So here is the next chapter :)
And I must say that I enjoyed writing this. I had fun, showing you a bit more about the Straw Hats, without really showing you anything. I am just hoping that you will be more interested in them, and to know what has happened to them. As I wanted to show you a bit how they felt, how they acted, their relationship with each other and what they do. I am not going to follow their story completely, like with Brook, I am not going to have Laboon in this story. Sorry for everyone who wanted that. But I feel that it doesn't fit in the story. And I will change other things, but I will not tell you about them.

I also hope that you will enjoy that it's small stories about the SH, and not a big one with each of them. I will maybe do that further down the road, depending if it feels right, and not forced. But I am sorry that Chopper's, part isn't as good as the others. I did struggle with him a bit, hoping I can find it easier to write as him soon.

And well I warn you for the "sex scene" that will be in this chapter. Can't really call it that, but I will warn you anyway.

I can also tell you that you will soon get another Law and Sanji chapter, which means Cora-San too! But Cora-San will get his own chapter too, but not yet. But before all that I can tell you that the next chapter will be an Ace chapter. And hopefully you will like it. I will start one of my favorite One Piece ships then, or at least plant the seeds.

And Law calling him Senguko instead of Sengoku will get an explanation. It's just a cute thing. Haha

I will also, like always thank everyone that are reading and commenting. Thank you so much!

So now, I can finally tell you to enjoy the chapter! :)

Zoro yawned as he walked out to the common room, barely awake. He had gotten back from a mission late, and he planned to go back to bed right away, after eating. His last mission gave him barely any sleep and food. So when he got home, it was all he did. Zoro hadn't even bother to talk to the others yet. Not really caring about what they had been doing. He did care about them, they were his family, but he didn't care about what they were doing.

"Money" Nami said from the table she was sitting at. Zoro glared at the redhead and sighed. He knew that she would demand money from him when he got back, she always did, and not just from him. She took care of the economy for them, and even if Zoro hated to give her his money, he knew that she did a better job then he would. Before she had joined them they had barely made it. Now, well Zoro wasn't sure, but it felt like they had more money than they needed.
"It's on the bed" Zoro just answered her and went to the kitchen, not bothering to fetch them for her.

Zoro looked at the almost empty fridge, they needed to buy more food, but none of them cared, always thinking that someone else should do it. Normally Robin would do it when she had the time. Zoro didn't understand why, because none of them were any good at cooking. Zoro could almost curse Luffy for not getting them a cook. He had even gotten a musician. Zoro took an apple and cursed his leader before he walked out to the common room, now seeing that Nami had fetched his money.

"Where is everyone else?" Zoro asked, without really knowing why.
"Robin said something about work and left" Nami said a bit bitterly. None of them really knew what Robin was doing. She hadn't told them; all they could see was that it was something she really didn't want to do. Luffy had said that she could quit if she wanted, but she said that she couldn't. They had all tried to figure it out, but even if they followed her, she always managed to disappear.
"Still haven't figured out what she does?" Zoro said with a smirk and Nami gave him a cold glance.
"Neither have you!" she told him and Zoro just shrugged his shoulder. They had a bet over who could figure out what Robin did first, none of them had managed yet. Even if Zoro had to admit, that he didn't try too hard.

"And the others?" Zoro asked as he walked closer to the table Nami was sitting at.
"I think Franky and Brook are going around and singing, as they try to get hold of parts to build, god only knows what. Chopper took his medicine bag and left." Nami started and looked up as Zoro walked over. "Luffy took Usopp with him, talking about trying to find Sanji again, and see if he could find some medicine for someone. I don't know what he is planning"
Zoro only nodded. None of the things the others did surprised him. They did what they normally did. Getting buy in the way they could. Franky and Brook tried to provide for them. Chopper too, when he didn't do some charity, but who could blame him for that. And Luffy, well he did whatever he wanted in that second. And right now he only wanted to meet the blond bastard for some reason. Zoro couldn't understand why. The blonde man had really irritated him. And with him being friends with the Surgeon of Death, well that could not end well. But Zoro know that if they tried to forbid Luffy, he would try even more. It was moments like this he wishes he knew how to contact Luffy's brothers, so maybe they could talk to Luffy. But Zoro had no idea where they were, because Luffy never said. Zoro sighed to himself before he turned towards Nami once more.

"So we are alone here?" he asked as he leaned against the table.
"Yes. But I don't have time with you" she answered and tried to make him leave. Zoro smiled towards her, he had forgotten about sleep now, with other things on his mind.
"Really?" he asked and leaned closer. "You can't spare some time for me?"
"Yes really. Zoro, not now. I have to work!" Nami answered and Zoro just laughed and stood up, and walked around, so he stood behind her chair.
"That is a mean thing to say to someone you fuck" he whispered in her ear, as he nibbled her ear. He felt the reaction it had on her. He felt how she tried not to shiver. "Are you really sure you don't have time?"
Zoro moved his lips from her ear to her neck and shoulder.
"Zoro, cut it out! I am warning you. I will take more of your money!" Nami tried, but Zoro just laughed.
"Then take them, as long as I can take you first" he told her. And he saw how Nami was conflicted. He could almost hear her thoughts. How she really needed to work, but she could get a good fuck and money from it.

"Make the devil take you Zoro" she said as she turned to face him. Soon he felt her lips on his and he placed her on the table. He could hear how the coin fell on the floor, but he didn't care.
"See it as payback for making me walk with you to return the blond baster" he answered her, as his hands worked their way up against her thighs.
"That was payback for…" Nami started but stopped when Zoro reached her trousers and slowly stroke her.
"I can't hear you" Zoro teased as his months was working his way down to her breasts.
"Fuck you!" Nami answered him and Zoro laughed.
"It's the other way around" he just answered as he let his fingers slip inside of her.

"…Far across the salty deeps, the merry evening sun…" Brook sung as Franky play his guitar behind him. Brook let his fingers fly over the keys on the piano. Brook nearly saw the people in front of him. Not really caring about them. He didn't play for them, he played for himself, and possibly Franky. Franky being one of the few people who really could appreciate his music. His follow friends, loved it too, and he was happy about it, but with Franky it was on another level. Maybe it was because Franky played the guitar. Brook didn't really care about the reason, as long as he had someone to share his music with. Because in a town like this, he rarely had someone.

Brook finished the song and stood up, ready to leave, they had done what they was paid for, and they now needed to move on.
"Hey! Another song!" a man shouted, drunk from the bar.
"Haven't been paid to play more" Brook answered as he stepped down from the stage with Franky next to him.
"I said another song!" The drunk man shouted even louder, giving the skeleton an angry look.

Brook sighed, preforming music isn't what it used to be. Before he enjoyed it, people enjoyed it. They weren't drunk, they weren't demanding things. They asked nicely. People come from far to hear him play. He played for kings and queens. He had plans on playing for princess Vivi. But he had gotten to a town that was on the brink of a war. The marines were in chaos, fighting different gangs, and in the middle of that it was a revolution against the nobles and not soon after the royal family was in some scandal, and they fled. After that things got even worse. And his plans were just a hopeless dream. But he had got stuck in the city, and as the city got worse, he got worse. He was just lucky that Luffy found him.

"Brook watch out" Franky suddenly said and Brook woke up from his thoughts. Franky had shoved him aside, just as the drunk man throw a bottle in his direction.
"Another song! Are you deaf boy?" the man asked "Or was it the only songs you knew. Figured that. Musicians this days, all of them are just shit"
"I hate this city" Brook mumbled under his breath. Sometimes he thought about killing anyone in this town who didn't respect him and his music. He cared about little else.
"Don't think about him" Franky said but Brook didn't answer as he left the pub. He would never play another song there, even if he got payed. Franky said something to the drunk man, before he walked up next to him.

"You are better than that, and we both know that" Franky said as he threw his arm around the neck of Brook, or as well as he could, considering Brook being taller than him.
"Thank you, that's very kind of you Franky" Brook answered and his friend smiled. Franky knew that Brook didn't handle it to well when someone insulted his music, or music at all. Even if he had got better at it. Franky had known Brook back in the days, when he had stabbed a few people for saying things like that. Franky actually never stopped him when he did. Feeling that it wasn't his place, or that he really cared. The city had made him very cold. He only cared about his family this days, and if someone insulted them he would either defend them or let the other person do what they felt was right. No one else cared about anyone else then themselves and their family, he had learned that the hard way. So after that lesion he stopped, he wouldn't be the only one in town, caring about strangers.

"Did you need to buy anything else?" Brook asked Franky after a while. Franky looked down at the bags he was carrying.
"No I think we have everything we need. It's just to fix the safe room. Hoping we don't need it, but I rather be prepared, in case you know" Franky said and Brook nodded, he knew. He knew why Franky wanted to have safe room, all of them know, and even if they felt like they didn't need it, they didn't say anything about it. They went along with it to make Franky happy, because that is what family does.
"Then let's head home" Brook said and Franky nodded towards him and they started walking south. Until they spotted a blue hat, placed on a reindeer, and smiled.
"Let's see if Chopper needs anything" Franky said.

Chopper smiled towards the kid, as he patched him up.
"There you go" he said and the kid smiled at him.
"Thank you doctor" the boy said and his sister nodded too. Chopper visited the kids in the district when he had the time. He wanted to make sure they were doing alright. He knew how it felt to be left alone, without help. And Chopper couldn't do much, but he could give the children free check-ups. He couldn't always help, but he did what he could, like stitching them up, or giving them advice and some medicine, if he had some to spare.

"Mr. Doctor?" a young girl, standing behind him asked. Chopper turned around and smiled towards her.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Can you have a look at my back?" she asked and Chopper nodded, and the girl turned around. She pulled up her dress and at once Chopper got mad. The girls back were covered in wounds from a whip. Her back was bloody and the wounds infected. Chopper hated seeing children get hurt, mostly because he knew how it felt, all too well. He knew the feeling, he knew the pain and he knew how it was to live with the fear.

Chopper felt tears in his eyes, and he tried to fight them off, along with his anger. It wasn't the right place or moment to let himself feel anything. He needed to focus on the girl, but it was hard. Chopper had never been good at that, not when it came to this. He closed his eyes, and at once he saw memories flow by, and he opened them again, in horror. He looked at the girl and he felt like his hand was shaking as he approached her back. He felt unprofessional when he acted like this. Letting his emotions get the best of him. But he couldn't make his hand stop shaking and he almost threw the cloth, he would clean the wound with, away. But he stopped himself when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Chopper looked up and saw two familiar faces.

"Need any help?" Franky asked and Chopper smiled, glad to see his friends. He hopped that they would keep the bad memories away. They normally did. His family could make him feel better by just being around, and he hoped they would this time too.
"Yes please" Chopper answered, almost begging them.
"What shall we do?" Brook asked and looked at the little reindeer.
"Brook can you play for the kids?" Chopper asked and Brook nodded and borrowed Franky's guitar as he started playing for the children. Brook would never deny his friends of his music, because even if the kids wouldn't like his music, he knew Chopper would. And that's why he could play for them with a smile.
"And I?" Franky asked and Chopper smiled towards the man.
"Can you look at some of the other children, the ones that just need something small?" Chopper asked and Franky nodded. Chopper had thought them basic first aid, if they would ever need it.
"No problem" He said as he walked over to some of the children and Chopper returned to the girl in front of him. He needed to clean her wounds, patch her up, and then bandage the wounds. Chopper tried to concentrate on Brook's music. When he asked him to play, it was more for himself then the kids. Chopper needed something to concentrate on, to keep the memories away. Chopper started to sing along as he kept working on the girl's wounds, glad that he had his friends around him. Hoping he could get through this without too much trouble.

"How many times are you planning to go here Luffy?" Usopp asked as they walked the same street they have walked the past weeks.
"I don't know. Until I meet Sanji again" Luffy said as he was eating an a piece of cake.
"He may never return here, you know that, don't you?" Usopp asking, hoping his captain had thought of that. But knowing Luffy, he most likely had not.
"I know that" Luffy said and Usopp felt a bit hopeful, until Luffy spoke again. "Then I will go to the North District to search for him"
"Have you lost your mind?" Usopp shouted at him, getting a few looks from the people around them.
"Most likely. But he is my friend, and I want to see him again!" Luffy said.
"Why? He is not your friend; I am sorry to say that Luffy. But you only met once" Usopp told him and Luffy just smiled.
"I only met you once before you were my friends" Luffy answered and Usopp couldn't help himself from smiling, knowing it was true.
"But even so, maybe he doesn't want to be your friend! He looked really traumatized last time" Usopp said, remembering how scared Sanji had been.
"That's why I want to apologize" Luffy told Usopp. The boy just shook his head; his leader was the way he was. But he wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. If Luffy hadn't saved him, he wouldn't even be alive.

"Even if you find him, I don't think the surgeon is going to let you talk to him" Usopp told him, remembering how the older man had acted when he met them. Usopp had been really scared, feeling how upset the surgeon was over Sanji's condition.
"I don't care. He doesn't scare me!" Luffy said, really sure of it and Usopp sighed, Luffy rarely cared about what was dangerous. It was a good thing, sometimes, especially since it meant he could save a lot of people, helping them when no one else would. But it also meant that he put other people and himself in danger.
"You can't win a fight against him, so don't even try!" Usopp said.
"Don't sound like Nami!" Luffy teased and Usopp felt how his cheeks become read.
"Don't compare me to her!" Usopp answered. "Luffy, let's just go hom…"

"SANJI!" Luffy said and Usopp didn't have time to react when his leader started running. Usopp saw the blonde man in a suit, further down the road, next to the surgeon, and he knew that this couldn't end well. Usopp started running after Luffy, and caught up with him, just like the surgeon put a sword to Luffy's neck.
"Touch him and I will end you!" the surgeon said, and Usopp swallowed, knowing that the other man would do it without a doubt, but Luffy didn't seem to care.
"Sanji I just want to say that I am sorry!" Luffy said and Sanji, who stood next to the other man, seeking his protection looked surprise.
"Why?" he asked in a very low voice.
"I scared you last time. I didn't mean to. I just wanted to help you!" Luffy explained. Sanji actually smiled a very small smile, but the surgeon didn't seem amused at all.
"So, now when you have told him that, you can go!" he said.
"I don't want to go!" Luffy said with a glare and Usopp pulled in his vest, very carefully. "No. I have waited to see Sanji a whole week, to say that I am sorry, and that he is my friend! I want to spend some time with him!"

At those word Sanji looked even more surprised, and almost scared. The surgeon looked at him and, Usopp know that Surgeon knew something that they didn't know, especially since he put his arm around him and pulled him closer.
"Don't be scared. I want hurt you! Your friend can join us too! I would want to know him too. He has a cool hat!" Luffy said and at those words both Usopp and the Surgeon looked at Sanji in surprise, and like he was stupid.
"Luffy" Usopp said with a warning, but his leader just turned towards him with a big smile.
"It will be fun" Luffy said and turned towards Sanji again, waiting for an answer.

Sanji was looking at the surgeon, really unsure, but he didn't say anything.
"If you want to" the surgeon just answered and Usopp couldn't really understand what was going on, not at all. But he guessed it wasn't meant for him.
"If you can?" Sanji almost whispered, and the surgeon smiled, a friendly smiled towards Sanji.
"For you I can. I can just skip going back for a while" he answered and Sanji gave him another look. "I am sure"

Then Sanji turned towards them, barely looking at them.
"I can spend some time with you" he whispered and the surgeon removed the sword and Luffy smiled the biggest smile. He was about to hug Sanji when the surgeon stopped him.
"Do that, and you will die!" he just said and Luffy looked at him, still smiling, but backed away.
"Well let's do something then" Luffy said, and seemed to think about something. Usopp felt like running away, here he was standing with his crazy captain, who just asked a man he barely know, and an enemy to do something. Usopp felt like he should be used to it, but he wasn't, not by far.
"I know, I can show you my favourite spot in town" Luffy said and the other two looked at him and each other, before they looked at each other, and nodded.
"Show the way Luffy" Sanji said and Luffy started walking, before he turned to face the surgeon.
"What's your name?" Luffy asked and Usopp admitted he was curious about that too.
"Senguko" the man just answered and Usopp thought he recognized that name, but he wasn't sure from where.
"Hi, I am Luffy" the boy said.
"I know" Senguko just answered as the kept walking.

As they walked through town, Luffy was asking Sanji some questions, which the blond not always answered, and when Luffy said something stupid, Senguko coughed. Luffy learned after the fourth time, that it meant that he shouldn't ask that.
"You two seem to be close?" Usopp carefully asked Senguko as he walked next to him. Usopp had been very careful not to talk too much to the other man, but he couldn't stand the silence for too long.
"We are" Senguko just answered and Usopp nodded.
"Is he your boyfriend?" Usopp heard himself ask before he could stop himself.
"Is that you was of flirting with me Long Nose?" Senguko asked sarcastically and at once Usopp felt how his face become red, as he managed to tell the other man that he had a girlfriend. At that Senguko didn't answer, he just looked at Sanji and smiled when he saw that the blond boy smiled.
"But no, he is not my boyfriend" Senguko added and Usopp nodded. Then he just guessed that the men was really close, like him and Luffy.

"What is Luffy's intention?" Senguko asked as they kept walking and Usopp looked at him, not understanding what he meant at first. But then it hit him, Senguko may not be Sanji's boyfriend, but he still watched out for him.
"Oh, he just want to be friends. That's what he does. He befriends everyone he can. And I guess he took a liking to Sanji the last time" Usopp said and Senguko just nodded. "What is Sanji's intention? Is he going to hurt Luffy?"
Usopp had tried to sound as mature and confident as Senguko, but he guessed he didn't manage when Senguko gave him a look before he answered.
"I don't know." Senguko just answered and Usopp didn't know if he liked the sound of that, mostly because it come from the Surgeon of Death. If he was like he was, maybe Sanji was like that too. Usopp doubted it, having seen Sanji like he was the last time, but you never know. Usopp just hopped everything would be okay, as they started to the hill in the south of the city, and soon they started climbing up. For what felt like the fifth hundred time for Usopp.

"And Sanji is a chef! His father thought him how to cook" Luffy said as they walked home, saying good bye to Senguko and Sanji where they found them. Usopp still surprised they were alive. While he had been scared and tried to talk to Senguko, Luffy seemed to have a nice time with Sanji, actually enjoying himself.
"He said he would meet me again, sometime, and he promised to make me food then!" Luffy shouted and Usopp rolled his eyes, Sanji didn't know what he signed up for.
"So how was Senguko?" Luffy asked and Usopp gave him a look.
"Not as funny as Sanji it seems. He is really sarcastic, sounds kind of mean and cold. But I could tell that he really cares about Sanji. So be careful not to do anything to hurt Sanji, I am sure that Senguko will end you!" Usopp told him and Luffy just laughed.
"He can try!" Luffy said as they walked into the base, and something looked off, but Usopp couldn't say what. "They had sex again"
Usopp looked at Luffy, surprised over his words, not really knowing what he meant. But even if Luffy seemed dull sometimes, he got the feeling that he knew more then he lead on.
"Let's see if there is any food!" Luffy said in the next moment, and dragged Usopp with him, not giving him time to think about Luffy's words.

Her face was covered by the dark. The room was smoky and loudly. She was far from the only one down in the harbour this night. And that was how she preferred it, nights like this. Too few people would make her exposed, people would spot her and walk over to her. They would ask her for some time, and she would need to work. But this night she wasn't here for that kind of work, no she was here for something else.

Robin took a sip from her drink as she sat there in the dark, waiting for the right person. Knowing that he would appear when he felt ready. He never showed up before that, if he even showed up. But Robin never hold it too him, because it wasn't always that she showed up either. If it didn't felt right she never sat down. She was holding this a secret, and she wanted it to keep that way. She hadn't done all this for nothing.

She didn't look up from her glass when someone dropped down on the chair, opposite of her. She had seen him coming, thanks to her devil fruit. Just as she had felt when he entered the room. The atmosphere changed, at least for her, because no one else had seemed to notice the stranger, or they didn't care. In the harbour people rarely did, they welcomed the strangers, as long as they didn't come to stirrup trouble.

"Do you have something for me?" the man asked, covering his face with a cape. Robin didn't answer, she just showed over an envelope with some papers in it.
"Thank you" the other one said, gave her a smile behind the hood, before he stood up and left her. Robin looked after him, sometimes curious to where he went, but she knew better then follow him, and he know better than following her. They did what they did, in some sort of mutual trust.

Soon after the man left, Robin finished her drink and left the pub, she walked out in the night, thinking about going home. Home to the people she would call family, but the night was still young and she could do some work before dawn. And when dawn got here, she could bring some food home. Robin looked to the north before she started walking there.