"And hold for a few more seconds," Chopper said holding the extended triangle yoga pose. Sanji did the pose next to Zoro making sure he wouldn't fall. "And release, this will be the last pose before our talk." Chopper goes into the warrior II pose. Zoro slowly goes into the pose. Every day they have a yoga session and their baby lesson is every two weeks after yoga. The first few weeks was filled with Zoro complaining and smacking Sanji for laughing. The first week everyone came in they cackled at the sight but Zoro threatened Nami that he would never gamble with her again if anyone came in to watch, she complied for fear of not having the money they could win. No one has stepped in the aquarium bar while he's doing yoga again. "Done." Zoro goes to sit down while Chopper grabs something from his backpack.
"What do you want to talk about?" Sanji asks as he hands Zoro a towel.
"First I wanted to give you this,"Chopper trots to where they are sitting and hands them a books each. "This book is filled with different recipes that are good to feed the baby. I have highlighted the ones in read for if they get sick, but if they don't seem to get better come to me. Since I have taught you both about how to take care of a baby this was the last thing on the list. It really helped that Zoro read the baby books I asked Nami to get you. It went faster than I thought even though in the beginning all you did was fight. I even stuck notes in between the pages if you have any question, if the answer isn't there just ask me." Sanji and Zoro skim through the book very quickly.
"Is this it?" Zoro asks closing the book, Sanji looks up.
"No, I wanted to talk to you about how you want to give birth. I know you said you wanted to give birth 'naturally' I just wanted to make sure you haven't changed your mind."
"I haven't. It's already been 28 weeks since i've been pregnant, I haven't trained in a long time. I want to give whichever option need less time to recuperate a try."
"Ok, just making sure."
"Wait!" Sanji is left out of the conversation, "are there any other ways?"
"Well, when me and Zoro first talked about it I told him we can have a c-section since his body definitely is not made for birth but Zoro wanted to give birth 'naturally' so that's what we decided before we learned he is having triplets. I just wanted to make sure just in case he changed his mind."
"Is a c-section not safer?"
"In some cases it is the safest option for both the parent and the children but they do have risked and are sometimes chosen because the baby can't come out normally but Zoro is perfectly healthy and there really is no need to have a c-section especially after I had a talk with Agnes. He can give birth 'normally.'"
"Plus you're not the one giving birth so shut it. Besides I trust Chopper, the babies will be fine." Sanji was happy to hear that but it wasn't just the babies he is worried about.
"Since that is all I needed to talk to you about, class dismissed," Chopper claps his hooves together.
"Do you want a bath then a snack or a snack then a bath?" Sanji asks Zoro as he helps him up.
"A bath then a nap." Sanji just nods helping his to the bathhouse. After learning Zoro was horny Sanji told Zoro that if he felt horny again and that they can do it and boy did Zoro being pregnant give him a sex drive. He was milking Sanji, not that he had anything to complain about, being in Zoro felt good and man can the marimo give a blowjob. Zoro and him did it until morning the previous day, the cook was refreshed unlike the swordsman.
After a nice warm bath Sanji tucked Zoro in bed. "When you wake up what do you want."
"Pickles with chocolate and peanut-" Zoro slowly falls asleep. Sanji chuckled, his craving was so weird that even Luffy thought it was nasty. That was the only combination Luffy wouldn't eat. Sanji went up to the kitchen with his book Chopper gave him, to keep in the kitchen while Zoro's was in his room. At the top he looked around at the vast sea they sailed then stopped. He did not like the impending doom that was in front of them.
Marines.
He rushes down to Zoro's room, opens the door to check if he was still asleep, then closed it locking the door before going back to the top to join the others. The mood was very serious, Nami looked up from thinking glad to see him. "Zoro?"
"In his room, asleep? What's with everyone?"
"We'll I thought we could get away without fighting, I was hoping we didn't have to fight but."
"Since Zoro is asleep it would be dangerous to use the coup de burst and even if he was awake we don't know if the impact of landing would injure the babies so we only have one choice," The group looks ahead of them at the marine ships that are coming towards them.
"Guys-" Luffy starts.
"We know."
"We have to do a SSUUUPPPEERR job at protecting Zoro." Luffy turns to them and smiles stopping at Sanji who smiles back at him.
"Alright, We can't let them get to close and we can't leave the ship either so Sanji, Chopper and Franky need to stay here, what ever happens stay and watch the ship. Everyone else just make sure they don't get to close and if they get on board get them off." Nami says.
"Right." Everyone says. Not paying attention to the marine ships, the conversation is cut by a cannon going over head. The marines ships are close Luffy jumps off the Sunny to the closest ship and everyone follows. Some guys made it to the Sunny but didn't make it too far.
"Captain." A young marine says as he soluts.
"What," He said with his gruff voice.
"Reports from some said that all the straw hats are accounted for except for one." The captain looks at him. The young marine swallows loudly. "Pirate hunter, Roronoa Zoro. We have yet to confirm that he is on the ship."
"Then send everyone else, we'll overwhelm them. I'm sure he'll show up." The marine takes out a den den mushi, after he says some things more marines got out on all the ship.
"What! There were more!" Nami says trying to hold back two. She glances back to the Sunny to see them getting overwhelmed. "Luffy, go back to the ship." Nami said as thunderstruck around her. Luffy jumps back to the the Sunny. They were getting overwhelmed. That went on for awhile, they were getting tired. Everyone was trying not to use to much of their power. This was the first time Zoro wasn't fighting with them as a group in such a big fight. The fight went on for for almost an hour before a ship started to fly in the air. Everyone jumps back to the Sunny. A few seconds later a submarine emerged. A certain surgeon comes out.
"Shambles." All at once the ship in the air flips then crashes into the ship next to it, then crashes into the one next to that. The fight was finally over. They were all relieved, the danger was over and Zoro was finally safe. The surgeon of deaths hops on deck.
"Tra-guy! What are you doing here?"
"We were in the area," Penguin says walking out. "Aren't you missing a member?" He looks around the ship.
"Oh, he's-" Sanji axe kicks Luffy. They all promised not to tell anyone. It was to make sure rumors don't spread, keeping Zoro safe. The crew all knew how honest Luffy was so keeping him quiet about it was easy since they haven't meet anyone, until now. Nami stepped forward coming up with an excuse and about to say it when a gun goes off. The straw hats don't have guns and it came from the direction of Zoro's room. Sanji runs to the back with Chopper. When they get to him he is on the floor holding his neck, two marines on the floor and two marines around Zoro. Sanji and Chopper get ready to fight and launch forward.
"Wait! I'm not gonna hurt anyone." Both marines put down their weapons and hold both hands up showing that they mean no harm.
"What happened?" Sanji asks glaring at the marines.
"I was woken up by a loud noise. I was going to go try and find out what's going on but couldn't get out of the room. I tried to call someone on the den den mushi but I didn't get an answer. I found the key and unlocked it. When I opened the door there were some marines so I closed the door before they noticed me. They found me. They were planning on what do with me, before they showed up."He pointed at the two marines.
"What happened to you're neck?" Chopper walks up to him.
"We're gonna leave. Don't worry about us, we'll come up with something, don't worry" The two marines leave the same way they came, a dingy. Carrying the other two marines as they leave. Chopper walks Zoro to the infirmary and Sanji follows him.
"What happened to you're neck?" Chopper asks again.
"The first two marines were walking me out, hoping to use me as hostage to stop the fight, and take us in, then another pair of marines came, one of them wanted to just shoot me, then they argued about what to do and one took out a gun and was about to shoot before the two marines from before stop him, the bullet just grazed me. The other marine was shocked and pulled out his gun but they knocked him out before then." Chopper did his check up making sure everything was fine with him and the babies. He bandages Zoro's neck and they go to the kitchen. Everyone walks in and sees that Zoro is not happy.
"What's wrong?"
"Why didn't you guys wake me up?"
"We thought-"
"You didn't trust me." Zoro gets up and walks towards the door, then stops looking over his shoulder, "I was hiding in a closet to make sure they didn't find me, I was afraid when they found me." He walks out the door and back to his room. He lays on the bed thinking about how his own crew didn't trust him.
Luffy walks into a very gloomy room. "What's wrong?"
"How was your time with Law?" Sanji asked.
"Is Zoro alright?"
"He's fine, the babies are fine, he's just... just mad that we didn't wake him up." Sanji said.
"He thinks we don't trust him." The room went silent. They know him, he never backs down from a fight. Chopper had to stop him from fighting when he first learned that he was pregnant. It was not that they didn't trust him, they were unsure about how he was going to react. What really hurt them was the fact that he was hiding in the closet to make sure the babies were safe. He has shown his dedication to the children.
Someone knocks on Zoro's door but he ignores it. Luffy walks in sitting next to Zoro as he lay on his bed. They say nothing, the room is filled with silence. Luffy turns to Zoro. "They told me you're mad."
"I trusted all of you, enough that I kept the babies. If I knew what was going they never would have found me." Zoro didn't turn around and look at Luffy but Luffy could feel the hurt in his voice. The group was sad, Zoro has never gotten mad at them, and if he did it was always playful.
"I understand, it won't happen again, promise." They got quiet again before Luffy gets up to exit the room. "I'll tell you want you need to know." Zoro noded. Luffy turned back around to stare at the wall, silence filled the room again.
Luffy goes back to the kitchen and tells everyone that they tell him everything and he will tell Zoro what he needs to know. Sanji, with a tray of pickles, chocolate and peanut butter, goes to Zoro's room. He doesn't move from laying down. He sets the tray on the nightstand.
"I'm sorry," Sanji said.
"It's gonna take a lot more than just sorry to fix things, same thing with everyone."
"What's the first thing I can do to make things up with you," Sanji turns to face Zoro.
"Hand me the damn pickles."
"Ok." Zoro turns to face Sanji and sees the snack he asked for. Sanji hands him the tray once he sits up and he eats it peacefully.
