Breakfast was silent. Each of the Strawhats simply took it in turn to eat, Robin and Nami using their knives and forks, while everyone else pretty much shovelled the food into their mouths.
It was the calm before the storm. Luffy’s eyes shifted around as he slowly stretched his arm, it closed around one of Chopper’s sausages. A fork instantly came down on his hand.
“YAAAHH!” Luffy screamed, his eyes bulging, he looked for the culprit, and an extra arm had sprouted and was holding the fork.
“Chopper needs to grow up to be big and strong.” Robin simply spoke, taking a sip of coffee, “Isn’t that right?” she winked at the Reindeer, a small trail of beans dribbled down his chin, he grinned and nodded happily.
“It’s ok Luffy….you can have….my carrots…” Usopp spoke to him, brushing the small pile of vegetables onto his plate. Luffy frowned at them.
“I wanted meat though.” He complained. Usopp wagged his finger.
“Don’t you know you should eat your greens?” he teased, Sanji spun around, placing another plate full of vegetables in front of Usopp.
“Eat up.” He simply growled, before dancing his way over to Nami and Robin.
“Would you like anything else? Nami-swan? Robin-chwan?” he grinned, holding the tray to his heart.
“No thanks.” Robin smiled, wiping her mouth politely with a napkin, handing him his plate, Nami grinned and added a wink.
“I know what I want, but it’ll have to be later.” She blew him a kiss. Sanji blushed before nervously looking around at the crew, nobody seemed to notice. He took the time to disappear into the kitchen.
“Aw, Lovers.” Robin commented, giving Nami the slightest smile, her head propped into a hand. Nami glared at her.
“So? You can’t talk.” She stuck her tongue out, pointing to Chopper. Robin shrugged it off.
“I don’t know what you mean.” Robin felt a warm sensation as she looked at the Man deer, now slamming his fists against Luffy, whom had took the opportunity to steal some of his food.
“Give it baaaack!” Chopper screamed attempting to shove his hand down Luffy’s throat to get back the meat while Usopp was spilling his vegetables onto the Reindeer’s plate. Luffy frowned and looked at Usopp.
“I would’ve ate your vegetables.” He frowned. “I like sharing your food.” He grinned.
Robin yawned as she made her way back to her quarters, it was quite a good day, and she’d finished two novels and had started on a third.
“Night Robin.” Franky spoke to her.
“Goodnight.” She nodded to him; her hand clasped the door handle. She could hear voices inside.
“Nami! I need you!” a voice complained. Robin’s hand backed away from the handle…that…wasn’t Sanji’s voice. Robin opened the door, her eyes widened in surprise.
Luffy was on his hands and knees, bowing.
“What’s going on?” Robin asked, trying to suppress a smile on her face, she obviously had taken the entire situation the wrong way. Nami smirked.
“Luffy here is wanting ideas for his love life?” she grinned, Robin raised an eyebrow.
“I want him to notice me more!” Luffy complained. Nami nodded.
“It’s quite a common problem, I’m sure there are others who share your situation, isn’t that right Robin?” she grinned at the Archaeologist, who simply blanked her, pretending to put her book away. Nami leant closer to Luffy.
“Robin’s been trying to woo Chopper for some time, but nothing.” Nami whispered to Luffy, who laughed.
“You like Chopper?” Luffy exclaimed, before covering his mouth, Robin looked at him for a moment.
“And what if I do? You like Mr. Liar.” She snapped back at him, he had clearly touched a nerve. He simply grinned in that dopey way.
“What you should do, is try and get him in an awkward position, maybe attempt to take a bath with him?” Nami suggested, Luffy thought for a moment before grinning.
“THAT’S IT! Thanks Nami!” he grinned before bounding out of the room.
Luffy scoured the deck; Zoro was asleep, as usual. No fun there. Franky was still making repairs to the ship.
“Where’s Usopp.” Luffy frowned, puffing his lips out, he put his hand to his head, trying to find the sniper.
“USOOOOOOOOP!” he screamed as he clambered up the mast.
“Whaaat?” Usopp shouted down.
“DOOOO YOU WANT TO TAKE A BATH WITH ME?” Luffy screamed.
“No.” Usopp shouted back.
“WHY NOT?”
The shouting continued, Zoro opened his eyes and blinked.
“What’s that idiot doing?” he grumbled, watching Luffy shuffling his way up the mast to Usopp. Who was arming himself and firing missiles down at the captain.
Zoro shrugged off the entire incident, it wasn’t irregular that those two would be up to god knows what.
Usopp stood, his legs quivering as he saw a arm slap itself over the side of the nest, Luffy heaved himself through the window, grinning.
“Come on, take a bath with me.” He grinned, grabbing at Usopp’s hand.
“I don’t want to take a bath, I’ve just had one.” Usopp frowned.
“So have another one.” Luffy told him, starting to pull the sniper through the window. Usopp scowled, he would have been willing an hour ago, but not now.
“New Shirt, new shirt.” Chopper sung out loud, pulling at the fabric of his bright green shirt. He was feeling rather pleased with himself as he trotted along the deck. Suddenly he bumped into someone.
“Ah, hello there Cho…Chop…Mr. Doctor.” Robin smiled, trying to find the words. Chopper grinned at her, pulling at his shirt but not saying anything, waiting for that compliment.
“New shirt?” she smiled, kneeling down, being careful not to spill any wine. “It suits you, you look…..cute.” she complimented him, Chopper felt himself blush, his arms waving around as he rocked from foot to foot.
“Ah! No! Stupid girl! You smell! Like Flowers!” he nervously rambled. Robin chuckled.
“But a new shirt like that needs to be worn by a nice clean boy, don’t you think?” Robin smiled. Chopper frowned and looked down.
“But I only had a bath this morning.” He complained, Robin thought for a while, before spilling a drop of wine on his nose.
Chopper screamed, diving behind a crate, poking his head out. Robin frowned.
“You’ll need to have a bath now.” She smiled. Chopper glared at her.
“Nope, just a little spill.” He cheekily replied, licking off the drop of wine with his tongue, Robin thought for a brief moment, before hurling the rest of the glass at him, it splashed over his green top, staining it a deep red.
“There, all dirty, bath now.” She started walking towards him. Chopper simply replied with bursting into tears and fleeing for his life, screaming about his new shirt.
Luffy pushed Usopp into the bathroom, after some protests Usopp had finally given up trying to get away from the captain.
“Ok, now take off all your clothes.” Luffy grinned. Usopp grumbled.
“Err….what are you two doing?” a voice asked. Before a foot shot into both of them.
“LECHEROUS IDIOTS!” Sanji screamed, jumping up from his bath and kicking the two. “YOU THOUGHT I WAS NAMI-SWAN OR ROBIN-CHWAN! AND WERE PLANNING ON DOING HORRIBLE THINGS TO MY BODY!” he screamed. Luffy and Usopp simply ran for their lives, screaming and giggling in unison.
Sanji scowled and sunk back into his bath, lighting a cigarette, closing his eyes and beginning to relax.
“It didn’t work.” Robin smiled, teasing Nami, who glared at her.
“You mean you actually tried it?” Nami snickered, Robin nodded.
“In the end I think I made him even more upset.” Robin lowered her head miffed that her plan didn’t work; there was a knock on the door.
“Who is it?” Nami snapped at the door.
“Naaamii…..it didn’t work.” Luffy complained. Nami groaned. It was going to be tougher than she had first thought.