Love Can Leave You Crying

Chapter 1

"I'm looking for a man named Roronoa Zolo. Have you seen him?" she asked the shop owner.

He scratched his head. "Roronoa…Zolo you say?" He looked up as if the answer was written on the ceiling. "Oh! Yeah! He's with some kid in a straw hat. I'm sorry, but that's all I know."

"That's okay…" She turned on her heel and headed out. She wore a cerulean halter top that stopped at her upper thigh and had large slits on the side. She wore black shorts under to cover the delicate lower part of her body. She had cerulean sleeves that began at her upper arm and went down well past her hands. Her black boots came up to her mid thigh. She was defiantly beautiful with her excessively long auburn hair and hazel eyes, but she was a force to be reckoned with. Two deadly elbow blades rested at her sides, and she carried a black case in her right hand. There was a commotion going on down the street. She looked as a crowd gathered. "Might as well check it out." She headed on over casually. The crowd split as she approached, and a fist came flying right by her, just mere inches away. She looked at the arm and rolled her eyes. She came closer as the crowd ran away in fear. "What's going on?" A man landed right at her feet. He was unconscious. "Alrighty then…"

"Hey, are you with them!"

She spun around and faced two men. "Who wants to know?"

"We do sweetheart!" shouted one of the men. "We'll uh, let you go though, on one condition." Their perverted eyes darted all over her body.

"And what makes you think idiots like you could capture me?" she asked curtly.

"Why you little--! We'll show you!"

"Like I said, idiots." She put her black case down and pulled out her two blades to block the attacks. She then gave a brutal stab forward, then one down to the first man.

The second man looked at her in horror. "I…I don't want any trouble!" He headed in the opposite direction.

"Oh no you don't!" She front flipped right in back of him and chopped at his legs as if her blades were like scissors. She then powered up and brought one blade down on his back. "I hoped you learned your lesson you perverts."

"Wowie! That was cool!" exclaimed the kid in the straw hat.

Straw hat? she thought as she put her blades back at her sides. Could that be him? "Who are you?" She picked up her black case.

"The name's Monkey D. Luffy and I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!" shouted Luffy. "Please to meet you!"

"What a beautiful young lady." A young man, around nineteen, came forward. One of his eyes was covered by his blonde hair. He reeled her into his arms. "My name is Sanji. Oh how I wish someone as fair as you could be mine!" He kissed her hand.

She glowered a bit and stomped on his foot. "Oh! I'm so sorry! Was that your foot?" she asked in a mocking voice. "How clumsy of me…"

Sanji grabbed his foot as he began to hop around. "No hard feelings miss. It was just an accident, right?"

"Yeah sure," she murmured.

"Hey, I have a great idea!" exclaimed Luffy. "Why don't you join my crew?"

She raised an eyebrow. "Join…your crew?...Why?"

"Cuz you're a great fighter!" informed Luffy. "My first mate is a great fighter too, so I'm sure you two would get along!"

"Why don't you let me meet this so-called great fighter for myself, huh Luffy? Then I'll be able to tell you if we'd get along." A man with a green haramaki stepped forward.

The young woman's eyes became wide. It's…him! "…Uh…"

"Strange, you look like someone I met two years ago," he mused. "My name is Roronoa Zolo."

"I…know," she said.

"You…You do?" asked Zolo.

She nodded cheerfully before turning back to Luffy. "Well Luffy, fighting isn't all that I'm good at…" She put her black case down and opened it. "You see…" She put some silver pipes together. "I'm also a…" She held the completed piece over her head like a trophy. "Skilled flutist!" It was a silver flute. She began to play a few notes.

"Wow cool! A musician too!" Luffy began to dance around.

"Well then, Luffy, I guess you'll get your musician after all." An orange haired woman approached the young woman, as did a blue haired woman. They both shook her hand. "I'm Nami, navigator of this crew."

The blue haired woman smiled. "And I'm Nefritari Vivi. Just call me Vivi."

"It's nice to meet you both," she greeted with a smile.

"Hey! Don't forget me!" A long nosed boy came running. "I'm the fearless Captain Usopp!"

The young woman laughed. "Uh, isn't the straw hat kid your captain?"

"Well, uh…" Usopp began.

The girl laughed again as she put her flute away. "You're not a very good lair. But it's still nice to meet you Usopp." She closed the case.

"Is the fighting over yet?" asked a cute little reindeer with a big red hat.

"Oh, that's our medic, Tony Tony Chopper," whispered Usopp.

"Well, he's cute," said Adella with a smile. Chopper heard the compliment and smiled himself.

"Well, you know who we are," informed Nami.

"But who are you my little angle?" asked the love sick Sanji.

"Oh, sorry about that!" she rubbed the back of her neck. "My name is Adella!"

Adella! thought Zolo. He forced his way through the small crowd his friends made. "Adella?" He walked over to Adella. "Is that you Adella…or someone else?"

Adella's eyes glistened. "Hee hee, yes Zolo, it's me!" She hugged him. "It's only been two years, yet it seems like forever…"

Zolo kind of pushed her back to look at her face. "You're right. You were only what…fifteen? Ha ha! It's good to see you."

"Wait a minute," interrupted Sanji. "You two…know each other?" He grabbed Zolo by the shirt collar. "Why didn't you tell me you knew such a beautiful girl!"

"Hey, back off Sanji!" shouted Zolo pushing him away.

"Adella!" Adella turned from the pre-fight between Zolo and Sanji. "So, how 'bout it? You and the Straw Hat Pirates?" Luffy was very eager.

Adella thought about this. Of course she wanted to join, but she just wanted to play around with Luffy. "I don't know…"

"Please?" begged Luffy. "Please, please, pleeeease?"

"Why don't you join?" asked Zolo. "Then we could catch up while we travel."

Adella was touched. Zolo actually wanted her to join. She didn't know what to say anymore. "U-Uh…" I don't want to say it right here in front of all of these people!

"What's your dream?" asked Nami.

"Yeah. I mean, you have to see if your dream can work with this crew," added Vivi. "After all, the captain has a very big dream of his own."

"Actually, I want to find All Blue," explained Adella.

"Really! So does Sanji!" pointed out Vivi.

Adella looked at Sanji. "Well what I meant was that, there's this legend of this really great place near All Blue, right? And this place is enchanted and stuff. The only way to find this place is if someone has the instrument of the heavens and has this one holy song. I've already learned that the instrument of the heavens is the flute, I just need to find the holy song. This enchanted place has an item that I seek called the Angle Flute. This flute is endowed with the powers of the heavens and can grant wishes when played by a worthy musician."

"That sounds like a beautiful dream," said Vivi with a dreamy sigh.

"I know, but the hard part is getting that holy song!" explained Adella. "It's supposed to be lost somewhere in the Grand Line, so I need to go there."

"So being part of my crew is perfect for you!" shouted Luffy.

"Well, I guess so," said Adella, somewhat amused by Luffy's loudness. "I guess I'll come with you then."

Luffy jumped up into the air. "Alright! We got a new member!"