Prompt: Ventusio; aww, this is awesome. How about a scene were zoro, heroically has to save a lady and sanji gets really impressed but doesn't want to show it to him. so now he tries to figure out if zoro is into men or not?

A/N: I couldn't resist! But it's a kid instead of a lady...

~X~

Despite Sanji's obvious sexuality, Zoro still relished in the hour long session he got with watching the blond swimming at the pool every day. Though now it became more of a far off fantasy that he indulged himself in than any actual conquest or hopefulness of ever getting the blond's attention. Granted, the shun of knowing that the man was off limits had made watching him a bit less fun than it used to be.

Watching all of the people in the lanes he noted all the adults swimming their lengths; some slow and others – like Sanji – looking like they were training for the Olympics. A few girls were playing with a volleyball over the net in the shallow end and some kids were rough housing near the decline into the deep end. Zoro usually let the kids have their fun, knowing what a piss off it was to have a life guard take away the joy playing at the pool. Though something really felt off now that he glanced around once more.

More of an instinct than anything else, he felt like something was terribly off at that moment, mentally noting that something had changed. Scanning the room hurriedly it didn't even take a moment to realize that a child was already missing from the head count. There had been a distinctly noticeable boy that had been overly noisy in the deep end for a good portion of the hour and now he had just vanished.

Another quick glance and he could see the slowly sinking body and cursed aloud, damn but he hated when kids faked drowning; it made dealing with the real ones so much more risky. Snatching up his whistled he blew into it sharply three times, easily getting everyone's attention in the pool, but he hardly cared as he knew other people on duty would take charge in keeping everyone calm.

Throwing aside the bit of plastic he jumped from the observation chair, landing hard on the tile and running for the pools edge. Casting off his shirt in a swift motion his foot planted securely on the curled tiled edge of the pool and he launched himself into the water, arms out in front of himself.

Breaking the cold surface with his dry skin was a stark awakening, but it didn't even make him pause as he was already kicking through the water to the blurry outline of the boy. Hooking a strong arm under the boys midsection he kicked off from the bottom and shot himself up towards the surface with as much force as he could. The boy was significantly lighter than the practise dummies, and other heavier adults he'd had to save and he broke the surface in no time. Keeping the boy's head safely above water he tread until he got them close enough to the edge.

Nami was already awaiting him with a firm, calm look plastered on her face and she helped drag the boy from the pool keeping him safely on his back and trying not to jostle him too much. Zoro wasted little time in climbing out of the water and scrambling to the boys side, kneeling carefully beside him he placed his ear to the boys mouth and barely heard any breathes from the kid.

An inkling of dread set in as his first aid training kicked in almost out of subconscious thought and he set about properly resuscitating the boy. Everything was a thrum in his ears as he solely focused on pressing his hands against the boys chest with practised pumps, dropping down to hold the boys nose and breathing out sharply before returning to the chest pumps. A few silent moments of dread as he continued the actions before a particular blow had the kid suddenly coughing dramatically.

Quickly tilting the boys body to the side he continued to hold him reassuringly as the kid coughed up all the water in his lungs and drag desperate breathes into his air starved body. Finally, seeming to have finished and recovered the kid went limp in Zoro's arms as a weak hand came up to wipe away the snot and tears that had been a result of his hacking. Zoro continued to gently hold the boy until his tunnel vision began to fade away and he was slowly aware of everyone else around him and the panicked shrieks of no doubt the boy's mother.

As soon as Zoro let the boy sit on his own and was sure he wasn't going to fall over, his mother swooped in and embraced the boy, crying but seemingly trying to keep herself composed and not add to her son's stress. There was a warm glow felt from being able to help the woman keep something so precious of hers and Zoro finally knelt back on his haunches in relief, still slightly on a terrible adrenaline high from having to hold a human life in his hands.

Casting a look around to make sure everything was okay, he scanned through the people looking over and across to see what the commotion was about, and the few people were still in the pool, looking around in confusion wondering if it was still okay to keep swimming. As he looked through the group of kids crowding around their friend to see if he was alright Zoro felt his eyes practically bug out as he spotted the blond.

And Sanji was staring right at him.

It was the first time the blond had ever actually looked at Zoro and the life guard could easily say that it was something he wanted to happen again, a lot. Every day if he could possibly manage it. Because those eyes were such an amazing blue that he could hardly believe he hadn't noticed them before, granted he always had that stupid blond hair in the way or he was wearing goggles. But those gorgeous eyes were staring directly at him and if Zoro wasn't already kneeling, he'd have fallen to his knees.

There was myriad of things in the man's expression that he couldn't quite place, but undoubtedly the first and foremost was commendation. Looking severely impressed as a small smirk touched the corner of his lips, still not quite looking away as he seemed to be assessing Zoro further. There was a flicker of something there, though Zoro couldn't quite guess what it was as his brain was still malfunctioning over the fact that Sanji was staring at him.

Unfortunately he didn't even get a chance to mull over the look before the mother was hugging him and desperately thanking him. The crowd was loud a boisterous, the life guards were trying to reorganize the pool so that people could eventually get back in to swim and by the time he had gotten away from the mother and child the blond was long since gone. Letting out a defeated sigh Zoro glanced up at the large analog clock on the wall as the second hand was already way past the seven o'clock mark.

TBC...?

A/N: Never took life guard training so don't trust me too much on this... LOL Also got a lot of interesting prompts that I'll have to do... AH! This is so fun!