Chapter 1
The Straw Hat Pirates stopped at a small island to restock seeing as Luffy had eaten almost everything on the ship, It had been a week since Sanji had joined the crew and he was already familiar with Luffy eating habits. As they left the boat Zoro headed straight towards a small tavern not far from the docks. He was planning on get a few mugs of sake before heading back to the ship to take a nap or something.
As he entered he passed a few small groups of pirates and travelers never paying them a second glance. He took the first open stool and ordered. He leaned against the bar top and looked lazily around at all the other people, they were all talking and laughing at once about many different things, some went on about things they had seen recently, others talked about their oldest adventures. Zoro looked up just as his drink was set down and took a long slow slip.
Suddenly the doors swung open and in walked a small figure with a large hat on its head with a large cap type of coat over its shoulders blocking any further details. The figure marched towards one of the tables and a few guys at the bar laughed as they watched talking to themselves about something. When the figure stopped at the table at the table it bent down a little more and said something in a low voice to the largest man, he laughed a cruel laugh and looked at his mates saying something to them causing them to laugh too.
The men next to Zoro laughed again and one shook his head sympathetically, as if he knew what was going to happen. The figure moved quicker then lightning and landed several punches on the guys nose, jaw, stomach, and for good measure kicked his shin, and in the blink of any eye the cloacked figure was sitting next to Zoro with the group of men. Zoro shook his head and then looked back at the man, he was on the ground moaning about the pain of the kick and punches, either he is really weak or this guys strong, Zoro thought then something dawned on him, he might have eaten a devil fruit.
That would explain the speed and strength for how small he was. Just as Zoro turned to ask the guy he saw a young woman in his place, she had the same cloak on her hat and the hat was now on the bar top. Her wave strawberry blond hair came just to her shoulders and was in a mess, this was the first thing Zoro noticed as it was a strange color (Yeah, that's a strange color…'cause his hair isn't green. Haha :P )
The young woman swivled around to look at the bartender when he saw her face, it was very familiar but he couldn't recall what it was from, the gental looking features with a harsh criticizing set of eyes that seemed to cut through you, and even the familiar arch of her eyebrows all plowed into Zoro, all his time spent watching her from a far, getting yelled at or tripping because he was too busy watching her. It was her, the one he let get away as he began to obsess over beating Kuina. It was his first love, Sakura. His sweet Cherry Blossom.
This may just be a one shot but tell me what you think!
I'm not to sure where I should go with this if I continue, do you think I should go from the child-hood and do a story about that, or start at where this is leaving off? I hope he didn't seem to occ...
I came up with this when I was watching Soul Eater on Toonami. It was strange the episode related nowhere near this story, maybe it was the One Piece commercial I saw that sparked it... The world may never no...
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