Happy birthday, Lew-chan! Since you wrote me something for my birthday, I suppose I ought to return the favor. So here's a little Christmas thing with all your favorite One Piece ships.
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece, Forever 21, Hallmark, or any other shops the crew enters. All rights to their respective owners!
"Ok, so let's just go over this one more time." Robin said. "I'm with Luffy and Sanji, Nami's with Usopp and Chopper, and Zoro's with Franky and Brook."
"I don't know why we're splitting up into groups." Zoro said. "It's just the mall at 5:00 in the morning."
"It's Black Friday, and besides, you'd get lost even there weren't crowds of people here." Nami said.
It was Black Friday, and the "Strawhats", named for their leader's choice of headwear, were going Christmas shopping. It was Nami's idea to go on Black Friday, and somehow, the res t of the group was sucked into Nami's plan. They had decided to split up, but, since Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp kept forgetting who they were supposed to be with, Robin had to constantly remind them.
Before long, the doors opened, and Robin and Sanji pulled Luffy with them. Luffy'd never seen so many people before at a mall. He almost got trampled twice. Once they were inside, Robin pulled him and Sanji over the side.
"Ok, so what do you guys want to buy?"
Luffy smiled. "Well, I have to get Zoro something special for our first Christmas together, and I wanna get Nami some clothes, and for Brook, some CDs or something, and-"
"Whoa, slow down!" Robin said. "So we know we need to stop at a store that sells girls' clothes, and a music store. We're right near Forever 21, so let's go in, and see if we find some things."
Luffy and Sanji nodded. As they walked to the store, Luffy wondered if he'd be able to find something for Zoro inside. He doubted Zoro'd like anything inside a store filled with make-up and girly clothing, but the mall was a very magical place.
Nami was already exhausted, and she was only at the first store. Not only did she have to watch Usopp and Chopper, because if she didn't, she doubted there'd still be a Hallmark if she didn't, she had to find something for ViVi.
ViVi lived on the other side of town, so the Strawhats only saw her outside of school, but she was invited to most of their parties, because she had been dating Nami, ever since they met at summer camp. Nami had no idea what to get ViVi, but, since ViVi'd always loved ducks for some reason, she'd hope to find something cute and duck inspired at the mall's Hallmark.
However, Chopper and Usopp saw no need in being in the Hallmark, until Usopp found the stuffed animal section.
"Doesn't this look familiar?" Usopp said, holding up a rather annoyed looking plush shark and attempting to copy its face.
"It looks like Zoro, when he's trying to find where his next class is in school." Chopper said, giggling so loud Nami was sure the entire mall could hear.
She grimaced, because ViVi's family employed a lot of servants, and if one of them saw her here and told ViVi, she might never hear the end of shopping in such a cheap store.
As the boys fought over who should buy the item for Zoro, Nami hid behind the Christmas decor, until someone accidentally pushed her into a smiling Christmas Tree, which, when Nami fell on it, began loudly singing "Jingle Bells".
Nami decided that enough was enough, and walked over to get the boys and tell them to stop goofing off when she noticed the duck ornament.
It was yellow and cute, and it smiled in a way that didn't seem possible for a duck. Perfect, Nami thought. She picked up the duck ornament, then went to gather the boys, who were still fighting over that stuffed shark.
Sanji was getting a little annoyed with Luffy's antics. After they'd finished buying at the Forever 21, where it was bad enough Sanji had to buy ViVi a makeup kit that came in its own little bag that wasn't very manly, Luffy decided to pull the group over to look at the Christmas decorations.
"No way." Sanji said. "We can't take a-" but it was too late. Luffy plopped his bags in Sanji's hands, and his way too big straw hat on Sanji's head.
Robin wanted to see them too, and since Sanji wasn't going about to upset her, he was forced to hold his present for ViVi, Luffy and Robin's already purchased items, his camera bag, and Robin's purse, while Robin and Luffy ran around the mall's gigantic Christmas tree. It wasn't long before Sanji heard what sounded like a familiar voice.
"Nami, let's go. If we don't hurry, we won't be able to get Luffy that game he wants."
"Luffy doesn't even own a PS360, Usopp. You just want him to share it with you."
Sanji cringed. If Usopp saw him, holding Robin's Coach purse, and the bag with the jacket Luffy bought Nami in it, he'd never live it down.
"Guys, let's go. Don't you want to see if that small store that sells snow globes has one with horses for Brook, Robin?" Sanji called out.
Robin and Luffy returned, giggling.
"Yeah, let's go." Robin said.
"But first, we want you to wear these!" Luffy said, plopping a hat with elf ears on Sanji's head. Sanji sighed. As if he wasn't already embarrassed enough, he was going to have to wear these? If someone saw him, well, he just hoped it wouldn't happen.
"Now, let's go ask someone to take our picture on your camera!" Luffy said.
Sanji's heart sank when he saw where Luffy was headed. It was Trafalagar Law, co captain of the football team, social media king, and Sanji's crush from back in middle school.
"Sorry Strawhat-ya, I don't know how to wok this camera. I'll use my iPhone and send it to you, ok?" Sanji heard Law say. Sanji wasn't surprised. He was the only journalist for the school paper, and, as far as he knew, kid at school, who used a Polaroid camera.
Law pulled at his iPhone, and snapped a few pics, then left, wishing them all good luck shopping.
"That's gonna come back to haunt me, isn't it?" Sanji said.
"Maybe, maybe not." Robin replied, but Sanji knew it would, and Robin was only sparing his feelings.
"What's that one series Robin likes again?" Franky asked.
"I don't know. She reads so much." Brook said.
Brook, Franky, and Zoro had been in the bookstore since the mall opened.
Franky was trying to find a present for his girlfriend, Robin, Brook wanted to find something for Nami, and Zoro had other ideas.
"Hey, guys, I found Sanji's present!" Zoro said, waving a pink, girly book in the air.
"I think it should be for Nami. Let me check." Brook said, trying to grab the book from Zoro, who quickly snatched it away.
"No way! Imagine the Prince of Dumbass Kingdom having to hold this in front of Usopp. It's the perfect plan for revenge."
Zoro was very mad at Sanji. After he and Luffy had gone on a date, they discovered that someone from the school paper had put a picture of them kissing on the front cover! Zoro immediately blamed Sanji, the only person who knew about him and Luffy on the school paper. Zoro was even more upset when he discovered how detailed the article was. Zoro had been planning to announce their relationship at the Christmas dance, in a grand romantic gesture, mainly because the football team needed the good publicity after a tough season, and hey, Luffy's face when Zoro serenaded him with Christmas songs? That would have been priceless.
Unfortunately, this "mysterious writer" had also put this in the paper, convincing Zoro even more that it was Sanji.
Franky had tried to stay neutral in the whole Zoro vs Sanji thing, but he was kinda leaning towards Zoro's side. He hid a chuckle while Zoro took the book to the checkout, but couldn't help laughing when Zoro accidentally walked into the magazine aisle.
"Why don't you get her a gift card?" Brook suggested, startling Franky, who'd been watching Zoro try to find the cash register. "That way she can buy whatever she wants."
Franky nodded, selecting one with a Christmas tree on it from a small shelf near him, then grabbed Zoro by the hand, and they both got in line.
Usopp had no idea Christmas shopping was so hard. Since it was 7, the crowds had gone down a little, but Usopp knew he'd probably be at the mall for at least another hour.
At this point, he was regretting taking the stuffed shark from Chopper, who still had 4 more presents left to buy, including Zoro's.
Nami, however, had all of hers, and was now trying to "help" Usopp and Chopper.
"Ooh, Chopper, get this for Zoro!" Nami said, holding up a plastic sword. "It's so cheap, too!"
Chopper giggled and nodded, taking the sword from Nami.
Usopp, however, was more concerned about Sanji. What if he hated Usopp's gift?
Nami had suggested matching dog tags, which was a cute idea, but it was an expensive one, as it took up almost exactly half of his money. He only had Luffy left to find a gift for, but he also only had 5 dollars left, so Nami dragged him and Chopper into the dollar store.
"Ooh, this is perfect for Luffy." Nami said, holding up a pair of reindeer antlers.
"There's no way I can get him something that lame." Usopp said. "He's been my best friend, since, well, forever, I guess."
"What about this?" Nami said, holding up a snow globe.
"He'd break that in 5 seconds."
"No, he wouldn't." Nami said, placing the snowglobe in Usopp's hand.
"Please, just buy it." Chopper said. Chopper was the kind of person who could ask for the moon, and then would shoot you one look, and that's all it'd take. Under his glance, you'd fold like a flower petal.
Usopp sighed, and took the snow globe to the checkout. Upon further inspection, inside the snowglobe was a ship. The figure head was quite unusual. It was a lamb, of sorts.
Usopp pointed it out to Nami, and she smiled.
"I bet Luffy will give it a name of some sort." She said. "And if it has a name, then he will try not to break it."
"I wanna see!" Chopper said, excitedly jumping up and down.
Usopp handed Chopper the snow globe. As Chopper took it from Usopp, a glint that could be called diabolical in a way came into his eyes.
"I'm now going to calculate the exact amount of wrapping paper needed to wrap this snow globe without wasting any of the wrapping paper." Chopper announced.
"No, you're not." Nami said, frantically trying to grab it out of his hands, but only finding his hat to grab.
Because Chopper was second on the grade distinguished honor roll, with Robin being the first, it was easy to forget the genius teen was shorter then Usopp and Nami, and 2 years younger. Chopper was 13, but he skipped 2 grades, so he was a freshman.
He was also the type of person to hold everyone up for 10 minutes doing math in the dollar store, so once Nami remembered how short he was, the snowglobe was swiftly taken from him and placed inside Usopp's bag.
Chopper pouted for a bit, then asked if it was okay to stop for snacks. Usopp and Nami laughed, and together, they walked to the nearest snack bar.
It had been a long day, well, morning, for the whole crew. As everyone filed into the back of Brook's car, Luffy, being Luffy, asked way too many questions for anyone to answer.
"What did you get me, Nami? What?" Luffy asked, poking the orange haired girl.
"I can't tell you, it's a secret." Nami said.
Luffy shrugged, then turned to Zoro.
"Zoro, what did you get me?" Luffy asked.
Before Zoro could answer, Sanji pulled out his camera. "Smile!" He said, taking a selfie, if you could call it that, with his Polaroid.
Ever since Sanji had come back from the camp he'd spent the summer at, his smoking addiction had been replaced by an addiction to photography.
While the group was thankful he'd recovered from his previous addiction, they weren't thankful for his new obsession. Most of them secretly hated it, except Robin, but she just enjoyed watching everyone else silently fume over being bombarded with Sanji's camera.
"I think you'll enjoy my present, Sanji." Robin said.
"Hey, hey, what's with that look?" Sanji asked.
"What look?" Robin replied, wiping the smirk off her face. "I have no idea what in the world you're talking about."
"Are you guys gonna sit down so I can drive? Or am I gonna have to play the record?" Brook said, a glint in his eyes. Robin shuddered.
"Everyone, sit down. Now." She said, practically yelling.
"Why? What's the record?" Chopper asked. "I want to hear it."
"It's just a book on tape, Chopper. Nothing you haven't seen before." Nami said, leaving at the very important detail as to what sort of book it was.
Chopper nodded, clutched one of his shopping bags to his chest and sighed.
"When will we be home?" He asked. "I have tons of homework to do."
Once he finished his sentence, Chopper was down for the count, using his shopping bag as a pillow.
"I wonder what he's got in there. It looks like he's taking a comfy nap." Franky said.
"Can we sing Christmas music?" Luffy yelled.
"Shhhh, Luffy, Chopper's sleeping." Nami said.
"Oh, oh right." Luffy said, and with that, he proceeded to fall asleep on the arm of the nearest person, which just so happened to be Zoro.
A/N: My family actually has a Christmas tree like the one Nami falls on, and when it is on, it can drive you bonkers, cause it turns on when you walk by it. Also, I kinda didn't want to do a high school AU with Sanji smoking, so I made him over that and into photography instead. That's all for now folks! Part 2, when the crew will exchange presents, goes up in the next week! - Jo :P
