"But how?" Robin unable to slow down the pace of her heart as his face hovered in front of hers.

"It was originally a promise between me and her, but I kept it through the years. To not kiss a woman."

"To kiss is a sign of intimate affection, I never had that with anyone else, so it was a promise easy to keep."

'Oh the implications behind his words!' Robin could feel her body trembling, she'd never known it was something like that for him, and how he seemed to completely accept that fact.

'I stole his first kiss!!' She still couldn't wrap her mind around it.

Now he was caressing her cheek, Robin's body responding without a second thought as he leaned even closer. Personal boundaries had been crossed long ago, and now she could feel the heat from his face.

Once again those sinful lips where perched on hers, she felt like she'd kissed a lightening bolt, electricity ran all the way to the tips of her toes.

Robin clueless she let out a small squeak at the initial contact, now he was slowly coaxing her mouth open with his lips. Heat washed over her as she easily gave in to his ministrations. His tongue slipping into her mouth playing against her own. Robin's arms went up around his neck, pulling him more into her.

A muffled moan filling the air as Sano tasted and explored, Robin's own tongue moving in an exquisite dance with his. His hands had slide down her sides, fingertips gliding up and down her exposed skin sending a ripple of pleasure through her body. Another muffled moan as she felt his hands stop at her hips and slowly caressed her flesh, as if giving her a sensual massage.

Sano took his time, treating her mouth as if made of fragile crystal. But tasting as if he'd been a starving man experiencing the most frangible and delectable morsel savoring every minuscule bit.

She was spellbound, and it was challenging not to hungrily consume Sano's mouth. He began to slowly lick her swollen lips, then at an agonizing pace kiss her top lip, ever so slightly sucking on it. Switching to her bottom lip, attention repeated as if to keep it from being jealous with a small nibble added to the repertoire. For Robin it was a combination of the worst torture and the most damn sensual and spine tingling thing she'd felt, she was going crazy because of this man.

His lips were now barely grazing hers as he gently melded their lips again, Robin suddenly thrown for a loop as he seemed to unhurriedly pull away inciting a soft whimper. Giving in to her demand, he places another soft kiss.

Robin's knees had become weak with the affectionate attention she was receiving, the hot kisses warming her to the core. She suddenly felt cold as his lips receded, Robin simply didn't want it to end.

Nami blushed, for a woman a first kiss was a treasure, Sano had put it in such a simple eloquent way she had to wonder if he'd been a poet in a past life. Again a new layer was revealed, who'd thought he considered a kiss so sacred? An indeterminable sound over the speaker raised the fine hairs on her body, it was so similar to how she predicted weather changes, she on a subliminal level understood something was on approach.

Then a soft moan, "Oh my god!" Nami gasping, it was muffled, but her ears hadn't fooled her.

Sanji paled, 'How could she?!'

Zoro whistles, "Who knew she had it in her?"

Another moan floating through the intercom, Nami could feel her ears burning at the simple yet very erotic noises.

"I'll be damned." Zoro smirks.

"What the fuck is that bastard doing to her?!" Sanji livid, spitting nails.

"I'm gonna kill him! I'm gonna fucking kill him! Break every gawddamn bone in his body and throw him in the aquarium so the fish can feed off his corpse!" the cook began to sprint to the front door.

Nami lost in speculation about what was occurring for the normally soft spoken woman to vocalize her enjoyment, to notice Sanji running to the galley's portal.

Zoro forcing the man to halt as he obstructed the cook's path.

"Get the fuck out the way Zoro!"

Robin's little whimper tickling their ears.

"I'm gonna kick his ass! Move!"

"Has it ever occurred that maybe the woman is enjoying herself?"

For a second time the blond haired man paled.

"I certainly think so, what right do you have to ruin that for her?"

Sanji quaking in anger, "What about you? What right do you have to stop me!?"

Zoro shakes his head, "Have you ever truly considered Robin's well being? The woman is a big girl, she can handle herself, if it was something she didn't enjoy or allow do you think we'd still be listening something that's clearly enjoyable to her?"

Nami couldn't believe her eyes and ears, stunned at the drama unfolding in front of her.

"There is an appropriate time to be chivalrous, and then there isn't. I think your attention to women has become more of an affliction than benefit for you. Yes it makes me gag when you get all love-love over nothing. I think your normal behavior is severely clouding your judgment."

Nami's jaw dropping once again, the count lost sometime earlier in the evening.

"Is that really you Zoro? I mean, THE Roronoa Zoro?"

He flashes his trademark smirk, "Yes it is, I'm simply tired of love-cook's disillusioned attitude. I don't want him fucking up something good for someone else. Hell that woman has been through more shit than any other of us, I'd admit it to be a living hell so that's saying something."

Zoro fixes his eyes on Sanji's, "Don't you think she deserves to be happy for once? To enjoy her life for a change?"

"Deep down you're probably just jealous as hell from some stranger who literally dropped in on us receiving attention from a woman who was never yours to begin with. As far as I'm concerned Sano pulls his own weight around here, and you know just as well as I do that he does. Shit, when was the last time you ever took watch seriously? I know I don't. Or what about making snap decisions in battle that allows us to get by without being injured for a change? How about his ability to scavenge and hunt food for us whenever we land on an island without markets? Hell, he could navigate blind and still reach a destination long before I would."

Sanji flinched as if receiving physical blows with each question.

"He considers and thinks about things none of us ever would, and freely volunteers first to keep the rest of us out of danger."

Zoro shakes his head, "Fuck, that man probably has just as many screws loose as the rest of us, but he's proven himself to be an asset. And I'm saying that as a First Mate. Hell," he waves a hand at the intercom, "If any of the shit he's talked about is remotely true, I think he could use a break in life just as much as Robin. If they are or can be happy then let them be, I certainly don't want to be the one responsible for things going to hell because you couldn't control your selfish impulses when I had the chance to stop you."

The next thing Sanji heard was the straw that broke his back.