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"What do you think you're doing?" Zeff said when he walked into the kitchen and found Sanji stasnding on one leg, the toe of his other foot just barely touching the floor, and washing the table with his good hand.
"What does it look like. I'm cleaning."
"No you're not. Get your ass back into that room and lay down. I'll clean up in here."
"I'm fine. I'm not using my hand."
"Give me the dish rag," Zeff said going to stand next to him.
"I'm fine. Besides Chopper is in there giving Ichiji another sedative."
"Then sit your ass on that bench and get your leg up. Now." He added taking the dish cloth from him.
"Ugh! Fine!" Sanji said before flopping himself onto the bench, childishly. "You're such a pain in the ass."
"Me? You're the one being a stubborn Little Brat."
"I can at least clean my own kitchen! Stubborn old geezer!"
"You're both stubborn," Nami said walking into the kitchen with Carrot.
They were carrying groceries and Carrot had a carrot sticking out of her mouth. Nami sat her bags down and turned to take Carrot's.
"Carrot! I told you not to eat all the carrots."
"I only had three," she replied.
"I told you you could have one, Carrot," Nami sighed.
"But this Kingdom's carrots are delicious!"
Zeff looked into the bag that Carrot had. "It's fine. There are plenty left. Cosette and I will start the food for the citizens when she gets back with the Little Brats' mother." (Yes, brats' is intentionally plural)
Nami nodded once in understanding before looking to Sanji. She sighed, "he's back to sleep already."
"I knew he would be," Zeff said looking over his shoulder as Nami went to Chopper's office. "Stubborn Little Eggplant."
"He gets it from you," Nami said, coming back into the kitchen with the pillow and blanket from the bed.
"How does he get it from someone he's not even related to," Ichiji said, also coming to the kitchen from Chopper's office. That earned him a kid to the face. "Ouch! What the hell was that for?!"
Zeff shot him a look that said 'you know exactly what', although Ichiji still didn't understand.
"Zeff's stubbornness rubbed off on Sanji, because Sanji had been around him to long," She answered as Ichiji walked over to Sanji and lifted a hand to his throat. She grabbed his hand after placing the pillow under Sanji's head.
"Damn it, this is getting annoying," Ichiji said as Nami shoved him to a chair on the opposite side of the table.
"I thought Chopper gave you another dose of sedative," Nami said.
"Not yet. He wants it to wear off a little more before he does."
"Then what were you two doing in there this whole time?" Zeff asked.
"Can't tell you," he said setting in the chair. "Chopper made us swear not to say anything."
"Us? Does this have to do with what every it is he and Law has been so secretive about?" Nami asked laying the blanket over Sanji.
"We haven't been secretive about anything!" Chopper denied from his office.
Carrot and Nami looked at each other. Everyone knew the two doctors were up to something, except Luffy, if he did, he's not concerned, but they keep denying it anytime someone asked about it. Law had a good poker face so if it hadn't been for the way Chopper acted about it, nobody would have caught on. However, for Sanji, it was Law who caused him to figure it out in the beginning, sneaking around on the Sunny, trying to be stealthy and get Sanji to come to Chopper's office without anyone else noticing.
He couldn't see exactly where he was, he just knew he was in a room with no window or lights to illuminate it. He could hear the voices of his abusive father and brothers, their harsh words bouncing off the walls and back to his ears.
"Weakling."
"Useless."
"Failure."
"Worthless."
The voices repeated. He couldn't tell who was saying what, but it didn't mater, it wouldn't change how much they stung.
Then their faces began to flash around the room.
"You're a disgrace, Sanji," His father said when he stopped infront of him. "A blemish on the family name."
"You want to know why I chose you to join my crew?" Came a new voice as Luffy appeared in the darkness. "So we could use you as a sacrifice if we ever needed one. You've played that role well with out me even telling you too."
"L-Luffy...?" Sanji finally spoke. "Y-you... you...d-don't mean that... Do you?"
"Of course he does! You're so pathetic, Sanji!"
Sanji spun around to another new voice, "N-Nami-San..."
"Do you honestly think I agreed to date you out of Love? You're a perverted, lovesick, moron. I could never love someone like that. I'm only after your famly's money."
"D-don't say that... Please, Nami-San. I-I don't have access to their money... You know that...
"Why not? It's true! Haven't you heard a thing you father and brothers said? Nobody will ever love you. Not as you are."
"The only thing you're good for is taking my anger and stress out on," Zoro added.
"You should have let your dad kill you on the beach," Usopp appeared.
"Yeah, you're useless now that you can't cook," Chopper said.
"I-I can cook! You said I just had to wait till my hand healed!"
"IT'LL NEVER FULLY HEAL!" The little reindeer yelled.
"He's especially worthless now that he can't protect Nami and I," Robin replied looking at Chopper.
"But I can protect you! I just need to let my leg and foot heal!"
"You are supper annoying!" Franky said.
"Yohoho, indeed."
"Th-this isn't like you guys! What's gotten into you!" Sanji said as tears began to roll down his cheeks.
"My crew should never allied with your's. I hate Germa," Law said.
"I'm not like them!" He said vigorously shaking his head.
"You've never been anything but a burden to all of us. I should have let you die that day we met eleven years ago."
"Z-Zeff... No... Please... Not you too..."
"Why don't we just end him now?" Came the voice of a chuckling Sora. "I missed so much of my four precious children's life because of you."
Sanji's eyes widened as he looked around at the people he cared about the most and the people he hated the most as they all circuled around him. He saw Reiju next to his mother, silently walking towards him as they all closed in on him. There was no trace of the sorrow and pity that once appeared in her eyes when he was being bullied, just a cold, dark hatred.
"NOOOO!" Sanji yelled, jumping out of his sleep. His body was covered in a cold sweat.
"You alright?"
Sanji turned to Ichiji who was sitting at the table with a pen, paper, and a vile of ink.
"I'm fine," he lied, standing up and limping to the fridge.
"You were told to stay off your foot."
"It's fine. I just need a drink. What are you doing?"
"Scribbling on a piece of paper out of boredom," he said dipping the pen into the ink. "I don't recommend you coming over here," he added when Sanji pulled a chair out on the opposite side of the table and sat down passing a bottle of water to Ichiji. "I can't promise that I won't jump across the table and strangle you if you sit there."
"You won't."
"You don't know that." He said putting more ink on the pen.
"Chopper gave you a sedative. It'll be fine."
"He gave me one a half hour after you fell alseep... It's starting to wear off already, must have something to do with my enhancements. Also Chopper said earlier that he and Trafalger is almost done treating everyone."
"That's good. It sucks though. I wanted to cook for them but it looks like that's out of the question now," he said looking at the bandages around his hand.
"You didn't have to get me a drink too. I didn't ask for one."
"You didn't have to. You haven't been to the kitchen sence you stepped onto this ship."
"What are you talking about? I'm in the kitchen right now, aren't I?"
"Yes... but this is the dining area of the kitchen. You haven't went to the cooking area of the kitchen once."
"What's your point?"
"My point is you have to be near the oven to get to the sink, the fridge, cupboards or... well anywhere in the actual kitchen."
Ichiji froze for a second before going back to what he called scribbling. "W-what does that have to do with anything?"
"Don't play dumb. Judge forced you to be baked alive to speed up your explosive enhancements... don't know what that would do for your light enhancements... Anyway, I'm not stupid, if what Judge did has Niji afraid of thunder and lightning, then I'm not surprised one bit that you're afraid of the oven. And I'm willing to bet that Yonji is clostrophobic from being buried alive. And if you are afraid of going near the oven and I'm the only one hear at the moment that knows the combination to the fridge, unless Niji told it to you... That would mean you haven't had a drink for a while now."
"Are you always like that?"
"Like what?"
"Annoyingly observant and intuitive."
"I try to be... Well not the annoying part... It comes in handy a lot... Actually the annoying part does too sometimes... Gets Zoro to leave me alone sometimes... or it just starts a fight..."
"Go ahead, laugh."
"Why would I do that? The fears of others isn't something to laugh at, no matter how ridiculous it might seem."
"Why are you being like this? After everything we did to you. Why are you being kind to us?"
Sanji looked down at his hands wrapped around the bottle of water he had gotten for himself (well one was, the other just lay on the table), "Because I want to be able to look my father in the eyes. If I holed a grudge and treat you guys the way you did me back then, I'll never be able to look him in the eye again. I don't want to see the shame in his eyes if I treated you guys like that. There's so many things I can live with... But that's one thing I would never be able to bare."
Ichiji stared at him for a moment. Fighting the, unwanted, arg to reach across the table and blow Sanji's head off, he looked back to his paper and continued what he was doing, "I still don't understand you."
"Okay. First, how can you see that paper with sunglasses on?"
"I wear them all the time. I'm used to the difference in lighting between inside and outside with them on."
"You and Niji really need to learn to take stuff like that off once in awhile."
"I do. When I go to bed or take a shower."
"Not what I meant. Second, What are you scribbling?" He said.
Ichiji gave him a look that said 'really? A scribble is a scribble.'
Sanji chuckled before leaning over the table to get a better look. As he did, sparks formed around Ichiji's hand, holding the pen. He ignored them. His eyes widened when he saw the paper. "Holy shit! Ichiji, that's not scribbling!"
"Yes it is..." He said, not wanting to admit what he was really doing.
"No... That's a drawing of your fortress back at Germa. You could give Usopp a run for the money."
"What does your sniper have to do with this?"
"He's not just a sniper. According to Luffy, Marimo, and Nami-San, he's the one that created our Jolly Roger. Usopp told me first but I didn't believe him until Nami-San said he was telling the truth that time. You draw often?" He asked but doubted it.
"No..." He sighed, "at night. After Dad had gone to been."
Sanji's visible eye widened. "H-how long?"
"Sence we were kids. I didn't see any harm in it because it wasn't like I was doing it for others. But I didn't really want Dad fining out ether." (Why did I just make it so Ichiji secretly liked to sketch...? Oh right because the sedative is wearing off unlike originally planned for this scene... so he's not feeling like complete crap at the moment...)
"Understandable. He would not have liked that one bit. Especially coming from one of the leaders of his army."
"No. No, he wouldn't have," Ichiji chuckle. "Do me a favor, will ya?"
"You don't want me to tell Niji and Yonji, do you?"
"Actually, no... Close though. Don't tell Dad. He'd rip my head off."
Sanji had to laugh at that one.
"I'm serious, (waaaaaait... Did I just spell Serious right! Without spilling it as Sirius Black first! That's the first time in a very long time... ? ﾟﾘﾂ) Sanji."
"No, no! I know!" He laughed. "It's just... When do I ever tell him anything?"
"Oh... Well... yeah... That's true..."
"So if it's such a big secret, why did you all the sudden decide to draw at a time someone could catch you? Not to mention in a place someone as prone to walk in at any minute."
"Because everyone else is busy and like I said before, the sedative is wearing off... Neither Chopper, nor Law are around to get me more. You were sleeping and I didn't feel like going outside in the heat for who knows how long."
"So you're using it as a distraction?"
"Yup."
"Is it helping?"
"Well, considering the fact that you woke up from your nap and I haven't blown your head off yet... I'd say so...," Ichiji replied with a hint of sarcasm. (Originally planed sarcastic remark: "Well, I haven't tried to blow your head off yet? So it must be helping")
"Man, I wish I knew that when we were kids. All I would of had to do was hand you a pen and paper and you'd leave me alone. You know how many beatings I could have saved myself from?"
"Okay, just because all you had to do was give Niji a chocolate bar and he'd run off happy, doesn't mean I would have been that easy."
"I can dream can't I?"
"No."
"Oi!"
"I'm kidding."
"I know... Oh shit. That would be funny as hell," Sanji said realizing something.
"What would?"
"If you guys went to fight a war with some country and they found out about Niji's weakness to chocolate." (Random epiphany I had while Ichiji made the comment about Niji leaving Sanji alone for chocolate... And now I got an image in my head that I have to try to draw ? ﾟﾘﾂ? ﾟﾘﾂ? ...er... In the morning given the fact that its currently 2:58am (now that I'm posting this on FF its morrning I wrote this on wattpad last night but desided to keep it as writen originally.))
"Shit. Dad would kill us for sure," Ichiji laughed.
"The soldiers would run to their king yelling 'Your Majesty! Germa 66 is approaching the kingdom! What should we do!" Sanji began the scenario in a 'mocking of a soldier' tone. (Does that last bit even make sense? I had a hard time wording that...)
"Can you tell who's groups of soldiers are leading?"
"Uuuh, we believe it's Sparking Red and Electric Blue's groups, Sir."
"I don't see what your freaking out about."
"B-but Sir! This is Germa 66 we're dealing with!"
"Don't be a damn fool! Just go get a box of chocolate!"
"Wh-wha... B-bu... A... b-b-box of chocolate... Sir...?"
"Yes! Don't just stand there! Go get the biggest box of chocolate you can fine!"
"No, no! The biggest box of boxs of chocolate you can find."
"Even better," Ichiji laughed.
"They get the chocolate. Carry it out to the shore waving a white flag."
"Niji and I fly over to the island to end the war that they are currently fighting with some other kingdom."
"Niji spots them."
"They come closer. With the box of course."
"Well, yeah. Obviously."
"Niji smells the chocolate... You'd be surprised how far away he can smell chocolate," Ichiji added seeing Sanji's expression. "He asks, 'Is that chocolate?"
"Y-yes, i-it is. Our King has sent it for you, Germa 66."
"He'd take it, no question asked, and stealth back to the ship."
"And you'd be like..."
"Niji! Get your ass back here! We got work to do! You can eat the damned chocolate later!"
"He wouldn't listen and the kingdom would be saved from at least electrocution."
The two brothers laughed. Then they heard someone yell, "MOM! ICHIJI AND SANJI ARE MAKING FUN OF ME!" Which only made them laugh harder.
(I wrote this last night but I'm not editing it)
Not quite the moment between the two brothers I was originally going for but it worked and I had I lot of fun writing them make fun of Niji even though I thought of it like not even a second before I started writing it. Also I'm really glade I chose to have Sora be alive in this because I'm really liking how the four brothers are acting all childish and tattling on each other to her. I had two plans for her that I couldn't decide on when I first started righting this. The one I'm going with now and the other a bit more dark. And that is Sora is dead but Judge had her DNA (or lineage factor as Oda calls it in the manga/anime) and made a clone to mess with Sanji (I thought of this too late and already had Sora knowing way to much about things about Sanji for this idea to work but I did like it... While at the same time hated it... It would have made for an interesting plot twist. I could still go that route but Sora just seems to much like Sora to be a clone so I don't think I can spine that in away that makes sense.
Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thanks so much for the reviews. As for me. It's 3:43am soooooo yeah I'm going to bed! Sayonara!
Alexandria: Otaku... The time changed sense you wrote it. It's now 3:46am.
I KNOW ALEXANDRIA! I thought you went to bed hours ago!
Alexandria: I did but I could hear your fingers taping the IPad screen and couldn't sleep.
Then you should have went back to your box and sleep.
Alexandria: But it's upstair and I'm to tired to fly that far... It's 3:50 btw.
And who's fault it that? Stop reading the time and go back to sleep.
Alexandria: You're mean.
I let you interrupt my YouTube videos don't I? ...Alexandria?
Alexandria: Zzzzzzzz
*sighs* asleep already... Good night all.
Alexandria: Zzzzzzz3:55zzzzzz
Ugh! Angel Fairy's... Do they have to know everything... Even when they're asleep?