The Three Love Style
Chapter 4 : The Cook-off
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"What? A cook-off? You're joking right?" Sanji was shocked and confused.
"No. I'm serious" Zoro replied. "And the winner will have a date with Robin".
"WHAT? A date with Robin-chwaaan?" Sanji said excitedly, "Are you an idiot? Are you just gonna pass her to me as some present already wrapped? I'm a first class chef, and you're just a muscle-head swordsman whose never touched the stove!"
"I'm gonna win" said Zoro in conviction "no matter what. I'll be a disgrace to Robin an myself if I take back a challenge".
Nami who was listening the whole time, joined in the conversation.
"How about this", she said "This match will be held in a week! Robin will decide who will be winner by the tasting!"
"That's sounds good" said Zoro "I agree with Nami".
"It's obvious that you can't win against me in only a week's time" sighed Sanji.
"All well, I'm looking forward to my date with Robin-chwaaan~!", Sanji span around spouting hearts everywhere.
"Zoro" said Nami worriedly, "What happens if Sanji takes Robin away?".
"I made it this far!" Nami thought angrily "I'll beat the hell out of this idiot if he fails!".
"I won't allow that", said Zoro in his serious expression.
"Then why did you challenge Sanji in the first place?" asked Nami curiously.
Zoro's cheeks turned pink, "I want Robin to taste my cooking" he pouted.
"Ha! Not bad Zoro!" Nami grinned as she slapped him at the back. "Okay! We need to get started, shall we?"
"What?" asked Zoro.
"I'll train you to cook for a week. You can't learn by yourself can you?"
Zoro sweat-dropped because he haven't considered it.
"Okay then" Zoro muttered, he was a little grateful to Nami.
"Oi Sanji-kun! May I borrow the kitchen?" asked Nami.
Sanji answered "Of course Nami-swan~! Anything you like my darling".
Nami and Zoro are now at the kitchen. Zoro leant against the kitchen bench.
"So Zoro, have you cooked before by any chance?" asked Nami.
"Nope" said Zoro.
"Okay! I'll just teach you the basics of preparing a meal!".
Nami prepared a carrot on a chopping board, "Try to cut that into fine slices".
"With what?" asked Zoro.
"A knife!" answered Nami. Zoro picked up the knife, it was much lighter than any of his swords. Zoro then sliced the carrot, but with too much excessive force, that the chopping board along with the bench were also sliced.
Nami sweat-dropped, "You need to control your strength, stop cutting when you feel the chopping board". Zoro was much better in his second attempt, the carrots were cut perfectly and also he didn't destroy anything.
"I guess your swordsmanship helped you" Nami was pleased.
"Okay! Moving on. I'm now gonna teach you how to fry and boil! Be careful, it's dangerous if your careless."
"Lets get on with it." Zoro grunted.
Zoro watched Nami's demonstration of blanching vegetables, dipping them in boiling water, and adding salt to the process.
Nami handed him the chopsticks, "Now's your turn Zoro!".
Sanji hid sorrowfully behind the kitchen door. "Nami-swan, why didn't you cook with me!" he wailed.
He dreaded that Nami had to spend a week with Zoro, "Is that the Shithead really wanted huh?" Sanji was red in jealousy.
Meanwhile, Robin had recovered quicker than expected. The noises from the kitchen woke her up.
"Why the kitchen is noisy?" asked Robin. It was usually quiet in there, with or without Sanji.
"Apparently, Zoro's learning how to cook" said Chopper.
"What? Really?" said the shocked Robin, "What for?".
Chopper answered nervously "Well you see.. Zoro had started a cooking contest with Sanji, and the winner will have a date with you."
Robin's expression darkened "Deciding on doing this without my consent. That idiot! Doesn't he know my feelings?".
Robin stormed out of Chopper's office.
"Robin..." Chopper trembled.
She stopped at the kitchen, and she heard crashing noises with echoed louder and louder as she came closer.
"ZORO! ZORO! WATER! WATER!" Nami panicked.
Robin peeked through the cracks of the door, the stove was on fire.
Robin sighed, but smiled "Fine, I'll let it go. It seems he's serious about it."
She headed towards the shower to wash off her sweat from her fever.
Nami noticed Robin heading towards the bathroom, and she had an idea!
"Zoro you can have a break now!" said Nami as she pushed him out of the door.
"Go take a bath to relax! You have enough for today!" Nami rushed over to Robin's direction.
"Okay..." Zoro was left alone and confused "I might as well have a bath before I sleep".
Robin stopped at the bathroom door and turned the sign "Vacant" to "Engaged". She stepped in the bathroom stripped, and she soaked herself in the warm and soapy water, and laid in a comfortable position.
"What a day" she thought "I finally got to know more about Zoro, and he also helped me twice". She blushed while she embraced her knees.
"And now he's working hard to make a meal for me.. I wonder what it is".
Nami crept over to the bathroom door and changed the bathroom sign from "Engaged" to "Vacant", and she snuck out of sight.
Shortly after, Zoro arrived at the bathroom, "Oh it's open. That's good then". He stripped in the change room and wrapped a towel around his waist. He entered the bathroom.
"Speak of the devil" gasped Robin. Zoro madly blushed, and Robin blushed covered her chest.
"I'll go back now!" Zoro desperately reached for the door.
The door immediately slammed shut, it was even locked.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Zoro tried to move the handle but it didn't budge at all.
"We can't leave till morning" Zoro moaned.
Robin blushed, she was so embarrassed that Zoro saw her naked, and now he has to stay the whole night.
"NAMI! WE'LL KILL YOU!" Zoro and Robin shouted angrily in unison.
Zoro sighed as he rested his back on the bathtub. "Since I'm here" Zoro said "May I join you?".
"Of course not!" Robin blushed.
"Haha! I was kidding" Zoro chuckled.
He then turned his back and he looked straight to her eye intently "You feel better right Robin? From that fever you had, you worried me."
"Yeah" said Robin, her cheeks were burning. He was worried about her!.
"It's good the soap is covering my chest" she thought.
"How about your ankle?" said Zoro, his expression is still serious.
"My ankle is getting better" Robin smiled as she raised her foot seductively out of the water.
Zoro quickly ducked his face away, his whole body turned crimson.
"Don't do that again", Zoro said as he furrowed his face into his arms.
Robin put down her foot and she turned back to back with Zoro.
"Zoro" Robin tried to change the subject "Can you help me to wash my back".
"Robin's voice was so close" thought Zoro. "Every time I hear her voice I feel weird and tremble. It'll be no good if I stay here for longer".
"Zoro?" said Robin.
Zoro snapped back to reality.
"Oh Robin s-sure" Zoro was blushing madly as ever.
Robin passed the scrub from behind her back, and Zoro received it with his shaky hands. With great difficulty Zoro touched Robin's bare skin. Her skin is ever so soft, nicely tanned and it was hot. He never knew that she felt so cushiony. Robin reddened but relaxed as he gently scrubbed her back. His smooth hands slid across her back. She felt sudden chills each time his skin had contacted to hers, as if he was passing electricity throughout her whole body with just his fingertips. The strange sensation overwhelmed her, her heart couldn't beat any faster and heat was piling up her face.
"Zoro that's enough, thank you!" Robin embarrassedly said. She turned back, and she saw Zoro's face which was beet red.
"This is your reward" said Robin as she then kissed her wet luscious lips on Zoro's cheek, which burned even more.
Robin giggled at his cute reaction, and she kissed the other cheek.
Zoro froze there, his body and his face was so numb.
"It's alright" said Robin, she turned on to her back again."Can you fetch me my bathrobe? It's your turn now."
"Y-yeah" Zoro mumbled, he was still adorably red in the red.
He got up, revealing his sexy muscular built ripples. Robin blushed at the sight of how deliciously-hot Zoro looked in just a towel. He then passed the robe and Robin stepped out of the bathtub while Zoro wasn't looking.
He stepped in the bathtub which Robin had already bathed. It was warm and had the scent that Robin usually wears.
Suddenly, a bucket-full of water hit his head which soaked his hair.
"What are you do-" Zoro stopped as he felt his scalp was massaged by Robin's gentle hands which some foamy shampoo.
"This is what you get from scrubbing my back" Robin giggled. "It feels so nice" Zoro thought as Robin's soft fingers are kneading on his head. It felt so comfortable. Afterwards, he felt another bucketful of water splashed on his head again to wash away the shampoo.
"Robin, let me give you a reward this time" Zoro murmured.
He leaned out of the bath, and embraced Robin in his strong arms, and squeezed her tightly. Robin brushed her hands across his bare wet back, giving him a hot tingling sensation.
His heart is racing again.
After a moment, he leant back a bit, loosening his grip and eyed her nape of her neck.
"It's so cute" Zoro thought. He pulled Robin's robe out a bit and he buried his face into her neck.
Robin felt an impulse of electricity as Zoro's wet and hot face touched her sensitive neck, and his breathing tickled her skin. Zoro kissed her neck with his wet, hot lips, which made Robin blush furiously.
He whispered to her ear "Thank you".
It was such a simple word yet it made her heart drum faster and faster. His voice was comforting and deep, and also she felt his hot breath.
He was so close.
Zoro let go of his arms, and he was all red in the face. He can't believe what he just did.
"I'm getting out now... Robin can you bring my robe?"
"Sure" said Robin.
When Zoro was dressed he asked Robin, "What do we do now? We should get out before morning. And Ussop would kill me if I break this door".
"Yeah, it'll be a problem if the rest of the crew finds out we're here too."
Robin then crossed her arms like an "X" and she grew an arm from the other side of the door and unlocked it.
Zoro sweat-dropped, "She could've done that ages ago" he thought.
They exited and shyly said to each other a good night, and they entered their own dormitory.
Zoro rested on his hammock. What happened recently kept replaying over and over his head. He liked the touch of Robin and he wanted more of it, but he doesn't know why. Maybe it's because she's so beautiful and so smooth and soft. Zoro blushed and racked his brains, what just happened was just so embarrassing!
Zoro tried to calm himself down, his heart was beating way to fast. He had never done this in his whole entire life before. He just thought about training and some booze, nothing else.
Robin did worse to him than alcohol. Zoro sniffed his shirt and thought "It smells like her" he smiled.
Zoro had thought all about her throughout the night, he missed her already. Her voice, smell, touch and of course her smile.
Next morning...
"WHAT THE HELL?" Sanji's jaw dropped "YOU SHITTY MARIMO WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY KITCHEN!".
Sanji stood in where the kitchen was burnt black with the benches were destroyed. Everything was in ruins.
"Sorry about that Curly-Brow. Damn, I can't practice cooking today" Zoro sighed.
"How you're gonna cook Sanji-kun?" asked Nami.
"Hehe! I'm going to make a delicious meal for you my darling, even without a kitchen that an idiot burnt down" Sanji said sweetly.
Sanji whipped up breakfast in no time, using just the dining table.
"That was pretty impressive" thought Zoro.
Ussop, Chopper and Zoro who was forced to fix the kitchen, and they did in no time.
It was back in it's original state, in Sanji's pleasure.
Afterwards, Nami threw everyone out of the kitchen door besides Zoro and slammed it. She said "Zoro needs some more practice!".
Everyone turned pale, but sternly warned Zoro "If you destroy the kitchen again, you have no more meals for three days, you understand".
Zoro sweat-dropped "Yeah".
Throughout the week, Zoro successfully kept the kitchen from wreckage.
Plus, of course he learnt various cooking skills from Nami. Robin sometimes pass by and was irritated by how much fun Zoro had with Nami. Also the fact that he was with her almost the entire week!
Sanji felt the same too, he wanted more alone-time with Nami. What can he do now since he can't go to the kitchen?
And so he went to flirt with Robin.
Zoro could see Robin reading her books peacefully from the window. Then he saw the blonde walked over and then happily chatting with her, and Robin's smiling too. Zoro angrily gripped the apple so hard that it exploded, with a vein popping out his head.
"Ero-cook! Get out of there!" Zoro thought.
Zoro's face darkened as he saw Sanji leant closer, wrapping Robin's shoulders around his arm. He thought of going there and stopping him but he couldn't. He can have Robin when he wins anyway. If he leaves, what if the kitchen just bursted into flames like last time. But still, its annoying to have her in his arms...
A week passed... It's already the cook off.
"Zoro I won't be easy on you, I want Robin to be my date" said Sanji pulling on a victorious grin already.
"Then don't be easy on me", Zoro said "I won't let you win anyway"
"Fine by me" smirked Sanji who was entirely confident.
Ussop interrupted, "Let's begin shall we? Each of you will have to prepare an entreé, main course and dessert. Now go!" Ussop raised his flag.
Sanji cooked as he usually does. He skillfully dices up ingredients in a split second like a magician. He totally deserved the title of a first class chef. He moved fluently in the kitchen totally focused, with no distraction or any blunders are evident.
No second was wasted in Sanji's time.
The crew gasped in amazement. Of course they knew that he was an excellent chef, but they haven't properly watch him cook.
Sanji was calm.
Well, let's say he more than calm.
"A meal just for Robin-chwaan~!" Sanji said delightedly. He skipped around the kitchen like an idiot while fumed out hearts everywhere.
"That idiot" Zoro sighed.
Compared to the first time Zoro cooked, he had improved greatly. He was surprisingly organised and things pretty much went well for him.
Nothing was burnt, or destroyed, to Ussop's and Chopper's relief.
He gripped three knives, on both of his hands and his teeth. "Three love style... Tsukuyomi!"
Zoro had sliced up all of his ingredients at once. It was also impressive as he chopped them up in different sizes that he wanted.
Zoro turned on the stove, which Nami cheered that he could it on without it catching on fire. Zoro gave Nami a death glare to silence her.
Three hours later...
"Three hours is up!" Ussop called.
Robin sat quietly at the dining table, anticipating of what she's going to eat. Robin looked forward to taste Zoro's homemade cooking.
"Okay Sanji! You're up!" Ussop announced.
Sanji balanced the three dishes on his hands, then served them swiftly on the table, just right in front of Robin.
"Robin-chan" Sanji bowed courteously "Enjoy".
"Thank you Mr Cook" Robin smiled.
Sanji froze "'Mr Cook', that sounds a little distant" his heart dropped a little.
"This is so delicious! The flavours balanced each other, and the textures suit them very well" Robin gasped.
"I'm so glad that you liked it!" Sanji spun happily.
"As usual, as expected of you." Robin added.
At that phrase Sanji turned into a block of ice. Even it was a compliment he felt a jab of pain.
Sanji's three courses are beautifully arranged and was extremely delicious. The mouth-watering aroma, made Chopper to hold back Luffy in his Arm Point from snatching away the food.
"But I know you worked harder than usual, beacuse there's extra detail in the garnish. Thank you Mr Cook" Robin gave her warm smile which melted Sanji away.
"Next up is Zoro!" Ussop announced.
A figure stepped out of the door. "What's up with that get up?" Sanji said alarmed, as were the rest of the crew.
Zoro wore a black tux, and he indeed looked handsome in it. All sleek and tidy. The black suit and tie really complemented his manly and mature attire.
"So handsome!" Robin blushed as she saw Zoro walking towards her while carrying the dishes.
Zoro felt a little nervous. What will Robin think about his cooking? He did follow the steps in that annoying book that Nami lent him to 'learn', which told him to cook for her, and to look somewhat 'good'. He hoped he followed the steps right. Zoro stopped at the table, and gently placed each of the plates. He acted ridiculously like a waiter at some posh restaurant, which amused Robin.
"It was so unlike Zoro to do this!" Robin smirked.
Robin smiled a warm "Thank you" which made him more nervous somehow.
He lifted his entree dish...
Author's Note: Thanks for reading~ sorry i had to stop here! anyway about Zoro's knife cutting technique, Tsukuyomi is partially a name from a Japanese god of food, or something like that o_o
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