disclaimer: The only character I own in this story is Kasai. Who would think I owned One Piece, when I hardly own the clothes on my back or my room?

Reunion and reveiled feelings

Chapter 4: Getting ready

The next day wasn't too special. Sanji was all over Nami, Robin and Kasai, Zoro was training, Luffy was on the sheep's head trying to imagine how the Summit was going to be, Usopp was telling Chopper stories of how he fought a giant cat-fish, or how he sliced and diced a humongous, man-eating sea cucumber when he was three years old; and Chopper, being the naive little reindeer that he is, belived him.

Before anyone knew it, the sun had set and the crew was in the kitchen having dinner.

"Listen up everybody! Tonight, the watches will be longer, and also, Luffy and Kasai won't stand watch." said Nami.

"YAY!" cheared Luffy, jumping up and down.

"Uhh, Nami, why is that?" asked a little confused Kasai.

"Well, you and Luffy need to rest very well because you're not gonna sleep a day and a night. That's why." explained Nami. "I'll stand first, then Robin, Zoro, Sanji, Usopp and last will be Chopper. Now everybody, hit the sack. If you need me, I'll be in the crow's nest." she instructed and everyone went off.

The next morning, Kasai was woken up by a high-pitched voice that clearly belonged to Chopper, and then came a few knocks on the door: "We're here! Wake up! We've arrived!"

"Is it morning already?" half asked-half moaned Kasai, not liking the way she was woken up.

"Come on, Kasai, Robin. Rise and shine!" said Nami coming in.

"When did you get up?" asked Robin, being a little surprised at seing that Nami wasn't in her pijamas when she came in.

"I woke up a few hours ago. Sorry, I'm the one that sent Chopper to wake you up." said the navigator.

"Well, since we're up, I guess there's no point in staying here anymore." said Kasai, now full awake.

Kasai and Robin got dressed and went on deck. Once they walked outside the door to the girls' room, they looked at eachother and sighed in unition; there was no sign that the sun was going to start coming up. Kasai started walking towards the front of the ship, leaned on the railing and looked in the distance.

"Looks like we'll reach the island in a few hours, right Nami?" she asked the orange haired girl that was now next to her.

"Yep." replied Nami.

"Might as well eat something while we wait to get there." said Kasai.

And so they were served breakfast by Sanji in about half an hour. After they finished, everybody went on deck and started getting ready to anchor at the docks.

"Nami, I'm taking Luffy to see if we can find something for him to wear to the Summit and I don't know if we'll be back soon." said Kasai to Nami after they docked.

"Okay. Have fun you two!" replied Nami.

And so, Kasai and Luffy went off to search for stores with clothing, and the others went to visit this Heiso Island.
It was past two o'clock and Kasai and Luffy were still searching. They found some promising wardrobes, but eather they were too expensive, eather they were too large and there weren't any smaller numbers or viceversa.

"This island sure is big. I've never seen so many stores on one piece of land!" exclaimed Kasai.

"There's another one." pointed out Luffy.

"Okay, let's go see."

Once inside, they started searching something for Luffy. Kasai chose a few things and told Luffy to try them on. He did, they all fit but the one he liked most was the last one because he could really move while dressed in it: black silk pants and a silk shirt that was the same colour as his straw hat.

After that, Kasai started looking around the store for a promising wardrobe for herself and something caught her eye really fast. She took it and went to try it on. After she got out of the dressing room, Luffy's mouth practecly dropped to the floor. She was wearing a turcoise long skirt that had at the basis dark blue flames and two splits in the sides from her hips down. Under the skirt she had a pair of pants of the same colour as the skirt with the same flames at the basis of each leg. On her torso she had a jacket that was the same shade of turcoise and had dark blue flames at the basis of the sleaves and at the waist. The jacket was a little above her navel so the two tatoos she had could be seen with no problem.

"Well, how do I look?" she asked Luffy.

"I can't describe how beautiful you look..." replied the boy after he put his mouth back into place.

"Thanks. I'm buying it. You're remaining at the silk pants and shirt, right?"

"Yep."

Kasai paid for the clothes and they started making their way back to the Going Merry. Once there, they both took a shower and it was almost time to leave. They got dressed but Luffy was ready before Kasai and he was waiting for her on deck. When she came out everyone's mouths dropped. She was wearing the clothes she bought earlier, a pair of shoes that were the same dark blue as the flames on the skirt, pants and jacket, and her hair was tied up in a tight pony tail, Vivi style.

"Kasai-chan, are you sure you're not an angel or a godess?" asked Sanji kneeling in front of her and holding her hand as if he wanted to propose.

"Uhh, yes Sanji. I'm pretty sure I'm human." she replied looking at him a little strangely, then took her hand back and walked past him.

"You look great Kasai." said Zoro.

"Thank you, Zoro."

"Wow! Zoro making compliments to a woman! Strange things do happen!" said Nami and Usopp in unition.

"Well, ready to go?" asked Luffy coming up to Kasai.

"Yeah! I'm ready." she replied, and they both went off.

As they were walking on the street, making their way toward the building where the Summit was going to take place, each and every pedestrian, male and female, were looking at Kasai, admiring her beauty, but she just ignored them.

"Everybody's staring at her. And I'm not surprised, she's the most beautiful woman I've seen so far." thought Luffy. "I can hardly wait to see Ace's face when he sees her." he continued in his thoughts, a grin making it's way on Luffy's face.

"What's so funny?" asked Kasai, seeing him smile.

"Nothing. I just remembered something Usopp did before we met you." said Luffy, hoping Kasai would buy it.

"Wanna share?" she asked.

"No, you wouldn't find it that funny." he desperatly tried to find an excuse.

"Okay. If you don't wanna, I won't force you."

Luffy was releived at that reply, and they continued to the Summit building.

Okay, this chapter was kinda short and lame, but the fun stuff is gonna start from chapter 5. So review and I shall continue.