I realized I forgot to say this in the first chapter, but I don't own One Piece or pretty much anything besides Juanita.

When I started to come to, there was this strange gurgling noise reached my ears and my throat ached. It took me a little to realize that the gurgling was coming from my throat. After that little epiphany I started spewing water like some kind of demented drinking fountain. Some one gave a shout and there was some laughter. I slowly opened my eyes and saw some people who looked suspiciously like Strawhat Pirates. The one who I assume is Sanji had fallen on his back and was rubbing his eyes furiously while the Luffy looking person laughed his head off. I think I might have spat water into the blonde's face while he was hovering over me.

I try and apologize, but I end up hacking up more water instead. Ugh I am completely soaked and I hurt everywhere. My hand especially, I look at it and see that I am still holding the wooden staff. I quickly let go. I groan a little as I sit up.

"Hey take it easy, you nearly drowned." says a voice behind me. I turn and see someone who appears to be Nami. I'm trying not to assume that they are actually the Strawhats because they could always be cosplayers or something, although I doubt a whole bunch of cosplayers who look exactly like the characters would be out somewhere in the middle of the ocean right after a storm on a ship that is identical to the Going Merry. "Here," the Nami person holds her hand to help me up and I take it. "I'm Nami, the navigator on this ship. Nice to meet you." I give her a little wave while I'm trying to clear my throat, aware of the fact that I'm making a very bad first impression.

The Sanji person seems to have recovered and starts swooning over me which I find is very disconcerting. "Hello, Mademoiselle, my name is Sanji, it is an honor to have saved such a beautiful maiden such as yourself." My face flushes as I am not used to being flirted with ever.

"Bonjour." I say with a little scratchy and choked laugh. I swear I can see little hearts in his eyes as he wiggles away in his bliss.

"Ignore him, he does that all the time, he's our cook by the way." Nami explains. "The one with the long nose over there is Usopp." She tells me while pointing over to the Usopp looking one, who grins and waves.

"Hi, I'm Usopp, a brave warrior of the sea and captain of this ship!" He states proudly. I look at him skeptically.

"Really?" I ask with a raised eyebrow. He deflates visibly.

"Shishishishi, she's got you Usopp!" The strawhatted boy stretches his arm, grabs the mast and slingshots himself over. Well that removes all doubt from my mind about their authenticity. I think my jaw drops a little watching it though. "Hey, I'm Luffy, I'm a rubber man and I'm gonna be the king of the pirates!"

"Wow okay, well then I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that you're the real captain." I think I hear Usopp grumble a little off to my right.

"Yup that's right! So what's your name?"

"Me? Oh I'm Juanita Alejandra Adela Rizo, but you can just call me Nita." Yeah I know my initials spell Jaar. My brother started calling me Jar Jar Blinks and it stuck with my friends, but it annoys me to no end. I often remind them that my name has two A's but they ignore me.

"Wow, that's a bit of a mouthful." Nami says.

"I know right, but that's what nicknames are for right?" I say with a crooked grin.

She smiles back at me and points to the other two people who are standing behind her, one with startlingly blue hair and the other with strange markings on his face. "These are two guests we're bringing over to the next island, Ms. Wednesday and Mr. 9 right?" They nod in acknowledgement. A loud snore from the cabin wall causes the Navigator's head to snap in that direction. "And that LAZY ASS over there is Zoro." She shouts attempting to get his attention.

"He's my first mate!" interjects Luffy cheerfully.

"So how come you were out in that storm? It's pretty far from the nearest island…" Usopp inquires curiously. I laugh nervously. How was I going to explain this?

"Well you see, I was just heading to school," I say pointing at my bag. I came to the decision that I was going to twist the truth just enough so that I don't sound clinically insane. "And I guess I must have passed out on my way there or something because the next thing I knew I was lying in a little boat with my bag, this staff, and a blue pineapple. The weird thing is that my town is inland and the nearest body of water is hours away and it's not even the ocean it's just a really big lake and by the time I woke up it looked like only an hour or so had passed, so unless I was out for two or more days there's no way I could have gotten on the ocean." I explain while nodding sagely at my own words.

"I guess what they say is true then, weird things do happen on the Grandline!" says the wide eyed sniper.

"W-wait, earlier you said something about a pineapple?" Nami's voice shakes a little as she presses me for information. I let out a grumble and blow a few loose hairs from my face with an exasperated huff.

"Yes well, about that, I'm such an idiota! Urk…I'm having a hard time talking about this because the story is muy estupido." I mumble in frustration. I tend to start switching into espanol when I'm upset. "Alright," I say after a calming breath. "of course I recognized it for what it was immediately. I mean it was pretty obvious, who's ever heard of a blue pineapple? It could only be a fruta del Diablo, a devil fruit. I knew the dangers of something like that and obviously wanted to avoid eating it because I was in the middle of a freaking ocean! So I pushed it away from me, but then I took a nap and I guess I must have been so hungry that I…ugh!" I am so pissed about this! "I ate it in my sleep." I say with a resigned sigh.

"Whaaaat?" Nami, Usopp, Vivi in disguise and Mr.9 say in chorus.

"Sounds like something Luffy would do." looks as though a certain green haired swordsman has risen. Nami is on him with her iron fist of justice almost immediately.

"DID YOU HAVE A NICE NAP?!" Several lumps protrude from Zoro's grassy looking head. Speaking of naps, the reason I took one earlier was…

"Hey, uh, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but do you think I could use your bathroom?" I ask jumpily. Nami looks me up and down once.

"Oh yeah you're all wet, do you have something to change into?" Well that wasn't the reason why I need to go, but that too. I pick up my backpack and gesture to it.

"Yeah I've got some clothes in here."

"But won't they be wet too?" She looks at the bag skeptically.

"It's my gym clothes so they're designed to dry quickly. I'll be fine." She points the bathroom out to me and I run off.

When I come out I am more dry, relieved and wearing my black gym shorts along with my orange gym shirt. My hoodie is tied around my waist because I couldn't live without it.

As soon as I exit the door way Sanji makes an attempt to present flowers to me while making some cheesy comment about my beauty in comparison to them which is frankly way too over used. Unfortunately for me Sanji's version of presenting flowers is more like shoving them up my nose, probably because he was expecting me to be taller. All I can think is 'uh oh' before I feel the first tickling in my nose. "Sanji you might want to mo-ah-AHCHOO." I sneeze violently into the flowers. In case you haven't guessed I have minor pollen allergy. I continue to sneeze, probably blowing snot all over Sanji. Serves him right for trying to turn the inside of my nose into a flower garden!

"Stupid flores making me- AH CHOO- sneeze!" I growl as I snatch the offending plants and stalk over to the railing, while my nose continues to expel whatever was in it. I then proceed to chuck them of into the ocean. "Go to hell!" When I turned around and dusted my hands off I noticed that everyone was staring at me wide eyed while Luffy was just laughing. "Oh sorry, uh that was kind of over dramatic of me. One of my best friends back home is really, shall we say, enthusiastic and it tends to rub off on me." Sanji quickly escapes from his stupor.

"Nita chan is so cute when she's upset!" He says with a love struck smile on his face. Zoro just snorts.

"That's a nice afro, Nita!" exclaims with a giggle from his spot on Merry's head. It takes me a minute to figure out that he's talking about my hair. I don't say anything though, knowing that it's impossible to get anything through his thick skull. I just give him the most deadpan glare ever to grace this earth. My hair gets really frizzy after it's been wet, but I know it doesn't turn into an afro! I even checked my hair in the mirror although I made no attempt to try and tame it. Nami just sighs and face palms, then she turns to me.

" So earlier you said you ate a devil fruit. Do you have any idea which one it was?"

"Does it really matter as long as she doesn't use it against us?" Zoro says critically. Well he's totally not suspicious of me.

"First of all, if I had wanted to harm you guys I would have done it already. I certainly had many opportunities. You guys are way too trusting." I inform them while giving the Baroque works pair a pointed look, I see them flinch a little. "Secondly, I have no idea what power I've gained from the fruit, but I hope it's not something lame like, turning into paper or something. I mean I guess I could give people some wicked paper cuts, maybe I could fold my self into a paper airplane? Or into an origami crane? Oh! What if I drew on myself in paper form, like I could draw myself taller? And then when I revert back to normal I would actually be taller! That would actually be really nice. But maybe not worth losing my ability swim for? I don't know…I should really bring this question to debate club. Is eating a devil's fruit and gaining a power that could potentially make you a lot stronger or end up being dumb worth causing you to sink like an anchor in water?" I sigh in quiet contemplation. "I guess it would depend on the person, and their goals and values. Also properly addressing the question would mean you would have to figure out the probability of getting a useful fruit by your standards versus getting a lame one." Usopp looks from Zoro to Nami and back again.

"Does anyone get what she's talking about?" Zoro just shakes his head, while Nami on the other hand seems to have grasped the topic at hand better.

Luffy just laughs after jumping off his special seat and says "You say funny things Nita." Then Sanji kicks him.

"It's not her fault you're too dumb to get it!" He growls at his captain, who was lying on the floor grumbling.

"Come on, admit it love cook! You didn't understand a thing either." Zoro shoots over his shoulder as he walks towards the mast, maybe to take another nap.

"What was that, stupid marimo?!" Within moments they were butting heads. Nami and I just face plam while standing on the side.

"It wasn't really that complex of a subject, was it?" I say with furrowed brows.

"No it wasn't it's just…"

"Men." We sighed in unison. She smiled at me.

" I think we're gonna get along. " I tell her. Nami was never really my favorite character, but she was the only female on board and I would need her navigation skills if I wanted to get back home.

" You know what would make us get along more?" She looks at me with an excited gleam in her eye, I had a feeling I knew what was coming next. "Money! You know as payment for saving your life."

I laugh a little and pull out my bag. "Well my home land doesn't use Belli as a currency, but you can still have some money." Nami drooped visibly as I said that. In an attempt to cheer her up I continue. "It does look cool. Maybe you could still sell it or something?" I pull out my wallet and pull out a few ones and fives along with some quarters to show her. She takes them at looks at them with a critical eye. We chat for a while about the money. I explain the symbols represented on the money and talk a little bit about the presidents printed on the currency without making myself look too suspicious.

Suddenly Usopp calls out, "An island I see and island!" Luffy looks out and sees it to.

"Giant Cactuses I see them!" I turn to him with a frown.

"The plural of Cactus is Cacti, Luffy." The pair that the strawhats were dropping off jumped to the railing.

"This is where we part ways! If fate allows perhaps we will meet again!" They look up with a scary amount of synchronization, "Bye bye, baby!" And off in to the water they went. I remembered sadly that I would never be able to do that again.

I stood off to the side while the crew discussed entering Whiskey Peak because I didn't want to butt in. I really couldn't afford getting attached. That would just make it harder to leave when the time comes. I mean I still have family back home. My parents and maybe even Jose my older brother who was in his last year of college would be worried about me.

I think I caught Luffy giving me a glance once or twice that I couldn't quite decipher while I was messing around with my staff. Eventually they sailed into the river, but the fog was too thick. However we could hear people's voices.

I knew what to expect so I wasn't surprised when cheering masses of people appeared from the fog to greet us, but every one else was shocked and delighted, especially Luffy. The crew waved at the cheering masses. I couldn't help, but be reminded of celebrities greeting their fans from back home.

Once we were docked Igarapoi, Mayor of Whiskey Peak (aka Igram) spoke to us and invited us to stay for a party in the pirates honor. I shrunk back hoping to stay behind, it would be easier for later when the bounty hunters attacked, but Luffy grabbed my arm and pulled me over.

"Where are you going Nita? It's a party!" I try to pry his hands off my arm, but he's inhumanly strong.

"Uh, well Luffy I can't come to this party," I try to come up with a good excuse. "This party is for you and your crew, I'm not the one who made the grueling journey to the Grandline!"

"It's ok you have my permission to come!" says cheerfully as he drags me along. I sigh and drop my bag, but keep my staff with me. This is going to be a long night.

The party has been going on for a few hours now and I've had to be as creative as possible to throw suspicion off myself. I couldn't let anyone know that I knew about Baroque works. The easiest way to do this of course would have been to actually fall asleep and ignore the impending attack, but what if my presence in this world screwed up the plot line enough for the crew to actually be captured so I'd rather be there to help than not. Plus since I didn't have a bounty they might just kill me.

So what I've been doing is listening to Usopp tell stories, while trying to figure out how to get rid of the alcohol in my hands because since I have never had any my tolerance for it will be presumably low so I'd probably end up drunk and passed out before I even finished half of a glass. Once I 'drunkenly' spilled some over the person sitting next to me. Another time I 'drank' some so messily that most of spilled down onto the floor and I spat out the rest while I wiped my mouth. The best of all of these was when I drank a mouthful, but kept it in my cheek and when Usopp got to a funny part of his story I would spray it out while laughing in a hilarious fountain of rum. I also made sure to imitate Usopp in his drunken mannerisms.

Later on when Zoro crashed I took that as my cue. I swayed precariously and fell sideways trying hard not to break my fall with my hands. The bounty hunters in disguise laughed at that, while also mourning the loss of food to Luffy. I steadied my breathing and tried not to actually fall asleep, time to wait.

Wow our Nita is a bit eccentric. Anyhow how'd you like the new chapter? It's a little longer than the last one. Oh and by the way I'm going to try for weekly updates, but if not then once every two weeks. Reviews are appreciated! :)

Translations:

Idiota- idiot

Muy estupido- very stupid

Espanol- Spanish

Frutta del Diablo- devil fruit

Flores- flowers