A/N :: My first One Piece Fiction…. Not a lot of hope with it

*I do not own One Piece

Takes place after the time skip, after fish-man island before punk hazard.

Forever Strangers

Prologue

The sky was a clear blue as he lay on the deck watching the clouds cross by. The breeze was slowly cooling his heated body from the workout he had been doing before in the crow's nest. He had his arms behind his head making them a pillow; he closed his one good eye and let out a breath, just as he started to fall asleep when the ashore group came back.

"OI!" Luffy called out as he swung up on board the Thousand Sunny.

"Everyone on deck!" Nami called after him cheerily. Zoro leaned up and then moved towards the captain and navigator. The others came out from the ship shortly after. Nami held up a poster to the crew as she and Luffy stood side by side, a wide grin on both their faces. Sanji lit a cigarette and blew out smoke.

"It's going to take two weeks to reset the pose, but look at this," she shook the poster in her hand. "It's a survival competition, teams of two; the prize for surviving and keeping your flags is two hundred million beli," she said. "That's no small sum, so it goes to stand that the attackers will be strong. Luffy decided we are entering. "For the rules only three teams from each ship will be allowed to enter, the remaining three of us will be staying on the Sunny to protect it. To make it fair on the teams I will draw names from Luffy's hat, no complaining on the teams."

The crew nodded their heads.

"We are allowed a survival pack that they will be giving out at the start tomorrow, we will them be given a card with the number rope to take while you follow that rope you take it with you to where its wrapped around a tree or rock. You have to stay there for one day and then you are allowed to roam, teams are not allowed to interact or fight with each other, the island has attackers. If your colored flag is taken you are out and may return to town. If you still have a flag you are not allowed in town or on any ship. You are allowed to defeat the attackers, weapons are allowed. You have to stay in the forest for one week. Also the attackers will have red colored flags, in the events of a tie the teams split the prize money, the team with more red flags gets more of the prize money." She looked at the crew as Luffy was still grinning beside her. She looked at him and then reached over and tapped his hat. He took it off and handed it to her; she placed nine slips of paper into the hat and tossed it around some for randomness.

She reached in. "Robin, and," a pause as he looked at the other, "Usopp."

"Right," Usopp said and then looked at Nami. "Wait-"

"We're on a team long-nose-kun," Robin said with a smile as she looked at Usopp. The sniper smiled at her and folded his arms and nodded his head.

"That's good," he said.

"Right next, Sanji and," she looked up at Sanji and frowned some. "Zoro."

"What!" Sanji yelled. "Why do I have to be on a team with him!"

Zoro snorted and looked away from him.

"I said no arguing," Nami said and looked at the other two pieces of paper. "Nami and Luffy," she said and looked to Chopper, Fanky and Brook. "You three will be on Ship guarding duty."

Sanji shoved his hands in his pockets and glared at the swordsman. "I will make you guys a stock of food while we're out," he said and walked into the galley.

Nami placed both hands on her hips and looked at Zoro. "Are there going to be problems?" she asked. Zoro looked at her.

"Yes," he answered.

"Get over it, now let's go into the kitchen so Sanji and hear this too," she said and they all gathered in the kitchen. They sat down around the table and Nami waited a few minutes for everyone to get drinks from Sanji and get settled.

"Luffy and I asked around about this event, it happens every five years we just happened to be lucky to be here this year," she said. "We will all have the same color flags for our ship, with the number of our team on it, each person gets one flag you have to have it on your person, and you are not allowed to bury it. Teams are not allowed to engage with each other only attackers are allowed to attack teams, be that the case be aware that there will be other pirates out there that may feel like taking out the competition, if you are attacked by a team you are allowed to defend yourself. As they say, the victors write the history. We have to find food and supplies in the woods. There are several bunkers in the woods that have more supplies, medical, food, water shelter and such, but staying in these areas can be really dangerous." Nami said and took a sip of her drink. Luffy sat there silent for a long moment as Sanji's movements were the only noise in the galley.

"We're here for two weeks anyway," Zoro said. "Might as well as make the most of it." Sanji looked over his shoulder at the green haired swordsman. His thoughts going to why he couldn't be paired with either Nami or Robin. "In the mean time I am going to go sleep," he said and stood to leave the galley. Nami watched him leave and then looked to Sanji. Sanji turned to her.

"Sanji," she said quietly.

"Yes Nami-swan?" he asked her with hearts in his eyes.

She looked at him and smiled. "You'll be good and work as a team right?"

"Anything for you Nami-swan," he answered her.

Luffy laughed and grinned.

**This is to set the story and the idea, it will be mainly a Zoro Sanji fiction, but a storyline is also needed. And thus the idea of the story line.