Christmas Calendar

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Fourteenth day.

Light ZoLu. Light SanNam. UsoCho friendship! Yay!

Happy reading!

Wrapping

Riiiiip!

"Damn!"

Snap!

"Fuck!"

Crumple, rip, snap and groan.

"Damnit damnit damnit!" Luffy blinked at all the strange noises that were coming from the men's cabin. He pressed his ear to the closed door and blinked as something was thrown against it. Showing more tact than usual, Luffy knocked on the wood.

"What?" Zoro's voice snapped back. Boy, did he sound pissed.

"Umm… you okay in there Zoro?" Luffy asked.

"Fan-fucking-tastic!" Zoro replied sarcastically. Luffy smiled lightly at his first mates creative use of words.

"I can help!?" Luffy asked brightly. There was a sigh and then heavily clumping footsteps approached the door before Zoro's face appeared in the crack he opened.

"Fine. Get in here." Zoro replied. Luffy grinned widely and bounced in. He looked around at the wrapping paper that was spread out on the floor. Only one present had been wrapped and it was sitting on the couch.

Luffy peered curiously at the bits of tape stuck all over the floor, the ribbon and stuff that had been pretty much massacred with a pair of scissors which Luffy noticed were now stuck in the door. Ah, so that's what that thunk had been. Zoro ripped them out, slammed the door and stormed back over again. He was muttering vehemently and Luffy could vaguely hear what he was saying.

"Stupid, fucking, idiotic idea this." he grunted as he sat down on the floor beside Luffy. The captain grinned.

"Ha, you just need another set of hands is all! Don't get grumpy Zoro!" and Luffy ruffled Zoro's hair. The first mate turned to him with a stony glare that slowly relaxed into an annoyed sigh.

"Yeah, whatever. Lets just get this done." and he picked up some more of the paper and began winding it around Nami's boxed gift. Grinning Luffy got the ribbon ready and when Zoro had wound the paper around the present enough, Luffy tied the ribbon on. The two then proceeded to stick down the little sticking up bits with sticky tape. Zoro looked in surprise at the gift, then Luffy, who beamed right in his face. The swordsman smirked back at him.

"Thanks captain."

"Na Zoro! Shoulda asked me sooner, ne?" and Zoro chuckled.

"Yeah."

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Meanwhile Usopp had wrapped all of his presents successfully and was now just putting them under the tree. He heard a soft whine and looked around to see Chopper pouting over some of the wrapping paper that was stuck to his hooves. Usopp sighed. Wrapping wasn't easy when you didn't have opposable thumbs. Moving over, he sat down beside the little doctor and removed the paper.

"How about, I wrap these for you and then when it comes to my present, you can ask Nami or Sanji or Robin to help. Robin's always got a set of extra hands. Ok?" Usopp asked. Chopper looked up at him and smiled.

"Usopp! You're the best!" Chopper cried. Usopp stuck his chest out.

"Of course I am! The great Usopp-sama will conquer all wrapping paper bandits!" and he waited for the expected reaction.

"Ooooh. What are those?" Chopper asked, hiding the bag with Usopp's present in it, behind him. Usopp grinned as he began the wrapping of Chopper's presents.

"Well, when I was six or seven, we had a snowy Christmas. And due to the cold, there was a lot of thefts in our town. The wrapping paper bandits they were called and they stole all the wrapping paper from everywhere!"

"Oh! That's so mean!" Chopper squeaked. Usopp smiled and nodded, before continuing with his story.

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Robin and Nami sat back while two sets of hands were busily wrapping the presents in front of them. Nami smiled at Robin.

"You know, that power of yours is really coming in useful." Nami smirked. Robin smiled lightly back at Nami.

"Yes, it is. But I believe cook-san is a bit miserable, wrapping his presents alone in the kitchen. Why don't you go down there navigator-san?" she asked. Nami sighed and stood.

"Yeah. I'll go down and see him for a minute and then I'll be right back, okay?"

"Very well." she replied. Nami hurried out. She found Sanji in a rather large panic. He was looking at four different rolls of wrapping paper and humming to himself before moving to pick it up, hesitating and then thinking again.

"What's wrong Sanji-kun?" Nami asked as she walked in. Sanji looked up at her.

"Oh, Nami-san!" he cried and smiled. Nami leaned on the table and looked at the paper. She smiled gently.

"I like this one." she said, pointing at a soft pink paper with silver swirls running around it.

"Ah, a delightful choice Nami-swan! You have such good taste! I shall certainly wrap your present with this." and he laid it aside, "But… I don't know what to wrap Robin-chan's present with." and he bit his lip. There were now three rolls left on the table.

"Well, this blue one with the holly pattern is really pretty. I think she'll like that. And you can wrap Usopp and Chopper's presents with that as well. And the other two you can wrap Zoro and Luffy's presents with. Ok?" Nami asked. Sanji blinked at her before smiling.

"Thankyou Nami-san!" and he set to work wrapping Robin's beautifully gold-embossed book that Sanji had bought for her. Nami smiled and moved out of the room, sure that Sanji could handle it from there. As she closed the door to the kitchen, Nami looked around. The deck was devoid of life. No Zoro asleep at the mast.

"DAMNIT LUFFY!" came from below and she smirked.

"Sorry Zoro! I didn't know you were going to put that there." and Nami raised an eyebrow.

"Wrapping paper does not go up your nose!" Zoro replied. Well, that had been close. She was wondering what that conversation had been about. Luffy's laughter echoed up to her, soon joined by Zoro's.

"…and then they ran from behind the trees, shouting that I had to give up. But, the great Usopp-sama never gives up!"

"Uwhaa! Usopp, you're so cool!" Nami sighed. Everyone was busy. And for once, the deck was rather quiet. Maybe she would go and ask Robin if it was okay for her to leave and lie on the deck. Yes, that was what she would do.

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I am tending to finish these with Nami, aren't I? Hmm. Have to fix that soon. Next one shall end with... Robin! Ha ha ha! Reviews please! To cheer me up cos I'm feeling sad. -sniff sniff-