Kiza: heres chapter 12 guys! enjoy! please review!
Night had fallen by the time Luffy's crew had finally made port. Sighing Zoro looks around as he lowers the sails along with Usopp who looks over at him. The swordsman had been oddly quiet and calm. It might be the 'calm before the storm' kind of thing. But, he wasn't so sure. And he didn't want to ask and have the older male get aggressive with him.
"Why do you keep staring at me like an idiot?" Zoro asks, causing the sniper to yelp.
"W-Well….you haven't been yourself lately…I'm kind of worried." Zoro grunts in response.
"I'm fine. Don't worry about it." Zoro explains as he then walks off the ship and down the beach. Sighing Usopp frowns realizing that he had to lower the sails alone.
After walking a good ways away from Merry, Zoro then turns to look at the direction he thought the town might be in. Sanji could be there. Maybe. But they wouldn't know until much later that night when Ace gave the okay to go and brake into the base and turn the place upside down or burn it the ground. Either or would be okay. So long as they found their Chef. Finally deciding, Zoro sits down in the sand and sighs as he looks at his feet. Looking back up, he could see storm clouds coming in. he frowns and lowers his gaze back to his feet. He remembered the night he had found out Sanji was afraid of storms.
Flashback
Grunting, Zoro growls as his back hits the wall next to him. Merry was getting tossed around by the waves, this storm was pretty bad. But they had everything tided down before it hit. Once feeling that he could hold his footing, he continues to walk down the hallway, but comes to a stop in front of the kitchen. He could hear small sobs coming from in the room, becoming worried, he opens the door and much to his shock, he saw their now crippled cook siting in the far corner of the kitchen, curled in on himself. Walking over, he kneels down. Sanji didn't look hurt, he appeared to be just fine. In fact, the said blond didn't even notice that he was now in front of him.
"Oi. Cook." Hearing the swordsman's voice, Sanji looks up, Zoro frowns. He could see tears falling freely from his bluish gray eyes. "What's wrong? Where does it hurt? Do I need to get Chopper?" Sanji shakes his head. Zoro then gets a confused look. "Then why are you crying?" Sanji then looks away, and mumbles something, but not loud enough for Zoro to hear. "What? Speak up I can't hear you."
"The storm…" Sanji says weakly.
"What about it?" he asks, suddenly, the loud roar of thunder startles the cook to yelp and wrap his arms around Zoro's midsection, and bury his face into the swordsmen's neck. This shocks the younger male, but he doesn't try to push the other away. He then feels violent shaking coming from the blond. Then, it hits him. The storm, the cook was afraid of the storm. But, how so? When that storm pushed him over board weeks ago, he was running around on the deck following Nami's orders just fine. Then he remembered, he wasn't paying attention to the storm. He was so focused on getting his jobs done that he wasn't scared. But now that he was here alone, not doing a damn thing, he was scared out of his mind.
Frowning, he wraps his arms around the trembling cook, one hand going to rub soothing circles on his lower back. This normally work to calm the cook down, but it didn't seem like it was working now. Frowning he pulls the cook away from himself slightly and sighs. His cheeks where tinted a slight pink, and his eyes where puffy and red from the crying.
"Hey…open your eyes and look at me…" Zoro says calmly, it seemed the tone he was using was working because the said cook's eye's where now open and looking him. "It's okay….nothing is going to happen to Merry or any of us on this ship…Merry can handle it. She's strong." Sanji knew all of that, but he couldn't help it. Since that day when Zeff's crew attacked that ship he was on. The fear of storms just kicked in and he couldn't take it. He remembered the nights when Zeff would have to stay with him all night just so he wouldn't cry all night. Even now that he was nineteen, he still couldn't get over it, and now, here he was, crying in front of the man he saw as his rival. "Just some strong winds. And a bit of rain…you'll be okay. I'll stay right here with you all night." Sanji then looks at him with shock.
"P-Promise…?" Zoro smiles slightly and nods.
"Promise."
End of Flashback
Zoro smiles, that night was fun. He remembered sitting there on the floor with the cook as they exchanged stories about their childhood. The things they did with friends, or lack of friends. The trouble they used to get in. and the times when they suffered the greatest of losses. Frowning, Zoro sighs as he felt the rain start to come down and he could hear thunder in the distance. Sanji must have been on the verge of freaking out right now. Oh how he wished he was there to keep the cook calm. But that wasn't the case right now. Looking up he could see the rest of the crew walking up to him. Ace give him a slight nod. Smirking Zoro stands up and walks over to them.
"Time?" he asks, Ace then smirks as well.
"Time." With that, both males take off running with the rest of the crew following closely behind.
Kicking and screaming Sanji curses at the said marines as they drag him onto another ship. He had heard that Luffy and the gang where on the island and once again, where going to transfer the said blond to another base. He had tears streaming down his face, he had just watched as they killed the two pirates he had made friends with, and now when he was so close to seeing his friends, he was being dragged away. Crying out at the more then needed forceful tug at his hair, he then digs his heels in the ground in hopes to slow them down. Btu that wasn't working. There was one more thing he could try, but he doubted that it would work. Sighing he takes a deep breath.
"LUFFY!"
The said Captain then stops running and listens.
"LUFFY!" Getting a shocked look, he turns to look at the crew and his brother who had also heard the cook's call. Nodding they run back to the harbor. Once reaching they see a glimpse of their cook, Growling, Zoro runs up on the ship's deck while pulling out his swords, and Ace not too far behind, follows his lead, hands flaming. Looking up, Sanji gets a shocked look as more tears fall seeing Zoro, Ace, Luffy and the rest of the crew standing on the deck. "L-Luffy…Y-You…"
"We will be taking our chef back thanks." Luffy explains, of course this causes the said marines to pull out their swords and guns. Smirking Luffy then looks at Ace who nods and charges at the group of marines as they begin to fire off bullets as the others charge at Luffy and Zoro. "Chopper, Robin, focus on getting Sanji! We can take care of these guys! Once that's done-"
"Head back to Merry!" Zoro cuts in, Luffy nods as the two nod and follow the marine who had taken the blond below deck, leaving the others to the fighting.
Rushing below, Robin looks around and then growls seeing the marine walk down a hallway, following Him, she frowns seeing the man was gone and there were doors on each side. She turns to look at Chopper.
"Check every room. He has to be here." Nodding the reindeer rushes off, checking door, by door Robin growls. Then she hears something. Looking up he listens again and then hears weak cry, growling she rushes to the door and kicks it open. Getting a shocked look, she could see their chef strapped to a table and the said marine had just injected him with god knows what. Glaring, she then crosses her arms, unknowing to the marine about the arms that had appeared on his shoulders, she snaps his neck, nodding she looks down at their Chef, frowning she could tell the drug worked fast. He looks disoriented, and lost. "Chopper! I found him!" she calls, the small deer rushes in and gasps, jumping on the table he picks up the needle.
"I'll take this to see what he injected Sanji with. We need to get him out of here. But, we can't be too rough with him." Chopper explains, nodding she then crosses her arms again. A few moments Ace runs into the room. "Ace, pick him up please. But be gentle." Nodding the said logia type picks him up but then notices how light the blond was, another thing he noticed was that the blond was unresponsive and that scared him, once up on deck he could see the Marines where laying across the deck, some bruised heavily and others sliced to pieces.
"How is he?" Zoro asks, Chopper looks at the swords man and shakes his head. "Chopper?"
"He's been drugged. And he's running a high fever. I don't know how long his wounds have been infected. We have to hurry back to Merry" Nodding the crew takes off running, but not before Zoro take the cook from Ace. Which the fire user allowed.
"Don't you dare die on me Sanji. Don't you dare…"
