12th chapter! And this time there will be slight ZoSan, just to warn you ;) Please leave a review and wait for further chapters! :) My beta is currently busy with her studies so I will publish chapters maybe a little slower ( with my speed it goes from two days to maybe four days? :D ) :D I want her to check my text without worries and so that she won't feel pressured because of her beta-work :) If it looks like she has no time at all to fix them I will check them myself but it's much slower because I have to use some grammar book and vocabulary :D But I promise you at least one chapter a week! :)

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They found Luffy and Sara first. They were stuck beneath a huge pilar and Luffy was holding it up so that it wouldn't fall on top of the woman. But when Zoro arrived to the scene, he cut the pilar in tiny pieces.

"Sara-san!" Nami worried."Are you alright?"

Sara blinked because she had suspected they would be more worried about their captain." I am fine but your captain..."

"Ah, Luffy?" Nami almost laughed,"He is a gomu-person, he won't get hurt that easily!"

Sara had already forgotten about the Strawhat captain's weird ability. She sighed in relief and looked at Luffy and then she started to look around, as if looking for something.

"Is something wrong?" Robin asked carefully when she saw the look on Sara's face.

"Sanji-san is not here..." Sara said, sounding really worried.

"Don't worry about that idiot! He won't die!" Nami reassured the red-haired woman.

"But I took his senses...How can you treat me like I am your friend?!" Sara hissed and blushed when she realised what she had shouted out aloud.

"Well, our captain decided that you are our friend and we can't disagree with him," Robin explained and nodded.

"That's right!" Nami sighed."And don't worry about it, even without his senses he won't die!"

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Zoro was searching for Sanji almost desperately. He didn't even notice when he lost his temper and started to run around in sort of a panic. He was walking fast and turning his head around wildly in a desperate attemt to find the blond. He didn't even think of the possibility that the building might collapse again when his only thought was to save the chef.

It had been really frusfrating to only look how the chef had fallen down with all the junk. He had smiled that ridiculous smile and sacrificed himself for one woman. She had acted all nice around him, then taken his senses and he was still ready to save the woman.

It annoyed Zoro somehow.

It really did.

"When I find you I'll kill you if you aren't already dead!" Zoro cursed out aloud and kicked his feet to a rock.

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Thousand Sunny had suffered only some minor damage during their stay at the island. The sails had been pretty damaged but the sniper had helped their shipwright to fix them. Franky had had to admit that he had no ability in sewing so it was all up to the long-nosed man.

"Hey, Usopp! Is everything ready yet?!" Franky shouted at Usopp. The hentai had been preparing Cola below the deck so that everything would be ready when the rest of the crew returned. It was rather usual for them to leave quickly so they had learned to prepare themselves for emergencies.

"Wait a minute and I will be done!" Usopp yelled back at the cyborg. He was actually pretty proud of his work and how well he managed to fix the sails: you could see the seams only if you looked carefully and knew they were there. "I am done!"

They put the sails back to their places and soon the ship was back to normal.

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"So it was a devil fruit..." Sara sighed deeply and looked up at the blue sky.

"Would you mind telling me how you got here?" Robin asked carefully, not wanting to scare the woman off. Everyone forgot the fact that their chef was probably lying injured somewhere inside the former pirate mansion.

"I don't mind!" Sara reassured the archeologist and smiled slightly. "I was around ten years old when they found me. They had looked a person with this ability and said that the person's destiny was to live in their mansion. They had heard of a girl who had deafened her own mother and her father had killed himself when he had gone nuts without his senses. People talked that I was cursed and I believed that too."

Everyone, even Luffy, listened to the story silently. Nobody felt like interrupting Sara.

"When they came and said that I have a place where I belong, I was so happy! I thought that even I had my purpose! So I left my deaf mother to join these guys and live in this mansion."

Sara blinked when she realised everyone had listened to her story and blushed slightly. "I... don't know what to do anymore...my future, my plans, everything was destroyed when Captain Dess met his death and the pirate mansion collapsed..."

"But you still have a dream to find," Nami noted and smiled to the red-haired woman.

Sara managed a small smile before she came up with an idea:"Hey, is it okay if I come with you guys for a while? My hometown is actually at the next island and I would love to return there and meet my mother! Then I will search for a dream on my own!" Sara asked, sounding pretty hopeful about her future.

"Do you even need to ask? Of course you can!" Luffy said with a smiling face and other members of the Strawhat crew sighed deeply: this was their captain, all right. "By the way, where did Zoro go?"

Everyone looked around and they couldn't detect the greenhaired man.

"Who would have thought that Zoro would rush off to look for Sanji first...?" Chopper sighed and everyone smiled slightly at the thought.

"We shouldn't be sitting around here either!" Nami said strictly."Let's go to look for that idiot!"

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Zoro stumbled and almost fell on the ground. He was tired because he hadn't had time to take his usual nap but he could always take them later: for now he should only concentrate on looking for Sanji.

"ZORO!" He heard a shout from above: it was their idiotic captain."Where are you?!"

"I AM DOWN HERE! YOU LOOK FROM THE HIGHER FLOORS!" Zoro ordered others even though he wasn't the captain.

Just when he finished giving orders to others, he saw a glimbse of blond and black. He turned his head quickly and a wave of relief rushed trough him.

Sanji was laying on his back. He looked actually pretty unharmed from the distance but when the swordman got closer he could see the blood oozing trough his black suit. The chef's eyes were closed and he looked rather pale but Zoro could clearly hear the ragged breathing.

"You are alive..." Zoro staggered out aloud and sighed deeply. He bent over the blond and closed the distance between them by pressing his lips slightly against the blond's, not exactly sure why he did that. He could taste the familiar taste of blood on Sanji's lips. Not like he hadn't tasted blood earlier but somehow the taste was worth savouring.

It took a while before Zoro realised what he had done. Had he really kissed his rival? He hoped that his senses were still a mess because he didn't really want to talk about the events with the blond.

"HEY! I FOUND ERO-COOK!" Zoro informed others,"BRING OUR DOCTOR DOWN HERE!"

Somewhere from above he could hear Chopper fussing around and looking for the doctor who was closer than he thought.

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Author's note:

Well? Was it good? As you can probably guess, there will be more ZoSan in the future chapters, little by little :P