Usopp's master plan of love!

Seeing how Nami had looked at Luffy, Usopp called everyone (save for the navigator and captain) into the kitchen to discuss the problem at hand.

"So, why are we here?" Franky asked, giving a confused look to the sharpshooter who was sitting proudly at one end of the table.

Chopper, who was sitting on the right side of Usopp, gave him an intrigued look, waiting for him to answer.

Zoro was slightly grumpy because he had been woken up for what seemed, at this moment in time, nothing. Sanji was waiting in silence, staring at Usopp as well as Robin, who had a small smile on her face.

Brook was sitting on the left side of the long-nosed man quietly waiting to see what they were about to discuss.

"Well, after you all decided to tease me ruthlessly about my love-life," he started, glaring accusingly around the table as certain people began to chuckle silently. "I went to sit on deck. As I was there I saw something rather… interesting." he finished, glancing around at the people before him.

"What was it?" Sanji asked. Zoro grunted, nodding towards the sniper to elaborate.

"Nami was out there too. She was smiling towards Luffy," he said, getting mixed glances from around the table. Chopper looked confused, Brook and Franky stayed silent, waiting for him to continue, Sanji looked livid, as if knowing what he was going to say next, Zoro smirked at the cook's expression and Robin smiled knowingly as she always did, chin resting in her hands.

"Smiling?" Chopper asked, confused as to why this was breaking news.

"Yes, but not just any kind of smile. It was a smile full of love!" Usopp declared, which made Sanji bite down on his cigarette, splitting it in half. Zoro laughed at Sanji's anger and despair, while Robin giggled quietly. Franky smiled slightly and Brook laughed his trade-mark laugh, trying to think of a skull-joke that would fit the topic of discussion.

"What does this mean, Usopp!?" Chopper asked.

"It means, my loyal follower, that Nami seems to have feelings for our captain!" he finished, smiling happily as he looked towards the reindeer.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! MY NAMI-SWAN WOULD NEVER FALL FOR SUCH AN IDIOT!" Sanji screamed, forcing his fist down onto the table, causing Chopper to jump and automatically turn into guard point.

"I MUST GO TALK HER OUT OF THIS! SHE JUST MUST BE CONFUSED!" the cook declared, making his way to the door.

"SOMEONE RESTRAIN HIM!" Usopp shouted, not wanting Sanji to ruin anything, and knowing full well that he wasn't strong enough to hold the cook down.

"Gladly." Zoro smirked as he stood up and quickly restrained Sanji by tying a rope around him and throwing him none to gently to the side of the room. Since he was now gagged, the cook thrashed around as his muffled screams of anger tried to reach the people in the room.

"Where did you get the rope from?..." Chopper asked quietly, although he was ignored as Usopp began to speak again and Zoro took his seat.

"Anyway, seeing as I am the master of love," he declared, getting raised eye brows from pretty much everyone in the room. "I thought that we could help the two get together!" he smiled, waiting for responses.

"That's a very nice thing to do, sniper-san. I would love to help." Robin answered with a smile.

"I don't really care if they get together or not, but I'll do anything to keep the shitty-cook unhappy." Zoro remarked, grinning as he heard Sanji bash around louder from this insult.

"I'd love nee-chan and captain to get together! That would be so," Franky said as 'manly' tears travelled down his face "ROMANTIC!" he screamed, wiping away his tears and dismissing them as something in his eye.

"I'll help too!" Chopper added.

"Yohoho, I will help too!" Brook mused.

"Great! Everyone's in! Well, except for Sanji…" Usopp muttered the last part as he stared at the helpless cook.

"We'll just keep him away from Nami and Luffy at all times." he added.

"But what about at breakfast, lunch and dinner?" Franky asked.

"Ah… We can just keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't say anything!" Brook said.

"Great!" Usopp exclaimed.

Everyone started muttering about the new piece of news until Zoro piped up with a question.

"So… What's the actual plan, anyway?" he asked, looking at Usopp with a questioning look.

Usopp stayed silent for a while, making everybody sweat drop.

"You haven't thought of anything yet, have you?" Franky muttered, crossing his arms.

"Well, not exactly! I thought that what we could do is take it in turns to do a plan of our own!" Usopp said happily.

"WOW, WHAT A GREAT PLAN!" Chopper yelled in awe.

"You just thought of that now…" Zoro, Franky and Brook said quietly.

"Even so, it is still a good plan, sniper-san." Robin agreed, nodding her head and smiling.

"Okay then, so who's going first?" Zoro asked.

"I thought it would be easier if we just went through in the order of who joined first." Usopp answered.

"So then I guess it's me…" Zoro said with despair. Getting people together was definitely not his forte. He stayed silent, deep in thought as he went through ideas in his head.

"Okay," he muttered, not liking that he had to play match-maker, even at the expense of seeing Sanji practically shrivel up and die. "Here's my plan…"

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Nami sat on the deck, running a hand through her hair to keep it out of her face as the wind blew gently. The day had been peaceful so far, although lunch was quite strange. All through it she could see Usopp glancing at her and Robin smiling lightly at her too. Sanji was awfully depressed and he didn't say anything the whole time, which was certainly strange considering he would praise her or Robin endlessly whenever he could get a word in.

"Something's going on here…" she muttered to herself.

Then she noticed Luffy staring at her. He always had those owlish-like eyes, didn't he? Some people would find it un-nerving, yet it made her smile to see her captain giving her attention like this. He looked almost cute whenever he did this. She chuckled at the thought. Then she realised that she had been staring at him for the past minute while she was lost in thought. She blushed and quickly turned her head away from him, pretending as though nothing happened.

"Oi, Nami!" Luffy called, grabbing her attention.

"What is it Luffy?" she asked, staring at him with a slight frown on her face.

"Usopp said that he wanted everyone to meet him in the crow's nest!" Luffy laughed, walking over to Nami and grabbing her hand to get her on her feet. He started to make his way to the crow's nest, still holding on to the orange-haired girl's hand. She noticed this and blushed slightly, taking it back and returning it to her side.

Once they were in the crow's nest, they noticed that everyone was there too, sitting in different places. Chopper was sitting next to Usopp, Robin sat next to a still-depressed looking Sanji, and Brook was standing near Franky who had his arms crossed. Zoro, who was leaning against the wall, began talking.

"Since Curly-brow is in a shitty mood, he can't keep watch tonight, so we were wondering if you two could."

"Eh, why both of us?" Nami asked, creasing her brow in suspicion.

"Well, if Sanji wakes up in the middle of the night, Luffy can still keep watch while Nami can go and comfort him."

"Ah, that makes sense." Luffy said, lightly punching his fist into the palm of his other hand while wearing a serious expression, trying to look professional.

"I see, but why can't Robin do it then?" Nami asked.

"I'm sorry, Navigator-san. I'm going to be helping Doctor-kun tend to Cook-san late into the night, so I'm afraid I'll be too tired to keep watch tonight." Robin answered, a fake frown laced gently on her face.

After a minute of trying to find any other way to get out of this, Nami came up with nothing. Sighing in minor defeat, she agreed to the arrangements and headed out the door for a nice, warm bath to calm her nerves.

After Luffy left to go and probably steal some food from the fridge, everyone sighed in relief,(save for Sanji), for the plan had worked so far.

"Okay, so now we need to choose who wants to stay up and watch what happens…" Usopp declared, rubbing his chin with his hand.

"I will!" Chopper said happily.

"I shall, too." Brook hummed.

"I would like to watch, if you wouldn't mind, sniper-san." Robin smiled.

"I wanna watch!" Franky yelled.

Zoro merely grunted in response. Since it was his idea, he might as well stay and watch what happened, but if they started kissing and stuff, he would leave immediately…

"Ah, so everyone is staying up then!" Usopp grinned, then pointed towards Sanji.

"And we can't let him say anything to ruin this, so we will have to keep him up here with us, too."

"WHAT?!" Sanji growled. He then ran towards the door, screaming for Nami.

Chopper quickly injected the cook with something, and he fell to the floor instantly, sleeping.

"Woah, nice one Chopper!" marvelled Usopp.

"Well then, let's stay up here and watch how this folds out…" Robin added, glancing down towards the deck where Nami and Luffy stood, watching out into the horizon.

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Luffy sat on the figure head, looking out with a slightly bored expression on his face, to the sea. It was dark outside now as he and Nami stood watch. He wondered why Nami had seemed reluctant to do this with him. Did she not like spending time with him?

He frowned slightly.

"Oi, Nami!" he called, looking back towards the red-haired navigator who was sitting quietly on the deck.

"What?" she asked.

"Do you not like spending time with me?" he asked, frowning more as he jumped down beside her and sat.

"Wh-what? Of course I do, you idiot! Why would you think I wouldn't?" she asked, a little insulted that he would think otherwise.

"Just wondering!" he said as he grinned, happy that he was mistaken.

He continued to stare at her. He never noticed before, but her hair seemed different with the moonlight shining on it. It looked even prettier than usual.

Nami realised she was being watched and blushed a little, turning to face him.

"What?" she asked again.

Luffy quickly snapped out of his daze and laughed. "You're hair looks pretty at night, Nami!"

She hit him on the head "WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN? IT LOOKS HORRIBLE IN DAYLIGHT?" she screamed, glaring at him.

Luffy merely laughed harder while rubbing his head "Of course not! It's always pretty!" he grinned.

Nami felt herself blush a little more and turned away from him, looking back to the sea.

They sat in comfortable silence for the rest of the night, and Nami found herself growing tired and resting her head on Luffy's shoulder.

-Back in the crow's nest-

"Aww, do you see that!? She's resting her head on his shoulder!" Usopp grinned as he stared down at the two.

Zoro had fallen asleep quite a while before, using the unconscious Sanji as a pillow.

Robin giggled lightly as she stared down at Luffy and Nami.

Brook and Franky laughed along with her, and Chopper was resting on Usopp's shoulder, seeing as he was too small in his normal form to look over the window and was too tired to transform.

"So, Zoro's plan was a success seeing as it brought them closer! Who's next?" Franky asked.

"That would be you, wouldn't it Usopp?" Chopper piped up.

"Oh, I-I wanted to save my plan for last!" he laughed, sweating slightly.

"You don't have a plan yet, do you?" Franky and Brook said, sweat dropping.

"O-of course I d-do! It involves all 8,000 of my loyal followers, though, so I can't do it right now!" he stated.

"AWESOME!" Chopper exclaimed, eyes shining, forgetting about his tiredness.

"Okay, well then," Robin began. "Next would be navigator-san, but she obviously isn't participating in this." she said.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Theeeeeeeeeeen~," Brook sang. "It would be Sanji. Too bad he refuses to help…"

"Then it's me!" Chopper mused happily, jumping off Usopp's shoulder and going to the centre of the room, clearing his throat to get everyone's attention.

"Well then, my plan is…"