So this is my new One Piece fanfic ( Sanji centric again, I am sorry ^^ ). I try not to repeat myself too much in my stories and I am rather worried whether I always write similar stories so it's hard work to try to think for new stories! :D Events occur after Fishman Island ( again...) I am back to writing and I hope to receive feedback again! One Piece belongs to great Eichiroo Oda-sama but the idea in the fanfic is mine! ( For once I remembered to put this here! :_D ) There might be hints of ZoSan but nothing which could be considered as yaoi or boy-love! :D And remember, English is not my native language so there might be mistakes ( bigger or smaller, please bear with them! :D )
And last but not least, I promise to finish this as I have finished my other fanfics! ( My biggest fan is nagging at me everyday and I have to release new chapters fast to stop her complaints! XD )
Sanji thinking
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Everyone felt pretty tired and out of breath after a long battle against some shitty lousy pirates. Luffy was lying on his back on the ground and laughing, Zoro had folded his swords on his lap and was sitting on the deck of their ship Sunny-Go. Robin was helping out Chopper who tried to check on everyone and clean every wound he saw. Nami was looking at their ship, horrified at the mess they had made and Franky had started fixing his masterpiece. Brook was playing few notes with his guitar, as if he was practising how to play it again. Usopp was looking at the sky and wondering how yet another fight had oocured and how they had survived again. Sanji was doing his job as their chef as usual - he had went to prepare meal for the tired and starving pirate crew.
The pirate crew they had fought had been a crew called Grad-something ( nobody had catched the difficult name they had chosen for themselves ). The crew used to think they were immortal and couldn't loose a fight unti they met Strawhat pirates. Well, some of them got bounties ( their captain was worth 237 000 000 berries, their doctor was worth 210 000 000 berries and another members with bounties got bounty around 5 000 000-30 000 000 berries. Their crew was full of members without bounty at all so they a mere "kick-away" as Sanji called them. It hadn't been a fight too difficult for them since all of the Strawhats had gotten stronger past those two years but they had underrestimated their enemy. The fight had last for a long time and everyone had gotten a pretty good work-out session ( expect for Zoro who wanted to go and train weights as soon as he had catched his breath a little ).
Chopper had done checking everyone expect Sanji who had rushed to the kitchen to prepare something nutritious to eat.
"Sanji, I need to check you too!" Chopper announced and looked at their chef seriously.
"Ah, you don't have to worry this time!" Sanji reassured,"Because this time I got trough the fight with just a small cut and I already cleaned and covered it with bandage!"
"Really?! This is rather rare when not even one of us got wounds even near fatal...But still I would like to see the wound! It's my job as a doctor!" Chopper sighed.
"You don't have to worry!" Sanji said and smiled at their blue-nosed doctor.
"Well, if you are sure about that..." Chopper let it slide,"By the way, Luffy asked when the food would be ready?"
Sanji just blinked at the guestion and sighed.
"That greedy bastard...Tell him I will be ready in five minutes!"
"Five minutes only? Really?! You are SUUPEER!" Chopper said and imitated Franky's famous movement and then he rushed off to tell Luffy their chef's message.
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The meal was something everyone had waited for. They needed to get their energy back and head towards new adventures.
"Franky! Is the ship ready to sail?" Nami asked while Luffy tried to steal her food. Luckily, for her but not Luffy, Sanji interrupted him with a kick to his head.
"Some table manners, you gomu-idiot!" Sanji insisted and raged back to the cooking pot to offer more food to the crew.
"The ship is general-okay!" Franky raised a thumb up.
"Okay!" Nami said happily,"Log will set during this night so we have to wait for a while only..."
"Then I want to fill in our food supplies,"Sanji noted with a neutral tone,"It's not like we are short of food but it's better safe than sorry...This is the New World after all..."
"And I would like to get some medical herbs!" Chopper announced,"This island seemed to have lots of various rare herbs which is needed for some basic medicines..."
"Then it's perfect!" Nami realised and started to eat her share before SOMEONE would eat it for her.
"Hey Sanji!" Luffy shouted suddenly,"Make me a pirate-bento! I want to go and have an adventure!"
"NO WAY!" Sanji cursed and kicked the idiot again,"You are just looking for an excuse to eat more! Besides, we can't have you wandering around when we have to leave soon enough!"
"Ah?" Luffy cried out,"No way! Nami, you are on my side, aren't you?!"
"I AM NOT ON YOUR SIDE!" Nami shouted,"You would just get us into more trouble and delay our new adventure!"
"Yeah! Listen to our beautiful navigator-swan, you gomu-idiot!" Sanji said and Luffy looked like he could cry: he looked like a child whose daily candies had been taken away.
"No fair!" Luffy cried out again,"Zoro, you will prepare a pirate-bento for me, won't you?"
Zoro just sighed. He didn't really want to take part in this conversation,"I won't."
"Zoro-san is cruel!" Brook laughed.
"Why not?!" Luffy whined and stared from one face to another. Maybe he was trying to get some sympathy from other members.
"Because I WOULDN' LET ONE MARIMO DESTROY MY KITCHEN!" Sanji hissed and kicked Luffy the third time during one meal. Well, he wasn't even close to breaking his record.
"WHAT WAS THAT, YOU ERO-COOK?!" Zoro shouted back and stood up.
"YOU WANT TO FIGHT?! BRING IT ON!" Sanji yelled and gestured himself but Franky interrupted their intentions.
"I don't want to fix Sunny-Go again so if you want to fight, get away from Sunny!"
Sanji and Zoro stared at each other like angry wild animals but finally they both sat down. Neither of them looked at each other and the rest of the meal went calmly. Everyone was pretty tired and wanted to go to sleep as soon as possible but first off they got to fill in their food supplies and look for medical herbs for Chopper.
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"Okay! So Sanji, Franky and Usopp, you go and find us some food supplies!" Nami ordered.
"With pleasure!" Sanji shouted happily.
"Why can't I go, Nami?!" Luffy complained. He wanted to have his adventure after all.
"No way! You would only end up eating our food supplies before they reach Sunny-Go!" Nami stated and Luffy had no other choice but to admit his destiny.
Even though he is our captain...that feminine power!
"Then Chopper, Zoro and Robin will go and pick those medical herbs our doctor needs!" Nami suggested.
"You are letting Zoro go?!" Luffy pointed,"No fair! What if he gets lost?!"
"Luffy. I. Do. Not. Get. Lost." Zoro stated.
"Stop arguing!" Nami hissed,"I trust Robin and even though he would get lost, Chopper is there to sniff him out!"
Their small doctor felt praised for a while but then the realisation hit him, " I AM REINDEER, NOT SOME DOG!"
"DON'T SPEAK TO OUR NAMI-SAN LIKE THAT, YOU SHITTY REINDEER!" Sanji ordered but he couldn't bring himself to kick the small doctor.
The trios were sent off to fullfill their assignments. Sanji made sure they picked up enough meat because certain someone used to destroy their mountains of meat in no time. Usopp picked up some berries, fruits and etc and Franky concentrated on carrying all the food. Meanwhile Chopper tried to concentrate on picking herbs but his focus was somewhere else when Zoro dissapeared to the forest all the time and when the small doctor and their archeologist got tired of babysitting one green-haired man, Robin tied him up to a near-by tree.
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It was already getting dark when everyone returned back to the ship. Luckily they had managed to find what they needed but their captain had gotten bored while waiting for others to arrive back to the ship.
"Nami is boring!" Luffy complained and met Sanji's anger again.
"An idiot like you could not possibly understand feminine charm!" Sanji cursed.
Sanji started to prepare an evening snack for everyone since they had found fresh ingredients. Luffy was constantly asking when he would be ready but Sanji always kicked him out of the kitchen.
I need some peace and quiet to prepare food, you gomu-idiot!
Finally the evening snack was ready and Sanji called for everyone to enter the kitchen.
"Eh? Where is Nami-san?" Sanji wondered when everyone else had gathered to the kitchen.
"She said she was not feeling too well so she went to bed early,"Robin informed and glanced at Chopper.
"I will check her after the meal!" Chopper reassured and everyone started to eat.
"Could you ask her if she would like something to eat, too?" Sanji suggested and Chopper nodded.
I don't want to disturb Nami-san if she is not feeling well...even though even sick Nami-san is gorgeous!
Chopper checked on Nami and he suspected some sort of poisoning. When he said about his suspicion to Sanji, he gazed at the small doctor in front of him.
"Could it be food poisoning?" Sanji asked seriously. It was his job as their chef to take care of their crew and not give them bad food.
"It could be but I don't think that's the case so don't worry about it too much..." Chopper tried to reassure their chef because he knew how serious he was about his job,"Ah yes, Nami said she would like something with neutral taste in it..."
"Okay, I will prepare some simple porridge for her!" Sanji informed and went to the kitchen.
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During the same evening, three other members fell ill as well. Soon after the evening snack Usopp threw up ( to Franky's delight he managed to throw up to the sea, not on Sunny's deck ) and finishing checking Usopp, Chopper felt a little sick too put it was nothing serious ( he doubted he could be suffering from sympathy-sickness: when someone close to him is suffering, he feels the same as them ). Then even Brook fell sick but nobody could tell it since Brook was a skeleton and he didn't chance colour to green. Brook didn't throw up but Luffy thought that if Brook could eat and poop then he could also throw up.
Chopper decided to run some basic tests to Nami, Usopp and to himself. He couldn't test Brook because well, how could you take a blood sample from a skeleton? He thought and somehow hoped it would be just some normal food poisoning or some normal influenza but he should wait until the test results.
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Author's note:
I know this pick up meat is a bad choice of words but I couldn't come up with some other explanation :D Because well, they are not picking up meat like it would be growing in the trees but they have to hunt animals to get the meat :_D