I LOVE ONE PIECE! I RECOMMEND IT TO ALL!
This is my first one piece fanfiction, so it might be abit (alot) OOC
Rating: T-for blood and language
Genre: Adventure/Friendship/Romance
Pairings: Lovely fluffy ZoNa (=^.^=) and Frobin.
Warnings: Fluffy and Oc's involved
Chapter 1. Reunited
The Thousand Sunny was far too quiet for Luffy's liking as he landed on the deck. Well he more like crashed into the deck due to the velocity of his rubber rocket. Carefully he laid his brother's unconscious form on the grass. Ace hadn't had a lot of strength when he rescued him, so had passed out long before they hit the Sunny.
"I was wondering when you would be back, Strawhat Luffy." He looked up. The sage-like eyes of Silvers Rayleigh stared down at him from one of the upper decks.
"Yo Rayleigh! You finished the Sunny then!" Luffy grinned. Rayleigh nodded.
"And I see you got your big brother back. Good thing your Doctor beat you back." Luffy's big brown eyes opened wide with excitement.
"The others are back?"
"The sharpshooter, Doctor, skeleton and cook recently visited the ship." Luffy grinned.
"That's good, but what about the others?"
"Nico Robin I believe I saw in the shopping district, the cyborg may have been following her. He was carrying her bags." Luffy laughed.
"That's them!"
"LUFFY!!!" He turned to the shore. Running towards him were his fellow youngsters. Usopp was weeping and Chopper was squealing his delight. Luffy grabbed the side of the ship and ran backwards. His arms stretched out for yet another rocket.
"Gomu gomu no…" Luffy leapt forwards, springing at an alarming speed to his beloved nakama.
"HUG!" He flung his rubbery arms around the two, bringing them close together.
"WUFFY!" Chopper cried into his shoulder, "I was so worried about you!" Luffy let his tears of relief pour down into Usopp's hair. His long nose was stabbing into him but he didn't care.
"Why dib ib take you wo long to geb back Luffy?" Usopp mumbled, squeezing his two best friends as close as possible.
"Long story. By the way Chopper, I brought back a new patient." Chopper looked up at him with wide eyes.
"Where? Who?"
"Back on Sunny." Chopper immediately ran off to the ship. Luffy and Usopp hung together for a moment, sobbing on each other's shoulders. Luffy rubbed his cheek against his sharpshooter's familiarising himself with the feel of a loved friend. Usopp's shoulders heaved softly in time with his breathing.
"I'm so glad to be back," Luffy whispered.
Not too far from where Sunny was moored a large and unusual beast touched down with a clacking of talons and hooves on long abandoned flagstones. It's fore half and tail were like a giant white eagle, the back and horns most definitely goat. It clattered along the pavement for about 50 yards, then stopped. From it's back dropped the infamous orange-haired pirate Nami. With a loud grunt she heaved the bag of gold that had been "relieved" from various ships off its back and over her shoulder. Gently patting the creature between it's curved golden horns, she placed a large chunk of meat in the similarly coloured hook beak.
"There's a good boy Qwerk, now away home to daddy!" She turned away from him, expecting him to just fly back home when she turned her back, and began to walk to Sunny. Instead she heard the click-clacking of talons and hooves as he followed at her shoulder. She turned to him. Liquid blue eyes stared back at her, shimmering in the evening sun.
"I've not got anymore meat if that's what you want." She began to walk again. Man this sack's heavy. Wish Zoro was around to give us a hand… Qwerk was still following.
"Oi, oi, oi…"
"Toragi-washi are very intelligent. They know when you need them, and don't go until they have done everything they can."
"Why is he here?"
"Didn't Kuma send him away somewhere?"
"Should we get a doctor?"
"That'll make the World Government mad!" The crowds in the street moved back from Zoro as he dragged himself towards Sunny. With every step the pain across his battered body increased. The slightly soapy air stung his reopening wounds. He was using one of his swords to support himself and feel the pavement.
"Kuso, why'd that assassin get me? How did I let this happen?" The last time he ate was about a fortnight ago, and his last drink had been the day previously. His vision was fading fast. Soon he would not be able to see.
"Luffy," he murmured, "I will get back!"
I guess, Nami thought, I'd rather walk with Qwerk then alone, but if Luffy sees him, he'll either try to eat him, or make him one of our crew! Qwerk was an unusual looking beast so would fascinate Luffy. They really didn't have the space for such a huge creature. Makes a good pack mule though. Doesn't moan like Zoro. Can tell left from right as well. Nami hit herself in the head gently. For some reason she hadn't been able to get the green-haired swordsman out of her head since she sat on the bird-things back. Probably just worry. But was sure getting annoying. She had been walking for a while now, and was starting to get tired. Sleep and decent food were dim and distant memories now. Nami found a large comfortable looking stone and placed her butt on it.
"Man I hope Sanji's back. I need his cooking!" she said loudly, not caring if anyone heard her. "So when you going to go home Qwerk?"
"QWERRRRK!" that was the only thing he ever said, presumably how he got his name. Nami sighed watching the creature lie down and begin to scratch his ear. She smiled, she was going to miss his company. Suddenly Qwerk sat up straight, staring at a spot directly behind her. Then she heard quiet rustling, making her whip round. She gasped.
"Zoro? What the hell happened to you?" The young man toppling out of the bushes was covered in blood. He was shaking visibly. The remains of bandages hung off his slightly wasted looking body. But what scared her most was the blood leaking from under his eyelids. Knees buckling, he fell towards her. Trying to be gentle with his injuries she caught him.
"Nami? I thought I heard your voice." His voice was weak and husky. She stood for a moment, holding him in her arms. She felt tears trickle down from her eyes. He was alive. She had feared he was dead.
"Zoro?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm glad you're alive."
"Same for you."
The sun was beginning to set behind the hulking Red Line, casting a huge shadow over the dark ocean. Luffy sat on the edge of Sunny's deck, arms draped over the railing and swinging his legs underneath. He really wanted to go look for Nami and Zoro, but Robin had reasoned that Zoro would get annoyed if he knew that Luffy didn't trust his sense of direction, though anyone that did needed serious help, and it would just make it more dangerous for them if he was running about like a headless chicken with a 300 million berrie bounty when there was so much talk of him. Robin's smirk had told him she quite possibly had ulterior motives.
"Yo, Luffy," Usopp had appeared at his side.
"Hey Usopp." The long-nosed boy sat down beside him, mimicking his pose.
"Worried about Zoro and Nami?" he asked. Luffy nodded. Until his first mate and navigator returned he couldn't have fun properly.
"You know Zoro's going to be pissed at you for worrying about him."
"You're more worried." Usopp was biting his lower lip and trembling.
"A pissed Zoro is better then no Zoro, just about." Luffy giggled. For a moment the two teens stared out at the shore.
"Luffy I've been thinking ever since we visited Cocoyashi…"
"Ha?"
"Do you think Zoro, you know, likes Nami?" Luffy shrugged. In his mind he grinned. Don't worry Zoro I won't tell anyone anything!
"It's probably just me being dumb, but it seams he's a bit more protective of her then any of us, except you of course, you're like a little bro to him." Luffy smiled in his usual goofy way. He and Zoro really were like brothers. If Ace found out he had a challenger for the position he would go mental.
"Imagine their kids!" Luffy started to giggle, then laugh, then he was in all out hysterics.
"Imagine Zoro changing nappies!"
He's burning up… Nami removed her hand from the swordsman's brow. He was lying on Qwerk's back with a blanket pulled up under his chin. Her treasure was slung underneath. Zoro's breathing was heavy and fast, and his face displayed the pain he was in. Poor thing…
"Zoro, you hear me?" she asked. He nodded slightly.
"Sunny's not far now, you think you can stay awake another ten minutes?" Again he nodded. It was with a lot of persuasion she managed to get him to lie down on Qwerk. It was when she raised her fist to hit him he finally submitted. She supposed it was pride, he didn't want to be seen coming back to Sunny dependant on her. He had no choice though, except die alone. She had tied his bandana over his eyes to try and stop some of the bleeding, and so she wouldn't have to look at his probably ruined eyes. At least he's not dead. Once Chopper's seen to him and he's got a few good meals inside him he'll get better. Zoro coughed weakly, making blood trickle into Qwerk's white feathers.
"Don't you dare die, okay Zoro?" she whispered next to his ear. "I'll drag your sorry ass back from the afterlife to pay a debt as big as Luffy's bounty, then send you back myself, if you do!" He chuckled slightly. His warm breath ticked her neck. For some reason it made her shiver.
"Just hold on."
The rest of his crew had long since turned in, but Luffy sat waiting on deck. He had ordered everyone else to go to bed and promised he would wake them when Zoro and Nami returned. Robin had given him a blanket and a motherly kiss on the cheek before she went in. It made him smile, knowing his nakama loved him. If he listened he could hear Brook playing a lullaby for his fellows. For a little while he hummed along, until he saw what he had been waiting for. Or rather heard.
"ZORO WAKE UP! I CAN SEE LUFFY!" it was Nami's beautiful musical voice! He stood straight up staring up the path that led to Sunny. Only a hundred metres away his longest friends were coming towards him. Nami was running at the side of an unusual creature, on who's back a tall green haired man was just sitting up. Luffy's grin stretched all the way across his face and would have dislocated his jaw if he weren't rubber. For a moment he forgot he was rubber, leaping over the side of the sunny onto the soapy grass, leaving his blanket behind. His sandals flopped loudly as he ran with tears in his eyes. He may have lost one or both while he ran but he didn't care.
"ZORO, NAMI!" he screamed. As they met Zoro tumbled off the mount, into Nami, who supported him just long enough to meet Luffy.
Luffy opened his arms as wide as he could and embraced them both. Zoro's muscular arms and Nami's slender, but not weak, arms encircled him in a warm but rather rough hug. The three fell to their knees, each holding the other two as tight to him or her as possible.
"QWEEERRRRRRKKK!"
So watcha think? I don't even know what to title this :S
