This is actually my first fanfiction about this couple and only the second thing I ever wrote! (apart from the essays I had to write for school ^^) English is not my native language but I hope the mistakes aren't too bad but if you find some please tell me ;)

Warnings: AU, yaoi, not beta'ed, apart from that .. only a few insults, what did you expect from Zoro and Sanji? :D Rated M just to be sure, this chapter is harmless, but who knows about the next chapters :D oh and yeah, since its an AU, OOC is bound to happen.

This story is entirely fictional and the characters from One Piece belong to Eiichiro Oda


It was a surprisingly warm day in November and Zoro currently was sitting on his new couch in his new living room.

He finished university not long ago and started to work as an architect. (Even though he's able to get lost on the construction site he's actually quite skilled at work).Now that he was earning more money he decided to move out of his old one-room apartment which was rather shabby but cheap and to move in into a new two-rooms apartment with more space. It didn't take long for him to buy furniture because he likes it rather simple. For the living room only a Couch, a TV, a shelf for his stereo and a table with chairs, enough for all his friends to come around. The same applied for his bedroom, only a bed, a desk for his laptop, his work documents and other important papers and a closet for his clothes. Not much, but it worked for him.

Just yesterday he moved the last of his stuff to the destined places and he sent everyone of his friends a message that he wanted to throw a party today so everyone can see his new apartment. He figured it would be easier that way because it would be a pain in the ass if everyone of them came separately.

And right now he was waiting for one of his friends, Sanji. He works as a cook and offered to come earlier to help Zoro to cook some food. But knowing Zoros skills in the kitchen it was clear that Sanji would cook the food alone while Zoro watches him and drinks some beer.

Zoro looked at his watch and noticed that the cook was late and growled at that, he hated waiting. But only 2 Minutes later the door bell rang and Zoro stood up to open the door for his friend. But instead of Sanjis head he only saw an unbelievably big bag full with ingredients for cooking.

"Hey Mosshead, instead of staring you could help me .. take that bag to the kitchen while I go down and get the rest of the stuff from my car, will you?"

Zoro, still in shock, took the bag and moved into the kitchen. When Sanji arrived a few minutes later with a bag as big as the first one he finally awoke from his trance.

"Oi cook, how much food do you want to make?! This stuff is enough to feed a whole family for 4 weeks!"

"Idiot, Luffy is coming, you know very well about the black hole in his stomach, if I had brought less you would have to deal with a grumpy Luffy the whole evening, you don't want that right?!"

"True"

While they talked the cook had absentmindedly emptied the bags and was now searching the whole kitchen in order to find out if Zoro has all the utensils he needed for cooking. A glance was enough to tell him there wasn't so he made a decision.

"Hey, we have to go shopping now!"

"Shopping?! What the hell?!"

"Yeah, Shopping! Because you idiot don't even have a nice kitchen knife for me to use and I don't even want to start talking about your pans and pots."

"Excuse me for not having luxury cooking utensils but not everybody is as great a cook as you"

"Sarcasm won't help you, we still have to go shopping."

"Can't you go alone?!"

"Forget it, you will be the one to pay and I definitely don't want to be killed by you later because you think it was to expensive!"

"Oh, whatever .. I'll get my keys"

A final glare in the cooks direction and he went to get his keys and followed his friend to the next department store.

After a few differences he decided to let the cook choose and just handed him his credit card (they were almost thrown out of the shop because they fought too loud). An hour later Sanji was finally done and Zoro let out a sigh of relief when they got out of the shop and turned to Sanji.

"Do you want to get some cake? We could eat at my apartment before you start to cook"

"Why not, but you pay. I'm the one who is doing all the work later!"

Zoro rolled with his eyes but went into the next bakery to buy some cake.

When they had returned at the apartment Zoro made some coffee (he may not be a good cook but at least he is able to handle a coffee machine) while Sanji unwrapped the things he or rather Zoro had bought earlier. When the coffee was done they sat in the living room and Sanji took a good look at the room for the first time.

"This place is plain"

"I like it simple"

"Yeah, like your brain"

"Are you looking down on my intelligence?!"

"Ah, forget it, after all you don't have to have much intelligence to work on a construction site."

"Yeah right, and cooking requires a lot of thinking!"

"Are you looking down on my knowledge about cooking?"

They both glared at each other and Zoro sighed mentally, knowing that the two of them will never get along well.

They knew each other since High School and they got into fights regularly and annoyed the hell out of each other but nevertheless they both respected each other even though they would never say it out loud. Because even though they fight most of the time they have at least one thing in common: their stubbornness!

After a short silence Sanji reached into his jacket to search for a cigarette and his lighter.

"Am I at least allowed to smoke in here?!"

"Whatever, you would do it anyway, right?!"

"Damn right!"

And again it was Zoros turn to roll his eyes

"You always have to have the last word, hmn?!"

"So what?! Your ego doesn't allow me to have the last word?!"

"Hey shit-cook! I was just stating a fact"

"Yeah, right!"

Sanjis last sentence was followed by a snort and this little sound was enough to piss Zoro off.

But knowing that Sanji is the one who is going to cook tonight he tried to calm himself in order to not kill the other man. He decided it would be the best to just stay put and wait for the cook to start with his work.

Fortunately, Sanji finished with his cigarette and made his way into the kitchen but not without throwing another glare into Zoros direction.

"Hey, if I have to do the cooking, at least you could help me and chop some vegetables, no food without work, you got it?"

"Yeah, mom"

With that said Zoro made his way to follow the other man into the kitchen.

Phew, the first chapter is done .. and I can tell you. This is going to be a looooong story, I didn't even start with the main plot O.รด. I hope you liked the chapter even though nothing really happened and I know it's hard to judge a story just with these few words but I hope you will read the next chapters too :)

See you ;D