Hallo and welcome back!
Glad you are still here, since I'm losing bookmarks left and right for this fic. Quick heads up, if you take back your bookmark without an explanation I'll henceforth just assume you don't like the fact that Tori is a demon and not a little angel😜

Now on to the unbetaed chapter... who ever thought leaving Luffy alone with a kid was a good Idea?

Cockatoos are birds of prey

They thought they tricked him. Gave him a steak to keep him silent, so he wouldn't protest that he couldn't explore the island and had to watch Tori instead. Shishishishi, they didn't know that he tricked had tricked them! Ohh they had no idea he'd watch her without the steak. He had plans for her after all.

He liked the newest addition to his crew. He liked her and he liked spending time with her. She was very funny actually, with how ugly she was? He just didn't like that she looked so much like chicken-guy. It made it hard to tell them apart.

She liked him too, she always laughed when he did the chopstick dance and she really liked pulling his cheeks. She only pulled his cheeks, so that had to be special, all the others' cheeks just got slapped.

As she sat in front of him on the table she made that concentrated face again, it was the same he did while pooping and he knew it was the same for her. Or she was thinking, but that should show more effort, shouldn't it? He sniffed the air, no, definitely not poop. So, maybe she thought of another word she could say? Maybe he should teach her? He was the captain after all. The fun words were already gone though… he put his chin in his hand, trying to think of another word. A perfect world. Poop was a fun word, but he didn't want to get whacked over the head by Nami for teaching her that. He had seen what she had done to Zoro after he had taught her a bad word and he didn't want that.

Hm, His first mate's daughter was definitely a leader, she had the look of a leader, face all scrunched up and her chin in her chubby hand. Very leaderish. Captain's orders! No, that was a good word for a leader but she wasn't supposed to be the leader, that was him. What he wanted her to be was his accomplice. Something cute that not even Nami could get mad at. It didn't help that she was ugly though… maybe he should teach her cute words to make up for that? But what exactly were cute words? He didn't know anyone cute that used cute words. He knew from Sanji that girls were cute, but he only really knew Nami and Robin, and both were creepy and not cute. Or did them being girls automatically make everything they did or said cute? Maybe he should ask Franky about the mekanicsism of that. It couldn't be though, otherwise 'fuck' would also be a cute word because Nami used it all the time and she really hadn't been happy about Tori knowing that word.

Raising an accomplice was really more difficult than he had thought it would be. On the other hand, the plan was progressing real nice, because she already loved herself a good t-bone… Ohhhh, that's it!

"So, Tori, can you say meat? M-e-e-t?"

But she just looked at him, scrunching her brows together harder. Shishishishi, she looked like one of those shrunken heads he'd seen on Amazon Lily, so ugly!

"Okay, not meat… maybe… oh! You do like steak don't you?" He asked picking up the slap of meat from his plate to wave it in front of the girl's eyes.

They went wide with wonder, her chubby hands stretching towards the dripping food. He didn't worry that it dripped on the table. If he got Tori to ask for steak, Sanji wouldn't mind at all.

"If you can ask Sanji for steak we can share," he suggested. "Come on, Tori, say S-t-e-e-k! You can even have some of this," he said and shook the meat a bit for emphasis. "S-t-e-e-k. Just say the words"

Shishishishi, she was really just like him, could barely take the eyes from the offered meat and looked at him sceptically. A bit grumpy too, like Zoro.

"Come on, if you say it you can have some."

She looked back at the steak hovering in front of her. Brows knit in concentration. Tiny fists balled.

"Su-"

"Yes? S-t-e-e-k"

"Suteeeeeeki!", She cried out, thrusting her hands out expecting her treat. Shishishishi. He gave her the promised steak, it was bigger than her head but she bit in and munched on it anyway with a tiny giggle. Shishishishi, his steak supply was secured!

Vaguely he remembered that they had said to only give her tiny pieces, but cutting was a lot of work and she seemed to like the big slap… maybe he should have cut some off for himself though… maybe she'd give him a tiny bit? It looked so good. Juicy. The juice ran over her fingers. Just a ti-

His hand stopped midair. Had she- had she just growled at him? With great difficulty, he looked away from the steak and to her face. Her eyes narrowed she stared at him over the gigantic piece of meat. For a moment he didn't quite know what to think about that, but… shishishishi, she was just perfect for his plans! Endless supply of steak forever! Until Sanji was back he'd just have to make do with the sandwiches he had prepared for later. What a good thing that hey hadn't found a new source of the stupid stone to reinforce the fridge after Zoro Had cut it open back then. Shishishishi, Marimo.

The rest of the afternoon he spent happily babbling away at Tori. Explained to her how important it was to be nice to Nakama, which meant that you'd share your steak and she'd gurgle and giggle and happily munch on her steak.

It got already dark when he felt the others returning and really he couldn't wait for Tori to test her new words on Sanji!

The door to the kitchen opened. Zoro and Robin stood there. One eye narrowed in irritation swept over the scene and with a loud plop, Tori unlatched from her steak.

"Mama, Marimo, steeeki!", She giggled, and trust the cold meat in their direction. It slipped from her grasp, eyes growing comically wide in horror, but he was fast. Caught it with his stretched out arm before stuffing it in his mouth. It really wasn't nice that she'd hogged it all afternoon like that.

He saw her bottom lip quiver and he knew her crying did a number on eardrums but he wasn't worried. He pat her hair, only realising it had been the dirty one when her green feathers stuck to it.

"Don't worry Tori, if you ask nicely, Sanji'll cook us a fresh one," he assured and just like that she broke into a smile.

"Curlii steeki!" She called out.

Behind him, a hand smacked against a forehead and he heard the muttered "what have you done" from his first mate and a telltale fufufufu from Robin.

Shishishishi, all according to plan!

Well I hope this was fun enough!
I have an announcement to make!
From now on, I'll upload stuff every Wednesday. If it's Wednesday I will upload something, not necessarily this fic (but let's be honest it will mainly be this because I love that brat). Unfortunately I doubt this fic will get beta read anytime soon so just bear with my atrocious grammar and punctuation.

Anyways, let me know what you think about it. See you in a week I hope