Zosan

Chapter 1

Sanji POV
Every morning I wake up at exactly 7:29am to the same scheduled noise. I know you might be thinking what noise and that would be my captain Luffy banging on my door while shouting "SANJI I'M HUNGRY!" Although it is rude I do appreciate the fact that he only eats my food and no one else's because, and I quote, "too good at my job." I roll out of my bed and walk to the kitchen to begin preparing breakfast for the crew when Zoro walks in front of me and stops "get out of my way asshole" I mutter under my breath but it was just loud enough for him to hear. Zoro started to smirking at me "make me" he said full of confidence. I thought to myself and then quickly pecked him on the cheek, he was left speechless and I pushed my way past him. Thank god I didn't have to endure a fight with him so early in the morning.

Zoro POV
I had just finished doing my morning workout on the main deck of the ship when I saw the cook slowly making his way towards the kitchen to prepare breakfast for everyone when I thought of an idea on how to tick him off. I was going to walk in front of him and stop right in his path making sure he couldn't get past. As I was standing in front of him he muttered "get out of my way asshole" to be honest I don't think he expected me to hear him but I calmly said "make me." I thought that this would spark another one of our many arguments but I was wrong. The cook came closer to me, went onto his tip toes and before I could do or say anything about it he kissed my cheek. I was shocked and couldn't think of anything to quickly say about it so I was left standing there with my mouth gaping open as he brushed past me. "What has gotten into that damn cook all of a sudden" I whispered as I touched my blazing red cheek where his lips had just been.

Sanji POV
I didn't realise what I had just done until I reached the kitchen door and quickly went inside my face all red from embarrassment. "I cannot believe I just did that "I quietly said to myself as I reached a bright tomato red. Nevertheless I got to work on fixing breakfast for the crew since I had an embarrassing run in with Zoro. Since I was nearly done cooking, Luffy burst into the kitchen (since I forgot to lock the doors) and started asking "when is the food gonna be done? I'm hungryyy" I simply responded as if routine "it'll only take another 5 minutes Luffy. While you are waiting, go and start telling the rest of the crew to come and get breakfast for me." He agreed and practically ran out of the kitchen to tell everyone to get ready for breakfast. While the crew was eating their food and commenting on how I "just keep on getting better" my thoughts were elsewhere. The only thing going through my head is what was Zoro thinking about the situation from earlier and why does he keep staring at me.

Zoro POV
I had barely moved since the cook and I had a run in this morning when he kissed my cheek in order to get past. Suddenly I heard heavy footsteps heading my way and heard "ZORO BREAKFAST IS READY!" It was Luffy doing his daily rounds around the ship to tell everyone to gather in the kitchen for breakfast. It snapped me out of my daze and made me realise just how long I was standing there. It had been 45 minutes of me standing there holding my cheek and staring out at the sea and nobody questioned me about it. At least for now I just need to start making my way over for breakfast and ask why later. Once I got into the kitchen everyone else was there already and they were all complimenting the cook on how his cooking had gotten better while I was taking my seat. As I was eating my food I kept replaying what that damn cook did earlier and didn't realise that I had been staring at him the entire time I was eating. I only came to this discovery when he was blushing and staring at me too since everyone else had left. Once again my cheeks had gone bright crimson.

Sanji POV
Upon seeing Zoro a deep shade of red once he realised that we were staring into each other's eyes throughout breakfast brought a smirk to my face, even though I knew I was also beet red. Zoro quickly got up and left before I got the chance to talk to him about our situation earlier or the one that happened just now. I brushed it off for now since I had to wash up the plates that had been used during breakfast.

By the time I had tidied the kitchen and neatly stacked the plates and cutlery it was already 9:47am. I went outside the kitchen to have a smoke while I was taking a moment to recall the interactions between Zoro and I this morning to try and decipher what exactly was going on. I knew that I liked him, I had from the very start really but for some reason he always felt the need to argue with me so I've been going along with it ever since even though I hate to disagree with him. This is the reason why I have kept these feelings to myself because I know that he would never reciprocate them and have only told Nami about this. I felt that I had to tell her since I was constantly flirting with her to seem like I had no interest in men when it was quite the opposite. She agreed to go along with it since she herself also had a similar situation with only being attracted to females. This was our own secret little deal that would help us to stay under the radar. Nami knows about every little interaction that I've had with Zoro over the years and the ones from today won't be an exception. Apart from the fact that these ones are a bit more of a story I'm sure she'll love. I am almost certain that she picked up on Zoro staring at me throughout breakfast this morning and she will not leave me alone until she has the whole story. I'm going to have to prepare myself for all the questions that are bound to come my way.

Zoro POV
After I finished my breakfast and ran out away from San- that damn cook my heart wouldn't stop hammering in my chest. It felt like it would jump out of my throat and run back to him itself if it could. I don't know exactly why my body is acting strange around that cook by having my face heat up until I'm the same colour as Luffy's vest, or why my heart won't calm down when I see him, or whenever I hear his soft voi- what am I even talking about? This is the same damn cook that I get into arguments with on a daily basis and quite regularly even fight with. I can't be thinking about things like this right now when I need to be focussing on becoming the world's greatest swordsman. I wouldn't even stop to think about a woman but here I am thinking of a guy? In all honesty I never really thought about if I swung that way but now is not the time to be contemplating about this. Even if I did like that cook which I don't, there would be no way that he would like me since he is crazy about Nami. I need to stop thinking about this and get back to training now that I have more energy from breakfast.

Sanji POV
While I was deep in thought about what had happened this morning before and during breakfast Nami had snuck up and scared me. Like I thought she had seen how Zoro was staring at me and came to question me about it. I explained to her about how he got in my way and wouldn't move until I would make him so I kissed his cheek and continued on that that might be the cause of why he was staring at me during breakfast. I also added how he didn't even realise that everyone else had left the kitchen during that time and then basically bolted out with a blush on his cheeks. Nami seemed to be shocked since I regularly try to avoid as much contact with Zoro as possible to avert any instances such as this. I guess that I was really out of it since he stopped me before I got to the kitchen where I usually come to my senses while cooking. "How am I supposed to face him when we next see each other, Nami? I won't be able to just forget what happened and I have a feeling Zoro won't either since it was a very out of character thing for me to do." I look at Nami with tears forming in my eyes waiting for her advice to help me until I hear some shouts from the main deck. It was Usopp shouting "guys I can see an island!"

Third person
All the crew rushed to the deck to look at the island that Usopp was talking about. The island was very large and covered in forestry. Luffy, like always, wanted to explore this island and Zoro said that he wanted to get more booze so Sanji said "once we arrive at the island I need to get some more cooking supplies so I can't stay with the ship." This left only Nami and Usopp to stay with the ship much to Nami's disappointment. Zoro then declared "after me and the cook have what we need then we will head back to the ship and take over for you guys." The crew was shocked at Zoro's remark but Luffy agreed to it since he wasn't involved in the circumstances. Nami gave Sanji a worried look and Sanji returned it with a nervous one. He wasn't quite sure how things would go down when they are left alone whether Zoro would be angry with him or just not talk to him at all. The thought of this made him feel sick. Nevertheless Nami and Usopp agreed to it since they also wanted to get off the ship and explore.

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