Chapter 1: Chapter 1
A/N: Hi people I normally don´t write ongoing stories but, I´d like to try it for once.
I got inspired by misshappynewyear´s pic. (You can search it on deviantart it´s called Grown Up Zoro and Nami). It doesn´t mean that what´s going on there is going to happen in this story but, well, if you want to picture what the characters in this fic look like check the image.
Thanks everybody I love to read your feedback.
Name: WAKE UP
Anime: One Piece
Rating: T
Characters: Zoro & Nami
Summary: It´s good to dream, but once you have accomplished your dreams you should wake up and continue with your life.
"Excuse me sir, Can I use your bathroom?"
"The bathroom is for customers only" the bartender imposed unaffected by the woman who had entered the filthy tavern.
"A tea, please" She asked politely and moved to the bathroom
"tss..." He complained.
The woman came back from the bathroom and sat by the bar were her tea was. She wasn´t a fan of those types of places but when she had to go, she had to go. She stood quietly sipping her tea analyzing the scene like she always did. No one had recognized her, that was a bit weird but after all she was no longer in the grand line, she was in a little town lost in the East blue. It seemed that people didn´t care too much about pirates.
It was midday so the tavern was almost empty, just the bartender and her and some guy who seemed to apparently, had fainted on a table after too much drinking.
"Thanks sir" she finished the tea, gave the owner some money and started to leave the place. But she was distracted by the unconscious man on the table. He had green hair. It was unusual to see people with green hair, she couldn't help but to remember her old nakama.
She raised an eyebrow. This ´corpse', she could call it like that in its condition, looked like Roronora Zoro. The greatest Swordsman in the world. She was so intrigued she went to the table to wake him up.
"Don´t do that!" The bartender shouted in terror.
She moved his head attempting to wake him up "Ronronoa Zoro? Is that you?" He was bigger than the boy she had last saw when they conquered the grand line, but well, that was a couple of years ago. He should be 25 or something, he should look like and adult now.
The man slowly started to move "I´m not Ron-" He looked at the woman who was waking him up. Those enormous blue eyes.
"Robin!" He panicked.
"Hey" She greeted him politely.
Proved, It was Roronoa Zoro but he was a real mess. He smelled like booze, looked like he hadn´t shaved in months and she couldn´t be so sure about his bathing activity.
"What?... What are you doing here?" He sat properly in the chair and tried to fix his hair, as much as he could. He barely opened his eyes as he was suffering from a headache product of his hangover.
"ROBIN! ARE YOU THERE?" Their chat was interrupted by the yell of the cyborg, also a formerly nakama, Franky. Who stormed in the tavern hysterically searching for the raven.
"I´m here" she called him calmly.
"THANK GOD" he sighed.
"I really needed to go to the bathroom and you were in that store..." she smiled softly.
"I´m sorry I shouldn´t have entered there!" He looked down.
"It´s ok!" she smiled widely at him.
Zoro looked at the couple interact. He knew they had a romantic relationship when they were on the crew. He just didn´t expect they still shared it, after all those years. He took special attention to Robin, if he didn´t expect that, then he excpected this less "Robin... your...".
"YEAH! WE ARE PREGNANT SUPER!" Franky yelled again and made his popular "SUPAR!, SUPAR!"
Robin giggled.
Franky returned to his calmed self "ZORO?".
He sighed "Hey...".
"What happened?" he asked worried about his friend.
"With what?" the green haired didn´t understand what he was getting at.
"You look like a caveman!".
"Hey! I´ve been training too hard" he felt a little sorry about his looks but, this was a spontaneous meeting.
"And you are planning on attacking your opponent with your smell?" He joked
Zoro glared at him.
"I thought you were the best, who do you want to beat now?" Robin asked him
"Well..." While he searched for his answer, Franky brought a chair to the table. He sat on it with the archeologist on his lap.
"I have to continue being the best" He ended flatly.
"You can´t be the best forever...You know that Zoro, Sooner or later you´ll get old and one of this kid´s will come and beat you up" Franky said rubbing his wife´s tummy.
"humf.." he groaned as he rolled his eyes.
"Maybe you should find another dream to accomplish" Robin commented.
He looked away.
"Other than beating the record on being without a decent bath" Franky mocked him.
Robin yawned and stood up "Hey boys I´m going to take a nap at the hotel why don´t you stay here doing some catching up".
Franky looked at his wife and knew what she meant.
"Bartender! two colas!" He shouted.
Zoro rolled his eyes. He didn´t feel like catching up with the eccentric cyborg.
They stood for a couple of hours chatting about their present lives, mostly Franky doing all the talking.
"I´m so excited I´m going to be a father"
"nh"
"You know being with the person you love It´s the best that´s ever happened to me. And having a child with Robin, It´s... SUPAR!."
Zoro didn´t know what to say.
"It´s weird Zoro, you know, that you haven´t found anyone"
Now he didn´t want to say anything
"You are a popular, wealthy, handsome guy. Well at least you were before you forget all about our friend the soap" He chuckled.
He glared at him.
"Well!" he looked at the time. "Time to get back to my wife!" He stood up.
Zoro looked at him.
"It´s great to have someone to warm your bed!"
Zoro finished his cola.
"Bye Zoro nice, seeing you" He moved away.
"Bye Franky send my regards to Robin"
He was about to leave the place when he turned around and looked at his former nakama "Zoro, It´s good to dream, but once you have accomplished your dreams you should wake up and continue with your life"
Zoro frowned and saw his friend go.
oooOOOooo flashback oooOOOooo
"WOOOOOWW KAIZOKU-OOOOOOOO!"" Luffy yelled. They were having the biggest party in the grand line, after all, the whole crew had accomplished their dreams.
Everybody on the ship lifted their glasses to cheer with the captain.
At the back of the ship the navigator finished her champagne and looked at the sea, even though the sky was calm she looked troubled.
"Hey" a deep male voice called her.
She turned around already knowing who it was.
"You´ve been missing the party" The green haired commented and stood right beside her to contemplate the sea.
"I was wondering... What, what happens now?" she returned her sight to the sea.
"What happens tomorrow..." He understood.
"Sanji is going to back to the Baratie, Ussop to his village..."
"Everybody is going back..." he interrupted her.
"I guess I should probably go back to Cocoyashi"
"That´s probably the best, your sister must be missing you" he sounded kind.
She turned around to look at him "What are you going to do?"
He scratched the back of his head "Well... I don´t know"
She moved forward to hug him. This surprised him a bit, but he soon wrapt his arms around her as well.
"I´m going to miss you" she looked in to his eyes, tears forming.
He kissed her, at first it was soft. Like asking permission, but when he felt he was welcomed it turned up passionate and ever ending. They felt as if when the kiss ended they would have to part and continue their own lives alone. So they extended the kiss as long as they could.
Eventually they had to breathe and they broke the kiss. They stood a couple of seconds staring into each other's eyes.
"I´ll go to Cocoyashi to visit you some time" He tried to break the nostalgic moment.
She looked down; somehow she expected other response from him "good".
"Nami! Zoro! ,Luffy is calling you." Chopper interrupted the them.
oooOOOooo End of Flashback oooOOOooo
"NAMI!"
"NAMI!"
"NAMI!" Nojiko called her sister who had collapsed asleep in her kitchen table doing some maps.
Nami cracked one eye "What´s up"
"What are you doing sleeping in the kitchen?"
"Mmm I was working, I have to finish these maps before Sunday" she sounded groggy from the sleep.
"You should stop working, you don´t need any more money" The blue haired woman nagged her little sister as she removed her cartography items for the table.
"Hey! Give me that! What do you want me to do then? I´m bored" she tried to stop her but it was useless.
"Sleep on a bed, eat some food, find a boyfriend" She moved to the kitchen and started to turn on the oven.
Nami frowned "I sleep on a bed almost every night; I eat when I´m hungry and I would find a boyfriend if there was a decent guy around!" She stirred and started to help her sister.
"What? I´ve introduced you to hundreds of decent men!" She said getting a bowl from the refrigerator.
"Who?Aki?... too cocky" the redhead dismissed her offer.
"And Shun?"
"No self-esteem"
"Mils?"
"poor"
"Kabi"
"stupid"
"Keikiji"
"too old"
"Aragami"
"too young"
"Sakura"
"That was a girl!"
"What do you want me to do! You reject everyone!" she finished serving the table.
"Well, It´s not my fault if there are no decent guys around" She sat at the table waiting for the oven to cook her food.
Nojiko sat in front of her "What´s a decent guy for you?"
"Well... You know a guy with guts, a guy who had accomplished something..."
"Handsome" Nojiko added
"That wouldn´t hurt. A guy who is not threatened by an independent woman but also one who is willing to protect her… always"
"With a hot body"
"That would be great... and he has to be really masculine" she continued thinking
"Green hair"
"Ye- HEY!" she glared at her sister.
"Why don´t you go and find him"
"I´m not desperate, and I have things to do here, He said he would come... soo" She moved back to the kitchen to finish her dinner.
"That´s was years ago Nami! Go find him or move on"
"I´ve moved on, It´s not like I´m waiting for him or something... I´ve dated hundreds of guys..." She served the plates.
Nojiko rolled her eyes
Nami quickly changed the subject to the latest town gossip and the girls enjoyed their dinner chatting about trivial things, after that Nojiko goodbye her sister and went to her home.
oooOOOooo
The navigator finished the dishes and went to her room.
Before going to sleep she unconsciously stared at the pictures that were on her night table. One was the first wanted poster of herself, she smiled remembering those moments. The other was a big one with the whole crew, what are they doing right now? She wondered not for anyone in particularly. The last one was a pic of Luffy, Ussop and Chopper. She took special attention to that one, but her focus wasn't on the group. Behind the trio hugging you could see, if you were really paying attention, a furious Nami nagging at Zoro who was placing a quick peck on her forehead. She smiled from ear to ear. She remembered the photo episode, the things she had to do to hide it from the crew. The weirder thing was that Sanji took it and he didn´t even realized it. She had to have that photo, Zoro was being so cute. She had to have that to extort him in the future… She still hadn´t done it, she should plan something. Suddenly her smile faded and she sighed "Move on". She turn off the light and went to sleep.
Author: Kasumi Karen
Beta auther:Aly Pearson
