Warnings: AU, fluff.

Disclaimer: One Piece belongs to Oda-san. I make no profit.

A/N: Haha, just like a fairy tail except it's not.

Theme # 7 Wolf

Once upon a time, in a deep forest somewhere, there lived a wolf-boy named Roronoa Zoro. He liked to sleep in caves where the other animals couldn't bother him.

But now, there was something else disturbing his sleep.

The wolf-boy crawled out of his cave and set out to find the reason for his sleep-deprivation. What he found was a local village boy spinning around in circles with a basket of delicious-smelling food clenched in his grasp.

"Oi!" Zoro called out to him, catching the boy's attention.

The wolf-boy stalked closer and took a sniff at the basket the other was holding.

"Oooh, you're strange-looking! What are you?" The village boy laughed, reaching out to pet Zoro's head, making one of his ear's twitch.

"What's in your basket, boy?" Zoro grunted, sniffling at the basket again.

His stomach growled.

The boy grinned wide as he opened a flap on his basket, and reached into it for something that was wrapped in a handkerchief

"My friend Sanji gave me this meat. He said I could share it with whoever I wanted!" The boy handed him the wrapped meat, then pulled out another for himself.

Zoro sat down on the ground and unwrapped the treat this strange boy had given him. It smelled so good that it was making his mouth water.

"What's your name, anyway?" Zoro asked his companion, biting into his piece of mystery meat. He was extremely pleased to find out that it was lamb.

"I'm Monkey D. Luffy!" Luffy laughed loudly. The dark haired boy rubbed Zoro's head again, like he was some kind of pet. "I've never seen anything like you before!"He exclaimed.

One of Zoro's ears twitched at Luffy's words and he snorted.

"That's 'cause I'm one of a kind." Zoro told the boy smugly, licking his fingers clean. The meat was so delicious and he wanted more.

Luffy handed him another wrapped piece of meat, this one smelling a little different than the other one.

It was chicken.

"I really like you, mister!" Luffy grinned widely at him before getting up and dusting off the back of his shorts. He picked up his basket and closed the flap. "I have to go now, but I'll come back soon." The boy assured him.

Luffy waved behind him as he skipped away and Zoro was left to wonder about the sudden pang of loneliness he felt.

Then he realized he never even told Luffy his name.