A/N: Hello guys! Someone just told me :

"It's called kestia and it's not venomous, more highly toxic. sorta like a hyper malaria in that it gives you five days before you die :U" Thanks for the info, HerpiousDerpious! Now… Can it make Luffy ( time traveling Luffy ) sick?

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece

Last time in Chapter 24...

"But if we didn't do that, that idiot would never listen to us! Hey Strawhat…" Zeff pauses as Luffy already knew he was the one being called so he turned to Zeff, who looked at him. "Would you mind… taking that Lil' eggplant with you? Take him to 'Grand Line'… It's his dream." Zeff says honestly. Little did he know, Sanji was only leaning on the door, listening to everything.

"Jeez, that was more trouble than it was worth, owner Zeff!" A cook says as Sanji lowers his head.

"I can hear you…" Sanji pauses as he listens to the other cooks.

"It was really hard to play along."

"Hey, give me another serving of this soup!"

"Me too!"

"And me!"

"You bastards…" Sanji quietly says as he can hear the other cook's words.

"Don't wanna." Luffy says straightforwardly as he takes another soup. The cooks were stunned and shock of Luffy's straightforward answer.

"WWHHHHHAAAAATTTT!?" The cooks yell as they couldn't believe what they heard, Zeff looked at Luffy like he was disappointed.

"What's the meaning of this? Didn't you want a cook for your ship!? What, are you not satisfied with him?" Zeff says with a tone of annoyance, Luffy stopped eating and looked at Zeff.

"No, it's not like I'm dissatisfied or anything. I do want him to come along with me, but he said he wants to stay here as a cook. So even if you tell me to take him with me, I'm not gonna." Luffy explains while he was close to finishing his soup.

"So you won't accept unless he says it himself." Zeff says as he looks at Luffy to know that he was getting to the point.

"Yup, more soup." Luffy says as he raises his bowl to ask for more of Sanji's soup.

"Well, you do have a point. But the problem is that rebellious brat will be honest with himself or not…" Zeff says as he sighs.

"It's impossible! He's too hard headed for his own good." A cook says as Sanji was outside, listening to everything, Luffy knew though.

"More soup." Luffy says again. Suddenly, there was something in the water that was extremely going fast towards them, to be straight, towards Sanji's place, in the door.

"Wha?" Sanji says first and was too late to dodge, he got knocked and went flying towards the room Zeff and Luffy was.

"What? Is this a guy?" A cook says as the other cook says things that weren't helping at the current situation at all.

"A mermaid!?"

"Did he come all the way from Fishman Island to try our cooking?"

Finally, someone came closer and got the whole image, "You idiot, this is just a guy in a Panda Shark." he says as Sanji gets up.

"What the…" Sanji says quietly as he stares at the person inside the shark, Luffy finishes his food before looking.

"Oh, Yosaku!" Luffy says with an amused face, he crouches down to look at poor Yosaku who raised his arms weakly and had tears that were already falling.

"Ah… Luffy-Aniki…!" Yosaku says weakly as Luffy grins at him, Luffy looked like he didn't care about a thing that was currently eating Yosaku, which might be true.

"What're you doing here alone? Where are the others?" Luffy asks as he didn't join the 'What about Nami' part, he already defeated Arlong, so there was nothing to be worried about.

OPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPO

"We were able to go successfully at Nami-aniki's homeland, but we wanted to know if you're okay, so they sent me to know. But then I got eaten by a shark." Yosaku says as Luffy rolls and laughs in the ground. Yosaku got a blanket wrapped in him so that he wouldn't get sick.

"Shishishishishi, is that so? Then let's go!" Luffy says after laughing for a good 5 minutes at Yosaku's embarrassed expression. Suddenly, Sanji speaks up.

"Wait." Sanji says as Luffy turns to look at Sanji who was leaning at the wall. "I'll go too. Take me with you." Sanji says as the cooks look at him.

"What!?"

"Sanji…"

The cooks mutter as Sanji finally looks at Luffy, "I'll company you on your way to becoming the Pirate all, we both have crazy dreams. So I'll tag along to fulfill mine." Sanji says as he pauses "I'll be the cook for your ship." Sanji says as Luffy grins "Sound good? Or bad?" Sanji adds as Luffy enthusiastically pumps his fist into the air.

"Sounds good!" Luffy shouts as he celebrates with Yosaku. While Luffy and Yosaku were celebrating, Sanji turned to the cooks.

"That's how it's gonna be, guys. Sorry for all the trouble I've put you through." Sanji says as Patty crosses his arms.

"Hmpf, I don't like it one bit! I wanted to throw you outta here with my own two hands, but now you decide to leave on your own?" Patty says as Sanji looks at the side.

"Sorry for making you put on that shitty performance." Sanji says as the cooks had funny surprised faces and appalled gasps.

"WHA!? YOU KNEW!?" All of the cooks says as Sanji casually smokes as all of the cooks were still surprised that Sanji knew.

"I could hear you crystal clear from outside, you numbskulls." Sanji says as all of the cooks made more appalled gasps. "So… You wanted to kick me out that badly, huh? Is that right, you damn geezer?" Sanji adds.

"WHY THE HELL DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO TALK LIKE THAT!?" Patty shouts as he was ready to punch the hell out of Sanji, but Zeff stopped him.

"Hmph. That's exactly right, Lil' Eggplant. I've always hated brats. There hasn't been a single day when I didn't regret saving you." Zeff states as Sanji gains a throbbing vein in his forehead.

"Ha… Whatever you say, geezer. Enjoy the few years you have left." Sanji says angrily.

OPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPO

"Woah, nice boat. Can we really use this?" Yosaku says as he sees the boat that they were about to use.

"Of course. It's Sanji's after all." A cook says while on the inside of the Baratie, Luffy was getting food.

"You wanna take more!?" A cook asks in surprise as Luffy grins at him, there was already 5 barrels of rum and Luffy was currently holding the sack for the meat.

"Yup, gimme more meat." Luffy demands as the cook raises his eyebrow in curiosity.

"How many days are you gonna be sailin' for?" A cook asks as Luffy only shrugs.

Zeff lays in his bed as he starts thinking about the past. 'Sanji, let's say for example… No matter how villainous the scum, escaped convict, or whatnot. As long as they come here wanting to eat beyond all else… Then doesn't that make all the hassle we go through to keep this place running, all the worthwhile?'

Downstairs, Sanji was alone in the restaurant, sitting on a chair and looking at the ceiling, thinking about the past when he was just a little, maybe, same as Zeff's thinking right now.

FLASHBACK ( First scenario/Little Sanji )

"Hey old geezer, this is amazing! So this is the restaurant of the seas!" Sanji shouts as he looks at the newly made restaurant, Baratie.

"That's right. Even all that treasure still wasn't enough to pay for this we'll be working overtime for awhile!" Zeff says as Sanji grins.

"It's fine! Since I'll be here to help!" Sanji says as he keeps looking at the Baratie in fascination.

( Second scenario/Little Sanji )

"Stop calling me a little eggplant, you damn geezer!" Sanji shouts at Zeff, who smirked.

"Did I hurt your feelings, Lil' Eggplant?" Zeff remarks and sneers at Sanji.

( Third scenario/Little Sanji )

Sanji continuously coughs "Stop smoking. Tobacco will dull your tongue." Zeff says as Sanji turns to him with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Heh heh… I'm all grown-up now, right!?" Sanji says as he grins.

( Fourth scenario/Patty and Carne's )

"Yooo! This the place that Red-leg Zeff is supposedly running!?" Patty shouts gangster-ly style as Carne shows an ad.

"You serious about this wanted ad about hiring 'Tuff Cooks'!?" Carne shouts all too gangster-ly.

( Fifth scenario/Teen Sanji )

"YOU NINCOMPOOP! YOU EXPECT ME TO SERVE THIS CRAP TO OUR GUESTS!? YOU CAN EAT THIS INSTEAD!" Zeff shouts as he kicks Sanji in the face.

( Fifth scenario/Teen Sanji )

"Hey, did you hear? The owner of this place is a washed-up pirate." A man gossips. Unfortunately for him, Sanji was near.

"TRY SAYIN' THAT AGAIN, YOU PUNK!" Sanji shouts as the man was beaten to a pulp.

"Owner Zeff! Sanji beat up another customer again!" A cook shouts.

( Sixth Scenario/Teen Sanji )

"STOP AGITANTIN' MY COOKS, YOU BASTARD!" Zeff shouts at the customer.

"We gotta stop Owner Zeff!" A cook says as they tried going close to Zeff.

( Seventh scenario/Teen Sanji )

"Alright, you damn cooks! If you fear for your lives, then hand all over your food!" A pirate captain shouts as all of the cooks had weapons all ready.

"What'd he say?" A cook asks with his weapon ready.

"Not sure, I think I miss that!" A cook responds

PRESENT

"Aniki's cook sure is running late." Yosaku says and as if on cue, Sanji showed up at the door. "Ah, he's here."

As Sanji looked, all of the cooks were quiet. He slowly walks toward Yosaku and Luffy, when Patty and Carne jumped and had weapons on their hands. "THIS IS PAYBACK FOR ALL THESE YEARS!" Patty shouts as Carne does the same.

"DIE, SANJI!" Carne shouts. In the end, he and Patty got beaten up pretty badly, a cook crouches down at them.

"Told ya you can't beat him." The cook says as Sanji only glanced at them and started walking, the cooks were still quiet as Sanji proceeded to walk until he reaches Luffy.

"Let's go." Sanji says as Luffy crosses his arm and looks at Sanji's eyes.

"Just like that? What about saying good-byes?" Luffy asks as he looks at the others cooks, especially Zeff who was in the balcony, looking.

"It's fine." Sanji says, when he was about to step at the boat, Zeff called to him.

"Hey, Sanji." Zeff calls to Sanji, who stopped "Don't catch a cold." At that, Sanji slowly let tears fall in his eyes. Luffy smiles as he sees Sanji let it go, Zeff slightly smiled. Sanji turns.

"OWNER ZEFF!" Sanji shouts as he lets tears fall, he didn't care if he showed this to the cooks. He bows at the front as tears fall down in his eyes.

"I'M ETERNALLY GRATEFUL, FOR TAKING CARE OF ME FOR SO DAMN LONG!" Sanji yells as he pauses "I SHALL NEVER FORGET FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE… THE DEBT I OWE YOU!" Sanji yells honestly as Zeff has tears falling with a smile on his face.

"YOU BASTARD!" Carne and Patty shouts which made Sanji look at them.

"GODDAMN IT! WE'RE GONNA BE LONELY WITHOUT YA!" Patty shouts as Carne does the same.

"REAL LONELY, YOU HEAR!?" Carne shouts, the two had tears on their faces. Slowly, all the cooks do the same.

"I'LL MISS YOU!"

"YOU'RE MAKING US CRY, DAMMIT!"

Sanji smiles at them, Zeff cries as he knows it'll be a long time before he meets Sanji again. "Damn idiots… Men should say their goodbyes quietly." Zeff says quietly.

"LET'S MEET AGAIN ONE DAY! YOU GOOD-FOR-NOTHING BASTARDS!" Sanji shouts as Luffy smiles and turns.

"Alright! Let's set sail!" Luffy yells, by that, Sanji leaves the Baratie with tears.

A/N: Sorry guys! I feel so bad for letting you guys wait, but it's DEH COMPUTERS FAULT! Thanks for those who reviewed, followed, and read my story!