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Title: Save you
Theme: #7 - Wolf
Claim: ZoroxNami
Words: 2355 (hey, they're long again! XD)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Cussing, blood, more cussing, fluff towards the end, even more cussing and violence! Also, you can interpret a scene there as SanRob or simply nakamaship combined with Sanji's sacrifice complex. Do as you wish.
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece. Just in case you confused me with the genius that Oda is.
Robin frowned. "I don't recall seeing this on the map."
"You shitty marimo! You got us all lost!"
"No I didn't, you curly brow!"
"Dare to say that to my face, you bastard!"
"I dare and I will, cu-"
"Guys! I found a way out!" Nami's voice from not very far away and the fighting ceased immediately.
"Ah, my darling swan! Always so bright and unique!" sang Sanji. "Mellorine~!"
"Finally!" said Zoro, putting away his sword and heading towards where he assumed Nami was.
"Swordsman-san, that's the direction we just came through." pointed out Robin.
Zoro froze and turned around. Luckily, the cook was too busy twirling towards where Nami actually was to notice and rub it on his face. Although Robin's teasing smirk kind of made up for it. Damn woman.
The two walked towards the direction Sanji ran to, and after a minute of walking found themselves outside the horribly deep forest they had been stuck in for the last two hours.
To find Sanji and Nami staring at the entrance of yet another thick mass of trees.
"Just how many trees can an island have?" ranted Nami angrily as they entered the woods to try to find some way to return to the beach and leave the damn island for once and for all!
"Well, the estimate growth of this kind of trees, called the at-"
"I get the point!" her nakama stopped her. "But still! This is all your fault!" she glared at the swordsman.
"Wha-"
"If we hadn't just followed you around town to make sure you wouldn't get lost, none of this woud've happened!"
"... nobody made you follow me."
"My words exactly!" commented Sanji. "But Nami-san is such a comprehensive angel! She decided to help the ones with less intelligence, like you marimo, what a compassive soul she is!"
"A devil's soul." corrected Zoro.
"Say whatever you want, this just made your debt raise way up anyway."
"How the hell did that happen?"
"You made me lose my precious time. And time is money. So, logically, we could say you made me lose my precious money. Which equals to you owing me money." explained Nami logically. "Simple, huh?"
"Nami-san looks so beautiful torturing the marimo~!"
"Damn, greedy, money-loving witch!"
"Oh, isn't that sweet?" she teased.
"I'll guide you to the ship and when we get there, I will laugh at you."
"Go ahead and try to go without us."
"Damn right I will!"
Zoro ran off and was soon out of sight.
Half an hour later, he came running through the same direction he had left. None of the three had moved from the spot where he had left.
"I told you to stop following me!"
"You got lost on your own!" yelled Nami and Sanji simultaneously.
"I think the sun is about to set." commented Robin.
"So?" asked the swordsman.
"Well, we should rest here. We don't want fierce creatures from the forest to murder us and tear us into several bloody pieces, now would we?"
"Robin! Stop being so morbid!" then the meaning of her words dawned on the navigator. "I'm not going to sleep on the forest! There are all sort of creepy things! There's dirt! There's bugs!"
"B... bugs?" asked Sanji timidly.
"You're not afraid of bugs, are you, ero-cook?"
"Of course I'm not, shithead!"
"Not even by the spider on your shoulder?" taunted the swordsman.
"Ha ha, very funny, shi-"
"Cook-san, there really is a spider on your shoulder."
"..." Sanji checked his shoulder and, indeed, there was a spider on it. "GET THIS SHIT FUCKING AWAY FROM ME!"
After Zoro tried to slice the spider, and Sanji's arm, in half and Robin had used her devil fruit powers to get rid of it -by killing it... apparently it was necessary for her- the argument hadn't quite been resolved. Mainly due to the swordsman and the navigator.
"I won't sleep on the middle of the forest like you barbarian! I'm going to find an exit to this and head to the Sunny, even if I have to do it myself!"
"Then just stop talking and go!" shouted back Zoro.
"Well, I'll just do that!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
And in her fury, the navigator stormed towards a random direction, running away as fast as she could to get away from the stupid swordsman until she couldn't hear Sanji's protests anymore.
'He's such an idiot...' Nami said to herself. 'Roronoa Zoro... I hate you! I hate you! I ha-'
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"Shitty swordsman, you better pray that nothing happened to Nami-san!" ranted Sanji as he tried to figure out in which direction she had ran. "Nami-swaaan! Where are you?"
"Just shut up, perverted cook." shot back Zoro.
"I agree with cook-san." commented Robin. "She is an easy prey for fierce animals living on this forest, who probably hunt at night. And right now, the sun has set. There is no telling what could happen."
"Relax, she's Nami, I bet she'll be fin-"
"AGGHH!"
Time froze as the horrible female screech flew towards the three of them. It didn't take more than a second to identify who the voice belonged to.
Sanji shot Zoro a threatening glare, but he didn't notice. His hands had reached for his swords. Nami wouldn't, she couldn't be attacked while she was alone because of him... right? She was smart enough to avoid battle, right? She was able to snick her way towards the Sunny Go on her own, right?
If he wasn't wrong, then why was he running towards the direction the sound came from before the cook? Zoro hated himself for a moment.
"Nami-chan!" shouted Robin upon entering the scene.
The navigator couldn't exactly be seen. She was curled up on the ground, and she was entirely surrounded by a pack of silver wolves, too many of them to actually count them, and their hunger for blood was really evident, as if they had been starving for days and had finally encountered the source of meat they so desperately wanted. And that source was Nami.
"Shitty wolves! Get the fuck away from Nami-san!" screamed Sanji, kicking wolf after wolf mercilessly to open up a path towards her.
Zoro drew his swords and was able to cut through a few more before finally reaching his nakama. Her orange-haired and her clothes were dusty and dirty, and blood was emanating from her right arm and left leg like a fountain, she was lucky they had just arrived or else she would have been eaten by now. But how the hell did she become so defenseless?
Then he remembered she had left her Clima Tact on the ship.
Shit.
"Oi cook, I'll take Nami to Chopper!" barked Zoro, pulling her up and carrying her bridal-style.
"No way, I'm goi-" he then noticed the woman's condition, his nakama's determined look, and how blood dripped non-stop from her injuries. "Fine. But hurry."
Zoro didn't doubt it for one second. He immediately marched towards the direction he assumed the beach was at. 'Please, let it be this way...' he internally begged.
One wolf tried to make his way towards him, as he ran off unaware of this particular wolf, but was stopped when a rough kick threw him with no delicacy towards one of the trees. Now the cook faced the pack of growling wolves, taking a drag of his cigarette, not intimidated or scared at all.
"You better save her, stupid swordsman." he muttered. "Come, you shitty wolves!"
And the wolves came. Sanji stood on his hands and spun around to deliver a series of kicks that got rid of many opponents. However, there was a problem with that technique, one of the wolves was able to bite his leg. Sanji ignored the pain, kicking the wolf aside, and regained his normal composture to observe his leg, which now pained his greatly.
And as he was slightly distracted, the wolves advanced.
"Shit!"
"Diez fleur."
Sanji opened his visible eye to reveal that not only he wasn't dead, but ten -beautiful- hands were holding down the wolves that had advanced. And then it was when it struck him, he had completely forgotten about beautiful Robin-chan!
"Clutch." she concluded.
Now he spun around, detecting her voice as the wolves' bones snapped. She was standing right next to him with a pleased smile.
"Shall we protect navigator-san?" she asked, crossing her arms. "Sanji?"
"Let's do it, Robin-chan." he decided with another smile, turning around so they were back to back. "We will protect them!"
"Cien Fleur!"
"Diable Jambe!"
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Still carrying the injured navigator, Zoro hurried to find the way out of the woods.
The question was, where the hell was the way out? He could've sworn he had passed that tree. Twice.
"Zo..."
"Shut up!" he replied. "Don't talk. I'll get Chopper."
Her eyelids started closing, but she didn't want to close them. Why? She was just so... amused, by Zoro's expression. He looked really scared, terrified to be more accurate. Zoro, who was fearless, the man who didn't even fear the gods. He was afraid. She was so surprised by this fact that the pain momentously disappeared to allow her to keep observing his face.
Zoro stopped. He was sure he had passed through this tree, this time he was certain. He looked around, which way should he go? All the damned trees looked exactly the same! Now where should he head tow-
He didn't notice the wolf that had followed them until it was too late. His body shook in fear when he heard it's growling. No, he couldn't be afraid, not of a stupid wolf... a stupid wolf who had damaged Nami so bad...
Zoro felt the sudden need to destroy something until it turned into dust. Particularly with silver fur.
But he couldn't stop it, because protect Nami and defeat the wolf weren't two tasks he could do at the same time. And the first one was the priority. Yet, was he going to fall victim of that stupid wolf?
Maybe yes. If that keeps Nami away from more danger.
"Pistol!"
A rubbery hand delivered a direct hit on the wolf, which was sent flying several metres backwards, destroying trees along the way, until it was out of sight.
"Hey guys! There you are!" exclaimed Luffy, running towards them. "I found them! I found Zoro! And Nam-"
"You had us worried, you idiots!" cried Chopper and Usopp as they launched themselves to the other two.
"There's blood!" Luffy spotted the blood dripping from Nami's leg and arm. "Ah! Nami's going to die!"
"Chopper, you need to save her!" yelled Zoro, completely ignoring the captain.
"I know that! We need to go back to the ship!" demanded the doctor.
"Ok, let's hurry!"
"Wait Zoro! That's not the right way!" screamed Usopp.
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"Doctor-san, she's awakening." Robin's relieved voice filled the room as Nami's eyes opened slowly.
Everything went wild around her as Nami tried to stand up but wasn't allowed to do so by Robin's extra hands, and the pain in her head made her feel it was about to explode. As she looked around, she discovered she was back at the Thousand Sunny, at it's very familiar sickbay, and next to her was the very familiar doctor.
"Nami, I'm so... I'm so glad you're alive!" cried Chopper.
"Chopper..." she muttered, then smiled, patting the top of his pink hat. "Thank you."
"It's fine..." said Chopper. "But you should really thank Zoro! He was the one who saved you."
"He saved..."
So, he had saved her. Again. Nami had genuinely lost count of the times he had saved her. How could he hate her so much and still sav...
Of course he would save her. She was his nakama, his friend, his companion... she was just Nami. Zoro could never abandon Nami, or not save her. Nah, he was weird like that, had a huge swordsman's pride to maintain. It was almost sweet. Somehow.
"Swordsman-san kept watching you until doctor-san said you were out of danger." explained Robin. "You were out cold for an entire day."
"An entire day? Really?"
"I'm afraid so." she confirmed. "However, he eventually fell asleep."
The older woman pointed towards a corner of the sickbay where Zoro slept, unperturbed by the noise around him, one sword resting on his side defensively. She was honest, he didn't look like he had left that spot for quite a while.
"Come doctor-san, let's go look for cook-san." decided Robin, standing up. "I'm sure Nami-chan is wishing for some food. And we need you to say which menu is ok and which isn't."
Just then, Nami became aware of just how hungry she was. It was natural, as Robin already knew, since she hadn't had anything to eat in an entire day, given that she spent it unconscious.
As soon as her two nakamas left, Nami decided to concentrate in nothing but the ceiling, and spent a while staring at it like it was the most interesting thing her eyes had ever seen.
Then she decided to be honest with herself and glanced towards the swordsman.
Nami would never thank him (it had been all his fault to begin with!), but she felt the need to do something to seal their reconciling. And so, she stood up, somehow made it to where he was and delivered a swift kiss upon his particular green hairs, which, she discovered, were not only natural but incredibly soft.
And with a smile -while thanking whatever god was on her side that he wasn't conscious- she decided to leave the room, since she discovered she could actually walk normally now and could stand it (despite the small pain she felt on her left leg). Nami headed for the kitchen, she knew Chopper would make a horrible menu so she would make sure to seduce Sanji into making an exception for her.
Just as she was leaving, she could've sworn she saw a smirk appear in Zoro's face for a second. But then again, she could've imagined it, she had woken up recently. It was just her imagination. Right?