Chapter 1: Asked out

Luffy is outside his house next to his mailbox, Zoro comes out to get his newspaper. "Hey, Zoro!" Luffy said, "Did you get that invitation to Franky's New Years Party?"

"Uh, yeah, I did!"

"Great!" Luffy smiled brightly.

Zoro bent over and picked up his newspaper from the ground. Luffy wore his usual everyday outfit. Zoro is too only he is also wearing a coat, gloves, a hat, and scarf because there was snow lying on the ground.

"Luffy, aren't you cold? You aren't wearing a coat or anything!" Zoro asked, holding the newspaper in his hand.

"No, why?" Luffy said, but then realized something. "Oh my god, It's freezing out here!"

he started to shiver. Zoro smiled thinking about how adorable he was.

"Here, come inside my house for a hot chocolate or something to warm you up!" Zoro opened the door to his house. Luffy smiled and raced right inside. "Thanks, Zoro!"

Zoro closed the door behind him before he got hot chocolate. Behind him, outside, was Smoker staring at him with jealousy beside his doorway. Inside Zoro's house, Luffy and Zoro sip hot cocoa on his couch in the living room.

"You're lucky! This is the only beverage I have other then coffee and booze!" Zoro said.

Luffy giggled, "You and your booze is kind of like me and food!" But then Luffy frowned, "Aw, now I want some meat!"

On the table in front of them was a cooler, except this cooler had a heating system inside, so it warms the contents instead of cools it. Zoro reached inside of the device and pulled out a big, juicy steak and slapped it right on Luffy's lap.

"I thought you would say that! I brought it out here before I sat down." Zoro told him while Luffy's mouth watered at the sight of the steak. Right away Luffy grabbed the steak and gnawed on it with one eye closed, it was all gone in a couple of seconds.

Luffy looked over at Zoro to thank him but he was fast asleep with his arms behind his head. Luffy got up and took a blanket off of a lounge chair and lay it over Zoro, then he left his house, hurrying to his own house because it was so cold outside.

When Luffy entered his home the transponder snail started going off, he picked it up and it was Nami on the other line, "Hey, Nami!"

"Hey, I just saw you walk out of Zoro's house! What happened?"

"Nothing happened, I forgot my coat and he invited me in for hot chocolate and steak, but then he fell asleep and I left."

"That retard falls asleep everywhere!"

Luffy didn't respond and sat in a dinning room chair. "Anyway," Nami continued, "I hear Robin is moving in on the other side of Sanji!"

"Robin? Oh, that reminds me, I need to ask her if she could help me clean up my house, as my personal maid!"

"Lazy! Don't put work on Robin, she won't accept!"

"I don't know, I'm offering 100 berries per hour!"

"Why not do it yourself? It's your house!"

"I don't know, I'm busy!"

"Doing what?"

"eating and sleeping?"

"Whatever, I going to go shopping with Sanji, He'll do anything for me, so he is my bag carrier."

"Ok, have fun! Bye"

"Bye, Luffy!" Luffy hung up. He yawned and thought, "Well, I might take a nap for a little while." Then he made his way into his room and plopped down right onto his bed, his hat flying off his head and landing on the floor. When he fell asleep it was about 1:00 pm.

4:32 pm, a knock on his door awoken him and he got up from his bed, rubbing his eyes and bending over to put his hat back on his head. His hat covered up his messy bed head. He yawned as he drooped toward the door to answer it, "One minute!" he yelled sleepily.

He opened up the door and it was Smoker. "Hi, Smokey!" his voice was hoarse from his nap.

"Hello, Luffy!" He grinned.

"What have you been doing, today?"

"Oh, nothing, I was only wondering if you had been invited to the New Years party!"

"Yeah, I was! Where you invited too?" Luffy's voice became normal again.

"Yeah,"

"Do you think Franky invited this whole neighborhood? Come to think of it, He door live close to us!"

"Oh, so, I guess that means Zoro is going too, eh?"

"Yep! Wait a minute, do you not like Zoro?"

"No, no, of course I do! He's my best pal! I love the guy, really!"

"Oh, good, I wouldn't want any of my friends hating each other!"

"So, what do you call Zoro and Sanji?"

Luffy didn't reply.

"Anyway, I was wondering if you wanted to go to the party with me?" Smoker blushed as he spoke.

"Oh, not this time, Smokey, I'm sorry, I wanted to ask Zoro!" All of a sudden, Smoker's expression turned angry. "Thank you for asking me, though!" Luffy said and shut the door. Smoker's face turned red from jealousy and anger.

He stomped to Zoro's house and pounded on the door. Zoro opened it with a bored expression. "Yes?"

"Congratulations! I hope you're happy! I just asked out Luffy for that dumb party but he said, 'not this time, Smokey, I want to ask Zoro!' Bla, bla, bla!" He mocked Luffy in a voice.

"Oh?" Zoro tried not to smile.

"But don't get your hopes up, buddy! You're not going to win this one, he's mine, all mine!" Smoker lit up a cigar and blew the smoke into Zoro's face.

"Oh, ok, well, good-bye!" Zoro slammed the door and sat on his couch and kicked his feet up on his coffee table then turned on the TV. Zoro let out a smile and said out loud, "Yes!"

The transponder snail on the coffee table rang and Zoro leaned over the couch to pick it up. "Hello, this is Zoro speaking!"

"Hey Zoro, its Luffy! I wanted to ask you something."

Zoro knew what he was going to say and smiled again, "Yeah, ok, what?"

"You know that New Years party Franky invited us to?"

"Yes, why do you ask?"

"Well, I kind of wanted to know if you wanted to go with me?"

"Sure, but I thought Smoker asked you?"

"Yeah, I know, but I told him I wanted to- wait, how do you know?"

"Oh, I don't know, I saw him by your door smiling and I just assumed, anyway, you wanted to go with me instead?"

"Well, um, yeah…are you sure you want to go with me?" He was blushing, but so was Zoro.

"Of course, I mean, yeah, I do."

"Oh, that's great! So, um, I'll see you there?"

"I'll pick you up around 7:30-ish?"

"Yeah, ok….well, bye!"

"Bye." Zoro hung up and leaned back with excitement. He couldn't believe his ears at the moment.

Authors corner:

Let me know if you like the story so far =D, hurry because i dont think Zoro can stand it anymore!

Zoro- "Um...i dont know what she's talkin' about, me and Luffy just woke up! Now let us sleep!"

Luffy- "Ooh, theres lettus?"

Zoro- "No, Luffy, there's no lettus, now go back to sleep."

Luffy- "aww!"

Seriousely, comment :)