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Edited for errors.

*~ZL~*

Luffy sat on the deck of the ship, eyes wide and innocent, tail twitching as if it had a mind of its own, and watched as his crewmates argued over his condition.

"He drank my prototype medicine! Of course there were going to be some weird side-effects!" Chopper insisted, trying to make himself look taller than he was.

"Well, how are we going to fix it?" Nami fumed, "We can't have this half-cat thing for a captain!"

Luffy's nose twitched. He did not appreciate being called a 'thing'. He was still human, after all. Well, mostly anyway.

"Well, if you all insist, I'll gladly take over Luffy's place as captain," Usopp puffed out his chest. Luffy scratched him. "Yowch! Just a suggestion!"

"I think that we need to figure out how much this has really effected him," Sanji said calmly, taking a drag from his cigarette.

"And how we can fix it," Nami nodded.

"And why he won't move away from Zoro!" Usopp exclaimed.

Zoro felt a sweat drop form on his forehead and tried to keep himself in check as Luffy rubbed, purring all the while, against his leg. He would be lying if he said it wasn't pleasant (arousingly so, not that he would ever say) but it made it very hard to concentrate on... Anything!

"You could just ask him," Zoro suggested, an annoyed look on his face.

"Alright," Nami sighed, "Luffy, why are you rubbing against Zoro's leg?"

Luffy stopped his rubbing (Zoro silently thanking the gods, because if Luffy had continued certain... Problems might have arisen) and looked at Nami, tilting his head to one side in his confusion.

"It's fun," He answered plainly, as if he didn't see any other reason.

"It must be a cat thing," Chopper shook his head. "I'm really sorry you guys, I shouldn't have left it unattended."

"Don't worry about it, Chopper," Nami smiled, "Luffy would have somehow gotten into it at some point or another."

"That's Luffy alright!" Usopp chuckled, then gawked, as Zoro had just hit him over the head. "What was that for?!"

Zoro put a finger to his lips and then pointed down to Luffy, who had fallen asleep, his head in Zoro's lap.

Sanji might not have been the most sensitive guy (with the exception of when he needed to be, for the ladies' sake) but he knew that type of situation when he saw it, and quietly ushered the others out of the room, giving Zoro a warning look as he left.

The door to the dining area, where they had been meeting, shut and Zoro sat silently, watching Luffy sleep. He had understood the look that Sanji had sent him.

Though it might appear otherwise, he and the cook were actually good friends, and Sanji was the only person who knew of his affections for Luffy. Not that Zoro had told him or anything, Sanji had just figured it out on his own, and had actually been the main reason that Zoro had been able to come to terms with his feelings.

The look had been a warning. It was telling him to take it easy, and not do something he would regret just because Luffy was sleeping so adorably in his lap and-

And Luffy shifted, rubbing against him in that way again, and Zoro's thought was lost. He knew then that he had to wake Luffy up. His captain clearly had no idea what he was doing to him.

"Luffy, Luffy," Zoro said softly, shaking the dark haired boy's shoulders lightly. "Wake up. Come on."

Luffy's response was a purring type of noise, though he still seemed to be completely asleep. Zoro sighed. It seemed, hard-on or not, he was stuck here till morning.

*~ZL~*

The next morning, Luffy was nowhere to be found. Zoro did not like it at all, either. Still, there was little he could do, because when the captain didn't want to be found, he was impossible to find. Zoro knew by now, after all the time that he had spent with Luffy, that the black haired boy had another side of him that the Straw Hat Crew rarely ever got to see.
Sometimes they saw it when he fought, when something really annoyed him or seemed utterly unjust to him, and he would unleash that part of him from deep inside, but it never lasted long. Most of the time when Luffy was in that sort of mood, he disappeared, and if Zoro somehow accidentally stumbled across him, he had always been careful to remain quiet and simply observe. He knew without having to experience it that if he made some movement or noise to distract Luffy from his silent, fierce pondering, the captain would automatically revert to the self that Zoro saw everyday.

Zoro never interrupted, because he knew that Luffy needed these times, or he would probably... Er, explode... Or something... It was hard to tell with Luffy.

Still, with Luffy's current condition, and how none of them knew what kind of side-effects it might have ended up having, Zoro didn't want to have to have Luffy out of his sight. Not that he was worried or anything.

Wait, hadn't he already conquered that confession yesterday? Yes, he thought that he had. Anyway, with this in mind, he headed off to track down his captain.

*~ZL~*

Zoro sighed, having run out of places he thought Luffy might be. He had checked Chopper's work shop, the 'guy's' sleeping quarters, The galley, The deck, the stern, the port bow, the crow's nest, and even the storage areas, but Luffy was nowhere to be found.

Zoro was worried. One slip over-board when no one was looking, and Luffy would be in a lot of trouble. With this whole cat thing too... He had no idea what could be happening, but he didn't like this at all.

And then it hit him; the one place he hadn't checked.

Nami's room. He gulped, and headed down below deck.

Zoro was not happy about having to do this. Nami's room was, after all, forbidden territory, and he had never been down there before. Ever.

And today didn't seem like a good day to start. Then again, neither did tomorrow, and he had to find Luffy.

He slowly opened the door to Nami's quarters, and was immediately pounced on by a familiar black-haired, lanky form. He was relieved until Luffy sat up and the swordsman got a good look at him.

Luffy had changed. His eyes were larger, and they seemed to have lightened to some small degree. His cat ears were now prominent, and they twitched at every sound, his tail was longer and constantly moving. His claws gripped gently to the fabric of Zoro's shirt, and when Luffy lower himself to lay on top of Zoro once more, he licked him with a raspy-feeling tongue and whispered four little words. Four little words that made Zoro's eyes widen in shock.

"You found me! Master..."