Hey Everyone! So in thanks to one of my awesome friends on here, we have decided to do a collaborative fic! Bleachicgo15 will be picking up where I leave off, and vise versa. But we have agreed that it will remain posted on my account.
Neither of us own One Piece or any other referenced material. Please Enjoy!~
"OI ZORO, wait up!~" Luffy called out to his first mate as he ran after the green haired man laughing as he did so, until he tripped and fell face first onto the grassy floor below.
"Shishishi, whoops that came out of nowhere ." Luffy sat back and wiped his face off on his sleeve his wide coal eyes looking in the direction he had seen his nakama last, and no longer seeing the green haired man.
"Zoro! Where are you?" Luffy called out and tilted his head to the side as he tried to pinpoint his crew mate. "Zoroooooo!"
With no response, Luffy pouted as he sat there for a few minutes. Luffy wasn't worried about Zoro, Zoro was strong and could definitely take care of himself, but the dummy liked to get lost, a lot. And if Luffy let him get lost, then Nami would hit him, and Luffy would rather avoid being hit by the redhead.
"Oiiiii! Zoro! C'mon we have to go back with Torao." Luffy called out as he climbed on his feet and began to wonder aimlessly to where he thought his directionless first mate went.
His leisured pace soon stopped, however, as Luffy sensed someone else on the island. His large eyes widened in surprise and before he knew it Luffy was rushing at the source of this new presence. Who was this person? This strong new arrival, who were they? What did they want?
Normally Luffy would smile and laugh this off, he wouldn't be worried about his nakama, his little family was mighty strong... but so had Ace, Ace had been stronger than any of them. Ace who had been stronger than all of them... No Luffy was not allowing himself to go back to two years ago. Luffy had people that needed him, people he cared about and he would be damned if he failed them.
Still reeling from his throughout Luffy continued forward, his mind racing on the current situation. Here in this island it was only Zoro, Law and himself, he had checked on that after they had landed here the day before. Zoro had pulled Luffy and Law out of the ocean after the two had fallen off of the Sunny during a storm, and since both of them couldn't swim... they ended up at this small island. So a new person was hard to come by, and even more one with so much power... This wasn't the main reason for his distraught though, the main reason was that Luffy knew a threat once he sensed one.
He would find out who this person was, what they wanted and then deal with it however he felt like it.
Zoro didn't know where the hell he was. He had walked away from where Law had sat at the beach, and wanted to do a little exploring of the island they were on as they waited for the rest of the crew to find them. Luffy had of course chosen to follow him, but their idiot captain had gotten lost in the woods. Now it was Zoro's turn to find him.
"Where did that rubber idiot go." he grumbled his one eye roaming the clearing he found himself in. No sooner had he said those words when he found himself turned around. Zoro had quickly spun on his heel, pulling out Wado Ichimonji in the process and pointing the edge of his blade at the familiar presence he had sensed a moment ago.
The first thing he saw was a flash of pink. The next an outstretched palm that seemed to weave right through his defense needs before he knew it, he felt a sharp sting right under his left ear.
At first his mind thought that it was Perona, the Ghost Princess that he had gotten to know during his time with Mihawk. But no, this wasn't Perona, Perona wasnt this strong, even with the training they underwent with the Shichibukai.
Zoro was shocked, to say the least but that in no way explained why he was suddenly frozen in place. He wasn't sure what was overcoming him, it definitely wasn't fear, and it wasn't shock, he just couldn't move!
No matter how much he tried, Zoro was rooted to his spot and he could do nothing but stare at the bright violet eyes before him.
"Roronoa Zoro." his name was spat out in a distasteful manner, all of the smaller girl's contempt for him and his crew laced in those two simple words. "I've finally caught up to you." she added, a smirk playing on her lips, her hand curling around his hair and pulling his head back to expose his neck, baring it to her.
"You have no idea how long I've waited for you to cross over to the New World." she breathed against his bare skin, "You and your idiot captain, it's your fault you know." Zoro could smell traces of pizza in that breath as it wafted up to his nose, bringing up memories of two years back.
Memories he loathed, images he rather not see again, and feelings he would rather never experience again.
Zoro's brow furrowed as he glared as much as he could to the girl that held his head back, what the fuck had he done to her?
"I see its wearing off, the dose of paralytic poison should have been greater, but no matter. soon you wont be able to do a single thing." she promised him darkly, her teeth taking a bite at his jugular. Zoro could feel his pulse quicken, much to her delight, he wasn't afraid though, he was angry. He had been caught without even realizing it and was at this moment at her mercy.
The hold on his neck intensified and he was sure he was going to have her fucking teeth marks imprinted in his skin for a while, it didn't hurt though, Zoro was used to much worse. Just then he heard the rattle of his katana, Wado Ichimonji was shaking in his grasp, his muscles were straining with the need to move them. Just a little more and he would shove Wado right through her rib cage.
It was then that his neck was released, and it was then that Zoro could feel her as she pressed up against him, he could feel the way she had molded herself to his body, her other palm snaking up his back tracing a lazy path up his spine. Zoro could feel the unkind smile that was stretched across her lips.
"It was his fault that we had rush into the New World, if you had kept that stupid Captain of yours in line, he wouldn't have brought down the Admiral on Seabody. We wouldn't have gotten caught up with Blackbeard.. I wouldn't have lost!" She screeched then, her hand tightening in his hair.
Zoro could feel her pull away now, and saw as Jewelry Bonney smiled, "I swore I would destroy you if I ever crossed paths with you again. And I will destroy you all of you Straw Hats, but first." she purred and slapped him. Hard.
The force behind the single strike flung Zoro from his spot, loosing not only his footing but his hold of Wado Ichimonji, the blade left his grasp and plunged into the soft floor below, this was all he saw right before his form collided with the surrounding bushes. Zoro didn't cry out though, he was actually more confused than angry now. The sting of the slap was vanishing replaced by a weird sensation. Zoro didn't know what was happening, his body didn't know what was happening!
His vision was becoming blurry and distorted, he was disoriented and to top it all off Bonny's presence was gone!
Zoro tried to call out to her to yell and curse, but all he managed was a choked sound as he began to feel like he was being suffocated, Zoro struggled against the material that seemed to collapse and pool around him only to discover that his motor skills were crap even though he could move again. And now, now fear was definitely settling in.
Zoro cried.
Law had cursed the moment he sensed her presence, what the hell did Big Eater Bonney want with them? What the fuck could she possibly want on this barren island?
Taking off from his spot on the beach Law ran into the vegetation where the green haired swordsman and Luffy had walked into not that long ago. The straw hat first mate had claimed he wanted to see more of the island, and Luffy just invited himself along. Law had been against the idea because, one there was nothing out there. Two the woods were not the greatest place for directionless idiots. And three what sort of moron decides to leave the shore where you can see the Thousand Sunny to instead walk into unexplored woods?
But as he had expected, the Straw Hats had done what they wanted and he had been left alone waiting to be rescued on the beach. Normally, Law wouldn't have worried about the other crew, they could take care of themselves, but the way he registered Bonney at the moment, she was radiating this aura of malice that did not sit well with the surgeon, and it was in his best interest to keep them well.
Rushing past the trees and sprouting bushes, Law was ready to barge into the scene and do what he deemed necessary to protect those who were allied to him, but once he got there, Law was left dumbfounded. Confusion marred his features as he scanned the area, Big Eater was gone and he was no longer able to sense her anywhere near the area.
And more than that... there was this sound.
One that grated his hearing and made him cringe in response to it. Law did not like this sound.
Law's eyes scanned the area again, his cold gray eyes coming to rest on a spot on the grass where a discarded boot lay. The same sort of boot he knew the swordsman liked to wear. It was also in the direction the obnoxious wail was coming from, just a few feet away from the edge of the clearing where Law stood.
With a frown pulling at his lips, Law strode over to the discarded object and nudged it with his foot, his face reflecting his clear dislike for the entire situation as he stepped out of the clearing back into the jungle like woods and made his way over to the animated bush. His footsteps and appearance made known quieted the sound of muffled cries, much to his relief. Though what he found there soon turned that relief into... dread.
There entangled it the green leaves and slim branches that composed the bush were a tangle of clothes that belonged to the swordsman, and his swords were there as well, two of them still attached to his his red sash held securely in their sheaths, and the other sheath lay empty, Law knowing he had already noted where the white hilted sword was discarded back in the middle of the open field.
Upon further inspection, Law realized with a sinking feeling that the dark green coat was moving!
"Dear god..." Law breathed as his tattooed hand reached out and pulled back the coat.
"Zoro-ya?"
Luffy broke through the clearing then, his hands balled and ready.
"Zoro!" he was ready to stand by in case his friend needed any help with whoever it was that had entered the island. Luffy was so pumped to be dealing with something! To get some sort of action that he failed to notice that the presence he had felt earlier was no longer around.
Whirling around Luffy, looked confused, his wide coal eyes looked around the clearing, his brow furrowing as he came upon Zoro's sword that was sticking straight up from the ground. A warning sound rose in the back of his head.
"Zoro?" Luffy called as he stepped closer to his sword, Zoro didn't like parting with them, especially the white one, who's name Luffy could never remember, all he knew was that this one was special, the one Zoro cared about above all the others.
Hesitant to touch it Luffy looked uncertainly at it and peeked around again trying in vain to find his missing Nakama, fear rose steadily through him making his throat clench as he tried not to imagine the worst possible situation. Not Zoro, Zoro couldn't leave him, not without his permission! Zoro was still his first mate, he had to see Luffy become King of the Pirates, and Luffy had to see him become the World's greatest Swordsmaster!
Just then Luffy heard the shifting of leaves and soft cry of crushed twigs. Turning with a brilliant smile, Luffy was ready to pounce and embrace his nakama only to pause and stare at Torao... Luffy's smile wavered slightly as he took in the sight of the surgeon that was making his way over to him.
"Oi Torao, where's Zoro?" Luffy swallowed his rising panic once more. Torao was here, and if Torao was there then things would be okay right? Luffy tried to reassure himself with that thought as he stepped over to his newest friend only to pause.
"Oi, what's that?" he asked, finger pointing at several things. Around Torao's waist Zoro's red sash was tied and holding up two katana's and the sheath of the white one that was still next to Luffy. On his shoulder, Zoro's dark green coat draped his entire left side, hiding the top of Zoro's swords from Luffy's view. And in Torao's arms was Zoro's light green haramaki.
Piercing gray eyes looked up to Luffy but before he could even utter a word, the dark haired teen was rushing at him. The worst possible situation blinding him from analyzing anything further.
"LAW!" White hot rage filled Luffy as he unknowingly entered gear second and aimed to take his anger out on Law, who could have been the only person on the island to take Zoro down. "Gomu-Gomu no..."
Luffy pulled his arms back allowing them to stretch beyond any human limit, feeling the familiar pull and strain on both his appendages and just as quickly retracting them, sending his arms forward in a flurry of fists. "GATTLING!"
The former Shichibukai, however, dodged his attack. "Room. Shambles." Luffy had failed to notice the blue film that had enveloped him in mid attack and found himself punching solid air, while a pebble was left in Law's place. Whirling around to face him Luffy narrowed his eyes, ready to attack once again before something stopped him.
A baby began to cry.
Luffy's brow furrowed together as he pinpointed the crying to be coming from Torao... more specifically, the haramaki. "A baby..." he found himself saying stupidly. And it was then that his body felt cool again, his raised hands lowering as he stepped closer to Torao.
"Are you calm now, Mugiwara-ya?" Law rumbled before him, making the teen remember he was actually there, that it was Torao here, not someone else, not an enemy, but Torao!
Nodding his head, but still confused as hell, Luffy walked over to the other Captain. "What's... that?" he asked eyeing the bundle in Torao's arms warily.
"I believe he is yours, Mugiwara-ya."
"MINE?!" Luffy cried out as he stared at the crying bundle in the surgeon's hands. "I didn't see a stork, and I'm sure as Hell I did not ask for a baby. I want MEAT!" the teen huffed angrily, now cursing whoever it was that delivered babies instead of meat.
His outburst only gained a knock over his head, Torao holding the end of Kikoku's sheath. "You idiot, that's not what storks are for, and he is yours because this is Zoro-ya." Torao explains and hoists up the sniffling child that looks to Luffy with wide teary emerald eyes.
Luffy blinks at the little kid, the small child was near a year? Luffy didn't know, he had no prior experiences with babies. But this one did look like Zoro, he had his green hair, his green eyes, all of his scars were gone and he was rounder... Luffy had to hum as his head tilted to the left and then to the right before shock finally registered. "AH TORAO! ZORO! ZORO WHY ARE YOU A BABY!?"
Growling under his breath Law hits Luffy with Kikoku again and frowns as Zoro cries once more, startled and most likely scared out of his mind at the received reaction.
"Oi shut it." Law's voice is calm, but the warning is clearly heard as the strawhat wearing teen shuts his mouth and glares at his first mate.
"Why is Zoro a baby?" He tried again.
"I'm guessing you sensed her earlier." Law begins, earning a nod, for once the teen looking serious as he looks right at Law. "That was Jewelry Bonney, one of the nine Rookies, and a fellow Supernova, what she was doing on this island, I don't know but it seems that she got a hold of Zoro-ya and from the rumors I have heard it appears she does in fact have the abilities to alter ones age."Law explained in the simplest terms that he could though it seemed he needed to simplify it just a bit (a lot) further.
"Bonney-ya turned Zoro-ya into a baby using her Devil Fruit." he finished with a sigh and Luffy nodded as if he had understood, though it was made clear he had no idea what was happening just as his pointer finger reached out and poked the soft chubby cheek of baby Zoro.
The baby looked on mesmerized by the action, following Luffy's finger and Law could only sigh. Why? Why did he have to be stuck on an island with this idiot and a newly turned baby?
Just then Luffy chuckled. "Shishishi. Oi Zoro, don't worry, Torao and I will get you back to normal, until then we'll be your parents!"
"Oi oi, who said I would-" Law was cut off by Luffy looking at him with wide coal eyes. And Law returned that with his sternest, "I am not going through with any of your stupid whims!" look that lasted all about five seconds before he sighed and relented.
"Fine, but only because we need him to take down Doflamingo."
Just what did he just agree to?!
And there you have it guys!
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