Luffy was swimming along, minding his own business, just following Sanji to go mermaid watching. This was so boring for him. He swam along on his back, wondering why anybody would want to do this.

They were all pretty and all, but they could have been playing tag! He looked at Sanji and snorted. There was blood in the water around his face, and his eye was in the shape of a heart. He wiggled around like some kind of eel, too. The blood might attract predators, but he didn't care.

Then out of the corner of his eye, he saw a flash of yellow. Luffy looked over, almost expecting a lionfish, but it was a mermaid. She was hiding behind a coral, so he couldn't see her face, but she seemed different than all the others.

He looked over at Sanji, and decided that he was no fun, along with Zoro who was staring at a brown, curly-haired mermaid who was glaring at Sanji and the other mermaids. Luffy swam over and said,
"Hi! I'm Luffy. Wanna play tag?" She looked at the
love-cook for a second then nodded.
"As long as he isn't playing. He's gonna get eaten by a shark!" she said. Luffy laughed and shook his head. She smiled and swam away with him. When Luffy stopped, he was almost immediately got poked in the back.
"tag!" she exclaimed and swam off swiftly. Luffy laughed and chased her. She was fast, and he swam quickly, and lightly touched the fin at the bottom of her tail. He laughed and turned around, getting a head start. The girl mermaid turned around, and started chasing him. He was swimming as fast as he could.

After a while, he slowed down and looked behind him to see if he had lost her, he hadn't. She was swimming as fast as he was, and maybe a little faster now that he had slowed down. Before he could react, she tagged him, and he sank down, laughing.

She swam down, laughing as well and she started playing with her straw-colored hair with a red ribbon in it. It caught the light and shone, attracting his eyes toward it no matter what he tried to disctract himself with.

She saw him staring, and stopped playing with her ponytail. He slowly drifted up to be close to her. She stopped breathing, or whatever fish do XD, and his breath caught as well. He moved still closer. He didn't know how to stop. He couldn't control himself, and he moved still closer. He stopped finally about a centimeter away (about 1/3 of an inch) and she closed her bright, happy blue eyes. He closed his eyes, and closed the gap between their lips.