Zoro had no idea what he had been thinking when he agreed to help Nami make her crush, Luffy, fall in love with her. He stared at her like she had told him a very bad joke; Zoro was actually hoping it was. He face palmed, and again for ever thinking that helping this woman could ever lead to something good.

"What, are you afraid of me Zoro?" Nami asked smirking.

"Jealousy never works on people! Even if he did love you it's not like he would confess after seeing you make out with one of his best friends!" Zoro glared at her, so much in fact that his glare went through her… no wait, she moved.

"Okay Zoro, Luffy should be here any moment! When we hear his steps outside the doors, we kiss!"

"It sounds worse when you say it! Why didn't you just get the stupid cook to kiss you? I bet he would do it easily!"

"No, I want to kiss you because I don't want anyone else than Luffy falling for me or get their hopes up! Now just close your eyes and imagine I'm someone else!"

Zoro closed his eyes. He just imagined some random woman, and it worked.

Zoro heard footsteps and reached for Nami and kissed her on the mouth, his eyes still closed. They quickly put their arms around each other, though neither would dare deepen the kiss.

The doors opened they both heard it, but they didn't stop their kiss. They heard something light drop on the floor. Nami couldn't resist it, she opened her eyes and looked to her right, but she didn't see Luffy in the door way. She pushed Zoro away from her, but Zoro had his arms still around Nami so she only managed to break the kiss.

"What now?" Zoro asked Nami angrily, but before she answered he saw the shocked blond in the doorway looking like heart just broke in million little pieces.

"Sanji…" Nami whispered.

"I-I-I'm s-sorry I s-should have knocked..!" Sanji managed to get out before he turned around and ran away.

"Shit Nami, this is bad!" Zoro stated.

"I must go after him!" Nami said before Luffy appeared.

"Why was Sanji running?" Luffy asked.

"It's okay. I'll talk to the love-cook!" Zoro told Nami before he walked after Sanji, stepping over the cigarette he just dropped.

Zoro opened the door to the men quarters and walked inside.

"Go away!" Sanji demanded.

"Look, I'm sorry you had to see that, but I truly am not lying when I say 'this wasn't what it looked like'!" Zoro spoke as he stepped closer to Sanji.

"Like hell!" Zoro now finally got a look at Sanji; he was lying on his chest, hugging his pillow and digging his head in it.

"Look I know you love Nami, but I think it's time for you to move on! Nami loves someone else!" Zoro told Sanji as he put one hand on his shoulder.

Sanji slapped his hand quickly away. "I'm not in love with Nami!" Sanji said as he turned his head towards Zoro.

Zoro rolled his eyes. "You liar, I can see the tears in your eyes!"

"Oh they're not because of Nami-san, trust me!" Sanji rubbed an arm over his eyes to get the tears away. He sat up and took a deep breath.

"That doesn't make any sense, why are you upset? You must at least have a crush on her!"

"No, I already told you; I don't like her!"

"Why else would you want to be in my place then?"

"God Zoro, figure it out already! I didn't want to be in your place! I wanted to be in Nami's place!" Sanji almost shouted at Zoro.

Zoro dead stopped. His face went blank. "What?" At this moment he was thinking there was something wrong with his hearing because he was pretty sure the cook would never look twice at a guy. Hell he didn't even think he would look once.

"Aww come on Zoro! You knew sooner or later someone was going to fall for your charm! Your sexy green hair and tanned skin…" Sanji trailed off. He looked Zoro in the eyes; he was looking at Sanji like he was a chicken in a dress.

Regret took over Sanji's expression. "Oh god, what am I saying?" Sanji put one hand over his head like he had a headache. He opened one eye to look at Zoro.

Zoro still couldn't say anything he was sure this had to be his imagination.

Sanji bit his lower lip. "You don't know how many people I would kill gladly just to have you hold me for ten minutes…"

…

"Sanji?"

"You're probably thinking that I'm lying to you! I wish I was…really!" Sanji's voice sounded rusty. "Zoro, could you please leave me alone for a while?" Sanji bit his bottom lip as Zoro turned around any walked out without a word. He probably wouldn't be able to say anything anyways.

'Shit, I can't believe I told him that! Now I can't even be friends with him! What am I gonna do?' Sanji face palmed.

'Why? Was it the jealousy? Did I want him to regret it? Well it doesn't matter, apparently they love each other…God I'm so stupid!' Sanji thought to himself. 'Nami and Zoro… shit I never thought I'd ever want to hurt a woman this much.'

Sanji felt terrible. He sighed. Not only because he told Zoro, but also because he just found out that Zoro already had a lover. His chest hurt and he felt sick. He needed a distraction.

Sanji sighed again and looked at the door Zoro just walk through. 'Well at least he closed the doors. That means something...right?' Sanji wiped the tears from his eyes. 'I need to make dinner!'

Sanji was nervous about seeing Zoro at dinner, he didn't know if Zoro was going to call him a fag in front of everyone or just ignore it. He knew saying something like that wasn't Zoro's style, but he was still worried and nervous about it. Sanji went to the kitchen, he was very happy that Zoro wasn't in view. He really didn't feel like seeing him at the moment.

When Sanji started cooking he found himself putting a lot more effort into make Zoro's share, but he made sure to cover it up so Zoro wouldn't notice.

Dinner should be ready any second now. Zoro was so nervous he had a hard time focusing on training. For some reason he didn't feel like getting hot and sweaty before seeing a certain cook that just confessed his feelings for him.

"Oi, ladies, shitheads, dinner's ready!"

Zoro heard Sanji call. 'Well at least he still calls me a shithead along with the rest of the guys and hopefully this crush he has will just die. I mean it's not like he's in love with me...' Zoro just then remembered Sanji's words earlier. 'Shit, at least I hope so.'

Zoro went in where the rest of his crew was eating their share. Zoro didn't even dare look at the cook. He was too afraid of eye contact and whether Sanji thought it was a connection or something.

He sat down and started eating the food on his plate, he noticed it was better than usual, there wasn't much change, but Zoro knew food, he'd been eating it for nineteen years.

Zoro never thought anything lacked in Sanji's cooking, hell, he didn't even know food could be better than he usually cooks them. 'Maybe this is what Nami's and Robin's shares tastes like.'

Zoro froze. 'No. Fucking. Way.'

Zoro looked at his food, and then he looked at the food on his Nakama's plates. It didn't look any different. Zoro was tempted to steal food from another plate or let Luffy steal from his to see reaction, but those things might involve everyone finding out about Sanji's little crush, and he didn't want that. Zoro could feel the cook's eyes on him. It just made it more likely.

Zoro took a sip of his drink. His eyes widened. If his food wasn't better than usual, it was sure as hell that his drink was. Zoro looked at Sanji with his eyes still wide open. He was waiting for some excuse like: "Oh I'm sorry Nami-swan I got your plate confused with the marimo's plate." But no, Sanji didn't even try to look like he didn't know why Zoro was staring at him. Instead Sanji just blushed and walked out of the kitchen.

Zoro's first instinct was to follow Sanji and talk to him, but he couldn't do that unless he finished his meal, which wasn't a problem since it tasted really good!

Zoro was first to finish since he was in a hurry, he stood up and walked through the door in a hurry.

Sanji was there, in sight, close by, smoking a cigarette. Zoro walked up next to him. Zoro sighed which got Sanji out of his daze. Sanji didn't move but he looked like he wanted to run. Though, he wasn't really the only one.

"Sanji look-" Zoro began, but was stopped.

"If you're gonna ask me why, then just don't. You already know the answer."

Zoro sighed again. "Can't you just skip this and take your anger out on me instead. Talking about emoticons isn't something I like to do often."

It was Sanji's turn to sigh. "I wish I could, but I can't!" Sanji looked Zoro in the eyes. He calmed down immediately. "When I look at you the only thing I want to do is melt..."

Zoro took a deep breath. "Why me?" Zoro said, sounding calm as ever, but he was actually very nervous and uncomfortable.

Sanji bit his lower lip. "I don't know. I just know that seeing your face after eating my cooking, it's…it makes me feel good about myself." Sanji dropped his cigarette on the floor of the ship and crushed it with his foot. "It makes me feel…" He didn't finish that sentence, he just shook his head.

Zoro didn't know what to say to that. He was wordless again. There was a long pause before Zoro spoke again. "Can you at least stop with the food and think about making better food for Nami and Robin."

"No…I can't!"

Zoro frowned. "Why not?"

"Because cooking for my most important-" Sanji dead stopped himself before he told Zoro too much of what he didn't want to know. "Cooking for my object of affection is in my nature Zoro."

"Can't you change your nature?" Zoro asked annoyed.

Sanji was tempted to tell Zoro he would do anything for him, but that wasn't true. Sanji would never give up on Zoro even if it was Zoro's biggest desire.

Sanji didn't reply Zoro's question, he just bit his lip and said; "Sorry!" then he went back in the kitchen.

The end of this chapter, I'll try to be quick with my next one!