"Don't you have after school club?" Zoro asks as an afterthought. They have been walking for a bit, Sanji taking deep breaths as he try to control his breathing, still affected by his run to Zoro's house.

"Oh... I quit." Sanji says sheepishly. He forgot that he hasn't told the marimo about it.

"What! Why?" Zoro looks at him. Cooking and baking are his life, how could he just stop? This is Sanji's club, made just for him. This club to Sanji is what the kendo club was for Zoro. He couldn't have quit. He's said so many times it's his haven.

"It stopped being what I joined for." Sanji says. And it's true, he had a reason to join but that stopped soon after, but he just stuck with it. Now there was no reason to. Plus now all clubs are cancelled.

"No more girls?" The question came out of his mouth before Zoro had time to stop himself from asking it. Sanji looks at him surprised.

"What?" Sanji looks at Zoro, who couldn't look at him back. He looks to the side with a blush reaching from one cheek to the other.

"Sorry. That just came out." Zoro explains, hoping that would be the end of it. Sadly, though, it is not.

"No, continue. What do you mean? Elaborate." Sanji says, he really wanted to know.

"You don't remember?" Zoro asks, shocked. The look Sanji gave him told him yes, he did forget. Zoro looked away again, not because he didn't like it but this made him remember just how much he really like Sanji. How much he paid attention to him, and now he's going to tell Sanji. "In middle school, before we graduated you shouted and told everyone that you were going to join the cooking or baking club. When Usopp asked why you said because of the girls that would be there and how you would be surrounded by them." Sanji looked horrified, not that Zoro would see, his face turned away.

He really did say that, it sounded like him and he couldn't explain how badly he wants to travel back in time and smack himself. He corrected himself, he tried to anyways, by saying, "that's not why! The ladies were a little lacking." Zoro looks at him. He didn't know why he wanted to defend himself, trying to safe himself from something he said in the past but he did.

"Are you ok cook?" Zoro asks, surprise and worried. Sanji looked at him confused. "Well, it sounded like you bad mouth a girl just now. You must be sick." Zoro rest the back of his hand on Sanji forehead. Sanji blushes at the contact.

"I'm not sick, what I said is true. At first I went there so I could get better. I thought I could learn something but the girls just liked to gossip as I cooked or baked. I would be better off working at home with Zeff." Sanji swats Zoro hand away from his forehead.

"That didn't seem to bother you before." Zoro lowers his hand and they walked side by side, Zoro looking at Sanji, not truly believing he's not sick.

"After we talked about dreams, it made me realize it. I thought I would get better, learn something I couldn't from Zeff but I was wrong." Sanji looks down, ashamed of himself because that was part of the reason. He stayed in the club as long as he did because of the ladies but now, it became a club full of ex-girlfriends that like to gossip about others. They've talked about Zoro a couple times too, but when they did he tuned them out so he can't remember exactly, just that it was about Zoro.

"So that's why you've been working everyday at the Baratie?" Zoro asked.

"No," Sanji shakes his head, "I've been working because Zeff asked."

"Are you going there after dropping me off work?"

"I don't know?" Sanji didn't think about that.

"Then what are you going to do for the three hours I'm at work?"

"Mmm... I'll think of something. Oh right." Sanji gives Zoro a serious look. "I said I'll help you with the assignments you haven't done." Zoro's whole body flinches, he forgot about those, actually he forgot all about school. Sanji saw the marimos' face goes from realization to sorrow.

"Does doing them really matter?" Zoro asks in melancholy tone.

"Of course, your grade will suffer. What will do you when you come back to school and you can't catch up?" Sanji asks but Zoro's only answer is turning away. Sanji stops. "You do plan to come back to school, right?" the blonde asks with a tremble in his voice.

Zoro stops when he notices Sanji stopped walking. He hesitates but he eventually gets the will to look at the curled brow blonde. "I was planning on just skipping the rest of the year." Zoro says. Sanji gasps.

"But... this is our last year." Sanji says low, Zoro heard it though.

"I know but... I just can't do it." Sanji saw how Zoro trembled and shivered like it was winter which it's not that time of year for the weather to change. It's still warm for autumn. He knew that Zoro couldn't handle school, yet, but he didn't think he would skip the rest.

He went through so much in their highschool years that it was finally catching up to Zoro's mental state. With that being the case no way is Zoro ever coming back to school, but Sengoku asked him to get Zoro back. He's got to find a way to convince him somehow to get back to school.

No. He's got it wrong. He's not going to force Zoro to do anything. He'll try to help the man. He doesn't want to hurt him, god knows he's been hurt enough. If Zoro doesn't want to then he'll be there for him. And right now he's going to do the next best thing. "Ok. But I'm still helping you with your assignments. Just because you aren't going to school doesn't mean you can't still do work. That way you wont be as stupid." Sanji says firmly. Zoro's been with him enough to know that when he sounds like that he means it and will be persistent in getting what he wants. He's got first hand experience.

"Fine. When will we start? I have work the rest of the week?"

"We'll start on Saturday." Sanji gives a smug smile to Zoro, who groans showing his unwillingness to do this.

At least Sanji isn't forcing him to go to school. Plus he doesn't mind doing school work.