Well guys I'm back. Miss me much?! Anyway... I should be returning to my one chapter a day schedule looking forward for what you guys have to say about my future chapters.
Luliyah x
"You're what?!" Sanji stuttered.
"I'm dying," Zoro repeated. "I found out a few months before you and Ace broke up and that's when I started drinking excessively."
Sanji didn't say anything. What could he say? He had just discovered that the man he loved was dying. He felt his eyes go misty and the tears begin to build up.
"So that's why you said we won't always be together?!" Sanji asked.
Zoro nodded. The tears began to spill down Sanji's face.
"Hey," Zoro whispered cupping Sanji's cheek. "I'm not going just yet. I'll fight for your sake."
Sanji shook his head, "Don't fight for me, fight for you."
Zoro softly kissed the cook's lips before pulling his head into his chest. The cook's fists balled around the fabric of his t-shirt.
"It's not fair," he sobbed.
Zoro gently stroked Sanji's back.
"Morning Luffy," Nami smiled as she kissed her boyfriend's cheek.
"Happy birthday," she whispered.
"How long have you got?" he asked.
"They don't know for sure. It's hard to tell with Defimia, but they think that I have between 1 to 3 years at the most."
Sanji hung his head as more tears rolled down his pink cheeks.
"I love you," Zoro whispered kissing the top of Sanji's head.
"I love you too."
"What would you like for breakfast?" Robin asked as the raven haired boy took his seat at the table.
"MEAT!" Luffy exclaimed earning a chuckle from all three girls.
Nami kissed Luffy's cheek as he put his straw hat on her head.
"Look after it," he said grinning.
Nami nodded securing the hat on her head.
"Let's get to work ladies," she said rubbing her hands together. "The man wants meat."
"I can't believe me and Chopper are now the only two guys under age," Usopp huffed.
Franky burst out laughing,"Even if you were sixteen you know Kaya isn't planning to do it anytime soon."
"I guess you're right. But you know what!? That's what I respect about her," Usopp remarked.
"What?!" Brook asked, genuinely interested.
"Her ability to say no," he sighed. "Chikusho, that woman is stubborn."
Franky laughed again, the others joining in.
"Could you go wake up Zoro and Sanji?" Nami asked Kaya.
"Sure," she answered wiping her hands on a tea towel and walking off in the direction of the girls' dorm.
"Hello?!" she knocked on the door.
When she received no response she opened the door just a crack.
"Zoro?! Sanji?!" she stared at the empty bed for a moment before turning around and walking back out the room.
"They're not there," she said as she resumed what she was doing in the kitchen.
"Strange," Nami mumbled. "Well never mind they'll just get the leftovers."
"Hara heta!" Luffy moaned spreading himself across the table.
"What would you like first? The chicken or lamb?" Robin asked.
"We should go back inside. Breakfast should be starting by now and it's Luffy's sixteenth so the girls will be up to their elbows in meat," Zoro said.
"Sure," Sanji replied raising his head.
He wiped a hand across his face catching the last tears he shed.