INNATE INSTINCTS [zoro x male!reader]

IV. START ME UP

"Luffy," (Y/N) started.

"How the hell did you get yourself here?!" Zoro finished. 

The two pirates weren't close enough for Luffy to actually hear them and form a response, they were essentially grumbling to themselves about their captain's current predicament.

The rubber man was locked in a cage, with a huge cannon aimed right at him. A pirate- a member of the Buggy Pirates, a crew a passing citizen told them about- was holding a lit torch after shoving a ginger-haired girl out of the way.

The pirate lit the fuse, and (Y/N) paled. He darted in, Zoro following close behind.

We're not fast enough! (Y/N) even generated some flame clouds below his feet to give him a little more momentum, but at this rate, the cannon was going to-

A pained hiss interrupted (Y/N)'s train of thought. 

The girl with the red hair had placed her bare hands on the fuse, effectively stopping the encroaching flame.

The pirate with a torch turned to her with a menacing glare and was reaching for the saber strapped to his belt.

As he lifted the saber to swing down on her hand, Zoro got there first and blocked the blade with a sheathed katana.

"Luffy!" (Y/N) called, jogging over to his captain's cage, "Are you alright?"

"Better now that you two are here! Good to see you, Zoro, (Y/N)!" He replied cheerfully.

"First you got snatched by a bird, now you're in a cage? Just what have you been up to?" Zoro chimed in, still standing in between the girl and the rest of the Buggy Pirates.

"Funny story," the captain giggled. You 'gonna give us any more than that or...?

"Did the boy just say Zoro?" One of the pirates muttered to his comrades.

"Like the Pirate Hunter?" Another responded. As Zoro began to walk over to (Y/N), who was trying to break the bars of Luffy's cage, a voice stopped him.

"Come for my head, have you? Roronoa!" A pirate-wielding twin daggers with a big clown nose smirked mockingly at Zoro.

[INTRODUCING: BUGGY THE CLOWN]

"That's gotta be Buggy, right?" (Y/N) asked Luffy. He nodded.

"I'm not interested. I've given up hunting pirates." The swordsman explained cooly. Buggy laughed.

"I'm interested! Killing you would be such a boost to my reputation. My fame!" the clown licked one of his daggers, causing (Y/N) to shudder.

"Try it, clown. You'll die."

Buggy stalked towards Zoro. His crew began to chant, "Buggy! Buggy! Buggy!"

The clown pulled additional daggers from his belt and clutched them between his gloved fingers.

Zoro pulled his katanas out of their sheaths and put the white one into his mouth.

"Time to die!" Buggy yelled, leaping into the air. Zoro crossed his katanas and uncrossed them with extreme speed, practically chopping Buggy into bits.

"That was too easy," Zoro remarked, looking at the now in-pieces Captain.

"Hah! What a weakling!" Luffy added.

(Y/N) heard faint snickers from the rest of the crew. His third eye shot open so fast, almost as if it knew what was about to happen.

Just as a disembodied hand clutched the knife tighter, (Y/N) sprinted in between Zoro and Buggy's remains.