Zoro x Tashigi

Advent

An hour later

The words in italics are Zoro's thoughts.

ZORO'S P.O.V

Ah.

My eye hurts!

Were we still in that stupid shiny-shiny place? 

No.

MY KATANAS!! Oh, they are right here. That's a relief.

WHERE THE HELL DID I END UP?!?!?!

Am I laying on sand? What's with these long green things.

IS THIS VIVI'S COUNTRY?!?! that ala-, no, ara-, no... HELL WHATEVER!!

Ahh, I feel dizzy.

Ahh ... jet lag. I must get some sleep first.

Exactly how long has it been since the time we got hit by that stupid beam?

WE?

Wait... the marine woman.

Shit, I almost forgot about her.

She is sleeping so peacefully there.

Should I just leave her right here? She already caused a lot of problems.

"Oye, how long do you plan on sleeping?" I said-shouted at her so that she wakes up.

Why is she frowning? Does she enjoy sleeping so much? 

Do all brilliant swordsmen love to sleep?

Wait that isn't a question for now!

The sun is a real pain in the ass. 

Did I really get lost all the way to Vivi's country?

I better reach back to my crew as soon as possible and as secretly as possible. I don't want to hear that I-got-lost-all-the-way-to-Vivi's-country bullshit from them and I don't want to waste time on this waking up this woman or worse carry her around like last time.

I am, by now, one hundred per cent sure that meeting this...no seeing this woman was an alarming, deafening indication of something about to go terribly wrong. 

"This is the last time I am going to call you if you wake up later and don't complain about having to find your way alone" saying this I moved closer.

Blood?

There was blood spread on the mud she was laying.

Shit. She was hit by a bullet. Is she... no no no no-no-no. 

I bent down to check on her arm. She was lying with her back on the ground with the face-up. 

She is very unconscious.

Her Den-Den Mushi still in her hands. 

I seriously didn't want to do this at all! Ahhh this woman!!!!! 

I picked her up. This was the second time I was doing this and it wasn't something I wanted to do.

But.

I am not even surprised.

My life is filled with things that I don't want to do but have to.

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Sorry for all this long delay. 

And sorry for republishing this chapter.

THank you so much for reading!!