A/N: Sorry for disappearing for so long, I got distracted by my final semester of studying. With that now finished, I hope not to have such a large gap again. I have gone back to a few chapters to edit some of the typos and such but no content changes, I don't know if I caught them all, I hope I also caught most that might be in this chapter. Also while I was doing this and looking over some of my document drafts I realised that some of the previous dropped words were in them so I hope that doesn't happen again when I publish this one. So, this one is Sanji between Little Garden and Drum, hope you like it and feel free to review to let me know.
As always thanks for faves and follows.
Rizard13: Yeah you were right. Sorry for the long wait on this one, not quite Chopper yet but soon. Thanks for the review.
Harihi: Well, I don't know if I can do it, Vivi is hard.
meme7789: Thanks for that, I got on and fixed that as soon as I got the review. Sorry for such a long wait for this one.
Arxhaelologist: Yeah, Vivi and her story kind of took over and sidetracked the rest of the story. Thanks for letting me know what you think. I think almost everyone starts taking the crew's behavior for granted after after a point.
Guest: Thanks, and I will try to work on that. Sorry for the long wait.
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Sanji was annoyed at himself. He was not comfortable with the way he had reacted in the last few days, particularly the automatic way in which he had done it. He really didn't like it at all.
It had all happened because the most beautiful Nami-swan had fallen ill at the worst possible time in the journey (of course, he in no way blamed her), with things becoming more unstable in the magnificent Vivi's homeland necessitating the swiftest course to Alabasta. Of course, Nami-swan had attempted to hide this from Vivi to try and stop her from worrying herself sick, because she was so kind and lovely, but she was forced to reveal it when the need for a doctor for herself was becoming obvious to the rest of the crew. She knew it was information that needed to be taken into consideration.
At that point Sanji had had no idea what to do, with the conflicting needs to help both beautiful women, where it seemed to help one would destroy the other. He had been consumed with worry of what would happen, even as he tried not to show it too much.
Then his Captain had made the decision to leave the next course of action to Vivi. That was when his concern became almost overwhelming, knowing that the decision she would have to make and the consequences of it may destroy the caring, beautiful woman.
But what annoyed him about this situation, when he took the time to consider it after the decision had been made, was where he had looked for reassurance at this precarious point. His first thought was to look to the moss-head to see whether he was worried about the outcome of the situation where both Vivi's country and Nami's live were on the line. He had looked to the moss-head for reassurance that it would all end up alright. That this situation would not end up destroying one or both of the beautiful flowers.
What only made it worse was that when he had seen that he seemed to be unconcerned about such an outcome to the situation, Sanji was relieved, he felt like it would all work out in way to save them all.
And now as they made their way to find a doctor for Nami-swan due to Vivi-chan deciding that that would be the swiftest course to Alabasta, Sanji could acknowledge that his reaction annoyed him. That looking to the moss-head of all people for their reaction and gaining reassurance from it was not something he ever wanted to admit to anyone and hoped none of the crew saw. He certainly didn't want to acknowledge the reason he had done such a thing.
Sanji had been at sea a long time, and had through his time on the Baratie seen a lot of crews and the way in which they interacted with each other. Although it was never mentioned on the Merry, he knew that ranks of crew-members did influence things. He also knew what him looking to the swordsman for reassurance when the Captain had given the choice that could destroy them all to their guest meant. He knew that in his automatic reaction to the situation he had acknowledged a rank that was never spoken of on the Merry at any point.
The problem was that even if he never admitted it to anyone, he would know that this subconscious had acknowledged that the green haired moron held a higher rank on the Merry than he did. This made Sanji very annoyed at himself.
