I hate feeling like this, I'm so tired of trying to fight this

I'm asleep and all I dream of is waking to you

Tell me that you will listen, your touch is what I'm missing

And the more I hide, I realize I'm slowly losing you

)Comatose

I'll never wake up without an overdose

Of you

I don't wanna live, I don't wanna breathe

Unless I feel you next to me

You take the pain I feel

Waking up to you never felt so real

I don't wanna sleep, I don't wanna dream

'Cause my dreams don't comfort me

The way you make me feel

Waking up to you never felt so real(

I hate living without you, dead wrong to ever doubt you

But my demon lay in waiting, tempting me away

Oh, how I adore you

Oh, how I thrist for you

Oh, how I need you

)(

Breathing life, waking up

My eyes open up – Skillet

Chapter 34: Calm Day

A week went by and Zoro had been going anywhere but his apartment. Adelle, the young girl of eleven, was bombing him with questions about 'how deep is your friendship', 'Is this person your match?', and the worst quiz he reluctantly answered was 'Is he the love of your life?'. He also gained two more refugees, a mother and daughter. The little girl seemed to look up to him and started to make onigiris. Shuraiya worked as a messenger, the mother worked at a grocery store. The old man looked after his granddaughter and the other little girl.

He went up to Usopp's apartment, up to the door, and knocked.

"Who goes there!?"

He heard a young boy's voice. "Roronoa Zoro, now open up before I bust in!" The door opened and he saw three boys.

One had and odd dark green hair style, that looked like a green pepper, one that looked like an onion with glasses, and the last one had a strange cap with some of his hair sticking up like a carrot. "Hey Pepper, Onion, and Carrot. Is Usopp around?"

"Captain isn't here!" Called out Carrot.

"Where is he?"

"He's on the roof, practicing his sniping." Onion said.

"Thanks." He said as he went up to the roof, where he saw a row of bottles being blasted within a blink of an eye. "Nice." He looked over to see Usopp on the far corner of the roof.

"Thanks!" Usopp said as he went up to his friend. "What's going on?"

"Just needed to get the hell away from my charges.

Usopp laughed. "Driving you nuts again?"

"Adelle is still relentless, her brother is better, the old man is still pretty active, and my new charges love to cook, so I'm out of kitchen duty for a while… You?"

"I'm loving these guys! Definitely the ideal loyal crew of Captain Usopp! Terror of the Nighthunter race!"

"Right…" He said as he turned to leave. "I just stopped by to see how you're doing."

Usopp, looking at the retreating back of his friend. "I miss Kaya a lot though… Still hard to sleep at night, ya know?"

Zoro stopped and looked at the sniper, and the teen could see the light dark circles under his eyes. "I know." He said as he continued. "I'll be in the cemetery."

"Okay…"

Cemetery: 3 Hours Later

Zoro sheathed his katanas as he breathed deeply. He was covered in sweat and picked up his discarded shirt to wipe the sweat off his face.

"He's hot." Said a teenage ghost girl, who was wearing pink, black, and white gothic clothes, long pink hair in pig tails. She was hit by the back of the head by Kuina.

"Don't get any ideas!"

"What ideas!? I can't do anything to him! I'm dead!"

"Still don't have the right to say anything about him."

"Why not!?"

"My… what a handsome lad…" Said and old ghost woman. "If there were his type in my day, all of them would be picked out like fruit."

The two girls looked at the old woman.

Zoro sneezed loudly and had a shiver up his spine. 'Well… I am in a place with ghosts hanging around.' He sighed. 'Sometimes I wish I didn't know that fact…' He sighed again as he resumed his training.

But it wasn't long until he heard a sound of something coming towards him. He stopped and looked up where the sound was coming from, which his ghost fans also looked, only to see a pink hat when it popped out of the bushes.

"ZORO!" It was Chopper in his reindeer form.

"Chop-" He started to say when he felt the other crash into him.

Once Chopper got his breath back and Zoro recovered it from having it knocked out of him, he decided to ask the small doctor. "What are you doing here Chopper?"

"Oh! He's so kawaii!" The group of ghosts girls said in unison.

"You guys are so noisy." Kuina said.

"Are you even human before you died?"

"If I wasn't, I wouldn't die from a broken neck."

The girls shut up afterwards.

Once Chopper recovered he looked at Zoro. "Zoro! You have to help Luffy!"

"Huh?"

"Luffy was poisoned for a couple days, but now he's not like himself."

"Whoa, whoa, one at a time. What happened?"

"Well, we've been fighting and, for some reason, everyone kept going after Luffy, so he exceeded huge damage."

"Why Luffy?"

"I don't know… Shanks and his group seem to know, but all of us are protecting him from himself." He sighed. "Everyone offered to give their blood for him to get better, but he won't take anyone else's blood."

"That idiot…" He said quietly.

"Please Zoro! He won't listen to anyone! And whatever poison that was in his system has caused some sort of mental repetitive hallucination. He wants to keep fighting, but those guys are waiting for him to be captured! And he goes berserk again without realizing it! It's like he blocked everyone else in his mind and only his enemy is on his sights."

Zoro looked concerned. "How long has he been like that?"

"It took me two days on the train, undetected, so this is the fourth day."

"That seems to be around the time that he sent some of the refugees to this city."

"Around that time…"

"What do you know about the fight there that may caused this?"

"I'm not sure of the full details, but… I heard he was fighting off a bunch of Nighthunters and then he faced off with Lucci when he showed up…"

"Who?"

"The NighthunterLord himself… Crocodile."

Baptized with a perfect name

The doubting one by heart

Alone without himself

War between him and the day

Need someone to blame

In the end, little he can do alone

You believe but what you see

You receive but what you give

Caress the one, the Never Fading

Rain in your heart the tears of

Snow white sorrow

Caress the one, the hiding amaranth

In the land of the daybreak

Apart of the wandering pack

In this brief flight of time we reach

For the ones, whoever dare

You believe but what you see

You receive but what you give

Caress the one, the Never Fading

Rain in your heart the tears of

Snow white sorrow

Caress the one, the hiding amaranth

In the land of the daybreak

Caress the one, the Never Fading

Rain in your heart the tears of

Snow white sorrow

Caress the one, the hiding amaranth

In the land of the daybreak

Reaching, searching for something untouched

Hearing voices of the Never Fading calling (calling…)

Caress the one, the Never Fading

Rain in your heart the tears of

Snow white sorrow

Caress the one, the hiding amaranth

In the land of the daybreak

Caress the one, the Never Fading

Rain (Rain…) in your heart the tears of

Snow white sorrow

Caress the one, the hiding amaranth (the Rain!)

In the land of the daybreak (daybreak!) – Nightwish

That's it for now, see you next time!