So it seems I'm bad at cliffhangers and building suspense. ;_;

Oh well…

Enjoy the oh so surprising chapter.

I froze immediately when I heard the voice. Shocked, I shut the phone in my hand, severing the connection between Kate and I. I would have winced and regretted my decision if I was in a regular situation, but I wouldn't say this situation was regular.

I stood still for a few minutes, still listening if the person was there. Obviously, the person was, but I was trying to convince myself it was just my paranoia and my mind playing tricks on me. After what seemed like eternity, I made a careful step forward to my house. I didn't hear anything else, but my shoes squishing the fresh snow that lay on the ground. I made another careful step, but this time I was interrupted which made me fully convinced I wasn't deceiving myself.

"I heard you."

By this time, I just pushed all my fear aside and slowly turned around. My eyes widened as wide as they possibly could. Standing in my vision was a moss-haired swordsman scowling at me.

"I-...um," I stuttered helplessly and opened my mouth and closed it repeatedly. Sounds and incoherent noises emitted from my mouth as I desperately tried finding words to explain what I said on the phone with Kate.

How long had he been there? I question myself. My face was heating up while under his stare. I'm so stupid! Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!

Different situations played in my head as to what was going to happen next. Will he have to beat the information out of me or will he just be impatient and cut my head off with his swords?

My gaze turned up to the gray sky that hung above us. What if a meteor came down and made a huge scene, so I could run away? I shook my head at my stupidity and imaginative mind. "H-Hunter?" I finally manage to say after all of my attempts, "fancy seeing you here…"

"Who are you?" he asked in his low baritone voice, no room for small talk or room for me to make an excuse to leave.

Before I even knew it, I let out a sarcastic response that probably wasn't acceptable in this situation, "I'm not sure, who am I?"

Zoro wasn't impressed and his eyes narrowed further than they were already were. I chuckled nervously and held the back of my neck with my hand, "Sorry, sorry. It was a bad time. Anyways, I am Krissa."

Since Zoro came to a conclusion that I wasn't going to tell him the truth, give him a stupid response or give him a helpful response he decided on another question, "how do you know my name?"

"Um," I mumbled while looking around at everything but him, "lucky guess?"

"If you really do know much about me," he started, "you should know what weapon I use, co-"

I interrupted without hesitation, "I also know that you get lost, and that's probably the reason you're standing here with nobody else."

He glared at me, half because he was enough with the sarcastic comments that I couldn't help but make, and half because that I was entirely true with my statement.

"Shut up," he growled and just turned around, so his back was now facing me. I suddenly regret my idiocy and hold my hand out even though he couldn't see me.

"Okay, okay," I say while rolling my eyes at my submissive attitude. Zoro stopped mid-step and calmly placed his foot back on the ground. "Let's go to the bench because this distance between us is just weird and awkward."

I walked over to where he was standing and grabbed his arm and pulled him in which he protested, but that was ignored as well. After dragging him, we made it to the bench and I brushed off any snow that might have accumulated from before and sat down. Zoro hesitantly look down at the wooden bench as if it were a weapon of some sort. I snort at his paranoia and gesture to the part of the bench I wasn't on, "Oh please, it's not like I rigged this bench. Just sit down so I can tell you stuff."

Once again, Zoro tightened his eyes and looked between the hand and the bench. After what seemed to be forever, he finally sat down and looked me in the eye, "so, who are you?"

"I am a regular teenage girl, Hunter. That is not a lie," I answer whilst using his fake name. I wasn't too sure if I was allowed to call him Zoro yet. Said boy cleared his throat and asked another question, "How do you know the term One Piece and how do you know my name?"

I sigh at the long answer this question would make, "Well… It's quite a long explanation, but the gist is that you and your crew are a part of a fictional story that people like me like to read about. The story follows the protagonist, your captain, Luffy, around the One Piece world on the grand line with his crew."

His angry and stoic expression turned into a very confused and curious one. Zoro's eyebrows were pulled together and kept opening and closing his mouth much like a fish. I sat staring at his reaction and inwardly laughing, but I kept my composure.

"Well," I start since he wasn't going to fill the empty silence that now enveloped both of us, "how did you come here?"

He took a while to answer because he was still trying to comprehend what I just said. Zoro finally answered, but it wasn't a very helpful one. "I have no idea."

I turned at him and gave him a blank expression, hopefully showing how useful his answer was to me. I roll my eyes and ask another question, "how are you guys surviving here? I mean… How are you getting all the money for your food and stuff and why the hell did you choose to go to school?"

"We'r—" Zoro was stopped in mid-sentence due to someone coming from behind him and connecting his leg to Zoro's thick skulled head. I made a noise in surprise and looked to the offender which was none other than Sanji. Zoro grunted in pain and held his head. He glared ferociously at the said cook whom had attacked him.

"Hi, Prince," I greet as he finally realizes I was present. His eyes widen and he runs to the front of me so he could lean down and grab my hand. All of a sudden, his face is covered with the emotion of shock and worry. I eye him carefully and notice he's looking at me and the school repeatedly. I raise a brow and pull the phone out from my pocket to see the time. I blink twice at the number that was shown on the screen and realize that school has already started and I was late, but because staying with Zoro and Sanji were much better choices than school, I just shrug my shoulders without a care in the world.

"Oi, cook," Zoro growled, still angry about the harsh kick to his head, "where are the others?"

"Maybe if you weren't a directionless bastard, you would know," Sanji muttered angrily while glaring at Zoro.

"Shut up, ero-cook. You want to fight?"

"Bring it on, marimo," Sanji replied while lifting his leg slightly representing that he was going for another kick.

"Jeez. I ask you to go and get him quickly, but instead you fight like idiots you are."

Yet again, a new voice was heard, but from it being so familiar I didn't even have to look back to recognize who it was.

"Nami-swan," Sanji called out to her while stretching the 'a'. I cocked my head to the side, mostly to myself, and notice that Sanji said 'Nami' instead of Nojiko. I turn my head and feign suspicion at the two. Nami laughs and smiles sweetly at me while harshly punching Sanji In the head because of his mistake.

"She knows," Zoro muttered loud enough for Nami and I to hear.

"Knows what?..." Nami asked while completely ignoring Sanji who was begging for forgiveness, confused of the sudden context Zoro blurted out.

"Our names," Zoro answered, "pretty much everything."

Nami stared at him seriously for half a second, then just smiled and waved him off, "What are you talking about, Hunter? Of course she knows our names."

"Not that… Our actual names."

"…What?!" Nami said angrily while stalking towards Zoro dangerously and emitting a deadly aura.

Since I didn't want the orange-headed girl to kill the marimo, I interrupted her before she reached Zoro and castrated him.

"How about the whole crew just gathers here, so I don't have to repeat myself numerous times?"

I forgot to say this before but thanks for half a hundred reviews. I really love reading what you say and I appreciate all of them. Thank you all c:

(I accidently forgot I updated on Monday and not Tuesday. Oops.)

I have a random question if you're willing to answer: Have you ever read/watched/heard of the anime Kuroko no Basuke or Project K?

If you haven't, both of them are amazing and depending on your preferences, I would recommend them if you want to watch a new anime.

So yeah, have a nice day/night.