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King
Authority of the King


Bur-lep bur-lep

Bur-lep bur-lep

Luffy moaned into his pillow and turned away from the annoying sound invading his dreams. Light stabbed in his eyelids and Luffy groaned, buried his face as far as he could into the pile of pillows surrounding him. The noise he was creating settled.

Bur-lep bur-lep

Bur-lep bur-lep

"AUGH!"

The Pirate King sat up in bed and glared daggers at the den den mushi resting on his right nightstand. The snail remained impassive, bur-lepping away. Tired now, Luffy stretch for and picked up the receiver, "What?"

"Ohayou, Luffy-san!"

Luffy sighed, "Good morning, Kaya."

"I'm glad you're up, Luffy-san. There seems to be a bit of a-"

"Disturbance? (Who said I was up?)" Luffy said automatically, face pulled into a bored frown. It had been several weeks since the incident with Francis (now long gone, to only he knows) and life had resumed as normal; a.k.a. Luffy had to fix things somewhere else, "Can't they take care of it themselves?"

The mushi frowned, "No, Luffy-san. You know you have to take care of your islands."

"Is it even mine?"

"Well, yes, at least, I always thought it was yours."

Luffy was struggling to the side of his bed, kicking covers away as he went, "What island is it?"

"A prehistoric island. Sanji told me that you were there at one point. I assumed it was yours."

Luffy paused, one foot on the carpeted floor. On Kaya's end, her snail looked annoyed, "Kaya, who told you to call me?"

"Um…Sanji did. Why? Is there something wrong?"

Kaya's mushi snarled, "That island is not mine! I'm going back to bed!" and it promptly went back to sleep.

Kaya blinked. Leaning back she yelled into kitchen, "He went back to bed."

There was a crash of pots and several colorful words before Sanji shouted, "Lazy King!"


Luffy sighed softly, sending dust mites to float happily in the sunlight. He was just a little annoyed as he watched his navigator patter about his suite. There was no sense in coming into his private quarters so abruptly, throwing his curtains open and make a cacophony of noise as she tidied up.

"Nami!" he whined.

Nami picked up the green dress shirt Luffy had worn yesterday to yet another banquet. She looked at the black mop of hair sticking up wildly among mounds of down-filled pillows and comforters, "You should take care of your clothes better Luffy, you won't have anything to wear if you keep this up."

"Good!" the mound huffed, "Then I can wear a t-shirt for the first time in nine years." The mound suddenly sat up, and Luffy yanked a gold trimmed comforter off his face, "Nami, I would have rethought this Pirate King thing if I had known I'd have to dress up all the time!"

Nami pointed at her captain, "You're not dressed up now." She picked up another shirt, a light grey this time.

Luffy yanked on his white tank, enjoying the wind it caused, "Eh…but I can only wear this in bed!"

Nami shrugged, "So sorry."

Luffy heaved a heavier sigh; fell back into his pillows, "I demand I wear what I feel like!"

Nami scanned through Luffy's closet. Picking out something suitable for the day, she deposited the shirt and pants on the end of the bed. Luffy didn't care to notice. The navigator walked to the head of the man's bed and glared down at the pouting captain, "Get up."

When she exited, closing the door for him to get dressed privately, Luffy glanced at the time piece on his left nightstand. It read 8:37. Only four hours of sleep that night.

"Just a few minutes more then."


"Luffy-bro! It's about time you got up!"

Luffy whimpered, throwing a soft pillow over his head, "Leave me alone!" he cried, voice muffled. It had only been five minutes, for crying out loud!

Franky frowned down at the large lump. Zoro, standing beside him, crossed his arms and glanced up at the taller man.

Pause.

"Well, we tried!" Zoro yelled, shrugging and exiting quickly. The swordsman didn't care what the others thought; Luffy could sleep until doomsday arrived and even afterwards.

Goodness, he'd do it!

Franky edged closer toward the bed, "Luffy-bro, Nami said-"

Luffy lifted his head quickly, shouted at the ornate headboard Franky himself had carved, "I don't care what Nami said! I'm sleeping in today!"

Franky made a hasty retreat.


Sanji placed breakfast down in front of Chopper's blue nose. The cook smiled affectionately as the reindeer immediately went to work cleaning his plate. The dining hall was full this morning, voices churning the air with sound. The long table filled with jellies, shakers, butter trays, syrups, and silverware was the only things already set out when the Straw Hats trickled in.

There was only one thing missing.

Sanji forgot Robin's coffee!

Sanji immediately whisked himself away to the kitchen, grinding coffee beans and working hastily to fix the cup for the black-haired archeologist. It was while he was doing this that he realized another thing: There were no yells of "Mine!" coming from his table. This only meant one thing.

Luffy still wasn't up.

As the chef delivered Robin's coffee to her, he asked Nami a quick question, "Is Luffy asleep?"

Nami was biting into some Alubarna toast, "I'm sure he's up by now. I sent Zoro and Franky for him."

It was then Zoro walked calmly inside.

"Captain up?" Usopp asked, popping another piece of apple in his mouth.

Franky rushed in.

Zoro sat down in his seat, radiating a calm composure, "Ask Franky."

The shipwright gulped down a bottle of cola at his seat, "Nope," he gasped.

Sanji rolled his eyes, "Did you tell him it was breakfast?"

Zoro glanced at Franky, telling him with an emerald eye that any trouble they'd be getting in was solely on him since he was the last one with the captain. Franky looked apologetic, "He wouldn't give me a chance." Technically not a lie.

Sanji, exasperated, picked up the receiver of a tan, pin-striped den den mushi with a black tie, "Luffy's suite," he spoke.

On the other side of the estate, a red den den mushi with a yellow straw hat began to bur-lep.

The dining hall fell silent as the receiver in Sanji's thin hand crackled.

Click

Click

The whole room gasped.

Sanji stared wide-eyed at the receiver, "He-"

He answered and hung right up!


"Leave me alone," Luffy mumbled.


"This has gone far enough!" Nami yelled slamming her fist on the table.

Sanji, sitting beside her, raised a curly eyebrow, syrup-soaked Alubarna toast half way to his open mouth, "What has?"

"Luffy!" the woman screeched, annoyed, "He's still in bed!"

Usopp adjusted his watch so he could see the face, "It's only been twenty minutes since Franky and Zoro went in."

"Good!" Nami nodded, "That's long enough. Usopp, go get him."

"Are you insane?" Usopp shrieked, "I'm not waking that monster up!"

Sanji snorted, "Oh come on Usopp, you and Luffy are best friends; do you think he'd hit you or something?"

"Yes."

Chopper watched the scene with large eyes, chewing thoughtfully on some perfectly scrambled eggs. He stood up on his phonebooks, "I'll wake him up! I've been meaning to talk to him."

Zoro pulled a face of complete horror, "No way we are sending Chopper in there!"

"Sure we are," Nami chirped, "Go ahead, Chopper."

The small reindeer complied.


"It's been only fifteen minutes," Luffy thought hazily, as he heard a slight squeak from the vicinity of his bedroom door. His head covered in pillows to block out the sun ("Too tired to close the curtains."), turned in the direction of the sound only to have his pillow yanked off. He blinked blearily.

Chopper smiled, "Luffy, it's almost nine."

"Good," the King grumbled, grabbing his pillow back and replacing it over his face.

Chopper's smile slipped down into a frown, "Luffy, you'll suffocate."

"Then can you close the curtains on your way out?"

The doctor's face slipped into a cute, determined expression, "No! I told Nami I'd get you up."

Luffy pulled his pillow off, "Get out. I don't want hear that name." He let the pillow flop back over his face.

Chopper, scared now, clenched his small hooves, "No Luffy. It's time to get up. Everyone else is."

Luffy didn't say anything. His hand appeared from under the folds of his comforters and pointed to the door.

Chopper trembled slightly, "Luffy-"

"Chopper. Get. Out."

"Don't forget to do your stretches when you get up!" the doctor yelled as he rushed for the door.


"Told you it wouldn't work, woman."

"Shut up, Zoro!"

Chopper sighed dejectedly, sitting on Zoro's lap. Nami was pacing the length of the dining table. Sanji and the others watched silently.

"He's slept in long enough," the woman growled.

Usopp snorted, "Nami, eleven is sleeping in, not nine."

Nami glared at him, "He'd sleep in 'til eleven at night!"

"I think he deserves it. Captain-san has been putting in a lot of hours lately."

"Robin!" Nami whined, "If we let him do this, he'll get lazy!"

"But, Nami," Kaya said quickly "Luffy-san should sleep. There aren't any real emergencies today." The female doctor glared at Sanji pointedly. The cook waved sheepishly.

"Then we'll make an emergency!"

"Oh boy," Zoro mumbled.


Luffy opened his eyes slowly. His snoozing den den mushi was the only sound he heard as he carefully sat up, stretching his arms above his head. He made a small noise as he rolled his shoulders and neck. One glance at his time piece said that he'd only slept in for an hour and half from his regular wake up time. Luffy huffed angrily as he pulled his legs underneath himself and stretch backwards until the crown of his head touched his heels. Being made of rubber, Luffy's back didn't give any satisfying pops but it felt good nonetheless.

"What had been with all those disturbances?" he mused.

Luffy rolled out of bed and landed in a crouch on the floor. He bounced a little, stretching his calves before standing up and yanking one leg then the other up to his shoulders. He let out a short breath and turned to his window. Nami had not pulled the thinner white curtains from the larger pane glass windows. He made an annoyed sound and looked away, noticing a shirt and pants draped on the edge of his bed.

A red T-shirt with a black design in the front bottom corner and torn blue jeans.

It may as well have been his birthday. Luffy excitedly scooped up the clothes and padded for his bathroom, ready to finally face the day.


FYI to those reading this for the first time: I don't curse. Ever. And I don't like it when I see it when I'm reading. But these guys are pirates so I know better than to think they don't occasionally let a word slip. To ease my mind I describe the fact that they are saying the words instead of putting the actual word out there. I hope you will understand this conviction.

I love this chapter! It was the most fun to write to say the least. There are so many tiny details that I love. 1. Alubarna Toast because One Piece doesn't have a France (though I almost typed that while doing this chapter). 2. I know Usopp says 20 min and Luffy says 15 but that just shows you that the Straw Hats don't have their clocks synched right. 3. The dens are so much fun to come up with. I loved the baby den den Sanji gave Nami at Water 7 (can't you tell I loved that arch? Though Thriller Bark is my number 1!) so that's kinda sorta what his big one is like.

Uhhh... considering the time skip that I didn't know about when I first wrote this I just want to clarify: I don't really like Franky's big honking body so just pretend that now that it's nine years later and they're all pretty well settled down that he's able to switch between his big body when they're on a voyage and his smaller body when he's at the estate. :)

Sanji has such a one track mind. He'd be more worried that Nami didn't have a drink than Luffy drowning in the sea. Maybe. (Funny story: I told a close friend about the time skip and he asked me bluntly, "Does Sanji have any descretion now?" I had to admit that he didn't and he got kinda mad, but then I asked him if he was trapped on a Sodomite island for two years without once seeing a real woman, if he would have any control and a friend of ours who doesn't even know what we were talking about said, "Aw, dude! I'd like worship the first woman I saw." "Exactly.")

Zoro could care less what Luffy does with his sleeping patterns cause he sleeps more than anyone. And I'm a little upset he lost an eye. *sniff*

Chopper's still short! Yay! So he still sits on phonebooks.

That's all that I can really think of right now. If you have a question just drop me a review.

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