Inheritance (One Piece Fanfic)

Fortune

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A confused look washed over Zoro's face as he watched the little old woman study her crystal ball. He couldn't see what was so interesting about it, just seemed like a weird clear little ball. It wasn't like it radiated a glow or had anything out of the ordinary floating inside of it. He didn't get it, the woman told him to sit down yet she continued to stare into her ball. Zoro was beginning to lose patients with her. "Soooo what did you want old lady."

"Shhh I'm looking into inevitable. Hush or you'll make me lose my concentration." Her hands waved over the orb and she seemed to whisper something incoherent under her breath. Zoro cocked an eyebrow at her odd behavior, not accustomed to the gypsy way of life, too much superstition for his taste. He cared more for tangible reality not invisible fiction. It was just the way he'd always been, some would say a nonbeliever, but what can you really believe in these days. Is there a God or how about a government that works for the greater good or even the supposed outlaws that do more good than harm in the world? Who do you put your belief in?

"Ugh I don't have time for this. Thanks for the silence and empty stares but I think I'll just be on my way now." He finally said after a few more moments. He didn't see the point in sitting ideally at a table across from a weird little gypsy women and her magic ball. It was a waste of his time and to think he hardly even got a chance to look around before this lady pulled him into whatever this was.

"Stay where you are, after all it must be hard to move around with all those wounds bound the way they are." He stopped moving; not even attempting to get out of his chair and looked back at her. She was looking dead at him, her expression hardly changing but looking a bit more ominous. She looked as if she was tired but her eyes shown to be way different, they were full of wonder. Why this was he had no idea but he was bound to find of what exactly her gain was.

"Wait how do you..? How do you know all of this?" Zoro questioned softly as he folded his arms together and placed them on the table, a more comfortable position since it seemed like he was going to be here for a while. Plus, it took a lot just to stand and walk off; the whole walk to town was a minor hell although he refused to show it.

"I can see right through you. I know what you've been through and what will happen next. What you did was very brave. Stupid but brave." She let out a little smile. Zoro hated this, how on Earth could anyone else know what went down unless they were there when it happened. Regardless of how she knew, it didn't matter the truth was out. It didn't worry him however after all she didn't look like the gossiping type.

"Ok you got my attention, but what do you really want from me? How do you know all of this and why are you telling me?" She smiled a genuine smile; perhaps it was because she enjoyed the company, that or it amused her to see confusion work its way onto the young man's face. "Well it didn't take much to convince you now did it?"

Zoro said nothing only narrowing his eyebrows at the woman, urging her to explain herself. The two looked back at each other in silence and after some time as well as a few serious glares she sighed and continued talking, "As I told you I can see right through you, as if you were an open book. You see I'm a fortune teller; this crystal ball you've been staring at so eagerly has the capability to allow me to peak into a certain window of time. It only works, however if you know what you are looking for."

"Sounds a little farfetched if you ask me, honestly I don't believe in fairy tales and voodoo magic. Hell you can hardly get me to understand and accept the delusion that is the devil fruit users. I don't quite understand how that's magic or some other strange force but I've learned to accept the fact that they exist just like all other kinds of weird I've come across on the grand line. A fortune teller doesn't surprise me one bit." Zoro said calmly but how she'd come across the information regarding him made him wonder. Perhaps it was some voodoo magic or something. Who knows, it really didn't matter anyway he's still going to believe in was he knows, physical proof and fact, nothing more.