Sanji makes his way to Zoro place again. As he gets closer to the house he could see Zoro talking to his father. Before he gets to the gate Zoro nods then turns away from his father as he walks to the gate. Sanji meets Zoro at the gate. They smile at each other as Zoro opens the gate. Sanji look up to see Mihawk walking into the house. The frilly pink apron, a t-shirt this time with shorts and fur slippers. Sanji and Zoro walk side by side as they go to school together in silence.
"Are you okay?" Zoro asks.
"Zeff found out about us." Sanji says, would Zoro be mad that Zeff found out? It wasn't his fault they were both found out.
"Did it get bad? What did he say?" Zoro wonders worried, hoping nothing bad happened.
"He saw us." Sanji says.
"Is he okay with it?" Zoro asks.
"Yeah, he's fine with it." Sanji smiles. Zoro breaths.
"Then why don't you look happy?" Zoro asks.
"Aren't you mad?" Sanji wonders. "Zeff know about us."
"But nothing bad happened, and he accepted us right?" Zoro says.
"But we weren't telling anyone." Sanji says.
"It's fine. We were going to tell them one day." Zoro says. "Zeff just caught us. Looks like it's my turn to tell my dad." Zoro frowns. He didn't want to tell his dad. He remembers the blow out his father had when he learned about Zoro's sexuality, and ever since he's accepted that every guy Zoro is near that's not family his dad becomes some personal bodyguard. What happen with Sanji wasn't the first. He swears his father has the eyes of a hawk. "Not excited about it." Zoro says.
"Can't be as worse as being seen kissing your boyfriend." Sanji smiles. Zoro looks at Sanji.
"He's already caught us having sex." Zoro says. Sanji stops at that. He forgot that happened.
"Then it can't get worse." Sanji says. Zoro looks at him. Then they start laughing. As Zoro laugh dies down he thought about it, Sanji did make sense. He can't be more embarrassed than that. Being seen in a vulnerable way by his father, anything he tells his father is better than being seen like that. He thinks that but he still doesn't have the guts to tell his father. It's just going to have to wait till he is ready. But he's glad for Sanji. He seems to be more free now.
"You're right but I still don't think I can do it." Zoro says.
"Then you think about that, and stay busy. Zeff told me to invite you over for dinner, but not yet. That's too soon." Sanji says.
"I'm busy all week anyway." Zoro says.
"Thank god." Sanji voices making Zoro smile. He's also not ready to see Zeff as Sanji's boyfriend and not a friend. Can't imagine how that would go.
Zoro thinks that but he can't help but smile as they make their way to school together. His life has gone back to normal. He's got his friends back, he's back at school and his family is almost always at home. The only difference is school clubs. He's sad he can't go to them but it's not all bad, it's not like he's the only one not going to his club, everyone can't. After school is more fun now though, with everyone free they can hang out more than before. Not at the moment with Zoro's family being busy but that will end soon but so will them being in high school. All the seniors are getting pressured to focus on their studies. Collage exams are close, the teachers are starting to ask them what they have planned. Zoro's plans for the future are already planned, have been since the day he was born, of course he's going to take over the family business. But in order to do that he needs to go to university. The question now is which one?
When everything started going downhill he sent out some applications to some universities far. Some were sent out of the country. He doesn't know if he'll be accepted to any of them, or if he should sent some close. He doesn't want to be far from Sanji, or his friends but if that's how it goes then what will happen between him and Sanji?
Zoro shakes his head. That's still far in the future, he should be focusing on the now, with Sanji and his friends. When the times comes he'll talk to Sanji. Plus who is to say Sanji isn't thinking about going out of the country himself? Out of state?
When the times comes they will talk.
But the days seem to go by really fast. In the blink of an eye the school day is already over. Zoro stood around in front of the school gates with his friends laughing at Usopp's comment on Luffy's endless stomach. As everyone settled down Zoro saw from the corner of his eye Nami looking sad. Before he can comment on it Sanji opened his mouth. "We better go." Sanji says with a smile giving a look at Zoro.
"Dropping Zoro off at home again?" Robin smiles.
"And why can't we join?" Usopp asks, feeling a little left out.
"You probably don't want to know what they do alone." Nami whispers with a grin to Usopp who blushed.
"Hey! Nothing happens!" Zoro yells blushing. They all laugh again.
"For now." Sanji says under his breath, flinching when Zoro turns to him, red face getting redder. Sanji gives him a grin, Zoro is so easy to tease and it's so, so fun to do. "His sister picks him up at home, for some family thing he has to go to." Sanji explains to the others.
"Still?" Chopper asks.
"When it's over you can all come over. I'll bring sn- ACKS!" Zoro yells as he is picked up and taken. "Hey! What the hell are you doing!" Zoro shouts at the person who's holding him. He starts struggling, trying to get out of the strong grip of this person. But it doesn't work so he looks up to see his friends getting further and further away from him. His eyes going over to Sanji, looking dumbfounded.
"Zoro!" Sanji yells stepping forward, watching as his boyfriend gets taken by some random stranger to who knows where.