Herro! Welcome back to… here! It's not a very exciting introduction… Well, I have a question about this story: Should the chapters be longer? I'm not really sure if anyone thinks they are too short or anything like that… Also, I'm sorry about the grammar issues in the last couple chapters that I didn't find.

-Sorry about how I am horrible at "recreating" Franky's personality… Or anyone else's

I present to you… Chapter 3!

Chapter 3

"What do you want?" Chi asked annoyed.

"Nothing! Do I always have to want something whenever I talk to you? Why can't I just stop by and say hello?" said Korosu as he invaded her sleep.

Chi sighed. "I'm not buying it."

"Ok then. I do have a message for you," said the shadowy figure, "Don't get too close to that man or his comrades. If you do or they do anything to steal your loyalty, harm will come to them."

Chi looked up at him with wide, angry eyes. "You wouldn't dare to touch them."

"Hahahahaha! You think you can scare me? I will do as I want and you will have to go along with it. I own you!" he roared.

Chi's eyes flashed red. "What am I to you!? Why do you keep me with you!?" she yelled as her hands balled into fists.

Korosu smirked. "You useless trash. How dare you speak to me in that tone!" Lifting up his large hand, he took a step back and disappeared.

"So, it begins again," said Chi preparing for the mental torture coming her way.

(Sometime around midnight)

Chi had woken up at around midnight with a cold expression on her face, supporting her torso up with her elbows. 'I can never get some real sleep, can I?' she thought. Looking over at Luffy as he mumbled "…meat..." in his sleep, she felt eyes on her. She searched the deck and the door windows seeing nothing. She plopped back down tiredly and looked up. She saw a trap door open and a face peeking out. She narrowed her eyes and then got up. She walked out of sight and opened the door to the girl's room and closed it without actually going in.

Closing her eyes, she suddenly disappeared.

"She left," said Usopp.

"Maybe she went back inside," said the shipwright.

"Well I did hear a door close."

Over in the corner, a flash of red came from a pair of eyes. 'Spying, huh? Well isn't that rude…' thought Chi. A smirk came across her face as she crept around the dark room. Grabbing a stool from the corner of the room, she quietly set it down behind the cyborg as Usopp crouched down over the trapdoor. She stepped up on it and stood at the height of Franky's ear.

"Whatcha doing?" she asked innocently as the cyborg jumped to the side and Usopp nearly fell out of the room.

"HOW D-DID YOU J-J-JUST D-DO THAT?!" screamed Usopp terrified as his knees shook.

Chi grabbed her sides and started laughing. Usopp and Franky just stared in horror as the small woman had a laughing fit right in front of them. "You two…were so scared!" she managed to say. After her laughing cooled down her face became serious. "It's rude to spy on people, you know," she said almost coldly.

"S-sorry, little sis!" said Franky unenthusiastically.

"It…it will never happen again!" squeaked Usopp.

"Oh yeah, one question," Chi began. "Why is Zoro sleeping in the corner?" she said motioning to the sleeping swordsman.

"Oh! We totally forgot that Zoro was on watch duty tonight!" said Franky loudly, waking up Zoro.

He opened one eye and noticed the three in the room. Glaring at the 'she-devil,' he bluntly asked "What do you three want?"

"Uhhh… N-NOTHING!" yelled Usopp noticing the swordsman's anger in waking him up. "We…we were just leaving now, in fact!"

The two climbed through the trapdoor quickly with the sleepy woman groggily following after them.

"You're staying here," said the swordsman.

"Aw, why do I have to stay here!" she whined, directing some of the remark that Zoro was in the room.

"I don't trust you," he began, "You may seem like an ordinary human, but your movements are not of someone normal. Even though our idiot captain may trust you, most of us have the common sense to realize that something is off about your character. Therefore, I will not allow you to run loose throughout the ship where my friends are sleeping."

Taken aback by the swordsman's words, she closed her eyes as they flashed red. "Do as you wish. Take my word if you like, but I do not plan on harming anyone of my friend's crewmates," she said, fully alert now.

"Hmph."

Chi slowly walked over to the bench across the room from the swordsman. Her eyelids started to droop, but she didn't want to fall asleep, so she sat there for the rest of the night, until the sky just barely started turning lighter. The whole night, she was thinking about what Korosu had said. She decided that she wasn't going to get too close to Luffy or anyone else, since she didn't want any of the straw hat pirates getting hurt. Knowing that the crew would be waking up soon, she went back to the deck where her friend was still sleeping. She sat down in her position from before, with their feet facing opposite directions and their heads touching, she slowly began to doze off to the sound of snoring coming from various places throughout the ship.

She had learned that Korosu rarely contacted her through her sleep during the daytime or dusk/dawn. Knowing this, she was still able to get enough sleep, even though she was not at all a night owl or an early bird. So she usually ended sleeping from sometime at night to 8 in the morning, which was still early for the rest of the world, but a normal time to wake up for her. Although, knowing that she was on vacation, she very well wanted to sleep in. Chi smiled and started to doze off at the sound of snoring.

Sanji was the first to wake up. As he walked out of the boy's room to go to the kitchen to start making breakfast, he saw his captain and Chi laying on the deck. His eyes shattered into a million pieces as he watched the two sleep. 'I swear, when Luffy wakes up, I will strangle him,' he thought.

Next to wake up was Robin. She walked out of the room and headed towards the bathroom, catching the sight of the two from the corner of her eye. She chuckled and continued on.

Next was Usopp, Franky and Chopper, who thought nothing of it.

Nami came out and thought that they looked cute.

Lastly (besides Zoro), the captain woke up. Yawning and stretching his arms, he felt the presence of another being and looked at the sleeping form of his friend. The smell of pancakes and toast filled his nose. The captain grabbed Chi by the ankle causing her to tense and wake up. He scurried to the kitchen, dragging the now-awake Chi.

"H...HEY LUFFY! LET GO OF ME!" she yelled, trying to grab at his arm to position her body upright.

Completely ignoring her, Luffy continued on to the kitchen nearly breaking the door as he ran through, causing it to bang into Chi's head. He let go and left her lying on the ground, still in a daze, while he sat down and banged on the table. The rest of the crew just stared (except for Sanji, who was just about to kill Luffy), slightly surprised and slightly confused that the two had just run in, one dragging the other by the ankle.

"Chi! Are you alright!?" cried Chopper, kneeling next to the youngest woman's body lying on the ground.

Sanji, now finished beating up Luffy, twirled to the other side of Chi with the usual hearts in his eyes. She had already started to get up, supporting herself with her elbows. Sanji had tried to help her up by supporting her with a hand to her back, which immediately caused her to tense up and literally kick him across the room.

"Wow," Usopp muttered, "Sanji should be proud."

Chi's blank face stared at the cook as he slowly got up from the hole in the wall that he made (much to Franky's displeasure) and put on a dumb smile. "Chi-sama! I'm so proud of you!" She rolled her eyes as Usopp whispered to no one in particular, "Told you."

At the same moment, Zoro walked in, seeing the odd scene. He chuckled and looked at the cook. "Did Usopp finally get you, curly-cook?!"

"HEY!" yelled the sniper from across the room.

"AS IF!" protested Sanji, causing a fight between the two.

"Hey, um… Chi? Are you okay?" Chopper asked quietly, still sitting next to her.

"Hm? Oh, yeah, I'm fine, Chopper," she said while patting him on the head. She got up and sat down at the table with the pirates, receiving glances once in a while.

As things between Zoro and Sanji finally cooled down, breakfast was served. As Luffy, Zoro, and Chi were stuffing their faces, the other pirates stared at them in slight disgust.

"To think! I thought that even a girl like her has even the tiniest bit of manners stuck in that brain of hers!" complained Nami.

"Yeah…" said the rest of the crew.

Everyone had just finished eating and was sitting at the table, talking and having fun. All except Chi, that is. She was just sitting there, staring at her hands under the table, lost in thought. Luffy was the first to notice.

"Hey, Chi? Are you okay?" he asked, worry coating his voice. The crew stopped talking and looked over at her. Putting on a smile, she laughed and said, "Yeah, I'm fine!" The swordsman narrowed his eyes and glared at her, knowing something was on her mind. Luffy, however was staring at her with a serious look on his face. "I know something is wrong. Why won't you tell me?" She sighed. "Nothing is wrong, Luffy. I promise."

His eyes turned sad as he repositioned his hat to cover them. "Okay," he murmured.

Later that morning, everyone had retired to the deck. Luffy was sitting on his 'special seat,' Sanji was in the kitchen making drinks, Zoro was sleeping against the fence, Usopp was playing with Chopper, Nami was in the library, Robin was reading on the lawn chair, Franky was on lookout, and Chi was sitting on the main mast watching everyone else.

She narrowed her eyes at the swordsman. They hadn't been getting along ever since she had boarded their ship. Also, the perverted cook was annoying her so much, that she considered ending him for a split second, but knowing she shouldn't. She knew that she wasn't supposed to have friends or even acquaintances, so with Korosu knowing that she was on her childhood friend's ship, he had to be up to something.

She finally came to the conclusion that she should ask to just be dropped off at the next island, where ever that may be.

She silently jumped down from the mast and made her way to the captain, who had his back turned to her. She reached out to tap his shoulder. "Hey, Luffy?" she asked, barely audible. He swung around, nearly falling off the ship and smiled. "Hey, Chi! I wanted to ask you something!" he began, "Will you join my crew?"

And that's it! Sorry this one took longer. I tried to get out as soon as possible, but apparently as soon as possible sometimes isn't that soon… Thank you for reading! Please tell me if you like the story or not or if you have any suggestions! Thank you! Bye! Review! Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

P.S: I'm sorry for any spelling/grammar issues that may or may not be there, but probably are there…