Chapter 3:

"This is yours?" Luffy asked blinking. "You should share; we could trade clothes and stuff!"

"Go away Luffy!" Vivi hissed pushing him aside. "Hey, you must be the new boarders. Come on in, out of the rain!"

Luffy looked on dejectedly as the wet gang of four came into the house and he shut the door behind them.

"Now why are, you wearing my clothes?" Nami suddenly asked, turning to face the boy and poking him hard in the chest.

"But it's so pretty! How could you resist?" Luffy cried twirling around. "And Vivi said I could!"

Vivi's face flushed bright red as Luffy put the blame on her and she immediately rushed over to him, and ushered him upstairs.

"Well that boy's an idiot," the swordsman said yawning loudly.

"I dead one at that," Nami muttered.

Upstairs, Luffy was trying to explain how Vivi had told him that he could look through their stuff.

"When you bake cookies, you say "Don't touch them," that means you want me to touch them cause' otherwise it would've later until I've found them." He said rolling his eyes as if Vivi should have known. "So when you said "The boarders stuff is upstairs," I learned that they were up here. But you didn't say what I could do with it so I thought it was an "anything goes" time,"

Vivi arched an eyebrow. "Reverse psychology? But if I say "Do, do that" you shouldn't,"

Luffy cocked his head. "But you're telling me to do something, so I should,"

"If I told you to jump off a cliff, would you?" Vivi asked sighing.

"Will you give me wings?" Luffy answered grinning.

"Take off that dress in your room, find your own clothes and put them on. Then come downstairs and apologize to that girl," Vivi told him.

"Sorry, can I make you a drink?" she asked coming downstairs.

"Dartboard beat you to it," Zoro grunted from the table, lowering the glass from his lips.

"Oh Ok," Vivi said, her face falling. "Sorry, but I don't know your names,"

"I'm Nami," she said smiling.

"I'm, The Great Captain Usopp!" he declared grinning.

"Zoro."

"Sanji, but call me Prince!"

Vivi smiled at their enthusiasm. "I'm Vivi, and the boy upstairs is Luffy, he'll be down soon,"

"What's all the over the floor?" Sanji asked bringing the others attention to the Luffy sized footprints, leading from the stairs to the door.

"Luffy decided to check if you had all your belongings. Some of them were, liquids," Vivi lied sighing.

"And he decided to stand in my makeup?" Nami questioned, stomping towards the stairs.

"And my paint," Usopp whimpered sadly.

"He better not have touched my swords," Zoro growled, standing.

"Or my cooking utensils,"

And at that time Luffy decided to appear at the top of the stairs, fitted in his own red top and blue jeans. "Hey, why does everyone look so angry?"

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"Who's is this?" Zoro asked holding up a book titled "How to handle your Busy Life".

"Mine!" Nami shouted, rushing over and snatching the book from the man.

"Hey, why'd you need that anyways? You get everyone else to do everything for you,"

"Your debt's rising," she growled.

"Go eat a knife," he growled back, turning to the piles of objects.

"Nami-swan, is this yours?" Sanji asked, holding up yet another piece of clothing.

"Yes, thank you Sanji," she said sweetly, disappearing afterwards for a brief moment to put it in Vivi's room. The girls were in that room.

"Oi, boy," Zoro said, struggling to remember his name. "You said you knew where my other sword was?"

Luffy's face was blank for a moment, before registering that Zoro had been talking to him. "Oh yes, it's in mine and Sanji's room!"

"Hey, since when have I been with you?"

"Do you want to be with Zoro or Usopp?" Luffy asked.

"You make it sound like you and Sanji are together," Zoro said, heading towards Luffy's room.

"You and Usopp are together!" Luffy happily exclaimed missing the point, which the others caught.

"What? Zoro and Usopp are a couple?" Nami suddenly chirped from inside her room. "But it must be too soon, you've only met!"

"How did this conversation dwindle from me asking where my sword is, to debating if me and Usopp are together!" Zoro shouted. "Which we're not!"

"But aren't we all couples in our rooms?" Luffy asked.

Sanji, Usopp and Nami exchanged glances. "No."

"What the hell is that?" everyone heard Zoro shouted from Luffy's room. "Get lost you slinky!"

A brown streak ran from Luffy's room and out into the hallway. It rose up onto its hind legs fearfully gazing back.

"Stumpy!" Luffy cried running up to the meerkat.

"That hurt, you son of a bitch!" Zoro cried coming out of the room, sword in one hand. "I ought to wring its little neck!"

"No Zoro, don't hurt Stumpy! He's our pet!" Luffy shouted, scooping the meerkat up in his arms and presenting it to Zoro, by shoving it in his face. "See isn't he cute?"

"You have a slinky for a pet?" Zoro asked, eyeing its mouth which was filled with tiny, sharp teeth.

"Meerkats make good pets!" Luffy exclaimed, hugging Stumpy.

"Keep the damn thing away from me," Zoro huffed, going to drop off his katana in his room. "Sanji, the slinky craps in your room by the way,"

Later, when more or less of all the belongings, had been returned to their rightful owners, "W-what are those s-swords f-for Zoro?"

"Eh?" he asked, shedding his shirt and simply leaving it on the floor. "I just practice with them; I can't get rusty simply if I'm going to another country,"

"I s-suppose," Usopp stammered, crawling into his bed.

"What was that camera for?" Zoro asked as he too slipped into his bed.

"Taking pictures," Usopp squeaked as Zoro turned the lamp off.

"I knew that, of what?" the green-haired swordsman muttered.

"The animals, I promised I would show the photos to Kaya,"

"She a girl?"

"Course," Usopp said.

"Good. Now we're defiantly not a couple,"

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Authors Notes: Apparently meerkats do not make good pets according to an article I read, and yes, Stumpy does actually have some minor importance to the plot. Zoro got some pie in this chapter. :3