Sorry it's been so long since I was able to write chapter 4 but I've got finals coming up and I had a but load of homework this week…so here it is.

Ayumi woke up when the sun was just beginning to rise from the ocean. She stretched and let out a big yawn. She looked over and saw Robin sound asleep. Might as well get up. Ayumi grabbed her pants and stripped shirt and got dressed. She slowly walked out the door and started to walk down the hall. She could smell bacon, and eggs! Her stomach let out a grumble of appreciation. Slowly she opened the door of the galley and saw Sanji frantically rushing around the kitchen stirring this and flipping that. She walked in without Sanji even noticing. "Can I help?"

"AHHHHHH!"

Sanji didn't expect anyone to be behind him and jumped three feet in the air after dropping a plate of food. "O my God Sanji I'm so sorry I didn't mean to scare you."

Ayumi bent down and began picking up the broken plate. Sanji went down and began scooping up the eggs that fell. "It's alright really I've just been a little on edge lately."

Ayumi's eyes widened. Please don't tell me that he saw the Unluckies last night. "What happened?"

"O nothing really I just didn't get much sleep last night and I lost my cigarettes."

Ayumi sighed in relief then her breath was caught in her throat again. Sanji and Ayumi had grabbed the same piece of plate and ended up grabbing each other's hand. Ayumi looked up and saw that Sanji was just as embarrassed as she was. Ayumi couldn't help but notice how close their faces were. She could feel his uneven breath against her face. Everything was silent.

"SSSSAAAAAANNNNNJJJJJIIIIIIIIII!"

The silence was broken and the two shot up to their feet and looked at Luffy standing in the doorway. "Is breakfast ready I'm starving!"

Slightly flustered Sanji replied "Yeah It's ready Luffy. Go and wake the others."

Luffy ran out the door and the two could here him pound on every door that he ran into and began calling out the crew's names. However there was no sound remaining in the galley. "Sorry about the plate."

"It's alright…it was my fault." Sanji gave Ayumi one of his goofy smiles. I really need to find my cigarettes; I can barely keep my head strait around Ayumi without them.

"Well I'm going to go up on the deck for a little while before breakfast. I shouldn't disturb you while you're so busy." Ayumi handed Sanji the plate pieces and walked out the door. Robin and Zoro walked in after she left. They were both slightly confused when they saw their cook standing in the middle of the room staring off into space. "Lover boy your bacon's burning." Sanji tuned to see the smoke.

"Shit!" ( don't worry the bacon was saved)

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Ayumi was sitting on the sheep's head again and was content with the wind blowing through her hair. I'm not sure if I'm going to keep my sanity for a whole week on this ship. Crocodile gave me too much time to blow my cover.

"Hey." Ayumi turned around, not as quickly as before, and saw Vivi smiling.

"Hey."

"I didn't get to see you last night. How are your ribs?"

"They look a lot worse than they feel. Are you alright?"

"Thanks to you I am. I want to apologize for how I treated you earlier. When we first met I was convinced that someone on the island was looking for me and I thought that it was you." Vivi giggled slightly. "I shouldn't have judged you so soon. When you saved me though I knew that you were a good person Ayumi."

I'm not as good a person as you think princess. "Thanks that means a lot coming from you."

"Ayumi do you know where your family might be. I would really like to help you find them, that is if I can."

"Actually I think that I might. There's a small island about a week away that is used a lot by merchant ships. I remember my father and I going there often. If I could guess where they would be I know that's the place."

"What's it called?"

"Congo Island."

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That night the straw-hat crew was gathered in Luffy's quarters to talk. "I think we should take her there."

"I agree with Vivi. She did save both of our lives back there, she only wants to go home."

"What do you think Luffy, you're the captain after all."

"Why not I heard that Congo Island was where Gold Rodger used to do a lot of his looting! Let's go!"

It was settled. They would take Ayumi to her family but before they did Luffy had an idea of having a party to officially welcome her onto the Merry Go.

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Ayumi was playing another sad song in her room when she heard a knock at the door. It was Vivi and she looked abnormally happy. "Hi Vivi what's up?"

Before she knew it Vivi had blindfolded her and was being led to the top deck. She couldn't have found out this early! Ayumi could feel the wind on her face and she knew that she was on the top deck. "Ayumi we never really fully welcomed you onto our ship two days ago sssooooooo…" Vivi removed the blindfold.

"Surprise!"

The entire crew was on the deck and the bright moon lit up the entire ship. Luffy and Zoro had pulled out a few kegs of ale and it appeared that they had all already had a few mugs.

"This was too good an excuse to have a party, and we sorely needed one." Luffy chugged his entire mug of beer.

Ayumi couldn't help but smile and soon enough the party was going. Zoro had lost to Robin in an arm wrestling match, Usopp was unconscious after the first two mugs of ail, and Ayumi was playing some upbeat songs that everybody danced to. Luffy and Nami danced together with Sanji and Vivi close behind them. Ayumi was having the most fun that she had ever had in her entire life. "Would you like to dance…you owe me after that plate incident." Ayumi looked behind her and saw Sanji, drunk off his gourd, smiling that same goofy smile of his. It might have been all the excitement, or the moon, or most likely the beer that made her agree to dance with him but she did.

She never was a good dancer and the alcohol made Sanji slightly tipsy but they managed. They were laughing the entire time. Ayumi spun Sanji around before he did the same. She returned with some tango steps and then he led her in a drunken salsa. Next thing they knew it they were both on the ground. Ayumi accidentally tripped Sanji and he pulled her down with him. They were hysterical, Ayumi thought that she was going to die laughing on her back. Then she was asleep.

She woke up in her bed with the biggest hangover of her life. What the hell happened last night, I can't remember a thing. That's the last time I drink my weight in beer. It was noon; the rest of the crew was just waking up and were searching for coffee. Sanji knew this would happen and prepared early for it. They all drank in silence because the sound of one of their voices would split their heads in two. Ayumi finally sobered up after lunch. "Some night huh?"

Ayumi looked at Sanji "Honestly I don't remember much."

"Well we had a party, drank a lot, and danced."

It was all coming back to her now. She remembered how much fun she had had with them. "Right, you have two left feet you know that."

Sanji looked slightly offended. "I'll have you know that I am a very graceful dancer…I was just drunk is all."

"Then why did you fall?"

"You're the one who tripped me." Sanji laughed. "Besides I wouldn't call that dancing."

"What would you call dancing then?"

"Something like this." Sanji attempted to dance with an invisible partner. He looked ridiculous! Ayumi turned red trying to hold back her smile. "Hey it's harder without a real partner." He reached out and grabbed Ayumi's hand. He put her other hand on his shoulder and then his on her waist. He led her around the kitchen with the speed and skill of a professional dancer. After a few well-calculated moves he finished by dipping her, very smoothly, so far that her she was entirely strait and her head nearly touched the ground. He paused there. "That's dancing Ayumi." She was speechless. She couldn't think of any smart-ass remarks to make. Right when she was about to say something but she was silenced by Sanji's lips against hers. She tensed up and lost her breath. She finally relaxed and melted into his arms. It seemed like an eternity for her before Sanji finally released her lips.

"I…I…umm…that's how you usually dance with girls?"

"Only the ones that really catch my eye."

He lifted her up from the dip and released her from his arms. Sanji was waiting for her reply. "Sanji get out here we need you to help us!"

Damit Luffy, this isn't the best time. He sighed."I should go." He walked by purposely brushing against her arm. As the door closed Sanji left Ayumi standing in the galley smiling.

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Coolio. Well please review for me. Happy holidays and a merry new year.