The flashback is before the molesting. Thanks for reading so far and thanks for the rewievs! I hope you guys will enjıy this chapter too :D

Sanji unlocked the door slowly walking in. First time in his life he asked permission to leave early from work. He didn't know why? Maybe he just felt tired or maybe he just hoped to see the marimo on the way. But from the looks of it Zoro had already left, not leaving a note or anything.

Sanji sighed and sat down on his red sofa. Maybe he had gone to hard on Zoro, wait, how was that even possible? Zoro was the one who molested him. If anybody should feel hurt it should be him. Besides why would Zoro stay here anyway? He just was asking for forgiveness to ease his own pain. As always Zoro didn't care about him.

Then a certain light caught his eye. It was coming from the table with great curiosity he walked towards there. He didn't remember putting something sparkly on the table. When he saw what it was his eyes widened.

"What the hell?" he murmured.

He looked at the blue stone that was shaped as a teardrop. He hold it feeling its smooth surface. Had the shitty marimo did this on purpose? What kind of massage did it hold? Sanji had no idea, he sat down on the chair and smiled as he remembered the day he first saw the teardrop stone.


Sanji always smiled despite having a family. He didn't like to frown or look unhappy. Even if he was sad, he always smiled. He didn't know why he did something like that? Maybe he didn't want to make his friends worry or maybe he just wanted to be one of the happy kids by smiling? Who knew?

But when his classmate –and one of his close friends- Nami was running towards him with great concern he frowned.

"Oi what's wrong?" he asked when Nami finally arrived she was still panting but she managed to talk.

"Vivi." She said. "Vivi's in trouble hurry!"

He hold Sanji's hand and pulled him while she started to run. Sanji wanted to jump with joy when he realized the fact that he was holding hands with Nami. But since he was now worried for Vivi as well he didn't.

When they arrived at the destination there was no sight of Vivi. Then he looked at Nami she was pointing at the river her eyes widening.

"She fell into the river… Sanji you got to help her!"

Thanks for stating the obvious. Sanji thought and looked at the river once again trying to find a glimpse of Vivi. Even a piece of her hair would do but since the river and her hair were blue it would be more difficult.

"Vivi!" Sanji yelled suddenly realizing the seriousness of the situation. "Vivi!"

Then he saw it. It was far and hard to see but he saw it. A hopeless hand trying to fight against the river. He ran and dove in the cold water making him tense a bit. But he didn't care he needed to reach Vivi. When his hand finally reached Vivi's he was relieved. He hold it firmly and pulled the girl towards her determined not to let go no matter what. But it was harder to fight the rivers current with two people. He tried to reach the surface his feet keep struggling to take them there. Damn he thought he extended his hand one last time hoping it would reach the surface in time.

He was surprised when he felt the warmth of another hand. It was strong and big so it couldn't be Nami's. The firm grip on his hand pulled him and suddenly he could breathe again.

When he finally could feel the grass and dirt under him he was relieved. He took in a deep breath and looked at Vivi. She was fine too.

"Sanji! Vivi! You're both okay!" said Nami and hugged his classmate with great relief. Sanji put his arm around her and hugged her back, smiling stupidly.

"You should be more careful," said a deep voice across him. Sanji looked up raising his eyebrow.

The first thing he noticed was green then he felt his pulse quickening. So it was Zoro who saved them. He smiled warmly to the green haired man.

"Yeah thanks for helping out,"

Zoro shrugged and turned around leaving his classmates behind. Nami huffed.

"How rude!" she said crossing her arms in front of her. "He could at least reply you."

Sanji simply laughed. If Zoro wasn't the way he was he wouldn't probably love him. Even if the damn marimo always kept his distance and acted like a jerk, Sanji just loved him the way he was.

"Hmm, what happened?" a faint voice asked.

"Vivi!" yelled Nami and hugged her too. Vivi was startled but hugged back.

"Sorry if I made you worry," she said and turned to Sanji. "Thanks for helping me out."

Sanji waved his hand slightly smirking. "It was my pleasure just be more careful okay?"

"Sure," she replied slowly standing up. When she stumbled Nami held her.

"You shouldn't stand up so suddenly." She said her voice full of worry.

Vivi just giggled a bit mumbling that she was use to standing. But Nami didn't care and hold her until they arrived at the crossroads.

"Nami, you should leave. Didn't you tell me that you needed to be home early?"

"Yeah but.." she started Sanji quickly cut her off.

"Don't worry Nami-san. I'll go with her."

Nami gave them both a concerned look but soon gave in to the stubborn looks on both of their faces. She sighed.

"Fine,see you tomorrow," she said but still, you could hear the worry in her voice.

Sanji and Vivi looked behind her for a while then they started to walk to the opposite direction. Sanji always liked to take Vivi home. To go to her house you needed to go through the forest and Sanji didn't know why but he felt rather calm whenever he passes through it.

But then again he still felt a little shock from seeing Zoro. Why was Zoro there in the first place? Maybe Sanji should ask him tomorrow in school. Since the first he saw Zoro he knew immediately that Zoro was a loner. But he tried to talk with him anyway.

"Hey Sanji," said Vivi making Sanji jump a bit. He had totally forgotten that he was with Vivi. "My parents told me a weird story about this forest."

"Yeah?" replied Sanji when Vivi didn't continue. Vivi faintly smiled.

"They told me that when two people that have a strong or will have a strong relationship meet in this forest it gives one of them a stone like thing. It's told that the stone resembles a shape that explains the relationship."

"Interesting," said Sanji thoughtfully. "Have you found one of these stones?"

Vivi blushed slightly and nodded. "I'm not sure if the forest actually gave it to me or it's just a random stone that somebody dropped but.. It's nice to hope isn't it?" She said giving Sanji a wide smile.

Sanji smiled back not able to repress it. The story sound nice if it was actually true. Sure Vivi told him she found a stone but it could be random. But it could be true a whisper filled his mind. It would be nice if he found a stone too, intrigued by the subject he asked.

"How do you find these stones?"

"Well," Vivi said and rubbed her chin. "I was just walking and a shine caught my eye. I followed it and there it was just laying on the ground."

"A shine huh?" said Sanji and smiled.

He was just hoping for the impossible, sure he crossed paths with Zoro but that didn't mean they would have any kind of relationship. It was impossible but like Vivi said It was nice to hope. They continued walking forgetting about the mysterious stones. They talked about school annoying teachers and such. When they arrived at Vivi's house, Sanji still had one question about the stones.

"By the way Vivi," he said. "How do you understand what the shape of the stone means?"

Vivi looked at him for a while then shrugged. "I don't really know, that's something you should understand yourself." The she waved. "By Sanji thanks for helping me out, see you tomorrow."

Sanji waved at her smiling then left. He was still thinking about the stones. He actually wanted to ask Vivi if she could show it to him but he then decided that it was too personal. He sighed why he wanted a stone so badly. Maybe he felt like the stone would be some kind of guarantee that something would happen with Zoro. Or he was just losing his mind.

"Damn marimo," he mumbled at the same time a shine caught his eye.

His pulse quickened. Did that actually happen? Did he just saw a shine coming from the ground? He shook his head. No, he was probably day dreaming. He was just about to continue his way home but the shine caught his eye once again. He finally just gave in and walked towards the shine. He was sure that it wasn't a stone.

But when he looked at the ground he hold his breath. There was a blue stone shaped as a teardrop. Sanji raised his eyebrow and picked the bizarre stone up from the ground.

A teardrop? What the hell? He thought as he continued to observe the stone. It was smooth and weirdly warm. He then started to think about the shape of it. Why a teardrop? That usually meant sadness so … did that mean he was going to have a sad relationship with Zoro?

"Dammit Damiit!" a voice yelled.

Sanji suddenly froze. What was with that scream? Then he heard a few stones being kicked and branches being torn apart. It was coming from behind the trees that had gathered in the middle. Sanji couldn't see who it was so he got closer. He was surprised when he hear somebody crying.

He snorted. How ironic? He finds a teardrop stone and somebody is crying. The person was mumbling at the same time too.

"Why the hell," then Sanji heard sniffling. "Did they have to forget my birthday…"

Zoro! Sanji's inner voice yelled. Zoro was here and he was crying! His heart ached it was never easy to see your loved ones cry or in this situation hear your loved ones cry. So it was Zoro's birthday, Zoro never told him so it didn't count as forgetting. Sanji remembered something about Zoro always being alone. At first he just assumed it was usual high school gossip. But maybe it was true?

Then with a sudden awkward idea he came out from the place he was hiding. Zoro looked at him and to Sanji's amusement blushed. Zoro quickly turned his sad face expression to an angry one and wiped his face like he was never crying. He could've fouled somebody else. But Sanji knew.

"Hey Zoro," Sanji said quickly not letting Zoro say anything. "I wanted to give you this," he pulled Zoro's hand and placed the teardrop stone on the hand of the confused teen. Sanji looked at him directly in the eyes his heart pounded, he leaned towards Zoro. "And then this."

He could feel Zoro tense up while he kissed him. But that was reasonable since Zoro probably had no idea about Sanji's feelings. Sanji then broke the kiss too embarrassed to look at Zoro he turned around.

"Happy birthday Marimo-kun."

Then he did the only sane thing he could think of. He ran away. Not noticing the faint smile that appeared on Zoro's face. Sanji had no idea he made one birthday boy really really happy.


Sanji closed his hand over the teardrop stone. So Zoro had kept it with him for all this time. That meant that Zoro cared. Sanji couldn't blame Zoro for his parents neglecting him, maybe it was time to forget the past and just move on. He stood up, put his coat on and left the apartment. He wouldn't let Zoro slip away from him ever again.

Now you have to admit this chapter is way longer then my regular ones… This chapter was kind of obvious if you asked me but I couldn't think about anything else and I wanted to write something cuter but that was probably a huge fail :D By the way I'm thinking about to do another flashback if you guys want it but I'm out of ideas if you guys have any good ideas please share I would be more than happy to write one last flashback ^^ Other than that thanks for reading until next time byeeee :D