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Advice

"Oi Robin, say something!" Luffy was starting to look more and more concerned about her, it was something he had never seen happening to Robin, she was red and looking really shocked, he was afraid he might have hurt his companion so he thought it was best to call Chopper.

Robin regained her self control and was about to answer the captain when he suddenly got up.

"Don't worry I'll get help so... Just stay put!" his words were sweet almost as if he was apologizing for doing something wrong, before he left he gave her a reassuring look and started running for the beach.

She could only assume the reason why he looked so down was because he thought he was the one who caused it, well he was in fact the cause to her reaction but it's not like he hurt her! She needed to stop him before he made it to the beach and before he made a big deal out of this. She found it much easier to move when he wasn't looking at her when she started getting up. Once she got up a voice called her attention.

"Oh? That was quite the interesting reaction."

Once she looked at the direction from where the voice came she found herself looking at Zoro, he seemed to be enjoying the show, from what he said she assumed he was aware that something about her behaviour near the captain was strange so she tried to come up with an excuse.

"Well... I-" when she was about to come up with something she got cut off by Zoro who seemed to be reading her like an open book.

"You seemed quite tense there for a moment..." he was stating something but at the same time he seemed to be scanning her reactions.

After a while she decided to keep a reserved face and figured no matter what the excuse she came up with it wouldn't be good enough to trick the swordsman so she decided her best play at the moment would be to play dumb.

"I wouldn't know what you're talking about." she tried to answer as calmly as possible, this however proved to be harder than she thought, her heart was still racing and she had a hard time keeping a calm voice, playing dumb wouldn't work like this...

She seemed to be surprised to know Zoro was watching the scene, she was now thinking of how to explain her strange behaviour around Luffy, but he already knew the reason, hell it was so obvious only a crew full of air heads such as them wouldn't realise what was happening.

"H-how long have you been watching?" he was pulled out of his thoughts by her voice she seemed even more nervous and had clearly given up the "I don't know nothing" strategy.

"Oh from the beginning, I thought of calling out to Luffy but I didn't want to interrupt you." he said with a relaxed voice

Actually he was lost looking for the captain. He was starting to get desperate when he heard the crash and decided to go in the direction of the loud noise, he figured if he wanted to find Luffy loud noises were the way to go.

She seemed to panic when he said this, but after a few second she regained her calm posture.

He was starting to get bored, it was not his intention to torment Robin, and the person he was looking for just ran like a torpedo so he was lost again... So he decided to leave.

After a while Zoro turned his back and started to head off, she was relieved he was finally leaving but she couldn't let him leave like that.

"I guess... I guess you realized the reason why I reacted like that huh?" she half asked half stated.

"Yeah, you'd need to be blind to miss it." was his answer.

So he knew. She then remembered, she was trying to come up with a way to approach him earlier, this made things easier even if it wasn't in her plans.

"You are the person who seems to know Luffy the best..." she said hoping he might have some information that could be helpful to her.

"If you want to know anything about Luffy ask him yourself even I can't see what's on his head." was his answer.

"I see..." she was disappointed, the swordsman didn't seem to be very helpful.

"But, if you want my advice," he continued "I say you should be direct he might not look like it but he's pretty smart." and with that the swordsman started walking away once more and yet again he was stopped by her.

"Can you keep this a-" but she was cut off once again he seemed to be getting quite annoyed but he gave her a nod.

Once he was out of sight she started pondering what to do now, she had never come across such feelings, she didn't want to accept them at first but now she wanted to be with Luffy, she just didn't know how to find what his feelings for her were.

After a while in the quiet forest listening to the several birds and still with her head in the clouds thinking about her captain she heard a loud scream... A loud scream that seemed to be approaching.

"Rooobin!" she recognized the voice immediately it was Luffy, she suddenly remembered, he had ran off to get Chopper.

They arrived a few seconds after and Chopper had a massive medical kit with him, as soon as they saw her Chopper ran towards her.

"Robin what's wrong! Luffy told me you were gravely injured." Gravely? She thought.

"Oh no it's nothing, Luffy just-" suddenly the young captain started talking louder than necessary.

"Chopper you need to help her she started to get really red like she had a fever or something, and then she started shaking!" Luffy sounded worried and was really nervous.

"Hmm, if you hit her hard enough on the head then that might be the cause." Chopper answered sounding nervous too.

"Like I was saying, I'm fine." said Robin, it was sweet of them to worry but it was best to stop this before it got out of control and she was told to rest for a few months.

"But... Why were you acting so strange?" there it was, the question that she didn't know how to answer.

"W-well... It's not important... I was just feeling tired, I stayed up late last night reading a book and sometimes that happens!" they'd never fall for it, she was starting to panic when once again they managed to surprise her.

"Oh! Thank god I thought it was my fault." Luffy was as usual completely oblivious and appeared to be relieved.

"Don't scare me like that Luffy!" Chopper seemed to be back to his usual self non doctor way.

She was lucky they were so innocent; Zoro certainly wouldn't fall for something like that. They headed off for the beach, it was getting late and Nami said she needed to talk to everyone about their next destination.

Once on board Nami told everyone about the new destination.

"Listen I want you all to be at the best of your behaviour got it?" Nami was serious as usual trying to get the crew to behave. "We'll be reaching Sathir and I don't want anyone to stir up any troubles... Are you listening Luffy!!!" The captain was playing some kind of silent game with Chopper but after that he stood still looking bored.

"So navigator-san why should we be so careful in Sathir?" Robin was curious because of the navigator's behaviour towards the continent.

"The news I've been reading off the newspaper we get are that the nation was split in two and war seems imminent. And I don't want us to be the ones starting it!" While she said this she gave a death glare at Luffy who seemed to get the message.

"How could we start a war?" asked Zoro who got looks from Nami that seemed to say: "Like you couldn't start one!"

"They're currently split like I said, so any strange movement from either side can be considered hostile and cause a massive conflict to start, so I just want to leave as quickly as we can from there." when she said this Luffy seemed to want to argue but another one of Nami's death glares was enough to make him quit. "This is serious so I don't want anyone doing anything unnecessary got it?" Everyone nodded.

After the set sail Robin retreated to her room and resumed the reading of her book, but no matter how many times she tried to read the same line it wouldn't work she was too distracted not because she was thinking about Sathir but because she was thinking about what Zoro said.

"He's smarter than he looks... ask him yourself... be direct..."

Author's Notes: I really think this was not the best I could do, but I needed to add something of this sort to the story. Now comes the fun part I'll finally be sticking some action and evil plots into the story!