30 ZoLu One Shots
A/N: Hey you guys, my computer is, finally, back up and running again. This story is for Stormsoul22's 30 Pieces contest and just doing this for the fun of it. Anyways please enjoy. :D
Chapter 1
Title: First Night
Paring: LuffyxZoro Nakamaship; a bit of romance
Theme: Promises
Rating: K+
Arc: Post-Morgan Arc, Pre-Buggy Arc
Warning: Very slight spoilers of the Sabo Incident
Disclaimer(s): I do not own One Piece
It has been several hours since both Luffy and Zoro had left Shells Town and, now, they're spending their first night together as captain and first mate. "Looks like we're going to have to go island searching again first thing in the morning," Zoro yawned, as they both got ready for bed. "Yeah," Luffy agreed, "I hope the island would show up soon."
"Well we better get some shut eye then," the young swordsman said as he ruffled his captain's hair, "goodnight, Luffy." The said rubber man giggled. "Goodnight, Zoro," he said as he puts his night cap on and places his straw hat on his chest and the two went to sleep.
As it became even later, Luffy started to shuffle around in his sleep and then woke up, pouting. He, then, tried to go back to sleep, but failed at the attempt. The young captain looked to see his first mate, fast asleep. "Zoro," he called, "are you still awake?" No answer. So Luffy decided to wake him up by poking him on the head.
"What do you want, Luffy?" Zoro grunted, not turning to face the young captain. "I can't sleep," Luffy complained. The young swordsman sighed and, finally turned to face him. "What's the problem?" "I don't know. I mean, it's not that I'm homesick or anything, but I keep on having nightmares about what happened in my past."
"Why? What happened?" Zoro asked, uncharacteristically curious. "I lost someone that I cared about," Luffy said, "and that event keeps on playing through my head, over and over as if saying that it is my fault that I wasn't there to save him from certain death even though I didn't know that he was going to set sail that early. He was killed by the government, or something rather, for becoming a pirate."
Zoro looked at him with a worried expression. "Are you still regretting about not being able to be there to save him?" he asked. "Yeah," Luffy answered, "but I was only 7 then and I wasn't even strong enough to defend myself."
The young swordsman sighed. "I know what it's like to lose someone that I care about," he said, "I've lost an old friend of mine several years ago. She fell down the stairs and died instantly. That's why I'm holding this sword for her." Zoro, then, unsheathed Wado, "To keep our promise of becoming the World's Greatest Swordsman." Luffy just blinked and grinned. "Looks like we have another thing in common," he pointed out, "we both have a promise to keep," he, then held out his straw hat, "and we each have a treasure to keep that promise."
Zoro, then, smirked. "You know," he started, "you're the only one that I told my past to." "Same here," Luffy admitted, "though there is only one other person that shares that past with me. And, right now, he's out at sea, fulfilling his dreams and our promise." They, then, looked up at the star-filled sky. "Do you think that we'll be able to see them someday?" Luffy asked. "Hmm. Maybe," Zoro answered. He, then, pulled the younger onto his lap after re sheathing his sword. "We should go to sleep," he added in a soft voice, "we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow."
Luffy just giggled. "Goodnight Zoro," he said. "Goodnight, Pirate King," the young first mate said. As soon as Luffy fell asleep, Zoro planted a light kiss on the other's forehead before falling asleep himself, not knowing that Luffy smiled in his sleep.
A/N: Yay. Got this chapter done. Now 29 more chapters to go. Though, I already have written the next three chapters, which I will post either tomorrow or later this week due to my class schedule. Man college really knows how to keep you busy.
Anyways, for those who are still waiting for me to start 'Next Generation', I'm working on it right now so I might post it this weekend, depending on what's going on then. Plus there's the whole edit and revising thing I have to do so it might come up later next week if it takes any longer that it should. Though, I would, most likely, post every Friday from now on since I have no classes then. And I'm free next Monday and Wednesday. I don't know. I'll see what I could do.
So R&R please. And I also recomend watching episode 517 to everyone who hasn't seen it yet. It's the beginning of the second half of the series and the Straw Hats are finally back. If there are no fillers in between, I would say there is only 3 more episodes til the whole crew actually reunites based on the manga.
Anyways, see ya. :D