Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece


I was working on the list of things I wanted to pack, when my little sister interrupted me. She walked though my open door and walked in front of me. In her hand was a ringing Den Den Mushi. I quickly picked it up and said,

"Hello?"

"Jessica?"

"Yeah?"

"Where are you?"

"My house."

"Why haven't you come over to the ship yet?"

"I didn't know I was expected to."

"Well I would have thought… Never mind"

"So when are we going to be taught how to blend in around here?"

"I don't really know."

"Can't you just come over now and teach us?"

"I would, but I want Melissa to help me explain everything"

"Can't she just help you explain over the phone?"

"Well that would work, but I think she wants to be there in person."

"Oh."

"Do you know when she will be able to come over?"

"I'm not certain, but I think that if she convinces her parents to accept the situation, she can come over today."

"O.K. The next time she comes over, make sure the both of you come to the ship and teach us how to blend in."

"Sure." I gave the Den Den Mushi back to my sister after I was done talking to Nami. There was a knock at the door so I hurried to the and opened it. I found Rachel standing there.

"Hi." I was about to let her inside, when another car pulled up in front of my house. Tracey stepped out and waved to us. I invited my friends and their parents inside. I picked up the phone when it started ringing. It was Melissa saying that she was on her way.

When Melissa arrived my friends and I went upstairs to my bedroom. Melissa and I searched around for anything that could help with disguising the less peculiar members of the Strawhats. I asked Tracey and Rachel to look around for things that might interest the crew and manage to keep Luffy entertained for a while. Since nearly everything in the room would be new to the Strawhats, it was decided that Tracey and Rachel would find a few items that would interest the entire crew(or at least most of it).

As I was searching, I noticed Tracey pulling the first volume of One Piece off the shelf. Rachel walked up beside her and told her it would be a great idea to bring a few volumes for the crew to see. Tracey started flipping through the pages, which caused me to realize something. There were a few pages where it flashed back to Zoro's childhood. This was no big deal to us who had already read all about his promise to Kuina and the different life stories of the other members, but when I thought about it, only the childhoods of a few members were known by the entire crew. The majority of the crew would most likely prefer that their nakama didn't know the details of their past, so I warned my friends to only bring volumes that didn't contain anything that someone might prefer if the rest of the crew didn't see. Also, we mutually agreed that we would try to avoid mentioning information that most of the crew was unaware of.

After the hunt, Melissa and I ended up with a short black wig from my Halloween costume, what little make-up I had, a hat, some of my clothes, a few jackets, and a few pairs of my shoes. I was kind of disappointed at how little the items were going to help, especially when I looked at what Tracey and Rachel were going to bring. They had collected the second volume of One Piece, my camera, my DS, and a pack of gum Rachel had found in her pocket. I knew almost everything we were bringing over was mine and that it was a lot harder to find things for disguises than finding things to interest the crew, but it still made me kind of depressed.

After we brought everything downstairs and sat it on the dining room table, my little sister told us to go to the family room and listen to what our parents wanted to tell us. We looked at each other and shrugged before heading into the family room to see what our parents wanted. I was curious as we sat down on the couch. Our parents were standing across from us glancing at each other. Rachel's mom began speaking,

"We've decided that we're going to allow you all to stay over here on weekends. If they allow it, we think you should sleep on the ship, but if not Jessica's family is willing to let you sleep in their house. We expect you all to be on your best behavior."

By the time the little speech was over we were all grinning and excited. We would now be able to hang out with the Strawhats a lot more often and we might get to practically live on the Thousand Sunny for a while.

"Arigato!" we all exclaimed. "Thank you," my little sister explained for the few parents that wore puzzled expressions. "Can we go ask now?" questioned Rachel, obviously hoping for a yes. Her mom nodded yes and we all sprang up. We almost forgot to bring the items we collected, but luckily we noticed them as we hurried out my back door. We soon realized that we would attract attention if we all ran towards the woods carrying random things in our arms. We were all too impatient to wait until it got dark, so we tried to come up with ideas. I only managed to come up with the idea to empty out my backpack and put the stuff we wanted to bring to the Thousand Sunny in it. Tracey figured we could just run one at a time to the woods when there were no cars driving by on the road to the left of the park. There were no other ideas so we went with her plan. Luckily, it was still somewhat early on a Sunday so their weren't many people up and about.

Rachel went first, Tracey second, and then Melissa third. I had ended up carrying the backpack, so it was a bit annoying to try to dash across the park with it bouncing up and down. Soon, I arrived at the ladder hung down from the Thousand Sunny. I realized that I was going to have to try to climb the ladder with the backpack on. It was even more intimidating because my backpack was the kind that hung near my side instead of on my back. I took a deep breath and figured I should start trying to climb the ladder. The back pack off-balanced me a bit, so I had to shift my weight and keep myself balanced while I climbed. When I got closer to the top I could hear Luffy exclaiming something in excitement. I starting climbing faster when an image of Luffy stretching and sending me flying onto the deck popped into my head(that could probably kill me, or at least really hurt).

Once I climbed aboard the ship, I saw my friends and some of the crew members talking. When I walked up to them Melissa told me the crew had agreed to let us sleep on the ship. I smiled at the news and took off my backpack.


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