Title: Bonding – Part 1
Spoiler: None. AU.
Characters: Sanji and Brook.
"Sanji-san?" Brook called out softly as to not startle the man who was staring at the wide ocean absentmindedly.
"Brook?" Sanji replied, a little surprise that someone else, besides him, was still awake at such time. "Why are you still awake?"
"I would ask you the same thing, Sanji-san." Brook chuckled as he stood next to the blond man, and placed a bony hand over the wooden rails. "I don't really sleep much. I mean normal bodily needs don't really apply to me anymore."
"Oh. I'm sorry." Sanji promptly apologized.
"Yo ho ho ho hoooo~ Sanji-san, there's nothing you need to apologize for." Brook laughed, "If anything else, I have to thank you."
"Why is that?" Sanji asked with obvious curiosity.
"Even though my body doesn't require the usual needs, which of course includes eating, I would never pass a day without having one of Sanji-san's deliciously cooked meals." Brooke explained, he then twirled around to face the blond man, "Your cooking is one of the few things that makes me feel alive again."
Sanji stared at Brook, and somehow, at the moment, he could clearly see what the skeleton man meant and he had never felt so proud of his cooking skills.
"You're welcome, Brook." Sanji replied with the widest grin.
"Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend." - Elizabeth Dunphy
