Chapter Three: Oops!
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece (darn!) but Arijii Hikara, Hachi Hachi Fruit and the phrase 'Before I bleed to die' are MINE! So back off lawyers!
Oh, and I prefer to call the ship the Going Merry. So deal with it.
"I think the bandages are in here!" Arijii opened the cabinet in the galley.
There were onions instead.
"Aaagh! Onions!" Arijii stepped away.
"What is it now?" Zoro was in there too.
"I got a bloody hand, and I need a bandage before I…"
"What?"
"Before I bleed to die!" Arijii went ballistic.
"It's death, not die. Two, the bandages are in the box. In the cabinet on the right," Zoro shook his head as Arijii found them and put one on her hand.
"It's better! Yay!" Arijii danced around the room.
"Thanks Zoro!" Arijii smiled.
"You're welcome," Zoro said with a solemn tone.
She went out and went on the deck.
"I'm hungry. Gimme something to eat!" Arijii pounded the table with her fork and knife.
"Were you like this when you were eighteen?" Usopp asked.
"Of course not! I want a cookie!"
Sanji gave her some clam chowder in a bowl.
"Here's your snack."
Arijii lightened up when she saw her snack.
"Uhh…Sanji?"
"Yes?"
"What is it?"
"Clam chowder."
"Oh."
Arijii, at first, tried stabbing a chunk of clam meat with her fork, which caused chowder to get on Nami and Usopp.
"Oops, sorry Nami and…uhh…what's your name?"
"Usopp."
"Oh yeah! Usopp!"
Nami tried wiping off the chowder but it only caused it to get worse on her shirt.
"Look what you did!"
"I'm sorry! I don't have a spoon!" Arijii apologized.
"Here's a spoon," Sanji gave her a spoon.
"Thank you, Sanji!"
She started to eat up her clam chowder, and finished it in two whole minutes.
"When was the last time you ate?" Nami asked, amazed.
"Uhhh…eleventy days ago?" Arijii tried to remember.
Arijii pushed the bowl away from her and said,
"I'm full. I'm going to take a nap."
She skipped away, singing some wordless tune, leaving Nami and Usopp with chowder covered clothes and some questions that don't need answering.
"We have got to get her off the Going Merry!" Zoro argued.
"We can't just maroon her!" Luffy said.
"She's an eight year old! She's caused nothing but chaos!" Zoro shot back.
"Not her fault, you know," Sanji interrupted Luffy and Zoro.
"Of course it is. She shouldn't have eaten the Devil Fruit," Zoro said.
The three were in silence for a while. Until Arijii came in.
"Hiya Luffy! Hi Sanji! Hello Grumpy Pants!" Arijii said.
"Grumpy Pants? Ha!" Sanji was laughing.
Zoro just ignored her.
"She's right about you being so grumpy all the time," Sanji said.
"Lighten up, will ya?" Arijii asked Zoro.
He still ignored the eight year old girl.
"No! Not the cold shoulder! Pleeeeeeeease! I don't deserve it!" Arijii started to cry again.
"You made her cry! How mean is that?" Luffy looked at Arijii then Zoro.
S.E.: I hope I didn't make Luffy and Sanji out of character, did I?
Chi: Make them wear dresses! Look at me! I'm a pretty girl!
Natasha: Chi's acting OOC today...it must be because she didn't take her medicine
S.E.: Chi! Did you take your medicine?
Chi: ...maybe...