a/n: Nami is getting her kicks in this chapter. So was I when I wrote this.

So far, Nami had made Zoro do everything for her. Even the simplest thing, like drinking a glass of water she refused to do herself. And whenever Zoro tried to protest, she threatened him with revealing the information – to Sanji of all people. So when dinner time arrived, he felt like dying on the spot.

They were all gathered around the table like normal, Usopp flinging sauces at other plates with chopper staring in awe while Luffy tried to steal everyone else's food. So far, Nami hadn't asked him to do anything out of the ordinary. 'Pass the pepper', 'Pass the salt'. That was all. However in the middle of her meal, when he had just started to relax, she stopped eating.

Turning to Zoro, Nami gave him the sweetest of looks. "Gee, Zoro. Feeding myself is so awfully tiring. Maybe if I had some help…"

Zoro gritted his teeth. He hated it. She had no mercy at all. Plus, she had whispered it, so nobody else would know why he was feeding her. It would seem like…like…He really wanted to kick something. "No," he hissed back, his pride getting the better of him.

"Oh," replied Nami, seeming perfectly fine with it.

Perhaps…she's stopped, he thought hopefully.

Nami stood up. "Everyone! I have an important announcement to make."

Zoro's eyes widened.

"Zoro is actually g—"

"Growing!" Zoro interrupted her, scrambling out of his seat and slapping a hand over her mouth.

The rest of the Straw Hats simply stared. Robin chuckled.

Only now did Zoro realise what he had said and he struggled to find a reason for it. "Um…yeah, growing. I'm still I growing man at nineteen…so…um.." He shoved Nami down beside him and looked at Sanji. "So, give me more food you pansy."

"What did you say?" snarled Sanji, jumping from his seat, restricted only by Usopp who had automatically grabbed his shirt.

Nami smirked, glancing at Zoro victoriously, who only glowered at her in return.

"Get it yourself you stupid green ape!" Sanji was shouting, having being pulled back to his spot by Usopp who didn't want his food to be knocked over in Sanji's rage.

Zoro heard the insults but was more concerned with Nami's latest order. He took her spoon, hating himself for doing it, and plunged it into her food.

"Oi! Marimo! I'm talking to you!"

"Sanji! Stop trying to stand up! You're going to knock my plate over!"

"Not until I kick that shitty bastard who's ignoring—" Sanji stopped, his visible eye widening under his curly brow. Usopp, too had stopped moving, as did Luffy, who had been in the middle of stealing off Sanji's plate. Chopper's eyes bulged. They were all staring at Zoro, who in the meantime, had been spooning Nami's food discretely into her mouth, hoping that nobody would notice.

Nami was grinning happily, thrilled at Zoro's embarrassment.

Zoro's face had become tomato red. For, perhaps the hundredth time that day he felt like strangling the girl who was sitting, grinning as if it was nothing, beside him. He glared at the rest of the crew, transferring his anger onto them. "What!"

The rest of the crew was silent, and Sanji dropped beck into his seat, paling.

"Is something wrong?" asked Nami, playing innocent.

"Z-z-zoro…" stammered Usopp incredulously. "H-he…y-you…what…"

"EEEEEEEHHHH?? ZORO JUST FED NAMI!" screamed Chopper, as if it was the end of the world.

The kitchen was suddenly filled with cries of hysteria.

"Since when were you two—" began Usopp, pointing at first at the two and then in random directions.

"We not—" Zoro began to protest.

"Nami-swaaaaaaan!" howled Sanji cutting in, spouting tears and biting his shirt in despair. "Why? Why did you choose that Moss-head?!"

"But she didn't—" Zoro started to object.

"Zoro's broken!" cried Luffy, interrupting him, obviously stumped to Zoro's behaviour. "Nami broke him!"

Zoro was growing redder by the second. "I'm not—"

"Ahhh! He's even blushing!" shrieked Chopper running around in shock.

"He must be sick!" concluded Usopp in alarm.

"Someone call a doctor!" shouted Chopper, panicking.

"That's you."

"Ah! That's right!"

Zoro stood up, slamming his fist onto the table violently, shutting them all up. "I'm not sick. And there's nothing between me and Nami!"

Robin, who had found the whole ruckus hilarious, spoke up. "It seems a little different from our point of view, swordsman-san." She smiled. "Actually, I think you two are quite cute together."

Zoro gritted his teeth, shooting a hateful look at Nami, who was smiling sweetly at him, as if the whole thing was an accident and not her fault at all. Defeated, he forced himself to sit down, and, as red as a beetroot resentfully kept spooning Nami food, muttering profanities under his breath. One day he was really going to kill her.

That night when he slipped into his hammock after being forced to paint Nami's toenails before she went to bed, he was hampered with queries about the relationship between Nami and him.

After trying to ignore them for a while and finding it futile, he had become so irritated that he had got up, roared at the top of his lungs that he and Nami were actually planning to get married and afterwards have three kids, specifically two boys and a girl, and get a dog named Rufus, before storming back to his hammock leaving them completely silenced.

a/n: Lol. Rufus. I love that name :D