; Robin was a good liar, no offense, but Nami had been a thief all her life, she had human knowledge ever since she was young.
Robin looked up, "That is because I read something interesting a few days ago. It's about one of the ancient weapons described in the Poneglyphs, it's not something special but it sure caught my attention," she responded calmly.
Nami sighed.
"I will get it out of you soon or later," she promised when she walked away in defeat.
Knowing Robin, Nami knew that this discussion would end badly for her. It was hard to get the truth out of Robin, because she mostly was a closed book which was hard to open, but as soon as she opened it, the effort was worth it. And so, she would not give up; not for anytime soon.
Robin was relieved she would give up for know; knowing Nami it would take long before she gives up, which she mostly does not do. She never gives up on the things she really wants, and for now she wanted nothing more but the truth.
But there was nothing she was hiding, right? She did not have any secrets? It was not as of she was in love or something ...
Robin bit her lip, thinking of what would happen if anyone would find out ... This crew would not be the same ... She had to fight against her desires.
She stood and glanced one more time at Zoro before she wished her nakama goodnight.
They were reacting weird at her unusual action though;
"But it's too early to go to bed?!" Luffy had said, but he was cut off by Sanji who groaned "Don't bother Robin-chwan! Se probably is tired because of you fools who sicken her!"
And those words, followed by a whole discussion, were the last ones to reach her ears before she went to her room, after that she could only head the waves slowly pounding to the ship.
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Robin's eyes snapped open when she heard a screaming sound too feminine too be either her's or anyone else' but Nami's.
She released her blanket from her tight clutch and ran to the deck in nothing more than a silk garment hiding a slight bit of her body.
Her eyes widened when she saw Nami utterly useless lying in front of the steer, everyone had already been sleeping but Nami was not; judging from her face either something terrible happened (or was about to happen ...) or Sanji had been stealing her lingerie again, but Robin couldn't tell.
"Are you alright ...?" Robin asked when she had lowered herself to Nami's height while her arm petted Nami's back.
She did not respond, as an answer she merely put out her finger, gesturing to the oceans in front of them and when Robin received the hint, she flinched, not knowing her imagination was running out once again or she really saw what happened in front of her.
Her eyes widened when the cyclone, having a size superior to everything she had seen before, was raging its way to the Thousand Sunny.
The wind blew angrily, and the rain shaped like spears pierced through their clothes, the entire ship was about to be destroyed and Robin had trouble keeping herself at one place. She felt like their ship was nothing more than a mere fly compared to this hurricane of anger.
"Luffy, everyone!" Robin shrieked totally out of character. She never showed her emotions completely, but this time, fearing her life and her companion's lives, she did not might being found acting weird; everyone would go crazy after seeing this.
Except for Nami though, who had give up on life ever since she had noticed the cyclone's pressure; she did not see that coming in the least, which was weird since her prediction skills were the most trustworthy sources you could think of; not only was she a failure as a navigator, according to herself, she had also brought her friend's lives in danger.
Robin's voice had reached Sanji's ears, and in no time he woke up the entire ship by running to the deck with lightening's speed.
His attention was drawn by Robin's short clothes, but even before his eyes could turn into hearts as he saw Robin and Nami both sitting in the most attractive positions you could think of, he was almost torn apart by the pressure he felt.
"Nami-san! Robin-chan!" Whilst Robin had hoped for Franky's help (while slightly wishing for Zoro's too ...), Sanji had pretended to be the hero from some cliche comic and had ran into them to rescue them from death, but when he had jumped into them in utter happiness, Something with the strength of a pistol had knocked him down; Luffy stretched his arm hoping to reach Nami and Robin (whose voice managed to wake even him up out of his sleep) but had failed by hitting his cook.
Sanji fell down in despair, while Luffy had trouble enough with standing on two feet; the cyclone came by closer and closer with every second.
Followed by the rest of the male straw hat pirates, Luffy ran into the two women (and Sanji ...) who had been lying uselessly on the ground.
"Oi, Nami!" said Franky. "What the hell is this?! What happened to my ship?!"
Not even minding the cyclone in the slightest bit, Franky had been blaming Nami for what happened to the ship; the sides of it were closely to destroyed, but also the flowers on the deck, every chair and every table, had been or demolished or blown away by the strong eind of the Grand Line.
"S ... Sh ... Shu ... Shut up!" Nami yelled fierce, "can't you read the situation?! We're about to die!" She had lifted her face from her hands and glared at Franky.
"Nami, c-c-calm down! W-we won't seriously die, will we ...?!" Usopp had panicked, graced by Brook's and Chopper's howl of despair.
Franky had grabbed the steer whilst Luffy had set the sail as a last chance; maybe the air would blow them away fast enough if they were in the opposite position, but maybe they would die a painful death within minutes.
Usopp, Brook and Chopper had been crying while Nami had accepted she would die. Franky and Luffy were trying their very best to turn the ship, and Zoro was ...
"Oi!" Sanji had yelled after he forgot how he fainted for three minutes. "Where is that marimo?!" He asked.
Also Robin sharpened her eyes as soon as she realized it; Zoro was gone.
Within less than three seconds the crowd went crazy;
"Zoro! Zoro!" Usopp and Chopper cried in unison, while dealing with more than enough trouble at the very moment.
"Zoro-san!" Brook screamed when he inspected the entire deck.
"Oi, Zoro?!" Luffy dropped his guard down and fell on his chin as he released the sail.
Robin stood up, and with all the effort she had, she clutched Franky's leg.
"I'm sorry ..." She said, leaving him in thousands of questions, he knew to what limit this woman would go if she really wanted something. He knew.
"Oges fleur ..." Robin said, trying to have her arms shaped like an 'X', but failed though. The amount of flowers did not reduce because of that, it would only be harder to concentrate for her.
Dozens of eyes sprouted out of everywhere, she could see every single spot in this very ship, nothing would remain a secret to her.
But he was not in the crow's nest, nor was he sleeping in the boy's room. Nowhere ... He was ... Gone ...
"It can't be ..." Robin muttered wide-eyed. She released Franky's leg, who had been staring weird at her, and planted her hand on the floor.
"Zoro is .. Not at the ship anymore!' She said.
But the cyclone did not stay still because of that, it only hasted its way to crush the pirate's bones.
"What?!" Everyone, but Sanji, had yelled in unison. Their was a clear defeat present in all their voices, and even Sanji' face was revealing a slight hint of concern.
"That means ..." Nami said, staring at the cyclone once again.
"What do we do?!" Brook shouted.
"Zoro's not at the ship anymore ..." Luffy said lip-biting.
"I can't even keep my own crew together ..."
Luffy stood up and drew everyone's attention by standing up in anger. He was about to stretch is arms into the oceans, was he that desperate?
"Wait, Luffy!" Robin exclaimed, trying to cross her hands once again. "I'm going to-"
She had sprouted one hundred arms out of the underside of the ship, with one hundred eyes in every palm, searching for a body comparable to Zoro's, but at first she had only seen corpses of old men, young pirates, skeletons, everything but Zoro. The sea salt colored her eye corners red and she had trouble with keeping them open but as soon she spotted a green haired man, far away from the ship she did an attempt on grabbing him by sprouting one hundred arms in a long queue.
"I think we can make this out alive!" Frank yelled when the ship had turned around; the entire crew had been drenched by a wave of hope.
Robin felt her hand grabbing something until ...
"Aaaah!" She had yelled when something had stabbed her arm. A red liquid traversed her arm, and in pain she fell down exclaiming pain.
But the air currents grew too strong ... Robin ... Fell in the wild oceans of blue.
"ROOBIIN!"
And her vision grew black.
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Robin slightly opened her eyes as she felt the sun shining on her face. It was a great feeling, waking up in the sunlight, but when she came by senses the unwanted pain in her arm returned and she had been softly groaning ever since.
Trying to ignore the pain, she glanced over her view. She was on a tropical island, judging from the palm trees spread all over her sight and the stuffiness hugging her in a very unpleasant way.
Right from her, miles and miles away, a big, sand colored mountain stood, and left from her a few logs, a bunch of wet clothes and a green, familiar hakamari were untidily dropped on the ground.
She knew exactly whose hakamari it was and when she saw it, her eyes widened.
Zoro.
He was here. Well, maybe not exactly on this place, but he was on the same location as she was, whether she liked it or not was the question.
She did not know what exactly happened before she came her, she felt like something sharp pierced through her right hand, which was now covered by a white shirt. She knew exactly whose shirt it was.
She tried to bristle, by looking at the blue sky. A few dark birds were flying through the mere number of clouds, some of them were heading to the mountain, others were flying in no actual direction.
She felt dirty when she stood up. She was drenched by dirty sea water, and she felt weak by standing on her feet.
Trying to observe the location, she walked (with a lot of effort ...) through the landscapes of sand. When she reached the coastline and saw the waves sliding over the sand, she had decided to sit down and tried to remember of what happened, but especially she tried to come up with what she would do next.
A cyclone, right? Yes, a cyclone ... The thousand Sunny was almost wrecked ... She fell in the water after being stabbed by something pointy ... She had tried to save Zoro, who was, for some unknown reason, drown ... The waves were protesting heavy, he could've escaped the water ... He could even reach the Thousand Sunny ... Why didn't he do that though?
It made no sense to her.
And what about the rest of the crew? Did they die?
It would be unfortunate if their limbs were ripped off because of the strong cyclone and their hearts and other organs would be somewhere in the seas of the Gand Line now ...
It would be, but knowing her crewmates, they'd not die really fast. They've been in worse circumstances.
She was happy Zoro at least, was not crushed to death. He was on this island ... But where the hell was he ...?
Robin rubbed her temples. She felt weak, really weak, as in 'I'm so weak I can't even use my ability anymore' weak.
Was it because of the presence of the Sea Salt in her clothes? It would be weird, undressing yourself on a strange island, but she slackened every minute that passed. She had to.
She had slowly dropped down her dress (after she had struggles with UNdressing herself because of her injured arm ...) and after that, it was her shirt which had been thrown in the sand. She felt herself growing slightly stronger, but even if she wouldn't, her lingerie would not and never be removed.
Before she had took her hands in the proper 'crossed' position, she heard footsteps coming closer. They suddenly stopped and Robin turned around as Zoro's presence was revealed.
He hesitated.
Zoro's hair was wilder than ever, and his big hands were covered with dirt. He was shirtless, as Robin could tell. His tan, muscular body completely fitted her tan body in nothing more but her lingerie. For some reason, she disliked this though. It only made her feel uncomfortable, knowing that Zoro saw her like this. He saw her in a bikini before, but this was different
Reading from his face, he regretted walking towards Robin.
But she smiled, not letting see how embarrassed she was herself. And so, it remained silent for quite a while. Zoro bit his lip as gesture of embarrassment, but did not say anything, hence the awkwardness only replenished.
When Robin had gathered up enough courage, she said
''Are the others here too ...?''
In mind, she had pinched herself. Why did she have to ask that? She did not even ask how he felt, let alone thanking him for saving her. Yes, she assumed he saved her, because from what she could remember she fell in the oceans and since then, everything became black.
''No,'' he muttered as respond, staring at his feet until she would say something again.
''Thank you …'' she whispered, walking away from him. Her face grew red, as red as the mountains miles and miles away from the coast she was at that moment. She never blushed, and mostly she had enough skills in hiding it when she did, but this time was totally different from what happened before.
He followed her.
''Thank you for what?'' he asked frustrated and irritated at the same time. Not only was this woman a mysterious, closed book, she also was behaving odd. She enjoyed teasing him, and that was why he could get irritated by her rather fast.
''Thank you for saving me,'' she responded as she turned around. Her red cheeks weren't red anymore, they were far beyond that. A slight hint of confusing was made clear by how she twitched her eyebrows though.
''I never saved you,'' Zoro said cold.
''What?'' She asked, not being able to say anything more than that.
''I never saved you,'' he repeated. ''I found you injured and tired at this coast, so I covered your arm and placed you under those trees …'' he said, gesturing to the place she indeed was sleeping.
''Oh …'' she said in utter embarrassment. ''Well, thank you for doing that,'' she added with a forced smile plastered on her face.
But of course he would do that … They were nakama, it would make him a bad comrade if he did not help her. She felt so weird, near to him.
It was as If her mind was blocked by his black aura.
He frowned, but she had already turned her face to the seas again.
This woman …
"I hope the rest is save ..." Robin said.
"They are," he reassured them, "they are strong, they can save theirselves."
Robin smiled, "that's true ..."
...
''So, that means we will be here together for quite a while …'' he muttered, not unhappy, but also not enthusiastic.
''Yes,'' she answered smiling. ''Who knows what might happen …''
A/N: I hope you enjoyed it, thank you for reading!
