Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece.
"Luffy get back here and face me like a man!" Zoro yelled as he chased said captain while brandishing only two of his three swords. Though this fact did nothing to reassure or calm the boy running for his life.
Luffy didn't slow down at all. In fact he might have speed up a little as he called over his shoulder. "No! You're -hic- gonna kill me!"
"Damn right I am! Now stand still!"
"Hic! Put down you're swo-hic-ds first!" Luffy demanded.
"Stand still!"
While Luffy continued running for his life Usoop and Sanji were working on a very important task. Trying to carry a very heavy and very full bucket of ice water without spilling it. Needless to say they were suffering from some minor technical difficulties difficulty.
Sanji's eye twitched as water spilled over the side, nearly hitting his pants leg. "Usoop hold up your end. Your splashing water all over the place."
"Well excuse me." The sharpshooter managed to lift up his half enough so that it wasn't so lopsided. "Not all off us are inhumanly strong. To us normal people this is heavy. Did we have to fill it up so much?"
"Quit your whining and walk." The blond scratched the back of his head with his free hand, which earned him a glare from the struggling prankster. "Sounds like Luffy's getting close. His hiccups are getting louder."
"Well then what are you waiting for?" Usoop was starting to turn red from the strain. "Open the door so we can get outside already."
"Geez, there's no need to get snippy." Sanji commented as he opened the wooden door.
…Only to have fall on him. You see Luffy had run into the door and Zoro, who had built up too much momentum, crashed into Luffy. With the combined force and speed the door was ripped off the hinges and onto Sanji.
Without Sanji to support his half of the wooden tub Usoop didn't have the strength to keep it up and let it fall to the ground. It landed perfectly with minimal water spillage. In fact it was still half way full (or was it half empty?) with ice water.
Luffy learned this first hand as his head was submerged in it.
That was a very convenient accident, Luffy landing face first in the water.
Now his fist instinct was to not drown and so he tried resurfacing. The key word there is tried. Zoro's hand on the back of his head was hindering the process.
Luffy learned very quickly that trying not to breathe underwater is extremely difficult when you have the hiccups. The random bubbles that were filled with his precious oxygen proved that much. Luckily for him the situation didn't last long for Sanji did not appreciate being squished between the wooden deck and a heavy door with heavy people on it.
A well-placed kick quickly remedied Sanji's problem as the two tumbled across the deck only stopping when they hit the railing.
The cook stood up and grumbled something about mindless baboons under his breath as he wrung out his jacket. See while they didn't spill a whole lot of water they did spill some and it all happened to land on Sanji.
"Well, what's next?" The sharpshooter asked.
The blond, still grumbling, took the book out of his back pocket. Stopping at the correct section he scrolled through the list crossing out the ice water trick. He read the next one out loud. "Force the hiccupie to cough and or sneeze."
"Well, what's next?" The sharpshooter asked.
The blond held the book in his left hand as he flipped though the pages with his right. Stopping at the correct section he scrolled through the list before finding the last cure they tried. He read the next one out loud. "Force the hiccupie to cough and or sneeze."
"Is there a way to make someone cough?" Usoop asked staring at the open book.
Sanji scratched the back of his head with his free hand. "None that I can think of. There are ways to make someone sneeze though."
"I'll get the pepper." Usoop announced in a heroic voice as he made his way to their kitchen with his hand in the air like he was leading troops of some sort to battle.