Give Me That

It was near the end of the Straw Hat pirate's adventure with Vivi, and they had just gathered all of the rations that they needed onto The Going-Merry. They were about to say their farewell's to her, as they had all turned around and thrown their arms up into the air, showing the green "X" on the back of each of their arms to Vivi. The princess started to tear up, but did something that none of them were expecting, she got onto Karoo's back, and ran towards the ship, and just barely managed to land on the deck of the ship. She fell off of Karoo's back, and onto Luffy by accident, with tears of joy streaming down her face, and shocked looks on everyone else's.

"Why did you do that?! Now we are going to be hunted down and killed for kidnaping a princess!" Usopp cried.

"WHAT? We're going to be hunted and killed for kidnapping her?!" Chopper cried after hearing Usopp's outburst, to which they were both hit in the head by Nami, who was yelling at them to shup up.

"You want to stay with us that badly?" Luffy asked, sitting up with Vivi in his lap, and just barely wiping her tears off of her face. "Then I guess we have a permanent member of our crew then!" Luffy said gleefully while giving his signature smile and laugh.

"Yeah, I just can't seem to break away from you guys, I'd miss you all way too much." Vivi said, looking up and smiling at everyone on deck. "I'll go write a letter informing my father that I am going on an adventure, and that I will be back in a few years when I am done!" Vivi said, running to the girl's room to write the letter for the King.

"The writing paper is in the middle draw on the right!" Nami called after her, and then stopped when she saw Nico Robin sitting on the railing, looking down at all of them. "Who are you?" Nami asked, getting really defensive all of a sudden.

-After the little scene with Nico-

Vivi came running back onto the deck of The Going-Merry to see Nico on deck with the crew. "Oh, hello there Miss All Sunday. How are you today?" Vivi asked as she called down the mail bird, who was already about to land to give Nami the daily mail. She gave the bird the letter and told him where to go and thanked him after giving Nami the newspaper.

"Quite well, Miss Wednesday. I didn't quite expect to see you on a pirate ship. Especially after all that has just happened in your home country." Nico said, smiling, with a small glare, at her.

"Likewise, Robin." Vivi said, returning the glare.

"Wait, you two know each other already?" Nami said, as Usopp, Chopper, and Luffy were all freaking out about it.

"Yeah, we were both apart of the Baroque Workers together." Vivi replied. "Actually, she was one of the commanders that sent me to go and help take down your ship near the beginning of the Grand Line, actually." Vivi finished, looking over at Nami, who was sporting a stunned look, and Sanji had dropped his freshly lit cigarette out of shock.

"Wait, that's why we saw you there?" Sanji said, picking up his cigarette off the ground and continued to puff it. "And here I was thinking it was fate my princess!" Sanji suddenly swooned, presenting a single rose, and hearts for eyes towards Vivi. But, he was soon kicked out of the air by Nami and into the railing of the ship, to which Zoro snickered.

"Cool, so we now have two more members of the crew everyone!" Luffy exclaimed, and jumped up into the air a little. "I'm hungry, can you make dinner now Sanji?" Luffy asked as soon as his feet hit the deck.

"We just had a huge buffet back at Vivi's castle you idiot!" Sanji and Nami yelled at the captain as Zoro face palmed at their captions idiocy. Then everyone stopped at the sound of fire coming closer to the ship. They all looked over to the right of the ship, where it seemed to have stopped. Then suddenly, a very well built man jumps onto the deck of the ship, then stands tall to reveal his face, along with the smiling and frowning patches on his hat.

"Who are you?" almost everyone on deck yell, Robin kept silent and just looked at him with wondering eyes for a moment. But everyone's thoughts were soon disturbed by their captain's voice booming out of his lips.

"Huh? Ace! Is that you?" Luffy voice rang in question as he took a step towards the muscular figure.

"So you aren't as much of an idiot as I thought you would be, Luffy." Ace replied, which earned a lot of gasps from the crew surrounding them. "How've you been, kid?" Ace asked, looking down with a smirk and adjusting his hat a little to fit his head better.

"How could I forget my brother?" Luffy asked, to which Usopp and Chopper passed out, Nami and Sanji let out another gasp/grunt, and Nico and Zoro looked at the two in surprise. Luffy then ran the rest of the small distance between the two of them and wrapped his arms around the older males' neck. "I missed you Ace!" Luffy mumbled into his older brothers' neck.

Ace put an arm around Luffy and got a small blush on his cheeks that was barely visible. "Aw, come on kid, don't make a scene, I don't know any of your friends here at all. This is embarrassing for me." Ace said, turning his head away from Luffy and scratching the back of his head with his free hand. Then his eyes rested on Zoro, more specifically, his katanas. He managed to break free from Luffy's grip with ease as he started to walk towards Zoro.

"Hm? What do you want?" Zoro asked as soon as Ace stopped right in front of him, with Luffy's arms still very present in a vice grip around the older males' neck. "Do you have a staring problem or something?" Zoro growled, getting very impatient with the man before him.

"Hm?" Ace said, making eye contact with him for the first time since arriving on deck. "Oh, sorry, I was just admiring something." Ace said, as he withdrew The Wado Ichimonji from its white sheath on Zoro's belt. "Pretty nice, I've heard about this one somewhere before." Ace said again, admiring the sword.

"Give me that!" Zoro growled, trying to reach for his sword from the other male, only to have it switched to the males' other hand and the one formerly holding it against his own chest. A small pink tint lit up Zoro's cheeks slightly as a wave of frustration and embarrassment ran through him at that exact moment. "It's very important to me, now give it back." Zoro snapped again, trying to reach past Ace's arm again, still to no anvil.

"No, I'm looking at it, now quit being rude and let me finish." Ace said as he pushed Zoro away with his hand, trying to get a better look at the weapon. "And it wouldn't kill ya to say 'please' every once in a while, will it?" Ace asked, glaring back at the green haired male that looked very agitated at him. Then, all of a sudden, Ace fell to the floor like a rock in the ocean, and started snoring his face off. The Wado Ichimonji clattered to the floor close to his head, which amused Zoro to no end.

"Damn, it missed his head by a few inches." Zoro said to himself as he picked his beloved sword up, re-sheathed it. He tied a knot around the sheath and the pommel, then walked over to the opposite side of the deck from the snoring man. He sat in one of his normal sleeping spots, clutched his sword tightly to his chest, and fell asleep himself.

When Zoro woke up, his sword was no longer in his arms, and shot up into an immediate sitting position and started frantically looking around for it. He growled when his eyes landed on Luffy's supposed "brother," who was holding now, laughing with Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper. He stood up and growled in their direction, and started walking towards them.

"Give. Me. That." Zoro snarled at them when he got close enough, a dark look going over his face. "Now!" Zoro sapped, and lunged for his weapon, to which Ace sidestepped it, making Zoro stumble a little, and the others that were looking to laugh. Then, Zoro, instead of reaching for his sword, made a reach for Ace's hat, and succeeded in grabbing it, which shocked Ace. Luffy and the others stopped laughing when that happened.

"Dude, not cool." Ace said, suddenly looking like he was the victim of this situation. Luffy shaking his head, while Chopper and Usopp glared at Zoro.

"Don't try to play the victim card here." Zoro stated blankly, still glaring at everyone around him.

"You took my hat." Ace said, looking a bit sad about it.

"Oh boo-hoo, you took my sword in the first place, so you can't play that card on me." Zoro said flatly to the older man.

"Give me my hat back." Ace said, glaring at Zoro, trying to grab it, but Zoro sidestepped, causing Ace stumble a little, which made Chopper snicker a little.

"I'll give you your hat if you return my sword to me." Zoro said, to which Ace grudgingly agreed, and they switched. "And if you wanted to look at it so bad, take your own advice and use common curtesy before you go grabbing things that aren't yours, understood?" Zoro asked as he adjusted his sword back onto his belt.

"Fine, whatever. Sorry." Ace mumbled his response to Zoro, then said with a look of irritation on his face, "Just don't take my hat again, will ya?"

"That won't need to happen if you don't take my things without my permission." Zoro said, then they both shook hands, and Ace announced that he had to leave and get back to his crew. After he left, Zoro settled back in for another little nap against the railing again.