A new day a new start,our greatest narrator had arrived at the studio early as always just to keep the fans updated on Sage's journey with the Straw hats.

"So where did we left of?" the narrator asked his colleages.

Some random guy answered "They arrived at Drum island."

"Oh right...So the Straw hats had docked on Drum Island. Most of the crew went to help Nami as Zoro,Karoo and Sage was left to watch the ship. Zoro taking advantage of the environmental conditions (the freezing cold),decided to train a bit as he was getting bored of the ship.

"Sage I'll be away for a bit to train, stay on the ship." Zoro said as he took off his shirt.

"Thats not fair! I don't want to stay on the ship either! Can't Karoo stay on the ship alone?!" Sage protested.

"You're just a kid what would you even do? Im not going to take care of you." Zoro crossed his arms slightly glaring at her.

"I can take care of myself. And I could watch how you train. Ya know I like to study from different people so my knowledge is not one sided." Sage smirked hoping her reasoning was good enough for Zoro.

Zoro just shrugged "Okay,I don't care what you do" Zoro stated coldly as he got off the ship. Sage followed behind him being happy that she can learn something new.

Sage watched him train in the freezing temperature after a while she spoke up "You're gonna freeze like that you know?"

"No I won't" Zoro glared at her.

Some time had passed as Zoro trained Sage just watching him. And then after a long while she spoke up.

"Can I ask you a favor?" Sage asked him with puppy eyes.

Zoro rolled his eyes "Depends on the favor..."

"Could you cut my hair?" She asked softly.

Zoro raised an eyebrow "Of course not...I'm not a hairstylist...if you wanna have your hair cut that badly ask the shitty cook..."

"I did! but he said he won't cut off my beautiful hair...And I tought you could do it for me since you cut your own hair~"

"Its a fact that I cut my hair but that doesn't mean I need to cut yours." Zoro huffed.

But Sage didn't let things go that easily. "Please~ Im too clumsy to cut my hair~"

"Why don't you ask Nami...or Usopp?" He asked coldly.

"Because i don't want to" Sage kept insisting.

"You're so annoying." Zoro rolled his eyes and got back to training.

Sage just didn't let him be until he agrees "Zoro...Zoro...Zoro..."She repeated until Zoro had enough.

"Could you shut up?!"Zoro yelled at her. She just casually answeared "Not until you cut my hair"

"IM NOT CUTTING YOUR HAIR!" Sage just smirked "Yes you are"

Zoro had enough and unsheeted his sword and with one light swing he cut off her hair. Sage was surprised she run to the river to look at her reflection. When she saw herself her smile widened and ran to hug Zoro.

Zoro pushed her away slightly,confused. "Stop touching me idiot!"

"S-Sorry this just really means a lot to me...thanks" Sage stepped away awkwardly looking down at the ground. Zoro's expression softens slightly,an almost unnoticable smile forming on his lips. "You know I could keep cutting your hair if you like it that much" Zoro said the smirk evident now on his face.

Sage's smile widened, extremely happy now. "Really!? You really would!? Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!"Sage jumped in happiness

"You know kid you're gonna get cold like that" Zoro stated trying to change the topic. Sage raised an eyebrow looking at the shirtless man. "You're one to talk"

Zoro huffed clearly annoyedby the kid."Look lets just find the others." Zoro started walking away in the direction of a forest. Sage followed him, she found Zoro unbelieveable. How could someone be this clueless and dumb yet so powerful? She adored his power but didn't liked how simple he was. She was starting to miss the Revolutionaries and the long meaningful conversations, hell even the boring missions she often tried to avoid. Oh and how deeply she missed sabo too. She just sighed which didn't go unnoticed by Zoro. "What now?2 He asked with an annoyed tone.

Sage looked up at the man raising an eyebrow. "What?" She asked as she didn't noticed she sighed out loud.

"I mean what are you sighing about? And you have been quiet for a while now...It's not like you..." Zoro stated. He was a tad worried about the young one but he knew she was more than capable taking care of herself. She had to admit she was feeling homesick and it was getting worse. "I just miss my home and the people I call family"

Zoro couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. He didn't knew about her anything. If he's being honest he wasn't really interested in the others' past. But Sage was somehow different as if he could feel this wasn't her future.

"Damn...why did I say that?" Sage questioned herself in a whisper.

"So you don't wanna talk about it?" Zoro questioned her hoping her answear would be no. And his hopes were to come true as she answeared:"Actually could you not mention this to anyone...like ever again?" She looked at him hopefully.

Zoro never expected that as an answear. Especially not from someone like her. "Yeah..sure thing..." They continued walking in silence...

The narrator looked up from the papers. "That's it?" He asked the other workers. Some of them just nodded. The narrator looked around once again, then stood up and packed. "When are we continuing?" He asked as he slung his bag over his shoulder. The secretary answeared:"Only next week" The narrator nodded and walked out.

To be continued