"Come on," Zoro whispered.
It was the softest he'd ever hear Zoro speak and he mentally slapped himself for thinking about the hot breath from his dream. He turned away from Zoro.
"Chikusho!" Zoro yelled. "Just tell me baka! What's wrong?!"
"Betsuni," Sanji whispered.
"Don't lie, Sanji, I know something is up with you."
Slowly Sanji turned back to face Zoro. Zoro sighed.
"Look, I know you're not over Ace, so you can talk to me about it," Zoro said.
Sanji's eyes widened, "Ace! Why would you think I'm not over that barstard?!"
Zoro rested his hand on the back of his neck.
"I overheard a conversation between you and Usopp."
"NO!" Sanji shouted, "You did not overhear a conversation between me and Usopp! You were eavesdropping on our conversation."
NO, NO, NO,Sanji was beginning to panic. How much did the moss-head know and what wasn't he telling!
"Okay! So maybe I did! But that's because I'm worried about you," his voice softened at the end.
He was worried, he cared but at that moment it didn't mean shit to Sanji because Zoro could know the one thing he never wanted him to know: he was slowly but surely falling in love with him.
"Well, what I'm feeling has nothing whatsoever to do with Ace! It has to do with..." Sanji stopped.
"Who? Sanji?" Zoro said.
"NAMI!" he yelled.
Oh no,what had he done .Now Zoro knew the reason, well one of the reasons.
"Nami?!" Zoro yelled, his eyes widening. "What did she do?"
Zoro was fuming. He cared about Sanji and he knew it was more than nakama. He had never suspected that his girlfriend was the reason Sanji had been acting like he was.
"Tell me now!" he said his voice low.
Sanji was surprised and scared at the sudden aggression in his voice.
"What did she do to you?" Zoro was trying to calm himself down but so far it was failing.
Sanji stared at the ground. He was embarrassed, embarrassed that he was about to tell Zoro the reason he had wanted nothing to do with Nami that morning.
"She... She called me a faggot," he mumbled.
"Are you happy now?" he whispered walking off as tears began to drip down his cheeks.
He didn't want to look vulnerable in front of Zoro. Physical pain he could take, he'd been in plenty of fights, but emotional pain was something else. He hated the way it made him feel insecure and small.
Zoro had seen the tears being shed from Sanji's eyes when he walked back to the dorms but he decided he wouldn't have been very comforting in his riled up state. He felt awful, like it was partially his fault. Yes, Sanji and Nami had been nakama before they started going out but he had once told Nami that he thought he had feelings for Sanji. Zoro made an effort to calm himself down before going into the dorms to look for Sanji.
He found Sanji, crouching in the corner of the room.
"Sanji," Zoro whispered, he hated seeing Sanji this way, and it broke his heart.