It's the last chapter. Have fun. It's longer and i'm tired.

(2:29 PM)

Do you want to meet up? I'm kind of assuming we live in the same town.

(2:29 PM)

YEAH! How do you know if we live in the same place? :o

(2:30 PM)

…Just a gut feeling.

Contrary to the popular belief (spread mostly by Sanji), Roronoa Zoro was not stupid.

…Okay, he was kind of dim, but he wasn't stupid enough to pass off that situation with Luffy getting a text just as soon as he sent the mystery-number a text as a complete coincidence. It had been months since the incident, and he had known and hung out with Luffy for quite some time now, but he just couldn't get it out of his head.

There was also mystery-number. They had known each other for a good amount of time, not to mention they knew quite a bit about each other now that they had just been spending nights talking. Mystery-Number knew all about Zoro's strange obsession with rewatching reruns of sex comedy shows, and Zoro knew all about Mystery-number's affinity for fishing. In all honesty, it was a bit of a surprise that they didn't try to meet each other beforehand, but now Zoro had a hypothesis to test.

Was Luffy the mystery-number?

Zoro absently lifted a weight in one hand while he scrolled through social media on his phone in the other, waiting for any sort of response from mystery-number-probably-luffy. There was many benefits to this situation. One being that if Luffy was this mystery number, Zoro wasn't going to have to figure out if he wanted to get with mystery number or if he wanted to get with Luffy.

He had come to terms with the fact that yes, he was extremely crushing on the teen about a few weeks back when Nami and Usopp (his odd friends who have way too much time on their hands) bombarded Zoro's apartment, waving hello to Mr. Curly, Luffy following in behind them and declaring a movie night. Sanji, too distracted by the girl being well…a girl, didn't even bother to try and reason against this, and that is how Zoro found his Friday night be taken up by some high school seniors on his couch, floor and chair, yelling about what movie to watch.

Luffy had seated himself next to Zoro on the couch, Usopp had fallen back into a very comfy armchair, Nami had taken to the floor leaning up against Usopp's legs, and Sanji laid down on the floor with a pillow as his companion. The movie chosen was some sort of romance movie first (at the insistence of Nami, and the silent head nod of Zoro as it was secretly in his collection of favorites that nobody should ever know about), and they all sat around comfortably, throwing snacks at eachother and discussing clichés among other things.

It was kind of strange, becoming such fast friends with them, but Zoro could've sworn he probably knew them in a past life or something, making the process all the easier.

They were on their fourth movie at about 4 in the morning, Sanji face down into his pillow, sleeping away the fight scenes being displayed, Nami holding tight to one of Usopp's legs and her head bouncing up and down as she tried to fight it, and Usopp had straight up fallen into dream land at about 2 am.

This left Luffy and Zoro being the only two still very awake.

"Shouldn't we just stop the movie and all go to bed?" Zoro asked quietly once he realized Nami had finally given up. "Everyone's passed out."

"Do we have to?" Luffy whined, "This was getting really good! I wanted to see if she could actually save that guy from dying or not…"

"We can, in the morning." Zoro persisted. He wasn't really tired at all, 4 am was his usual bedtime, but for the good of the guests (read: For the good of not wanting to wake up Sanji and Nami and have to deal with how they will be without a lot of sleep), he was pretty this was a good idea.

Luffy sunk low in his seat, pouting but the lack of response meant he was complying. Zoro grabbed the remote and turned the movie off, along with the tv, leaving them in darkness.

"I'll get the cook, you get Nami actually on somewhere better than the floor. I'll chuck some pillows their way or something." Zoro shrugged as he got up, leaning down to where Sanji was sleeping on the floor, and proceeding to repeatedly shove his shoulder until he woke up and was being ushered to bed by Zoro.

Nami woke up with relative ease, climbing onto the couch and immediately passing out again, and Usopp was just a lost cause. Zoro, true to his word, dropped a pillow and a blanket on Nami, and just put a blanket on Usopp.

This left Luffy.

"I'm not tired." Luffy said as soon as Zoro approached him, crossing his arms and pouting, "I'm not tired at all, Zoro!"

"That so?" Zoro raised an eyebrow, "Then just come hang out in my room. I wanted to look over some stuff anyway."

Luffy grinned brightly at this, following with quick steps into Zoro's room where he immediately flopped face first onto Zoro's green sheets, claiming one of the pillows as his own. Luffy wiggled over so his back was against the wall, facing front toward Zoro, looking extremely comfy.

"I thought you said you weren't tired?" Zoro smirked as he laid down next to Luffy, head on the pillow not currently being crushed by Luffy's arms.

"Just because I'm not tired doesn't mean I can't get comfy!" Luffy laughed, nuzzling his face into the pillow and then lifting his head up with a refreshed sounding gasp. "See? Comfy!"

They laid there for a while, talking about everything and nothing, getting on the topic of Luffy's brother Sabo who most certainly almost crushed in his little brother's skull because this plan tonight was so…well, unplanned and abrupt. Luffy told Zoro about how he managed to ward him off, convince him he was fine ("I'm turning 18, like, next month!" He had repeated, multiple times.) And let him go with Nami and Usopp. He also talked about Ace, the recovering brother who apparently was doing a lot better, and smiling a lot more.

Zoro talked about recent music sheets he's found, and his sword training, which fascinated Luffy. He also talked about his own family, his annoyingly rich family, including his little sister Perona who he described as a pain in his side but sometimes not.

This went on until about 6 in the morning, where Luffy's eyes started to droop and his postured got more relaxed. Zoro had poked him a couple of times to keep him awake, until all efforts were futile and he had fallen asleep in Zoro's bed, snoring lightly.

Zoro was at the point where he probably couldn't sleep now, for his body was too set for waking up this early instead of going to sleep this late, so he just laid there coming to terms with the fact that he had the guy who he was slightly interested in sleeping his bed.

Now the way Luffy slept wasn't probably considered cute to most people, certainly not people like Roronoa Zoro, for Luffy slept with his mouth wide open, drool coming out of the side, pillow shoved above him and legs a twisted mess. It wasn't until Luffy seemed to realize he was cold, and there was a giant furnace of a 19 year old next to him, so the most obvious thing to do is wiggle over and attach.

Zoro finds himself with Luffy's forehead on his shoulder and his arms wrapped tightly around Zoro's own arm. This is when he realized.

He has got it really fucking bad for Monkey D. Luffy.

So, coming to terms and reassuring himself that yes, he wasn't lying to himself, he did want to date this guy, this is how Zoro finds himself trying to test the hypothesis.

(2:33 PM)

So where are we going, what does your mystery feeling tell you?

(2:33 PM)

There's this place that only exists in this town. A really dinky and kind of rough bar. The Baratie. You heard of it?

(2:34 PM)

This guy I know, Mr. Curly, works there sometimes I think! I know it really well, I've been a couple of times! Good meat.

Zoro sucked in a breath. That almost proved it, with the nickname Sanji had been given…Granted it could just be another one in the culinary class, but…Zoro had hope, for once.

(2:34 PM)

Let's meet there, if that's alright. At…4:00?

(2:34 PM)

That sounds fine! I will see you then, mystery guy!

/

"Luffy, you're not seriously going to do this, are you?" Sabo's voiced had a worried twinge to it, a frown on his face as he watched his little brother root around for an outfit to wear.

"Nope, I am!" Luffy smiled at his brother before going to back to his clothes, his nose wrinkling in disgust at some of the old choices he found, tossing them carelessly behind him. "I'm gonna meet mystery guy today. It's going to be great."

"What if it's NOT great? What if he's a creeper, or some guy trying to prey on you!?" Sabo pointed out and Luffy stared at him like he was stupid.

"…I'll just kick their ass? Duh?"

Sabo groaned.

Luffy sighed at this, dropping the clothes he has holding and walking over to his brother sitting on his bed. He plopped on the ground in front of him, resting his chin on one of Sabo's knees.

"Sabo, I love it that you care about me so much and I understand that…with what happened in the accident, you wanna take care of me! But have faith, okay? I can handle myself fine!" Luffy pat his brother's arm, trying to soothe the worries he felt.

Sabo let his hand drift to Luffy's head, ruffling it affectionately, "I know. I'm sorry. You got this, I just have to remind myself sometimes. You're not my 12 year old idiotic brother who gets himself locked in a closet for a day."

"It was ONE TIME!"

Sabo laughed, reliving Luffy slightly. "Now then." Sabo clapped his hands together, nodding, "We need something that'll make you have a good impression but also make you seem hard to get!"

/

4 o clock, outside of the Baratie, Zoro sat on a bench bouncing his leg continuously. He had gotten here way early, on account of his directional habits and the lack of a car, and now all he had to do was wait.

"Oh! Zoro!"

Speak of the devil and they shall come, apparently.

Luffy waved at him excitedly as he jogged up to the man, and Zoro took a moment to admire the outfit Luffy had on. A black jacket with a blue shirt decorated with clouds, and brown shorts with lace up boots. It was simple, but still very stylish and suited him nicely.

Zoro stood up and couldn't help but grin when Luffy smiled at him, halting in front of him.

"What're you doing here? I'm supposed to meet someone and they said 4…" Luffy explained, looking around the area. "It doesn't help I have no idea what they look like, though!"

Zoro was about to fucking burst. He was right. Luffy was totally the mystery number. Pulling out his phone, Zoro quickly typed out a text.

(4:01 PM)

If you're looking for me, I'm the one with the green hair.

The airhorn of Luffy's phone blared, and he pulled it out hastily.

"The one with the green…" He read outloud, eyes widening as he looked up at stared at Zoro's hair, then the phone in his hand. Luffy looked back at his phone, typing away.

(4:01 PM)

Could your name be Roronoa Zoro?

(4:02 PM)

Yeah. Is yours Monkey D. Luffy?

"YOU'RE the mystery number?!" Luffy exclaimed as he took in all the information going on. Zoro nodded, a bit sheepishly.

"I didn't tell you before because I wasn't actually…sure, until now." Zoro explained to him as Luffy bounced on his toes In excitement.

"This is so exciting! I can't believe it's been you the whole time, and we already know each other so well and stuff! This works perfectly, it's like a movie or something!" Luffy declared, nodding happily.

Zoro shifted from foot to foot. "Well, since we got that out of the way now, and there's not a problem with it…"

Zoro held out his hand, "Want to go out with me, mystery number?"

Luffy stopped bouncing, and his smile got gentler as he grabbed Zoro's hand and laced their fingers together, pulling him closer.

"I'd like that very much, mystery guy."

(4:48 AM)

oi where's the kitchen

(4:48 AM)

go to bed, zoro.

(4:49 AM)

….alright.

and there it is, the fic is done. no, i'm not doing anything else with this fic, minus some minor editing i'll do tomorrow probably because it's like. almost 1 am here!

anyway, i wanted to get this bad boy done because i had some ideas for new fics coming up and i always feel bad starting new fic when i have one in the works. so that's why this guy just abruptly stopped, but hey, i think it was time.

hope you enjoyed this little tiny zolu thing. i enjoyed it, it was a good test-the-waters type of thing! kind of a practice to get back into the habit of writing more.

anyway. see you again soon.