-1'Raining Petals'

Chapter 2.

Eyes fluttered opened to the colour blue. A sky blue. He was staring at the sky. Sanji yawned and closed his eyes. It was nice and warm. He thought back to the previous night. He remembered Nami telling him to tighten the ropes on the sail and as he was heading up the stairs… He was hit by a barrel!

Sanji sat up and looked at his surroundings. Not for long though. Pain shot through his head and his vision went dark and blurry. He fell onto his back and he reached up to massage his forehead and, while doing so, he found a rather large bump. The cook opened his eyes slightly, the light was too much for his headache, and looked to his right. No one was to his right. He looked to his left. No one was to his left. Sanji thought out loud, "Am I alone here?"

"No your not ero-cook." Sanji tilted his head back to see Roronoa Zoro standing tall and looking back to him.

"Marimo," Sanji sighed and looked away, "I would rather be alone." Sanji mumbled and pouted. Zoro mumbled some insults. Sanji did not listen to him, "Why couldn't I be stuck here with Nami-swan or Robin-chwan! Or better… Both!"

"Idiot-cook why are you always going on about your fantasies about those women. Trying hard to hide something?" Zoro walked next the blonde man and settled down to his right.

"Eh? What was that?" Sanji gritted his teeth. Zoro was an expert at pissing the cook off. However, Sanji was just as good at annoying Zoro. The two clash together like the Thousand Sunny clashes against the waves.

Sanji looked away from the swordsman and set his eyes upon the white sand. Zoro looked to Sanji and raised his hand towards him, "Oi cook."

"What?" Sanji growled and turned to the tanned man. Zoro placed his hand gently on Sanji's forehead. Sanji did not say anything for a short period of time. He finally managed to uttered out, "What are you doing?"

"That's quite a big bump… No wait. Sorry that's just your head." Zoro smirked and got to his feet. Without another word he moved away from the now enraged cook. Sanji muttered angry, rude insults, "Just stay out my way. Stay there and don't move; I'm going to look for something to eat." Zoro climbed up a rocky road towards the forest and was soon out of sight.

"Yeah, yeah, hope you get lost you stupid Marimo!"