Chapter 29: Zoro and Kuina
Luffy couldn't sleep, for some reason she just couldn't get to sleep. It's not that she's uncomfortable…she is. And it's not because she's sleeping somewhere new, she's been here for a few weeks know…but tonight just felt odd…like something important was going to happen or is happening…rolling out of her bed she padded down the dojo and went to slide open one of the doors when soft talking could be heard.
"Actually…the one who should feel upset is me…" Kuina's voice said coming from outside followed by Zoro's.
"Eh?"
"When a girl grows up, she will lose out to guys in physical strength…" Luffy shook her head and padded towards Koshio's room; she slid the door open and woke him up, before he could say anything Luffy was dragging the man to the door where the talking had been coming from. "You wanna become the world's number one swordsman? Papa says that girls will never be the world's number one. It's good that you're a guy, I want to be the world's best too. But my chest has started to develop…if only I were a guy…"
"YOU'RE TELLING ME ALL THIS CRAP AFTER YOU BEAT ME? THAT'S UNFAIR! BEATING YOU IS MY AMBITION!"
"Zoro…"
"DOES THIS MEAN THAT IF I BEAT YOU ONE DAY IT IS NOT BECAUSE ON MY OWN STRENGTH? DOESN'T THIS MAKE ME WHO HAS BEEN TRAINING EXTREMELY HARD TO BEAT YOU LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT?" Luffy was staring up at Koshiro with her blank look again, while he listened to the two outside. "Let's make a promise! One of us must become the number one swordsman of the world! Let's see who can reach that goal first!"
"Stupid…you are a person who has lost to me…but I promise you." Luffy's face frowned when Koshiro didn't lose his smile, the same smile he always wore on his face, the two outside made movement to come in and Luffy dragged the older man into the shadows as the two kids past, Luffy then dragged him outside and away from the dojo, he just followed with that stupid smile. When they what she deem far enough she rounded on him.
"Kuina is a great swordsman, even if she's a girl. Girls can be just as strong as males." Luffy said glaring up at him, he just smiled at her.
"It's late, we should…"
"DON'T BRUSH ME OFF!" Luffy snapped. "YOU ARE MAKING KUINA UNHAPPY WITH YOUR WAY OF THINKING!"
"What goes on in my family does not concern you."
"Kuina is my friend and you're making her sad, so it does have to do with me!" Koshiro stopped where he had been turning and looked down at the glaring Luffy, his smile slowly started to fade from his face finally.
"Girls grow and become weak." He said in a very matter-of- fact voice, Luffy stiffened at this but let him go on speaking. "I've known that she has been craving to be the best for a very long time, she's my child how can I not? But what she's aiming for is far too out of her reach because she's a girl."
"It doesn't matter if she's a girl or not, it's the will power and her drive that will get her, her goal… her dream in the end, but with you talking about girls being weak when she looks up to you will make her doubt herself."
"Just stop meddling in my family's affairs." Koshiro said turning and walking back to the dojo.
"Which would be harder for Kuina to reach out of two choices…?" Luffy started, Koshiro stopped to listen. "The world's greatest swordsman or…the pirate king title?"
"…I have to choose one don't I?"
"Yes."
"It'll be impossible for Kuina…no, any women to reach the Pirate king title, and just under that would be the world's greatest swordsman."
"Would you think differently if Roger had been female?"
"But he wasn't." With that Koshiro walked back home leaving Luffy to mull things over in her head.
Luffy stayed there before a few hours or more like the whole night…she fell asleep a few minutes after Koshiro left. Luffy woke up a few minutes before the sun would start to rise into the air; she walked back to the dojo.
Luffy walked up the stairs and bumped into someone going down; gravity did the rest for Luffy and the other person. The two of them crashed down the stairs, rolling over each other and getting their limps tangled when they hit the floor, their heads cracked together knocking them out. And there they stayed until the first person to wake up nearly tripped over them. The poor guy spotted Luffy in the tangle and he let out a high pitched screamed that he will later deny.
Bahahahaha to kill or not to kill.
