A Scarred Mind

Worried

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After Chopper treated Zoro and Umi, he remembered that Umi hadn't eaten yet so he went to go ask Sanji to heat her food up and he would give it to her. While the tiny doctor was gone the room was silent between Umi and Zoro, neither looking into the others eyes.

"Ok I'm curious..." Zoro started "Why did you just up and sudden scratch me?"

Umi bit her lower lip, trying to avoid telling him about her nightmares so he wouldn't worry.

"Well you hit me with a door, so it's only fair."

"What if I told you I knew you were lying?"

"Then I would ask how you knew."

"I know because when your eyes shot open, they were filled with sorrow and terror. Then you moved you hands over your shoulders like you we trying to hug yourself. You looked like you were just tortured. Also you're not the person to get revenge on some accident like that."

Umi's eyes bulged open, images of the figure and the darkness running through her mind, her heart sped up.

Chopper returned with Umi's breakfast. Zoro got up and left the room.

"Here, your shoulders must hurt but until you eat something you can't take the pain medication, sorry."

"It's ok, I'm used to it by now."

Sanji bursted into the room, his eyes turned into hearts.

"Oh my dear Umi-kun, how is your food? I hope it's to your liking!"

"It's wonderful as usual Sanji, thanks for heating it up."

Sanji was now dancing around the room. "I'm glad you like it!!!!!" Sanji dropped down to a serious tone. "Now to beat up that shitty marimo for injuring your beautiful face."

Sanji started to walk towards the door but Umi stopped him with her arm. Her arm started to hurt since she wasn't on medication yet.

"It's fine Sanji, it was an accident, I'm fine now."

"Fine, only cause you say so." Sanji ruffled her hair and walked out of the room.

"Umi, try to get some sleep, you'll feel better." Chopper looked up from packing his medical stuff to speak. He handed her pain medication for her to take.

The word sleep rung in Umi's head like a bell. She took her medicine and plopped back down to take her nap. She hoped she wouldn't have that dream while she took her nap. Boy, was she wrong.

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Everyone was gathered in the kitchen except for Zoro who was on deck taking a nap, everyone was silent.

"So, why did Umi scratch Zoro?" Usopp question still working on whatever he works on.

"And why didn't either of them tell the truth?" Luffy was really concerned for his friends, especially his child hood friend, Umi.

"Well I bet Zoro knew we would interrogate her, we all know she hates telling us stuff like that." Nami stated while continuing to read her newspaper. "He didn't want us stressing her out."

"But the question why she scratched him is still unanswered, and I'm curious because she doesn't just randomly inflict injuries on her friends." Sanji gave a long drag on his cigarette before sitting down in a chair.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure she's ok, I'll get her to talk." Zoro randomly appeared in the kitchen.

"ZORO!!!!????" Everybody shouted his name in pure shock of not noticing him.

"If you guys don't shut the hell up, Umi's gonna come up here and tear all of us to shreds." Zoro said, holding his ears in the process. He sat down in his usual spot. "As we all have seen she's not in the best mood, so we need to figure out why she's suddenly flipping out. Until we figure out what's wrong, were not going to freak her out by doing interventions or dumb stuff like that ok?" Zoro had a real serious tone in his voice.

The whole crew nodded.

 "So marimo head, why are you taking this so serious all of a sudden." Everyone knew it was Sanji talking.

Zoro stood back up and headed for the door. "Because I'm worried." He then walked out the door, not looking at a single soul in the room.

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 The next night was exactly like the last, filled with terror. Umi was even more terrified because not knowing who was haunting her was killing her, literally. She decided to just get out of bed and get an early start on the day. When she looked at the time, it was five in the morning. She was getting a really early start on the day. She put on her pink floral jean shorts and put on a grey short sleeve shirt (all of her shirts have a hole for her wings.) She quietly moved past Nami, grabbed a book she was currently reading  and went up to the bathroom to freshen up. When she was done she walk to the deck and sat laying on the mast. She started reading was going to read till everyone was up for breakfast. If this routine kept up, Umi sensed that it was going to be an eternity until the next island.

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Shorter chapter but oh well, i'll have a longer chapter next time!