Making up

I smiled sadly. "It's been a long time since I laughed like this."

As I glanced around the ship, I could see all of them, each and every one, doing something different, and yet being together. Since that day, I've been alone, or so I thought. I took a deep breath. "You know what?, I thought, "I'm gonna be a part of this crew now. For real."

Right then, Sanji yelled, "Hey idiots! Dinner's ready!"

I jumped up and ran into the kitchen. But this time, instead of running straight back up to train, I went and sat down in between Nami and Usopp. "Yo!"

They raised their eyebrows at me. "What?" I asked. "Did I already miss my mouth and leave a mark?" I laughed, "Ok, that was a bad joke, but seriously, what is it?"

Nami finally answered, "Well…it's just surprising to see you. At all."

I grinned, "Well hopefully it's a good surprise."

Crash.

Looking over, I saw that Sanji was just standing in the middle of the kitchen, with a pile of plates and food at his feet. He didn't even seem to notice. He was looking at me and Nami, and he was MAD. Since Nami had an edge seat and I was sitting next to her, he couldn't.

I rolled my eyes as I understood why he was upset. "Oh, get over yourself. It's not like she WANTED you to sit next to her anyway!"

He growled. "How dare you!" He yelled. "Nami loves me! Just like I love her!"

Nami sweatdropped. "I've never…ever…EVER said that…"

I snickered. "You just got TOLD Sanji!" Usopp finally seemed to have gotten over me being there and started laughing in Sanji's face as well.

Sanji could only stand there looking dejected until I finally relented. "Oh, alright, you can have my spot. I don't understand why you're so upset, since the last open seat is next to your favorite person, Zoro."

Sanji glanced at the seat I was moving too and made eye contact with Zoro. As soon as he did, Zoro asked, "What are you looking at, Curly-Brow?"

"Eh? I'm looking at you, Marimo! Got a problem?"

Zoro stood up, "Yeah, yeah I do! Your food sucks!"

Sanji shook his head "Why you…well you can only complain if you can make better food!"

Zoro scoffed. "Oh, I can."

Sanji looked interested, "Oh really? Show me."

Zoro looked at the kitchen and then back at Sanji. "I don't need too. It's obvious that I'm a better cook."

"Really? Why is that?"

"Because I'm stronger."

Sanji ogled at Zoro. "What the HELL does that have to do with cooking, you dumbass?"

"Well, because I'm stronger, I'm better at everything. It's really not that hard to get." And then coughed under his breath, "It also obviously makes me smarter than you too."

That was the last straw for Sanji. He jumped on Zoro and they started fighting AGAIN.

Nami put her head between her hands. "Not even five minutes and they're fighting." She moaned.

Then she turned her death glare at me. I sweatdropped. "What?" I laughed uneasily.

"This is YOUR fault!" She threw her plate at me in rage. I made myself transparent, and it hit Usopp.

"Oi! What was that for?"

I turned to him, "Well I'm not gonna let her hit me! Did you see the look on her face?"

Just then, I felt a very large and dark presence loom behind me. I turned slowly to see Nami seemingly grow three times in size from her anger. As she brought her fist down to pummel me, I dove behind Usopp.

"What? No!" he yelled.

"Be a team player! Take the hit!"

And he did. And then he could take no more hits, because he was just about dead.