The scene takes place after the Straw Hats have defeated Duval who was in fact an enemy from Zoro's bounty hunter past.

They are now heading to the Merman Island which is a little further from where they are now.

"Ah, I already miss Caimie. She was such a cutie." Sanji said. "Nami-swan, want a tea?"

"Tea, tea, tea!" Luffy caught the teapot with his rubber hand and swallowed the whole of it.

"Luffy, I'm gonna kill you!"

"Take it easy, love cook" Zoro said, waking up from a nap because of the noisy atmosphere. "Oi Luffy, is it morning already?"

Before he could get an answer from Luffy, he was violently punched by Nami.

"It's afternoon, you've slept the whole day!"

Nami sat beside him and asked "This Duval guy, you made him a scar in the back in the past, right?"

Zoro nodded. He answered:

"Actually, I don't like to make scars in the back. But this one was such an asshole. He was a bandit who wanted to kill a woman who did nothing at all.."

"So you finally care about ladies, marimo?" Sanji was back there, followed by a beaten-up Luffy.

"Shut up, love cook!"

But Sanji had already left, seeing Robin who sat a her usual place and opened a book.

"Want a tea, Robin-chwan?"

"This love cook, what a stupid moron!" Zoro grinned.

"You're a bit of a moron too" Nami said. "Why are you always so rude?"

"Who cares about that?"

"Hey everyone, I see something!" Ussop shouted from the mast. "It's a drifting boat! It's coming toward us!"

"Is there someone inside?" Franky asked, drinking a bottle of cola.

"Yes, there's a boy inside. He seems inconscious."

"You sure he's not dead?" Brooke asked. "Oh, I'm the one who's dead! Yohohohoho!"

"I'm gonna take him!" Luffy said.

"You stupid, you can't swim" Zoro and Sanji said in a same voice.

"You dumbass, stop copying me! Marimo head!" he kicked Zoro's cheek.

"You're the one who's copying me!" Zoro answered, pulling out his sword. "Wanna fight?"

But before they could fight, Nami punched both of them.

"Stop it, will you? Don't you see we already have a lot of trouble?"

Luffy smiled.

"Gomu gomu no... ROCKET!"

He caught the boy with his arm and brought him back to the Thousand Sunny.

He was a short and skinny boy who looked a little younger than Luffy. His hair and eyes were brown.

Luffy slapped him awake.

"Hey you, what's your name?" he asked.

"My name.. hey, where am I?"

"You're on the Thousand Sunny" Luffy answered. "I'm the captain of the Straw Hats"

"And my name is.. Captain... Ussop!" our long-nose friend said. "And I've got 8000 men by my.."

But the boy wasn't listening to Ussop at all. He was staring at Sanji, then said, blushing a little:

"You're Sanji from the Baratie, right?"

Sanji, raised his eyebrow, a little surprised.

"Yeah I am, you know this place?"

"I went there once. I can remember cause you were fighting pretty violently with a client"

Sanji smiled.

"But your meal was delicious."

"Oh thanks" Sanji replied. "Want to have a taste of my new home-made soup?"

And he ran to the kitchen witha enthusiastic look on his face.

"Isn't he only that gentle with girls?" Nami murmured to Zoro

"Maybe fuzzy-eyebrows loves guys too."

"By the way, aren't you hurt?" Robin said. "We have a doctor on this ship, you should go and see him."

"No, thanks."the boy answered. "I'm fine."

Sanji came back with a bowl of soup. The boy ate it and thanked Sanji.

"Oh, I had almost forgotten. My name's Natsume."