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1. Beneath a Borrowed Name by littlestray

   Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga), One Piece (Live Action TV 2023)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   05 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Roronoa Zoro/Original Female Character(s)
   • Roronoa Zoro
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Dracule Mihawk
   • Tony Tony Chopper
   • Usopp (One Piece)
   • Trafalgar D. Water Law
   • Franky (One Piece)
   • Nami (One Piece)
   • Nico Robin
   • Nefertari Vivi
   • Monkey D. Luffy
   • Sanji (One Piece)
   • Brook (One Piece)
   • Jinbei (One Piece)
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • but they're not really students
   • Zoro is a sword teacher
   • Nova is figuring herself out i guess
   • Mihawk owns the college
   • Nova is Mihawks kid sister
   • it came to me in a dream
   • im being so serious
   • Slow Burn
   • im talking multiple years
   • and she keeps running away everytime it gets serious
   • google forms being an integral part of the plot
   • you'll see - Freeform
   • Ill update tags as i go
   • im being so fr i have like zero plan for this fic im just gonna go for it
   • Smut
   • the slow burn is more heated rivalry type slow burn than like a slow burn slow burn yk?
   • Repeated Meetings Across Years
   • Identity Concealment
   • They Keep Finding Each Other
   • Right Person Wrong Timing (Repeatedly)
   • long-term pining
   • Found Family
   • okay i lied earlier i have a plan now
   • ill go back and edit later so if you see a typo let me know

   Summary

   Nova doesn’t know what she wants.
   Zoro has only ever wanted one thing.

   They fall in love—
   more than once.

   ———

   At nineteen, Dracule Nova returns to The University of Kuraigana under a name that isn’t hers. It isn’t the last time.

   Each time Roronoa Zoro climbs higher—grad student, instructor, coach, head of the program—she reappears somewhere new on campus with a different alias and the same sharp eyes, the same familiar stance, the same hands that know short blades and throwing knives better than anyone he’s ever met.

   Dorm mother. Groundskeeper. Librarian. Cook.

   Each time he finds her.
   Each time she leaves.

   Zoro is chasing the title of World’s Greatest Swordsman.
   Nova is running from the legacy she was born into.

   And somewhere between borrowed names and almost-confessions, between training halls and late-night kitchens, they keep choosing each other—until the truth threatens to tear ambition, inheritance, and love apart.

   Because loving her was never the problem.

   It was loving her beneath a borrowed name.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   35,668

   Chapters:

   14/37

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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