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Edited on 3/4/2014
New word count: 2,536

I wrote a chapter, then decided to change the point of where that chapter would be and so I made this chapter. xD
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I really don't know xD

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I know. It is meant to be the Thousand Sunny 'cause I actually remember looking at loads of drawings and sketches of the Thousand Sunny's layout as research. I probably made a few mistakes in there and said the going merry -.-. I'll check and correct it…(ah,only in the first two chapters), it was probably because I restarted watching the anime again for the Sanji's past bit (re-read the manga too-for research/reminding) and going merry was there.
I did a lot of research (also why I disappear) so I could try and create a plot, reminds me I need to look at water 7 again for research…I mean um…whoops! ^^

Chapter 7: Cute couple

Sanji awoke in the men's quarters for the first time since having had his memories taken away by, what Sanji could say was, a bitch. Yes, he wasn't going to be kind about that ghost, as far as he was concerned she had taken his memories and he hated her for that even if she did save his life, but still saving his life shouldn't be an excuse to take something away from someone.

Although, so far it wasn't as terrible as one would imagine, instead it was actually okay…after he had gotten over the confusion and fear that is, and that was mainly because of his nakama.

He sighed as he continued to stay curled up beneath his blankets, he didn't want to move yet, he was still tired, he didn't get enough sleep since he had stayed up late with Zoro, but it had been fun, so it had been worth it. Yup, definitely worth it. He smiled to himself as he thought back to the previous night of them looking at his pictures together.
"…Gomu gomu…"
"…you…wouldn't dare…"
"…Stu…pid…"

He raised an eyebrow at the mumbling of his nakama, they were still asleep and yet they managed to argue and talk to each other, it was quite amazing actually, but still weird.
Despite that thought, the men's quarters were quite different compared to the kitchen, it was a lot warmer, which was good, but it also had a lot more noise that filled the room, mainly consisting of snores and them talking in their sleep, but it was nice so he wouldn't choose the kitchen over this.

The sleepy cook twisted himself beneath his warm blanket contemplating on getting out of bed, maybe he should have a quick bath and then prepare breakfast for everyone. Blonde strands slowly popped out from beneath the blankets until his entire head and face hit the cold air in the room. His eyes immediately landed on Zoro, he was still sound asleep in a deep sleep just across from him. He watched a little longer before he urged himself to toss off his blanket; he shivered, the warmth he had been enveloped in faded away.

He made his bed, plumped the pillow ready for tonight and straightened out the creases in the blanket. He walked over to the closets, staring at each one; for a few moments he wondered which one could be his, that was until he noticed a green face drawn roughly on one of them, it had a familiar hairstyle of a side fringe, a cigarette and a curly eyebrow. It was him.

He quietly laughed at the drawing and he knew straight away who the culprit was, it had been Zoro's doing, he had done it in green pen as if saying "Cook this is your locker. Marimo."
He looked at said person and smiled, he didn't have a lot of memories of the green haired man but since all this started he has been there right beside him, helping him. Sanji had to say that Zoro was thoughtful and caring and he was happy that Zoro was his Nakama.

He gently opened the locker and took out some new clothes. A pair of trousers, an orange shirt and a black vest. He glanced at a special hanger filled with ties and quickly grabbed another as well as a pair of boxers.
He took one last glance at everyone in the room before he stepped out and into the cold morning air, colder than it was when he first got out of his bed. He breathed it in deeply, his eyes focused on the sunrise. It was beautiful.

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"Thank you for the food!"
"Thank you for the meal Cook-san"
"Lovely as always Sanji"
"Sanji! I'm still hungry!"

Sanji glared at Luffy tiredly. He had been saying that all through breakfast and he had just kept refilling his plate for him to the point he would need to get some more supplies for them and maybe think about how much he really should feed the captain…maybe restrain him a little at least…

He grabbed Luffy without a word and threw him out of the kitchen by his collar like he had been a cat. Sanji quickly turned to Nami and stopped her before she could leave with Robin.
"Oh sweet Nami…" Sanji began with what he had to say was a compliment, he had heard from Ussop that she dealt with the berī but she was rather uptight about it and that his best bet was to be kind to her, really kind.
Nami raised an eyebrow at Sanji, as if telling him to get on with it.
"Is it possible if I could…" Sanji mumbled lightly, feeling very awkward to ask Nami for some money.
"For?"

Sanji gulped, her voice was stern like it wouldn't be budged if he said the wrong thing. "Luffy ate…"
"Of course Sanji kun, I'm actually surprised it lasted this long, we originally needed to stock up on supplies." Nami handed him a bag of berī and smiled.
He nodded, taking the bag gratefully, relaxing slightly.
"Thank you Nami, I'll make sure I get the best there is."
"Of course Sanji-kun"
Sanji bowed ever so slightly as he edged his way out of the door, hoping she wouldn't change her mind, he let out a sigh of relief as it had gone so well.

"Where you going cook?"
Sanji looked up and saw Zoro looking down at him in a crouching position.
Sanji tapped his fingers on the side and smiled, "I'm just going to buy a few things in town."
"Want me to come along?" Zoro offered Sanji, glancing towards the town himself.
"No it's fine, I can handle it myself."
"You sure?"
"I don't plan on buying too much so I'll be fine."
"Hmph, alright then shitty cook, have fun."

Sanji jumped from the ship and down on to the land below, he glanced back up to Zoro who was still watching him, and waved earning a wave back from Zoro. He grinned, turning around and heading towards the town, not paying attention to the fact he was being followed.

The town was buzzing with people walking in both directions, occasionally stopping to look around and some going in and out of buildings in a steady flow. Sanji waved his way through the crowd, dodging them all as he went from stall to stall and shop to shop, each time coming out with a bag and soon, before he knew it, he was carrying a lot.
"Thank you!" Sanji sang happily, taking his most recent bag from one of the salesmen. He laughed to himself, in the end he had lied to Zoro and brought more than he anticipated, but that was only because the town was so generous with their prices that he couldn't help but buy a lot of things to the point he was struggling with the bags, and the best part was that he still had a lot of berī left.

"Oh well, look wot we got 'ere," Sanji suddenly stopped, his path having been cut off by someone who had decided just to step in front of him.
"If it isn't the little pretty blonde from the other day."
Sanji frowned his eyes looking over the mans face, it was that bastard that had said he was going to help him but had tricked him instead.
"We've been looking for you…"

"You really didn't have to…" Sanji mumbled dejectedly, he jumped backwards, dodging an attack that had suddenly come at him from his side. Sanji didn't feel so confident with his fighting skills, he hadn't actually tried to fight but at least he knew he was fast with great flexibility and that would be a huge advantage.
He continued to jump backwards to gain a distance from them so he could dump the shopping to the side by a stall.

"Could you watch this for me?" He asked the woman at the stall, she looked absolutely terrified by what was happening but nodded anyway. He smiled at her and jumped away from her so she wouldn't be targeted.
"I don't want to fight…" Sanji shouted to them, continuing to avoid their attacks.
He wondered, would talking really stop this situation? He doubted it but at the moment he had to hope it would or he would have to gain confidence and try to fight…he had to be good right? Even Ussop said he was a fighter…

He jumped in the air and landed down on one of the enemies faces, kicking himself off from him and on to another. He repeatedly jumped from face to face like they had been stepping stones, each one was knocked down to the ground with footprints on their faces. Sadly, it wasn't enough and they were slowly getting back up, their eyes filled with determination to kill the blonde.

Sanji smirked, he could feel his heart bumping fast and the adrenaline flowing in his veins, it was such a great feeling and before he knew it, his body was moving on it's own and he was fighting them with just his kicks. He ran to them and flipped himself up and into the middle of them, landing on his hands and spinning himself, his legs kicking them all in one full sweep, he pushed himself up and flipped once more and out of their reach.

He stood up and smirked at the bodies around him, no longer worried about fighting, this was as easy as cooking, actually it was just like cooking and right at front of him was some ingredients he needed to chop.
They ran to him once more, another attempt to attack him full on, so he jumped up in the air, lifting one of his legs so he could be ready to bring it down on one of them. He kicked downwards, aiming for one but found himself getting higher and higher into the air.
"I'm flying?!" Sanji shouted in astonishment as he looked down at them all. Right now he was floating and he had no idea what the hell was going on. He braced himself as they threw daggers at him. None hit him directly but had sliced his suit and had given him a few cuts.
"Fuckers!" He hissed, he lifted his leg, planning to land a kick on them when he fell back down but his leg lit up on fire upon his anger.

Sanji's eyes widened in shock as his leg lit up. The flying daggers had also halted and he had all the pirates staring at him in shock, wondering if the man was committing suicide until they heard his scream.
"I'm on fire!" Sanji kicked his leg downwards repeatedly trying to get rid of the fire from his leg. How the hell did that happen?
"Holy shit! I'm on shitting fire!" He didn't pay attention to the fire bolts he was pelting down to his enemies below him, ignoring the screams and shouts Sanji continued to panic.
Just what the fuck was going on?! Had those fuckers thrown fire at him?!

He continued to kick until the fire died down but just as it died down, he began to fall backwards and down from the sky.
"Eh? Eh?" Sanji looked around in confusion. No way…was he really falling?! He wasn't prepared to land, how did he get up here again? Could he do it again?
He closed his eyes, it was too late, he began to prepare himself mentally for the impact he was going to experience.
'Zoro!' He screamed in his mind, the green haired man's face flashed in his mind as he called for him.
"Cook!"

Sanji opened his eyes at the shout, to see Zoro jumping at him, his arms wide open to catch him. Sanji was surprised to see the other just as he had thought of him, was the man telepathic or something?
Zoro caught him and held him tightly in his embrace, protecting Sanji from the impact as they landed to the ground. Zoro took the brunt of the impact whilst he cushioned the other in his embrace.

"Fuck! You idiot!" Zoro shouted at Sanji, releasing him. Zoro could feel the pain in his back but this was nothing compared to many worse things he had experienced before.
"Moron! I didn't ask for your help!" Sanji shouted back, lifting himself from Zoro.
"You were falling from the sky helplessly! What were you trying to do?!" Zoro growled at him.
"I was trying to fight against those fuckers to protect myself!"

"Don't ignore us you bastards!" The pirates shouted, getting up from the ground and extinguishing any left over fire before running at the fighting duo.
"Shut up!" Zoro and Sanji shouted, slicing and kicking them away.

"What I saw was the opposite of protecting yourself, stupid!" Zoro sheathed his swords and suddenly put his hand behind Sanji's head and pulled him towards him and into a hug, silencing any other shout from Sanji.
He spoke softly to the blonde.
"I thought…you were going to die, especially when you looked like you didn't know what you were doing…"

Sanji had felt himself calm down, the adrenaline no longer there. He couldn't let Zoro see the expression he had right now, he was sure his face was bright red from Zoro's actions.
"How did you know I was in the middle of that?" Sanji asked, slightly raising his arms to loosely grip at Zoro's clothes.
Zoro's hand stayed on Sanji's head, continuing to hug him as he looked shyly to one side.
"I followed you from the ship…and then I lost you…and then I saw you in the sky…"

Sanji nodded, accepting that as an explanation. "Let's get the shopping and go back to the ship"
"Sure" Zoro let go of Sanji, neither one looking at the other's face as they both tried to hide their embarrassment.
"Thank you." Sanji said to the girl at the stall who blushed, having just watched the display between them.
"N-no problem…" she stuttered. "You two make a cute couple." She smiled gently at Zoro and Sanji.

"Eh?" Sanji asked blankly.
"Us? Couple?" Zoro pointed at Sanji and himself somewhat in a state of shock.
The girl chuckled, turning away and continuing to serve her customers.
Sanji coughed awkwardly, was the girl right? Did they make a cute couple like she suggested? He felt happy inside by her words.
"Here take these bags," he handed a few to Zoro, and then a few more, and then another two.

"Oi oi…just how many things did you buy? and why the hell am I carrying it?!"
He looked at Sanji to see that he was carrying nothing.
He frowned as Sanji twitched his fingers like he was tapping something.
"I'll carry this one…" Sanji bent down and picked up the smallest bag that was the last on the ground.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Zoro mumbled, watching as Sanji began to walk ahead of him.

He should have just let Sanji fall…

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