Chapter 2:

Vivi sighed, reckoning the boy had been up there too long for simply rummaging through other peoples possessions. Memorizing the page number, she set the book down and got up from the chair. Pushing it under the table she approached the stairs and started climbing, gripping the railing.

"Luffy?" she called, brushing a strand of hair back.

She reached the landing of the second floor, which was simply a narrow corridor going one way, with separate rooms branching off. The floor was a total mess. Boxes, clothes, tubs and tubes of random things and what looked like a sword where strewn across the floor.

Many of the boxes were opened, the flaps hanging off, accidentally taken off by an overeager boy. Most of the tubes and tubs had been opened and their contents splattered across the floor, walls and…roof. A thick smell of perfume, mint and paint hung in the air.

"Luffy," she said hopelessly. She had just finished cleaning the house up for the new boarders.

Opening the doors and peering inside into the now, extremely messy rooms, Vivi started her search for the raven-haired menace. Picking her way down the corridor, being careful not to step into any of the puddles or be rained upon by it either she finally reached the last room which happened to be Luffy's.

Ironically this one was the least messy with mostly clothes and another sword in here. Most of the clothes look like Luffy had tried them one, and he was still wearing one, his red shirt and blue jeans lost. The boy was curled up on his bed, sleeping soundly, his chest rising and falling.

Whoever the dress belonged to was going to go mad. The boy had somehow fit himself into a woman's red dress, the chest part hanging loosely on the boys chest while the straps on his shoulders were strained, looked like they were going to break.

Vivi was tempted to take a photo. The boy looked adorable. She walked up to the boy in woman's clothing and gently shook his shoulders in an attempt to wake him up.

"Urg….huh?" he blearily said. "Hey Vivi!"

"You'd better help clear this up," she said sternly.

"I was only playing with our new friends stuff," he replied like a guilty child would.

"So you wearing that dress is, playing? I never remember you rummaging through my things,"

"I can Vivi? Thanks!" he shouted, bouncing off the bed and already scurrying towards the open door.

"Wait, no! I didn't mean you could!" Vivi ran forward, avoiding the numerous hazards on the floor.

Luffy paused in the doorway and grinned. "You must have some good stuff if you want to keep it secret!" Before dashing off again for Vivi's room, the skirt part of the dress, billowing behind him.

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"This it?" Usopp asked looking out of the window.

"Its kind of looks like the photo, maybe you can't tell because it's so dark," Nami said.

"Well, the Great Captain Usopp, has the best eyesight out of all of us!" he declared, and as an afterthought, "Tripled."

"Well he's not going to see much if he's sleeping,"

"I think we've stopped," Usopp nervously said.

Nami got up from her seat and picked up her handbag. "Come on you guys, Sanji wake him up please,"

"Anything for you Nami-swan!" Sanji shouted.

He walked to the back of the bus where the green haired boy lay sleeping on the far seat.

"Oi, Algae-head, wake up," he said, crinkling his nose as if smelling something vile.

Sanji poked the young man. Hard. In the head. With his foot.

"Shit…who's doing that?" the green haired man mumbled grumpily. He looked up and saw Sanji. "Oh, Princess,"

"Come on we've stopped, time to get off," Sanji replied curtly turning on the heel of his foot. "Nami-swan, wait for me!"

The "Algae-head" quickly snagged a look out of the window before un-boarding the coach. Still raining. Wasn't it supposed to be dry or something in Africa, deserts and all that? And to get stuck with the Princess, some random scared kid and this girl, and to be expected to be outside all day, sweating with these absurd animals.

If Nami hadn't reminded him of his overwhelming debt, there would've been no way on Earth he would've come.

He stepped out from the coach and almost instantly, he was soaked. Sanji better be too. He walked, as casually as he could to where the others where, shivering under an overhang of the roof of the house.

"Did you ring the doorbell?" he asked, squeezing under as well.

"Yeah, I don't think they heard us though," Nami replied.

"Do you think lion's prowl around in rain like this?" Usopp asked his eyes fearful.

Nobody answered, except that the green haired man snorted.

"There were fences, didn't you see them?" he said as if the others would have to be blind not to.

"You were asleep! How did you?"

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Luffy ran down the hall, ignoring what ever he stepped into or what fell onto him from the roof. Giggling, he dived into Vivi's room which he had conveniently until now, left untouched.

"Luffy!" Vivi shouted.

"Vivi this is pretty!" he exclaimed holding up one of her tops. "And it smells nice too!" he cried, muffled because his face was buried into the fabric.

"Hmm? What has that?" he asked suddenly. "The doorbell!"

Dashing out of the room, the top still in his hand and the dress still on, he raced down the stairs and was just about to open the door.

Vivi had just enough time to see a red blur leg it out of her room and down the stairs. In a feeble attempt to stop him she ran after the boy and just reached the top of the stairs when Luffy opened the door.

"Hi!" she heard him say.

"Why the hell are you wearing my dress?" she heard by the sound, an extremely angry girl shout.

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That was fast for me. Luffy's such a fun character to write. :3

Digitaldreamer: Oh yes, Luffy likes the rain. First reviewer! gives cookie