5 years later

"Luffy, why are we here?"

"Human food, of course," Luffy replied happily to her best friend, Usopp. He was also a shark merman, and once they had run into each other a few years ago, they had traveled together as best friends since.

"Why?" Usopp asked, never understanding why Luffy liked human food so much. It tasted wrong to him. Unnatural. When he said that, Luffy had laughed and said, "Of course it is! It's human food. Junk food!" as she ate a stolen bag of crackers. The two often went to beaches and found deserted places and stole food when they could. Well, when Luffy could. Usopp would just watch from a ways out. He had never liked humans or anything to do with them.

"Look! I found some!" she said excitedly and ducked under the water and sped over the a rocky patch. She saw some plastic with food in it next to the edge at a picnic. When she got closer and peeked her head out of the water, she gasped at the sight of a tub of cupcakes. Usopp shook his head at herantics from below the water.

Luffy silently swam to the cliff and reached her arms up slowly, sneakily pulling the tub of mini chocolate cupcakes to her and down the under the water. The tub was closed and kept the cupcakes dry.

"Look! It's chocolate!" she screamed at Usopp under the water.

"And?"

"What is wrong with you?! How can you not like chocolate?!" Luffy shouted. "It's the best thing in the world except apple pie! You are diabolical!"

"Let's just go eat your cupcakes, okay?" Usopp asked tiredly.

"Okay!" Luffy replied happily. The two swam further away from the picnic spot and to a small copse between tall black rocks to go eat Luffy's stolen cupcakes.

Zoro walked with his dog on the beach. He hadn't gone in the ocean for five years, because, even after all this time, it reminded him of Luffy, and thinking about her hurt. Still. Though he couldn't help thinking about her a lot since he and Nami were close friends now, and it was thanks to the mermaid in the first place.

He looked at the rock cliffs when he caught a strange sight. Two hands reached up over the edge and groped the couple's picnic blanket before they reached a tub of sweets. But then he saw the small fins on the arms of whoever was stealing the food. Before he knew it, he was sprinting across the sand, surprising his dog, but pleasing him so he could run as well. The couple eating looked at him in surprise when he stared over the edge and into the empty water. But he knew what he saw.

He followed the rocks while watching the water next to it before he finally heard voices. It was a man's voice.

"You're such a messy eater, Luffy," he said. Zoro's eyes widened as he followed the voice.

"It's not my fault!" the female mermaid exclaimed. "It's just so good I can't eat it slowly. Silly Usopp."

Zoro finally reached the voices and saw her. She had somehow chopped much of her black hair off and her red top now was faded, had many tears, and frayed fabric. But Luffy looked relatively unchanged besides that. She didn't look any older. He stood there and stared at her for a moment. Both her and her friend hadn't noticed Zoro yet.

"L- Luffy?" Zoro asked. Luffy turned her dark eyes to him and grinned.

"Zoro!"

The End

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