SWEET TRAP
By: MrPrinceLoveCook / proudOtaku
CHAPTER TEN. Hopeless Woman
A hopeless person finds difficulty in every chance, and a hopeful person finds a chance in every difficulty!
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
ONE WEEK LATER
It had been a week since the incident had occurred concerning about the destruction of the world's most conqueror restaurant the All Blue restaurant.
The incident easily spread all around the world.
It also became the undying trending news all over the world.
Most people felt so sad and awful on what just happened to All Blue restaurant, especially those diehard customers who loved to visit just to eat and hang out.
Some did not actually felt anything. They just heard the news then they did not even say anything at all.
Some did not really tend to care, obviously, they were those people who could not afford to visit the restaurant.
All Blue restaurant was the world's most conqueror and the most visited restaurant all over the world, but in just a short period of time it was nearly erased to this big world.
Up until now the workers of the All Blue restaurant and some people that added to Sanji's rampant were still confined and unconscious in the hospital. They were still in the process of surgery and recovery from too much damage, full of bruises, scars, broken bones, injuries and wounds. Physically and emotionally.
Worst from worst, they always mumbled that they were kept being haunted by Sanji, especially his overwhelming rage in a form of trauma and nightmares. Until, they promptly crossed and promised that after their recoveries they would definitely leave the island and would never ever think to go back again.
The Mugiwara crew tried to convince Sanji to start repairing his restaurant but he kept on insisting that he must need to burn it down and erase it without even thinking to remain even a tiny bit of trace because it caused a lot of painful memories to his Nami-san. But his nakama never stopped from convinving him again and again after so many refusals because they all knew that the All Blue restaurant was a part of his life, his companion in time of smoothness and hardness, and his own dream. They also knew how much he watched, cared and protected it with all his life, and how much he had spent his life just to make it and just to introduce it to all over the globe.
The All Blue Restaurant was his getaway from the pain of heartbroken he had felt and experienced.
The All blue Restaurant shaped him as he was now, as one of the Youngest Billionaire at all time.
The All Blue Restaurant was his own path to get what he wanted in life.
The All Blue Restaurant was his friend, his other half and his inspiration.
The Mugiwara crew had already done anything and everything just to persuade him and even begged until they had finally gotten his constrained 'yes' and then he decided to repair it, as soon as possible, with the help of the famous Galley La Company, leading by one of his nakama Cyborg Franky and his brother Iceberg.
Actually, the Mugiwara crew was not the exact reason of his yes and it was not also because he needed money when he was still a billionaire, having so many money. But it was because of Nami, who kept persuading him to repair it every single second of his life. As a matter of fact, she even challenged him while pointing a sharp knife on her throat, saying. "Sanji-kun, if you don't try to repair the All Blue Restaurant, I am going to commit suicide, now!" Of course, due to the fear of losing her again, and having no choice at all he just repaired it.
The Galley La Company with the astounding joined force of the two most popular shipwrights Franky and Iceberg, they finally had done repairing the All Blue restaurant in just a three days. Yes, it was only three days, all day and all night without sleep and break.
Now, the world's most conqueror restaurant of All Blue was alive again. It was back to its normal shape, way to attractive, huge and big, and way too beautiful, more beautiful than before. But it was still close, and it was a very disappointment news to the overexcited customers.
Why closed?
Well, the former workers of the All Blue Restaurant were still in the hospital so obviously there was no workers who could get the works of cooks, waiters and etcetera.
How could Sanji possibly manage this big and famous restaurant if he had no workers?
Well, not to worry because he had still many applicants, still waiting for his approval.
HEY!
What about our navigator and our lovecook relationship?
You know. It had been a week, and in fact Nami was the only reason Sanji had done those terrible things by nearly killing his workers and nearly destroying his precious restaurant.
Well frankly speaking, it never been changed at all. Because still, Sanji kept pushing Nami away from his life and from this island, driving her away just to go back from her village. But Nami, as her way of being a stubborn, who never ever obeyed or even listened to him, she just absolutely ignored him.
Physically, their relationship was never really changed, still nakama, but emotionally and mentally deep within their hearts, souls and minds, it was absolutely changed.
Their hearts kept longing for each other, crying for their names, wanting to be reunited.
Their souls that kept meeting in their dreams, wanting to be touch each other not just in a dream but in reality.
Their minds might try to prevent their hearts and souls from loving each other for too much but it always thought the best possibility to think how lucky they were for having each other near beside them. As a matter of fact, his goddess beautiful face and her Sanji-kun face always bombarded each other mind. It was just like it was a part of their lives that hard to change, their own way of life.
Our navigator giving up mood was completely turned into a biggest hope mood because her hope that was already became hopeless had turned into hopeful again, it was even expanding. She became hopeful again when she saw and felt how much he really cared for her at the moment of his uproar at the All Blue Restaurant, a week ago.
Now, she was not planning to leave this island or giving up on Sanji that easily. She would continue her ultimate plan, now that Sanji was so close to her because they were living again in the same house and same roof.
She would stay until he would fall to her SWEET TRAP.
Our lovecook tried all his capability and might to keep avoiding the topic of what just happened to him a week ago, about what he did to his restaurant and to his workers, if his nakama, someone or even the mass media attacked him by attempting to ask him about it.
Seeing and knowing Nami was safe, that she was now near him, in his place, was the most important things for him.
In addition, it might be so disappointed but honestly, he had no plan of breaking the friend zone between him and his goddess.
FRIEND ZONE?
The word FRIEND ZONE, where one person was interested in romance while the other wanted to just be friend.
Obviously, Nami was interested in romance. Fact from fact, capturing someone using SWEET TRAP was not just to stay as a friend but to get to know each other even more, sharing a lot of sweet memories together until they would end up in a romantic relationship. So, it absolutely meant ROMANCE.
Another fact was, it sounded a bit too smug and selfish. But to be the first lady of the entire All Blue, both the island and the sea was our navigator main goal in life. It only meant, she wanted to be the wife of the founder of All Blue, to be Sanji's wife. So, it absolutely ROMANCE.
So far, the only problem she was facing was that she was too freaking coward, as in a scaredy cat, to confess her feelings to Sanji. In point of fact, she thought that Sanji did not have enough courage to move things forward, or worst, he might do not feel anything for her.
Gaaaaaaaaah! She hated to think about that! Over her dead body.
But as usual, she did not bother to care on what he felt for her because no matter what she would definitely find out, affliction or happiness, she would absolutely do what she wanted.
'Action speaks louder.' She thought.
Sanji, in the other hand, was not really into friend. Like hell, he would keep treating Nami as his friend when every single night he was dreaming of her, longing for her in a way of sexual arousal, and spending his whole night caressing his erection while imagining her perfection just to expel out his lustful desire.
Besides, he was not really against from breaking the friend zone between his goddess. But he chose to stay as her friend just for a while and that FOR A WHILE might be stayed a little bit longer, as long as he could take it.
But dang, he was in great need to be with her. He desired her oh so badly, lust after her, and wanting her in return.
Actually, he was still really hoping that tomorrow, the other day, the another day, and some of this day his goddess would magically fall madly in love with him, that she would be the one who would confess to him, and damn of course he would definitely and immediately accept her in response. Fuck! How could he possibly refuse her when she was his goddess, and now his own world. Then, they would be automatically out from the so-called FRIEND ZONE. If that day would come he would absolutely be first and the last happiest man alive in this world.
But, it was just his hope… a mere hope, further away from this painful reality.
A voice from his head told him, 'Oi wake up dude, that's not going to happen, it just a big miracle if your Nami-san will fall in love with you, a dumbest man…? Will you please remember that a goddess like her is a flower and you are the bee. Don't expect the flower to walk right up to your hive.'
He really wanted to cross the line or even break that friend zone but if he would do it there was a big possibility that he would lose her altogether if things did not really go as he planned, and he was so damn scared to lose her.
Plus, by destroying the friend zone, things could absolutely change, they would never ever go back to the way they treated each other, specifically they could not be friends ever again.
Well, It would be so awkward for them, and he might lose her.
Damn, no! He could not bear to think that he would lose her again.
He loved her, no word could best fit to describe how much he loved her and needed her.
When his goddess hugged him when he was rampaging, she just suddenly changed everything in him, his ambition, goal, mission, vision and way of life. That hug, just only one slight hug it meant everything to him.
Just Everything, because the word everything became her.
It also completely cured every pain he had and faded every painful memories he had.
Dang, he really missed that simple hug, though it was just his goddess way of stopping him, but still, he missed it, wishing that it would last long or even forever.
'But if Nami-san likes me then why does she want to be just friends?' Sanji thought. He admitted in a billion percent that starting a new friendship was not his intention when he first approached her.
In LIVING ROOM, where our Mugiwara crew located, they were composed of Luffy, Brook, Usopp and Nami.
Laughter rang around the place. Lot of lot of snacks and empty bottles spread around the place. Cards everywhere.
"Oi Usopp don't cheat!" Nami cried, slapping Usopp's head.
"I didn't cheat, you are the one who cheated!" Usopp argued.
"I didn't… it's you!" Nami fired back.
"No! You!" Usopp cried.
"Nami-san and Usopp-san, enough please!" Brook stopped.
"Shishishishishi, I won! I won!" Luffy cried.
Suddenly out of the commotion, Chopper went down from the long grand stairway.
"Minna, Sanji wants to talk with us." Chopper said, getting everyone attention.
"About what?" Tontara hero Usoland, Usopp asked. He was currently atop of Luffy, just to get his card.
"Don't know… he just commanded me to call you." Chopper replied. He kept lowering his head just to hide his blushing cute tiny face.
"You sure Chopper that you don't know?" Usopp asked. He raised one of his eyebrows to indicate he was not really that convince.
"You know, you are blushing, Chopper-san. It means you are lying? Yohohoho." Brook laughed.
"Shishishi, well you are not so good at lying Chopper." Luffy pointed out.
"Yeah, you are too cute when you are lying." Nami said.
"Usopp is the master of liars! He mastered how to lie." Luffy said.
"Oi oi oi." Usopp said.
"YEAH YEAH YEAH. I AM LYING!" Chopper fumed.
"Oi oi oi, you are too hot Chopper, just chill ma." Usopp said.
"Yohohoho, don't be angry Chopper-san." Brook added.
"Your face become even more red." Luffy added.
"So, what is the reason Sanji-kun call us?" Nami asked.
"He said that I should not tell you because I am just ruining his plan. So you should ask him." Chopper explained.
"Then, we should get going if that the case." Nami said.
"Well yeah, let's go." Usopp added.
"I am too curious." Brook added.
"Yosh, let's find it!" Luffy cheered.
TOK
TOK
TOK
TOK TOK TOK! TOK TOK TOK! TOK TOK TOK!
It was a continuous knocked on Sanji's office door. His office was one of his offices inside his big place. It was located in the second floor and across his room, the master bedroom.
"What?" Sanji said. He was currently reading some of the applicant papers for his restaurant and there was also so many mountain of papers scattered above his table, when he lifted his gaze to look at the door.
Chopper poked his head on the door, it was enough to be seen by Sanji. "We are here."
"Why don't you just get in." Sanji offered, quickly shifted his entire attention back to the applicant papers.
"Let's get inside." Chopper called out. He pushed open the door to get inside and his nakama tardily followed him.
"Good morning Sanji-san." Brook greeted.
"Hola amigo, what the fuss?" Usopp greeted.
"Saaaaaaanji! I am too hungry!" Luffy wailed.
Nami just went inside. She did not really say anything, totally shutting her mouth.
"Please make yourself comfortable." Sanji just said. His eyes still on the papers as he extended his hand to point out the couch.
"Oi oi, no need to act so formal." Usopp said, finding his way to seat on the couch.
"Then just stand up, you tight hole!" Sanji snapped, lifting his head a little just to give Usopp his hateful glare.
"I am just kidding, you big hole!" Usopp huffed.
"Yohohoho, tight hole and big hole? I am too curious about those two holes?" Brook laughed. He followed Usopp and sat on the couch along with Nami.
"It's your ass, shitty asshole!" Sanji snorted.
"Saaaanjiii, please help me… I am too hungry, let's eat first!" Luffy cried. He immediately stood in front of Sanji and banged his table so hard and rapidly, making the mountain of applicant papers scattered on the ground.
Sanji raised his left foot and placed it above Luffy's head. "Shut up!"
"But I am toooo huuuuuuuungry!" Luffy wailed.
"Start picking those shitty papers, right now!" Sanji ordered.
"Yada! I am hungry! Meaaaaaaaaaat!" Luffy wailed.
"You want to pick them or I'll cook your balls. Just pick?" Sanji warned.
"Balls are not good. Meat is good!" Luffy said.
"I'll pick them for you Sanji." Chopper volunteered. He started picking the papers.
"You are a good kid, Chopper-san." Brook praised.
"Good kid. Good kid." Usopp added.
"Stupid! I am not a kid!" Chopper chided. But he was blushing too much because they appreciated him.
"Oh by the way Sanji-san, why did you call us?" Brook asked.
"Well…" Sanji uttered in mild sentence, spinning his chair to face the windows. "I need your help."
HUH?
H
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Chopper kept picking the papers on the ground and the rest of his nakama just ended up looking at each other, exchanging their thoughts with the use of their eyes.
This was the first step in years that Sanji actually asked for help, and it shocked the hell out of his nakama.
"Wha… what?" Usopp asked, putting his index finger to his right ear just to clean his hearing, if he did hear him right. "Am I hearing you right? You need our help?"
"You know Sanji-san, it is the first time you ask for our help and it really makes me cry though I don't have my eyes to produce tears. Skull joke, yohohohohoho." Brook said.
'Help? What kind of help, Sanji-kun? I want to know! I want to help you!' Nami asked. She just asked it inside her head but not on her mouth.
"Help me too because I am too hungry!" Luffy cried out.
"Yes, you fucking heard me right. I need your help." Sanji repeated.
"Woooaah, what kind of help, Sanji-dono? Well, a mighty god like me can't really ignore a pitiful commoner just like you." Usopp bragged.
"It's my ultimate pleasure to help you, Sanji-san." Brook said politely.
"I will help you but help me too! I am hungry!" Luffy woed.
"It may be too risky but I don't have a choice." Sanji said, then he turned his chair to face them. "I need your help for the All Blue restaurant."
HUH?
WHAAAT?
ALL BLUE RESTAURANT?
"The All Blue restaurant? Us?" Usopp asked, with a chorus nod by Brook and Nami.
"Well yes, you have to help me for the All Blue Restaurant." Sanji just said.
"Woaaaah I want to help! I want to help!" Luffy jumped.
"But you see Sanji-san, we don't really know anything about stuffs concerning about restaurant." Brook said.
"Except eating, well of course." Usopp added.
"You will help me to manage the All Blue Restaurant just for a while, until those shitty poops arrive." Sanji said, crossing his arms above his chest.
"Shitty poops, who are they?" Usopp asked.
"We are still lucky because the All Blue Restaurant is still closed but there are still so many customers all over the world who are keep on waiting for its grand opening. As a matter of fact, many of them have arrived just to pay a visit and I don't really feel like keeping them wait for that long." Sanji explained.
"So? Your plan is?" Usopp asked.
"We need to look for a good and suitable workers to entirely replace all of my former workers. In fact, there are so many applicants suitable for those vacant jobs but we still need to create a tests and interview sessions to know them better. We all know that the All Blue Restaurant is not just a restaurant because it is the world's most conqueror restaurant. As much as possible, we need to select those capable enough." Sanji stated.
"But, how can we help you?" Usopp asked again.
Nami suddenly felt a sting of pain right on her heart. It was the pain of guilt because she believed that it was all her fault why it turned exactly like this, on why Sanji needed to start over again.
"Sanji-kun… I am sorry…" Nami said. She looked so awful and miserable, as the guilt kept swallowing her.
"You don't need to apology because you didn't do anything wrong. It is not your fault, it is my own fault." Sanji replied so damn quick, not really looking at her.
"But…" Nami said. She was about to say but Sanji immediately interrupted her.
"Back to our conversation, to tell you the truth, I am not really yet planning to reopen the All Blue Restaurant without those shitty poops behind me. But as we try to keep waiting for their arrival, we need to move forward and look for the best and suitable applicants."
'What's wrong with you, you pervert cook! You know, I am being more friendly here, but all you did is to keep on ignoring me!' Nami thought. Obliviously, she kept chewing her lower lip, while she was really in a verge of tears.
Physically, Sanji looked like he was totally ignoring her but the truth he was always watching her in the corner of his eyes. As a matter of fact, his entire attention immediately fixed only to her when she had arrived inside his office.
'My Nami-swaaaaaan! Please you don't need to apology because the blame only serves me and I don't feel like I regret of what I did, when I am too proud to do it just for you because I am your slave… your slave in love~.' Sanji awed.
"But Saaaanjii! I am a doctor, my job is not in the restaurant but in the hospital, to serve and heal our patients. They need me more!" Chopper complained.
"Yeah, I also reject because I am a god and it will just ruin my great image. I believe that you understand what I mean, so please pardon me Sanji." Usopp said. He felt so damn proud of himself.
"Sanji-san, don't worry, you can still count on me. Because it is totally okay for me. I will just ask our female customers to see their panties, though I don't really have my eyes but I still have my sight to see it, yohohohohoho." Brook guaranteed.
"YOSH, I AM IN!" Luffy cried.
"Shut your asses, who told you to complain?" Sanji spited, locking his ferocious glare to each and everyone of his nakama to Chopper, Usopp, Brook and Luffy, well except Nami.
"But Sanji…" Chopper tried to talk but he was absolutely cut off by Sanji.
"I AM ONLY ASKING FOR A WHILE NOT FOREVER!" Sanji rankled.
SILENCE
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SILENCE
EVERYONE SHUT THEIR MOUTHS.
"Well… yes, you are right Sanji, it is for a while not forever." Usopp alarmed.
"Gwaaaaaaah, so scary!" Chopper wept, quickly hid behind Usopp.
"Right, right." Brook just said.
"Brook, Usopp and Chopper, the three of you, will going to help me in choosing the suitable workers of the All Blue restaurant. Of course, with the help of some tests and interview sessions. Did you get it?" Sanji stated. He dragged his cigarette hard and long just to reduce his anger.
Chopper, Brook and Usopp just nodded. They were scared to speak again and so much frightened by Sanji's rage.
"Oi Sanji, what about me?" Luffy asked excitedly. He kept banging Sanji's table repeatedly for too much excitement.
"Luffy, you will stay here in my house and don't ever think to leave this place, until I say so." Sanji warned, moving his gaze to look at Luffy.
"But I want to help too!" Luffy growled. "Meeeeeeeaaaat!"
"You are absolutely helping me if you just stay here." Sanji said.
"EEEEEEEEEEH!" Luffy, Brook, Chopper, and Usopp cried in unison, kept complaining incessantly.
"IF YOU WANT TO COMPLAIN THEN YOU BETTER MOVE YOUR ASSES AWAY FROM THIS PLACE!" Sanji fumed.
SILENCE
LONG SILENCE
"Oi Sanji, you are too damn hot, please calm yourself a little… you know, we are just kidding because I really think that it will be so much fun interviewing the applicants. Right guys?" Usopp said, trying to smile though it was so obvious that he was just faking.
"Yeah, yeah!" Chopper nodded quickly. He was still hiding behind Usopp and still gripping the papers he had picked.
"I also think that talking to your applicants is fun too, I just hope that they are wearing a panties too." Brook mentioned.
"What about Nami?" Luffy asked out of the blue due to his curiosity.
Then just like thunder up in the sky, their eyes immediately placed right directly to her. Yes, it was miracle that Luffy asked it and they were actually curious about her job too. They just kept staring at her.
Nami, on the other hand, was to curious too but just opted to close her mouth and being so silent in the beginning.
"Well yeah, I am curious too." Usopp said.
"I want to know! I want to know!" Luffy wailed.
"Is Nami-san still a waitress?" Brook asked.
Chopper averting his eyes right away, kept tempting to look away from Nami because he knew it.
"Nami, follow me." Sanji ordered. He stood from his chair so sudden and then started walking outside his office. His nakama followed him out of curiosity.
He walked down on a long stairway and his nakama done the same, they would never hesitate to keep following him, then they continued marching to the direction where the kitchen located. When they arrived near the kitchen, Sanji finally came to a stop.
"Oh we stop!" Usopp said.
"Sanji, are we going to eat?" Luffy asked, looking so hungrily to the kitchen near beside them.
"Well, I am too curious why Sanji-san suddenly wants Nami-san to follow him but we just end up standing near beside the kitchen." Brook pointed out.
Actually, they were currently standing right in front of a big door, but the idiot trio of Brook, Luffy and Usopp were not really that aware because their entire attention focused on the kitchen not on the door.
Sanji slid his hand inside his pocket to get a key, then right away he placed the key to the lock of that certain door and clicked to unlock it.
"You mean here, not in the kitchen?" Usopp asked, looking at the big door too.
"I really thought that it is in the kitchen, yohohohoho." Brook said.
"Eeeeeeeh, I want to eat first!" Luffy complained.
Sanji placed his hand on the doorknob of that certain door, then he pushed it open. His nakama poked their heads straightway above his shoulders just to look too.
"Oi, this is the room of your former housemaids." Usopp said.
"I have suddenly remembered my happiest day when I tried to peep at them, peeking at their panties. What a good memories!" Brook awed. He just ended up imagining his past memories together with the maids.
"Oi wake up you idiot!" Usopp snapped, abruptly slapping Brook on his skull head. "So Sanji, why are we here?"
"Starting today, this will be your new room, Nami." Sanji said. His expression was purely plain, not showing anything.
HUH?
WHAT?
NEW ROOM?
FOR WHOM?
FOR NAMI?
EYES WIDENED.
MOUTHS EXPANDED.
JAWS DROPPED DOWN LONG.
"WHAT?" Luffy, Usopp, Brook and Nami cried concurrently.
"There is no what because Nami you will serve as our housemaid. So you better get it." Sanji said, moving his eyes away from our very astonishing navigator. He could not really look at her right on her beautiful eyes.
"Sanji-san, are you kidding?" Brook asked, so surprised just like the rest of his nakama.
"Nope. Not kiddiing at all." Sanji just uttered. His eyes glued on his cigarette while clicking his lighter on.
"Are you out of your mind?" Ussop snorted.
"Not really." Sanji replied.
"Sanji, Nami is our nakama, our family not just your maid!" Luffy huffed, trying to defend his navigator's right against from his former cook.
"RIGHT!" Chopper cheered.
"That's the spirit captain, fight him!" Usopp cheered.
"Luffy-san, go!" Brook cheered.
"I am not allowing Nami to be your maid. I REJECT!" Luffy added.
Sanji suddenly leaped so high, placing his foot right directly to his nakama's faces, each and everyone of them. Except Nami.
"Whaaaaaaaaah!" Luffy, Chopper, Brook and Usopp groaned in shock, pain and disgust, definitely hating the way Sanji's foot landed on their faces.
"What was that, you stupid cook!" Usopp spited.
"Whaaaaaaaaah!" Chopper just cried.
"You are so harsh Sanji-san." Brook said.
"You are so mean! Baka Sanji!" Luffy wailed.
"Oi shut your shitty mouths! You are all acting so damn sissy! What's wrong with being a housemaid? It is still a job, a very decent job. Do you forget that she is an unemployed and still looking for a job, so I am just giving her." Sanji incensed.
"But she is our Nami, our nakama!" Luffy replied.
"I shitty know it! But keep on staying as an unemployed is not really a good habit, it is a freaking bad one because she is starting to become lazy and burden. Do you guys want her to remain as a burden? How about you Nami? Do you still want to be a burden?" Sanji expounded, reposting his plain gaze so slowly to look at Nami.
Nami tried really so hard to act calm, so calm, but her facial expression absolutely failed to do it because it instantly contorted in all consuming anger. Her nostrils flared. Her eyes flashed, closing into slits. Her mouth quivered for too much anger. Her hands quickly closed into fists. She even slurred words that unintelligible came spewing into space like a volcano releasing its pent up emotions into the darkness.
She then crouched forward, toward the frightening Sanji, daring him to repeat once more words that had torn her hope and destroyed all her happy-ever-after expectations into fragments.
Everyone, most particularly Sanji, immediately noticed her changing behavior then they quickly flew away from her, scattering all over the place just to not be killed by her.
'Woooah Nami is in totally rage! Better to stay away from her.' Usopp thought.
'Scary! I need to get away from her!' Chopper thought.
'Yohohoho so hot so hot! Nami-san is on fire!' Brook thought.
'Monster Nami!' Luffy thought.
GULP.
GULP.
GULP
GUUUUUULPIIIIIIIIING
Sanji just gulped. All he did was to gulp really hard, swallowing every liquid on his throat, while watching his goddess continued walking toward him.
"Just… just be grateful because… because I am giving you a job!" Sanji shuttered. A group of sweats started falling from his forehead.
"Is that you called a job? A job just for me, your nakama, who had guided you to the path of your dream?" Nami enraged.
"But… but it is a decent job… just like… just like you know a manager, who manages a certain place… a place like this house." Sanji clarified, his sweat never really stopped from emerging all over his body.
"Are you making fun of me?" Nami chided. She raised one of her eyebrows in accordance with her annoyance.
"No. I am dead serious." Sanji sweated.
"I am too eager to look for a decent job. A job that is really suited for me. A job that I can proudly tell to anyone. A job that I will be more helpful. A job that I can use my knowledge, my cartography skills. Not a stupid job that you can easily order me around like a waitress, a maid, and a stupid slave!" Nami fumed, She was now standing right in front of Sanji. Her face and his face were really so closed, inches apart.
GULP.
GULP.
GULP.
ANOTHER GULP AGAIN.
"You are not a slave…" Sanji said. He was about to explain himself but Nami immediately interrupted him.
"Yeah, I am not a slave but your own slave." Nami interrupted.
"You are not my slave… you are my dearest nakama…"
"If I am really that dearest then why are you giving me a stupid job!"
"Maid is not a stupid job. It is a decent job. You can also use your skills, and your knowledge…" Sanji said, but he could not actually say his next words because he was intimidated by how closed they were. He could even smell her fresh smell, her hair, her perfume and her dainty breath.
Dang, how he wished to be drown by her freshness, her perfectness.
"IT IS NOT!" Nami cried.
"It is…" Sanji argued. He kept stepping backward because his goddess kept moving forward, definitely closing their distance.
"No way like I will approve your stupid decision! I want you to remember that I am still your nakama not your slave!" Nami raged. She was streaming incessantly like a big volcano readily to blast.
'Of course my goddess, I shitty know it but I am doing this because of you, for your own sake against from a bastard like me.' Sanji woed, kept grieving within him. But his mouth suddenly said. "You should feel more grateful because I am giving you a new job and your job is only a maid not a slave, not our slave, not my slave, and not anyone slave!"
"MAID IS NO DIFFERENT FROM A SLAVE!" Nami cried, right straight on Sanji's face. She was really in a great anger.
Sanji did not actually feel annoyed or mad if she just slightly spat on him because he just ended up loving it so damn much. Damn, he really loved how closer she was to him, so near that he had tried so much not to touch her. He was even so much addicted to her breath.
"I REJECT!" Nami rejected.
"Then you give me no choice but to force you to leave. The door is open for you to leave! I don't need any more people who don't have worth." Sanji said, his mouth had said but not actually him, only his mouth because everything in him, his brain, eyes, nose, cells, organs, sperms, senses and most of all his heart were against from it. As much as possible he wanted to avoid hurting her, but his mouth was somehow different.
Every hurtful word he said and every action he did was way more billion percent hurtful to him. It was so hurt that it became insufferable.
OUCH!
He was now shoving her away, again.
When the pain she had felt kept on repeating, she was so damn tired of it.
When the tears she had cried kept on falling, her eyes were too dried for it.
When she tried to do anything to kept on pursuing him, she was just nothing to him.
When the words GIVING UP came back again to make up her mind, it did not actually penetrate in her heart and soul because she was not really planning to give up on this stupid man.
She bit her lower lip and then pricked it with her teeth. She was thinking really hard if Sanji really meant it or not. Gosh, how dare him to tell those hurtful words right on her face without even considering her feeling. It was like peeling her own skin just only he knew.
Why did she even still believe that he loved her, when it was so really impossible?
This man right in front of her was a Man of Cruelty, who did not even care about her anymore, especially her feeling. As a matter of fact, she even tried enough and gave him everything without waiting for anything in return though he kept hurting her many times in a row, so she should give up already.
But no she would not because she was still wishing and hoping that someday her Sweet Trap could capture him, though it was absolutely hopeless.
She would not give up easily after investing so many efforts, strength, energies and so many more, so nothing could make her give up.
'Yes, you are not planning to give up on him. You will stay and capture him with or without force.' Nami thought. 'Then… why don't you just accept his job offer about being his slave, a stupid maid, because it might be your ticket to capture him, by being to near like his own slave. Please Nami, you are a genius. Just swallow your pride and let him do what he wants because it is still a part of your plan. It is a plan of capturing him, so this is really a good chance for you to do it. Way too advantage right?'
"Sanji-san, you are being too harsh to Nami-san?" Brook said.
"Right, you need to stop this Sanji." Usopp added.
"Maid is not a worth job for Nami!" Chopper added.
"Maid's job is to cook meat, right?" Luffy asked, then thinking for a while before he cried. "YAAAAADAAA! NO WAY!"
"You choose, staying here as a maid or leaving this place as an unemployed!" Sanji said. He was looking way too cool as he stood so gracefully. 'Nami-swaaan! Please forgive my stupidity! I am begging you to please forgive me!'
"I ACCEPT!" Nami said quickly, looking at him straightway with raising an eyebrow just to show her full determination. 'Damn a man like you, PERVERT!'
"Oi oi oi Nami, Sanji is just joking." Usopp said.
"That's right Nami-san, don't take it too seriously." Brook said.
"Yada! Yada! Yada! I don't want Nami to be a maid!" Luffy sobbed.
"I am too fucking serious." Sanji said.
"You don't really have a consideration, do you?" Usopp annoyed.
"Sanji-san is harsh as always." Brook said.
"Yaaaaaaaaadaaaaaa!" Luffy wept.
'Waaa… what? Nami-swan, why did you accept it!' Sanji grieved. 'Damn, I shitty hate to treat you as a maid… because I want to treat you as my own goddess. A goddess worth to praise and worship, worth for my devotion!'
Another failed to his lists of plan of pushing Nami away from his life.
"But why of all rooms in this huge mansion you have chosen this maid room as my bedroom? Is it because I am a maid? What about me being your nakama?" Nami outraged.
"Yeah, why this room, Sanji? When you have a lot of guestrooms?" Usopp added.
"Yoho, the room next to mine is empty that will be best fit for Nami-san." Brook added.
"Yaaaaaaadaaaaaa!" Luffy wept.
"If I let her stay in the guestrooms, she might start hunting down everything in this place. I am just being cautious!" Sanji replied, raising his curly eyebrow.
"AND NOW ACCUSING ME A THIEF? FOR YOUR DAMN INFO, I AM NOT A THIEF ANYMORE! HOW DARE YOU!" Nami screamed. She could not really stand to control her overwhelming anger.
Sanji bent forward to meet Nami's beautiful goddess face. Their noses touched and it was the only distance between them. "Then prove it by accepting this room as your own bedroom."
"DAMN YOU!" Nami cussed. She was still kept staring at his eye. She even stood in tiptoe just to meet his height, making their distance even closer. Their lips almost touched.
'Gwaaaaaaah! I am melting… I am fucking melting!' Sanji cried. 'I really want to kiss you right now.'
Sanji stepped away from her, it was not because he wanted to but because he hated it too fucking much because he might kiss her, as he could not really control his desire. He could not bear not to touch her.
He walked in front of a locker, pulled it open and got something. "You should also wear this dress starting today." He extended his arm to give them to Nami.
"This dress…" Nami said, taking the cloth from his hand. She was so confused, but then after a few seconds of examining and inspecting it. "WHAAAAAAAAT! ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT THIS IS MY NEW UNIFORM, THIS WORN-OUT OUTFIT!"
"Exactly. Don't tell me you are complaining again?" Sanji asked. He could not help but to smile and be madly fell in love to her when he was watching her kept changing her facial expression. He damn agreed that every expression she made was too cute and too adorable.
"But it is long, so long enough to hide my stunning figure. I really hate it!" Nami cried. Her new uniform was not really a cleavage-exposing clothes just like what she was usually wearing. Actually, it was just like a nun clothes that hid her whole body, no skin exposed.
'Nami-san believe me but I really hate it too but then again I need to do it just to prevent myself from wanting you even more, from not doing anything bullshit, shit and harmful to you, because right now I am in a great lust and desire! I want to make you nude and eat you whole.' Sanji lust.
"I look like a nun, right?" Nami grieved, revealing her new uniform to her nakama.
"Not really. It is perfectly fine!" Luffy said, his pinkie finger located inside his nose and kept rotating it counterclockwise. He just stopped crying when no one did not actually care about him.
"NO LUFFY!" Nami cried.
"Dunno, I am not really into clothing." Usopp added.
"Why Sanji-san? You should change it into panties only. It is really good! Yohohoho." Brook suggested. then his mouth quickly met Nami's heated punched.
"Do you complain, Nami?" Sanji asked. He was exchanging his gaze between Nami and to the door, indicating if she wanted to complain it was better for her to leave.
"NO COMPLAIN!" Nami huffed.
"BOSS." Sanji just said.
"Huh?" Nami said, her mouth hung open widely.
"Call me BOSS because I am your BOSS. A maid should not call her boss by his name so casually." Sanji ordered.
'Damn him! He is really getting on my nerves. I badly want to punch him.' Nami snarled, forcing to put on a lovely smile on her mouth. "YES BOSS!"
"Good, you better start cleaning your room." Sanji informed, stepping away from her and totally leaving her without further words, then right away his nakama, Luffy, Brook and Usopp immediately ran to follow him.
Nami just stood there while watching him walked away from her. This particular scene was not so unfamiliar to her because it was happened to her three years ago when he walked away from her life and never returned back to her.
Yeah, she was still hoping in a hopeless way.
HOPELESS WOMAN?
Yes, she was so hopeless.
How many times Sanji broke her heart, made her cry and tore her senses?
But she still kept on pursuing like a desperate in need, though she knew deep within that her prayers, wishes and dreams of having him back again to her arms were all hopeless.
Her instinct made her aware of the outcomes that everything had started again from the very beginning, being a slave then it would definitely end up with broken heart.
Was GIVING UP the right choice for her?
NO!
She had experienced a lot of bullshits while forcing herself to stay in this island. She became stupid for kept on staying though he had pushed her away so many times. She became too desperate just to have him again. She became a poor slave just to prove she was so sincere. She felt the wrath of broken heart when she had found out that he did not care for her, and so many etcetera.
She even gave up on him, but this time no matter what happened and no matter what it would cost she would absolutely capture that pervert by using her SWEET TRAP.
SWEET TRAP was her only weapon.
Oh right, cleaning this big mansion was just a piece of paper for her. It was not really that hard because she already had practiced cleaning big place like this when she became a waitress in the All Blue Restaurant.
In addition, By using her SWEET TRAP this mansion might be her own mansion.
First step for her SWEET TRAP, she needed to begin as a friend with benefit. In that step she might start regaining Sanji's trust again.
"Nami, why are you still here?" Chopper suddenly asked out of the blue. He was looking at the floor not her.
"Wha… what Chopper?" Nami startled.
"Why don't you just go back to Cocoyashi village?"
"What?"
"I already warned you about Sanji, about his new personality, being a Man of Cruelty, but why didn't you listen to me? I hate to see you suffering… it really hurts me. I don't want to see you keep treating like this… like a maid, gwaaaaaah!" Chopper cried. He was weeping so loud to the point where he could not control his breathing and having trouble taking in air. He was like a child who was trying to stop from crying, but could not actually.
"Oh Chopper, thank you!" Nami thanked. She leaped to hug Chopper. She was still lucky because Chopper was there for her.
"Believe me… I tried to stop Sanji but he didn't listen to me!" Chopper cried, saying his words between his sobs.
"It's okay Chopper, don't worry because I will be fine. I promise to you that no one can easily defeat me, even that pervert cook." Nami assured. She rubbed Chopper's head and comforted him with all her might.
"But…" Chopper said. He tried to speak but Nami interrupted him.
"Did you forget that I am Nami the famous CAT BURGLAR! I am not really that easy so please don't worry."
"Please don't forget to rely on me. I will definitely help you!"
"Yes!"
Sanji was still walking either going back to his office in the second floor or just kept walking around because there were so many thoughts running on his head. Cigarette loosely hung between his lips and his other hand hid on his pocket.
'She is so beautiful. I really love watching her perfect beauty, especially the way she changed her facial expression, Damn too cute! I really love her.' Sanji thought.
BUT SUDDENLY.
"Oi Sanji, what the hell are you thinking?" Usopp snapped, slapping Sanji's head just to get his attention.
"What the hell, Usopp!" Sanji snarled. He immediately faced Usopp and placed his foot on him butt, kicking and sending him to the ground.
"Gwaaaaah!" Usopp cried, then he quickly stood up to face Sanji. "I don't want to keep on tolerating your stupidity. Nami is our nakama, our family, so you should not treat her that way. You should give her a proper job, not a maid!"
"It's a proper job, you shitty long nose!" Sanji argued.
"That's not a proper job you king of dumbasses!" Usopp argued too.
"Sanji-san, you are so mean, of all the clothes in this world, why those worn-out outfit? Why don't you just give her only panties?" Brook suggested.
"Shut up!" Usopp cussed, slapping Brook's head. "You are not helping at all."
"Do you guys trust me?" Sanji asked. He suddenly became so serious when he had said those words.
"Of course! I trust you!" Luffy yelled.
"Tell me think." Usopp said, touching his chin. "I trust you before but now I don't think that I still trust you."
"Sanji-san, no matter what your decision, I trust you!" Brook said.
"Nami is not just my nakama, not just a family but she is so important to me. She meant everything to me. I want to do anything and everything just for her and just to protect her. All I need to you guys is to trust me. Please trust me!" Sanji pleaded.
Usopp, Brook and Luffy looked at each other, exchanging and talking with only their gaze, then they looked at Sanji again.
"I'm sorry for saying that I don't trust you. Well, you know, it's just because of my anger on why you are treating Nami that way, but I really do trust you Sanji." Usopp said.
"I trust you!" Luffy said.
"Yohohohoho, me too!" Brook said.
"If you trust me then you will let me handle everything." Sanji said.
"But will you care to tell us why did you make Nami as a maid?" Usopp asked.
"Yeah, I am too curious too." Brook added.
"Yaaaaaaadaaaaa!" Luffy cried.
"Let just say that this is just a whole game, there is a level on every challenge she will face." Sanji said.
"Game?" Brook and Usopp cried simultaneously.
"I want to play games too!" Luffy cheered.
"What kind of game is it, Sanji-san?" Brook asked.
"It is a maid game." Sanji replied.
"Oooooowwwooooooh!" Luffy awed. He was so interested in that game, though it sounded so suspicious.
"Are you sure that it is a game?" Usopp asked.
"It is a game you shithole but let me just give you a proper explanation. She is the avatar of the game who will act like a maid and to make her complete every level we need to distract her by ordering her around like we are her boss, the more harder we order her the more level she will be faced. If she succeeded all the level, she would receive a lot of consolation price and if she would fail there is no price at all. It is just so shitty simple, but my question is, do you want to help Nami winning her price" Sanji asked.
"So it is just really a game." Usopp uttered.
"Exactly." Sanji just agreed.
"Oho, I like it! I like it! I want to help Nami!" Luffy cried.
"Sanji-san, are you telling the truth?" Brook asked.
Sanji moved his gaze to look at Brook so annoyingly. "You are doubting me, aren't you Brook?"
"No! Absolutely not Sanji-san. You know, I am just asking…" Brook panicked.
"So, are you guys willing to help winning her price?" Sanji asked again.
"I am! I am!" Luffy awed, jumping so high in excitement.
"What will be her price, if she win?" Usopp asked.
"Is that a big panties?" Brook added.
"If I tell you then where is the shitty surprise and excitement? Are you really willing to help her or what?" Sanji huffed.
"YEAH! I WANT!" Luffy cheered.
"If you are that sincere then why not. I will help her" Usopp said.
"Me too, yohohohohoho." Brook laughed.
"Then as a part of every level, you need to treat her like a real maid, just keep on ordering her around but don't you dare make it hard or too much for her." Sanji said.
"That's all? So simple! I will now treat her like a real maid." Luffy exclaimed.
"Well, not really that bad, right Brook?" Usopp said.
"Right Usopp-san." Brook agreed.
"Remember, don't tell her about this game." Sanji commanded.
"Yosh!" Luffy saluted.
"Yes, Sanji-san!" Brook added.
"Well, why not" Usopp said.
'Damn, I didn't really expect these three idiots would believe it so easily, but graaaah! I am so shitty bastard! How could I do this terrible thing to my goddess. But this is the only option I have to push her away again to my life. But the truth, I can't really do that… I don't want her to leave this island, to leave me again… my fucking nightmares are usually about losing her then when I realized that she was still here, I became okay again.' Sanji grieved. 'But if she keep staying I will no longer control what I feel, especially this excessive desire and lust. I may also start to approach her again like a stupid puppy… and if I do that again, she will hurt me by doing her plan of making me madly fall in love and then leave me after getting what she wants. I am too damn scared to feel the overwhelming pain. Fuck, I can't damnit endure the pain if she would leave me. So better to shove her away, though it is so painful… and by using these idiots, she may start to think that she has no companion and decided to leave.'
Nami was actually his medicine, all he needed was one small glances and he felt really okay again. She was really a good navigator who had the ability to instantly changed his bad weather into the best weather ever.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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