Supreme Swordsman Zoro

Kuina and Zoro were at sea as they were navigating towards the next island, Zoro's stomach rumbled then he entered the kitchen to grab a bite of food after he stuffed himself he started to train using some giant weights manufactured from the ship's anchor.

Kuina wasn't idle herself as she sat cross-legged on the deck training her Observation Haki, she tried to extend the range of her Observation Haki and how much time she could keep it up before she would get exhausted mentally.

Zoro was doing this combined with the weights training, he also tried to activate armament every time his muscles contracted, he was a multitasking guy when it came to training, he wanted to train every part of his fighting arsenal at the same time he was also pretty ingenious with the way he trained to combine all the training techniques into one.

Kuina was Observing Zoro with her haki when suddenly two little voices could be heard in her mind, they screamed in fear and agony a few kilometers away from the ship on a giant rock in the middle of the sea.

Kuina got up from her cross-legged position and used the rudder to get to the two voices she heard, one man was clutching the other man's arm as he was unconscious, he was crying as he didn't know what happened to him, he just collapsed one day!

Kuina got near the railing of the ship and shouted at the duo:

"Hey, are you guys ok?" The tanned man with a tattoo on his head and sunglasses who wore a blue shirt and white trousers and sandals immediately let the other man down and looked at Kuina with tears in his eyes:

"Big sis please help us, my friend collapsed and I don't know what's wrong with him!" There was a tiny boat anchored to the rock and with the help of Zoro, they brought the duo on the ship.

After a bit of inspection from Kuina she told Zoro:

"Go get some limes from the kitchen and make juice from them, feed it to this guy, it seems he has scurvy." The man in question lied on the deck of the ship, blood sipped out of the corners of his mouth and some gaps could be seen where some of his teeth were supposed to be, he wore a red headgear a green coat with triangles on it and some baggy blue pants, like his friend he also wore sandals.

Zoro grunted and said:

"Why should we even help them?" Kuina shook her head at Zoro's question then said:

"We can't help everyone but we shouldn't ignore someone pleas as bounty hunters, we aren't marines but we aren't pirates either if it's in our power we should help with what we can." Zoro scratched the back of his head he didn't really understand Kuina's ideology but decided to not argue with her, it was just some lemons he would be giving away.

Zoro entered the kitchen and made some lemon juice out of a bunch of lemons then he got near the downed man and fed him the juice, the man suddenly got up from the deck and started jumping around while saying:

"Johnny I got better!" Then he collapsed like a sack of potatoes as he spurted blood out of his mouth.

Kuina shook her head at the man's antics, it was obvious he wasn't very smart, he told the now identified Johnny:

"He should rest, we have some free rooms on the ship, if you want to you can stay here also do you guys know how to cook or navigate?" Johnny started to tear up at Kuina's words then he said:

"Big sis we are just beginner bounty hunters, we can navigate only basically and we don't even know as many things as you, as for cooking we only ate the food we could buy from cashing in bounties.."

Kuina shook her head at the man's words, it seemed they weren't very useful for the duo, Zoro looked at the both of them with a questioning look on his face, were they really so dumb?

Johnny ignored Zoro's expression then he bowed towards him:

"Thanks for giving us the lemons big brother, may we know the name's of our saviors, As you heard I'm Johnny and the guy that's lying on the deck is called Yosaku."

Zoro opened his mouth to respond to Johnny:

"I'm Roronoa Zoro." Kuina chimed in as well and said:

"I'm Kuina!" Johnny bowed again towards the both of them then helped Yosaku up into one of the free rooms of the ship where Kuina guided them, Zoro got back to training everything he knew.

As Johnny let Yosaku rest on the hammock he looked at Kuina and asked:

"So what are the two of you doing at sea?"

Kuina smiled towards Johnny's question then said:

"Well just like the two of you we are bounty hunters, a few days ago we finished our first official job and we got some cash and this ship." Johnny's eyes widened behind his sunglasses as he stammered:

"So so so that that means the two of you are really strong??" Kuina chuckled at Johnny's words then said:

"Just look outside at Zoro and you should know how strong we are, let Yosaku rest here nothing will happen to him."

Johnny nodded his head while gulping, he could barely cash in bounties of ten thousand bellies and these guys looked like big shots! When Johnny saw how Zoro trained with the enormous anchor weights and how his arms would sometimes turn dark he didn't know what to say, sometimes the white anchor would turn dark blue as well.

Johnny gulped as he looked at Zoro then said:

"What is big bro Zoro doing?" Kuina smiled at him then said:

"He is training a special technique my father taught to us, he was a strong swordsman from the grand line." Kuina seemed to recall some memories from when she was even younger, how her father kept her in his arms as he ran away from the grand line, she also remembered a second silhouette resembling her crying out loud. Kuina shook her head, the memories were very old, she didn't truly remember what happened back then, she only had this flashback now because of Johnny's words.

Zoro didn't pry into Kuina's or Koshiro's past as he didn't care, Johnny was also sensible enough to not ask anymore as he saw Kuina's expression which started to take a furrow.

Johnny immediately interjected so he wouldn't make one of his saviors mad:

"Even though we can't navigate or cook we know of people who can! We also have updated information on the latest bounties, well I know of a great place with cooks but I'm not sure if they have good navigators as well."

Kuina nodded her head at Johnny's words when a gasp was suddenly heard from the inside of the ship, it seemed Yosaku woke up while Kuina and Johnny were talking, Johnny excused himself then entered the inside of the ship to check up on Yosaku.

Kuina approached Zoro and motioned at him with her hand, Zoro stopped his training as sweat trickled down his forehead and his shirtless c.h.e.s.t, Kuina blushed a bit when she saw Zoro like that but the blush disappeared immediately before Zoro could see it. He wouldn't have understood why she blushed anyway, maybe he would have thought she was getting sick.

Kuina cleared her throat to not sound awkward then said:

"These guys we saved have some information about cooks since we need one anyways we should follow their information, it would be very helpful for us, a good cook would keep us well fed and we could even improve our bodies a bit faster." Zoro smiled at Kuina's words, he knew that food was extremely important to the development of the body so he agreed with her wholeheartedly.

Johnny and Yosaku both left the inside of the ship in high spirits as they high fived each other, Yosaku bowed towards the both of them as well and said in a solemn tone of voice:

"Thanks for helping me big brother and sister, I owe you my life!" Zoro motioned that he didn't care with his hand while Kuina just smiled at him and said:

"It's ok since we had the power to save you we saved you, isn't that what a good person does?"

Yosaku smiled at her words then said:

"I heard from Johnny that you need a cook and navigator, I and my bro just know the greatest place where you can find cooks that can also fight!"

"It's called the floating sea restaurant Baratie and it was opened a few months ago and it already has quite the notorious reputation, most of the chefs are ex pirates and they treat costumers kind of unwell but their food is very good!"

Zoro nodded his head at Yosaku's explanation, a new restaurant opened by ex pirates sounded pretty legit to him, unfortunately for both Zoro and Kuina the restaurant was quite far away from their location, they also needed to stock up some more on supplies so they couldn't redirect the ship towards Baraties direction.

All they could do was keep the same course and go to the nearest island, hunt down some bounties then resupply, a pretty solid plan in Zoro's opinion.

It was the best course of action so Kuina agreed with it wholeheartedly, Yosaku gave Johnny a hit in the stomach with his elbow as he whispered to him:

"Johnny you think we should join these guys? They seem pretty strong and we could help them with the miscellaneous tasks around the ship, maybe they could even train us!" Johnny's sunglasses started glinting as a ray of sunshine landed on them, He grabbed Yosaku by the shoulders and said in a low tone of voice:

"You are a genius Yosaku! All we have to do is convince them!" Zoro and Kuina looked at each other as they heard their conversation then shook their heads, they didn't mind the extra company but training them would be another thing, the duo looked like simple people Kuina was certain of that if they did well when they would go bounty hunting Kuina would be thinking about training them.

Zoro didn't care much about such things, if they wanted training he would give them training, he looked towards the duo who was still chatting in low voices when Kuina grabbed him by the shoulder and shook her head, she knew Zoro's extreme training ways and the duo didn't look ready to endure them, she told him in a low tone of voice:

"If you want to train them firstly wait for me to finish with them first." Kuina's training techniques were gentler but she still wasn't sure of the duo's affinity towards the sword, only after they fought under her gaze would she know how to train them, it was something Koshiro instructed her about during their own training sessions, Koshiro's image appeared in Kuina's mind as she remembered:

"Kuina I will teach you how to identify the talent of someone, it could be useful if you would find future friends, it isn't easy to travel the grand line with only two people, talents are needed no matter how mediocre as long as they are talents they should be able to help you and Zoro."

The investigating would have to wait till they got to the island, Kuina wouldn't be able to infer anything if they sparred with Zoro, their levels were too far apart, Johnny and Yosaku looked a bit stronger than the average marine grunt as for their swordsmanship techniques they were a mystery for now.

In a few days of traveling, Johnny and Yosaku tried to butter up Zoro and Kuina by doing all of the chores of the ship while both of them trained. Zoro liked how he didn't have anything to do so he started to take a liking to the duo.

They even brought them food without them needing to ask as if they knew when they were hungry!

In these days of sailing, they got nearer and nearer to the island and they could already see it from a distance.

Yosaku shouted:

"Land hay-ho!" Zoro stopped his training as he looked at the island that was getting bigger and bigger in his view.

This was one of the pit stops they had to take before they could visit the Baratie, they would go in and out, take some bounties and resupply, an easy plan with an easy execution.