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Better
Luffy thought that Breakfast this morning had gone over much better then any of the meals yesterday. For one, there were no fights, not even one involving Sanji and Zoro. Anytime there was a disagreement between the two Yuki would tell Sanji to shut his Burondo mouth, and Sanji being…well…Sanji…complied all too quickly.
Another was that he didn't get the crap be out of him for some unknown reason.
But most importantly there was nothing on the Table that looked edible but wasn't
The day continued in this fashion for a little while after breakfast
Luffy had managed sneak away from Yuki after the meal was over. He managed this by doing something he has never done before; he left a meal early by his own free will, desperate times call for desperate measures.
After sneaking off he hid himself in Usopp's workshop, and stayed there by himself, until Usopp arrived.
"HI USOPP" Luffy yelled when the liar entered the room and failed to notice him.
Usopp immediately dropped to the floor and curled up in a fetal position and put his arms over his head while repeating over and over again "please don't hurt me"
"ha ha ha that's funny Usopp" Luffy laughed while pointing at his petrified friend.
"Luffy?" Usopp said after a few more seconds of muttering, he realized that it was just Luffy who, relatively speaking, was completely harmless "that wasn't Funny!"
"Sure it was" Luffy responded whilst crossing his legs to sit on the floor his position could almost be considered meditative if it wasn't for the fact he was clapping with his feet every few seconds.
"What are you doing in my workshop anyway?" Usopp asked as he turned around to make more Items he could use in the fights that they were sure to have as they continued traversing the Grand Line, he turned his attention to his latest greatest invention, a life-size dummy of himself with built in insults, perfect for all those enemies he needed to get away from.
"Avoiding Yuki" Luffy stated with a nod as he watched his sniper work
"You call that punch! This isss a puuunnnn…" The Dummy Usopp obviously still wasn't perfect but it hadn't stopped because of bad hardware. The reason it had stopped is that on the word "Yuki" Usopp had just by chance driven a screwdriver all the way through.
"I c-c-can't image why" Usopp spoke shaking madly "s-s-s-s-s-s-she i-i-i-i-isn't t-t-t-t-t-t-that s-s-s-s-s-s-scary"
"I'm not scared of yoouuu because I'm CAPTAIN USOPP!!!"
"I never said she was" Luffy smiled before asking, "so how long did it take?"
"No one can hurt CAPTAIN USOPP!!!"
"huh…how long did what take?" Usopp asked as he raise his goggles to look at Luffy, Usopp's eyes were looking anywhere but at Luffy.
"How long did it take before Yuki kicked your ass"?
"No one can hurt CAPTAIN USOPP!!!"
"What she didn't even lay one finger on me"
Luffy looked over his Nakama before he replied "yeah right. What did she fight like Sanji and only kick you"
"You don't believe me!"
"No one can hurt CAPTAIN USOPP!!!"
"Of course not" the captain responded immediately
"What why not" he asked deflated
"Your more bandage up then after the Franky Family ambushed you"
"No one can hurt CAPTAIN USOPP!!!"
…..
"No one can hurt CAPTAIN USOPP!!!"
….
"No one can hurt CAPTAIN USOPP!!!"
"I'm just cold" he lied again
"Also I know Yuki…so how long did it take"
"Really she didn't"
Luffy just stared at him
"Honestly"
Luffy just narrowed his eyes
"Really"
Luffy crossed his arms to increase the intensely of his gaze. Just then Usopp's dummy seemed to provide some useful information and again spouted it's wisdom as a parrot does.
"NOOOO I don't WANT TO DIE PLEASE PLEASE NOOOOO DON'T HURT MEEE IT WAS AN- ONLY RABA-LUFFY CAN TOUCH ME THERE! PLEASE NO! hey what are you doing with that? Oh damn oh shit aaaaah aaaaaahaaaaaaa…" The screaming faded into the distance as the recording ended. Again there was a long period of silence
"Oh" Usopp dropped his head before finally giving Luffy the information he asked for "two minute's"
"WAY TO GO USOPP" Luffy let out in a loud voice as he smacked the bandaged man on the back several times
"ow ow ow ow" Usopp cried out in pain each time Luffy's hand connected with his back
"No one can hurt CAPTAIN USOPP!!!"
"Usopp, I think you've actually broken the avoidance record!"
Usopp had had tears in his eyes as he asked, "What record?"
"Two minute's huh" he looked of in space remembering the many people that Yuki had beat down for getting her mad, the most common reason being that they ruined the atmosphere, but Luffy never knew what she was talking about the weather was always just the same as before.
"Oi, I asked you a question" Usopp yelled
"I think the only person that could do that was Ace, but he only managed one and a half before he left"
"Wha…" Usopp started to speak again but was interrupted when the door slammed into the wall
"There you are Raba-Luffy" Yuki said with a sigh as she walked into Usopp's workshop
"ow hey Yuki" Luffy said but continued to think about the last time Ace had made Yuki upset and the resulting trip to the doctor
"Raba-Luffy that harpy of a navigator isn't changing direction"
"Huh"
"Your still on course to Merman Island" Yuki finally said what was so Important
"What!" after saying this Luffy ran out of the Workshop and ran, almost, as fast as he could to the deck and when he arrived on the deck he let out "NAMI"
"Huh what is it Luffy" his more then slightly attractive navigator spoke looking up from a little white book she was using to take notes on the weather change's
"WHY AREN'T WE GOING TO THE ISLAND OF MEAT"
"Luffy…we talked about that" Nami sounded more then a little sad as she spoke these words "there's no guarantee that 'that' Eternal Post even goes to the Island it say's"
"But-" Luffy started but Nami interrupted.
"And even if it did who's to say that it isn't just the name of the Island, because of it's shape or something dumb like that" the ex-thief took a breath but continued before Luffy could get a word in "or maybe not even that, like I said before you can barely make out the four letter's you can see who's to say that it's not just part of the name"
"But I've decided. Where going to the Island of Meat." Luffy spoke in such a way as to actually start an argument. He did this for several reasons. One he really really really wanted to go to the Island of meat and two, as Sanji would put it (which is exactly why Luffy would never dare say it out loud), Nami was hot when she was angry.
"Even if you say that it's not like the Islands going anywhere we can go there anytime we have that ETERNAL Post" she said while stressing the word eternal
"Where did you get your colorant?" Yuki spoke finally arrive above deck
"What did you say?" Nami asked clearly confused, of course so was Luffy.
"I asked where you got your hair dye" Yuki rephrased
"What ARE you talking about?" She was still confused
"I'm just wondering, it's really good I can't see your roots at all" Yuki smirked final
"What are you saying, I don't dye my hair." retorted back offended
"You could have fooled me with that last statement" Yuki raised her hands and closed her eyes as she said
"How's that?" Nami asked glaring at the green haired woman
"It just that I would have only expected something so stupid to come from the mouth of a Burondo"
"What's so stupid about waiting until later to go?"
"Have you even looked at 'my' gift to Raba-Luffy" Yuki said this and brought her hand to her chest at the stressed word "it not pointing in the same direction where, going currently if you don't change course now your just waste more time"
Nami put her hands on her hips before stating, "That's even more reason to we have to wait. I have no idea where this island is, how long it will take to get there and thus we might run out of supplies before arriving"
Luffy had to nod at this speech. It made a lot of sense even if it meant he would have to wait to go where he wanted.
"Two weeks" Yuki responded flatly
"Huh" Nami and Luffy made this confused noise at the same time.
"If we change course now we will arrive at the Island of Meat in at most, two weeks"
"And how can you possibly know that" Nami spoke and rolled her eye's
"Are you sure you don't dye your hair" Yuki chuckled at this statement "do you honestly think I would get Raba-Luffy a present without making sure it worked"
Nami growled right after Yuki said this he couldn't imagine why they just got definitive proof that they were going to the Island of Meat. Luffy wasn't sure the day could get better.
The crew had started to gather around these three, some to make sure that Nami and Yuki didn't get into a fight (Chopper and Robin), and everyone else, even Usopp who had fallowed Yuki and was hiding behind the door frame to below deck, to make sure they got a good view if, and more likely when, they did.
"Oh so you've been there have you" Nami's voice was oozing sarcasm "then tell us what make's this island called Meat 'the Island of Meat'"
"All right I will" at this she pulled out several collapsible boards from her coat and began to set them up
"How does all that fit in your jacket"? The half-reindeer asked in his brain point
"Oh hello reindeer-sama" Yuki's spoke finally realizing that there were other people there "I suppose I could tell you, unless headai-san (1) here can't wait"
"I have two things to say to that one" Nami raised her middle figure at Yuki "I don't dye my hair, and two" she raised her pointer figure "I want to know the answer to that also so go ahead"
Luffy sat down on the floor and positioned himself to get comfortable, as Yuki got out more of her boards there where about seven, now set in two groups one of one and one of six. He knew this would take awhile, Yuki had to explain two things, although he didn't see why she had to. The Island of meat was The Island of meat because it was The Island of meat, and he had already explained the coat what wasn't clear about it being a mystery jacket. But he could understand that his Nakama might want more information than that so he didn't voice a complaint about them wasting time by making these simple answers complicated.
"Well the answer to your question Reindeer-Sama is quite simple really" Yuki sad while pointing to the first board "my jacket has eaten the Poke Poke no Mi (2) devils fruit"
"Oh come on how can a coat eat anything I'm practical a professional liar and even I can't believe that" Usopp interjected from his hiding place
"Yes Marine-san how 'does' that work?" Robin asked seeking information
"I'm not quite sure Nico-sama it's a bit technical and I'm no scientist" Luffy could see Nami smirk at Yuki's first admission of imperfection "but from what I know it was done by a doctor, oh what was his name I can never seem to remember" Yuki closes her eye's to concentrate "I should know this, I should know this, he was nice enough to give it too me personal"
"Oh well it will come to me later" Yuki final open her eye's giving up on trying to remember the mans name "anyway after he made the coat 'eat' this fruit, now that I think about it, it was one of his early experiments he has shied away from using anything but Zoan type fruit's apparently they work better or something like that, it gained the ability to make a pocket of almost any size anywhere on the inside" Yuki took a deep breath after this but was interrupted.
"That doesn't exactly explain how you can even walk with all that stuff in the coat" Nami interjected
"I was getting to that Headai-san" Yuki hollered then cleared her throat before adding, "also after the object is put into the coat it weight gets reduced to about one one-thousandth of the original weight, to give you a more accurate example, at the moment the coat only weighs 50kg even though I have about 50,000 Kg worth of objects in it"
"why…" Nami began to ask but was interrupted when Luffy began to snore
"Oh he's so cute when he's sleeping" Yuki practically squealed, Luffy was asleep sitting up and had a bubble coming in and out of his noise, "I wonder If it works when the genders are switch" she asked no one as she squatted down in front of the future Pirate king.
Yuki then moved in to kiss the Rubber man, but right before their lips touched Nami grabbed the Marine-captain by her hair and dragged her away from the sleeping seventeen year old. Yuki's scream of pain had actually woke up the man in the straw hat
"What was that for" Yuki growled at Nami then looked at the slowly waking pirate "great another moment wasted"
"You were drifting off topic I still want to know to know what's so special about that Island"
"Fine" Yuki said before adding "headai-san" Nami growled a her new nickname
"It's rather simple reallyThe Island of meat is The Island of meat because it's The Island of meat" Yuki nodded each time she repeated the phrase
"However since that is clearly not enough information for you to go on" at this point she walked back over to her lineup of boards "All livestock animals grow from three to twenty times their normal sizes" she pointed to the first board of the section which had several barnyard animals that were much large then the people in the photo "these animals also have very little body fat so when the are killed for food the meat also has very little fat and of very high quality" she pointed to the second and third board's, of the section, which had pictures of cooked meat covering them "also like you suggested before Headai-san the island looks like a peace of meat from above" she should them a map depicting this "and what actual makes this island 'The Island of Meat' and not just some Island with really good cattle raisers is that different types of Meat that actual grows on the tree's" she slammed her pointer into the fifth board "bush's" she repeated the action on the sixth "and even some of the vine's" she smashed her pointed into final picture
"Oh come on that's Im-" Nami started but was interrupted when Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper all let out
"THAT'S SO COOL"
"-possible" Nami finished but then let out a huge sigh before saying "I should have known something like this was going to happen anyway" she slumped her shoulders as a blue cloud of depression started to surround her
Luffy didn't like her like that at all so to cheered her up he said the first thing that came to his mind "Nami just think of all the berri we will save if we get some of those meat growing plants"
Nami's reaction was immediate and predictable.
She instantly came out of her depression and with berri signs in her eyes and screamed "ALL RIGHT WHERE GOING TO THE ISLAND OF MEAT" and Luffy thought right after her deceleration 'there much better'.
Ending Notes
1 headai-san: Miss hair dye
2 Poke Poke no mi: Poke is the first part of poketto, which is Japanese for pocket (also from that popular game series)
I have not started chapter 11 but I will soon most likely in a couple of hours.