Chapter 3.
"Highly unlikely Zoro would never kill unless it was necessary," said a mysterious voice. While she was talking Zoro thought that he recognised the voice then it clicked it was Kuina. When he realized who, it was he began to pale 'I thought that she was dead.' He thought trying not to panic.
"Are you all right Zoro? You look like paler than a white sheet." Luffy laughed/asked his friend who was sweating a lot.
"Yeah just hot that's all," Zoro lied "let's go the rest of the crew will be waiting for us." He added while walking out the door.
"Zolr Wait!" Sensei shouted after him, "I want you to say hi to some people who have been worried sick about you."
"Oh yea? Who?" Zoro asked with no enthusiasm in his voice " But if it's my parents no way in Hell."
"Yes it is. Your parents have been worried sick about you, well you mother has anyway. But I also want you to say hi to someone else." As Sensei said that his eyes started to sparkle.
"Who?" Zoro said a bit worried for he thought that he knew who it was.
"Kuina." Sensei replied with way too much enthusiasm in his voice. As he said that Zoro paled even more if that was possible, when she came out. She had shoulder length black hair, sparkling blue eyes that were full of life and was about 5ft 9 ½.
"I thought that you had died." Zoro whispered.
"NO WAY!" Kuina shouted, "You know it would take more than that to kill me." She added in a serious voice.
"But…you had a pool of blood round your head, you went into a coma and the Doctors said that you had one day max to live." Zoro said while still whispering from the shock.
"Yeah scared the hell out of them when I woke up." She said with great amusement in her voice.
"Zoro let's go." Luffy whined when his patients had finally ran out (he has patients?)
"You go…no wait just one more minute." Zoro said to his bored and whining Captain "So when did you wake up?"
"Three hours after you left." Kuina replied with the amusement still clear in her voice, "Oh yeah you and you can keep my sword I have found another one that is just as good".
"Thanks" Zoro replied softly "Heh what kind of santôryu swordsman would I be without 3 swords?" he added jokingly.
"Not a very good one" Kuina laughed back.
"HEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN MY CREW!" Luffy bellowed with too much enthusiasm in his voice as usual and with his big cheesy grin plastered on his face.
"Why not I haven't kicked Zoro's ass in awhile and it would give me great opportunity to do it again." Kuina agreed and went straight to pack her bags.
She only shoved the things she needed in a bag, which was: sword, training clothes, clothes in general, sword polish and cloth and other things.
"So you always beat Zoro?" Luffy asked in an I-can't-believe-Zoro-lost-to-a-girl-voice.
"Yeah but he was getting harder and harder every time." Kuina said with pride that she was able to beat the Demon Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro.
"SHUT UP!" Zoro bellowed rather embarrassed, "I wonder what Sanji would say when he saw you." Zoro said rather amused with what he just thought up.
"Probably, where were you? I was going to leave you behind but our lovely and ever so smart Nami said that we had to wait for you barbarians, and then OMG! Who is this lovely beauty and how can I miss her. What is your name?" Luffy laughed
"Yeah then when you replied he would say, Kuina the perfect name for a perfect goddess then try and kiss your hand." Zoro added also laughing slightly.
"If he dose he will get black and blue balls for the remainder of the week." When she said that the guys started to laugh harder.
"There it is the ship" Luffy shouted enthusiastically and excited about the rest of his crew meeting their new crewmate.
Then they hear a voice from the ship "where were you? I was going to leave you behind but our lovely and ever so smart Nami said that we had to wait for you barbarians." Sanji shouted at them finally coming into view " OMG! Who is this lovely beauty? How could I have missed her? What is your name?" He added, in a different tone especially for women, while walking up to Kuina.
"Kuina" She replied while trying to hid her amusement.
"Kuina, the perfect name for a perfect goddess." Sanji said while taking her hand in his and trying to kiss it, but couldn't manage to kiss her hand for she fell over laughing with Zoro and Luffy.
"You were right…is he… that predictable?" Kuina managed before her laughter took control of her again.
"YES!" Luffy and Zoro managed to get out before bursting out laughing again at the sight of Sanjis' confused look.
"Do you want to finish what we said would happen?" Zoro mused slightly out of breath but finally having his laughter under control again.
"Defiantly, nobody tries to do that to me and get away with it." As she said that she brought her leg up and swung it so hard and fast that Sanji didn't she what was going on until it was to late.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sanji screamed in pain while the rest of the crew went over in another fit of laughing.
Soon after everyone had calmed down and were on the boat. "So Luffy who is she and what is she doing here?" Nami asked indicating towards Kuina, rather curious as to who she was.
"Her name is Kuina and she is our new crewmate." Luffy exclaimed while trying to hide his excitement but failing miserably.
"WHAT?" all but Luffy Zoro and Kuna shrieked.
"Yeah, so what can you do anyway?" Luffy enquired.
"Swordfight, kick butt and that is about it really." She responded leaving out that she could sing.
"GREAT WE HAVE A FEMALE ZORO!" Nami Screeched.
"No we don't she left out a certain detail." Zoro said which gained the attention of the rest of the crew "She can…mph mph " Zolo couldn't finish what he was going to say because Kuina had put her hand over his nose and mouth to prevent him from saying anything else.
"Say it and DIE" Kuina said with so much venom that even the Devil would run and hide at the sound of her voice. Zolo nodded vigorously because she was begging to suffocate him.
" I have a better idea, duel if I win I tell them and if I don't then I wont" Zoro spoke mischievously that no one but Kuina had heard before.
"Deal" Kuina replied without hesitation.
They gathered outside on the main deck in their fighting stances.
"Ready?" Zoro asked with a smug grin on his face
"As ready as I will ever be." She replied also with a smirk.
Nobody said go it was a mutual decision. Zoro was as normal on the offensive side while Kuina was on a slightly defensive side. Kuina then made a terrible mistake, which caused an opening for Zoro. He used this opening to his advantage, which caused the duel to finish.
"I…lost," Kuina whispered slightly surprised "I have never lost to you."
"I won" Zoro also spoke surprised "I never beat you."
"ZORO!" Luffy whined, "Tell us her secret."
"Well I cant back out of our agreements so go ahead." Kuina spoke with a worried tone.
"Well Luffy you know that you have been wanting a musician for a long time," Zoro waited until Luffy had nodded his head then carried on "Well Kuina has a beautiful singing voice." At this everyone gasped not because Luffy finally had his musician but because a swordsperson could SING.
"Well it is true I guess," Kuina agreed "But I don't think that I have a beautiful singing voice just a good one."
"COOL I HAVE A MUSICIAN!" Luffy screamed "SING US A SONG!"
"Yea," Zoro agreed and I think I know which one as well" Zoro said then whispered the song into Kuina's ear.
"All right," Kuina agreed to do the song "I love it." She then began to sing American Idiot by Green Day.
(Can't put song up don't know words very well I I'm not a big fan of Green Day)
"WOW" was all Nami, Usopp, Chopper and Luffy could say.
" That was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard." Sanji complimented with tears in his eyes.
"I thought you were good as a kid," Zoro exclaimed shocked "But that was amazing."
The rest of the crew agreed and listened to Kuina sing for the rest of the night until it was just she and Zolro.
"So." Kuina wanted to ask if he had fought against Mihawk yet because she noticed that he had two different swords, "What happened to your other swords?"
"Broke." Zoro plainly stated.
"How?" She asked rather surprised that both of his swords had broken but hers hadn't.
"Mihawk." Zoro said rather upset that he broke TWO swords AND LOST to Mihawk.
"You faced against Mihawk and LIVED?" Kuina practically screamed that he had faced against Mihawk and lived.
"Yea got a nasty scar from him to." Zoro said while wincing when he thought back to what had happened and how much it had hurt.
Can I see it?" Kuina asked and was received wit a blank look "your scar I mean."
"Oh yea, if you want." She nodded and he started to take his shirt off. When she saw his scar her eyes went so wide Zoro was amazed that they didn't pop out of her head. She found that his scar went from his right shoulder to his left hip. She thought that he had been cut in half. She was also amazed by all of the other scars he had.
"Wow I thought that a normal person would have died from a wound like that." She whispered when she had found her voice again, but Kuina was still astonished.
"Yea well I'm not no normal human" Zoro explained then trailed the scar with his index finger while saying "and this one was bleeding like mad and the pain was so immense that I thought that I would die. "As they talked there was a sudden explosion that rocked the ship furiously.
"What the HELL was that?" Kuina asked rather shocked.
"Guns and canon fire!" Zoro shouted while running to the top deck. He soon saw what had made the noise; The Navy were attacking the ship. They were on the docks and the sea firing guns and canons at them, and he knew who were leading them Captain Smoker who was always smoking a cigar or two. There was also Major Tashigi who looked just like Kuina.
"OH SHIT!" Zoro screamed then bellowed even louder "NAVY!" the rest of the crew ran up onto the main deck including Kuina who had gone below deck to receive her sword. When Kuina saw Tashigi she was gob smacked and when Tashigi saw Kuina she was just as gob smacked as Kuina was.
"Ah oh," Zolo suddenly said when he saw Kuina and Tashigi staring at each other.
"Now I know if you asked if I had a twin" Tashigi half stated half whispered at Zoro.
"Duh!" Zoro then gave an evil smirk, "And now I know that Kuina isn't dead…" Zolo trailed off as he got his swords out "I can fight you properly!"
"EXCELLENT" Tashigi screamed when she pulled her sword out "I can finally beat you and take Wadou Ichimonji away from you evil grasp." When Tashigi finished her speech Kuina burst out laughing.
"She is like me but a little different." Kuina laughed
"Oh yea?" Tashigi screamed "how?"
"Oh that's easy," Kuina said in a happy tone "I'm faster, smarter, stronger and less clumsy than you!"
"Yea and WHAT makes you think that I'M CLUMSY?" Tashigi spat out.
"Zoro told me about you," Kuina answered Tashigis' question as funny as possible "said that YOU beat TWO guys TWICE YOUR size THEN you TRIPPED as you went to retrieve YOUR package YOU dropped."
"ENOUGH!" Tashigi shouted thoroughly embarrassed "I Challenged RORONOA!"
"Oh but lets have a practice." Kuina said mockingly, "If you can beat me you can face Zoro. Kay?"
"FINE!" as Tashigi said that Zoro went over to help Nami who was surrounded by Navy Officers.
"Need some help?" Zoro asked
"WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG OF COURSE I NEED HELP!" Nami screeched in his ear
"Ok! No need to screech." Zorro said while covering his ears. He quickly finished off the Navy as Luffy and Sanji had done (but he did it with a bit more blood and death); the only people left fighting were Kuina and Tashigi.
"COME ON KUINA RAP THIS UP ALREADY!" Zoro bellowed at Kuina
"OKAY!" Kuina replied but then suddenly grabbed her head in pain "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
"KUINA!" Zoro bellowed at the top of his lungs and rushed to her side. He inspected her head as soon as he got there, to find that it was bleeding. Flash backs came through his mind of when he was a kid and he saw her at the bottom of the stairs (don't know if that is true but in this story it is) with a pool of blood round her head
"NNNNOOOOOOOO!"
TBC