Ah! I can't believe no one's called me out on mixing up the fore and aft decks of the Sunny! And I really can't believe I didn't even notice until now! Sorry! I've put it right in this one, though, sorry again.

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece

Warnings: Mild Language.

Everyone but Sanji and Robin had cleared out of the kitchen by the time I had returned with Nami, dressed again in my dark green sweater, jeans and running shoes. Nami, wearing a pair of soft blue pants and a white turtleneck shirt, had given my clothing ensemble a curious look but didn't comment on it, apparently chalking it up to my weird, 'otherworldly' behavior. I didn't see the difference between her clothing and mine, but obviously I was missing something.

Sanji looked up from the counter as we came back into the kitchen. "Would you ladies care for something warm to drink?" he asked. "The temperature is still a little below normal right now, after all."

"No," Nami waved him away without looking at him and continued through the kitchen to the other side, snatching a piece of paper from the wall and tucking it into her pocket. I wondered about the action but shrugged it off and turned to Sanji instead as Nami spun on her heel and walked back toward the door we had just come through.

"Still full from breakfast," I explained to the cook with a smile. "But thanks." I moved to follow the redhead when Robin, reading a book at the newly-cleaned table, raised her eyes with a frown.

"Be careful, Miss Renna," she said mildly. "This is not the same as the Grand Line you saw the last time."

"Yeah," I agreed. "I was afraid of that." I shot her a nervous grin. "I'll do my best." Even more wary than I was before, I hurried after Nami, out onto the upper walking deck of the Sunny. This was going to be dangerous, I thought. But I had survived it once, barely, and I would just have to manage not to die before I found my way back home again. Staying as close as possible to the strongest members of this crew was my best bet.

Luffy was chatting with Franky at the bottom of the stairs and looked up with a wide smile when we walked down to meet him. "Ready?" he asked.

"As I'll ever be," I sighed.

"Good," Luffy walked across the grass and flipped back a hidden hatch, revealing a round hole in the deck. "Let's go. I wanna show you something." He hopped through it and out of sight.

Nami moved with me and looked down into the opening as we approached. "Have you mastered ladders yet?" she smirked, clearly remembering my last experience with trying to climb down the side of the Merry.

"Yeah," I laughed. "I think I've got it." Grateful for the time I had spent on my new exercise regime, I lowered myself onto the wooden ladder and followed the captain below deck.

I made it to the second-to-last step before my foot slipped and I had to grip the rung above me to keep from falling. Letting myself drop the rest of the way onto a small platform, an entire ten inches or so, I heard Luffy snickering behind me. Turning to ask him what was so funny I stopped myself mid-sentence. I was standing on a round turn-table, with thick pegs sticking out from the sides. He wanted to show me the Soldier Dock System?

I hopped down and listened to Luffy yammer on excitedly about the paddles and boats, pretending to be impressed. I had seen them at work several times before, but the captain must have forgotten this, or simply not considered it. He even turned the table to raise the metal doors to show me Franky's creations first-hand, and I found I actually was a little impressed by the machines.

Then we climbed back up to the deck, and it was on to the rest of the ship. The library, the bathhouse, Ussop's work room, Chopper's examining room, the aquarium room, the bunks, and finally back to the deck. I kept my grumbling to myself as much as I could. Why the hell were there so many damn ladders on this ship?

Luffy had continued an ongoing stream of commentary the entire time, and I was beginning to feel a little dizzy from all the chatter. To distract myself, I looked at the slide on the other side of the deck, across from the stairs, then over to the wooden swing hanging a few feet away from us. I smiled. It was just so 'Luffy'.

"Isn't it cool?" Luffy asked me, finally pausing to take a breath.

"Yes, it is," I nodded to him. I lifted my gaze to the observation room at the top of the second mast. It was the only place we hadn't been yet, and I was grateful for that. Unfortunately Luffy noticed where I was looking and gave a wicked grin.

"Wanna?" he asked.

"No," I said firmly. "Besides, Zoro's probably sleeping up there anyway. Let's go back to the aquarium room. That place is amazing."

"Alright," Luffy agreed. "The top room, then the aquarium."

"I don't really-" I started. Luffy grabbed me around the waist and stretched his other arm all the way up to the ropes below the observation room. We shot from the deck like a rocket and he put one foot out to stop us as I grabbed onto yet another ladder that had appeared in front of me. Luffy landed on the rung under me and gripped the ladder on either side, effectively trapping me in place.

"-like heights," I finished, flattening myself against the wood of the rungs. I whipped my head around and glared at Luffy over my shoulder. Evil brat. "Why do you even ask if you're just going to do it anyway?"

Luffy gave me a grin and a nudge, and I had no choice but to climb even higher to the door above us. He reached past me to push it open and I hauled myself through.

I sat on the floor as Luffy climbed up after me, looking around the circular room. It was…messy. Of course, what else would I expect of the domain belonging to the irritating swordsman known as Roronoa Zoro? Weights and towels littered the floor and shelves in no particular order. The telescopes were turned to unusable angles and the windows looked like they had dirt streaks all over them. Moving my gaze a little further along the bench I noticed I was right about my earlier observation.

Zoro was laying on his back on the bench, one arm folded behind his head and snoring lightly. Great, I thought sourly. The last thing I wanted to deal with right now was accidentally waking a sleeping demon.

Luffy didn't seem to care as he landed on the floor next to me. "Look out the window," he said in a very much not inside voice. "You can see a lot from up here." He bounded over to the bench and plopped down next to Zoro's head, pressing his face against the glass. The swordsman didn't even twitch.

"A lot of what?" I asked, joining him a second later but moving much more slowly. Even from the safety of the other side of the glass, we were still too far up for my comfort level. "Ocean?"

Luffy didn't answer, his grin fading for a moment before returning at full force. "Hey, look!" he shouted happily, bounding from the bench again and running over to one of the telescopes. He turned it to face the right direction and looked through it. "I see…yep! That's it!"

"What?" I asked, curious despite my fear of heights. "What is it?"

Luffy shot a grin my way before spinning around and leaping through the hole in the floor. "An island!" he crowed as he disappeared.

"Luffy, wait!" I ran to the door and grabbed the top of the ladder, leaning down to call to the captain. "Don't just leave me up here!" When Luffy didn't answer, I ignored my pounding heart and chanced lowering myself a little more, kneeling on the floor and tightening my grip, until my head was all the way through the door.

"Hey," the rumbling voice from behind me nearly scared me out of my skin.

I whipped around to see Zoro still laying on the bench in the same pose, eyes closed. It looked like he hadn't moved a muscle, but obviously he hadn't actually been sleeping. "What?"

"Don't get over-confident," he warned, not opening his eye. "A fall like that might not effect Luffy much, but you'll definitely feel it."

"I'm careful," I scowled at him, although I knew he couldn't even see me. "I wont fall."

Zoro gave a quiet snort. "You could fall off a chair while tied to it," he scoffed. "Just get away from the door. I'm too tired to jump after you of you go through."

"Not much of a morning person, are you?" I glowered at him but stood from the opening in the floor and moved toward the telescope Luffy had been using instead.

An island? Already? I scanned the horizon carefully. It took another moment but eventually I saw what had made the captain leave the observation room so quickly. A tiny dot stuck out between sky and ocean, the waves cresting in high white peaks around it. I was still far in the distance, although with the speed the Sunny was capable of traveling I figured it wouldn't be too long before the landmass was fully in view. "Well, crap," I muttered. I turned back to the swordsman. "Zoro."

He grumbled an inaudible response and moved his arm over his face.

"I want to go back down to the deck," I told him.

"So?"

"So," I bit out, stomping down my own pride to ask, "can you take me?"

"After my nap," he rumbled.

I stared at him before shouting, "After your-! Why after?" I had been in the same room with the man for less than five minutes and I already wanted to kick him. Hard. I thought vaguely that if I could have lifted one of those big weights I would have dropped it on his head, since there wasn't much to damage there anyway. As it was, all I could really do was glare angrily at him, and he wasn't even paying attention, the bastard.

Zoro growled in annoyance and turned on his side, facing the back of the bench. "It's either that," he said, "or wait for Luffy to remember he left you up here."

I stomped to the other side of the room and back again, trying to think about anything other than how far from the safety of the deck I was at the moment. I was hit with an idea and rounded on Zoro again. "Where's that speaker thing?" I demanded. If I could get the captain to come back up, I could get out of here as soon as possible.

"It's broken," Zoro said. "Dropped a weight on it yesterday."

"Gah!" I threw my hands up in the air and walked off again, carefully avoiding the hole in the floor and managing to keep myself from looking out the windows too much. How many things could possibly go wrong in such a short amount of time? Returning to the bench I glared down at the side of the muscle man's head. "Why would you do that?" I shouted.

"Renna," Zoro growled slowly, "if you don't stop waking me up ever three seconds I'm going to toss you overboard."

I stomped over to the bench and sat down by his head with a huff, folding my arms angrily. "Fine," I snapped. "And since when do you call me that, anyway?" Come to think of it, he had said it this morning, too.

Zoro grumbled again and rolled onto his back. "Jeez, woman," he scowled. "What the hell do you want? I call you that because it's your name. Be. Quiet." He sighed loudly and put his arm back over his face.

I sat back, still pissed but trying to control it as best I could, and attempted to keep myself occupied by looking around the room again. I was usually a fairly patient person, but after about fifteen minutes of doing absolutely nothing I couldn't help it. "This is boring."

"That's it!" Zoro rolled from the bench and replaced his katana in one swift movement. Picking me up in one arm he strode across the room and stepped through the horizontal door, beginning a terrifying freefall toward the deck with me clinging to his front and shrieking as we descended.

"Zoro!" I screamed. "You crazy bastard! What the hell are you doing? Are you insane? We're going to die!"

Zoro caught the rigging of the sails and jumped from one rope to the other with apparent ease, completely ignoring my furious ranting. "You said you wanted to go back to the deck," he grinned, clearly enjoying scaring the daylights out of me.

I closed my eyes and held on until I felt his feet hit the grass. Cracking them open again I noticed he was still grinning. The cave man was going to pay for that, I vowed silently. One way or another. Zoro set me down on my unsteady feet as Sanji came bolting into view from the wheel of the Sunny and ran to the railing of the fore deck.

"What's going on?" he yelled.

Zoro didn't answer the cook, looking down at me. "You can let go now," he pointed out.

I slowly unhooked my clawed fingers from the front of his robe-like clothing and pushed him as hard as I could, which still didn't do much. "What's the matter with you?" I shouted. "You couldn't warn me first?"

"I assumed you were expecting it," Zoro shrugged casually. "Since you're the one who asked me to bring you back."

"Not like that!" I was starting to get over the shock of the fall but I was still furious with him. "Can't you use ladders like everyone else?" I purposely didn't mention that Luffy hadn't really been making much use of the ladders, either.

The swordsman stepped back and shook his head. "You've already been spending too much time with Nami," he frowned. "Have a little faith, would you?"

At the mention of the navigator I suddenly remembered the white waves around the island I had seen earlier and stopped myself mid-insult. I couldn't claim to know much about nautical navigation, but judging from what I had seen from this show, waves like that could only mean one of two possibilities. While the first was quite harmless, the other could cause a severe problem for the ship. And with the luck of this crew so far, I was betting it was the latter.

"What?" Sanji shouted from the upper deck at Zoro's comment. "What's that supposed to mean, moss head? Nami is a perfect example of how a lady should behave. And what did you do to Renna, you barbarian?"

"I'm fine," I called up to him. "No harm done."

Zoro looked at me in surprise but I ignored him and walked off to the stairs on the other side of the deck in the direction of the cabin. If Sanji wanted to yell at the annoying moron I wasn't about to stop him, but I no longer felt the need. As unconventional as his methods were, Zoro had in fact done as I asked, and that was enough for now.

"Don't go too far, Renna dear," Sanji called from behind me. "We'll be landing in less than an hour."

"I know," I waved back to her over my shoulder, not wanting to raise a false alarm. "I just have to talk Nami. I'll be right back." I ran up the stairs of the aft deck, headed for the library. I hoped I was wrong about those waves.