Chapter 1: Holding Hands
The sun was lowering down from the sky and every shade turned beautifully red and pink. The last sunlight gave Merry a nice shine before it disappeared in the horrizone.
The once again resembled strawhat crew had filled their ship with traditional japanese lanterns and everyone was chattering happily.
"SANJI! MOAH MEAH!" The captain kept calling for hours making the poor blonde chef work his ass off so much that he didn't have time to return the annoying insults from the green haired swordsman, this annoyed Zoro to the deepest and he grunted a frustrated sigh and clunked down his sake.
Sanji didn't even have time to breath and at some point the crew noticed that he was gone.
"SANJI! MORE MEAT!" Luffy shouted happily but noticed also after a few minutes that Sanji didn't come back out from the Galley.
"SANJI! MORE MEA-!" The captain was cut off by a hard smash in his head by the crews navigator Nami.
Chopper instantly turned worried when he also noticed the situation and now everyone was staring at the door to the kitchen. Zoro on the other hand didn't care and continued to drink before he too was interrupted by Nami.
"What the fuck was that for!" He hissed and glared at the navigator.
"Stop drinking and go cheack on Sanji-kun!" She growled wich made Zoro jump out of his seat and angrily walked towards the kitchen.
He stopped and slowly opened the door to peak inside. The room was empty, it's only friend was the smell of food and..."Blood?" The swordsman thought and closed the door. He looked towards the crew who had continued to party now. Zoro noticed a smell of blood mixed with smoke and followed it. He looked over the railing and noticed the cook walking down the beach side. He sighed angrily and jumped down from the ship to walk after Sanji.
"Stupid Ero-cook walking off.." He grumbled to himself. He noticed that Sanji stopped so he did as well then noticed the other was looking towards him.
"What do you want moss-head?" Sanji asked almost in a low whisper and took a long drag of his cigarette. That's when the swordsman noticed that the cook's hand was wrapped in bandages. He silently stared at it wich made the blonde slightly annoyed.
"Hey! Shit-head, stop staring" Zoro snapped and looked at Sanji's face, it was slightly flushed and looked like..
"He's shaking?"
Sanji wasn't in the mood for Zoro to just stare at him, he was tired and wanted to be alone.
"Oi..."
"What?" Zoro turned silent for a moment again.
"Don't loose sentences like you get lost grass-head.." Sanji took another drag from his cigarette.
"You're shaking.."
"So?"
"..."
Sanji was getting more and more pissed but managed to stay calm. "What's with the huge lack of words..?" He thought.
"Oi.."
"Hmm?"
"Are you okay?" Sanji got slightly stunned by the question. He lowered his head slightly from Zoro's gaze.
Zoro still had his gaze on Sanji waiting for an answear. He knew that the cook was not okay but he wanted him to say it. Sanji took another drag from his cigarette.
"I'm.."
Not okay
"Okay" He answeared silently.
Zoro was still looking at Sanji, he chuckled slightly wich caught the blondes attention. Sanji looked deeply confused at the swordsman before he slowly turned frustrated.
"Oi, what's so funny marimo?" Zoro chuckled more.
"You"
"What?" The cook was deeply confused again.
"You Sanji" Zoro grinned.
Sanji was even more confused now, he didn't know what to say or do to such an unussual comment from the swordsman. Zoro turned serious again and walked over to stand infront of Sanji. Sanji just kept staring in silence.
"Oi" Zoro put his hands on Sanji's cheeks and pulled him closer so they foreheads touched.
"It's okay to say no at some point to Luffy..you don't deserve..that kind of treatment.." It was Zoro's turn to look down, feeling a bit embarresed.
"Zo-"
"You can't lie to me curly eyebrow..you're not okay..."
Sanji could feel the tears in his troath, What just happend?
He just kept looking at Zoro who now was looking into Sanji's eyes. They stayed like that for a moment before Zoro snapped suddenly noticing the blonde had tears trickling down his cheeks.
"O-Oi.." Sanji pulled away and turned his back towards Zoro rubbing his eyes.
"S-Sorry" He stammered silently. The swordsman gave a small smile.
"Hey" He grabbed Sanji's shoulder.
"Let's go back..the other's are worried"
"M-mhm" Sanji fixed his face to hide that he had been crying.
He frozed when he had turned back to the swordsman, the hand Zoro had on Sanji's shoulder was now..
HE'S HOLDING MY HAND!
"Oi, stop daydreaming so we can go back ero-cook" Zoro grunted but it sounded more like a joke in the blondes ears. He didn't have time to conquer the insult before the swordsman was pulling him back towards the ship.
HE'S STILL HOLDING MY FUCKING HAND!
End of chapter 1