Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece.

Spoiler warning: If you have NOT read up to chapter 435, don't read this fic (unless you want to be spoiled). You have been warned…

Summery: One-shot-series Thoughts of different people on the straw hat crew after Enies Lobby.

--- A moment of happiness ---

--- Dr. Kuleha ---

Day for day I'm working. Healing…

It keeps me young. I'm after all just 139…

I still live in the castle, we moved to after that coward fled…

Drum is healing, the economy as well as the people.

I look at the sea and wonder, wonder where he is, that wayward apprentice of mine…

I wonder if he is fulfilling his dreams, if that kid's crew is treating him well, if…

I admit I'm worried. Worried about that naïve, little guy, because back then deep down I didn't want him to leave… That's why I chased him away, so he could chase his dreams, his destiny, his happiness…

On the table lies a pile of sheets, on the top is his, showing him with a sweet smile.

A good shot, despite the reason. Though I think the bounty is a joke (as well as the thought that MY apprentice is a PET!) But what can one expect of the marine in times like this.

I look out of the window, seeing the pink snow fall like sakura leaves in the wind… What a great present Hiriluk made to Drumm and chopper.

And seeing those I smile and resume looking at the sheets.

I wish you luck in your chase for your dreams, chopper…

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Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait, I'll try to get the next up sooner…

By the way I have another idea for an OP story. It's going to be multichapter but I have to plan it out a bit.

Warnings: AU, possible OOCness

Summary: What if Zorro had made a different decision regarding the Baroque Works. How would he meet the straw-hat crew and how had the events of Alabasta played out if Zorro wasn't Zorro, but Mr. 2…

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