Sorry everyone
Sorry everyone! I had to catch up on my writing and my family is bashing on me about it again. (sigh) Oh well, moving on.
Vivi: Enjoy!
Chapter 28: Dull Start
The next day, Luffy was running up and down the hall, making excited sounds and chuckling before laughing.
Zoro walked out of the door to see the other running towards him. "Lu-!" He was bout to say when the other crashed into him.
Both were on the ground, Zoro groaning and Luffy chuckling.
"Damn it Luffy! You're suppose to take it easy today! Or you would be sent back to bed!"
Luffy pouted. "Ah!"
"Don't give me that!" He said as he gently shoved the other off of him. "What were you thinking running up and down the hall like that anyway? You can't just-"
"I didn't want to bother Zoro." Luffy said. "And I was waiting, then I got bored, and here I am!"
That shut the swordsman up for a moment. "S-Still! You can't run up and down the hall like that, especially when you're suppose to take it easy for the next few hours, alright?"
Luffy nodded. "Okay! I understand." He said a little too simply.
Zoro noticed, but was too tired to argue. "We better go get some break-" He didn't get to finish his sentence as the other grabbed his wrist and ran. "LUFFY!" He called out as he tried to find his balance within the unexpected sprint.
Luffy finally did stop in front of the elevator, which the other crashed face first into the doors before they opened and he fell in. "Zoro's funny." He said as he pressed the lobby button.
Zoro got up when the elevator started to move. He glared lazily at the other as he rubbed the sore spots on his face. 'The bastard is so lucky that I accept him as a friend, otherwise he would've died right now…' He thought as he sighed. "What point of 'taking it easy' did you not get?" He said as the elevator stopped.
"The easy part." Luffy responded as if it was the most obvious thing in existence. He grabbed the other by the wrist again and they walked to the eating area, where the others were already there.
"LUFFY!" Seems like everyone cheered upon seeing the young man.
Chopper ran up and Luffy caught him in a hug. "Chopper!"
"I'm so glad you're feeling better Luffy!" Chopper said. "But you should take another day's worth of rest to recover a bit."
"Don't worry! As long as I take it easy I'll be fine, right Zoro?"
"Yeah, but so far you've done nothing but run and being hyper." Zoro said.
"Not that much though!"
"I know, but if you step out of line, I will drag you back up the room and put you in bed." He warned.
"Okay!" Luffy said with a sigh.
"Wow…" Vivi said.
"What?" Kohzu asked.
"Normally Luffy would be difficult to tell him things he should do and don't because he tends to do things on a whim. But he listens to Zoro very well, and that's just amazing." Vivi explained in a whisper.
Everyone else seemed to notice this, but decided not to voice about it.
"Oi!" Sanji said. "You're okay to eat solids, right?"
Luffy nodded, still holding onto Chopper. "Yep! I'm all better. Thanks to Chopper and Zoro!"
Zoro didn't say anything as Chopper blushed and squirm out of Luffy's embrace.
"Shut up! That doesn't make me happy!" Chopper said as he did a strange dance and smiling like a fool. "You bastard!"
Luffy laughed as he had a small dizzy spell. "Whoa…"
Zoro placed a hand on the other's shoulder. "I told you to take it easy…"
"Yeah… I know what you mean now…"
"You better, or it's back to bed with you."
Luffy whined.
Sanji grinned and was going to say something when Luffy called out.
"Sanji! Food!"
"Alright! Alright!" Sanji said as he walked into the kitchen.
Luffy jumped into his seat, followed by Zoro, sitting to the other's right.
"So…!" Nami said as she looked at the two with a look. "What are you guys going to do now?"
"Na? What do you mean Nami?" Luffy asked as he started to steal a waffle from Usopp's plate.
"What are you going to do now that Zoro doesn't have to take care of you now."
Luffy stopped in mid-bite at the thought of not having Zoro caring for him. But thought it was rather stupid and selfish of him. "I still got some meetings and Zoro has that test coming up with Mihawk. And we're in the same room still until Shanks and the others are back."
Nami blinked, not expecting a thought out response. 'Wow… What did Zoro do to him?' She thought as she looked at Zoro, who was giving her a strange and suspicious look.
"Here you go Luffy!" Sanji said as he set the trays down, which were filled with so many plates of food to feed an army.
"Whoa! Thanks Sanji!" Luffy said as he started to chow down.
"Here…" Sanji set down a plate in front of Zoro. "For helping Luffy out…" With that, he walked away to fawn over Nami.
Zoro looked to see that it was a fancy looking breakfast and, dare he admit it, looked really good. He started to eat the meal and silently gave the blonde some points for not being an ass to him this morning.
"Ah!" Luffy said as he patted his stomach. "That was good!"
"You think any kind of food in any form is good." Usopp pointed. "Remember that one time we had that runaway girl here. She made breakfast, only it was really spicy and it didn't really look edible."
"I remember that!" Nami said. "She learned how to cook properly with Sanji helping her, but yeah, I remember that first time she cooked. Luffy ate it all like it was any other kind of meal."
"Just goes to show that that kid could practically eat anything." Franky said.
Luffy just laughed as Zoro smirked, agreeingly.
"Sanji!" Nami called in her sweet voice. "Would you mind if you could refill my glass of orange juice?"
"Of course my dove of love!"
Zoro rolled his eyes. "Here we go." He said as he looked like he was going to gag. "And this time he rhymed!"
"What was that!?" Sanji said as he went over to the other.
"You heard me! 'My dove of love'!? I've heard cheesier things than that!"
"You wanna start something?!"
"Here they go again." Usopp said with a sigh, along with Chopper.
"What can we do?" Franky said with a shrug as he drank his secret stash of Cola.
"I think it's rather amusing." Robin said with that mysterious smile.
"Kind of strange form of amusement." Brooke said as he checked over his violin for the fifth time.
Johnny and Yosaku were just eating as they watched all the happenings of the table.
Kaya, Vivi, and Kohzu were also just witnessing the randomness that is the group.
Luffy just laughed as the two argued when a sugarcoated voice called out.
"Sanji! I was planning on going downtown for some shopping. Would you like to come with me?"
"Yes my darling! I am honored to be the one to ask to attend with you to your errand!"
"Some one please shut him up." Zoro said as his eye started to twitch.
"No one's talking to you!"
Nami, as many have noticed, was getting agitated for some time due to not having the usual attention she would usually get. She thought it would pass, but it was getting on her nerves instead.
She liked getting attention, even if the blonde usually overdoes is a bit, she like to feel praised for just being a woman. She liked Sanji, that much is pretty much known, but she never considered any stronger feelings other than liking. But now, ever since Sanji started picking fights with the green-haired man, she felt a little like she was being pushed aside. She never liked being felt like that, not from the blonde chef. From any other guy, no problem, but not him!
Luffy sighed. "What a dull start for a day like this." He said when he had a look of having an idea.
'Uh oh…' Everyone thought when they saw the look, even Zoro was slightly concerned of what the idea was.
"Let's play a game!"
And I'm going to be evil and end it here.
Vivi: Readers are going to hate you for that.
Bring it on!
Vivi: (sigh) R&R please!
