It might have been easy for Chopper to not understand what was going on with Robin and Zoro, but Usopp was sure he had at least tried. In order to help out the little reindeer, he made his way over to the focused face of his doctor as he recalled when he studied the interaction between the strongest female and the swordsman of the crew. Usopp smirked, he had already told Chopper how boys and girls tend to become a little more than friends when placed alone together for a period of time, as he had done so, oh so long ago, he decided to nudge a little further into the secrets of the members of the crew.

"Chopper, do you know what's going on with these two?" he asked.

"Eh?" Chopper looked confused, "you mean, you don't know! I thought you would, they're doing the same things you said you experienced."

"Ah, no, I was wondering if you knew..." Usopp crouched next to the reindeer, "you mind asking Robin about it?"

"What?"

"I mean you're such an amazing little bluenoses reindeer, and Robin adores you, so I just thought you'd be able to get her to tell you." Usopp shrugged.

"Eh! You're compliments don't make me happy, you stupid." Chopper sang out, blushing, and doing a small wave of his arms, before climbing down the stairs to meet Robin on the deck. She had just come out of the library.

Now with Chopper dealing with Robin, it was up to him to find out what was with Zoro. Planning it strategically, he shot a ketchup star into Zoro's open mouth.

Zoro yawned, tasting the bitter ketchup in his mouth, and noticed Usopp dashing down the stairs with his slingshot in hand.

"Oh, Zoro, I'm so sorry, I had-" he was cut off by childish laughter on the other side of the deck.

Zoro and Usopp looked over to see Luffy clutching his sides doubling over in cheerful laughter, "Usopp that was hilarious!" he stated between breathes.

Zoro raised a brow to Luffy, and a frown to the sharpshooter.

"You shot Zoro straight in the mouth!" Luffy laughed rolling over on the ground, unable to even try to contain his laughter. Other members of the crew glanced over at him, curious on what he's laughing about, but not paying it much mind. Nami still kept a suspicious eye on him.

"No, I missed," Usopp stated defensively, "I had seen a bottle in the water, and tried shooting it, but Zoro yawned and it landed in his mouth."

Luffy laughed even harder, "Oi, Zoro do it again!" he called, managing to sit himself up.

"Luffy! He's lying!" Zoro stated, clutching his swords.

"What?" Luffy asked, the tears from his laughing fit still in his eyes, "Usopp your lying?"

"No, there was a bottle in the water," Usopp pointed as if the bottle was still there.

"What was in it?" Zoro asked, suspiciously.

"I couldn't tell, it was too far away." Usopp defended himself.

"Meat?" Luffy asked slingshotting himself over to check if the mysterious bottle was still there. He perched himself on the railing behind Zoro. "I don't see it."

"That's cause it was smaller than your pinkie finger, I could have shot it, but Zoro had to yawn." Usopp stated, sticking a finger under his nose.

"Cool!" Luffy exclaimed, gleaming.

"Luffy, he's lying," Zoro stated rubbing the back of his head, "and why would meat be in a bottle?"

"Do you know what was in it?"

"No."

"Then it could have been filled with meat." Luffy stated, sitting cross-legged on the railing.

"He said it was smaller than your finger." Zoro stated, before turning his attention to the culprit, "Either way, why'd you shoot me in the mouth anyway?"

Usopp rubbed the back of his head, before crossing his arms and tried to pull on a serious expression, "Now that I have your attention, Zoro," he nodded to himself, "I had caught you the other day with Robin, thought I saw you kissing her," he closed one eye, to look at the man suspiciously, "did you?"

"Yeah." Zoro and Luffy answered at the same time.

"And?" Zoro asked.

"He said she tasted like Robin." Luffy continued talking over his swordsman's comment.

"Wait, you knew?" Usopp turned to Luffy as his captain nodded like everyone should have known. He turned his face back to Zoro, "You're not bothered with us knowing?"

"No, why should I?" Zoro yawned.

"Well, I just thought that you wouldn't have wanted anyone to know. Are you two a couple now?" Usopp asked, shrugging.

"A couple of what?" Luffy asked, oblivious.

"I don't know ask Robin." Zoro stated, ignoring Luffy, as he closed his eyes to go back to sleep.

Usopp looked at Chopper who seemed to have gotten a similar response from Robin on the issue. He turned away from the swordsman, and Luffy as well, before he registered something the notorious captain had said, "Wait, did you say she tasted like Robin?" he asked spinning around.

"Yeah, he did." Luffy responded nodding, jumping off the railing.

"How do you know that?"

"I asked him." Luffy said, picking his nose.

"What brought you to ask what Robin tastes like?" Usopp asked, grabbing Luffy and pulling him to the main mast.

"Cause Robin said that she liked the way he tastes without the sake." Luffy answered as if it was obvious.

"What made Robin bring that up?" Usopp nearly yelled, before registering that that meant that they had kissed before.

"I asked her if he tasted like sake." Luffy shrugged after a moment of thinking with a red face.

"Why'd you ask what he tasted like?"

"Hmmm..." Luffy thought to himself, tilting his head the side as he folded his arms in thought, trying to remember.

"Don't think to hard." Usopp mentioned under his breath noticing his captain's face increasing in it's flushed red color.

With the memory of the conversation finally reaching him he stated, "Cause we were talking about how Nami tasted like sake and something sweet, and I didn't like it, and how Nami said I tasted like meat." He nodded and closed his eyes.

Usopp stared at him wide-eyed, before opening his mouth to say something.

"But I don't." Luffy stated with a frown on his face.

"What?" Usopp asked, his previous question gone from his mind.

Nami blushed, on having listened to their whole conversation, and hid her face behind the newspaper she had open.

"I don't taste like meat." Luffy stated, "Nami lied. She said I tasted like meat, but when I tasted myself I didn't. I tasted gross."

Usopp held in a laugh, "You tasted yourself?"

"Yeah," he held out his arm to the sniper, "do I taste like meat? Cause that'd be cool." obviously wanting the boy in front of him to taste him.

"I'm not licking your arm." Usopp shook his head, "but there was this one time when I was only three I had to-"

"Oi! Chopper!" Luffy yelled catapulting himself away from Usopp, and smashing himself into the wall of the kitchen, as if rushing to get away from the long story.

Usopp watched the boy land against the ship, before glancing at Nami who was sunbathing on the deck and under where the boy had shot himself. He noticed her face was slightly pink, and her eyes were staring at the boy who was righting himself up before running over to Chopper who was wrapping up his conversation with Robin. Usopp smirked, and whistled as he made his way to his Usopp Factory to work on improving some new inventions.