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[ZORO]
A few days later, Zoro decides it is a good idea to go out on a trip to enjoy the last free days of his holiday.
He smiles when the thought of going on a date like the last time with Sanji comes to his mind and walks through the airport after a short flight, he checks the time and calls a cab to get to his hotel.
While he’s on his way, he sends a message to Sanji.
Z: Hey
S: How was your flight?
Z: Meh, it was okay.
S: Nice.
Z: By the way, how about another date?
S: Huh?
Z: You know, now that I’m in another city, you could enjoy the trip with me.
S: Yeah, sounds fine.
He makes a face.
Z: Are you okay?
S: Why?
Z: Only short answers.
S: Uh...
His eyes open wide and he tries to suppress a laugh the moment he sees a photo the blonde sends him.
S: I blew out a tire and the service guys won’t answer.
Z: You really have bad luck hahahaha, what’s with that photo?!
S: I want to cry, dumbass, at least making that kind of face will keep me from doing it.
Z: So looking like that makes you feel better? What the hell hahahahaha
S: It’s not funny, shithead!
Z: It really is.
S: I’ve been waiting for help but no one is around here, shit... I’m hungry.
Z: Order food, you’ll be sleeping there haha.
S: FUCK YOU!!
Zoro rolls his eyes. Who would’ve thought the blonde had a bad mood when he was hungry.
Z: Wait a second, I’ll send you some help.
S: Hah?! Stop joking!
Z: I am not joking! Send me your location, eyebrows.
S: Fine... But if this is a joke, I’ll travel to Japan and kill you with my own hands.
Z: I like that,please come and kill me, I want to see you.
The blonde sends him his location and Zoro sighs.
He isn’t joking, he looks around his contacts and calls Luffy.
[LUFFY & NAMI]
His phone rings and he answers the call, he looks up and starts looking at Nami, who’s ordering food for them.
“ZOOOOROOOOOO!”
“Hey”
“What’s up?”
“Dude, I need your help. No, I need you to help someone”
“Huh?”
“There’s a friend of mine who needs help with something, you’re still in LA, right?”
“Yeah, I am...”
“He blew out a tire of his car and he doesn’t have the equipment to change it and he can’t contact someone to help him”
“Ah, well, we rented a car and we have the tools, so send me his location and we’ll go”
“I sent it”
“Nice, I’ll call you once we get there”
“Thank you”
After ending the call, he looks at his screen and his expression turns into a mess when he notices the contact Zoro sent him along with the location.
“Here’s the food!” Nami says as she shows him two bags of food.
“Uh... Sanji needs our help”
“Why do you say that?”
“Zoro called me?”
“Hah?!”
A new message from Zoro appears on Luffy’s screen and he laughs.
Z: He’s hungry, could you buy something on the way for him?
“Let me buy another one” Nami rolls her eyes and walks back to the register.
[SANJI]
He sits on the street, next to his car and sighs, he’s looking around, still waiting for someone to stop and help him.
He stands up the moment a blue car parks behind his and both Luffy and Nami get out of it.
“Someone told us you need help”
“Huh?” Sanji makes a face. “W-Who told you?”
“Zoro” Nami says and Sanji turns at her in surprise.
“Yeah, he called us, but we didn’t think he would send us to help you”
“How do you know him?” He blinks and makes a face, how the hell does Zoro know Luffy and Nami?!.
“We are childhood friends” Luffy says “He’s the guy I wanted you to meet”
“Ah, yes, I remember...”
“The real question here is how do you know each other?”
“W-Well... We started exchanging messages after I posted a comment in a video of him training”
“Sounds like a love story” Luffy makes a face and Nami chuckles.
Luffy takes off his jacket and looks at Sanji’s tire.
“Damn, you really have bad luck, Sanji”
“Zoro said the same thing”
“Let’s start changing it and we can talk about you and Zoro while we’re at it”
“Fine”
“Ah, right” Nami says and opens the back door of her car, just to take out a paper bag and a cup. “He told us you were hungry, so we brought something”
The blond takes the food and looks at it.
“He asked you to bring me this?”
“Yeah”
He smiles.
“That guy...”
They finish changing the tire and since they’re exhausted, they sit on the street next to their cars.
“So, do you like Zoro?” Luffy asks.
“EH?!” Sanji turns to look at him and blushes.
“Why are you blushing?”
The blonde clears his throat and looks at both Luffy and Nami.
“I do like him, but not as a friend”
“Huh?”
“Luffy, we’re... kind of in a long distance relationship”
“WHAT?!” Nami and Luffy say. “Since when?!”
“Not so long... we’ve been getting along well, he’s been helping me with some stuff and he also likes to spend time with me... And I do so too”
“B-But why don’t you come with us to Japan and meet him?”
“We promised not to meet until I can cook again” Sanji makes a face. “He’s been helping me with that”
“But Zoro’s not like that” Nami says “At least not that I know”
“Then that means he really likes you, I bet he’s head over heels for him” Luffy says with a big smile all plastered on his face.
“Luffy, don’t say that!” Sanji says and crosses his arms.
“Dumbass, they barely know each—“ Nami says and is suddenly interrupted by Sanji.
“Of course he likes me that much, he’s been saying that since the beginning!”
Nami rolls her eyes but stops when she remembers something.
“Hey, but is Zoro for real?” Nami asks.
“Huh?”
“He’s never been in a relationship”
That makes Sanji open his eyes as wide as possible.
“WHAT?!” Sanji screams.
“He didn’t tell you?!”
“No, he did not!”
Luffy laughs out loud.
“Don’t laugh, Luffy!” Nami shouts but the other man doesn’t stop laughing.
“But Nami, they are so cute!”
Nami rolls her eyes and takes out her phone, she calls Zoro, presses the speaker option and looks at Sanji.
“What do you want, witch?” Zoro says and yawns.
“We just helped your idiot boyfriend”
“Don’t call him an idiot, you don’t even know him!”
Sanji smiles and tries to suppress a laugh.
“So, he’s your boyfriend”
“Uh...”
“It happens that I know Sanji well”
“Yeah, I talked about him with you before” Luffy says and Sanji stares at the young man.
“Eh?” Zoro makes a noise “No, I would’ve remembered”
“I told you that I knew one of the best chefs in the world and you just continued to drink beer, really, you need to stop drinking”
The blond just raises an eyebrow and nods.
“Do you like him that much?” Luffy asks.
“Yeah, you even sent Luffy to help him because you were worried about him” Nami’s evil smile gets bigger. “So, do you like him that much?”
“I do” That immediately takes Nami by surprise. “I like him too much, to be honest”
“Oh, he does like you, Sanji!” Luffy says and laughs.
“W-Wait, he’s there?!”
“Oi, Zoro” Sanji says and chuckles.
“We’ll call you later, Zoro! bye bye!”
“Wait —-“
Nami cuts the call and laughs.
“So, you’re good friends?” Sanji asks. “How is he in person?”
“It even seemed to me that he’s way cooler with you”
“Huh?”
“Most of the time he’s working or traveling, that’s it. He’s serious, he’s kind of lazy and gets distracted easily to be honest, like, he gets lost most of the time”
“But don’t get us wrong, he’s incredibly talented and he’s intelligent, but we never thought he would be interested in love”
“Wow... Since the beginning he’s been flirting, it didn’t even take him half a day”
“Woah, wait a minute!” Nami seems surprised. “So, Zoro’s the guy showing his abs in the photo I saw the other day on your screen?!”
“Oh my god, is that true?!” Luffy shouts.
“Uh... yeah?”
“Holy shit!”
Nami laughs.
“Oh shit, I never thought I would see that side of Zoro!”
They decide to get on their cars and drive to a café near Luffy and Nami’s hotel, just to talk about the old times and of course, about Zoro.
[ZORO]
He walks around his hotel room. Damn it, he is nervous, he did admit he liked Sanji that much in front of his friends.
He takes out his phone and sends a message to Luffy.
Z: Oi, Luffy
L: What?
Z: Do you really know eyebrows?
L: Sanji? Yeah...
He looks at his phone with surprise when Luffy sends him a photo of Sanji looking at a cup of coffee.
L: We’re at a café having a conversation, why?
Z: How do you know him?
L: Duh, remember I moved to America when I got into a college. There I met Sanji.
Z: What? So you know how he was before... that?
L: Zeff’s death? Yeah.
L: Sanji has changed a lot, tbh.
Z: Yeah, I suppose...
Luffy starts sending him lots of photos.
L: We used to hang out and go to parties, and even sometimes Sanji would cook for us or invite us to his restaurant.
Zoro looks through the photos and a certain photo of Sanji wearing a formal suit posing next to a woman with her arm around his waist catches his attention.
Z: Who is that woman?
L: The one with the red dress?
L: That’s Hancock, she’s one of Sanji’s closest friends.
Z: Huh...
L: LOL, don’t worry, she doesn’t like him.
L: Although I don’t know about Sanji...
Z: WHAT?!
L: Just kidding hahahahaha
Z: Dumbass...
L: She’s one of Sanji’s closest friends apart from us. But she... likes someone else, I guess. But people always thought they had something.
Z: I see... He looks so happy in all these pictures.
Was he jealous? It somehow felt like all the photos he had until now of the cook were nothing compared to these photos were he looks happy and free of bad memories.
It somehow makes him feel so uneasy.
The green haired man changes his clothes and gets out of his room to take a walk around the beach.
Once he’s there, he looks around and quickly takes a photo of himself making a funny face, just to instantly send it to the blonde.
Z: It didn’t feel fair that you were the only one with that kind of picture.
S: Oh my god, I’ll show it to them.
Z: Do what you want.
S: Hahahaha I‘ll treasure that photo!
He rolls his eyes and smiles.
After a few minutes walking through the beach, he’s already sweating and hungry, so he decides to buy an ice cream at a shop nearby, he looks around and sits on a chair out of the ice cream store.
L: What did you send to Sanji?
Z: Why? Did he show you?
L: He doesn’t want to, but he can’t stop laughing.
Z: Ah, just something funny.
L: It’s the first time in years I’ve seen him laugh like that.
Luffy suddenly sends him a slightly blurred photo of the blonde, which makes him think Luffy took the photo quickly, he’s laughing while reclined on his chair and there are small lines forming at the corners of his eyes. His smile is wide and his cheeks are blushing.
Z: What the...
L: No, really, he’s been all gloomy for the past years.
L: I guess you really have a good influence on him.
N: Aww, you must really LOVE HIM.
Z: You never answer the messages in this group and when you do it is for that?!
N: Yes.
Z: Crazy witch.
N: Just so you know, Sanji is a super gentleman.
Z: So, what?
Nami sends him an evil emoji and he makes a face. A few moments later, his phone starts to sound.
S: YOU SAID WHAT TO NAMI, IDIOT MOSSHEAD?!!
Z: You three are evil! EVIL!!
He turns off his phone and puts it in his pocket.
“Crazy bastards” He says and finishes his ice cream.
“Zoro?!” A familiar voice calls to him from the street.
“Uh...” He turns around in all directions.
“Right here! Hey!”
“What the...” He turns around, still looking for that familiar voice.
“To the right” The voice calls and Zoro turns around. “YOUR OTHER RIGHT!!!”
“Ah”
A blue-haired woman with a slight tan walks towards him and smiles. That’s Vivi.
“What are you doing here?”
“My father had some business to take care of and he asked me to come and help him”
“Woah, it’s been so long”
“I know, how have you been? How’s Kuina?”
“She’s already married, and we still take care of the Dojo”
“That’s good, really”
“So, how long are you planning to stay in Japan?”
“I‘ll be back in Tokyo by next week and I’ll stay for a couple of months, then I’ll go back to New York and maybe I’ll be coming regularly to Japan”
“You must be very busy”
“I am... I also want to go and visit Nami and Luffy, I knew they were traveling through Asia because of Luffy’s photos and videos”
“They are in LA right now, I was just talking to Luffy”
“LA really brings back memories” She laughs. “Anyway, I need to go and get something for my dad”
“Uh, okay, see you later”
“You still have the same number, right?”
“Yeah”
“Let’s hang out some other time”
“Yeah, take care”
She smiles at him and hugs him before walking away.
[SANJI]
He sighs after opening the door of his apartment. It’s been so long since he was this tired.
“Ah, shit...”
He looks at his phone and looks at the hour, it’s still early, he then takes off his jacket and puts in on a chair before he jumps to his couch.
S:Are you still mad at me?
Z: Huh? When was I ever mad at you?
S: I thought you were...
Z: Huh? No, I’m not, don’t worry.
S: Who would’ve thought we have friends in common.
Z: You guys met in college, right?
S: Yeah, how did you meet Luffy?
Z: You know his grandpa is a marine, when he was a kid they moved to japan and we went to school together. He was bad at learning Japanese, so I helped him.
S: So Luffy was right when he said you were childhood friends.
Z: Yeah.
S: That’s nice. I’ve seen photos of Luffy’s childhood, he was so cute.
Z: Was he? He was like a monkey, always getting in trouble for eating in class and sleeping everywhere, just like his brother.
S: Ace? Doesn’t he have this condition where he falls asleep everywhere?
Z: Ah, right.
Z: By the way, he showed me some pictures of those times. I hope that doesn’t bother you.
S: Nah, why would it upset me? I looked even better, right? Hahahaha
Z: You still do, dumbass.
S: What photos did he send you?
Zoro sends those pictures to Sanji.
S: Ah, those photos are nice.
Z: You had a lot of female friends.
S: Yep, but most of the time people thought I was trying to date them.
Z: And you weren’t?
S: Most of the time, not.
Z: MOST OF THE TIME.
S: Shut up!
S: Ah, see the girl with black hair?
Z: The one that’s wearing that red dress?
S: Yeah, that was our graduation. She’s one of my best friends, she used to date Luffy.
Z: EXCUSEMEWHATTHEFUCK?
Sanji laughs.
S: You didn’t know?
Z: No! I thought he always dated Nami.
S: Ah, that... It’s a funny story.
Z: ... And you’ll tell me, right?
S: Of course.
Z: You like gossiping, don’t you?
S: I had a lot of female friends, of course I do.
Z: Hah.
S: Anyway, Luffy and Hancock, that girl, used to date him on the first months of college, they were a nice couple and all, all cute and to be honest, it was an innocent relationship but they broke up because she had a lot of work and wanted to concentrate on her career.
Z: That’s pretty normal, isn’t it?
S: Well... She still had feelings for Luffy. Later on, Luffy met Nami and they became best friends, on the other hand, Hancock still spent time with Luffy, just as friends, but from time to time she tried to get back with him.
Z: Hah?
S: You know Luffy’s dream was to travel around the world, right?
Z: Yeah.
S: He got the opportunity to do so, but he wanted to take Nami with him. Of course he developed stronger feelings for her. Hancock was heartbroken, and on the months previous to Luffy starting his adventure, she tried as hard as possible to win his heart back, she wanted to go with him.
Z: Damn.
S: But Hancock also had a dream of being the owner of one of the biggest companies around the world and prove some men in her life that she was a strong, intelligent woman, and she had the money and the intelligence to do so, she’s been working hard to achieve that dream since she’s young.
Z: So?
S: A few days before Luffy’s flight, she invited him for a drink and they had a conversation. She did the right thing.
Z: What do you mean, eyebrows?
S: Let’s just say that Nami got mad with Luffy and Hancock had the opportunity to go with him as friends. She had to decide between her dream and Luffy. And well, as much as she liked Luffy, she had a dream and that dream had nothing to do with Luffy’s, why would she abandon her dreams for him? She didn’t even want to travel around.
Z: So, she told him to take Nami with him?
S: Yeah. And even now Hancock loves that couple since they’re still together.
Z: Huh?
S: I don’t know, it’s admirable... She still loves him and the way she shows her love for him is supporting his relationship with the one he loves while she shows the entire world that women are extremely powerful.
Z: That’s the nicest gossip.
S: Now, why is it that someone as handsome as you has never been in a relationship.
Z: Who told you?
S: Obviously, Nami.
Z: Ugh, I’ve slept with people and all but I never got to date them? I didn’t find the right person.
S: And now you did?
Z:Weren’t you the one that had doubts about this relationship?
S: Hey.
Z: I did.
Z: I better hurry and help you get back to the kitchen, so I can meet the one in person.
S: you... cheesy bastard.
Z: Hahahahaha
Z: You must know I’m only like this with you.
S: That’s nice.
S: Can’t wait to meet you, dumbass.
Z: I can say the same.
“We’ll see” He stands up and walks to the bathroom with his phone in hand. He fills his tub, takes his clothes off and gets in the tub, letting all the muscles in his body relax.
“Ugh, I needed this”
He takes his phone again.
Z: By the way, how did things go with your car?
S: Luffy and Nami helped me change the tire, I’ll go out tomorrow to buy a new one.
Z: Good.
S: By the way, thank you.
Z: Why?
S: Even when you are on the other side of the world, you tried to send me help and even worried about me being hungry. Really, thank you.
Z: Well, that’s what you do for the person you’re dating.
The blonde smiles.
S: You’re the best, Marimo.
Z: I know.
S: Now that I think about it, you already know a lot about me and my friends. Tell me about you.
Z: There’s not much.
S: I still want to know.
Z: All I do is work and train, then I go back home and eat or sleep.
S: Are you friends with someone else apart from Luffy and Nami?
Z: The blue haired girl that appears in those photos next to you.
S: Vivi?!
Z: Yeah, I just happened to meet her at the beach earlier.
S: How is she?
Z: Still the same but with even more work.
S: She would do anything for her father’s company
S: Tell me more about your life.
Z: You are pretty interested in me today.
S: Well, yeah, that’s what you do when you date someone.
Z: Let’s see...
Z: Apart from being 22, I come from a small family, or at least that’s what I know about my biological parents. I was adopted when I was three and I have two sisters, both of them are also adopted. My adoptive father is a famous guy, he raised us all alone.
S: Really? How are your sisters?
Z: One of them is a psychiatrist, she works overseas and comes and visits us from time to time and the other one is a young girl that I still believe was adopted from an orphanage in hell.
S: What the fuck?
Z: She’s crazy. She’s still seventeen and in her rebellious stage.
S: Ugh, I constantly used to get in trouble when I was her age.
Z: I bet she’s worse, last year I went to visit our old man on Christmas and she got home with her hair all... bright pink and wearing huge dresses and accessories, as if she was a magnet that attracted anything from Harajuku.
S: Dude, you can’t say that when your hair is green.
Z: My old man said the same thing.
Z: Anyway, I take her out for lunch from time to time.
S: How did you get your green hair?
Z: The same way Vivi got her blue hair.
S: At New York?
Z: I like to travel, once I met a group of guys and with them was her, she wanted her hair blue and told me to dye mine too, I told her to pick the color... and she picked green.
S: Why don’t you change it back?
Z: Hah?! You don’t like it?
S: Dumbass, I do like it, I’m just asking.
Z: I don’t know, I like it. It makes me feel more like myself, so I’ve been keeping this hair color since then. I never want to change it.
S: Yeah, I can’t imagine you with another hair color.
Z: Should I just dye it blonde like yours just for fun?
S: DON’T.
Z: Hahahaha
Z: Hey, help me choose something, which do you like more?
He opens a photo Zoro sends him and looks at it. It’s just a photo of the other man pointing at some keychains. There’s one that catches his attention, it’s a blue keychain with small details of the sea and beautiful Japanese letters written on it.
S: The blue one.
Z: Nice choice.
S: Do you want to go out on a date?
Z: Aren’t you tired? I don’t know that time is it there, but I bet it is late already and you are tired.
S: Just a little.
Z: Just rest for today and we’ll have a date tomorrow, okay?
S: Fine.
After a few minutes, he looks back at his phone and makes a face before calling a number.
“Hello?”
“Robin?”
“Oh my, Sanji? is it you?”
“Yes, sorry to call you this late...”
“How’s everything? It’s been so long since you called me”
“I... want to go back to therapy”
“Huh? Really?!”
“I finally WANT to be on therapy”
“W-Well, you can come tomorrow at like... 10:00 AM, okay?”
“Yeah, see you”
[I'll put some drawings for this chapter here]
