Drunk

Luffy watched as Zolo took another careful sip from the dark bottle. All afternoon the swordsman had been doing this, and Luffy didn't really understand why, but it looked like it would be cool, so, why not? If Zolo could drink, so could he. At least, that's what the little captain thought as Zolo drank the last of the alcohol and proceeded to get up and throw the bottle into the kitchen where there was a dull thunk and Zolo pulled out his swords with a smile. Luffy rolled his eyes and smiled. Here it came.

"You fucking Marimo!" Sanji's voice was heard before the cook was even seen and then the blonde came out from the kitchen, sleeves still rolled up and a large lump forming on the back of the chef's head.

"Throw your goddamn bottles at Luffy if you must throw them at someone!" Sanji yelled as he approached.

"Why would I do that? I like Luffy, unlike you." Zolo replied and then it was on. Sanji growled and drove his leg out with a powerful kick that Zolo dodged and then the swordsman swung out and just missed Sanji's chest. The chef back flipped and brought his toe up, meaning to catch Zolo's chin with it, but the Santoryu artist was smarter than that and was already out of the way.

Luffy watched the fight, not really interested as the two had done this many times. Instead, he decided it was time to try this drink that Zolo seemed to like so much. Zolo was cool, therefore, drinking must be cool too, right? That's how Luffy saw it anyway.

He jumped down from the rail he had been sitting on and walked towards the storeroom, which seemed to be the place where most of the alcohol was kept. He found the door and opened it. Luffy hummed as he walked into the room and looked around. There they were, all lined up in a row by the big bags of flour. There was a crash from above and then Nami yelling something about how men could be so immature. Luffy shrugged and continued towards his goal.

Zolo slid his swords back into their sheaths after Nami had yelled at the two fighting men to quit it or they would owe her, well, something that had a lot of zero's on the end. Sanji gave the swordsman one last vehement glare and then floated after Nami.

Zolo curled his lip and then sat down by the mast again, thinking he would take a nap, but what he quickly realised, was that he actually wanted a drink. So, he got up again and walked boredly towards the storeroom. He heard a giggle and paused, his hand inches from the nob of the door. He raised an eyebrow and walked in to see Luffy sitting on the floor. That wasn't the unusual thing though. There were five, yes five, empty bottles of rum sitting around Luffy. Zolo almost screamed but instead, his eye twitched and his mouth dropped open.

"Zzzzzzoloooooooo!" Luffy cried, very obviously drunk. Now, how Luffy could manage to stay awake after all that alcohol, was beyond the swordsman's train of thought, which was currently heading down the track of, 'Holy shit, he drank all of my rum!' Zolo let out a weird sort of whimper before walking over to the drunk rubber man.

Bending down, he threw Luffy's arm over his shoulder and pulled the smaller boy up.

"Naaa Zzzzolo. I can get up by myself." Luffy cried, his speech seriously impaired that the words just seemed to slur together. Zolo raised an eyebrow and let the boy go. Luffy didn't even stay straight for half a second and Zolo had to bend quickly to grab Luffy before he hit the floor.

"Okay, need to get you to bed." Zolo muttered and then began dragging the boy towards the men's quarters.

"Nooooo. I wanna go and see the ssssunssset. He he he." Luffy responded and began moving in the opposite direction. Zolo sighed and followed, trying to pull Luffy back, but the captain was still strong despite his drunkenness. And, of all the cursed luck, the first person to see Luffy drunk, other than Zolo, was Sanji. The cook was walking down to the store room to get some food to make dinner.

"Hey Ssssanji!" Luffy cried before banging into a wall and then giggling hysterically.

"What the hell happened to him?" Sanji asked. Zolo raised an eyebrow.

"What does it look like. The idiot got drunk… on all of my rum!" He replied. Sanji chuckled.

"Poor Zolo. Come on. Let's get the stupid bastard back to bed." Sanji said. The combined effort of the two second strongest men on the ship was still not enough to dissuade their drunk captain from going to see the sunset.

Luffy reached the deck and looked around. He spread his arms wide and nearly fell over backwards, arms windmilling to keep himself upright. The sun had already set and Luffy whined disappointedly. Zolo and Sanji walked up behind him.

"See your sunset captain?" Zolo asked. Luffy turned and swayed, his eyes sad.

"No. The day's over and I didn't even get to see it." he replied. Sanji raised his curly eyebrow.

"He must be drunk, he's making sense." the cook muttered. Luffy's eyes drooped and he swayed again, more violently this time. Zolo caught him and picked him up, sweeping the smaller man into his arms easily.

"Why didn't you just do that in the first place?" Sanji asked irritated. Zolo glared at the chef before walking back down towards the men's quarters again.

"What happened to Luffy?" Chopper asked from behind him. The swordsman jumped, not having heard the little reindeer come up behind him. Zolo smirked.

"He's got drunk." the green haired man replied. Chopper squealed and began running in circles.

"Drunk? I have to cure it! I'll go look in my medical journals!" and he ran off as fast as his little hooves could carry him. Zolo chuckled and walked into the men's quarters, Luffy fast asleep in his arms and snoring lightly. The swordsman gently lay Luffy down in his hammock, placed his hat on the little shelf that was made especially for it and then pulled the covers up over his captain.

"Sleep tight captain." he muttered before leaning down and quickly placing a kiss on the smaller boy's forehead.

Luffy woke up the next day with his head hurting like someone had been ramming a large… something against his brain.

"Urgh." he muttered and placed a hand against his forehead. His stuck his tongue out and swiped a hand over it, trying to wipe whatever fuzzy thing had decided to take up residence in his mouth off.

"Awake I see." an amused voice said from beside him, making the captain wince as his head throbbed.

"Zolo?" he muttered and then cleared his throat. There was a chuckle.

"Yep. See what happens when you try something you shouldn't." Zolo replied. Luffy looked over, forcing his eyes to open and look at the green haired man's face. Something warm was pushed into Luffy's hands.

"How can you drink that stuff Zolo, it was nasty." Luffy muttered as he gazed at his first mate's face and it slowly came into focus. Zolo shrugged.

"It tastes better when you get used to it, and I've been drinking it for a long time." he replied. Luffy nodded but stopped quickly as it hurt.

"I feel horrible. Worse than when Chopper gives me a shot." he muttered. There was a slight shift of his hand and then a cup was pushed against his lips. He opened his mouth obediently and then hot liquid that tasted bitter was flowing into his mouth. He sputtered and closed his mouth, unfortunately he had to swallow and did so before sticking his tongue out and coughing.

"Yuck!" he cried. Zolo laughed.

"It's coffee. It'll help." he said. Luffy shook his head despite the pain. "Come on. You drank most of it anyway." Luffy shook his head again.

"It's tastes horrible." he argued.

"GOOD MORNING!" a loud voice yelled into the room. Luffy yelped and put his hands over his ears.

"Get out you blonde bastard!" Zolo returned.

"Awww, just greeting a new day!" Sanji yelled and then snickered. He walked over to Luffy's bed and bent over the whimpering boy and said quietly, "Sorry. How are you feeling?"

"Like hell." Luffy replied annoyed. Sanji chuckled.

"Yep. Drinking'll do that to ya." the chef muttered before standing straight again.

"Sanji!" a musical feminine voice called. Sanji was gone in a flash, running towards Nami with lightning fast speed. Zolo and Luffy looked at each other with raised eyebrows.

"Come on, drink the last of the coffee or it'll get cold and taste even worse." Zolo cajoled. Luffy sighed and took the cup and drank it. He poked his tongue out when it was finished and swiped a hand over his tongue again.

"What are you doing?" Zolo asked. Luffy peered at him.

"My tongue feels fuzzy." he replied and swiped his hand over it again.

"Doing that won't help."

"What should I do?"

"This," and Zolo quickly leant forward and kissed Luffy gently. When Luffy didn't pull away, he deepened the kiss and ran his tongue over Luffy's. He pulled away and smiled.

"Better?" he asked. Luffy was in shock and then he smiled, a light pink tinge on his cheeks.

"Yeah. Much."

End

He he he, I have never been drunk and will strive to never do so but I know people that do and get massive hangovers and this is their explanations to me sort of. -shrugs-