Robin's eyes glazed over, Sano's affection nearly blowing her mind, senses still on overload.
"It's more traditional for the knight to steal the princess's lips." His voice rough and amused.
"But I guess this makes us even."
Robin regaining her mental capacity, she tilts her head giving a fiendish smile.
"I'm not sure I know what you're talking about."
Sano let's loose a playful growl as he leans toward the woman, "Need, I," he gently nibbles on Robin's ear causing her knees to quiver once again, "Remind, you?" Hot lips gliding down her neck, lightly pressing against the hollow of Robin's neck.
She tilts her head even more allowing him free access, lips grazing against sensitive flesh once again causing her to softly moan, his tongue suddenly flicking out tasting her. It was a one-two combo, if it weren't for Sano's strong arms holding her against his body she would have toppled to the floor as her legs suddenly gave out.
Sano could feel her body go slack, 'Well well, guess it was too much. I'm willing to bet this is a first experience.'
In a swift motion he scoops up the woman striding over to the bench. He sits down with Robin perpendicular in his lap, it was a simple matter of not wanting to let her luscious body move away from him.
"Maybe that was a bit much."
Robin nuzzles his neck with a low purr, "No, it was just divine."
Sano couldn't think of another sound he'd ever heard that felt so rich, smooth, and so damn sultry. He could feel goosebumps forming on his flesh.
Sanji sank to the smooth wooden floor, "Sh-she kissed him first?" Face in utter surprise.
Zoro simply nods in response.
"When? How?" he quickly questions.
"After you went back in to attend to Nami's ankle." Franky answering from the side of the room.
"Nami?!" He clued in that the navigator was in cahoots with Robin.
She sadly shakes her head, "I'm sorry Sanji, but she needed an alone moment with him. You wouldn't have left her alone with that barely-bikini so I had to do something to help."
Sano's rumbling growl coming through the speaker, Nami could almost feel the vibration from her seat. It sent a wave of shivers down her back, oh she'd heard Zoro growl plenty of times. But his were out of agitation, frustration, or warning. Sano's was enticing, seductive, playful.
Another disembodied moan.
"Another one? Damn, I think I'm going to have to ask for some pointers from that man." Zoro smirks.
Sanji's head sinks, "I can't win this one can I?"
Zoro shrugs, "I don't know, for the first time I'm going to say it's not about winning or losing."
Nami found herself admiring his words, "That was a very wise statement."
The green haired man nods, eyes still watching Sanji. Slowly he gets to his feet and walks back into the kitchen. Zoro continued to stand guard to make sure he wasn't attempting to slip by. When Sanji resumed where he left off with creating a soup did Zoro go back to his seat, taking a long pull from the bottle of rum.
The erotic noises were amusing to the swordsman, but even he was shocked by the sudden noise Robin produced.
'Well damn, she's not as much a prude as I originally thought.'
"Did she...just purr?" Nami looking over at the men with wide eyes.
"I think so." Franky nods with a grin.
Resting her head on Sano's shoulder, "Sano?"
"Mmmm?"
"I think it's only fair that I share more about myself."
"You understand that you don't have to if you don't want to right?"
Robin looks up to meet his gaze, "How can you say that so easily?"
His lips pressed in a straight line, "I can understand that if you're not ready you simply aren't. There's no need to force yourself."
"That's very sweet of you."
Sano couldn't fight the heat rising to his face, Robin smiling at his reaction before falling away and diverting her eyes.
"I...I wanted to say that...I'm not as innocent as you may think I am."
"I've, been with other men before...and I've always betrayed people, even when I had their utmost trust."
"I would seduce pirate captains so I could use them for my benefit, used crews to fight off Marines chasing me and to hide in. Sometimes...having to use my body as payment."Robin could feel despair starting to rise within her.
"Once a crew had lived through it's usefulness, I'd sometimes turn them in to earn the bounty...or simply kill them all so I left no trace behind."
Robin's voice had gone soft, "I had even betrayed the Straw-Hats...but they were the only ones who ever came to save me out of selflessness. Fighting at a Marine headquarters with insurmountable odds against them. For that I'm eternally grateful, otherwise I would be rotting in a dark pit that the government uses to lock up the hardest of criminals."
"I'm...broken and sullied goods." Robin had felt Sano slowly tense up as she related her past.
'Oh god...he's going to throw me away isn't he?'
"I'm not a good woman...you're probably better off without me." Robin biting her lower lip to fight the lump that built up in her throat, wishing she could have found any other possible way to survive just so she didn't have to have a moment like this, especially not with him.
With a slow exhale his body relaxed, "Robin..." She couldn't look at him, not now, it would shatter her to pieces.
His lips tenderly press against her head, "Sweetie, look at me." a hand reaches out gently turning her head.
Sano giving her a soft smile, "People sometimes get dealt a shitty hand in life, I know...and it's up to that person to decide what to do with it. You chose to survive. You made the best out of basically nothing, and look at where you are now. You've finally found a home, someplace you can relax and finally feel safe. Friends who watch over you and share moments with. You aren't alone anymore."
Another tender kiss planted on her forehead, "You challenged me about whether or not I wanted all of this to be real, and I decided to accept everything to be real. So I challenge you to look closer at yourself, and find the wonderful things about yourself. When you find the answer, tell me about it."
"I'll be honest Robin, just like you mentioned before, I wish I could have been there with you. At least the loneliness would be gone, and we could have helped each other to survive."
His smile turning sad, "I can't turn back the clock and save you from such a miserable existence...but I really wish I could."
"Sano-" Robin silenced with a finger over her lips.
"I want you to understand that I have as much blood on my hands as you might."
"Cities had become the new warzone in my world, intel managed to find out that some high profile targets were going to meet in an empty office building. A surgical strike was denied due to a high collateral cost. So the mission was handed to us. We were instructed to plant explosives in the underground garage to cause the building to collapse. Then rig what we call 'willie-pete' to start a fire to destroy as much evidence as possible and make sure the targets were eliminated. The idea was to make it look like an accident as much as possible."
"White phosphorus is some lethal shit, but we had the green light. We were able to infiltrate and do our work undetected."
"Everything went off without a hitch, however the fire started by the WP hit a breach in the gas line. As we were extracting we heard a secondary explosion which wasn't supposed to happen, the building next door had gone up in flames. Somewhere along the line someone failed to mention that the office shared a main gas line with it's neighbor...a hospital "
Sano sighs, "I never looked at the after action report. I didn't want to see the number of innocent lives that ended at my own hands. I would have much rather preferred going in guns blazing up against an unknown number of armed hostiles and run the high probability of not coming out alive."
Silence fell between the man and woman before Sano spoke again.
"You've killed your share of pirates, and for the most part they are outlaws. I'd say it was a technical good result even if it was for selfish purposes. If you're not a good woman, then what does that make me?"
In Sano's mind the word 'Monster' popped up first, then 'Cold hearted motherfucker.'
Robin could read the regret in his eyes, but also fear of what Robin may think and say.
Sano had once again pulled a rope raising another curtain shrouding his soul. He was correct, he had spilled as much blood as she had, once again another similarity had been drawn.
Robin could only reach out and pull the man to her chest, "I'm really starting to wonder if we are two battered, broken, and bloodied souls that were designed to form a whole human being."
She had voiced deeply profound words, "I'd like that." Sano softly answered, "To feel whole again."
A tender smile forming on her lips, running a hand through his hair she leans down to kiss the top of his head.
"Where have you been all my life Sanosuke?"
Sano softly chuckles, "Maybe waiting for you." Laughing, Robin couldn't help herself, it was basically the same question he'd asked earlier. His answer the same as she'd given.
"Great minds think alike neh?"
"Well that's how the saying goes." Sano grins as he extracts himself from Robin's bosom.