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Sanji stomps angry in kitchen, slamming the door behind him shut. He's angry at those filthy marines, angry at himself and mostly angry at that shitty long nose. Oh ~ Sanji wants to kill him so bad right now. He grabs the table and throws it against a wall. HOW COULD HE! HE HAD ONE FUCKING JOB! Sanji breaks a chair with a kick and not only him fuck all of them. How could they all care so little for his love. He needs to calm down. Luffy wouldn't like seeing him angry. With shaking hands Sanji takes a cigarette out of his pocket. He needs to think clearly. He takes a long drag from his cigarette. He needs to calm down. He needs to save his angel! 

Everything started perfect. The sunny docked at a new island to get some supplies. It was a nice island, the villagers seemed nice and the food here wasn't that bad. The only problem was that there was a marine base, so they needed to be careful. Some of them were still injured from a fight earlier that week so they decided to form groups. Sanji wanted to go with his Luffy, but Nami said that it was smarter to let him go with someone else because of the last incident. Sanji insisted, he wanted to make sure his love was safe. But than his angel kissed him and reassured him that he's going to be fine. In the end Sanji was paired up with Zoro and his love with fucking long nose. 

Sanji knew he had to say something than. He bites his cigarette. He knew it was a bad idea. If he isn't paired up with his darling than at least pick someone strong like Zoro.

Sanji tried to get the supplies quickly, not really caring how much they cost or how good the quality was. He really just wanted to get back to his love. Zoro could feel that Sanji was tense and worried, but he decided to keep his mouth shut. He wasn't in the mood for a fight.

Sanji almost had bought all the supplies when they heard a loud explosion. He knew that an explosion probably had something to do with his Luffy, so he tried to run to it, but was stopped by Zoro.

"What!" Sanji said Well more like yelled.

"That witch said we shouldn't make a scene" Zoro said. He was still injured from the fight earlier this week. He fought a strong opponent, who even managed to break his arm. It's not like Zoro was scared or he didn't wanna fight it was just the idea fighting in this condition, in a town with a marine base isn't very smart. Sanji gritted his teeth he knew it wasn't smart either but what if his angel got injured or worse.

"I don't care and since when did you start caring about the things Nami says!" Sanji yelled at him. Sanji was now furious. Didn't Zoro understand that he had to make sure his love is safe. He had to get to his love quickly.

Zoro signs. He wants to fight too but, in the condition, they're in is making it really risky to fight a hole marine base and when the captain is not around it's up to him to keep the crew safe. Zoro looks Sanji in the eyes. He knew that lovesick cook is crazy about Luffy and sometimes it even scares him how possessive he can get of him, and he knew that stopping him would make a scene, but he couldn't risk much bigger injuries or that they would get captured. Zoro trusted Luffy to protect himself and Usopp. 

"Look I know you worried but have some trust in Luffy. You know he can get a little bit clumsy sometimes but he and Usopp are going to make its safe out of there." Zoro said with an unusual calm voice. Sanji thought about it. He still wants to save his angel, but he trusted him and if he gets home with one injury, he's going to make Usopp and Zoro pay.

"Fine you're lucky that I trust my captain" Sanji walks forward and grabs Zoros shoulder and squeezed it hard. 

"But if he gets home with one injury. Then you'll have more than a broken arm" Sanji said in a dark tone and begins to walk back to the ship.

Zoro stood still for a while and then rolls his eyes and begins to walk back to the ship too. He's used to Sanjis threads he hears them once in a while and when it happens it usually has something to do with Luffy. But that doesn't change the fact that he mostly ends up listening to them. Don't get me wrong he isn't scared of Sanji not like the rest of the crew well except for Robin. He just doesn't want to fight him because that could end in a big mess. 

Zoro doesn't know when Sanji changed that much. The first time he met him he thought he was just an annoying perverted cook who fell in love with every woman he sees. But when he started dating Luffy he changed. It started small with jealousy and threading looks he would give anyone who was too close to Luffy. But then he started threading people and sometimes he even beat them up. He even forgot those feelings he had for women. If a female passed by, he would just ignore her. The only females he wouldn't ignore were the one in the crew but even them he would treat with little to no respect. He would talk less and less to his crew members, and he would only be seen by Luffys side or sometimes in the kitchen to make dinner. He would treat Luffy like a king, making him everything he wants, or he would always just stand by his side like a knight waiting for his command.

It creeps Zoro out just thinking about it, that love could change someone that much. Luffy on the other hand doesn't notices those changes. He still thinks that Sanji is the same old Sanji. He loves that Sanji makes him everything he wants, and he loves being with him. He changed too but not in a creepy way. He started playing less and less with the others and he began to isolate himself a little bit from his crew but not that much to notice. But his personality didn't change he's still the oblivious, dumb, idiotic captain and as long as Luffy is happy Zoro doesn't mind.

They arrived at the ship and all of them were there except for Luffy and Usopp. 

"Hey guys did you hear the explosion too?" Franky asks.

"Yes, we did, why do you think we're here?" Nami said. Sanji began to smoke cigarettes and he would occasionally bite them. Zoro knew Sanji was worried and he knew that he's a ticking bomb that would explode in any minute and if that happens none of them were safe.

"Do you think the explosion has something to do with captain-san and sniper-san?" Robin asked and looked at Sanji. She knew Sanji is dangerous and that's why she wants to test him. Sanji bit his cigarette and looked her sharply in the eyes. Robin only gave a closed eye smile.

" Oh no! I told those idiots to not make a scene!" Nami said annoyed. She didn't seem to feel the tension that was spreading on the ship and the same goes for Chopper.

"What if they got hurt! I need to fetch my medical back" Chopper said and was about to storm off. But then Zoro stopped him. 

"Everyone calm down! We don't know if Luffy or Usopp caused the explosion maybe they heard it too and they're just hiding right. Let's wait for them and if they don't show up this evening, we'll go search for them." Zoro said and looked at Sanji. His hair covered his eyes and looked more imitating, but he seemed to calm down a bit. 

Suddenly they heard a scream and all of them turned around. They saw an injured Usopp running on the harbour. All of them began to run to him but Sanji was the first one to arrive. He began frantically looking around searching for something. He didn't seem to have found it because he grabbed Usopp really hard.

"WHERE IS HE!!!???" Sanji yelled at Usopps face. Usopp was still trying to catch his breath from all the running. When he didn't answered Sanji began to tighten his grip.

"WHERE IS LUFFY!?!?" Sanji yelled. He was about to lose it. Where could his love be? What had happened to him? Is he injured? Is he safe?  

"He's ah... They..ah!" Usopp stutters. His lungs are screaming for air. He and mostly Luffy fought all day without a break. 

"They..They.." Usopp looks Sanji in the eyes, and he turns pale. Those eyes were dark, very dark. They were filled with anger and madness and worry and that look Sanji gave him is even worse. Usopp felt threating like, if he says something wrong that Sanji would immediately kill him. Usopp began to fear Sanji. He didn't know why and when it started but a feeling in his gut always tells him to avoid him and Luffy. Of course, he noticed those changes too, but he always thought it was just Sanjis overprotectiveness. Suddenly he got brought back to reality from a sharp pain in his shoulders. Sanjis fingernails were digging into his skin, but Sanji didn't seem to care. He was still looking at him with those dark eyes that could make grown man piss their pants. 

"THEY WHAT!!?" Sanji asked not calming down.

"They..took him" Usopp said scared. He didn't know what Sanji is capable of.

"What?" Sanji couldn't believe his ears. A few hours ago, everything was fine. This mourning everything was fine. He woke up next to his sleeping angel. He had him in his arms. He was safe. But now he was gone. Sanji was about to lose his mind. He let Usopp go.

"The marines captured us, and we tried to escape but then they surrounded us and then Luffy helped me escape! He said that he's coming right after me bu!-" Usopp wanted to explain further but he was interrupted by a kick in the face, and he went flying for and crushed right into a brick wall.

"You" Another kick went right into his stomach.

"Had" Another kick on the head.

"One" A kick to his left side.

"Fucking" A kick across his face. Now Usopp was laying on the side. Sanji picked him up by his collar and bawled his other hand to a fist.

"Job" Sanji was about to punch him when someone stopped him.

"Hold it!" Zoro said.

He looked Sanji in the eye. He knew Sanji wasn't himself right now (when is he?) and he knew it was dangerous to stop him like that but if he didn't have stopped him then Sanji would have probably killed Usopp.

"It was Luffys decision to stay back. He wanted to fight, and you know better than anyone how much Luffy cares for his crew." Zoro tries to calm him.

If he was in a better condition, he would probably had drawn his sword and he would have tried to knock some sense into Sanji but now his words must do. Sanji still didn't let Usopp go.

"He's probably fine. I bet in this moment he's eating all the food they've got." Zoro said trying to lift the mood. Sanji hesitated for a few seconds before he let Usopp fall to the ground like a punching bag. Not even giving him a glance. Sanji walked right past Zoro his eyes never leaving his. Then he stopped and lit a cigarette. Zoro knew what that look meant it meant that Zoros working arm isn't going to work for a while very soon. But he doesn't care as long as he can keep the crew safe it's fine.

The other crew members arrived, and they were shocked when they saw Usopp. Nami gasps and her eyes widen she held a hand on her mouth. Chopper gasps too but he didn't just stand there, he was running to him trying to treat his wounds as soon as possible. Robin had a dark look in her eyes. Brook was about to cry, and Franky was already crying. That's when Zoro finally inspected Usopps wounds as well and his eyes widen.

He was a bloody mess. Both of his eyes were swollen. His rib cage didn't look like a rib cage anymore. He was bleeding and had multiple dark bruises and he looked like he was barely breathing.

He began to look at Sanji again, who seemed totally disinterested in the mess he created, in the friend that he hurt. Zoro grits his teeth, one hand on his sword. He knew that love could change people but not that much can it? No, this is something dark, something totally different from love and if Sanji is capable of doing such a cruel thing to a friend, then Luffy might be in danger.

Sanji bites his cigarette. Why do they waste their time with that bastard. Why don't they save Luffy. My angel could be hurt or worse. Sanji looks at Usopp with total disgust in his eyes. I should have killed him. My darling could be hurt because of this fool. He began to look at the others. All of them are fools. They all need to be thought a lesson but not yet, my love would be sad if something would happen to those filthy motherfuckers but soon it would only be him and Luffy.

Zoro could sense that Sanji was getting impatient, and he was not going to let another crewmate get beaten up.

"I think it's time for us to make a plan on how to save Luffy!" Zoro said and that got Sanji to calm a little.                       

"Where is he?" Nami asks curious and worried. It's never good when they have too safe him.

"He was captured by the marines. He's probably locked up somewhere in the base." Zoro said. He tried to ignore Sanjis glares and muttering cusses as he thought of a plan.

"I think we should wait 'til the sun sets than we can try to break in." Robin said with thoughtful look in her eyes. Sanjis eyes widen, and his cigarette fell out of his mouth.

"WHAT! We should save him now! If we wait so long something will definitely happen to Luffy!" Sanji yelled.

Robin looked at Sanji with serious eyes, she knew saying something like that was dangerous and she knew Sanji isn't himself. She tried to understand why he changed so much. She knows Luffy is someone special, he showed her a reason to live again, and she doesn't know what she would do without him. She changed too because of him but in a good way. Sanji was the opposite. He changed into something dark, something obsessive. She knew love couldn't be it, it was too dark to be love. It's something else but what it is, she can't explain yet. But she knows the new Sanji is dangerous and that's why she needs to get him away from Luffy. She knew the others noticed the changes in Sanji too but all of them were too scared to say something about it and she knows if she's not going to do the first move Luffy would be lost, lost in the arms of that monster. She really doesn't want to hurt Sanji and she still considers him as a friend, but she just couldn't trust him anymore.

"She's right! Everyone back to the sunny we wait 'til evening and then we'll go save Luffy. Until than get some rest!" Zoro knew it was risky agreeing with Robin, but it sounded like the best plan they have. He sees Sanji storming at him and before Sanji could say something Zoro grabbed his shoulder.

"I know how you feel believe! I want to just storm the base too, but I just can't let our condition get worse and we can't save Luffy if all of us a dead." Zoro said serious.

Sanji bit his lip. He knew what Zoro said was right but at the same time he just wanted to smash his head against a wall. He gave Zoro one last glare before he stormed off, back to the sunny. All of them looked after him with scared, sad, or angry eyes. Zoro sights, that was close he thought.

"All right who's going to carry Usopp?"

Back to the present

Sanji still with a cigarette seat himself on the only chair that isn't broken. He's trying his best not to break the whole ship and kill the whole crew. He's trying not to just leave and safe his darling on his own. Even if he doesn't like to admit it, he still has a nasty stab wound from last fight and Chopper told him not to move around too much because it could open again. He begins to smile, his angel was so worried about him when he got it, he didn't care about his own wounds he only saw him. His angel's eyes are only directed on him, only him no one else.

His love is hurt too from the last fight and that's what worries Sanji. He got stabbed with a sword as he tried to protect Nami. His lover is always so selfless and that's the problem. The others don't even appreciate it and that makes Sanji sick. Those filthy pigs don't deserve him, nobody does. He's the only one who can see the beauty, who can see the light, who can feel the warmth coming from his angel. But Sanji promised himself one day he's going to take care of every single one of those pigs that his lover still considers as his crew. Maybe he's just going to hurt them. Maybe he's just going to kill them or maybe he just takes his darling far, far away. So, it will only be him and Luffy.

Thinking about it makes Sanji calm down. He just can't wait to have his lover back in his arms again. He's going to spoil him so much. Smiling, Sanji makes his way to a cabinet and gets a little box out of it. The box his hidden deep, deep inside the cabinet, you would only find it, if you were really looking for it. He grabs a key out of his pocket and opens the box. Inside the box are a strand of his angel's raven hair, his long-lost boxers and a picture of him. Oh, how Sanji cherishes those possessions. He grabs his lovers boxers and takes a deep breath of them. They smell exactly like his darling. Exactly like the first time they've done it.

Sanji still remembers how beautiful that night was. An image from that night makes his way in Sanji's head. His angel laying lewd under him with the most beautiful body Sanji has ever seen, moaning to the world his name with the most delicious voice Sanji has ever had heard. His angels cheeks were in a dark shade of red that goes to the tip of his ears, his lovers eyes were half open, his eyes are the most gorgeous eyes he's ever seen. His neck was covered in marks Sanji has made, showing the whole world who Luffy belongs too. His smooth skin was shining in the moon light and for Sanji he was glowing. With one hand he grabbed the sheets and with the other he was holding Sanji's. He looked so vulnerable, so trusting and he is all his and his alone.

It was truly a perfect night, his Luffy is perfect. Sanji gets excited just thinking about it. He decided he's going to spend the time 'til evening in their shared bedroom.

The evening came and now all of them are making their way to the marine base, all of them except for Usopp and Chopper of course. Sanji is happy, finally he can see his darling again. He feels like he hasn't seen him for days. But he's also worried what if he's seriously injured or worse. All of those filthy marines are going to pay with their pathetic life's for kidnapping his Luffy.

All of them.

"Here's the plan we're going to sneak in there, rescue Luffy and get the hell out of there without making any scene! Got it?" Nami whispers.

"I think it's too late for that" Zoro says.

"What?" Nami asks confused.

"Sanji bro already stormed in a few minutes ago" Franky says.

"What! Why didn't you stop him!" Nami yells furious.

"Because he's crazy" Zoro says bored and makes his way to the base. The others follow him. Nami stood there dumbfounded for a second, but she realised she would probably have done the same thing and quickly follows after them.

When they arrive at the gate of the base, they only find bloody corpses of the guards and they could hear bloody screams of pain and death coming from the inside, probably Sanjis victims.

Zoro looks at the dead marines with sorrowful eyes.

"Poor bastards" He mutters and walks in.

Inside they are greeted with a brutal sight and with the iron smell of blood. All the walls that were once white are covered in blood and human remains now. But the walls aren't the only thing that's covered in blood and marine corpses, the floor and ceiling too.

All of their eyes widen and here they thought Sanji isn't in the condition to fight. (He still isn't but all the anger inside of him made him do this)

Nami gasps and puts her hands on her mouth. She's feeling sick. She runs out and throws up. Robin has a serious look on her face, she gives Zoro a small nod and runs after her. Brook and Franky are disturbed they didn't dare to move an inch. Zoro is the only one that started to follow the sound of marines dying.

Back to Sanji

Sanjis once black suit is now coloured in a dark shade of red. His shoes and pants are drenched and smelled like iron. His blond hair is in some places red, and his wound had open up again. But Sanji ignores the stinging feeling on his side, all that matters right now is Luffy and he anyone that comes in their way is going to die.

Sanji walks over to a barely breathing marine. He places his foot on his ribcage.

"Where is he"

"W..hat..ahh" the marine cries out in pain as Sanji puts a little pressure on his ribs.

"Where is he"

"He...he is in cell." the marine says hoping that he would be spared.

Without warning Sanji stomps his ribs in leaving a bloody mess behind. He grabs the keys from the now corpse and runs to the cell.

Finally, finally he's going to see his angel again. With on click the heavy door opens and Sanji almost has a heart attack at the sight of Luffy. 

He is chained with his hands above on a wall.  The cuffs are probably made out of sea stone. His head is hanging down. His chest is covered in bruises and blood and the stab from earlier this week wound was bleeding. He looks like he was beaten and tortured all day and if Sanji he could, he would kill all of those filthy marines over and over again. The anger inside his chest calms a little when he sees his angel looking at him.

"Sanji..?" Luffy whispers quietly. He's so exhausted right now he just wants to take a nap.

"Yes, my love it's me" Sanji rushes over to him and removes his cuffs carefully.

Luffy couldn't stand on his own and is about to fall face first on the ground, but Sanji quickly catches him before he could do so.

"Are you all, right? Does anything hurt? Do you need something?" Sanji asks worried and inspects Luffy wounds.

"Mhm...sleep" Luffy mumbles in Sanji's arms. Sanji only nods and kisses him on the forehead.

He's glad to have him back but he's worried about those wounds. He needs to get him to Chopper quickly. So, he carries him bride style out of the room. Luffy closes his eyes and drifts into sleep not noticing the iron smell on Sanji. Sanji smiles when he sees his angel leaning on his chest, being in his arms. But it got interrupted by an angry Zoro.

"Did you really have to kill all of them!" Zoro says feeling sorry for all those marines.

"All of them deserved it" Sanji says simply walking past him. Zoro wants to punch him but knows it wouldn't be any good.

"And your arm is next" Sanji says threadedly. Zoro looks at him with wide eyes and cusses under his breath. He looks at the dead corpses and gives them one last apologizing glance before following Sanji back to the sunny.

The next few days, Sanji barely left the infirmary, he only left it to make dinner for his lover, he was making sure his lover was really resting and not moving around or leaving the bed. After two weeks Luffy was finally fit again, and he didn't spare one second in doing nothing.

"You sure are lively" Zoro says in his usual tone. He's sitting in his usual position.

"Yeah, Chopper said that I can move around again! Isn't it cool." Luffy yells and holds his arms in the air. When he looks back at Zoro he notices both of his arms are broken.

"Zoro what happened to your arm" Luffy asks curious and points at one. Zoro stays quiet and closes his eyes.

"It's a long story" he says still with his eyes closed.

"But I wanna know" Luffy asks with a pout, he let both of his arms hanging on his side.

"And it's not only you Usopp won't talk to me either" Before Zoro could answer he felt cold eyes on him.

"Luffy dinner is ready " Sanji yells but keeps his eyes on Zoro. 

Luffy, completely oblivious to the situation, runs into the kitchen already forgetting about their conversation. Sanji puts his cigarette out and follows after him, slowly closing the door behind him. Zoro keeps his eyes on the door, expecting Sanji to say his usual thread. But when it doesn't open so he makes himself comfortable and tries to sleep.

Zoro knows Sanji is dangerous but as long as Luffy is happy he doesn't care.