Multicolour Words
Chapter 6
by GunslingerBlok

Guess what? My computer crashed and I lost everything I had! Bye bye one hundred episodes of One Piece, bye bye all the lovely One Piece doujinshi I had downloaded and, yes, bye bye chapter 6 of MW! I had to rewrite everything I had, which was about... half the chapter? So that sucked. But I still hope you guys will enjoy this chapter, even though it's not half as good as I had it before my PC crashed...

Disclaimer: One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda.

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Weeks had passed since Luffy had moved in with Zoro and Ace. Nojiko was slowly getting better, though it was taking longer than it should have. School and University had started, keeping everyone busy, yet Ace still found the time to hang out with Sanji, leaving Luffy to Zoro. The green-haired teen was slowly, very slowly, getting used to having Luffy around, and actually wasn't bothered by him if he didn't need to concentrate on something.

Nami didn't spend much time at the University. She only followed the classes she thought where worth following, spending all her free time in the hospital with Nojiko. Vivi seemed rather out-of-place without Nami hanging around her, so she spent all her free time with Kohza. To Zoro's relief he didn't see the Blonde Princess much either, as he was always hanging around with Ace after school. The only time he saw the cook was at breakfast, which usually led to a fight, interrupted by either Ace or Vivi.

So things where going well. University wasn't all too hard, Luffy wasn't too annoying, and Zoro still had enough free time to practice with his katana. That was when Luffy was hanging around with Usopp, because training with Luffy in the same room just wouldn't do. The boy would either try grasping one of Zoro's swords to make the famous 'SWOOSH!' sound with it or dancing around the freshman so he couldn't concentrate.

The swordsman hadn't fainted again either, and he had practically abandoned the dream from his head. He was too busy with other things to think about it anyway...

It was a normal Wednesday and late in the evening. It must've been almost midnight when Zoro left the library, where he had been all day. He had to do a project for school, and had spent the last three days locked up in the library, with that weird librarian hanging around him, asking questions with her creepy smirk stuck on her face. Zoro didn't like her, by far.

Too tired to even stand on his feet, Zoro decided to skip dinner, though he hadn't had anything since lunch, and head straight to bed. When he entered the room however, he noticed something was off. He turned on the light and saw Ace sleeping soundly in his own bed and Luffy sleeping... in Zoro's bed.

Right, how could he forget? Ace had burned down the spare bed the day before, after falling asleep with a burning match in his hands. Again. Zoro kicked off his shoes with a deep sigh and thought about what to do. He couldn't wake up Luffy. Well, technically he could, but with the boy finally being silent and calm for more than five seconds, he just couldn't wake him.

The freshman looked around, searching for anything that could serve as a bed, but only found the half burned down pillow from Luffy's spare bed. He closed his eyes for a moment, grumbling something unintelligible, picked up the pillow and threw it down again against the wall next to his bed. He sat down on the pillow, leaned back against the wall and glared at Luffy for a moment, who was warmly cuddled up in his sheets. After throwing a shoe at the lightbutton next to the door, to turn it off, Zoro closed his eyes and tries to get as comfortable as possible against the hard wall.

"If you want, you can sleep in my bed. I can sleep somewhere else." Ace's whispers went trough the room. "After all, I was the one who burned down Luffy's bed."

"Didn't think you where still awake." Was Zoro's response.

"Yeah, I couldn't sleep. There's something I've been wondering…"

"Aha… Well, I have an early morning tomorrow, so goodnight." Zoro whispered. He didn't feel like listening to Ace's problems all night. Besides, he really did have to get up early tomorrow.

"Before you go to sleep, can I ask you one thing?"

"What?"

"Have you been… having nightmares lately?" Ace hesitated for a moment. "Sometimes you talk in your sleep."

"Not that I know of, but why would you care?"

"I'm just worried. You've been screaming things at night, telling someone to stop, something about… needles and experiments. And it's like you're having the same dream every night, since you always scream the same things."

Zoro thought about it for a moment. Nothing Ace told sound familiar, but he never really remembered any of his dreams or nightmares, so it could be very well possible he did have nightmares. "I don't know. I don't remember any of my dreams, so it's possible I've been having nightmares and stuff. Don't know."

"Okay… Well, if there's something you wanna talk about…" Ace muttered.

"Yeah yeah, I know." Zoro cut him off. He didn't really wanna go that mushy way.

"Goodnight, Zoro-kun."

"'Night."

It stayed silent for a couple of minutes. The only sounds came from Luffy, who was snoring softly, and Zoro, who just couldn't find a comfortable way of sitting against the hard wall. He sighed deeply and thought about what Ace had said. The talking about experiments made him remind the dream he had when he fainted. Didn't the kid say something like 'what are they gonna do to us today'? He grunted and tried to ignore it, to fall asleep, but several minutes later, the thoughts still circled trough his head.

"Ace-san?" Immediately after saying that, Zoro mentally smacked himself in the head. Why would he even tell the pyromaniac about the dream he had? Why would he care?

"Something the matter, Zoro-kun?" Ace responded, more awake than he had been minutes ago. "Wanna tell me something?"

Zoro hesitated. "You know, the day I fainted at the hospital?" He waited for a response from his roommate, and got a soft 'hm-hm' in return before continuing. "When I fainted I had this… dream. It was weird. And… Well… Ah, nevermind, you're probably not interested anyway, sorry to bother you."

"No, no, wait Zoro-kun!" Ace's voice sounded almost eager, like he had waited for Zoro to speak again. "I mean… If it makes you feel better, you can talk to me about that dream."

Zoro sighed again. He really wasn't good at this, but now the dream had returned in his memory, he knew he wouldn't get a good rest until he told it to someone. "It wasn't really like a dream… More like a memory, one that I can't remember myself." He went silent again.

"Go on?" Ace's voice sounded after a couple of seconds.

"Well… It was about me, only… When I was a lot younger. I think I was eight or something. Anyway, I was running through this building with this kid, I think it was a girl."

"A girl?"

"I think so, yeah. We where running, and after a while we got tired and sat down against the wall. She asked me if 'they' were gonna do something to us today, that she had heard someone talk about it. I told her everything was gonna be alright and that we were going to hide."

"Do you remember the girl, what she looked like?"

"Not at all. I only remember her hand, since I was holding it rather tightly." That was weird. Why would he remember only her hand, and not her face or something? He remember the length of the nails, the soft skin, the size of the hand and the tiny scar on the left side of the back of her hand. He remember it was her left hand. But why?

"And you don't remember anything else?"

"Nah. We ran off after that and then Luffy-kun woke me up."

"That's really weird." Ace responded. Zoro let out a soft 'heh' and grunted.

"Yeah, I kinda figured that one out myself."

"Ah, I'm sorry Zoro-kun, I wish I could help you, but I really don't know how the explain this."

"I know, and I wasn't really expecting any help…" The swordsman looked at Luffy again, who was now laying upside down, his feet on his pillow, tangled up in the sheets. "I'm going to sleep, early morning tomorrow."

"Yeah, sure. Goodnight Zoro-kun."

"'Night Ace-san. And… Thanks."

"Anytime."

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Softly rocking the wooden chair he was sitting in, Ace stared at the wall in front of him. A girl, who had been that girl? He knew there had been girls, but none of them hung out with Zoro at the time. Getting frustrated he let out a soft groan, placing his forehead on the cold table in front of him.

"You okay?" Sanji's soft voice sounded, barely inches away from the pyromaniac's ear. The student looked up and slowly shook his head.

"I'm worried." Ace sighed and waited for Sanji to sit down in front of him. He looked around the room for a while. The blonde had a much nicer room than any of the other students. Probably one of the privileges as the school's cook.

First of all, the room was a lot larger, probably twice as large as a normal room. The cook didn't have a roommate, so there was room enough for a large double bed, a huge wooden closet, and even a personal kitchen, with oven, microwave, sink and everything attached. They where sitting in the middle of the room, on comfortable wooden chairs by a lovely antique wooden table. Ace had always enjoyed staying in this room. It wasn't loud and busy, but silent and peaceful. He loved his little brother, but Luffy could take up a lot of your energy by just being around. The student certainly had noticed this in the past few weeks. He honestly didn't know how Zoro could keep up with the boy. A deep sigh escaped his lips.

"I'm not sure what you're so worried about, but don't think about it for a moment." Sanji's voice made Ace snap out of his thoughts. "Drink up your tea, it's getting cold."

"Thanks Sanji-kun." Ace took a sip of his tea, staring at the blonde for a moment. "I wish I can tell you, Sanji-kun, but it's all a little complicated. It has a lot to do with Luffy's past, which he doesn't even remember himself."

"I know, I know." Sanji sighed. "I just hate to see you like this." He leaned forward and reached to softly touch Ace's hand, caressing the skin. Ace returned this gesture with a loving, but sad, smile.

"I'll tell you someday, when it's safe."

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"No."

"Aw, but Zoroooo…"

"I said no."

"Why not?"

"Because I need to focus on my work and I'm not a goddamn horse!"

Luffy pouted. "Fine."

The two of them where staying in Ace and Zoro's room. It was a Saturday, so they were free, and because it was raining outside, Usopp didn't come to pick Luffy up to play outside together. Because of that, Luffy was bored. And Zoro had to suffer for it.

"I understand you're bored, Luffy-kun, but can't you bother someone else?" Zoro grunted.

"Nah, Vivi's with Kohza, Ace is with Sanji en Nami's with Nojiko." Luffy answered. "And don't call me that!"

"Don't call you what? It's your name." Zoro said.

"Call me Luffy."

"I do."

"Without the whole kun-stuff."

The freshman looked at the boy for a moment, staring at him, before returning to his work. "Fine."

Luffy smiled, and also returned to what he was doing: jumping on Ace's bed, the bed making the most annoying squeaking sound every time the raven-haired boy landed on it. After another few minutes of the high school boy bouncing on the bed, Zoro grabbed the pillow of his own bed, threw it to Luffy and hit him in the face with it. The boy stumbled off the bed, hitting the floor hard.

"Zoro! That wasn't very nice!" Luffy whined, throwing back the pillow.

Zoro catched the pillow, threw it on his bed again and glared at Luffy. "Then stop the bouncing, it annoys me. Seriously, go annoy someone else!"

"Fine! I'll go to Usopp, I'm staying at his and Kaya's house anyway tonight." Luffy stuck out his tongue at Zoro, before taking his already packed bag and leaving the room. "See you tomorrow!"

"Yeah yeah…" Zoro mumbled. At that moment, the dark sky was streaked with lightning, the rain starting to pour down even harder. Luffy froze in the door frame.

"Erhm… Zoro?" He started. Zoro sighed deeply.

"Yeah yeah, you can take my raincoat. It's in the closet…"

"Thanks, Zoro!"

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Later that evening Ace returned to the room. He was so caught up in his thoughts, that he hardly noticed Zoro greeting him and telling him Luffy had already left. The black-haired man sat down on his bed, staring at the wall in front of him and saying nothing. It was not until several minutes and a couple of 'OI!'s later that he noticed he wasn't alone in the room.

"Oi! Did I finally catch your attention?" Zoro said, when Ace turned his head to face the green-haired man.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Zoro-kun." Ace answered sheepishly. "I was caught up in my thoughts."

"Yeah, I kinda noticed that. Are you okay?" Zoro asked.

"Fine, fine." Ace said. "Where's Luffy?"

"He already left, something about sleeping at Usopp's house." Zoro mumbled, turning to his homework again. He had been working on this stupid project all freaking' day and it wasn't even halfway finished yet.

"Are you okay?" Ace asked.

"Yeah fine, it's just this stupid project." Zoro sighed. "I've been working on it non-stop all day."

"Perhaps you should take a walk, clear your mind." The black-haired man suggested. "Working non-stop will drive a normal man nuts."

"Good thing I'm no normal man, then." Zoro smirked. "But perhaps you're right. I'm going out for a bit." He stood, took his coat from his bed and went to the door.

"Try not to get lost this time." Ace smiled. Zoro muttered something and left, closing the door behind him with a little more power than he had intended to.

The freshman started wandering trough the halls of the student hostel. He knew his way to the cafeteria, his room and to the front doors of the building, already. He even knew the way to Nami and Vivi's room, since he was often send there to catch Luffy and bring him back to the room, whenever he was endlessly tormenting the girls with his hyperactivity again. But that was about it, so getting lost was still something the freshman would do every once in a while.

Zoro sighed deeply, his feet automatically leading him to the front doors of the student hostel. So Luffy wanted him to call him just… Luffy. No honorific or whatever. Did the boy really think he and Zoro were good friends? Well, that was something that amused the freshman. As far as he knew, he hadn't really been nice to the boy or anything. True, he hadn't murdered him yet, which was exactly what the swordsman wanted to do every time Luffy… well… was awake, actually.

After a couple of minutes walking Zoro reached the front doors of the student hostel. Before leaving the building, he first checked if he indeed was wearing his shoes (which had become a habit every since that dreadful night he went to the shop), and then slowly pushed the doors open.

The raining had finally stopped, and the sky cleared up a bit, when he entered the courtyard of the university. The freshman looked up at the moon, which was shining brightly above him. It was a full moon tonight. Continuing his walking, and never taking his eyes of the moon, Zoro suddenly bumped it to someone.

"Ouch, hey!" He looked up to see who he had bumped into, and saw it was the very same man he had bumped into a long, long time ago. The tall man readjusted his long black trench coat and pulled up his collar a little higher, covering the bottom part of his face again. The same black hat was firmly put on his head again, shadowing his eyes. The man nodded and kept walking towards the front doors of the student hostel.

Zoro looked as the man entered the student hostel. When he couldn't see him any more, he hesitated. "Too fucking suspicious." The swordsman mumbled, and then followed the man, entering the student hostel again.

Inside the building, he looked around, and saw the man walking up the stairs. As silently as he possibly could, Zoro followed, intending to follow the man trough the entire building, to see where he was going. He followed the man for a couple of minutes before noticing the man was walking the way that would lead to his room.

And indeed, the man stopped right in front of room 96A. He looked around, didn't notice Zoro (who was being very stealthy in the shadows), and knocked on the door.

"Zoro-kun, is that you? I thought you where going on-" Before finishing his sentence, Ace opened the door and stared at the large man in front of him. "Oh, it's you again…"

"The boss is getting impatient." The man had a very deep and low voice. "We need to talk."

"Of course, come inside." Ace stepped aside, so the man could enter the room. He then looked around quickly, before closing the door to room 96A.

"What the fuck?" Zoro muttered to himself. He went to the door of room 96A and put his ear against cold wood, trying to hear what Ace and the man were talking about. Ace's voice was too soft though, so he could only hear the man's voice.

"Mister Ace, I am sure you are fully aware of the power my boss has." There was a short silence. "Good. Then you also know what we can do to you and your… friends you call them? What we can do to them if you don't bring the boy to us."

"Mr. 1, please, you can't possibly mean-" Ace had raised his voice and was sounding like he was panicking. What was that about?

"Mister Ace, you know my boss' conditions. Bring the boy, or you will have to see your friends get hurt, or even die, one by one. I am sure you already know Miss Nojiko's accident wasn't an… accident." Another silence, longer this time. "I'll be leaving now then. Have a nice evening."

"Crap!" Zoro whispered, before he ducked into the shadows again, right at the moment the door to room 96A opened. The tall man stepped outside the room, pulled his collar up higher again and left. The door closed behind him.

Holding his breath, Zoro watched the man pass him and was lucky enough he didn't see the freshman sitting in the shadows. When the man went down the stairs, and was outside Zoro's field of vision, he dared to breath again. What the fuck was that all about? This was the second time he knew about the man visiting Ace, but who knew how many times the two had met? The boy, they were talking about the boy. Probably Luffy, Zoro didn't know any other boy Ace cared about. Of course, that didn't say anything, since Zoro didn't know the same people Ace did. But, to make his train of thoughts easier, the freshman assumed it was Luffy. Now, what would this 'boss' guy want with Luffy? And who was this 'boss' anyway?

Zoro sighed, closing his eyes tightly as the kept thinking. He could be on to something now. There had been something fishy about this university from the fucking start. At least he knew the tall guy's name now, Mr. 1. Interesting name, that was for sure. So Mr. 1 worked for 'boss', who had interest in Luffy. Mr. 1 kept visiting Ace, who tried to protect Luffy, of course.

Mr. 1 had looked pretty tough, so it was only logic Ace didn't attack him. Ace was too nice for that anyway. But why would Mr. 1 and 'boss' keep looking for Luffy, if the damn kid was bouncing around the entire town on a daily base? Shit, this didn't make sense at all. Zoro sighed again, stood and decided to go for that walk anyway. Ace probably needed some time alone, and Zoro wasn't sure if he could kept silent about what he just witnessed.

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Later, much later that night, it was probably around 3 AM, Zoro opened the door to room 96A again. He entered silently, knowing Ace would most likely already be asleep. He looked at his roommate and saw the man wasn't asleep.

"That's a long walk you took, Zoro-kun." He smiled. Zoro hit the light switch before closing the door.

"Hn, I kinda needed it, I guess." Zoro muttered. He walked to his bed and threw his coat next to it. "Why aren't you asleep yet?"

"Couldn't sleep." Ace responded. "There's been a lot on my mind lately…"

The freshman didn't respond. He just took of his shoes and his t-shirt and went straight to bed. That long walk hadn't really helped him either way. He was still thinking about the project he had to finish, but now he was also thinking about Mr. 1, 'boss', Ace and Luffy.

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"Zo-chan.." The child looked at the boy. "Zo-chan, talk to me, please."

The green-haired boy just turned around on his bed, so he could face the child, eyes closed and hands wrapped around himself. He tried to say something, but his voice wouldn't work.

"They really did hurt you this time, didn't they?" The child reached for one of the boy's hands and held it tightly. Zoro shook his head.

"Didn't… hurt…" He managed to say. His voice was poor and hardly intelligible. "It's… okay, really…"

"No, it isn't, Zo-chan."The child sniffed, like it was holding down tears. "I-it's okay to cry, i-if you want to." Another sniff. Zoro looked at the kid and smiled. He reached out with the hand the child wasn't holding, and softly touched the child's face, to wipe away an escaped tear.


"Don't smile l-like that." The child said. "You don't have to act like the grown-ups all the time, y-you know! You can cry!"

"Then why… are you holding… back your tears so… forcefully." Zoro said. "Come here." He moved, making some space on the bed for the child. The child quickly wiped away another upcoming tear and climbed on the bed. He snuggled against Zoro, while the older boy wrapped his arms around him.

"It's d-different if I cry…" The child muttered into Zoro's chest.

"And why… would that be?" Zoro whispered. He was slowly getting back his voice.

"B-because, I'm not hurt!"

"Yes, you are… Perhaps not… physically…" Zoro took a deep breath. Talking was taking a lot of energy from him. "But seeing me… like this… that hurts you, right…?" The child sniffed once more, before letting his tears run free.

"Of course it hurts m-me, Zo-ch-chan." He clenched the plain white shirt Zoro was wearing and tried to snuggle even closer to the boy.

"So we can both cry…"

"But y-you aren't crying."

"I've cried enough for the rest of my life already." Zoro sighed. He softly wiped away a tear from the child's cheek again and smiled awkwardly.

Before the child could reply to that, a knock sounded on the door.


"Zoro-kun?" The door opened and a tall, black-haired and beautiful woman entered the room. She was wearing a long white lab-coat and had a sad, but somehow comforting smile on her face. "Zoro-kun, you've had your rest. I'm sorry, but the experiments must continue."

"Y-yeah, sure." Zoro tried to get up, but as soon as he did that, a shock of pain went trough his body. He lay down again. "Sorry, Robin-san, but I don't… think I… can."

The woman sighed. "I know it hurts, Zoro-kun, but we don't have much time." She walked to the bed. "Let me help you."

"NO!" The child suddenly threw himself almost on top of Zoro, looking at Robin with an angry and pleading look on the face. "D-don't take him away! He's hurt already, c-can't you see that?" Tears came welling up again.

"Please get off of him, child." Robin sighed. "I know it makes you feel sad when seeing him like this, but I can't do anything about it. Not right now at least." She looked at Zoro, who was looking like he was in pain. "Besides, you're only hurting him like this."

"W-what?" The child quickly got off Zoro. "Waaah, Zo-chan, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you, I didn't know."

"I-it's okay." The green-haired boy tried to sit up again. "I'm gonna go now, so I'll see you later, oke?"

"B-but, Zo-chan!" The child grabbed his arm, as gentle as possible. "I don't want you to get hurt again…"

"It's okay, really!" Zoro tried to smile, but only managed to show a weird kind of smirk. "Wait for me here, okay?" And before the child could say anything, Robin had scooped up Zoro, since he could hardly move himself, and left the room.


"Zo-chan…"

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What followed was too unclear to be sure of. All Zoro knew was that he was feeling pain, a lot of pain, pumping trough his body like his blood was carrying it. He knew he was screaming, but couldn't hear anything. Not his own voice, or the sounds around him. He could feel though and what he felt were two hands holding his shoulders. Someone was trying to wake him up.

But he didn't wake up. It was like Zoro was caught in a weird state between dreaming, sleeping and being awake. He was awake enough to know he wasn't sleeping anymore, but not awake enough yet to stop dreaming. He could still vaguely hear the child's voice, even feel the woman's hands around his body when she scooped him up. But more than anything; he could feel the horrible pain.

This feeling went on for what felt like forever. The pain was getting worse and worse and then… suddenly stopped. The freshman's eyes shot open. He sat up, panting heavily and closed his eyes again for a moment in an attempt to make his headache go away. His hearing hadn't returned fully yet, but he could hear someone's voice. Someone that was panicking, it seemed.

Zoro looked around, and noticed his vision was blurry. He could see someone sitting next to him, someone looking like… Luffy? No, it wasn't the kid, it couldn't be since he was staying somewhere else. Ace? He closed his eyes again and kept them closed for almost a minute. When he re-opened his eyes, the blurriness was gone, and he could see it was indeed Ace sitting next to him.

"Zoro-kun? Can you hear me?" Ace's voice was soft, but he could hear it. "Zoro-kun!"

"I… I can hear you." Zoro muttered.

"Thank God! Are you alright, Zoro-kun? What happened?"

"Please, keep your voice down… I'm not feeling all too well, Ace-san…"

"I'm sorry, but you really scared me." Ace whispered. "You suddenly started screaming, like you were in pain, and when I tried to wake up, you wouldn't! It lasted for at least half an hour."

"H-half an hour?" Zoro looked at Ace. That was… shorter than it had felt. He let out a deep sigh when he noticed there were more people in the room. He looked past Ace and saw Vivi standing against the wall, her hands before her mouth, eyes full of tears. She looked shock. The Blonde Princess was standing next to her, one arm around Vivi for comfort. Zoro reckoned he only came to comfort his precious 'Vivi-chwaaan'. He didn't even look the least bit worried. In fact, he looked like he was enjoying this.

"W-what's going on…" The green-haired man softly said to Ace.

"Everybody could hear you screaming, y'know." Ace softly answered. "Vivi-chan came rushing in as soon as she noticed something was wrong. Sanji-kun quickly followed after that, only he was angry because he couldn't sleep. He already had to kick out some of the other curious students. I think someone is getting the nurse right now."

Zoro kept silent. What the fuck was going on? Half an hour? It had felt like at least a couple of hours. He must've really scared Ace this night. Good thing Luffy wasn't there, he would've freaked out.

"I'm sorry I made you worry, Ace-san." Zoro sighed. "I'm feeling better now, I think I'm going back to sleep now."

"W-wait! Perhaps you should have the nurse take a quick look at you." Ace said. "Just to be sure."

"I'm fine, really." Zoro answered. "Just need some sleep…"

"Well, too late, since I'm already here." A tall woman was standing in the door frame. She was thin and had large, curly dark blue hair. When she entered the room, she walked like a model, her white lab-coat flapping around hour-glass frame.

"Aaah, Nurse Doublefinger!" Sanji almost immediately jumped forward, to grab the woman's hand and kiss it. "It's been so long since I have witnessed your amazing beauty, too long for my heart to accept! Please, why won't you come to my room every once in a while for a delicious cup of tea?" He kissed her hand again and then made the mistake to look around, for he then saw the look on Ace's face. The cook quickly let go of Nurse Doublefinger's hand and nodded towards Zoro. "Asshole's over there."

Zoro, completely confused by Sanji's behaviour (he had seen Sanji act like this around women before, but he never saw him stop so abruptly), didn't even hear the insult. All he could do was stare at the white lab-coat of the nurse.

"N-no, really, I'm okay." The freshman muttered, staring at the coat. "I don't need any nurse."

"Zoro-kun, please, we're all really worried about you." Ace said. "Just let the nurse have a quick look at you. Do it for me." Before Zoro could answer, he heard the door slam closed. He looked up to see Sanji missing and Vivi looking kind of confused at the door.

"What's… wrong with him…?" She asked softly. Ace sighed.

"I'll go talk to him tomorrow."

"And I'll go to the nurse tomorrow." Zoro said. "I really just want to sleep now, Ace-san. I'm sorry you had to wake up for this, nurse."

"That's alright, as long as promise to visit me sometime tomorrow." She said with a wink. After she had left, Vivi said goodnight too. She looked really worried, but was somewhat comforted by the idea that Zoro would visit the nurse tomorrow.

When everyone was gone, and Ace had returned to his own bed, it was silence for a while. Zoro lay down again and closed his eyes.

"You had a nightmare again, hadn't you…" Ace whispered.

"Yeah, I had… It was… weird." Zoro answered.

"You were calling Robin-san's name."

"She was in my dream too, yeah."

"What… happened?"

"I'll tell you tomorrow, okay? I'm really tired now and I have a huge headache."

"Of course. Good night, Zoro-kun."

"'Night."

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D: Aww, I suck at writing fluff… but I still hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! Sorry it took me so long, and sorry it's so short, even after my computer was fixed again. Stuff like new video games, school and summer kept me busy. Anyway, leave me some lovely reviews 'cause a happy Blok still is a writing Blok!

Ah, and I don't know when I'll post chapter 7 since my computer crashed. AGAIN. It's an old PC, so there's nothing I can do about it. I can only hope my dad can fix it again. I'm really sorry for all this guys ;-;!

And once more thanks to Digitaldreamer for betareading! –throws around hearts-