Me: Heehee! An update! An update! (dances around happily)
Ari: Should we stop her?
Myline: Nah, let her have fun.
Nayri: WE OWN NOTHING! Well I own a cave full of rock candy, and a dolly, and a brush, and...
Myline: That's nice...
Ari: Just shut up so they can read the fucking story.
Me: Thanks guys! Enjoy. (or not! lol)
Chapter Nine: Punishment?
"He's getting worse?" Nami asked. "How?"
The doctor pointed to the bed where the cook was. He was shaking and seemed to be moaning something inaudible. Most of his face was already drenched in sweat.
"It's looks like he's having a nightmare." commented the captain scratching his head. "Is that so bad?"
Lucky for Luffy, Nami was too worried about Sanji to slap him this time. "Idiot, it could be the poison killing him! And we don't know!" she growled annoyed. "Where the hell is Zoro? We could use the help!"
Oddly enough the swordsman had chosen that moment to enter the room. "What for? The shithead wants to die, get over it."
The other 5 Mugiwara Pirates looked at Zoro surprised. Sure, he fought with Sanji a lot, but since when did he want him dead?
"Zoro, how can you say such a thing?" demanded the navigator. "Sanji-kun's our cook, and one of our nakama!"
"Zoro, why'd you say that?" asked Luffy. He didn't seem to be angry, but he didn't seem to be too pleased either.
"He told me he poisoned himself, Luffy. He doesn't care, so why the hell should I?"
"What?" demanded the others. Sanji had poisoned himself? Meaning he did want to die?
"Didn't give me a reason." Sighed the swordsman leaning against the wall. "But he's been planning this since we went to Alabasta."
"Alabasta?" asked Luffy. "That long?"
Zoro nodded. "He claims he bought it during our supply stop before we met Vivi."
"So why did he tell you?"
"Get up!"
Sanji suddenly felt like a kid again. Always being kicked around like there was no way to hurt him. Sure, he wasn't easy to hurt, but that didn't mean he was invincible! He still felt pain. He was merely more tolerable to it than others.
"I said GET UP! What would the others say if they saw you like this, baby eggplant? Would they think it any more reasonable than I do?"
"SHUT UP! Just shut up!" grumbled Sanji.
"Eez zat anyway to be treating ze man 'ho raise vou?"
Sanji suddenly felt as though someone had punched him hard in the stomach with a steel glove. Why now was everything coming back to haunt him?
"S-Sasuke…" he muttered, "pleasant surprise…" He tried to sound calm, normal, the way he had when he had known Sasuke on the Baratie. Although he was more of a child back then.
"Bonjour." Said the French cook stepping out of the shadows beside Zeff so that Sanji could see him. "Long time no zee."
Sanji finally couldn't take it anymore. "Where the hell am I? Am I dead?"
"Not yet. But you're close to."
"So where am I?" he demanded.
Zeff sighed. "You never were patient, were you, baby eggplant? You're asleep." He motioned to the area around them. "This is all a dream."
"Don't get any ideaz about leaving, zough."
"Sasuke and I brought you here. What you've been doing is a disgrace to chefs everywhere!"
The teen's eyes narrowed. "Tell me something I don't know, crap-geezer. And my punishment is death."
"Vour punishment eez life." replied Sasuke.
"Life? How is that punishment? There's poison in my body, genius!"
Sasuke turned to Zeff who nodded then brought up one foot and kicked Sanji in the head. "Vou'll zee…"
Ari: That sucked.
Nayri: No it didn't!
Me: Shut up! You couldn't do any better!
Ari: Wanna bet?
Myline: Oh dear god...
Nayri: Yay! A bet!
Ari: I'll write something and see if people like it!
Me: Fine.
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