We took in a cute stray cat which I named Cutty Flam. I'm really tempted to dye it's ears (and the fur of the top of his head) blue.

Chapter Ten
Well, I Was Wrong

"Zoro, please."

"Eh."

"Zoro!" With one swift movement, Robin lifted a cushion pillow and threw it hard at Zoro, who was sitting on a single-seated sofa just adjacent to the sofa Robin was comfortably sitting, with her book. She laughed, and she smiled, and pretended to return to her book held in her right hand, and pushed her hair behind her ear with her left hand. "Please."

"I'm not doing anything wrong."

"Yes, you are. You're breaking rule Number Two."

"Rule Number Two is no flirting. I'm not flirting."

"Of course you're not, so go and put on something."

"Being shirtless is not considered flirting, Robin. Wait, are you saying I'm trying to seduce you?"

"Well, it looks like you're trying to seduce me by sitting there shirtless."

"Very funny, Robin. Very funny."

"Zoro."

"Fine. I'll hug this cushion pillow."

"That's better. Thank you."

"What if one of us breaks the rule, anyway?"

"That would be inviting disaster. That's why we have the rules. Don't break them if you don't want things to get complicated."

"Yeah, but what happens if one of us breaks the rule? Is there any sort of punishment or something?"

"Punishment? You're creative."

"I'm curious."

"What if, the one who breaks the rule has to pay for the whole trip?"

"Not challenging enough. The one who breaks the rule have to kiss Luffy."

"My, my. I'm afraid either you'll end up being homosexual and I'll end up with dislocated bones and joints from his gatling gun punches."

"There's the challenge."

"But you will not break the rules, no?"

"Because that would be inviting disaster, I get it. But I'm sure they're not that bad, anyway."

"Zoro, I can assure you the consequences of betraying the rules are beyond bad."

"Okay, okay. I'll zip. What are you reading anyway? What's your plan for the rest of the day?"

"Let's just stay in and read books until dusk. And then we'll go down for dinner. How would that sound?"

"Read books? Ugh."

"I forgot you don't like books."

"I don't read books. Books are boring. How can you keep up with pages of words with no illustrations at all? How boring."

"Books are good. But you're more of a physical person, I'm sorry I forgot that. Fufufu. It's odd, we're so different. I wondered how did we got together."

"I don't know. Love. Four years. I wondered how did we lose it."

"Because we grew into two strangers, Zoro. I'm glad we broke up, anyway. Now, what shall we do this afternoon?"

"Is that why we break up?"

"Yes. Didn't you realize?"

"No. How did we become strangers? What do you mean?"

"It's not that important anyway, Zoro. We're good friends now. So, what shall we do-"

"Why'd you say that?"

"Zoro, I apologize for bringing it up. Can we talk about something else?"

"No. I wanna know what is it that made us strangers."

"I'm sorry, Zoro. I really didn't want to tell you."

"Why?"

"I'm afraid you might take heart. After all, this is our vacation and I didn't want us to end up bickering at each other. I want to spend good quality time with you here."

"I won't get angry, I promise."

When Zoro promised not to get angry, Robin doubted. Zoro couldn't be more bothered when he was being commented by strangers, but Zoro wasn't very good at taking offensive criticism from the ones closest to him, especially Robin – and Sanji, of course. Zoro was always confident, and he believes he was always doing the best for everyone, he is definitely that one trustworthy person, you can never go wrong with him. But now, Zoro is about to listen to why they became strangers, as claimed by Robin, and somehow, although not very fond of listening to own faults, he couldn't be any more curious.