The Host Club is now Open….

"…And that's when we found out she wasn't really evil, but a Princess undercover."

"Wow, Luffy-kun. Was she really a Princess?"

"Yup! Neat hu? We offered to take her back to her Kingdom and help her out." Grinned Luffy

"How noble of you."

"Haha! Expect nothing less from chivalrous guys like us." Beamed Ussop "She told us about the treacherous man plotting a palace coup against her noble father. We couldn't stand back and let that happen."

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"…She said she had been searching for me for 10 years…or was that 10 days?… Ah well, anyway. She had heard about my culinary skill and so she challenged me to the 'Best in East Blue…mington Contest."

"How romantic to be searching for someone for 10 years. She must have been very determined."

"Yes quite determined." Smiled Sanji

--

"…And from that fight I suffered a wound that would have killed a normal man. I have a vicious scar from it that pushes me everyday to become stronger."

"Um…Zoro –san?" says a blushing girl "C-can we see?"

"Hm? You wanna see my scar?" asks Zoro

The girls all nod

"Well…ok. I don't see why not…" Zoro stood up and started to remove his shirt

A thus a great wave of fangirlish squeals of delight echoed throughout the room.

It was day two of the pirates Hosting Challenge and the misplaced misfits were doing quite well for themselves. Their client turn out had nearly doubled filling a good 25 percent of their quota.

It surprised had everyone how well they were doing. At first the pirates were quite perplexed about how to go about this "hosting" thing. Sanji was the only member of the crew that flirted with women on a regular basis. Ussop didn't really flirt with girls so much. Sure he would tell stories to impress people, but he did that with everyone in spite of gender. Luffy was oblivious to the entire notion of attracting the opposite sex. Zoro was aware of the opposite sex but was almost completely indifferent to them.

But it was Nami who came up with how they could get by… "I've been watching these guys work and there's no way you guys could pull off that pretty boy smarmy act of theirs. However, I've also been watching this Renge chick and her followers." Nami said "And I think you guys have some things they want that these pretty boys don't have."

And so now with Nami's advice and direction, which simply was to be themselves and tell their heroic tales, the Mugiwara boys were doing better than they hoped. In their own world their adventures weren't all that impressive. In a world were every third person was a pirate or former pirate or knew pirates, adventure stories were a dime a dozen. But in this world the only adventures people had, were ones played out by actors. The Straw Hat's typical everyday events was enough to be able to make a long running TV show and a bunch of movies to go with them in this world.

"Everyone loves good drama." Nami said grinning in a very pleased eat-your-heart-out way standing next to a rather impressed Kyoya and an utterly unbelieving Tamaki,. "Pretty boys are all well and good, but sometimes a girl likes a good manly man every so often."

"Squeee!" Nami suddenly found herself being glomped by an extremely overzealous young girl with a big pink bow in her hair.

"Hi Renge" sighed Nami "You know, you should really stop doing that to people…"

But Renge of course was too lost in her own world to bother listening "Ah Nami-sama. Oh how I have prayed for someone to come that understands my vision. You and your guys are truly a gift sent to me from Heaven in answer to my prayers."

"Ah, heh…" Nami laughed uneasily "If you say so."

No one had told her they had actually been summoned by Nekozawa in an attempt to call forth demons from the dark abyss. Why he was trying to summon demons in the first play was a mystery. However no one had been surprised he had tried…it was a very Nekozawa thing to do. Nekozawa was now, on fear of pain and death by sunlight, trying to figure out away to send the misplaced pirates back from wench they came.

However, they couldn't go back until the guys covered the debt of the very expensive tea set Zoro had broke by attracting 1000 customers…in three weeks. They were doing well and seemed very likely they would meet the goal.

"Very impressive Nami san." Said Kyoya "Your analysis and leadership in the matter is quite good." The Shadow King smiled knowingly recognizing the skills of a fellow master of manipulation.

"Why thank you." Nami grinned back.

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While the guys were doing their thing Nami wandered over to sit with Robin who was making use of the actual hosts.

"My, so your families tradition go back many generations." Smiled Robin

"Yup!" beamed Hunny sempai "Takeshi's Kendo dojo goes back to samurai times. There's not that many like that today."

"Ah." Agreed Mori.

"How nice to have been able to preserve such history for so long." Beamed Robin "I'd like to now more about this 'Samurai Period' but first tell me more about this Royal Court Period you mentioned before..."

As Mori and Hunny drew Robin into the history of the Heian Period, Nami took a seat by Haruhi.

"The guys seem to be doing well." Commented Haruhi

"Ya I guess." Sighed Nami "Sorry to be taking all your customers. This probably isn't helping you reach your own quota. Plus it's cutting into other host's customers too."

"That's ok." Haruhi smiled "We don't really mind. Hunny sempai and Mori sempai are pretty laid back and just go with the flow. And Kyoya sempai couldn't be happier about the big customer turn out. Though, it's not really cutting into the Twins customers, they have a pretty dedicated following.

"Yes, yes." Nod the twins "Boy love has a very large fan base" Identical grins spread across the plotting pair.

"You know…" Says Kaoru "You could use that to attract more customers."

"What? How?" asked Nami "None of the guys are gay."

"They don't have to be." Says Kaoru

"It only needs to be implied." Says Hikaru

"Riiight." Says Nami "And just who could you imply?"

"Hmmm…" Thinks Hikaru. "I'd say the Blond chief and the Swordsman."

"WHAT!" exclaimed Nami. "They hate each other. You could cut the tension between them with a knife."

The twins only grin "There's more than one kind of tension you know."

Nami smiled slyly in a deviously playful way knowing what other type of tension they were talking about. "I don't know about Zoro, but Sanji sure doesn't have to worry about that kind of tension. Believe me."

"Haha" laughed the twins "Touché, Touché. But still, you could easily use their rivalry to imply attraction."

"I fail to see your reasoning." Said Nami

"One could imply that their rivalry towards each other hides their underlining feelings for each other. They don't understand the feelings so they're afraid, and the fear lashes out in anger… " Says Kaoru

Hikaru shrugs "A typical cliché in romance stories, not just boy love comics ya know."

"True." Shrugs Nami "Though it's kinda hard to pin Sanji as a lover of men when he sooo obviously is a lover of women."

The twins shrug. "When fangirls have the fantasy planted in their heads, they tend to ignore the facts that would make the fantasy not work."

Kaoru gestures towards Renge "You talk as if flaming fangirls care about practicality and common logic." (1)

"Hmmm, you gotta point." Says Nami "But I think I'll pass on your idea."

"Aw." Chime the twins " Why not. It's sure to win you tons more customers to meet your quota…plus it'll be amusing to watch."

Robin smiled knowingly "Miss Navigator is rather…possessive of her cook."

Nami willed herself not to blush by glaring at the smiling older woman. "Whatever Robin. Sanji flirts with anything that looks good in a skirt. I don't care."

"Really?" Robin smiled presently. But Nami caught the hidden knowing look.

Nami was too skilled at hiding her true feelings to give in to Robins attempt to throw her. She had experience from growing up having to work under the fiends that shot her mother. She learned to hide her pain and sorrow behind a mask. And to this day she still hid feelings behind it. It was flawless. The trouble was, other mask wears could spot other mask wears. Nami knew Robin could read her true feelings. But just because Robin could see didn't mean Nami would roll over and reveal anything. Robin couldn't throw stones. There was still much she her self was hiding from the crew. Nami gave Robin a casual look that said just that.

"Ya, really." She said

"Wow that's very big of you." Smiled Haruhi. "Most girlfriends would be jealous."

Nami laughed "Well I'm not most girlfriends. Besides, what do I have to be jealous of?"

Nami looked over at the group of girls surrounding Sanji. "A bunch of rich spoiled debutants? Ha! Don't make me laugh." Nami turned back and started to sip tea.

That's right Nami thought to herself. I have nothing to worry about. They're just rich spoiled debutants…that are beautiful and nice and sweet and shower him with attention and admiration…crap.

(1) I evoke "Rice Rights" as stated by the great and talented Margret Cho. "Rice Rights" say that you can make fun of any group of people as long as you are a part of that group. XD I'm a flaming fangirl, so I can poke fun at flaming fangirls…so in essences, I'm really just making fun of myself X3…I'm not a fan of Zoro x Sanji tho. And I really don't understand the logic behind just why it's such a popular pairing… I mean Sanji is sooo obviously portrayed as hetro…

Sanji Nami 4ever X3 !