A/N: I'm sorry for taking so long to get this one done, all I can say is life got in the way and it is really hard to write Usopp, especially early on. I'm not so sure what I think of this but it's done and I will move on to the next one. I have the next three semi-planned and hopefully they won't be as hard to work on and be out quicker.
As always thanks for all the follows and favs, and reviews are welcome.
Special thanks to ScarletRoofs for the review.
Arxhaelologist: Thanks for the advice of what to work on, sorry for all the problems I know are going to be in this one that I am not seeing, also thanks for letting me know what you liked about it.
Usopp still wasn't completely sure how he ended up where he was, or maybe it was that he couldn't quite believe it yet. He was standing on a pirate ship that he was part of the crew on. It still didn't quite seem real. So much had happened in such a short amount of time that the events of the past few days where still a little blurry.
One of the many things that still didn't seem to make much sense to him was that he was on the same crew as the man known as the Demon of the East Blue. At first when they landed on his island he had thought that maybe he had just shared the same first name as the pirate hunter, but Zoro's capability in battle and his strength convinced Usopp that he was the one the rumours where about, but his working so well with Luffy lead him to believe that maybe his reputation as a ruthless loner was exaggerated.
At least, that was, until those two idiots that ended up on board and started sharing stories of the times when they had followed Zoro while he was a pirate hunter. Those sounded almost too close to the rumours Usopp had heard for his comfort, and yet didn't completely fit with what he had seem during the battle for his village.
Listening to the stories that Johnny and Yosaku told there would be no way that Zoro would take orders or leave a tough fight to someone else, but that was what had happened. He followed Luffy's order to help Usopp save Kaya, and in doing so left a fight with a pirate captain, the toughest fighter on the other crew, to Luffy.
Usopp wasn't an idiot, he knew that this difference in behaviour meant something. Even more telling as to what it meant was the way that Luffy's behaviour changed when dealing with Zoro, he treated Zoro differently than he does Usopp and Nami, like he was in some other position than the others.
Usopp may brag about being Captain or Vice-Captain but he doesn't think he will ever truly believe it because he can see that both those positions were filled long before he even met the crew.
