Supreme Swordsman Zoro

Zoro yawned as he woke up and fell face forward from the tree he was in, his swords, fortunately, landing near him and not hitting him in the head. Zoro started to nurse his head as a bump appeared on it and he cursed under his breath saying:

"Ok next time don't sleep in a tree anymore."

Afterward, he climbed back into the tree as his rations were still there. After he had a plentiful breakfast he decided that it was time to challenge the next dojo!

Zoro walked lazily towards the dojo hoping that this one would have an actual challenge for him instead of easily slashing through the competition as he did in all of the other dojos. As he walked into the dojo he was met by a kind-looking man with glasses it was Koshiro the dojo master.

Zoro didn't even let Koshiro give him a welcome before he said as he unsheathed one of his swords:

"I challenge your dojo to a battle!" Koshiro coughed as he looked at Zoro and thought to himself:

"This lad is quite impolite he didn't even let me say anything." Koshiro shook his head and said:

"Before you can challenge me you have to challenge my best student first, also no real swords since it's just a spar," Zoro mumbled to himself for a while but he didn't care as long as he fought someone skilled, then he said while sheathing his swords:

"Ok call your best student over I doubt he will be able to beat me!"

Koshiro smiled towards Zoro and said in a loud voice:

"Kuina there's a challenger come and meet him."

Out of the dojo came a blue-haired girl who wore red shorts sandals and a white shirt she had two wooden swords in her hands that were used for training, she looked at Zoro then said:

"Ok Father it should be better to fight in the back as there is more space." She motioned for Zoro to follow her and continued afterward:

"You can also leave your swords down as you won't use them here." Zoro didn't want to leave his swords behind but he decided to comply with her due to him being the challenger and them being the host.

They got to the back of the dojo where multiple other children were waiting for the fight of the two of them, Zoro looked around and smirked to himself then said:

"I practice a style which requires two or more swords could I get two more swords?" Kuina didn't see a problem with that and made one of the children who was waiting for the spar to begin to get him two more swords.

Zoro tied two swords on his back and left only one in his hand, Kuina narrowed her eyes at his actions and said angrily:

"Are you looking down on me cause I'm a girl? Why aren't you using all your swords if your style needs more than one?"

Zoro chuckled and said:

"I'm not looking down on you because you are a girl but almost no one I fought made me need to use more than one sword if you feel you are up to it then let's start!"

Koshiro walked to the middle of the training area they were now situated in and said:

"I will now count down from ten when my count reaches zero you can start the spar!"

Zoro nodded his head at the same time as Kuina did, as their eyes locked sparks could be seen going between them.

Koshiro started counting down ten, nine, eight..... zero!

Zoro launched himself directly at Kuina his fighting stance with no openings, Kuina was impressed by Zoro's fighting stance but she wasn't a slouch herself, Zoro attacked using an overhead slash but Kuina parried it and tried to disarm him directly but Zoro dashed backward and took some distance between the two of them, it seemed he was ready to unleash a sword technique!

Zoro took a sword drawing stance as he stood in a horse stance, a peculiar aura started to surround him, Kuina's eyes widened, Koshiro's eyes widened as well, he didn't think he would find such a talented child in the east blue the weakest sea in the world.

Zoro was ready to use his one sword style technique but Kuina took a defensive stance that made it impossible for him to unleash his technique without getting hit by a retaliatory strike, Kuina was quite skilled!

Zoro smirked to himself, he finally found a challenge after so many beaten dojos and disappointing a.d.u.l.ts he found someone similar to his age who was quite strong!

Zoro decided to go through with his technique as he directly appeared behind Kuina his green gi was cut at the stomach while Kuina's shirt was cut into two, revealing that she was strapping her growing b.r.e.a.s.ts to make them not impede her movement and techniques.

All of the children didn't know what to say, who won and who lost? Koshiro immediately appeared before his daughter and gave her a spare shirt, Zoro looked back at her and said:

"So who do you think won?"

Kuina shook her head a grim smile appearing on her face:

"You have gone through with your technique even though you knew you would get injured as well... but you, you would have split me into two if you used a real sword, while I would have split your stomach open, I'm pretty sure I know who would die first... it's your win." Kuina's eyes started watering as she ran away Koshiro tried to stop her but the speed she was running at was quite fast and he didn't want to injure her pride even further.

Koshiro looked at Zoro with a lack of smile on his face now and then said:

"You have won the spar... you can challenge me after you prepare yourself and rest a bit." Zoro nodded his head but he actually felt quite bad for Kuina, why did she act like that? Wasn't it just a spar?

He decided to follow her, as he didn't have a bad sense of direction now, he found her quite easy, she was crying in Koshiro's room as she looked at Wado Ichimonji, Zoro walked slowly near her and patted her on the back, she started shaking at Zoro's touch and when she looked back her eyes were red and full of tears, she gritted her teeth and said:

"You came to mock me? Cause I'm a girl and I lost to you?"

Zoro didn't know what to say, what was with this I'm a girl thing? She was very skilled and she only lost to him because he was enlightened on swordsmanship or that's what he thought, Zoro decided to sit near her and started speaking:

"You didn't lose because you are a girl, your skills are actually pretty good and your strength is good as well, it's just that I'm better and not because I'm a guy."

Kuina's eyes started to stop watering and she said:

"But from the looks, you are even younger than me, what kind of training did you do to reach such skill and power?"

Zoro scratched his head, would she believe him if he told her he got enlightened of swordsmanship by hitting himself on the head with a bunch of wooden swords?

He decided to not make himself a fool in front of the only person he respected up till now and said:

"Well if you want to I can show what kind of training I do right now, why don't you follow me back in the training yard?"

Kuina started to clean her tear-filled eyes and nodded her head then Zoro got up and offered her a hand so she could get up as well. As she followed behind him Zoro said:

"Ok now I will need a bunch of big rocks and rope, and um well that's kind of all do you have any weights by any chance?"

Kuina looked at Zoro with incredulous eyes, didn't he know this kind of training could stunt his growth? He already looked quite the frail little guy for some reason even though his strength was anything but that.

Kuina found some weights that the a.d.u.l.ts trained with and got him some rope, there were large rocks in the training yard as well so she didn't have to find any.

Zoro smiled towards her and picked up the weights but the weights were so light for him that he accidentally threw them high up into the air till they almost disappeared.

Zoro sweatdropped at the interaction while Kuina eyes bulged out at Zoro's actual strength, it seemed he held back even more against her, with his monstrous strength she could have been cleaved into two with the wooden sword alone!

Zoro scratched the back of his neck and waited a bit for the weights to fly down then he caught them making him grunt, the gravity combined with the weights and the speed of them falling made quite the impact on his little body, he let the weights down and then started to wonder, what if he trained like this instead but with heavier things?

Kuina saw the strange look in Zoro's eyes and said:

"You want to train like that? What kind of freak are you?" Zoro stopped pondering his ideas cut out by Kuina's words then he just chuckled awkwardly, he didn't have many human interactions before and he was still learning how to act with other people so he didn't know if he did anything wrong.

Zoro then started to teach Kuina on what kind of training he did, as Kuina looked at the inhuman training Zoro used to train every day she realized that her loss wasn't a mistake from her.

But one thing still eluded her, where did Zoro learn his swordsmanship? could he be such a genius that he created it himself?

When Kuina asked him that question Zoro decided to tell her the truth, when she heard that he got enlightened about swordsmanship after he got hit on the head with a bunch of wooden swords she just straight laughed out loud and said:

"You are joking aren't you?"

Zoro shook his head Kuina's eyes started to take a serious look as she continued:

"Wait you got enlightened in swordsmanship due to that? How is that even possible, swordsmanship enlightenment doesn't work like that at all!"

Zoro didn't know what to tell her, and thus just patted her on the shoulder while not saying anything else, but a fire could be seen in Kuina's eyes, he decided that from now on he would train with Zoro and spar with him every day, she also had the same dream as him to become the world's greatest swordsman!

She didn't tell him her dream yet though, it was in another time where they would discuss dreams.

Koshiro walked outside of the dojo and his smile was back on his face, then he told Zoro:

"There's no reason to spar anymore since you defeated Kuina there's no reason to fight me anymore you have defeated our dojo." He presented the dojo's banner to Zoro but Zoro didn't want to cut it he looked at Koshiro and then said:

"I wonder.. uh, I don't know your name, I want to join your dojo, I think that training here would help me a lot." Koshiro's smile widened at Zoro's words then he said:

"Well, of course, you can train here and my name is Koshiro I'm happy to welcome you to our dojo Zoro."

Zoro looked at Koshiro with a strange look on his face and said:

"How do you know my name?"

Koshiro chuckled and said:

"Well aren't you quite the popular one? You would always shout your name when you defeated other dojo's and your fame spread quite a bit so of course, I know your name quite a lot of people know your name."

Zoro nodded his head that made quite a bit of sense, when he looked to his left where Kuina was supposed to be he found out she wasn't there anymore, she was already trying to lift some rocks that he lifted before using the ropes tied to them.

It seemed that she really wanted to start her training already, Even though she was visibly struggling to lift the rock using the rope, however her inner fire was already lit and she wouldn't stop even if her body gave out.

Zoro smiled towards Kuina's antics he needed someone talented like her to be his sparring partner, they could be each others sharpening stones.

Zoro found out he enjoyed human interactions that he was so starved from since he was very young.