Hello everyone. Sorry it's been so long since I've updated. I've been working on my other story, a Harry Potter fic called One Hell of a Night(please check it out!). I want to make sure I finish this story with the same passion and attention I had when I started writing it (nearly 2 years ago) so forgive me if it takes a while. As always I love reviews – they are what inspire me to keep writing so please take a moment an tell me anything. What you think may happen, what you want to have happen, what I can do to improve the story. At this point, the villain's character is still very flexible so if you have any suggestions about that let me know. I take all my reviews into consideration. So anyway, enough rambling and onto the story.

We Find Them

BAM

Luffy's head shot up and over to the short-cut-door that connected the infirmary to the dining room. Was that a gunshot? Luffy sprang out of Chopper's favorite rolling chair, and headed for the door. But right before he was about to rip it open he heard yelling.

"YOU BASTARD DON'T DAMAGE MY SHIP!"

Followed by a thud and what sounded like glass breaking.

"DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT!"

"OH IT'S THE SAME SUBJECT! RORONOA ZORO I S A HOPELESS FUCKING DUMB ASS!"

CRASH!

Luffy anxiously ripped open the door and ran inside. Everyone was gathering by a giant hole in the wall where the kitchen door use to be. Luffy was about to ask them what was going on but stopped when he heard more yelling this time coming from the deck.

"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"

That was Zoro.

"Get off ME!"

And…Franky? It was kind of hard to hear over the thunder.

"Damn it! What the fuck is Franky doing?" Sanji exclaimed running out after them.

"Sanji-kun-!" Nami started to say when he rushed past her

"Oi!" Sanji called leaping off the deck, but his voice was drowned out by thunder- they didn't hear him.

"YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME?

Luffy walked up behind the crew to see what was happening on the deck below.

The second Sanji's feet hit the ground he dash towards the struggle ready to end the fight himself.

"TELL ME FRANKY WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW YOUR NAKAMA DIE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES?"

Sanji stopped what he was doing - as did the rest of the crew.

"STOP PRETENDING THAT YOU KNOW EVERYTHING BECAUSE YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T KNOW ME AND IF YOU THINK FOR ONE FUCKING SECOND THAT USOPP DIED WITHOUT PUTTING UP A FIGHT THEN YOU SURE AS FUCKING HELL DIDN'T KNOW HIM EITHER!

"…"

No one spoke. Not even Luffy could find the will to say anything as he watched his first-mate get up off the cyborg. After a taking a moment to catch his breath, the swordsman turned away from them and walked across the lawn to the other side of the ship.

"…Zoro…" Chopper sniffed with watery eyes as he watched his nakama walk away.

"Zoro-san" Brooke said sadly.

Luffy looked back at Franky.

Franky got to his feet, and turned to Zoro. He must have said something to Zoro to keep him from going inside, because the swordsman didn't open the door. In fact he just stood there with his hand on the handle, like he wasn't sure if he even wanted to go inside.

"What did he say?" Luffy asked from behind Nami.

"I don't know I couldn't hear over the thunder." She answered automatically, without realizing who she was talking to. Robin, however, spared him a glance. Then replied to him:

"I think he said-"

"ERRAAH!"

"AH!" Chopper shrieked jumping out of Nami's arms and onto her back. The others too, recoil at the sudden sound of Zoro's impulsive cry.

He ripped open the door (practically severing it from its hinges) and wrenched it shut with so much forced the door itself splintered.

SLAM!

…

That had startled the HELL out of them.

They were still staring flabbergasted at the now splintered door when they heard another furious cry

crescendoing from down below.

"Yooou BASTARD!"

"Hm?" Franky turned around.

BAM

Sanji kicked the cyborg right in the face with his bare foot sending his metal ass flying across the deck and over the railing.

SPLASH

"Franky!" Chopper cried out in alarm.

"Heh… heh…" Sanji panted.

"Oi! Sanji! What are you doing?" Luffy yelled.

"What did he do to-?...eh?" Nami stopped, noticing Luffy for the first time.

"WHEN DID YOU GET HERE?" Brooke, Nami, and Chopper cried out in utter surprised.

Luffy ignored them and jumped off the deck.

"Why did you kick him?" Luffy asked as he marched over to the chef.

There was a faint STRONG RIGHT, and Franky's hand appeared from over the railing.

"Oi!" Luffy shouted when he didn't get an answer.

Franky pulled the rest of him onto the side of the ship.

Luffy grabbed Sanji's arm, and asked him again.

"W-"

"HOW DARE YOU!" Sanji growled, glowering at Franky as if he had just hit a woman.

Sanji stomped up to him as he tried to yank Luffy off his arm.

"WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING SAYING SOMETHING LIKE THAT?"

"Hmff" Franky folded his arms and narrowed his eyes at the cook.

"All I did was asked him the question that everyone else was afraid to ask."

"Afraid to ask? You shitty bastard! All you were trying to do was make it look like it was his fault!"

Sanji accused.

"Maybe it was!" the shipwright snapped back.

"What?" Sanji pushed Luffy away and grabbed Franky by the collar of his shirt "YOU BASTARD! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT GUY IS WILLING TO SACRIFICE FOR ANY ONE US?"

"I'm not saying he isn't noble, I'm saying he's an idiot!" Franky argued "If this was any other day you would be agreeing with me!"

"Yeah, you're right! He is an idiot! But there will NEVER be a day where Roronoa Zoro 'stands back and watches his nakama die'!" Sanji spat.

"What?" Luffy said incredulously.

"That's what this idiot thinks he did!" Sanji told Luffy.

Franky looked away. After hearing it put that way, he could see how he might have gone a little too far with his accusations. He could already feel the disgusting feeling of regret beginning to eat at him. Shit. Once again he had let his emotions get the better of him and lashed out and did something rash and pointless. One would think a head-on collision with a seatrain would have done something to knock some sense into him.

Reluctantly Franky looked back at his captain.

Luffy was gaping at him, completely at a loss for words.

"Are you retarded?"

(Okay maybe not completely)

"I trust Zoro with my life! He would never do anything like that!" Luffy shouted with unquestionable faith. – -He looked Franky in the eyes. "And I trust you too!" He said seriously

…

"- even though you're retarded."

Sanji glance back over his shoulder to see the rest of the crew approaching them. He let out a breath and let Fanky go. Putting his hands in his pockets, Sanji turned to face his captain as the rest of his nakama arrived just in time to hear Luffy declare

"I trust all of you. And I love all of you. We're family. So don't think we're going to let you doubt any of us so easily." Luffy warned him. Then Luffy did the most incredible thing of all. He smiled. Sure it was small, but it was incredibly warm."Got it?" he asked.

And just like that the tension was gone. Luffy's words had washed it all away and everyone felt it.

Franky's eyes softened. "Got it."

"Is everything alright, now?" Robin asked from under an umbrella.

Luffy turned at the sound of her voice "Yeah it's cool" he answered her still smiling.

"Thank goodness" Chopper sighed, still clinging onto Nami's back.

Nami turned to Sanji.

"What was that about?" Nami-san asked him.

Sanji glanced back at Franky, they met each other's eyes briefly, before Sanji looked away. "Nothing" he said as he walked over to her. The chivalrous cook took the umbrella off her hands and held it over her lovely form.

"Thank you Sanji-kun" she said staring at the ground. "…So…"

"Hm?" Luffy turned to Nami.

She looked up to him, and in a small voice, asked the captain of the Strawhats the question that has given them more guidance than any compass, log post, or map ever had;

"Now what do we do?"

The crew turned to him anticipating his answer and awaiting his orders.

Luffy put his hand on his hat, "We do what we always do." He told them simply

"We move forward."

Luffy turned to Nami "How long 'till we get to the next island?" he asked impatiently

"Ah- we should be there by tomorrow afternoon. But what about-?" Nami started

"Then it's decided. Tomorrow we begin looking for the ones responsible!" Luffy declared

"Mmm" the crew nodded.

Luffy walked off towards the kitchen.

"And we find them!" he yelled back.