Chapter two: Friends are necessary for your career… right?

In which the neighbours visit, Luffy questions his existence, Zoro considers his sexual preference (or so I say), Usopp lies and Nami realises they have no money.

a/n: Don't you just love previews? I do. Anyway, please enjoy this chapter!

It was about 10 o'clock when the doorbell rang. A loud, sharp sound that everybody took notice of but didn't bother answering, because they were all busy with different things.

Nami was, once again, back in the library with Robin, reading as if there was no tomorrow. When the doorbell rang again, Robin glanced at Nami.

"I wonder who that can be." She said rather than asked. Nami shrugged.

"One of those idiots with open, don't worry."

But the idiots had no intention of opening the door, because they were all doing something very, very important. Luffy, for example, was talking to Chopper about Chopper's new look whilst Chopper was doing the same. Sanji was engaged in a TV show on the yummy channel that taught him how to cook and he could not look up from it in fear of missing something important.

Usopp was having fun exploring the house. He'd recently found a thing that didn't look like, but still was a computer. He'd also discovered the joys of The Sims 2. it was all very… captivating.

Zoro was out back, resting on the patch of heaven that was described in the previous chapter. He had seen the visitors coming, watched them as they rang on the doorbell and had been observing them walking around impatiently, waiting for the door to open. And not only that, he was closest to the door.

But did he bother to get his lazy ass off the grass and greet them? No.

After the fifth ring, Nami snapped. She closed the book as violently you can when you're closing a book and stood up. She walked out of the library, which also had a computer, a TV, a couch and a bunch of other things you usually have in a living room, and roared.

"Will someone answer the goddamn door?" She roared. Everybody, even the calm, collected and not to mention terribly strong Robin jumped. In a matter of seconds, they were all at the front door, letting their neighbours in: a blonde woman in a sexy outfit, a redhead with glasses and, apparently, her husband – a dark fellow with sunglasses.

"Hello neighbours!" Luffy greeted as he shook the dark man's hand politely. Not that he meant to do it; it just came as an impulse. After the handshake, he looked at his hand strangely, wondering why he did something so out of character.

It turned out the dark man, Terry Walker, and his wife, Anna Walker, hadn't been living in the neighbourhood long, and that they had two small children. Curiously, they wondered about the Mugiwara's relations to each other.

"Well," Luffy said enthusiastically, "I met with Zoro first – that's the green haired guy over there-" he pointed to Zoro and the Walkers nodded "you see, I had just come to this island…" but here, our dear captain trailed off. When was he on an island…? As far as he could remember, he'd been born on the lot… it was his very first memory. Maybe what he thought was reality was just a dream?

"What about the island?" Mrs Walker asked pleasantly, reaching over and touching Luffy's arm.

Luffy looked up at her, "I… I don't know…" Put down, the captain sulked off to an armchair, missing his dear goat head back at the Going Merry.

Meanwhile, Zoro was being attacked by the other lady in the sexy outfit.

"Hello there sexy!" She said seductively and licked her lips. "What's your name?"

Zoro narrowed his eyes and stared at the shameless woman without bothering to answer her.

"My name's Tyra Smith…" The woman said, thinking Zoro was just being shy. "What's yours?"

"Err… I'm not…"

"Just tell me your name handsome!" Tyra Smith said through her teeth, starting to feel embarrassed for the poor swordsman.

"It's euh…-" Zoro backed away a few steps and tripped over Sanji who, for some reason, was kneeling on the floor behind him.

"Hey, watch it marimo!" He said, standing up quickly as he laid eyes on the beautiful bombshell. "Well hello there!" Sanji's visible eye was in "big, pink and heart-shaped" mode.

"Hi." Tyra said coldly, barely looking at Sanji. Instead, she kneeled down next to Zoro, hugging him. "Oh poor baby!" She said with a baby voice as she patted Zoro's head.

It was a good thing those katanas on Zoro's waist were just for decoration.

"Get… get off me!" Zoro growled and pushed her off. But Tyra seemed to be a super strong woman. Could she be…? Wonder Woman? Nah…

"Dammit…" Zoro cursed under his breath. For some reason he wasn't strong anymore. Tyra began to make weird noises that, although it's out of character for Zoro, scared him. Desperately, he looked around for someone who could help him.

Nami? No, she'd just stand there and laugh at him. Usopp? Too weak. Chopper? He hadn't gotten used to his body yet. Sanji? Zoro didn't even want Sanji's help. Robin? Where was she anyways? The library? She'd never hear him. Luffy? … Yes! Luffy!

"Luffy!" Zoro cried. Luffy immediately perked up from his spot in the armchair.

"What?" He cried back.

"Help me!"

"With what?"

"Get this woman off me!"

"Why don't you do it yourself?"

"I can't! Just help me! Now!"

And without another word, Luffy walked over to Zoro casually, as if he wasn't about to completely smite the poor woman. And he wasn't.

"Excuse me." He said, tapping Tyra lightly on her shoulder. She acknowledged him by turning to face him.

"I'm going to have to ask you to leave-"

"What? She's never going to listen to that!" Zoro screamed in the background.

"-and while you're at it, please bring the rest of the visitors." Luffy continued, completely ignoring Zoro.

"…" Tyra looked at Luffy for a moment before she stood and reached for his hand. "Okay." Then she turned to Zoro. "I'll see you later." And so she winked before she, along with Mr and Mrs Walker, decided to leave.

Some time later that day, let's say around four, Sanji was ready to prepare dinner when, God help them; the refrigerator just wouldn't let him take the food out.

He frowned and tried again.

Nothing.

He tried a couple more times, Luffy running around in circles behind him screaming "food, food" not helping him keep his calm at all. Finally, he got fed up and kicked Luffy. Hard.

Tears threatened to come out of Luffy's eyes, but he stood tall, as a man, and yelled "Sanji! Why the hell did you do that for?"

"Look. For some reason I can't get the food out of the refrigerator, and you running around like a fucking idiot aren't helping! So just… shut up!"

Luffy didn't say another word. But Nami did. "What the hell! I wanted to call a cab to get into town and buy some new clothes and this jerk tells me I don't have enough money! Me, who single-handedly raised 98 million berries! How dare he?" She ranted as she walked into the room, her arms violently hitting anything that came in their way. Yes, Luffy's head. Poor Luffy.

"I believe I have the answer to that question, milady." Usopp said as he, too, entered the room. "You see, while I was carefully exploring the unexplored region of Lebeuma, I stumbled across a-" But Usopp's tale of mystery was rudely cut off by Nami, who was already irritated.

"Get to the point, Usopp!"

He frowned. "Why won't you listen to my story first?"

"Because it's a lie."

"This is a smart one." Usopp muttered to himself before he took a breath and got to the point. "Basically… berries won't work here. We have to use dollars."

"Say what now?" The absolute rage in Nami's voice caused Usopp to take a step back. Never the less, he stood tall and his voice only trembled a little as he repeated his statement.

"B-berries won't work here."

"This can't be happening! How can I live without the finer things in life? Without money?" Nami roared, the faintest hint of desperation in her voice. But she quickly regained her sanity. "How do you get dollars?" She asked.

"You… you work for it."

And with that, the fate of the Mugiwara pirates had been settled. They were all going to get jobs.

a/n: Sorry I haven't updated… I was in Ireland. Anyway, please read and review. This chapter is dedicated to Unko-dono-sama, because I love her. (Even though I didn't use the word "smexy" xD)

Please excuse any grammar or spelling errors I might have missed.