Hi, everyone! Paper Trouble is back. But before you read this chapter I have to warn you that this chapter might be not as good as the previous one. Why? Because Zoro and Nami is so stubborn! It is really hard to force both of them to admit their feelings for each other. My plan to hook them up has to be very very careful. If they found out that I was trying to tied them….(shivers)…Oh, just read…
Paper Trouble
-chapter 7-
The Tragic Double Date
"D-date?" Nami's eyes blinked. It had been a couple of days since Zoro and Nami's scenario agreement ended. Both of them decided to lock themselves in the Going Merry until they found a nice solution. For Zoro, it was not that hard. If he got bored all he had to do was training or sleeping. But Nami was not the type of person who could lock herself in the same place for a couple of days. She was starting to get fidget with her condition being locked in the ship. So she finally came to Usopp again, asking for any idea.
"Uh-hum," Usopp nodded for sure. "It's the only way left. If you want to end the rumors, then you both should find a date."
"But…" Nami had never thought about dating someone else before. She had never been seriously attracted to a man…not until she met Zoro. But of course she would never admit that. At least, not for now.
"You don't have to take things seriously, Nami." He said easily, his mouth busy munching a bread. "Just date someone until those rumors subside."
Nami's uneasy look went bright. She snapped her fingers. "Ah, yes you're right! I don't have to be serious about this dating thing."
Nami's lip twisted slowly into a wicked smile. Her right elbow rested on her left arm. Her fingers rub her chin thoughtfully. Her wicked smile grew bigger as she found something which interest her. She really did look like a witch.
"You look suspicious, what are you planning to do?"
She grinned evilly. "Hmm…I don't mind dating Sanji…at the moment. And Zoro (giggled)…he can't find a date."
Usopp nearly spurt out the food inside his mouth, hearing Nami's words. "What are you talking about? Zoro is good looking!"
"Yeah, right." She rolled her eyes. "Usopp, I know Zoro is THAT most beautiful man. But he has no sense on woman. So, he can't find a date."
Usopp scratched the back of his head. "That's a pity. Maybe I'll help him find-"
"DON'T YOU DARE FINDING HIM A DATE!" She barked until her mouth was able to captured Usopp's head. "I will be the one who's dating someone and HE will remain single!"
"Date?" Zoro had just finished his training session. He was just about to put back his shirt on when Nami suddenly showed up next to him.
"Usopp said if we want those rumors to end then we have to date someone." She simply said.
Dating someone…? Dating a girl was the last thing on Zoro's 'to do list'. Especially dating some crafty, stingy, sharp tongued, red head-
"What's the matter?" She asked, a very tiny cunning smile was curled at the end of her lips.
"Ah, nothing." He said abruptly, then putting back his shirt on.
"Good." She turned away from him, leaving him.
"A- Nami…?"
Zoro's voice made her pause. She turned her head to him. "Hm?"
"Err..that means we have to date someone…so it means that you, I mean we, will be going out with someone...and so that someone means-"
"It's, Sanji." She said straightforwardly.
"What?"
"I'm dating Sanji. Why?"
"N-Nothing!" His head quickly turned to the other direction opposite her as he felt a warm thing creeping his face.
The fun things began to fill her evil mind. She knew that Zoro could do nothing about this one.
She leaned closer to him, whispered to his ear. "Hm, the sexiest man on planet can't find a date?"
"W-What?"
"You can't find a date." She blurted out.
Nami's words made him jump back three steps away from her. He barked to her. "Hey! Who said that!"
"You can't find a date." She repeated.
"Yes, I can." He folded his arm in front of his chest.
"Oh yeah…? Then who?" She cooed.
"Robin." He said, saying the first name that popped in his head.
"Robin?"
"Y-yeah." He winced inside, regretting the things he had said earlier.
"Your dating Robin?" She asked once again.
"Why?"
"Robin would never go out with you."
"H-Hey!"
"You can't find a date." She repeated once more, and then left him alone in the deck.
"Yes…we're dating…" Nami said in a playful way, a sly smile was built at one of the corner of her lip. The reporters had been surrounding her in the street, asking her questions on why was Sanji with her. Yes, she and Sanji just began dating. Nami didn't seem to mind at all on having the reporters around her. She didn't care if the reporters would then began to put new headlines about her relationship with Sanji. She didn't care at all. It was all just a funny game for her. Her dating with Sanji was fake, at least for her. Moreover, 'THAT' Zoro was safe. He remained alone -single- in the ship. So nothing bothered her.
She wrapped her right hand around Sanji's left arm, looking very intimate together, her fingers playing with the tip of her orange hair, twirling it on and off. Her sly smiled grew bigger. She was enjoying this. Especially after imagining how 'THAT' Zoro became edgy with his 'can't find a date' condition.
"How long have you been dating Mr. Sanji?" One of the reporters asked.
"Umm….how long Sanji-kunnnn?" Her eyes swayed to Sanji, looking very flirtatious.
"As long as you wish, my sweeeeeeet!" Sanji, who thought that the date was real, didn't pay attention on all of the reporter's questions. From the beginning till the very now he couldn't keep his love heart eyes away from Nami.
"And how is Roronoa-san?" The other one asked.
She smiled at first. "Well, he seemed to be very-"
"Ah look! It's your ex! Roronoa-san!" A reporter suddenly shouted after spotting a recognized being on across of the street. All the reporters who had been surrounding Nami at first darted to his direction, surrounding him and struggling to find a position just to be in front of him.
"Roronoa-san!" They shouted.
One of them spoke up. "So you are now dating-"
"Robin." Zoro said flatly. "Her name's Robin."
"Ah! Yes! Robin! All Sunday!" The reporters nodded.
"Hm." He responded. Zoro and Robin walked again. All the reporters followed both of them from behind, annoyed them with absurd questions. Before going further Zoro took a glance to Nami and let out a victory smile. And as Zoro passed by, Nami's foot was nailed to the ground. Her eyes widened in surprised. The world seemed like an end to her. And in Nami's desperate illusion, she could feel herself being thrown in a deep valley, screaming hysterically. She never expected that Zoro was serious on dating Robin. And how could that old woman ever wanted to be with him?
"So Nami-swannnnn! Where do you want to go, my dear?" Sanji broke the moments of silence. He didn't notice Nami's sudden gloomy face. Instead his love heart eyes grew bigger and bigger.
"NOWHERE!" She yelled. "I'm not in the mood for dat-" She stopped her own words. Another idea crossed her head.
"Sanji-kunnnn?" She asked coyly.
"Yes my dearrrrrrr?" Like nothing happened, Sanji replied at once, still in his love heart eyes.
"Please take me there." Her finger pointed to a place on the street.
Robin and Zoro went into a high-class seafood restaurant. There's a reason on why they had to choose a high-class restaurant. First because it was Robin, the woman who had taste and elegance. Second, since Zoro's popularity began to grow bigger, going out with someone in a high-class spot was the safest place to go. The employees were professionals, and most important no cameras allowed.
Zoro sat facing Robin uncomfortably. He fixed his sitting position many times, hand playing with his katanas, and letting out a sigh every ten seconds.
"It's ok, swordsman-san." Robin, with her eyes still fixed on the book, noticed the swordsman's uptight position. "I don't take any of this seriously." She added. (A/N: Robin could not get away from books, you know…)
"What…what do you mean?" He cautiously asked.
She lifted her head from the book to face him, her looks still remain expressionless. "I know this dating thing is not serious."
Her words had taken him by surprise. He bent his head down, regretting himself. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to use you but it's just…"
"I know. You and navigator-san." She nodded understandingly.
"Yes…" He sighed.
Robin placed her book down. She managed to say something that had concerned her since the last couple of days. "Swordsman-san, I know this isn't my business, but it seems that you and navigator-san-"
"Sanji-kunnnnnn! This place is beautiful!" A high pitching voice broke the tension between Robin and Zoro.
In anime style, Zoro tip over from his seat, and shocked all the entire people in the restaurant. He got up immediately from the floor and spat. "N-Nami! What the hell are you doing here?"
She looked at him in the eye. Her face showed no sign of peace. "Eating in the same restaurant like you, got a problem with that?"
"N-No! B-But-!"
"So mind our own business?"
"But you're sitting next to my table!" He complained, his hand spotting to the table beside him.
"So what?"
"Do you have to?"
"BUT I WANT TO SIT HEREEEEEEEEEE!" Her shrieking had brought those fragile things near their table to burst out. A waiter that happened to pass near their table sped away swiftly from them, petrified.
"Dearest Nami-swan can sit wherever she wants!" Sanji snarled in between them, defending his Nami-swan.
"YOU CAN'T SIT THERE!" Zoro shouted, bringing his face closer to Nami, and ignoring Sanji's presence.
"If you don't want us to sit side by side, why don't you just move to another place?" It was more like another fighting invitation than a solution.
"WHAT? I came here first!" He scowled.
"First in first out." She said incoherently.
"BUT YOU SAID YOU WANT TO END THE- Okay! Fine!" He gave up. There's no use to argue with this woman, he thought. He sat down again and took the menu from the waiter which had been standing and watched the whole situation, looking sweaty, flustered, and terrified. Zoro cleared his throat. "Sorry. I'd like to have 'Swordfish Florentine with Herbs and Mushroom Sauce', please. Err…Robin, what will you have?"
Robin observed the menu carefully. "Hm, I'd like to have-"
"Waiter! I'd like to have the same thing like THIS man!" Nami was up again with her trouble-maker mission. Her finger pointed to Zoro's direction.
Zoro tip over from his seat for the second time. "H-Hey! Wait! That line was supposed to be Robin's!"
"So?"
"Is it necessary for you to order the same thing?" He slanted his eyes, staring her in full inquiries.
"Why not?"
"Argh! Just order something else!" He screwed his hair, looking desperate.
"BUT I WANT THESEEEEEE!" She shrieked again and had to made Zoro jerked back.
"Yeah! Nami-swan wants that!" Sanji joined them, giving his Nami-swan a support.
"Order something else!" Zoro wasn't taking the heed of Sanji and still focusing on his battle with Nami.
"I CAN EAT WHATEVER I WANT TO EAT!" She shouted right to Zoro's face, spraying spits to his face.
"Yeah! Nami-swan can have whatever she likes!" Sanji shouted right to Zoro's face too, helping his Nami-swan.
"I'm not talking to you, crap!" The swordsman whacked the cook's head with his fist, lossing his temper. There was a loud gasp from all the people in the restaurant, seeing how the swordsman beat his own mate with just one single hit. Zoro didn't care the whole thing about how chaotic the situation in the restaurant became. It was all about this Nami that he 'cared' about. His brought his attention back to her and lightly began. "You did this on purpose, didn't you?"
"Excuse me?" Nami asked.
"You and this cook had planned this since the beginning, hadn't you?"
"Sanji-kun's not involved."
"I bet, he is!"
"You're jealous." She said in a mocking tone.
"What?"
"You're jealous, Zoro because I go out with Sanji-kun."
"Sorryyyyy, but my date is better than you!" He sneered down to her, mocking her. Of course, he wasn't serious about what he just said. In Zoro's deep down inside still fully buried tightly wrapped cold heart, this witch was the only thing that could attract him, but he needed to say those annoying words to defend himself from that 'jealousy' thing.
"NO SHE ISN'T! How dare you compare me with a Baba!" She protested, his tone irritated her inside.
"But at least she doesn't act like a grandma. Unlike you!"
"You call me a grandma?"
"You act like a grandma."
"How dare you!" The next thing Nami did was hop forward to Zoro and grabbed his head with her sharp hands. She was the one who started the battle, pulling Zoro's hair insanely with her slim fingers, cursing him with nasty words, and letting Zoro growled in pain.
"My, my…" Robin sighed deeply. The fighting between the swordsman and the navigator had brought her into a serious headache. She rose from her chair and said to -what Robin thought as- the stubborn couple. "Swordsman-san, navigator-san how bout if we switch places? You both sit here and I sit with chef-san."
"NO!" Both of them shouted to Robin at the same time.
"Oh! I won't mind sitting next to Robin-chuan!" Hearing Robin's offer was able to bring back Sanji unconscious form alive again.
"YOU STAY WITH ME, SANJI!" She ordered instantly.
"Oh, of course, princesssssss!" Sanji's love heart eyes went straight from Robin to Nami.
"YOU STAY WITH ME, ROBIN!" Zoro copied Nami's line and added. "After this, we're going out to a park, eating ice-cream, watching movie, eating popcorn, then-"
Never in her life, she would want to hear such a word came out from Zoro's mouth for another woman besides her. Without realizing, her eyes started to water. Her jealously had reach to an end. Her anger busted. "ARGHHHHHHHHHHH! WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO TO HELL, IDIOT!"
She flung a napkin on the table straight to Zoro's face and headed directly to the toilet.
Robin shook her head desperately. They're really in trouble…She got up from her seat and walked away. "Excuse me."
Meanwhile, in the bathroom.
"AAAARGHHHHHHH! I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM!" Nami's anger exploded freely in the toilet. She damaged everything around her. Punching it with her fist. Kicking it with her feet. From doors to mirrors. Toilet papers to trash cans.
Why? Why did he have to ruin everything? I was the one who brought this idea first. I was the one who should take control of the situation. But why did it became his? That idiot...rrgh...always has to win on everything!
"Navigator-san?" Robin emerged all the sudden like a ghost. She stood in front of Nami.
"Wh- R-Robin?" She straightened her messed hair and glowered at her. "What do you want?"
"We need to talk."
"No! I don't want to hear any words about-"
Robin cut quickly and her words came out like trailing without stopping or breathing. "Look, I'm not the type of woman who's interested in a halfway person, I'm pretty sure with my charm I could attract much better person, Bosses, head of what, king of something, AND If I were serious on dating someone I'd prefer someone who's much older and maturer than me, perhaps 10 years or maybe 20 years older than me, NOT 9 years younger, so what you need to know is I'm not interested in swordsman-san at all. He's safe. He's ALL yours."
Calm and cool as usual, Robin left the stunned Nami. Nami's mouth babbled searching for an argument, but instead she unconsciously let out a winning smile and hissed to herself.
"Yes!"
-end of chapter 7-
(exhale….)
See? This one is kinda annoying. Stubborn….
Referring to Caya Strife's previous review, I did actually planned to make the gangsters that were beaten by Zoro (in chapter 6) to reveal the 'incident' that happened between Zoro and Nami. But the reason why I had to make this one is because I just realized that Nami was never seen jealous for Zoro! Maybe that's because Zoro had never seen flirting with a woman. We've seen lots of time how Zoro seemed to get jealous whether it's in the manga or in the anime. So this story just popped in my brain and shows what'll happen if Zoro suddenly date someone.
Oh, review please….
Robin: (reading a book) I'm sorry swordsman-san but I had to tell navigator-san the truth that our date was fake or else, she'll get crazy.
Notes:
Katana: Zoro's swords type. Most Samurai uses the Katana type.
Baba: Short name for auntie, I think the complete one is called Obaasan.
Comment for the reviewers:
Lilosan: As I told before, they're so stubborn! It's really hard to make them act just like the paparazzi want them to. Hnh….
Caya Strife: Yes, I bet too. Zoro couldn't keep himself from getting close to Nami. But this time, Nami's the one who couldn't let Zoro away from her. Oh, I know that mistakes have to be corrected, but it does make me….embarrassed (faces turns red).
Marta: Hmm, they should realize why. But (again…) they're so stubborn. Ah, thank you! Is this one still funny and well-writen? (I hope so…)
Omnichild: (huggles back) thank you! Hope this one still good. Ah, I'm also waiting for your story! Please update too!
gothywolfie: Thank you for sparing your time to read the story! Yes, I love every ZoNa stories that tells about Zoro saving Nami. That's my most favorite part of ZoNa. Zoro is Zoro when it comes to saving Nami. Owh! (fainted).
Darkblaze666: "That bitch doesn't deserve to be respected…" Kyaaaa! Sorry! That was Zoro talking. For god sake Zoro-chan, mind your own attitude!
I Love Roronoa Zoro (WHO IS SO SEXY!). Hoho…!
Yachtzee: Yay, don't be like that. I don't hate you. Honest! Your review kinda reminds me that nobody's perfect. And I know mine is not perfect. Thank you!
crasiness: Wooo…thanks! Is this one still good too?
Infinite Enemy: Aw, you're too much. I haven't improved that far. I also thought that chapter 6 was my best chapter because I wrote it with such a high spirit and good mood. So if you think that chapter 6 is good, really, it was just a coincidence. I really do need to practice more. Thank you very much for your courage. I'll practice more. Yosh! Ganbatte!
Iwin Ulose: Poor Nami too in this one :p Hmm, as far as I know 'chan' is a suffix for both, men or women. 'Chan' is the cute version of 'San' which means Miss or Mister. Oh, Sanji called Robin as 'Robin-chan', and I don't want to get beaten by Sanji so I called Zoro as Zoro-chan. Zoro-chuannnnnn!
Zoro: Stop calling me chan!
So, can I still call you Ulose-chan? Or perhaps, how about Ulose-kun? Ulose-sama? Hihi...
Illusion Of A Lunatic: Zoro is in such denile but Nami is in such denile too! Argh, they're giving me headache, just like Robin! Oh, really? Ok, I'll copy the Beautiful Men Mag special edition (with Zoro's sexiest shot!) just for you! Hehe…
Sammy: Thanks! Here's the next chapter you've been waiting for, hmmm…. So how?
