Never Lose You

Chapter 7: I can't believe him

It's not weird why those guys chose him instead of other people in this town.
He's very beautiful, with his blond hair, blue eyes and soft skin…

When he's sleeping like this, he looks so fragile… Like a blue rose.
It feels like, if I don't take care of him properly, he will be broken and shattered…

That's why I'll protect him the best I can.

The swordsman's fingers were touching softly against the cook's smooth cheek, while his eyes were still staring at the sleeping cook. Suddenly the cook bit his lower lip, and his eyebrow twitched a bit. Zoro knew that the nightmare came back to Sanji. He touched Sanji's lips softly and leaned his face to the cook, planned to kiss him.

"Ahh!" Sanji opened up his eyes from his nightmare, and he found the swordsman's face right in front of him.

Zoro moved his head back in shock.

Sanji blushed like crazy, "Z-z-zoro… G-good morning."

"Yea, good morning," Zoro answered, "How's your sleep?"

"Good."

"Hmm… still sleepy, eh?"

"Kinda."

"Hmm… breakfast?"

"Nope. Not hungry yet."

"Then… sleep again?"

"Uh huh…" Sanji realized that half of his naked body was revealed. He quickly pulled up the cover and buried half of his face inside it.

Zoro smiled softly. "Do you feel cold?"

"Kinda."

"Umm… let me cover you."

"What?"

"I said; let me cover you so you won't feel cold anymore, Sanji."

Sanji looked up to the swordsman's face in front of him. He couldn't understand was it happiness or what in his heart, when he heard those words came out from the swordsman's lips. He blushed…

…and slowly nodded.

Zoro then put his arms around the thin body of the cook and held it tightly.

"Just take another rest. I'll be here when you need anything else, okay?" Zoro nodded to him slowly.

Sanji buried his face in Zoro's chest while he was smiling like crazy. He couldn't describe how much he felt happy at the time, just to hear Zoro saying that.

Sanji was just going to be drifted away by his sleep when he heard a sound of opening door. Curiosity filled him but he decided not to open his eyes, until he heard a voice,

"…Is everything all right, Zoro?"

"Yes, everything is good."

"Good job. Keep him in a good condition, okay?"

"Yes, don't worry, Luffy."

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It was around 1 PM when Zoro left Sanji's room and had his lunch, made by Nami and Robin. And then he did his daily training like usual, pulling up tons of iron and such.

In the evening, when he was standing on the deck to watch the sunset, he heard the sound of opening door. He turned his face and he found the cook was walking from his own room to the kitchen. Maybe he's hungry, Zoro thought. And he decided to follow him.

"Sanji, are you hungry?"

Sanji sat on the chair and looked inside the bowl on the table.

"Miso soup. Luffy made it. It's not bad, anyway. Wanna try some?" Zoro asked as he walked to the cupboard to find an empty bowl.

But Sanji stood up from his chair and walked away to the kitchen door. Zoro quickly grabbed his arm and kicked the door to make it stay closed.

The loud sound of Zoro's boot and the wooden door could be heard in the air.

"What is it?" Zoro asked.

"Shut up and let me go!" Sanji shook his arm but Zoro was stronger than him and he was not letting him go.

"Sanji!" Zoro grabbed his chin and pushed it up to face him. And that was when he could see the cook's wet eye.

His eyes widened and he loosened his grabs, "Sanji…? Did you cry…?"

Sanji turned his face away. Silence filled the room, until Sanji's sobs broke it.

Zoro reached the cook's shoulder, "What's wrong, Sanji…?"

"Stop it!" Sanji waved his hand away.

Zoro now became confused, "What happened to you??"

"I said STOP IT!!"

"STOP WHAT?!"

"Stop pretending that you care about me!! Stop being good to me just because you feel pity on me!! I don't need your fucking sympathy!!"

"SANJI!!" He shouted, "…whatever I did to you, it's all not pretending or pity, I always…"

"LIAR!!" Sanji's fist hit Zoro's cheek.

"I don't know what your purpose is of being good to me, but I beg on you, stop playing with me!! I heard what you and Luffy talked about this morning…"

Zoro shocked, and he couldn't hide it.

"You CAN'T just pretend like… you're being good to me for…

for an obvious reason, but actually you're just lying to me so that I'll recover from my bad condition…"

Those words knocked his heart as hard as his swords. And he remembered well about what Luffy said the day before.

"You said that maybe he really like you that way. And maybe that's why now Sanji feels better. It's because he thinks you feel something special against him, but when he know the truth that you're just doing this to make him recovered… what will he feel…??"

He couldn't answer. Zoro couldn't find even a single word to answer.

Sanji smiled weakly as tears flowed down from his visible eye which was looking at the swordsman.

"I… I did hope you can answer me… But you can't…haha…" Sanji's laugh sounded bitter. He stopped to wipe his tears before whispered,

"I can't believe you. Can I…?"

When Sanji was just going to turn back to the door, Zoro finally answered.

"I don't know why you hate me that much, so that you can't believe me, or don't want to believe me. But whether you believe me or not, let me tell you something. I admit that I was being good to you just because… I want you to be recovered.

But actually, now I don't feel like that anymore. Now I'm being good to you because I…"

Sanji pulled the kitchen door harshly and the red sun made his shadow even larger on the swordsman. He turned to Zoro as tears fell down from his chin. And before he ran to his own world in his own room, he whispered,

"...Zoro, can I believe you?"

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