Sorry for the late update. This chapter might be a little slow just so you know. Thank you for the reviews so far and I'm glad that everyone's enjoying it so far and I'm glad none of you thought my "teardrop stone" thing was cheesy. Sorry for any grammar mistakes and thanks for reading so far ^^ I hope you guys enjoy this chapter as well.
As Zoro opened the door to his dorm room he could already hear the load music coming from there. Zoro frowned; he couldn't handle a party right now. He already despised parties and with this state of mind he would snap at anybody.
But then again when your roommate was a crazy person that didn't care about no one you couldn't do anything to stop him.
"Luffy!" Zoro called out pushing a bunch of drunken people out of the way. "What the hell is going on?!"
When he finally found Luffy with his brother Ace they looked like they were in a deep conversation. Zoro snorted them? Deep? They were probably talking about food or something even if they were talking about something important Zoro couldn't care less. He was already feeling like crap the only thing he wanted to do was sleep or think about a way to see Sanji again.
"Oh Zoro you're back!" Luffy gave him a wide grin. "How was the library?"
"Terrible." Replied Zoro simply then pointed at the crowd. "What the hell is going on here?"
"Well Ace and I-" he began. Zoro cut him off.
"I don't care; just get everybody the hell out of here before I start to go on a rampage!"
It was rare when Luffy actually listened to him but this time Zoro didn't know how but it looked like Luffy actually understood his bad mood right now. When Luffy cleared up their dorm room –it took about 10 minutes- the place was a mess. But Zoro didn't care he just wanted to lay on his soft bed and pout.
While he was busy doing that, Zoro didn't notice that everyone except Ace had left the room. Ace and Zoro kind of had a rocky relationship and right now the last person he wanted to see was Ace. He was annoyed that Luffy didn't kick him out too. Zoro felt somebody else sitting on his bed.
"Dude," Ace began but his voice was coming from a distance. Probably sitting on the desk. "You look like shit."
Thanks for pointing the obvious idiot. Zoro just grunted as a response. Then he felt Luffy putting his hand on his head and tousling his green hair. He grunted some more.
"What happened?" Luffy asked.
Zoro shrugged the question off. He really didn't like to talk about stuff like this. Sure, Luffy knew about Sanji and his past but he really didn't feel like talking about it especially in front of Ace. Besides he wasn't the type of guy to just tell sob stories about himself .He heard a sigh.
"Don't act like a stubborn child," Ace said. "Just tell us so we can help you."
Zoro snorted still not turning around to face them. "Since when do you want to help me?"
"Since you looked like shit," he stated bluntly.
Zoro frowned a bit. Did he really look that bad? So bad that even Ace was worried about him? He finally gave in to the pressure of the two brothers and turned around to face them. He scratched his head not knowing where to start exactly. How was he going to say it? Yo, remember that boy I molested? I ran into him, we went to a bar and acted like strangers then a gang came knocked me out I woke up in his house then we fought. No freaking way he was going to explain the whole situation like that! Luckily Luffy was having one of those "I can understand everything" moments and helped him out.
"Is it something about Sanji?" he asked observing every expression on Zoro's face.
"Sanji?" Ace butted in. "Who's Sanji?"
Luffy gave him a "Shut up, not now" look and Ace quickly obliged, keeping his butting in to a minimum. Zoro shrugged again.
"We bumped in to each other…" Zoro began telling both Ace and Luffy about everything that happened. When he finished he looked at both of them. Ace looked a bit confused but that was understandable he really didn't know that much about Zoro and Luffy…well Luffy was Luffy. Zoro was just lucky if Luffy could understand anything. But he did look more serious than usual.
"But you didn't do it on purpose right?" Luffy asked quite bluntly. Zoro raised his eyebrow.
"What do you-" Zoro was immediately cut off.
"I mean about the molesting you didn't do it because you wanted to, right?"
Of course not who would do something like that? Thought Zoro but he didn't reply the boy. He was trying to understand where the conversation was going. When he saw that Luffy wasn't continuing still waiting for an answer Zoro slowly nodded.
"Then there's no problem," Luffy said and shrugged.
Zoro felt his blood boiling. What did he mean there's no problem? and Zoro actually thought that Luffy could be on to something. He was just about to strangle his roommate. Ace,of course, butted in.
"Wait wait," he began. "The thing that my idiot brother is trying to say that it's not really your fault."
Gee thanks for the translation. Now Zoro was even more confused. How was it not his fault? Ace continued.
"From what I could understand, you had a crappy childhood and when you saw that Sanji was caring for you, you wanted to scare him off. In a way you thought that you were protecting him from you."
Zoro looked at the brothers with wide eyes. They actually –for the first time- made sense. He slowly started to drift off, remembering a long lost memory.
Zoro could feel the eyes of the blond teen on him. But he was determined to not look at him. Not after yesterday, not after what he had done to him. Because if he did he might not be able to hold himself. After what had happened his first reaction was to tell Sanji that he was sorry. But the minute he released him he ran away. Not that surprising anybody would run away from the person who had done something like that.
Whenever Zoro heard Sanji's voice he remembered the countless begs and the crying. He wanted to delete those memories from his brain. Zoro wanted to remember Sanji smiling and laughing not crying and begging. In his chest he felt like someone was squeezing his heart. Why was he like this? Why did he scare away the only person that actually cared for him?
Wait. He did know why, It was because Zoro was a horrible person. He didn't know why he had a breakdown at the moment Sanji had found him in the gym. But that didn't matter. The thing that mattered was it already had happened and Zoro couldn't do anything about it. Not now.
Well at least Sanji would be far away from him. That was for the best. Even if their feelings were mutual, Sanji deserved someone better than him. Someone more happy and cheerful then him.
And as Zoro was occupied by these thoughts the bell had already rang and everybody had went out for recess. Except for Zoro and Sanji. Zoro cursed at himself this was the worst situation of all. He couldn't run away. What was he suppose to do talk to him? Act like everything was normal?
"Hey,"
Zoro shuddered from tip to toe. He looked at Sanji that was eagerly waiting for an answer. When Zoro looked at him more carefully he could see bruises that were lazily covered with make-up. His heart ached he wanted to touch and heal those bruises. But he holds himself.
"Hey," he replied. Not knowing what to say.
"Are you okay?" Sanji asked.
Zoro raised his eyebrow. Wasn't he the one to ask that? Besides why shouldn't he be okay? Sanji shrugged.
"Yesterday you had a fight with your family right?" then he added. "That's why you were kind of down, right?"
"What the-" Zoro murmured. What the hell was wrong with this boy? Even after what had happened why did he still care? Why was he even talking to him? "Why do you still ask if I'm okay?" Zoro suddenly snapped and got up from his desk. "I'm the one who should ask that! Why do you still care?"
He took a few steps towards the blond wanting to hold his face. But Sanji reacted to this taking a few steps back. Almost like a frightened kitten. Zoro didn't stop tough he reached where Sanji was and when he was just about to caress the blond hair. Sanji tensed up and closed his eyes. Clearly afraid. Zoro laughed out mournfully.
"You're scared of me aren't you?" he whispered. He then put his hand down not touching Sanji in any way.
"I-I'm not!" Sanji stuttered.
"Don't lie," Zoro said in a barely audible voice and left the classroom. He didn't know why but he felt incredibly hurt. Was it because Sanji was afraid of him? He couldn't even touch the boy he loved without him being scared to death.
He decided on one thing he would never touch or even speak to Sanji without his permission ever again.
"Oi, earth to Zoroo!"
Zoro was suddenly snapped from his memories with Luffy's load voice. He scratched his head.
"Sorry." He replied.
At the same moment there was a knock on the door, a really impatient knock. It felt like the person on the other side was trying to break the whole house down. Ace stood up since he was the closest person in the room to the door.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" he yelled out and went to open the door.
An eager blond man walked in not waiting for any permission what so ever. Zoro narrowed his eyes. Blond? Could it actually be?
"I'm looking for Zoro?" the blond man asked. "It's kind of important."
Zoro stood up immediately forgetting his plan to just pout in bed. He walked towards the man not sure if he should be happy or just confused. So he did both.
"Sanji!" he exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"
Sanji gazed at Zoro for a moment and took the confused man's hand.
"We should talk," when he saw that Zoro wasn't moving a muscle he added. "Now."
Then the door was closed with a load "bam" noise leaving the two confused brother all alone.
"I'm guessing that's Sanji," Ace said. Luffy nodded the grinned at his big brother.
"What should we do now?" he asked.
"Well," Ace replied returning the grin. "Since the pouty marimo is gone how about we continue our party?"
"Alright!" Luffy yelled full of enthusiasm and went to call everybody back.
I know the ending was kind of rushed but well… I really couldn't think about anything else so sorry. Now I'm planning to finish this story this week because my exams are gonna start soon T.T So stay tuned! :D oh, and please review!
