Zoro was dodging a Gomu Gomu Pistol and preparing to retaliate, when a boot found the back of his head. The crash of his head making a crater in the deck was nicely accentuated by the wails of their sharpshooter as yet more of the Going Merry was demolished.
"Eh?" Luffy cocked his head. "Hello Sanji! Is it dinner time yet?"
"Not for another hour," Sanji told the bottomless hole that masqueraded as a human being. "Just giving Zoro the antidote." Usopp's lamentations cut off in mid-wail as he asked the obvious question. "What's the antidote for?"
"For the hallucinogens I fed him," Sanji explained blithely before shoving the amber liquid down the swordsman's throat.
Usopp was stunned. "That's really - "
"Hilarious?" Sanji inserted.
"Yeah! That's the word I was looking for exactly!"
Sanji lit up. "I know." He smoked a moment in silence.
Zoro lit up also. With rage. "Ero cook! Kill!" he shouted, still in caveman-Zoro mode.
The Going Merry crew was then treated to the sight of Zoro and Sanji battling to the death.
Again.
- - -
Zoro silently slipped out of his hammock, accompanied by the various snores of his bunkmates. He stealthily made his way to the deck, and crept up behind her. He wrapped an arm around her and murmured, "Don't worry. They don't suspect a thing."
The swordsman and the figurehead gazed into the night.
- - -
A/N: You didn't really expect me to keep those two star-crossed lovers apart, did you? And thus ends my first foray into the world of One Piece. Ahead of schedule, too.
I've already got another couple of ideas swimming around in my brain (probably with less OOC Straw Hats. But hey, who knows?).We'll have to see how it turns out.