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I'm not lost: Redux

Chapter 5

Zoro stood in front of the request board surveying the different jobs that were available. So far he hadn't been able to find a single one that piqued his interest. Some of the jobs seemed just down right ridiculous ranging from catching a cursed carrot that had been attacking rabbits in the forest to delivering a birthday present for somebodies grandmother. He had found an interesting job up on the second floor but had promptly been thrown down by the old man who told him that he wasn't ready for those missions yet and to stay off the second floor until he was an S-ranked member of the guild.

Closing his eyes with a sigh he simply reached out and picked one at random. Opening his eyes he glanced at the flyer he held in his hand.

"A request from the town of Endor," Zoro read to himself aloud, "Items of great value have been disappearing from houses for over a month. All attempts at catching these thieves have been futile please catch these thieves and you will be rewarded handsomely. Reward to be discussed with Count Garland upon completion."

Walking over to the bar where the short guild master was currently drinking, his face growing ever redder, Zoro shoved the mission flyer in his face.

"Eh," questioned Makarov, speaking with a hint of a drunken slur. "What do you want?"

"I'm taking this mission," said Zoro plainly.

Makarov snatched the flyer from his hands and looked over the details as carefully as a drunken man can before authorizing it with a stamp, "there ya go whippersnapper."

"Don't call me that," Zoro complained before going to exit the guild, slamming the door behind him.

The noise caused Macao and Wakaba to look up from their game of cards, Natsu and Gray even stopped fighting and the rest of the guild dropped what they were doing to look at the door that Zoro had just walked through.

"Did he just…" started Cana.

"… walk into the closet?" finished Gray.

A moment later Zoro emerged from the closet with a scowl on his face as the rest of the guild simply watched him.

"Stupid doors," he grumbled quietly to himself, "always leading to closets instead of going outside like their supposed to."

As he walked away from the closet he found himself face to face with a solid brick wall. His eyebrow started to twitch in annoyance.

"Stupid walls," he muttered under his breath as he drew Sushui from its sheath, "Stop getting in my way!"

There was a flash of steel as he gave three swings of his blade before placing it back in its sheath. Sunlight flooded into the guild hall as a portion of the wall fell away. The rest of the guild looked on with shocked expressions as Zoro simply walked through the exit he had created as if cutting his way out of a building was a common occurrence.

It was Natsu who spoke first, "Why didn't he just use the door? It was right there," he said as he pointed a few feet to the right of Zoro's newly created exit.

Natsu's question would go unanswered for a while as everyone just continued to stare on in silence.

Zoro walked in silence his hand resting on the hilts of his blades, a scowl on his face as he looked around for the train station. The crowd around him walking around him in a wide arc to stay away from the menacing aura he was emitting.

"Damn train station," he cursed, "why isn't anything here where it's supposed to be?"

"Excuse me youngster," said an elderly voice from behind him. Turning Zoro was greeted by an old man with a long white beard wearing huge billowing robes his face hidden by his hood. "I couldn't help but overhear that you were looking for the train station. Are you new in town perhaps?"

"Something like that," said Zoro as he narrowed his eyes suspiciously. There was something strange about this old man. His haki revealed more about this guy than he wanted to know. There was something terribly off about his energy. He was powerful that much was certain but Zoro couldn't tell just how, he was hiding his true strength just as Makarov often did.

"Yoo-hoo, youngster, are you still there," asked the hooded old man.

"Yeah I'm still here," said Zoro, "are you blind or something?"

"No, no," said the old man with a laugh, "I was merely trying to give you directions to the train station when you spaced out. Shall I repeat the directions for you?"

"Sure, sure do whatever you want."

"Well from here you take a left and walk three blocks then take a right then its four blocks straight ahead."

"Thanks," said Zoro as he walked away from the old man and promptly took a right.

"Hehe," laughed the old man, "so this is Zoro young Law has told me so much about. It seems he has joined Fairy Tail. Hah, a wizard that isn't, in a wizard's guild. This will be interesting." His robes billowed in the wind as a group of pedestrians walked by. As they passed the old man was gone.

Zoro continued on his path of misdirection as he followed the old man directions.

"Shit," grumbled Zoro, "Old man lied to me. If I don't find the train station I'll never get this stupid job done."

He continued to wander done the street aimlessly when he felt something bump into him, "hmm."

"Ouch. Hey! Watch where you're going you damn jerk!"

Looking down Zoro found himself face to face with the white haired girl from a few days before.

"Y-you," Zoro asked in shock as blush subconsciously crept across his face at the memory of the events that had transpired.

"Mira," said the little white haired girl that accompanied her, "are you okay?"

"Sis," said the large boy in concern.

"Don't worry I'm fine," said Mirajane as she got to her feet. "Oh will you look who it is," she said as she spotted Zoro, "How's it going lover-boy?"

"Sh-Shut up," shouted Zoro in embarrassment.

"Mira," said the little girl beside her, "You should leave him alone."

"Don't worry Lissana I won't pick on him too much," she said teasingly. "So what are you doing out here, are you on a job or something?"

"That's none of your business."

Mirajane acted quickly snatching the job flyer that was hanging out of his pocket.

"Hahaha," Mirajane laughed loudly, "Oh you gotta be kidding, this job is all the way out in Endor. What's the matter, can you not find the train station or something?"

Zoro simply remained silent.

"Are you serious," Mira asked incredulously, "You really can't find the train station?"

"It's not my fault the streets keep leading me the wrong way."

"Hahaha," she laughed clutching at her sides, "Oh my! That's rich!

"Sh-Shut up!"

"Mira," scolded her little sister, "You said you would stop teasing him."

"Okay, okay I'll stop," She conceded to her sister, "Elfman."

"Yeah Sis?"

"Take Lissana home okay"

"Sure thing sis," replied Elfman, "We'll see you at home okay?"

"Yeah, yeah just as soon as I help the new guy with his job."

"Be careful Mira," shouted Lissana as she and her brother left for their home.

Zoro scowled as she turned back to him a smug smirk on her face, "Who said I needed your help?"

"Well if you don't want me to take you to train station then by all means do this mission yourself," she said tauntingly.

Zoro grit his teeth in annoyance, "fine you can come along," Zoro mumbled.

"What was that," said Mira, "I couldn't quite hear you."

"I said you can come along," Zoro said with a hint of aggression.

"Well I would love to," said Mirajane, "If you ask nicely."

A vein on Zoro's head bulged in anger, "Will you please come with me on my job request?"

"It's a date," she said with a sly grin.

"Who said anything about a date," Zoro questioned but Mirajane wasn't listening at the moment.

"And don't worry," she continued to speak, "I'll only take half of the reward."

"Witch," Zoro grumbled angrily.

An hour later Mira and Zoro were seated on the train as they patiently waited for the train to reach its destination. Zoro was gazing out the window watching the scenery pass by, he had never seen this much land in one place before.

"Hey," said Mira, trying to gain his attention.

Turning his head to face her he asked, "what do you want?"

"I figured it would be better for the mission if we each knew what the other was capable of doing," she explained. It made sense, it would be better if they both knew the other's strengths and weaknesses.

"Alright, you first," said Zoro.

"Hmm?"

"What can you do," Zoro clarified.

"I use take over magic," she said as she puffed out her chest in pride, "more specifically I use Satan Soul Take-Over magic."

"And," Zoro continued to question.

"And," Mirajane repeated sounding insulted, "What do you mean 'and'?"

Zoro just stared at her as he elaborated, his face betraying no emotion, "I mean what does your magic do."

"Are you stupid or something," she asked in annoyance, "It's Satin Soul Take-Over magic, it allows me to take the form of various demons to do combat."

Zoro just turned his head to gaze back out the window. "That's sounds somewhat useful," Zoro commented off handedly.

"S-somewhat useful," She repeated her face growing red in anger, "Alright, then if my magic is so boring to you what can you do huh?"

Zoro rested his hands on his sword hilts, as he gave his answer, "It should be pretty obvious that I use swords."

"Pfft," Mirajane scoffed, "So you use sword magic, so what? It's not like that's anything special."

"No."

"Excuse me," asked Mirajane.

"I use swords not sword magic," he explained with only the slightest hint of annoyance.

Mirjane rolled her eyes, "Alright then what kind of magic do you use?"

"I don't," he answered

"Excuse me," she asked a look of incredulity on her face

"You heard me, I don't use magic only my swords, though one of them is cursed."

"If you don't use magic how are you part of a mages guild?"

"Blame that one on your master," said Zoro as he watched the scenery outside the window change. "He insisted that I join."

"So what you're saying is that you're completely useless," she said as she folded her arms and crossed her legs with a huff of annoyance. Zoro just remained silent.

"Che, fine then at least let me get a look at this so called 'cursed blade' of yours."

Zoro gave her a side long glance before grabbing the sandai kitetsu and gently handed it to her, "Just be careful," Zoro warned as Mirajane slowly pulled the blade from its sheath, "Sandai Kitetsu has a nasty…"

"Oww," Mira cried out in pain as she stuck her finger in her mouth, blood slowly oozing from a cut on her finger, "What the hell I barely touched it."

"Like I was saying," said Zoro as he took the sword back from the young wizard, "Sandai Kitetsu has a nasty blood lust."

"What are you going on about," she asked continuing to suck on her finger, "How does a sword have blood lust?"

Zoro released a sigh of boredom, "I guess someone like you can't hear the blades can you?"

"Seriously what the hell are you talking about?"

Once again Zoro turned his attention back out the window, "Nothing, it doesn't matter but to answer your other question, all Kitetsu blades are cursed."

"Cursed how?"

"All Kitetsu blades kill those that wield them," said Zoro cryptically.

"So why use one if it's going to end up killing you?"

"Sandai won't cut me," explaioned Zoro, "because my luck over powers its curse."

"Whatever," said Mira with a huff as she too turned her head to look out the window. The rest of the trip passed in silence.

A/N: So only two thousand words but i really wanted to post something today trust me next chapter will be much longer and loaded with action and lots of bad ass Zoro scenes. once again i apologize for all the filler.