I don't own One Piece.

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Tashigi's Heart: An unexpected meeting.

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I was shocked when I heard the word going round that, Smoker and I were actually in love with one another. Well, I'll admit that I admire Captain Smoker, but I have never felt anything other than that admiration and awe at his abilities. So he doesn't count as my first... well my first …. whatever. Oh gosh! just forget it! Why am I thinking about this?

Anyway! Today when I was walking back from dropping off Shigure at the smithy. I met some nasty pieces of work who thought it would be fun to try and threaten me. I couldn't believe it, didn't they know who I was, what I stood for.

The nosy crowd gathered around us, people always seamed to be up for watching a fight, a beating, a hanging. It doesn't matter where you go people's curiosity and desire to see someone hurt always overcomes their sense of love, forgiveness, and compassion. I tried to convince them, these two thugs, to just leave me alone, but they thought I would be an easy target. Well, I suppose my appearance does lend itself to the role of being the feeble office girl. What with my purple rimmed glasses and small figure I'm not all to surprised with their reaction. I have dealt with every low-life thug and pirate who has challenged me here in Logue Town. I am gracious and try to give them a second chance and to apologize, but their hated of authority and contempt for the well-being of others always seems to fry their pathetic minds into acting like animals. So I took them down.

As expected when a crowd sees an obvious victor, they cheer for them, and they did so for me. "Woah! She did it!" "That was Awesome!" It was then that a flash of green caught my eye and I turned to look for it. Unfortunately, this is when my foot decided to get caught in between some of the cobbled stones in the road and I fell flat on my face. Well I suppose it was funny for everyone watching, they burst into laughter, no one tried to help me up. That's gentlemanly behaviour for you, as soon as I fell they started mocking me.

And what was worse I couldn't see, everything became a thick colour filled blur, I had dropped my glasses. I was on my hands and knees trying to find them, when I heard a deep man's voice calling out from above me. "Heya, here you go."

I looked up and saw what had caught my eye just moments before. The top of this man's head was green... or was it his hair? Ha! How unusual? Oh! He had my glasses too! "Thanks! That's so kind." Wow, it wasn't very often that you got to meet people like that here. He had actually bent down to pick up my glasses for me. I heard him suck in a sudden breath. Oh gosh! I lifted my hand to my face. maybe I have a cut or something on my face, oh well, I'll fix it up later... What is he waiting for... "Um, may I have my glasses?"

I looked into his hands, and saw a bent purple metal frame. "Ahhh! My glasses!"

"Oh! Crap! I... I didn't mean!"

"Oh! Those were really expensive! How could you be so mean!" I can't believe that he just did that. I would have prefered it if he had just left them on the ground and let me find them. MEN are so careless!

"It was an accident I swear it!" Why did he sound so desperate? Was he in trouble for these sorts of things often. Ah! Just like a man.

"You had better pay for those!" I looked up into his face. I couldn't quite see his expression, but he did seem to be generally sorry, what with all his stuttering and apologizing. I started to feel sorry for him. I turned around and picked up my temporary sword. He didn't seem like a bad person. I wrapped it up in its cloth, and tucked it under my arm. I started turning away, but he continued to follow me. Did he think I would turn him in for breaking my glasses? How pathetic.

"Wait! Hold on! Excuse me! Where are we Going?" Well I don't know where you're going, but I'm going to do some more training.

"I still can't believe you Broke my Glasses."

"I told you, I'll pay you back okay? Gees!" A guy with an attitude like that, paying me back money. Yeah right.

"You'll pay me back. You don't look like you've got any money. Am I right?"

"Well, that's true I am kinder broke." I could hear the regret in his voice.

"I knew it!" I can tell by the look on your face that your pretty desperate." What is it? Does your sick mother need medicine? Or has your wife run away with another man to leave you raising the children all by yourself?!"

"Hey! Hold on!" He seemed very anger or worried about something and was obviously in a lot of trouble, poor guy. Well he had had the intention of helping me out earlier so maybe I'll let him off.

"Don't explain! Just come with me."

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