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One Piece's Odd Socks

Prompt: Photograph

Zoro watched the Pirate ship pull into the small harbor on Mihawk's Island. He was getting no stronger fighting the injured monkeys while Mihawk was off on some 'errand' of his. It was time that he found some information out about his crewmates - an errand of his own.

"You're going to get lost!" Called Perona. Zoro, as usual, ignored her and headed towards the ship.

"Let me get this straight." A very irritable woman glared up at him, a tattered and repaired pirate's hat on her head. "You jump onboard me ship. Beat up me fighters, destroy me weapons and only after ya knock out me navigator does ya ask us to take ya to the next island?!"

Zoro nodded, sheathing the blades in his hands and transferring Wado from his mouth to his right hand.

"Ya fucking crazy! Landon!" She yelled the name inside the ship. "Get ya arse out 'ere and get these idiots up!" A moment later a tall, pale, dark haired teen appeared in the doorway.

Zoro's hand reacted immediately, flicking Wado up to threaten this newcomer.

"Fuck off, he the medic." The woman snapped, slamming her sword on top of his – hardly moving Wado in his grip, though the bang was loud enough to wake her nakama he hadn't hit so hard. The pirate captain winced as her teeth rattled slightly in her skull.

The tall man slipped out the doorway and went to the first body collapsed on the deck.

Zoro had never before sensed anyone like this doctor and turned his head to watch him go. Bloodlust oozed from his every pore, every breath and saturated the air around him. Even the most evil and violent of the Strawhat Pirate's opponents came no where near this man's raging for a fight, to spill blood, to kill. It put Zoro on edge.

How did a man that had so much bloodlust in him be a doctor?

On his hip Kietetsu raged its excitement and Zoro was very glad that it was Wado in his hand, not the cursed blade. The blade wanted blood as much as this guy and was begging Zoro to hand it over so that it could taste the blood of someone, anyone.

"Tell me why I shouldn't just throw ya overboard!" The woman demanded. Zoro looked down at her stubborn face and smirked.

Two hours later, Zoro was snoring on deck, enjoying a cooling breeze on his back from the sea air. The doctor was still treating the wounds that Zoro had given the irritating captain. None of them where life threatening, but she had challenged him until he had given them to her. Stubborn to the end that one.

For three days, Zoro slept in his corner, ignored by the crew and he didn't see the captain or the doctor. The cooks reluctantly gave him food but refused to give him any booze. It wasn't worth a fight over, so Zoro let the cooks think they had won and just 'did a Luffy' and nicked it when they where not looking. He filled his time training, using the pirate's anchor as a weight and gaining some long stares of disbelief.

When the captain did reappear, she brought with her a young boy, holding something small and rectangle. Zoro was on the 1334th rep with the anchor, almost lazily using one hand to pull it up level with his chin and paused to watch this new development. Sweat ran uncomfortably but familiarly down his back. The captain shot him a glare and pushed the boy, who nervously stepped out of the ship and onto the sunny deck. A kindly member of the crew bent down to talk to him. The two where soon chatting, but the captain hadn't taken her eyes off Zoro, warning him not to touch the child?

Zoro shrugged and lifted the anchor. He had lost count, so he would start again from zero.

The young boy was soon staring at him with open curiosity and awe. With a pang, Zoro was reminded of Chopper and looked away, trying to ignore his curious and idolizing gaze. The kid lifted the box like object and Zoro's attention was caught immediately. The captain moved behind the suddenly worried little boy and steadied him.

"It alrigh'." She told them both.

"Um… Can I take your picture?" The kid asked. Zoro shrugged, not bothered and lifted the anchor again. There was a soft click and the kid ran away. The woman tucked a lock of golden hair behind an ear and left the swordsman alone.

Zoro threw himself into training, trying to ignore the child, but the kid had other ideas.

"Look! Look! The sky's pink!" They had finally landed at an island and the kid was overly excited. He raised his camera and captured a photograph. "And look at that rainbow! How does it do that?!" He looked up at the Strawhat, his new hero or something, with shining eyes.

Zoro gave the island a 'why the hell did we have to come here' look, one hand resting on his swords. Of all the places the storm could have taken them, why in One Piece did they have to come here?!

Landon, the bloodthirsty doctor, had appeared on deck, given the island a 'oh hell no' look and had disappeared back inside the ship. The look was matched on all faces of the crew, including the captain.

Zoro was very tempted to ignore the island, but the ship was starting to send him crazy. He jumped over the railing and the soft sand cushioned his fall.

Immediately the kid was asking his captain if he could go with the Strawhat. Zoro paused, waiting out of pure habit. He had gotten used to the kid following him around and chatting to him (though the conversations where mainly one sided). In more ways than one, he reminded Zoro of Chopper, with his innocence and dependence on others. Zoro had developed a similar soft spot for the kid.

The captain gave them both a warning to get their arses back here before dark.

Zoro shrugged and walked off, acting disinterested and uncaring, but whenever the kid stopped to take a picture, Zoro waited with him. He didn't want the kid to get lost after all.

"What's your name?" Zoro asked suddenly, stopping the kid from talking about something that Zoro wasn't even listening to.

"Tony." The kid answered, and Zoro put a hand to his head. Of course it had to be, someone somewhere was laughing at him. 'Tony Tony Chopper'. Typi-bloody-cal. "Look!" Tony called and pointed. Zoro looked under his fingers and saw the kid disappearing over a small hill. Zoro mentally swore and followed him. There where three trees, which he found himself behind.

Though he hadn't meant to conceal himself, the trees did it for him.

A group of strange women had gathered around Tony. Out of habit, Zoro checked for weapons and saw none. None of the women where threatening the kid either so Zoro let his and fall from the hilt of Kietetsu, who was still ready to taste blood after his encounter with the doctor of the pirates.

For a while, Zoro couldn't decide why they where strange and why he felt that if he stayed sheltered by the trees, it was to his advantage.

Then it hit him like a ton of bricks and he was suddenly very happy the trees where here, because these women where not women. They where men.

Zoro frowned in distaste. The men had lipstick on, dresses, long hair. Some where smoking a cigarette, their hairy legs, armpits and faces on show, they wore heels or carried them in two fingers.

They where talking to the kid in a way that would make Zoro punch them in the face if they even attempted to talk to him.

They where ugly men.

They made terrible women.

Utter disgust did not cover the face that Zoro pulled at the sight.

As the group converged around Tony, Zoro decided that this kid was very brave.

Zoro wasn't hiding; he was just preserving his manliness.

The next thing he knew, the group male-women where posing for photographs, giving Zoro a better view of them all. And before he could look away in his lasting disgust, one caught his eye. A blond one, wearing a red dress, a pair of red heels balancing off his finger tips. A cigarette hanging out his mouth, his blond curls hiding an eye.

The visible eye…Was under an eyebrow.

A dartboard like eyebrow. It curled round and round.

Zoro's jaw hit the sand and he swore there was some of the pink stuff in his mouth.

Sanji.

Sanji was dressed as a woman.

Tony ran back, babbling about his 'new friends'. Zoro grabbed his arm and muttered in his ear.

Eyes shining at the task that Zoro had entrusted him with, the kid ran back to the male women and picked out the cook. Sanji happily posed for the child and Tony took advantage, taking multiple pictures of him.

Zoro could not believe his luck, or the evil cackle that erupted from his mouth as he stepped behind the tree to make sure he was hidden. This was pure gold.

The group of wierdo's moved on, never even noticing Zoro's presence, waving to Tony as they went prancing down the shore line. To Zoro's glee, Tony took another photo of this.

"I did it!" Tony grinned. Zoro tried to smooth over the smirk on his face.

"Good boy. Can I have those photos?"

"Sure… If I can have one with you?" Zoro decided this was nothing and let Tony place his camera in the branches of one of the trees, setting the camera and running to the swordsman. "Smile!" And Zoro did.

Two years couldn't pass quickly enough in his opinion.

The evil smirk remained on his face, for a long time. The pirates dropped him back at Mihawk's island with little persuasion. Tony sadly handed over a box of photos and hugged him goodbye – Zoro was caught by surprise, too busy trying to stop an evil cackle from leaving his lips to notice the kid's attack.

Perona greeted him with caution. "You look happy. And you made it back. How lost did you get to actually find your way back? You're not cute at all, where is Zoro? You can't be Zoro, you're nothing like him." Apparently being alone had not done her well, but had done no harm.

Zoro smirked.

The ghost woman eyed him suspiciously. "So did you find anything out, about your crew members?"

Zoro ignored her because the question would drive him into fits of unmanly giggles.

He really couldn't wait to see the crew again.

He really couldn't.


So, I've annoyed Zoro, it was Sanji's turn.

All out battles will surely come out of this!

As for the camera, I know there is probably nothing like this in the One Piece world, but I do not care. I tried to keep Zoro in character, I really tried… let me know how badly I failed. Also I decided that Sanji falls victim to the dress again. Or the pirates can travel back in time or something…Yeah... It wouldn't work. But it was highly amusing to write.

Also – what do you think of Tony and his crew? My OC's in these will be kept to a minimum but I hoped they supported this 'ficlet' well.

Still accepting prompts! One line prompts, characters you want to see, a situation you want me to put these characters of Oda's in, a character you think needs some love and a chapter based on them – Anything!

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