Aye, heads-up, next week (and forevermore) shall be a Tuesday update.
Needless to say, the crew was torn about where Luffy should sleep.
"I'm fine with Luffy staying with us," Usopp said, shrugging. He glanced around at the others. "You guys okay with it?"
"I mean . . . yeah, why not?" Franky said, shrugging.
"There's nothing physically preventing it," Zoro pointed out.
"Physically is the problem!" Sanji exclaimed.
Usopp gave him a strange look. "What is even the issue here? Luffy's not asking for privacy from men like Nami and Robin, right Luffy?"
Luffy made an uncomfortable face at Sanji and Brook and shuffled away from them. "Maybe I should stay with you two tonight," she mumbled to Nami and Robin.
"Wow, look what you've done, guys," Zoro said, rolling his eyes. "Now our captain doesn't even want to be in the same room as you. And you call yourselves gentlemen?"
"How dare you!" Sanji hissed. "It only goes to show that real ladies should not want to sleep even in the same room as men, unless of course they're marri—"
Suddenly he was gone. The others blinked and looked around for him until he came crashing facedown on the deck from far up in the sky, red marks all over his head.
They turned to Nami and Luffy. Nami's fist and Luffy's foot were steaming.
"Oh," Luffy said in surprise. "Sorry, I just . . ."
"Got tired of his bullshit?" Zoro completed.
Luffy nodded and slowly lowered her leg. "Anyway, can I sleep in your room tonight?" she asked the girls, and they nodded.
"Why anyone would want to sleep in the same room as him is beyond me," Nami muttered, glaring at Sanji, whose face was still nicely embedded into the lawn.
Usopp looked at the cook thoughtfully. "If we removed that section of grass and lifted it from his face, it would make a nice face mold . . ."
"Oh, yeah, then we can make clay cook faces and draw weird things on them," Zoro added.
"I'll prepare the clay," Franky offered. Then he blinked. "Wait, we don't want to mess up the grass . . ."
"His face has already messed it up," Robin pointed out.
"Is he okay?" Chopper asked quietly. Sanji still had not moved.
"He'll be fine," Nami said dismissively. "Luffy, come on, let's figure out where you'll sleep."
"G'night," Luffy said cheerfully. She and the girls headed to the women's quarters.
The guys glanced at Sanji.
"He's on watch tonight anyway, isn't he?" Brook said.
"Yeah, true," Usopp said, nodding. "Well, let's go."
"Guys," Chopper exclaimed indignantly, but they were already heading inside.
"Alright, sleepover!" Luffy exclaimed delightedly, running into the room and flopping belly-first onto Nami's bed.
"Hold it," Nami snapped, seizing the back of Luffy's neck and lifting her off the bed like a puppy. "You stay here, you act like a lady, got it?"
Luffy frowned. "Look, if you're gonna keep calling me a girl . . ."
"Yeah?"
"And I act like I usually do . . ."
"Yeah?"
"Then aren't I acting like a lady?"
Robin smiled. "That's a good point."
Nami groaned. "That is not how ladies act!"
"You sound like Sanji," Luffy mumbled. "And I'm not a lady."
"You do sound like him," Robin murmured.
Nami flushed and dropped Luffy to the ground. "Sorry."
"So where'm I gonna sleep?" Luffy said, picking herself up.
"I was wondering about that," Nami remarked, glancing around. "Seeing as there are only two beds . . ."
"Blankets on the ground?" Luffy suggested. "I've done it before."
"You could sleep in my bed," Robin offered.
Nami and Luffy looked at her in surprise.
"But where would you sleep?" Luffy asked.
"I meant we can sleep in the same bed."
"Robin!" Nami exclaimed, shocked.
"Oh, okay," Luffy said. "Wow, thanks!"
"No problem," Robin said calmly. "Nami, is something wrong?"
Nami seemed to have lost her words and gestured in mute outrage to Robin, Luffy, and the bed in question.
"We'll just be sleeping next to each other," Robin said. "And as long as neither of us tries anything, there's no problem."
Nami gestured to Luffy and Robin gave her a look. "Do you really think Luffy would do something like that?"
Nami huffed indignantly. "Fine," she said at last. "Do what you like."
"Do something like what?" Luffy asked.
"Don't worry about it," Robin said reassuringly. "Come on, it's bedtime."
Luffy kicked off her sandals and jumped onto Robin's bed, wiggling under the covers on the far side. "I'll try not to bother you," she promised cheerfully. "G'night!"
And she was out like a light. Within a minute the snoring came.
Nami gave Robin a pointed glare. "Think you can put up with that?"
"We're all in the same room, so you'd have to put up with it, too," Robin said. She sprouted a phantom hand near Luffy and turned her captain over so she lay on her side. The snoring ceased.
"See, it's easy to take care of," Robin said with a smile. "Anyway, goodnight."
"G'night," Nami muttered, stepping out of her shoes and getting into bed. Robin did the same, lying so there was a bit of space between her and Luffy. They fell asleep soon.