Chapter 5

Luffy's POV

*~yawn & stretch~* "Why am I up here... oh yeah, I forgot," I stated very drowsily, rubbing my eyes and looking around.

"Good morning, Luffy-kun~" Zoro said softly, kissing my cheek and staring into my eyes, "Did you sleep well?" Well this seems familiar.

This was odd. Is this really Zoro? My normally-scowling green-haired demon-swordsman? I don't think I've ever heard him talk this caringly.. so sweetly.. it's really really weird. But whatever. This change could only make me love him more, I decided in my mind. I must just be special to him now, that's all.

"Yeah, I did, thanks," I replied, with a very sleepy smile. Zoro looked at me with a gentle, loving look and then smiled back.

"You must be hungry, Luffy. Am I right?" Zoro stated, obviously confident that he was correct. And he definetly was. I felt like I hadn't eaten for a full day! Oh the agony~!

"I am starvingggg... Let's go find some tasty food to eat! I wonder if Sanji cooked any meat yet.." I was just about to jump up and begin the hunt for food, but Zoro suddenly placed his hands on my shoulders, keeping me on the ground. I blinked at him and tilted my head a bit, with a confused look.

Zoro laughed. 'Again, that really doesn't happen often.. usally he would just laugh at Sanji's misfortunes, but..,' I told myself. "I figured you'd be hungry, so I put on some clothes *grr* and went down to get some leftovers from lunch. For some reason they all giggled and when I walked into the kitchen..."

*flashback - Zoro's POV*

I walked into the kitchen, ran a hand through my hair and yawned. Everyone except for that shitty-cook looked up at me and giggled. What's up with them? I made sure to give Ace a weird look before asking curly-que rudely for some food. He turned to me and grinned. Something's definetly off here..

"Good morning, sleeping beauty. Did you have a good rest?" Sanji asked, and then laughed a bit.

"What's it to ya, love-cook? And it's the afternoon.." I muttered, clearly confused. He didn't even reply, surprisingly. He just grinned, sighed, and turned back around to throw together a lunch of: meat. meat. and more meat. And finally he added a bottle of sake. It's almost like he knew that I was with Luffy.. Oh well, how would he know? I glanced over at Ace again, and then realized that everyone was still staring at me with grins on their face. Fire-fist then slowly walked over to me, and put an arm around my shoulder. To my immediate surprise, I felt my cheeks warm up.

"Oh come on, Zoro-kun~ Stop being so shy and sit down with us!" Ace said directly into my ear. I couldn't even speak. I couldn't concentrate on speech when Ace's face was close to mine. My heart just about jumped out of my chest, so I shook my head quickly, grabbed the food, and quickly ran out of the room, blushing my face off.

"What's up with you and Zoro, Ace?" Nami questioned curiosly.

"I dunno. Maybe he likes me~" Ace said with a wink, and striking a pose. Everyone just laughed.

*end flashback - back to Luffy's POV*

Zoro's face went blank for a second, then finished with, "But whatever. Here's your lunch, consisting of meat. Meat. And more meat." Zoro then placed a giant plate of, well, meat in front of me. I could've sworn that my eyes popped out of my face when I saw this. Zoro just opened a bottle of sake, and began drinking it quickly.

"Oh my gosh, thank you Zoro-nii-chan~!" I almost yelled, oops, and then immediately buried my face into the plate of food, as if I were pulled in by an invisible hand.

Zoro's POV

I was so close to spitting out that sake.. so damn close. "N-nii-chan?" Did I just stutter? But besides the stutter... I just knew it. Right when I thought I loved someone; I was brother-zoned. I felt like being reborn as a clam. Wait. That sounds familiar... (XD)

I was jolted out of my depression when I heard, "Is it okay if I call you that? You're just being so kind and sweet to me, it sort of reminded me of how Ace-nii-chan used to be sometimes," Luffy said, almost nervously, " But if you don-"

I interrupted the young captain by picking him up and placing him on my lap. 'Let's hope nothing awkward happens like last time...ehehe..' I thought as I kissed the back of his neck. Then I whispered, "You can call me whatever you want~" After doing so, I shoved him off of me. He looked back at me with a 'what the hell?!' kind of expression, his eyes wide, but I totally ignored it. "Now come on, ya need to eat!"

+ omg. making a story is scary. are my chapters too short? too much conversation? anything?! XD please tell meh. +

+ ~Ace~ +