After reading through everything the enemy stand up again. "Ok, so the other children are more dangerous but maybe the next couple that decides to adopt him would be saver than you?"

"If you don't mind me asking, what is so dangerous about me?" Zoro asks.

"How you let yourself get kidnapped, how such a dangerous person was able to get to you."

"Are you forgetting I'm a cop. I talk to dangerous people on a daily basis. Or are you going to take away all cops children because of the parents they are born with? Are you taking away this child's chance to get adopted by me, who so happens to be a cop and single because of my job. And yes I was kidnapped, but whatever problem he had with me happened way before I decided to adopt. That's life, things happen. And if something were to happen to me I have my family to protect them, my sister, my brothers, my father, who happened to have adopted me and my sister while he was single, and my fathers' husband. I'm trying to give these kids a home, they are way younger than I was when I got adopted and I plan to give them everything I got and more. I'm not the bad guy." Zoro says. He goes to sit back down at his seat.

Zoro's lawyer sits up, "you are trying to keep those two kids he wants to adopt away from him. The fact that he's here and fighting means he is willing to go through the hardness of raising two children, single. This proves how dedicated he is to want to have two kids running around. Do you know the statistics of a child being adopted?" She asks. They shake their head. "2% of children are adopted. That's 135,000 kids in this country out of the whole population. You say that it's better to wait for the two kids, Arin and Lili, to wait to get adopted by a couple, but there is no guarantee that it'll happen. They may never get this chance to get adopted again if you turn Zoro down. And he wants to adopt the sibling together, most sibling that are put into foster care and get adopted get separated from their sibling. One sibling may get adopted while the other doesn't or they both get adopted by separate people. Even then it's a gamble on if the person adopting didn't lie on their papers and actually care for the child or not. We get cases like that too, where the person adopting just wants an easy pay check and getting child warfare is the easiest way possible. They adopt the child and either start abusing them or having them work, those are the cases you should be focused on."

"And what says Zoro isn't like that?"

"He's a cop, the Roronoa Zoro. Not only did they have a background check on him before he sat at the chief desk but the adoption agency already did their own background check and did an at home review to see if his place is suitable for a child. And he passes both of them, he's even gotten a written note saying he's suitable to continue on with his police work from a psychologist he was seeing about the trauma he just went through."

There were more minutes of them all going back and forth. The enemy really fighting for him to not get permission. He knew he shouldn't worry but sadly, after working in this system for a while he knew that it wasn't perfect, sometimes the bad people slip through the cracks and the good ones don't. It's the sad reality.

Zoro stood outside of the court house walking back and forth. He couldn't stand still, let alone sit still. His nerves were on haywire. He's never been this nervous about anything, well not true, but he's more nervous about this. It seemed like everything was going on his side but what happened if that was all in his head. Maybe it seemed like it was going in his favor because he was making sense.

"Keep pacing like that and you'll create a dent in the concrete." Zoro stops and turns to the familiar voice.

"Cook?" Zoro voices his surprise, "what are you doing here?" He meets the cook half way.

"I was coming to check on you. Wanted to see how everything was going." Sanji says with a smile that Zoro did not return. Zoro goes to sit down and Sanji follows him.

"I thought it was going well but maybe I was just hoping it is. I don't know anymore." Zoro shakes his head.

"Well you did your best, and if you continue I'm sure it'll work out." Sanji didn't want to give Zoro false hope, he doesn't know if it'll all work out but he does know that if he works for it that it will.

"There you are." Zoro's lawyer asks. She sees the way Zoro is and gets worried. "Is everything ok?"

"I'm just worried we won't win."

"We were doing great, the asshole didn't know what he was talking about." She says with a frown on her face. "Come on, the judge wants a few more statements before making a final decision." Zoro stands up and looks at her.

"Right, how much do I owe you for this."

"Don't worry, I'm doing this for free. As a way to say thank you. Because of you my wife and son are save."

"How long will this take?" Sanji asks.

"Should be a minute or two." She gives Sanji a nods and they walk off.

Zoro stood in front of the judge again, this time more nervous than before. "Just one last question." He says. Zoro nods, with the enemy behind him on the right and his lawyer on his left. "Why these two. From what I heard you were the cause of both parents demise." Zoro nods. He's thought about that too.

"At first, I was only watching them because their mother, who died to protect me from her own husband, asked me to watch over them. So I did, I planned to just make sure they were save at Dadans but I got to know Arin, he changed me. I was a little unhappy with my life, I lost someone very dear to me and he filled that emptiness along with his baby sister Lili. I would go see them so many times that Dadan told me to just adopt them so I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of driving over after work everyday to see them for five minutes. I fell in love with them both." Zoro says. The judge nod and dismisses all of them.

Zoro walked out of the court house, he said goodbye to his lawyer and walked over to Sanji who stood there waiting for him, he really appreciated the man. He helped him a lot through this.

"So?" He asks.

"The results won't be heard for a day or two. It's a waiting game now."

"I'll give you a ride home? If you need it." He adds.

"Thanks, Smoker dropped me off this morning." Zoro says.

They left together.