The very next morning was very awkward. Zoro was so unsure if he should talk to Kana or avoid her until Kuina came back. It was a semi-normal morning except the fact that Kana was training with her swords instead of watching Zoro like normally. She noticed that Zoro was training as well and yelled to him "Hey, Zoro-kun! Do you want to battle?"

He looked over at Kana, a few changes had occurred and he was glad of, the pink in her hair had changed to dark blue and her voice had changed as well, It was a little deeper and the tone had changed. 'Kuina, when we run into the navy you will have your change to have your own body with your own age. I can't wait to see the look on the bitches face when she gets beat by a kid.'

"Sure, I'm up for a challenge." He implied smiling and walked to her with his practice sword.

"Ok, what are the rules?" she always asked for the rules before a battle, showing respect to him, because Kuina would kill her if she didn't.

"No hitting below the belt. No hitting the chest, um..." He stopped and thought for a moment "That's about it."

She raised up her practice sword and he raised his. The battle started and she was aiming for his knees because the last time they were using practice swords she left a bruise on the side of his left knee. She kept trying different places but he was able to block them all, so she tried a little strategy.

She aimed her practice sword, in a swinging motion to his knee and he blocked it but, unexpectedly, she faked him out, doing an uppercut, and slamed it into his side, then pulled back. He blocked the swing to his stomach and she used the second one to try to his his neck but he dogged and she took a chance and knocked one of his out of his hand and kept the other one from letting her hit him, And slammed it into his stomache, hard.

"That wasn't fair." Nami said with a little bit of anger in her voice" You can't do that."

"That was a pretty good shot, I'm gonna have to remember that next time we battle." He had one eye closed and gave a pain filled smile. She layed him down and started rubbing the spot she hit him. It was actually kinda soothing but Zoro felt a little uncomfortable and started squirming

"You're just jealous because I kicked your ass." She said to Nami, She was getting sick of her and was about to do worse to her than the first time.

"You didn't kick my ass, You caught me off gaurd."

"Whatever you say Barbie." Zoro starting snickering, and the snickering turned to laughing

"And what's that supposed to mean!?" She was beyond pissed off and Zoro was laying on the deck of the ship laughing harder than he ever had.

"It means you got your ass kicked by a 14 year old girl." she was snickering about it.

I mean, the thought of big bad Nami getting the hell beat out of her was kinda funny. Since Nami was over confident about what little strengh she had

"Fuck you." She said with anger and hate in her voice.

"No thanks, I'm not that way." Zoro had almost pissed himself laughing. He could almost be for sure that Kuina was talking for Kana because Kuina was so far the only one who could make him laugh that hard. Yeah, Luffy's antics made him chuckle a little sometimes but not bursting out laughing.

The wind began blowing suddenly and a Naval frigate pulled up next to the Going Merry.

"Roronoa Zoro! Hand over the sword!" Tashigi was on the side of the frigate and jumped over to their ship.

"Sorry, I don't have it." Zoro said smirking. This was Kuina's time and she finally emerged. It had been a week since anyone has seen her and they all missed her.

"Well who has it?!" She demanded to know, It was her duty as Master Chief Petty Officer Of The Navy to know. She wouldn't stand for anyone to have the sword but Zoro so she could pry it from him if necessary.

"That would be me, big sis." Kuina said and drew two swords. "And If you want it from me we will battle for it."

Tashigi turned around quick to find her little sister with two forbidden swords drawn.

"K-Kuina-chan. It can't be.. you.." tears ran down Tashigi's face as her baby sister ran to her for a hug.

"Oh yes it can, It's a long and complicated story but If I want my own body and out of this one. I need to defeat you, not kill you just get you down without you tripping all over the place.

Tashigi's face reddened a little. She had always been somewhat clumsy but she never wanted anyone to know how bad. Even as a little child she would trip over everything when Kuina was little as well.

"Battle me, shisuta!" Kuina held up Wado with dead seriousness in her voice. Tashigi held up her sword as well and the battle started.

Kuina tried out something she thought would work, slicing towards tashigi's stomach but said swordswoman jumped back, dodging the sharp edge.

'Shit. It's not working Kana! What should I do?' So Kuina kept trying diffrent things to do. She tried a fake out, a direct assault, and a backwards assault. Nothing was working. 'Let me try something.'Kana replied to Kuina as she thought about what might work.

Kana, for a split second in the place of Kuina, in a slicing motion to tashigi's right knee Tashigi blocked it with her sword but Kana let go of her sword and grabbed it with her right hand and brought it up, snagging Tashigi's glasses and throwing them in the air and, with the flat side of the sword, brought it down hard, striking her major nerve in her forehead and Tashigi fell to the ground, unconscious.

"Kana! You did it!"Kuina screamed with exitement, now she would have her own body and not have to bum Kana for a body to inhabit.

All of a sudden Kana fell over unconscious as well and everyone ran over to her. "Kana, are you OK?" Zoro asked and picked her up a little, with her lower half still on the deck and the other half of her in Zoro's arms'. Her eyes opened a little

Her voice became softer "Zoro-kun. Time to say good-bye." She was slowly dying, the crew was unknowing of what was going on. Tear's were filling the eyes of the crew, all except Nami and Sanji. Who had a look of joy that Kana was dying

"Good-bye? What do you mean, good-bye?" He was confused as well.

"Maybe I can explain.." A ghostly voice said with an aura of light on Kana. The crew looked up to see a very translucent and beautiful redheaded woman. "You see, I gave Kana the choice of giving up her body or letting Kuina-chan pass on to the after life. And she chose to give her body up."

"What's wrong with Kana?" He was getting worried, after all, They had become good friends after a few days and he didn't want to loose another true friend of his.

"She is making room for Kuina." The woman said

"What's that supposed to mean?" Luffy asked. He hadn't said much in the past 2 weeks much, He had been lost in thought of what he saw on the Island they had escaped.

'Flashback.'

"Next time you see Zoro, tell him I will meet him in Arabasta, He had better be prepared for our rematch, I'm not holding back next time." Mihawk said, in a thick french accent. He was serious. "Next time, I'm using this one only" holding his 6 foot sword. "So he needs all the practice he can get."

"Ok, I will tell him."

'End Flashback'

"Well, she's dying and Kuina will be either be taking Kana's body or I can make her non transparent, Which ever she chooses."

Zoro's eyes widened and he held her tight. "Zoro-kun.. Don't worry about me. I knew this would happen. I've had fun being your friend.."

He looked down at her with worry, he was holding back tears. Not wanting the crew see him cry. "Kana.. Why? Why do you have to go?"

"So Kuina can use my body." Her eyes started closing until they were half open "Zoro-kun, I just want you to know, that you've been the only friend I have ever had besides Kuina.. I love you like the brother I always wanted."

"Kana.. You're my best friend. I don't want you to go.." Tears came but Zoro wiped them off as soon as they came.

"I don't want to go either." She started breathing heavily "But I will do anything for Kuina." She added. Her eyes were almost closed and she whispered as soft as she could so only Zoro could here. "I love you.."

With tear filled eyes Zoro put his hand over her eyes and closed his fingers.

"Good-bye." Luffy, Zoro, Chopper, and Usopp said in unison. Zoro removed his hand and her eyes were closed and she was motionless and limp. Zoro was close to tears but he forced them to not come out.

"Well, Now that she's done." The translucent woman said. She held out her hands and Kana's spirit lifted out of her body and to the afterlife immediatly. Tears came from the whole crew, even Nami and Sanji. "Kuina, Do you want your own body or Kana's?"

She looked over to Zoro, her spirit of what she was to look like as her true age, 21. "What do you think? Be 14 or 21?"

"It's your body not mine." He responded. Kana's body still lifeless in his arms. Then he thought about the cursed fruits, maybe if he got her to eat a special one and come back to life plus not be able to die... He hoped to god there was one like that.

"I want my own but I want to be 18." She said. The woman smiled and Kuina started glowing a bright white light. She got taller and curvier than her 14 year old self. She floated down to the deck of the ship and became solid. Her once super short blue hair had become super long and the dark red jeans she wore were now shorts, the black tank-top was now a short sleeved tee-shirt.