A/N: Yay! I got fifth chapter finished! xD Enjoy everybody :D

"Yay! We can stay!"

I tried to open my eyes, when I heard the yelling, but I couldn't really. I hadn't even noticed I'd fallen asleep, but now I was too tired to get up again. Then I felt somebody shaking my body and my head got knocked against the wall behind me. "Ow," I mumbled and got dropped down as somebody whacked my awakener over the head.

"Look! Now she woke up!" I heard a girl say reproaching.

She sounded kinda angry, and when I finally opened my eyes I found that she looked angry too. She was glaring at Luffy, who just held his hands over his head as protection against further punches. "What've done?" he whined looking as if he had done nothing wrong.

I wondered if he even realised what he had been doing. "Oi! Shut up you two! You're damn noisy!" Zoro growled robbing his head as if he had a headache.

"Don't you dare talk to Nami-san in that insolent tone of yours!" Sanji hissed, but at that moment Luffy seemed to notice that I was awake and with he yelled out with joy: "We get to stay, Sarah!"

This distracted the two men behind him as everybody turned to look at me. "Uhm…good," I said smiling a little.

And I thought by myself that it really could be a good thing, since I didn't really think about my disease, when they were around. "Somebody's coming," the swordsman mumbled.

The black-haired woman standing beside him closed her eyes and crossed her arms in front of her chest. "Her parents," she told opening her eyes again, "They're finally here."

"But…" I stopped myself, but had already gotten back their attention.

"But what?" the woman asked with a mild smile.

"How can you know you're allowed to stay, if my parents are first home now?" I asked and quickly continued: "And how can you know it's my parents?"
"It's a little trick I can do, because I've eaten the devil's fruit like doctor-san," the black-haired woman explained.

She closed her eyes quickly and a hand appeared from my pillow with an eye on its palm. "Woa!" I practically jumped up in surprise, but actually I only got halfway up, before I started feeling a little dizzy and had to lie down on my bed. The arm and the eye disappeared and I smiled a little muttering: "I'm sorry, I moved to fast."

"You should move that much around at all," Chopper pointed out.

"Don't worry Chopper," Luffy said with a big smile on his face, "She's strong, she'll manage."

"You don't even know what's wrong with her!"

"Well, if she can eat, then it can't be that bad," the captain replied.

"What?! She's…"

The reindeer fell silent all of a sudden and I look up. "I'm what?"

"Never mind," he hurried out of the room without saying anything more.

"Am I dying or something like that?" I asked bluntly.

"No!" Nami replied fast.

"Then what's wrong?"

"You've got a fever," Luffy answered very serious as if it was a really big deal, which it weren't for me.

"A fever and?" I asked.

"Isn't having a fever bad?" the Straw Hat asked.

"Well of course, but it's not really high right now, and I can't die of it… not as it is anyway," I answered.

"Sarah!" I heard my mom yell from downstairs and instinctively got up again.

"Uh!" I panted and fell to my bed again.

"Chopper's right, don't move to quickly," Nami warned.

"I know," I mumbled, slightly irritated that I couldn't really move.

"Maybe we'd better get downstairs, so her parents can tell us, we're allowed to stay," the black-haired woman said.

"Oh yeah, how'd you know that already?" I asked.

"Like this."

Another hand appeared on my pillow, but instead of an eye on its palm, it had an ear. "You can hear anything through that?" I curiously asked.

"Yeah," she answered and the hand disappeared again.

"Now let's go downstairs you guys," Nami ordered and pushed Luffy out the door.

"Whatever my dearest Nami-swan commands! ♥" Sanji sighed as he followed her out the door with hearts in his eyes.

The rest of the crew tagged along without uttering a word. When the door closed behind them I stepped out of my bed and started to walk towards the door a lot slower than normally, because I actually felt more ill than the previous days. Also my head had started pounding heavily and I was even getting cold in spite of the fact that I still had fever. Halfway across the room, as I was, I suddenly heard a high snoring-sound and turned around to find Zoro sitting back against the wall at the window with his hands around his swords. I hadn't noticed that he hadn't left the room with everybody else, so I thought I should warn him that everybody had left. I walked back, but as I got closer he opened his eyes and looked up at me. "Humans are fragile things, you know," he said in a low voice and I felt puzzled.

"What do you mean?" I asked as he got up, but he didn't answer me.

He just apologized for falling asleep and started walking out the room. "You guys are really something," I said as he passed me and he stopped for an instant and smiled.

"Yeah, half of us being actual monsters, and the other half just being weird, it's not strange if we're scary."

"I didn't mean it like that!"

Then I saw his smile and calmed down. "It's just that…" I tried to explain, but then found that I didn't know what I was actually trying to explain.

"Well, Nami'll kill me if I don't get downstairs, and she'll probably kill one more time if I don't drag you along," Zoro said lifting me up of the ground.

"Hey!" I yelped in surprise.

The swordsman just laughed and asked: "Aren't you sick?"

"Yeah, and?"

"Then you shouldn't be wondering around just like that," he warned, suddenly very serious, "One wrong step can cost you your life, you know."

I opened my mouth to ask him to put me down again, but when I heard his voice I just shut up and let him carry me downstairs. I knew he wasn't putting me down before we reached the others, so there was no point in arguing about it. Besides, I knew it would take me ages to get down, because I felt so sick at the moment.

A/N: Just as a sidenote I have to add that the next chapter will be very delayed (I know already now) due to a lot of stuff.. School especially.. TT hope you'll be patient