Sorry for it being late! De-Ji's actual birthday is April 26, but I forgot to put this up! T.T
De-Ji sighed as she impatiently waited for her birthday cake to be ready. She then closed her eyes, and told herself to be patient, and that it would be done when it was done. Her only regret with her cake was that the baka-cook, Sanji, was making it. Then again, she didn't want to have to pay Nami for it, and nobody else was able to make one. She decided to walk around to distract her from her cake, and ended up just walking in circles around the kitchen. She wanted to scream in frustration. Then she did scream, but this was from surprise, not frustration. Zoro had wrapped his arms around De-Ji and was softly singing happy birthday to her. When she had screamed, he chuckled and put his head on her shoulder. De-Ji forgot totally about her cake and relaxed as her boyfriend began massaging her back, not to mention kissing her neck. She blushed furiously, and spun around.
"Zoro..." she gasped as she saw him. He was dressed in a black suit with a green shirt, and matching green tie. She was so speechless, that Zoro frowned and she gave a start.
"You look very handsome, koishii." She whispered close to his ear. He smiled, and whispered to her, "aishiteru, koishii." after he had finished with his heartwarming sentence, he wrapped her in his arms and kissed her gently. He grinned pleasedly when she sighed happily.
"aishiteru too..." she chuckled against his broad, strong chest. He wrapped her tighter in his arms, and they stood there for a while, until a certain hyper, hungry someone came running past to go check on the cake. Zoro let go, and started walking toward the kitchen. He stopped when he sensed that she wasn't close enough though, and looked behind him. De-Ji was standing there, with a slightly gloomy face at being interrupted, but smiled again as she remembered her cake, and started walking toward Zoro. She smiled wider, and started sprinting at him, and collided with him only after a few steps, and whispered to herself and partly to Zoro, ' Never leave me, koishii.' She didn't mean for him to hear her, but she looked up in suprise when he whispered,
"You think I could?" He looked down at her, and then turned away again to check on the cake. De-Ji sighed happily again (author's note: she's sighing a lot in this!) and followed Zoro. When they got to the kitchen, Zoro was wearing his grumpy face again, and stole a fingertip of icing from the top of the meter-high cake. De-Ji gasped at the size and detail on the cake, and everybody started singing to her. Everybody except Zoro, that is. He had already told her. When they were done, she closed her eyes, and wished that Zoro could make his dream come true, and blew out the candles. She knew he could do it himself, but a little extra help couldn't hurt. Luffy then handed her a fork, and Sanji held him back from taking the whole thing, and De-Ji took a bite. Nothing she had ever eaten had been so sweet, but not too sweet at the same time. She glared at Sanji, a little jealous. She hated him, but she had to admit he was a good cook. She then nodded, and the cake seemed to explode as Suta and Luffy dived in and started eating as fast as they could go. Zoro
wiped a little off of his shirt, and put it in his mouth. He looked at De-Ji, and when she smiled at him, they left the chaotic kitchen to go somewhere else and spend her birthday alone together. When they were officially far enough from the crew, Zoro took a little piece of cake that had been resting on his shoulder, and put it in De-Ji's mouth. De-Ji chuckled happily as she chewed, and took a little from his marimo hair, and fed it to him. He laughed out loud when he had finished chewing, and said it tasted like shampoo. De-Ji laughed harder than she had for a long time. When it was at the end of the sunset, Zoro was snoring, and De-Ji put her hand in his favorite spot, it was right above the curve in his torso. She rubbed it gently, and he woke up and smiled at her. Then he sat up a little and put his arm around her waist, and his other hand in the curve in her side. She made a weird little noise, a happy one, and Zoro chuckled, and rubbed it like she had with him. She looked at him warningly, but couldn't keep up the look and finally collapsed in his arms. He smiled down at her, a little menacingly because of his constantly grumpy face. De-Ji closed her eyes, and thought, 'so this is what bliss is...' then her eyes popped open when she felt Zoro's lips press against hers, and closed them when Zoro opened his. When he was done kissing her, she felt his head slide along her cheek, and she could hear his soft, but yet gruff breathing, in her ear. His cheek was
soft, but not too soft, like a girl's. She ran her hand up his side, and placed it on top of his muscular shoulder. She opened her eyes finally to find that he had been smiling too. She smiled wider when she saw one of his rare smiles. His dark eyes were peering into her green swirly eyes, and she wondered what he was really seeing. She was a little saddened when the wonderfully dark, complicated eyes closed, but was happy again as Zoro put his head on her shoulder.
The End