Sacrifice

Together

3rd Person POV

A small gasps escapes Sanji as he feels Zoros lips on his. After a few moments, Sanji is still frozen and Zoro pulls away. He keeps his forehead on Sanjis as the cook just stare at him with his eyes as wide as saucers. "Do you believe me now?" Zoro gives him a small smirk as he could basically see the gears turning in Sanjis head. "D-Do it again." Zoro lets out a breathy laugh and pulls Sanji in. As their lips touch again, Sanji reacts this time and kisses Zoro back. He feels himself melting into the kiss and place one hand on the side of Zoros face and one onto Zoros chest. They continue until all of the oxygen leaves their lungs and they are forced to pull away. They stare at each other panting slighty with small smiles on their face. "Sanji? Please be mine." Sanji then looks down as a blush begin rising up all the way to his ears.

"This isn't a joke right? You actually love me?" Zoro uses his hand to make Sanji look him in the eyes again. "I do. I heard everything you said. I heard all the pain you were going through and the hell I caused you. Luffy told me almost everything that has been going on." Zoro frowns as he grabs Sanjis hands that still have small bandages. "He told me how you hurt your hands. How? Why would you do that?" He hears Sanji sigh as he begins to explain. "He announced to everyone how we were gonna let you go in three days. I just got so mad. I threw everyone out of the galley and Luffy is the only one that stayed. He said yo-you were dying. I lost it. I lost myself. I couldn't bear hearing that you were gonna die. I hit him. I swung at anything around me including punching and kicking him and the everhything that was surrounding me. Franky wasn't too happy about that but it was the only thing that I could think of. I-I didn't want to lose anyone. Not again." Zoro strokes Sanjis cheek staring at him with a slight frown.

"Don't do that again. It's my job to get lost remember?" He hears Sanji let out breathy laugh and sees a small smile get placed on his face. Zoro pulls away and walks over to the bed and flops down onto it. He crosses his arms and places them behind his head. He looks up to see Sanji standing in the same place he left him. "Um what do you want to tell the crew? Robin and Luffy already know but the rest of the crew doesn't" Zoro nods. "I think we shouldn't announce anything just yet. We still need to get used to not trying to kill each other every 5 mintues." Sanji walks over to the other side of the bed and sits on the edge facing a way from Zoro. "That's fine. We are gonna have to tell at least Robin and Luffy tho." Zoro grunts in agreement.

"Hey cook?" Sanji turns to look at him. "Why don't you come here on the bed completely hmm? I can tell you're exhausted, and because I was told you barely slept. The crew will understand if you need a break." Sanji crawls onto the bed completely trying to leave space between himself and Zoro. They sit there akwardly not saying anything to each other until Zoro finally broke the tension. "Alright. I'm not doing this."

"What do you me- Ah!" Sanji feels himself get pulled into Zoros chest. His face turns 3 shades darker and he shakily puts a hand around Zoros waist. He begins to calm down when he feels a hand start combing slowly through his hair. He lets out a breath he realizes he has been holding and melts into Zoros warmth. "My answer is yes by the way. I will be yours." Zoro closes his eyes and smiles feeling Sanji nuzzle closer to him. He leans down to kiss the top of his head while his one hand moves from his hair to rub the side of his face, he places his other on Sanjis arm that he wrapped around him.

"Can I ask you something?" Sanji hums in acknowledgement. "What did you mean by you were didn't want to lose anyone else?" Sanji feels his breath catch in his throat. "Can uh. Can we talk about that later? I don't want to talk about it." Sanji says trying to look anywhere but Zoros face. "Okay. But I want you tell me sooner or later. Especially if it can put the rest of the crew in danger."

"I will. I promise." Sanji says. "Say Zoro. How do you thin the crew will react when we do decide to tell them?" Zoro chuckles. "Honestly, I don't think any of them will have a problem with it. Some might be confused but that's about it." "I'm more worried about Nami trying to start bets on us." Zoro groaned at his remark. "You got a point. She's gonna try to make as much money as she can off of us." They both laughed knowing what's ahead for them with the money hungry red head. "I booked this hotel room for the whole time we're here. So we can come and go as we please here for a few days. I do need to get food though since Luffy ate more of the supply than usual." Zoro pulls Sanji closer to him and sighs. "That's fine. Let's jsut rest now. We can figure out the rest tomorrow." He kisses Sanjis head one more time before falling asleep almost instantly.

Sanjis POV

Well this is a new developement I guess. Everything happened so fast but, I don't regret it. He's mine. He's finally mine. I haven't been this happy in a while. I'm also scared. Scared that he's not gonna like my past. Think I'm weak. I'm gonna try to push that conversation away as much as possible. The last thing I need is for him to freak out and then hate me again. I can hear his snores as I shift slightly to put my head between Zoros collar and jaw. He's so comfortable. He's like a personal heater too. I feel myself relax more into the warmth raidating off his body and feel tiredness slowly take over. I feel a small smile slip on my face as my last thought is: I'm glad you're mine. I love you.