Sanji woke up groggy, not knowing what room he was in. He felt something heavy on his stomach and something on his shoulder. He looked to see Zoro's angelic sleeping face, maybe not angelic but he was starting to find his sleeping face cute. The memories of the night before came rushing back to him. He started to blush. Sanji moved slowly trying not to wake him up. He looked around the room. He didn't get a good look at it the night before. It was very simple, no decorations, no pictures. The shelves were full of books. It was starting to make sense, Chopper was teaching the both of them on taking care of the children and Zoro was actually knowledgeable about somethings that shocked both Sanji and Chopper.
He remembered the mysterious box that was in Zoro's closet, he went to the closet and opened the door. He went in and stared at the box. It must be important if it has 'Don't Touch' written on the side of it. Slowly he opened the lid and something shining can be seen.
"What are you doing!?" Zoro yelled at Sanji making him jump back away from the box.
"Good morning, I didn't wake you up did I?"
"No, and it would be a better morning if one of the babies wasn't kicking my side."
"Is there anything you want to eat for breakfast?" Sanji asked trying to make Zoro think about something else.
"C-chocolate pancakes," Zoro looks to the side with a slight blush on his cheeks. Sanji chuckled a little.
"Alright, wait here and I'll go make it. I'll bring you some when I finish, how many do want?'
"As much as you can make." Sanji stared at Zoro, he has never requested anything from him before. Sanji was so happy he started to smile. He left the room and went to the kitchen to find the rest of the straw hat crew sitting down. Luffy was complaining about how hungry he was, everyone was ignoring him talking amongst themselves. Sanji walked passed them with a grin on his face, Nami and Robin stared at him silently, he was smiling so they assumed nothing bad happened. He made more than enough batter for the chocolate pancakes to feed the crew and more. He made sure everyone was happy and feed, more like Luffy was happy and feed before he made his and Zoro's plate of pancakes. He wanted to eat with Zoro, just the two of them. Everyone left while he cleaned the kitchen as fast as he could so the pancakes wont get cold.
He walked down to Zoro's room with their food on a tray. He walked in to Zoro turning to one side only to turn to the other side again. He did this three times before he stopped and sat up startling Sanji, he smelled the pancakes. "Is everything ok?" Sanji walked to the bed setting the tray in between them sitting down. Zoro took a deep inhale and smiled at how good the pancakes smell.
"I can't get comfortable, no matter which way I turn one of the babies is kicking me and they don't seem to be calming down either." Zoro cut his pancakes and started to eat, then he jumped a little in place.
"Is everything ok?"
"Yeah, it was just a big kick, I don't know what's going on but it's like the three of them are fighting." Zoro continues to eat. Sanji ate slowly as he stared at Zoro's stomach, he never touched it, even last night he didn't touch it. "If you want to touch, you can. You are the babies dad." Sanji looked up at Zoro's face who was looking down at his plate as chewed, one cheek was fat. He put down the utensils, reaching for the swordsman's stomach. When he put his palm down nothing happened, then a big kick went against his palm pulling his hand back and staring at his hand. Woah, Sanji mouthed to himself. Zoro giggled at him making Sanji smile. They ate in silence, Zoro finished eating and layed down on his back satisfied. Sanji finished soon after and gathered the dirty plates placing them to the side. Sanji stared at Zoro who laid on his back with one hand behind his head and the other on his stomach, he had his eyes closed but he was not sleeping. Sanji reached out to to touch his stomach again but stopped. Sanji opened his mouth to ask if he can touch his stomach again but before he got a word out Zoro had grabbed his hand and placed it on his stomach. The babies weren't kicking but they were moving, and he could feel it. He looked up at Zoro to see that he had fallen asleep, he looked back down to his hand which Zoro's hand was still on top of.
After realizing he had been staring at Zoro's hand on top if his and that he was still touching Zoro's stomach, he remembered that he came down to talk to Zoro about last night and he wanted to know what was in the box. Zoro was completely asleep, he was even snoring, no way he can wake him up to ask him. He'll have to wait. Sanji slid his hand out from underneath Zoro's, he got off the bed and got the tray of dirty plates and went to the kitchen to finish cleaning what he couldn't. Once done he started to make a snack for everyone, just in time too, the girls came in talking.
"Do you really think he'll like it?" Nami said sitting down at her seat.
"Well we'll never know until he give it to him." Robin said as she sat down next to Nami.
"True, hey Sanji where's Zoro?" Nami looks around.
"He fell asleep again. The babies been giving him a hard time, they seem to kick a lot making it hard to sleep." Sanji walked over and put a plate of sandwiches cut into triangles in front of them. He went to pour a cup of coffee for Robin and some juice for Nami.
"I feel like this is a sign they'll be troublemakers. Ah, who do you think they'll look more like, Zoro or Sanji?" Nami grabbed a sandwich.
"There is a saying that boys look more like their mother and daughters look like their fathers. So really it boils down to if they will look like their mom, Zoro, or father, Sanji." Sanji places her coffee infront of her as she thanks him.
"That still doesn't help, we don't even know the sex of one baby, Robin."
"Sanji's the father?!" They turn to see Luffy at the door. They all just stare at him. He walks in and sits down, his back facing the infirmary room door.
"You mean you talked to Sanji about befriending Zoro without realizing he's the triplets dad?" Nami asked, Luffy noded making her facepalm. "Where you not paying attention to what Chopper told us?" Luffy shook his head. She called him stupid but that was just who their captain was like, he saw his crewmate treat another wrongly and fixed it, he didn't even need to know the truth.
Sanji speaks up, "You ladies have been really close with Zoro right?" Sanji looks at the girls while he sets down more sandwiches in front of Luffy. The girls nodded. "Has he talked to you about a box?" The girls look at each other before shaking their head. Sanji sighed depressingly.
"Why? Is this box important?" Robin asked.
"I don't know but I found it in his closet last night and this morning I tried looking in it but he stopped me, it seemed important to him. I wanted to ask him about it at breakfast but I got distracted and forgot to ask him, I thought he'd tell you what was inside."
"Well of course it's important, but I thought he threw the box away." Luffy took two sandwiches and shoved them in his face. The three of them looked at him.
"What do you mean?"
"Well every time I saw Zoro looking for the shops he seemed to have a hard time finding it and when he came out of the shops he seemed really happy." Luffy ate some more sandwiches.
"You know what's inside of the box?"
"Yup, I was there when he put everything inside the box. Usopp almost looked inside so he wrote a warning on it to make sure no one else looked inside." The cook, navigator and archeologist looked at each other then back at Luffy.
"What about the part where you thought he threw the box away?"
"I forgot when it was but one night he was on ship watch, I think it was the week before Chopper yelled out that Zoro was pregnant, that Zoro had the box in his hand looking down at it before he raised it above his head like he was going to throw it overboard but stopped himself. He did that again and again before he just fell to his knees with the box in front of him and started to cry. I asked him what he was doing, he said he wanted to get rid of it saying it had no use and that he'll die with it, no wait, he said his feelings and dreams can die with it. Then I asked if he'll regret throwing it away, he said 'yes' so he put it pack. He did it again after Sanji refused to cook for him. When I didn't see in the room again I thought he finally got rid of everything."
"The first time might have been after he confessed to me again."
"He confessed to you! Twice!" Nami shouted at him.
"Yeah but I said less than pleasant things the second time."
"What does that mean?" Robin questioned.
"The first time he confessed to me I thought he was just a woman confessing to me, but it was an allusion. I didn't know it was allusion until after. The second time was after he passed out saving Luffy, he confessed to me and I told him he should...drown along with his..dreams. I didn't know he was pregnant at the time." Sanji sat down at the table.
"Well it's sounds like whatever is in the box must be important if he couldn't get rid of it." Robin said.
"Maybe love letters."
"No, when I opened the box a little I saw something shining."
"Then, rings? Wait," Nami turns to Luffy, "why are we guessing when he's seen what's inside of the box. Luffy tell us."
"Oh it's just a-" Luffy was cut off by a sword coming down in front of his face impaling the table. When he turned around he sees an extremely angry Zoro. They could see devil horns on his head and his eye turned red.
"Looks like you couldn't keep your promising, and what did I say I would do if you didn't keep our promise?" Zoro said very menacingly.
"C-c-cut my tongue off. But I didn't tell them yet."
"'Cause I stopped you but you were." Zoro took the sword out of the table and pointed it at Luffy.
"It won't happen again." Luffy said bowing to Zoro. Zoro sheathed the sword and hmphed.
"I thought Chopper took all of your katanas, how did you get a hold of one?"
"He keeps them in the infirmary," he points behind him at the infirmary door. Now it made sense, the little doctor was currently with Usopp fishing.
"What's inside of the box?" Sanji asked.
"Just some items I bought for myself. Nothing important. Forget about it."
"It must be important if you couldn't get rid of it." Sanji commented, it made Luffy flinch and freeze in place. He could feel Zoro's murderous gaze on his back.
"It's nothing."
"Well it's obviously not nothing. Just tell me."
"Why do you care so much anyway?"
"Of course I would care if it has something to do with you."
"That's funny coming from you, but you should just forget everything about the box."
"No, I want to make up for what happened, I want to know everything that has to do with you."
"That's fine but this is something that I cannot tell you so you should just drop it."
"Why not?"
"Because it's a secret."
"I thought we shouldn't keep secrets from each other? Just tell me."
"Stop! I'm not going to tell you so just forget! Forget ever seeing the box! What Luffy has told you! And this conversation!" Zoro yelled grabbing the attention of everyone outside. He stormed out of the kitchen and walked to the stairs that lead to the head of Sunny, sitting down gazing at the ocean.
Sanji stood there looking at the closed kitchen door. Nami looked at Sanji, Luffy ate the rest of the sandwiches. Robin stood up, "I'll go talk to him, maybe he'll tell me."
"Good idea." Nami looked as Robin walked out following the path Zoro took. Nami looked at Sanji, "I'll take about 100,000 Beri for what you said to Zoro after he confessed to you." She held one hand out. He looked at her, but he did what she told him.
Robin walked up to him slowly. Once she was in close enough she started to talk. "I think you may have overreacted a little about a box full of unimportant things." Zoro sighed loudly looking at Robin who was looking at the ocean.
"Fine, I'll tell you but only so you know why I can't tell him." Zoro gathered his thought. "The box is full of things I've bought for Sanji."
