OMG... I'm sorry for posting up this late, but I had started summer school and things have been a bit... busy. So now I got some down time and able to get this up. Well! This is to you, Kira-chan! Happy Be-Lated Birthday!
Lachrymose
Tearful
xXx
The school bell rang as students exited out of classrooms, among them was an athletic young man of twenty-one with light green hair lazily combed back and one emerald eye that was functional as the other was closed with a scar.
He went to the campus's cafeteria to purchase two water bottles and a pork bun and headed over to a natural science building. From there took the elevator to the topmost floor, then took the stairs to the rooftop using the key to get access before meeting the late afternoon sky and concrete floor of the roof.
He looked around before seeing a curled up body of a nineteen year old young man as he came up to the curled up figure and handed out a water bottle and the pork bun. "Luffy…" He said, making the other look up and stare at the offered items before looking away. "Luffy, I'm not asking."
Luffy looked up to the man, eyes red and face stained with tears that continued to go down from his eyes. He looked at the items again and slowly reached for them. When he got a hold of the items, the other sat down next to him as he opened up his bottled water.
"Zoro…"
"Just eat the pork bun. They're not cheap you know." Zoro said as he took a gulp of his water.
Luffy looked at the pork bun as he took a small bite of it and didn't make any move to continue to eat. "I'm not hungry though."
"For the fifth day in the row now." Zoro pointed out as he looked at the other. "If you don't eat something you're going to get sick."
"Who cares…" He said as he felt his chin being forcibly lifted and looked at the man's pissed off face.
"I do." He said with all seriousness as he glared at the other's tear stained, blood shot eyes. He grabbed the pork bun, took a huge bite of it and chewed it for a time before he leaned down and his lips met the others before he forced those lips to open to transfer the food into the other's mouth. He stayed like that as the other did swallow the food before he parted from the other a bit.
"I hate it when you do that." Luffy said as he found his strength to move his head away from the other, grabbed the pork bun back and took a huge bite of it.
Zoro just looked as the other finished the bun and took another gulp of water.
"Hey… How long are you going to do this?"
"What do you mean?"
"How long are you going to keep doing these nice things for me? Don't you have another class coming up?"
"Not for another hour. And I'll do this for as long as I can." He said.
"Why?"
"Because I know what it's like to lose someone. Except no one was there for me." He said as he looked at the other, who was looking at him. "Something on your mind?"
Luffy didn't say anything as he leaned against the other. "Thank you…"
Zoro looked up at the sky and took a deep breath. "Anytime…" He said as he felt the other shake as he wrapped an arm around the other so that the other's head was at his shoulder, where he felt a growing damp spot. "When you smile and laugh is when I will stop this."
Luffy looked up at him, confused as his cheeks were flushed.
"Because by then, we'll be going to other places besides this one." He said as he leaned down to kiss the other's forehead. "Until then, continue to cry until you can heal."
Luffy fisted the other's shirt as he leaned down onto the other's chest and cried in the privacy of the rooftop, where the wind drowned out his wails from being heard by other students.
That's all I got folks. I'm going to busy once again (not that's any surprise), so it will take me time to get back into the groove and get some good ideas for the next chapters. But now I have to reserve the ideas for school for a paper. I don't like research papers... I can only find so much info without making sound like I ripped it off from the source AND have it in my own words and not be filled with quotes and what not.
