Hello again! Did I ever tell how much I love foxes? No? Then FOXES ARE SO ADORABLE AND AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL AND DID I SAY ADORABLE? YES? BECAUSE THEY ARE!

*ahem* sorry about that. Anyways. on with the story! :D

Disclaimer: Oda is a successful man that is making milloins. Me? I'm gain nothing from this but my own enjoyment :D (and slowly ruining my life)

The passengers of The Orbit were all snotty nobles and wealthy people who most likely never suffered a single hardship in their life. It was expected, since The Orbit was a high class boat, but there was a passenger that was neither noble nor wealthy, even if he looked the part. Blond hair, neat appearance and an intelligent mind of one that was educated, however is still a child and will act like one.

"All Blue exists!" a small angry voice cried out.

"C'mon Sanji, how much longer are you gonna stay mad at us?" One of the ship's chefs asked the angry child. "You're young now, but when you're older you'll understand why when we tell you finding the All Blue won't happen! It's mythical ocean that's nothing more than a fairy tale and you'll be wasting your natural talent at cooking by chasing after it!"

"The All Blue does exists." Now the angry child was sulking and ignoring the chef completely.

The chef sighed. "Nothing will convince you, huh? Such a shame…" The child just continued sulking with a childish pout on his face. The chef sighed again; he's being doing it a lot lately and resorted to his secret weapon.

"Hey, Sanji, I heard one of the fishermen had caught an extremely rare fish and I was going to ask you to help me cook it, but if you want to keep sulking then I'll just have to ask one of the other chefs…"

"Ah! Wait! Don't you dare cook that fish without me!"

Sanji immediately jumped up and ran after the older chef who was chuckling at how different this child was from any other he had met, but still a child nevertheless.

Sanji was found on the ship one day with no memories of himself except his name and absolutely no one knew where he had come from. The captain of the ship thought little about it and just let the young boy become a part of the crew as a busy boy. The young boy was intelligent for his age and had a sharp tongue and often drove a lot of the older crew members up the walls. But they were fond of him and wouldn't change anything about him.

Sanji woke up groggily and winced and held his head. He glared dully at nothing in particular and realised he was laying on the bed in the ship's infirmary. He looked at the window in the infirmary and saw daylight. Why do mornings always have to come so early? Sanji thought grumpily, seems like my hate of mornings has just doubled along with gaining my old memories of my previous life. and speaking of previous lives and shit.

Sami. Sanji jolted. Where is she? Sanji immediately threw back the covers of the bed he was lying in and ran out the door onto the deck as he looked around frantically.

"Sanji! You're awake!" A squeaky voice cried out happily. "Ah wait! You shouldn't be moving so much! What if you're suffering from brain damage!?"

"SANJI! MAKE ME FOOD!"

"Sanji? Are you ok?"

"Cook-bro seems SUUUUPER!"

"She's in the kitchen."

Sanji turned his attention to the only helpful person and was surprised it was Zoro. Nevertheless, he gave the swordsman a nod in thanks and ran into the kitchen and saw his sister having a conversation with Robin and Nami.

"Sami!"

Said person froze and turned her attention towards Sanji, she stared at him for a bit before getting up and walking over to Sanji. Then she slapped him. Hard.

"Ow! What was that for?" Sanji complained (whined). But he knew why, and he knew Sami knew as well.

"You damn hell know exactly what that was for, you fucking twat!" Sami screamed, tears pouring down her face. "Do you know how much shit I had to go through? How I worried I was every day of the past fucking fourteen years of my life? When I woke up in this world the first thought I had was to find you. I was constantly having nightmares that when I find you it would be too late and I would have to watch you die in my arms again. Then you went and made yourself a pirate, well that's just fan-fucking-crap-tastic. You nearly gave me a heart attack every damn time I read the stupid shit you and your crew done in the newspaper. Declaring war on the World Government? A 77 million bounty? What the fuck were you thinking you crazy, fucking, self-sacrificing idiot of a brother!"

As Sami finished screaming at Sanji, she hugged him and sobbed. The rest of the crew had come in to see what the commotion was about and were met with the amusing sight. They glanced questioningly at the ones who was there for the whole time… which was useless since all the other female members did was smile at the scene of the two twins hugging.

Sanji, to put it plainly, had absolutely no idea what to do in this situation. He felt guilty after hearing what his sister had to go through because of him but at the same time he was extremely happy to be able to see his sister again. It has been eleven years since he last saw her and even longer for her since she last saw him. After going through his options of which will least likely get him killed, Sanji hugged Sami back and he felt her grip tighten around him.

"I'm sorry." Sanji mumbled into his sister's shoulder. "I'm sorry you had to go through all of that for me. I'm such a useless brother and I fail as a gentleman, being the cause of a lady's tears and my sister's grief. I'm sorry; I don't qualify as your brother."

"Hmph, even with all the shit I went through, I'll still consider you my baby brother no matter what."

"You're only older by 2 mins." Sanji smiled at the familiarity.

"Still older." Sami smiled back with a nearly identical smile to Sanji. Sanji just rolled his eye and gave his beloved sister a kiss on the cheek while Sami giggled and wiped away her tears.

"Yosh, let's party!" Luffy cried out when he was sure the twins were no longer going to fight. This was followed by the cheer by everyone. That's when Sami suddenly remembered.

"Oh yeah, forgot to tell you but I'm now part of the Strawhats. I'm the dancer!"

"You couldn't have mentioned that earlier?!"

"Shishishishi, Salmon's funny!"

"Um, it's Sami."

Soon the party was in full swing, with the crew trying to get to know their new nakama asking questions both relevant and stupid. She fits in with the crew perfectly. Sanji thought happily as he made plate after plate of delicious food.

"Thanji! Sa'i tol a ya a fof! (Sanji! Sami told us you're a fox!)

"Apparently you have fox ears and tails! Can you show us?"

"Please show us!"

Sanji sweat dropped at the sparkles in the Idiot Trio's eyes before sighing, while all Sami did was laugh.

"Why don't we show them together, Baby Brother?"

"When are you going to drop that nickname?"

"Never."

"…Fine."

Suddenly, Zoro started laughing. "I like your sister. She really knows how to put you in your place, like the idiot you are."

"What did you say, you national treasure?"

"You heard what I said, curlicue."

That was all it took before all hell broke loose and the cook and swordsman were immediately at each other's throats and screamed profanities at each other. Nami felt a headache coming but before she could snap and punch them like usual to make them stop, someone else beat her to it and made them cease all fighting with only a small statement.

"Your two fight like an old married couple. Are you a thing?" Sami asked, curiously and immediately both the cook and swordsman froze. "You sure act like you're in a relationship."

All Zoro and Sanji did was slowly turn towards Sami with horrified looks on their faces that looked like they just faced their worst nightmare. The rest of the crew just tried not to laugh.

"Me? With him? HELL NO!" they both shouted. "Hey! Don't say what I say! Stop that! No, you stop it! STOP!

Sami blinked. "So you're not a thing? You sure?"

"NO!"

"No as in you're not sure or…?"

"WE'RE NOT A THING"

"…I still think you two would make a cute couple."

Usopp couldn't take it anymore; he burst out laughing and immediately caused a chain effect on the rest of the crew. Soon the whole ship was laughing their asses off. To say the least, Zoro and Sanji were not amused.

"…10 second truce, cook?"

"I can agree to that much time."

Soon screaming and explosions came from the ship and by the time Zoro and Sanji's 'little' rampage ended most of the male crewmembers gained a new set of bumps and bruises and poor Sunny was half destroyed (much to the outrage of a certain shipwright). Unsurprisingly none of the female members had even a single scratch. After all it wouldn't be good idea to piss off someone who was originally an assassin, a person who could have you swimming in debt for the rest of your life and a demon. As much as Zoro wanted to cut the witch, he knew he couldn't, so the male members will have to do.

"Aw, look they're already getting along!"

"The ship has sailed people! I repeat the Ship has sailed!"

"What would be their couple name? Zosan? Or maybe even Sanzo?"

Zoro felt a vein throb. "…if you're gonna think of me and the ero-cook in a relationship, do not make me a bottom. Do you hear me?

"…then the decided name will be Zosan!"

"Sami!" Sanji cried out. "How can you do this to your own brother?! And marimo! Why am I the bottom?!"

"Because does it look like I'm the type to take things in the ass?"

"Does it look like I do either?" Sanji snapped back.

"Yes."

"Oh I know! How about ZoSanZo? Then everyone's happy!" Sami suggested with a big smile.

"NO! THEY WILL NOT BE HAPPY!"

Sanji turned towards his sister. "Sami, what made you think that someone like me would be a good match with that guy?!"

"Oh come on! You know I have an inner shipper to tame and the only way to tame it is to find several cute or sexy couples for me to ship! I'm running out of OTPs here!" Sami replied. "And I still think you and Mr Photosynthesis over there would make a cute couple."

"Don't make me part of your shipping fantasy!" Sanji cried again before his face gained a bland look. "You know what? I'm done with this shit. Luffy, you said you wanted to see my fox form right? Well, prepare to be amazed."

With that Sanji suddenly was surrounded by a wall of bright blue flames, making the crew cry out in shock, the only one that remaining calm was Sami. When the wall of flames cleared in the place of the cook was a golden fox with black tipped ears and tails with little glowing blue orbs floating around the tails. The fox struck a pose that seemed to say 'Tada' before it suddenly flew in a burst of flames and landed on top of the roof of the crow's nest.

"…"

"WOW! THAT'S SO COOL!"

"THAT WAS AWESOME!"

"SANJI! COME BACK!"

"Don't bother, once Sanji turns into his full fox form it means he wants to be left alone." Sami told the younger members, who weren't even listening and were practically as bright as the sun with how impressed they were, surrounded by sparkles. Why am I even bothering? They weren't even listening anyway.

'Damn right, I've had enough of stupidity today.' Suddenly Sanji voice rang clearly in their minds, shocking the members of the Sunny. They looked at each other for confirmation they weren't the only ones hearing things. A nod from everyone proved that they haven't been knocked off their rocker. Yet.

"Cook-san? You're capable of telepathy?" Robin asked in the cook's direction.

'Yes, both of us are capable of telepathy. You can actually have a conversation with Sami and I by only thinking what you want to say and we'll answer. This also isn't our only form, we can gain half human and half fox features too. It heightens our senses and we have the six sense that animals are capable of.'

"Sounds like an amazing power." Nami muttered, still mystified at what she had just seen. Sanji as a fox was very majestic and beautiful, with silk-like fur and fluffy tails swaying behind him and the blue orbs were mesmerising. Not to mention the yellow eyes and the (curly) marks across his face and just having a general glow around him that made him seem like a spirit.

"I'm joining the cook, seems like we're on the same wavelength, as disturbing as it seems. I've had enough stupidity too, I'm going to train." Zoro grumbled grabbing several bottles of booze as company before climbing the ladders towards the crow's nest for his (unplanned) watch. The rest of the crew just looked at each other and shrugged and continued to party until they passed out.

4997…4998…4999…5000! Zoro grunted just as he finished his 5000 chin ups with a 500kg weighing him down. As he reached for a 1000kg weight to start his 10,000 push ups he heard a tapping on the window. Zoro looked up and saw the cook tapping on the window pointing at the lock on the window and scowled when Zoro pretended he was suddenly deaf and tried to ignore the shitty fox-cook. He was not in the mood for his ear to be screamed off which would escalate to another fight, but the tapping just became more insistent before it went to banging on the window. Zoro made a frustrated sound that resembled a dying animal and walked over to the window and unlocked it. Sanji wasn't happy either. The two just glared at each other for a bit before Zoro left the window in a huff and went to back to his weights. The window opened and Sanji sat on the couch, before watching the swordsman train. They continued to have a comfortable silence with Zoro training and Sanji relaxing and studying the swordsman.

"…how long are you going to keep staring at me?" Zoro asked, starting to get unnerved being watched so closely. He expected this from Robin but this is extremely out of character for the cook. The shitty fox just stared at him some more before getting up and walked over. Zoro stared at the fluid movements of the fox and he found thinking that it looked extremely graceful and mesmerising… it was very pretty. Pretty? Since when was the cook pretty? Zoro shook his head.

"How much longer are you going to shake your head like a wet dog?"

At the insult Zoro head snapped up to growl at the cook but froze at the sight. The cook was no longer a fox but back to a human…not a complete human at least, his ears and tails were still there and so were the blue orbs floating around him and he still had the glow that seemed to surround his body. Zoro previous definition changed from pretty to, Beautiful Zoro thought before mentally slapping himself. No, stop! That's the shitty cook! We're rivals! And he's bisexual. His brain helpfully supplied. Stupid brain.

"How do your powers work? Do they affect you?" Zoro decided to ask to distract himself from his confusing thoughts and to keep from looking like an idiot. Sanji just sat down again and gestured to the spot next to him for Zoro to sit down on.

"This will take some time so might as well get comfortable." Sanji said, as Zoro sat down. "And make sure you listen, you brain dead marimo." All animalistic noises made by the swordsman were ignored.

"I have three forms; my full fox form, my half fox form and my human form, I'm currently in my half fox form and before you saw my full fox form. These blue orbs that are floating around me are all small fragments of my Fox Orb or otherwise known as Hoshi No Tama and they hold a great portion of my powers. My powers increase with the amount of tails I gain and it's not just my powers either, my strength, my stamina, my senses increase along with it. The maximum amount of tails I can gain is 9 tails, but so far I can only gain 6 before it starts affecting me. This can vary between just making me tired and I can sleep it off or worse-case scenario it shortens my life and causes permanent damage either physically or mentally and how long it would affect me will depend on how badly I abused my powers."

As this was mentioned Zoro remembered what Sami had said and Sanji's words at Thriller Bark not too long ago.

'What happened was that Sanji, being the idiot he is, had tried to take on the power of 9 tails to save us and it worked. He shortened his life by half, he was back in a coma for 5 months and when he woke up he was only concerned that if everyone was alright.'

'Just ignore this marimo swordsman… if you must kill somebody, then just take my life…!'

'He gave me his Fox Orb that kept us alive and safe from our previous cancer. He was going to die and he damn knew it too. He was in pain for weeks often screaming and crying in his sleep. The idiot didn't even regret it and even embraced the pain if it meant seeing his loved ones safe.'

'Oi… tell everyone… to take care… and that you'll have to find yourselves another chef!'

'He died my arms.'

Zoro lowered his head and his eyes darkened. "Oi" He interrupted Sanji.

"What shitty swordsman? Don't interrupt me, you kel-"

"Value yourself more."

Sanji blinked. "Huh?"

"Value yourself more." Zoro repeated, looking up and staring right into Sanji's eye. "Your sister was right about you being a self-sacrificing idiot. You always do stupid shit that no one asked you to do and you throw away life too easily for the sake of others. Asshole! Have you even thought about how your death could have affected the others?! What about your dream?! What about ALL BLUE?! DON'T THROW AWAY EVERYTHING SO EASILY, YOU SHITTY COOK!

Zoro was shouting by the time he finished, panting slightly and glaring at Sanji. Surprisingly, Sanji didn't say anything; he just took out one of his cancer sticks, lit it and took in a lungful of the toxic smoke. As Sanji finished blowing it out he stubbed the cigarette before suddenly swinging out and kicking the surprised swordsman onto his back. Before Zoro could even register what happened, Sanji had already straddled him and took in a fistful of the swordsman's shirt.

"Do you want to know why I would give up my dream, my life and everything about me so easily? Sanji asked quietly, his curtain of golden hair covering his face. "My dream isn't like yours or Luffy's or anyone else's on this ship. All of you have a chance, no matter how small, of accomplishing it. You, with enough training can become the world's greatest swordsman, Luffy will definitely become the Pirate King, Nami had already gathered so many maps for her map of the world, Usopp is already half a brave sea warrior and all the others have done something that is bringing them closer to their dream. Me? My dream still has the possibility of not being real at all and that all I have been doing was chasing a fairy tale. I know in my heart that the All Blue is out there but there's still a reality I need to face. I need to be prepared for my dream never coming true because reality is cruel like that." Sanji finally looked at Zoro in the eye, blue meeting brown with raw emotions showing through. Soon the blue eye softened and Sanji's fist in Zoro's shirt loosened. "So I made another dream."

"Another dream?" Zoro stared back at the cook, momentarily stunned at how open the cook was being.

Sanji nodded. "If I couldn't find All Blue, I wanted to die knowing that each and every one of you will be safe. If my dream can't come true then I damn hell will make sure that everyone else's will come true instead. I will sacrifice anything for everyone's dreams and that includes yours." Sanji said with conviction and a small sad smile. "Besides, if All Blue does exist, what's the point if not all of my precious nakama are there for me to cook delicious food for? You know All Blue is like a paradise for sea chefs, but what's the point of making the food and not have anyone important to them eat it?"

Zoro was dumbstruck. He knew Sanji was not a very open person, despite wearing his heart on his sleeve and easily being able to see his emotions, the cook was more distant from the crew than the others. Nami and Robin have a sister bond, Usopp and Luffy are best friends, Brook and Franky bond over their love for music and he always had a soft spot for Chopper. True, Sanji loved their nakama as much as they loved each other but he doesn't seem as involved as others, often acting out on his own without telling anyone. Yet here he is, pouring his heart out to Zoro of all people, not one of his precious ladies or even the captain, but to him. Zoro got up and awkwardly hugged Sanji and he felt the cook stiffen slightly before relaxing again. Zoro was never a one for words, being more a 'actions speak louder than words' guy and it was weird trying to have a heart to heart conversations with his 'rival' but he needed the cook to get the message.

"I still think you're an idiot for throwing everything away so easily." Zoro began, his chin resting on Sanji's shoulder and the cook snarled and was about to continue arguing before Zoro continued. "You don't need to take so much weight onto your shoulders, you stupid cook, you have a sister who spent half of her life looking for you to save your life, you have nakama that are always worried about you doing stupid things and you have a dream you still need to accomplish. You're not alone; let the people around you shoulder the weight as well."

At these words Sanji went quiet. He thought about the swordsman's words before opening his mouth again.

"I won't guarantee that I will stop putting the others dreams before me, I wouldn't even think twice about giving my life away if it saves the crew." Zoro opened his mouth. "Don't even try to argue with me on that topic, you hypocrite." Zoro's mouth snapped shut and he began to sputter out gibberish that made no sense to either of them. Sanji smiled shushing the swordsman effectively with what he said next. "But I will try, I will try and allow others to help me and shoulder my weight. I know I'm the 'self-sacrifice' type and it won't stop me from trying to save them if the cost is just my life… but I will try."

Zoro was going to protest some more but in the end just sighed because he knew he can't win this argument against the cook and the two fell into a comfortable silence again. His hair smells nice… and it feels soft… Zoro thought before jerking at what he was thinking. Stop it Zoro! You sound like a perv! Oh his tails look so fluffy, and his ears look like they're soft too… I want to pet them… No! Stop!

As Zoro was having an inner conflict of whether to pet or not to pet, Sanji realised the rather…compromising position they were in. Sanji was straddling Zoro when they fell down on the floor (courtesy of Sanji) and when the swordsman had sat up and gave the awkward hug he slid down to sitting in the green-haired man's lap. Said man was still hugging him. Sanji found himself actually not minding the poorly executed hug but he still felt awkward that it was Zoro hugging him. Not to mention he felt funny with the swordsman this close.

"…how much longer are you going to hug me?" Sanji asked, startling the swordsman out of his thoughts and immediately flung apart from the cook. Sanji found himself feeling disappointed but quickly shook it off. The comfortable silence changed to awkward one as the cook and swordsman faced opposite directions of the room, each man confused by their own thoughts and feelings (unknown to the other).

Zoro finally turned around to face the cook and immediately focused on the fox cook's tails. Left. Right. Left. Right. Before he knew it his hand reached out and touched one of the tails and began petting it. For only 2 seconds before Sanji snapped his tail away.

"What was that for shitty swordsman?!" Sanji exclaimed startled by the petting. Sanji turned around and was met with the swordsman with a guilty look and an embarrassed flush across his cheeks. It was… cute. Wait, what Sanji thought shocked at his own description of the marimo. No! Stop that thought process right there! Sure the swordsman is handsome, but he's definitely not cute! Wait, now his handsome? What's wrong with me?!

Zoro sweat dropped at the faces the cook was making. For a simple description on what Zoro was seeing, just imagine the cook is constipated, had swallowed something sour and looked like he was trying hard not to scream out in frustration. Has the cook finally gone mad?

"Can I pet your tail? Or your ears?" Zoro finally asked before instantly regretting it when Sanji gave him a strange look. "Actually you know what? Pretend I said nothing, nope, nothing happened, it was all a figment of your imagination, I did not just ask to pet your fluffy looking tail or your silky ears, no-

"Sure."

"Huh?" Zoro blinked stupidly, broken out of his rambles.

"I said sure, you brain dead marimo." Sanji repeated. "You can pet my tail or my ears… but this is only between us, got it? And since I'm such a generous soul, I'll forget about you making a fool of youself, ok?"

Zoro just nodded before shuffling closer to Sanji and just stared at his tails. Zoro reached out a hand and began petting the tail again, feeling the soft fur again. It feels as soft as it looks… actually it's even softer… and it's really silky too…huh? Zoro suddenly stopped his thoughts when he heard a strange sound. It took him a moment to realise it resembled a purring noise and another moment to realise that it came from the cook. Zoro compensated a bit before reaching out his other hand and began stroking the cook's ears as well. The purring got louder.

Said cook had his eyes closed and a look of utter bliss on his face. Zoro continued petting the tails and ears before the cook was literally in his lap (again) and was nearly asleep. Zoro stopped and waited to see if the cook was going to really fall asleep or he was going snap awake and try to kill the swordsman for getting him into that state. The cook did neither.

"You know what marimo? I think we should have some more petting sessions…" Sanji mumbled sleepily, looking up at the swordsman. Sanji smiled "Night, Marimo."

"…yeah, night… Cook."

...Um I don't really have anything to say...

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-Kagu-chan