Walking out the Sunny.

Tashigi woke because she was thirsty and really needed to pee. It shouldn't be possible to have two so different urges at the same time. Her body rejoiced in the soft, soft bed, and she really could do with more sleep. But nature was more demanding. Groggily she pulled herself off the seductive linens and got a look at herself. Someone had put her in a simple nightgown and under that she was covered in plenty bandages. She wrapped the blanket around her anyway and started a search for something like a toilet. Luckily there was one behind the second door she tried.

She didn't know where she was, but it smelled like an infirmary. She pondered if she should search for her glasses or just try to find her way to a place with water. A door opened and something moved outside her vision range. Something very short.

'Eh. Hi little one.' She smiled at the intruder. 'Could you tell me where I am? And maybe get me something to drink?'

The shape was trembling, or maybe it were her lack of glasses. Then a sweet voice said.

'I'm your doctor, please let me get a look at you, then well see what to do.'

She sat down on the bed and the small brown doctor with antlers took her pulse and looked into her eyes.

'You're looking fine, but you should still rest. I hope you'll rest as long as I tell you! Unlike the others.' The furry doctor stated mixing something in a bowl.

'It's a nice weather. I'll be good for you to get outside and get some air. I have them make a sickbed for you and then you'll get soup and fruit juices. We need to replenish both your liquids and electrolytes.'

Tashigi smiled nervously. An examination by a small animal with hoofs was a little unnerving. 'Thank you very much. Um, but still, where am I, and do you have my glasses?' The fury doctor jumped over to the other end of the room and hurried back and placed her glasses in her hands.

'You're at the Thousand Sunny sailing towards the next island. I'm Tony Tony Chopper, the doctor of the Straw Hat Crew!'

Tashigi blanched. A pirate ship! She had feared this. Roronoa had dragged her on board, got her to a doctor. A pirate doctor.

Shit!

Shortly after she was tucked in on a mountain of pillows and with many blankets on the stern of the deck, while the blond cook was exclaiming about her cuteness and beauty while trying to find out whether she preferred his orange-mango-shumfruit juice compared to his strawberry-pinkfinkfruit-vanilla creation. A skeleton with an afro was playing a soft tune on a flute, claiming it to be an old healing melody used among sailors. The skeleton seemed nice, even if he'd asked twice to see her panties.

It was the little doctor who had changed into a much bigger shape explaining something about a Devil fruit, that had carried her and she was thankful for that. The cook acted very nice, but his eyes were a little too fixed on her breasts. And the skeleton was just plain weird. But everything else were fine.

I'm on board on one of the currently most wanted pirate ships, and the crew just seems to have adopted me, she mused. And Black-Leg Sanji, wanted for extreme destruction and worth more than 70.000.000 beri just wants me to like his homemade juice!

The Straw Hat Luffy was reclining on the figurehead looking towards the horizon and the rest of the crew was playing a card game or busying themselves with their own antics. Luckily she couldn't see Roronoa anywhere.

She dozed for a while, but woke up when someone was japing her nose. Her whole world suddenly consisted of a big grin and a straw hat.

'You're awake? Cool. How's it being a Marine? D'you get any meat and sake at all?'

He didn't seem to either mock her or having an agenda, just genuinely curious.

She smiled weakly, 'Well, the pay is low and the paperwork is terrible, but I guess the food is OK and I get to see the world and do some good.'

'Sounds boring. I'm glad I never became Marine' The Straw hat yawned, 'Why don't you become a pirate instead? You get good food and can do good, but you don't have to work with any papers.' He got away from her face and grinned again.

'Why don't you join my Crew? Zoro says you know everything about old swords and treasures and stuff?'

'She's not joining our crew!' It was Roronoa voice behind Straw Hat Luffy. 'She's getting off in the next harbor!'

The swordsman gave her a scowling look over.

'You survived.' He stated. 'Don't interfere in my fights another time!'

Tashigi felt her blood crawling towards her face and retorted angrily 'It was as much my fight as yours! They attacked me as well!'

'I told you to stay away.' Roronoa bit her off and turned his back to Tashigi and Straw Hat Luffy. 'Nami believes we're on the next island in six days,' he continued. 'Do not get in my way while you're here.'

'Dinner!' the cook yelled from inside the ship. The Straw Hat turned back to her and grinned again. 'Coming?' he asked and picked her up before she could answer. 'I still think you should join us!' he said. 'We could use someone who knows 'bout what's going on.' Then he carried her to a dining table where the menu was something in between a High Class Seven Course menu and a food fight.

The next two days she did everything Chopper, the reindeer Doctor said. He seemed ecstatic by her manageability and claimed she was the best patient he'd ever had. Looking at the other members of the Straw Hat Crew, she could guess why.

Tashgi had a few pleasant talks about old swords, art and history with Nico Robin. Robin for her side seem to enjoy another more grown up girl, her being the oldest member of the crew and certainly the most composed. Luffy tried a few more times to talk Tashigi into joining, them as a pirate, strongly opposed by Roronoa if he was nearby. She did her best tried to ignore them both.

The third day Chopper removed most of her bandages and gave her leave to do as she pleased. 'Uh, can I start swords training? And where is my sword?' She asked Chopper. Chopper was making some strange smelling pills and looked worried around the infirmary.

'Uh… well, it was covered in blood. I think Zoro said he'd take care of it. It's properly in the gym. Up in the crows nest.'

The thought of Roronoa messing with her Shigure made her skin crawl. On the other hand, if nobody had taken care of if, it would be in a bad shape by know.

As she entered the crows nest she decided to be thankful if he'd taken care of her sword, and not to mention it if he hadn't.

The green-haired Swordsman was working with weights as she got inside. He looked up and scowled at her.

'What are you doing here? Get out!'

She clenched her fists and took a deep breath and reminded herself not to expect manners from pirates.

'Chopper said you have my sword. Where is it?' He looked at her for too long, then he pointed at a wall to her right.

She looked, several swords was hanging there, underneath them was a table with a few of the most necessary tools for blade maintenance and there was her Shigure. She looked her sword over. It was in perfect shape and newly sharpened.

She clutched her sword to her and turned to the other swordsman. He had resumed his weightlifting and ignored her.

'Um…thank you for taking care of Shigure.' She said.

'It's a nice blade, now get out.'

She gaped for a moment then she huffed and got down, only casting a single glance after the nice swords on the wall.

She trained on the deck. Slowly shifting from stance to stance. Moving arms and feet in a choreographed dance with her sword. After two hours work her arms were shaking and she said down with Robin and Chopper, both were reading in the shadow of the mast.

Only seconds after she'd at down, Black-Legged Sanji had placed a cordial in front of both her and Robin beaming as if it was the most refined piece of art. They both thanked him and sent him back to the kitchen.

'Why don't you use the gym for your rehabilitation and exercises?' Robin asked.

'In the Gym with that?' Tashigi retorted dryly nodding towards Roronoa who was getting down from the Crows nest.

Robin smiled with a hand in front of her mouth.

'He's working very hard on being intimidating most times, but he wouldn't go to extremes to get you out of the way!' Robin said. 'You could use the place and just ignore him.'

'Well, eh, yes. But he's so annoyingly arrogant! I rather stay down here so I can concentrate on my blade and moves.'

Robin was looking after the Swordsman. But turned back at Tashigi.

'You and our aloof Swordsman certainly seems to get under each other's skin! Which is highly unusual at least for him. He usually don't care about anyone but our Crew.'

'Well.' Tashigi mumbled, 'we'll stay away from one another. And I'll get off soon enough.'

Robin looked at her for a while then said.

'Yeah, that might be for the best for everyone. Even if I'd like back up on Luffy's pleadings about you joining our Crew. Come, lets go to dinner, Sanji's making grilled shark I believe.'