Chapter 17

Sanji led the crew to the dining hall, dragging Zoro by the collar of his shirt because he had begun to go the direction toward their rooms when they were about a fourth of the way there. He stopped in front of the doors when he heard the sound of someone yelling.

"YOU THREE ARE MY GREATEST CREATIONS! HOW COULD YOU LET THAT FAILURE DEFEAT YOU SO EASILY!"

"It won't happen again Father," they heard Niji say.

"THE HELL IT WON'T! THE THREE OF YOU HUMILIATED ME!"

"Don't worry, Dad, I'm crushing every done in his pathetic body as soon as I get the chance!" Yonji said.

"We still need him in a decent condition, Yonji," Ichiji said. "But, with all due respect, Father… if you would have let me continue fighting… I could have easily defeated him."

"YOU'RE THE ONE THAT DISAPPOINTED MY THE MOST, ICHIJI! YOU LET YOURSELF GET BLINDED BY ANGER! THAT NOT ONLY COST YOU THAT FIGHT BUT IT COULD COST YOU YOUR LIFE IN A REAL BATTLE! I NEED ALL OF YOU IF WE'RE GOING TO CONCUR THE NORTH BLUE! WE CAN'T AFFORD FOR ONE OF YOU TO DIE OVER SOMETHING LIKE ANGER! I RAISED YOU BETTER THAN THAT!"

"Maybe you should have taken all of our emotions then," Yonji pointed out.

"Yeah, I'd be fine without them. Emotions are useless," Niji agreed.

"Really? Dad, that's not~" Ichiji began but trailed off as Sanji grabbed the back of his neck and fell to his knees.

"Sanji-kun!" Nami said sitting on her knees next to him and wrapping an arm around his shoulders.

He bit his lip trying to keep from screaming from the sharp pain shooting through his body. ...Necessary, Sanji thought, finishing Ichiji's sentence. "I-i'm… F-fine…," he forced out.

"NOT NECESSARY! THE THREE OF YOU FAILED ME! I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!"

"You don't look fine, Sanji," Usopp replied.

"It… w-won't… happen… again," Ichiji said through clenched teeth.

"I'm kicking his ass," Luffy said reaching to open the doors.

"You better hope it doesn't,"Judge said as the sharp pain finally faded.

Sanii slowly got to his feet, rubbing the back of his neck with one hand and grabbing Luffy by the arm with the other, "Not yet, Luffy. Please. That wasn't meant for me… not this time anyways."

"What did he do?" Nami asked, her eyes filled with worry.

"When we were kids Judge had this chip put in the back of our necks… well not Reiju's… it's designed to trick our brain into thinking we're in pain…. I guess he did it in case we ever got out of his control, not having emotions and all, he must of had a fear of us turning on him or something. Its triggered with a single remote, so if he wants to use it on one of us then the rest of us better hope we're out of the remote's range. Of course that was before he new my emotions were still intact."

"That's none of their business!" Ichiji said, now standing in the door. He grabbed Sanii by the arm and pulled him in. "For someone who claims to be better than us, you sure do like to eavesdrop." He flung the blond into his chair..

"Right, I get told to come to dinner and get accused of eavesdropping for it…. Cause that makes a lot of sense!" Sanji said, his words dripping in sarcasm as he stared down the older brother.

Ichiji placed his hands on the sides of Sanji's chair. He looked the bond straight in the eye through his red sunglasses. His expression calm and collected yet minasing, lick a predator staring down his pray. Inches between the two brothers faces, Sanji's bangs swayed ever so slightly in response to his brothers warm breath as he spoke in a cool, threatening voice, "Watch. Your. Tongue."

His hand coming down to trace over one of the wristlets. Sanji began to slowly move his hand away from his brother's. Ichiji grabbed his arm to hold it in place as he took the wristlet in his other hand. The cook's eyes widened as sparks began to form around Ichiji's hands.

They both looked up as another hand grabbed Ichiji's and pulled it away from the wristlet.

"Don't! You! Dare! Threaten! Him!"

If looks could kill, Sanji knew Ichiji would have dropped dead right now because the expression Luffy was giving him was filled with more rage than Sanji thought his captain was capable of.

"Luffy, stop. Please." Sanji's voice was weak and helpless as he pleaded with his captain to back down.

"'Luffy, stops'," Yonji began in a childish mocking town.

"'Please.' You are so pathetic, Sanji!" Niji finished as the two burst into laughter.

Ichiji jerked his hand out of Luffy's gip before picking Sanji up by the collar of his shirt and throwing him across the room.

Sanii coughed when he his the ground as the wind got knocked out how him.

"SANJI(-KUN)" the others hollered.

Chopper immediately ran over fumbling through his medical bag, worrying about the cook's broken ribs.

"Why you!" Luffy said stretching an arm back as far as he could. "Gum gum!"

"Stealth!"

"NAMI-SAN!" Sanii managed to yelled in terror because Niji had Nami in a headlock with one arm and the other with his hand hovering over her heart, engulfed in blue electricity.

Zoro began to draw his swords.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Yonji said looking at the swordsman as he went to stand in front of Niji.

"One wrong move and the cat burglar dies. Is that understand pirates," Niji spate, his voice pure evil.

"It would be a waist to let a girl this hot die over the incapability of listening to instructions," Yonji said stroking Nami's cheek as she let out a quiet whimper.

"Don't touch her," Sanji growled.

"What are you going to about it, Weakling?" He said walking over to Sanji, who was still on the floor staring at the Navigator, knowing if he tried to free her Niji would stop her heart the second he moved.

Luffy's arm snapped back to its original length, although he was so angry by now that he really wanted… no… needed to kick their asses. But with Nami's life in danger right now, he knew that fighting wasn't the best option, this time. Not to mention if anything happened to Nami because he couldn't control his anger, not only would Sanji never forgive him but he wouldn't forgive himself.

Yonji bent down, Sanii gasped as his younger brother grabbed his hair and pulled it. "You know, Sanji, I wouldn't mind having her to myself," a smirk formed on his lips as he spoke.

Niji laughed. "Nor would I," his evil grin returning to his face as he spoke in Nami's ear and licked his lips. (The hell am I writing?!)

"S-sanji-kun?!" Sanji felt like someone was stabbing him right through the heart with about a billion different knives at Nami's quivering voice and fear filled eyes because he knew there was nothing he could do to help her.

Sure Sanii could see were his brothers were coming from. After all he has often found himself fantasizing about Nami being his. But he had to much respect for not just Nami but women in general that he would never act on he wishes. Sure he has his moments but he never considered them to be more than short periods of time where it's hard for him to control his love. To him acting on your love and acting on your desires were two completely different things. To love someone was to respect and understand them; to want to protect them; to want to be there for them; to care for them. But to desire someone… well that, to Sanji, was a completely different story. There was just so much more to loving someone than his brothers would ever understand. (Okay! Back to normal me… -_-)

"If any of you lays even a finger on her in anyway that makes her even the slightest bit uncomfortable, I seat to whatever God there might be I~"

"You'll what?" Yonji said standing back up. "YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A WEAK FAILURE!" he added as he kick Sanji in the stomach as hard as he could.

Chopper jumped back as a small squeaking sound escaped his lips before Yonji's foot made impact.

Sanji slid across the floor and into the wall. He propped himself up on his forearms while coughing up blood.

"YONJI!" Sora yelled as she and Reiju entered to dining hall. "NIJI, LET THAT GIRL GO!"

"Sora, they have done nothing wrong," Judge said, his voice dull.

"Yeah. Besides, Sanji started it," Niji said as he let Nami out of the headlock.

"He did not!" Usopp blurted out. The three brothers glared at him. He yipped and jumped behind Zoro, "I'm sorry. P-please don't kill me!"

Nami ran to Sanji and sat on the floor next to him. She took a cloth from Chopper, who had followed her, and wiped the blood from the corner of Sanji's mouth. "Are you okay, Sanji-kun?"

"I-i'm f-fine," he coughed.

"What are you apologizing for, Usopp? You're not wrong and they know it." Robin said. "Ichiji is the one that started threatening Sanji."

"Yes, but they're terrifying. I told you guys we shouldn't fallow them. But does anyone ever listen to me? No!"

"I listened..." Chopper argued. "But I also trust Sanji..."

"Boys, sit down and leave your brother alone. This is dinner, not a training session. Save the fighting for training," Sora said walking to her seat.

"We're not eating unless it's Sanji's cooking," Luffy said stretching his arms across the room to pull Nami and Sanji to their feet.

"Luffy," Sanji growled. "Eat. I'll cook you something tomorrow."

"Meat?!" Luffy asked as his mouth began to water.

"Obviously," Sanji rolled his eyes.

"Okay! We'll eat today… but I'm holding you to that."

"Have I ever broken a promise involving food?"

"Lots of meat?" Luffy said and Sanji took that as a 'no'.

"Yes, Luffy, lots of meat. Now sit down and eat."

"If you step one foot into that kitchen, we'll make you regret it," Ichiji remind.

"And if you threaten my friends one more time, I'll make you regret it!" Luffy replied.

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Well then! This chapter took a turn even I wasn't expecting… -_- It was very mild but did I seriously just right something a bit… *clears throat* … *coagh… coagh…* …s-sexual… the hell did that come from! …. Sorry that was literally my first time writing even some mildly… well yeah you get the point…. Don't know why I did it… but hey… it fit… I… guess…? Lol… ...But, umm, yeah, let me know what you thought if that… :)

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