Chapter 7: Training

Somewhere deep in a city in a secret base of some sort, a silhouetted figure sat in a high chair.

"Sir, two of our hunters has been eliminated." someone said.

"What? How?" the figure said in a monotone.

"It seems to be that there are still purebloods in existence, sir."

The figure stood up and walked towards where the person was standing. He lifted him up by the neck. The other struggled against the hold. "Nonsense, I killed them all years ago."

"No! We saw them!" It rasped with little breath. "There here!"

"You disgust me." He crushed the creature's neck with his bare hands and it blow up in flames. "All of you worthless insects should be wiped from the face of existence!" he said to the rest of them cowering in the corner.

"We'll see if the stragglers are still alive. I'll kill them right where they stand!"

It's been a whole month since that incident at the dance. Boy did I have a hangover after that. Anyway Zoro and I have finally told everyone about our secret relationship.

"That's wonderful! I never would have thought that you guys would date!" Nami squealed.

"It wasn't much of a secret in the first place." Sanji muttered. He was elbowed by Nami.

"Now all we need to do is find Usopp somebody to love!" I put my arm around his shoulder.

"Oh please don't start singing." Usopp begged.

"Find me somebody to love!" I sang. I gave a smirk over to Sanji who was slightly blushing, but frowning as well, staring daggers at me as if saying. Don't you say a damn thing!

"Luffy come over to my house after school, k. I've got something to show you." Zoro told me.

"Cant wait!" I cheered.

"Ooooh, is this some kind of romantic gift?" Nami teased.

"What? No, get your head out of the gutter woman!" Zoro growled.

"I could totally see Zoro leaving a trail of rose petals leading to his room." Sanji laughed.

"Shut it Curly! It's nothing like that."

"What is it?"

"I can't tell you right now. Not with them around." He mumbled the last part.

"Ohhh. I see." Zoro was referring to the fact that their demons. I whispered into Sanji's ear about what it involved.

"Ah."

"What is this? I want in on inside things!" Nami intervened.

I quickly changed the subject, asking a question that involves Johnny Depp. Nami completely forgotten what she was talking about, and started up a conversation on attractive movie stars.

Later, I went straight to Zoro's place just as asked. I stepped into his overly huge mansion. "Hello! Zoro, you here?" I called.

"Horohorohoro!" I heard a laugh come from upstairs. I looked up and saw Perona balancing on the banister with an open umbrella. "Zoro-chan is in his training room. He told me to tell you when you come in."

"Oh thanks!" I started walking in a random direction. "Uh…where's that again?"

Perona led me to a room that looks like a gym similar to the one at our school, but smaller. There was a bunch of weights set on the floor. I spotted Zoro sitting cross legged on a mat. "Oi, Zoro!" I called. He looked up and smiled. I ran up to him and jumped into his lap clearing the air from his lungs in the process.

"Nice to see you too." He chuckled.

"What did you want to tell me?"

"I wanted to tell you that I've agreed to train you."

"Really! Yes! Zoro's gonna teach me how to kick ass!" I cheered.

"Calm down, ya little rascal. It's more like for defense against kiseichu." He stood and I jumped up in excitement. I've been bugging Zoro about training me so I could be as strong as him. I was ready! Good thing I was wearing just a shirt and basketball shorts. I stretched quickly eager to get started.

"Yosh, now lets begin. Think fast!" He threw a fist towards me and I narrowly dodged it. He didn't stop! He did a drop kick that I barely dodged and it made the floor crack.

"Ahh! Are you crazy!" I screamed. He had a confused look on his face.

"Huh? I thought you wanted to train? This is how Sanji and I would do it." He said.

"Let me remind you that I'm human!" I pointed out.

"Ok, fine. I'll go easy on you."

"Now that you say it like that I don't want you to go easy on me."

"Make you your mind!" he held out a hand to help me up. I grabbed it gratefully but then he sent me flying across the gym.

"Ahhh!"

"Lesson number one, never let your guard down." He chuckled.

"That was dirty! Now am mad!" I charged towards him. We spared for real this time. I tried to keep up as well as possible dodging everyone one his attacks and sending a few punches as well.

Zoro threw a punch at me and I couldn't dodge it in time. I cringed covering my face. "Oh my god are you ok?" he asked frantically. I smiled as I punched him square in the face. "Ow! That was a dirty trick!"

I laughed mischievously. "What was lesson number one again?" I teased.

"Oh, yeah? Come here you!" he put his arms around my waist in brought me to the floor. I laughed as we started wrestled. I giggled as he kissed my face and neck.

"Zoro that tickles!" I laughed. We wrestled for a while with me trying to kiss him back. He avoided them like the plague.

"I bet you can't kiss me!" He claimed. I forced myself on top of him trying to kiss his face. His face was tilted up in an attempt to get away. "Noooo!" I kissed his chin. "That doesn't count." He said looking at me. I took that chance to kiss him on the lips.

"How about that?"

"You cheated."

"Hahaha!"

We spent the rest of the day trying to get revenge on each other. We ended up chasing each other around the house nearly breaking seemingly expensive things. Everyone was getting a bit annoyed with us so they made Zoro take me home early.

Zoro kissed me good bye and I went up into the apartment. "Ace I'm home!" I walked into the living room and I found Ace sitting on the couch with someone I haven't seen before. A man of about my brother's age, probably a bit older. He had blonde hair that sat on top of his head and his whole face to me resembled a pineapple.

"Oh, hey Luf! I did expect you to come home so early." He greeted me.

"You can kick me out that easily Ace. Who's this?" I asked.

"This is Marco. We're friends from work."

"Yo. You must be Ace's little brother."

"Nice to meet ya."

He turned to Ace. "He looks a lot like you."

I puffed out my cheeks in a pout. Everyone keeps saying that. We do not look alike! I found it strange because Ace was sitting really close to Marco. I decided not to think to much into it.