Author's note: Alright, I has a lot to say, so listen up! First of all! The long and anticipated wait is over! Mihase has sent me the sketch of 'the boys', formerly known as the girls! XP http ( : ) ( / ) ( / ) i245 ( . ) photobucket ( . ) com( / ) albums ( / ) gg49 ( / ) Confession68 ( / ) Sketch ( underscore )026 ( . ) jpg I really think that Mihase is a magnificent artist! She really made them look male, but they still have the same faces! She did a brilliant job! I love both the guys and the two girls sketches! Thanks again Mihase! XD You're a lovely angel! But that's not all folks! I has another drawing for you! Mish1 has drawn a picture of Sanji/Sana for us! XD Here is a link to the sketch and then the colored version. Here is the sketch: http ( : ) ( / ) ( / ) semielfamish ( . ) deviantart ( . ) com ( / ) art ( / ) Sanji ( dash ) girl ( dash ) 95467992 Here is the colored version: http ( : ) ( / ) ( / ) semielfamish ( . ) deviantart ( . ) com ( / ) art ( / ) Sanji ( dash ) as ( dash ) Sana ( dash ) chan ( dash ) 95686714 Thanks Mish1! Your art is also quite wonderful! I really love it! She also said Luffy is her next goal! XD Also, I was told by both Mihase and Mish1 that Zosa actually means 'Stupid' in Spanish! XD Although … my mother in law told me they were wrong … but whatever … --; Anyways, with no further ado! Here is chapter 8! XP Is another slow-ish chapter, well not that slow, and not as funny. I promise the humor is not gone. They's must experience a lot from the different genders! Some of it is funny, some of it is not. Just like OP! Please read, enjoy, and review!

Genderly Challenged

Chapter 8: Dost Thou Know Thyself?

After they had gotten back, Sanji'd immediately disappeared into the kitchen. Everyone else just gathered on deck with frowns. Luffy dropped his and Sanji's bags on the deck as he turned his frown to the kitchen.

"Ah! What happened, you guys?!"

Everyone turned to see Chopper trotting over to them. "You guys look upset."

"The idiot humiliated himself."

No one bothered to argue this, but only frowned deeper.

"Eh?" Chopper questioned as he looked around and noticed Sanji was missing. "Sanji?"

"Aa …" Zoro replied as he walked over and slid down the mast.

"What happened?"

"It was nothing … I'm sure he learned his lesson."

Zoro snorted at Nami. "I'm sure he did … It's his own damn fault …"

Nami sighed, not feeling it necessary to argue. Then she turned towards town. "I'll be right back …"

"Where ya goin'?"

Nami turned to frown at Luffy. "I'm sure he's changed his mind now … I won't be gone long …"

"Would you like me to come, Nami-chan?"

Nami smiled at Robin and shook her head. "No, I'll be fine by myself. Like I said, it won't take me that long."

"You know … that idiot really took this way too far. He let it all go to his head … He didn't even think about the fact that if we get into a fight … he uses his legs …"

Both Luffy and Nami blinked as if realizing this for the first time. "Oh yeah …"

Zoro only shook his head with a snort.

"Speaking of which …"

Everyone turned to Usopp, who was rubbing his chin and staring at Zoro. "You don't have your swords."

Zoro made a noise in his throat as his eyes widened, and then he looked away. "My haramaki doesn't fit anymore …"

"Eh?"

"My haramaki where I kept the swords … It doesn't fit …" Zoro repeated as he turned to frown at them, a slight blush present on his face.

Usopp and Luffy gaped for a moment before bursting into laughter.

"Shove it! It ain't funny!"

Nami smiled then as she shook her head. "If you'd like, I can temporarily sew it for you, so it will fit."

Zoro's scowl disappeared as he turned to Nami. "You can do that?"

"Sure. I can just undo the stitches once we're turned back to normal. I will do that once I get back."

He nodded at her. "Alright."

She smiled wider before turning to leave the ship, all three watching as she left.

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Nami walked out from the store with a sigh. That same saleswoman had been surprised to see her again. She had hovered around her, seeing as she'd not brought the guys with her, and had thought she needed help. She had started to get annoyed with the woman after awhile, but then sighed to herself and allowed the women to help her. She plastered on a smile, which always seemed to cause the young woman to blush. It made her feel uncomfortable, but felt bad saying anything to her, so she kept her mouth shut.

With a sigh, she continued back to the ship with her purchases. However, on the way back, she heard someone call out to her.

"Oi, orange haired guy! Where's that fox of a woman who was with you earlier?"

Blinking, she turned around to see one of the same men that they'd past not but two hours before. Frowning, she looked around to see the same men. It seemed they owned shops down this particular street. She turned her whole body and then began to walk towards him. He seemed to be a little alarmed that she was approaching him, but kept his smirk.

'Little twerp can't do anything against me …He's half my size!'

With an expression lacking of anything, Nami dropped her bags and decked the guy across the face, but before he could fall back, she grabbed the front of his shirt, and used her leg to hook his, which caused him to go down and hard. She slammed the man's back into the ground using her weight, and then pushed him down with her arm to keep him down. She glared at him coldly before speaking.

"You think it amusing … to laugh and leer at my friend? I promise if you so much as look at any of my friends again with your face … I will let my foxy friend cut off you precious jewels below and serve you up some pesketti and meat balls if you catch my drift …?" She said in a cold and icy voice as her lips slowly curved into a smirk.

"Alright! Alright! I-I won't! I promise!!"

"Good …" She said as she pat his chest and dusted him off slightly with a scoff before getting up and grabbing her bags.

As she walked away, her eyes widened to large brown orbs before she mouthed, 'What the hell was that?!'

The man got up on shaky and unsteady legs as he dusted himself off roughly. "Caught me off guard! … The … little twerp! Must … Must 've been their captain … or something …" He said as he looked around with false bravado.

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Once she'd made it back to the ship, Nami was a nervous mess. She took a few deep breaths as she placed a hand to her chest and stared down at the grassy deck. 'What the hell happened back there?! I just … I just reacted!' One thing was for certain, she didn't think she'd have done that had she been herself. It was like … something inside had kicked in, and she had just let herself do what it had guided her to do.

"Oi, Nami, you okay?"

She quickly straightened as she looked over at Luffy and Usopp, who were both staring at her curiously. Then she shifted her eyes to Zoro, whose brow was quirked at her.

"Uh … Yeah … Yeah … I just … um …" She started, not able to come up with anything to say.

"Nami?" Luffy questioned again as he frowned at her.

She sighed as she closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead. "I'm alright … I just … felt a little weird … a little while ago … It's nothing though …" She said as she grabbed her bags again and headed for the kitchen. "Is he still in there?"

"Aa, he hasn't come out since he went in …" Usopp replied as they all watched her.

Nodding, she continued up the stairs before frowning and immediately turning to the door. She could have sworn she heard something crash. Frowning deeper, she quickened her speed as she approached the kitchen at another sound. She quickly opened the door, only to have to close it again right away when a pan came flying her way.

"What the …?!" She exclaimed as she went in again. The entire kitchen and dining room was a completely mess. "S-Sanji-kun …?!"

Sanji was standing in the middle of the kitchen, breathing heavily. He turned to her, tears still in his eyes and his expression a deep and angry frown. When he saw her, he lost some of it and looked away from her.

"S-Sanji-kun … what … what are you doing?!" She asked as she attempted to step up and over the mess.

"They're heavy!"

She stopped to blink her wide eyes at him. "H-Heavy?!"

"The … The shitty pans are too damn heavy!!" He yelled without turning. "I was … I was trying to … make a meal, but … I … I couldn't lift them up very well … I … I was able to all right this morning … but right now … I can't! And it was just …"

Nami frowned softly as she continued to look at him. She understood what was wrong with him. She remembered becoming so angry and frustrated that she'd completely lost all of her strength. Because of the state he was in right now, he must not have had the strength to lift his pans.

"Sanji-kun … About … About what happened to –"

"I don't want to talk about that, or ever remember that ever again!!"

She closed her mouth tightly before frowning. However, Sanji suddenly turned to her with his wide eye. "Ah, I'm so sorry, Nami-san!!"

She bit her lip as she continued to stare at him wide eyed. "I-It's … okay …"

"No … No it's not! I should never raise my voice to a lady! Especially not to you, Nami-san!" He cried as he left the kitchen to approach her. Although, there had been a couple times when he'd yelled at her with the others for certain things she had done. When he reached her, he seemed to deflate. "I have no idea … what's going on anymore …"

"I-I think … I know exactly what you mean …" She said as she frowned down at him, thinking on what she had just done not too long ago.

He looked up at her then as he wiped away the tears in his eyes. "Y-You do?"

She found herself smiling, and laughing breathily at the way he looked as her brows furrowed a bit. It was strange seeing Sanji like this. "Un, I think I do … A lot of things seem kind of confusing right now … I find myself thinking and doing things I would never normally do …"

Sanji blinked his one eye before looking back at the dining area. "Aa … I think I know what you mean …"

"You were just frustrated and angry … You know … I used to want to throw and break things when I was frustrated and angry … Mind you though … I never actually did it …" She said with a bit of a chuckle as she knelt down to pick up a pan from at her feet.

"Oh, don't! I will … I will clean up my mess …" Sanji said as he began picking things up from off of the floor.

"Don't worry about it … We're friends and crewmates, aren't we?"

"Yes, but …" Sanji started as he frowned at her.

"But nothing … I'll help you clean it up …" She said as she smiled at him.

Sanji's one eye widened a bit as he watched her look back down to clean, a slight blush forming on his face. 'She really does have a nice smile … like that …'

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Staring down at his cards, Luffy frowned curious as to what was taking Nami so long in the kitchen. One side of his lips quirked up in a bit of a frown, but then he jumped slightly and looked up at Usopp and Chopper, who'd joined the game later.

"Huh?"

"It's your turn …"

"Oh, right …" He said as he looked back down at his cards. He frowned when he realized he'd not been paying attention at all. "You know … I'ma go check on 'em …"

"Eh?" Both Usopp and Chopper looked up at Luffy in confusion as he stood up and headed for the kitchen.

As he approached the door, he frowned and placed his ear on the door quickly.

"Ah … no, Nami-san! Let me put it in!"

"It's okay! I can handle it … I can put it in myself …"

"B-But … You should let me guide it in … just in case you do it wrong …"

"I won't do it wrong … Look, I'm the guy here right now! I said let me do it myself!"

"But … but it's really big … and …"

"More reason why you should just let me guide it in myself! So you just sit still while I do it!"

"B-But … Nami … san … Ah!"

"See?! It hurts, doesn't it?!"

Luffy's eyes widened as he quickly opened the door and looked towards the kitchen. Both Sanji and Nami looked up at him with wide blinking eyes. Sanji was standing in front of Nami, bent over, with Nami just behind him.

Luffy blinked before walking towards them and looked down. Both Nami and Sanji had their hands on a really large pan filled with meat. However, Nami had one hand on Sanji's, his hand visibly red from where he'd burned himself. Clucking her tongue, she took the very heavy pan from Sanji and carefully placed it in the oven.

"You see? I could do it just fine Sanji-kun … It wasn't even heavy to me like it seemed to be to you!"

Sanji turned and frowned at her, "But still!"

"But still, nothing! Look, you burned yourself!" Nami said as she frowned at him and grabbed his hand.

Sanji gasped as she dragged him to the sink to run cold water over it. "N-Nami-san! I can do that!"

"Oh shut up already!"

Luffy just blinked as he watched the two, before he seemed to be sighing in relief. However, he perked when he realized he was sighing in relief. Sanji grit his teeth against the pain of the burn. He had felt bad as it was that Nami had helped him clean, and then for her to offer to also help him cook and lift the heavier pans. He had tried to tell her that he could do it, but she had refused and had helped anyways. However, because he'd been trying to stop her, he had burned himself.

"Wha-What are you guys doing?"

"Cooking …"

"Why are you helping Sanji cook …?"

Sanji's cheeks reddened before he turned his face away from Luffy's as Nami kept his hand under the water. "Because I wanted to!"

Luffy blinked as Nami frowned up at him. Sanji's eye widened as he looked up at Nami.

"But why …?"

"Why does it matter!? I already said it was because I wanted to!" She said as she looked back down at his hand. "Now if you don't mind, can you go and get Chopper please?"

Nodding, Luffy quickly turned and ran out. Sanji continued to stare up at Nami with his wide eye. She hadn't told him it was because he, himself, couldn't even lift up the pans. It was pretty embarrassing and humiliating to him, and she hadn't laughed once, nor did she tell Luffy anything.

After awhile, Chopper and Luffy came running back in, Chopper immediately going into the kitchen. "Let me see the burn!"

Sanji obeyed and lowered his hand to the little reindeer, who then immediately set to work putting ointment and bandaging it up. "You should be more careful Sanji … You've not burned yourself before. What happened?"

Sanji inhaled sharply at the little reindeer, already feeling embarrassed.

"It was my fault …"

Everyone blinked as they looked over at Nami. "I was trying to help … even though I know he didn't need it. When he tried to stop me, he burned himself. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have tried to push my help on you, Sanji-kun."

Sanji's eye widened as he shook his head and was about to speak, but then winced as Chopper finished bandaging his hand. He turned to frown down at Chopper before turning back to Nami, who was already leaving. He frowned as the door closed behind her. Luffy blinked at the door and then turned to look at Sanji, who was still frowning at the door. He tilted his head a bit before shifting his eyes to the side.

'How'd that pan get under the table …?'

To Be Continued …

Author's Note: (Snickers) Yes, I know what you're thinking … and I'd have to say … SHUT UP AND BE PATIENT! HAHAHAHA! XD Another slow-ish chapter … Yes, yes … (nodsnods) But I still liked it … I must say … (Shouldn't be saying this since she wrote it) Anyways, what's important is how you guys felt about it! I want reviews! NAO! XO

P.S. Ah! And sorry Mihase! I promise to get to the 'boys' clothes next chapter! As you guys can see, the clothes in the pic is the clothes they are going to wear. I will describe it all next chapter and such. Or maybe I don't have to since you guys saw it … Well, anyways, either way, I will have the 'boys' change next chapter! X)

P.S.S. By the way … Al had said Robin and Nami looked a little bishounen, but to me it makes sense … seeing as they are originally female … --; Well, regardless … I still love it! XD