Fighting For Falling- One Piece fanfiction

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“Some times

People are beautiful

Not in looks

Not in what they say

Just in the way they are,”

Caroline

      “How are we going to get fire?” Zoro finally asked me.

      “Go, get some wood and hand me one of your swords.” I ordered.

      Hesitantly he handed me his black sword, “What are you going to do with the sword?”

      I unsheathed it and held it up to the sunlight and put the glare right in his face.

      “Well, that work?” He asked getting out of the glare.

      “Guess we’ll find out unless if you can find Marcasite and Flint,” I said.

      He looked at me like he didn’t understand what I was talking about. Then he just went off to look for wood. I found a dry piece of drift wood and aimed the glare at it. After a while nothing started to happen and Zoro got a whole bunch of drift wood together. Once I aimed it carefully in the same spot continuously a smoke started to come out. Then a flame spouted. Quickly bursting into flames Zoro started building a fire and getting a stick to put on my legs full of leeches.

      “That’s the grossest thing I have ever seen,” Zoro said as some leeches sizzled off and fell to the sandy ground.

      “I don’t care I just want those blood suckers gone,” I yelped.

      Feeling the last one fall off Zoro put the sick back in the fire and sat down. “Are you sure they noticed we’re gone? Or even know where we are?”

      “They have Nami with them, she’ll know where the most reasonable place to go is,” I answered, “Even though she hates me.”

      “She probably hates me too, apparently I owe her money,” he laughed to himself stretching out.

      We waited some more, we waited ate and drank water. I still wanted to safe some water to from that long trip to go get it. We talked and just sat there and waited.

      “You never really quite told me why at out of all of the girls you choose me to be attracted to,” I finally brought up.

      He took a while to answer then he said, “You were just really interesting that’s all. I loved how you weren’t afraid of anything, or taking anything down, even if it’s some really strong man. I loved how you showed up Tashigi. I think you are one of the smartest and beautiful girls out there and I don’t care who your father is, I’m still going to beat him.”

      I smiled back at him, “I don’t hear that very often,” I held on to his shoulder, “You can beat my father all you want he deserves it,”

      “What about me?” Zoro questioned.

      “Yes. I do have feelings for you,” I confessed but I guessed he already knew since my drunken alter ego let that out for him. “That moment we first fought, when our blades first clashed I could feel it, you are special, and I do think you are going to go so far in your dreams, you have the potential and persistence to follow your dream and keep that promise that you made. I just hope that one day after you’ve finished battle Mihawk and won that I’ll fit in somehow in there.”

      “You will maybe before but you definitely will.,” he assured me as I leaned on his shoulder. “We just need to get off of this island first.”