Disclaimer! Some content in this chapter is direct quotes from the One Piece Manga! Which can be found in chappte 841: To the East Blue Arc: Wholecake Island.

Chapter 16

Sanji walked back to his room, not because he was told to but because he knew his friends would be there waiting for him. And his friends was the one thing he needed right now…. Well them and a cigarette… but those were back at the Sunny.

Sure enough, the second he opened the door he was tackled by all of his friends, all of which yelled a rather cheerful, "SANJI(-KUN)!" Well that is except for Zoro, Law, and Franky…. Which he was kind of thankful for as he felt like Franky could crush all of them in his massive, meddle arms. The jester was much appreciated, but it damn near knocked him to the ground.

"You kicked their asses, right?!" Luffy asked.

"Would I be the cook for the future Pirate King if I couldn't kick their asses?" Sanji answered as his friends broke out of the hug.

"What does being a cook have to do with fighting?" Zoro asked sarcastically.

"Shut up, Marimo!"

"You're hurt," Chopper accused looking down at the cook as he was standing on the blond's shoulders with his hooves on Sanji's head.

Sanji looked down at his chest, he hadn't realized that he was clutching his shirt were he had been punch by Yonji.

"Yeah, Yonji managed to get in one good punch and broke a couple of my ribs but my hands didn't get broke, scratched, bruised, or anything like that so I'm fine, really."

"Fine or not, I'm still going to get them set before they have a chance to heal. Take off your shirt and set on the bed so I can take a look. And don't be stubborn about it like Zoro!"

"Please! Me be like that stupid Moss Head! That's insulting!" Sanii laughed as he closed the door before unbuttoning his shirt as he walked to the bed and sat down, laying the shirt next to him.

"Shut up, stupid cook!"

Chopper jumped off Sanji's Shoulders and began digging through his medical bag for bandages.

"You shut up, Marimo. Being a stupid cook is a lot better than being a stubborn Moss Head."

"Arms," Chopper said as he climbed on to Sanji's lap with a roll of bandages.

Sanii raised his arms and Chopper began bandaging the cook's broken ribs.

"Well, at least I don't have asymmetrical curly eyebrows," Zoro said raising a brow.

"ONE MORE COMMENT ABOUT THAT AND I'LL END YOU!"

"Asymmetrical?" Law and Carrot questioned.

"Damn you, Zoro!" Sanii said before sighing heavily and lifting his bangs to reveal his right eye for two seconds then quickly let them fall back in their original position. "Did you not notice Yonji's?"

"As if that was enough time for anyone to actually see it," Zoro said.

"THAT WAS THE POINT!"

"Yes," Carrot and Law answered.

"But just because you're brothers, and quadruplets, doesn't mean you look exactly alike," the surgeon continued. "While there is a resemblance, your hair is a different color…."

"As well as different styles," Nami added.

"Not to mention their eyebrows point to the left/right (you pick, I go by the curl so I would say left) however yours go to the right/left" (I would say right but you go by how you look at it :) ), Zoro felt the need to mention, he really just wanted to irritate Sanii some more… it worked.

"I TOLD YOU NO MORE COMMENTS ABOUT THAT!"

"Done," Chopper said and Sanji picked up his shirt and began putting it back on. "Try to refrain from yelling at Zoro until they are healed."

"Yeah, no promises. Anyway we have some time left before dinner so I might as well finish telling you what I was telling you yesterday."

"Sanji-kun, you really don't have to. We don't care about your~"

"I know that, Nami-san…" he looked at the navigator, who had just say down next to him, "but… I want to…. I should have told you a long time ago…. The day I was… imprisoned… I was approached by some of Judge's soldiers. They… they forced me into… th-this…. Well, you saw it today…."

"That iron mask you threw as us earlier?" Robin asked.

"Did I? I'm sorry! I didn't hit you, Nami-san, or Carrot did I?!"

"No, we all moved out of the way," Nami assured. "Do you not remember what happened?"

"A little. I remember walking into the cell and looking around before losing it… but I don't remember what all I did…. I remember picking it up and getting angrier but I don't remember throwing it…. I guess I kind just…."

"Went into a blind rage," Nami finished.

"Yeah," the blond muttered. "It just… made me so… angry that they actually had if in better condition than when I ran away…. How could anyone get so much pleasure from causing someone pain that they'd actually take the time to put everything back the way it was before crossing the red line into the East Blue rather than have everything removed from the cell…? It's… it's like they thought of it as some kind of sick museum or something…. I-i… I-i…."

"Hey, it's okay. We get it," Nami said pulling Sanji into a tight hug.

Sanji, unable to hug her back due to the way she was hugging him, buried his face in her arm and took her wrist in a tight, yet careful as to not hurt her, grip. Remaining like that, the blond continued the story.

"The mask was designed to cover my whole face aside from my eyes…"

"Your hair does that already," Zoro said in a failed attempt to lighten the mood.

"Shut up, Zoro."

(Brook and Franky have hardly talked in this fanfic sooooooo I'll just throw them in a line or two here because I feel bad about that… sooooooo yeah back to the story!)

"Bro, you got Sanii to say your actual name twice now," Franky said.

"Yo-ho-ho, does that mean you've made him angry?"

"Shut it," Sanji said. "The point in that was so that if Judge decided to come to my cell… he didn't... have... to…."

"See your face…?" Nami help him finish.

Sanii nodded and Nami felt tears rolling do her arm.

"Well, we like to see your face," she said resting her forehead, reassuringly, on the top of his head. Sanji's grip on Nami's wrist tightened in response.

"I was there for a little over side months. I eventually asked for cooking supplies from one of the soldiers that brought my food, hints the small oven in the cell earlier. I also got a few books, cookbooks, Noland the Lier, one on Devil Fruits, and one all about the All Blue…."

"I bet that one was your favorite," Nami chuckled. She felt a small smile form on the blond's face which made her smile into his hair.

"Eventually my brothers found out I was alive and stole the key to my cell. Said they couldn't believe that Judge went through all that trouble to put up the charade. Ichiji stood the spinning the key on his finger and said 'It's because he wished the lie were true'… to which Yonji replied… 'Then m-maybe we can bring F-father true happiness… b-by ma-making sure you really… do… die…. And… well I think you can guess what happened from there…. Reiju of course also figured it out and came down when they would leave and as always treat my injuries. One day she told me that we were going to climb the Red Line to fight some war in the East Blue…. That's when I told her that I wanted to become a chef. She stared at me in shock before telling me to stop blurting things like that out to her. That's when I finally asked her, 'If I run away here and now… in the East Blue… I won't have to see Father's face ever again… will I?' She began to cry and told me to stand back as she bent the bars. She told me I wouldn't get a second chance at it and I better not mess it up. She told me where to find the key to the mask. I snuck into Judge's room to get it when he came in, said he didn't recall giving me permission to leave my cell. Afraid he was going to try to stop me, I yelled at him, told hims I was liking this place and no one was going to stop me…Not even him. His response, 'your stay in the basement seems to have had some adverse effects on your manners. You are now nothing but a commoner. There's no way someone of your ilk could ever hope to face and survive the harsh realities of this world. It'd be certain death for you.' so I told him I didn't care what he thought and to just try and stop me."

There was a knock at the door. Sanii reluctantly looked up, not wanting to leave the warmth of Nami's arm.

"Who is it?" He asked.

"Your sister," Reiju's voice.

"Come in," he said sighing in relief.

"Now, Sanji, would our brothers have knocked?"

"No, but your servants would have."

"As if you really thought it was them…. You didn't tell me you and your navigator were dating," She teased.

"We're not," Sanji replied as Nami quickly released him from her embrace with a bit of a blush. The blond let out a quiet whimper in response that only the redhead could hear.

"In his dreams maybe," Zoro laughed.

"Yes and someday it will be a reality!"

"No it won't," Nami replied.

"Yes it will."

"Won't."

Sanji dropped it, allowing Nami to have the last word, even though he disagreed.

"Anyway, I just wanted to let you guys know that dinner is about ready so might want get to the dining hall really soon."

"Alright, we'll be there shortly."

Omg! Airin! I really really want to know what you think is going to happen! In fact I would love to know what everyone thinks is going to happen! So if you want, feel free to message me or write it in a review :D I'm curious! (I will not pull an Oda and change it if someone it right nor will I confirm you are right until it actually happens in the story :) )

Also I'm thinking about starting a forum where we can talk all things One Piece/Anime if anyone would be interested in that. Thanking about calling it the unofficial Straw Hats or something idk yet. What do you think?

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