Fourth chapter! When I was planning this story, I thought it would be the shortest of my One Piece fanfics but then I realised I was seriously wrong! This might become as the longest one of my fanfics! XD I got carried away with the idea and I want to play with our boys ( and girls ) a lot XP But please, enjoy! :) There will be ZoSan in the later chapters so please be patient! :)

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Sanji was changing into pyjama when he heard a silent knock on the door.

"Wait a minute!" Sanji shouted and hoped that whoever was behind the door, could wait until he changed his clothes.

Who could it be this late?

Finally he finished buttoning the shirt and went to open the door,"Sara-chan!" Sanji greeted, "What are you doing up so late? You should be sleeping or your stunning beauty will suffer!"

Sara blushed again,"I just came to ask if everything was alright in here! Do you need something?"

Sanji blinked at the guestion,"It's enough for me if you get enough sleep tonight!" Sanji swooned like usual and he really meant it. He was really happy just making a lady happier.

"Really? Then I will head to my room too! Goodnight, Sanji-san!" Sara said, excusing herself.

"Good night, my dear!" Sanji said and closed the door. It was already past midnight and he was feeling pretty tired and all he wanted to do was fall into a nice slumber of sleep.

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Nami and Robin slept in the rooms 71 and 72 which were the closest ones to the stairs. Next to them was Luffy in the room 73 who snored loudly. Zoro was in the room 76 and Chopper and Usopp were in the rooms between their captain and their swordman because they felt like they were safe between two monsters. Brook was in the room 77.

Zoro woke up in the middle of the night and he didn't even manage to stay in his own room. He got lost in the big mansion but somehow he ended up in the room 78 where there at least should have been some leaking water pipe. There was none. Even Zoro was clever enough to realise all of the pipes were totally fine and something fishy was going on.

He decided to check on Sanji even though he doubted that he could find the chef's room without getting lost again. He remembered that the room was number 61 so it should have been easy to find but not for Zoro.

Finally, after many hours of searching, he found the room 61 and knocked the door carefully but loudly enough to be heard. Soon the blond-haired man opened the door and glared at the green-haired man,"Do you know what time is it, Marimo?!" He hissed angrily and rubbed his eyes.

"I know excatly what time is it," Zoro said in his usual, calm tone.

"Well? What's the time?" Sanji inquired.

"It's midnight," Zoro answered the stupid guestion.

"It's four o'clock in the morning, you idiot!" Sanji hissed and covered his eyes from the light coming from the hallway. It was too bright for his liking and Zoro noticed it too.

"What? You have a hangover or something?" Zoro suggested and grinned widely.

"It's not that! I drank nothing during the party!" Sanji explained and leaned on the door frame. He was swaying a lot.

Then Zoro smelled the weird smell coming from the room number 61. It stang in his nose and burned his eyes. He looked at the blond in front of him who smirked as if he was flirting, "Hey Ero-cook, are you alright?" Zoro asked suddenly when he realised there must be some sort of gas in the air.

"I am fine, now let me go back to sleep, you idiot!" Sanji said and tried to close the door but Zoro pulled the door open again.

"Idiot! Can't you realise there is gas in your room?!" Zoro raised his voice a little and Sanji tensed a little.

"A...gas, you say?" Sanji staggered,"I have noticed nothing!"

"Probably because it has been leeking slowly into the room and you have gotten used to the smell!" Zoro used his brains for once," .Check," Zoro spoke with his usual, annoying tone.

"Don't order me around!" Sanji hissed while he wobbled back to the room.

"Where do you think you are going?" Zoro inquired.

"I have to get the key and lock the door,"Sanji explained and disappeared behind the corned for a while before he appeared again,"We don't want this gas leeking in other rooms, do we?"

Zoro nodded and turned towards Chopper's room before Sanji grabbed his sleeve,"If you are looking for the room 75, I think it's in this direction,"Sanji said in a mocking tone and pulled the swordman with him.

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"Gas? In his room?" Chopper inquired and squinted his eyes. Their doctor had been sleeping before they woke him up. It was half past four in the morning.

"I smelled it pretty clearly when he opened the door. It burned my eyes and he was acting oddly so there was no doubt about it," Zoro explained the situation and Chopper nodded.

"Sanji, open your eyes, okay?" Chopper reguested and Sanji opened his blue eyes and stared at the blue-nosed reindeer,"Your pupils are wider..." Chopper sighed and thought for a different options for a while,"Do you have any headache? Are you feeling sick? Or is there any other symptoms worth mentioning?" Chopper inquired.

"I don't know...I just feel kind of dizzy and maybe a little sick but nothing else, I guess?" Sanji explained and rubbed his temples with his thumbs.

"Okay. I will take Zoro to his room, you can sleep on the couch," Chopper said and felt the swordman staring at him.

"You don't need to babysit me!" Zoro hissed.

"We know that you will only wander around until somebody finds you!" Chopper almost yelled at the swordman.

Before Chopper opened the door, Zoro stopped him and turned to look at Sanji,"By the way, there is nothing wrong with the room 78."

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"Sanji-kun!" Nami shouted, knocking the door of the room 61,"Open up, it's time for us to leave!"

"What is it? Something wrong?" Sara asked when he climbed the stairs to sixth floor.

"Sanji-kun is not opening the door," Nami explained and sighed deeply. It was rather unusual for Sanji not to answer her call.

"If you are looking for that idiot, he is in Chopper's room,"Zoro said, startling the ladies.

"Zoro! Did something happen during the night?" Nami inquired and saw the worried look on Sara's face.

"There was some gas in his room so he slept in Chopper's,"Zoro explained shortly. He didn't want to give any extra information to Sara because he didn't trust the woman.

"Probably just some gas pipe leaking!" Sara suggested,"I will talk to captain Dess, we have to fix the problem as soon as possible!" Then she remembered what she was supposed to do, "Ah, that's right! Please join us and eat breakfast with us!"

"We don't want to be a burden to all of you..." Nami started but was interrupted by a shout coming from the room 73.

"BREAKFAST!"

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Sanji couldn't eat anything that morning. He had vomited once and he was feeling like he would vomit again if he was going to eat something.

"You can go, Chopper, I can manage!" Sanji reassured the small doctor because he knew how much Chopper wanted to join everyone else.

"If you are sure..." Chopper nodded and smiled slightly before he closed the door behind him.

Sanji closed his eyes and thought about the events for a while. It was just a normal gas leak, right? It didn't mean that somebody wanted to drug them with some gas!

I am probably thinking too much...maybe the gas is making me overreact to everything?

He laid on the sofa and sighed deeply. It was not normal for pirates to be this friendly to everyone but maybe they were an expection. They seemed like a bunch of nice people who were as simple as Luffy: they just liked to party and have fun.

Sanji didn't even realise when he had fallen asleep but he woke up when all of the Strawhats expect Franky came to the room. They had eaten their stomach's full and it looked like their captain could explode any minute.

"There seems to be some trouble at Sunny-Go,"Nami informed Sanji who didn't understand why everyone had gathered like this,"Somebody or something attacked our ship during the night and destroyed our sails. NOT the main mast's sail, Luffy," She added when she saw the angry look on their captain's face,"Franky had apparently said that it might take a whole day to fix it so it means we are stuck here until tomorrow at least."

"Captain Dess suggested that we could stay for another night but I don't really like that man. There is something suspicious about him,"Robin said.

"Yeah. But maybe we should take up the offer? I mean, there is definitely something going on and I want to figure out what!" Nami suggested but not everyone felt so sure about it.

"It's not that simple,"Zoro joined the conversation,"They tried to drug Ero-cook and now they are playing innocent, just blaming a normal gas leak."

"How can you be so sure about that?" Sanji inquired. He couldn't understand what was so special about it. It had been just a normal gas leak, right?

"Think about it: they lied that one of the rooms on this floor had a leaking water pipe to separate you from us," Zoro explained but something was missing.

"And?" Sanji asked because he wasn't really believing the theory.

"And then that woman wouldn't have arrived to your door if Nami hadn't been there. She didn't even expect you to join everyone for breafast", Zoro explained. He had been surprisingly sharp to realise these small things,"And now we can't sail our ship. Doesn't it look a lot like they just want to delay our leave?"

"Wait a little, Zoro! We can't blame them without clear evidence!" Nami reasoned,"We can't say for sure if the gas leak was an accident or not, or we can't tell if Sara simply forgot Sanji! And yet, we can't know if these guys attacked our ship! It might be anyone!"

Luffy seemed to be deep in thought until finally, he spoke out,"We will stay here," he decided.

"Are you sure about that, captain-san?" Robin inquired and Luffy nodded.

"We just have to be careful and not let anything slip by us!" Luffy grinned," And whatever they might have planned for us is going to fail!"

"You are right, captain",Zoro vouched for his captain,"It's not like we are some weaklings like two years ago!"

"Then how about Franky?" Nami asked. She didn't really want to let the hentai stay alone on the ship if there was some unknown enemy hanging around.

"I could return back to the ship,"Usopp suggested,"I can help him fix the sail so that we can leave early tomorrow morning."

"Something caught my interest so I want to return back to the ship and check it,"Robin explained but she didn't bother to explain further, the mysterious woman she was.

"I don't want to cross that desert again!" Chopper whined.

"Me too! My bones will get lighter and I will be eaten by wild dogs!" Brook joined the conversation.

"I want to have a party again!" Luffy cheered and somehow everyone doubted if he even remembered to be cautions.

"I want to see if something interesting happens here!" Zoro grinned like a wild animal who was hunting his prey.

"I could check if they have some information for my maps!" Nami said, sounding pretty hopeful,"I heard their library has got a vast collection of various different kinds of books!"

"I am not going anywhere for a while,"Sanji admitted to himself that he was not feeling really well, at least not well enough to cross a boiling hot desert.

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