Chapter Two

Is It Alright To Stay?

The okama moved back away a little as he got intimidated with Luffy's stare. He felt his forehead moist from perspiration and he quickly looked back to his partner. But before he could even look at his partner, he noticed a familiar face sitting down behind a very hunk swordsman. His face brightened up and he quickly shouted "Robin!" as he waved his hand at her. He quickly turned to his partner and pointed at Robin as he grabbed his arm. "Alex, it's Robin!" The okama pulled away Alex towards her and kept on shouting "Robin! It's me! Lassy!"

Robin was wondering, why were they here? What happened? All of her wonders went away as she saw them running towards her. She stood up and smiled at them but her smile faded away as Lassy hugged her tight, making her to gasp. "Robin! I missed you so much!" Lassy smiled brightly as he kept Robin in his arms. She giggled and patted his back with her hands, making her nakama to wonder and Sanji's jaw to drop on the ground.

Nami crossed her arms under her chest as she looked at them. "She never hugged me at all." she mumbled to Usopp, frowning as she rolled her eyes, finding a better sight. Usopp placed his hand on his chin as he patted Nami's back. "Maybe you're not huggable." Feeling annoyed, she looked at him at the corner of her eyes and punched his face, sending him towards the mast.

Sanji ran towards Robin and spread his arms wide as he shouted "Robin-chwaan! I missed you too!" with his uncovered eye turned into a heart. But instead of Robin hugging him, Lassy was the one who turned around to give him a big hug. "I'll be happy to hug you, handsome!" Sanji quickly pushed him away. Disgust was shown all over his face, earning a chuckle from Zoro. "I know you've always wanted to hug them." Zoro mocked as he smirked with pride. Sanji quickly went towards him, getting ready for a fight. "What did you say, Marimo?"

While Zoro and Sanji bicker with each other, the others went towards the center of the commotion, trying to know what was happening as Lassy shifted his attention back to Robin. He held her hands, which was pretty normal with Robin, and said "You look better than before! I have so many things to tell you!" Sanji saw that Lassy held her hands and pushed Zoro away. "No! Robin-chan's beautiful hands are now soiled by this foul creature!" He cried as he fell down the floor, cursing that he was not the one who's holding Robin's hands. "Tch!" Zoro sat up and leaned on the railings of the ship as he scratched the back of his head, annoyed with everything that was happening.

Robin smiled and looked at Alex, back to Lassy. "What brings you here? How's everybody? Did Dragon-sama send you here?" She had so many things to ask to him but she had to know why they were here first. Hearing the word "Dragon-sama", the others confirmed that the two of them are from the revolutionary army.

Lassy shook his head with a smile. "Everyone's doing fine. Dragon-sama didn't send us here. We were just on our way to a party. But sadly, because of Alex— He glared at Alex. "We didn't make it." He was pretty ashamed that they didn't make it to the party, putting all the hardship of his fashion sense into waste.

"Oi, oi. It's not my fault Pico had eaten a lot. I'm not the one who forgot to feed him because it's not my turn to feed him." Alex complained as he looked at Lassy, peeking a little of Robin's smile made his bad mood gone.

"Whatevs, Alex! Talk to the hand." He showed his hand to Alex and shifted back to Robin. "Anyways, Pico's very exhausted. He's been flying for almost a day looking for a ship, and luckily, we found yours. So… We were wondering if…" He blushed as he scratched his cheek, not letting go of her hands. "We could stay for a while; just until you reach the next island." He smiled and looked at the others.

"Oh. I'm not the one in charge for that. You should ask our captain, in order to stay." She smiled and pointed at Luffy. "Luffy, will you let them stay?"

"Hmmm…" Luffy rubbed his chin, pretending that he was thinking, making Lassy and Alex to sweat a little. "Well, you're friends with Robin. Hmmm… All the friends of Robin are also a friend of us. Hmmm… Okay!" He grinned and gave them a thumbs up.

Lassy cheered and ran at Luffy to give him a hug, making him to adjust his hat as he grinned. "Thank you so much, Mugiwara-chan! You are as kind-hearted as your father! Pico can now finally relax!" He felt really happy that they can now finally relax and on top of that, they didn't need to disguise themselves as normal citizens for they have a friend on the ship. "Thank you so much, Robin-sis!" He said as he let go of Luffy and quickly move besides Alex, looking at everyone. "But… Is it alright with everyone?"

"It's fine with me!" Chopper and Usopp cheered in chorus as they checked out the bird. Chopper giggled as he talked with Pico, making sure Usopp understands what they were talking about.

"It's fine by me, as long as you don't touch me." Sanji stood up and went towards the bird, asking Chopper if Pico would like to eat; of course, Lassy and Alex were included with the meal, making Luffy to drool.

"We'll talk about my father next time. But for now…" Luffy smiled and turned towards Sanji, who was headed to the kitchen. "Sanji! Food! Food! I want food too!" Luffy cheered as he followed Sanji.

"It's quite fine. Yohohoho~! Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to water Robin-san's flowers." Brook bid goodbye and went up at the upper deck to tend Robin's flowerbed.

"It's suuuupeer fine to me!" Franky gave Lassy and Alex a thumbs up before walking away to check out the bird, whom was really loved by Chopper and Usopp.

While Lassy and Alex were busy with the opinions of the others, Robin noticed that Zoro fell asleep while he was sitting against the railings of the ship. She giggled quietly as she noticed the cute sleeping bubble from his nose and was amazed how he could fall asleep anywhere he likes. Alex noticed her quick glances towards the sleeping swordsman and asked "If I am correct, he is Roronoa Zoro?" Robin nod for reply as she looked back at the others. "I see…" Alex shifted back his attention towards Nami before she could even speak. Robin took a last glance on Zoro before shifting back her attention towards the others.

"I can't do anything anyway, since that captain of ours have already decided." Nami stretched and walked back to her sunbathing chair.

Suddenly, Lassy noticed the log pose on her wrist and quickly called her "Miss orange-haired girl, wait!" making Nami to turn around again. "Do you mind if I checked on your log pose?" He asked as he smiled at her.

"Yeah. Sure." Nami showed her wrist.

"So you're the navigator of this ship. What was the last Island you've been through?" Lassy asked as he checked on the three needles of the log pose.

"Dressrossa, why?" Nami curiously asked. She was wondering why he suddenly asked. She was thinking maybe he's a navigator as well.

"I was expecting that. Which needle are you following at?" He looked at her with a warm smile.

"The one that's moving as crazy as Luffy."

"I see. From the looks of it, your ship is headed to Lava Ramata Island. Basing from our location…" He looked at the sky and sea before looking back at her. "It will us take two days to get there. And by judging the movements of the clouds, it will be clear for tomorrow and the next day, expect things to be a little bit shaky. But of course, that will only depend if the wind patterns won't change." He smiled as he said everything with expertise.

Robin can't help but to giggle with Nami's reaction. Her jaw dropped, her eyes were widened, and she can't even say a thing. "Nami, he's one of the best navigators from the revolutionary army. He's been in and out of the New World hundreds of times, especially at the grandline."

Nami clapped her hands out of excitement and joy and she quickly grabbed Lassy's arm. "Well do you mind if we talk some more?"

"I-I don't mind, I guess." He replied as he found her a little weird with her change of actions.

"Robin! I'll be taking Lassy first! You take care of Alex!" Nami shouted as she pulled the brown-haired navigator with her. "Franky! Make our sweet visitors a new room for themselves right away!" Nami ordered as she walked Lassy towards their room.

"Suuuupeerrr! I'll get start with it, Nami-sis!" Franky stroke his pose and ran towards his workshop to get on with the blueprints.

Now the only ones left was Alex and Robin along with the sleeping Zoro.


Finished with the second chapter! I hope you didn't get bored. To be honest, I'm quite nervous with this fic. Too many expectations.. and excitement... T_T But I'm just getting started! Warming things up… Introducing the new characters. I'll be getting with ZoRobins stuff. By the way I would like to thank the people who reviewed the first chapter. I didn't expect that you guys are glad I'm back.. And again.. Review please! ^_^