Usopp: They still at it.

Me: Meh... *hand waving out before eyeing the other*

Usopp: What?

Me: *smirks* So I am a little mean to Luffy in my story

Usopp: Ah, you are.

Me: *shifts and flops against the man*

Usopp: Huh?

Me: I do hope you all enjoy it! I put my best efforts into it! *grinning*

Robin: Here is the chapter, my young reader. *hands chappie over*


Guard Me

"Again!" My hand wiped at my mouth as I shifted to stand again on weak legs.

Once leaving the prison, we had traveled by boat to a quaint island filled with forestry and a mansion on a hill top with the view of mountains surrounding the area. When we had arrived, Kaku was there to greet us with a smirk to Zoro who growled at the other. Something had happened between them, I wasn't sure what and I didn't have time to ask. We were separated immediately, Lucci dragging me off to a room that had access only through his room and that meant I had to share his bathroom as well. It was a simple room and he made sure to be with me whenever we had to leave, which wasn't often. Merely to have food and I got to see Zoro when we ate and realized that Kaku was his caretaker.

Zoro was very harsh with his words towards the orange haired male that merely mocked back with a smirk. I kept mostly quiet with Lucci as I wasn't sure about the man and he would merely gaze to me with a sadistic look. It would seem that besides the whole training that he was sizing me up for something more. When thinking that, I would merely throw any thoughts away since I didn't want to know and hoped for nothing else to come my way.

"What kind of hit was that?!" The shout came with a swift foot to my face as I soon found the wall and then the floor as I coughed out.

My hand grasped at my bruised chin as I wheezed lightly and grey eyes glared to me. Feet shifted towards me and this gasp found me as I wanted nothing more than to back away, but the wall prevented that. Once before me, this hand came towards me and the strain of defense found me as I shifted out with my shoulder ramming into his abdomen. This surprised noise left him as I rolled to the side and slid to my feet with hands shakenly push me up.

Eyebrows were raised up at me before smirking, "good. We will stop for now." My body buckled down as I let myself sit back with pants leaving me. It has been nothing but training with the man with short breaks for the time I have been here, which has only been about a week. A water was tossed at me, catching out of reflex and then shifting to cross legs and I drank it. I knew to take what I could when I can since this was very vigorous on my body.

The door opened to show Kaku as he glanced to me before waving Lucci over. He had moved to the other and I merely looked away with a hand shifting my shirt to fan myself as I was hot from this all. It was best to direct away because they may think I was trying to figure things out, I didn't need the man to be angered for any reason. Not that I could read lips, but I still don't want him to show his wrath. If he barely broke a sweat in a suit when training with me, then I don't want to know what he could do.

"Luffy." My name had me look over to see Lucci looking irritated about something and a finger pointed down. This stuttered breath found me before moving to get up and go over to him.

"Yes?" I quietly asked once reaching the two men as brown eyes watched me. A hand found my hair as I was pulled to the dark haired man that was growling lightly.

"Have a word with your guard and let him know anything else will be returned with a much worse punishment than what he has experienced." The water bottle was taken from me as I watched livid grey eyes.

"O-of course." I spoke out quickly as he soon released me to follow Kaku.

It may look bad that I so openly showed my fear, but I don't think anybody would understand until they were in my position. I wasn't as strong as he was and it scared me that I was literately in the presence of a man who could potentially kill me with one hand or even just a finger. We stopped before a door and Kaku pointed into the room as I realized it was his room and Zoro was in the room attached. I quickly moved to the closed door and began knocking on it.

"Zoro, it's me." The door was opened and a hand grasped me before dragging me in and closing it quickly. My back found a wall as hands grasped my face to view me. Bruising was on him as green eyes were examining me with fingers touching over my sore chin. "What did you do?"

"Huh?"

"Lucci told me that you needed to stop before he will show a punishment far worse than what you have experienced." The jaw tightened from my words before lips found me and on instinct I grasped his shirt to press into him. Arms found my waist as he pressed me to the wall with a tongue pushing past lips. This noise left me as he pressed into me before wincing as I was still sore from training and he pulled back to look at me in worry.

"I'm sorry, I find it hard for me to not be defiant towards Kaku. He's the one that took everything and crushed it himself."

"What happened?"

"Luffy, I used to be Kaku's guard when he was in the prison and we actually became close friends." A hand moved to line along my cheek as he viewed down at me with a look of anger for the man. "He really didn't want to go, since he had been told of being contracted as well, and there was nothing I could do. I didn't want to go either and was able to decline, he couldn't and I was pulled away before I could try and stop it. He's not the same man from before and I'm afraid it will change you too."

"Never, Zoro." I spoke out hastily with hands shifting to his neck as I let fingers begin to massage up into his hair. "I just know better than to fight someone I know I can't compare with." A strained look was in his eyes before I gave a chaste kiss. "Please, just try to be more cooperative, I don't want you to get seriously hurt."

"I will try harder."

"Thank you." The body pulled me from the wall as he gave me one last deep kiss before pulling away and we moved for the door. Kaku was standing by the main door and we approached him as he viewed us with a look. "Zoro." I whispered out to the male by me as he gritted teeth and I tugged his hand down lightly.

A bow found him as he squeezed eyes shut, "I deeply apologize for my actions and words." Brown eyes shined with an approving look and gazed to me with a smirk.

"Very good. You may return, Luffy." Hesitation found me as I squeezed the hand before pulling away with a head down as I left the room. My feet moved me to the training room as I figured Lucci to still be there before noticing him come out of a room with grey eyes finding me.

"Ah, it has been resolved?"

"Yes." The word left me stiffly before my body was pressed harshly to the wall and the hand shifted to grip my chin.

"You were not supposed to have any physical interaction." A thumb found my bottom lip as I tried my best not to shake. I knew very well that it was a rule set for me, but Zoro was very unaware of it.

"I-I apologize, it was done suddenly, I was heedless."

"Do not defend something that you are lying about." A flinch came from me as those eyes knew how to dig into my brain. Lips trembled as I soon felt the hand move to grip my hair as my whole body was shifted and a nasty crunch filled the air. This cry left me as I found the ground with hands grasping my face as my nose was beginning to drip with blood since he smashed my face into his knee. Tears slipped from the pain as I shook from it and felt my hair gripped again so it could look up at him. "You are not allowed any physical interaction."

"Y-yes, sir." The whimper left me before his eyes shifted to look to the side and he released me. My hands grasped my face again as the throbbing persisted.

"Think next time, boy." The threatening tone and name used had me realize that Zoro was watching. Feet shifted to begin walking away and I slowly let my head lift to view livid green eyes. They flickered to concern for me as his whole body shook with anger. "Come, Luffy." Legs twitched as I soon stood myself up with only them and soon shifted to catch up with the man before he got angered again. I let myself glance back as he was glaring to Kaku now, but seemed to be holding his tongue.

Please, Zoro… just try to be strong and wait.


"Sit." The word had me shift and follow the command as I sat on a plush chair in the small sitting area of Lucci's room. A finger lined my bruised nose that had a bandage over it and I whimpered lightly. It was still sore from earlier and grey eyes viewed my reaction before smirking. "Just one more mistake and I will have my way."

The threat was there as I trembled lightly and didn't want to think on the deep meaning of those words, but it was seeming to be inevitable. We had only been here a week and the simplest things were causing a countdown in his head. This man had already planned to do so from the beginning, but was using the situation in his favor. The hand shifted to grip my chin with a gaze to examine me as he usually did.

"Luffy, go take a shower."

"Okay." The hand released me as he shifted to his closet and I moved to the bathroom. I flicked the shower on before tugging the clothing off and setting them in a pile by the shower before testing the water.

As I about entered under the warm spray, a hand grasped my hair and a wince left me as I soon silently cried out feeling teeth sinking into my neck. My body stumbled into him as hands desperately grasped to the shower door. A whimper found me as he didn't let up and then suddenly they were gone. Trembles left me as he released my hair and he merely left the room. Gasps found me as I got into the shower and closed the sliding glass quickly with a hand grasping at my neck. It throbbed and as I shifted to gaze down to my chest, a mere ripple of blood mixed with water was there and then gone.

Hands moved to begin lathering my hair with soap and I just went through my washing routine, trying to ignore the new inflicted wound. As I washed my body, I began noticing some new bruises and some old ones that were yellowing. It was nothing new for my body to be sore, but my nose had never been smashed in like that and I have never been bit before. This was all something I could have lived without and I wished I had never been of interest. I'd rather be in that prison than here. The reality of it all would set in on inconvenient times like this when I tried to calm myself.

I could be here for a long time.

It was a great possibility that Ace and everyone won't find us, too.

We could be stuck here forever.

Tears were barely noticeable from the water I let pelt on my head. A hand found my face as I gritted teeth and let out a choked sob. An arm was pressed to the shower wall as I began to feel it corner me. The feeling of never escaping, the feeling of never escaping, and the feeling of having to submit to the man sometime soon. It was too much to handle and all I could do was take it. I didn't have a choice in the matter and pressing my hand tightly to my chest did nothing to relieve the feeling.

Why me?