Contacts of Misconduct
Before Zoro knew it, it was Friday, payday. He got up and went passed his sons room into the small kitchen and looked in his fridge. "Eggs it is". Zoro grabbed four eggs from the container, and a frying pan, he quickly got to work making simply scrambled eggs. He wasn't the biggest fan, but Usopp like them like that, and he'd rather not make two different kinds. Before long he started to worry about a certain blond headed cook. They hadn't talked since that night. Was he alright? Was he freaking out? Was he dead and no one knew about it? Would he go over to Sanji's house and discover three dead bodies already decaying? Zoro tried to push it all out of his mind for now. Today he had to focus on work. Work and work and work. Today, Zoro thought, would not be a pleasant day.
"Morning dad" Usopp exited his room
"Hey buddy, making some eggs" Zoro replied with a loving smile to his son
"Those sound great right now, oh I finished my painting, you wanna see it?"
Zoro moved the eggs onto two different plates, and set them down on the table "This the one you've been working on for the last few months?" zoro asked remembering his son talk about it passionately
"Yeah, I finally had the breakthrough" Usopp replied victoriously
"Sure bring it out while I get the salt and pepper"
Usopp walked off to his room and brought out the whole aisle it was on and set it down in the living room, close to the table "Here it is, it's still wet, I just finished it this morning"
Zoro set the salt and pepper down and walked over to look at his sons work "Damn, that looks pretty great, you did a great job, so right here" Zoro motioned towards so Picasso like shapes "this is the essence inspired by Picasso, using his blue period colors right?"
Usopp look and it and nodded in approval "Yeah, but over here, this is where I combined the cubism traits with those in the early renaissance, I used the same colors that Leonardo used, along with the roman devil from that period over here. I thought that if I hit it just right, I could use Picasso as a warp through time and show in one image, the true nature of time, here you can see that with the use of the dramatic and comedic lines that-"
Zoro listened to Usopp while he described the many things he was trying to say in the piece while keeping it from being too busy, or overly complex, and so on. He really tried to pay attention to everything, but his knowledge was limited, and his mind began to wander. What would life be like if Sanji didn't have such a bad past, would they have meet? Fallen in love? Would him and usopp moved in with Sanji and chopper? Would they have found a place? What would it have been like if-
"So, with the use of that symbol, it ties it all together and creates the perfect time crossing master piece." Usopp concluded putting his fist into his flat hand in a final manner. "What do you think?"
Zoro looked at the piece once again, then at his son "Well if they don't let you into that college, I'll march down there and ask for some people that ani't blind from genius to check your work."
Usopp smiled happily, as did Zoro.
"Now, let's eat some eggs! You want anything to drink?"
"Some water please" Usopp said settling into his sit, and preparing his eggs
"You got it, oh and by the way, today is payday"
Usopp's ears perked up at that
"So I'll have that money for Franky"
"Sweet, thanks dad, now we don't have to pay for bus fare."
Zoro came back to the table and set down two glasses of water, and grabbed the salt "True, so, your birthday is coming up soon, what do you want to do? And what do you want?"
"Dad, I told you we didn't need to do anything"
"I told you money isn't so tight anymore; you at least need a gift"
Usopp thought for a few moments "Well, there are these pen sets that just came out, they are mikeus devivent art pen, I've looked into them a bit, they come in a 8 pack, varied set"
"Drawing pens?" Zoro asked out slightly confused
"Yeah, professional ones, you know like the grips and width and so on, they make really clean lines"
Zoro committed the name to memory for future shopping
"But the problem is there kinda spendy"
"Don't worry about, I'll get you them."
…
Sanji woke up, he wished he hadn't. he rolled over in bed not wanting to commit to this reality, he wanted to just close his eyes and be back in his teens, before he fucked everything up. He just wanted everything to be okay again. But life is a cruel bitch.
"Hey Sanji you awake?" Sanji heard Ace call form the other side of the door
"yeah" Sanji said neutrally "I'll get up soon and make breakfast, just give me a minute"
"You got it, take your time" Ace called and then started walking back towards the living room
"Hey Ace, I have an idea!"
Ace cringed; his brother's ideas are both brilliant and idiotic.
"let's call Shanks!" Luffy looked over the couch with a wide smile, Cleary proud of himself
"W-WHAT!?" Ace sputtered out in shock "Why!"
"We should have Shanks adopt Sanji! There's no way Mihawk would attack Shank's family!"
'Brilliant and idiotic' Ace thought to himself "Luffy, Shanks is across the world right now, and he doesn't even know Sanji, there's no way he would just fly out here, adopt some one random for protection and then stick around!" 'But it would solve our problems' Ace thought again to himself
"Awww… but I already called him, I don't want to call him and tell him he wouldn't come, he is already on his way"
Ace stared at his brother for a moment… a long silent moment… "That one hurt my brain Luffy"
"Why?" Luffy asked out childishly
"Just, never mind, so Shanks is coming? When?
…
Mihawk picked up the receiver of a old well taken care of 20's phone and dialed a number
"Yes?" a deep voice answered
"I'm striking tonight"
"Why the change in plans?"
"The younger D brother called in Shanks, I have to strike before red hair gets him"
"I see, I'll inform the others, if Shanks is on the move, something big is coming, I'm ordering the strikes on the others tonight as well then"
"Understood, what about the demon?"
"You claimed him, you deal with him, that shouldn't be too much for you"
"Of course not, I'll call you when the job is done"
With that Mihawk hung up the phone and began to do something very unusual, reconsider how things might go
…
Zoro had just walked into his second job when he saw Robin talking to her boss
"I'm taking the night off, there is a emergency at my house" Robin said in a quick and worried voice quickly spotting Zoro and walked towards him "Zoro follow me, your taking the night off to"
"Did something happen at home?" Zoro asked in a concerned Voice quickly following her out of the building
"No, franky and the kids are fine, something much worse is going to happen"
"What?" Zoro said in surprise "What do you mean?"
"I just heard from a old informant from our past Mr.0" the law has hired the 7 warlords, and put out contracts on us, we are being targeted, there striking, tonight"
"What?! Shit I have to get home, my son, he is home alone!-"
Robin quickly grabbed him and faced him "Listen to me Roronoa, right now they are separating us and plan to kill us. If that is happening then something much bigger must be happening, when the dark forces start to target retired members like us, they mean to start a war, and I don't plan to stick around for it, tell Luffy im sorry, but im taking my family and running, we can't afford to be dragged back in. good luck Zoro, I don't know when it's going to break out but this is goodbye"
Zoro's mind raced, barely able to contain all the information thrown at him. And then Robin hugged him and it all became real, he turned to her fleeing figure "Where will you go?"
Robin turned back for a split second, then kept going, it was silent, but spoke volumes
'I can't tell you Zoro, you know that'
For a second he stood there, but then his mind kicked into hyper drive and he had dialied the number before he realized it
"Hello?"
"Hey Ace- its Zoro- they are attacking!- tonight!" Zoro half yelled in-between breaths while he ran
"What?!- wait they!?, Luffy check for a update from Jinbe! Zoro where are you?"
"Gotta go- talk later" Zoro hung up and kept running towards his apartment, 'Usopp, be there, be there, be there!'
…
"Zoro, hello?" Ace tired into his phone
"Ace, he sent one, you ani't going to like this" Luffy commented from the couch
Ace quickly went over and read it "Shit! Sanji! He is coming! Tonight!"
Luffy quickly pulled out his phone and dialed a number and waited for a answer…
"Dammit Robin's phone is no longer in service, there running"
"If they're running, something big must be going on" Ace replied then heard Sanji enter the room
"Mihawk is coming, tonight?" He asked fear in his eyes
"Sit down, we have some explaining to do, it's bigger than just one hit man" Ace said in a stressed voice
"It's too late for that" A deep voice came from behind them.
All three turned at once, Ace and Luffy jumping up, ready to fight
"Mihawk" All three said in unison Anger, fear, and defiance all in one.
TBC
Hey guys, so im rebooting all my stories, with this chapter we get a lot of movement and it may seem weird, but next chapter will give a lot of answers so stay tuned (And sorry for the really long wait!)