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Log, ongoing

When; January 10th/11th (Totally irrelevant, rly)
Rating; PG-13 - ?!
Characters; Nico Robin and Jyabura
Summary; The first meeting at their hidden lair™ after Jyabura ~~ate~~ broke Kaku's face in their tiiiny conflict about Robin
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Jyabura'd gotten to their shared apartment very soon after Isane left. Right now he didn't want to be so close at the place the whole fight took place, the reek from blood the apartment next door drove him nearly insane. He'd take care of that mess sometime, though he couldn't fix the broken window. Right now, staying at another apartment away from that cat and the squarenose seemed like the best idea ever.

He spent nearly a whole day in the flat alone, mostly lying around on the couch lazily, 'busy' recovering from his injuries though Isane had nearly patched him up completely. The main thing was that his broken ribs were healed, the scratches didn't bother him without the splints anymore. Bored he stood up and looked out of the window; he told Isane to say Robin he'd wait here for her. The time alone did him good, he completely ignored all the whinings about some "war" going on, he had enough problems with their own war.

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Robin hadn't been in the mood at all to leave the Going Merry, because she had felt a bit nauseous during the day; but since Isane had said that Jyabura wanted to meet her... She didn't mind. She also wanted to ask him about his fight with Kaku, so it was a good opportunity to do so; after all, the reason for the fight had to do with herself... So she was rather curious.

She found herself in front of their shared apartment's door quicker than she had expected; she had to repress the urge to knock. She knew that he was already inside, so instead, she simply opened the door and went inside. "Hello..." she said softly, closing the door behind her back. "You wanted to talk to me?"

"There you are" he said without turning around, having fixed someone or something with his eyes and following it along. Nothing special, but the boredom nearly killed him and the wounds made him a bit lazy.

"I wanted to see you, to be exact" he said while turning around and approaching her, another deep scar on his face that was still fresh, besides the one across his eye he had before. "I told you already I'd like to do that more often, right?" he smirked and gently stroked her cheek with the back of his hand.

"What is that?" Robin asked, ignoring his words and reaching up with her hand to carefully touch his new scar. Dear God, what had happened that had given him such a scar? She was fairly sure that this one wasn't the only one, but right now, she didn't bother. She wanted to know the facts first.

"Did Kaku do this?"

"Shard of glass" he replied, taking her hand and moved over to the couch. That fight exhausted him more than he thought and the wound in his side made standing uncomfortable.

"Um, yeah" he admitted. "There's one more in my side and I had some broken ribs, but Isane patched me up really good. You should see Kaku, though" he grinned amused.

"You had glass in your eye?" she said, trying to sound merely curious but horribly failing. As far as she knew, he could've ended up blind.

"You shouldn't say that about a friend of yours," she said severely; her friends meant everything to her and she couldn't imagine speaking ill about them, even if her ribs had been broken. "What exactly happened?"

"Naw, he just scratched my face with it" he said casual, though this action of Kaku's was the most painful one.

"He is not my friend" he said surprisingly grim, "just my... workmate." The coherence between CP9 was from different nature than in Robin's pirate crew. Entirely different.

"Well, I beat him up. Broke quite a lot of stuff and that, tables, windows, bones. The usual." He obviously wanted to avoid details of the fight, his bloodlusty nature was something he never wanted Robin to see.

"I should've known, after all, you're assassins..." she said with a slight bitter tone, recalling the previous encounter she had with Kaku and the rest of CP9. Not very memorable indeed.

"And why, if I may ask?" She knew that it had something to do with her, but she wanted to know the details anyway. Maybe Kaku had said something about her that had greatly angered Jyabura? She couldn't really imagine what that could've been.

That hurt him more than anything that happened in the fight with Kaku. For many reasons. He looked away as he felt rejected, though he couldn't say why.

"He had visited the cat. I know he whispered into his ears to kill you. I was just underlining my friendly request of leaving you alone with that. And believe me, he learned his lesson. I hurt him quite bad, if I may say so." In fact he enjoyed the fight, because it was something very different to fight a human then killing some stupid animals in the forests.

"Will you make it up with him, despite "just" being colleagues?" she asked, actually very curious about this. She didn't really know how CP9 agents acted while they were with each other, but fighting over a trivial thing such as herself seemed rather ridiculous, even if these people... didn't really have a heart. Well, at least she knew that Jyabura was the exception.

"What?" he asked her surprised, "how could I forgive anyone who planned to kill you? That little bitch should be happy I didn't bite him apart when I had the chance to!" He had the chance, but he used it to torture the boy. It was only a warning, after all. And a free demonstration of how much his strenght had increased.

"If he does this ever again, I'll kill him" he added coldly, driven by his temper and revealing much more than he intended. "I'll kill anyone who even thinks of hurting you."

"But how do you know that for certain if you weren't there?" Robin asked, determined of not giving up. Even if Kaku was a deceiving bastard, it didn't mean that he'd talked to Lucci about killing her.

She sighed and closed her eyes for a moment. Why did everyone she was fond of have to be so stubborn? Everyone was trying to protect her as if she was unable to do that herself. "I also told this to Cook-san and I will also say it to you; don't get yourself in danger because of me. It's a waste of time."

He looked at Robin as if she just requested to tell her that water is wet. Or the sky's blue. "I saw these bastards growing up. I just know it, I need no proof. You'll have to trust me on that", he shrugged. To him it was the most normal thing in the world, how could he describe it to someone else? "If you don't believe me, you can ask Isane how trusthworthy Kaku is."

With an annoyed sigh he crossed his arms. "The cook is one thing, I'm another. I'm your partner and the father, it's my natural responsibility to watch over you." That reminded him way too much of the talk he had with Naoto a long time ago. "You girls are really weird. This has nothing to do with abasing you."

"You have a point," she said, as he was probably right. She wasn't in the position to judge people she had barely talked to. "How is Isane-san, anyway? We only spoke about me and my pregnancy, so I couldn't make sure if she's alright or not."

She brushed a few stray hairs out of her face and chuckled slightly. "And you men are very strange, too," she smiled, since both were most likely true.

"We barely talked at all" he said, remembering the moments of awkward silence. "She's quite bothered by Kaku, and I don't mean the injuries I caused him." Once more he wished he didn't set up the stupid date between them, but well. "Don't get involved in business with Kaku through her. We have enough problems already."

Thoughtfully he ran a hand through his hair. The 'business' with Kaku had just begun, there were much worse things to come. "And how are you doing? The pregnancy and all that."

"I don't want to have anything to do with Kaku at all, if that makes you feel any better," Robin said. Even though she knew that CP9 agents could... change, she didn't want to become acquainted with someone from CP9 apart from Jyabura. They still slightly scared her, even though she didn't want to admit it.

"Fine, I think. I'm feeling a bit sick but Isane-san said that it's normal to feel that way," she said, suddenly glad about the change of subject. She had a lot of problems to deal with herself and even though she was very fond of Isane, she couldn't worry about her too.

"It does" he replied relieved. But if she could, if both of them could, was a different matter. The next time he'd bite off more important parts off Kaku or anyone else, though.

"Uh, I'm sorry for that" he said and laid an arm around her. "I guess that's kind of my fault" he smirked and stroked her cheek again. "And now cheer up a bit, I don't like it when you look all that serious and sad. Smiling suits you better."

"You, on the other hand, will still have do deal with him. How are you going to do that?" she asked. She had been wondering about this for a while now, and she would understand if he'd want to stay away from Kaku as far as possible. However, they were colleagues and that made everything a lot more complicated...

"Yes, it's all your fault," Robin teased, but not smiling like she usually would, just to tease some more. "Maybe I'm just not in the mood to smile, hm?"

"I'll keep an eye on him and the cat. Squarenose shares the flat with me now. Of course not right now... But he'll return soon. He'll try to pay me back. That's just the way we are" he grinned amused. It's all fighting fire with fire and he didn't mind to get hurt as long as Robin was ok.

"You're obviously not. Is that my fault too? How can I make you smile?" he asked her worried. "Tell me."

"Such lovely people you are," she said slightly sarcastically, but not trying to offend him in any way. She was simply still too bitter about what had happened between her and CP9 and she knew that he couldn't help that, but her hate for anything that had to do with the World Government was too deep.

"Oh, just think of something fun," she said, still with that teasing tone.

"Ain't we? It's part of our qualification" he teased back, but trying to not sound too harsh. Hurting her was his worst fear, be it mentally or physically.

Carefully he put his hand on her lower stomach, where he vaguely supposed their child to be. "Today it's lady's choice, haven't you heard?" He looked into her eyes. "I'm serious. All I want is to make you happy..."

"I'm under the impression that you're too much of a nice guy for CP9," she said, even if she did know that he probably only acted this way when he was with her, not with anyone else.

"Do you really? Prove it then," she said, but now with a bright smile, knowing that she had failed in keeping her facade up any longer.

He wouldn't give her an answer to that, only if she asked him for it. Maybe. How would she react if she saw him biting Kaku into pieces? In the end, he had a second face, too.

"H-how can I prove something like that?" he stuttered intimidated, completely overburdened with a playful question and nearly scared to death. "I'd do... whatever you want me to."

"It's okay, I was just teasing you. Don't worry," she said, still smiling. God, he really wasn't good at things like this, wasn't he? Even lighthearted questions like those still managed to get him nervous. But then, Robin didn't mind; it was kind of cute.

"Yeah, and you even enjoyed it" he told her with an abashed smile, laying his head on her shoulder to rest.

"But um... I was serious..." Talking about things that were obvious since long times was still the hardest thing for him.

"Yes, I did. Does it bother you?" she asked, amused expression not leaving her face for a second but looking away to stare at the window. Her mind absently wandered to her nakama, to what they'd think if they knew she was here, to Sanji in particular. She hadn't felt so guilty in a long time, she was disappointing the people the loved most, simply by being happy. It was starting to kill her from the inside.

"If that makes you happy, I'll get over it" he answered and closed his eyes, suddenly feeling very tired and weak.

The silence felt awkward after a while, though he had no idea what felt so wrong about it. "You behave a little weird today" he suddenly said bluntly, still eyes closed and leaning on her, "what's wrong?"

"It's just that..." she started, pausing a moment to choose her words carefully. "My nakama still act distant towards me. No, that's a lie. Cook-san still acts distant towards me. It's starting to make me feel horribly uncomfortable and I don't know what I could do to make it right again.

That fucking cook.

"Hm, I see" he said quietly, getting up a bit and embracing her. "But there's nothing you can do" he said and started to crawl her neck thoughtfully. "It's not your fault. He has even more reasons to hate me, you know."

He said nothing for a while, pondering on how to explain her that it was not her fault but his. "I guess I should talk to him. What do you think?" he added and kept crawling her neck.

"He'll probably assault you or something," she said pessimistically, knowing that Sanji would never do that, but he probably would if she was being abducted again. He had always been hellbent on protecting her and he sure did now, too, but she missed his silly affections and the 'Robin-chan'. "I don't know if you should."

"I'd take that risk. It's better than doing nothing. I mean, at least it's worth a try. And I already saw him acting very diplomatic. So..."

The mere thought of talking about that kind of subjects with that cook freaked him out. But just sitting around and doing nothing was not part of his character. "If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But not even have tried it is worse."

"Well..." she said, thinking about possible scenarios. The worst one was that they'd scratch each other's eyes out, which was actually pretty realistic. The other one was that they'd come to a possible solution, something that probably wouldn't happen so quickly. "You're right. I'm sure he'd want to compromise too."

She sighed and leaned against him while closing her eyes; she didn't have high hopes for this.

"Even I am sure, doesn't that say a lot?" he tried to calm her, but his hopes weren't that much higher than Robin's. The cook was stubborn as hell and so was he. Oh yeah, the fun that would be...

He hugged her tighter and kissed along her neck slowlys, hoping to comfort her and in need to taste her. "It'll be ok. Somehow."

"Like this?" she chuckled while wrapping her arms around him and grinning slightly, amused beyond belief. "It'll definitely be okay. Especially like this."

She leaned closer and kissed him gently, just to be an annoying tease, like she used to be. Too many things had made her more and more solemn.

Not that he could follow her sudden change of mind, but that was definitely better than sitting around all depressed and full of sorrow.

"I tend to agree" he said after breaking the kiss, the slight blush on his face pointing out that he didn't count with that at all. "Guess I'll have to deal with those mood changes of yours, though I like this one" he added amused and began stroking her sides with his hands. "I really do."

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