A.N: Set during the time skip, no spoilers.

Hatch 21: Searching for a Christmas tree

"How about this one?" Zoro asked as he walked through the forest with Perona flying above him.

"It's too sparse, you idiot" Perona said "Keep looking."

Zoro rolled his eyes, wondering why he was doing this in the first place. And why did they need a Christmas tree anyway? Shouldn't all the decorations they put up earlier be enough?

"This is ridiculous..." Zoro thought, stopping in front of another tree "What about this one?"

"Too small" Perona said "It's barely your height."

Well, that was true. But what was the right height? As Zoro asked the pink haired woman this she simply answered: "I'll know when I see it."

Zoro groaned; this would take forever! The ghost woman was never happy about anything after all... sighing, the swordsman decided to just keep walking ahead. Perona could do the searching herself and just tell him when she found the right tree.

"Hey, don't walk so fast!" Perona yelled suddenly "If you go off on your own you'll just get lost!"

"I will not get lost" Zoro said, gritting his teeth "Stupid ghost woman..."

Perona huffed; the swordsman would definitely get lost without her. She just didn't know if he was too stupid to realize it or just had too much pride to admit it.

"Well, this place is not that big" Perona thought "Even if he gets lost he'll turn up from somewhere eventually."

"What about this one?" Zoro couldn't help but ask as he came across a massive tree. It was perfect, but Perona would never admit that out loud.

"I suppose that'll do" Perona said "Cut it."

Zoro did as told while rolling his eyes, glad that this was finally going to be over. However, as he reached the castle while carrying the Christmas tree, he runs in to a problem.

The tree was too big and didn't fit inside.

"Looks like I'll have to cut part of it" Zoro said, drawing out a sword, but Perona disagreed.

"No way!" she said "We'll have to find a new one!"

Zoro's eyebrow twitched before he sighed, going along with it anyway. He really hated Christmas right now.

A.N: And tomorrow a Christmas tree will be decorated... I wonder who'll do that.