I'm late in updating! Oh noes! D:
In response to my own thought of the day (which I accidentally called thought of the week) I say Robin needs more fights. She's only had TWO solo fights in the entire series so far, and I don't think vs Pell counted that much since it was primarily to demonstrate her powers and Pell didn't even stand a chance.

Title: How the Strawhats got a Boat
Theme: Ship
Claim: Nami+Sanji+Robin
Words: 509
Rating: K+
Warnings: AU. Awful… it's just… awful. I should have started these earlier. ;_;

Normally, Sanji wouldn't have been able to afford such luxuries. But, seeing as it was summer vacation and Zeff had given him a raise (not that much of a difference, but it was pretty nice of the old geezer to do that), Sanji decided to treat himself.

It was customary for their mismatched group of nine to go down to the house by Lake Blue for a couple weeks each summer. Franky had built it himself on the bit of land he bought and cleared out the old road so his loud (both auditory and color-wise) van could make its way down. The town on the other side of the lake had plenty of tourist-attracting stores that rented out boats, fishing rods, and the sorts. None of the nine had ever paid much attention to the rental stores since Franky built his own things, but Sanji was always eyeing the yacht rental. Yachts, after all, were sleek, classy, and swift- just like himself.

So Sanji told Franky that he'd be heading down to the lake a day before the rest of the group went. No one thought much of it and continued packing their own things.

The next day, the small group arrived at Franky's lake house to see Sanji lounging on a yacht drifting on the lake. He looked up and lifted his sunglasses, waving.

"Naaaami! Rooooobin!" he called. "Look, I'm on a yacht!"

"Bro, you rented a yacht? But I could just build you one!" Franky shouted out to him.

"What a loser." Zoro shook his head, heading inside with the bags. He only paused to help Chopper with his heavy duffel bag.

"A yacht! Sanji got a yacht!" Luffy danced around in the gravel.

"Psh. Did I tell you about the time I had a submarine?" Usopp enunciated. "It was pretty sweet. Then it blew up from an enemy missile."

"Whoa! It did?"

"Yeah, but it's cool." Usopp said casually. "The sub was pretty leaky, anyways."

"Naaaami! Roooobin!" Sanji steered the yacht to the dock. "Come join me on my love yacht!"

"THAT'S SO STUPID!" Zoro shouted out the back window.

"WHO ASKED YOU?"

"My god…" Nami slapped her forehead. "Sanji! Stop yelling! The town can probably hear you!"

"Sanji, may I come aboard?" Brook asked.

"Eh… sure. Nami, Robin, what do you think?" Sanji grinned, standing at the front of the yacht.

"How much did you rent that for?" Robin asked, examining the hull.

"About a thousand dollars a day. Why do you ask?"

The yacht suddenly let out a metallic burp and began to sink.

"That's why." Robin nodded.

"YOU WASTED SO MUCH MONEY!" Nami screamed.

"I'm sorry!" Sanji cried out as he leapt for the dock, landing on his knees. "I had no idea it was such a shitty yacht!"

"Now you know." Robin said gravely.

"I told you, I could just build an even better yacht! You know what, screw it, I'm going to build one anyways." Franky said.

And that was how the nine of them got their own personal boat.

Thought of the day: Do you think romance can actually work in One Piece if Oda tried? Why or why not? (And not in the comical one-sided way, like with Hancock)