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We all know Sanji wants to be a father right, as long as Nami or Robin is the Mother. And Robin... well let's just say she will make one quire and cool mother. At least we know she can multitask. She will always have a helping hand. :D
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Luffy, Always Bounces Back: Babysitters.
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Chapter 10:
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It was evening on this strange Island and two silent companions where sat down at the base of a huge tree eating the food the eldest of the two had found for the both of them earlier, well, one of them was eating the fruit she had picked earlier. The youngest was very grumpy-looking for his age, as if he had to prove that he wasn't in fact a child and that he deserved as much respect as a full-grown man. He managed this by scowling consistently, it seemed to him that if he did this enough then perhaps he might even grow up faster. He didn't let a smile pass his face once even when the other had provided them both with food, he had not offered her as much as a thank you or a please.
This youngster was the formerly well-known Pirate Hunter Zoro. However, he was very much unaware of his most recent glorious deeds, for somehow he just could not remember them.
And so Zoro was currently frustrated with himself for being in this situation. He didn't understand what could have brought him here to this place, and he just couldn't believe the strange woman's story. It didn't make any sense at all. It was totally illogical. He didn't believe in such stupid fairy tale stories, he had never done, they were all so stupid, and that was what this one sounded like to him. There was no possible way that he could ever forget something as incredible or important as an adventure like the one that he had apparently been on with all these weird people.
'She must think I'm stupid for trying to lie to me like that and to even pretend to be my friend...' his train of thought paused as he redirected his now famous scowl back up at the dark- haired woman suspiciously. Whether she felt his gaze or just noticed him looking she looked back at him and gave him her elegant smile. Well, it would have been called elegant, or 'dazzlingly beautiful' by Sanji, but Zoro, being someone who didn't really smile even as a child found it rather strange and thought she just looked to damn creepy.
"I still think you're a liar." Zoro spoke into the silence.
"And I still think you look hungry." the elder woman answered. She, Robin, as her words were uttered folded her arms across her chest and created a string of arms that seemed to spring forth from the ground and fly up to the top of the trees to pick fruit and before you could count to ten ten arms had fruit in their hands and unfolded palm and fruit facing skywards for the small boy to investigate.
"I said I wouldn't eat any food from you." he turned his head stubbornly.
Robin sighed, it seemed that they might have had this conversation for a little while. "And I think you need to keep up your strength, if you going to try and run away from me again you're going to have to do a lot better. I won't just let you leave you know, you are going to have to defeat me in order to go back home." she held out the piece of fruit in her hand. "Eat, and regain some of your strength."
Zoro paused for a very long time before finally excepting the offered gift, but even then he didn't eat it straight away. He stuck a finger nail into it as if expecting poison to come gushing out of it. And then shifting away from the old lady, never letting her leave his sight, he lay the beautiful, juicy fruit on the ground he stomped on it watching it splatter like any other normal fruit would. At this result the green-haired trouble maker seemed to become quite satisfied with the fruit, picked up the messy remains that had splattered on the rocky grounds, and slowly dropping the bits and pieces left of the fruit into his mouth, eating them.
His tall companion giggled at the action the child had taken and decided that she would definitely have to write a book about this one day.
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Sanji was walking through the endless forest wondering where the hell he was. He had just walked a long way up to the tallest part of the Island, but there was no settlements in sight at all.
As any person abandoned on an island would do, he began to get seriously worried. He tried not to let his frustration show as he was very much aware that he had only recently been able to stop the child in his care from crying. Not being the sort of cruel person to just abandon a child in need he had decided that he was going to look after him until he found some settlements, but so far he had had no such luck.
"Hey kid, you still alright up there?" Sanji asked as he tickled the kid's feet bringing out another laugh out of the previously depressed child. The boy had cheered up almost immediately when he realized that Sanji wasn't going to leave him behind and became very attached to him. Sanji had been so kind as to put the three-ish year old he had found onto his shoulders for a ride, while he tried to find out where he was and how he could get back to Zeff's place.
The kid seemed to love the view he got while riding Sanji's shoulders and was constantly pointing to things he wanted. He acted like a spoiled brat, whining and demanding things, especially food, from Sanji that the young teenager was not going to provide for the brat. He held himself upright by using Sanji's ears as his own personal handlebars, and trying to turn him in a different direction by pulling one ear as an indicator.
"This place is so big!" the creepy kid said. Sanji had decided to call him C.K. since he didn't know his name, and C.K. being extremely weird in Sanji's eyes, stood for Creepy Kid. Sanji had dropped him once only to have found that the kid's head flattened upon impact and that it didn't seem to bother him at all, as his head snapped back into shape like a rubber band.
"I know." Sanji climbed up onto another rock and looking out over the never-ending forest. "Hey C.K. let's play a game."
"What Sanny?!" C.K. asked him enthusiastically.
"My name is Sanji, C.K. Remember it! SA...N...JI." He pronounced it yet again very slowly.
"It's too hard. I like Sanny!" C.K. Insisted. He pouted looking down at the top of Sanji's head. "Please Sanny?!"
"No. So the game we will play is called who can spot the biggest building?" Sanji continued.
"What buildings?" C.K. Looked around. "I don't see any buildings."
"Well there has to be something around here somewhere." Sanji insisted. There was a brief moment of silence as they both looked around themselves.
"I won! I Won!" C.K. yelled causing Sanji to wince at the noise so close to his ear he thought he could hear an echo inside his mind.
"Where is it?" Sanji looked around with an unbelieving and exasperated sigh.
"It's a floating house out in the water!" he tugged on Sanji's ears and pointed out to sea. "Sanny, see it?!"
"Oh, yeah it's a ship." Sanji raised his curly eyebrows. "I wonder for how much longer they will be there for?" He pulled C.K. off his sore shoulders and gave them a rub to ease away the dull ache that the climb up had created, while C.K. ran around looking at the many different types of small rocks he could see, and testing their quality by putting them into his mouth and tasting them.
"We have to get back down there soon. If that really is the only ship near this place we need to ask them if we can catch a lift back home." Sanji said out loud. He might as well have been talking to himself as it was obvious that C.K. wasn't listening to him.
"Sanny Look!" C.K. Held up a green stone to Sanji.
"Wow." Sanji said in the most unimpressed voice imaginable.
"It's the stone of all green plants. If you keep this in your pocket then you will start to grow green too."
"Oh, really?" Sanji asked, pretending to be vaguely interested, but not really needing to put that much energy behind it.
"Yes." C.K. answered nodding his head absolutely sure of himself. "I want it to." He bent down and picked up another stone. "This one makes all your dreams come true." He waved it infront of Sanji's face until Sanji took it from him and held it up in his hands.
"Ok, I'll see if it works." C.K. started shaking his hands back and forth in excitement as the older guy started to test out the magic. "Hummmm…. I want to see a naked nymph guide me through this damn forest, a singing melodic mermaid to show me the way to the all blue, and a wonderful woman to wake me from this wicked dream in the morning."
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"Can you see the Knacked Nimb yet?" C.K. asked him.
"No, I can't C.K."
"Ohohohoho!" C.K. got even more and more excited. "Look! I found the lady thing that was supposed to wake you up! See over there!"
Sanji's eyes followed the child's fingers to the edge of the forest just a little further away from them. And his mouth almost dropped away from his jaw. He couldn't believe his luck.
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hehehe! I hope you guys liked that ending of chapter 10.
Sorry I haven't been updating as much as I would have wanted to be. I have been plastering, sanding, and painting my parent's house. Good work, but hard work. Not much time for anything you for the next chapter.
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