Zosan

Chapter 3

Sanji POV
Zoro just came running back into his room while throwing my clothes at me yelling "the crew is nearly back to board the ship, hurry up and get dressed." I did as he said. I started by putting on my shirt then slipped my boxers on while sitting still but as I went to put my pants on I felt my back ache and started to fall. As I was bracing for impact Zoro caught me but then placed me back to normal only helping to support me not even looking my way. Something was off. Nevertheless I still had to finish changing or else the crew will realise that something is going on between me and Zoro. I was about to ask Zoro what the reason behind this was but before I could say anything he said "let's just forget this ever happened ok? I was very drunk and wasn't thinking. I acted on impulse. Sorry." Zoro almost never apologises but I guess in this situation it'd be quite rude to not say any type of apology but it hurt me. I thought that we could be something more but I guess that was naive of me to think that way. Of course Zoro would never like men let alone me, he just wanted to release some steam and I was the closest person. I felt my eyes dampen and then the first tear fell. Even though my back was killing me and I felt like I was going to collapse I ran out of his room to mine and locked the door collapsing onto the floor. I wished that I could hear his footsteps follow me to at least explain his thoughts but he didn't which made me bawl my eyes out more.

Zoro POV
I was left surprised at the cook's reaction to my words since it was just a spur of the moment thing that we did, but I do feel bad for making him that upset that he felt the need to run away even with his back being in the condition it was. The crew had just gotten back onboard the ship and I could hear Luffy yelling "Sanji I'm hungry can you make dinner." I knew that I couldn't tell the crew what happened between me and the cook because I don't know if he'd be okay with that or if I would even be okay with it. I made my way to the main deck and made up an excuse of how Sanji had fallen while putting things away in the storage room and should rest for the remainder of the day. Nami and Usopp looked a bit concerned at the news of why Sanji was in his room but Luffy just looked disappointed because he couldn't eat his cooking.

I didn't realise until after I had started to walk to my room to discard as much evidence from the previous events as possible that I was calling the cook by his name in my head. I have a certain feeling throughout my body whenever I think of Sa- the cook in my head and I have no idea what to think about it. Like what I do with most of my other feelings I just decided to not acknowledge it and carried on as normal. I did let the cook slip into my thoughts again as the image of him running to his room while limping plays. I thought it'd be best to take him some pain relief medication since running wouldn't have helped with the initial pain. As I grabbed the medication and started to walk to his room I chose to apologise again because the way we left things off I didn't want him to hate me more than he already did. I knocked on his door and I heard some shuffling before I heard a small voice say "who is it?" That was definitely the cook. "It's me, Zoro. I've brought some pain relief for you to take since you were limping. And again I'm sorry I acted on impulse and didn't consider how things would turn out afterwards. I've told the crew that you fell in the storage room and hurt your back so if they ask just say that." I then slipped the packet underneath the door and turned around leaving the door to his room.

Nami POV
I knew something was off when Zoro was saying that Sanji fell over in the storage room since that place was so neat and organised, but it seemed to fool the others. I decided to ignore what happened since Sanji would eventually tell me what really happened but not too long after I saw Zoro going into the storage room and then bringing out some pain relief medication. He started to head in the direction of Sanji's room so I hung back a little and listened to what he was saying. "I've brought some pain relief for you to take since you were limping. And again I'm sorry I acted on impulse and didn't consider how things would turn out afterwards. I've told the crew that you fell in the storage room and hurt your back so if they ask just say that." Zoro was saying sorry to Sanji? That's unusual. Did he do something to him to hurt him? Why did his face look so guilty and shameful? I needed answers to my questions so I went a couple minutes later and knocked on Sanji's door to which he said "Go away damn marimo I don't wanna talk right now." I just giggled a little at how he still insults Zoro even though he likes him. I responded "I'm not Zoro Sanji. Can you let me in? I don't believe that you just fell over." From the other side of the door I heard Sanji limping over to unlock his door. Once the door was open I saw his red puffy eyes and I instantly knew something happened between them. I went inside his room and locked the door again since I felt like this conversation was going to be about private matters.