"Sanji could you make me some food!" Shura asked as everyone began to get situated on the ship, but her request was ignored when Nami fell over with a fever.
"How on earth would you get this kind of fever Nami-san?" Vivi questioned resting her hand on Nami's forehead as Shura smacked her forehead. "Vivi Nami was running around in a prehistoric jungle in only a bra. How the hell could she not get sick?" Shura exclaimed as Nami looked dazed and confused. Vivi took Nami inside and Shura never got her food until it was meal time.
By the time night fall came it was Shura's watch and she was sitting on the head of the Merry Go looking at the picture of her and Minato chuckling as she remembered that day.
Shura, Tsume, and Minato had all been assigned a mission together and got finished with it early the town they were in had a very nice market district and Tsume had gotten her a new camera.
"Come on pose so I can take a picture!" Tsume exclaimed grinning as she held up the camera. Being next to a booth with hats and glasses Shura turned around grabbed two random hats and to pairs of random glasses and put them on her and Minato both.
Tsume let out a laugh at how dorky they looked as Minato laughed also then Tsume flashed a picture.
Then a couple days after that Tsume gave Shura the picture before the festival. Shura liked the picture so she made a habit of carrying it around on her person constantly.
Shura couldn't help but smile softly down at the picture. She missed Minato she really did but at least now she didn't burst out into tears when she thought of him. Not that Shura cried over a boy, no Shura was too awesome for that too awesome indeed.
But still it was good memory and Shura would kill anyone who damaged that picture. Downright murder them in cold blood.
Suddenly a hand stretched over Shura's shoulder and took the photo out of his hand.
"He's cute." Shura heard Sanji say, Shura turned around and glared at the cook "I'm still mad at you for not making me food Sanji so give me my picture back." Shura said pouting knowing the cook wouldn't mean anything by grabbing her picture. It didn't seem like Sanji's style, Sanji grinned with his cigarette in his mouth at Shura amused with her pout.
"Only if you tell me the special guy's name~!" He sang in his usual way and Shura glared at Sanji lightly "Minato Namikaze, he was my boyfriend. Until I had to… Leave." Shura said hesitating on the last part Sanji raised an eyebrow and handed Shura's photo back like he promised. Shura moved over to Sanji could sit next to her.
"I didn't know you liked blondes." He teased making Shura punch him in the arm "Minato was adorable unlike you Sanji." Shura said flushing brightly at Sanji's teasing. The perverted cook grinned, it was sort of an unspoken bond between Shura and Sanji maybe a bond between perverts or something but they seemed to get along just fine. Unlike Shura with the rest of the crew.
"Really now am I not adorable like this Minato?" Sanji pressed on as Shura grinned smugly "Minato was a better cook too." She teased making Sanji glare at her "Now that's just being biased! He was your boyfriend of course you're going to think he's a better cook than me!" Sanji exclaimed in a very whiney voice much like Shura would do when she was playing around and pretending to be hurt.
Both of them got really quiet after a moment then Sanji suddenly asked "What was he like?" that question was out of sheer innocent curiosity. Shura had no idea why Sanji would ask her that, maybe it was because their personalities were similar and he was trying to see if Shura's type would also be his and figure out how to find something like Shura had found.
Or maybe Sanji was trying to be a good friend realizing what Nami and Luffy seemed to fail to realize that Shura was still hurting over having to leave Minato and would probably never stop hurting until they met up again.
But that simple question brought the rush of every second that Shura spent with Minato back into her mind as she tried to figure out a way to describe Minato in a way that Sanji could piece together without much thought.
"He… He was polite like Vivi and always worried about others way too much." Shura started and Sanji popped in with his own comment "So he was a princess too?" He questioned jokingly and regretted making that joke when he saw Shura's expression.
"If he was then he was my princess…" Shura said with a fore long look, Sanji shot a look of concern in Shura's direction which she caught out of the corner of her eye "Minato was the heir to his family's money and his father didn't like me because my lack of last name and having a rich family. Minato didn't care about that though and he used to get so upset that his dad hated me. So I took him out for dango and then stick the dango sticks in my mouth pretending to be a walrus just to get him to smile again." Shura said quietly, Sanji only sat there listening to her.
"You really liked him didn't you?" He asked and Shura nodded "Yeah. He was like a little lost puppy that just kept following me around looking for someone to pay attention to him." Shura said with a fond smile and Sanji chuckled a bit.
"I know how you feel, while I was working on the ship with the old man when I was about nine there was this little girl who would come to the restaurant every week with her father. She would always order the same thing as her dad to see if he would notice but he didn't. I thought she was adorable so I'd always deliver her food to her. She was extremely polite and lonely. Finally after about the third week of coming there I was off my shift and I noticed that she was following me around the ship so finally when I confronted her about it. She looked down at her feet and gave me a box of chocolates saying it was to thank me for all the hard work I did on her food. That was the first time I had a crush on a girl. I've been trying to find a similar feeling to that ever sense." Sanji said looking off into the distance as well as if trying to look back at that moment.
Then Sanji looked over at Shura who was bawling her eyes out "Shura you're crying!" Sanji asked humorously as Shura put her hand in his face "Shut up asshole I'm not crying at all!" She wailed in a very Franky like way.
Sanji let out a laugh at this "So you really are a girl at heart aren't you!" He exclaimed making Shura stop crying "What the hell is that supposed to mean you bastard!" Shura exclaimed slightly offended at Sanji's comment only making him laugh harder at Shura.
"You don't have to hide it from me Shura. A lot of animals have hard shells around them for protection but they have a soft center." Sanji purred seductively as Shura deadpanned "You do realize that I've saved Zoro's live three times already so he owes me three things so if I were to wake him up to get rid of you I doubt he'd object very much to beating the shit out of you." Shura deadpanned, Sanji pouted childishly "You're no fun!" He exclaimed as Shura chuckled slipping the picture back into her pants pocket.
"I am a whole lot of fun, but I don't hand out tickets you know." Shura said cleverly making Sanji chuckle "That's a good one." He commented as Shura chuckled as well.
By the time Shura's watch was over Zoro was already up and Sanji was in the kitchen cooking.
Zoro walked out to see the whole deck covered in snow as well as Shura who was sound asleep on Merry's head. "Great now Shura's going to have a cold and all we're going to hear is whining." Zoro grumbled walking over with his jacket on to brush snow off of Shura only to see there was a blanket already on her.
"Oi, Sanji did you give Shura a blanket?" Zoro questioned as Sanji came out with soup for Nami, Sanji blinked at the sword's man question and shook his head "No, Shura said that she was going to head inside to sleep. She must have fallen asleep on Merry's head." Sanji said while Zoro turned back to the mysterious blanket "Then who gave Shura this blanket?" He mumbled lowly then shook Shura wake.
"Hey Zoro-kun~!" Shura mumbled apparently in a good mood for some reason. This made Zoro sweat drop waking up Shura was like playing slot machines you never know what you're going to get. "Shura your watch is over go to bed." Zoro stated as Shura grinned up at him "Okay~!" Shura said getting up then noticing the blanket and staring at it for a moment.
"What are you staring at that blanket for? Go to bed." Zoro ordered making Shura blink then grab the blanket and head off to her room. Shura now fully awake but still deadly tired walked down below deck following Zoro's orders. Shura stopped suddenly in the hallway feeling like she was being watched. She felt weird ever since they had left little garden. It was like being stalked by Hizashi and Hiashi all over again.
"Who's there?" Shura questioned looking around trying to pin point where this person was watching her from. Shura heard something move and she turned around to see who it was then almost jumped high enough to hit the ceiling when.
"What are you looking at Shura?" Usopp questioned making Shura jump "WHAT THE HELL MAN DON'T SNEAK UP ON ME LIKE THAT!" Shura screamed at the long nose sniper taking him back at bit.
"So-Sorry! I just wanted to know what you were looking at!" He said taking a step back and then Shura calmed down "I think there's someone else on this ship." Shura said looking around slowly "I don't know who but I all know is that they don't belong here." She said making Usopp look around also panicking.
"R-Really?" he said as his knees buckled together, Shura then stared at Usopp "I could be wrong though." She said before walking past him and heading to her room. Shura fell over exhausted onto the couch and began to doze off. Shura shifted a bit feeling like someone was touching her. Her eyes snapped open and no one was there.
"Okay this is getting ridiculous whoever you are." Shura said sitting up and looking around eying everything suspiciously she looked around to see that her room looked a whole lot cleaner than it was before. "What the hell?" Shura blurted out standing up and began to walk around her room looking for this person who seemed to like to take care of Shura. Honestly what was up with that blanket? And now a clean room?
"What is this person? My wife?" Shura questioned looking around not thinking much of her comment, once more Shura felt like she was being watched from behind. Shura stood in place trying to figure out who it was stalking her. It wasn't like Hizashi and Hiashi stalking her were they only did it for shits and giggles. This was different like the person wanted to talk to Shura but couldn't for some strange reason.
Shura heard the floor board creak behind her and in a flash she had the culprit against the wall with her sword pressed to their neck.
"Luffy? What the fuck?" Shura exclaimed while Luffy grinned at her wordlessly making Shura eye him critically. "Hi Shura!" Luffy said grinning in his usual way. Shura let go of Luffy then kicked him out of her room not noticing that Luffy lacked his usual straw hat.
"Idiot he shouldn't be sneaking around like that it might get him killed." Shura mumbled then realized that she didn't feel like she was being watched anymore. This confused her, 'So does this mean Luffy was watching me? If so then why?' Shura pondered to herself then shrugged it off heading back to bed. Not noticing Luffy peer through the crack in the door as if checking up on her then walked off.