Neighbors

What You Didnt Tell

"Dad, who's this. He's very tall."

The girl trotted over to Zoro and looked up at him. Zoro chuckled kneeling down to her. Sanji left to find his phone.

"My name is Zoro, I am a friend of your dad's." Zoro said.

He held out his hand as the girl shook it, "My name is Loulee Vinsmoke."

"How old are you sweetheart?"

She held up six fingers, "I'm going to go into the kindergarten this year! I'm so excited. So, Zoro. Are you the guy my dad has been talking about to my mom?"

"Your mom?"

She nodded, "My parents got divorced when I was one. My dad hasn't met anyone like you. Do you like my dad?"

"Well, not right now," Zoro glanced up to Sanji bickering on the phone, "He didn't tell me about you or your mom."

"Oh don't be mad at him Mr. Zoro. I was the one who snuck away in the back of my dad's car. I didn't want to be with my mommy anymore."

Zoro turned back to her as she hung her head Zoro brushed back her bangs seeing the identical swirled brows like her father. You could tell that she was in fact Sanji's daughter. She smiled up at him with curiosity.

"Why didn't you want to be with your mom?" Zoro asked.

Her smile faded as she turned away from him. Zoro sighed as Sanji walked back into the hallway were the two were. Loulee smiled before approaching her father. Zoro noticed a bruise on her shoulder.

"Sanji, her shoulder." Zoro said.

He perked up before she backed up holding her shoulder.

"It's nothing I ran into a wall that's all." She said.

Zoro picked her up by the back of the shirt and sat her on the stairs.

"Loulee, did your mother do this to you?" Zoro asked.

The girl was stubborn, Sanji and Zoro knelt down to her.

"You promise you won't tell anyone?" She asked.

"We promise, Loulee you have to tell us what happened." Sanji said.

She sighed looking up at them with her big blue eyes, "My mom hit me from asking when I could come and see you again. I'm okay I promise. Then that's when my mom called you and you came over."

Zoro glared at Sanji before turning back to the girl.

"But, I didn't know you had company I'm sorry dad."

Sanji sighed, "Your mom said you could stay with me for a week since she's going off with her new husband. So go on to bed."

She smiled before kissing Sanji's cheek and trotting upstairs. Zoro stood and walked down the hall to grab his clothes. Sanji grabbed his wrist and stopped him, Zoro glanced at him over his shoulder.

"You lied to me to see your daughter, why didn't you tell me? You think I wouldn't of found out?" Zoro growled.

"I was going to tell you, but I wanted to wait a while before I did. I didn't know how you would react." Sanji said.

Zoro tore from Sanji's grip and turned to him, Sanji sighed and rubbed the back of his neck.

"About six years ago, I was married to Iris, Loulee's mother. She became pregnant and after Loulee was born. She divorced me because. She fell out of love with me and ended up marrying another man three months after the divorce. I haven't dated anyone in the time being because I thought she was coming back. But. That was before I met you."