A/N: So, I should be updating my Skip Beat or Psychic Detective Yakumo works, or working on my original, or you know my 2000 word, 8 academic source assignment due in less than a week that I haven't started. But instead I have started another work. I realised that I was about 200 chapters behind in the manga and have started rereading from the start and this idea came to me, it will hopefully get me back into writing again so I can update everything.

This will basically be about various people realising that although no-one actually calls him that in cannon that is his true position in the crew.

The first time Luffy saw Zoro, he knew he wasn't a normal guy. He heard the stories of course, how could he not have with Coby going over all the ones he knew on the way to that island, and he thought he might be cool. But he didn't know until he saw him himself.

Even though he knew, he couldn't stop himself from making comments about the fact he was being held seemingly only by flimsy ropes, because why would a guy like that stay there.

Luffy learnt a lot the first time he saw that marine yard, and knew then that he wanted Zoro on his crew but it wasn't until the second time entered the yard that he knew the position on said crew would probably be. That was when Zoro told him that he had something he had to do, that he had an ambition.

But even so, it wasn't until the third time he entered the yard, when Zoro told him he would be the world's greatest swordsman, that if Luffy interfered in that dream that he would kill him, then reacted to the unspoken orders to the end the situation in the way Luffy wanted, that he knew that no-one else would fit the position as well as Zoro would.

He'd found and gained his First Mate.

Of course there was no reason to say this out loud.