Sanji was the only one that noticed. For how open and shameless Luffy seemed to be, they knew almost nothing about him.

He'd known the boy for nearly a decade, he should know more than that his favorite color was red and he liked meat. He should fucking know more, and how the fuck didn't he? Sanji had never even considered that Luffy was more than what he let the world see (what he let them, his friends see), because Luffy was so blunt and honest and how didn't he see this before?

With disturbing clarity, he realized he didn't even know where the kid lived. Sure, he'd picked up the idiot in the geezer's old car dozens of times when the shit had the nerve to call him at fucking three in the morning, but never in the same place. He might be at the town park, or the local lake, or merely another eating facility. He might call at nine o'clock at night, or three in the morning, but he never seemed to hesitate.

As Sanji attempted to sleep that night and tried to forget, the thoughts still haunted his mind, one question going above all others: Why? And with one, came the others. Why was Luffy almost a stranger when Sanji had interacted with him since childhood? How didn't he notice? Why didn't anyone else notice? And with his mind so heavy, he almost didn't hear his cellphone's obnoxious ring. After letting it ring for a second or two, he sluggishly sat up feeling through the dark before his hand closed around the familiar metal. Annoyed, he put the phone to his ear.

"Hello?" he asked breathlessly, wanting to get this done as soon as possible as he was not exactly in the mood for a casual chat.

"Shitty cook," the gruff voice greeted fondl btu firmly. The words themselves was normal. But, Sanji was struck silent by the fact that the other sounded almost...relieved to speak with him, something that didnt happen very often at all. With no insults fired back by the blonde, the voice continued. "We need to talk. About Luffy."

Sanji couldn't agree more.

So yeah, you guys wanted it, you got it.

So yeah, pairings undecided, if any. What do you guys think? Romance or no? If romance, it will most likely be ZoLu, just saying. I might just make two separate versions, but that would slow down my writing a bit. Oh well...