A stern looking green haired man sat away from a giant bonfire where his crew mates danced around and partied. A tall slender woman stood beside him, leaning against a tree.
The swordsman looked toward the bonfire to see the love sick cook of his crew swooning over all the women dancing around.
Zoro scoffed at the sight and gulped down a large amount of alcohol. Robin chuckled softly, "You could dance too."
It's not what she said but the way she said it, with that knowing side eye glance and smirk included. Damn that woman and her ability to know things she shouldn't.
Zoro scoffed and closed his eyes, letting out a large yawn for her answer as he rested against a tree for a nap.
Robin left the swordsman alone for now, her crewmates never failed to entertain her.
The green haired man wasn't able to rest for long when he heard light nervous footsteps approach him. Sensing no threat he barely opened his eye when the person got closer.
A woman with wavy brown hair wearing a dress stood in front of him. Her cheeks were a light pink with blush and Zoro closed his eye once again.
"Thank you so much for saving our village, um, can I ask you for a dance?"
Zoro let out the most convincing snore he could. This was supposed to be a happy occasion and making some girl upset because he didn't want to dance with her would dampen that.
He hears a soft disappointed sigh and her retreating footsteps.
Peeking after a moment to make sure she left, he takes another drink of his beer.
He closes his eyes again and is soon met with more approaching footsteps. He knew these footsteps though, by the pace he could tell a kick was heading his way as well. He dodged making the tree take the impact of the kick instead of his face.
Now fully alert he looks at their crew's cook, who is lighting a cigarette that's already placed between his lips.
"I really don't understand you, shity moss for brains." Sanji puffs out some smoke, "Do you just not understand when a beautiful woman wants to dance with you? It is your job as a man to make a woman smile."
The swordsman doesn't even try to hold back his irritated sigh, "Idiot"
"No you're the idiot! She asked you to dance, and it's not just her either. Other women have offered their beautiful hearts to you and you always turn them down." Zoro can hear it in his voice that the blond is really about to lose his temper.
Zoro knows that with the right words he could calm Sanji down, but he would rather speak his mind. Also he finds nothing more irritating than the cooks stupid attitude toward women, it really pisses him off.
Zoro can feel his eyebrow twitching, a sign that he's about to lose his temper. "Then why don't you take them instead, shit cook?"
Sanji crouches down to Zoro's level to yell in his face, "That would be taking advantage of their poor stomped on hearts. Hearts that you stomped on in the first place you stupid bastard."
"Eh!?" Zoro felt his patience break, "How the hell his that my fault, you idiotic erocook!?"
"As I said, don't mistreat their hearts!"
Sanji was yelling in his face, and Zoro yelled right back in his, "So even though I don't want to, I should just dance with them anyway. I should get their hopes up, even though I don't care about them?"
It almost looked like something in Sanji broke, "How can you not care? Women are the most precious things on this planet."
Zoro was already sick and tired of having this conversation."Women and men are the same, we are all just people."
The cook huffed, "So you're saying that you just don't care about anyone?"
The swordsman let out an irritated huff of air, "Stop putting words in my mouth. I do care about certain people."
"Romantically?"
The slightest tinge of pink colored the green man's cheeks, "I'm a one person kind of guy, unlike you, dart brows. I don't love multiple people like you do, it's just the one, but yeah I do."
"Is it Robin or Nami?"
"No, you shit cook!"
Sanji was about to argue some more when another woman who lived in the village approached them. "Um excuse me, but would you like to share a dance with me?"
Sanji's anger vanished instantly as if it was never there to begin with.
He spun around and bowed to her, "My beautiful flower it would be my pleasure to dance with a goddess like you."
The woman blushed brightly, her nervousness increasing, "Actually I wanted to dance with him." She looked toward Zoro.
Sanji's disappointment was written all over his face, "Of Course my dove, he would love to." The words make the young woman's eyes sparkle.
"I'll pass," Zoro quickly grumbles.
The woman deflates and looks on the brink of tears, before she runs back to the bonfire.
"You barbarian! You made her cry!" Sanji screams in Zoro's face.
"Don't speak on my behalf asshole!" Zoro also screams at Sanji at the same time, they are literally nose to nose. "You're the one who brought her hopes up, so you are the one who made her cry."
"I would never make a woman cry!" After a few minutes of growling in eachothers faces Sanji pulls back first. The cook pinches the bridge of his nose, "How do all these girls even like you?"
"Maybe because I'm not a creepy love cook."
Sanji puffs out some smoke before tossing down his used cigarette to the ground and crushing it under his shoe.
"Are you implying that women like you more than me?"
"I don't care that they do, curly eyebrows."
"Tomorrow I bet I can get more girls to flirt with me, than will flirt with you."
The swordsman's eyebrow quirked, "I already told you I'm not interested in them."
"Then who are you interested in? No one would even like a directionally confused idiot like you!"
Zoro stared at Sanji for a long moment before he finally said, "The rest of you are the ones always getting lost."
Sanji realizes quickly to himself that he is wasting his time, and turns on his heel sharply, "Why am I even bothering to talk to you."
He walks back towards the bonfire.
The next morning Usopp overhears Sanji grumbling to himself, "Makes no damn sense."
Ussop sits at the kitchen table, "What's the matter?"
Sanji, looks at Usopp and then around the kitchen to make sure no one else is there, and sighs.
The sharpshooter wasn't the ideal person to talk to about this, but since he overheard anyways… "Could you imagine Zoro liking anyone romantically?"
Ussop looks horrified at the thought. He imagines Zoro trying to give a lady flowers or something, and cringes. "No, that's creepy."
Sanji looks just as disgusted, "I know."
Usopp shakes the thought from his head, "What makes you ask that?"
"Stupid moss head is making no sense, that's why! He keeps rejecting the ladies, says he likes someone romantically but then claims it's not Robin or Nami!"
Usopp contemplates what he was just told, a hand on his chin while he tries to think. "Maybe it's Vivi, or perhaps that childhood friend of his."
Sanji looks a bit saddened, "Maybe, but that means his love is either a princess he could probably never have or already dead."
Usopp thinks harder and a light bulb goes off in his head, "Maybe it's not a woman!"
Sanji ponders that for a moment, "He did say there is no difference in his eyes between men and women… but then who would he like?"
Usopp looked at Sanji, the answer suddenly very obvious to him, "Luffy!" Usopp declares.
"Luffy?" Sanji questions, "Has the thought of romance even even crossed his mind?"
As if on cue the captain in question barges in, "Sanji~" Luffy wines, "I'm hungry, give me some meat~"
Luffy looks at his two crew members who are now looking at him with tears in their eyes, "poor Zoro"
Luffy tilts his head to the side, "Why poor Zoro? I'm the one who is hungry."
The party in the village carries on into the next day.
Sanji finds Luffy, and Chopper dancing on the table.
Brook is playing lively music for everyone, and Usopp was telling a story about how he saved everyone single handedly.
He spots Nami and Robin next, talking together at a table.
Somewhere he hears a loud "SUPER~"
Finally he finds Zoro sitting on some barrels in a nearby alley. Sanji follows the swordsman's gaze to find he's watching his dancing crewmates, it occurs to Sanji most likely he's watching Luffy in particular.
The cook did consider himself a romantic and as weird as the thought of the swordsman and captain was as a couple, he wanted to always support love.
Luffy would never notice unless Marimo voiced his feelings though.
Sanji made up his mind, and approached the swordsman.
"Oi, I need to talk to you."
Zoro watched him as he approached, "Shouldn't you be swooning over the towns women."
"I should be, but instead I'm here helping your sorry ass, so be grateful."
"I don't remember needing your help, cook."
"Your gay, aren't you?"
Zoro was definitely caught off guard, he looked really nervous, suddenly unable to keep eye contact. "I don't see how that's your concern."
"I know who you like, and I want it to work out, but only after you answer some of my questions."
Zoro was back to making eye contact, a blush on his cheeks, "You know!?"
"Yes."
Zoro studied the cook suspiciously, "Did Robin tell you? As far as I was aware she was the only one who figured it out."
"No, and if you want this to work out, as I said you have to answer my questions, and listen to what I have to say."
Zoro changed his posture, looking like he was about to battle a worthy adversary, "I'm very serious, love cook. What are your questions?"
"First off, you're not going to let this affect your performance during battle, right? Romance can really throw things off."
Zoro smirked, a hungry look in his eye "Worried about my performance huh?" The innuendo was not lost on either man. It was Sanji's turn to blush, "I would never let it affect the crew negativity though. Unless he can't keep his voice down that is."
Sanji hasn't ever seen this side of Zoro but nodded his head, "Secondly, this isn't just physical is it, you actually want a relationship?"
"All or nothing."
Sanji nodded, content with that answer. "Lastly, are you in love or is this...?"
If Sanji was going to do this, he was doing it for the sake of love. Love always prevailed.
If Zoro looked ready for battle before, he looked even more so now, his eyes were intense, he looked as serious as a person could. "It's love."
The swordsman stood up and approached the cook, his eyes piercing through Sanji as easily as Zoro's swords could cut through enemies.
Zoro slammed his hand on the alley wall behind the blond, Sanji didn't understand why he was suddenly so close.
"I'll help you."
The swordsman determination suddenly seemed to plummet, the almost animalistic look in his eyes disappearing, "What?"
"I'll help you get together with him. Stupid algea brain did you already forget that?"
"Eh?"
"Your obviously not getting anywhere without my help" Sanji moved away from the stunned swordsman and grabbed a new cigarette. "Luffy is as oblivious as they get, without my help he'll never notice your feelings towards him"
Zoro's jaw nearly hit the floor, "You think I'm in love with-" Zoro cut himself off, he looked pissed, "Okay, what's your advice?"
"Your motivation is right, you'll have to dress in a way that will catch his attention." Sanji explained.
"What's wrong with how I dress now?"
"As I said dumb ass, wear something that will catch his attention. A suit always looks nice but since it's Luffy, wearing a meat necklace would probably work better." Sanji contemplated the choices.
"What else?" The green haired man asked, irritated.
"Next would be to show them that you treat them differently than everyone else. I suppose you show Luffy that all the time by always protecting him, perhaps verbally stating that it's not anything you do for others that would help."
Zoro sighed, looking bored, "How many more steps are there?"
"Just one" Sanji got closer to Zoro, eye to eye, this was the most important step and he needed this one to sink in the most. "This is more important than all the other steps so listen real good. You have to be very direct, you have to make sure he understands."
The swordsman didn't break eye contact, "What if he still doesn't understand."
"Make him understand."
Sanji felt proud of his advice, but Zoro didn't seem that sure. The swordsman shrugged, "It would be easier to keep things the way they are."
"Your choice" Sanji shrugged as well walking away, "But a man who gives up before trying. Either he should not be considered a man at all, or he never cared enough to begin with." Sanji calls over his shoulder, "so much for your seriousness, strength and your concept of love."
Sanji didn't see it but Zoro was absolutely seething behind his back.
He would show that idiot cook, who thought Luffy was the most oblivious one on the crew.
Sanji was going to help Zoro some more with finding something nice to wear but to surprise he was nowhere to be found on the ship. Did that idiot get lost again?
He spots Brook drinking some tea and decides to ask him, "Where did everyone go?"
"Usopp and Franky are buying some spare parts, Luffy left early this morning, and Zoro, Nami, and Robin all went to go shopping together."
"What?" Sanji was shocked, "Zoro went shopping with Nami and Robin?"
"It was indeed unexpected, I was so shocked my eyes almost popped right out of my skull." Brook sips some tea, "If I had any eyes, but I don't because I'm a skeleton! Yohohohoho!"
Sanji ignored Brooks' last comment and put his hands on his pockets. He supposed Zoro didn't want his help finding a new outfit, it made sense, they didn't really get along.
The blond cook shrugged it off, and decided he would do some food shopping since they would be here a few more days for the log pose.
It seems the townsfolk couldn't afford any more big parties. Despite that, the straw hats decided to continue the party at a bar.
More people showed up than Sanji expected.
It was pretty late into the night, before Sanji spotted Nami shoving a very uncomfortable looking Zoro through the bar doors. Both his female crewmates asscorting the swordsman, looking pleased with themselves.
The swordsman slowly approached Sanji, but before he could even sit he heard Franky scream out, "You got this Zoro-bro, it's going to be SUPER!" The swordsman threw a glare in that direction to find Franky crying alongside Brook, "Love is just so beautiful" the cyborg was making a damn scene.
Zoro mentally cursed himself, did everyone already know except for the actual damn cook himself? Sanji didn't know already did he?
The cook in question turned to Zoro, "The ladies did a great job, they actually found something to help that ugly mug of yours." Sanji pointed over to a table, where Luffy was, "He's over there hot shot."
Zoro could at least relax a little knowing at least the cook wasn't in the loop yet. Luffy seems to spot them and starts screaming, "Yay! Zoro and Sanji! It will be awesome to have a couple on board!"
Sanji look confused, "What did he just-"
Before the cook can finish his sentence Zoro speaks up, "Lets go outside." One of these days Zoro swears he's gong to kill that idiotic captain of theirs.
Zoro grabs Sanji's hand before the Cook can protest and pulls him out of the bar.
"What was that about?" Sanji asks releasing his hand, making Zoro's feel cold and empty.
"Would you like to dance?" Zoro suddenly asks instead.
"Eh? You really do have moss between those ears don't you? There is no music out here, also Luffy is still inside."
Zoro groans, "Nevermind, this is stupid." He turns to leave when Robin's arm pops out of his chest and points behind him to Sanji.
Letting out an irritated sigh he turns as the arm disappears. He's about to speak when he suddenly hears violin music from right inside the door. He can only assume that there is a skeleton with a giant afro on the other side.
Sanji is looking at him confused, so the swordsman extends out his hand, "Dance with me."
Sanji just started at the hand as if it had offended him, "I didn't think you danced."
Zoro grabbed Sanji and pulled him close, looking anywhere except for at the blond, "I don't with anyone else." To his relief finally the cook didn't fight back and allowed Zoro to dance with him.
They kept trying to be the one to lead which led to a lot of stepping on feet. It was so irritatingly the cook's personality that Zoro couldn't help but to find it perfect.
"I get your trying to practice" the cook finally spoke up, "but I'm not sure I could picture Luffy being able to do a slow dance like this."
"Good thing Luffy isn't the one I want, huh?" Zoro whispered in Sanji's ear.
Sanji pulled back enough to look at Zoro, "What?"
Zoro went back to looking far too serious for Sanji's tastes, "Listen really well cook. I don't want Luffy, I never have. The only one that I want is you." Zoro had never seen the cook's face turn such a color of red before. "Your the one I'm in love with Sanji"
"But Luffy. You said…" Zoro went to lean in to try and steal a kiss when a foot came down on his foot much harder than anyone else's ever could.
Damn Sanji and his inhuman lower body strength. Zoro pulled away, "What the fuck, you stupid ass cook!? Are you trying to break my damn foot!?"
"You said you were serious about Luffy, you said it wasn't physical, and you claimed to love him. Are you drunk or just a complete idiot!?"
Zoro was furious, "I never said that I loved him, you decided that all for yourself!"
Thinking back on it he never said it was Luffy, "You didn't deny it either."
"How was I supposed to deny it when you wanted to tell me how to woo you, curly brows. If I had denied it we would be back to square one, besides you had a point for once. How am I supposed to be the strongest swordsman ever if I can't even tell you how I feel?"
"You are such an idiot, you do realize I love women right?"
The green haired man suddenly couldn't make eye contact, "This is stupid, I'm leaving."
Sanji moved fast, slamming his foot into the wall in front of Zoro's face. "I thought I told you the last step was the most important, to make the person you love understand? So listen closely, you shit swordsman, I love women, that being said, I'm not opposed to trying a serious relationship with a man if I feel like it's worth it."
Zoro raised an eyebrow and looked at Sanji, "So am I worth it?"
"I wouldn't be still here if it wasn't." Sanji lowered his foot, gripped the collar of Zoro's dress shirt and kissed him. Despite Sanji initiating the kiss, Zoro wasn't about to let Sanji be the one to take control. Before the cook could get any idea's Zoro slid his tongue into Sanji's mouth deepening it.
Neither man being a person to back down Sanji fought back the tongue, determined to be the one running the show. To his surprise Zoro growled into his mouth and pushed Sanji into the alleyways wall. They broke off the kiss to breathe, and when he looked into Zoro's eyes the man looked starved for more. The cook almost felt scared as the swordsman looked at Sanji the way a tiger looks at a gazelle it's about to pounce on.
Before the cook could tell the swordsman to calm down his words had been swallowed by the Zoro's hungry mouth once again.
In a desperate attempt to gain back some dominance Sanji grabs some of Zoro's hair and pulls on the short strands. The action only fuels on Zoro more. At this point both men are fighting for dominance and pretty much trying to devour the other one's mouth.
Sanji uses his foot to kick off the wall, making Zoro lose balance, and it's now the cooks turn to press the swordsman against the wall.
Feeling like he finally had the upper hand he grates his hips teasingly against Zoro and was not expecting to find The Green haired man extremely hard.
The cook let's out a surprised gasp into Zoro's mouth as the swordsman grops the cooks ass, bringing their crouches back together.
Sanji is breathless and can't seem to even think clearly. He needed the swordsman right now, and by the way Zoro was acting he also needed the cook.
"Yay! They are a couple now! Let's celebrate by eating meat!" Luffy is suddenly next to them, a wide grin spread across his face.
"Luffy!" Sanji turns toward the captain. Zoro is less affected, only letting out an annoyed growl at being interrupted. Zoro's hands slide under the blond's shirt, hoping his captain got the hint to leave, making the cook bite his lip to prevent any embarrassing noises.
Luffy just laughs, "you guys are so funny! Let's go tell everyone the good news!" The rubber man grabs the back collar of each man's shirts and runs back into the bar accidently strangling the two men who had just been in the middle of a heavy make out.
"I'm going to kill him" Zoro managed to wheeze out.
