Chapter 3

There goes the third chapter! Hope you have fun! :3

"Dance Powder?"

The young reindeer closed the heavy book titled 'Desert diseases' with a loud clasp. He looked very upset, which didn´t comfort Sanji very much.

"What about the Dance Powder?" The blonde asked, taking in as much nicotine as he possibly could to relieve some stress.

"Well," Chopper frowned slightly, "you know that the people from Alabasta use it from time to time to create the rain, right?" he asked at first, internally planning the whole conversation he was going to be put through before Sanji could understand the whole problem. The blonde chef wasn´t stupid, but what Chopper read in his medical book was rather… well, not actually unbelievable, but not too many would be happy to believe it.

Sanji nodded slowly. "Sure. Nami-san said it was something that was used here… and then she moved!" A tiny trail of blood ran down Sanji´s nose, the teen drooling over the ship´s navigator as usual. "Aaaah, Nami-swan! Mellorine, Mellorine~!"

"Sanji!" Chopped cried, quite unhappy with his crewmate mostly ignoring the fact that they had some sort of a problem here. A rather big one, actually.

"Mello – uh, what?"

"Concentrate on me!"

"But you´re not… you don´t have… blossom…" And there the animal kid realized that Sanji didn´t really care if it was Nami or not. All that mattered was 'blossom'. Not that he actually understood what Sanji meant by that, but he´s heard him say it more times already, so it was probably something very important to the cook.

"I know I don´t, since you only mention it while on topic about girls. But you asked me to search this up for you –"

"Okay, okay, I know." Sanji sighed, interrupting the speech before he would get a lecture from a minor. That would be quite unpleasing. "Go ahead."

The youngest member of their crew grinned toothily, like a very happy child. "Well." He said in a firm, businesslike voice. "The Dance Powder travels up to the atmosphere or course, where it changes into a fake raincloud. Got that?"

Sanji nodded, somehow managing to understand up till then.

"Good. And here in this book it´s said that high up in the sky it might actually create another cloud, but not that kind of cloud like the rainclouds." Chopper explained as simply as he could, using all of his doctor skills to deal with a dumb patient.

"… Eee… heh." Sanji half-nodded, half let it go through his one ear and out of the other.

Well, it seemed that Chopper needed to get his attention somehow. Although the young doctor supposed – no, he was 100% sure about it – he´d get to that soon. "This one particular cloud that forms when the Dance Powder reaches some actual height, like 100 meters I think, is invisible and more like a thin air that sort of… well, falls on us all while we´re here."

"A… hem."

"And of course, we breathe this all in, right?"

"Mm… yep?"

Chopper sighed. He could nothing but hope Sanji understood, or at least listened. "And it´s only natural that it effects us in some way."

"So…" Chopper could literally see the chains working inside of Sanji´s head as the cook was thinking as hardly as possible. "The Dance Powder cloud or air or whatever is the cause of… Zoro´s weird condition?" he asked at last.

"Exactly!" The reindeer was actually very surprised and pleased to see that Sanji in fact did get what he said. "Although I find it a bit weird, since Zoro is such a strong guy who never lets any illness, or even a simple nausea, get him. Weird indeed." Chopped touched the book, looking at it doubtfully. It still seemed just… unnatural.

"Hm?" Sanji looked at the kid before his curiously took over and he realized that he did need to know more about this. "What do you mean? It´s not like I wanna cover up for that idiot, but it´s not his fault, is it?"

Chopper shook his head from left to right vigorously. "No, that´s not what I meant. See, this usually… Well…"

"Well?" Sanji´s curiosity was reaching it´s peak.

"Well… it usually has effect only on women." The doctor of the Mugiwara crew said in a low tone.

On the other side of the room, the cooked yelled in nothing even close to a low tone. "WHAT?!" In that moment, the cook felt like doing many things. One, he wanted to scream. Two, he wanted to slap the shitty swordsman back into reality. Three (and he was not very proud of that one, since this was actually a not-such-a-great situation), he wanted to burst out in crazy laughter.

It affects girls. Fucking GIRLS.

And Zoro.

Zoro was NOT a girl.

The blonde took a very deep breath, deep indeed, and exhaled slowly, reminding himself that he should at least try to be nice and act like an adult.

"… Sanji?" Chopper asked after a while of staring at the bright red-faced teen before him. To Chopper, Sanji seemed like a balloon animal that was just about to explode.

The said boy shook his head violently, suddenly back to the present world. "Yeah. I get it. Girls. … Ghhhg!" all the marvelous attempts at not laughing aside, Sanji just had to throw a hand over his mouth to stop himself from screaming like an idiot and nearly chocking his brains out while having fun thanks to his idiot nakama.

Chopped sighed. "Well, actually." He added to his previous statement. "It might as well affect men, but only in… exceptions."

That somehow caught Sanji´s attention, the information being even powerful enough to make him stop giggling. "Exceptions?" he repeated, thinking what kind of person Zoro had to be to slowly turn into a girl. No. He MUSN´T laugh.

"Yes. The book says that it affects mostly girls, because no matter how dominant they are and how strong they are, they will always end up being… the submissive one." Sanji was a bit creeped out – Chopped seemed to know too much for such a young kid. But, then again, Chopper was a doctor. And a reindeer. Sanji simply let it be, thinking that it had to do something with the animal instincts.

"Okay?" the cook waited for Chopper to continue. Truthfully? Besides thinking that Zoro was going Zoroko, he didn´t get much.

"Do catch my drift, or don´t you?" Chopped gave him an incredibly unimpressed gaze.

Sanji shook his head again, trying to get rid of the mental picture of Zoro with blossom. In his imagination, it was bigger than Nami-san´s. "Eh – no?"

The poor little animal pitied himself silently for sharing a ship with such idiots, then took a breath to explain the whole problem to the man that took him on the ship as an emergency food supply. "Simply, I deduced that since today´s morning Zoro haven´t been himself. Then we left the ship and when we came back, you were screaming and running all over the ship and he was even weirder. And with my delicate sense of smell, I deduced that he was –"

"Okay okay, I don´t need to hear it! Simplify it!"

"Did Zoro ever say he liked other guys better than girls?"

"No. I tried to make him confess, but he didn´t want to."

Chopped sighed for like millionth time that evening. "I thought so. It effects women because of the submissiveness that´s practically coded into their DNA. But it might as well effect men who like being submissive, too."

"… So Zoro is the bottom?"

"THAT´S THE ONLY THING YOU WANNA KNOW, IDIOT?!"

-oOOo-

Zoro had a plan. For like the first time in his life, he actually had a plan. Otherwise he was very impulsive and spontaneous, but right then and there, he actually did make up a plan.

The facts were: 1. He was fucking horny, for almost five hours straight, and even though he´s already gone through 3683 push ups, 2375 weight lifts and 10 beers, his cock just wouldn´t even try to calm down and leave him be. That had never ever happened before, and it was making Zoro uneasy.

2. Sanji obviously thought he was homo, creep and one of the most disgusting things right next to cheap food and shitty cuisine. Well, that wouldn´t be such a problem normally, but right then and there, Zoro thought of it like of a very bad thing. He was actually getting a bit sad because of it. That didn´t happen either.

3. Zoro himself obviously didn´t think clearly, seeing that of all things, what he decided to do was jerk off on the deck.

4. Zoro himself definitely wasn´t thinking clearly, seeing that of all things, what he decided to do was to look for Ace.

And here, we´re back to Zoro´s so-called plan.

It wasn´t that complicated, really. No one would expect much more from the swordsman, nor he would expect more from himself, but he wasn´t concerned about that earlier – not at all. He thought it was good enough to work out.

Go to Ace, make him do you. Put a sword under his chin, tell him not to ever mention it or approach you ever again. Leave. Act like nothing happened.

The only problem was, Ace was incredibly unpredictable. Incredibly. Zoro had realized that when he found himself sandwiched between Ace´s body and Ace´s bed – fully clothed, having the raven-haired boys head leaned on his chest and the very same person´s hands on his more and more sensitive hips that had the goddamn urge to buck up against Ace´s tummy.

For ever-loving fuck´s sake. This was NOT what he had planned.

Ace was occasionally falling asleep every five or seven minutes. And when he wasn´t, he was talking. Fucking talking.

Portgas D. Ace, the sex machine that nearly ravished Zoro´s body that same day on the deck right next to the kitchen where the stupid cook was making dinner, was fucking talking. About random shit at the top of that.

"You know, I was like fifteen when I joined in, and Marco and Tatch were my only friends. I actually planned to loose my V-card to Marco, but he´s still with Tatch, so I didn´t want to mess up things between them. So I sorta ended up fucking Makino from our village. Heh."

Zoro grimaced terribly into the space, praying that this all would end soon and Ace would just help him solve the little problem in the green-haired teen´s pants. This was so damn stupid.

"So." The fire user said, placing his hands on either side of Zoro, still laying between his legs. He shifted a bit onto his elbows, his groin going up with him and coming closer to Zoro´s bulge.

The swordsman eek-ed in a shock when his crotch was rubber like that.

"Who was your first-time?" Ace asked, eyes sparkling with the need to know. Was he doing that on a purpose?

Zoro stared at him slowly, eyes wide. He was trying to proceed the words. His system just didn´t seem to be able to work it out. "He?" was all that came out.

Ace laughed heartily. "Aww, you´re so cute baby!" he cooed, staring down at him, happy to see the teen all helpless to escape from him. He had him pinned down quite nicely. And the bulge between Zoro´s sexy toned legs was literally piercing his belly from the time he had told Zoro to lay down on the bed.

The young swordsman blushed. "Don´t call me cute." He murmured, obviously embarrassed.

"But you are." Ace demanded. "And you still haven´t answered me! Or is it possible that… you´re still actually…"

"I´m not!" Zoro yelped desperately, not even wanting Ace to finish what he was saying. It was frustrating him like nothing else.

The older teen stared at him for a little while, studying the textures of his tanned skin. His chocolate brown eyes met the dark green ones. "Yes you are." Ace grinned suddenly. "It´s written all over your face."

"I´m not, you stupid – grh! Why the hell would you even think so?!" Zoro was getting pissed now. Nobody had the right to decide that for him.

The other just smiled sweetly, tilting his head to the left a bit. "Well. First off, if you weren´t, you wouldn´t get so mad if I asked. Second, you wouldn´t get so embarrassed if I would want to talk about it. If you were at least a bit experienced, you wouldn´t have that much of a problem to talk about it." Suddenly, he leaned down to lick Zoro´s collar bone.

The younger of the two, not expecting the attack, shivered and suppressed a low moan vibrating in his neck.

"And third. Virgin´s never get so horny."

In fact, Ace was very well aware of Zoro´s far-too-tight pants. From the very moment the boy had knocked on his doors. It was very obvious what Zoro wanted from him, yet, Ace had decided not to give it to him so easily. Sure, he wanted him too, from the moment he saw him first – there was something damn sexy about the swordsman that none of the crew had in them – and he was thinking about screwing him into a little bunch of sweat and nerves all the time, but. There was a part of Ace that just loved making his partners go crazy and totally out of their mind before he did anything with them.

And Zoro had caught his interest.

Poor guy. Ace was not going to let him go unless he was sure Zoro would limp while on it.

By then, the nineteen-year-old´s face was red as cherry. Seriously? Seriously?!

Zoro just had to wonder what the hell was wrong with this god-friggen day. Just nothing could go right.

"I´m not." He repeated in defeat. In fact, he wasn´t lying; not fully. He had been with… few… two… women before. But not with a man. Actually, until today he lived in the belief that he was straight. Yet, here he was, in the bed with his captain´s brother, waiting eagerly for Ace to make him beg for more. Zoro gave himself a huge mental slap for even thinking that.

Ace smiled softly. "Aw baby. I´m just teasing. So who was your first? Was he sexy at least from half like you are?" The fire user licked his lips, supporting his weight with a hand under his chin.

"Uhh… I… I… um…" Zoro thought deeply. "No."

"No?"

"Huh?"

Ace laughed again. Then he nuzzled into Zoro´s neck, just like that, out of blue. Like it was completely okay. "Mmmh, Zoro~" he moaned out like that was okay too. Sliding his naked Torso against Zoro´s clothed one, he purred into his skin. "I think I´m gonna… take a little nap."

"FUCK NO!" Zoro cried desperately, making Ace whip his head up, eyes wide and surprised. His face was a bit sleepy, but seeing Zoro so incredibly tsundere… his narcoleptic habits somehow sublimed away.

"What´s wrong, Zoro?" he asked innocently, yet knowing very well what was wrong.

The greenhead frowned, his lower lip quivering as if he was going to sob and beg for sex. Ace though that maybe he actually was going to. "I…" he forced out in a squeaky voice. "I just…"

"Yes?" Ace nudged Zoro´s chin with his nose, brushing against Zoro´s manly jaw.

Zoro grimaced, seeming to be in some sort of a weird pain. "Ace… help…" he cried softly, pushing his weakened hands against Ace´s chest, trying to get himself at least a tiny relief from the weight pressing down on his body.

The Logia user sat up at that. Zoro didn´t look aroused anymore – there was a hint of lust in his eyes, yes, but looking at his body, Ace could clearly enough see that the swordsman´s face was way too twisted, way too flushed and sweaty. Also, his tummy seemed to shiver all over.

He put a hand down between Zoro´s hipbones, his lower belly. It seemed more heated than it should be, and it was making tiny motions under his hand, but otherwise, it seemed fine. It was nice and flat, tight with fine muscles and for a moment, Ace´s mind slipped away and he thought of licking it deliciously just right after Zoro would cum all over himself… yes…

"Ace…" the teen sprawled across his bed moaned. "Help… It hurts…"

That startled the older of the two a little. Zoro – the crazy swordsman who ate pain every day, twice on the Sundays, was admitting that something hurt? "Baby, what´s wrong?" he asked with concerned eyes. "What hurts?" he wanted to know so he could help. Maybe… maybe it´d be for the best to call the little reindeer doctor…

"Nnnngh…"

"What is it?" Ace demanded, cupping Zoro´s face to calm the boy down at least a little bit.

"Tummy… tummy hurts…" Zoro wheezed weakly. "Hand… on it…"

Ace understood. He put his hand back where it was just a moment ago, his free one going up to cup his face once again. He brushed his thumb over Zoro´s sweaty cheek, wiping away some of the salty liquid. Zoro´s face was overheated and blushing, his eyes fluttered and half-lidded. Ace couldn´t help himself but think that Zoro was, despite the fact that he was also in pain, damn cute like this.

"Mmh…" Zoro let out a relieved small noise. "Warm…"

Ace figured he wanted him to heat his hand. He calculated how much of the heat would Zoro want, but before he knew it, the younger teen was already melting into his warming touch. Well. At least he didn´t need to call the kid doctor. He was glad Zoro´s pain was better.

Shit. And he wanted this night to turn out… way more different.

"Is it better?" he asked in a sugary voice, fingers brushing down Zoro´s neck.

"Uh-uh… better…" Zoro nodded sleepily, still watching Ace´s face. "Mm."

Ace let his hand slide lower, down the boy´s chest, glazing over his tanned skin and well-defined muscles. Stopping by his ribs, he traced his index finger to Zoro´s cute navel, letting it dig inside. He played with that spot a bit, circling it from the inside with his finger, making Zoro give him a cute pleasured noise. That was more like it. Ace was still planning on making Zoro feel like going crazy.

Ace´s hands flew to the greenhead´s firm hips, softly placing his heated palms on them to steady Zoro´s body. He was sort of counting on the boy writhing in few minutes or so, therefore, he needed to be prepared to keep him down. Soon, very soon, Zoro was going to feel like jumping out of his cute sexy body.

Ace was just about to bend down and kiss Zoro´s lower belly, when there was a goddamn knock on his door.

He growled in frustration, turning his head around to give the door an exclusively annoyed look. Zoro shifted to his elbows and stared at the door as well, his eyes half-lidded and vision all blurry.

"Ace-kun?"

Ace cocked his brow. The fuck?

Zoro, on the other hand, totally freaked out. He jumped up, nearly knocking Ace off of his own bed, and then simply kept panicking.

Where to hide? What to do? Who to ask for help? How to survive?

It was their ship´s navigator, Nami. The Nami. If she found him here and if he dared to ask for her silence, she´d raise his debt to 1. 000. 000. 000 Beli. And that would be only the beginning. Then she´d maybe kill him and give to Sanji to make a sea food out of him. Or worse – she´d actually tell the others about this.

At last, when Zoro stopped panicking – or, more likely, kept panicking but hid in the closet – Ace sighed heavily and responded. "Yeah?"

Nami, confident as ever, opened the door to Ace´s room and walked in. Zoro could hear her go past his hiding spot, her heels tapping on the wooden floor. He could only imagine what was she wearing – Ace´s silence was enough of a hint to the swordsman – and seeing that he already knew her a bit, he could tell why was she here. No offence to Nami, he respected her as a nakama, but he thought that she was rather… promiscuous? Well, when there was a rich-looking or good-looking guy, everybody knew that he´d end up in Nami´s net.

"U-uh… Nami…chan." Even an experienced man such as Ace was surprised to see her like this – wearing bikinis.

Nami smiled lovingly. "I thought that maybe you´d like to join me for a little night swim?" she said, not actually questioning – more likely telling him that if he wanted his life to make sense, he´d better go with her.

Obviously she didn´t know about what happened earlier – or what was Ace´s… actual orientation. "Uh-uh." He managed. "Uh! I mean… well, in fact, I´m starting to feel a bit ill you know. Maybe some desert flu?" he tried to shoo her away.

Failed miserably. "Oh?" the redhead purred sensually. "Then maybe I shall take care of you in here?"

Zoro swallowed hard. He had no illusions – Ace wouldn´t resist for long. Eventually, he´d end up listening to the two of them having fun together while hiding in the closet.

God-friggen-ever-loving-fuck.

This day was never meant to turn out right.

Maybe he could quietly try to jerk off while they´re on it? Zoro was feeling absolutely ridiculous, but also quite finely desperate. He didn´t know what he should do anymore – he couldn´t leave unless Nami would torture him for the rest of his life, and he couldn´t stay unless the boner in his pants would grow painful. It already began to hurt a bit.

Zoro took a quiet inhale of breath, let the air fill his lungs, then exhaled, sort of thinking of the blonde shit-cook, imagining him smoking. Could he live with himself if he did jerk off while listening to Nami riding Ace? Zoro shook his head violently, pushing away the desire to slap himself for being able to even think of something like that. No. Absolutely not. That would go against his pride not only as a swordsman, but also as a human. There were some limits.

He was just going to have to… well, suffer through this. He hoped Nami wouldn´t want to sleep in Ace´s room so he could creep out later.

He sighed.

And just as Zoro was going to push his fingers into his ears to block the unnecessary noises that were certainly just about o begin, he heard the door fly open.

"ACE!"

Zoro, if he could, would cry out in mental pain. Why the fuck?

This was Luffy. What the heck was Luffy doing there?!

"L-Luffy!" Ace sounded just about as shocked as Zoro felt. "What´s wrong?" the older pirate asked.

"We need to find Zoro! Chopper said so! He obviously needs to tell him something important –"

"Hey, Hey, Sencho, slow down – " Nami stepped between the two brothers. "Luffy, you calm down – and now slowly begin to speak again." She commanded him even though he was the captain and she was the navigator. In fact, this was abnormally normal on Going Merry.

"Uh, well." Luffy took a deep breath. "Chopper sent me here to look for Zoro."

Zoro scowled. Of course. Just now, when he´s hiding in Ace´s closet, they need to find him. His damn luck was impressively great.

"But he´s nowhere to be find!" Luffy exclaimed angrily. "I looked everywhere! Even in the crow´s nest! I just can´t find him – do you think he went off? Maybe to pee?"

If he could, Zoro would jump out and suffocate his captain. He was just too… too much of a kid. As much as he respected him, he had to admit this. But somehow, that was what made Zoro admire him even more, every now and then.

Ace struggled. "Eh, well, maybe… maybe he likes to take night walks?"

"You think so?" Luffy asked, the hope incredibly obvious in his voice. "But we´re on the ship! He´d get lost while trying to find his way to the shore!"

Zoro had to make a terrible grimace at this. Maybe his sense of orientation was poor, but not that poor.

"Well," Nami spoke up, "have you looked in the kitchen? Maybe he went to search for some booze and fell asleep there?"

Zoro frowned again. This perfectly showed what his crew thought of him.

"I´ve been there, too." Luffy said sadly. "Ace…"

"Uh?" the fire user reacted.

"Do you… do you think he´d leave?"

This totally pissed Zoro off, to point 100 on anger-meter. So this is what Luffy came up with? That he´d leave? He´d never ever leave – he – he …

"Oh, Luffy, don´t be stupid. He´s your first mate. He´d never leave you." Zoro smiled a bit – though not really happily. The only one defending him was Ace who had known him for less than few days. And his crewmates were acting as if he´d betrayed them countless times before. As if they actually had a reason to believe that he would abandon the crew that meant his life by now. How could they think he´d leave?

"But he´s not here!"

Ace sighed. "Okay, little brother. I need you to calm down, okay? I´m sure he´ll appear from somewhere, maybe you just haven´t looked well enough –"

"I´m telling you, Ace, I looked everywhere!" Even though Zoro was still a bit numb from listening to Nami and Luffy talking that way about him, he felt a bit sorry for his captain. He did seem concerned, even though he had the damn nerve to think Zoro would leave.

"Okay, fine. We´ll think something up, just…" the redhead teen took a suck in a breath. "Let me think for a moment…"

"MARIMOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Zoro jumped up in horror at the not-so-popular nickname of his.

"Sanji?" Luffy asked weakly, obviously still down from the wrong impression of Zoro leaving the crew.

"I know you´re in here, you horny bast – Nami-swaaan!"

The green-haired boy sighed. Great. Just great.

"Sanji-kun?" Nami said his name in a surprise. "Is there something to matter?"

Zoro could imagine Sanji spin around Ace´s filled room, legs and arms going noodle-like. "Oh, Nami-swan! If you only knew! That green-haired idiot –"

"Okay okay guys –" Ace called up in a firm voice, just in the right second before a tragedy would happen. "I think it´s getting kind of too crowded here."

"But Ace –" Luffy protested.

"Don´t Ace me, we´re going to look for your sexy swor – Uh, I mean –"

"I KNEW IT!" Sanji yelled, and Zoro could swear he could hear him getting absolutely disgusted. Then he heard a thud on the floor, probably as Sanji fell to his knees to look under the bed.

"Sanji-kun, what are you –"

"Sanji, I´d really appreciate –"

"Sanji, you´re really funny!"

And then, the closet´s door flew open.

"I KNEW IT!"

-oOOo-

"Basically, it´s nothing to be afraid of, you just need to be more careful about your… Needs."

Zoro was staring into space, looking and feeling like a dead fish.

"Zoro, are you listening?"

The greenhead lifted his eyes to the blonde chef. Then he immediately looked away, nodding slightly.

"Obviously you´re not." Sanji noted dryly, most likely talking about Zoro´s condition – he really had some serious trouble in there. In his pants.

"I am." Zoro mumbled, standing up from the bench in Going Merry´s kitchen. "Thanks for telling me, Chopper." He merely whispered, taking his leave as soon as the little doctor closed his medical book. He slightly turned his head to look over his shoulder at his two crewmates before walking out of the kitchen, closing the door.

He felt like a shit. Why the hell… thing like this had to happen?

And, what was worse, he was absolutely humiliated in front of the entire crew – maybe apart from Usopp who was sleeping already after repairing he ship all day. He´s never felt so awful in his nineteen-year-old life. Ever. The only question that had been haunting his mind was, why though.

Zoro wanted to leave immediately, hide somewhere, go to sleep and maybe steal a moment of melancholy and self-pity for himself, but he leaned against the wooden wall instead, right next to the closed kitchen door. He wanted to stay outside for at least few short moments. He needed air, even though Chopper had told him that it would be only for the best if Zoro stayed inside as much as possible.

He didn´t understand. Not a tiny bit.

Instead, he turned his head to left so his ear was closer to the wall, listening to the calm rhythm of two chatting voices.

Chopper sighed. "Do you think I should have put it some other way?" he asked in a real concern. "Zoro seemed really upset to me." He added.

Sanji shook his head. "Don´t worry about him. He´ll be fine." He said calmly, lighting up a new cigarette.

"Well, he didn´t look like he was going to be okay." The doctor murmured.

"Okay, fine. You see, maybe he´s not really okay right now, or won´t be okay tomorrow morning. But now that he knows there´s something wrong, he´s going to be more careful and in a week or two, he´ll be back to normal, right?"

Zoro listened to Sanji´s voice. It was a bit raspy and sounded as if he was smoking while talking. The swordsman wouldn´t be surprised, actually. Sanji was smoking nineteen hours a day. He wasn´t sure if he liked it or not – but he knew he was surprised to hear him talk like this. Since they first met, they seemed to have some eternal problem between each other, something that couldn´t be explained by words. And suddenly, Sanji was… showing him something like kindness.

But today stopped making sense a long time ago, anyway, so Zoro just supposed that was okay, too. He could use someone to show some affection, so if Sanji would be up for it, Zoro would gladly show his true feelings and cry on his shoulder.

Nope.

Chopper´s face brightened up as he heard the cook say this. "Yeah! You´re right!" he laughed.

"Sure I am. And that´s all thanks to you."

The little reindeer blushed. "Shut up, bastard! Like that would make me happy!"

Sanji nothing but smiled gently. "Hn."

Was he actually hoping that the idiot marimo would get better?

Well, I was planning to give you some action, but you just have to wait. Though I ABSOLUTELY MEGA PROMISE that you´ll have your amount of dirtiness in the next chapter. It´s already planned.

But!

I need to thank everybody who had reviewed. You´re absolutely enchanting. I love you all and each one of your words make me very happy. I´m always euphoric while reading a review and I appreciate and admire every single one! So thank you!

And I was thinking. Maybe I should move the story to Zoro section. You know. There are three pairings at the time with him, and I really can´t decide.

R&R! :3