13th chapter! I really love how this story has turned out! :) I think of writing even more chapters than I originally planned, the story has developed in my head up to something like 30 chapters! XD So there will be still lots to read! :) As I informed you, there will be few more days between the chapters for a while than originally which means around three-four days :)

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Chopper gave Sanji a quick check and realised the chef wasn't in immediate danger of loosing his life. He got few broken bones, big bruises and some minor cuts but they were not life threatening - not if they were treated. He wondered the amount of blood slightly but he guessed that the blood might be someone else's.

"We need to move him away from here. I have to bandage his wounds in the infirmary properly,"Chopper informed Zoro who had stayed with him when other's had headed back to the surface.

Zoro nodded and tried to lift Sanji carefully, not wanting to cause the man any extra pain. He couldn't lift him, however, when Sanji hissed in pain and started to tremble.

"Wait, Zoro!" Chopper ordered,"There is something stuck to his back!"

They lowered the chef back to the same position he had been before and Chopper tried to take a careful peek of what was holding the chef down. He gulped when he saw a reinforcing bar had stuck to his back and almost gone all the way trough his stomach. The other half of it was stuck on the ground,who know how deep it was buried.

"Zoro, you have to cut this so that we can move him! I can remove the metal at the infirmary! It's keeping the wound closed so that it won't bleed at the moment,"Chopper ordered and Zoro followed the doctor's orders by taking a hold of his most belowed sword, Wado Ichimonji, to cut the metal.

Zoro carried Sanji in his back back to the surface and all the way cross the desert to get him back to their ship to get treated. Everyone else returned back to the ship too because they had no reason to stay in the destroyed building in the middle of the desert.

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At some point of the journey back to the ship, Sanji started to stir. If he could see, he would see green hair and brown sand but he didn't so he couldn't see what the other's imagined he would see.

"He is regaining his conciousness..." Zoro informed Chopper when he felt the man in his back tensing his muscles and relaxing them.

"It's hot..." Sanji complained even though he couldn't hear the other's reaction.

"Is he able to feel?" Chopper blinked and thought of giving the man a proper doze of painkillers in the middle of the desert.

"Usually the people who has fallen victim to my ability regains their senses from one day to month," Sara explained and sighed deeply."It's a relief he is starting to get them back so early."

"Well, whose fault was that?" Zoro hissed at the woman who felt quilty about the events.

"Hey Zoro!" Nami shouted and punched the man even though he was carrying a patient. "Don't be so cruel! It's no wonder if people don't like you if you are like this!"

"Don't mind Kenshi-san," Robin noted,"He is always like this."

I can feel again! I almost thought that my senses would never return! Staying in that state could be dangerous for anyone's mind! You could become insane!

Sanji felt someone tapping his back and he couldn't understand immediately that Chopper was writing letters to his back and trying to communicate with him.

"D-O-Y-O-U-F-E-E-L-A-L-L-R-I-G-H-T?" Chopper wrote the first message and Sanji had to trust his voice to speak out aloud.

"I am just happy to notice that my senses are returning...I feel pretty okay..." Sanji staggered. He wasn't too confident of how his voice sounded.

"Y-O-U-A-R-E-I-N-J-U-R-E-D. C-A-N-'T-Y-O-U-F-E-E-L-A-N-Y-P-A-I-N?" Chopper tapped to his back.

Sanji tried to sense pain but he couldn't."I feel absolutely nothing besides this heat...it's killing me!"

"What does it mean if he can't feel pain?" Nami wondered, directing her question to the small doctor.

"Well, his body might block the pain to protect him or his sense of feeling is somehow limited..." Chopper guessed.

"Actually it might be because of my powers..." Sara admitted when she realised it might have something to do with her ability."When the senses are getting back, they don't work normally for a while so it's not anything unusual..."

"How long does it take for his senses to get back to normal?" Chopper asked a medical guestion.

"I can't be too sure..." Sara sighed."Some people's senses are back to normal inside a week and for some people it could take even months...even though the senses are getting back it doesn't mean they are back to normal immediately..."

Chopper nodded and tried to inform Sanji about what Sara had told him. It was pretty slow to communicate like that but at the moment it was the only way they had.

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Sanji tried to stay concious now when his senses were getting back and he didn't know how badly he was injured. He started to feel pain slowly too and soon every movement he made forced a hiss out of his mouth.

He couldn't have known who had carried him all the way back to the ship if it wasn't for Zoro's muscles which he could feel pressing against his stomach. The swordman had trained well during those two years and his muscles were even more visible than before.

Wait Wait Wait! Am I almost praising his muscles? Hell no!

Sanji felt the matress beneath him and relaxed to the soft feeling. Soon his muscles tensed again, however, when Chopper started to clean his wounds and put on stitches and bandages.

When Chopper finished treating Sanji, the chef was all sweaty and cursing under his breath. He didn't really know if it was a good thing that his senses were getting back after all. His whole body was aching and the bandages were itching his sensitive skin.

Chopper informed Sanji that he would give him some sedative and a small dose of painkillers so that he could get some rest. Sanji just nodded, not bothering to refuse the offer.

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"Dinner is ready!" Nami shouted and everyone rushed in. Of course Luffy would be the first one to take a bite, the selfish and hungry bastard he was.

Everyone started to eat and finish their share of food before the gomu-idiot would steal it. But something weird was going on this time around: Luffy just sat there, chewing his food and then tears started to flood from his eyes.

"Luffy-san! What's wrong?!" Brook inquired in a worried tone.

Luffy tried to swallow down his tears and he gulped hard."MEAT IS NO GOOD!"'

"I AM NOT THAT BAD AT COOKING!" Nami shouted and kicked their captain.

"Ah!" Sara hissed and covered her mouth."It's probably my fault again!"

Nobody expect Robin realised what was wrong with their captain. She chuckled slightly at the thought and looked at their captain with pity."I think this is going to be our captain's hardest struggle this far!"

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Author's note:

If some of you didn't understand the ending, I will explain it in the next chapter! :) Just giving you some space to think on your own! XD I thought that this chapter needed something fun when it was pretty "dark" chapter with Sanji injured :D