Neighbors

The New Neighborhood

It was one of those hot days in the summer where your skin stuck to everything. Your clothes, the couch, anything you decided to sit or come into contact with. Even if. You were moving in. Zoro grumbled to himself wiping his sweat off with his bandana, before he tied it onto the back of his head and pulled off his shirt. He moved into a house next door to what seemed to be some old people who took good care of there yard. Zoro picked up another box from the moving truck and hopped off the truck to take it inside. Boxes stacked in random corners in the two story house. Zoro, he had to move since he had gotten a noise complaint about Luffy, and Ace throwing a party at his apartment. While he was gone. Zoro wasn't too awfully angry with the troublesome brothers. He didn't like that run down apartment anyway. People were mean and stole things from that place.

"So, this is your new place huh?"

Zoro turned to an old friend of his, Nami leaned against the fence looking at the house.

"Isn't it kind of big. For you?" Nami asked.

"Ace and Luffy said they would move in with me so. We will have it covered."

She glanced over to the house next to him, the flowers in bloom and the car missing from the driveway.

"Oh, you moved in next to him?" Nami asked.

Zoro cocked a brow looking at the neighbors house.

"Him?" Zoro asked.

She giggled, "Oh, he's quite the guy. You shouldn't have a problem with him. But. I wonder where he's at. He's always home.

"You sound like your in love with him."

"No, but you might be."

Zoro growled dropping his box and turned to her.

"Don't even try."

She raised her hands in surrender, "I'm not doing anything."

He rolled his eyes picking up the box and going inside. Nami followed after going inside. She admired how beautiful the house was. Even for a guy like Zoro, his weighs were all over the house before there was a loud honking. Nami growled before looking out to Ace and Luffy in their truck. Luffy honked away at the horn while Nami scolded at him to shut up. A car pulled into the driveway next door, an older man stepped out having Nami walk up to the fence.

"Oi! Where is he at?" Nami asked.

The older man with a blonde braided mustache turned to her.

"Oh, Eggplant? He's out of town to see Loulee. I'm here to check up on things. He should be back next week."

"Thank you!"

And the man went inside.

"Who's that?" Zoro asked.

"Your soon to be father in law."

Zoro growled at her before she giggled and patted his shoulder.

"Just your neighbors dad."

"What is his name?"

"Zoro what do you like in a man?"

Zoro pursed his lips as Nami kept poking and prodding at what he wanted in a man.

"If I tell you, will you leave?"

She nodded.

"Fine, he's. Gotta be different."

"He's gotta cook really good food."

Luffy said crawling up Zoro's back before sitting on his shoulders.

"He's also gotta love Zoro."

"Luffy your not helping."

Nami smiled, "Then, you have nothing to worry about."

She smiled before leaving. Zoro helped bring in Luffy and Ace's boxes in before it started to rain. Luffy sat by the window as they went through there things setting things up.

"Oi! Luffy, give us a hand." Ace called.

He turned to Ace and Zoro trying to bring a bed upstairs. The boy helped Ace as they brought up all three beds. Zoro put all his weights and weight lifting stuff in the garage. Ace set up the cable and the tv while Luffy, still sat looking out the window.

"Luffy, what are you looking at?"

"The rain, I never got to see it much at our old place. All I could see was that dumb brick wall. But, It's so nice here Ace."

Ace chuckled, "You think Sabo would like it here too?"

Luffy smiled and nodded as Zoro walked down with a juice box.

"Luffy."

He turned as Zoro tossed him the juice box.

"Ace you wanna beer?" Zoro asked.

"Yeah."

Zoro cocked open two beers as Luffy sucked down his juice. He handed one to Ace and then sat next to Luffy looking out the window.

"Isnt the rain nice Zoro?" Luffy asked.

"Yeah, no more leaks in the ceiling, no more pools of water on the floor. And we can enjoy it from inside."

Ace chuckled, "Amen, I got tired of waking up in the middle of the night with water dripping on my head."

Luffy held out his juice box, "To the new house!"

Zoro and Ace clinked there glass bottles against Luffy's cardboard before taking a drink. As a week went by, Ace and Luffy had a welcoming party to there new house while Zoro worked out in the garage. Once he finished he went upstairs to shower. When he was done the party started to die down, Zoro cleaned up then he took out the trash. There was a small chuckle. He turned, to him. The breath taking blonde. With heart stopping blue eyes. Zoro swallowed hard as the man chuckled a little harder.

"You must be my new neighbor."
The blonde said leaning against the fence.

His sapphire blue eyes, or eye, as the other hid behind a blonde curtain. But. That one blue eye, that dazzling glint of color. Made Zoro give a breathless chuckle.

"Yeah, I moved in last week." Zoro said.

The blonde shifted onto his elbow and rested his head on the palm of his hand.

"You gonna tell me your name, or you gonna stand there with your towel wrapped around your hips like that?" The blonde cocked a curled bow.

Zoro growled, "No one asked you."

The blonde held out his hand, "Vinsmoke Sanji, Sous Chef of the Baratie."

"Roronoa Zoro, Cheif of the Sunny Police."

"Ah, so your Zoro. Nami-swan has told me a lot about you."

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, like the time you got lost on the way to a robbery."

Zoro's face broke out in a soft pink.

"Your face is kinda cute like that." Sani's purred.

His face grew a darker shade,
"Keep your curly brow off my property!

Sanji raised his hands before backing away from the fence.

"Goodnight, shitty Officer." Sanji hummed.

The door shut, Zoro stood unable to move. His heartbeat was in his ears, his fists clenched tight. His heartbeat pounded faster, as a mental image of the blonde popped into his head. Zoro squeezed his eyes shut trying to get the blonde's image out of his head. He growled before storming inside and into his room. He tossed away his towel putting on his pajama bottoms. He sat on his bed clenching his hair with shaky hands and his eyes shut tight. He's never felt like this before, with anyone. Not even with any of the blind dates Nami set up for him. Why him? Why this mysterious blonde? Zoro opened his eyes and looked at his shaky palms.

"What's wrong with me?" He muttered.