'So the library is just past the academy' thought Robin, as she dispelled the eyes that she'd bloomed all over the village to find her way. Standing up from where she'd been leaning against a wall the raven haired woman began her walk to her destination; which was actually close to where she currently was. When she was approaching the academy, Robin saw a group of people storming out of the courtyard. Some of the group were scuffed up kids who had sinister little smirks on their faces; which became sad frowns when their parents (who Robin guessed was the older members of the group) looked down at them, while the parents kept glancing back to the courtyard spitefully.

Robin stopped in her tracks as those looks took her back to when she was a child at Ohara and received those same type of stares and sneers from both the other children and parents. "That little freak had better stay away from our kids" growled one of the adults as they walked past the frozen archaeologist, not even noticing her standing there. It was after she heard that hate filled comment that a tear made its way down her cheek as her flashbacks took her deeper into her past of being alone and hated by everyone but her precious few. Robin was brought out of her trance though when she heard the sound of someone crying just over the academy wall. Figuring out quickly that the crying must be coming from the 'little freak' that those adults had been scorning Robin quickly decided and steeled her resolve to help whoever it was.

After entering the courtyard Robin found a sobbing nine year old blonde boy sitting sideways on a swing. Approaching the child, Robin tried calling to him softly. "Excuse me little boy, are you alright?" she asked.

The kid must have been scared by her sudden appearance because he yelped and fell out of his seat but before he could hit the ground Robin summoned some hands to catch him. This only lead to him being even more frightened as he started struggling frantically to escape the limbs that were holding him. When they finally let go however the boy found his head resting on something soft. Before he could try to get up and run from whoever it was, a hand gently brushed through his hair. This surprised the blond and caused him to stop and look up at whoever wasn't yelling at him for once and when he did he saw a beautiful raven haired woman with understanding blue eyes staring down at him.

"I'm sorry for startling you whisker-san" apologized the woman, giving him a smile. "I heard you crying from the road and came to see if you were alright."

"B-but why?" asked the still wary child.

The woman's smile dropped at that and a sadness filled her eyes. "Because I once lived the same life as you."

Seeing the pain that flashed through her eyes the boy let go of his suspicion and hugged her before he started to cry. Robin hugged the child back and patted his head as he sobbed on to her shirt. 'Fufufu! Twenty years ago I never would have imagined doing this. Luffy and the others have managed to bring me so far and change me so much that I was able to live the life I had always dreamed of. Amazing nakama, a wonderful husband, and a beautiful child; all things that I had given up on since Ohara. Thank you everyone.' It was only when Robin finished her thoughts that she'd noticed that the whiskered boy had fallen asleep in her arms. "Perhaps I can help to change your life for the better, eh whisker-san?" whispered the raven to herself as she stood up from her seated position with the child in her arms and set out to find her family.

After a short walk; thanks to some guiding eyes, Robin managed to locate the training ground that her husband and daughter were still heading for. "Fufufu! They're both so adorable" giggled Robin to herself as she sat down against a nearby tree. Shifting the still sleeping boy around so that his head lay in her lap once more, Robin removed a book from her bag and started to read it.

After thirty minutes of reading and silence Robin smiled when she finally heard the pair of familiar voices. "I told you that we'd find it papa" stated Olvia.

"If we'd gone my way then we would've gotten here an hour ago!" argued Zoro.

"Of course we would've papa" said Olvia with a teasing smirk on her face which Zoro didn't catch since he noticed his wife sitting across the field with a kid.

"Oi Robin, what's with the kid?" Zoro asked his woman as the pair approached her.

"And how did you manage to get here before use? You couldn't have finished your visit to the library already" stated Olvia.

"I never arrived at the library" answered Robin. She then proceeded to tell the two about why she'd never reached her destination and how she'd met the blond boy who was still asleep in her lap. During the retelling of how the boy was being treated, Robin felt herself start to slightly tear up again from the memories of her own painful past that flashed before her eyes.

"I see" muttered Zoro as he sat down next to his wife; opposite of where the child was laying, and draped an arm over her shoulders allowing her to lean into his comforting gesture.

"So you want to take him in and give him a happy and proper life" said Olvia.

Robin smiled at her twelve year old daughter's quick and accurate guess at her plan. 'She's going to be quite the intellect when she's older' thought the woman before she spoke. "Yes. I can't let a child so young experience such a childhood."

Zoro scratched the back of his head at the determination in his wife's voice. Deciding not to mention the fact that both of them agreed to only one child. 'At least she won't have to birth this one' thought the swordsman as he shivered slightly at the memory of when Robin had been in labor with Olvia. The number of things that actually frighten Roronoa Zoro is almost nonexistent but one of them was definitely an "in labor" Robin. Remembering the colorful things that she'd threatened to do to him while she was in the Sunny's infirmary still caused him to break a cold sweat sometimes. "Any idea what his name is?" asked Zoro. "You never told us it."

"In truth, I forgot to ask him myself" answered Robin.

"Those whisker marks on his cheeks are kind of adorable" stated Olvia as she knelt down beside the boy to touch the marks with a finger.

They were surprised when the boy suddenly awoke at her touch. His eyes then shot open and it seemed as though he was about to jump up and run away but stopped when he saw the kind smile that Olvia gave him. "W-what's happening?" he asked.

"You fell asleep talking to my mom, whisker-san" explained Olvia. Robin giggled at how her daughter gave the boy the same nickname that she had. "My name is Roronoa Olvia" introduced Olvia as she helped the blond to a seating position against the tree that Robin and Zoro were also sitting against. "These are my parents Nico Robin and Roronoa Zoro."

"It's nice to see that you're finally awake whisker-san" stated Robin with a smile.

"Hey" said Zoro bluntly.

Olvia groaned. "Is that really what you want your first impression to be papa?"

"What the hell do you want me to say to a kid we just met?" asked Zoro.

"Something other than just hey" said Olvia.

"Fine, what's your name kid?" asked Zoro, his frustration making his question sound demanding.

"U-um, Uzumaki Naruto" squeaked out Naruto under the glare Zoro was giving him.

Hands then grew out of the green haired man's shoulders and covered his eye, causing the blonde to freak out and Zoro to get angry. "What the hell Robin!?" yelled Zoro while he tried to pull Robin's hana hands off of his remaining eye, but not using any real strength since he didn't want to hurt his wife.

Robin giggled. "See Naruto-san, he's nothing to be afraid of when he can't see you."

"I can still smell you onna" growled Zoro from behind Robin's shoulder. The sudden feral tone behind her husband's voice caused the archaeologist to lose her focus and her hands to dispel. The instant he could see Zoro grabbed his wife from behind, pinning her arms to her side, and bit down on her neck causing the raven haired woman yelp lightly.

"Z-Zoro s-stop!" cried Robin as she struggled to get out of her husband's iron-clad hold on her waist and arms. No one other than Zoro knew this but the hana user's neck was very sensitive and whenever her swordsman would bite it she would lose her cool.

Olvia sighed and Naruto sweat dropped as they watched the two adults wrestling like a couple of love struck teenagers. "Does this happen a lot?" asked Naruto.

"Sadly enough, yes. It's like they completely lose their edge when they're like this. My mom loses her calm and my dad loses his stern, and it's embarrassing as hell!" explained Olvia, shouting the last part.

Zoro and Robin heard their daughter and split apart before they took things too far in front of the kids. Zoro's face reddened in anger/embarrassment while Robin simply smiled. "Why don't you have Naruto-san give you a tour of Konoha while your father and I go to see the hokage?" asked Robin.

"Alright, but remember to adopt Naruto before you two go at it" teased Olvia before she grabbed Naruto by his arm and dragged him away.

While watching his daughter and Naruto walk away Zoro growled. "She's too damn young to be acting like this."

Wrapping her arms around her husband's shoulders from behind, Robin smiled. "Well it's not as if we don't give her plenty of reason to Zoro".

"Tch, whatever onna. Let's just hurry up and get this over with so I can sleep" said Zoro as he stood up and started watching away, in the wrong direction.

"With me? My, aren't we eager Zoro" teased Robin and she giggled to herself when her husband's face reddened.