Who ever said Zoro wouldn't be the romantic type? I think he will be in his own way when he finds his girl/boy!
Zoro stroke the ladys' hair. She was sleeping quietly, snoozing peacefully with her head on his lap.
"Silly woman..." He mumbeled with a tired look on his face. He was sitting with his back against a huge tree and felt really sleepy. Right now all he wanted was to go asleep aswell. But since the woman had fallen asleep the second she sat down next to him, he felt like she trusted him. You don't fall asleep so close to someone you don't trust right? So he needed to keep an eye out and protect her while she's this vulnerable.
"Zoro... please don't... no damn it..."
Zoro looked down, and saw Tashigi sleep talking with a bit of a tortured expression. He raised an eyebrow and placed his hand on her back. Suddenly, Tashigi opened her eyes and smiled.
"Did you think i was having a nightmare about you?" She had oviously been trying to tease him.
"Accually it seemed more like a wet dream." Zoro smirked.
"Huh! You're sutch a pervert!" Tashigi blushed and covered her chest for some reason.
"Me? Pervert? Have you met our cook?" Zoro tickeled Tashigi and she gave up being angry, laughing like crazy.
~*M-e-a-n-w-h-i-l-e*~
"Oi! Sanji! Were you going?" Franky yelled as the cook jumped from the deck of the ship, and landed gracefully on the docks.
"I'm going to go find that shitty marimo, and I'm going to drag his ass back on the ship." Sanji was still pissed over the fact that Zoro had gone and got himself a girl before him. How on earth did it happen anyway?
Sanji was the romantic prince charming! If they were in a fairy tale, Zoro would be the big, evil (green) monster who went around killing and harming beautiful princesses. Witch ofcourse, Sanji was the one to save after kicking the stupid marimo-monsters' sorry behind.
Prehaps Lady Tashigi had some sort of fettish for bad guys... Sanji though and started fantasizing while searching the outskirts of the town.
"I wonder what her favorite dish is~ I'd love to cook it for her!" Sanji sang, daydreaming about how Tashigi heartlessly dumped Zoro to be with him. He woke up from his dreaming and saw a big tree. It looked real pretty, the way the leafs captured the light from the sun and how godly it looked with only sky as backround.
He decided to go up to the tree, thinking 'it would be sutch a nice spot for a romantic picnic with Robin-chan and Nami-san~!'
The tree really was big. He couldn't even reach halfway around it with his arms. He walked around it a little bit, to see what the weiv was like on the other side. When he got around, his old fury from earlier boiled up again.
"Shitty marimo. What do you think you're doing?" Zoro looked up and sighted at the cook.
"Trying to spend time with my woman. What do you think you're doing?" Sanji tried hard not to kick the marimo all the way across the horrison, since that would be risking to harm the lady in his lap.
"Haven't you always said you didn't have time for a girlfriend? Becoming the best is the most important and so on?"
"I never said I don't have time to have a woman. Besides, do you really think we'll be going on dates and demand a bunch of attention to eatchother?" Tashigi nodded. Sanji had to admit, he had a point.
She was a marine, he was a wanted pirate. Ofcourse they couldn't go being all lovey-dovey in public. Both of them traveled constantly, it was meant to be long-distance. And none of them had anything against it. Tashigi for one was satisfyed as long as he still cared for her and didn't cheat.
"Still." Zoro interupted the mental blabbering. He vein popped.
"I wish you'd not interupt the few moments we have!" He stood up and drew his swords with quite the pissed look on his face.
"Damn that's a slow reaction... as expected from a shitty mosshead." Sanji growled back.
"What did you say swirly brow?" And the normal fighting broke out.
"Hmm~ Nami, why are Zoro and Sanji taking so long?" Luffy was sitting on the head of Thousand Sunny, enjoying the breeze in his hair.
"I don't know. Zoro probably got hopelessly lost as always." Nami answered and flipped the page on the newspaper she was reading. The news about their comeback had apperently been confirmed after their ruckus on fishman island, and the papers sure fancied writing about 'Strawhat Luffy and his crew'. There had been atleast one bigger article about them the past ten times. And on top of that, they always sent along a copy of Luffy's wanted poster.
"Man I'm bored. It's gotten so much quieter since Zoro got with that lady." Luffy yawned.
"I think this is really nice for once. Maybe you should go hook up with some girl too Luffy." Nami laughed, having a hard time imagnening it. Luffy just leaned back against one of Sunny's mane spikes.
"Naah. Haven't met anyone. Besides there's much more interesting things. Like One Piece!"
Nami laughed again and went back to reading her newpaper. (I can almost feel the LuNa fans mentally stabbing me...)
After a few minutes, Luffy senced two men approching the ship. (He has that Haki thingy, you know.) He jumped up and went to see who it was.
"Ah! Zoro! Sanji! Finally!" He yelled and waved at his crewmates with a big smile.
"Marimo."
"Dart-board-brow."
"Green bastard."
"Swirly brow."
"Come up with something new, you retarded moss-tard."
"I can't with your brow hypnotising me."
"What that? I can't hear you with your green hair blinding me."
"Get on the ship tree-sword baka and food bastard!" Luffy joined the insult feast.
"Your insults suck!" Usopp yelled from somewere on deck.
So what happend to Tashigi? Let's just say she's currently trying desperatly to explain to Smoker, still pissed off from earlier.
"Get lost, you skank." He muttered while inhaling the tobaco smoke from two cigares at once.
"Why are you so mad at me?" Tashigi was kneeling on the floor after sincerly asking her superior for forgivness.
"I won't tell the head quaters, but I will have you placed to work with someone else." He said and made a dissmissing sign with his hand. Tashigi got annoyed and refused the dissmissal.
"Im not leaving until you tell me why your so mad! I've done things to annoy you before but you never acted like this!"
"Shut up! You made relationships..." he shrugged as he said the word "with a pirate for gods sake! How can i not be angry?"
"But, I saved the life of a pirate once, you forgave me after just a few minutes!"
"That was different."
"How?"
"You are dissmissed Tashigi, leave. Now." Tashigi stared into the eyes of her superior and slowly, she had known Smoker long enough to read his feelings and moods, and her eyes widened when she realised...
"Oh my god! You're jealous!" She put her hands over her mouth and stared at him in shock. Smoker froze as if a dagger of ice just pieced his heart.
"W-what the fuck? What on earth do you think you're saying Tashigi! Get out, NOW!"
"You are! Why haven't you said anything?" Tashigi felt so bad for him now, sure she cared for him and respected him but not in a love way at all. She though of him almost like an older brother.
"So what if I am? You're the one who are at fault!" Smoker turned his back to her, face tensed and rather red.
Tashigi remained sitting and looked at him with sad eyes.
"For how long?"
"Years. You happy? Now, get out of my life and go become the wife of that filthy pirate already." Smoke was making the room seem foggy, making it harder to see then earlier.
"Smoker." Smoker twitched at hearing her say his name.
It was the second time accually, exept for the first time they met many years ago she'd been calling him 'Sir' and a few times 'Senpai'. He remebered it rather clearly, how her eyes glittered as she smiled and said:
"Smoker is it? Nice to meet you! I'm Tashigi!" He got so nervous he blurted out "S-stupid! You should call me Sir!"
"Smoker." He shut his eyes closed and tried to ignore her.
"I do care for you." He opened his eyes and stared infront of him, now she got him listening for sure.
"You're almost like a brother to me Smoker, and i don't want to see you like this." Of fucking course. Smoker though, feeling his heart being cruched by her words.
"Look, I really love traveling with you, discovering so many fun things, getting to meet so many fun people, spending time with you. But I don't love you in that way. Please, can we somehow remain partners?"
Smoker turned towards her. He refused to meet her eyes and walked out of the room.
"I need some time to think." And the door was shut close behind him.
Tashigi looked at the door and sighted.
Luffy was suprisingly lazy...
Senpai = Honorific for someone with a higher rank as one self, like in school a first year student should call a second year or third year student 'senpai'.