A/N: HOLLLLLY HELLLL ANOTHER CHAPTER! XD Yea, I'm really sorry guys about the delay on the update, but exams have been a pain in the ass. But! A new semester just started and I'm going to have a little more free time, so expect more frequent updates :). Well yea... I just wrote this chapter in a couple of days, so don't be too mean :P


Nami was shocked.

"Is it not normal for me to have a sister?" Luffy tilted his head.

"No, I was just a little surprised to hear you have a sister. Someone related to you must be a monster." she gawked.

"Shishishi. Believe me, you have no idea." He grinned like a maniac.

"I have a sister too you know." She smiled.

"Aren't sisters the best? They are always looking out for you. And now we have something in common." Luffy smiled as he went out the door.

"I guess we do…" She returned the smile as she followed after Luffy.


-Out on Deck-

"Oi Usopp! What are you doing?" Luffy walked up to Usopp who was tinkering with the ship's cannon.

"I'm about to test the ship's cannon by shooting it over at those rocks." Usopp pointed to the outcrop of rocks that were about half a kilometre away from the ship.

"Here watch." Usopp lit up a match to fire the cannon.

At that same moment Luffy sensed that there were people at the outcrop of rocks and the cannon… just… fired… at them…

'Whatever, I'll just blame it on Usopp when they angrily come aboard.' Luffy shrugged and walked away into the kitchen, feeling hungry.


-In the Kitchen-

Luffy and Usopp were talking about positions as Usopp was trying to get the position of captain from Luffy but failing… miserably…

"Whatever, I'll let you have that position but if you screw up I'll replace you." said Usopp.

"That's fine… Anyways I've been thinking, to go to the grand line we would need one more position to fill… I was thinking along the lines of a cook." He explained.

"That's a pretty good idea; I'll do it if you pay me." Nami said as she was writing things down in her notebook.

"Alright! Our next crewmember is going to be a cook!" Luffy exclaimed.

The next thing the group heard was the sound of a barrel smashing and someone yelling profanities.

"Come out you filthy pirates!" The person exclaimed, by which the crew deemed to be a man as his voice was low.

Luffy walked outside and looked down at the person with a blank expression. The man had what looked to be a sabre in his hand and he didn't look like he was in a talking mood. Luckily, Luffy didn't give a damn and began interrogating the perpetrator.

"Who the hell are you and why did you smash our barrels?" he asked as he saw their water supply lying all over the deck.

"Shut up! It doesn't matter who I am!" with that, the man charged at Luffy, still pissed off.

Luffy was not amused as the intruder broke a guard railing.

Nami and Usopp were looking through the door window and were watching the whole exchange.

"There's only one...? I feel sorry for the guy" Nami inquired as she saw the man trying to attack Luffy but miserably failing.

"I've killed a countless number of pirates in my day, but you… a no name pirate dares to try and kill my partner?" The man was still throwing a bitch fit as Luffy was just side stepping all the attacks coming his way.

Luffy now knew that this man was probably one of the two people he sensed at that outcropping where Usopp fired the cannon. Not wanting to sell Usopp out, mainly because Usopp didn't know what the hell he did, Luffy just did the next best thing that came to his mind… play dumb.

"What are you talking about? I don't who you are… but stop damaging our ship!" Luffy yelled as he grabbed the man and threw him against the wall.

The man went face first into the wall and fell onto his back. Just at that moment Zoro walked out of the cabin and saw what all the commotion was about. However when he saw who was lying on the deck he was surprised.

"Oi, Johnny is that you?" he asked looking down at the man.

The man looked up to see Zoro standing on the balcony. He immediately flipped over to get a better look at him.

"Zo-Zoro-aniki!" he exclaimed.

"Why are you on a pirate ship aniki?"

"Wait… where's Yosaku? Isn't he with you?" Zoro asked.

Johnny began explaining what happened and rushed over to the side of the ship. Zoro followed after and gasped at what he saw. There, lying in a small boat was a man who seemed to be suffering from some sort of illness, he had pale blue skin and several of his teeth had fallen out.

"Y-Yosaku is... " Johnny began with tears running down his face.

All Zoro could do there was put a hand Johnny's shoulder and hope for the best.

-After they brought Yosaku on deck-

"He seems ill, what happened?" He asked.

"He was perfectly fine until a while ago... Then he grew pale and his teeth started falling out... I don't know what to do..." Johnny was on the verge of tears as he looked at his old friends weak form.

"His old wounds started to bleed and he lost some of his teeth, I didn't know what to do... so I took him to that rocky outcrop over there to let him rest, but... then your ship fired a cannonball at us... "

Usopp's jaw dropped about a foot. He definitely was not expecting anybody to be there, and now this was all his fault. He immediately put his feet together and bowed.

"I'm sorry!" he exclaimed as he had his head bowed.

"If all problems could be solved with a simple apology, we wouldn't need the police... Isn't that right?... Partner!" Johnny cried as more tears rolled down his cheeks.

"Aniki... is Yosaku going to die?" Johnny asked out of desperation. He wanted reassurance, any reassurance that would tell him that Yosaku wasn't going to die.

"Pfft... Relax, he isn't going to die." Nami said as she walked up to Yosaku to check on him.

"I agree with Nami, from the symptoms you've told me, it's mostly likely that your friend here has scurvy." Luffy explained as he was standing there the entire time.

"Huh Luffy? How'd you know?" Nami asked.

"My teacher taught me the basics of survival and the most common diseases that people encounter while at sea, and he taught me how to treat them." He explained.

"From all these stories you've been telling us about your teacher he seems like one hell of a guy." she said.

"Haha, you don't even know the half of it. Anyways, back to the scurvy issue, back in the day sailors couldn't carry around fresh fruit so many people had succumbed to the illness known as scurvy due to lack of vitamin C. However, now that it's possible to keep food fresh on ships, people are not falling ill to this disease anymore. Your friend here just needs some fruit and he's good to go... Oi Ussop, go into the storage, there should be some lemons there, bring some out and start squeezing the juice into Yosaku's mouth." Luffy, surprisingly had full control of the situation and knew how to handle it. After spending so much time with Shanks he learned very useful tips and tricks to surviving out on sea including basic first-aid.

Usopp ran into the cabin and returned with a bucket full of lemons and immediately began squeezing the juices into Yosaku's mouth.

"You sure seem to know your stuff when it comes to medical issues." Nami hypothesized.

"Nah, I just know the basics of survival, I'm nowhere near qualified to handle my own patients... this little experience just reminded me that we need a doctor don't we?" Luffy grinned.

"Baka, doctors are one of the more important parts of a crew... how could you forget to find one?" She scowled.

"Haha, it's okay, we'll find one when we find one." He grinned while rubbing the back of his head.

"Jeez, to think, being the captain and all you would be more responsible." She shook her head at him.

"Whatever, it's fine now." he turned to Johnny.

"It will probably take your friend here about 2 or 3 days to completely recover." As Luffy finished explaining the topic of their discussion rose up off the deck and stood up.

"Or it will take about 5 seconds... He's probably still not completely recovered though." Luffy said with a sweatdrop.

Johnny and Yosaku were now running around like madmen screaming their heads off in joy. They stopped there tomfoolery and turned towards the crew in a very professional stance.

"My name is Johnny..."

"And I'm Yosaku."

"And we're the bounty hunters..." they said in unison.

"Zoro-aniki used to be one of us... but to think the infamous pirate hunter has become a pirate himself."

"It's nice to see you guys again." Zoro held out his hand and Johnny grabbed it. Yosaku went to grab it as well but he then stumbled and fell on the ground knocked out cold.

"Yosaku!" Johnny screamed.

"Like I said before, it's going to take him 2 to 3 days to recover completely." Luffy sweatdropped. "Lets bring him inside an let him rest." Luffy picked him up and brought him into the cabin and set him down on the bed.


-Later that night-

"Let this be a lesson to all of us, this could happen at anytime during our journey." Nami explained while writing things down into a notebook.

"Yeah, things like this usually happen in long trips." Zoro agreed.

"But we can't just rely on luck alone... we need someone that is good at controlling diets." she said.

"Hmm... I guess that falls under the cooks role..." Luffy had a thoughtful look on his face. "Guess that means we need a sea cook."

"If you're looking for a sea cook, I know exactly where to find one." Johnny intervened.

"Oh and where would that be?" Luffy asked, fully interested.

"It's near the grand line, and the guy that aniki has been looking for, Hawk Eye Mihawk is also around those parts." He explained.

Luffy quirked and eyebrow when he heard Mihawk's name. Shanks had told him many stories of the encounters him and Mihawk had, like the daily duels they would get into or the drinking contests that they had regularly (Shanks somehow always won). There was even this one story that he was told, where Shanks and Mihawk went to a rib fest on an island and they woke up the next day, naked in the woods with nothing but rib-bone necklaces around their necks and sauce everywhere.

Luffy had to suppress a laugh as he remembered that last story, for a shchibukai... Mihawk is supposedly one hell of a guy when it comes to partying.

"It's direction is north north-east!" Johnny pointed to the direction. And with that, the crew prepared for the next part of their journey, to find a sea cook and get him/her to join their crew.


-Several hours later-

"I think I see it!" Usopp shouted from the crows nest.

"There it is!... The floating restaurant... Baratie!" Johnny shouted.

Everyone gasped as they saw the classy ship that was floating just a few hundred meters away.

"Whadda ya think guys? Pretty cool huh?"

Inside the cabin, Yosaku had woken up and he ventured out onto the deck to see what the commotion was about. Turns out that they had just reached a high-class restaurant and they were planning to stay. By now he had fully recovered, so why not go out and have some grub? He began drooling at the thought of all that delicious food just waiting for him.

Just then, a marine ship sounded its bells and was sailing alongside the going merry.

"I smell trouble..." Zoro inquired.

"You don't say, Zoro..." Luffy joked.

Johnny was quietly inching away as soon as he saw the marine ship and was finding his way to the cabin where Yosaku was.

A silhouette appeared onto the deck of the marine ship.

"Hmm... I've never seen your pirate mark before... I'm the marine Lieutenant, Iron Fist Fullbody!" The man exclaimed, crashing his fist down onto the railing. "Who is your captain? Show yourself!" He yelled to the group of misfits infront of him.

"I'm right here, so what do you want?" Luffy said while stepping forward.

"You guys seem like a pack of morons to me..." he said and noticed two figures hiding behind the cabin door. "Although... I have seen those two before. You claim to be pirate hunters don't you?" He taunted the two pirate hunters.

"N-Nani?" They both exclaimed and came out from hiding.

"It looks like you finally caught yourselves some pirates." He taunted some more.

"We are..." Johnny began and reached into his coat pocket. "I'll show you just what is we pirate hunters do!" He threw a handful of what looked to be wanted posters all over the deck. He was trying to prove to the Lieutenant that they were the real deal and were not just some lame joke.

One of the posters had caught Nami's attention and she bent down to pick it up.

"What's all this?" Nami asked as she picked up the poster.

"These are all people with bounties on their heads, Nami Ane-san." Johnny noticed that she was holding a certain wanted poster and began sweating a little.

"It means that if we get 'em, we'd get the money offered on their wanted poster." he explained some more.

"Isn't it great business Ane-san?" Yosaku joined their conversation as well.

Johnny quickly shut him up as he saw that Nami was clearly upset. His theory was proven as Nami quickly scrunched up the poster and walked away.

Luffy was observing everything and saw what happened, he knew Nami saw Arlong's wanted poster. However, now was not the time to talk to her about it, having everyone around here listening would just make her mad and not help at all, he knew that. So, he decided that he'd talk to her when they were alone to give her privacy.

By now, Fullbody was walking off the deck, with a beautiful woman. He turned to a marine. "This ship is an eye sore... sink it." The marine saluted and followed out the command.

As the cannonball was being prepared to fire Luffy jumped onto the railing to where the trajectory point was, or where he thought it would be.

The cannonball fired and a ball of steel came hurtling towards the going Merry. Luffy, having honed reflexes, turned his arm into water and let the cannonball phase into his arm. He turned his other arm towards a random direction and redirected the cannonball through his body and out that arm. However, the random direction he redirected the cannonball to happened to be the Baratie... 'Shit! I'm stupid...'


-Inside the restaurant-

"Head Chef Zeff! Are you okay!?" a cook asked to a man that was lying down in a smoldering heap.

"I'm okay..." He said while getting up and dusting himself off. "Get back to work this instant!" He grabbed his extremely large chef hat and placed it back on his head.

"But... Chef..."

"YOU! Don't make me lose my temper!" Blood began staining the base of his hat where his head was. "Our only duty is to cook for our guests...! Are you trying to ruin our restaurant?" he readjusted his extremely large mustache (the thing was like 2 meters wide).


-Later-

Luffy was being dragged by two chefs into the room where the cannonball hit and where the head chef was.

"We've got him, Chef!"

They threw him inside and left so the head chef could decide on what to do.

Luffy immediately bowed his head and said sorry. However he then noticed that the person he was bowing to had a peg leg.

"AH! Your leg!" He cried. He still had some things to work on... Like staying calm after being caught...

"Idiot!" The chef yelled as he slammed his good foot into Luffy's face.

"This didn't happen to me just now..." He explained as Luffy calmed down.

"What? Oh... so it wasn't me?"

"HOWEVER! I'm still injured... medical and repair bills are going to be expensive." He exclaimed with a sigh as he leaned back onto his bed.

"I'm not going to bargain with you on that..." Luffy replied.

The chef quirked an eyebrow in interest.

"But... I have no money!" he said truthfully.

"Heh... that's truly unfortunate... But... since you have no money, you'll have to work it off then." The chef said with a devious smirk.

"Oh sure, I can do that!"

"You'll have to work here for one year."

"O-one year...?"


-On the Merry-

"Luffy sure is taking a long time..." Usopp inquired.

"Yeah..." Nami agreed.

"If he'd just change his personality, this sort of thing would never happen... He's too honest for his own good." She sighed.

-Inside the restaurant-

What appeared to be a waiter was walking towards a table with a wine glass. He stopped by a table which hosted the marine lieutenant that the Strawhats encountered earlier and the beautiful woman he walked off with. The waiter began pouring some wine into each glass.

"Look. Isn't that guy over there lieutenant Fullbody?" One of the diners said.

"Wow, you're pretty amazing, everyone is looking at you." The woman inquired.

"Nonsense... they're just admiring your admiring." He replied smoothly. "A toast... to your beauty." He held out his glass with which the woman replied by clinking glasses and taking a sip from their glasses.

"Hey waiter! This taste..." He smelled the wine. "This fragrance... It's the fragrance of Mitqueo City, in the north. A bit sour, and a bit spicy. Wurzburger Stein! Right, waiter?" He exclaimed. By now the entire was listening with interested ears.

The 'waiter' took off the cloth from the wine bottle. "Sorry, but it's not... Sir." He took a spoon and placed it in the lieutenants hand. "Your soup's getting cold. Please enjoy it while it's still hot." He said as he walked away.

"By the way, I'm the assistant head chef, Sanji, not a waiter." He turned his head to talk to them as he walked away. "All the waiters ran away after what happened yesterday."

The woman began giggling as Sanji finally disappeared. Fullbody lowered his head in embarrassment. The entire restaurant had to try and keep in their laughter for fear of Fullybody going into butt mad mode. Truth be told, Fullybody was very butt hurt and he wanted revenge.

"Discouraged?" The woman asked to Fullybody. "Cuz' of the wine?"

"A little..." He still had his head down. "My tongue's a bit numb today..." He tried to cover up his embarrassing act. The woman only continued to giggle further.

-Upstairs in the staff quarters-

"One week, please!" Luffy held out a finger.

"Heh, what did you say?" the chef continued to smirk more.

"Two weeks!" Luffy now held out two fingers.

"Hey! You ruined the restaurant, and injured the head chef!" The chef leaned forward to use his extremely tall chef's hat to bonk Luffy on the head. "Do you think you can make up for that in just two weeks?"

"Then it's decided! Three weeks!"

"No way!" He began spinning and kicked Luffy. Of course, Luffy was caught off guard and wasn't ready for the oncoming attack so he crashed into the wall.

Luffy got up from the rubble and began dusting off his hat. "I've waited and trained for 10 whole years to become a pirate... There's no way I'm staying here for one year! Then it's final... I'll work one week here. That's my final decision."

"Oh... you're that much in a hurry to become a pirate eh?" He began walking towards Luffy. "Well then, how 'bout this. Instead of one year, you give me one of your legs." He held out a hacksaw as it glistened in the sunlight.

'Time to screw with this guy' Luffy thought.

"Alright, that's pretty easy." Luffy took the saw from his hands and chopped his leg off.

"Good Oda, boy! I was just joking, what have you done!" He backed away while looking in shock.

"Hahaha, so was I!" Luffy turned his chopped off leg into water and it formed back onto his body.

"Ho... So you ate a devil's fruit. Huh? Which one?" He asked on with interest plastered on his face.

"The Mizu-Mizu no Mi, I'm a water man" Luffy turned his hand into water to demonstrate.

"That is a pretty powerful devil fruit you have there boy. How in the world did you find one of the Logias in the East Blue of all places?"

"From my old buddy Shanks of course, shishishi." he grinned sheepishly.

"Now my question is how the hell do you know Red-Haired Shanks?" Zeff was really surprised, a kid with a Logia ability randomly appears in the East Blue of all places and now he has relations with a Yonkou, what is to come of this era?

"Shanks ported in my home town for a year and I got to know him better. He found on an Akuma no Mi on one of his voyages and I accidentally ate it. Shishishi." he took of his hat and began staring at it thoughtfully. "Then, before he was about to leave, he intrusted me with his hat, his treasure, and we made a promise... That I would return his hat to him when I become a great pirate, and this hat has been my treasure ever since." He left the part out about Shanks training him because that information was best left unrevealed to people other than his nakama.

"That is some story there kid, but it doesn't matter, you're still working for one year to pay this all of" He screamed and attempted to kick Luffy again, but this time Luffy as prepared and his kick just phased right through him.

"ShiShi, not this time Ossan" Luffy stuck his tongue out.

"Heh, why are you so hellbent on only working for one week?"

"I already told you... and besides, The damage that I'm going to cause is going to make you want to throw me out maybe even before 1 week." He grinned devilishly.

"Ha, whatever, we'll see what happens... now go downstairs and get to work, we'll see if your threat holds true." he pointed towards the stairs.

"You... are... on, Ossan" Luffy stormed downstairs ready to tear... shit... up...


A/N: Well there you have it :) And I think I'm going to be working on a mini story, introducing Luffy's sister and whatnot. It's going to be set later into the story, so there could be spoilers :P. Also! I plan on working on the Shaboady, Impel Down and Marine ford Arcs of this story right after the mini story is completed. The plots for those have been stuck on my mind for ageeeessss and I just have to get them done. So, if I don't update this story very often, just remember that it hasn't been forgotten and probably never will, I'm just trying to get these thoughts out of my head and onto text. Well, Anyways! Hope you guys enjoyed this update and feel free to review to let me know what you thought :) or leave some criticism :P

P.S. - The whole Mihawk and the rib fest thing is actually a funny story. Since I'm a vegetarian in real life, my friends are always like, on your eighteenth birthday Viraj, you are going to try some meat for once in your life. And one of my friends great idea was to take me to a rib fest, only for me to wake up 24 hours later in the woods naked with nothing but a rib bone necklace around my neck and packets of barbeque sauce everywhere. It was probably one of the funniest things I've heard in a while XD.