Sanji looked over at Zoro as he sat in the passenger seat of the car. Megumi was already dropped off at school and it was Zoro's turn to get dropped off. Sanji looks forward as the light turns green. He should hurry and spit it out. Plus they still needed to talk about Megumi's winter break. They still haven't talked about it.

"Last night, Robin and Nami invited us over for Christmas at Franky and Robins house."

"Really?" Zoro asks a little shocked. Weren't they all going to be with their families.

"Yeah, they wanted us to all celebrate Christmas together. Of course Santa wouldn't really be involved. We'll be getting each other gifts. We'll be there for Christmas eve and day. Maybe three or four days."

"What about their families?"

"Nami's sister and mother will be going overseas, Usopp's family is busy, Franky and Robins' family both have their own families, Luffy's brothers are working, especially Ace now that him and his boyfriend broke up. Luffy isn't going with Law this year, he said something about Luffy over Thanksgiving was enough for the time. Chopper's grandmother is a doctor so she's busy, and Brook's friend is going to be overseas during then so it's not possible. They all thought us hanging together for the holiday would be good."

"You aren't going to be with Zeff?"

"No," Sanji shakes his head, "the restaurant is always open then so if we did go over he wouldn't be free. So what do think?"

"As long as no one says that Santa gave Megumi presents because she was good then that's fine. When do we go?" Zoro asks. Sanji relaxes a little. He wanted to go too, he didn't know what Zoro would have said.

"We'll go there on the twenty third. And leave on the twenty sixth." Sanji says. Zoro nods.

"Sounds good. How do you want to do presents then?"

"We'll do the shopping together. Do you want to give each other presents?" Sanji asks. Zoro thinks for a second. He would like to get Sanji something. Zoro and Megumi missed Sanji's birthday (yes he knows when the cooks birthday is) granted they hadn't seen the cook then, Zoro was missed by a whole two weeks. The day Sanji stopped him in the street was two weeks after the man's birthday.

"Yes, what would you want?" Zoro asks. Sanji just laughs.

"I'm not going to tell you right now. I'm sure you can figure it out." Sanji says smiling.

"Why not? Just tell me." Zoro says. He doesn't know how to do this present thing. It's better if he just gets told what the other person wants.

"That's not how it works." Sanji says shaking his head, eyes focused on the road. Zoro just groans, he doesn't like this and the blonde can tell. "What about you? What did you want when you were younger?" Sanji ask.

"I'm not telling you."

"Why not?" Sanji asks.

"Well for one, it was a limited edition item so it's not sold anymore and two it's embarrassing." Zoro says already getting red on the cheeks.

"Alright, if you don't tell me then I won't tell you what I want." Sanji says.

"Hey! That's not fair." Zoro says frowning at the man.

"I think it is." Sanji says. Zoro continues to frown but sits back in his seat.

"Megumi starts winter break after this week." Zoro points out. Sanji gets serious.

"I know. Do you know what you're going to do?" the blonde asks. Zoro shakes his head.

"No. I don't want to take time off. I've been there for almost four months. I'm still the new guy." Zoro says. Yeah, Sanji could understand not wanting to take a break from still being new. When he first opened All Blue he didn't take any breaks, he didn't even take a break for his own birthday. Zeff forced him to take a day off otherwise he would have burnt himself out by over working.

"I told you, I'd be happy to take the time off to watch her." Sanji says. Zoro hums, thinking about it. He wouldn't mind honestly but he knows that Sanji is pretty important at the restaurant, to much to be missing almost a whole month, three weeks of work.

"I'll talk to my boss first. If we can't come up with something else then we'll do that." Zoro says.


Sanji stepped out of his car parked in his parking spot behind his restaurant. He was conflicted about this. One one hand he wanted to be able to spend the day taking care of Megumi, letting Zoro work but on the other hand he knew that he wouldn't be able to. As much as the Baratie is busy during these days leading up to the holiday so is his. But most of his workers have families that they want to see on Christmas so he closes the All Blue for the week. Which is why those days leading up to the holiday are so busy. The reservation are all squished together, barely letting any time in between for the water/ess to clean up the table.

But it's not like he can't bring Megumi with him. She's a good girl, she always listens. He's seen her at the Baratie all the time. And if she does get bored she could just spent her time in his office. It's cleaner than Zeff's office, and it's a little bigger too. All Blue is bigger than the Baratie so they have more tables which means more customers which then means more workers.

That also means more than likely that Megumi can get hurt.

No. She'll be fine. Megumi would want to help and she's very careful. But if something does happen he'll be hearing from Zoro, and Zeff. Maybe even the girls too, once they find out.

Then to be safe rather than sorry he'll just have her next to him the whole time. If she's next to him the whole time then there is nothing to worry about. She'll be in seeing distance the whole time, he could watch her and make sure she's safe and not doing anything too dangerous. Not that he would let her do something that dangerous.

Damn. Zeff never acted like this with him or with Megumi. Already the old man is teaching her how to use a butchers knife. Zoro doesn't seem to care with him so it should be fine for him to do it too right?