AN: Olla! This is the last update this week! I hope you could enjoy it! :D

More update around mid or the end of December(Hopefully if I'm not too drain by the Tests... xD)

Hope for some feedback or even better some idea >__< to be honest I kind of confuse what should I do after this... N I kind of have the feeling that the summary doesnt really fit in with my story... So should I make the arrange marriage the next chapter? Or should I make some more twists before I make them officially a coouple?

Sorry for the long rambling!>____<

Then on to the story!

Disc: OnePiece and the Mugiwaras arent mine! They are Eiichiro Oda's! :D

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Chapter 4: Don’t Judge the Book by Its Cover

“Luffy! Get out of your room now!” A loud knock could be heard just beyond the big wooden door. The prince buried his face deeper into his pillow refusing to listen to his friend’s call.

“Luffy! I’ll count to three! If you don’t open by the last count, I’ll call Sanji kun here and dragged you out by force!” Luffy shuddered hearing their Head Chef name being mentioned. But getting one or two of Sanji’s kicks sounded a lot better than going out now.

“One…”

“My big brothers always do this to me when I’m sad…”

“Two…”

“Hey, kid, how long are you gonna stare at me?”

“Three!”

“And both of you have beautiful eye color!”

“Argh!” Luffy groaned. All those embarrassing moment from yesterday kept playing again and again in his head. How could?! How could he do that?! Argh… How stupid and embarrassing he could get?!

A hard smack landed on his head followed by a harder kick on his gut throwing him immediately out of his king size bed.

“Ittai!( It hurts!)” The ravenette protested curling up into a big ball in the corner of his bed room. Before his friends could say anything to him, the prince has stood up his eyes gleamed with determination, “I don’t want to accompany that old man!”

“Nani?! (What?!)” Nami approached the black haired prince and pushed him toward the wall behind him. “I must hear it wrong… What did you say before, Luffy?” The tangerine haired girl asked the now shivering boy underlining every word she said like giving the boy a sign that if he gave her the wrong answer he would be as good as dead.

But the boy didn’t dither. “I…, don’t want…, to accompany that kuso jiji!! (damn old man)”

Before Nami could gave Luffy another head lock a soft knock got both of their attention. A tall green haired man stood on the door way with a super bored expression on his face. His attendant, the pink haired man, was standing not far from him.

“How long are you gonna make me wait, Kid?” Zoro asked Luffy, both pissed and mocking tone could be heard from his question.

“Shut up, kuso jiji!” The prince growled shoving his maid aside and walked toward the green haired king. “What do you want?”

The green haired king moved his face closer to the young prince suddenly making Luffy’s onyx eyes widen in surprise.

“W-Wha—?”

Without his permission, the green haired man sniffed the area behind the prince’s ear before he retreated and let out a mocking grin. “Still hasn’t taken a bath, huh, little prince?”

Luffy eyes redden instantly from embarrassment. He didn’t spend another minutes as he quickly dashed off to his bathroom leaving a laughing out loud green haired king.

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“So what do you say with my deal, Shanks?” Zoro asked with his usual confident tone. He looked at the red haired man in front of him. Although he looked unthreatening with his usual happy go lucky face that seems too care free for a king, somewhat if the topic considered his son, especially the youngest prince, his expression changed considerably. The older King has taken more than 10 minutes to think after Zoro gave the king his deal.

Well…, considering how precious this little prince was to his family, Zoro could say this after seeing how possessive both the older princes were about the third prince and how gentle the red haired man face when they were talking about Luffy,  he didn’t expect the king to voluntarily accept his offer.

“Okay… It’s a deal…”

Zoro eye widen in shock. He didn’t hear it wrong, did he? How could…

“Only in one condition…”

Zoro sighed. Well, it was too stupid of him to think that Shanks would just let him have it his way. “Just state it!”

“Oi! OI, OLD MAN!” Zoro snapped back to his sense blinking his eye a couple of times. In front of him stood the third prince, Luffy. His jet black hair was being let in a messy condition unlike last night. He was wearing a nice clean red vest with light blue shorts. “Comfort above the other, huh?” Zoro thought silently. A straw hat and a pair of straw sandals finished his too casual fashion that morning.

“OI, OLD MAN! ARE YOU TURNING DEAF NOW?”

Zoro snorted hearing the younger man’s comment. “Are you trying to get a revenge on what I said before?”

Luffy only pouted crossing his arms in front of his chest refusing to answer the older one. Zoro only let out a sigh before gesturing for his butler to come to him.

“You can go there now and find whatever things we need to make that thing Shanks ask… I’ll start making it tonight…”

“Sure, Zoro-san…” Coby said before giving a deep bow to Zoro and went away. Zoro looked at his butler shrinking figure disappearing into the deep dark forest, if it wasn’t for the Little Prince he wouldn’t go as far as this.

“Hey, Kid, do you know where the kitchen is? I’m hungry…” Zoro asked. He realized the little prince’s eyes brighten up from the mention of the word ‘Kitchen’. Maybe he was just as fond of food, or even better booze, as him.

Okay. That was an underestimation to say that the third prince was in the same level with him for their fondness of food. The ravenette was almost, if not exactly, the same as a super vacuum cleaner. How could he not if he could finish a plate of meats enough for twenties people or so in a mere minutes? Not to mention, it was still breakfast… Zoro felt like puking as he looked at Luffy eating. He couldn’t even put another spoonful of meat into his mouth, looking at the teenager eating was enough to make him extra full already.

“Just take it easy Luffy. I still have another plate…” A tall blonde man said with a bored tone. Unlike the other chefs in that room, the blonde was wearing a black suit showing off his professional aura. He was biting a piece of cigarette on his mouth exhaling the smoke once in a while.

“But Shanzhi… Yourf foodth isz zust sow goowd!” The ravenette mumbled with a mouth full of meat.

“Please talk in English…” The blonde grumbled just to get a light laugh from Luffy. Seeing the small genuine, and absolutely cute and gorgeous, smile made Zoro heart tightened in a strange feeling. The green haired man shook his head trying to get rid of the uncomfortable feeling.

“What’s wrong, Your highness? The food is not to your liking?” The blonde’s question startled Zoro. He looked up to meet with a pair of icy cold blue eyes. Even though he asked it politely, Zoro could sense some despise tone from the blonde chef. It showed a blazing rage and hatred, but why? He hadn’t done anything inappropriate that could possibly make him angry, had he?

“Are you some kind of spoiled king that couldn’t eat unfamiliar food?” The blonde chef asked once more, this time with a mocking grin. Okay. That was the most he could suppress. Zoro slammed the wooden table and stood up facing the blonde chef.

An obvious deep frown could be seen between his eye brows. He pulled the front of the stranger blonde’s shirt pulling it so both of their face was dangerously close. “What the hell was your problem, you shitty chef?!” Zoro growled dangerously.

“I don’t like you to be in my kitchen.” The blonde chef stated it flatly, coating every word with poison and threat. If the third prince was like hyperactive little monkey than this shitty blonde chef was like untamed cat that would scratch anyone who was trying to get close to him. And as much as his presence annoyed the blonde, this blonde absolutely pissed him off.

“Then, want to have some round outside?” the green haired king asked, his hand instinctively moved to his swords dangling on the side of his hip.

The chef smirked, “Don’t regret it lat—“

“Sanji, I want more…” The third prince whined. His voice immediately broke the heavy tension in the room. Both the blonde and green haired man stared at the third prince and his empty giant white plate.

*Sigh* “Alright, but this is your last serving this morning, Luffy… We won’t have enough for the other if you eat more than this…” The blonde cold expression suddenly changed into the gentle expression he had before. But as he looked back at the green haired king, his expressions harden almost instantly. “Move your filthy hand!” He hissed as his pale white slapped Zoro’s hands hard.

Zoro looked confusedly at the strange chef. It was kinda suspicious at how fast he changed his attitude. Just why this blonde chef called Sanji hate him to his gut? They had never met before, hadn’t they? Well. If he had, he wouldn’t forget anyone with strange swirly eyebrow. So, that was a no. But, then why?

“Oi, old man…”

“Huh?” Zoro looked up to find the teen ravenette had already finished his second serving of gigantic amount of meat this morning. He had that stupid care-free smile once again.

“Want to spare with me? I heard you are good with sword…” The black haired boy asked with glinting black eyes.

“Sure, why not…” Zoro answered him casually. Judging the scrawny looking prince, it wouldn’t be too much challenge for him. But training was still training no matter what… Hopefully there would be any strong swordsman he could train with later.

“Don’t underestimate him, marimo-ou” The blonde chef said before he disappeared into the crowded kitchen. Zoro literally froze on his spot. What the shitty chef just called him?!

Marimo ou?! MARIMO?! Damnit!

But before Zoro could run after the shitty swirly blonde chef, Luffy has dragged him to only-God-know-where

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Luffy heart thumped crazily. He couldn’t wait to know how strong this old man was. Would he be as strong as he imagined him to be? With those santoryuu style Robin said before, he must be hella strong and cool!

“Stop dragging me, kid…” Luffy could hear annoyed grumbled from his back.

He stopped and smiled at the green haired old man. “Well, if I don’t lead you I wonder where you will end up… It would be funny to find you walking toward the basement when the training ground is on the 3rd floor…” Luffy giggled. He could already imagined the green haired man’s confuse expression when he unaccidentaly walking toward the basement prison.

“I’m just taking some detour…” The green haired man grumbled which only made the ravenette giggle became an obvious laugh.

“Stop it or I will just go back to my room…” Zoro huffed. He walked past the still laughing prince with obvious pissed off look.

With some difficulties, the prince finally able to stop his laughing and immediately chased after the older man. “The training ground is that way.” Luffy pointed to their right. “And even if you want to go back to your room, it’s the other way around…” He said before the older green haired man could protest. The green haired man looked the other way, refused to look at the prince, but Luffy could make out some tint of red on the tip of his ear. Unconsciously a small smile crept to his face.

“So?” Luffy asked hoping he didn’t go too far on his joke that he angered the older man.

After some couple minutes of silence Zoro finally opened his mouth. “Whatever…” he mumbled.

Luffy smile got even wider than before. He slipped his hand into the older man hand and intertwined it with Zoro’s bigger hand. “Then let’s go…” He said happily. He could feel his heart thumped even faster than before. He couldn’t suppress his excitement anymore.

“I’m hereeee!” Luffy shouted loudly as he banged open the big wooden door. All the other soldiers that were currently training immediately stopped for a moment to pay Luffy their respect. One of them, a tall skinny afro soldier, walked toward him and gave Luffy a deep bow.

“Morning, Brooke…”

“Good morning, Luffy-senchou… And good morning to you too, Zoro-san…”Brooke bowed at the green haired man. “What bring both of you here today?”

“Well… I want to see how strong he is…” The prince said casually. “And I want to know too who is better at swordsmanship between both of you…”

Brooke looked kind of shocked at Luffy’s last statement. “W-wha-what? Is it okay, Zoro san?” Brooke stuttered and looked at Zoro. I wondered why he was this shock.

The green haired man only shrugged his shoulder. “It’s alright, I guess…” he said boredly. “But I won’t tolerate any holding back…” The green haired man added almost instantly.

“That’s good… Then I won’t hold back at all either…” Luffy jumped up to his bodyguard back. “Let’s see who is stronger here, old man…”

The green haired man smirked as he loosen up some of his muscle. “Don’t come crying to me in the end, kid…”

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He always thought that the pirate kingdom people only good at brawling. So he didn't expect to find such a good swordsman here. Zoro recognized the head soldier as a great swordsman, but he was still some level below him. It took some minutes before Brooke gave up.

"You are no fun, Brooke!" The third prince pouted. Though the skinny soldier only laughed. Well. To be honest, Zoro was kind of disappointed when Brooke gave up... "Then... You! Fight me Old Man!" Luffy shouted pointing his hand at Zoro. The green haired man only smirked. If it was with this prince, maybe only fighting with him would be fun already...

But..., he didn’t expect the third prince to be this good. Zoro had intended to end the fight with only his two swords, or even better just one, but in the end he had to use all three.

“What’s wrong, old man?” The third prince asked as some weird reddish steam flowed from his skinny body. He was smiling and Zoro could feel his excitement, the exact excitement the green haired king was feeling right now.

Once again he charged toward the strangely elastic prince. It had been some time since he had fought a challenging and fun opponent. And he certainly wouldn’t hold back anymore, or more like he couldn’t hold back if he still want to win. “Santoryuu, Tatsu Maki…”

With a blast of wind the third prince was threw some meters away. Zoro panted, he quickly wiped away the sweat on his forehead. From the corner of his eye, he could see the prince stood up once again after being threw off for the umpteenth time already.

“You just don’t know when to stop, eh, kid?” Zoro said though he knew he was smiling and absolutely happy that the prince kept standing up. He didn’t know how long it had been since they started the fight. But for sure it had been more than 1 hour already.

“The same for you, old man! Don’t you feel like resting already? I can give you some time up…” The teen ravenette prince smirked. From his tone, Zoro could assume he was as happy as himself.

“No thanks!” The green haired king shouted as he ran approaching the younger boy. Once again there fist and swords clashed. From the corner of his eye, Zoro could see more and more spectator had come to see their fight.

“Buso Koka: Gomu gomu no Gattling!” The third prince scream as thousand hardened fists were threw at him. More or less he could stop and avoid it from hitting his vital point but it didn’t mean he was left unharmed. After the crazy iron fists technique Zoro could feel some bruises formed on his limb, not like it would stop him from the fight though, but it was good enough to make him flinch.

“Don’t lose, Zoro san!” For a moment the green haired man felt like he could heard his pink haired butler’s cheering him on. He cautiously looked slightly away from the black haired teen to the spectators. And he could swear he was feeling like burying his head into some hole like this bird that couldn’t fly. How could he not when his butler was technically cheering him on like some crazy cheer-leading girls.

“Just stop shouting like crazy, Coby! Or I will cut short your wages!” The green haired man shouted shooting a sharp glare at his butler, that gladly stop his butler from making him more embarrassed, before he got back to his fight.

More clashing.

Another banging.

And lots of shouting could be heard from the training ground. Some cheering for the ravenette prince some others cheered for the green haired king.

“Oi, kid! With our pace like this, I don’t think we can finish before lunch. How about giving our best attack in the last shot?” Zoro said between his panting.

The black haired teen seemed like weighing Zoro’s offer in his head. And after some mere seconds, Zoro could swear seeing the prince drooling a bit in his thought, Luffy nodded his head.

“OK! Don’t regret it later, old man!” The black haired teen smirked as he bit his thumb and blew it. Zoro didn’t take too much time to wonder what the heck the prince was doing as he prepared himself for his last attack. He didn’t expect the prince to make him use his kyuutoryuu.

“ASURA!”

“GEAR THIRD! BUSO KOKA: HONE FUZAN!”

A giant black fist and 9 swords were collided followed by loud clashing sound. Both of the fighters body was covered by thick dusts. The spectators could only gapped seeing the fight finally ended. There was only one thing in their mind. If they were the one fighting there, they would never survive until the end.

“What a monster…” Both Brooke and Coby commented at the same time.

The pink haired boy and the slender afro man looked at each other before laughing out loud. Without exchanging any words, they felt like they could already be good friends, maybe because both of them had the same fate.

Having to take care of equally troublesome person.

“Brooke” The tall afro man bowed to the shorter boy.

The pink haired boy blushed before bowing back. “I’m Coby. Nice to meet you, Brooke san…”

And while the spectators started to scatter to continue their own training, both of the fighters were laying low on the ground. There was a big smile on each of their faces.

“You’re not bad, kid…” Zoro said gently. His golden eye look at the prince bruised and scratched face.

“You are not that bad yourself, old man…” Luffy laughed rolling his body so he could see the other man face clearer. Once again he admired the neighbor king’s figure.

Zoro had well-tone body with strong muscle here and there, unlike his skinny body. Zoro had manly tanned skin, unlike his pale white one. Zoro had interesting hair color, unlike his boring one. And no matter how much he had seen them, Luffy love Zoro’s eye color the most.

It was so calming and warm…

Wait!

Did he just say L—lo—

LOVE?!