Title: Since Then - Part III
Pairing: ZoSan
Word Count: 413
Rating: PG for language
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece, or the characters in this story *pout*
Yet another little follow-up to 'Zoro Learns Some Manners'. It's fine to be read on its own. We're a few years down the track from the boys getting together. Oh, and I seem to be stuck in a world of crack *lol*

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"Zoooooooroooooo…" The pitch of Luffy's whine soared until it cut through even the swordsman's well cultivated nap. "…can I have some meat???"

The First Mate ignored his Captain's plaintive wail and continued to lap up the sunshine.

"Zoooooooroooooo…. I'm really hungryyyyyyyyyy…" Zoro's brow twitched as Luffy hit that awful note. Damn love-cook was the only one who normally bitched like that. He was teaching Luffy bad habits. The swordsman kept his eyes closed, took a deep breath and concentrated on the feeling of the deck rocking gently below him. The cool ocean breeze…

"Zoro!" Luffy grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him vigorously. "Wake up!!!"

"Damn it Luffy!" Zoro growled as he finally realised that his nap was well and truly over.

"I'm huuuu.."

"Go ask Sanji!"

"I diiiiiiid…" Luffy stared at Zoro with wide, innocent eyes. Even after all the years they had been travelling together and all that they had been through, he still looked seventeen. Zoro sighed. Not this damn game again.

"No." Zoro said.

"Pleeeeeaseeeeeee…"

"No!"

"But he alllllways says yes to you!"

"No Luffy! If Sanji said no, then I say no too!" For fuck's sake. Since when had they adopted a damn monkey?!

"You could just ASK him!"

Zoro stared up at the heavens and wondered what the hell he did to deserve this kind of luck. Damn Sanji. If only the blonde wasn't so ridiculously hot.

Curse that ass and all it made him do.

"Luffy, I'm not doing it!"

"But Sanji's your wife!!!"

Zoro's eyes widened and he scratched his nose to stifle a smile. They might be married, but...

Oh, Luffy. You have no idea.

We might have gone through most of everything the Grand Line could throw, but kiddo - you ain't seen nothing yet.

"I'll get him to give you some meat if you tell him that," the swordsman said, careful not to give the new game away.

"Yosh!" Luffy threw his arms up in the air, nodding enthusiastically before racing off to the galley.

The swordsman finally cracked a grin - wilfull and wicked. It was a bit cruel, but at least Luffy might leave him alone now. Honestly, it was like running a fucking crèche. Or a zoo. Whatever. Luffy wouldn't die, it was the one reliable thing about him. That was all that mattered. Except his nap.

Zoro stretched back and looked up at the cloudless sky.

Wife, eh?

The blonde was going to love that.

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