Dream Chasers: Zoro x Reader

Chapter 17: Forever Ours

Your request completely took Zoro off guard. Zoro... I wish to die the next time I sleep... Some request huh? Nobody could blame you for such a request. But Zoro slept on the request for a few days, unable to find the courage to actually grant that wish of yours. Sanji, oh how he had a few words to share about the subject.

"Are you death? She asked you for a simple favor DAYS ago!" Sanji brewed up a storm all the while keeping his voice down low to prevent you from hearing.

"You call killing my entire world a simple favor?" Zoro threw a well deserved punch at the blonde who shook off the blow. Spitting up blood onto the floorboards of the deck.

"I meant..." Sanji hesitated. "(Y/n)'s suffering. She can't walk or lift a finger. That loud breathing machine is keeping the poor girl alive. (Y/n) asked for you to let her pass on, let her," Sanji being the logical one, found your position no longer worth living for. Zoro very well understood what Sanji had to say. But the thought of killing his entire world ate at the swordsman.

"I want to..." Zoro sighed. "But I can't."

"Damn it Zoro!" The blonde stomped his foot. "It's not like you're hurting her, that's why (Y/n) asked to die in her sleep. She won't feel a thing and all you have to do is remove her breathing mask."

"Oh... That opens my eyes a bit," Zoro admits with a pain of guilt.

"Just do it, one second is all you need. And-" Sanji opened the door to the mechanical sick bay, "(Y/n) is asleep. Do it now." No other words were needed. Zoro slipped past the slender blonde into the sick bay. The loop of your life support machine beeped to fill the void. There you lied. Almost skeletal in appearance, pale skin and motionless features. Zoro hesitated with a few steps back.

Sanji caught the wandering Marimo. "As much as you hate me... You're not doing this alone," Zoro had no choice but to do what's right now. One hand gently held your chin, the other firmly grasped around the mask firmly secured around your beautiful face. It was somewhat a long process, Zoro finally granted your last wish. No tears were shed as he ran out days before.

On that day, everyone felt refreshed, as if their demons were lifted from their shoulders.

Two Years Later

After an incident at Sabaody Archipelago where Marine Admiral Kizaru and Warlord Bartholomew Kuma ambushed every and every pirate standing upon the series of island like trees, Bartholomew Kuma saved the entire Straw Hat crew. But at a price. The price well… Kuma flung every member of the Straw Hats across the globe and to destinations of their high interest as well. Not so bad right? It wasn’t, depending on the person of course.

Franky was sent off to a frozen wasteland, but it was the homeland of the world’s greatest scientist that the cyborg looked up to. Usopp was sent to an island where only the fittest survive because the island literally eats you up. There, a man of much similarities to the long nosed tinker trained Usopp to be a stronger man. Sanji… That man was sent to an island of drag. All men pretending to be women, yet no woman on the island. Learning a new fighting style and recipes for the long journey ahead. Zoro was sent to Warlord Mihawk’s mansion. Training alongside the world’s greatest swordsman but with an annoying pest as a roommate. It was a win-lose situation for everyone.

Your former Captain, Luffy, took advantage of this separation and called for a two year break so that everyone could train and prepare for the new world. In which everyone gladly did, meeting up where everyone separated in the first place. Sabaody Archipelago. There were a few problems upon arrival, but were taken care of pretty quickly. Everyone was settling back down in their long lost home, the Thousand Sunny.