A.N: Sorry for taking so long!
Chapter 7: Confession
It felt like a staring contest despite the fact that Zoro´s eyes were closed. He was sitting on the sofa in the crow´s nest and Robin was in front of him, staring at him angrily.
"Do you have something to say?" the swordsman asks, unnerved because of the silence. Robin crossed her arms without a word, slapping his face with her powers. Zoro didn´t open his eyes; he knew that would come as soon as they were alone. He had seen it from her eyes, but decided to play dumb.
"And what was that for?" he asked, opening his eyes.
"You know what it was for" Robin muttered quietly, looking at the floor, almost crying "Why would you do such a thing?"
"Why would I do what?" he pressed.
"Why did you try to sacrifice yourself in Luffy´s place!" she yelled, looking up as the tears fell down her face "Do you have any idea how Luffy and us would have felt if we found you gone when we woke up?"
"Are you really one to talk?" Zoro asked, earning another slap in the face.
"That was completely different and I´m chanced!" she yelled, backing away a few steps as Zoro stood up.
"Have you?" he asked. Robin gritted her teeth, trying to slap Zoro again but this time he caught her arm. She didn´t really even know why she was doing it this way; she had planned on questioning and lecturing him calmly, but when she saw him her emotions took control. After the extra limb disappeared Zoro took few steps forward, causing Robin to back away again.
"Are you saying" Zoro started, walking towards Robin and making her back away so much that her back hit the wall. She had nowhere to run and he was really close, their bodies almost touching "That you wouldn´t have done the same in my position?"
A long silence followed as Robin looked away, trying to find a way to escape. Zoro, noticing what she was trying, put his arms on the both sides of her head, preventing her from escaping.
"Well?" he breathed in her ear, making her shiver. Their eyes met, but only for a second since Robin turned her head away.
"…I´m sorry" she said quietly "I shouldn´t have yelled at you; I was just worried"
Zoro moved his hands away without a word and walked back to his earlier seat, closing his eyes.
"Next time, think twice before yelling so loud" he said.
"There´s going to be a next time?" Robin asked, getting her calm face back.
"Maybe" Zoro answered with a smirk. Robin smiled; their swordsman seemed to be back to himself.
"And you don´t need to worry" he said suddenly "I can take care of myself"
"Unless you get lost" Robin said with a smirk, making Zoro glare at her.
"I never get lost" he said, making Robin laugh.
"Of course not" she said "I´m leaving now; call for help if you don´t find your own way down"
"Oi!"
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The next morning Robin was smiling; things were more or less clear now. But she still had a terrible urge to annoy Zoro.
"Maybe I should take a break and see what he´ll do" she thought, but dismissed the idea as soon as it came. She had no patience to wait for that long. She smirked, coming up with a new plan to annoy the swordsman as she stepped on to the deck only dressed in bikini. Too bad the swordsman was in the crow´s nest; had been all night.
"Oh well, I´ll get his attention after the breakfast" Robin thought, sitting down on a sun chair.
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"That damn woman" Zoro thought, shaking his head. He hadn´t meant to look down from the window, but now he was clad that he had. He had seen her on the deck in that bikini, bringing back some memories. He couldn´t go down; if he did he might end up staring at her perfect body for the rest of the day. Zoro sighed, forcing himself to tear his gaze away from the window. He needed to think something else. He closed his eyes and relaxed his muscles, deciding to go to sleep.
"The breakfast is ready, shit heads!"
Well, so much for that peace.
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After the breakfast Zoro was sitting against the mast with his eyes closed, trying to get the image of Robin´s barely clothed body out of his mind. She could at least have put a shirt on when she sat at the table and the damn flirting cook didn´t help him to calm down even a bit.
"This is sure getting troublesome" Zoro thought "I don´t know how long I can handle this anymore"
Zoro opened one eye as he heard steps and saw Robin sitting down on to the sun chair, still in her bikini. He realized he had been staring when she turned her head to him with a smirk and asked: "Is something wrong, Swordsman-san?"
"No" he said, closing his eyes. He had to hold back a frown as he heard Robin laugh.
"Alright then, Swordsman-san" she said, lying down. Was she ever going to stop calling him that?
"Do you need anything, Robin-chan?" Sanji asked as he reached the archeologist, who glanced at Zoro. He had his eyes closed, but he looked pretty tense.
"Well actually" she started with a smile "My shoulders are a bit tense; could you give me a massage?"
Time seemed to freeze for Zoro as he heard this. Was she serious? How long was she going to torture him like this?
"Of course, Robin-chan!" and that damn pervert just had to agree. Great, just great. At the moment he didn´t want nothing more than to throw the damn cook away from her so that he could be the one giving her a massage but no, he refused to let her win. There was no way he´d let her know how much he desired her… not in front of that stupid cook at least. He kept his eyes closed, praying that Robin would stay quiet.
No such luck.
Zoro wasn´t sure if Robin was doing it on purpose or not, but her almost unnoticeable moans told him she enjoyed the little massage Sanji was giving her. He just couldn´t take it anymore.
Robin smiled as she saw Zoro climbing up back to the crow´s nest; she had won again.
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Robin didn´t think much of it when Zoro didn´t come for the lunch, she had expected it, but when he didn´t show up for the dinner either she started to get worried.
"Does anyone know where Swordsman-san is?" she asked.
"In the crow´s nest" Usopp replied, swatting Luffy´s hand away from his plate.
"Do you think he´s sick? He didn´t come for the lunch either…" Chopper asked worriedly.
"Idiots don´t get sick" Nami said simply.
"True, but he´s been acting weirdly, hasn´t he?" Usopp asked, hoping that he wasn´t the only one who thought so.
"Yeah" Nami confirmed.
"Just leave the Marimo alone" Sanji said "He´ll come if he´s hungry"
"I suppose you´re right" Robin said, still not able to get him out of her mind. She decided to go give Zoro some food when the others went to sleep; he had a night watch again so he´d be there.
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Zoro sighed as he saw Robin coming towards the crow´s nest, obviously going to climb up. What did she want?
"At least she has some clothes on this time" Zoro thought, closing his eyes. If he pretended to be asleep she´d probably leave him alone. He was not in the mood for her games right now.
"Swordsman-san?" he heard her voice "Are you asleep?"
There was a moment of silence before Zoro, against his earlier plans, opened one eye to look at her.
"What?"
"Are you alright? You didn´t come down for lunch or dinner" Robin says. If Zoro´s eye wasn´t open he´d swear it was someone else talking; it was rare for Robin to hold concern in her voice, much less her face that was usually so blank, but not now. Now her face was full of emotion.
"I´m fine" he simply said, closing his eye.
"Are you hungry? I brought you some food"
"No thanks" Zoro said, starting to get irritated. Why couldn´t she just leave him alone?
Robin stared at Zoro blankly before a small smirk came to her lips.
"Zoro-san" she started, knowing that using his name would get his attention "There really is something bothering you, isn´t there?"
When he didn´t answer, just sat there quietly, Robin placed the tray down and walked towards Zoro. When she stopped there was only about a meter between them.
"Could it be" she started with growing, evil smirk of hers "That our swordsman is jealous?"
Zoro had known she´d ask that, and he had already decided how to answer and most likely catch her off guard by saying: "And what if I am?"
As Zoro had predicted, his words caught Robin completely off guard, silencing her. He opened his eyes, looking straight in to hers.
"What if I truly am jealous" he started, standing up. Every step he took forward Robin took backward "Because of how you flirt with the damn cook" her back hit the wall, making her eyes widen when Zoro put his hands on the both sides of her, preventing her from escaping "What if, every time he´s been giving you a massage I would have wanted to be in his place?" Zoro finished with a smirk: "What if I said I love you?"
Robin´s heart beat fast; he was so close, too close. The whole time she was waiting for him to back away and say "Just kidding" or something like that, but he didn´t do anything, didn´t even move. He just stared at her.
Even though Zoro looked so calm from the outside, much calmer than Robin, his heart was beating painfully fast. He wouldn´t be surprised if Robin could hear his heartbeat. Suddenly, without a second thought, he leaned closer to Robin, touching her lips with his.
Robin´s eyes widened in shock. He hadn´t been kidding? Did he really mean it? Was he really in love with her? She let out a surprised whimper as Zoro bit her lip and the said swordsman didn´t hesitate to use the chance to enter her mouth. When Zoro finally pulled away for air Robin was panting hard, not used to holding her breath nearly as long as Zoro had.
Suddenly Zoro let his hands fall from the wall, taking a few steps back.
"Sorry" he said "I shouldn´t have done that"
They were staring at each other again, Robin still recovering from the shock and Zoro waiting for her to say something, anything. When she finally lowered her head, Zoro took it as a sign of rejection.
"Let´s pretend this never happe-"
"Zoro" Robin said, cutting him off. Zoro looked at her as she walked towards him, stopping right in front of him. They were gazing at each others´ eyes and, at that moment, words were not needed. They knew what they wanted, and that they would get it. Neither of them said a word as they leaned closer to each other, their lips touching.
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They were lying side by side on a couch in the crow´s nest, both of them naked, happy and satisfied.
"You don´t regret what we just did, do you?" Zoro asked with concern clear in his voice.
"No" Robin said, adding playfully: "But you could have been a bit better"
"Oi!"
She laughed. Her laugh was music to his ears.
"Robin-"
"I know" she said, cutting him off "I know you meant what you said"
Zoro smiled, clad that she knew. Robin yawned, sitting up.
"I should go back now" she said, but Zoro pulled her back in to his arms.
"Stay" he said "They won´t notice"
Robin sighed, relaxing in her lover´s arms, slowly drifting to sleep. Nothing could go wrong anymore.
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Robin stared in horror as the warlord made Zoro disappear right in front of her eyes. No… no no no, this couldn´t happen, not when she had finally found someone to love! She was pulled out of her thoughts as Luffy yelled for everyone to escape. She hesitated for a moment before she started running.
It didn´t help.
One by one, the others disappeared, and soon only she and Luffy were left. The last thing she heard before blacking out was: "ROBIN!"
A.N: Haha, I skipped the dirty scenes… disappointed? Just so you guys know, the next chapter will be the last. I could have ended this story after Zoro and Robin had slept together, after that "Nothing could go wrong anymore." line, but I want to keep it possible to make a sequel. In other words I´m making the next chapter, which will also be the last one, the way that it can end this story completely or there will be a chance to a sequel. I don´t really know if I´ll do it or not… so yeah, it´s the end of this and the prologue of the possible sequel. Review!