Here we are! To Love A Ghost Girl. Enjoy!

He could've sworn he saw a ghost.

The rest of the crew was sound asleep. Sanji was still smiling after spending the night with Robin the night before. He decided to wait for a few minutes before going to her room for another night, but he couldn't wake Suzi. Suzi was just too young to hear that kind of stuff, let alone see it. It was already embarassing enough when she drew a picture of the time she walked in on them and showed it to her kindergarten class. Sanji knew he and Robin still got looks from the other parents at PTA meetings.

He checked his clock. 12:38 AM. Perfect. Suzi would be deep asleep and Robin would still be up reading. He decided to go then. Sanji walked up to his door before he eard soft footsteps from the hallway. He peeked through his porthole. There was a skinny young girl roaming the hall. She wasn't beautiful, but cute. Her breasts were plump and perky for a girl her size. Sanji smiled at the sight of the cute barefoot girl in an over-sized white t-shirt. But he didn't think of her as a stow-away. He thought of her as a ghost.


"A ghost?"

Nami put her hand on her hip and looked at Sanji as if he were crazy. The crew was sitting in the deck, listening to Sanji's announcement. No one noticed Luffy's worried expression when Sanji described her.

"She was skinny," He said, "And cute. She had the perkiest breasts I've ever seen--"

"So..." Nami interrupted, "...because a girl has perky breasts means she can't be alive?"

A few snickers came from the crew. Anyone could tell it came from Usopp and Chopper, but suprisingly not Luffy. No one noticed an innocent blue eye peek in from the galley.

"That's not what I meant, Nami-swan," Sanji said, "I mean, she practically glowed! Her footsteps were too light to be from anyone alive. And she just disappeared."

Nami rolled her eyes, but the rest of the crew seemed interested, though the guys seemed interested in the wrong way. Even Suzi seemed interested, but that was probably only because she'd want to bring the ghost in for Show-and-Tell. Everyone but Luffy and Nami blurted out what they thought about the ghost.

"Sounds like she died from starvation!"

"How'd she get on the ship?"

"It's the Ghost Of The Going Merry!"

The only good thing about the rumor was that it only spread to about ten people, and those ten people couldn't tell anyone else. The innocent blue eye from the galley just blinked and snuck off. No one noticed but Luffy.

"I'm going to go find something to eat," He said.

"Do not touch my hot cross buns," Sanji warned angrily.

"Who would want to?"

"Who was the wiseass that said that?" Sanji glared at the crew.

Both of the likely candidates, Zoro and Usopp, just looked down at their shoes. Luffy went into the galley to find the so-called Ghost.

"Kelsi?" He whispered. She peeked out from under a table, her long curly brown hair trailing down her shoulder. Luffy couldn't see how she could even resemble a ghost.

"They think you're a ghost," He said.

"I know," Kelsi said, "Do I look like a ghost?"

Luffy shook his head, "You look amazing."

Kelsi blushed and looked down at her feet, "Thank you. When are you going to tell them?"

"Now, I guess."

Kelsi thought for a moment, "No, not now. It's too early."

"Well, what're we supposed to do?" Luffy said, sitting in a chair.

Kelsi shrugged, "I don't know. I guess we'll let them think I'm a ghost. It might be fun to be a ghost!"

Luffy smiled, "Probably! Can I kiss you?"

Kelsi giggled and sat in his lap, "Okay."

They made out for what felt like hours. Luffy loved her strawberry flavored lip gloss. He let her kiss everything on his face before he heard Sanji's angry footsteps coming toward the galley.

"You'd better not be eating those buns, Luffy!"

Kelsi kiss Luffy's cheek and quickly tip-toed off to his room. Luffy smiled without realizing his face was full of pink lip gloss kisses.

"I didn't, Sanji!" He hadn't even been hungry at the moment, nor did he smell any buns.

(I really want to rephrase that. =/)

He went out onto the deck to see what the crew was planning to do about the Ghost. Usopp was the first to see him, "You've been in there for a while."

Luffy just grinned and sat on the ground.

"What's with those pink kissy-marks on your face?"

Luffy's eyes popped open at Usopp's question.

TO BE CONTINUED...