Can Life Get Any Worse?

Disclaimer: Alas… I still do not own One Piece

Chapter 6: Surfing, Volleyball, and Jet skis!

The 4 girls sat at a table, chatting as usual. Instead of eating in the hotel, they had decided to stop by a new café. Dirty Cowboy Café. It seemed decent.

"Our first day of never-ending fun!" Kuina grinned wildly.

"Remember, only 2 weeks. If it was never-ending… boy that would be like heaven!" smiled Nami, wishing that there was no such thing as school.

Kaya nodded her head. "She's right."

Vivi's mind seemed to be else where, but she finally snapped back into the conversation. "Yup! Well we should spend this vacation to the fullest!"

"Ok then!" Kuina shot up, her bagel now falling down onto her plate. "Then let's go!"

As Kuina marched off towards the door, Vivi grabbed Kuina's sleeve. "Kuina, we're still eating breakfast!"

"Oh yeah!" Kuina smiled and went back to her seat, and again began eating her bagel.

Her other two friends just stared at her for a while. "Ok, so any way, I have an idea!" Nami said as she took a sip of juice.

"Ooh, what?" asked the now interested Kaya.

"A party! We should throw a party!" said Nami with a bright smile.

"That's an awesome idea!" said Kuina as she gobbled down the last of her bagel.

Vivi nodded. "But where?" Vivi questioned.

"What about…" Kaya began to consider the options. "Not Nami's room, with Luffy and all. And my room, forget about it."

"So that leaves our room!" Kuina said with a grin.

"Ok, that sounds good to me!" Vivi agreed.

Nami took another sip of her juice after having the last piece of her toast. "Alright! That sounds like a good idea to me!"

"So, you guys ready to go?" Kaya reached into her pocket to pull out some money to pay.

Kuina nodded and took out a 5 dollar bill and places it on the table. "Splitting the bill sounds fair, right?"

Kaya and Nami nodded in agreement as they put some money into the pile as well.

"All done! Now let's go to that beach!" Nami smiled and raced out the door, her friends following.

"So, what should we do?" Kuina asked as they walked towards the bathrooms.

"First, let's change into our bathing suits!" Kaya pointed out.

"She has a point." Vivi said.

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The four girls walked out, each now wearing a two piece bathing suit. Nami's was navy and pink, Kaya's light blue and yellow, Kuina's different shades of green and Vivi's was red and orange.

As they walked, many of the boys stared at their exposed bodies. Soon enough, they saw Luffy and his friends walking by, each in their bathing suites and a shirt.

Zoro was wearing a green and black swim suit, his bare chest showing through the unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt he had on. Sanji wore his goldish swimming shorts with a large black shirt worn loosely on his chest. Usopp had on his brown and black one and a normal white T-shirt. Luffy's bathing suit was just black, a bit of white on it, while he had a yellowish shirt with a red band, much like his straw hat.

"So volleyball it is!" announced Vivi as the girls walked.

"Should we play 2 on 2? What teams?" Kaya questioned.

"Hmm..." Kuina considered for a moment.

"I have an idea!" Nami said with a grin as the attention was focused on her. "How about girls vs. boys?"

The other 3 girls turned to look at the approaching boys, each grinning.

"That sounds good to me!" Vivi said with a smile.

"Now let's see if they want to," Kaya reminded her friends.

Kuina nodded and approached Luffy and his friends. "So guys, what do you plan on doing today?"

Luffy looked over at Kuina with a smile. "Uh… I don't know. Whatever we can find I guess!" Luffy said with a grin.

"Great! Then you wouldn't mind playing volleyball with us, would you?" Kuina gave her brightest smile.

Zoro blinked for a moment. Why do I have this weird knot in my stomach, just when I see Kuina smile? Zoro shook his head hard, trying to get rid of the thoughts.

"That's great!" Kuina said without waiting for an answer.

Sanji smiled. "Of course we will! We'll do anything for you!"

Zoro grumbled and walked over towards the volleyball net, his friends following.

"Nice job Kuina!" Vivi smiled to her friend who gave her a high-five.

"Now we just have to cream those boys!" Nami gave a grin.

"But aren't we supposed to just have fun?" Kaya questioned.

"Yes, and beating them will be tons of fun!" remarked Vivi as Kuina and Nami nodded in agreement.

"Ok, just one game to 21. Four on four, got it?" Zoro said once they were set up.

"Aw, come on Zoro. We got nothing better to do…" Luffy whined.

Zoro grumbled and just served the ball, not answering to Luffy.

"I got it!" yelled Kuina. She bumped the ball towards Nami who spiked it over the net.

Sanji managed to set the ball up over the net again.

Kaya bumped it up, and Kuina managed to dive under it for another bump.

And so the game went on for quite a while, the teams being evenly matched as far as points went for most of the time.

Finally, the last point was scored and the game was won.

"WOOHOO!" Kuina jumped up in joy as the volleyball landed on the boys' side of the field.

"We won!" Vivi smiled widely.

"In your faces!" Kaya yelled.

"It was all your fault lover-boy!" Zoro looked over towards Sanji with a mean look on his face.

"So it's my fault that we lost, eh?" Sanji glared at the aggravated boy.

"Yes it is you blonde boy!"

"No it isn't moss haired freak!"

"Cooking idiot!"

"Sash boy!"

"Hey, if you insult my sash… I get mad!" Zoro held his fists up in the air. The only thing stopping him from clobbering Sanji was the fact that Usopp was holding onto his collar.

"Calm down Zoro. We shouldn't kill our own kind!" Usopp continued to hold onto the aggravated Zoro whose rage kept on growing.

"Yeah come on, sash boy, don't get mad!" Sanji chuckled as he kept on insulting Zoro.

"Usopp, if you're smart, you'll stay out of this!" Zoro barked at his fearful friend.

"R-right! W-well…" Usopp slowly stepped back as Zoro and Sanji began fighting.

Luffy laughed as the two kept shooting insults at each other.

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"Yeah! This is what I'm talking about!" Sanji's lollipop hung loosely in his mouth as the water splashed onto his face. His hands gripped tightly on the sail of the board. Windsurfing was surely fun, especially to Sanji.

"Hah! You too scared for real surfing, so you windsurf instead, eh?" Zoro laughed at the blonde boy. Zoro carefully stood up on the surf board, surfing the perfect wave.

"Woohoo!" Luffy's arm was raised above his head as his other hand was holding tightly onto the jetski wheel. His hat was hung on his neck with a string, and he wore a large grin on his face.

Usopp, on the other hand, was happily sitting down on the towel on the sandy ground. He watched as his 3 friends did each of their activities, each with great excitement.

"Boy, sometimes I wish I was brave," Usopp sighed. Then a thought popped into his mind. Maybe I should just try! I mean if they can do it-

Usopp's thoughts were cut off by a shrill scream coming from the water. It was Kaya, who was flailing her arms high in the air. Kuina and Vivi quickly noticed their drowning friend. Getting up from the bar, the rushed over to the lifeguard.

Everyone seemed to stare at Kaya, but someone took action. And that was Usopp. Bravely, he pulled off his shirt and jumped into the water, swimming as fast as he could. He kept on pushing himself, until he finally reached Kaya. He quickly grabbed her arm and put it across his back and began to swim back, an unconscious Kaya hanging from his grasp.

Once he reached the land, everyone ran towards Kaya, her friends reaching her first.

"Everyone, please clear out!" said the lifeguard as he and two others came with a first aid kit.

"Will she be ok?" "Is she alive?" "What happened?" Endless questions flowed through the air as Usopp plumped down on his towel, panting slightly.

"Usopp!" Usopp looked up to see Luffy running towards him, Sanji and Zoro following.

"I gotta admit, you were pretty brave there," Zoro grinned at his friend as Sanji with a slight nod.

"I agree with moss head here." Sanji smiled as he looked over at the angry Zoro.

"Yeah! I've never seen you be so brave!" Luffy gave his trademark large grin.

"Hey, I'm brave! Sometimes…" Usopp managed a nervous smile.

Sanji glanced one last time towards Zoro, then back at Usopp. Heh, looks like one girls is already taken. Oh well, there are always three more. Sanji smiled to himself as he turned towards the three frantic girls leaning over Kaya. His first impulse sent his eyes towards Vivi. For some reason, he seemed to be nicer to her than the other three, but that was none of his concern… yet.

"Yo, blonde!" Zoro shouted as he made his way back to the water, his surfboard in his hand.

"Huh?" Sanji's lollypop dangled out of his mouth as he saw his friends returning to the water, along with many of the other people.

"Come on Sanji!" Luffy whined as he turned towards his friend. "Let's go! It's almost lunch and I want to jetski some more!"

"Alright! Cool your jets Luffy, I'm coming," Sanji said as he began towards the water once more. He glanced back at Usopp who was still on his towel, and gave him a grin.

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"Kaya, are you sure you're alright?" Vivi asked as she sat down at the table. It was around 1 pm, lunch time. And the pizza place right near the beach happened to be a wonderful place to eat.

"Yes, I'm ok," Kaya said as she took a large bite of her pizza.

"This sure is good pizza!" Kuina smiled and took another bite of her pepperoni pizza.

"Mhmm…" Nami nodded. Even though her other 3 friends were concentrated on their vacation, she seemed to be thinking about something else.

Why is it that whenever I see that Luffy, I get this weird feeling in my stomach? That's it I'm not eating any of Kuina's food ever again. Nami sighed.

"NAMI!" Kuina yelled as she smashed her fist down on the table.

"What, what?" Nami looked up from her deep thought.

"We were wondering where we should eat dinner tonight!" Vivi told her clueless friend.

"I hear that the Mexican place around here is good. And there's also a good Chinese restaurant called Harvest Buffet. Oh and there's also that Thai one-"

"Yes, Kaya, you can probably go on for ages. The point is, there are a lot of so called good restaurants around here!" Kuina gave a firm nod.

"You know I was getting to that," protested Kaya.

Nami giggled at her two friends. "Well we can decide that later can't we? Now, who will pay?"

"Pay?" Vivi asked as she finished up her last slice of pizza.

"Yes pay!" Nami repeated.

"I thought you were going to, Nami!" said Kaya.

"Me? Who said I was going to!" Nami looked at her friends with an angry look on her face.

"Well I don't have any money with me!" Kuina jammed her hands into her pockets, revealing nothing inside.

"I left mine in the hotel!" Kaya said.

"And I… Well you can pay, right Nami?" Vivi gave a sweet smile at her friend.

Nami sighed. "Oh fine! But I'm not paying for dinner!" Nami said as she put a 20 on the table.

And so the girls went back to their day, sunbathing or swimming. Or just whatever in general, as long as they had fun. And the boys, well they were keeping themselves busy whether it was with surfing, windsurfing, jetskiing, or just sitting around. And soon, they will be growing closer to each other without even noticing.

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A/N- Well, it did take me a while, but here it is! Sorry before that Luffy was a bit out of character, but I tried to fixed that. I hope you enjoyed, and I will try to update sooner. I just have a large amount of projects this week, so it might be difficult. Until then, well… have fun!