Idiots Don't Get Sick
Dinner time felt like it was dragging on for Luffy. The mystery feelings have yet to go away and it was getting harder and harder to ignore them, especially with all the noise. He loved his crew, but they were just too loud right now and they were getting even louder as the day progressed. The volume only made his head hurt more.
He was reluctant to eat again; His stomach hadn't calmed down at all from this afternoon's events, but he ate despite himself in an effort to be as normal as possible. If he couldn't fight these feelings, then he would ignore them. Then they would get bored and go away; Right? That's the way pain worked in a fight, why would these feelings be any different?
"We're going to be arriving at an island tomorrow, assuming the weather stays like this, but this is the New World, so in a worst case scenario I'd say we'll be arriving by Saturday evening the latest." Nami said after finishing her meal. "I'd start to prepare for arrival today though-" she paused as she glanced at the log pose on her wrist and then she held it up for everyone to see, taking care to point to the middle needle,"-the next island were going to is the roughest out of the three."
"What! Why would you pick that one?" Usopp cried, Chopper joined him.
"Shut up Usopp! Nami-san always makes the best decisions! "Sanji proudly proclaimed.
"Honestly love-cook, her decisions aren't always right." Zoro challenged. Naturally a fight broke out, only to be stopped a few moments later by Nami's fist.
"Will you two knock it off, I'm not done explaining yet! Anyway, were going to this island because it's much closer to us than the other two, and because somebody already decided on it." Nami stated giving a dead pan glare at the captain, who was too busy stuffing his face to care.
"What! Why would you let Luffy choose the island, do you want to kill us? And when did he even decide this anyway? This is news to me..." Usopp mumbled.
Sighing, Nami quickly explained that Luffy had seen the log pose. Again. And he had told her on the spot that that was where they were going. After which Nami finally convinced the boy that getting sleep is a good thing and had told him that she could handle watch for the remaining couple of hours.
"Hahah, don't worry Long-nose-bro, our SUPER new invention we made can help us out in a tough situation!" Franky said making his signature pose.
"That doesn't help me feel better... Hey Luffy do we have to go to that island, the needle is wobbling a lot and... and...umm..." he paused in though, trying to come up with a good excuse. "Oh forget it, I know there's no use arguing."
"Yohohoho! That's the spirit Usopp-san!"
"And we have our SUPER doctor to fix us up if we need it!"
"Shut up you bastard, saying that I'm a good doctor doesn't make me happy! Oh, now that you mentioned it... Luffy, you need to come to my office so I can change your bandages. We didn't do that today."
Chopper looked up from his work, the bandage had been replaced in a matter of seconds. The doctor saw the glazed look in his patient's eyes; He must really be exhausted.
He waved his hoof in front of his captain's face, snapping him back to reality.
"Wh-What, oh Chopper are we done?"
"Yep, now why don't you go to bed, it's getting late."
Rubbing his eyes, Luffy walked toward the door and smacked into it before realizing that he had to open it before he could leave. Chopper cringed as he watched the whole display, but he said nothing as his captain walked out of the infirmary.
Luffy's stomach was doing loops again and with each passing second, it was getting worse; just like before. The bathrooms would all be taken since everyone would be getting ready for bed, he realized in irritation and panic. But if he could make it up to the bathhouse bathroom, then he would be safe. His haki confirmed that everyone was now below the deck.
He made his way to the library's ladder only to stop as his body lurched forward slightly and his hands shot up to his mouth, the burning sensation in his throat was back again. He panicked, and ran to the rails and leaned forward.
Straightening himself out, he nervously glanced around him; He was safe, no one saw him, no one heard him. Relief washed over him as he sunk down on Sunny's deck.
Reaching up with his right hand, he wiped his mouth in disgust. He was not doing a very good job at acting normal since these mystery feelings seemed to be getting the better of him. If his crew were to see him now, they would know that something was wrong and they would worry about him. He hated it when they worried. No he couldn't let them see him like this.
And more importantly, they would postpone going to the upcoming island. That would mean postponing an adventure and that was not OK. He just had to ignore the mystery feelings better, he resolved.
He stood up and walked toward the bathroom by the men's quarters; He had to brush his teeth.
The peaceful snores around him weren't able to lure him to sleep like they normally could on nights like this. The shivering wasn't helping either.
He was so tired and he couldn't get to sleep, but that wasn't very surprising since a new island was coming up. He was never one to get a restful night's sleep on nights like this, anyway. He was usually too excited to sleep.
But tonight was different. It wasn't excitement that was keeping him up. It was these damn mystery feelings.
Luffy let out a quiet sigh in irritation as he stared up at the slightly spinning ceiling through half lidded, sore eyes. He extended and raised his arm slowly, out of pure boredom, to the ceiling.
It trembled and swayed the longer it was held there, and he eventually got frustrated and brought it down to his cold body.
He sighed again.
Brook had just relieved Nami from her watch, which meant the night was still young. That fact did not ease his restlessness in the slightest.
The boy grabbed his straw hat and headed for the door to the deck, trying his best to ignore his headache and trying his best to steady his swaying body.
The night air was warm, and it kind of made it harder to breath, but that didn't matter now. He had to find Brook. He had so much time to kill before the morning, and talking with his nakama always made him feel calmer, better, on nights like this.
There was another storm coming, Brook didn't need Nami-san to tell him that. The way the clouds were moving was all he needed to tell. It looked like they would be arriving on Saturday after all.
"Yo Brook!"
Turning from the window, Brook was surprised to see Luffy's smiling face.
"Oh Luffy-san, you startled me! I thought you went to bed a while ago."
"I couldn't sleep." The words sounded bitter.
"Well, you were never one to sleep on nights before we arrived on an island! But judging from these clouds, I think we'll be arriving on Saturday instead."
"EH! Another storm?"
"Yoho, it looks that way Luffy-san."
The two continued to talk for the remainder of the time. Brook did not mind the company his captain provided him with on this lonesome night, not even Robin-san wanted to stay up, but he could tell his captain was on the verge of falling asleep; He felt bad keeping the exhausted boy up. In fact he should have been asleep hours ago, but for whatever reason, Luffy remained awake. He wished that Luffy would just give in already, the bags under his eyes were starting to look unnatural for someone so lively.
Zoro had come up to the crow's nest a few hours after Luffy did. He shot his captain a confused look before telling the walking skeleton to get some rest.
Brook excused himself, shrugging slightly when he saw Zoro's confused glance turn to him for answers.
Getting no response from the skeleton, Zoro simply accepted the fact that his captain was having one of those nights.
"He's going to be cranky tomorrow." Was the only thought that crossed the swordsman's mind as he took Brook's spot of entertaining the boy until he fell asleep.
The mystery feelings continued to reach a new level of annoying as Friday went on.
His stomach let out another groan and he whimpered miserably. Not only had he not been able to sleep, but he couldn't keep anything down. These mystery feelings even went as far as making his nakama worry about him. It was like these feelings were designed to torture him.
Before, his crew was a great distraction from these feelings, but now they were making it near impossible to ignore. They had been pestering him the whole day, asking if he was alright and saying he should get some rest because he looked exhausted; didn't they get that he already tried that. Did they really think that he wanted to go two days straight with only a total of five hours of sleep? They could be so dumb sometimes.
Saturday finally came and the island was insight. They would be docking in a few hours, yet it did not make Luffy feel any better. He was tired and hungry, yet he couldn't do anything to satisfy himself.
"This sucks, this really sucks." He thought sulkily.
He wracked his brain trying to figure out what was wrong with him during the moments he was alone. Which had been happening a lot lately.
The conclusion he came to was that he had done something that upset his natural way of living, and that theses feelings were the result of his body telling him to stop and do something more fun. The only problem with that theory was that he had no energy to do so and he always had fun when his nakama were around.
Though, they had been acting weird lately. So maybe these feeling had to do with everyone acting weird.
Luffy clutched his head in frustration. These mystery feelings were really too complicated for his own good.
His headache only got worse by the time the crew made started to disembark. He could hear them gathering on the deck from the bathhouse's bathroom.
Standing up from his current position, he proceeded to clean his mouth from any remaining fluids as quickly as possible. He was usually the first one off the ship, wouldn't be acting normal if he was the last one to leave it, right?
These feelings wouldn't keep him from enjoying the adventure a new island promised.
Usopp and Chopper had volunteered to guard the ship last night at dinner, when Nami had decided to brief them there about the island. The promise of a large marine headquarters , complete with a captain that had a near perfect track record for caching pirates, and another glance at the log pose had been a big turn off, so they simply made a list and handed it off to Franky and Brook's group in the morning, as they were in charge of getting supplies. Robin and Nami were going to go shopping. Which left Sanji and Zoro to go food shopping, much to their delight.
It was up to everyone to keep an eye out for their idiot captain. The rubber fool had decided to rocket himself off to the island the second he got out to the bathroom. Nami just prayed that he remembered what she said the night before and that he would stick to exploring the surrounding forest and not wander into the city, that's where the Marines were.
Nami reminded the crew one last time of what areas to avoid before they parted and retold Zoro and Sanji to be on their best behavior. The log pose would take about five hours to set.
~Done
I think that's all for tonight, I have to get up in the AM hours tomorrow... err, I mean later.
I looked at some of the drawings of the Thousand Sunny's layout and if I'm right, then the sleeping quarters are directly across from the kitchen. The kitchen has a door that leads to the sickbay, and the sickbay has a door that leads outside. And right around where the sickbay door is, a ladder that leads to the library can be found. Also the bathhouse can be found above the library and two bathrooms can be found in the stairwells by the sleeping areas.
Again thank you for reading. I hope you have a wonderful day/night. Bye~