Hiya Everyone!
I don't own One Piece, but I do love making up fanfiction. I hope you like it.
Ever since I saw Zoro and Tashigi argue infront of the the, 'Happy, harpy, Monet' I was like … "Come on! Get over your stupid differences! Kill the mean child-beater, bird woman and then go into a corner somewhere and kiss away your frustrations."
"GA!" They're so stupid.
"Tashigi! I think Zoro likes you!"
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False Identity: Chapter 5. Awkward Lovers part 1
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Zoro had thought when he had asked her whether she wanted to get a room with him that he had made his intentions clear, but after he had booked a room and had taken Tashigi up to it he had found that he had really not considered how he would proceed to do what he had thought he wanted to do.
He could only partially remember any sexual encounters he had had, because he was always to drunk whenever the opportunity arose. Now he was here, taking the initiative, deliberately taking the first step, and he couldn't remember for the life of him what he was supposed to do next. That was when it hit him that he had never being the one to start it off.
They had the room, the space, some extra food and drink that he had brought up from the hotels kitchen downstairs, but he had no clue what he was supposed to do next.
I'm just too sober at the moment. I need another drink.
"This is nice!" Tashigi, unaware of the turmoil her companion was going through, threw off her jacket and walked straight to the bed face-planting it and rolling over onto her back. She smiled up at the ceiling nodding to herself in satisfaction. "It's comfortable. Not too soft and hard enough to get a good night's sleep."
Zoro pulled out some of the alcohol that he put on the table in the center of the room and swigged it down like he had been dying of thirst. He glanced back at Tashigi lying on their bed. "You like resting on hard beds do you."
"I don't know. I hadn't really thought about it much before." Tashigi frowned. "I just think I'll get a better night sleep here than in the girl's quarters on the Thousand Sunny."
Zoro stood at the table just waiting for her to start talking again….. but she didn't. Damn it! What shall I talk about? Ummm…
"You want a drink?" He raised the bottle in his hand to indicate what he was offering.
"No thanks. I'm still full from our meal." She said and sat up to face him. He saw a grin spread across her face as if she had just decided on something terribly, brilliant to do. His inbuilt alarm, that he had been developing for years to avoid Luffy's craziness, went off as she crossed her legs and sat up straight with anticipation.
What's going on inside that head?
"This is so exciting!" She looked around herself in wonder. "How old do you think this building is?"
That was it? "No idea."
"And the room is a good size too. The ceiling is about three and a half meters high, and the floor space is…." She got up onto her knees and stretched her arm out infront of her looking down it as a sharper shooter might look down the barrel of his Rifle, and then twisted her body round surveying all corners of the room. "I think it's about five meters by three and a third and that's not including the bathroom." She sighed and turned her attention to the painting opposite the bed. Getting up to observe it she suspiciously lifted up the edge of it to look behind. "It's so old though. I wonder if anyone has died here and hidden treasures in the walls."
Zoro started chuckling to himself. "Aren't you a weird one?"
"Well don't you use your imagination from time to time?" She raised her eyebrows at him questioningly, and upon seeing his mocking expression turned her back to him. "Well I suppose there are some people who just don't have the capacity."
Zoro brushed passed her and walked to the other side of the room where there seemed to be a covered up window. The heavy curtains were thrown back and he was pleasantly surprised to see a small wooden platform and railing beyond it.
Zoro tugged at the door handle, but nothing happened.
"Probably locked." Tashigi said stating the obvious as she appeared suddenly at his side. She looked for the lock mechanism that would open the glass doorway, and found the two of them almost immediately very well hidden, one at the bottom and the other at the top. She pointed them out to her companion and instinctively they both reached out to unlock them at the same time. Tashigi going for one near the skirting board, and Zoro going for the one at the top of the door.
"For an almost blind woman you can find things extremely quickly." Zoro commented.
"Hey!" She elbowed him in the ribs. "Don't be so rude."
He pushed the sliding door open and stepped out onto the balcony. The considerably warm day had dropped a few degrees after the sun had set and dense clouds had begun to appear on the fading horizon. Zoro had always liked this time of day. It was cool and relaxing the perfect time to eat and drink after a long day of doing things.
Tashigi came up alongside him. "Good view from here."
"Yeah." Zoro glanced from her back to the horizon. Okay. I can do this it should be easy enough. Now, would be as good a time as ever to get the atmosphere up again. … What the hell is wrong with I think of anything to say!
"Hey, you want to hear some sailor jokes?" Tashigi asked cheerfully.
Zoro could feel his face burning with shame as he began to let this the opportunity slip away. "What does it matter? You're going to tell me anyway if I want it or not."
"Yep!" she smiled.
"Well, go ahead then." Zoro leaned onto the balcony edge trying to shield his annoyance from this clueless woman.
"Okay…. So a naval officer fell overboard and was rescued by a deckhand. The officer asked the sailor how he could reward him. "The best way, sir," replied the bluejacket, "is to say nothing about it. If the other fellows knew I'd pulled you out, they'd throw me in."
"Ha. Lame." Zoro scoffed not quite sure why he was being so mean to her.
"Fine. What about you? Any jokes up your sleeves."
Zoro sighed trying to think up something funny. He wasn't the sort of person to think up stupid things like this.
He sighed, "An old drunk sea captain was sitting on a bench near the wharf when a young man walked up and sat down. The young man had spiked hair and each spike was a different color... green, red, orange, blue, and yellow.
After a while the young man noticed that the captain was staring at him.
"What's the matter old timer, never done anything wild in your life?
The old captain replied, "Got drunk once and married a parrot. I was just wondering if you were my son!"
Zoro winced, expecting to be laughed at, rather than the joke he had heard such a while ago. So he was surprised when Tashigi started giggling.
"Ghehehe…That's terrible."
"So what if it is. Your turn." He knocked her shoulder with the bottle in his hand and swigged it back again.
"Alright then…." Tashigi put her elbows onto the balcony railing and seemed to think something over. "Okay… So a Navy man walks into a bar, gives the bartender a conspiratorial wink and says, "Quick, pour me a drink, before the trouble starts." The bartender pours a drink and watches as the Sailor downs it in one gulp.
The Sailor slams the glass down on the bar and says, "Quick, give me another one before the trouble starts."
"Oh not one of these…" Zoro sounded exasperated.
"Sssh! I'm telling the joke."
Tashigi continued. "…The bartender pours another glass and the Sailor drinks it as quickly as he had the first. The Sailor pauses, lets out a belch and demands a third drink 'before the trouble starts.'
After several rounds of this, the bartender says, "Look Sailor, you've been talking about trouble for ten minutes. Just when is this 'trouble' going to start?"
Zoro grinned and interrupted. " 'The trouble starts just as soon as you figure out that I don't have any money.' Yep. I've done that before."
Tashigi looked a bit annoyed at the interruption but didn't talk about it and moved on. "Okay so you don't really like the long jokes. How about you give some one liners?"
"Right then." Zoro turned towards her and looked into her eyes with a very serious expression on his face. "What do you do when your bottle isn't breathing?"
"What? That doesn't make sense!"
"What do you do when your bottle isn't breathing?" Zoro repeated.
"Ha ha. I don't know."
"Take the cap off and give it mouth to mouth." And as to emphasize his point he lifted the half empty bottle in his hand up to his mouth and drained it of its contents. And then dropped it to the floor where it didn't smash, but simply continued clanking and rolling down the deck. Zoro stretched his arms above him feeling a lot better. "Yeah! That was good!"
"Well, I think you killed it. It's definitely not breathing anymore." Tashigi stated raising her eyebrows in jest at him. Zoro brought down his arms and placed them on either side of her, trapping her between himself and the balcony.
"I heard it's the same treatment for anything that's not breathing." Zoro's slightly confused mind continued to rattle out anything that came into it.
This sort of conversation feels good. It's starting to feel like normal again.
"I don't think so." Tashigi smiled continuing to play along with him. "No living thing could survive having the life sucked out of them that way."
"Really?" Zoro closed the gap between them and pressed his body against hers.
"No." She had lifted her hands in front of her like a small barrier. Zoro saw a light blush spreading across her cheeks.
"Really?" he grinned liking the fact that she was finding this situation awkward, but didn't try to move away.
"Uhmm." She muttered her acknowledgement under her breath and looked up into Zoro's eyes.
He noticed how they only lingered there for a few seconds before they briefly glanced at his lips and then refocused on his eyes. He had never really thought that such a simple movement could make him so conscious of how innocent she looked, how much smaller she was compared to him, and just how much stronger he was, how easily he could overpower her if he had wanted to. She raised her hands and placed them palm first onto his strong covered chest not moving them, or her eyes that were now transfixed onto the same spot. He watched her as she gazed at him. He could feel her exhaled breath gently brushing against his neck and could see her chest rising and falling showing the shallow breaths as they came.
He leaned further forward forcing her to allow her hands to move to his shoulders as his chest connected with hers. And their gazes locked onto each other once again.
He inched forward; his lips still feeling numb and tingling from the alcohol as he allowed his lips to brush against hers. He had thought she might snap back to reality and push him away or duck down under his arms so he was actually surprised when she responded. Her lips were gentle on his as she hesitantly returned his kiss.
An unexpected shock seemed to flow through him at the connection and an energy that he had been sorely lacking flowed in with it. He let go of the wooden balcony behind her and wrapped his arms around her back instead pulling her into him and deepening the kiss at the same time.
She pulled back a little and looked into his face lifting her hands up to touch it. Licking her lips she moved in to kiss him again.
Zoro felt a shiver run down his back as she ran her small fingers through his short green hair. It was as if they had done this before and she knew exactly where to touch him. One of his hands rested between her shoulder blades rubbing her there gently as their kiss became more instinctual, while the other hand slowly stroked her back.
He pulled back out of the kiss briefly as he looked back into her beautiful brown eyes again. He noticed Tashigi's blush and quickness of breath even in the growing twilight. And then they were at it again their kisses becoming more possessive and daring.
This is just so intense … she was getting …
Zoro felt himself getting aroused. He had no idea that anyone could make him want it so bad. He felt the strongest urge to grab onto her thighs and hoist her up onto him and push her against the outside wall of the house.
Yes… yes… come on.
Ready to act upon his urges he lowered his left hand and brushed it down her right side…
Tashigi gasped and pulled out of Zoro's embrace, running her fingers through her hair nervously. "I … I think we had better get inside." Tashigi said as she looked up to the sky. "It looks … like it's about to rain." Without waiting for a reply she turned away from Zoro and moved quickly inside. A bit too quickly because she tripped and fell over the outer doorframe causing her to land very unlady-like on her face before Zoro could even break out of his daze and reach for her.
Zoro, shaking his head in mild amusement, held out his hand palm upwards to the sky and true enough he felt a few drops on his skin. He then stepped back indoors, over Tashigi, who was lying in the middle of the doorway and crouched down beside her.
"Nothing broken?" he asked lifting a few strands of her hair up in order to get a glimpse of her face.
"It's not fair. Why does this always happen to me?"
"Because you don't wear glasses?"
"Ahhhm." She grumbled and brought both her arms up to cover her head obviously not wanting any help with recovery.
"Come on it can't be all that bad." Zoro poked her neck to try and get her to sit up, but after a few moments of being ignored he picked her up from the floor and threw her over his shoulder.
"Don't Zoro! Let me down!"
"I will. I will. Keep your shirt on." He sat her back down on the bed and pretended to inspect her face. Being inside the bright lit room he could see her embarrassed blush all the clearer, but that just made her look all the more attractive to him.
"I don't see any sign of a broken nose." His coarse left hand supported her head from behind as the other brushed over her left cheek.
"Don't see what you were making such a big fuss over." He grinned and poked her nose.
"Stop poking me."
"I thought you liked poking and picking fights with people?" He poked her again, and she whacked his hand away.
"Don't be so stupid."
Zoro surprised himself when he started laughing for no apparent reason he could think of. Maybe it was the absurdity of the situation. Maybe it was the drinking. He stepped backwards from the bed and made his way over the table of stuff. "You want anything now?" He asked her.
"Yes, please something to drink would be nice."
"What?"
"You pick."
They started talking about random things again when Tashigi noticed how whenever Zoro tried to get her attention he would say 'you' or 'oi' and it began to bug her.
"Zoro why don't you ever call me by name?"
"Um…" he paused in his thought. He didn't want to continue not calling her a name. He didn't want to call her Kuina, and he didn't want to call her Marine Girl or what was her real name… Tashigi? What if the name triggered something that made her remember who she really was. But she has to have a name… "Can you … can we stop this?"
"What?" She looked puzzled.
"I don't want to keep calling you by the name of a dead person who has nothing to do with you."
She let out a tired sigh, a look of worry and pain crossed her face. "Zoro, do you know what it is like not to have a name? Do you know what it is like to feel worthless and empty?"
Her eyes came in contact with his again and she frowned looking down at his hands as they moved to take a hold of hers. Her hands were starting to shake and he pulled her closer to himself.
"I don't have any identity." She shook her head and gave a hollow laugh at the ridiculousness of her situation. "It's so strange."
"I know…." Zoro calmed her down, his hands stroking the top of hers. "You want to choose a new one?"
"What, chose a new name?"
"Yeah."
"Okay." She sounded nervous and shuffled further back onto the bed to allow Zoro some space to sit or lie down on. "What sort of name do you think would suit me?"
"Something like a warning sign perhaps… 'Distruxann' or 'Smashilous' or 'Catastropie'…" Zoro received a whack on the head.
"I mean a real name."
"Well, what do you want to be called?"
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Sooooo…. What name shall I give Tashigi next... Something just Zoro will call her.…?
By the way did you know that Tashigi and Kuina are both named after flightless birds in Japan. Indicating that they could never truly fulfil their desire to fly away. so sad.
Anyway, here are some awesome and not too common girl's names that I was looking at and for while writing this story. Thinking… What sort of name would I choose for myself if I ever had to pick a new name? I seem to like old-fashioned names or foreign names…
So what would you choose if you had too? I don't like having a commonish name or a name I've heard so much it bores me. So I went out of my way to put together this list to find something fantastic. Enjoy!
Girl's names
Name… language of origin … Meaning
Addie/Adela = Germanic = noble
Alexine = Greek = man's helper
Alina = Gaelic = beautiful
Almira = Middle East = noble
Anstice = Greek = risen again
Anwen = Celtic = very fair
Areta = Greek = virtuous
Astra = Greek = star
Averil = Anglo Saxon = warrior maid
Bea = Latin = bringer of blessings
Brenda = German = flaming sword
Cara = Celtic = beloved friend
Cassie = Greek = man's helpmate
Celia = Latin = blind one
Dorra = Greek = gift
Ena = Gaelic = fiery
Ekami = Japanese = beautiful tree scent
Ethelinda = Old English = noble snake
Faye = Old English = fairy
Fira = Old English = fiery; ardent
Gwenyth = Celtic = luck; bliss
Hayley = Celtic = escape
Kendra = Celtic = wise ruler; helper of her people
Kyra = Celtic = little dark one
Leila = Persian = dark haired
Lena = Greek = light
Laila = English = guardian angel
Louisa = Teutontic = warrior maid
Lufu = Old English = love
Kandi = Old English = pure; sincere
Marina = Latin = of the sea
Myla = Old English = merciful
Nakimi = Japanese = beautiful tree
Natasha = Russian = birthday
Naida = Old English = water nymph
Sakura = Japanese = sakura
Titania = Old English = fairy queen
Val = Old French = strong one
Vera = Russian = Faithful
Xantho = Old English = golden-haired sea-nymph
Zanna = Old English = lily
Zenith = Old English = highest point; peak
Zuzana = Old English = rose
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I think I might suit the names…. Astra Lena … or … Cara Myla … or … Anwen Fira.
This is so much fun. :D
Abigail Skywalker My first name means 'joy of the father' from Hebrew. And the last name is from a galaxy far far away.
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So, Remember to leave a review, write down a name that might suit you if you fancy a change, and I hope you continue to like the story.
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Some of the sailor jokes I got from…
/navy-jokes