Beneath a Borrowed Name │ Roronoa Zoro

🚨This fic is on hiatus while I focus on my other canon compliant fic🚨

Summary:
Nova doesn't know what she wants.
Zoro has only ever wanted one thing.

They fall in love-
more than once.

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At nineteen, Dracule Nova returns to The University of Kuraigana under a name that isn't hers. It isn't the last time.

Each time Roronoa Zoro climbs higher-grad student, instructor, coach, head of the program-she reappears somewhere new on campus with a different alias and the same sharp eyes, the same familiar stance, the same hands that know short blades and throwing knives better than anyone he's ever met.

Dorm mother. Groundskeeper. Librarian. Cook.

Each time he finds her.
Each time she leaves.

Zoro is chasing the title of World's Greatest Swordsman.
Nova is running from the legacy she was born into.

And somewhere between borrowed names and almost-confessions, between training halls and late-night kitchens, they keep choosing each other-until the truth threatens to tear ambition, inheritance, and love apart.

Because loving her was never the problem.

It was loving her beneath a borrowed name.