Book One: Treasure of the Heart (Zoro X OC)

Chapter Ninety Seven ~ The Thousand Sunny Sails Onward

~Third~

With Franky on board as their new crewmate the Strawhats set off on their new ship "So that's it we're leaving?"Nami asked "Luffy"Chopper whined a bit "Last call Strawhat are you sure? Seems like we're still missing someone"Franky said "No it's okay we waited long enough and he never bothered to show up, we went over this back at Galley La everyone agreed on what to do"Luffy said but despite that he was still nervous.

~flashback~

After dinner Sanji revealed he had spotted Usopp, the sniper had been practicing what to say when he'd return "So Usopp's really gonna come back?"Luffy asked "Uh huh i saw him on the coast practicing his big return speech "That's great news man i was so worried, okay let's go get him right now!"Luffy said.

"Well that's Usopp for ya, should of known"Nami said, Luffy, Nami and Chopper went to head out "All of you hold on a second!"Zoro said stopping them "I understand that you wanna see him again but i won't allow you to bring him back here"Zoro said "Huh? Why not?"Luffy asked "You can't kiss his ass and tell him you're happy to see him again you know that"Zoro said crossing his arms.

"Zoro"Luffy said "Until he bows his head and apologizes for what he did he can't come back" Zoro said "Hey i don't know what your problem is but"Nami was cut off "Shut up! Doesn't matter what you two were thinking when you started arguing it doesn't matter who was wrong or who was right either, when two men agree to have a duel with each other no matter what the outcome is they have to accept it and after he lost that duel he left on his own accord" Zoro said continueing what he was saying earlier.

"You understand don't you? He may be and idiot but this guy is still our captain, we're better off without a crew member who disrespects their leader when things get rough, a crew with no respect and a captain that doesn't demand it are destined to fall apart quickly"Zoro said turning to the others.

"Listen"Zoro said turning to Luffy "I don't mind if you're easy going most of the time but right now you've gotta man up, you can't let people walk all over you cause if you do that it's gonna be me who leaves this crew"Zoro said "You're making this harder then it needs to be"Nami said.

"Don't get me wrong it's fine if he rejoins the crew and it's fine if you want him back but if he doesn't apologize for what he did and pretends like nothing ever happened between the two of you, then i won't forgive him and i won't stand for it, in other words we'll leave the island without him"Zoro said.

"Wait Zoro i agree Usopp's the one at fault not Luffy but we can settle with that after he joins up with us again"Nami said, Zoro stabbed the floor with one of his swords "So that the fact that he left our crew means nothing? He can come and go as he pleases?!"Zoro asked "No but i, Nicole talk some sense into him"Nami said turning to Nicole who was still sitting on the floor.

Nicole sighed a bit as she stood up the sunset behind her showing off the light red ish tint to her hair "Nami, he's got a point, you know he has a point if anyone of us can just come and go as they want we won't get further then this, Usopp has to say sorry and if Luffy forgives him everything is fine"she said walking over to Zoro and turning around as she stood next to him.

"However if Usopp is let on like nothing happened i'll be leaving the crew too"Nicole said narrowing her eyes a bit "If he pulls a pointless like this on a whim then how are we supposed to trust him moving forward? It's simple if the first thing that comes out of Usopp's mouth is and apology then we're good but if he tried to make some excuse then he's no longer welcome here, we're not just pretending to be pirates, this isn't a game"Zoro said putting his sword back.

"You're right we already went our separate ways before, there's still a few days until they finish with the ship we can wait that long, it's all up to him"Luffy said.