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Reminder: I have no beta-reader. Any grammatical and spelling errors are solely mine.
Warning: OOC possible. One shot scribble.
Rating: T
Note: This is all for the sake of fun and craziness.
Summary: "Well, you can always order them captain."
Points of No Return
6: Captain's Order
"We are gathered here today…" Luffy intoned.
"Gathered for what?" Zoro's face was scrunched up in a frown while looking at his captain questioningly.
Luffy paused at the intrusion and cleared his throat. "Ehem! We are gathered here today..."
"I'll repeat Zoro's question," this time it was Nami who cut him off. "Gathered for what exactly?"
A pout appeared on captain's face, though he chose to ignore the questions.
"We are gathered here today…" he uttered one more time, loudly and clearly. "Uhm…"
"To bear witness senchou-san," a voice—obviously Robin's—interjected with a chuckle. A flurry of pink petals flew around them indicating that she was nowhere near but is currently keeping an eye (and mouth) on them.
"Ah right!" Luffy's expression brightened at the reminder. "We are gathered here today, to bear witness,"
"Bear witness to what?!" Nami looked bewildered.
Zoro was just as confused. "What are we supposed to witness?" He glanced at Nami who shrugged.
"Is this some sort of a meeting, Luffy? Should we call the others?"
"Uh no!"
Zoro and Nami exchanged puzzled glances.
"Tch. Why did you call us out here Luffy?" Zoro asked his tone impatient. Luffy had pestered him to come to the upper deck and from the look on Nami's face, he probably did the same with her. "You're not pulling one of your stupid pranks on us are you?"
Luffy's eyes widened and he waved his arms in defense. "NO! NO!"
"Then why are we here?!" Nami's voice was like the calm before the storm and it actually sent shivers down the two Supernovas' spines.
"Luffy..." there was warning in Zoro's tone. He decided he better clear things up before the navigator decides to beat the living shit out of the young man.
And Luffy gulped. He maybe the captain but damn if his two oldest nakama cannot scare the shit out of him... especially Nami.
Said woman was already cracking her knuckles.
"Because as captain I can marry you two!" He shouted.
Silence.
"WHAT?!"
It sounded so much like an explosion that some of Straw Hats scurried out of their respective rooms-slash-hiding places.
But seeing that it was only their captain, swordsman and navigator in the upper deck; they all decided to shrug it off.
"Where the hell did you get that idea?!" Zoro all but roared.
At the same time Nami was shrieking, "Marry? US?! Are you out of your fucking mind Luffy?"
They both looked livid and in for the kill that Luffy backed away from them.
Robin had told him that as captain he CAN perform marriage ceremonies.
And she also said that when two persons liked each other, they eventually marry each other.
Just like in the tale she told them last night.
"Luffy," Zoro growled, thumbing one of his swords out of its sheath. "You have one minute to explain or I'll be coating Kitetsu with your blood."
"No," Nami snarled, pulling out her sorcery Clima-tact. "He has less than a minute."
Luffy jumped away from them. "But... but when people like each other. They marry each other."
"Where did you even get that idea?!" Zoro bellowed.
"I think I know where..." Nami muttered lowly, looking pointedly at the archeologist, who was reading and sunbathing at the lawn deck. It was probably from one of Robin's tall tales.
"Tch! That gloomy woman…" Zoro grumbled under his breath.
"But why US?" Nami hissed at Luffy, eyes narrowing dangerously.
"You… you both said you like each other."
Zoro and Nami drew back, brows furrowing before glancing at each other, perplexed.
"Huh?"
"You both told me," Luffy innocently, very honestly said. "You like each other."
Eyes widened at what the rubber man casually dropped.
"LUFFY!" They both screamed in unison. "YOU TOLD ON ME?!"
The swordsman and navigator turned to each other, mirroring each other's shocked expression.
Luffy only laughed sheepishly. "Uhh...shishishi".
"It was supposed to be a secret!" Nami cried out.
"I specifically told you not to say anything about it!" Zoro said at the same time, a vein popping visibly on his forehead.
"Wari, wari." Luffy shoved a finger inside his nose. Then he grinned, ever oblivious to the chaos that he just unleashed. "So can I now marry you guys?"
"NO!" They simultaneously answered and both flushed red when their eyes met.
Luffy looked crestfallen. "But…"
"So this is where things start being awkward," Nami inhaled sharply, glaring daggers at Luffy.
"Yeah. No thanks to our aho sencho," Zoro muttered darkly. "He just went and ruined it all."
Their captain is really a certified idiot. Through and through.
But there's no going back from this. And they both know it. Thanks to Luffy and his big rubber mouth.
Nami and Zoro's eyes met and both promptly averted their gazes in embarrassment.
"Whatever happened to leaving it to luck? Or fate?" Zoro groused, scratching the back of his head as Nami sighed in resignation.
Robin suddenly appeared on the deck. "How are things?"
"Oi Robin! You said I can marry them!" Luffy complained.
"Yes you can senchou-san. But we still have to consider if they want it or not." Robin responded glancing at the swordsman and the navigator.
Luffy whined in disappointment. "They're saying no. Even if they both told me that they like each other."
"Well…"
"Stop putting ideas into his head, Robin." Nami chastised.
"This is all your fault," Zoro muttered.
Robin smiled cheekily at them.
"Well, you can always order them captain."
Luffy's whole face lit up at that idea.
- The End –
Robin's tall tales of quixotism are back again creating havoc along with Luffy's whim.
R and R please.
