someone just grabs me!"Nami had meanwhile said goodbye. It was firmly established not to start fighting! And she really didn't have to interfere. She'd rather get the others. But she didn't have to, because outside Zorro was already standing ready to fight with crossed arms and closed eyes, just waiting for the decisive battle cry.
"W-where do you come from all of a sudden?", Nami asked him surprised.
"What do you think? I don't leave her alone among these guys!" She had to laugh a little straight away. At first the two didn't speak a word to each other and then Zorro played the great hero again! "What is there to giggle about?", He snapped at her and was blushed. "If even one of them touches Akiko, then they can be buried right away !!" Suddenly the two heard Akiko screaming. Zorro reacted quickly and ran inside. Then inside he knew why she had screamed.
Akiko had given one of the pirates a terrific kick in the stomach with a battle cry and it landed so exactly in front of Zorro's feet."Zorro ... what are you doing here?", She gasped and blew a strand from her face. "If you want to help me, then get out of here! As you can see ... I can do it on my own!", Akiko continued before he could reply anything and managed to knock the next attacker unconscious with her sword.
However, she could really be grateful to Zorro for the next ten seconds. Because if he hadn't instantly grabbed her arm, dragged her away and parried with his sword, she would have been pretty much ... dead.
"Stubborn!" He just said to her and looked back into the group of her opponents.
Akiko stayed silent. And again he had saved her life! "Then I'll tidy up!" He tore her out of her thoughts.
"No, don't do that !!" Zorro turned to her. Akiko lowered her chin a little. "You don't know how many they have left! That’s definitely not just ten. Let's get out of here!"
"I'm not running away from them. It would be even nicer!""Zorro ..."
"You are welcome to go. I'm staying!" Akiko would have loved to slap him on the wall! He complains that she is stubborn, and what is he then?
She quickly grabbed Zorro's hand and ran out (and past Nami). That was the starting shot for the pirates: They ran after the two of them.
"Do you understand now why I said we'd better get out of here?", Akiko Zorro asked and looked back.
"I would have done that easily!" She stopped so that he almost ran into her.
"Man, you overestimate yourself a lot, my dear! They are not just some baroque bastards who are already messing themselves up! These pirates are really dangerous !!"
"I saw for myself how fast they were knocked out!"
"But only because they were the bottom line of the gang!"
"Does that matter ?! You know very well that I want to be the best swordsman in the world. I can't just run away like a scared rabbit or give in!""That's not the point!" She continued arguing.
“Then what about ?!” Suddenly they heard the screams of the pirates who were chasing them. Akiko and Zorro looked at each other briefly and then ran on.
She noticed that he was looking at her skeptically from the side.
“Do I have something strange about me or what is this look supposed to mean?” Zorro looked forward again.
“No, but I just wonder if you really have to wear such a tight top ?!” When he said that, she blushed straight away. Well, she borrowed the top from Nami and it was really tight and had a deep neckline.
"And I don't know it's your business what I wear !!"
The two hurried around the next corner and stopped again. Akiko took off her top, untied her pirate scarf and threw both in the direction from which they had come (* of course she still has something underneath ^^ "*). Then she rummaged in her shoulder bag, which she kept with her the whole time had had to look for a different shirt."W-what is that supposed to mean again?", Zorro stuttered and went bright red up to both ears. But what should he think of it if she changed in the middle of the street in front of him and now stood there half-naked ?!
Akiko continued to rummage in her pocket and finally pulled out a blue t-shirt.
"Man, I didn't ask you to stare at me like that! I have no other choice! Or do you think that I would like to do this ?! By the way, you could have turned around?" Said while she pulled on her shirt. "Typical men! You're all the same!"
"What do you want to attribute to me again ?!"
“I'm not assuming anything!” They ran on until they came to the beach and at the same time to the mooring of the Flying Lamb where the others were already waiting. "You were staring at me the whole time!"
"That's not true!"
"Stretcher!"
"I did not"
She cut him off. “And whether you were curious!” Zorro was all too stupid."And even if I did, I can tell you right away that I have seen a thousand other women who are not so bitchy and significantly prettier and better off than you! Satisfied ??!"

GOSSIP!

Akiko had taped one for him. With all the strength she had.
Then she went to the others very calmly, as if nothing had happened. She really didn't have to let herself be fooled!
"I didn't find out much directly!", She sighed and put her hands on her hips. "Nothing useful, anyway, except that you've already played this game with twenty Kibo relatives!"
The others still looked a bit puzzled about this 'attack' from her to Zorro, who rubbed his cheek and now also went to them. However, he did not stand next to Akiko. The rest of them wouldn't have done that in his place either, when they saw that he had a real print of her hand on his face (* the poor ^^ "*). ", she turned to Nami, who shook her head."They were all full and not sane." Suddenly Nami had to sneeze. Sanji put his jacket around her.
"Otherwise you'll catch a cold!" He said with a smile.
"Thank you, it's nice of you!" And then it was over! Sanji's five minutes of love began. However, nobody really listened to him (* not surprising, right? *).
Akiko let out another contrived sigh.
“I wish that not only Sanji was so considerate and courteous!” Zorro immediately knew that she meant him.
"If you have something to say to me, it would be nice if you do that too! Unless you have to miss another one before me !!"
"I'd love to!" She replied. "But I have more important things to do than argue with you! Where has our newcomer actually gone?"
"If you mean Cathrin, she just ran away!" Luffy answered her. Akiko thought she was interrogating herself.
"PLEASE WHAT?!"
"She ran away!" He repeated. She shook Luffy's shoulders.
"AND WHY DID YOU NOT STOP HER ??"she yelled at him.
“Why?” Akiko hung her head.
"Robin's with her. Don't worry Akiko-chan! Both of them are definitely fine !!", Sanji tried to calm her down a bit.
Akiko brushed a strand away.
"Well, I hope! My poor nerves won't keep up with this for a long time. You get a headache!" She put her hands on her temples.
The whole time she was somehow dizzy. "So keep me-" Akiko had to stop because she suddenly had a coughing fit.
"Is everything okay?", Sanji asked her, but she just waved it off.
"I just swallowed myself, nothing more!" She coughed. “I'm going to get a glass of water!” And with that Akiko was gone.
Even if she didn't want to admit it, Zorro had hurt her pretty badly.
In the conference room she sat at the large wooden table and put her head in her hands. What was the matter with her? Akiko didn't really know herself.
Again and again she provoked him until it crashed.She didn't even give herself the chance to make up for it all! Instead, she sailed further into the chaos. And at some point she wouldn't get out of there at all.
Why could she never shut up ?!
"Damn it!" Akiko dropped her fist on the table and started howling. "Why do I have to break everything?" She sobbed. "How can you be so stupid?" And by now it was clear to her that she had seriously fallen in love with Zorro.