FIRST CHAPTER: AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER.

- Luffy! I said no! -

- But why? -

- I have been there once and I've spent a sleepless night, in fact I made the way bedroom - bathroom - bedroom and do you have the intent to lead me there?! -

- Zoro, calm down! I know be familiar with other restaurant... -

- And what would it be? -

- Baratie! The restaurant is in Brooklyn. It's one of the best restaurants. Have you been there? -

- No, I haven't… But I heard about this, okay! Reserve it. -

- Yattaaaaaa! So we have tomorrow at 8.00 p.m. ? There will be our old classmates, do you remember them? - He laughed.

- Long nose, cat burglar, mysterious girl, aspiring doctor… Ah, those good memories! - Sighed Zoro.

- Punctual! Don't get lost, be accompanied with a little old lady. - Laughed hard Luffy.

- You bastard! Tomorrow I'll strangle you. -

Both laughed again.

- Come on! We see tomorrow, Mr. Muscle! - He teased the other.

- See you tomorrow, mentally retarded person! -

Both hung up at that moment.


Roronoa Zoro, 21 years old, he was a policeman. A tall and strapping man, green hair and eyes of the same colour. His cheekbones and outlined face with the perpetually forehead donate him a severe air. Three earrings on left ear, a scar on left eye inflicted by a mafia boss during a covert operation, but this expressed him more strict.

Wednesday was his free day. He would have spent at home to train, in a room who had set up as a gym, where he trained concentrating to intensify his muscles and strength. He wanted to be tenacious. His ambition was to conquer the place of inspector.

He also practiced Kendo as sport.

Monkey D. Luffy, 19 years old, he was a fireman. Although his young age, his grandfather, Garp, had recruited him in the NFPA after the college.

His face traits childish donated him a childhood air, a scar under the left eye got when he was a kind to prove to Shanks that he wasn't weak but a courageous and talented child; he couldn't deface that innocence air which transmitted his smile. His hair was black and tousled, eyes, always same color, were sprightly and curious.


- Gramps! Tonight I will go out with my best friend and some of my old school friends. -

- Then double turns tomorrow! - Blamed the old man.

- But grandpa! - Heatedly protested the young.

- Ah! Ah! Ah! Gotcha! How I love to make these jokes to my grandchildren! -

- Asshole of an old man! - He stuck the tongue.

- Go and get out of my sight until tomorrow afternoon! -

The straw hat boy, from which he never separated its because there was very fond, thanked infinitely his grandfather for the freedom.

Finally that evening all would be met. The last to arrive was really Zoro, who he didn't have a good sense of direction.

- If we bet for that sure I would have won something! - Said Nami with her trick face.

- You are always the usual person! - Came back Usopp.

- Guys, come on! - Implored Chopper.

- EHI, ZOROOOOOOOOOOO! How long! - Luffy jumped on his best friend.

- Calm down! - The swordsman rebuked him heatedly. - Guys! How long no see you! You've changed a lot, seriously. -

- Why aren't you? - Chuckled Usopp.

- Oh, scar on the left eye without considering! -

- How without considering?! You became more muscular and taller compared from two years ago, your hair is pulled back! However… You remain a fascinating man. I remember at School that I was running behind you, - Avowed Nami homesicked.

- Witch, I repeat you that I'm not heterosexual, in fact I like men. Print it on your head. -

- Come on, your arrogant and cold behavior is the same! - Snorted the girl.

- Guys, can we enter now? My stomach rumbled. - The straw hat boy caught the attention of his friends.

- You are always hungry! - Usopp punched on his head.

They entered. They sat at nice table in the center of the eventful room, restless by going back and forth by waiters who served delicacy for hungry customers.

Zoro was sat between Luffy and Nami, in front of Chopper and Usopp who were sat on the other side of table.

- Now you explain why by force have to sit next to you? - Grumbled Zoro.

- Can't I? Oh my God, you have a black heart. -

- I'm homosexual. I owe you spell that?! -

- Come on! This doesn't mean that I'm point to you! Idiot moss head! -

- Guys, seriously, calm down. And… Please decide which dish to order. - Implore the long nose.

- I agree with him! - Luffy wrapped his neck in an arm almost chocking him.

- You choose a dish because I'm hungry. -

- But was that witch of Nami to start the speech and not me. -

- Spoke the man without brain and all muscles! - Came back the slight girl.

- Ah… - Sighed exasperated Zoro.

The whole group decided dished to order. They are hung around with rumbling stomach and growing hunger. The dark boy had begun to nibble breadsticks brought by a waiter, the red girl sent repeatedly messages to her best friend, Bibi, the liar of the group talked with the prodigious medical student and, at the end, the mysterious girl with beautiful glossy black hair noticed carefully the swordsman with an hand on chin and elbow supported on the table while he was looking a blonde cook worked hard behind the jib door.

- Zoro… - Recalled him smiling. - As usual you miss a partner, don't you? -

- Ehm, no… - Then the policeman focused the look elsewhere.

- You left with Saga, didn't you? -

The swordsman when heard "Saga" stiffen and not little.

- Please, can we change the discussion? I don't wanna listen about him. -

The archaeologist surrendered smiling.

After a half hour finally the table was completed by the smell and exquisite dishes.

The policeman with green hair cut a mouthful of a beautiful, grilled and refined roast beef, leading to the mouth and then savored it. He was astonished.

- What's up? - Asked worried his best friend with mouth full of food.

Zoro didn't reply for a few, observing carefully the meat on dish: it was really great cooked and grilled without sign of burns.

- Hmmmm? - Chopper grinded the teeth.

- Eh? - The policeman backed to reality. - This dish is really delicious and I never taste a great food before. -

- Shishishishishi! Here the cook is the best that you find, such as his father. -

- But is someone he recognized? -

- Of course! He won four prizes as best cook… - Luffy replied enthusiastic. - AGAIN MEAT, PLEASE! - Shouted.

- Luffy, stop it! Otherwise we have to pay extra expenses! - Grumbled Nami alarmed.

- You are always the usual! - Replied Usopp irritated. - You are too attached with money! -

- Now you understand because I want a billionaire husband… - She replied her friend with a sly wink.

After the finish eating, the group was talking about free time, work, interesting miscellaneous topics.

The policeman, rather, the future inspector, had eye steady behind that jib door. He did a decision.

He raised the hand to call a waiter, who directed now to guy with a strange green hair, welcoming the request.

- Tell me, Lord. - He asked pleasure.

- May he, please, call that blonde guy behind there? - Indicated.

- Who? Sanji? - Replied the other confused.

- Ah, so does he call so? Please call him that I would like to speak with him. -

- Right away!- The waiter shelled to the kitchen.

There he put an hand on cook's shoulder to tell which was a customer would have the pleasure to speak with him. Sanji didn't reply and kept down to be accompanied by him to Zoro. When Zoro saw the cook arriving, shooted in foot and smiled holding the hand.

- Compliments for the cuisine! -

The cook remained immobile, trying to understand what that he meant that, from first glance, he looked like a boor with Marimo hair. Marimo boor, reprimanded mentally the cook, after seeing the colour of hair that looked like the typical seaweed.

- Hm? Why don't you reply? - Asked the green frowned the forehead.

The cook seemed to have difficulties to answer. He kept down the chew the lower lip for the nervous.

- Zoro… I forgot that he's totally deaf. He is born deaf. He doesn't speak and hear. - Stepped Luffy with inconvenience. - He speaks with sign language. - Concluded the black.

The swordsman looked his best friend with frown eyebrows: for him was a new experience which didn't how to relate.

Then he fixed green eye with those blue eyes like as ocean. That eye full of fear and inconvenience.

The cook did a gentle curtsy, almost sorry, without pulled up, chewing the lower lip. The policeman, without hesitation and under eyes of some customers who looked the scene, so strange between two boys belonging to two different Worlds. He made headway, lifted his torso and held him in a loving hug.

- It's all okay. I don't care if you are deaf. Now you are part of my World. We will find a way to face your deafness. - He put the head.

Sanji had a confused expression on face which expressed the dubiousness. To his rescue, fortunately, interfered Luffy, translating that have said the green man in sign language who learned from Garp.

For the first time in his life from an eye of cook downed a tear, a tear fill of happiness and relief, for the first time in his life he felt appreciated, filled and protected, even if he didn't understand how would that all muscles guy to help him to defeat that evil which inhibited him to speak and to hear everything surrounded him.