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The son rose over the horizon making the ocean gleam and shimmer. Zolo woke up and saw that the rest of the crew was still asleep, so he laid his head back down. The Merry Go bobbed in the waves as the tide began to come in. Luffy, Nami, Ussop, and Sanji all began to stir slowly. Zolo groaned and rolled over, as he had purposely made his bed on the beach much farther from the others as to not be disturbed in his slumber.

He heard the others mumbling amongst one another and then approaching footsteps. "Zolo…? Zolo time to get up…" it was Ussop.

"I'm sleeping." Zolo mumbled

"Luffy says we have to go and I have to get you up." He said shakily. Zolo half way pulled out one of his swords pointing it towards Ussop. "N-n-NAMI" Ussop yelled running and nearly falling when the glare from the blade shone on his face.

Zolo smirked and slid his sword back into its sheath.

"Zolo, Get up!" Nami said as she approached him. "And stop scaring Ussop with your swords!"

Ussop had to get her of all people didn't he? "Go away women, can't you see I'm sleeping?"

"If you were sleeping you wouldn't be talking, now would you?" she kicked sand at him and walked off, head held high.

Zolo shook his head and pounded the sand with his fist. What was it about her that drove his senses crazy? He watched her walk away and felt his loins tighten. He got up and hooked his swords to his hip. Grabbing some of the 'food' Sanji had cooked he gave the cook a sarcastic look and climbed onto the Merry Go.

Soon the rest of the crew followed him and Sanji came to sit beside him. "What's eating you?" he asked.

"Nothing." He saw Nami by the edge of the ship as Luffy brought the anchor up.

"Isn't she perfect?" Sanji eyes widened as he followed Zolo's gaze.

"I've seen better." Zolo said knowing he was lying to himself.

"Don't talk like that about Nami!" Sanji said and stormed off to be by her side and a pain of jealously hit him hard in his stomach. Why couldn't he talk to Nami like Sanji could?

He stood up and walked to the other side of Nami, and seeing the fire in Sanji's eyes, said "Hey Nami? I think we need to talk about some of the navigation you've drawn…I think it's wrong."

Obviously offended Nami stormed after him into one of the ships cabins. "How dare you question one of my maps?" she said slamming down her work and sitting opposite of Zolo.

His eyes softened. "Maybe that's not really what I wanted to talk about…"

Well this is my first Fan Fic and I would appreciate some comments and definitely some tips… oh and please note I realize I used ZOLO not ZORO even though Zoro is the proper term…I just chose to use Zolo since I'm in the U.S. and that's how it is in my One Piece books so please don't comment me telling me this…thanks!

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