[A/N] Hey guys! just a heads up, I put Sanji in this before I remembered I haven't got to him in the story yet XD Sorry I haven't been posting much, I have been having some issues...I had the next chapter finished, I swear I did! But it has disappeared! It makes me so mad! . anyways, I hope you enjoy this thanksgiving special :)

Thanksgiving. It has been celebrated for years and has been a tradition in most of our lives. The turkey, the pies, and the dysfunctional family reuniting to make an interesting evening. We all know the craziness that occurs when we all get together to eat food and give thanks, but just imagine having a thanksgiving with a bunch of pirates and their captain, who just so happens to wear a straw hat...

~The Day of Thanksgiving~

"Sanji!"

"Be patient baka! You can have some food later Luffy."

"But I'm hungry!"

"Stop bugging Sanji, Luffy! He is busy making our thanksgiving dinner and he doesn't need you nosing around here!"

"But Nami!"

"Nope!"

Nicole observed from the bottom of the deck as Nami dragged Luffy away from the kitchen by his ear. She laughed and shook her head as she walked over into the kitchen, "Oi Sanji, how's the food coming along?"

"Nicole-chan! It is going well, thank you for asking," He turned and smiled at her before going back to mixing what looked like pudding in the bowl he was holding.

She tilted her head so she could get a look at the food and took a step forward, "It's all looking and smelling good...at least Nami has a handle on Luffy."

"Oh, Nami-san is such an angel! If it wasn't for her our meal would be ruined! And-" He began to swoon and his eyes grew into hearts. Nicole sighed and smacked him in the back of the head.

"Angel my ass, just continue to do what you were doing before I came in here. You get distracted by women way too easily," She snickered as he rubbed his head teary eyed, mumbling to himself. She walked to the door and just when she went to open it, Zoro came walking in almost knocking her over, "Watch it marimo!"

"Huh?" He blinked before shrugging and walking over to the liquor cabinet and reaching for one of the bottles. Sanji ran over and stopped him before he could get it in his grasps and their fighting and arguing commenced. The blonde argued that they needed to save the booze until dinner time and, of course, the green haired swordsman couldn't care less about what he was saying.

"Alright, that's enough," Nicole sighed and moved them away from each other by their foreheads, "Sorry Sanji, we'll get out of your hair." She took the bottle from the blonde headed man and nodded at him before glaring at Zoro and pushing him out of the door.

"Baka," Zoro growled and glared at her.

She glared back before she revealed a bottle from behind her back, "You know, you should work on those observation skills of yours...I think they're lacking."

"Just hand it over," He gave an exasperated sigh and attempted to grab it from her, only for her to hold it away from him.

"Nuh uh uh. Sharing is caring Zoro," She smirked before he huffed and frowned

"Fine then," He grabbed the bottle and took a sip before handing it back to her, "Happy?"

"Aww it's nice to know you care," She drank some herself before putting a hand to her chest, feigning being moved by his act.

He rolled his eyes and took the bottle back before walking towards the ladder to the crow's nest, "Whatever."

"Oi! Don't walk away from me with my booze in your hand!"

"Well if you want it then come get it," He spoke before climbing up the ladder and going into the crows nest.

Nicole clicked her tongue and stood there a moment before following him up and standing in front of him, "Gimme." He gave it back to her, but only after putting it up to his lips and chugging it, leaving only a quarter of the bottle for her, "Asshole!"

"Heh!" He smirked before taking his spot on the floor, "I'm taking a nap, don't bother me," He crossed his arms and closed his eyes, soon enough he was asleep. Nicole cursed to herself and glared at the sleeping man before leaning on the wooden railing to the crows nest and looking out at the ocean.

~A Few Hours Later~

"Nicki-chwann~!" Sanji called out from the deck with a big grin and his hand waving at her in the air, "Dinner is ready!"

Nicole stood up on her two feet before scowling at the blonde, "Stop calling me that!" She huffed and glanced at the sleeping swordsman, "I guess I need to wake this bozo up."

She bent down in front of the man and lightly slapped his face, "Wake up grass head," She then knelt down and shook his shoulders. She began to shake him harder as the time passed by, and soon enough she was shaking him about so hard his head was hitting the boards behind him. At impact his eyes shot wide open and he instinctively reached out, grabbing her head on both sides making her violent shaking stop.

"Well finally!"

He just glared at her, not letting go of her face, "Ouch."

"You wouldn't wake up," She crossed her arms and furrowed her brows, "And it's not like your brain can be damaged anymore then it already is."

"Oh really?" A tick mark grew onhis forehead before he began shaking her head every which way, "How do YOU like it?"

"Whoa!" Nicole struggled as she tried to take his hands off of her head, "Cut it out Zoro!" The green haired swordsman only laughed until she eventually pulled his hands away, "Thanks, now I can't see straight!" She squinted at him, "It looks like there's three of you running into each other."

"That would be cool."

"That would be a nightmare,"

She blinked a few times before she let go of his hands and tried to stand. She made an attempt to take a step in front of her, but she became wobbly and stumbled. Zoro smirked and stuck his foot out, which Nicole conveniently tripped over and fell onto the ground.

"Asshole!" She spat at him as he laughed so hard he had to hold his stomach. She growled and rubbed her back, "I think I broke my ass bone."

"Oh come on," He smirked wider and stood, "Don't be a pansy," He held out his hand in front of her, and she stared at it suspiciously before taking it and standing herself. she dusted her backside off as Zoro walked towards the ladder, "Oh, no thanks?"

"Your the reason I fell in the first place, so no," she pushed him out of the way and jumped down to the deck, "Dinner is ready so quit messing around."

Zoro followed behind her and as soon as they open the kitchen door they were hit with the sweet smelling aroma of thanksgiving day food and the loud tomfoolery of the crew, which was mostly Luffy who was getting restless waiting.

"What took you guys so long?" Nami put her hands on her hips as Luffy's eyes lit up.

"Everyone's here Sanji! Now can we eat?"

"Have at it if it will keep you from drooling all over it first."

"Finally!" The captain grinned widely before diving in to the massive pile of food on the table. The rest of the crew also helped themselves as Zoro and Nicole took a seat at the table.

The rest of the evening after dinner was lazy since most of the crew was in a food coma. Sanji was off in the kitchen cleaning up around Luffy who was laid out looking like a balloon on the floor, Nami sat in her room relaxing as she looked over a few of her maps, and Usopp was passed out in the men's room sleeping like a baby. Zoro was lifting his weights on the deck as Nicole was across of him splayed out, looking up at the night sky which she did often.

"Not tired of that yet?" Nicole questioned as she glanced at Zoro.

He continued lifting not losing his focus, but strained his words as he spoke, "I could go all night long."

She smirked, "That's what she said."

"Eh?" He looked at her, letting his concentration falter and the weights to fall on top of his neck. His face grew red and he tried his hardest to lift it off of him with no avail. When Nicole heard the strangling noise she quickly ran over and gathered energy in her hands in order to lift it off of him.

"Damn...you okay?" She sat the weights to the side and knelt down next to him. She patted his back as he coughed and tried to catch his breath, "Maybe you should be more careful dimwit."

"That...was your fault!" He said with shark teeth and his eyes glaring at her.

She blinked, then shrugged, "I don't remember forcing you to drop tons of weights onto your neck but okkkaaayyy."

He slapped his palm to his forehead before dropping to the ground and rolling onto his back. She sighed and sat down next to him, letting him catch his breath and continuing to look up at the sky as though on instinct. Zoro opened one of his eyes and looked at the back of her head. He still couldn't understand what drew her to always look up. He got it, the stars are pretty, but he wasn't so dense as to think that was it.

"So, did you enjoy thanksgiving?" Nicole spoke snapping him out of his thoughts. She had been waiting for his breathing to soften and become less noisy before she started up a conversation.

"Yeah, what about you?"

"Of course I did, food plus booze makes me one happy camper," She laughed as he nodded and smirked.

"At least that Ero-cook is good for something." Then he started laughing along with her, which he felt comfortable doing. They were an odd pair them two. At times they would bicker and mess with one another, but other times they could just sit and enjoy each others company, and that's not even saying they didn't enjoy it when they were challenging one another.

"I say we do this every year...what do you think?" Nicole turned her head to face him and smiled.

"What, sit out here all night and half strangle me to death or have the big dinner and leave Blondie to do the cleaning?"

Nicole looked at him and her smile turned into a grin, "Both, you idiot! Well...maybe we can leave out the strangling part if you be a good little swordsman."

"Oh whatever," He closed his eyes and started to speak sarcastically, "Great, more time with the pain-in-my-ass red head."

She narrowed her eyes and flicked him in the head making him flinch, "Whatever marimo, you know you love hanging around with me. You'd be lost without me...literally!"

She laid down beside him and no more words were passed between them until the sun rose, because most of what she said, was undeniably true in his mind. He was more than happy to spend his time with that pain-in-the-ass red head...but he begged to differ about the second part...he would never admit to being lost, unless it was someone else's fault that is.

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