Author's Note: Okay, so the stupid voices wouldn't stop. Wouldn't stop to the point that I HAD TO write this sequel to "Personal Interest"...which is a sequel to the wonderful "Unrequited Interest" (by the very cool Vampire-Otaku1. LOL!!! Yes, who would have thought that your story would spark such as endless writing flow. Please make it stop! They are driving me nuts! But a good kind of 'nuts'...)

So, THANK YOU VERY MUCH to "One Piece" creator (and owner of all the OP characters) Eiichiro Oda, to the creator of "Unrequited Interest" Vampire-Otaku1, and those who bothered to read and review "Personal Interest" Verum and Lady Geuna!!! THANK YOU!!!

WARNING: Ahoy, YAOI scenes ahead!!! Please be warned!!! Please do not read if that shocks you! (It was IMPORTANT to the story...if it wasn't, it wouldn't be in here...) Thank you.

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Chapter 1: Love Hurts

It was still light out when the blonde haired cook awoke. Smiling, he could feel the warm body behind him, and the large muscular arm still wrapped tightly around him.

"I have to go," whispered Sanji as he tried to move out of the arm's grasp.

"Ugh?" Came a low grunt, as the arm increased it's grip on him.

"No really, I have to be going."

Slowly the arm rolled the cook over until he was facing it's owner, a man who could have passed for Zoro in every way, except for a large scar across his right cheek and the scarlet red hair. "Why don't you join my crew instead?" Asked the gruff voice as he pulled the younger man into an inescapable embrace.

Laughing, the blonde could only reply, "I can't leave my crew...especially now..."

Growling, the red haired man pushed the blonde away. "Fine, go be with THEM. Maybe I won't be at the next port you arrive at."

Puzzled by the sudden angry reaction, Sanji got out of bed and started to get dressed. It hadn't always been like this, for the first couple of months everything was magic. Their first meeting, the sweet words, the kind gestures, the magical appearance of his night in shiny armor at every port that they docked at...it was everything that Sanji had imagined that love could be, everything that he wanted...

Then two months ago things had changed. This man, whom he loved with all his heart, had started dropping little comments. Asking him if he had been honest with his crew...making little statements here and there, telling him that they wouldn't understand...asking him to leave the Mugiwaras and to join his crew...becoming angry at the slightest innocuous comments from the blonde cook...

Bending down to give the red-head a peck on the cheek, Sanji let out a sharp cry when he was surprised by a solid backhanded blow to his cheek.

Quickly hopping out of bed, the red haired man immediately started his apologies. "Sanji...I didn't mean...I'm sorry...it's just that...I love you so much..."

Seeing the wariness in the blonde man's eye, the red head slowly wrapped his arms around the cook's slender frame and held him.

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"Where the hell is that stupid Ero-Kokku?" the green-haired swordsman asked himself as the sun dipped under the horizon.

It was already sunset and still there was no dinner prepared.

"Sanji! Sanji! I'm hungry!!!" Zoro placed a hand over his eyes, Luffy had been running around the ship for an hour now, looking for that stupid cook...and driving the swordsman up the Going Merry's walls.

"Yakamashi..." the irritated swordsman thought to himself, trying to control his growing temper.

"Sanji!!!" Luffy's shouting continued, "Sanji, quit hiding!!!"

"URUSE!!!" Shouted the swordsman as he had finally hit his limit, "He's NOT on the ship!!!"

Luffy turned around, to face the angry, green-haired man, eyes wide open and looking very innocent. "Zoro, do you know where Sanji is?"

"If I knew, I'd go and drag his sorry ass back to the ship."

"You don't think he's in trouble, do you?"

"If he isn't...HE WILL BE when he gets his ass back here."

As if on cue, a blonde head began to appear over the side of the ship.

"Where the hell have you been?" Growled the angry swordsman.

"Sorry, I was...busy..." Answered the cook, face downcast towards the floor.

"Too busy to do your job?" Zoro continued his line of questioning.

"Back off!" Yelled Sanji, looking up, his face red with anger.

"Wha?" Said Luffy as he saw the large bruise on the cook's cheek. "Sanji, what happened?"

"It's nothing," quietly answered the cook as he dropped his face back down, "Sorry, Luffy. I'll go prepare dinner..."

Before Zoro could ask any more questions Luffy started to yell. "Dinner! Yay! Meat, meat, meat, meat, meat...," as he followed the cook into the kitchen.

While the swordsman watched the cook and his captain walk away, he had a deep gnawing feeling in his gut that something was terribly wrong.

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It was Sanji's turn at watch, and the rest of the crew was already asleep, when Zoro made his way up the side of the mast and into the crow's nest.

"So, what happened?" Asked the swordsman as he settled down besides the cook.

"Nothing happened."

"Are you telling me that, THAT..." Zoro pointed to the bruise on Sanji's cheek, which still showed in the moonlight, "is nothing?"

"It was an accident. I walked into a wall."

"And does this wall have a name?"

The blonde man considered trying to ignore the question, but finally decided that it was best to tell the truth. "Yukio. His name is Yukio."

"And Yukio...has a problem?"

"Yeah...me." Mumbled the cook, before continuing, "He wants me to join his crew."

"He wants you to leave us?" The swordsman could hear his voice beginning to sharpen with anger, but he couldn't control it.

"He loves me." Stated the cook, his voice rising to match Zoro's.

"Funny way of showing it."

"It was an accident."

"His fist 'accidently' met your face?"

"He didn't mean to do it."

"So, you want to leave with him?"

"Maybe...I don't know..."

"So, you're willing to sacrifice your...and everyone else's dream for him?!"

The cook didn't answer, and the swordsman could only read the silence as a sign as disloyalty to his captain and the rest of the crew.

"Fine. Just make sure Luffy says it's okay. You need the captain's okay before you leave, otherwise he'll have me hunting you down."

And with that, Zoro left the cook behind to finish the rest of his watch, alone.

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Author's Note: A-ha! Not what you guys expected when you first started reading this, huh? LOL! (I know, you guys wanted the green-haired one to be in the bed...Sorry!) See you guys in the next chapter...