Supreme Swordsman Zoro

Zoro was patiently waiting outside with Johnny and Yosaku. Johnny and Yosaku were talking on and on and Zoro was ready to punch them in the face to silence both of them up, they were getting annoying when suddenly the topic of the discussion changed towards bounties:

"Yo Johnny, this Aarlong guy has the biggest bounty in the east blue think we can take him on after all the training we did with big bro and big sis?" Yosaku asked as he took out a poster that showed a shark man with a big sharp nose and a tattoo with a sun on his c.h.e.s.t, his gills could be seen on his neck.

Johnny took a pondering expression then he said:

"I don't think we would be able to defeat him Yosaku, I don't think we trained enough, we can barely beat people with bounties of four million and you want to jump directly at twenty?"

Yosaku scratched the back of his head awkwardly and laughed, he felt stronger and stronger every day and he wanted to take care of big shots now but Johnny's words woke him up, if he fought any strong pirate he might just go and die without knowing how he died.

Zoro watched the picture of Aarlong on the wanted poster and scoffed, he could care less about what this fish-man did in east-blue but he was quite bored these days, there were no challenges for him anymore if he knew the location of the Aarlong he would sail there in a breath so he could take him on for a fight and take his bounty as well, he doubted Aarlong would be able to beat him but he should give him a bigger challenge shouldn't he? After a few hours of waiting Tashigi and Kuina came out and they seemed closer than ever.

Kuina opened her mouth and said:

"We talked about everything that could be talked about, Tashigi and I decided that she should go back to Logue Town, her captain Smoker while understanding still needs her there, she told me he hates paperwork." Tashigi nodded her head at Kuina's words, while Smoker was a good fighter he couldn't defeat paperwork at all, this was a problem even with admirals, most admirals got a few people to work on their paperwork, especially Kuzan, he was the laziest of the bunch and he had over ten secretaries working for him, Akainu was too angry to do paperwork while Kizaru didn't get much paperwork because of his general tardiness and lack of interest in things, even though Kuzan was the laziest Kizaru was right behind him, this a strange thing since Kizaru ate the light-light fruit, he was quite slow if you met him even though he was supposed to be the fastest man alive.

The men and women went to their ship and left the island Koshiro was at the docks waving towards his daughters and he shouted out loud:

"Take care! also don't date any strange boys out there!" Tashigi and Kuina blushed at their father's words Zoro and the other two laughed and the ship started to disappear on the horizon.

Koshiro sighed as he limped back to the dojo, his injury didn't let him live as he wanted. Zoro continued to train with weights while he concentrated on mastering both of his Hakis, he also jumped off the ship from time to time to become it's motorized engine so they could get to Logue Town faster.

In ten days they reached Logue Town and left Tashigi there afterward Kuina gave her goodbyes and well wishes to her sister. Time passed as one more year gone by making Zoro seventeen and Kuina nineteen. After one year of training and adventures in east blue Zoro fully mastered Armament making it appear whenever he wanted now he only refined armament to increase its strength and duration, he could now hold Observation Haki for hours on end unconsciously but there were also some times Observation would turn itself off so he can recharge his mind faculties, Observation was training itself at this point so Zoro didn't have to do any conscious efforts to train it anymore.

Kuina also mastered armament and she was only a little bit above Zoro in Observation, as for her armament proficiency we could say that she was quite behind Zoro, but hey at least she could use armament whenever she wanted. Johnny and Yosaku were the ones who improved the most in this one year their power increased so much they were new people, even though they still couldn't hold a candle to Zoro and Kuina they were pretty strong bounty hunters who could survive paradise easily.

In this one year besides training, they acc.u.mulated over fifty million bellies while bounty hunting, east blue was almost pirate free, they gained quite the big reputation as the demonic bounty hunter duo since they killed every pirate extremely fast most of the time by decapitation.

Johnny shouted as he walked outside the ship's cabin indicating towards everyone to come to him, it seems he had news!

"Guys there's new about Aarlong's whereabouts, up until now a marine hid his location because he got bribed but one of the locals of the island where Aarlong is located right now got his hands on a den-den mushi somehow and leaked his location! We can now take care of east-blue strongest pirate!" Zoro smiled as he could finally get a strong opponent, with the money he would make off his hide he would also have enough money to buy a ship and go to the grand line! His bounty hunter group was already invited to a grand line bounty hunter organization known as Baroque Works but he declined due to the shady nature of the organization.

Zoro didn't particularly if he was the captain leader, etc of something as long as he got stronger and fulfilled his dream, he was a simple man who liked few things which were alcohol, his swords, and his dream, unknowingly to him Kuina was also included in those things he liked.

Kuina nodded her head at Johnny's words then she looked at Zoro and asked:

"Do we go now Zoro? or do you want to do something else?" Zoro shook his head there was nothing else to do in east blue after he gathered the money he would immediately order a good ship and wait for it to be made, there was no reason to keep staying in east-blue.

Zoro then said:

"Ok let's go, actually where are we supposed to go?" Johnny unfolded a map which he brought from inside the ship and pointed towards some islands which read 'Conomi Islands' and said:

"Conomi Islands is a chain of islands that have been brought under Aarlong's fins, the guy who informed the marines about the situation on the islands is most likely dead currently, Aarlong rules the islands with an iron fist and he kills anyone that doesn't pay their monthly taxes, I kind of feel bad for the residents." Zoro nodded his head at Johnny's explanation then said:

"Ok since we know where to go let's go, at full power towards Conomi Islands!" everyone complied with Zoro's command and started to navigate towards Conomi Islands where Aarlong was supposedly terrorizing the islanders.

It took them a bit to get to Conomi Islands and they were met with a bunch of marines trying to attack Aarlong Park the place where Aarlong resided, but they were met with their doom as a giant sea cow came out of nowhere and sunk their ship killing them in the process. Zoro shook his head at the marines, almost all east-blue marines were goddamn weaklings, only Smoker and Tashigi were decent marines.

The cow was ready to attack Zoro's ship as well but a glare from him suddenly made the cow start sweating intensely for some reason, the cow looked extremely scared like it would piss itself any moment now, it started to moo then swam towards Aarlong park at high speeds. Zoro wondered what was all that about, he only glared at the cow he didn't even unsheath his swords or unleashed his aura, whatever that was Zoro didn't care particularly much about it so he just made the ship go towards Aarlong Park.

There he was met face to face with Aarlong who was looking the same as in his poster, also, he was wearing an aloha yellow shirt, blue Bermuda shorts, and sandals he had quite the crowd of fish-men around him Zoro felt that the strongest fish-men where the octopus man the man with big elbows who wore a karate gi and the man with big lips, they were staying near Aarlong and trying to look scary.

Zoro shook his head at their attempt of looking scary but before he could say anything Aarlong beat him to it:

"So you are the demon swordsman Roronoa Zoro? finally came after my bounty have you?" Zoro nodded his head and said:

"Yes, please don't come along easily, I especially like it when they struggle." Zoro unsheathed all three of his swords and put his black bandana on almost covering his eyes for those looking at him, he jumped from the ship and landed near the pool that extended into the sea of Aarlong Park. Aarlong started to laugh at Zoro's words:

"Shahahaha, you heard this, boys? This inferior human wants to apprehend me and take me to these weakling marines Shahahaha!" He didn't even get off his lawn chair as he said:

"Kuroobi, Chu, Hachi take care of this fool for me, please make sure he becomes Moo Moo's food." The henchman trio said in unison:

"Yes, Aarlong-sama." They wanted to take care of Zoro so they directly threw themselves at him while Hachi the octopus went into the building that was behind them and came back with eight swords in each of his octopus hand, Zoro shook his head at them and said:

"You are too weak for me, but since you don't feel it I guess I will just take you down." Zoro appeared amid the trio and spun himself like a tornado once while saying:

"Three sword style: dragon tornado!" Out of Zoro's swords, a bunch of sword light came out that transformed into a tornado which started cutting the henchmen trio and any other grunts that were dumb enough to get near it, a dragon howl could be suddenly heard coming out of the tornado as a Chinese dragon suddenly came out of the tornado and roared at the sky. After a few more seconds the technique dispersed and the shredded remains of the trio appeared, only Hachi the octopus was still relatively alive but one of his arms was cut off, it seems he got lucky and entered the eye of the storm where it was the safest.

Aarlong saw red in front of his face as he suddenly shouted:

"YOU INFERIOR HUMAN HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO MY BROTHERS I WILL KILL YOU!!!" Aarlong jumped inside the building and came out with a long sword, some of the still alive grunts shouted out:

"It's the kiribachi, Aarlong-sama is angry!" Zoro smiled at the sword then he said:

"That sword is quite big, are you compensating for something with it?" Aarlong eyes started to look like an enraged sea king's Zoro's words and he threw himself at Zoro trying to hack him into pieces.

Suddenly Zoro seemed like he had no bones as he easily dodged every of Aarlong's reckless swings like Zoro knew whatever Aarlong would do before he did it!

After a few seconds of dodging Zoro shook his head as he said:

"Too weak, I thought you as someone with a bounty with twenty million would be somehow different but you are too weak! Time to say goodbye you racist Fishman." Zoro sheathed his weak sword and Yubashiri leaving only Kitetsu out he approached Aarlong slowly as his eyes couldn't be seen due to them being shadowed by his bandana.

Zoro smirked and Aarlong suddenly recovered his sanity when he looked at Zoro's smirk he started to shake, Aarlong was scared! A peculiar aura was around Zoro as the air around him started to crack. Suddenly he appeared behind Aarlong and sheathed Kitetsu while saying slowly:

"One sword style: lion song" A deep cut appeared on Aarlong's c.h.e.s.t almost splitting him in two his organs and cut bones could be sawn through the gap that now appeared on Aarlong c.h.e.s.t, Aarlong started to foam a bloody froth at the mouth as he became unconscious but he didn't fall, he remained the same standing on his feet with the same expression of fear on his face, it was unknown if he was still alive or not. A shout from Zoro's ship took him out of his reverie:

"SO COOL BIG BRO ZORO, YOU ARE SO COOL!" Kuina smiled at Zoro, the fight did truly look kind of 'cool' as Yosaku said, she waved at Zoro then said:

"Let's inform the villagers and everyone else about how Aarlong is done, I will take care of the rest of the fishmen for you, you go with Johnny and Yosaku." Kuina suddenly jumped from the ship and unsheathed her sword, twenty seconds later there were no standing fishmen anymore.

Zoro smiled at Kuina's antics and gave her a thumbs-up as he took his bandana off his head and tied it back to his left arm.

It was time to inform the villagers! Zoro Johnny and Yosaku left for the villages while Kuina remained there to look after the alive fishmen, At first, the villagers were skeptical and even angry when they heard the three men saying that Aarlong Park fell but when they followed them towards the park and saw how it was and Aarlong standing on his feet with a bloody froth at his mouth they started to shout and party on the spot! The man who partied the hardest was a man that looked like he got cut and stitched right back, he had a pinwheel on his hat and he wore a brown police uniform, he shouted towards everyone:

"NAMI IS FREE, WE ARE FREE!" A dark-skinned blue-haired woman with a tattoo of a tangerine on her left shoulder was crying tears of happiness but the man with the police suit patted her on the back and said:

"It's ok Nojiko, Bellemere's soul has been avenged by these courageous men." He pointed towards Zoro Johnny and Yosaku, but Johnny and Yosaku shook their heads as they pointed at Zoro and said out loud enough for everyone to hear:

"We didn't do anything, big brother Zoro did everything, he cut down Aarlong where he stood with his sword, he is an awesome guy!" Nojiko eyes widened as she looked at Zoro then at the man then at Zoro again:

"Did I hear right Genzo? Did they say Zoro? Roronoa Zoro the demon bounty hunter?" The man now known as Genzo nodded his head as his eyes were as wide as Nojiko's Zoro's reputation even reached paradise currently, the small fries in east-blue would piss their pants at Zoro's name and the mention of his three sword style. Nojiko approached Zoro then she suddenly gave him a hug Zoro awkwardly returned the hug then pushed her back Nojiko scratched the back of her head and laughed awkwardly.

A shout could be heard coming from the docks as an orange-haired woman ran over, she had a white shirt and an orange skirt and she wore sandals, it was Nami!

Nojiko ran forward and hugged Nami back while saying:

"It's ok Nami you don't have to go search for money anymore, a hero saved us, he defeated Aarlong and all of his cronies!" Nami's eyes widened at her words when suddenly her whole village came over and said the same things Nami's eyes widened further as she said in a whisper:

"You all knew?" They all nodded their heads at the same time and said while pointing at Zoro:

"He saved us!" Nami eyes almost fell from her eye sockets as she saw Zoro, she remembered him and of course, Zoro remembered Nami as well, he waved towards her and said in a casual tone of voice:

"What have you been up to, thief?" Nami blushed at the nickname and coughed a bit then said:

"Thank you for saving my village Zoro." Zoro shook his head at her words then said:

"I did it for the bounty and to see how strong is Aarlong don't talk to me like I'm a hero, everyone if you want to thank me properly, bring me some booze!" Everyone laughed at Zoro's words but he shouted afterward:

"I'M SERIOUS!" Everyone continued laughing After Kuina made sure she tied every Fishman that was still alive properly she decided to see what the racket was about and when she saw Nami she was surprised, she immediately guessed what the money was for considering the situation of the village, she approached Nami and gave her a playful fist in the shoulder and said:

"So this is why you were stealing!" Nami blushed at Kuina's words then she nodded her head at her, fortunately, she didn't have to steal from pirates and endanger her life anymore now that Aarlong was taken care of. Zoro approached Kuina and said:

"You still have that den-den mushi your sister gave you? Call some marines over here to give us our bounty." Kuina nodded her head and a mini den-den mushi opened itself on Kuina's wrist, it was like a mini watch but you could talk into it!

"At Conomi Islands request marines for the bounty of Aarlong the shark, there are also quite a few of his underlings left so you have to come with a prison ship!" A 'roger' could be heard from the mini den-den Mushi's mouth and then it closed itself. Nami sighed, it was finally done!

A giant party exploded on the Conomi Islands after Aarlong was taken by the marines, or what remained of him a sack of money was given to Zoro which contained twenty million bellies and not an amount less, Nami's eyes transformed into belli signs at the look of the money, twenty million was the amount needed to buy the island back but now she had fifteen million cash she didn't know what to do with, she suddenly decided to give it to the villagers for some reason. Zoro didn't know about her money and even if he knew he wouldn't have said anything to her as it wasn't his business.

Zoro and Kuina were drinking like there was no tomorrow, while Johnny and Yosaku were eating and telling tales to the villagers, Nami was reforging her tattoo with the help of the doctor of the village.

Suddenly Kuina put her cup of ale down and she said:

"Zoro what do you think of me?" Zoro was oblivious to the underlying tone of the question and he said:

"You are a great swordsman and my best friend since childhood, and I like you!" Kuina blushed at Zoro's words, she was a bit tipsy as she continued:

"Well, Zoro I like you too!" Zoro didn't bat an eyelid at her words, he guessed it was normal for friends to like each other, what kind of friends hated each other? Kuina was puzzled at Zoro's lack of reaction but she guessed Zoro already somehow knew she liked him? She tried to push her luck and got near Zoro slowly she was leaning in for a kiss. Zoro here actually got fl.u.s.tered, was this normal between friends?

Suddenly everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Zoro and Kuina, Zoro didn't know what to do so he followed Kuina's lead and kissed her on the mouth. Kuina yelped and blushed then looked at Zoro with a peculiar look on her face then she ran away.

Zoro scratched the back of his head and said out loud:

"I don't understand women." Almost all of the men currently on the island said in unison:

"AYE!" The women just shook their heads at the men and the party continued till the morning.