Mochi
Zoro gets sticky mochi on him... and Luffy wants to help.

Zoro sighed as he shoveled more mochi in his mouth. When was that stupid crap cook going to get back? He'd gone off to buy groceries a while ago, and Zoro was really hungry. So he'd made some mochi, but it definitely wasn't going to satiate his appetite. A bunch of little rice cakes with red bean paste inside? It was so... so light! He needed something heavier! Meat! And maybe some wine, too. But for now he'd just have to eat mochi, and it ticked him off.

"Zoro? What's wrong?"

Zoro looked up from the evil mochi to see Luffy standing in the doorway to the kitchen.

"Nothing, really."

"Sure there is! You look upset. Is it because you have mochi stuck all over your face?"

Zoro blinked, suddenly realizing that the sticky rice cakes were getting stuck on his face. "What? No, I..."

Luffy licked his lips. "I'll get it off for you!"

Zoro jumped up, knocking over a chair in the process. "Luffy...!"

"Come on!" Luffy lunged for Zoro, who dove out of the way, screaming. "Zo-ro! Let me help!"

Zoro ran out of the room screaming in pure terror, and Luffy gave chase. They tore around the deck in circles, Zoro cursing and Luffy laughing his head off. Soon Chopper and Usopp came up from below deck to see what all the noise was about.

Usopp grinned. "That looks like fun!"

Chopper laughed. "Yeah! I wanna play, too!"

So Chopper and Usopp joined the chase, but they both stopped short when Luffy finally caught Zoro.

He literally wrapped his arms around Zoro to keep him from moving, then proceeded to lick the sticky mochi off of Zoro's face.

"Ew!" Chopper wrinkled his little blue nose. "I don't wanna play anymore."

Usopp nodded in agreement. "Neither do I! But... let's stay for the show!"

"Okay!"

When Nami came up later, she was met with a terrifying sight: Luffy had Zoro pinned to the ground, and he was licking the swordsman's entire head as Zoro screamed and cursed. Chopper and Usopp were sitting a few feet away, fascinated, it seemed, with the whole grim spectacle. Sanji, apparently, had come back from shopping, and was bringing popcorn.

Nami looked around at everyone, then went back down to her room to pretend that what she'd just seen had never happened.

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Author's note: MUAHAHAHA! Yes, this was sure a lot of fun to write... for those of you who have never eaten mochi, it's a sticky gloppy rice cake with some kind of filling (usually sweet red bean paste) inside. It's very hard to get off because the gloppy rice cake part, has the same properties as boiled sticky rice, namely: It's sticky and you can't get it off very easily. Yes, I don't like mochi very much. Okay! Please hit that lonely little review button, or I'm going to cover you in mochi and sic Luffy on you!