I rewrote this whole story. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece

Walking into his apartment Sanji threw his bag down the couch and headed into his room to grab fresh clothes. It had been a long day at the Baratie, with beautiful women and annoying rude bastards, all Sanji wanted right now was to take a steaming hot shower and go straight to bed.

So, he walked into his bathroom and stripped out of his work clothes throwing on the hamper. He turned on the water and stepped in letting tge hot water hit his tense muscles. A relief sigh escaped his lips and he just stood there relishing in the warm greatness before he grabbed the bottle of shampoo squirting out a plamful and started to massage the foam soap into his blonde hair. He rinsed and washed his entire body and hopped out of the shower drying off, putting on a blue shirt and blue sweatpants.

With a clean towel around his neck Sanji went back into his room, throwing the towel onto his chair at his desk, when something caught his eye and made him stop in his tracks.

"That's right." He mumbled to himself. Walking to his small desk he grabbed the black and white invitation and read through it.

He remembered that he was invited by Robin and Franky to the Black and White Masquerade Ball they were hosting. Where everything about the party was of course, black and white. He never really had a good chance to look at it because he was so busy, now that he did, he noticed how beautiful and fancy it was, just like Robin herself of course.

He could already imagine how the party was gonna look like.

Placing the invitation back on the table he padded over to his bed and flopped down onto his soft mattress. Turning on his side a small smile lit up his face when he glanced at the picture he found a couple of days ago over on his nightstand. In the picture two childish boys were pulling at each others hair with similar grins on their faces. He remembered that memory like it was only yesterday.

Zoro was his childhood friend and rival, and the man that Sanji is secretly in love with.

Yes. He fell in love with a man.

Not a beautiful woman who he could spoil and show his undying love, but a man, a man whose been there all his life. Of course Zoro didn't know this. He would never know how badly Sanji wanted to be with him, how badly Sanji wanted to stop all the arguing for once in their damn lives and just be held by Zoro in his strong arms and have the swordsman whisper sweet words to him instead of snarky comments.

That was all Sanji dreamed though.

As much as he wanted to tell Zoro, he was afraid. Afraid that the marimo would freak out and never talk to him again. He couldn't risk that, he couldn't risk ruining a long going friendship, so he hid his feelings behind the rivalry facade.

But deep down Sanji was tired, tired of hiding these stupid feelings in. He was never one to back down from a challenge, but this challenge was putting his friendship on the line. He always thought the worst in these situations, because he was afraid of losing Zoro. Not only that Zoro also has a dream, of becoming the greatest swordsman, and he wants to be there by his side when he does.

His eyes traveled back to his desk and the invitation to the ball. He wondered if Zoro was gonna go. He knew he was invited by Robin, and knowing Zoro he was probably gonna go because of the booze.

And, if Sanji knew better than Luffy was definitely invited, which meant that Ace was invited as well, and which meant that Zoro was gonna be force to go by the two D brothers anyways.

Blue eyes shot open and an idea suddenly popped in his head.

A black and white MASKED ball. Where everyone was gonna be wearing MASKS! No one was gonna know who anybody is unless you go with someone. He was so grateful Zeff gave him the weekend off.

The ringing of his phone brought him out of his thoughts. The caller ID said Chopper's name. He slid his phone open and answered.

"Hey Chopper." He said into the phone.

"Sanji." He heard Chopper say. "Sorry to call you at this time, but Usopp and I were wondering if you were gonna go to the ball on Saturday?"

That's right. He was so busy with work he hadn't told anyone if he was going or not. In fact he didn't really have any time off to actually hang out with his friends at all.

"Yeah I'll be there Chopper." He answered.

Sanji smiled when he heard Chopper cheer in happiness, and he could hear Usopp in the background shouting as well. It was obvious they needed a ride because the two had no one or way to go, Sanji didn't really mind.

He heard Chopper giggle. "That's great Sanji. Oh, and I was hoping you still have our tuxedos with you?"

Sanji nodded into the phone. "Yeah, dont worry Chopper I still have them, just be sure to come by and get them Saturday." With a quick ok and goodbye from both Chopper and Usopp, Sanji heard the click from the other end of the line, so he hung up and placed the phone back on the nightstand.

Sanji turned over on his back and stared up at the ceiling, remembering what he was thinking about before his friends called.

A small sigh escaped his lips, and soon he fell into a deep sleep, both ready and dreading for Saturday to arrive.