Characters/Pairings: Zoro. And other people.
(First Times) Near-Misses
He gets kisses and fumbling caresses behind the dojo, from a girl a few years older who's been looking at him, but she's a readhead in a miniskirt and wouldn't know a katana from a fencing foil and he knows that a week from now he'll have forgotten her name.
He shares an orgasm with a provocative blonde in a kitchen somewhere in Grand Line, but he can't help thinking that her hair is too long between his fingers, her hands too gentle on his skin, her thighs too weak around his hips.
He lets him lifelong ambition come second to saving the life of a brunette whose smile he's weak against, but it makes his dream feel cheap that she's a Marine and a swimmer and no Pirate King of his.
Sensei once told him that it was normal not to get everything right the first time, and it's possibly the only point on which Zoro wishes the man had been wrong.