Nami had everyone facing her. "Okay, we'll all split into groups. Shopping is so boring when you have to wait for someone."

"Wait a second!!" Suta interrupted. "When did we decide to go shopping??"

"I meant trick or treating. WHATEVER!! GOING AROUND TOWN!!"

"I'M WITH SUTA!!" Luffy shouted, then hugged Suta.

"I'M WITH ZORO!!" Deji jumped on the green-haired man's back.

Rokuu turned her head. "Hey! I wanted to be with Zoro!! Okay, fine, I'll be with Usopp!"

"Hey!" Takono called. "I wanted to be with Usopp!!"

Chopper and Jam hugged too. "PARTNERS!!" They giggled.

Robin and Franky held hands without thinking and started to blush. "I guess we're partners then..." He mumbled.

Sanji put his arm around Nami. "I'm with Nami-san!!"

Takono rolled her eyes. "I guess I'm alone, then."

"Oi," Usopp called. "...you could come with us!" Takono smiled. "KAY!"

"Excuse me," A woman called. Everyone looked back. She looked about 20-23, and she had long brown hair. "Are you people trick-or-treaters??" She asked politely.

Sanji kneeled right before her with a rose. "Why, yes, my sweet." Takono tugged on his ear. "Oi. Try NOT doing that for once."

"Are you new to this town?" She asked.

Sanji brought out a second rose. "Yes, we are. Would you mind showing us around?" Takono tugged a little harder. "Hello, are you LISTENING to me at ALL?"

"Well, this whole month, people trick or treat, halloween or not!" She smiled.

Sanji brought out a third rose. "Will you be my treat, princess?" Takono tugged her hardest, and it didn't affect him at all. "YO! LISTEN!!"

The women looked at Takono. "Are you his girlfriend?"

She slapped herself in the face. "Why does everyone think that?" She looked at Sanji. "And where'd you get all the roses?"

He pulled out a whole bouquet. "Would you like one, Takono-chwan?" She just took one and put it in her mouth, then took Rokuu's hand. "May I have this dance?"

"No." She took her hand back and Takono took her rose out of her mouth, then looked at herself. "Oh great. I forgot to wear a costume."

Sanji blushed and stared at Rokuu pervertedly. "You could be a bikini model"

Rokuu gave him a disgusted face. "I don't even WANT to know what's going on in that mind of yours..."

The woman giggled. "Well, maybe I'll see you later..." She walked away.

"I KNOW WHAT'LL HELP!!" Kurry threw her arms in the air, then kept pulling Takono's pants up and down. "Franky. Cat. Franky. Cat. Franky. Cat. Frank--"

Every time her pants were pulled down, Sanji's nosebleed got worse and worse. "STOPPIT!!" Takono yelled.

"OM NOM NOM NOM!!" Kurry jumped back.

"And how does that help?"

She shrugged. "I dunno. It's fun!"

Takono slapped herself in the face again. "I give up on you..."

"Om NOM nom nom nom nom!" She grinned.

"Wait..." Takono thought. "If it's halloween all month here..." She thought for a second, grabbed a paper bag and ran to a house with an already open door. "TRICK OR TREAT!!" She smiled.

The man looked at her. "Halloween's not for another 4 weeks, miss." She turned around and walked back with a big red blush on her face.

"Well that was embarrassing..." When she turned her head, Deji had already been a hawk, and Suta's covered herself in feathers. "Eh?"

"It's 37 degrees out... aren't you cold?" Deji asked.

"Cold?" She and Luffy answered.

...

They hugged each other about 21 seconds later. "IT'S COLD!!"

Everyone fell anime style.

Takono felt something soft crawl over her shoulders. It was Sanji's cape. When she turned to look at him, he was already walking to the ship. She wrapped the cape around herself. (seeing as Luffy already had a big overcoat...)

"Hey, shouldn't cats have FUR?" Kurry taunted.

"Oh shut up." She replied. When Sanji came back, he had a brown jacket in his hand. He replaced it with his cape and put it back on.

"Any warmer, Takono-chwan?" He smiled.

She smiled back. "Thanks!"

"TRUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEE LOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEE!!" Kurry sang completely off key.

"SHUT UP ALREADY!!" Takono yelled back. "Stop doing that anytime I'm NICE to him!"

"LIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTNIIIIIIIIIIING STRIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIIIIIIIING!!" Suta sang. (Klaus Nomi? O.o)

Deji covered her sister's mouth. "Don't sing that!"

"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves..." Takono started singing.

"WE'RE TRYING TO ANNOY YOU!!" Zoro and Kurry yelled.

"AHA!! YOU ADMIT IT!" She pointed out.

Deji uncovered her sisters mouth.

"E-I-E-I-O." Luffy said softly.

"Meow." Takono just said out of nowhere.

Sanji took a bag full of cookies out of his pocket. "Anyone want one?"

Jam spotted the bag. His eyes widened and drool leaked out of his mouth. "COOKIE!!" He jumped on Sanji, and started climbing up his suit trying to reach for the cookies. "COOKIE COOKIE COOKIE..."

He grabbed Jam. "Just ASK for one like a normal green-cat-rabbit-THING."

He stopped. "Pleeeeeeeeeeease??" He asked nicely. He sighed, then nodded. Jam attacked the bag and ate all the cookies inside.

Zoro looked at Takono, who wasn't bugging out, like he expected. "What?"

"Nothing." He looked away. Once he did, he spotted a deserted, broken down mansion with big holes and broken windows. Everything was just... well... broken. And he DID remember the bet he had with Sanji. "Takono," She looked up. "Truth or Dare?"

"Uh..." She raised a brow. "Dare, I guess."

He pointed to the house. "Go inside that house. By yourself. Stay in there for a half hour, and you CAN'T come out or stay in one place."

She smirked. "Okay, I will."

Usopp took a quick glance at the house. "Zoro, are you sure--"

"Shh!"

She ran up the hill, and at the top, she grabbed her knees.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm tired... It's a big hill..." She tried catching her breath between words.

At the mansion...

Takono stared at the door. She WAS a little scared, but didn't want to show it.

"So, aren't you gonna go in?" Zoro asked.

"Lemme look at it for a sec. Jeez."

"Or maybe you're too scared and want your boyfriend to hold your hand?" He teased. She got annoyed, and just slammed the door open. By the time she walked inside, it closed behind her. She wanted to make sure they were still outside, so she looked out the broken window.

They were all gone. She seemed a little worried. "Guys? You there?" She straightened her face out. "They're just trying to scare me. Well I'll show THEM!!" She spun on her heels and gulped.

Outside, behind a bush, Zoro couldn't help but smile. "I can't wait to see what happens..."

Sanji glared at Zoro. "What?" Zoro asked, confusedly.

"You didn't make this bet for fun. You did it to GET BACK at her."

He raised a brow. "What'ya mean? You're imagining things."

The blonde grabbed his collar. "Get. her. out. NOW."

"Hey, this'll prove how brave she is. You'll be able to tell if she can take care of herself or not." He smirked. "Or would you rather tag along like a dead goose, ERO COOK?"

Sanji let go of his collar. He didn't want to be called that by anyone. Especially Zoro. And He also wanted to prove that he wasn't overprotective. "Fine. But if I see ONE tear on her face..." He dragged his finger across his neck.

The two heard Franky crying. "What's wrong with you?"

"Th-The sign of true love!! Swirly's expressing true love!! I-It's so beautiful!!" He turned away from Franky with a blush across his cheeks.

"She's a lady, and I can't object that. I'm a little... well, concerned." He mumbled. Nami wrapped her arms around him.

"Aww, come on, Sanji-kun! Tell us the truth!!" She gave a flirty tone.

"I am!!" He looked at the house. "But wouldn't you want me to go in there if it was YOU who went in?"

She thought for a second, then shuddered. "No WAY I'd go in there... It's too scary..."

Takono slowly stepped up the creaking stairs. "Oh man, these sound like I'll fall through..." She crawled under a giant cobweb up the stairs. "I made it..."

She saw a shadow in the corner of her eye and gasped. "Who's there?!" It disappeared and she sighed in relief. "Yokata..." She laughed. "For a second, I thought it was--"

"Me?" A voice interrupted her. She froze and turned to see who it was... It was a tall man she recognized. Just looking into his sharp red eyed turned her face white.

"Alright, alright, fine. I'll get her out." Zoro scoffed. "But just because you won't stop whining about it."

"Just get in there." Sanji tried pushing him in.

"Don't rush me, cook." Once the door creaked, they heard a loud scream from upstairs, along with rushing footsteps. "TAKONO!!/TAKONO-CHAN!!" The blond and green-haired man rushed up the stairs. Once they got upstairs, they saw her blocking a door, trying to catch her breath.

"Takono, what happened?!" Zoro asked.

"DON'T GO IN THIS ROOM!!" She warned.

"Wha...?"

"JUST GO!! I'LL BE FINE!!" She yelled again. Sanji pulled her away from the door. "NO!! DON'T OPEN IT!! SANJI!!" She tried to stop him, but Zoro held her in one place. "Stay back and just explain later!!"

Sanji opened the door, but didn't see anything but a torn-up bedroom and an open window. No one was inside.

The two men looked at Takono, who looked terrified. "I'm serious... I saw someone..." Sanji gave her a hug.

"Maybe you're imagining things... but I'm sure it's just gone. Maybe he jumped out the window."

"BUT--"

"Come on. Lets just go back."

"DON'T GO IN THERE!!" Kurry yelled. The 3 looked back. At the door, Kurry tried stopping Deji and Suta from coming in. They were holding brooms. "DON'T HURT IMOOTO SAN!!" Kurry grabbed their arms. "GET BACK HERE!! SANJI AND ONII SAN'LL TAKE CARE OF IT!!"

"...So... wanna keep lookin' around the mansion?" Takono shook her head anxiously and walked down the stairs, holding Sanji's arm.

"What scared you?" Sanji asked. She shook her head like she was saying she didn't want to say.

Red eyes opened inside the dark room, and chuckled.