"Sorry for being late." Nami says taking off her coat. Robin smiles as she collects Nami's and the others coats.
"Not that late. Franky is almost finished with dinner. We were just waiting." Robin says putting their coats away in a closet.
"Who's missing?" Nami says looking at Luffy, Usopp, Brook and Chopper all bringing in the presents. As much as they could hold.
"No one. We were waiting for you all."
"Sanji and Zoro?" Chopper asks helping Nami get some of her presents.
"Here already. We are all in the living room." Robin gets some presents too.
"What were you all doing?"
"Megumi was just playing with the dogs while we all talked." Robin says showing them to the living room. They walked in to see Zoro and Sanji sitting really close to each other on the couch with Megumi on the carpet with the dogs. Zoro and Sanji were smiling at each other, recovering from a laugh.
"Looks like everyone's here." Luffy says putting the presents down under the tree.
"Luffy!" Megumi stands up with a smile shocking the dogs.
"I brought some games want to play?" Luffy asks.
"Wait. Let's get ready first. We need to put the presents down then put our luggage in our rooms." Nami intructs. Luffy and Megumi pout at the orange head.
"Okay." Luffy says knowing Nami would smack him till he did what he's told. After setting the presents down they all go back to their cars and get their luggages where Robin leads them around her house to their rooms.
When they are done, they walk to the living room to see it's empty. In the distance they hear Megumi laughing and follow it to the dinning room to see Megumi helping Zoro and Sanji set the table and Franky sets the finished food on the table. "Dinner's ready." Franky says.
"Yay! Food!" Luffy yells sitting down at a random seat. A smile spread on his face as he patiently waited to be served. Megumi sat down next to him with an equally big smile.
"Wash your hands first." Sanji and Zoro say at the same time. Zoro to Megumi and Sanji to Luffy. Nami starts laughing at them. Sanji and Zoro blushed.
Zoro recovers first, "both of you go wash your hands."
"Okay mommy." Megumi gets off the seat, she waits for Luffy to get up before they go to one of the bathrooms to wash their hands. Zoro and Sanji continue their job of setting the table, ignoring Nami grin at them.
It was one of her knowing grins. Though they didn't know why she had the look on her face. Zoro decided to ignore her. He was glad to see Megumi having so much fun, he was too, even though nothing has really happened and it was only him, Sanji, Megumi, Robin and Franky here. This is going to be his first Christmas. He looked over at Sanji. "What did you normally do for Christmas?" He asks curiously. He doesn't remember asking Sanji this before.
Sanji pauses for a second. Looking up, he makes eye contact with Zoro. "Well, Zeff and I never had a regular Christmas, we were always working at the restaurant. I did get presents from the others though. We did have a tree but that was in the restaurant and for decoration but it was still fun to decorate." Sanji gives him a smile. "After I moved out I was spending Christmas either at the restaurant or out on a date." Sanji blushed, it sort of embarrassed him to mention his old adult life, talking about dating woman in front of Zoro.
"Wait." Nami stops them from continuing. "So you've never had a Christmas either?" She asks. Sanji is a little taken back by the question. He's never really thought about it. And he doesn't see it like that. He got way more than Zoro did. With a peak at Zoro then back Nami, the blonde gave the woman a shrug.
"What did you guys do for Christmas?" Zoro asks. What did he miss out? What could he expect to happen here, with Megumi?
"It was always my mom and I," Usopp starts, "Dad was always working but we would decorate the house, the tree and we gave each other presents. She always loved what I made for her." Usopp smiles at the warm memory.
"It was always Belmare, Nojiko and I. She didn't make a lot and we were always struggling but she always made sure to get at least one present for us. The old man that lived on the street always chipped something in for us too. And on Christmas day we made tangerine sauce." Nami smiled proudly.
"I tried to help at the hospital my grandma worked at. But my dad and her got me a hat one time. I always got medical books. I liked helping others on Christmas." Chopper says.
"It was usually just me, Laboon and Crocus helping out at shelters. I would always perform for them while they ate their meal." Brook smiles. "I brought my violin just in case."
"My mother and I would make gingerbread houses and watch historical documentaries." Robin says.
"I was always building something with my brother. We were all always building something." Franky says as they all sit and wait for Luffy and Megumi to join them. That's what they did, it seemed like they all had fun.
They all started to serve themselves as they waiting for Luffy and Megumi, in retrospect it might not have been a good idea to sent those two off. They didn't ask Zoro, they all knew what his Christmas were all like and they can guess how he spend those days with Megumi. Doing nothing but watch movies and eat, or sleep.
Zoro set Megumi's plate down in front of her seat, right next to him on his right with Sanji on his left. "Food!" They heard Luffy shout. They all smiled and braced themselves for the man. They saw him come in running with Megumi in his arms. He sets her down on her chair next to Zoro while he takes the next seat. He says a quick thanks and starts stuffing his face with food.
Megumi soon starts herself. Zoro watched Megumi start to eat before eating himself. Sanji saw this. It was something new he just discovered, noticed about the man. Zoro always made sure Megumi started eating before he ate himself. And it wasn't with just Megumi. He use to do it in Highschool too, making sure Luffy and the others were eating before he did. Sanji never thought about it until now but from what Zoro told him back before, where he gave up his meals so the other, younger kids could eat. It was like some habit, a mother habit.
They all sat with their bellies stuffed. Talk was going around the table as they talked to each other. Too full to get up and move, and they were all in a good place, didn't want to disturb the peace with moving to a different area.
"We could play now." Luffy tells Megumi. This excites her. She turns to Zoro and starts smacking his arm.
"Mommy! Mommy!" She yells to get his attention. He turns to her with a chuckle.
"Yes." He looks down at her.
"Luffy said we could play his game, can I?" She asks.
"Sure." He looks at Luffy, "but be careful." He warned, not clear on what type of game they will be playing.
"Then we'll play the Switch in the living room." Luffy says.
"You can plug it into the t.v." Robin says.
"Really!" He exclaims happily. She gives him a nod. "Wahoo!" He stands up as Megumi hops of her seat. She runs after Luffy following him into the other room.
"Wait I want to play too." Usopp says getting off from his seat.
"I do too." Chopper chases after the long nose.
"We might want to go too. Make sure they don't break anything." Nami says standing up.
"Ironically, Megumi is the least of our worries." Sanji points out as he too stands up.
Everyone congregates to the living room to see Luffy and Usopp setting up the Switch to the t.v while Chopper and Megumi watch with sparkling eyes.
Nami watched Zoro and Sanji's interaction with each other. As Zoro moved to leave Sanji held his arm leaning in to ask where he was going. "To go to the room for my bag to get something." Zoro whispers back.
"Sit. I'll get it. What were you getting?" Sanji asks. She couldn't hear what he told the blonde to get because he leaned in to whisper it in his ear. Sanji leans back to look at Zoro's face, then he nods. Sanji leaves to get whatever Zoro was going to get.
"Who wants more hot chocolate?" Robin asks. After a chorus and count of multiple hands in the air Robin went to go make some more hot chocolate. Nami watched at Zoro and Franky talked. it was really hard to tell where Zoro and Sanji are in their relationship, nothing had changed. They still act like they have been married for years.
Sanji makes it back down and hands Zoro a small case. The green haired man unzips it, taking out a camera, his new one. She didn't know he was using that one, she thought he was still using the old one. Maybe something happened to it?
Zoro started to record Megumi's reaction and interaction as they got the game set up. He also took some videos of them but it was mostly Megumi and Sanji he recorded. It was rather sweet. Nami was tempted to ask about his videos, why did he start them and why he's still taking them but it could stem from being at that orphanage, if she were to guess.
Originally it was supposed to be Luffy, Megumi, Usopp and Chopper playing but it turned into a whole activity. They all played Super Mario brothers together, all taking turns. Laughing when they messed up and failed, encouraging Megumi when she was doing really well. Playing that was fun but they could play so many levels before it gets boring. Next was Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. With Luffy unlocking so many character and extra remotes there was a lot to play. It got rowdy and chaotic. There were words being said, revenge was being had, laughs and smiles were going around.
That moment, it felt like they were the only one right now. Nothing else matter. It was going to on forever and never end but it did. Zoro noticed Megumi's eyes starting to droop, her head kept swaying and she was yawning like crazy. She was tired, which meant it was time to go to sleep. Zoro looked at his watch and saw that it was late, very late. He stood up and held his arms out for Megumi. She did the same and Zoro bend down to pick her up, she rested her head on his shoulder. "Say good night." Zoro whispers in her ear.
"'ood night." She mumbles with a soft and small wave of her hand.
"Good night." Zoro says to them, also waving his hand.
"Ahh, already." Luffy pouts.
"It's past bedtime." Zoro says. They all turn their head to the clock to see it really is late. Later than it felt. They all get up and gathering the plates of snacks they had gotten, and empty cups that once had hot chocolate. Sanji helped gather them, being an expert on it, and quickly washed the dishes with Franky and Robin. He left the two to make sure everything was locked and lights were turned off.
Zoro quickly got Megumi changed and into bed, once he found her room. He then went straight into the room across from hers, after closing the door. He saw that his and Sanji's bags were on the bed. He closed the door as he made his way to his duffel bag. He pulled out some pajamas and set them aside as he moved his bag on the foot of the bed to the garbo storage bench. Zoro took of his shirt over his head, as he got his arms out he jumped in his skin he felt arms wrap around his waist. His breath hitched as he felt kisses being given from his neck down. "Cook." Zoro puffs out as he turns around to see Sanji standing there.
"Have fun?" Sanji says letting go of Zoro. Zoro gives him a smile.
"A lot of fun." He says, Sanji kisses his cheek very happy to hear that. They stay quiet as they get changed. Sanji saw Zoro yawn, a jaw breaking yawn. He was tired.
They got into bed with each other. Zoro on the left and Sanji on the right. Sanji scooted closer to Zoro, spooning him. Smiling as he felt Zoro's warmth radiate off him. He gave a kiss to the mans neck and not a second later did he start hearing snores.
Another good day.