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Chapter One
Across The Universe
Robin was the one to break the news to the whole crew that their dear friend - and Luffy's brother, for the fact - is getting married soon, with none other than his work partner-turned-girlfriend, the lovely Koala. There was even a pre-wedding photograph attached to a letter in the envelope which also contained a printed lilac invitation card deliciously made fragrant. Everyone was happy, and yes, the captain ordered the Thousand Sunny to set sail for Water 7 as soon as the news was announced, because basically 'meat, food and parties'. And 'brother', let's not forget that.
Apart from their captain, everyone else was ecstatic as well for the wedding. They were expected to arrive at Water 7 in a week, and - mentioned in the letter, which Robin had read aloud as the rest of the crew listened as if it was a bedtime story - the preparations for the wedding is already ongoing. The celebration would be grand, but small enough to slip under the World Government's noses, just to be disguised as a normal wedding celebration. The top officials of the Revolutionary Army would be there, Monkey D Dragon would definitely be there too, and for some reasons, Chimney would be their flowergirl.
Sanji had already imagined how he would woo all the pretty ladies at the wedding later, while Zoro looked forward to all the booze he could chug. Usopp contemplates whether he should return as himself or either Sogeking as a recognized hero around the island, while Chopper had fantasized all the cotton candy that he would be able to eat. Brook went on wondering if he could play a song for their first dance, 'Wonderful Tonight' by Eric Clapton being on his mind. Robin, on the other hand, often teased Franky on how emotional he was, and how this would be the first wedding he would ever attend to.
Nami, on the other hand, was more concerned on what to wear to the reception, and their captain, well, you could say that at certain times, he sat on Sunny-go's lion head, bobbing his head while singing randomly made-up songs about the coming wedding. It was miraculous that one bright sunny day, he managed to stay still, lying on the turf of the deck with his hands on his belly, looking at the sky in wonderment.
"A rabbit!" Said Nami, who lied comfortably next to him on the turf, his hand pointing towards a flock of cloud in the sky. "There, did you see it?"
"Silly Nami, that's not a rabbit, that's meat!" He replied, waving off his hand as a gesture of reject.
"It's a rabbit, idiot," the ginger navigator defended, shifting herself closer towards Luffy so she could see from his point of view. "Look closely."
It took seventeen seconds, a wrinkled nose and a pair of squinted eyes later that Luffy suddenly exclaimed, "I see it! I see the rabbit!"
"See, I told you!" Nami smiled proudly. "It's a rabbit!"
Luffy lifted his hand, his index finger pointing towards the rabbit-shaped cloud they both had been on about for the past minute. "That's his face, and those are his ears, and that's his body, and that's his tail..."
"Land ho!" Usopp interrupted, climbing down from the Crow's Nest and zoomed past the deck. Luffy immediately got up on his feet, flawlessly like the rubber man he is, and quickly caught up to Usopp. From the deck of Sunny-go, the majestic fountain-like island could be seen from afar, doing its majestic thing of being an inhabited gigantic water fountain with Venice-like water canals and Italian-like hospitality.
"We're here, Water 7," Zoro announced from the Crow's Nest, watching from afar the Puffing Tom sea train that was leaving the island. Franky immediately came out to steer on the helm as per Nami's instructions. Robin and Chopper, who were enjoying a game of Chinese Checkers both raised their heads away from their board game, while Brook started playing a happy tune with 'Yohohoho' and 'bones' being compulsary in his freestyle lyrics.
They docked the Thousand Sunny at a private harbour through gate number three, as instructed by Iceberg in the same letter Sabo and Koala had sent them. A few Revolutionary Army ships were docked there as well, so it was easily concluded the private harbour would keep their ships from being suspiciously spotted by any World Government officials.
Trust me, we don't wanna see Aikanu at the wedding.
"Bakaburg!" Franky smiled with both his hands on his sexy hips once they had dropped the anchor and he had jumped off Sunny-go first. The mayor of Water 7 was apparently there to welcome them in his same gentleman suit and his new blonde secretary tagging along.
"Bakanky," was all he replied. "Well, I guess the habit of calling each other 'baka' is something we still have in common, apart from making ships, of course. How's everything going?"
"See for yourself," said Franky, lifting his glasses over his forehead. "Sunny is still strong. Made with the pride of a Don!"
"Iceburg-ossan!" Their rubber captain interrupted, being the second to jump off the ship. "Long time no see! Where's Sabo? Where's Koala?"
"Straw Hat Luffy, good to see you too," Iceburg maintained his classy demeanour, "and the rest of the Straw Hat family. It's been a while." It took him a while to take in that the famous skeleton soul star is also their crew member. Oh well. Haters gonna hate, lovers gonna love.
"Sabo? Where's Sabo?" Luffy asked impatiently, the silly grin still painted on his face.
Nami pulled him by the sleeves of his red shirt. "Luffy, behave. Usopp, you mind watching over this idiot too?"
Usopp stood next to Luffy, and nudged him. "She called you idiot," he told the rubber boy in a lower voice as a tease.
"What a beautiful lady!" Sanji interrupted the scene, already fleeting over Iceburg's blonde secretary, who looked a lot younger than Kalifa. It earned him an annoyed 'tch' from Zoro and a nearly-quiet chuckle from Robin.
Lucky Nami was able to send Brook a good karate chop on the skull before he could even finish his sentence of "it would be a big honor if you let me see your augh ugh gomenasai!"
"Well anyway, let's head to the guest lounge and have some tea, shall we?" Iceburg invited with a half-forced smile, knowing that in a matter of seconds he would risk his guest lounge being turned into a messy playground for the hyperactive captain. "I've arranged a guest house for you just by the headquarters so you could all stay togther. There would be three bedrooms and two bathrooms, even a private kitchen, enough to provide you a cosy stay-"
"So when are we going to meet Sabo?" Luffy asked impatiently, still, as they all made their way to the Galley-La headquarters building.
"Ooh, awesome awesome!"
There was a moderately sized model of a fancy fountain by the wall in the corner of the room, displayed well as a small-scaled model of Iceburg's new project, at which Luffy, Chopper and Usopp were wow-ing at, while the others sat gathered at a sofa set in the headquarters' guest lounge.
"Awesome, awesome!" Usopp and Chopper repeated, jaw dropped and eyes somehow sparkled in much amazement.
Nami sat on the two-seater sofa the closest to the fancy fountain. "Don't break anything," she said over her shoulder, oh, as if they could try to be reminded so.
"You're finally doing it, aren't you?" Franky said with a proud smile, chugging his serving of Cola afterwards - Iceburg's new secretary really did remember to serve everyone tea but Franky, and yes, Zoro did not get his alcohol this time around.
"Still revising the blueprints. It's a pretty risky project, turning Water 7 into a floating island. There would hardly be room for making prototypes at all."
"You're going to turn this island into a floating island?" Usopp turned to join the gathering. "That's so cool! But is that even possible?"
"Baka, he's one of Tom's apprentice, he could do anything," Franky said, a slight compliment slipped out, and before anything else, he added, "anything except finding a girlfriend!"
Iceburg's face flushed red at the comment, and Robin let out a chuckle before she changed the whole subject for the better. "I'm really looking forward to the wedding, I haven't seen Koala in years. I assume you're taking part in the wedding preparation too?"
"Unfortunately no, Robin-san, but I'm flattered that they chose this island to be the place for their wedding."
"Well, if you ask me, this place is rather romantic. The Yagara boats, the canals, the friendly people," Nami commented dreamily, "it's like the Grand Line's version of Venice!"
"I heard this place became a well-known tourist destination too," added Sanji, who was kind enough to avoid from smoking in the now air-conditioned headquarters building.
"Well then, I hope they're satisfied with what this island could offer them. The wedding of a general officer of the Revolutionary Army, second in command, and the Revolutionary Army's Fishman Karate Trainer, you thought it would be held in a more, say, grand place, now, would they?"
Luffy plopped himself on the sofa just next to Nami, the grin on his face sticks like it had been drawn by permanent marker and damn it, you can't just wipe that silly grin off.
"What?" Nami asked as she turned to him, while the others continued their chatter on how Iceburg had helped arranged the wedding venue and reception affairs and all.
"My dad's gonna be around too. I'm gonna meet him, Nami."
Their guest house this time was much bigger - and clearly more convenient - than the one they had the last time. It was a whole, cabin-like concrete house, fully furnished to suit the entire crew, really. The first thing everyone did was calling dibs on who owns which bed, although they all look equally comfortable. Upon finding out that the fridge is quite empty, except for stocked canned drink, Sanji decided to head to the market to stock on rations.
"Nami-swan, do you want to come with me?"
"Oh, no thanks, Sanji-kun. I'm thinking of going out to look for dresses... Maybe you could ask Zoro to join you?"
"Not in a million years!" Zoro yelled from the living room, not sure whether he was eavesdropping or that he had only overheard them.
"Yeah, yeah, I forgot," Nami sighed. "What about Usopp, then?"
"Okay," Sanji gave her a sweet smile. "Do you want me to get you anything special, Nami-swan?"
"Nah, I'm good." She dismissed him, and watched as he left the kitchen to look for Usopp. She glanced at the clock on the wall. Three in the afternoon. It really wouldn't hurt to go out window shopping for dresses for a while. She haven't really decided what to wear to the wedding, even, but she thought of a soft red flare dress. "Better ask Robin," she murmured to herself, and made her way to the bedroom to look for Robin.
Nami saw the green-haired swordsman leaning lightly on the bathroom door, one hand curled into a loose fist, ready to knock on the door. "Hey, you okay in there?" He said with a voice loud enough for only the occupant of the bathroom, and Nami herself, could hear. "Don't scare me, Robin."
"I'm alright." Robin's voice from the other side of the door was faintly heard.
Nami scurried over worriedly. "Zoro, what's going on?" She exchanged looks with Zoro for a while, and then proceeded to knock on the bathroom door. "Robin, are you okay in there?"
The door swung open after a loud toiet flush was heard, and Robin appeared with her face dampened with water, her baby hairs along her forehead and her sides were a little soaked as well. "I'm fine, don't worry." She patted them both on their shoulders, and gave them a reassuring smile, which they both were too smart - yeah, even Zoro too - to buy.
"You don't look that fine." Nami reached for a nicely folded handkerchief stacked on folded fresh towels on the bed, and passed it to the archaeologist.
Zoro, on the other hand, looked a little unsettled. "I... I'll tell Chopper to have you checked up immediately."
Robin tried to stop him, but he had already left the room.
"Jeez, if it was me instead, I doubt he'd look as concerned as that at all. The downside of being the younger woman in the group," Nami joked a disappointed gesture. "You alright, Robin? Are you sick or anything?"
"Just an upset stomach, that's all," Robin sat on the bed. "I'll be fine, though, it will pass."
"Well, I was just about to ask you if you wanted to go shopping for dresses with me, but I guess you're not fit enough to go out at the moment."
"Dresses for the wedding?"
Nami nodded. "I'd take one of those boys with me but probably only Usopp has the best opinion on dresses and ugh, I bet he's already out shopping for rations with Sanji."
"What about Franky, or Brook? The last time they picked clothes for the boys, they never looked better."
"They're perverts, they'd embarrass me." Nami laughed. "Life's hard when you only have two females on the ship!" She joked again.
"I'm really sorry, Nami. I hoped I'd be better by tomorrow, though."
"That's okay, Robin, you're not at fault."
"What about Luffy?"
"So he could wander off aimlessly around the streets and spend tonnes of money for food along the way to satisfy his glutton demon inside him and maybe, hopefully doesn't end up drowning in one of these canals that made up pretty much fifty three point seventy nine percent of this island? Yeah, I don't think it's a good idea."
Hello bros, how have you been doing?
I just wanted to make a quick intro here, so here goes. Someone requested for a LuNa fic, and although I am bad at writing Luffy in character without his cliche child-like dialogues you can nearly find it being a redundancy in most fics - seriously, how did Oda keeps him in character while making him interesting at the same time? God bless Goda - it bugs my mind that I wanted to come up with something LuNa as I've slowly climbed the S.S. LuNa all these years without realizing it.
And then Chapter 744 came out.
Swear to God I really did, at one point, mentally shoved Zoro out of the way and kissed Sabo instead. In my mind, at least.
S.S. Sabo/Koala had set sailed, though, and I thought it'd be a good idea to write a LuNa fic revolving around the Sabo/Koala ship, hence this fiction. I know you guys are gonna be like, 'damn it, Fleur, when are you gonna write a ZoRobin again', but plenty of much, much better ZoRobin fics are out there, so yeah. Yeah. But just for you guys, this fic is going to contain some ZoRobin too, so keep your heads up because I still do love ya.
I originally planned this to be a oneshot, but since I started writing this on Evernote - before bed - I've lost track of word count and the scenes became somehow prolonged. And then there's this idea where I wanted Dadan to be there, I wanted Dragon to be there, and Garp too, maybe. So since I'm 100% writing this in bed on Evernote - because I just lost my focus when I'm on the laptop, a lot - I'm going to be updating this once a week. I don't really know how many LuNa fans out there who will be reading this, but if you like it, please drop this fic a follow/favourite and maybe a review, so I'd know if I should continue it.
Man, I hope I don't mess up the character so much.
