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Not the first person to call me that.

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Chapter 6: Working with a Monkey

Zoro yawned as he pushed the cleaning cart around. 'Man I need a nap.' He thought as he passed a couple of maids.

"I heard he's a cut throat demon." Whispered one maid.

"I heard he killed many men." Whispered another.

He paid no mind to the rumor about him.

"ZOROOO!" Called out a familiar as his side was rammed onto the floor. "You-!"

Luffy laughed. "Sorry Zoro!"

He sighed as he rubbed his sore side. "Something you want to tell me?"

The young man looked thoughtful.

The green-haired teen quickly looked at the maids, who seemed dumbfounded.

"Ne… Just felt like seeing you."

He raised an eyebrow. "Do you do this to everyone?"

The young man smiled as if proud of it. "Yosh!"

Zoro sighed as he yawned. "Bother them."

"I would, but they're all hiding, except for Sanji, he's cooking."

"Then bother him."

"I almost got attacked by knives!"

"What do you want me to do about it?!"

Luffy shrugged. "I dunno."

He rolled his eyes as he got up from the floor. "When is Usopp coming back?"

"Not in the next couple days."

"Huh? Why?"

"He usually stays with his girlfriend before coming back together."

"He's definitely a dead man once he comes back." He said as he pushed the cart down the hall, followed by Luffy humming a song.


When Luffy didn't leave him be for three rooms, he grabbed the spare apron and threw it at the young man. "If you're going to hang around me, may as well help me!"

Luffy smiled as he put the apron on.

'I'm going to regret this.' He thought as he opened another door.

Zoro was shocked to see such a mess. "Oh shit!" He said.

The once beautiful room now looked like it was hit by a hurricane. Pizza crusts, broken wine glasses and plates, and other food articles covered the floor, walls, even the ceiling. The beds were turned over and the sheets were everywhere. There were also feathers and fluff everywhere from the broken pillows.

"Careful Luffy," He warned. "There could be glass scattered around." He went in to have a more though look at the chaos. He went to the bathroom and saw, or more like smelled, the unpleasant barf all over the toilet, sink and floor. He flipped the switch for a fan to come on.

"What the hell happened?" Luffy asked from the door way.

He was about to say a party gone wild when he stepped on something. He looked down at his work shoes and lifted up to see a condom. "Sex party…" he mumbled as he took a tissue and took the used condom off from under his shoe. "Is there a special punishment to the guests for this or is it put under the mat." He expected to hear that the guests' behavior would be protected by their wealth, but the response he received however shocked him slightly.

"The guests should know better…" Luffy said in a serious tone. "That behavior is only accepted in their own places, not in temporary use rooms."

"What should I do if I see this in another room?"

Luffy didn't answer as he walked towards the cart and took out a pad of paper and a pen and started to write on it.

He walked out of the room just as the young man was done writing.

Luffy closed the door and took out a black card and slipped it into the door knob before placing the note on the door. "Let's go…" He said as he started to walk ahead.

Zoro didn't bother reading the note and pushed the cart to the next room.


Zoro's POV: An hour later

Having Luffy helping me wasn't as bad as I thought. I did have to tell him what to do once in a while, but he made the whole cleaning rooms a game.

"Luffy! Stop bouncing on the beds!"

"C'mon Zoro! It's fun!"

"I just made that bed, baka!"

He did stop with a pout. "You're no fun!"

I rolled my eyes, not caring. "Luffy! Can you help me with this!" I said mentioning the windowed doors.

"What?"

"Cleaning." I said simply.

"Okay!"

I learned that he responds well with simple things. Anything complex would prove fatal to him.

"Luffy! Don't spray too much of that stuff!"

"Na?"

"Geez…" I looked at the many trails of cleaning fluid. 'That will take awhile.' I thought.

"Geez Zoro, you're serious about cleaning?"

I sighed. "I rather say screw this, but then that dumbass head manager would report to the judge and I would have to be sent to jail."

It was slightly complex for the guy, but oh well.

Luffy started to wipe down the liquid cleaner from the window and looked from all angles.

"What are you doing now?"

"Making sure there's no streaks."

I blinked. 'Did he understand what I said?' I thought. "Why?"

"You have to have an almost perfect job to stay right?" He looked at me from the corner of his eye. "I don't want you to go anywhere but here."

This is a bit unexpected.

"You don't know me, yet you talk to me like we've been together forever."

"You're a good guy Zoro." He said with a normal smile, not a wide or goofy smile, just a normal smile. "You're cool and have three swords! Why would anyone not like you?"

This guy hardly made sense, but it made me feel a little better oddly enough.


An hour later

"Are we done?!" Luffy whined.

"Just this room then we can go get lunch." I said as I rubbed my temple.

This guy has been complaining about being hungry half an hour ago.

"But I'm so hungry!"

"Then go without me!"

I could hear him pout as he sat on the bed. I was vacuuming the carpet when he said something.

"What?" I said as I turned off the damn loud thing.

"What's it like where you live?"

I looked at him as I started to put away the vacuum. "No different than what you've heard." I said.

He just continued to look at me.

"What?"

"I've never heard stories from where you live, not even from Usopp."

"Are you saying you never heard of 'Downtown', 'Thief Street', 'Poverty Central'…?"

He was looking at his feet, a sure sign that he was letting me know that he doesn't have a clue about it outside from the nicknames. I sighed as I started to explain.

"It's a dump." I said simply. "Just rotting away and waiting for it to collapse."

"Then why live there?"

"Where else do unwanted outsiders go?" I said, feeling slightly irritated that I leaked personal information. "It's definitely not a place to go around alone."

He was unusually quiet until he broke out into a wide grin. "Are we done now?!"

"Yeah…" I said, a little taken aback of the sudden change.

"Yay! Food!" He ran out of the room and bounced out into the hall. "C'mon Zoro! C'mon!"

"Would you wait a minute!"

"But I'm hungry!"

"Not my problem!'

He pouted. "Geez you're slow!"

"Shut up!" I said as I pushed the cart. "If you're so hungry, how about just go on ahead and I'll meet you there."

He continued to pout.

'Stubborn ass!' I thought as I put the cleaning cart away and headed to my room to change, all while Luffy was waiting for me with that pouting face.


I walked out with my usual black pants and boots and was wearing my new black shirt with a green dragon on it.

"So cool!" Luffy said, no doubt forgetting what he was pouting about.

"Come on." I said as I walked down one way.

"Zoro! The kitchen's this way!" He grabbed me by the arm and ran the other way.

"Oi! Slow down! You're going to make me trip!"

His response was his usual carefree laughter.


Good? Bad? Slow? R&R please.

Vivi: See you later!