A.N. Yea! I'm starting another Fic involving my Favorite OC, Kaicen Aliotto! If you want to know EVERYTHING about him, go read The Silence of the Singing Isle. If you don't, I have a sucky little summary for you.

Previously on One Piece, The Mugiwara pirate crew, after drifting at sea, starving made their way to an uncharted isle. There they stumbled upon an odd village where no one sang. Robin went exploring and was tragically captured by a Vice-admiral in the navy. There she met a man who helped her to escape.

A great brawl commenced in which Kaicen, the man Robin met, and Luffy strove against Vice-admiral Saros. Kaicen sacrificed his hands, Luffy beat the tar out of the Vice-admiral, and they all escaped happily ever after, Kaicen joining the crew of the Merry go.

Luffy's orders to him were to take a bath, and to learn how to kick from Sanji

The Taming of the Crew: Chapter 1

Do it like yourself

"No, baka!" Sanji's voice rang above the normal sounds of chaos that were ever present on the decks of the Merry Go. With a vein visibly throbbing in his temples he 'gently' corrected his protégé as the older man attempted to break a plank. Gently to Sanji meant not kicking literally his student right off of the ship. "You strike with the heel, if you connect with your toes you'll break your foot."

"Right." Kaicen said, repositioning his stance, and trying to emulate the flawless perfection that was Sanji's axe kick. Though by no means a slow learner, at twenty-five years of age, Kaicen was finding it difficult to perfect this new fighting style that Luffy had ordered him to learn. Not that his teacher was especially easy to work with. At times Kaicen was completely certain that the only reason that Sanji had agreed to train him was the opportunity it presented the cook to kick his butt.

The two men never had gotten along, ever since the little squabble they had over the 'love parfait' Sanji had made for Robin. To Sanji; Kaicen was a food-thief, the worst possible thing to be on the high seas, and he resented the older man's lecherous intentions with his darling Robin-chan. To Kaicen, Sanji was a hateful little boy who fumed petulantly whenever he tried to even talk to Robin, and heaven forbid he EVER bring up Nami…

Only once had Kaicen complained about the navigator to Sanji. The resulting brawl had lasted all of two seconds before Nami's fists had descended, rendering the two combatants down, each nursing an impressive goose egg. Glaring daggers at each other they each went their own way, all the while Zoro laughed so hard that he thought he was going break a rib.

"Sanji, Food!" Luffy called from his favorite perch, as he stood and approached the ongoing martial arts lesson, curiosity etched into his features.

"Ne?" Sanji asked, turning his attention away from his pathetic student he looked at his watch. Was it really that late Trust Luffy to remind Sanji about a meal, even if usually he was already making it before his captain even noticed. 11:30 a.m., Damn… he wouldn't have time to make something elaborate for His Nami-swan and Robin-chwan, unless… "Oi, Luffy, how do you feel about sandwiches?"

"Meat sandwiches?" the captain asked in interest.

"But of course." Sanji smiled, and then almost lost his footing as Luffy began shoving him towards the kitchen. "But I need a favor from you."

"What'cha need?"Luffy asked.

"I need you to supervise Bishy-boy's training." Sanji knew that Luffy was the worst person to assign a trainee to, because the captain had an attention-span the size of a gnat's belch, but he didn't care. If Kaicen was serious about learning how to kick he wouldn't let Luffy distract him. At this thought Sanji had to smile to himself, he knew how hard it was to ignore Luffy, and he didn't think the other man had it in him. "Ok?"

"Yosh!" Luffy cheered. The truth is that he was bored, Usopp and Chopper were both busy, and he really didn't have anything to do. But now he had Kaicen to play with. "You hear that, Kaicen?"

"Yeah… Ya! …Captain." Kaicen said, as he continued to train. "I heard."

"Now, don't stop, and for God's sake man, raise that leg fully up, like this!" Sanji instructed, pulling himself into a standing split. Kaicen's eyes almost watered in sympathetic pain. "If you don't you'll never do any damage to anyone you fight."

"Yes, Sanji…" Came the dutiful reply. Smirking to himself, Sanji headed towards the kitchen to prepare the midday meal. He was sure that Kaicen would fail the test of his resolve that was Luffy when he was in a playful mood.

Half an hour later Kaicen was groaning in frustration. He just couldn't bend the way that Sanji could, and because of that his technique was suffering.

"Why are you doing it like that?" Luffy asked in curiosity as Kaicen attempted the axe kick for the thousandth time. "I mean, it's obvious you can't do the splits like me and Sanji."

"Because…" Kaicen said, shaking sweat and hair out of his eyes. He was practicing the kick in nothing but his old pair of ragged shorts, and linen hand-wrappings. Raising his foot as high as he could, which was only chest level, he brought it down in a controlled motion, stopping just short of it's target. "…Because this is how I was… instructed to do it."

"But you're not doing anything."

"I know… But you told me to learn this… so I'm gonna keep doing it…. Till I get it." Again came the foot down, but this time faster.

Luffy couldn't argue with him, he didn't care to either. What he wanted to do was be entertained, and Kaicen was proving to be a most unsatisfactory playmate. "I'm bored… let's go play a game!"

"Can't…"

"Why not?"

"Training…" Again the leg came down incorrectly, again Kaicen groaned in frustration. He'd never be able to do this like the cook had.

"Kaicen…" Luffy asked.

"Yeah?"

"Don't do it like Sanji," Luffy said with a shrug. "Do it like yourself."

Taken aback, Kaicen paused with a foot high in the air, almost loosing his balance. For a long moment the two men just looked at each other, until Sanji's call of "LUNCH!" broke the tableau. Like a shot Luffy was off, cheering and headed towards the galley to eat his fill.

While the rest of the crew was eating, Kaicen stood outside, thinking. Do it like himself… Why didn't it ever occur to him? It made perfect sense when Luffy said it. Taking the piece of wood that Sanji had sent him to break, Kaicen propped it up, and lifted his leg high above it.

Do it like yourself…

Taking a deep breath, he made one last attempt to break the plank.

Do it like yourself…

A second later the plank lay in two pieces at his feet, and a grin plastered his face. He had done it, he had actually broken it. It wasn't like Sanji, who would have shattered the board with one mighty blow, it was his own way, a flurry of lesser kicks directed at the same spot.

The lone sound of applause coming from behind him sent Kaicen whirling. There was Sanji, cigarette perched in his lips, a smile on his face. "Good job."

They were two simple words, but they were enough.

A.N. short, I know, but hey, it's a start. I think that this shows the nature of their relationship. Sanji sees Kaicen as weak and contemptable, and Kaicen sees Sanji as immature, with anger issues.