A.N: Last time I forgot to mention (didn´t I?) that the first chapter took a place a bit after Arabasta arc but since nobody said anything about it you probably figured it out on your own.

Chapter 2: The party

The same night at the party Zoro was sipping beer, glancing at Robin from time to time, knowing that soon she´d try something. And this time he didn´t mean something to hurt the crew; he meant something to annoy him. He knew she´d try it; it was obvious that she wanted to get back at him for what he said earlier on the Merry Go.

"But it´s not like anything she does will work, especially now that I´m expecting it" Zoro thought, smirking as his eyes met Robin´s. She was holding that fake smile of hers that soon turned to real, making Zoro blink. Their eyes lingered on each other for a moment longer before Robin turned away, walking towards Sanji. When the said cook noticed her he went all Sanji like, dancing around and offering to get something to drink for her. She agreed, glancing at Zoro who was still staring at her.

"Does she seriously think that could work? She does that all the time!" Zoro thought with a light chuckle. There was no way she could make him jealous.

"Would you like to dance?" came a voice from his left. Zoro glanced at the woman. She was a pretty good looking blonde woman, but her style and something else made her seem like a slut in his eyes. But on the other hand this was a good chance…

"Sure" Zoro said, standing up. His back was facing Robin but he could feel her eyes on him; she didn´t like what he just did.

"Heh, serves her right" Zoro thought as he followed the blonde woman.

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Robin kept her gaze locked on Zoro as he stood up and followed the blond woman. She wasn´t stupid; she knew he was trying to make her jealous. And she also knew it worked, as well as Zoro would be the only one able to notice. Luckily he had his back turned to her.

"Well" Robin thought "Luckily this is a game two can play"

"Robin-chaan!" Sanji yelled, running to her with her drink "Here´s your drink!"

"Thank you, Cook-san" Robin said, taking the drink and starting to think her next move. She had to look like she didn´t care what he was doing and make him jealous. Not an easy task, especially the first part, but she had to try.

"Cook-san?"

"Yes, Robin-chan?"

"Would you like to dance?" just as she had predicted Sanji´s eyes turned to hearts and he yelled: "Of course, Robin-chan!"

As they went to dance Robin glanced at Zoro from time to time only to see him doing the same. Robin smirked; this was going well, for now at least. Slowly she inched closer to Sanji, their bodies almost touching as they danced. She could see Zoro frowning further away; it brought a smile to her face. What would the swordsman do now?

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Zoro frowned at what he saw. He was actually happy she had chosen the shitty cook; she was always flirting with him so it was no big deal to Zoro. …well it was, but it could have been bigger. Now he was at least able to keep his poker face on.

"But she´s master at manipulating… at this rate I´ll fail and only make a fool out of myself" he thought, knowing that the older woman had more experience than him in more than one area. But he too had his strong point. Years of meditating had brought him ability to consecrate anywhere and keep his face straight to fool almost anyone.

His best way to win this fight of wills was to not let her see what he was thinking, he had to do things she didn´t expect and act the opposite she would think. On the other hand he´d also had to do what she thought he would sometimes because otherwise she´d realize what he was doing… ugh, it was so complicated! Thinking had never been his thing; he had always been one for pure action. A perfect opposite of her way of thinking.

"Well that just makes this a good challenge… but hopefully not too big one" Zoro thought with a smirk, deciding to continue this way for tonight and think something else for tomorrow.

He´d show her.

A.N: I know that this is really short, but I thought this was a good place to end this chapter. The next one should be longer tough. Please review!