Law thought the whole mushy situation he found himself in was annoying but it was getting stupid. At first, the guys all hugged Jasmine complaining that their Captain was heartless and that they wanted to stay. Bepo even got involved by asking her to stay and then apologising. Then it was Mizu's turn.

"I don't wanna leave you!" Mizu squealed hanging off Jasmine. She buried her head in Jasmine's soft blue hair, shaking her head with every whine. The held each other close but unknown to Mizu, Jasmine sent Law a smug expression as if to say, 'jealous'. "Never, ever, ever."

"Yeah we don't either!" yelled Shachi and Penguin joining in on the hug, making into a mass of limbs hanging onto each other. Bepo stood off to the side apologising that he also wants Jasmine to stay.

Law rolled his eyes and folded his arms, "Everyone on board now." The three guys instantly appeared on deck but Mizu didn't. As if pouting would work against Law, but Mizu tried, she swung herself around Jasmine and hugged her from behind. "Not going to work, move it, now."

Mizu sighed and gave Jasmine one last squeeze as she slowly made her way past Law. "Big meanie, no hugs for you."

She definitely noticed that eye roll and huffed. "There's obviously a place for you amongst my crew, if you want to come out of retirement."

Jasmine shrugged, "Can't say it wasn't nice to slice me some marines but I'm good here thanks. I'm about to be promoted, my boss is buying up hotels that need someone in charge, especially an ex-pirate who might be in charge of bar on Sabaody. I doubt I'll see you there but that's where you'll find me. Oh and sweetie, if I ever hear that this one has done something stupid you can count on me."

"Aww, Jasmine, miss you already bunny!" Mizu cried blowing kisses at her. Law sighed and made his way onto the deck, choosing to ignore the 'bunny' moment for the time being.

"Bunny?" Shachi whispered to Penguin confused as ever.

"Good luck, I hope you make it." Jasmine waved as they set sail.

They kept shouting their goodbyes until Jasmine was but a blue dot in the distance. They stayed outside until they were forced by their heartless Captain to head inside. "Unless you morons want to drown of course." Pouting all the way inside, the guys headed further into the ship moaning all the way. Mizu waited behind pouting at law until he sighed. "Doesn't that hurt?"

Mizu stopped and blinked, "Pouting? Maybe a little, but it's your fault."

"Did you want me to kidnap her?" he raised an eyebrow at her happy expression.

"Yes!" she chirped bouncing on the balls of her feet.

Law didn't even say anything he just walked down the corridor amazed at his cleaner. Mizu cocked her head to the side with a confused look. Law turned back to her with a smirk, "Come on Mizu-ya let's move your stuff out of your room."

"Really?" Mizu chirped again jogging up to him happily, they walked in peaceful quiet until Mizu realised something. She stopped and smacked Law's arm, ignoring the stinging in her fingers. "You meanie, you're distracting me."

"How could you tell?"

"Because you're evil."

"And yet, you're still here."

"I know," Mizu grinned and leaned into Law evilly, "it's sexy."

"I'm a bad influence aren't I?"

The cleaner laughed and skipped down the corridor towards her room. "Most definitely." She called over her shoulder.

When Law made it to Mizu's room she had already packed half her room up, including a big stack of books. "This won't fit in my room."

"Oh I know. But I have a cunning plan, I needed to rearrange things anyway. Could I possibly borrow one of the guys?"

"Tomorrow, according to Jasmine-ya," Mizu let out a sniffle that was promptly ignored by the man, "the next island is tiny, barely anything on it. Usually it's a good hide out we may find a few marines on it."

Narrowing her eyes Mizu stopped her packing and rearranging. "Are you trying to find George-ya's commodores?"

"Perhaps, Jasmine-ya," as the maid was facing him, Law could see her eyes glaze over from the tears welling up. "Stop that. Right now. No tears. As I was saying, she was a bit mute about the first commodore. The one that lead you away."

"W-w-w-well, he's, you know, that guy."

"What guy?"

"You know, the guy, who was er, on the island, at the hotel."

"The one in the pool?"

"Yeah."

Mizu was a little freaked out by the expression that flashed across Law's face. Within a second his usual smirk was back and without saying anything else, the man left. Mizu finished her packing and brought some clothes and books to Law's room. She quietly poked her head around the door and found the place empty. Tip-toeing in, she found a space in his closet and bookshelf. A small space. Her eye brow twitched but taking a deep breath Mizu fought the urge to smack Law upside the head, or steal his hat either way. Sighing, Mizu jumped on her new bed and snuggled into it. When she woke up Mizu felt exceptionally warm.

"Had a nice nap?"

Mizu rolled over at the sound of Law's voice, only freaking out when she saw him in a towel. "LAW!" she screeched grabbing a pillow and slamming it over her eyes. "Put some clothes on!"

"Embarrassed?"

"YES!"

"Adorable Mizu-ya."

"SHUT UP!" she yelled, at least she wasn't stuttering, her voice wasn't as angry as she had hoped. It was far too shrill and squeaky to be anything but.

Mizu's heart rate sped up uncontrollably when she felt damp hands on her legs. Her body tensed as Law dragged her under him. As Law pulled her protective pillow away, her lips parted and her eyes tried to adjust from being blurry. Law smirked at his catch, her shirt had slid up and her hair was sprayed out around her. The pink blush and wide eyed appearance added to her cuteness. Law leaned into to kiss her when,

"Captain!" there was a loud bang from behind them where probably two annoying crew mates where stood.

Law and Mizu got into a position to see the door and lo and behold, Shachi and Penguin had burst through the door without knocking. The two looked ridiculous, their jaws dropped and bright red faces. If Mizu didn't look the same she'd burst out laughing. Law quietly growled and moved to get up. "Leave. Now."

"Yes, Captain, bye Captain!" Penguin half yelled fleeing straight away.

"No problem Captain, sorry to disturb Captain!" Shachi added scarpering after his friend.

"Law?" Mizu softly called to him, a grunt came as a reply, "could you please put some clothes on now? It might have been important. they wouldn't disturbed you if it wasn't. You'd better give them five minutes though."

Law gave her a long look before getting up. "I doubt it was that important. You'd better start on your chores; the crew were alone for a few days who knows what state it's in. I want my sub spotless for when we get to Sabaody."

"Oh god you're right. I left my overalls down in my room, glad I did."

Law noted how she glared at the small amount of space he gave her. He was hoping that it'll make her mad and go yell at him. Naturally, he had something evil in mind about how to punish his ungrateful subordinate but he'll get her to crack. "Get moving, Maid-ya if you're good I'll give you a reward later."

Seeing bright red fill her face made Law chuckle, Mizu on the other hand started to spluttered and shake. It didn't stop even when she was out the room. Law even heard a thump from outside, it was Mizu tripping over her feet and slamming into the wall. Mizu managed to make it back to her room in moderate peace, it didn't help that her face was bright red and her hair was all over the place. All the guys kept nudging each other and winking. Even when she looked in the mirror in her room her face was still pink, not red but she was still blushing. She slapped on her overalls and got to work, as suspected the whole ship had gone downhill. Food packets were littered everywhere, grime had built up in the bathrooms again and a certain someone had been stuffing his pillows with magazines again. Grinning evilly to herself Mizu picked one up, rolled it up and put in one of her deep pockets. At the last minute she decided to stack them neatly on his bedside cabinet, in alphabetical order. If Shachi did it again, she'd change to price order and find new ways of embarrassing him. After nodding at her evil plan worthy of Law's nod of approval, she headed to dinner. Irritatingly, the cook placed a bowel of chicken noodle soup in front of her. Mizu stomped over to the usual table and dumped the soup bowel down.

"So, soup huh? Putting me on a diet?"

Law put on his phony smile and said almost sweetly "Not at all Mizu-ya, I don't suppose you remember what happened just yesterday do you?"

"Huh? Oh, my lip, but it's healing."

"Who's your doctor?"

"You are." Mizu sighed, touching her still swollen lip.

"By the way your bruise is starting to show."

Then the guys started to peer at her their eyes squinting in concentration. Penguin spoke up first leaning back in his chair sighing. "Ouch, that's going to be a big ass bruise."

"Yep, that's going to be bad, bless you, you won't be able to look in a mirror for a while."

"That's big," Bepo started but then the usual happened, he looked shocked then started to apologise.

While Penguin and Shachi berated the poor bear for being weak, Mizu reached up to feel her face. Her cheek below her eye felt raised and tender, slowly she touched the puffy skin around her eye. The bruising skin ached and pinched under her touch, she flinched squeezing her eyes shut. That pulled at the skin causing more pain, Mizu groaned and placed her cool drink to her eye. "Ouch, vile pain in my behind, hey Law how bad is it?"

The man in question raised an eyebrow and studied her face for a short while. "Not that bad for now, it'll be positively disgusting when it fully comes out."

"Thanks for the honestly, I suppose."

"I'll be checking your work before I retire, I suspect you'll be back before me right?"

"Obviously, you tend to stay up until stupid o'clock in the morning."

Law smirked "Oh? And how do you know that?"

"Because you're never in your room when I pass you pervert. I'm not creepy like you Captain Creeper."

The winning smirk on his face dropped into a frown, Law hated that she wasn't snapping like she would normally. Law found himself thinking about his reply, he likened their positions like a game of chess. The smirk was put back on as he replied, "Oh? Well, you better do a good job of cleaning the ship or you won't get that reward I mentioned."

"LAW!" she screeched blushing probably from head to toe.

The entire crew turned round to witness this, they had missed the outbursts, it was starting to be too quiet. They listened in like old house wives for the latest gossip. "What it's what we agreed upon."

"It's what you said, I didn't say either way!"

"Then you want to be punished?"

"NO YOU," Mizu sprang out of her seat and stormed towards the door, "GODDAMN PERVERT! I DON'T WANT PUNISHED OR REWARDED YOU GIANT SADISTIC PERVERT!"

The crew instantly had their heads together whispering to each other while Law smirked at his accomplishment. Things were about to be interesting again and the only person who didn't like it was Penguin as he was the one who dealt with the brunt from both sides. Mizu got back to cleaning, remembering to switch sides and take breaks occasionally due to her shoulder but there was a certain vigour in her actions. Almost steam roller-like in the way she cleaned to hallways and Mizu was determined to obliterate any speak dust that crossed her path. All of the guys kept out of her way not wanting to be caught up in the, well, maniac cleaning. When she had finished Mizu wanted to sleep, her back aching from all the work. Stupidly, she went to her room instead of Law's, sighing Mizu placed her boiler suit back in her wardrobe and changed there. Making her way back she ignored all the weird glances from the rest of the crew, they normally did that whenever Law was having a 'moment'. A 'moment' being when he was up to something, something evil and twisted and it clocked.

"Oh hell no." Mizu whispered aloud turning on the spot and marching back to her room without looking back.

As expected, when Law reached his room he was slightly unhappy to see that his maid wasn't there. So he took it upon himself to go and retrieve her, his words. When he saw the maid all cute and curled up in a ball, shirt drifting ever upwards and a piece of hair falling across her face he nearly stopped. Nearly. Game face on, Law placed the stray strand of hair out of her face. Mizu shifted waking up from the intrusion. "Ah, Mizu-ya, I was hoping you would wake up."

Mizu sat up rubbing her eyes, completely innocent. "Hi, Law, whatcha up to?"

"Well, I was wondering why you were here."

"Here?"

"In your room."

It finally twigged why Mizu might just be slightly in trouble. "Oh. Oops?"

"No."

"Oh no."

"Indeed."

"That's bad."

"Obviously."

"No chance?"

"Mizu-ya?"

"Yes?"

"Idiot." Law sighed smacking her softly on the head, "Come."

"Your room?"

"Yes."

"Punishment?"

Law flashed her a sadistic grin, but not the usual kind, this one sent shivers up her spine. "Perhaps."

"Coming." The whole exchanged would confuse an outsider looking in but Mizu was learning the differences in Law's tone and expressions. She remembered when she first started there and they'd get into arguments and Law always call her an idiot but all of it made her smile.

"Oh and Mizu-ya?"

"Yeah?"

"You didn't stay by my side."

"Oops?" She shrugged trying to laugh it off.

"Maybe I have to punish you, you didn't obey my orders."

The cleaner took one look at his face and stopped. "Law stop with the face, it's really creepy, seriously, never show anyone that face, it's just too, ugh. I don't think there's a way to describe just how weird and creepy that face is."

"If you think this is creepy then you should see yourself when you see something shiny."

"HEY! That's a condition, I can't help it if the shinies are involved."

"Mizu-ya?"

"Shut up?"

"No, don't be a moron."

"Oh," poor Mizu let out a shaky laugh her beat sped up hoping to catch up with the blood rushing to her face, "close enough, right Law?"

"That's Captain," Law smirked, "you're definitely going to be punished."

"Should I be scared?"

"Moderately."

Important notice: I shall be away on holiday for two weeks so no updates till I get back, which leads into,
Important notice 2: As noted from the above, this chapter is a tad rushed, I apologise but I wanted to give you something before I went away.

Like always big thanks to everyone who has supported me over the long time I have been writing,

Massive thanks to HesperideIsis, 10th Squad 3rd Seat, Shiningheart of ThunderClan, sarge1130, Lucy Jacob, beast4ever, jymmie00, Guest (sorry if disappointed) and BlueThief (still no trusty huh?)!