Zoro took a deep breath of the cold crisp air. Then he turned around to see Sanji also coming out of the restaurant. They had just finished eating dinner and were continuing on with their second date. They would have had it another time but it was better to do it when they knew they would have time. When December comes around both adults weren't sure if they would have time. That and they weren't sure how to handle Megumi when she's on winter break either as both Sanji and Zoro will be working but didn't know what to do about Megumi. Who was going to take care of her?

They talked about it, Zoro saying that last year he was home during the day so it wasn't that different than normal but it's different now. The only solution would be for Zoro to take time off work but Zoro felt uncomfortable doing that. This was his first real job in a long while and he didn't want to do this while he was still relatively new. Sanji would do it but winter break is the busiest with so many couples making reservations. The whole month of December is busy besides Christmas.

The two decided to stop thinking about it too much. It was still a few weeks away till Megumi went on break. They'll think about it then but for now they are going to enjoy their date. It was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. They had dropped off Megumi and their things at Zeffs, or in this case the Baratie. Megumi was shocked that there was a house, as she called it, above the restaurant. It wasn't Zoro's first time their, back in middle and high school everyone would come in to hang out for a little while longer. They never stayed long and they were always in the living room area.

After dropping off Megumi, Sanji drove Zoro to their date spot for dinner. Zoro didn't pick a fancy restaurant but a nice bar that served food and drinks. Sanji didn't drink, he was driving as Zoro hasn't gotten his license yet. And Zoro because he didn't want to drink. Sanji had parked the car in a parking lot and followed Zoro. Zoro thought that is was time he showed Sanji his favorite place.

"So where to next?" Sanji ask. The weather was getting cold. It might even snow. Sanji looked at Zoro looking up at the sky then looked at the sky himself. It was cold but they sky was clear. "What?" Sanji ask looking at Zoro. The marimo smiled.

"Perfect. Let's go." Zoro says running off. Sanji just chased him. It's not like he knew where Zoro was heading so he couldn't tell if the man actually knew where he was going. This was Zoro so he was sure he was lost but the look on Zoro's face. He was in a wishful daze, he also seemed excited. Was that because he was about to show the blonde something? Did that mean they were close to their destination?

No, they weren't. Not close at all. Now he was understanding why Zoro said to eat. They were burning through the calories they ate for dinner like it's nothing. If Sanji knew where they were going he could have driven them instead. "Marimo, where are we going?" Sanji asks. His legs feeling a little tired, on the verge of turning into jelly. Zoro stopped and looked at his watch, a nice simple black watch. Wondering how long they've been walking Sanji looks at his own watch and saw that it was close to midnight. They've been walking for hours, almost six hours. Was Zoro not tired?

"We're almost there." Zoro says firmly. Sanji continued to follow the man for another hour until they reached a very tall building. One of the tallest in the city. If he remembered correctly it was also the tallest in the world. Or maybe he was confusing this building with another one. "Come on." Zoro says pulling Sanji to follow him. Zoro snuck onto the side stairs of the building that was for emergencies. Sanji reluctantly follows.

"What are we doing?" Sanji asks, a thought crossed his mind. That they were getting a little too old to be sneaking around.

Like he could read Sanji's mind Zoro answered, "we aren't even 25." Zoro answers helping Sanji get up. "And it's not illegal to do this you know." Zoro says.

"How would you know." Sanji asks following Zoro up the latter.

"I've done this multiple times." Zoro answers facing forward as they ascend further up the side of the building. "Once, an old hag saw me and called the cops. I thought I was in trouble but when they showed up nothing really happened. They asked what the problem was and she pointed at me and started shrieking about me. They looked at her confused. This place is a public area. As long as I wasn't inside the building when it's closed there wasn't a problem." Zoro says.

That's the last thing that was said as they both climbed up to the top. When they had reached what Sanji thought was the top an hour had passed, the cook couldn't feel his legs and he was on the verge of hyperventilating. With a look at the marimo, the cook felt a little anger. How could he not be feeling tired? Then the man opened a door to go further up. Sanji groaned but he had to ask. "I thought we couldn't go inside?" or better yet, "aren't we at the top?"

Zoro gave Sanji a devilish grin. "This door doesn't allow us inside the building that is closed but it leads to the top of the building." Zoro says holding the door open to let Sanji go in first. Sanji walk up as Zoro follows him. Sanji opened the door to what he had to assume is the actual top and couldn't believe his senses. It wasn't like the few floors below where he thought that was the top. This was way better. Unlike below where you could hear the faint busling of a busy city it's so quiet here, like being in the middle of the forest. The air was also fresher. The view is amazing. It was like looking up at the sky during day but still able to see the stars all shining different colors.

Sanji saw from the corner of his eye Zoro standing next to him. He heard Zoro take a deep breath in then out. "So is this what you wanted to show me?" Sanji asked. Zoro looked at him with a smile.

"No. But we have time till then." Zoro says walking away from the four feet of wall and another four feet of fence to keep people from falling to their death. Zoro sat down and laid on the floor.

"So... about this place?" Sanji asks laying down next to Zoro looking up at the dark sky freckled with stars.

"Well, this place is important to me. You showed me you favorite places I thought I'd show mine." Zoro says. Sanji cheeks flushed at that.

"So tell me about it?" Sanji asks curious but then he thought that maybe it wouldn't have as heart warming as his stories did.

"Before I do, what was with you and that talk of traditions?"

"I know that the you hated the orphanage and with how horrible it was, I thought you would want to keep the small traditions you have created with Megumi." The blonde explains sullenly.

"You're an idiot cook. That place was horrible but not everything was bad. Like I said before, there's someone I would like to see. Plus, we had our own small traditions. I'm glad I'm out of there but I sometimes do wish to be there again, those people had become my family."

"So you don't hate the place?" Sanji asks, he thought Zoro would.

"I don't hate the place but the people, some of them. Not all were bad. I use to sneak here all the time when I wanted to be alone with no one to bother me. I'd come here to clear my head and think."

"What did you use to think about?" Sanji had learned that he was always curious on learning about Zoro. Unlike everyone else where they talked about themselves, Zoro was always quiet. They didn't even celebrate his birthday before this year. They knew nothing so he liked to learn more about his lover, even if most of the stories he hears makes him feel sad.

"There were many times where I thought about running away but after sitting here for a while, thinking, I came to the conclusion that that would a really stupid idea. There were other times where being with you guys was too much so I came here. Laying down here where no noise reaches, where I'm closer to the stars. It's like I exist but I don't at the same time."

They both stayed quiet after that. But then Sanji realized something Zoro had said. "Being with us was too much?"

"Sometimes. With Nami always wanted to get more money and never satisfied with what she had. You complaining about not being able to spent more time with the ladies because Zeff wanted help at the restaurant. Usopp and his lies. Franky was just loud, sometimes with Brook too, and Chopper was just too innocent, I guess. Robin left me alone so I'm thankful for that. Luffy did too until he was bored and wanted to play."

"Did you hate us?" The cook was worried about his answer. Now able to see why he didn't like Nami all that much or him for that matter.

"No. You were all just a little too much to handle. But I did enjoy hanging out with you guys." Silence filled the air again as they stared at the sky, Zoro did but Sanji looked over at Zoro. "You know when I had first learned that I was pregnant, after the caretakers fought over what to do with me and I had asked them for some time to figure things out I came here to think. So technically Megumi's been here too." Zoro says.

"Zoro, how are you not mad at the world?" Sanji asks with seriousness, but it sounded sad too.

"What?" Zoro turns to look at the cook. What did he just ask?

"How are you not mad at the universe, the world for making your life so unfair? For making you go through as much shit as you've been through."

"It's called meditating. That's what I would sometimes do here. I think that might be why I haven't turned into some psycho killer."

"Did you hate me?"

"No." Zoro answers immediately. Sanji looks back at him shocked. "I never hated you or any of the others for having a better live than me. I was jealous sometimes but I never hated any of you. I trust you, all of you guys, but with you I hated the fact that you treat women differently." Zoro says, he continues when he see the look on Sanji's face wanting to know more. "Most of my memories when I was little are blurred. But there was someone I knew after the plane crash that is very clear. Her name was Kuina. One day while sneaking around wanting to get out of that place, away from the people who I didn't know what they were talking about I found a nice looking dojo. It looked familiar to me, and I don't know why but I went to it. I saw them swinging their swords around and I stopped to stare. Kuina came up behind me and scared me. She started talking in english but I didn't understand the language at the time. Her father then came up and also start speaking. I was confused on what they were talking about and that made me nervous." Sanji wasn't given the chance to ask why? "They were looking at me like they were asking me something. I didn't know what to do or what to say so I stayed quiet. But they kept talking and it started to frustrate me. I muttered in Japanese how frustrating it was to not understand and that seemed to quiet both of them. Then they started speaking to me in Japanese. After that I became close with Kuina and her father. I challenged her everyday to a sword fight, because of her I fell in love with the sport, and after each round she taught me some more english and how to understand others. Her father also taught me things. I was happy. One day I talked to Kuina, she was upset because her father wouldn't let her inherit the dojo because she was a girl. I learned that she hated being treated differently just because of her gender. The way you act to woman she would have hated it."

"You seemed to really have cared for her."

"I did. She was like an older sister to me. She died though." Zoro says. "I was going to show her grave to you today but then I thought that would be a little to weird." Zoro says with a smile. "You know all I've been talking about is myself. What about you?"

"What do you want to know?'

"Tell me something you've never told anyone before. Your darkest secrets."

"Well, it's not my darkest secret but I use to wonder why people didn't want to be my friend."

"Probably because you're eyebrow curl." Zoro says.

"Well, you hair must have freaked people out too." Sanji says in retaliation. Zoro just laughed it off. Sanji just sighs, continuing with a grin. He loved making Zoro laugh, "Well, you know I was adopted by Zeff right?" Sanji looked at Zoro nodding, "Well, I'm the third son of a rich family. They bullied me, my father and brothers. My mother died and it got worse. So my older sister helped me run away."

"Are you mad at the world for that?"

"No." Sanji shakes his head as he look at the dark sky, "I loved my mom. And I'm thankful for my sister. I was given a second chance with Zeff." Sanji says, sad that Zoro never got his second chance.

"What was your family like? Your brothers and sister?"

"My sister is the eldest of us all. Her name is Reiju. She's strong. I don't hate her though for not saving me when my brothers bullied me. She was thereafter to patch me up." Zoro didn't like that, she should have stopped it from the beginning but he guess it's better to get help after than not at all.

"What about your brothers?"

"I'm the third brother of four. We're quadruplets."

"Really?" Zoro asks understandably shocked. "So there may have been a chance that I would have three other Megumi's?" Zoro asks. That made Sanji laugh. He couldn't imagine three more Megumi's.

"I guess. But one Megumi is enough."

"Yup." Zoro agrees with a smile. That's when Sanji came to the conclusion that Zoro did get his second chance. With Megumi. "Do your brothers look like you?"

"No, we look different."

"Ah! It's almost time!" Zoro shouts in the silence as he looks at his watch, shocking Sanji. He sits up and gets Sanji to sit up too. Zoro pulls Sanji to the other side of the top. Zoro turn to face the far side of the roof. He hops up sitting down on the small space the fence allowed. Zoro looks at the blonde and pats the spot next to him, inviting the man to sit next to him.

Slowly Sanji sat down next to Zoro. It was a little nerving to be sitting on the edge of what he now knew as the tallest building, even with the fence behind him. "What are we doing?" Sanji asks, his face going pale. He held onto the wall with all his strength.

"You'll see. It's about to happen." Zoro says with a smile and without a care, like he's not sitting on the edge of a tall building. It's like he's not afraid, like he's use to it. Which he is. He use to come here a lot feeling horrible and depressed but this time it's different. He's with someone he loves and is happy.

Sanji's eyes widen. Across from where they sat the sun began to rise. And Sanji didn't know what it was but as the sun rose the air around it turned purple as it mixed with the dark of night but at the same time the the dark night was still clearly seen, the stars still flickered like jewels even more so than before. He's never seen something like this before. "Woah." Sanji says under his breath as he watched the sun rise.

Sun rise.

Sun.

Rise.

It's morning! Sanji looked down at his watch to see it's still too early for the sun to start rising but here he is watching the sun rise. That shocked him for a second before he realized it was Thanksgiving morning. "It's early!" Sanji exclaims. He didn't know that they were going to stay this late. What about Megumi?

Zoro stops Sanji, keeping him in place. "Way to ruin the moment." Zoro sulks a little. "Relax. I told Zeff that we wouldn't be getting back home till early the next day. He gave me a funny look though." Zoro says. "Let's just enjoy looking at it." Zoro says.

Sanji calms at that. Alright he'll watch this with Zoro.

It really was a beautiful sight.