Discalmer- I don't own One Piece..
Title: Who would have thought ?
Summery: Tashigi is captured by pirates, how well Zoro rescue her? Then just like that they will get stuck on yet another islands. What will happen? ZxT
Chapter 1- Just Another Day…Well Not Really
Zoro POV
Zoro thought that today was just another day where can relax sitting near the bow of the ship and take a nap like he always do. Ignoring the ruckus caused by Luffy and his ever continuing battle with Sanji for the key to the fridge. While Chopper are again mesmerized by Usopp's "grand" adventure of his hardened battle. Robin and Nami are relaxing near the orange grove. It really was just another day out in the open sea, but it was about to change.
Just as Zoro was deep asleep, he picked up an foreign noise he squint his eye toward the noise and barely see a small black object moving towards them at high speed.
"Luffy, you might want to check this out" Zoro lazily speak to the Captain, not really worried about the situation.
"OHHHHH" Usopp examine as he look at the ever increasing size of the shadow. Which runs speedily towards them.
"What is that thing?" Sanji now peak over the side of the ship to get a better look, unaware of the sneaky hand of Luffy slowly moving towards the key, until Sanji steps on Luffy's hand hard earning a well grunted scream from Luffy.
"That thing is fast!" Usopp, being a excellent Sniper is able to gauge it's speed as it comes towards them. "Oh my God, they are Pirates!" Usopp spotted an black flag at now clearly a small vessel.
"Pirates! We are doomed" Chopper panicks and run around Zoro distracting from his attempt to sleep.
"Shut up Chopper, We ARE pirates" Zoro sign and yelled at Chopper to calm him down. He then stare at the vessel as it speed across Going Marry. He stop a group of Pirates crowded around something, "Maybe a tresure?" He thought to himself, but as it pass right thourgh him, he spotted a human figure tied up and Shigure.
"Shigure? Wait a minute," Zoro thought to himself. "Isn't that the Katana that Tashigi always bring with her?" It then finally dawn on him what the pirate's cargo was. For some reason Zoro was distraught, "why, she's a marine, who do I even care?" He said quietly to himself.
"Woooooo" Luffy yells happily after the vessel speed past them, " That's was sooo cool, I want one of these!" Luffy jumps up and down in excitement.
"I think those are custom made though" Usopp commented " It would be impossible to buy one ourself or even attempt to make one"
"awwwww" Chopper whined, I want one too,
"I got it!" Luffy yelled at the crew, somehow Zoro feel his stomach churn and eyelash twitching, he open his eye and gaze at Luffy trying to figure out what he want"
"We will just steal it!" Luffy turn his face and stare intently at Zoro, "We need to send someone strong, and survive on islands for day. But Sanji's the cook, and I am the captain so….we will send Zoro"
"Wha.." Zoro didn't even have time to finish before Luffy grab on to him and said "Gum Gum…Catapult" and fling Zoro overboard towards the direction of the vessel.
"What you idiot Now we got to rescue him" Zoro can see an pissed off Nami knock Luffy on the head and he thought to himself " Sometime I just want to slice that air-head up…that implusive baka" Zoro thought bitterly to himself as he fly though the air.
Zoro took the time to rest and reflect back his memory about Tashigi.. and Kuina.
"Why does she have to look to her. The similarity is uncanny." He had fought her at Loguetown, where She swears that she will confiscate his Wado Ichimonji from him.
Over his journey Tashigi and her Captain Smoker have chased Straw Hat Crew everywhere. However, when lay helpless at Alabasta, she had saved them, he could hear her indigant cries then and he felt a sharp pain at his chest at seeing someone so broken by her belief. She seemed so helpless and yet cute at the same time, Zoro doesn't know it's because she look so much like Kuina and that he just acting irrationally, but he also know what she have enough distinct personality to qualify her for a whole different person.
Zoro's thought was disrupted by the vessel coming into sight, well more likes ships. "So that's where it was going, looks like a whole pirate gang's here, great" Zoro thought sourly to himself and prepare himself for the oncoming battle.
Tashigi's POV
"How can I be so stupid" Tashigi thought to herself, angry at her clumsiness, know that she's captured by some half-ass pirates, if only she had see that banana peels.
Flashback
It was about 3 hours ago, when she led a small Squad of Marines on a patrol in one of the port town they landed. Unknown to them though, another Pirate gang had already landed and are enjoying themselves in the bar when she stumble into them. They were outnumber and knowing that stay and fight would get them all killed she force the marines to retreat while she hold the pirates back. The Marine knowing how stubborn Tashigi are listen and run for dear life as Tashigi skillfully cut down any pirates intending to pursue them.
It took a while for Tashigi to realize that the pirates are actually quite weak and none of them are capable of avoiding and prying more then a couple of her slashes from Shigure. But then she had to step on that banana peel on the ground and then hit the brick wall on the opposite of the street, completely knocking her out. By the time she came to, she's tied up and put on this weird vessel traveling toward somewhere
End of Flashback
The noise winds down as the vessel slows down and then a complete stop, then she was roughly throw onto the deck on a moderate-sized pirate ship. Despite the advance technology these pirates have, they probably have a crew of around 250, nothing she haven't dealt with before, if only she could lay her finger on her Shigure.
"Now let's be nice to our little guest huh?" Tashigi heard one of a obnoxious pirates smirk slyly at her. It was then she realize how vulnerable a position she was in, absolutely defenseless and left to the mercy of a group of pirate with very questionable honor code, but then again who can expected pirates to act like gentlemen? They are all alike, Tashigi thought bitterly.
Tashigi watch in horror as the pirates form a circle around her, smirking and holding a short dagger. "It's been a while since we have any women around here" Said one of the pirates, follow by various grunts from other pirates as he advance slowly towards her.
"Don't you dare to come closer" Tashigi scream back at the pirates trying to keep them away. But it only excites the pirate more as he grab on to one of Tashigi's legs.
"Help" Tashigi closed her eyes and wait for the inevitable, but the only person her mind can focus on is Zoro. 'Why? Did I really hate him that much? Even before I died, he's the only thing on my mind….huh?' Tashigi's thought was suddenly disrupted as she saw something fling across the air. The pirates howl in surprise at the "thing" and turn their attention towards the "thing". It turn out, the "thing" is just Zoro. 'Oh, it's only him, I wonder why he's here….ZORO?' Tashigi was stunned as Zoro stare back at her and as if understand the situation, unsheathe his three katana and poise a fighting pose.
The pirates blindly charge Zoro, like sheep to the slaughter house. One by one, they were cut down by Zoro, except this time he leaves no mercy, he didn't just graze them like Tashigi had seem him doing, but he just slice them up, the upper deck of the ship was cover in blood.
Tashigi stare in disbelief at the scene before her, 250 pirates slayed effortlessly by one man. The laughter of the pirates are replaces by screams of pain and horror as men stand transfixed or chocking in his own blood. Just like that, the ex-bounty hunter turn pirates slaughter the whole crew. It's not like Tashigi feel sorry for them or anything, after all they had done terrible things to her. But she had never expected Zoro to act like this, acting in so contort in bloodlust and pain.
Zoro POV
Zoro stares transfix at the scene before him, blood splatter at every corner of the ship and mutilated bodies lay around him. 'How can I lose it? It's not my first time to kill anybody, but to slaughter them like this, even if they are pirates why?' Zoro's thought was disrupted as he looks at the shaking figures of Tashigi, tied to a post of the ship, with a expression he couldn't decipher and in tatter cloth. 'That's right, how dare they lay a finger on Tashigi, they deserved to die, wait why do I even care? They could've kill her and then I would never have to face her again. So why did I lose it?'
"Cut me lose you idiot" Tashigi yelled at Zoro to untie her, glad that she seem so upbeat, he jog quickly by her side and cut the rope that tie her down. "Thanks, Zoro you save me. But that doesn't me I've given up on our duel yet, I won't rest until I've reclaim Wadou Ichimonji from you"
"Yeah whatever" Zoro sign exasperatedly and look around the ship ignoring her. Tashigi was mad at Zoro for ignoring her and stare at him with a deadly glare. "Look at that green hair lunatic, his eyes..I could just look into it whole day…wait what I am thinking. Ahhh, I must be losing it"
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eyes, Zoro caught one pirates moving towards the gunpowder storage and in his hand a lighted torch. "Shit, get down" Zoro repeated as he push Tashigi on to the ground cover her body with his as debris and shrapnel fly overhead some hitting Zoro's back, grinding his teeth, Zoro hang onto Tashigi for dear life as the ship rock back and forth from the blast and moan menacingly.
Tashigi's POV
Tashigi slowly open her eyes and survey the damage, noticing that half of the ship is blow off and the wreck is taking in water fast. And of coarse Zoro laying on top of her, their eyes met and they quickly separated, each hiding their faces now red with blush from each other.
"I think we should escape" Tashigi said sheepishly avoid looking at Zoro in the eye.
"Yeah, there's a boat just outside of the ship, if we can get there, it's that way" Zoro pointed to starboard and Tashigi can barely see the shape of the small vessel that brought her in.
"Alright, She walks towards the vessel as she stand up and pat herself clean of the dust, she shift his eye uncontrollable at Zoro, who currently if looking around aimlessly.
"Here take this", he said as he handed her all three of her katana. "What? Why?" Tashigi is taken back from his actions. She stare as Zoro rushed back into cabin of the burning ship.
'What is that idiot doing?' Tashigi thought as she chased after him, "you are going to get yourself killed!" She call out after him as he enter what used to be a rather fancy decorated room, but now a burning inferno.
"This, I can't believe you forgot about it" Zoro reply impatiently as he handed her Shigure. "What? How did you know?" Tashigi stutter as she remember her prized katana, in the previous confusion, he had completely forgot about it. She was about to leave it behind, she would never forgive herself if she did that.
"Come on, let get out of here" Zoro pull her hand unconsciously as he run across the hall way of the burning ship, completely ignorant of Tasigi's face which are know as red as the fire around them, her heart racing to a record speed. 'Why do I feel this way? I've never felt so embarrassed yet so happy before, not to mention I am in a middle of a firestorm' He thought was cut off as a ceiling of the hall way collapsed, trapping them.
Zoro's POV
Zoro clicks his tongue at the sight in front of him, they were trapped and the ship is sinking fast, he has to think something before they are engulf by either water or flames.
"Today is definitely not just another day" He thought bitterly to himself.
Author's Note: So how about it? It's my first time writing anything non-WWII, and I probably still need a lot of work. But I like anime so much it's like my soul. I hope to finish this story soon. I don't want it to be too long because I don't have too much time for it. Probably around 5 chapters, depends on how I write. English is not my native language so grammar mistake is a must. Just ignore them, or correct them yourself and send it to me lol. The more people review the faster I'll write.