Luffy
Luffy cracked his knuckles, as he stared into Hizo's eyes. This man, he was the cause for everything. Zoro had been gone for two years because of this bastard, yet here he was again here to ruin Zoro's life. He looked behind him and saw Zoro leaning heavily onto Sanji, shaking from pain, blood loss, and fear. Not fear from his father, Zoro did not fear him, but maybe for his actions, and the consequences later. Luffy's heart clenched, Zoro had finally been able to be happy. He had found Sanji, but still the green haired man loved his father.
The blonde stared at Hizo with what could only be described as hatred. He had probably never even heard of this man, or the terrible things he had done, and yet he already hated him. Hizo looked shocked as he stared at his son, " No... This wasn't suppose to happen" he said taking a shaky step back. He dropped the knife out of his hand, his face going white. It dropped to the ground with a clang, and he winced from the pain, as the sound rung his ears, and hurt his head. His eyes looked blood shot. He was beyond drunk.
Luffy knew that Zoro did not want him to hurt his father, but this man deserved far worse than an ass kicking. Done observing, Luffy took a determined step forward, and Hizo stared at him wide eyed, and scared. Zoro's father raised his hands to his head, shaking it back and forth repeatedly, "No! Don't come any closer!"
"Luffy let him be," Zoro said behind him. It was not surprising. Luffy looked back at him, and knew there was nothing he could do to change the man's mind."I don't want to go back there. If you attack him, they will take me away again" Zoro's voice rose with hysteria. Luffy's shoulders relaxed, and he smiled at Zoro reassuringly, or he tried, but it was a false smile. He would never let Zoro go back to that hell.
Luffy sighed, Zoro was right if he attacked this man, that is exactly where Zoro would go, and possibly him too. Then Zoro would lose Sanji. He dropped his fists to his sides, and made his voice low and menacing," Leave Hizo." he commanded. Hizo stood there, no longer a crying child, but a victorious man. He knew he could manipulate Zoro. That made Luffy want to punch him even more, and he knew if he saw the man in a dark alley he would, but this was no dark alley, and Zoro was present.
Without uttering a word, Hizo turned and he left the scene, leaving nothing but a busted beer bottle. He was gone by the time the police and ambulance arrived on the scene. Luffy's anger was not. He had not been able to do justice, and it needed to be served on a silver platter. He clenched his fist, and leaned down punching the ground ignoring the pain on his knuckles. He abused the concrete floor as if it were Hizo himself, and promised himself that, that man would pay.
Zoro
When Luffy's fist first connected with the ground with a heated growl, Sanji stiffened by his side. Any other time he would have laughed at the man, but not today, this was not funny. It would have hurt significantly if he had anyways. His eye throbbed every second and the pain had become unbearable. He also felt cold, though it was clearly warm outside moments ago. It had to be the blood loss. He would try to focus on something, anything to take his mind off of the cold and pain, but clearly it was impossible. Sanji rubbed his back soothingly in small circles. Whether he did it knowingly he had no clue, but it helped.
Zoro already knew without looking at the blonde, that he was scared. This is all my fault, echoed in his beating head.I should have known he would come back for me. The door behind them flew open, flying backwards and hitting the wall. Policeman charged threw guns raised yelling commands. He couldn't understand them, but Sanji next to him raised his arms, and yelled at the cops. It occurred to him that he should probably raise his own, but that thought was quickly pushed aside.
At one point, a gun was pointed towards him by a young male cop, who persisted on yelling, even though Zoro could not understand him. The world dipped, and he steadied himself, unwilling to faint like some helpless girl. Soon nurses arrived in the doorway talking urgently with worried faces. He wished they would all shutup, so he could focus. "Help Zoro!" Sanji yelled. It was the only thing Zoro had been able to understand out of the mob of people talking. His scared voice made him want to smile. If he did he didn't know, the world took one more last dip before he allowed darkness to devour him. He trusted Sanji and Luffy to watch him. and his last thoughts were he hoped Sanji would be there when he woke up; he would definitely wake up.
Sanji
The damn police had busted through the door waving their guns like they didn't just show up late for a crime. Actually it occurred to Sanji, that they had all probably been eating donuts, and stuffing their faces when they got the call. He saw a plumper one wipe some crumbs off his face.That is exactly what they were doing. What are they stupid? It was obvious that Zoro was over here injured, and they wanted to act like he had only fell through a bucket of strawberry jam. It probably made them hungry staring at the "strawberry jam" on his face.
Sanji raised his hand into the air, not really feeling like getting shot today thank you. There was too much blood way too much blood. His head grew dizzy and he focused on breathing out of his mouth. A young, rookie, policeman pointed his gun at Zoro, "Raise your hands" he yelled. Zoro stared at the man for a moment clear confusion on his face before he slumped against Sanji. Zoro then jerked back up bobbing his head slightly.
"Hey dumb-ass" Sanji yelled his temper at its peak. He had been through enough shit today, and was not going to deal with some big bad police piece of shit rookie." Don't point your gun at him. He is injured" he yelled. You would know that if you would look its plainly obvious. The policeman narrowed his eyes. Yes he had just called him a dumbass. Did he care? No, because he was a dumbass and should be labelled as such. Now the baby just needed to move on and get over it. Nurses arrived behind the dumb, look i'm playing dress up, cops lead by Usopp, who took one look at Zoro and turned an unhealthy color before retreating back inside.
"Save Zoro" Sanji yelled at the, hopefully less ignorant, help that had just arrived. They took one look at Zoro, and their eyes focused. A stretcher was swiftly brought back there, and all of Zoro's weight seemed to shift onto Sanji's side. He totally freaked." Calm down sir. We can handle this" one of the nurses said, her eyes focused on Zoro. Sanji was able to calm down by the time the unconscious man was loaded onto the stretcher and ran to the ambulance. The cops that stayed behind asked what had happened, and Luffy told them in a strong voice a bunch of bullcrap that had nothing to do with anything. Then as quickly as they had come they left and only Luffy and Sanji were there.
He felt nothing. His body was cold and sticky from the blood.What could he do? Zoro was gone. He had been hurt, right in front of him, protecting him and he could do nothing. This was all his own fault. He hadn't realized he had been crying, until Luffy walked up to him and patted his head. Sanji looked up at him with tear filled eyes and a snotty face. No one looked beautiful while crying. The strawhat boy did not look sad though. Angry, yes, but not sad. "Zoro will be fine he is strong" Luffy said as if there was no other option.
"Come on eggplant" Zeff said at the door," I will take you to the hospital" When Zeff had arrived, Sanji didn't know, but he was glad he did. He needed his step dad now more than ever. He never drove to work, but if he had to get his car he would run faster than he had ever ran before. He stood up stumbling forward falling onto his hands and knees. His legs were shaky and when his hand connected with the ground he hissed. Luffy grabbed him by his arm, and yanked him up roughly. The boy did not smile nor frown. He just stared ahead lost in thought.
Sanji stumbled to Zeff's car ignoring any fangirl that tried to talk to him. Zeff drove them to the hospital in his odd minivan, that Sanji had teased him about before. Usopp and Luffy sat in the back seats, neither talking. Usopp's eyes were red and puffy, but he stared ahead focused on nothing. The hospital came into view, and they quickly parked then entered the waiting room. People looked at them with curious stares. No one could blame them, who wouldn't stare? The blonds shirt was ripped and covered in blood. Luffy wore his shirt, now buttoned up out of respect, but blood covered his knuckles. Zeff had a blood stain on his shirt, because Sanji had fallen against him (hugged him).
They were then told that Zoro was rushed into surgery with hopes of saving his eye. The hopes were not high. Hours passed, and Zeff had gone back to work, telling Sanji to call him. The waiting room slowly emptied until there was only the small group for Zoro. Sanji had his head resting on his hand. A nurse had examined and wrapped his other hand earlier telling him it was just badly bruised. He stared at the weird wrappings she had he had retired to the bathroom to clean out as much blood as he could. He looked terrible. His eye was baggy and dark, and his hair was ruffled. Not to mention that his favorite shirt was now blue, red, and brown.
It didn't matter. He looked up and saw Luffy staring intently at the vending machine. The boy then nodded and threw his fist behind him. Sanji was up in an instant, and grabbed his fist,"What are you doing?" he demanded. The boy didn't flinch at his tone or pull his arm from Sanji's death grip. He rolled his eyes with a huff,"I'm hungry and have no money" he said as if it was obvious. Sanji could not help but smirk. He pulled out his wallet and handed him five dollars, "here shitty bottomless pit" he said. Luffy looked at him like one would look at a god.
The door then opened, and a man with a very tired look entered the waiting room. He pulled on the gloves that covered his hands popping them loudly. Everyone turned to him. He strolled across the floor his doctor coat flaring out behind him. "My name is Doctor Law-ya" he said his expression still sleepy.
All three men nodded. "I am the doctor over Mr..." he pulled out his check board and flipped the paper up, "Mr. Roronoa Zoro-ya" he stated. Sanji thought it sounded like a question. "You are his friend-ya?" he questioned. Again they nodded. "Yes I figured" he smirked at them cocking his head to the side. A child walked out beside him. "My name is Doctor Chopper, but you may just call me Chopper..." he said sounding unsure of himself. Sanji gawked at him. A child a doctor!
Law seemed to find amusement in the dumb look on Sanji's face and smirked, "He is young, though I assure you, he is better than most doctors" Law stated. Chopper blushed dancing a weird dance that everyone decided to ignore for the moment. "Back to Zoro-ya. Sadly we were unable to save his eye" then he went into a very detailed explanation of the damage done. Really it just made his head hurt.
When he finished telling them every nasty detail he led them to Zoro's room. Zoro was sitting up in bed with a bandage that covered half his face. When they walked in he turned to stare at them with one good eye. His eye landed on Sanji, and he smiled, like a child getting candy."Sanji! I knew you would be here." he said with the same smile. Sanji let out a sigh of relief, he was okay. A little too happy to be normal, but at least he was okay. "We gave him some pain medicine. He may act a little different" Law stated. Sanji turned to him giving him a "duh" look. Law smirked before pulling out his clipboard again," We are going to have to keep him for two nights, but just to watch him because he lost too much blood and he had a minor surgery. Other than that he should be fine"
Sanji looked at Zoro who was staring at Law with a smirk on his face. A patch was taped to Zoro's eye, and gauze was wrapped around his head tightly. Strands of hair stuck out in various places. Luffy who had moments ago stood next to Sanji was currently laying his head in Zoro's lap. Zoro smiled down at him petting his head. Sanji frowned, he was NOT jealous, he had just ate something bad for lunch. He slowly walked over to Zoro forcing down the bad taste in his mouth. Zoro's gaze shifted to his, " you okay princess?" Zoro joked. Sanji almost stuck his tongue out, but instead wiped his face of all emotion, and kept walking till he reached Zoro's bed.
Luffy had one eye open watching him. "I'm glad you're okay shitty Marimo" Sanji said. Zoro smiled at him. "You should have seen him" Usopp said " Crying like he was your wife" Sanji's face turned red, and he turned to the long nosed loud mouth man flustered. Usopp waggled his eyebrows at him, and a deep chuckle came from Zoro. Sanji opened his mouth to defend himself, but felt himself being pulled back. He let out a very manly yelp, that wasn't manly at all, and fell back onto Zoro's lap.
He looked up at Zoro confused and slightly embarrassed, and saw the man had an amused glint in his eye. " Did I worry you Sanji?" Zoro asked. Sanji turned redder, and looked away from the man's eyes. " No" he pouted. Yes! He had scared the shit out of him. "Look at me Sanji" Zoro chuckled. Sanji looked at him eyebrow raised. Zoro slid his hand up to the side of Sanji's face tilting his head up " I can always blame it on the medicine" he said before he leaned down and soft lips met Sanji's. He kissed him softly at first questioningly, but then Sanji kissed back.
His stomach fluttered full of butterflies, as their kiss deepened and Zoro's arm circled around him pulling their bodies closer. Zoro's hand rubbed gently on Sanji's back, and he shivered. Zoro was a really good kisser. Too soon the kiss ended, and they were both left breathless, Sanji still in Zoro's lap.
A chuckle from Law reminded Sanji who all was there, and he looked up to see a room full of big smiles. Luffy giggled smiling at him real big. Law covered his mouth, and laughed lightly as Chopper hid behind his leg. Usopp looked like he was about to be a big ball of snot and tears right there. He glared at them," This isn't some shitty show" he yelled. Zoro snored lightly next to him. "He seems to have tired himself out" Law observed. Sanji lightly ruffled his unbandaged hair before climbing out of the heavy sleepers lap. Law motioned for them to follow them and they all walked out into the hallway.
"Since we had to take out his real eye" Law said getting down to business, " we replaced it with a prosthetic eye that he cant see out of" Law then explained how he would need to wear the patch for awhile and go to physical therapy for having only one eye. He didn't have to tell him that Zoro would need help he had already planned to be there for him. Law then left stating that visiting hours were almost over, and it was decided Sanji would stay by Zoro at nights.
Sanji tiptoed into the room and over to the chair Luffy had occupied earlier. He sat down, and realized now he was close enough to lay his had in the sleeping Marimo's lap. He did just that. He sat his head down with no intentions of falling asleep, but was not able to resist. Both him and Zoro were snoring in minutes.