W should be for writer's block... It is set on when it was just Luffy and Zoro because I think there should be more of that time. X is for Vivi, because she's not my favorite character and I wanted to like her more.

W is for World, which sometimes just narrows down to good booze and the warmth at your back.

Yesterday, they had to work for two days in compensation to the meal they couldn't pay for. And they did, or at least tried to until the owner finally decided that keeping the two of them in the kitchen was costing him much more than what they originally owed him and kicked them out under the condition to never come back again. In Zoro's defense, it was Luffy who kept breaking the dishes but then again, laughing like an idiot while Luffy attempted to juggle with delicate objects blind folded probably wasn't the appropriate reaction either. Yet all had turned out well and Luffy and Zoro had set off to their small boat and into the sea again.

Tomorrow they would probably dock on another island and do the same thing over again because neither of them had a single Beli to their name yet both of them had stomachs to feed.

And one day, in the distant future, Luffy would expand his crew and they'd have their own cook and accountant and the days of paying off meals with their labor would end. One day, they'd even have their own shipwright and musician and doctor and their ship would be noisy and vibrant and somewhat annoying and Luffy would be in the middle of it all, grinning.

Tonight though, all they have is their pitifully small ship and leftover booze, but the waves are calm and the moon is bright and as his captain's laughter echoes along the sky, Zoro decides the future can wait.

X is for what they are, what Vivi misses.

"Vivi-sama, the water is ready."

"Thank you Lira," The heir of the Alabasta throne briefly tore her gaze away from the newspaper to acknowledge the new presence. "I'll be there in a moment."

The plump, motherly maid noticed her charge's distraction however and approached with her hands on her hip.

"Really, Vivi-sama. You're not looking at the article of those pirates again are you? "

Guilty as charged, Vivi smiled as she held up the morning's newpaper that had the Straw Hat Pirate's reunion on the front page. Nobody had been able to approach the pirates enough to take a clear enough picture but the crew had met up again-that much was clear.

"They're pirates, Vivi-sama! And the captain of theirs, stirring up trouble everywhere he goes," Lira clucked her tongue disapprovingly; she was unaware of the bond between her princess and the pirates in question for she had only joined the household the previous year. She knew little of the pirates that sailed so far from her home country, and cared less.

"No, they are all incredible people Lira," Vivi corrected gently as she began to cut out the picture of her friends and their new ship. It was to be tucked between the pages of her scrap book, along with all the other articles about them. "And their captain especially, is a great man. When they come to our country, we will greet them with the grandest welcome Alabasta has to offer and their captain will be treated with only the finest."

Lira's eyes widened; her princess was not one to speak lightly.

"For a pirate? B-but why, Vivi-sama?"

Upon seeing the lines of genuine surprise sketched in the maid's face, the princess's features softened.

"Because I may be royal," Vivi explained with quiet pride. "But he will be king."