AN: One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda!
Hey! So, many of you requested a sequel to 'His Sixth Year Crush'. Well, this is it! After months at the writing board (I do actually have a drawing board, but I keep that for sketches ;P I'll shut up with the bad jokes now), I couldn't seem to come up with a non-overly-angsty story. Then along came megaME with a lovely list of requests. One of these requests was for a sequel to 'His Sixth Year Crush' and she very kindly gave me a good hard nudge! She gave me a couple of points to put into it and this story is the outcome!
(megaME seriously needs to come give us a bow at some point! Also, anyone else who wants to throw requests at me, please do! XD crushvox, I hope you enjoy the embarrassment you're causing me! XD )
This time we're getting our story from Robin's point of view.
Chapter One – Just a Boy
Robin sat up slowly from her bed, stretching, as she heard a car pull up across the street. She hadn't heard a car park there for a couple of months now; at least, not since she'd gotten back. She'd requested a temporary transfer and, unfortunately, it had finally ended after just over nine months. She'd just gone through two of the most difficult years of her life, torn between what she was sure she deserved and what she wanted. She deserved the man that she had agreed to marry, but why would anyone want to choose someone who constantly cheated?
She did choose him though. She'd already chosen to turn down what she wanted. She'd done that over two years ago. She still couldn't decide if she'd really done the right thing by turning Zoro away. She had known one thing though; she'd known it before she had accepted that bastard's offer. The Groom that had stood opposite her at the altar, over a year ago, was not the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.
She just wasn't sure who that person was yet.
She pushed back her covers and slowly got up from her bed. Robin pulled back her dark, violet curtains to look out of the window for signs of a visitor across the road. She flinched as she recognised the slightly rusted dark green Peugeot 405 sitting outside of Koshiro's house. The car hadn't been there over the summer months that she had been back in her house, but there it was now.
She already wanted it gone. How could she face Zoro after what she had done? He had begged her to leave her fiancé for him two years ago and she had turned him away. She'd led him on and thrown him away the second that he had tried to truly give himself to her. She had no right to speak to him. She didn't even have the right to look at him, no matter how much she longed to. How could he ever forgive her for doing such a thing to him?
She pulled back slightly so that she had to look through the new white, floral net curtain at an angle, ensuring she would not be seen. She watched the movement inside the car. What was he doing? She frowned as she watched him lean closer to the passenger seat. Was there someone else in the car? Had he brought one of his friends back with him? He'd moved out of Koshiro's during the summer two years ago and he'd rarely come back to the house to see Koshiro after that. Was he still working for Koshiro at the dojo?
Robin stepped back behind the wall as Zoro's car door opened, revealing an unbelievably muscular Zoro. She'd thought he looked bigger through his car window, but the glance that she'd just gotten of him suggested he was at least twice the size he had been when she'd known him. She smiled softly to herself as she remembered his little strip tease he'd done for her. She'd been curious about what he would do if she did one for him, but she would never have come to the conclusion of him giving her one.
She heard voices as Zoro stepped out of his car, apparently still talking to whoever was still inside. Why was she even hiding? He wouldn't look up at her window, so it wasn't as if he'd know that she'd been watching. She doubted that he even knew that she was back. In fact, she doubted if he'd even care at all. It had been two years and she had rejected him. Surely he'd have moved on, just as she'd predicted he would. He'd just been a boy that night. Boy's have crushes and then move on. That's what they do. He wasn't a man when he'd told her all of those things, so he would have gotten bored of her and moved on.
But men got bored too.
Her ex-fiancé had been proud of his 'adventures' while he'd been her 'boyfriend'. She had been more than a little shocked when he'd proposed, but he was what she deserved. So why had she left him at the altar? She sighed and walked over to her wardrobe. The least she could do was get dressed; then if he heard that she was back and came to see her, she'd be wearing clothes. He had seen her in her underwear before, multiple times, but she doubted he'd be interested in seeing her like that ever again.
She pulled on her short purple dress with its black lace trimmings, smiling to herself as she remembered the morning he'd given her a lift. He'd been so adorable as he'd stood gaping up at her when she'd started to walk down the stairs. Definitely a boy. A man wouldn't have gaped at her like that at the sight of what was up her dress. She hadn't been able to stop herself from laughing when he'd suddenly looked away; it wasn't as if there was anything left to see up her dress by the time he had! He was certainly a completely adorable boy. He'd even pretended to be gay to get her out of trouble and then poured his heart out outside the nightclub.
Poured his heart out.
She shook her head. He was a boy. She had just been a silly little high school crush. Crushes like that happened all the time. He'd been so sweet and adorable though. He'd seemed more mature than the rest of her students, but that could have been because he had been a whole year older. Sanji had been the same age though. He was just at the opposite end of the scale that defines those 'more mature'. Although, Robin couldn't help but wonder how Nami had felt about her boyfriend pretending to be gay with Zoro for the sake of her career. Nami and Sanji were together, right? Or perhaps Nami just knew what buttons to press? She could always ask whenever she next saw them.
Robin made her way out of her bedroom and down the stairs in search of breakfast. A quick bowl of cereal and then she would go catch a bus to get some grocery shopping. She settled for a coffee. Again. She flicked the switch on the kettle and lifted a mug off of the shelf. She sighed as she lifted the almost empty jar of instant coffee and finished removing its contents. She'd been cutting it a little fine this time. Perhaps she should buy two large jars this week instead of one? She glanced back over her shoulder at the front door, watching the stained glass for a shadow. She knew he wouldn't visit, not after how things ended. What things!? They never started a relationship, never mind ended one!
Zoro had told her that he loved her.
The mug shattered as it hit the floor. She looked down at the broken shards of mug that she had poured the last of her coffee into. What was wrong with her? She had been fine! So what if she'd been drinking more coffee than usual, it wasn't bothering anyone! She flicked the kettle off and bent down to start picking up the pieces of mug. She didn't even care if the broken pieces of porcelain cut her; all she could think of was Zoro.
She glared coldly at the last of coffee granules scattered across the floor. It just wasn't fair. Why did he have to come back now? Why at all? She didn't know where he'd moved to and she didn't care. He had no reason to come visit Koshiro. He worked for Koshiro. She should have moved. She should have tried to get another temporary transfer for this year and just sold her house.
Robin jumped as she heard a knock on the door. She took a deep breath, trying to persuade herself that it wouldn't be Zoro. She turned around to look at the front door and started to laugh at herself. Unless Zoro had grown over five inches in the last two years and the muscle that he had appeared to have in the car had been completely in her imagination, this person could not be him. This man was clearly very tall and very finely built, from what she could see through the panes of stained glass as she approached the front door.
"Hello, may I help you?" She smiled up at the man, clearly not all that much younger than herself, as she opened the door. It wasn't often she was looking up at someone. She would have placed this particularly tall man in his mid to late twenties, but something told her that 'mid-twenties' was fairly accurate.
"Hello, Miss...Nico?" The tall man began, glancing at the small, brown package in his hand, before continuing as she nodded her confirmation. "Hello. My partner thought that your name should have changed, but I see he must be mistaken. A parcel arrived for you the other day, but Koshiro has been busy with the dojo. I offered to bring it over."
"Thank you, that is very kind of you...?" She began carefully, waiting for him to complete her sentence by introducing himself.
"Doctor Trafalgar Law." He nodded, offering her his hand. "I believe you are Miss Nico Robin, the history teacher from my partner's old high school."
"That would depend on who your partner was." She smiled up at the taller supposed gentleman, feeling a slight coldness directed at her.
He was easily at least an inch taller than her and she could tell, even through his slightly baggy black t-shirt, that he was lean. In fact, he was very likely as lean as Zoro's friend Sanji that had been in her class with him. This particular man had a mop of tufted black hair that fell just short of his eyes with neatly groomed matching black sideburns that defined the top of his jaw line perfectly. He even had a little black goatee that seemed just as well maintained as the sideburns, making her wonder about his very dishevelled mop; it almost looked like hat-hair. Each of his earlobes had been pierced twice and held thick, yellow gold loops that almost clashed with the silvery grey of his narrowed eyes.
"I am sure you have already realised, considering you are an intelligent person and I have just come from Koshiro's." He returned, maintaining a firm grip on her hand as his expression remained serious.
"I was not aware that Koshiro had a business partner? I know that Zoro-"
"I'm afraid you have the wrong type of 'partner'. Koshiro is not my business partner, but rather Zoro is my partner, as in a more serious level of relationship than 'boyfriends'." Law corrected, an almost challenging note to his voice. "I hope you do not have a problem with that?"
"Congratulations." She replied, holding onto her perfect fake smile. She hoped that this man could not truly see through it, as he seemed to do. "It will be nice to see Zoro happy and in a serious relationship. I was not sure about his relationship with Sanji...I had thought that Sanji and Nami had been together when it came out that the two young men were seeing each other."
"You and I both know the truth behind that, Robin." He glared, making her freeze slightly where she stood. "Stay away from my partner. I have no intention of letting you close enough to hurt him like that again."
"I do not know what you mean?" She frowned, trying to feign ignorance.
"Zoro already told me about his little sixth year crush and how that ended." He began, a cold venom weaving through his voice. "It took me months to get him really talking again and I didn't like what he told me; you abused your position as his teacher and manipulated him, groomed him, so that he did what you wanted him to. He even gave you a peep show and saved your career after you'd been caught. After everything you put him through, you just threw him away." He continued, an almost threatening tone to his voice. "He was a boy and you know it."
"If he was a boy then, what is he now?" She returned, pulling herself up straighter in indignation at such disgusting accusations.
"Zoro? I saw you watching us when we arrived." He smirked, finally releasing her hand and passing her the little package wrapped in the typical thick brown paper. "We both know he's a man now." He smirked back at her as he turned to walk back down her garden path. "And he's mine."
Hope you enjoyed this! I'm even being adventurous! megaME suggested Perona or Law, so I went for Law and went for a 'rarer' sexuality! Hopefully I've managed to pull this off! XD If you don't like yaoi, don't worry! Other than the occasional kiss or hint, there will be no 'sexual' interaction between Zoro and Law written in this. The next chapter is called 'A Glimpse of the Past'. Hope you've enjoyed this and will look forward to chapter two's arrival on Monday! XD
