1.2 Girls and Boys and Swords
Disclaimer : I don't own One Piece
I accomplish my dream and keep my promise. It's over now, but yet, I beginning to crave for more adventures just like I crave for sake.
Kuina is always curious about the green-hair kid who is also a student at her father's school. He's very mysterious, very quiet, sleeps all the time, can be a jerk and intimidating, and he even drink sake even though he is still under-age for Pete's sake.
A few things she knows;
One, his name is Roronoa Zoro.
Two, he always trains at the middle of the night. And at day, everytime she went to his, possibly, training ground, she would find some leafless or destroyed trees, some pieces of stones (or something like that) the she's 100% sure was once a giant boulder, and even animal bones.
That kid, she got to admit, is a total monster.
Once upon a random day, a package arrived at the dojo, it was addressed to him. It's a pretty long box, same length as a real sword. Kuina laughed at herself when she thought that it's ACTUALLY as sword.
But as curious a child can be…
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.
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"Darn it!" she yelled to no one. When she is sneaking around the dojo to get a (small) peak inside the box, the marimo boy caught her. She didn't know if he is angry or not, after all she dashed out from there as fast as she could. Probably as fast as a speed of light.
After a long time of observing (stalking), she decided to challenge him to a duel.
One-on-one, with real swords…
And it end up, with a draw
She said to herself, she found a worthy opponent.
"What's your dream?"
"To be a world greatest swordsman"
…
"Ne, Zoro…"
Next day, the raven girl found herself in her 'rival's arms. She fell at the stairs, and Zoro manages to catch her in time.
"Thanks…"
"Don't mention it…" the younger boy said with a 'passive' voice. Not a single trail of worry is decorating it. But Kuina knows…
Zoro is worried, and he's relived.
A woman's intuition is never wrong.
She gladly gives him her Wado Ichimonji as a sign of gratitude. She's a girl anyway, there's no way she can be a swordsman. even her father told her that. Tough she can still take over the dojo.
But then, that's the last time she saw Roronoa Zoro. That's because the idiot has no sense of direction and fall asleep at a travelling merchants' ship.
"Well, at least I know he can take care of himself" she smiled as the ship that Zoro's in disappeared into the horizon.
"Eh? What is this kid doing in here?"
"Oh dear…"
"Don't fret guys, there's an island nearby!"
"And we're going to left the brat just like that?! The island can be a wild unknown island with no civilization working in it! "
"Chill, it's Dawn Island. There's a kingdom and a village there."
"What about his parents?"
"I doubt the kid even have one, or even a guardian."
The merchants keep arguing, not noticing that the stowaway is actually paying attention.
Dawn Island…
The boy grinned.
Wait for me, Luffy.
Author's Note:
Zoro and Kuina didn't actually make a promise
Zoro is actually still thinking about reaching Dawn Island and manage to stray into the right ship by pure luck.