The next fight was slow. Both guys seemed equally as strong. Chopper focused on John, getting his bruises more comfortable, and less hurtful. Zoro watched the fight for a while before it got boring. Sanji stuck to Megumi and Zoro, a little worried that the psycho cheater might come after them.
"Looks like you haven't lost your attraction." Nami answers.
"My what?" Zoro asks confused.
"You mean you never noticed?" Nami asks, a little shocked.
"Noticed what?" Sanji asks joining in the conversation.
"You both are clueless." Nami says chuckling at it. "People use to come to Zoro to fight him, but not to just fight him. It was a way to get a close up look at Zoro and his body." Nami whispers the last two words. Zoro whole face turns red. Sanji glares. Was that true?
Zoro shakes his head. "No, you're lying."
"Sadly, it's true." Robin says coming into the conversation. "It wasn't just the men fighters either. Zoro had gotten a lot of challenges by woman too." she adds. Sanji looks at him.
"Really?" Sanji asks.
"Easy cook, I didn't hurt the girls too much." Zoro puts his hands up, blush still there, if anything it got reder.
"Easy Sanji, no need to get jealous now." Nami pats the cooks back. Then laughs when the blondes face turns red, like a lobster. "Sanji it happened a long time ago, and Zoro didn't know till now." Nami says laughing.
"What else don't I know?" Zoro says a little frown, on his face.
"You use to have a fangirl group in school. Fanboy too. No one ever talked to you because they were nervous and when you talked or help someone out all your fans would freak out." Nami says.
"It was something when you would be absent from school Zoro." Brook adds. Zoro looked at them suspiciously with Sanji. That sounded like a lie.
Once the fight was over it was Sanji's turn. His, just like Zoro's, is a fast fight. And with his opponent being a guy the cook didn't hold back one bit. A little upset that Zoro was popular and he didn't know it. But maybe that's why those guys did what they did at the party in high school. Zoro had told him that they had all made a bet on who can get Zoro into bed. It pisses him off to remember that but like Nami had said it's happened a long time ago.
Sanji and Zoro stood there with a bottle of water in their hand as they wait for the next round of fights to start.
"He's staring." Nami points out.
"What's his problem?" Usopp asks, having joined the group after learning what's going on.
"Don't know. He's just been staring at Zoro for the longest time now." Brook answer taking a quick peak at the man, the cheater.
"I don't like it." Sanji says frowning. Turning to them from watching Megumi playing in the sand with Kiki and Kaya. Nami pats his shoulder, she knows how Sanji could be.
"Alright it's green versus purple." One of the referees says.
"That's..." Vivi looks at Zoro. Zoro hands Sanji his water bottle. As the green haired man turns away Sanji grabs Zoro's arm.
"Be careful." Sanji says. Zoro gives him a cheeky smile. One that brings out Zoro's hidden dimbles.
"I will." Zoro says, reluctantly the cook let's go. He watches as Zoro walks up the steps to meet the man that's been eyeballing him for the past ten minutes.
"Roronoa Zoro." The man says with a smile that made a chill run down the marimo's spine. Sanji got more worried, unusually since he knows that Zoro can take care of himself. "I've been wanting to fight you." He says still smiling.
Zoro calms himself. It would be bad to show his emotions to him. Zoro should focus on the fight that's going to happen. He had to be careful cause who knew what he would do to cheat.
Zoro got in a fighting stance.
*DING**DING*
Instantly the other man goes for a kick and instead of dodging Zoro goes to stop the kick with a kick. Zoro hears the man tsk with a frown on his face.
Zoro kept matching his moving, pissing him off more and more while showing no emotion. His face started to get red with anger. He felt like he was getting made fun of.
"Isn't he?" Robin says out loud as she thought more.
"You know him?" Mary asks.
"No, but I think I remember him. It was back in high school. I think we fought him and his friends." Robin explains.
"Oh right." Nami says. It all coming back to her. "Wasn't it at fishman island. Hordy and his friends." She explains for the others.
"Yeah, we all went against someone." Chopper says.
"Yes, I don't remember his name but Zoro fought him and won." Robin says.
"So he wants revenge?" Sanji asks.
"Probably." Usopp says. "And his cheating is now more understandable. Hordy and his friends were all cheaters, using back handed tactics." The long nose man says shaking his head in disappointment.
They turned back to Zoro still matching the other man's movements with ease. Then, as Zoro blocked with his arm his wrist is grabbed. This time he didn't even hide it, he head butted Zoro in the face. Zoro reals back and gets punched in the face. He could hear the whistle from the referee but Zoro knew the other guy wouldn't stop and he didn't. He held onto Zoro and kept beating him til Zoro fell on his knees. He got ready for a roundhouse kick to Zoro's face.
Zoro wipes the blood off his face and looks up. "Uh oh." Sanji says. He knows that face. The Demon Of GrandLine High is back. Zoro gives a sinister grin. "He's back." Sanji says with a shiver.
"The match is over." Usopp says. The others nod, even Vivi. The only ones that didn't nod are Mary, John and Kaya.
"Is Zoro going to be okay?" John asks.
"The Demon of Grandline High." Mary says. "That's Zoro?" She asks.
"What?" John asks as they watch Zoro grab the man's ankle as Zoro stands up.
"You don't remember?" Mary asks. John shakes his head, eyes still on Zoro. "Even in our highschool there were rumors about a group of friends that you don't mess with, especially a green haired man, with three piercing on his left ear. They said he was like a demon and is said to been even more scary than the leader."
"The strawhats." John says. How could he not figure it out till now. John and Mary's attention goes back to Zoro and his fight.
And Zoro is winning without cheating. All shots are to the torso, only with arms and legs. Zoro made all the strong shots, made sure his opponent didn't get a chance to fight back.
Zoro landed a last strong kick to his side that, sent him flying off the small arena.
*DING**DING*
Zoro stands there for a second, his adrenaline going down, he blinked and shook his head clear before turning around and going to Megumi, Sanji and Chopper who is ready to take care of his bleeding face. "You were so cool mommy." Megumi says but she didn't seem to happy. "Are you okay?" She asks sweetly.
"Yeah I'm fine." Zoro gives her a smile. He really is fine, he's gone through worse in high school. Zoro felt a tap on his shoulder, turning to see who it is he sees that it's Nami. When he turns to her, he sees she pointing so he follows her finger to see it pointing at the man and a woman who is glaring at them, with a lighter shade of green hair. Zoro gives her a look and her face instantly changes. It goes from frowning to wide and pale.
"Take a break Zoro." Chopper instructs and Zoro does. That wasn't as fun as he thought it would be. He was only good at cheating, it wasn't even a real fight. Zoro let him punch him to see how strong he was, and was disappointed to see that he wasn't that strong. But he felt himself turn back to the Demon he was once known as. He didn't like people like that.
The next fights go as expected. Sanji won his fight going to the next level, the same as Zoro. They fight till it's just them two.
"It's been a while cook." Zoro says with a smile.
"Since we've gone against each other?" Sanji asks with a smile that mimics Zoro. "Yes it has. Was it ever proved which one of us is stronger?" Sanji asks stretching.
"I don't think it has." Zoro says as he stretches.
When the bell rings they get into it. And like the others knew it would be, it's a tie. Their fight lasted so long that the referees and other people watching just decided to let them share the first place prize. Which worked out in the end, Sanji and Zoro were getting tired of fighting having not fought each other in so long but are still equally matched.
John was a little depressed that he didn't make it far but they all tried to cheer him up.
After having fun on the beach it was getting late and it was time for everyone to head home, like some back to school.
Once there Sarah and Harry's parents are there to pick them up. They end up talking to each other for a long while before they too head home.
