The naked young man smile happily as he walked around the bathroom, it was so nice to be back aboard Sunny, for a number of reason; Sunny spacious bedroom with lovely hot water, was far better than the ones in the small log cabins him and his crew there forced to stay during their time on the last island,
Steam filled the bathroom, a sure sign that the young man that stayed too long showering.
Luffy grinned as he walked over to the large bedroom mirror, his grin widen as he leaned forward and wiped a hand over the surface. So he saw his image grinning back at him and he fell back on his heels and glance at himself.
"Clean!" He declared himself as he grabbed hold of his towel and threw it upwards, it landed on his head and blocking his vision. And as so as it did he quickly began rubbing his head, trying to dry it as best he could. Normally he would have let it dry by it's self, but Chopper told Luffy not to walk around the deck with wet hair.
Chopper never gave a proper reason as to why, but Luffy chose to listen to his doctor's voice; it was the very reason for having him on this ship. And so Luffy did everything that was asked...well within his reason. If Chopper told him that he could not eat for a week, he doubted he could stick to that.
Luffy stopped rubbing his head and peeked an eye out from under the towel, thinking he heard something. Blinking he pulled it down, so he was wearing it around his neck, and turning he glanced around. Blinking through the steamy room, Luffy tried to see if anything was out of place.
It had been over a week since they were last on Sunny. It was a custom of the island for all visitors, to dock and leave their ships or boats in the coves while staying there. Luffy had not been happy about this, but he saw that his crew wanted the much needed rest.
Still blinking Luffy kneed down and glanced under the towel racks, where he was sure this was where the source had come from. Luffy carefully listened.
There it was again!
He tilted his head to the side, Luffy was sure he heard this sound before, but could not remember where.
Narrowing his black eyes at the rack, Luffy saw movement at the far back of the pile of towels; then he reached in with both hands, moving some towels out of the way with his elbows.
There was shadow! And it moved; the last time Luffy checked towels don't move...unless they've swallowed a Fruit.
Shoulder deep in towels Luffy readjusted his bent knees as he moved his weight to his right side and leaned in with his left hand.
Pain flashed through his hand.
"It hurts!" Luffy cried out, more in surprise than anything else. He fell backwards on his rear end and pulling his arms out of the racks; he held his left hand high in the air, a trail of blood and something else followed behind.
Luffy gritted his teeth when he saw that something was attached to his hand, or rather his middle finger.
A large dirty brown rat had sunk his teeth deep into the base of Luffy's middle finger, it was hanging down and wiggling wildly. Due to the wiggling Luffy's rubbery flesh began to pull it downwards, tearing more flesh away.
Luffy used a powerful wave of Haki.
The rat suddenly stilled, then it's dark red reds rolled to the back of it's head and mouth opened wide. It dropped to the floor with a heavy thump.
Luffy hissed slightly as he held his hand in front of his face, blood oozed out of his finger and covered the palm, running right down to his elbow, where it dripped on the floor and partly on his tights.
He glanced down at the rat for a moment and blinked when he saw that it was not moving or even twitching; he had used to much will power and the thing had died from fright!
He sighed loudly at the thought of cleaning up the bloody mess. As he got to his feet, Luffy grabbed the rat with his wounded hand and walked over to the window. There he opened it with his good hand.
It was a lot harder to open with one hand, but soon it slid open and as it did the steam in the room blew out of the window.
Stepping back he gazed down at his unwelcome guest and noticed just how much blood was there was, it was dripping everywhere. Then turning slightly he saw that there was a long trail of blood from where he was first bitten to where he stood now.
"Mmm...I clean it after dinner!" Luffy told himself firmly as he faced the window was one more, and leaning back he bought his left hand behind parallel with his shoulder, while reached his right hand out and grabbed hold of the window frame.
He did a overhead throw and the rat went flying off, he watch as the little black dot disappeared into the sea's waves.
Luffy let his arms flop down beside him and then smile at a job well done, that smile soon dropped. "..uu...? Oh..." Luffy mumbled as he noticed the blood he just flicked all on the ceiling and the top of the window, from when he perform his overhead throw.
Luffy blinked as he realized that as he stood there, more blood was pouring out. Blinking again he glanced down, and stared dully at the small puddle that had formed under him.
Luffy pouted his lips, at the thought of more clearing work. He quickly turned and walked to where he left his dirty and clean clothes. As he moved across the bathroom, he grabbed hold of the end of the towel off from around his neck and let it drop any where, not caring where it landed.
Passing the mirrors he went straight to a basket that held his clean clothes, but more importantly, where his beloved straw hat was.
And picked it up...with his left hand.
"AH!" He dropped his hat quickly as if he was being burnt, but the damage was done. Bloody finger marks, as well as a large outpouring of blood from his middle finger, was socking into the straws.
"No!" Luffy shouted out, much louder then when he was bitten, "My hat~" he finished in a tearful voice.
With tearful eyes Luffy picked it p again, this time carefully with his right hand. He took his hat over to the baskets that held the dirty clothes in them. But paused, he did not want to out it in with the dirt wash, so instead he hopped over to the mirror and hooked it on one corner.
"Nami can take care of that for me!" Luffy said with a grin as he placed his hands to his hips, pleased, "Nami will see it as soon as she comes in!" Luffy gazed over at the door, that was in plane sight of the mirror.
Nami was next to have a bath, she was also the one who cleaned his hat all the time for him.
"Shishishishishi~" Luffy laughed, he felt a cool wind blow against his naked flesh and remembered the window was open. Turning to the window and the rest of the bathroom, all laugher died in his throat as he took in the sight of the whole room. His wander from here to there had blooded the place...a lot.
It looked like someone had been murdered here.
"….aaaa..." Luffy sighed loudly, "Before Nami come and cleans my hat, I better clean this place..."
Quickly Luffy headed for the door and swung it open, it hit the wall with a loud bang. He gritted his teeth slightly by the sound, then he ran out into the hallway as fast as he could. His only hope was, that he could clean it up before Nami or everyone else would see it.
Luffy halted.
Slowly, very slowly he glanced downwards. And covered his mouth before any laugher could erupt from it. Luffy had run right out of the bathroom completely naked. Sanji's voice floated in his mind, when he told him never to leave the bathroom or men's dorms without anything on.
Luffy pulled his hands away and swallowed his laugher, a smile still remain. He blinked as he felt some wetness on his face; he had just smeared blood all over his mouth, chin and cheek.
"Mmmm..." Luffy hummed and rested his chin on his right hand, while holding his right elbow with his left hand; A thoughtfully expression crossed his face."Maybe I should just let it hang." He said aloud, and held his hand away from his body.
Then he started heading for the men's dorms, not seeing that he rubbed blood on over his elbow and it was now wiping against his hips.
"Clothes. Chopper. Cleaning. All before Nami founds out that I let the bathroom get dirty...maybe I can get some food first..." He said the last part in a low voice, and he changed his course. "So Food. Clothes. Chopper. Cleaning. Sound like a-"
A loud ear piercing scream filled the ship, causing him to stop and listen.
His heart was racing, many question rushed through his mind. Was it an emery, or had Nami just found the bathroom? It seemed to fearful to be an 'someone made a mess again – someone going to pay dearly' scream, so that means an emery ship must be-
"BLOOD!" Nami's panicked shouts filled the ship again, "EVERYONE COME QUICK!"
Luffy glanced towards the direction of the bathroom with a frown, "What? All that for some blood!?" Luffy turned and started for the kitchen. It was then he heard the sound of running feet, and leaping into the air he stretched out his arms and legs, holding himself on the ceiling.
Sanji ran passed with surprising speed, he was so focus on getting to Nami, that he failed to see any of the blood on the floor nor did he notice the blood slowly sliding down the wall.
'Wait! Sanji ran passed...' Luffy brain told him, "Sanji is not in the kitchen!" Luffy cried out in pure happiness, and he ran much faster than before. Running out of the open door leaning to the deck, he saw no one around. Seemed that everyone was heading for the bathroom like Nami asked.
Instead of taking the stairs he jumped right over the railing, knowing that the kitchen was just below. Arms moved above his head as he went through the air, letting more blood flicker everywhere; he landed on his knees, with his head down and arms were placed neither side of him. Luffy wounded hand still was letting blood, he noticed; only not as much, as it was started to clot and crush.
Slowly his head went up, and fixed his gaze on the kitchen door; a serious look was upon his face. He could remember what Sanji was making for lunch, and what was for afters as a snack; Lemon Meringue Pie.
Luffy licked his lips.
He lifted himself up and stood tall, then slowly he walked towards the kitchen door; his heart raced so fast he thought he may change into Second Gear at any moment. Carefully he moved, half thinking that Sanji would jumped out at him and send him flying with a kick to the head; but no mad chief came as he reached the door.
There was a lot of sound and movement coming from about, and Luffy swore he head his name being called.
He stood right outside the door, letting his blood drip; the pies would be his! With his good hand, he pushed the doors and flung them open.
The pies were in sight. But he never moved from the doorway, instead he stretched his good arm out reached for the first that was lined up, and grabbed.
Luffy screamed out.
The pie was still hot in it's dish. He let go and bought his hand back, it slapped into place and he quickly blew at his now swelling hand. Stopping Luffy glared at the dish. It was then he noticed something was moving in the shadows.
Three large rats dashed out of the gloom, heading straight for the pies. Luffy released a war cry and leaped forward. He could hear movement from above, alerting him that the others had heard his screams. So he quickly started his attack, before Sanji realizes where he was.
"Gomu Gomu nooo..." Luffy said darkly as the rats jumped into the air and drive at the pies. "...Gatling Gun!" He finished with a roar, and hit every rat that was there.
It was then he saw that more were coming!
He turned his attack on to them and hit true. Once again he made a mess with his blood, it was all over the walls, ceiling, floor and worktops. Oddly enough none went on those pies. Luffy blinked down at his hand and opened and closed his fist, he could see that he had opened more.
Shaking his head he rushed around the room, ducking down even now and again as he picked up the rats by their talk; some part of him told Luffy, that he could have Haki. But another part strong said, anyone or thing who dared tried steal food off of him were just asking to be punished by his fists.
He froze at the last rat. His crew were close by, he could hear their voices now.
"They're coming!" Luffy moaned out as he realized that he would not be getting any pies now, "Stupid rats!" He ran to the back, here was a serves door and stairwell that only Sanji used when given them their food in the Aquarium.
Wanting to give them a piece of his mind, Luffy held the rats up to his face as he ran down the stairwell, and blinked. They were bleeding too; blood was oozing out from their mouths. A heavy amount of their blood poured out onto which step as he continued down.
Soon he reached the bottom and pushed the door coming into the Aquarium. Luffy dropped the rats and his eyes widen and mouth dropped open at what greeted him.
Rats were everywhere!
But what was more shocking was that they were eating some left over snacks.
"Wait!" Luffy cried out as he looked at the unfamiliar snacks dotted around the room, "Everyone ate snacks while I was showering!" He shouted a little hurt that they would do much a horrible thing to him.
Luffy let out an epic pout, he then used his Haki …. a little too much again. Bodies started fallen to one side, he also heard six heavy bodies and two lights, dropping at top of the stairs.
Knowing what he done, Luffy swore like a old sailor; his words would have caused Shanks to proudly pat on the back. Hurried further into the Aquarium not bothering to see to his fallen crew above, and quickly gathered the rats. Luffy noticed he was panting, and a dull throb had started right behind his eyes. Trying to shake this off, he ran.
Luffy raced up the main stairwell of the Aquarium and found himself on the grassy deck. He let out a heavy sigh, then without a second though, started throwing rats overboard of Sunny. Splattering his and the many rat's blood all across the grass and up the mast.
Luffy felt a chill as the wind blow passed him, it was then he remembered that he was not wearing anything. He was close to the men's dorms; so he turned and ran for it.
Luffy went into the dorm and came to a stop in front of his set of draws. It was already opened from the time before his shower, when he was hunting for things to wear then.
Luffy grabbed the first pair of shorts and quickly put them on.
"And now," Luffy grinned as walked over to the men's room's full view mirror and gazed at himself, "No one can moan at me for not wearing any clothes." He completely missed the fact that he was smothered in his and the rat's blood.
Luffy strolled out of the men's dorms still grinning, and his eyes widen for yet another time that day. There also side Sunny, another ship sailing close. Too close. Another thing that made his eyes widen more, was a large rat like was standing on the edge about to jump aboard his ship.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BABIES!?" The rat man screamed out almost like a squeak, beside him were many rats and they too let out a terrible squeaking sound. "I'll make you to paid for this!"
"What are you talking about?" Luffy shouted out at the man as he watched him jump on Sunny's grassy deck, "You're the one who bought these stupid things here right?" The man twitched then froze when the rats were called 'stupid things', his face grew red as he raised his claw like hand in the air, men began jumping onto Sunny.
Luffy gritted his teeth as he stared at least 50 men, all normal. Not because he had could not handle them. But he was hungry and thrifty, he needed to use the toilet, his eyes were hurting, his lips were sore and he wanted to go to bed...and he need to see Chopped about his hand...oh and eat those pies...
"You're a annoying man." Luffy said simply, with a pout wanting to do all what he wanted, "Get off my ship, before I eat your rats."
"Eat my rats...?" The rat man said a little unsure as he stared at the Straw-Hat Captain.
Luffy marched forward, the ratman's men came running for him, encircled him while drawing their swords and pistols. Luffy blinked at them, and was about to made a comment when he saw something moving out the corner of his eyes, and making their way towards him and the men; he do not bother to turn, knowing who they were.
The Straw-Hat Crew was now awake.
"Yeah! You heard me!" Luffy spoke up as he grinned, this was for his crew benefit then the ratman, "If you don't get off my ship, I'll have my Chief turn them into rat burgers!"
"I'd like to see you try!" The rat man screamed at he pointed at Luffy, "Finished him! He is already weak from blood lost!"
The men started to move, but was suddenly threw back. Some gasped at the sight of eight figures that was shielding the Straw-Hat Captain, all looking ready to kill as they glanced up and down at their wounded blood covered Captain, and then painfully slow they gazed over at the strange crew that was attacking their ship.
Zoro was the first to move. The rest followed.
Luffy just blinked as he folded his arms and titled his head while frowning; why was his crew like this? He could feel their angry coming off them in waves.
'Maybe this would be a good time to get those pies?' Luffy thought as he took a quick glance towards the kitchen...he stopped as noticed Chopper trotting over to him, and knew he was not going to get them any time soon.
'It's the blood's fault..' Luffy thought sadly as stared down at his bloody hand mournfully.