Neko Luffy?!

"It's been a whole week now…" said Usopp. Mostly talking to himself.

"Why don't we just force him to come outside or speak?" Sanji proposed as he placed a plate of buttered bread down onto the table.

"You saw his face. That said it all." said Zoro.

Sanji just grunnted at the fact marimo was right.

The weather today is fine. Not really sunny; because of all the clouds', but at least it wasn't raining.

"I'll go give Luffy his share." Exclaimed Usopp as he picked up the plate Sanji had just finished putting together.

"Ah, thanks." Replied the cook as he pulled out a cigarette at the same time.

Usopp exited the galley and headed to where Luffy was.

He opened the hatch and jumped down. "Luffy?" He called. He couldn't see the mentioned anywhere. "Oi~! Are you hiding~?" He asked, walking forward while looking around to try and catch a glimpse of his captain.

In which he did.

A pile of Luffy's clothes were lying on the floor in the corner of the room.

Usopp's eyes widened as he saw something moved from underneath them and the fact Luffy was gone. He fell onto his but with a-

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The rest of the crew stopped what they were doing when they heard the Sharpshooter's scream.

"What's wrong with him?" questioned Sanji, looking at the door.

"Who knows?" Nami said as she turned to the next page in her book; continuing what she was doing.

Zoro didn't say anything. He just placed his arms behind his head with a yawn.

Chopper, however, was panicking. "What if it's serious?!" He shouted running in circles.

"Calm down, Chopper." Sanji reassured. "There's no wa-"

"LUFFY'S GONE!"

The crew's heads' shot up. And just like before, they ran for the door, raced down the steps and flung the hatch to the men's quarters right open.

The first thing they saw was Usopp on the floor, while trying not to drop the plate of food. The other thing they saw was exactly what Usopp had: A pile of Luffy's clothes.

"Oi, Usopp! What's going on?!" yelled Zoro. Who was extremely confused with this situation.

"I-I don't know! I came in here and this is what I found!" He then pointed at the pile of clothes. "B-But…There's something under them!"

"What? Under them?" asked Nami as she stared hard at the pile. The others did the same.

It moved, again.

"AHHH! It really did move!" Nami took a step back in case something jumped out (which probably wouldn't happen). And Sanji, being the man he was, jumped in front of her to protect her if something really did.

Chopper then noticed that his medical bag near his hammock was open. As well as a bottle of pink liquid, which the liquid should be inside of, now empty.

Sweat began to rapidly roll down his face. He knew what had been in there… 'My experimental drug…!'

The little doctor quickly turned and dashed towards the pile in the corner and the 'whatever is was' that's under it.

"Oi, Chopper! What're you doing?! It might be dangerous!" yelled Usopp. Trying to warn his friend of the danger he was him. If there was any that is.

"Don't worry. I think I know what's happened to Luffy…" Chopper said. Slowly peeling back the clothes' at the top of the heap, gradually nearing the bottom. And when he did; "I knew it!" shouted Chopper as he pulled out a small, sleeping black cat.

"A-A cat?!" screamed the crew.

"Why the hell is there a cat on our ship?!" Zoro was now even more confused. His captain was gone, just clothes' left, and now a cat had appeared out of nowhere;What the hell was going on?!

"Oi, Chopper," started Nami, "What did you mean when you said "I knew it"? Could it be you actually know what's going on?"

"Yep." Plainly announced by the small reindeer, cat still asleep in his arms.

"EH?!"

With the entire racket going on, the black cat woke up with a yawn.

"Oh! He's waking up!" cheered Chopper.

The crew noticed something in Chopper's speech. "He's?" They all asked.

The small cat noticed the crowd and stared at the crew in horror.

"Hm? It looks storta scared." pointed out Sanji.

"I'm not surprised." said Chopper as he looked down at the cat, which in turn, looked up at him. "You probably haven't been like this before, right Luffy?"

"LUFFY?!" the crew couldn't hold that one back. Luffy was a cat? Now that's just… I don't know.

"Now that I get a closer look, it has Luffy's scar under its left eye." explained Zoro as he moved closer to the fuzzy creature.

"Is that really you, Luffy?" asked Usopp, eyes still wide.

The cat simply nodded. The crew was now sure that their captain was a cat. But how?

"You're all probably wondering how this happened, right?" questioned Chopper. The crew all looked at him waiting for him to tell them. He had obviously hit the mark. "Luffy, did you drink the contents of the bottle over there?" Chopper pointed a hoof at the bottle near his hammock. The crew also followed his hoof to where the bottle was laid.

'Don't tell me…' they all thought.

Once again, the cat nodded. Only this time, a little more slowly. He knew what was coming next.

"Well, that was a new experiment I was working on, and you now know the effect it has. But, at least I know it works." Explained the small doctor.

"I see." Started Nami. "So, Luffy drank whatever was in the bottle…And turned into a cat."

"Basically."

…

"HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!"

"Well, this is the Grand Line. Anything can be possible." Said Zoro, while he crossed his arms over. He didn't seem to be confused anymore.

"Nami-swan's so cute when she's confused~!" Sanji seemed to be over the whole 'Luffy's a cat' thing as well.

"So, how do we change him back?" asked Zoro quite seriously.

Chopper thought for a second.

"…I don't know."

"What?!" screamed the pirates. The cat was eyes were wide, as well.

'I can't turn back?! I don't want to be a cat!' thought Luffy.

"I'll try to make an antidote soon. Meanwhile, he'll have to stay like this for a while." said Chopper.

'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!' the cat rolled out of Chopper's arm and fell to the floor.

"Sorry, Luffy." apologised the reindeer.

"Oh, right! Luffy, your food's here." Exclaimed Usopp.

With that, Luffy leaped at the plate, drooling as he did so, and finished it in 3seconds flat. Which wasn't bad for a cat.

After a bit of 'awwwww, Luffy's so cute!' from Nami and so on, the crew had retreated back to the galley.

Luffy lay on his back, small limbs in all directions, and started to recall how his had ended up in this state anyway…

*Flashback*

Luffy was, once again…Bored. He would try to think of games to play by himself, but they were always boring. He also had tried sleeping most of the time, like Zoro would normally do, but that soon became boring, as well.

He rolled around, back and forth; back and forth; back and forth. This lasted a while, until that became boring.

'What should I do~?' he thought.

At the corner of his eye, he spotted Choppers medical bag.

'Oh~! I wonder if he has any fun things in there!' and with that thought, he crawled towards the bag.

Once he reached it, he slowly opened it and peeked inside.

He saw a ton of bandages', medicines' and some unknown things he had never seen before.

'Must be really confusing being a doctor. I would hate to be one!' he stuck his tongue out at the thought.

He started to rummage through the bag, until he found something that sparked his interest.

'Hm? What's this?' he asked himself (in his thoughts of course) as he pulled out a bottle with some kind of pinkish liquid inside.

'Ohhhhhhhhhh! COOL! It's pink! What is this; What is this?' a bunch of self-proclaimed questions started to flood into his head until he decided to do what his curiosity had wanted.

Drink it.

Luffy gulped down the pink substance and dropped the bottle afterwards, which didn't break.

He stood up. 'Doesn't taste as good as I thought it would.' He thought with an unpleased face. But, he suddenly started to get a headache and was feeling a bit dizzy. Well, maybe a hell-a dizzy.

He started to wobble a lot as he tried to make his way to the sofa, so that he could lie down.

But he soon found himself in the corner of the room, instead.

He could barely see what was in front of him. His vision was now extremely fuzzy. He slid down onto the wooden floor and sleep slowly crept up on him, soon swallowing him altogether.

*Flashback End*

If he had learned anything today, it was to never touch Chopper's medical bag EVER again.

Now all he had to do was wait until all this was over…

Yay! Chapter 4! Hope you enjoyed it! - Beth

Neko - Cat