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Players of Destiny
~ The Hoaxed Wedding ~
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Chapter 04
Head Chef Black Leg Sanji &
The Groom's Endearing Nickname for His Bride
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The piano combined with the saxophone and cello played by the band produced a pleasant melody which filled the hall, it was mostly drowned by the sound of people chattering and eating. Waiters and waitresses making their way through the crowd to either deliver drinks to their guest or fill the emptying trays of food on the buffet table.
Zoro and the rest had arrived at the reception.
Usopp stopped on his track when he noticed Luffy and the tangerine head swinging and skipping away on the dance floor.
"What do you think those two are doing?" Usopp asked, noticing something wasn't quite right with the way the two moved while they dance.
"Dancing? Can't you tell?" Zoro replied, not paying attention to the couple as he quickly proceeded to the bar once he spotted its location.
Usopp glanced back to his raven haired friend where the pair was still having their stomping contest.
"Erm… Ra-rather than dancing I get the feeling those two are trying to hurt each other out there." He commented; some sweat beads forming on his head when he felt rather than saw the heated aura coming from the bride and groom.
When he reached the bar, Zoro sat on an abandoned corner, trying to find some peace and quiet. He proceeded to order his alcohol from the bartender, who worked on to produced his beverage.
"Thanks." The swordsman mumbled as he sipped his drink, only to cough it up a second later upon hearing an unpleasant rowdy voice of a woman.
"Hey Sanji! Where the hell is the rest of my food!!?"
Using his arm, he briskly wiped the dripping alcohol from his mouth, and snapped his head to the far right corner of the hall and stared at the noisy woman in an irritated manner.
The posing flower girl in the wedding, who was now back to her original adult form, called out in a boisterous voice, not caring if the other people around her became offended by her lack of manners.
"Coming my sweet beautiful cherry blossom~~!" A twirling figure with hearts flying off in different direction promptly appeared beside Bonney.
The woman felt an involuntary goose bumps run down her spine at the head chef's referenced on her being.
"Dammit! I told you to stop calling me with those disgusting names!" Bonney did a round house kick and struck Sanji right on the face, causing him to fly a couple of meters up high while she caught all the food he was carrying on her large plate.
She sat and hurriedly resumed her meal.
The moment Sanji painfully descended to the ground, he got up in an instant and kneeled on one knee in front of the pink headed beauty,
"As you wish my love~~!"
His heartfelt proclamation failed to be heard by the woman, she was too preoccupied with devouring her meal.
"Oohh~ The smell is simply appetizing! Chef-san, I would also like a portion of those dishes on my table." Brook butted in; the musician was seated in the table beside Bonney.
"Shut up bonehead! Get it yourself! My services are only reserved for this beautiful lady." Sanji heatedly replied, before he swiftly gone back to ogling the woman before him.
Interpreting Sanji's insult as permission to enter the kitchen, the musician hurriedly charged through the opening of the large tent beside the reception hall where the makeshift kitchen was located.
"It's hard to believe those two are in a committed relationship with each other…" Usopp warily stared at the couple with Bonney using her elbow to pierced Sanji's ribs when he unintentionally prevented her from eating by trying to hug her.
'I can only imagine a stormy road ahead of those two.'
"I don't see what's wrong with it, a dominant gluttonous woman and a submissive slave who can provide her food, it's a perfect match. He's set to be happy his whole life..."
"What a hopeless fool." Zoro muttered, thinking who else would be happy while being treated like a slave, but a fool.
Sanji's ear's twitched whilst his rage escalated, even from a far he heard the swordsman's statement and was now rushing towards Usopp and Zoro.
"What was that??"The cook practically screeched.
"Did you say glutton? Let me tell you that my mon chéri only has a very healthy appetite therefore— wait… why are you two here?" the cook stared in confusion when he saw both his friend and acquaintance-
'yes, that marimo deserves nothing more if not less'
-present in the party.
"Because we were invited, but you should know that or have all that blood pumping in your head manage to only fill your brain with too much oxygen making you into more of a deficient than you already are." Zoro replied in a patronizing manner.
"Shut up you directionally challenged shit!" Sanji raged.
The cook then turned to faced Usopp.
"What I meant is that you… you both seem healthy and …uninjured." He said as the cook surveyed his friend for any physical injuries.
"Does that mean his grandfather took the news of a 'run away bride' quite well?" Sanji after taking away his attention from Bonney began to notice the group of people and the jubilant atmosphere.
"Rather, it looks as if nothing out of ordinary happened, even the guests seem unaffected." The cook commented while he scanned the crowd.
"Err… You're right to say nothing out of ordinary happened, and at the same time something out of the ordinary definitely happened." Usopp hesitantly answered behind him.
Sanji turned to look at him; puzzlement could be read from his face.
"Can your eyes only focus on degenerate useless stuff? Take a look for yourself." The swordsman raised his beer mug towards the dance floor, anger evident in his last statement.
"Wha?" Sanji glanced at Zoro in annoyance, but he let his gaze traveled to where the swordsman was pointing.
His vision landed on the dance floor, it took him a few moments to spot Luffy through the bodies of people dancing.
His eyes widen in surprised at the sight of his friend,
'Wha? Luffy? Rather than stuffing his face with food he's dancing a… waltz??'
"Lu-Luffy?" Sanji couldn't stop his mouth from stuttering the question.
"Yep… " Usopp's shoulder slouched in defeat.
"Like I said, you guys got off easily when he's right there dancing or could that be the vice admiral's punishment?" the cook looked back at Usopp.
'His grandfather's making him dance to delay him from eating?'
"See what I mean? His eyesight is useless and I thought his radar for women is top notch like it's a natural talent for a natural pervert."
The cook lifted his leg in the air and was in the motion of striking Zoro when Usopp quickly grabbed and stopped him.
He pulled Sanji's head to faced Luffy's direction.
"Sanji look again, the wedding didn't get canceled in fact Luffy… … got married!"
The cook made a startled sound which was similar to a cry of outrage and shock when he heard Usopp's statement, and at the same time he saw Luffy holding a girl who was wearing a white gown similar to the wedding dress that was bought and prepared for Luffy's bogus fiancée.
"Look at this joyous atmosphere, do you think people will freely laugh and eat if the wedding got canceled like we planned?" He briefly whispered, letting go of the cook when he have properly processed the information.
"Have you not been paying attention to your surrounding??" Usopp asked his eyes slanting towards Sanji, speculation could be heard from his tone.
"No." was the cook's outright answer.
"Why do I need too, when I'm blessed with beautifully dressed women right before my eyes." Sanji stated proudly, his eyes had gone back to the shape of a heart glancing around at the multiple women in the party until his vision landed on Bonney.
"Moron!" Usopp shouted and slapped the cook on the head, snapping him out of his reverie.
"Will you put your brain back in your head rather than in your pants for a moment, especially when you're supposed to be working." He continued scolding Sanji, while grabbing a cup with visible cream and cheese on top from the tray of a passing waiter.
"Hey! I'm serious at my work you know! Who do you think prepared that soufflé aérien d'œuf cocotte you're eating!" The cook stared pointedly at the appetizer in Usopp's hand, a vein throbbing on his forehead.
"A what?? Forget about that! Like Zoro said stop looking at useless stuff and think about the problem at hand!" Usopp replied while he gestured toward another waiter carrying a tray of food and grabbing a few croquettes causing another vein to pop up in the cook's forehead.
Taking a deep breath, Sanji took out his pack of cigarettes from his right packet and lithe up a stick, the smell and feeling of smoking calming him. This was a developed habit of the cook when he needed to relax and think.
"So… Luffy got married." Sanji whispered in an amazed manner after he had calmed.
If he had to be honest, there was a time he seriously thought that his ever so naïve and innocent friend would had continued being asexual for decades, thus missing the blissful experience of young love.
'I always thought that the only romantic relationship Luffy's willing to build and keep are with his meals.' The sweet irony almost brought a smile on the Sanji's face.
"And the girl?" He inquired.
Usopp turned the other way and sighed, on the other hand, Zoro remained silent and glared at his drink.
Sanji stared back and forth between the two, a conclusion developing in his brain.
"I cannot believe this!"
"Better believe it Imp!"
"I can't believe this! Don't tell you've gone ahead and kidnap an innocent woman and threaten her just to save your hives!"
Usopp immediate answer was to hit the cook on his head, angry at the ludicrous accusation.
"Of course not!"
"Ah! Is that so?" Sanji wore an apologetic smile while bowing his head to Usopp in a motion of apology.
"Then who is she and what happened?" The cook asked his curiosity showing.
"That's what we want to know too! The girl suddenly appeared on the ceremony wearing the wedding dress…a-and then… those two got married…"
"So let me get this straight, are you saying a stranger pop out of nowhere, claimed the bride's position and without explaining anything, she gone ahead and married Luffy?" Sanji tried to elaborate Usopp's statement.
"That's about sums up what happened." The man with a curly raven hair replied in a defeated manner.
"I see."
"… … …"
"OI! Oi! Oi! Don't lie to me! You may be a master of lies but I'm not that stupid you know?"
"Well-" Zoro begun,
"Don't you dare answer that!" Sanji snapped.
"We're not lying!" Usopp piped in.
"And it's the master of deception not lies!" He added.
"What's the difference?" Sanji couldn't help asking.
"What's the difference?" Usopp repeated, his tone suggesting that the answer was obvious.
"The difference is deception sounds much cooler than lies!" He seriously stated it like it was a fact.
"… … …"
Both Zoro and Sanji stared at him in deadpanned.
"What?" Usopp unintentionally squeaked, losing his bout of confidence due to their heavy gaze.
"Hey! Don't act like you two don't understand! I don't degrade the names of your swords or the menu you cook by changing the words in it, so don't degrade my title by changing the words in it!" He explained in indignation.
Both the cook and the swordsman's cool demeanor began to crack when the logic of the sniper's statement dawned on them.
"See! Words that sounds cooler do matter!" He smiled in victory.
The two knew Usopp was right, however, neither was willing to admit that out load.
'Fine, it does matter, but something just doesn't feel right saying it out loud.'
"Ahem… well let's continue…" Usopp spoke first breaking the awkward silence.
"Sanji, what I told you a while ago is what actually happened, even now we have no idea who she is or what she wants or what she will gain through all this." Usopp explained; he was currently trying to come up with ideas regarding the girl's intention.
Sanji was silent, also doing the same.
"The wedding…" the cook began, he was finished with his mulling.
"It took placed in a secluded island, the invitations were sent together with the log pose and the island is only accessible if you have a log pose, accidentally finding the place while sailing is possible, but it's still too much of a coincidence of having uninvited people land here at the day of the wedding…"
"Have you guys thought that maybe she is a guest?"
Usopp and Zoro glanced at each other upon hearing Sanji's theory.
"No, she can't be with the way she was acting." Zoro concluded, immediately dismissing the idea.
"How would you know? What do you mean 'with the way she was acting'?" Sanji retorted, annoyed that his theory was instantly dismissed.
"Well she didn't utter a word of complain. If something was wrong she should have said something from the start instead of quietly standing there like everything's perfectly fine." Zoro countered.
"Your argument is irrelevant! It doesn't explain why she couldn't be a guest!"
"If she was a guest then why was she posing as the bride? I've heard her speak, she's not a mute, she could have easily voiced her complain."
"Her meekness could have come from anxiety! The poor girl must have been overwhelmed being mistaken for a bride and dragged to the altar surrounded by high ranking marines, she failed to voiced her complain because she was probably shocked, confused and scared." The cook rationalized the girl's behavior, trying to make the two understand that in such a situation the girl possibly had trouble speaking up.
However, Zoro's adamant to what he felt and observed of the woman during the wedding.
"She wasn't scared; I didn't feel any form of anxiety coming from her. The witch was calm like she knew how everything will play out. I can feel it in my gut."
"Of course, like you're someone who's especially sensitive to woman's feelings." Sanji replied with sarcasm lacing his tone.
He gave up on making Zoro empathized with the girl's circumstances because within their group, if Luffy was asexual, he didn't know what to call Zoro, whom was far worse than Luffy when it came to women.
'at least Luffy could be drag to Usopp's perverted escapades once in a while.'
The cook turned to faced the dance floor to specifically observed the bride, the tangerine head was talking to Luffy, her outer feature seemed confident, but Sanji saw a hint of nervousness from her body language. However, like the swordsman stated earlier she is indeed too calm for someone who had a case of mistaken identity… it almost felt like… she's… perfectly satisfied with the whole arrangement...
Sanji's eyes widen with the realization, his earlier assumption was wrong and now, he could clearly see that.
It pains to know that with this revelation he must now treat the girl with doubt and caution, definitely not an attitude that a lady deserves from a gentleman,
'Still I need do it, with Luffy as her target and knowing that rubber moron for so long, he always ends up with this big complicated shit!'
Another thing that's painfully irksome, in which he belatedly realized, the marimo was right and he would rather eat his treasured hands than ever admit it.
'Damn. Double shit!'
The cook's silent musing was broken when a voice spoke up,
"Sanji does have a point."
Usopp who had been content in listening to his two friend's opinion decided to speak up.
"The island's hard to find, maybe she got here using the invitation; the only people Luffy invited were us and almost all the people here were invited by Garp."
"But wouldn't the vice admiral recognized her if he invited her?" the sniper speculated, countering his previous statement.
The three turned to looked at the senior marine,
One person came up to the vice admiral to extend his congratulation towards his married grandchild,
"Why thank you… ah… young tattoo man with your furry hat! Glad that you accepted my invitation and attended!" Garp patted the man's back in a jolly manner.
Base on Garp's interaction with his guest, it was clear to them that the vice admiral didn't know the guy and had only described his obvious appearance, which was young, a male and he had an abundant of tribal styled tattoos on hands that probably extended up to his arms, which was currently covered by his coat.
The young man seemed unaffected by the old man's awkward greeting and he showed it by tipping his furry hat back and swiftly replied,
"It's my pleasure to be here Mr. Vice Admiral."
After the scene the three face each other again,
"Forget about how uninvited people could get here when the invited guest could be anyone!" Usopp accusingly glanced at Garp, all three had sweatdrops on their forehead.
"It seems that Luffy's grandfather didn't care who attends, as long as many people came." Sanji remembered that the groom had similar trait.
"So what now?" Usopp asked the two.
"Luffy traveled alone with her when they came here." Zoro answered, ordering a refill of his alcohol.
"Ah! You're right! Maybe he heard her side of the story and this could be a simple case of mistaken identity?" Usopp said with a hopeful timbre on his voice.
Although Zoro's heavy silence and Sanji's observant gazed on the married couple told him they thought otherwise.
'Not that I blame them, even I hear the warning bells going off my radar ever since our plan went wrong.' He sighed with dark clouds hanging over his head, Usopp bad habit of being pessimistic had resurfaced.
'Even if I don't want to, with Luffy, I'll be forced to be drag in this mess and when that happen, good bye my peaceful and no-life-threatening days.' He gave another heavy sighed, with a melancholic expression a singled tear escaped his right eye.
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The Bride and Groom
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"Hey, don't you think this is enough? We've been going at it for three songs already. I'm sure your grandfather won't mind if we headed to our sits and rest now."
Luffy was too concentrated on his task to hear what had been said, and that specific task was to stomp on his dance partner's foot in which he successfully achieved.
"Ouch! What are you doing??" Out of habit Nami kicked Luffy in the shin, which ended up ineffective due to Luffy's rubber ability.
"Oi! That's cheating, we can only do stomping! We never agreed to kicking unless… it's now allowed." Luffy looked at her excitedly and was ready to land a kick on her when Nami pulled and pinched –hard –his cheek out of anger.
"STOP IT!"
"OUCH!" Luffy yelped when Nami twisted his cheek and felt her fingernails dug into his skin through her thin silk gloves.
The couples dancing around them glanced in their direction.
Nami hastily attempted to amend the situation,
"Darling~ My legs are tired so let's. Stop. It." She giggled and tried to laugh off their tensed situation, her hand, who abused Luffy's cheek earlier were now lovingly stroking it.
However, Luffy was still annoyed and was pouting with his eyes narrowed while his cheeks were blown up with air like a child.
"Well aren't you cute, pouting like a sulking child just because you still want to keep on dancing." She then used her sweetest smile to the people looking their way, which earned her a beam from them when they thought that the young married couple was flirting with each other.
"Aren't you hungry? Don't you want any food?" She testily whispered, knowing that Luffy will instantly forget his grumpy mood at the mention of food. And with that reason, she wasn't surprised when she felt herself yanked across the dance floor towards the buffet table where a cheerful okama was awaiting their return.
"Oohh~~ Strawhat-chan and Fist-chan, you are both so passionate when you were dancing, I could feel your enthusiastic energy all the way here~! It was a lovely sight~~!" the okama skipped and spun around the two like a graceful ballerina to expressed his joy for the success of the first dance.
"Shishishishi! Thanks Bon-chan, I enjoyed the dance and like you said I was enthusiastic to win, and Nami's a tough opponent." Luffy replied before he greedily chomped down a fresh roasted meat he managed to swipe from the tray.
"Awww Strawhat-chan~~! Stop joking around~~!" Bon Kurei loved and treasured his friendship with Luffy, on the other hand, even as a close friend of the Strawhat boy there were times when the things he said was lost on the okama.
"Now follow me you two~~! I shall lead you both to your sits where the food specially prepared for the newlyweds has been served." Bon-chan raised both his hand ballerina style as he tip toed leading the way to their table.
Nami hastily encircled her arms on Luffy's left arm, learning from experience that the guy tended to leave her behind when his head was up in the cloud of food.
The mass of people parted to let the married couple passed through.
"By the way Nami, who won? I forgot to keep tabs on our scores."
Now that Luffy was finally allowed to eat, he was in much better mood and his earlier annoyance of the girl was left forgotten.
"Me." She easily answered a smirk present on her face.
Luffy looked her way with a pout on his face, a little miffed that the woman can easily declared herself as the winner without any explanation.
Taking out the piece of meat he stuffed earlier from the right pocket of his pants he asked,
"How do you know that?"
"Well you proudly stomp on my foot for five times…" she paused and sent a glare on Luffy's way, which he answered with a snicker.
"And I made sure you yelped and winced more than that, so yes, I do know that I won." The smirk was back on her face again.
Luffy shuddered when he remembered how painful her pointed heels felt on his toes, candidly accepting the result of their game he proceeded to pull out a bunch of slice steak from his left pocket that earned a surprised gasped from Nami, because she was standing on his left side.
"Wha! Whe-where did that come from?" she moved a little, making sure any dripping on the steak didn't get on her pure white gown.
"Hmm?" the young man didn't hear her question because he was busy munching on the juicy steaks he brought.
Some of the meat sauce accidentally dripped on her arm.
Nami felt her temper rising, but she holds it off by taking multiple deep breaths.
When she was confident she can talk to him without resorting to violence, she began to reason with him while she pulled out her handkerchief to wiped the drippings,
"Luffy, it will only take a couple more seconds before we get to our table so can't you set your food aside?" Her tone was polite.
"And I don't want to keep clinging to you if you continue on increasing the oil and grease in your hands and arm because it might stain this lovely dress." She finished with a charming smile on her face, expecting her request to be granted.
Luffy glance towards her and blinked,
"Then don't cling."
"… … …"
The young man's simple answer broke her calm and made her blood boil,
"I don't have a choice!" she snapped.
By now everyone was closely watching the couple and Nami felt that abruptly letting go of her groom and shoving and kicking him to a far off distance -which was what she wished to do- would create an unneeded very awkward mood.
So rather than doing what she wanted, she tightened her hold on his arm, she pressed herself closer to her groom because she knew if didn't, she might just delightfully succumbed to her current desire.
Luffy, however, didn't share her sentiments,
'Huh? Is she dumb? Of course she has a choice.'
He even tried proving his thoughts,
"What do you mean? Just let go." Luffy tried to wiggle out his arm from Nami's grasp and not to be defeated the orange head clung tighter and moved her body closer if possible, until she felt him stop moving.
When she was about to sigh in relief she heard Luffy's,
"Hmmm…"
The bright head glanced up and saw him studying her.
"What now?" she questioned, suspicion lacing her tone.
"I just realized something."
"Which is?" In her mind she knew not to expect much enlightenment from someone stupid, and yet, she couldn't' stop her heart for dreading his words,
'I was always careful, there's no way he found anything from me—'
"For someone who acts violent and cold, you're really touchy." He said with a weird gleam in his eyes.
Her mind went blank and it was her turn to blink,
"What the heck does that mean??"
His words left her brain in panic and confusion, her serene masked began to slip.
Luffy looked away from her to stare ahead, and from his expression she can see he was in deep thoughts,
"You remind me of a friend of mine, who's really touchy when it comes to woman, but unlike you, he's very kind and generous when it comes to the girls he meet-"
"Will you get to the point!" she hissed, reaching the end of her patience.
"Eh? Okay."
He continued to stare at her, then down to the tight hold she had on his arm.
"Well?" She snapped.
"Nami, you're a pervert." Luffy bluntly stated like it was one of those everyday things you normally tell a woman.
"I'm a WHAT??!" the orange head couldn't stop herself from screeching in outrage.
Mistaking Nami's outburst as a sincere question of not hearing his description of her,
"You're a pervert."
He repeated the statement in the same blunt tone he used earlier unknowingly creating another blow to the young maiden's heart.
Bon Kurei, who was way ahead of them, turned back when he heard Nami's screech earlier.
The okama saw Luffy speak,
"Pardon Strawhat-chan, did you say something?"
Nami was still too scandalized to answer the okama's question so it was Luffy who answered it.
"I was telling her she's a pervert."He brazenly declared in that boisterous voice of his for Bon-chan to hear, who was at a distance from them.
The crowd immediately froze when they heard the groom's tactless declaration and the bride could do nothing but gawk at her husband.
'Th-this guy! Is… Is this his way of getting back at me??!!' Nami screamed in her mind and at the same time she felt a piece of herself crack in front of everyone.
The bride's earlier effort to prevent discomfiting situations was now ruined -courtesy of her groom- because of the obvious thick atmosphere in the hall.
'Well at least it cannot get any worse than this!'
Fortunately those words gave her comfort and courage to stay rather than grabbing her pointed heels and stabbing Luffy multiple times with it before she drop this whole fiasco and run away.
—ignorance is a bliss—
Someone used to say and it was true, for Nami didn't know that her newly acquired husband possessed a certain trait, and that special ability is 'surpassing a person's expectation'.
Unfortunately, this was also the day she was about to find out.
"Oi brat! Didn't I drilled you with manners? Can't you see you're embarrassing your wife?" Garp, who happened to be standing nearby, scolded his grandson.
"Lu-Luffy? May I know what made you think that?" Nami asked, trying to sound wounded and hurt.
'I can still salvage this embarrassing situation. I just need to straighten out the misunderstanding and seriously…'
'Why the hell does he think I'm a pervert??'
The intense feeling of outrage came back to her.
Luffy was unaffected by the situation and even took out another steak from his pocket and bit in it before he answered her question,
"I think you're pervert—"
'Stop repeating it like it some kind of catch phrase you jerk!' she seethed.
"—because ever since we met you've been really touchy and also you even made me touch you—" The groom's explanation was cut off when a blond man in suit placed his hand on his mouth.
Sanji, who was waiting beside the bride and groom's table, hastily came to Luffy's side and placated the growing tension by stopping his friend from saying something he shouldn't.
"Luffy, that's enough. You know a gentleman never kiss and tell." Sanji advised, and he saw from Luffy's blank expression, it was clear he had no idea what the chef was talking about.
"What I mean is that it's disrespectful, barbaric, insulting and only a piece of trash will share what happened between a man and woman during their most private time." The cook irately explained.
Nami wasn't listening to anything Sanji had said.
Her mind was racing with vulgar scene she had only read in those cheesy romance novels and she was sure as hell that kind of stuff never transpired between them!
'When? When did those things happened you insane delusional retard!!!'
She was even more enraged when she realized the guy wasn't saying those things to spite her, he really thought she was a pervert!
'I never thought in my whole I would be planning the assassination of someone who I only met in less than six hours. And what's more unbelievable is that the person I want to kill is my husband!'
Her hand was twitching, she was itching to grab any pointed items and hurl it right on her groom's face just to make him stop talking.
While the bride was busy with her devious plotting,
Luffy used the time to pry Sanji's hand off his mouth and childishly whined,
"But Sanji, what she did wasn't in private, she did all those stuff in public!"
Multiple gasp could be heard from the crowd that made Nami snapped out of her brooding.
The declaration left Sanji stunned with his mouth hanging open.
Luffy was dense from the reaction of the crowd and continued to speak,
"Like the time she forcefully pulled me in her at the garden."
'What!!! They did it in a garden??'
Some of the guest paled at the idea, while the rest either accepted or went happily red -mixed it up with a nosebleed- thinking about it.
"Or when she grab my hand only to place it on her breast"
'Wow! She's bold!'
"She was also stroking me on the dance floor."
'Ehhh??? Y-you mean just now, when they were dancing she was actually touching his *****'
The guest couldn't stop their eyesight from shifting to the dance floor. They each remembered the couple's waltz earlier, however, with this new revelation the sweet memory became distorted and only made them cringed.
"And right now-"
"JUST SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!"
It was unknown what the reason was, it could be her rage, adrenalin or luck because Luffy actually flew and seemed to be in a lot of pain when Nami used all her strength to deliver her punch.
Guess she didn't need a pointed object to hurt and make the fool stop talking after all.
Although surprised, the crowd wasn't that shocked with the brides violent outburst. Normally, it was outright wrong for the bride to be physically brutal to her groom especially on their wedding day, however, in this occasion when stuck with a tactless groom, her course of action felt disturbingly right.
As soon as the adrenaline rush was gone, she was forced to faced the effect of her dumb groom's blabber.
Nami was absolutely horrified, she knew the scenario he was talking about, but when she saw the expression on the face of everyone, it told her they were imagining a different kind of scenario… a naughtier, kinkier and perversely twisted setting that was the total opposite of what was supposed to be an innocent gesture on her part.
'I was wrong!!! He can make it much worse!'
When she was about to break down and cry right on that spot, she felt a large warm hand on her shoulder that made her glanced up at its owner.
Garp gripped the bride's shoulder, he gave her one of his rare soft smile in hopes to comfort her.
"Not to worry girl, leave it to me."
Nami genuinely smiled, she felt herself reassured when she heard the old man's words.
"Now you folk listen!" Garp barked, catching everyone's attention.
"Tell me, is there a rule that women aren't allowed to lust after their husband?? Of course there's none! Women can be as much of a pervert as a man! There's no shame in that."
Somehow, Luffy's grandfather managed to double the awkwardness of the whole thing, and him stating all that with a straight face wasn't helping either.
"So everyone stop acting like it's a big deal, it's not! Can't you see you're embarrassing her? So stop it!" He commanded.
'Right now, you're the only one embarrassing her! You should stop it!' The crowd thought in accusation.
"Everything fine now girl, like I told you, leave it to me." Garp turned to her with a huge proud smile, he gave her a thumb-up using his right hand.
'Nothing is fine! You've made it much much worse!' She looked at the vice admiral with angry waterfall tears in her eyes.
"And as the grandfather of the groom—"
'What!?? You're still not done embarrassing the poor girl?' Everyone thought.
"—I must say, it brings me joy that my grandson had found a woman who continuously think of hentai thoughts of Luffy. At least I know they won't be having problems in the bedroom department." He sent a wink to the bride's way.
'Please… stop talking!!!'she shrieked in her mind.
Nami was starting to rethink her idea of punching Luffy earlier was a bad move, she was now entertaining the idea that rather than her groom she should have knocked herself out,
'At least I'll be unconscious while this was going on, and if I was lucky I could have woken up the next morning with this whole mess behind me.'
Her sight caught one of the waiter's carrying a bottle of whiskey with the liquid filling up to three-fourth of the bottle.
'I don't think I'll survive this night being sober. I already attacked the groom and in my current state of mind, I might just attack the groom's grandfather next.'
Her decision made, she trailed after the waiter and grabbed hold of the bottle, taking it from his hand she opened it and gulped a ton of the alcohol inside.
'Fake or not, this is still my wedding day and I have every right to take advantage of the free liquor.'
"My lady, I don't think it will be a good idea to be intoxicated during your wedding. Let me change that with the special wine prepared for the newlyweds. "
She turned around and was faced with the blond man from before, she also noticed some people edging towards her with the intention of taking the bottle from her hand.
"Fist-chan~~ Spiral-chan is right, a—"
She rudely cut off Bon-chan while Sanji glared nastily at the okama for his supposed 'nickname',
"Trust me, anyone who stands in my way will end up like that guy!" She raged, her finger pointed to Luffy, who was still stuck in one of the stone pillars with half his body protruded on the pillar's surface.
Her threat worked like a charm, the group immediately halted on their track.
"Now Bon-chan, lead me to my table and anyone who will try to help my stupid groom will find themselves replacing him on the pillar, got it?"
She took the silenced as a form of affirmation and stalked towards her table with a slightly petrified okama leading the way and beside her was the blond man, who introduced himself as Sanji, the head chef for this evening.
"—so in conclusion, I'm proud that the brat found a pervert wife. It ease my heart to know that my great-grandchild won't be long. Bwahahaha!!!"
'What the?? He is still talking?!' The people who were gathered all had sweatdrops on their head.
Today was eventful, however, only three things stuck within the guest mind.
Monkey D. Luffy was a tactless groom,
Monkey D. Nami was a hentai bride,
And according to himself,
Monkey D. Garp was a proud man that day.
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TBC
Well if you got here after that thousands of words, I'm 50% sure you enjoyed it. Thank you for reading :)
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