This chapter was surprisingly difficult to write but I got through. Thanks for sticking with me. Special thanks to my reviewers:

Red-glasses-chan: Thank you! I agree. There needs to be more Zoro/Tashigi stories. It's hard when Oda seems to ignore the fact that he totally set it up for that. It's been how many chapters and the most we've gotten was a save and an over the shoulder carry. I'm not bitter.

Mayu87: This is one of my OTP's as well. It was actually your comment that helped inspire these chapters so thank you! Part 2 I figured with a cool dad like that, he would want to become a pirate regardless of the marine influence. I was definitely inspired by the Garp/Ace/Luffy thing. Part 3 Thank you for commenting so many times. That makes me feel so good. Yeah, I felt like it wouldn't be a one-night stand kind of deal. Neither of them are like that. They are extremely loyal to their respective superiors and I feel like that would carry over in their relationships (if Oda ever makes one. *shakes fist angrily*)

Everlight18: Thank you! I tried to keep it fluffy but the whole 'absolute justice' just makes me so angry. And of course Smoker noticed. She's his right-hand woman! I love the idea of Grandpa Smoker. He already kind of looks like one. Your comment also inspired these chapters so thank you! Part 2 I wanted to make it a three-parter but that pesky half chapter came to mind and I couldn't resist. It had nothing to do with his sword style but you can take it that way if it makes me seem cooler or something. I could feel the awkwardness from that conversation while I was writing those conversations. I feel like it was appropriate reactions from both. I don't know if Smoker will ever leave the marines but I can totally see him being much more lenient about who is good and bad considering the whole thing on Punk Hazard. I feel like Oda will have him be in charge of the marines when they reform after the inevitable battle that will happen. I don't know how epis this is but here you go. Part 3 Thank you so much for all your comments! Yeah, Sora is still a boy and even though I'm a girl, when I found out exactly what it meant to be the youngest of 12, I had to do a lot of mental scrubbing. I still do occasionally. *shudders*. I felt like Oda was making Smoker into another Garp and Garp even took in Roger's son so I felt like he would be pretty open and understanding about everything, kind of like Garp. I wouldn't call it jealous so much as bitter. I mean, Tashigi obviously has the better end of the deal. So far, the new baby is just mentioned in this chapter. I plan on ending it hear but who knows? I originally planned on ending it on the first chapter.

Valkyrie Elysia: I love the idea of a mini Zoro. I hope Oda adds one at the end of One Piece. Actually, no I don't. Because that would mean that OP is over. I couldn't handle Naruto. And that one didn't last as long!

Xyliaf27: Thank you! Honestly, Zoro and Tashigi is like, the only OP couple. Oda apparently made a bunch of asexual characters except for two, one of which is a skeleton and the other is a pervert. Even the self-proclaimed pervert is asexual. And a cyborg. Part 2 Thank you again. I tried to make Sora cute but at the same time, I hate writing cutesy dialogue. I can't really see Zoro being a fatherly figure but mainly because I can't see him ever stopping his adventures with Luffy.

lunachand: Thanks! I felt like any child of Zoro's would want to surpass him. It just felt right. I feel like even if he went the other way and became a marine, Zoro would still be his goal.

JakeofTheGrasslands: Thank you. I think your review is nice.

LurkingFanatic: I didn't quite understand your review but I like your name. Honestly it's what I feel like most of the time.

ktgreen: Thanks! I like his name too. I wanted it to be close to Zoro's name and that's what I came up with. I honestly didn't think too hard. I actually got it from Kingdom Hearts. (mainly because I don't know many Japanese sounding names). I like him too! He's my mini-Zoro. I don't know if Zoro is a D. or not but I feel like his will is strong enough to carry on to the next generation. I personally love Smoker and feel like he and Tashigi don't get any love in the series. I have a feeling they will play a much bigger role in the inevitable war (I alluded to it in previous chapters) between the world government and ... like, everyone. I had fun with his part too! You're welcome!

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"Zoro! You're going the wrong way!" A man with green hair, multiple scars, and three swords skidded to a halt, quickly turning around and running the opposite way he had been previously running. All involved were so used to this by now that they didn't even bother mocking it. Well, all except one.

"Stupid Moss Head! You always get lost and drag everyone down with you!"

"Shut up! I don't want to hear anything from a perverted curly brow like you!"

Their bickering continued while they ran, the world effectively exploding behind them, bullets zooming past them, and an entire division of marines chasing after them. Just like normal.

"Both of you, shut up and hurry up!" An orange-haired navigator shouted angrily, running ahead of them.

"Yes, Nami-swan! You are beautiful even when you are angry!"

"Yohohohoho!" A Skeleton in a gaudy outfit laughed while running along with the group. "Nami-san. When we get back, will you let me see your-"

"There is no way I would!" Was the shouted response.

The crew managed to make it aboard their ship, the trusted Thousand Sunny before the marines caught up with them.

"Quick! Get us out of here!" Nami shouted to a blue-haired cyborg.

"Ow! Suupeer right away!" Franky struck a pose before running to the helm. Sanji and Zoro both jumped up to the main mast and unfurled the sail with practiced ease and synchronization.

"Here we go!" Franky shouted as they pulled out of the dock. "Coup de Burst!" With a sound as loud as a cannon, they blasted away from the exploding town and shot through the air.

"Yahooo!" Their naïve and fearless captain shouted from his special seat on the head of the lion, his arms held up in excitement. He laughed as the momentum stalled enough that they started their descent. "That was a lot of fun! Let's go back sometime!"

"That wasn't fun!" Shouted Nami, Usopp, and Chopper.

"It was rather exhilarating." Robin said, a polite smile on her face. "I'm glad we weren't all burned to a crisp."

"Your imagination is too scary." Usopp, Chopper, and Brook said in a low voice with fearful expressions.

They all grunted and held on to various parts of the ship as they landed with a splash and harsh jolt.

"Looks like we got away." Nami said with a sigh, looking back at the pillar of smoke rising from the town. "It'll take a while before they can leave." This announcement was met with cheers.

"Yosh! I will make a celebratory treat for Nami-swan and Robin-chwan!"

"Ooh! Make some for us too Sanji!" the previous trio with Franky and Luffy added shouted in unison.

"Shut up! You can have the leftovers from what Nami-swan and Robin-chwan don't eat!" He shouted back angrily before heading into the galley. Robin giggled as the trio plus Luffy started to dance in happiness, both for potentially getting a treat as well as escaping the exploding island and all the marines.

Zoro yawned and stretched. "I'm tired. I'm going to take a nap." He walked over to one of his favorite napping spots and would have laid down but stopped in surprise. It was occupied. By some kid with blue hair and two swords. His mouth was wide open and he was snoring rather loudly. Zoro blinked.

Chopper noticed that Zoro was just standing. "Zoro? What's wrong? I thought you were going to take a nap."

"My spot is taken." He said, kind of like a kid saying that his favorite toy was being used.

"Eh?" They StrawHats all walked over to see what he was talking about. They found the same sleeping person that Zoro was staring at.

"EEH?!" They shouted in unison.

"What's a stranger going on the Thousand Sunny?!"

"How'd he get on board?"

"Is he an enemy?"

"How is he still asleep?"

The questions were loud and panicked, interspersed with Luffy's laughter and Franky's clang as his forearms crashed together in his 'super' pose.

"Perhaps he is a spy from the world government sent to annihilate everyone." Robin said with a straight face.

"That's too scary!" the trio shouted at her.

"Eh? He's waking up!" Luffy called. They all crowded around the sleeping man to discover that he was indeed waking up.

Slowly he blinked, yawning loudly and stretching. He blearily looked up at the 8 StrawHat pirates that were gathered around him with various expressions. He didn't react to any of them until he caught sight of the green-haired swordsman.

A grin that reminded most of a wild beast formed, a dangerous glint shone in his eyes. Faster than regular humans could see, he pulled out one of his swords and leapt at Zoro. His attack was blocked effortlessly by a half-drawn sword. The clang of katanas shocked some of the StrawHats, causing them to jump away from the fight. Luffy just laughed.

"Oh? Looks like you're looking for a fight?" Zoro said, his own beast-like grin forming.

"I've been looking forward to this fight my whole life, Roronoa!" The boy grinned. "I just need to defeat you and then I will have reached my dream of becoming the World's Strongest Swordsman!"

"Oh?" For a moment, Zoro had a flashback to a certain restaurant on the sea and another swordsman that faced him, one with peculiar eyes and an oversized sword on his back.

"Hey, Zoro!" Luffy laughed. "He's just like you when you fought against Hawk-guy!"

"Looks like it. Well, you challenged me, and I never turn down a chance to fight!" Both swordsman grinned before pushing off each other to take firmer stances. There was a pause as each waited for the other to take the first step. Then, with no discernable reason, they both jumped forward, two swords against one.

They both landed lightly a few paces away from each other, their backs to the others. Zoro calmly sheathed his sword with a smooth snick, leaving his opposition to suddenly fall to his knees, one of his swords breaking in half.

Luffy, the trio and Franky all cheered for the winner, the rest knowing the outcome of the fight long before it began. The blue-haired swordsman struggled to his feet, coughing up blood, a long slice on his torso freely bleeding. He sheathed his remaining sword and turned to face Zoro.

"Heh. Should have figured it would be over that quickly. I've got a long way to go before I'm stronger than you, Zoro." Zoro raised a brow at the other swordsman's grin, despite all the blood.

"What's your name boy?" He asked. He was impressed. This kid reminded him of himself.

"Sora."

"Well, Sora. I'll let you live. I want you to get stronger and come face me again for my title." He grinned.

Sora grinned back. "Deal." Then he collapsed.

When he woke up, he realized that he was in a lot of pain, and his entire torso was tied tightly with clean white bandages. He blinked and looked around. It appeared like he was still on the StrawHats ship.

"Oh! You're awake!" A childish voice said happily. He looked over and saw the StrawHats famous doctor, a shapeshifting reindeer named Chopper. According to his mother, he had been mistaken as the StrawHats pet for years until he almost single-handedly brought down an entire navy base. And then proceeded to treat everyone, ally and foe alike.

"We were getting a little worried because you slept for so long but I wasn't too surprised. Zoro didn't go easy on you at all. Honestly, I'm a little surprised that you're alive. You lost a lot of blood and we had to give you a blood transfusion, but luckily, you matched Zoro's type. We have that in stock a plenty. He somehow always manages to get really injured." Chopper continued to ramble on, mixing some medicine.

Sora sat up and tried to leave but was quickly stopped by the tiny reindeer. "Don't get up! You'll reopen your wound! You'll already have a scar as it is!" He tried to ignore Chopper but was forced back down by the doctor's sudden growth into a muscular monster with a scarier voice. "Lay back down!" He shouted at Sora.

"I'm fine." Sora tried to brush him off but the doctor wasn't having it. "I heal quickly."

"I don't care!" Was the terse reply. "I'm the doctor and I say when you are fine, not you!" Pacified by Sora's compliance, Chopper shrank back down to his hybrid form. "I asked Sanji to make some food for you when you woke up. I'll go tell him." Chopper smiled and walked out.

As soon as he was gone, Sora got up, ignoring his torn and bloodied shirt, grabbing his only remaining sword and heading out on deck.

"Oh, Sora! You're up!" A talking skeleton Sora knew to be Brook said while laughing, his famous violin on his shoulder, a merry tune wafting through the ship.

"Eh?" The long-nosed sniper named Usopp looked down from the upper deck where he had been looking through a telescope. "Chopper said you were supposed to rest for a few days."

"I'm fine." Sora shrugged. He was comfortable now that he knew they weren't going to toss him overboard or something. No sense in saving someone just to kill them. He sat down against the main mast and started to undo his bandages.

"You should leave them on. Chopper wouldn't be happy." The black-haired archeologist Robin said from her spot on a lawn chair, a thick and dusty book in her arms.

As if on cue, the said reindeer suddenly walked back out and shouted when he saw Sora. "Eh? Leave the bandages on!"

"They restrict my movement."

Chopper grew and shouted angrily, "They're supposed to restrict your movement!" Robin and Brook laughed at the exchange. There was a stretching sound and an elongated arm grabbed on the railing, pulling the monkey-like Luffy onto the main deck, landing cross-legged next to Sora.

Sora supposed he should probably be in some kind of awe being so close to the infamous Pirate King but since his goal was the green-haired swordsman, he didn't particularly care about the captain. He was confused by Luffy's laughter.

"You're funny!" He said, his trademark care-free grin on his face. "You're just like Zoro! He had the same experience when he fought against the Hawk-guy!"

Sora wasn't really sure how to respond to that so he stayed silent.

"Luffy!" Chopper interrupted. "This is no time to chat! He is supposed to be resting!"

"Here's the meal for the injured guy." A blond-haired cook easily recognized as Black-Leg Sanji stepped out, a cigarette in his mouth, holding a covered tray. He walked casually over to Sora and held out the tray, which was accepted. He tilted his head for a moment, examining the young swordsman, before abruptly turning away.

"I don't know why, but he annoys me for some reason." He grumbled before distracting himself with Robin.

Sora also felt annoyed with the cook but chose to say nothing as he was too busy eating. Luffy tried to steal some of the food but it was Chopper who stopped him, saying that Sora needed to get his strength up. Luffy pouted before swinging off to try and convince Sanji to make some food for him as well.

"It's Sora, right?" The navigator Nami came up to him. "We don't really have a destination planned so we were just going to drop you off at the next island. Since you're awake, where are you from? We can at least start heading in the right direction."

Sora finished his meal with a loud gulp. "East Blue." He said.

"Eh?"

"You made it all the way to the new world?" Usopp came up behind her, his face stating his respect. Sora shrugged.

"I fell asleep on a navy ship. They crossed straight into the Grand Line. By the time I woke up, I was already here."

Shouts of disbelief came from many.

"How on earth did you accidently fall asleep on a navy ship? You're not part of the navy yourself are you?" Was the suddenly suspicious question.

He shook his head. "No. I'm a pirate."

"Oh?" Luffy came back.

"What crew are you a part of?" Usopp asked.

"I'm not part of any crew. So far, they've all been too weak. I won't join a crew when I'm stronger than the captain." He shook his head.

"So you're a pirate looking for a crew?" Luffy asked, a mysterious twinkle in his eye. Sora didn't know why, but apparently everyone else did. They all responded by smacking him hard on the head and shouting in unison, "No recruiting!"

Nami sighed. "Well, we weren't planning on leaving the Grand Line anytime soon so you'll have to find a ride back yourself. We can't head East because that's where we just came from. We'll go a little South and find the nearest island. How about that?"

Sora shrugged. "I'm not trying to get back to the East Blue. I left home on purpose so that I could challenge Zoro. Now that I have, I need to get stronger. The best way to do that is to stay on the Grand Line." There was a pause while Sora contemplated for a moment. "Plus, I have no idea which way East even is."

"Eh?" Nami shouted surprised. The idea that someone couldn't even find a general direction like that was foreign to her. Well, maybe not completely foreign. She eyes him suspiciously. "Have you always gotten lost like that? Not knowing which way you're even faceing?"

He shrugged again. "Mom said I was born without an internal compass of that it broke when I came out."

Nami grabbed the nearest members of the StrawHats and huddled around Robin, forming a circle. Sanji, sensing the proximity of two girls, joined them. Franky left the helm to join in as well.

"Does anyone else think he reminds you of someone?" Nami asked.

"He's a swordsman with multiple swords." Usopp added, nodding.

"He refuses to keep his bandages on when he's critically injured." Chopper said, his arms folded.

"He lacks any sense of direction." Nami said with a knowing look.

"He even slept through some extraordinary things." Robin said with a small giggle.

"He is suupeer tough, taking on that much damage." Franky said, his normally loud tones quieted.

"Not to mention he annoys me for no reason." Sanji said, drawing a puff from his cigarette.

Luffy laughed. "He says the same things that Zoro says!" The rest of the group was surprised that Luffy actually seemed to catch on to what they were saying.

"And if my memory serves me right," Brook said. "He looks an awful lot like Zoro did when he was that age." As one they all turned to look at the object of their conversation who had finished taking off the bandages and was stretching, obviously preparing for some type of training or exercise. The circle formed again.

"There's no way though." Usopp said.

"This is the stupid moss head we're talking about." Sanji nodded.

"He's never mentioned even the possibility." Chopper said, a nervous look on his face.

"How on earth would Zoro manage to get a girl?" Brook asked.

"I wasn't even sure if he liked girls." Robin added. There was a moment of silence as they all contemplated the full depth of their suspicions. Suddenly Luffy laughed.

"Why don't we just ask him?" Before anyone could stop him, he bounced over to Sora, who was going through some basic swings with his only remaining sword. "Hey, Sora." Luffy called out to him, ignoring the desperate sounds of his crew trying to stop him in the background. "Is Zoro your dad?"

Sora paused in his exercise and looked over. The crew, while initially trying to stop Luffy, were now all listening intently.

"Why do you ask?" Luffy grinned.

"'Cause you're just like him!"

There was a moment of silence as everyone waited for Sora's response. Finally, he opened his mouth and replied. "My father was never around growing up and mom didn't like talking about him. My sister had never met him either."

At this proclamation, as well as the news that he wasn't an only child, everyone seemed to deflate, walking away.

"There's was no way, really." Nami said dismissively, making her way to the upper deck to make sure they were heading towards an island.

"A moss head like that have children?" Sanji shook his head, heading back towards the kitchen.

"I guess for someone like him it suupeer impossible." Franky agreed, taking the helm again.

"I just can't imagine Zoro like that with anyone." Chopper said contemplatively, leaving for his workshop.

"I knew he wasn't all along." Usopp lied, going over to check on his supply of ammo.

"I guess he really doesn't like girls." Robin said, mostly to herself, settling back into her book.

"Yohoho! I never would have forgiven him for seeing a girl's panties before me!" Brook laughed, pulling out his violin.

Luffy stayed where he was, still looking at Sora. When they were alone, he grinned. "I see." He said laughing, before swinging away to his special seat.

They did eventually drop Sora off. At the next island, they ran into a bit of trouble and Sora did accidently help them by being in the right spot at the right time because he got lost. They said their good-byes and boarded their ship again. Nami wanted him to pay for their transportation but since Sora had no money and Luffy liked him, they let him go.

Zoro was the last to board but he waited next to Sora for a moment. After a moment of silence, he spoke.

"How old are you, kid?"

"19."

"How old is your sister?"

"She'll be 7 this year." Zoro nodded and they stood in silence.

"How's your mom doing?"

"She's doing well. It's been about two years since I've seen her though." Zoro nodded again, and they once more fell into silence.

"Well, kid. If you do see her, you can let her know that she didn't need to try and keep it a secret. I've known about both of you from the very beginning." He ignored Sora's shocked expression and headed for the ship.

"Oh," He turned back quickly. "Don't let her know about your injury. I'm in enough trouble as it is." Sora was so shocked that all he could do was nod. He hadn't planned on letting her know anyway. Zoro smirked and jumped on deck.

"Take care kid. I expect you to be a whole lot stronger the next time we meet."

As the ship pulled away, Sora finally came to his senses. He grinned the same grin that he had inherited from his father.

"Next time we meet, I'll be the one to take the name of Strongest Swordsman. Just you wait. Dad."

The end. I really have a hard time letting one shots be one shots but I got such great feedback that I felt I had to keep going. Special thanks to all my reviewers! This was for you!