Be Mine

Me And You

Sanji finished making lunch for everyone and set the table as everyone else walks into the kitchen seating themselves. Once everyone is seated they notice something. Everyone looks over to Zoro's empty seat. They sit silently looking over his seat while Sanji stares at the empty seat. 

"Did Zoro feed the triplets already?" Luffy asks innocently.

"I don't remember hearing him come in to feed them."

"Did he feed them before you started cooking?"

"Then, is he not going to join us. Did he already eat."

"You guys can go ahead and eat, I'll go check on him." Sanji says walking to the infirmary door as Luffy begins to eat and the others join to make sure that Luffy doesn't eat everything himself. Sanji walks to Zoro's room slowly. Thinking about it, was Zoro mad at him? Zoro and Sanji haven't talked to each other than him criticize Zoro about everything he does. Zoro has been with the triplets ever since then, hogging the triplets since he woke up. Should he apologize first? How should he say sorry? Should he say sorry first or talk about something else then ease into saying sorry? Maybe he should invite Zoro to lunch first then say sorry after, get him happy and fed before they talk.

Standing in front of the door to the room Sanji's legs started to shake thinking about how this can go. He knocks on the door but doesn't get an answer. Is Zoro asleep? If he is then the triplets are too and he doesn't want to wake them up. He opens the door silently peeking in to see the room dark. It's silent and looks like no one's living in here. He steps in closing the door behind him looking around to see the blinds are closed making it dark and hard to see. Sanji feels around for the switch to turn the lights on. Now able to see clearly he notices toys on the carpet, he must have been playing with the triplets in the room. It wasn't unusual but almost after the triplets got bored or tired he would clean up immediately. Zoro never let the room be a mess, Sanji was shocked when Zoro yelled at him for not cleaning after the triplets since they were asleep. Sanji turned his head to the cribs  are at the end of the bed. Sanji carefully walks around the toys to peer into the cribs to see the triplets sleeping. He looks up to see Zoro rolled up in a ball on the bed. Sanji looks at Zoro laying there, he could hear Zoro breathing. In his mind he walks up to Zoro and starts talking about how sorry he is but in reality he goes to his side of the bed and sits down, his back faces Zoro's back.

Months of sleeping together Sanji could tell the difference between Zoro sleeping and Zoro just closing his eye like he's meditating or thinking which is what he's doing right now. Sanji couldn't face Zoro as he told the other his feelings, something he's never really done before and for sure knows Zoro's never done before. Sanji's face turns pinks around the cheeks. "Listen Zoro, I know you had a good reason to not tell me that you were pregnant again, it's just that I would have liked to know. I thought we had agreed not to keep secrets from each other. After thinking about it I realized that it's not you that I was really mad at, I was mad at myself for taking so long on thinking about how I feel about you. I guess what I'm really saying is...sorry. I shouldn't have acted like a child. Nothing can be done about it now." Sanji turns his head peering over his shoulder to see Zoro moving a little.

"Ok," Zoro says in a monotone voice as he opens his eyes. 

"Ok?" Sanji questions the way Zoro says it. He thought Zoro would say more maybe make a comment on his 'acting like a child' remark but he hasn't. "Then how do you feel Zoro?" Sanji asks remembering Chopper telling him to see if he can get Zoro to talk about his feelings. Sanji smiles halfheartedly like he just told a joke.

"Fine." Zoro says with no emotion. Sanji's smile disappears.

"No Zoro I meant how do you feel about losing the baby? Come on talk to me." Sanji says sweetly.

"I'm fine." Zoro says harshly.

"Come one Zoro talk to me. We're in a relationship, I want to understand how you feel." Sanji says getting a little angry.

"I'm feeling fine."

"Zoro you are obviously not feeling fine. Why wont you talk to me?"

"Maybe It's because I have nothing to talk to you about?"

"You say that but you seem to be hiding your feelings by the attitude you're giving me." Sanji says frowning and sounding upset. A vein on Zoro's forehead begins to pop.

"Maybe it's because someone keeps insisting I talk about my feeling when I'm trying to take a nap. You may think you're quiet but you're not. Oh and I should be asking you what's up with that 'we agreed to not keep secret from each other' crap! You're the one who decided you needed space by yourself I had to find out myself and gave you your space! If you had told me I would have given you space! You didn't need to hide it! Don't go talking like you're always telling me how you feel." Zoro snaps.

"That's why I'm trying to start now but you're not making it easy." Sanji stands up and walks out the door slamming the door shut waking the triplets up. Zoro gets up to comfort them. Holding Kuina in his arms calming her down he thought that maybe he shouldn't have been so hard on Sanji and just told him his honest feelings. Zoro looks at the door then down at Kuina sighing. He made a big mistake.

Sanji storms up to join the others in the kitchen. Damn Zoro. Why was he being so difficult? Sanji knows he hasn't been the most honest but maybe this is a good opportunity to start being honest. Sanji start opening doors and slamming them closed until he's in the kitchen with the others. What was a good mood turned sad as they saw Sanji stomping to get his own plate of food.

"So it didn't go well?" Chopper says.

"That...Damn...Zoro!" Sanji yells not making a sentence. The crew just looks at each other confused then back at Sanji. "He said he's fine."

"Well maybe he is." Usopp says.

"Would you be if you went through what he did?" Sanji says, Usopp looks up thinking then at Sanji.

"Yeah, I see your point." Usopp says looking at Sanji.

"I think you both are just being stubborn." Nami says. She knows them both enough to know that they both didn't tell each other their true feelings, or Sanji said sorry but didn't say how he felt about anything else. 

"What do you mean?" Sanji asks.

"You probably only said sorry about how you acted recently and how you felt. How about before? Did you tell him everything you feel, the good and the bad?" Nami looks at him as he looks down at his plate.