Lay Your Heart Near Mine

Chapter 12

" What's making you tired?" Sanji found himself asking as he walked to cut Zoro's light on since the sky was starting to get dark. Turning around, Sanji saw that Zoro was showing the same surprise he felt at that question.

Walking to the only chair in the room, Sanji dragged it near the bed. When he saw Zoro still standing, he took a seat and started speaking.

" If there's anything you wanna talk about, I'm here marimo. It's not like you have to do anything by yourself."

"I 've been doing things by myself this long so why stop. " Sanji heard Zoro say as he sat on the bed far away from him.

" Well if there's anything that I can help you with, I can do that too." Sanji said as he watched Zoro.

" There's nothing you could do to help me. " Zoro whispered.

Sanji stood up from his seat and walked around the bed until he was standing right in front of Zoro. He didn't know why but hearing Zoro sound so defeated made him so mad. Obviously this conversation was only making Zoro feel worse, so he decided to change that. Grabbing Zoro's hand, Sanji pulled him off the bed and ignored the surprised look he was receiving.

"C'mon idiot,let's go." Sanji said when Zoro finally stood up.

" Where are we going?" Zoro asked as he followed behind Sanji with the book still in his hand.

Turning around, Sanji looked at Zoro as if he was crazy before saying " The kitchen. Where else?"

In the kitchen, Sanji stood at the sink washing vegetables. Not too long ago, him and Zoro had entered the kitchen and he decided to cook something for the both of them since they were the only ones staying on the ship. Behind him, Zoro had started to go through the book he had but he was still unsure of what the book was.

Picking up the bowl of now washed vegetables, Sanji turned around to put the bowl on the counter and nearly dropped it. When he successfully put the bowl on the counter, Sanji continued to stare at the reason he almost dropped the bowl in the first place. Sitting at the table, Zoro sat reading his book. With glasses on.

Feeling eyes on him, Zoro turned to see Sanji staring at him. Blushing, Zoro turned away. He had forgot that Sanji was even in the kitchen. He only put his glasses on when he was alone but it seems that he may have forgotten that he wasn't at the moment. Turning back to the book, Zoro began to read again. If he just ignored Sanji he was sure that he would forget about this whole thing.

Sanji stared at Zoro as he continued to read with a slight blush on his tan cheeks. He watched as Zoro reached to the left of his book and picked up a Mikan fruit and dipped it in teriyaki sauce before eating it. Without realizing it, Sanji's eyes slid down from staring at Zoro's glasses to staring at Zoro's lips. They looked so soft and with the teriyaki sauce on them, he bet they tasted even more delic-

Turning around quickly, Sanji turned on the water to wash his hands. 'What the flying fuck was that. I mean sure the freaking idiot looks cute with these glasses but' Sanji stopped his thinking to run a hand down his face. ' He's not cute Sanji. Do you hear me? Not cute and you do not want to actually kiss him, you were just complementing his lips which isn't gay if the guys already gay right? It's like complementing a girl except..he's...not one so...maybe u wasn't complementing his lips?' Sanji was starting to get confused. It was bad enough that he was having a talk with himself inside his head but to actually be making up excuses for his mind Is just ridiculous.

Facing the counter again, Sanji began to cook dinner. When all the vegetables were in the soup pot, Sanji looked back up at Zoro and saw him still reading.