Zosan

Chapter 4

timeskip 1 week

Zoro POV
It has been a long and awkward week and I still haven't been able to process any of the information I talked with Nami about so I don't know anything about whatever is going on with my brain. Nami said she thinks that I like Sanji, did I seriously just say the cook's name in my head? Anyway I don't think that I'm attracted to men but Nami did say that it was a possibility. The tension between the cook and I has become incredibly awkward since we have both been avoiding each other, at least I know I have been since I'm trying to figure shit out. Throughout the week I've been thinking about when I first met the cook and when he joined the crew I always felt weird around him like I had to be cool and never need help in a fight to prove myself almost like I wanted him to approve of me. I kept on shaking that idea out of my head but I can't keep on doing this because it is going to end up affecting the crew. I need to get to the bottom of these weird feelings and fix whatever has been done between me and the cook.

I decided that I will try to start talking to the cook again like we used to do so I started to make my way to the kitchen. As I got there I started to get a weird feeling in my stomach, it felt like things were jumping around inside me. Maybe this is what people feel when they're nervous? I'm unsure about this since I have never been nervous to do anything ever let alone talking to someone. I swear the realisation of this being a possible crush is making me think and do stupid things that I would normally never do. I reached for the door handle but as I was going to open the door the cook was coming out and we bumped into each other with him falling on top of me. I felt the heat rise to my cheeks as I came to the realisation of what position we were in and it seemed like he did too since he was beet red. I heard a muffled "Sorry" from the cook and then he left with me still on the ground.

Sanji POV
After Nami left my room a week ago I have been crying myself to sleep wondering if it was something I did or didn't do that led to Zoro saying what he said. What is worse is that he is constantly on my mind whether I'm daydreaming or thinking of the reality. Zoro has been avoiding me all week like he doesn't want to see me so I thought why not just help him by also avoiding him. I know that that may not be the best decision but if he doesn't want to talk about anything or even see me then I might as well go along with that. I knew the longer I let this go on the harder it would be to let go but god knows how many times I've tried to get over him over the years. I came to the decision that I would try my absolute hardest to get over him from that day but I've failed yet again in my attempt to erase this huge part of my life. The worst part is that idiot was coming to the kitchen alone after this awkward ass week we've had and I have now landed myself on top of him. I have no idea why he was going to go into the kitchen with me all alone but this situation was far too awkward. I saw his blazing cheeks and I couldn't hold myself from blushing at the position we'd fallen in. I quickly muttered "Sorry" then got up as fast as I could to leave in the opposite direction hoping that he didn't see my eye bags and puffy eyes.

Once I had reached my room I locked my door and let out a sigh of relief only to be interrupted by a knock on the door. "Cook, can you please listen to me? We need to talk properly about what happened." After a week of hearing not a single word from Zoro, him talking in a calm voice was tugging on my heartstrings. "Please leave me alone" I felt tears threatening to fall "I don't want to know how much you hate me right now, ok?" My voice was cracking by the end of my last sentence from holding back my sobs. I heard Zoro's footsteps leaving and getting further away and that's when I let myself cry.

Zoro POV
After I composed myself again I remembered how when I saw the cook's face his eyes were puffy and he had quite dark eye bags. Has he been crying himself to sleep all week? At this thought I got worried about my words being the cause of his sleep deprivation and puffy eyes. I got up off the ground and started to head to his room since that was the direction that he had started to head off to just a few moments before. I reached his door when I heard a sigh from the other side. I decided that it's now or never to get the first words out so I said "Cook, can you please listen to me? We need to talk properly about what happened." It was silent for a few seconds but then I heard a weak "Please leave me alone" followed shortly after with "I don't want to know how much you hate me right now, ok?" Sanji's words were barely audible at this point but I could hear from his voice that he was about to cry. I thought it'd be best to leave so I started to walk away but then I heard Sanji start to cry. For some reason it felt right to say the cooks proper name so I decided to let it slide. I quietly started to creep back over to the cook's door to listen to see if he'd say anything and to my surprise he did. "If only I didn't have to push you away. I just want to scream it in your face. I love you Zoro." I realised that it was my que to leave since I probably should not have heard that.  I got up as quietly as I could but then when I took my first step the floorboard creaked. I heard shuffling on the other side of the door and took it as a sign to run away before the cook opened the door but I tripped over my own damn foot. I cursed at myself for being so clumsy to have fallen over my own foot. I turned to look at the now open door with a puffy eyed cook staring at me lying on the ground where I fell. It was an awkward confrontation since he knew that I probably heard what he said and then we heard the shouts, our captain Luffy was shouting "Everyone I can see another island!"