Chopper leaned on the edge of the door. His mind was too troubled to focus on what was going on in front of him. Usopp tapped his shoulder, making the reindeer jump. "WHAT?!" he squealed.
"You tell him," Usopp whispered.
The reindeer shook its tiny head.
"Come on, I don't want to be beaten up."
Sanji took a couple steps forward. "If you don't say what it is, I'm going to beat you anyways."
Both of them gulped, and started finishing each other sentences. "We were fishing..."
"...and we couldn't catch anything."
"We lost all..."
"...of our bait."
Sanji flicked his cigarette. "Chopper," he called. Chopper stood up on his toes. "You are going to be the bait."
"WHAT?!" screamed Chopper. He ran outside of the kitchen. "MURDERER!" he yelled.
"Nice going," sighed Usopp. He stood in the kitchen till Sanji threw a knife right above his head. He screamed and run out the kitchen. "PSYCHO!"
Both of them were running all over the ship; making noise wherever they went. Nami lifted her head, and questioned why they were screaming Murderer, but she didn't get an answer since they ran pass her. They ran before tripping over a wood plank, and falling into the sleeping couple by the rails.
Bodies' parts were jumbled around. Usopp smiled and Zoro threw everyone off of him and Luka. Luka sat up and moaned. She held her head; which Chopper hit when he was free falling. She looked at the two of them; which they were gulping at the green angry force they unleashed; Zoro. He stood up, and glared at the two who wake him up. "What was that for?" he asked in a deadly tone.
Usopp itch his neck. Chopper bend over, "We didn't mean to! We were running away from Sanji!"
"You were playing tag without me?" pouted the black-haired. Her lips peaked out, and she leaned her head to the side.
"He was trying to kill me!" gulped Chopper. He held onto his body. He wasn't bait!
"He finally went crazy," smirked Zoro.
Luka put a finger to her shin, "I wonder if that makes meat taste bad."
"He THREW a KNIFE at ME!" Usopp shouted with his arms in the air. "Almost cut my head off!"
"Bait! He was going to use me as BAIT!" squealed Chopper.
"You wouldn't be bad as bait," Luka stated as a passing thought.
Zoro smirked at Luka's statement. Chopper gulped and his eyes enlarged at Luka. "Crazy!"
The black-haired girl stretched her head back, and her figure starting shaking. Bellows of laughter came next. Zoro yawned, and stretched his arms behind Luka's shoulder. Usopp and Chopper just looked at each other, then back at the others. They gulped, and slowly walked away from them.
"Finally!" sighed Nami. She was so close to blowing up at the crew, but now the noise was gone. She rested back in her chair, and tilted her shades. She relaxed her body and took a slip from her drink.
Zoro abruptly got up without warning. He started walking off into the direction of the training room, but once he didn't heard footsteps following him, he turned around and stared at Luka. He waited as she lifted herself from the ground and yawned.
A smile pulled at the sides of her cheeks, and she stared at Zoro's back as he turned around and started walking to the training room. She held her breath, and took steps forward; increasing her pace with each one till she was running. She lunged forward and targeted Zoro's back.
"What-?!" yelped Zoro. He was forced forward from the surprising attack from Luka. He stepped forward behind he fell flat on the ground. He calmed his nerves, and slowly returned to his normal pace with Luka on his back.
Her legs jiggled down in front of his legs. Her face cushioned itself between his neck and shoulder. Her famous grin planted on her face. "Onward horsey!" she pointed forward
He grinned back at her, "Call me that one more time, and you ain't getting nowhere."
Her grin disappeared into a small pout. She slacked her lips, and her smile returned. "Onward Marimo!" She kept her finger forward; aimed right at the door.
Sanji's voice echoed in Zoro's mind. No matter what, Luka calling him that was way better than Sanji calling him that.
They gotten to the door, and Zoro opened it. "Ride's over." Luka slowly gotten up from his back, and stood behind him as he climbed into his training room. He gotten in there and everything was in the same place as last night. Nothing changed; just like how he liked it. Except...there was an odd object laid on the counter that he didn't leave there.
Luka piled behind him, "Move it, Zoro."
He took a quick glance behind him, before moving out of the way. "Luka, did you leave that in here?" He pointed over to the corner.
She turned and looked at the counter. Her eyes budged and she grabbed her hat; quickly jumping forward to the table. She picked up the red beads, and held them to her face. She stared at the single beads that jingled in her hands. "How did these get here?" she wondered out loud.
Zoro stretched by his weights. "Were you sleep walking?"
She shook her head and looked at the necklace. She turned it over, and gazed at the two faces in the front. A smile. A frown.
'Ace...' she thought as she griped the string. She smooths it over her head, and wore it as a necklace.
The green-haired watch her with her hat and these 'add-ons'. "Is something wrong?"
She glanced his way quickly and placed her hat back on her head. "Oh, it's nothing. I'm just hungry."
Zoro didn't seem pleased with that response, but he let it go...for now. He picked up the nearest weight and threw it at her; she barely caught it. If she waited one more second, it would have slammed into the wall. "Your timing is off."
She snuffled a yawn, and tried to look remotely interested in the weight. He closed his eyes and took a breath before lifting his weight; which was at least 30 times larger than Luka's. But, Luka could even pick the weight up; she just chooses the lightest to give her something to do with her arms.
He couldn't help the bugging feeling in his stomach.
Luka's timing was never off.
That deeply concerned him.
