Author's Note: This is not the complete chapter (I'll still be adding onto this chapter) but I thought I'd post what I have so far just so people know I'm still working on it.

So I've read three critiques from two people.

My main take-away is it's not original enough and I will from now on put my own spin to it then. Though some people, when critiquing, could start their critique off better than saying they stopped just near the beginning seeing as reading the rest would be a waste of half an hour to read- which was really unnecessary to leave in the review. I don't know if you ever got to read over what little original parts I had in the first chapter but people do pour a lot of themselves into the work and that can easily be taken as you didn't care much for my writing to begin with. Phrasing your opinion better would help rather than implying you only skimmed through my writing then left what you thought about it. Reading through the review I did understand how first person can be a pain to write in, some people can just get confused reading it. Though I do see someone was really against what I had to say about my story, that it wasn't original enough and that my promises that it will change isn't enough and I can see where you're coming from because I had a certain vision in my mind but not everyone sees the same which was my fault. I've thought up some stuff I could throw into the story but still give the anime some justice. I'm more than happy to hear some suggestions to add into their adventures and help me with my writer's block as well putting a new spin on their story such as some enemies to throw in. It can be fun for both the reader and writer if we both engage our thoughts.

I'd like to thank those who stuck with this story and read it through thoroughly, I did put a lot of time and effort into writing this and it has been fun for myself despite it being over the span of 3 years I've been trying to continue it.

This has been a long enough ramble though, hope you guys can forgive me for taking so long. Hope you enjoy this little bit and later on I'll add onto it. Feel free to suggest something for me to write into this or future chapters!


Chapter 3

~Zoro's P.O.V.~

"Zoro are we there yet? And I'm hungry…" Luffy complained as she slumped over in the boat.

"We don't even know where we're going!" I cry out as she pouts at me with her arms crossed.

"No need to yell we're together on a small boat just a couple feet away from each other…" She said slumping over once again in the tiny boat.

Closing my eyes, I decided to get some rest seeing as we can't get food at the moment. I ignored Luffy and her stomping around the small boat when I heard her point out something in the distance.

"Hey. Hey Zoro look a boat!" She exclaimed as I acknowledged by opening one eye to see what it was.

It appeared to be a floating restaurant called The Baratie. I had heard about it some time ago, it is supposed to be a restaurant for anyone on the sea to go for a place to eat. However, I also heard it was quite pricy and seeing as I'm flat out broke and I'm sure Luffy is as well. It's probably best we just forget about the place.

"Hey captain, that's the floating restaurant The Baratie. Pricy though we're better off looking somewhere else." I try to explain to Luffy but her face lights up with excitement.

"Zoro," She starts off slowly as she puts her straw hat atop her head, "it's time we got ourselves a cook!"

"Are you crazy?!" I yell trying to knock some sense into her, "We don't even have an actual ship yet and you want to jump to a cook?!"

"Yup." Luffy says bluntly as I shook my head in despair.

"Fine. Good luck finding anyone who'd actually join a pirate crew who doesn't have a ship yet." I scoffed as she smiled and pointed in the direction of the Baratie.

"Time for food and a cook!"

We ended up barging into the fish themed restaurant boat and waited to be seated as Luffy started drooling over all the food that passed her by. Inside the Baratie it was presented as a fancy look such as some nice table set ups, gold trimmings and waiters dressed in suits. As we waited for someone to serve us, I kept thinking about how we would pay for all of this. We both don't have money from what I can tell, are we just going to take food and take a cook hostage?

No. I shook my head at the thought. That didn't seem like Luffy, unlike many other pirates she actually had a heart and wouldn't stoop that low even if she could get away with it.

"My what a lovely young lady, what would you like my dear?" I heard an annoying voice ring out as I snapped out of my thoughts.

"Um, actually we were seeing if there were any cooks who would like to join my crew." She said grinning as her stomach growled in controversy.

"Before I answer that I would like to feed you first, you seem hungry my dear." He said as he took Luffy's hand and kissed it.

"We don't have any money though…" Luffy said slowly as she removed her hand from the waiter's.

"No problem, it's on me." The blonde waiter with weird curly eyebrows offered as I could see my captain's face lit up.

"Really?! You mean that?!" The raven haired teen exclaimed as the waiter's face lit up as well, "Thank you so much for making my friend and I some food!"

The waiter's face dimmed a little as he turned his gaze to myself as if I were to blame for being there. He gave Luffy a quick smile and disappeared through two swinging doors into the kitchen. Luffy glanced back at me with a bright smile as she said, "He's going to be our next cook."

I cringed at the thought but I wouldn't go against my captain's wishes.

"Nice place isn't it Zoro?" the long raven haired girl asked as her eyes darted all over the room.

"Sure." I replied as I noticed a spiral staircase in the center of the boat. I noticed someone was coming down as a loud wooden noise clicking against the stairs rang throughout the restaurant. The waiters had paused and gazed toward the stairs as a round man with a braided mustache and a tall chef hat wobbled down the stairway onto the main floor. He seemed to be only interested in the food as he made his way around tables judging what had been prepared. He was about to enter the kitchen when the double doors busted open to smack him in the face. Landing on his back, the blonde haired cook swiftly made his way to our table as he laid before Luffy a large steak and in front of myself a small soup.

"Sanji!" The head chef exclaimed as our blonde haired waiter looked back at him.

He paused a moment just staring at the large chef "What are you doing on the ground old man?"

Luffy laughed while I stared blankly at the two as they argued back and forth. The old chef rambled on about how his food still needed improvement while Sanji argued it was better than even the peg legged chef. A crew member stepped in to try to break up the quarrel saying, "Sanji show Zeff a little respect, he has taken care of you all these years."