Apis was different from his other three kids. She didn't love me like Masamune and Sora but she didn't hate me like Jiro. She was just in the middle.

"Are you and Kisa getting divorced?" she asked sliding the butter dish across the table as if it was nothing more than a simple question.

Metal clattered against the kitchen floor and I turned to see the saucepan on the floor in front of Sora.

"Sora?!" I said standing up but Apis touched my arm telling me to sit down again.

"Sora," Apis said kneeling down next to him.

He dashed the saucepan away.

"You can't get divorced," he said. "You two were too young to remember but we were almost eighteen when mum died. You don't know how different he was until he found Nami. T- t..."

"That's why they can't get divorced," Masamune said.

"I'm off," Apis said standing up from the table.

She glanced at me as she slung her bag over her shoulder.

I didn't blame her for looking at me like that. I was the one who never truly loved her father but married him anyway. I had just used that marriage as an excuse. That marriage would be the reason I couldn't go back to Zoro.

~Zoro POV

After our talk, I called the school to let them know Ryu wouldn't be coming into school. I blamed myself for everything that had been going on with Ryu. It was my fault she'd never felt comfortable with coming to talk to me about Nami. I blamed myself worst of all for still loving her after all theses years.

~Ryu POV

I turned in the mirror to see the burn that stretched down my back. Neither me or dad remembered how I had gotten it and we hadn't tried to remember. It must have an accident though, because how else would we forget something so painful.

~Zoro POV

I knocked on Ryu's bedroom door waiting for an answer. After some time she told me to come in.

She was sat on the bed with a shawl covering her shoulders and back. I sat down next to her and wrapped my arm around her. I kissed the top of her head.

"You know it's okay?!" I said. "To look at it. I'm not going to scold you for it."

She slowly removed the shawl from her shoulders and stood up, walking towards the mirror.

"You don't remember do you?" I asked.

"No," she answered. "With the nightmares it's only what my mind would find the worst."

"Do you think it was my fault?!" she asked.

"Who knows," I answered truthfully.

"Not the reason why mum left. Do you think it's my fault?"

I stood up quickly, enveloping her in a hug.

"It doesn't matter now. But I'll never let you hurt like that again," I said.

Last year it hadn't been me who found Ryu but Usopp when he had heard screaming coming from our apartment. She had cut herself. Cut her wrist really deeply and almost died. That had been her intention. I had been so scared. I blamed myself and knew that if she left me as well I wouldn't be able to go on living.

~A year ago Zoro POV

I sat next to the hospital bed as the nurses connected the tubes that would replenish her blood supply. The others all heard from Usopp and came to see how she was doing.

Once she had enough blood back in her body the others were allowed to come in.

They all stood there, unable to say anything. Robin's eyes were red and she had obviously been crying.

Ryu laughed but it wasn't whole-hearted. It was the kind of laugh you give when you know you've done something wrong. A nervous one to break the tension.

"Why are you crying?" she asked with a smile that didn't reach her eyes.

Robin stepped forward and slapped her across the face yelling "Baka!" as she did so, before walking out the hospital room.

The rest of us stood there in shock as Ryu held her red cheek, tears brimming in her eyes.

We all had wanted to do it and we were glad it was Robin because she'd be forgiven much quicker.