A/N: Thanks to those that reviewed with guesses as to who's perspective this one was going to be in, I even got some ideas for future chapters from some of them. I went back to the last chapter and put back in the missing word from the last paragraph that some of my reviewers pointed out, so have a look if you were confused. So, I was all proud of the length of the last one and now I have this one, over 1300 words. The truth is I was all excited about planning this one then when I sat down to write it I realized that Vivi was difficult for me to write and it took me longer than I expected to finish it and included a lot more detail of her entire interactions with the crew than I had planned to be in it, but it was interesting to try and see events through her perspective. The next one will be set not long after this one and will be from a perspective that I haven't seen many fics showing around this piont in time, feel free to review with guesses (and maybe give me a few more ideas) and what you think of this one.
As ever thanks for the faves and follows.
meme7789: Thanks, hope you like this.
(Edit: I seem to keep losing words) Arxhaelogist: Even looking back over that last paragraph and returning the missing word, I'm not all that happy with that paragraph to tell the truth, I think I even confuse myself. Thank you for that it was my first time using that style of writing and I'm glad it turned out that way. I really wanted to focus on the actions in the square and the interaction of the crew on the street but Tashigi kind of took over so not so much focus on the first mate stuff but a start on understanding for later. Okay, long reply but thank you and so many ideas.
Rizard13: Lol. Thank you, I went back and hopefully fixed it. Yes, as you can see, I'm not going to confine this to just official StrawHats, because that way I can show incidents that are probably not going to be seen or closely looked at by the crew due to overexposure but probably not going to use antagonists. Anyway, thank you and hope you like it.
Guest: Well, here is one and there may be another set later on.


In the time that Vivi had spent with these pirates she had noticed that they weren't exactly normal. In fact that was putting it nicely, they were all some form of insane. But two of their members were more so than the others, at least in her opinion and experience.

The time they had just spent on the island of Little Garden had just confirmed this impression.

It wasn't as if her first impressions of this crew were of a particularly sane group of people and she had was undercover in Baroque Works at the time, where she was surrounded by some very eccentric individuals. The again what was one meant to think of a group of people when you first saw them in the stomach of an island whale, who certainly didn't seem worried by their position. Of course, she didn't see them all very clearly due to being knocked out soon after making first contact.

Then there was the issue about them coming to the Grand Line with apparently no idea how to navigate the sea. Which she had noticed when she had regained consciousness and listened to try and judge her and Mr 9's escape. Also when they had begged a ride to Whiskey Peak from them, intending to lead them to the bounty hunters there. Vivi remembered feeling guilty about that, due to them being nice and naïve enough to believe they would not lead them to trouble, but had known that she needed to keep her own cover a while longer.

It was during this relatively short trip that she gained the impression that they may not just be a little stupid but quite possibly a crew of madmen (and madwoman). With the cowardly liar trying to help where he could but really just running about screaming as a new danger showed itself. The chef falling into a love daze any time either she or the girl navigator made any comment. The navigator screaming instructions and threats at the top her lungs whenever she realised that something had happened. And then there were the other two, the boy they had implied was their captain laughing through it all while the muscular swordsman slept through everything, and she meant everything, the yelling, violence in the attempt to wake him, waves breaking no-stop over the deck, storms and snow piling over him. She had been almost relieved by the time they were close enough to the shore to make a swim for it with Mr 9, it had been that sort of trip.

The events at Whiskey Peak cemented the impression that she had gained on that trip. But it also gave a new dimension to her impression of them. They could be very dangerous when they felt they needed to be.

The evening began as if they were just willing to party completely without any caution as to why an entire island would welcome a bunch of unknown pirates, which helped her impression of insanity from the ship but this had only lasted until after the party had seemingly come to an end. When the bounty hunters were gathering to begin their real task and the swordsman had made his shocking appearance. It was shocking not just because everyone had believed him to be passed out from the alcohol he had consumed, but he knew who they were and he also made a comment that implied he knew his crew had had a hard day while he had apparently been completely unconscious. He then proceeded to fight and take down all the bounty hunters (Baroque Work Millions) on the island. Then when Mr 5 and Miss Valentine had come for her after defeating Mr 9, Miss Monday and Igaram, he had come and stood between her and danger telling her that he was there to save her. Which had confused her, even more so when his captain had come and attacked him. This, of course, led to a fight between them that levelled the town which had ended up taking down the two remaining agents of Baroque Works as collateral damage. This fight did not stop until the navigator stepped in and violently stopped them. Then proceeded to explain everything which cleared up some of the confusion of what had happened and offered their ship to get her home. After everything that had happened they offered her their ship and their protection. Now she knew they weren't exactly sane.

It was during her second voyage on their ship, this time as herself, that she really began to understand a little more of the way of things on the ship. They did things their own way, and ignored most pirate conventions, listening to and obeying the captain for instance, not attacking the captain in any way for another, but that worked for them. And despite everything they were fiercely loyal to each other, despite the display on Whiskey Peak which everyone just seemed to ignore, but never openly displayed any of this loyalty (except Sanji-san for Nami). Their individual deviations from sanity made their crew all the stronger. This led her to accepting the way things were, after an initial period were she may have been a little wary of the crew, due to her own actions and what they could have led to back on the island, but their reactions to the appearance of Miss All Sunday quickly helped to settle that.

Despite learning all of this while on the ship she was genuinely concerned with what had happened while on Little Garden. Mr Bushido had been completely willing during their time in the wax to cut off his own feet to get free. She was well aware at this point in her relationship with the crew that he would do whatever was necessary to win a fight but the loss of his feet would not be good for his future as a fighter, but he was completely relaxed in going through with this plan. He had even begun to make the cut when Luffy had burst into the clearing. Vivi was relieved that this had stopped Mr Bushido's plan and sword in its tracks but she was still seriously concerned about his willingness to do so. As grateful as she was for the crew's protection this was act was almost too much for her to process. And what almost concerned her more than Mr Bushido's actions was the reaction of his captain, the one who had seemed to be person on the crew closest to the swordsman, he had seemed in no way concerned for the wounds he now had and implications of what his actions may have led to. It seemed more insane than anything else that she had seen from the crew.

Nami must have noticed that Vivi couldn't seem to stop herself from making concerned glances at Mr Bushido's ankles after everything was over as she had quietly come beside her and pulled her a little out of earshot of the others. Nami told her with exasperated affection that Mr Bushido was known to do stupid things and get himself injured but didn't like to be fussed over and that she needed to try and ignore the blood as he figured out how bad the injuries were and he would get help if he thought he needed it. This didn't make much sense to her considering all she had seen among the crew, and didn't make her any less concerned but knew Nami knew the crew better than her.

As much as she knew each member of this crew was slightly less then sane, she had become attached to each of them and couldn't seem to deal well with any of them getting injured. She hoped that their insanity and their commitment each other and helping her didn't get any of them killed.