A/N: Sup guys! I've been using my phone to make some special chapters to make up for the rest of the year. Maybe, if we reach 200 reviews, I would make one again!
Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece
It was a normal day for the Strawhats. Luffy bugging everyone around-including helping them, Chopper in the infirmary, Zoro sleeping somewhere, Nami sunbathing, Robin watering the flowers, Franky checking if the Sunny Go has some problems, Brook playing a peaceful song, yep, everything was normal.
But it seems like Luffy thought of something.
'I wonder what the others are doing? ' Luffy thinks of the other pirate crews as Nami scolds him for being too loud.
"ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING!?" Nami shouts as she stops herself from punching Luffy, it won't work anyway. Nami sighs as she just sits on her beach chair and continues sunbathing and lets Luffy do whatever he wants to do. Nami looks at Luffy, who was bugging Brook, to play Bink's Sake, which Brook agreed to immediately. As Brook starts, Nami suddenly thinks of how he met Luffy. 'Strange... A long time ago, Luffy was so serious and smart, but... After being with him, he wasn't the type of guy who I thought he'd be.' Nami says in her thoughts as Luffy starts to clap his hands in the tune 'I thought he'd be strict but kind and someone who wouldn't let his Nakama do things without permission... But he wasn't. He actually gave us all the freedom we want, to make our dreams come true. And... ' Nami pauses as Luffy notices her and waves his hand in the air.
"Hey, Nami! What's wrong?" Luffy shouts with a grin as Nami sighs and ignores him, she hears Luffy laugh and continues clapping his hands.
' ... He's overprotective of the people around him.' Nami says in her thoughts as she smiles. She remembers going with Luffy to save Robin, who betrayed him once. She also remembers how he didn't allow anyone to mess with everyone around him. 'He was too kind, too nice, too strong, too overprotective, too smart, too stupid, too carefree, too childish, but he's our captain.' Nami thought as she drinks the desert Sanji gave her a while ago.
As Nami was reminiscing the past, Luffy and Brook were already done with the song, when he was about to tell Brook to play it again, an idea struck into his mind. "HEY, EVERYONE! COME HERE IMMEDIATELY!" Luffy yelled with a grin as everyone immediately as fast as they can.
"What the hell is it now? This better be important." Zoro says as he yawns, he just got up after all.
"That's right, Luffy. I was in the middle of creating a medicine when you called us." Chopper says as he looks at Luffy.
"Shishishishi, it's really important!" Luffy shouts as he grins, but the grin was immediately replaced with a smile, which surprised and made everyone somehow serious. "Zoro." Zoro flinches a bit in surprise when Luffy called his name.
"What?" Zoro asks as Luffy looks at him straight in the eye.
"Thank you for supporting me." As Luffy said that, everyone especially Zoro got surprised. "Zoro, you were a great swordsman and vice-captain. If I'm gone, I want you to manage the crew. After everything you've done, I'm thankful and proud of you." Luffy bows while Zoro blushes a little bit as he scratches his right cheek, but he got over it fast.
"Oi oi oi, what do you mean if you're gone?" Zoro says as he grins. "Aye, Captain!" Zoro adds later as the rest of the Strawhats chuckled, which caused a little fight between Zoro and Sanji because Zoro shouted at Nami, though in the end, Nami punched the two to silence them.
"Nami." Luffy says as Nami flinches, were they all going to be called? As Nami turns to him, Luffy thinks of this as a sign to proceed. "Without you, the whole crew would be literally in chaos." The whole Strawhats agreed and laughed to that "Because of you, some of our members were able to behave. And of course, a navigator's task must be very hard." Luffy walks towards Nami until they were close enough. "As a navigator, the whole crew's lives is a great pressure on you, including managing our finance. Without you, all of us would die in the sea and probably be poor pirates."
"O-of course! You guys need me after all!" Nami stutters, hiding her blush at everyone. Luffy chuckles and places his right hand to pat and ruffle Nami's hair, much to everyone's surprise.
"That's right. Thank you for taking care of us, Nami." Luffy says honestly as Nami looks on the floor to hide her blush and only nods. Luffy grins and looks at Usopp.
"Wh-what?" Usopp stutters as he nervously looks at Luffy. It was just so sudden, he wasn't prepared for this kind of stuff.
"Usopp." Luffy says as Usoop gulps "You may be cowardly sometimes-"
"OI!" Usopp shouts as the Strawhats laughs at Luffy's first sentence.
"-but you're an irreplaceable part of our crew, everyone is. You're strong, if you weren't you wouldn't even reach Haki. But you reached it, and that's the proof of your strength. You would help us fight and even create some things." Luffy continues as Usopp's smile grows larger in each and every word Luffy gave. "You're a brave warrior of the sea, thank you for being a part of our crew, Usopp."
"T-thanks..." Usopp says shyly as he hides his grin from everyone.
"Sanji." Luffy says as he turns to Sanji, who looked at him back.
"D-don't give me that look, Shitty rubber!" Sanji shouts as he was panicking, he didn't want to be sentimental and stuff right now.
"Sanji, thank you for being our cook. Without your delicious food, all of us would starve. Sorry for taking the meats, I just couldn't help it." Luffy says as Sanji hides his laugh by covering his mouth. "You were really kind to us, especially to me. I trust you to support Zoro when I won't be with you guys." Luffy pauses, looking at Sanji's annoyed face at the end. "Even if I was really annoying, you gave me food. For that, thank you. Thank you for giving us food, and thank you for being with us." Luffy says as Sanji clicks his tongue and puffs out smoke from his cigarette.
"Stop thanking me... It's my job as a cook, shitty captain..." Sanji says as Zoro mutters something, which Sanji probably thought it was a complaint, though he wasn't in the mood for fighting him, so he just ignored it.
"Chopper." Luffy says as he walks to the almost-crying Chopper. Well, Franky was already crying, saying that it was a 'manly speech' or stuff. "Like everyone, your role here was very pressuring. You're still a kid, but I gave you a pressuring role. Sorry about that, Chopper." As Luffy stopped, Chopper cried and jumped into Luffy's face, which caused Luffy seeing anything.
"D-Don't shay anything l-like that! I-i w-wash sho h-haffy t-to be chosen as y-your Nakama! ( D-don't say anything l-like that! I-i w-was so happy to be chosen as y-your Nakama! )" Chopper says crying as Luffy takes him off and instead, puts him in his arms. Chopper hugs Luffy tight, giving everyone a scene of father and son scene.
"Thank you for also healing us, taking care of us, and protecting us. Thank you for being our Nakama." Luffy finishes as Chopper didn't let go of Luffy, not like Luffy wanted Chopper to let go. Luffy turns to Robin while having Chopper in his arms. "Robin."
"What is it, captain-san?" Robin asks, though she already knows what Luffy would say.
"Thank you for not leaving us in the end. You were needed her, as our archeologist and a matured sister." Everyone was shocked that Luffy was able to say 'Archeologist', Luffy was truly full of surprises. "Without you, we wouldn't be able to pass difficult challenges. You were able to help us at times we needed one. Thank you, Robin." Luffy says as Robin smiles.
"It was also a pleasure for being your Nakama, Captain-san." Robin says as Luffy grins at her.
"Franky." Luffy says, looking at Franky. Who was still crying his hearts out.
"GAAH! L-LUFFY! THAT WASH SUCH A HANLY SPESH! ( GAAH! L-LUFFY! THAT WAS SUCH A MANLY SPEECH! )" Franky yells while crying. Luffy looks to Chopper, who was still crying too. The two was really on it.
"Franky, thank you for making Sunny Go. I'm sorry for sometimes breaking the parts of Sunny Go and making you go repair them. You work so hard to keep the ship stable for us to continue our journey, thank you." Luffy finishes as Franky was still crying.
"D-DON'T THANK ME FOR THAT! I-I WAS ONLY DOING MY... MY JOB!" Franky yells, trying not to stutter or make his words too hard for everyone to understand.
"Brook." Luffy says, looking at Brook, who was looking at him back.
"If I had eyes, I would be crying my heart out." Brook says as he pauses "But I don't have eyes though! Yohohohohoho!" Brook says as Luffy laughs at his skull joke. It seems like Chopper was affected by it too, he stopped crying loudly for a second.
"Some might say a musician isn't needed in a pirate crew, but you proved them wrong." Luffy pauses "You gave colors to our pirate crew, everyone did. It made out pirate crew more lively, and it's one of the things I want in our pirate crew. You also fight with us, using your devil fruit and music. Thank you for that, Brook. Your skull jokes were really amazing, and your music too." Luffy says as Brook laughs, making a skull joke at the end.
"Luffy, why now?" Sanji says as he puffs out smoke.
"What 'why now'?" Luffy asks, not understanding what Sanji fully meant.
"Why now? Why say this now? To be honest, it's making me feel anxious, you don't do this kind of stuff." Sanji responds. Luffy laughs at the answer, though he was also saddened on the inside.
"Because I wanted to praise you all for doing so hard, and at the same time, saying sorry for the things I did." Luffy says as Chopper slowly quieted down. 'And our last destination is Sabaody. All of us won't be able to be together for two years, that's why I want to say this now.' "As long as we're traveling together in the sea, we're a family!"
"Then who're the parents?" Robin suddenly asks with a smile. That question made everyone quiet, only hearing the sound of the birds and the sea.
"Shishishishi! Isn't that obvious? It's me! Since I'm the captain, I get the parent's role!" Luffy suddenly says, hugging everyone with him, causing some to blush.
"O-Oi! Don't hug us so sudden-" Sanji gets cut off by Luffy's laugh.
"Then who's the mother?" Robin asks, still with her smile. Everyone quiets down once again. Robin looks at Luffy, who was wearing a blank stare, looking at her. Robin soon chuckles "Let's leave that unanswered for now." Robin says as everyone says their words of agreement.
A/N: Luffy's smart, no doubt. He just acts stupid and carefree sometimes xDD