"Why? Why did this happen to me?" Zoro thought bitterly. "I did nothing wrong, I hadn't done anything to him, so why did he do all that to me?" Zoro was sitting in his room in the dark thinking about what happened only a few days ago. At this particular point in time Zoro wanted nothing more, he wanted to be dead.

It all started a few days ago on the Going Merry…

Sanji was in the kitchen preparing a snack for his lovely Nami-san. Luffy was on the ram's head of the ship looking for an island, Usopp was going round the ship fixing it from the last fight they had with the Navy. Nami was plotting the course for the next island that was coming up, Chopper was in his medical room sorting out his medicine and Zoro was sleeping or so everyone thought, he was actually thinking about Kuina and how she supposedly fell down the stairs and killed herself.

"Hey Nami! What is the next island called?" Luffy called from the ram's head, when she came up on to the deck.

"It's called Sasori Island and we should be there in a couple of days." Nami replied loud enough for the whole crew to hear, including Zoro.

"I heard that Sasori Island is a great place for practicing sword fighting. You know the dojos and that." Usopp said and was replied with blank stares from the crewmates. "Fine, Zoro knows a lot about sword fighting and dojos, so we'll ask him."

Zoro heard what Usopp had said and didn't want to answer his question because Sasori Island was his hometown and he didn't want to think about it.

"Hey Zoro, does Sasori Island got a lot of dojos there?" Usopp asked in a I-know-exactly-what-he-is-going-to-say tone.

"No", Zoro mumbled his reply.

"What was that? I couldn't hear you, were mumbling again." Usopp replied to get him to speak clearer.

"I said NO! It has only got ONE DOJO in its town!" Zoro shouted, "NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!", and with that said he stormed off.

"Wonder what is up his ass today." Nami said rather surprised by Zoro's reaction towards Usopp's question.

"Sasori Island is Zoro's hometown if you must know." Luffy said in an I-know-everything-about-Zoro voice.

"How did you know that Luffy?" Sanji asked rather surprised that Zoro let Luffy anything about his hometown.

"Well when I got him to join my crew, we exchanged information about our backgrounds, our pasts, basically everything except personal information, so he knows all about me, and I know…well most of the things about him but not everything like why he became a bounty hunter." Luffy explained to his crew.

The next few days were the usual, it almost went like this all the time, Zoro dragging Luffy out of the sea after he fell in, Sanji cooking more, Usopp fixing things already fixed, Nami wanting to know more about Zoro's past, and Zoro he was sleeping less, training more and thinking more.

"GUYS! I CAN SEE SASORI ISLAND!" Usopp and Luffy screamed so loud Sanji almost dropped the plates he was carrying, Nami was used to it, but still jumped at the sudden noise. Zoro would normally be sleeping, but was training instead and the sudden noise made him drop his weights on the floor with a crash, luckily no one paid attention to the crash as they were all looking at the island (well except Zoro of course).

"Right! Who will look after the ship in case of enemies?" Nami asked all of a sudden.

"I'll do it," said Zoro really not wanting to go into his home island.

"NO, I'll do it. I need to finish off the invention I'm making." Usopp said in an I-want-you-to-go-on-that-island voice.

To Be Continued...

Kuina's Alive/END 1.

Next Time!

Zoro reunites with his sensei, and Kuina's father, and a little surprise is in store for Zoro!

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