Megumi wobbles as she walk hand in hand with Zoro, too tired to walk straight. Zoro notices this and just picks her up, at this rate she going fall over sleeping. She doesn't rest her head on his shoulder but her head is leaning against Zoro head. Her forehead resting on Zoro cheek.
"Papa Zeff?" Sanji open the door raising his curly brow at that.
"He wanted me to call him that. It was weird but he kept smacking my head till I called him that." Zoro explains with a sour face. It was weird calling someone that but it was kind of smacked in his head now. Zoro and Sanji walk in to the restaurant. They walk till they are in the seating area. They take a seat at the only table set and decorated.
"Well he's going all out." Sanji says looking at how the table is decorated. It's more fancy here than with the really rich customers.
"He must be excited. Unless you have other secret love children, this is his only grandchild's birthday, the first one he's celebrating." Zoro takes a seat and wakes Megumi. "Megumi do you not want to eat?" No reaction. "How about seeing papa Zeff, do you want to see what he made for your birthday breakfast." Still nothing. "How stubborn." Zoro frowns.
"She gets that from you." Sanji sits down next to Zoro.
"What do you mean?" Zoro turns glaring at Sanji who just smiles.
"In high school we were almost alway late to class after lunch because you wouldn't wake up from your post lunch nap. I always ended up having to wake you up." Zoro blushes, that's news to him. "It got worse near," Sanji stops as pieces fall into place. It got harder to wake him up near the end of their last school year, that's when he was pregnant and he realized it just now. Damn he's so glad hes is a muscle head and dodges his kicks to wake him up. He could have hurt Megumi without even realizing it.
"Cook?" Zoro calls waving his hand in front of Sanji. "Cook?" Sanji comes back to reality with Zoro's face close to his. Sanji blushes and back away.
"What?"
"You just stopped talking." Zoro says sitting back.
"It nothing." Sanji says. He was really close. Sanji's heart hammered against his ribs his face also getting a little warm.
"So that's his daughter? And is that his wife?" The cook asks looking through the peephole from the kitchen.
"No they aren't married but that is his daughter. She's really beautiful." Another cook says as she peeps with the other man.
"Man I can't believe I missed it. I wish that was during my shift." He says pouting. The woman next to him just laughs.
"To ba-" she starts.
"Get to work. Nothing gets done with all of you not doing what you're paid for." Zeff says looking at everyone with a glare.
"Can't blame them for being curious."
"Your curious too aren't you Patty?" Zeff smiles at the man.
"A little. It's hard to believe he's a father now." He says.
"Well you've met Zoro before. We cooked for him when he was pregnant with her." Zeff moves through the kitchen taking a small cake out of the freezer. Patty tries to remember. Then he remembers Zeff smiling more one day after feeding some random kid off the streets. At least he thought the kid was random. So it was Zoro who he fed that day, a pregnant Zoro. Zeff walks out of the kitchen into the seating area and the other chefs gathered at the double door that separates the seating area and the kitchen, even Patty gathered at the door. Zoro and Sanji saw Zeff walking towards them.
Zoro and Sanji have been trying to wake Megumi up and keep her awake. She just wouldn't stay awake so they let her rest a little more till Zeff walk through the door. They both woke her up this time and she lifted her head a little. "Papa Zeffs here with something for you." Zoro says soothingly.
"Grandpa Zeff?" She says rubbing her eye. Zoro rubs his nose against her cheek as she rub her eyes. Still tired but more awake than before.
"Don't you remember it's your birthday, and we are having your birthday breakfast with papa Zeff." Zoro whispers in her ear. After rubbing her eye a few times she stops. She remembers the whole morning. She turns her head to the side to see Sanji sitting next to her and then turns more to see Zeff holding a cake.
"Happy birthday!" Sanji, Zeff, and Zoro shout. Megumi's eyes widen and the smile that forms on her face is one of the biggest Zoro and Sanji have ever seen.
"For me?" Megumi asks.
Zoro laughs. "Who else? Is it someone else's birthday?" Zoro asks Megumi. She shakes her head.
"Then come on," Sanji moves over a chair and pats the seat he was just sitting on, "sit so we can eat." Sanji says. Megumi shuffles over with a grin. Zeff walks over and sets the cake down in front of Megumi who stares at it. It is a cake decorated in white frosting with three flowers in the top right corner, one is green, the other is yellow and the last one is blue. On a thin square piece of white chocolate says 'Happy Birthday Megumi' written in milk chocolate. Zeff puts in a candle in the shape of a five. Carefully he lights the candle. Zeff looks up to see Megumi smiling down at her cake, Zoro smiling down at Megumi and the cake then there's Sanji whose smiling at Zoro and Megumi but the look on his face when he's looking at Zoro is something he's never seen before. At least not on Sanji, he's seen that look when boyfriends look at the one they
love.
"Alright, one, two and three.." Sanji counts and they begin to sing to her the birthday song. When they reach the end of the song Zeff pulls out a camera and starts taking pictures of Megumi and her parents. After she makes her wish and blows the candle out Zeff pulls out a cake cutter. He cuts out four pieces of cake and set them down. One for each person.
"Grandpa Zeff can I get some milk?" Megumi asks as she cuts into the cake.
"What about you two?" Zeff asks the other adults.
"Milk." Zoro says looking away from Megumi eating.
"Milk." Sanji says looking at Zoro.
"I'll be right back." Zeff says walking back to the kitchen. He watches as everyone ducks under the porthole. As he pushes the double door open he sees everyone running back to their positions. Zeff sighs. For those here on that day, they have seen and met Megumu but only got a glimpse at Zoro. For those that weren't here that day they got nothing. Zeff pours four glasses of milk and puts them on a tray. He walks out ignoring the glances he's receiving. They aren't going to give up. He puts a glass next to each person's plate. "It would seem we have curious eyes." Zeffs says. Zoro and Sanji look at the kitchen door to see them looking through the porthole.
Zoro smiles. Sanji blushes. "What are they so curious about?" Zoro asks.
"Us." Zeff says.
"What? What about us?"
"Just curious, I never... talk about myself or my... personal life."
"So... they want to see Megumi?" Zoro asks thinking about it. Zeff laughs. Yeah Megumi is apart of it but the fact Zoro doesn't consider himself apart of Sanji's personal life is hilarious to him, especially with the way he knows Sanji feels about Zoro. "If they're so curious then let them come out." Zoro says cutting the cake into a small piece.
Zeff snickers. "I'll tell them." He goes back to tell them. Sanji looks over at Zoro.
"Not eating?" Sanji asks.
"Just wondering if it's too sweet or not." Zoro says looking down at his cake.
"It's not to sweet. At least not to me." Sanji says looking at his piece of cake, he's fine with sweet things though so it doesn't effect him as much.
"Ish rrery goo." Megumi says with her mouth full. She looks up and smiles at Zoro. Zoro smiles, he reaches over and grabs the napkin, he sets it on her lap. Zoro takes the small bite out of his piece of cake. His eyes widen. It's not sweet, at least not that he could tell.
"You're right it is good." Zoro smiles at Sanji and Megumi.
"O-M-G! You're so cute." One chef says grabbing Megumi's face and looking at her. With Megumi's cheeks full of cake she look at the chef, confused on what's going on.
"She has Sanji's eyes." One man says looking at Megumi's eyes and then Sanji's one eye.
"And her hair is so pretty." One girl reaches forward and pets her hair.
"I can't believe you have a daughter." One chef nudges Sanji with his elbow. Sanji sat there blushing. He took a quick peek at Zoro who sat there eating the cake, acting like this is not his business.
"And what's your name?" A chef asks. They all turn to Zoro who had just shoved a big piece of cake in his mouth. He looks up to find faces looking at him. Sanji laughs a little at Zoro shocked face.
"M-me?" Zoro asks after swallowing.
"Yeah." Everyone nods.
"Well, what do you want to know?" Zoro asks, even though he was already asked a question, never was good with the spotlight. He was nervous, not sounding confident but doing his best not to sound scarred.
"Your name?"
"Roronoa Zoro." He answers.
"You're Megumi's mom right?"
"I gave birth to her, yes."
"How did you meet Sanji?"
"We knew each other since middle school."
"Middle school?"
"That long! You've known each other since then?"
"Were you guys dating when you got pregnant?"
"Ah... no. We weren't dating." Zoro says shaking his head while looking down at his lap. The other chefs look at each other then back at Zoro. He seemed a little uncomfortable. Sanji opens his mouth to say something but someone beat him to it.
"Then what happened?"
"We were at a party. It was the last of our senior year."
"Oh." Everyone got it. He put his head down. He didn't want to look at their gazes, he knows it to well, he's gotten those a lot.
