A/N: Okay this chapter is fer Angelchan. They were the first reviewer so this is fer you. We hope you like it. ^-^

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Zoro- Terror
Sanji- Madi
Rest of the crew- Switches between us

Now on with this new chapter!
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Zoro just stared at Sanji.

Did he just say... No he couldn't have, right? The swordsman had always had a deep soft spot for the cook but never acted on it. Mainly because he didn't think that Sanji - The LOVE COOK - would ever want him in anyway.

Zoro felt weird watching the cook. He wasn't meant to be hearing any of this. The green-haired male started to back away from the blonde til he hit the wall which he fell right through.

As he fell he tried to call out to Sanji. " Oi COOOOK!" he yelped as he fell to the deck. When he landed he made a very loud thud.

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Sanji jumped when he heard the familiar voice.

It was soft, more of a whisper, but he could hear it almost loud and clear. It overtook any other sound that floated around the blonde and he had to shake his head.

"Zoro..." he said then before getting up and walking to the window. He had heard a loud thud from below but when he looked down he couldn't see anything or anyone on the deck.

Bringing a hand to his forehead he closed his eyes and grit his teeth. Was he starting to go insane? It didn't feel like it but then again he didn't know how you went insane or what it felt like.

Luffy poked his head out of the kitchen where everyone else was at the loud thud to but shrugged it off and closed the door.

Walking back to the couch he sat down again and let another couple of tears fall.

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Zoro just lay there for some time. 'Why did that hurt?' he thought bitterly. You would think that he wouldn't feel a thing, but nooo. He slowly got up.

But when he did he felt something on his neck. He quickly looked down and sure enough there was a chain leading up to the crows nest or more like leading up to Sanji.

The old man had showed up a second time and told him more of what he could do to get someone to believe he was here. Like focusing his energy to move things. Or that if he can finish his business in a year and a day he has a slim chance that he'll live again.

But the thing with the chain was great it meant that Sanji was that one person he could talk now.

Sanji felt a pull towards the deck but didn't move. Whatever it was he wasn't going to follow it just yet. Wiping the tears away he lay down then, running his fingers along one of the weights that had been left up here along with the rest of the swordsman stuff.

He remembered walking up here to bring Zoro food when he didn't show up in the kitchen and ever kicking him once or twice when he found him snoring away without a care in the world when a marine or another pirate ship was heading straight towards them.

Letting out a breath he closed his eyes, images of the marimo flashing through his mind as he curled up slightly into a ball.

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When Zoro got up to crows nest he saw Sanji curled up in a ball and it really confused him. The swordsman liked the cook and was sure that the cook didn't like him at all besides just being a nakama.

So why was the cook so hurt by his... Zoro didn't want to finish that thought. He walked up to Sanji and knelt down next to him

"Sanji? Cook? Can you hear me?" he asked while he focused his energy so that he could rub Sanji's back lightly.

Sanji was starting to enjoy the silence that enveloped him when he heard the voice again and opened his eyes to look around the room.

A shiver passed through him as he felt something on his back and so he didn't move.

"Yeah I can hear you... unless this is all in my head." he said, closing his eyes again and covering them with one of his hands as more tears fell. He didn't really like this. He had to be going insane. He was starting to hear the swordsman and that was not normal.

Zoro was getting worried. The old man had told him that this would most likely happen, but still he didn't like it.

"Sanji I need you to listen to what I tell you okay?... Okay look I'm.. well you know, but I'm still here in a way. But only you can see and hear me. Okay?" he said, finishing the lame version of what the old man told him. He slowly reached up and lightly brushed away the few tears escaped.

Sanji opened his eyes again as the voice continued and he listened even though he was telling himself that he was hearing things.

"I can hear you marimo but I can't see you..." he said then, gasping softly as he felt the tears get brushed off of his face. He shivered again at that. The feeling was cold and it hit his heart like there was an icicle going through it.

"I want to know something... am I going insane?" he asked, not sure if he would believe the answer or not.

Zoro watched him for a minute. Then a small smile crept across his lips.

"Cook, listen. One, you were always insane - ever since you joined this crew. And two, what the hell you mean you can't see me? I'm sitting right next to you." To prove his point he tapped on the ground right next to Sanji's head, where his right knee was.

Sanji had to smile then as he listened to the answer. That was what he thought the swordsman would say. He jumped though when he heard the tap and sat up so he was looking into Zoro's eyes, even if he couldn't see him.

"Honestly... I can only hear you Zoro. I can't see you." he said then, not moving as he felt like he couldn't, he felt like the marimo was staring into his soul.

Zoro almost fell on his ass when Sanji sat up. "Hmm.. Why can't you see me? I thought the old man said that they would be able to hear and see.'" Zoro thought out loud.

But he couldn't for the life of him remember what he told him to do. He remembered that he needed to reach his energy out to the person so that they could hear him, but what in the seven levels of hell was he suppose to do so Sanji could see him?

"Oi Cook. You know a lot about this afterlife shit, right? Know anything about how I can make you see me?"

The blonde was a bit confused as he listened to the swordsman talk to himself and dropped his eyes to the floor as he thought of what Zoro was saying. When the question came out he looked back up as if he could see the marimo and sighed, bringing a hand up to run his fingers through his hair.

"Well they say that if a spirit wants to be seen that they have to come to terms with the fact that they are dead..." he said softly.

Zoro just sighed. Trust the old fart to forget to tell him that. 'Okay...' he thought. 'I know I'm... I'm..'

"Fuck this hard then you would think." he thought out loud again before taking a breath to clear his head. "Okay... I'm...de-dead.."

A cold wind passed then that made the cook shiver and wrap his arms around himself. Of course he looked up just in time to see Zoro materialize in front of him and he gasped as a chain also became apparent. It was around the swordsman's neck and trailed down and then back up, attaching itself to the cook's wrist.

His blue eyes flicked back up to the marimo then and he reached out to see if he could touch him.

Zoro watched Sanji's eyes widen. 'So I guess it worked.' he thought to himself. When he saw Sanji reach out for him, he moved away.

"Don't touch me.. I don't know what could happen.." he warned.

The cook pulled his hand back and lowered his eyes, feeling like he was hoping for too much.

"Sorry..." he said softly then before he realized something and looked back up to Zoro with a slight glare. "If you were here this entire time then you heard what I said before right?" he asked then, tone having changed now that he thought about what he had said earlier.

Zoro looked to his left. He was about to answer Sanji, but was cut off by Luffy yelling for the cook. Zoro just shook his head, then looked at Sanji.

"Well looks like we're being summoned by our loveable captain." the swordsman said quietly, but with a smile.

The cook bit his tongue then as he glanced towards the window. "You're lucky." he said then before he stood up. Glancing back to the chain he reached for it and grabbed it, finding it was solid in his hand. He smirked then and tugged on it slightly, wanting to see the swordsman's reaction before they made their way down to the deck.

When Sanji tugged on the chain Zoro fell face first to the ground. When he got up he glared at the blonde.

"Oh haha very funny blondie, but do that again and I'll show you how I can still kick your ass." then Zoro smiled evilly and grabbed the chain and walked through the door, all he heard behind him was a loud thud.

Sanji fell back as he hit the solid wood and rubbed his face then and growled.

"Shitty Marimo! Why'd you do that?" he asked as he got up and brushed himself off before opening the door and followed the swordsman down. He was feeling better now that he knew the male hadn't left them.

When they got to the deck Luffy was looking at Sanji strangely.

"Hey Sanji why'd you yell for Zoro?"

The cook froze when he heard Luffy's voice and looked to the young captain.

"You must be hearing things Luffy. Why would I call for Zoro? We all know he isn't here..." he said softly, glancing to the swordsman that stood beside him, invisible to everyone but himself.

Zoro looked sadly at Luffy, who now was nodding his head with a sad look on his face. He hated that look on Luffy's face. Luffy looked up. He felt a little colder now.

"Oh yeah, we were wondering why you were up in the crows nest? And what happened to the window?" he asked cocking his head to the side.

Sanji bit his lip then, not sure if he should tell the captain about the sword falling from the room.

"The window shattered as I was cooking. I think it was how fast the day was heating up and I thought I heard something up there so I went to check..." he said then, looking to the raven-haired pirate.

Chopper walked out then and stopped next to Luffy.

"Was there anything up there with..." he didn't get to finish as he began to sob to himself.

Zoro knelt down by the little reindeer. He focused again then lent forward and carefully hugged him as he cried. He never thought that they would be so sad that he was gone. The swordsman wished that he could tell Chopper that he was fine. But he couldn't.

Sanji's eyes traveled down to the small doctor and he tried to stop tears from forming in his own eyes at the thought that Chopper was thinking. He knew that the swordsman was there now but it was still sad to think that he had died. Blue eyes noticed the marimo bend down and bring the reindeer into his arms.

"I think it could've just been a bird or something because nothing was up there." he answered Chopper.

Chopper shivered then and noticed a feeling of comfort wash over him. He didn't know why but the tears slowed and he soon wiped them from his eyes as they had stopped.

Zoro smiled at the little doctor. When he was sure that Chopper was done crying he got back up and looked at his captain. Luffy was staring at the crows nest like he was waiting for him to come down at any moment. Zoro wanted more then anything to talk with his whole crew again, even the she-witch.

Just as Zoro was thinking about her, Nami came up to the deck. She smiled and walked up to the boys.

"Sanji, are you ok? You were up there for awhile." she asked in a soft voice.

Sanji's eyes flicked up when he heard the galley door open and he smiled when he spotted Nami. Just because he loved the swordsman didn't mean he would be rude to the women on board.

"I'm fine Nami-San." he said then before he glanced to where the green-haired male stood, even if the others couldn't see him. After a moment he pulled his eyes away since staring off into space would look kind of weird.

Chopper looked up to the navigator and went over to hug her leg softly. He was still upset but felt a little better after the hug from the spirit swordsman.

Soon Robin joined them, carrying a book in her hand.

"So you're finally down Cook-san..."

Zoro looked over to Robin. Then he looked at the book in her hand. It was called 'Ways to Find the Spirits of Loved Ones.' He stared at it for a long second, then turned to Sanji.

"Oi Love-Cook, ask Robin about her book." he pointed at the book in her hands.

The cook bit his lip then trying not to talk back to the idiot swordsman next to him before he followed where Zoro was pointing and read the title of the book.

"What's that you're reading Robin-san?" he asked, just as curious as marimo was.

Robin glanced down at the book, bringing it up to hand it to Sanji.

"Well since swordsman-san is no longer with us I thought that maybe it would help. Here, you can have it if you wish." she said then and the blonde had a feeling that the raven-haired woman knew something.

Zoro had the same feeling as Sanji. But shrugged it off. He could find out later if he wanted. One of the only good things that came out of being dead was that he could walk through walls and no one could see or hear him. But that was a problem too. He wanted them to see him. With a sigh he just sat down by the mast and watched his crew.

Sanji's finger wrapped around the book as he took it from the historian and looked it over. He could feel the rest of the crew's eyes on him and it made him shiver slightly to know that they were watching him like that. 'Do all of them know something?' he thought, kind of hoping that they hadn't figured out about his feelings for Zoro.

"Thank you Robin-san. I'm sure it'll come in handy in some way..." he said, keeping his voice low as he glanced up to her.

She smiled then and placed her hand softly on his shoulder before turning to walk back below deck to find another book or something else to do so her mind didn't wander.

Chopper rubbed his nose with his hoof then and looked up to Sanji from beneath his hat, not sure if he should say anything or not.

Zoro was starting to wounder what everyone knew that him and the cook didn't.

"Oi Cook, just ask whats going on because now I'm worried something happened." Zoro then started to pull on the chain a little to make sure that Sanji asked because if he didn't he'd be eating floor.

Sanji jerked a little before turning to glare at the swordsman which made the others look at each other with questioning expressions.

"You sure you're ok Sanji?" Chopper asked quietly then, tipping his hat back to look at the cook properly.

The blonde looked down at him then. "I'm just wondering what you are all hiding. It's as if something has happened that I don't know of and it's starting to annoy me." he said.

Luffy just stared at Sanji for a moment then said, "I was just wondering of you heard that loud thump on the deck earlier. Because now I wanna know if you know what it was. Chopper?" He looked down at the little doctor waiting for his answer.

Chopper nodded. "It almost gave me a heart attack since everything was so quiet."

Sanji glanced back to where Zoro sat out of the corner of his eye before looking back to the captain.

"Yeah I heard it... but I don't know what it was. I glanced down from the window and I couldn't see anything." he said, but still had a feeling that they weren't telling him something.

Chopper nodded. Then glanced up at the crows nest. Zoro rubbed the back of his head. It still hurt a little which was weird since he was dead. 'Great now I sound like Brook with all of his dead jokes.' he thought dryly.

"I wonder how they heard me through. Not like anyone else, 'sides you can hear me." he said out loud, then got an idea. He stood up and focused his energy and jump up then landed-with a loud thump.

Sanji heard the male talking and tried his best not to start talking back. He bit his lip but the sudden thud made him jump and he ended up biting it, causing it to bleed.

"Damn..." he said before turning around to glare at the green-haired idiot. Chopper jumped with the thud and squeaked, tightening his grip around Nami's leg as he began to shake. The navigator and captain had also jumped with the thud and looked towards the deck near the mast where the sound had come from.

"What was that?" Nami asked then, leaning down to try and comfort the shaking doctor.

Zoro smiled a bit. So they could hear him in away. He felt bad for scaring them, but he needed to know. Even though they couldn't hear him, he still mumbled a sorry, then walked over to Sanji.

"Oi Sanji they can hear the noises I make but not my voice. I bet if I try I could write them something." he told the cook. Though judging by that glare he already knew that.

"You think?" the cook snapped at him but kept it as a whisper so it didn't sound like he was talking to something or someone. He didn't want his nakama thinking he had gone insane and he especially didn't want them to think it was all because of the swordsman. Chopper slowly pulled away from Nami's leg then and let out a breath.

"I sometimes think he's still here some how..." he whispered but he knew the others could hear him.

Zoro looked to Chopper sadly.

"I'm here, Choppa'." he said quietly. He wanted so badly to go and pick the little reindeer up and hold him. He was so much like a kid. He looked at Nami to see her looking down at the doctor.

Even though she and Zoro never really talked without yelling she missed the swordsmen deeply. Slowly she nodded her head in agreement with Chopper.

"Can we go and find something to do Nami?" Chopper asked then, looking up to the orange-haired female.

Sanji just listened to them now, having turned away from Zoro to watch them quietly. He knew how they felt but he also knew that their pain wasn't as deep as his was. Yes he could now talk to Zoro but he couldn't touch him or hold him... hey the cook even missed fighting with the moss-head.

Zoro watched as Nami and Chopper walked away. He felt a deep pain in his chest. He felt that he had been to weak to save himself and in turn cause his crew great pain because of his death. He looked over to Sanji.

"You think they'll ever let me go?"

Once the others were away the cook looked to Zoro, biting his lip lightly.

"I don't know. After all you were pretty much here from the start shitty-swordsman... everyone here classes you as something special in their own way." he answered, moving his eyes down as he spoke since he still hadn't talked to Zoro about what he had said earlier in the crowsnest.

Zoro looked down at his boots. He hated that the cook was right. At one time or other he had saved one of his nakama in some way. Now he felt worse that he left them. Then he heard someone clear their throat. The swordsman looked up and saw the old man.

"Well you found someone to see and hear you. Good."

The blonde looked up and towards the old man, eyebrow raised and eyes slightly wide. He remember the swordsman talking about a man telling him how he could get someone to see and hear him. Sanji turned so he was facing both of them and stayed quiet as they talked.

"Why the hell are you here, old man?" Zoro was upset that he made his crew so sad and the old man was the only one he could really take it out on.

The man just chuckled.

"Well if you don't want to live again i guess ill ju-"

"Wait! How can I live again? You said it would take a year and a day and that was a maybe?" Zoro was confused, but if he could live sooner he was going to take it.

Sanji stayed silent, looking between the two as they spoke. The idea of Zoro living again made the cook's heart beat slightly faster and hope slip into his mind. But before he could even think of saying anything the marimo beat him to it, asking how he could live again. It seemed that the swordsman was not going to give up his life that easily and the blonde had to smile slightly.

The old man chuckled softly.

"That? Oh, I made that up to mess with you boy." as he finished he started laughing. " No, no. We had to run a background check on you to make sure you would be true to your word. That's the part that takes almost a year, but an angel said that you could be trusted and you needed toreach your goal. I think her name was Kuina."

Zoro stared wide-eyed at the man for a moment then shook his head. 'It would be her wouldn't it?' he thought to himself.

"So, Zoro, are you going to tell me who the person you chose is or is he just going to stand there like a pole?" the man finished with a smile looking at Sanji.

Sanji jumped a bit when the male turned towards him and was talking to the swordsman about him. He didn't know if Zoro was going to speak or not so he smiled back softly.

"Sanji... It's nice to meet you..." he said, glancing to the marimo-head and then back to the male that had just appeared. The cook would have to get use to that.

" Well Sanji, its nice to meet you and all that, but I would like to ask you if you would be willing to help Zoro come back to life? Because if you do it might make you lose some of your sanity." the man looked at Sanji right in the eye waiting for an answer.

"To say the truth I doubt I had my full sanity in the first place..." he said with a small smirk as he glanced back to Zoro, remembering what the swordsman had said about how he was crazy when he joined this crew. "So I doubt losing more of it will make any difference. I'd do anything for my nakama..." he said. 'For my love...' he thought to himself.

The old man smiled brightly.

"Good!" the man floated over to Zoro and grabbed the chain around his neck.

"Oi!"

"Shut it." the man said calmly.

Zoro tried to say something, but found that he couldn't speak. The man clipped seven different loops on his.

"These are for your crew. Your job is to make them tell you how special you are to them. You can do it in any order you want, but it must be done by your birthday. You only have a few days to get it done." he looked over to Sanji and winked.

"He's going to need your help." he said with a knowing smile.

Sanji watched before he nodded at the male's words, having a feeling that whoever this guy was he knew more then the cook and the swordsman thought he did. He glanced back to Zoro, blue eyes dropping to the floor. He had always thought the marimo looked cute when he was annoyed, since that seemed to be the expression he nearly always had on his face.

The old man smiled widely.

"Okay, now that's taken care. Here are the rules. One, you can't have Sanji here ask everyone how they felt about you. YOU have to ask them in anyway you can. If they believe you to still be around one of the loops will light up on your chain. If you have all of them filled by the time I come back I'll grant you a new life. And Sanji you can't just go 'hey Zoro's still around!'kay?"

The cook growled softly, knowing that now it would be twice as hard. He had to nod though so they could get this started so the swordsman could come back. He ran his fingers through his hair, waiting for this to be over so they could start and get this over and done with.

Zoro was thinking the same thing as Sanji. He didn't like the fact that the old man had grabbed his chain and told him to shut up. It annoyed him to no end. But he nodded when he was told what to do.

"Okay, now any questions?" that man said looking to both of them. Zoro shook his head and looked at Sanji.

Sanji shook his head. If they were going to do this then he wanted to get started. Questions and explaining the answers would just take up time they could use to get this thing over and done with. Maybe then the shitty marimo would allow the cook to touch his face like he had tried to when he first saw him after two weeks of not having him in view.

"Okay then. I'll be back on the 11th. Good luck!" with that the man disappeared. Zoro sighed in relief. Then looked at the cook.

"Guess I'll be alive by the time I turn 20." he laughed softly. "So, who should we try first?" he asked.

Sanji had to chuckle and looked to Zoro as he pulled out a cigarette.

"Well... I guess we should start with the person we think would believe in you the most. I'm guessing one of the closest to you... Emergency Food Supply." he said with a smirk, knowing that the swordsman would get who he meant.

Zoro laughed and smiled brightly.

"That's fine with me. I just hope I don't scare him to death." Zoro started to head for the galley. Only to stop and look at Sanji.

"Come on, cook, the faster we do this the faster I come back."

TBC
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Okay so that was the second chapter of L.A.D. (I'm too lazy to write the rest)

Well I hope that you all liked the chapter. So review and I'll throw up the next chapter.

Til then, Terror out! X3