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Hime-Sama no Kaizoku

Chapter 4: Zoro the Swordsman vs. Cabaji the Acrobat!

(opening: We are by the straw hats)

"Major-san!" Leif called out as she arrived with Nami and Zoro.

"I'm fine, but I will fight Buggy!" Major spoke out as Luffy turned toward him and knocked him unconscious causing the trio's faces to freeze.

"Idiot, you didn't have to hit him that hard." Leif yelled as Nami and Zoro waved their hands in the air.

"That's what you're worried about!" The two yelled in unison.

"Huh?" Leif turned toward the two as Zoro walked in front of her.

"You should be worried about the fact that he hit the major, not if he hit him too hard." Zoro exclaimed as he hit the brunette on the head earning a wide eyed expression from Nami.

"Zoro that hurt!" Leif cried, but soon after she hit him back.

"Hey, you little." Zoro growled out as the two started to fight again.

"Guys, we have to fight them, so don't fight each other." Nami snapped as she punched the two upside the heads.

"Ouch, Nami-san that really hurt." Lief cried out as Nami merely glared at the brunette.

"Oi, Big nose!" Luffy called out to the other pirate captain who became angry at the remark.

"What was that, that's it, blow him to smithereens." Ordered the clown captain as Leif's eyes widened at what she had just heard. The Buggy bombs are then sent flying towards Luffy whom uses his gomu gomu mi powers to blow up like a balloon to send the bombs back at them. Leif immediately sighed after seeing that he was ok.

The bombs hit but unfortunately Buggy had protected himself with his two crew mates. Mohji the beast tamer from before looked at a scene in anger. A man stood holding his companion Richie as protection against the Buggy bombs that had come back at full force.

"How dare you use Richie as a shield!?" Mohji snapped as he ran over to hit the man whom merely sends him flying with a kick to the face. Luffy upon seeing this punches Mohji out of the sky and into the ground.

"Cabaji, attack straw hat." Buggy ordered as Cabaji went after him on a unicycle which was immediately stopped by a wounded Zoro.

"I will be Cabaji's opponent." Zoro spoke as Luffy nodded at this with a grin.

Cabaji then proceeds in the fight by kicking Zoro in the side knocking him down, but Zoro immediately gets up.

"I refuse to lose to the likes of you." Zoro declares as Cabaji continues to attack with a series of circus specials. Zoro still standing then brings up his sword to block one of Cabaji's attacks. As the fight continued on Leif and Nami were watching on the side lines which was leaving Leif eager to fight.

"I want to fight too." Leif complained as Nami swiftly walked away and disappeared from sight.

Cabaji continues with his attacks until one swiftly slashes against Zoro's side. Cabaji sees this as a chance and climbs a building ready to attack Zoro fully. Meanwhile, Buggy decides to send a hand over to Zoro to hold him, however Luffy stomps on his hand with his foot, refusing to let anyone else hurt his nakama.

Cabaji then goes in to attack but luckily Zoro dodges it just in time. Zoro gets up again ready to end this fight here and now. Zoro then hits Cabaji with his sword 'onigiri' which knocks out his opponent for good.

"Shishishi, good job Zoro, I will take it from here." Luffy told him as Zoro looked up at his captain.

"Alright, captain." Zoro spoke as he walked over to stand next to Leif who was squirming about in her spot.

"What's your problem?" questioned Zoro as Leif looked at him and grabbed his shoulders.

"I want to fight someone, Zoro." Leif told him as he started sweating from how creepy she was being at that moment.

Meanwhile…

"Its funny straw hat, that hat of yours really reminds me of someone I hate." Buggy spoke as Luffy looked at Buggy for a second before realizing that the person he was talking about was Shanks.

"You know Shanks; I will pound every answer out of you." Luffy told him as Buggy merely laughed it off. Buggy then draws out his knifes and attacks Luffy with them, but Luffy narrowly avoids them. Luffy then attacks Buggy by stretching out his arm to punch him, he then uses his powers to shoot himself toward Buggy but Buggy dodges the attack by separating himself which leads to Luffy crashing into a building. Luffy immediately emerges from the rumble as buggy uses his powers to knock Luffy back. Luffy stands back up but once he realizes that his hat was nicked during the attack he becomes a bit livid.

"Luffy?" Leif questioned upon seeing his reaction. Buggy immediately started to laugh and send his hand flying with a knife toward the straw hat clad captain. Once the knife reaches it stabbed through the hat that Luffy was holding which makes Luffy's eyes widen as Buggy's hand returns to him along with the hat.

"Shanks…" Luffy whispers as he clenches his fists in anger. Shanks had given him that hat when he was a child as a promise to be the pirate king, and he wouldn't let anyone destroy Shank's hat.

"Luffy!" Leif called out as Luffy began to shake from his hatred toward the clown captain.

"I will curse shanks for the rest of my life, he can go to hell!" Buggy screamed.

(Ending: Life is like a boat by Rie fu)

Me- I hope you enjoyed this chapter and more to come on the next chapter. See ya soon.