KittyLuffy: Thanks for leaving a comment as usual Nezkov Sou! *gives a cyber hug* And everyone else, thank you also.
Vivi: A-and we have a g-guest.
Sanji: Ah, that (one-sided) hug was delightful, Vivi-chwan~!
KittyLuffy and Vivi: ... *back away slowly*
KittyLuffy: Here is Chapter 3 Part 1 everyone. It is split into two parts because I want you to stop for a few seconds.
Vivi: Only a few seconds?
KittyLuffy: *nods* Just a little anticipation time. Now, Sanji...
Sanji: Yes, KittyLuffy-swan? *eye becomes heart*
KittyLuffy: Go catch up on the story if you want to stay. *watches Sanji scurry off* Enjoy Chapter 3, you loving people!

Love Below Heaven

Chapter 3 Part 1: Vivi and Luffy's Very Urgently Important Secret Phone Call

The denden mushi rang and its quite annoying voice echoed through the halls of Vivi's house. The blue-haired angel was in the library room at the time, reading a book about a sky fox named Suu and its adventures with a chivalrous camel named Eyelashes. Putting it down, she got up and headed towards the living room where the transponder snail was kept.

"Burabura Burabura," went the denden mushi, "Burabura Bura–"

"Hello?" Vivi asked with a smile on her lips.

"Vivi? Vivi? Vivi?"

"Yes, yes, yes?"

"Vivi, is that you?"

"Yes, it's me."

"Phew. I was scared it might be your dad."

"Really? Do we sound anything alike?"

"…well…"

"He is my father, but obviously a grown man. Are you calling me a grown man?"

"…well…"

"Then are you calling my father a teenage girl? Huh?"

"Well, no…"

"Then how come you think we have the same voice?" Vivi screamed into the receiver. The denden mushi on Luffy's end jumped up and down in comical rage. Nervously, the raven-haired boy waited for the thing to calm down before apologizing.

"S-sorry?" Luffy heard a sigh and his snail made a tired face. Then, it suddenly smiled and relayed to Luffy Vivi's chipper emotional change.

"It's okay. So, what's up?" There was no answer before an inaudible whisper was mouthed.

"… ..."

"What was that?"

"… ..."

"One more time."

"I said … ..." Vivi realized she wasn't getting anywhere.

"Luffy, I'm alone."

"Well then," came a whisper, "become even aloner."

"…Why?"

"Because I have… very urgently important secret news."

"Like what?"

"Are you aloner yet?"

"Luffy," Vivi said as she moved herself into her bedroom, "aloner is not a word."

"I thought so," was the quiet reply. Vivi shut the room to her door and peered around to make sure her father was not hiding somewhere. Finding it safe, she began to talk to Luffy again.

"Okay, we're safe. I'm alone in my room, now hit me."

"Whyyyyyyyy?" Vivi sweat-dropped as her denden mushi's eyes grew big and teary in a puppy dog pout to go along with the cutest whine in all of Heaven (probably).

"It's a figure of speech. It means to go ahead and tell me what you wanted to."

"Oh!" There was a laugh before Luffy's voice got really quiet again. "Are you ready to hear my very urgently important secret news that can only be between the two of us?"

"Yes," Vivi replied, plopping down on her bed.

"Tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?"

"Yeah. Zoro is going back home tomorrow."

"I know, we've known that since last week. He's been at Sanji's for, like, three weeks, one day, eleven hours."

"Uh-huh." Luffy took a deep breath and paused for a few moments. Vivi rolled onto her stomach and kicked her legs in the air, being careful not to hit her fluffy white wings. What could the little ebony-haired angel be saying? The voice on the denden mushi talked at a normal volume. "Remember what I told you that time when you and Robin came over with Vivi Tree Mangoes?"

"At Zoro's house around a month ago… OH. MY. GOD." Vivi sprang off her bed and flapped her wings in anticipation of what Luffy was getting at.

"Since he's going home tomorrow, I thought I should give him a welcome home gift."

"Yes, yes, yes?" Vivi touched her halo.

"Come out of the closet and go, "Surprise!" or something."

"Yes, yes, yes?"

"And then … ..."

"What?"

"… ..."

"… ...?"

"Yes, … ..."

"I didn't say anything. Could you say that again?" Vivi looked at her denden mushi and saw that its mouth was moving, but no sound was coming out. She smacked it lightly and asked Luffy to repeat himself again. The same thing happened the next time. Finally, Vivi got the idea to put the snail's mouth to her ear and what she heard made her squeal.

"And then we 'do it'."

"Finally! Three years, seven months, eighteen days! It took you that long, Luffy!"

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhh. Someone might hear you. It's a surprise, so Zoro can't know."

"Right, he can't know. But wow, jumping him first thing when he gets home." The denden mushi's face turned red and made noises that sounded like stammering and sputtering of a cute, embarrassed manner. "Now, now, Luffy, tell me more of your plan. Jumping out of the closet can't be the furthest you've gotten."

"The 'doing it' is further than that."

"I know, but how do you get there? Do you say something or do you just grab him and shove him down on the bed?"

"I wouldn't hurt Zoro!"

"I never said that." Vivi was spinning around her room, a frown on her face as her mind raced. What was Luffy thinking, hoping everything would turn out correctly if he just went "Surprise!" while popping out of the closet? "Good thing you called me."

"Huh?"

"You SO need my help."

"You'll help me, Vivi?"

"Yes, with everything before the sex." Luffy sounded like he hit a wall or the floor with his head. Vivi watched as her snail's mouth moved and a new voice could be faintly heard.

"Everything okay, Luffy?" a woman's voice called to the muttering angel.

"Yeah, Makino!" he called before talking directly into the phone to Vivi. "Shhhhhhhh! Don't say that!" Vivi giggled; he needed so much help.

The angel girl left her room and headed to the house's library, taking the phone with her just in case her father was randomly looking for her. She scanned the rows of novels before going down to the one labeled 'Romance'. Vivi grabbed seven of her favorites and traveled back to her room.

"Now I've got information you'll need."

"Information?"

"Yes, how to get all romantic and things like that. Wait." Vivi remembered something important.

"What is it?"

"Luffy! Do you have those books I gave you a couple months ago on the road?"

"THOSE? I HAVE THOSE!" Luffy was yelling into the receiver and Vivi's snail was turning red with embarrassment yet again. "We need THOSE?"

"Of course!"

"That was a dirty trick, you and Rika!" Vivi laughed as Luffy told of his terrible experience with XXXXXX. Then, it was time to get to work.

The two chatted back and forth. Book pages were flipped and notes were jotted down on both sides. It went on all afternoon until Vivi's father called her for dinner.

"I gotta go, but see me at the pathway with the blueberry trees tomorrow morning, okay?"

"Okay, Vivi, the blueberry trees."

"One more time."

"Meet Vivi at the pathway with the blueberry trees tomorrow morning."

"Blueberry?"

"Yes, blueberry. That's what you said, right?"

"Uh-huh. Good thing Zoro won't be back in his house until nighttime!"

"Right! That'll make points seventeen and forty-two work out great!"

"Don't forget six, twelve, and eighty-four too."

"Oh yeah. Bye Vivi! Thanks for your help."

"No prob." They both hung up with giggles and Vivi's denden mushi's eyestalks dropped and its eyes closed. Vivi skipped to the dining room where her father and a family friend, Pell, waited for her before they began to eat.

"Hello, Pell," the blue-haired angel said, sitting down for the great-looking meal.

"Hello, Vivi," came the reply.

"What were you doing in your room all afternoon?" Cobra asked his daughter who was wearing a wide grin on her face.

"Hmm? Oh, nothing much," she giggled and heard a knock on the front door.

"Quaaack!"

"It must be Carue," Pell voiced as he cut into his spinach and cheese biscuit, "he went out to get some blueberries for dessert later tonight."

"Vivi, Sweetie, will you go get the door for him?"

"Sure," Vivi answered, getting off her chair to help her pet duck get inside the house. She opened the door and the sight she saw made her gasp in surprise. Carue was covered from head to toe in a sticky mess of blueberry innards. In his bill was the biggest basket in the house filled past the brim with big berries, small berries, and unripe ones too. The angel girl put her hands on her hips and laughed. "Carue! What were you doing?"

"Quaaaaack!"

Cobra and Pell could hear the two at the door, somehow conversing back and forth. "What do you think Vivi was really doing all afternoon?" Pell asked, knowing his friend.

"My daughter isn't one to lock herself up in her room, so I had to snoop. It sounded like she was talking to that Luffy boy, but what they were talking about! Point number this, point number that, I had no clue what they were saying. But she looks so happy; it must have been a great phone call." The two men chuckled as Vivi passed the dining room with her large duck.

"I have to give Carue a bath, so here are the berries."

"Thank you, Carue."

"Quaaack!"

"Quaaack!"

"Quaaaack?"

"I guess I said something wrong? I don't speak duck." Everyone laughed at Pell's joking before the two men got back to dinner and the younger members of the household went into the bathroom with a load of towels and shampoo.

KittyLuffy: ... ...
Vivi: Not you too!
KittyLuffy: No, not me too. So, leave a comment on what you thought of the Very Urgently Important Secret News.
Vivi: And what did Pell say to Carue at the end?
KittyLuffy: *shrugs* I dunno. You guess. Anyway, Part 2 will come really soon.