Sexy times in this chapter! Enjoy~

Later that day, after they had escaped from some marines that had found out about their location, everyone sat around the dinner table, which was much bigger than the Merry's, and though the Merry was charming, the table had been very scrunched. Sanji was ecstatic with the kitchen, and was still cooking after dinner was over, making dessert after dessert for the crew.

Franky fit right in, and everyone was happy with the ship he'd built for them. Luffy sat in Zoro's lap, leaning her back against his chest, tired and looking forward to sleeping in a room that wasn't so cold at night. Plus, she was excited for the big tub and was going to be able to fit in it with Zoro. He could barely fit in the Merry's old tub, so both of them never could. She was stuffed from all of the food Sanji had made, and that he kept churning out.

"So, what are you Luffy?" Franky finally asked, having wondered about it for a long time. Luffy looked at him with her eyebrows raised. She looked to Robin, who happily explained everything so Luffy didn't have to write it all out. Franky was interested, but not fascinated with it. When her powers were told, Franky's eyes lit up. Luffy could make supplies for him. Endless supplies!

Nami seemed to understand what Franky was thinking, and said, "There's a limit for how many things she can create at once." But, Franky was still ecstatic that they could all save money on buying necessities.

"So, I am sorry about what happened," Franky said sincerely.

I still get to punch you, Luffy wrote with a smirk. Franky wasn't looking forward to it, knowing Luffy was incredibly strong despite her small size. It was quite deceptive, really. Someone so tiny and weak looking being one of the powerhouses on the crew.

Sanji came over and served the girls some chocolate delicacy, Luffy of course splitting it with Zoro. Sanji had gotten over that already, knowing she would share no matter what he wanted. It annoyed him, but there was no point in making something out of it. Zoro never complimented his food, which also annoyed him.

When it got late, and Luffy's eyes started sliding shut, Zoro picked her up and announced that they were going to bed, and eagerly headed to their new bedroom. He playfully tossed Luffy onto the big bed and changed, while she did so behind her screen. Zoro didn't understand why she still did that after they'd both seen each other naked many times.

This time, however, Zoro was surprised when she wasn't wearing a dress, just panties and a tank top. Zoro asked her why, and she wrote, It's not super cold anymore. She buried herself under the fluffy covers and brought the blanket up to her nose. Zoro smiled and climbed under after her.

"Goodnight," he said and kissed her on the forehead before both of them fell asleep quickly, not cold in the least and not covered by multiple thick blankets.

Luffy woke up first, confused at first as to where they were, but then remembered this was her and Zoro's new bedroom. It made her a bit sad, that they wouldn't ever be back in their first bedroom that they'd designed themselves. But, there was nothing anyone could do about it. She quietly got out of bed and changed, leaving the room and not waking up Zoro before she did so.

Walking through the ship really proved who it was made for. She felt tiny in the tall hallways. Her new bedroom was in a different part of the ship than the shared girls' and boys' rooms. Even though they weren't loud when making love, Franky didn't know that and didn't exactly feel comfortable asking them about something so personal. Luckily, there was a bathroom in that part of the ship, and they didn't have to walk far to get to it.

It may seem strange to outsiders why the captain didn't have her own room, but two of her crew members did. The Merry hadn't had a room specifically for Zoro and Luffy, they'd turned the cannon room into one on their own.

Luffy was the first to arrive at breakfast and found Sanji cooking a large helping of eggs and bacon. Things weren't uncomfortable between them anymore, which everyone was glad of, even Zoro. He hadn't liked Luffy angry at Sanji a lot of the time, even if he still was. He had explained to her many times that it was their relationship. Being angry at each other, and that it wouldn't change even if she wanted it to. So, she accepted it even if it irked her a bit.

"Morning, Luffy," Sanji said. Luffy nodded back and sat at the bar counter of the much, much bigger kitchen than had been the tiny one on the Merry. "How is your and Mosshead's new bedroom?"

Not super cold.

"That's good," Sanji said, doing well at the small talk that they both shared. Never really had deep conversations, that was for everyone else but Sanji and Usopp.

This kitchen is much bigger than the Merry's was, she wrote on her board she'd created. Sanji grinned and said, "Though the Merry was a great ship, its kitchen was abysmal." Luffy nodded in agreement, though Sanji had never complained about it before. "Here I can make so much more at the same time."

Sanji gushed about the kitchen some more before Luffy heard Zoro open the door, holding a thick envelope. "It's for you," Zoro said with a grin, handing the paper to Luffy, who looked at it curiously before grinning and running to the table to rip it open after reading who it was from.

She recognized the writing immediately, and read the letter first. There were some photos also, but she waited for those. Zoro sat down next to her and watched her read the letter from her precious brother. Sanji and Zoro didn't acknowledge each other's presence at all.

Luffy, I hope you're having fun breaking into human military establishments, I'm sure it angered Makino immensely. And no, I'm not mad about you not saying goodbye to me. I'm sorry I haven't written before, but I've been so distracted. I did what you told me to. I went for it and now Marco and I are together.

If you're wondering how we haven't been exiled for it, I'm getting there. First, know that everyone disapproves of your choice but me and Marco, too. Makino must be very furious with us because I took a page out of your book and am now part of the human world as well. You're such a bad influence.

I'm the smallest member of the largest crew. They're all really nice, so I guess humans aren't all so bad, right? I hope you're enjoying your life as a pirate as much as I am! I'm impressed with your bounty and damn you look scary. Some of my new crew couldn't believe you were so small and cute but broke into the human fortress and killed some enemies.

I added some pictures to show you how happy I am now, thanks to you. One day I'm sure we'll run into each other again. Make sure to write me back, and remind Zoro that I am now part of Whitebeard's crew, and if he hurts you, I'll have all of them after his head, and not for his new bounty.

Love and miss you,

Ace.

Luffy was beaming as she looked at the three photos. Ace had a good sense of humor about the size difference as he took a photo next to the captain with a cheeky grin, tiny compared to the man. He also sent a picture of how massive the ship was, and Luffy suddenly felt much more comfortable with the size of the Sunny. The last photo was a picture of him and Marco holding hands, both standing next to the Whitebeard's flag, grinning.

Luffy shared the letter with Zoro next to her, and he whistled about who Ace had joined. He turned to Luffy and asked, "Hey, who is Marco?"

Marco is a nymph, and Ace always had a crush on him. Marco looks different than most nymphs, he was born different. The nymphs don't like same sex couples, and it was an argument when Ace told me I can't be with you because it's forbidden. I told him being with Marco was forbidden, too. Guess he'd rather be with Marco instead of alone, she explained on her board.

"In case you were wondering, Ace joined the Whitebeard pirates," Zoro said since Sanji was watching them very curiously.

I wonder what he's like?

"His title is 'The Strongest Man in the World', so he'd gotta be pretty tough. Wonder how Ace and Marco met with them," Zoro asked. Little by little, the others all filtered in and smiled when Zoro read them Ace's letter. Franky was the only one who hadn't met Ace at all, but he was interested and asked about Luffy's brother. They all talked about it while eating breakfast.

Luffy started a letter of her own after breakfast, telling Ace all about her adventure so far, and how it was fighting enemies that were strong back at Enies Lobby. She left out the parts of her and Zoro making love or Zoro accidentally almost killing her by his sword.

She took photos of the new ship, of her and the crew, and wrapped it all up in a package. She'd mail it at the next island they landed on that had a post office. The rest of the day she was in a better mood than usual, which she was almost always in a good mood lately. Everything with Sanji was over, which had been a major stressor.

Franky didn't know when to expect Luffy would punch him, so it was a bit nerve wracking for him to be near her, knowing her punch would be painful and possibly damaging to his iron body. He'd never met anyone who could hurt him like that until the whole CP9 incident. Zoro noticed his unease and found it hilarious.

He and Luffy started coordinating, scaring him. Luffy stared at him with a mischievous look, and Zoro would walk up from behind and clap his hands, making the fearsome cyborg jump and then yell angrily. Zoro knew it was childish, but Luffy was having fun with it. She waited for the perfect chance to punch him, but it hadn't come yet. It would though, and Franky knew that.

After a while of napping on the grass, which Zoro liked much more than on the wood back on the Going Merry, they both went up to the enclosed crowsnest. Zoro lifted weights for a while, Luffy admiring his sweating muscles not too casually. Zoro's ego was fed while Luffy ate candy while just watching him quietly.

"You know, we could do something else that makes us sweaty up here," Zoro said casually, still lifting the weights. Luffy blinked, blushing.

But this is a public place. She wrote quickly, face red and body tingling. She didn't know if Zoro was just teasing or if he was serious. He was looking at her hungrily, so he was either good at faking or very serious.

"So? I was thinking it would be fun to do it in every place. Especially the kitchen. Perv cook would never know, but we would," Zoro said in a husky voice.

And you're calling Sanji the perv? Zoro grinned, and tackled her to the floor. He kissed down her neck and shoulders, while she buried her hands in his hair. "We could make the crowsnest ours," he suggested into her ear, biting it gently and tigging slightly. She was already breathing quickly. "Or we could just have some fun and not make love. I don't know if the floor would be too comfortable. Or we could save it for that big bathtub. Though we would contaminate the water for everyone else."

Fun? She wrote, breathing quickly. Zoro nodded, and he locked the door to the crowsnest before his hands wandered under Luffy's red dress, as she was trying something new today. It had always been cool colors. What she didn't know was that Zoro was really liking the red dress. They reached up to her chest, gently running over her breasts. She gasped and he swallowed them with a hungry kiss.

She didn't protest when his hands wandered lower until he grabbed her bottom, fitting his hands under her panties to touch the skin there. Luffy was gasping when he broke away from the kiss to trail them down her neck, pulling the dress up so he could lick down her stomach. They had never done this before, just played around. If you could call it playing.

Her face turned bright red when his hands inched towards her front and in between her legs. He whispered in her ear. "Shame we're not in our room, you're already so wet." Luffy's face was redder than it had ever been, matching the dress that was pooled around her shoulders. He returned to her body, licking his way down before he gently shimmied the panties off and down her legs, leaving them at her feet.

"Can I?" he asked finally, looking at her from below. Luffy smiled, loving him so much, making sure she was okay with doing this. You're asking NOW? She wrote. He grinned. "I'll take that as a yes," and leaned forward to lick her sensitive flesh, tasting her. She gasped, making the little gasping moans as he licked and sucked. He so wished she could make noise when they did this. So he could hear her moan his name. He wanted to hear her say his name, even though that was never going to happen.

He spread her legs wider, delving deeper into her core with his tongue and fingers. He grinned when he noticed her juices had touched the floor. Now this room was officially theirs. She grabbed at his hair as he worked, gently and teasingly. He didn't want to risk making her at all uncomfortable by going too rough with his tongue, even though she was so lubricated it wasn't a problem.

She shuddered, more leaking onto his tongue, and he knew she came, twitching and gasping. He didn't stop, wanting to make her cum more and more.

Blowing softly against the folds, he added his fingers, reaching up inside her. He was so hard, but didn't want to risk being interrupted if they went further. He wanted to go further, it had been too long, but was going to restrain himself.

He had enough willpower to just will away his problem afterwards. She clenched around his fingers again, and he chuckled. Looking up, he saw her mouth was open, and drool was coming out as her eyes were scrunched closed.

He grinned and snaked his fingers even deeper until his knuckles were pressed to her hot skin. "You're so beautiful, Luffy," he whispered, and she clenched around his fingers with those words. "I love you so much."

She came one more time, and he kissed her deeply. She didn't seem to care that she was tasting herself on his tongue, and kissed him back. "Don't fall asleep, it'll look suspicious," he whispered against her lips. Though part of him would be happy for everyone to know he made Luffy orgasm in the crowsnest. He would do this again sometime.

He supported her up and pulled her red panties back up. "Look, you made a mess," he said in her ear, and she looked down to see the wet spot on the wooden floor. Her face couldn't turn any redder than it already was.

Let's have more fun tomorrow, she wrote, though her hands were shaking. She was still zinging and still panting, and gasped when she sat up, and her clothed core touched the floor. She scrunched her eyes up, and calmed her breathing. It would be weird orgasming just by touching the floor through her panties. Zoro found it extremely erotic, that he made her so sentive that just sitting would make her feel pleasure.

He loved that she was so easy to please. Luffy finally calmed down, shimmying so that the feeling would go away, and looked at Zoro's problem. When she looked at him in worry, he shook his head. "Don't want to make too much of a mess."

Then Luffy looked horrified and she created cleaning products immediately and started scrubbing the spot. "What is it?" he asked.

Chopper will be able to smell it. Zoro's eyes widened and he opened the crowsnest windows. Letting anyone else know they'd had some fun in there would be fine, but not Chopper. He was too innocent. Both of them laughed at it, though.

They really liked the crowsnest now.

It was breakfast the next morning that Luffy punched Franky. He was leaving the bathroom and Luffy pretended she was going to walk right past him, before she covered her fist in steel and punched him in the gut so hard his stomach dented. He choked in pain and fell over. Luffy was the only one there to see it, but didn't mind much.

Franky seemed really injured, so Luffy rolled him over and healed the spot, fixing it and the broken bottles of cola. He gasped and felt his stomach. He hadn't been on the receiving end of being healed by her, and Luffy knew it must have felt strange to have metal bend itself back into shape.

Luffy wandered away and back towards the galley. Franky followed after a way back, as both of them were going to get breakfast. Zoro had been training and Luffy left their crowsnest just to punch Franky, feeling it was time to do so. She met him in the galley, breakfast along the table. She jumped up next to Zoro, grinning.

"What are you so happy about?" Chopper asked from across from her, eating a pancake.

"I punched Franky in the hall," Luffy replied, and started eating some eggs. Zoro had a bottle of alcohol in front of him, drinking even in the morning. Luffy didn't used to like the taste of Zoro's favorite type, but got used to it after his mouth tasted of it constantly.

"She punched Franky," Chopper explained. Zoro laughed, as did Sanji. Franky entered the room, looking physically fine, so those at the table knew he had been healed, there was no lasting damage.

His face was shocked. "Zoro-bro, what does it feel like when she heals you?" the man asked, staring at Luffy with new eyes. He never seemed to be interested in her powers, but being on the receiving end was amazing. Well, it hurt like hell, but reversing it was incredible.

"I don't know. Pain doesn't really phase me," Zoro replied. No one was surprised with the answer. "When me and Luffy first met, she stabbed me and cut me all over. I got knocked out and woke up perfectly fine." Franky looked at them like they were crazy.

"That's how you met? Luffy tried killing you?" Franky asked in disbelief. Luffy took offense at this.

"'I'd never kill Zoro!' Luffy says," Chopper translated.

"Yeah, she just wanted to steal my favorite sword," Zoro said casually. "We like fighting, don't care if we get bloody." Franky looked unnerved at the couple. Zoro guzzled a mouthful of alcohol as Luffy stuffed a pancake into her mouth.

"That's kinda messed up," the cyborg commented. Both shrugged.

Sanji was cleaning the kitchen after putting out all of the food as the crew trickled in. "Yeah, I used to be horrified when mosshead hurt Luffy, but she hates that so I don't say anything anymore." Luffy nodded, putting a thumbs up high enough for Sanji to see, who chuckled.

The captain, Usopp and Nami walked in. Franky still looked disbelieving, looking at his stomach. Even the spilled cola had been put back into the bottles, which were repaired seamlessly. "What's with you?" Usopp wondered.

Zoro answered. "Luffy finally punched him. He's amazed with the whole healing thing. Wish I could've seen it," he said with a cranky voice. Luffy shrugged. The others laughed, Franky looked irritated.

"Did you think she was going to punch you and leave lasting damage?" Nami asked in disbelief. "You're a crew member now, she wouldn't permanently hurt you." Luffy nodded in agreement.

Franky smiled, glad he wouldn't be the target of her attack again. "I've never been punched like that since becoming a cyborg. Actually dented my stomach in," the large man said as the rest of them started to eat. Franky ate, too, and Luffy formed a bottle of cola, and tossed it to him.

Does it taste right?

"Somewhat near the taste, but not completely." Luffy pursed her lips. But it was good enough for Franky to drink.

Zoro, let's go fight, Luffy wrote after both were finished. Zoro grinned and sprung Luffy up before grabbing his swords and running from the room. They heard Franky ask what was going on before the kitchen door swung shut.

Luffy covered her fists, not using blade arms. "Something new, huh?" Zoro asked through his sword chomped between his teeth. Luffy ran forward, jumping and grabbing Zoro's bandana before tying it around her head, like he did. It turned him on, but now wasn't the time for that. They fought, Luffy blocking his swings until he started getting serious when she gave him a look.

Soon they were both going all out, Luffy bruising Zoro in many places, while he caught her deeply on her arms and legs. He would be horrified with it if he didn't know she'd be perfectly fine. She hissed at some of the cuts, and soon they had an audience. Franky yelled at them not to stain his new ship with blood.

Luffy punched Zoro in the chest, making his stagger back, dropping his sword from his mouth before scowling.

I win! Luffy wrote before running to Zoro and sliding her hands all over his body, a little too sensually for the others, but the crew besides Franky were used to it and just went on their ways to do other things.

She healed herself after she knew Zoro was okay. Franky was surprised with the whole event, and that both seemed happier than they had before the fight. He asked Usopp what was up with them.

"They're weird like that. I think they, like… get pleasure from fighting. It's weird, but no one asks about it. You'll get used to it." Luffy giggled at Usopp's very true explanation. The couple walked to the aquarium to relax. Even if Zoro's wounds were fixed, Luffy couldn't heal fatigue. He was embarrassed but also proud that she was strong enough to make him physically tired after fighting.

Plus, it was time for his after-breakfast nap. He was very glad Luffy didn't get irritated with how much he napped, and did it along with him. He sat against the wall opposite to the fishtank, setting Luffy in his lap, looping his hands loosely around her skinny waist. "Now Franky knows not to mess with you," he mumbled. Luffy shook her head, knowing he was still bothered about the Franky Family and what they did to her. It had been incredibly scary for him, to see her like that.

She didn't know what she'd looked like, but it was probably really bad. She held no grudge against Franky anymore, but she knew the crew who saw would still be upset. Hopefully her pay back would make them move on faster.

Luffy watched the fish they'd caught swim around the fishtank. She really liked this ship, though Merry would always have a place in her heart. She knew it was the same for the others. Especially Usopp. It was really sad to see how much he'd cried over the Merry's passing. She was a good ship, and Luffy felt like she didn't belong and shouldn't have cried about her passing. Robin and Nami took her aside after they got back to Water 7 and assured her that she had the right to be upset. That had made her cry again, feeling weak but comforted in their care. It had been a soft hug, unlike Zoro's hard body, no matter how caring his hugs were.

Luffy dozed off, too, warm in Zoro's arms.

Not long after waking up, Luffy and Chopper started a crew wide game of hide and seek. Zoro was only agreeing to do it because Luffy wanted to. The others humored the two, and there were so many more places to hide here than the Merry. Luffy hid on top of the crowsnest, flattened down on her stomach. Zoro hid in the closet in the hall that housed the mens and women's rooms. It wasn't that good of a spot, but he was only doing it for Luffy.

Luffy was the hardest to find, and won. There were so many places to hide that the crew played another round. Luffy felt like she was with family, and was so happy she went with them, and that it inspired Ace to go off and have his own adventure. She couldn't wait to meet him and his crew. She was interested in the captain, Whitebeard. What kind of guy was he?