Hello everyone! This is Izumi, with a new idea for a series of One-Shot drabbles concerning our favorite pirate crew! Yay!

Actually, this project may end in total failure if I publish out some drabbles that are crappy, but I have faith in myself!

This idea was inspired by dandy wonderous; one of my favorite authors here on FF! I had been reading dandy's ongoing One Piece story called "Specks of Seafoam", which is a collection of drabbles concerning the Mugiwara crew. It quite blew me away! I loved it! In fact, after you're all done here, you should go read it! It WILL make you laugh and possibly even cry from laughing and sweetness! Anyway, it made me think of a few little drabble-ish ideas I had for One Piece, and so I decided to publish a little ongoing collection myself!

I can't guarantee the quickness of updates. It'll vary depending on how many ideas I get, and when I feel up to writing them! XP So, bear with me!

So, I hope you all enjoy these short little tales! Reviewing is awesome! :)

Tale #1: "Life Jacket"

Starring: The whole crew!

Summary: The only downfall of the Devil Fruit was something that got in the way a LOT for the StrawHat crew. Taking this problem onto themselves, the Mugiwara crew becomes problem solvers!

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The water lulled calmly underneath the Thousand Sunny as, unbeknownst to the peaceful waters, a battled raged on the ship's deck.

"This happens almost every freakin' week," Zoro thought heatedly as he slashed effortlessly through some of the bounty hunters that surrounded him, moving on to help Chopper with the group that surrounded him, "Some group of freelance bounty hunters trying to make their name in world happen upon our ship and decide to attack," He scoffed as he took down one from behind who must've thought he was being sneaky, "It wouldn't be so bad if they all weren't so weak…"

"T-Thanks Zoro," Chopper said breathlessly, turning back into Brain Point and falling to his rear, panting, "T-These guys… J-Just don't stop…"

"Yeah, I know," Zoro said, looking around and taking out the occasional bounty hunter, "Where the hell are they all coming from?"

"Joue Shoot!" Sanji sent the last one around him flying off the deck and into the water. He took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it in aggravation, "Shitty bastards…" He mumbled. He turned to Zoro and Chopper, "You all done over there?"

"Yeah, they don't seem to be coming anymore," Zoro noted, taking Wadou out of his mouth and looking around, "In fact, I think the only one still fighting is Luf-"

"Luffy!!" A scream from Usopp and a loud splash of water was all Zoro needed to hear before he rocketed off to the Sunny's railing, shoving his swords back into their sheaths.

"Damn it!!" He cursed before plunging into the water, a motion which was getting to be almost mechanical. He swore he could swim even unconscious now for all the times he had dived into the sea to save his Captain.

He resurfaced only moments later, hanging on to Luffy's limp noodle-like form. Robin had extended down a rope of arms for them to climb up on as he swam to the side of the ship. Zoro let Luffy fall to the grassy deck with a thud. The boy spewed a fountain of water out from his mouth as he panted heavily.

"T-Tat… Was…Cwose…" He said after he was sure he had spit all the water out.

"Idiot…" Zoro grumbled as he caught his breath. Looking around the ship, he saw the rest of the crew hovering around them, but couldn't see the leader of the bounty hunters that Luffy had previously been fighting. In fact, he couldn't even see their ship. They probably ran off with their tails between their legs after the crew had undoubtedly beaten the crap out of their leader for throwing Luffy in the water.

Nami let out a sharp sigh, putting a hand to her temple, "Seriously, Luffy! Can't we go through ONE battle with anyone without having to save your hammer ass?"

"Sorry," Luffy said childishly, "It's not like I can control it."

"You could try to keep your feet on the deck where they belong," Sanji said, tossing the Captain his trademark hat. Luffy smiled happily and gladly shoved his most prized possession on his head.

"You DO tend to space out during unimportant fights like this," Usopp muttered, putting a hand up to his chin in thought.

"Zoro," Chopper suddenly ran over to the man, tugging at his arm, "Come with me. We need to get you into dry clothes."

Zoro pulled away, looking annoyed as usual, "I can do that myself Chopper, and it's no big deal anyway. I'll dry off."

"No," The doctor insisted, "You've been in the water a lot lately, and I have to be with you to make sure you ACTUALLY change into clean clothes!"

"Why would I-" Zoro started, but then stopped, thinking that he probably would just end up taking a nap in the men's quarters instead of following Chopper's instructions. He did that a lot. The swordsman let out some breath in a huff, "Fine."

He stood up and started walking to the men's quarters, with Chopper close at his heels, asking him if he felt unusually cold or if he had shivers. Zoro denied everything like usual.

"Sanji!!" Luffy said suddenly. The cook's curly eyebrow rose a little as he looked at his Captain, "Let's have dinner! With lots of meat!!"

Sanji took his cigarette out of his mouth and sighed. Eating was all he ever talked about, "Alright. I'll get started," The cook walked into the kitchen to prepare the crew's dinner.

"Luffy!" He turned around just in time to be thwacked in the head by Nami.

"Oww!" He grabbed his head and then shot up to half-glare at her, "What was that for, Nami??"

"This is serious!!" She put her hands on her hips and started right back down at him, "I don't even know how many times you've fallen into the ocean this week!"

"I believe now the number is up to six times, Miss Navigator," Robin interjected calmly from the side.

"Six times!!" Nami threw her hands up in the air, "What the hell are you thinking??"

The boy shrugged, "I dunno," He then smiled, "I just have so much fun that some of my attacks sometimes miss and I fly overboard!"

Nami grabbed his cheek, "How is that something to be smiling about??"

"O-Ow! I'm sorry!" He rubbed his cheek after she let go. Why was Nami being so violent today?

"And then when he falls into the water, one of us ends up having to jump in to save him," Franky said, crossing his arms.

"Usually Zoro," Usopp noted.

CRAAASH!!!

The crew jumped up in alarm when they heard something hard make contact with the Sunny. They turned their heads to the quarters, where the loud sound had come from, staring in silence until their heard another sound.

"What the hell, Chopper?!?!" Zoro's muffled but still plenty loud voice rang out from the inside of the men's quarters, "What are-"

"Sounded like he just got his face shoved into the floor…" Franky muttered in almost an anxious tone.

Seconds later, the door was flung open and Zoro dashed out of the men's quarters like his life depended on it. However, it wasn't long until Chopper followed him out: "Heavy Point!!"

"Oh Cra-" Zoro started before he was pummeled to the ground, trying to lift his head up from the Sunny's deck after a few moments so he could breathe, "Chopper, come on!! I'm not-"

"I heard it!!" The doctor protested, tightening his hold on the swordsman, "I knew you were out in the water too much!!"

"It was just a sneeze!!" Zoro yelled slowly and succinctly.

Robin suddenly started to giggled, drawing the attention of everyone, including one pissed off look from Zoro, "Doctor-san, it seems like there's been a misunderstanding. We were talking about Swordsman-san, so that is most likely the cause of his sneeze."

"Huh?" Chopper looked up as if lost for a moment, but then immediately jumped off of Zoro, returning to Brain Point. He rubbed the back of his head nervously, "S-Sorry Zoro."

Zoro mumbled something incomprehensible as he stood up, rubbing his head, "Thanks, Robin," He looked up at her, "Few more seconds and he would've crushed my freakin' lung. That was a life saver…"

"That's it!!" Usopp yelled all of a sudden, making the crew jump for a second time.

"What's it, Usopp?" Nami asked from the side.

"I've got a way to make sure that Luffy doesn't sink!!"

At this, the whole crew looked at him curiously. He continued, "Yosh! This will definitely work!"

"Oi, guys," Sanji's voice was heard from the galley as he walked out holding an oddly-shaped orange object. He held it up as he walked up to them, "What the hell is this? I found it while I was going through bags of things we got while shopping the other day."

"Ah! That's it!" Usopp quickly snatched the strange orange thing from Sanji's grasp, holding it up like it was a holy cross.

"What IS it?" Franky asked.

"I bought it when we were at the last island!" Usopp announced, "I'd never seen one before, and I bought it because of the material it was made of; thought I might be able to make something from it," He tapped the side of his head quickly, "When Zoro said something about a 'life saver', I remembered it! The shopkeeper called it a 'Life Jacket!!'"

"Life Jacket?" The whole crew, savor Robin who had already heard of them, seemed to say at once.

Usopp nodded, "You put it on, like this," He demonstrated by slipping the orange vest over his shirt, buckling it together, "And while you're wearing it, you'll float when you're in the water!"

Everyone looked fascinated by this; especially Luffy, "Sugoooiii!! So it's like a Mystery Jacket!!" He exclaimed with a sparkle in his eye.

"How is it a Mystery Jacket if we know what it does, you idiot?" Sanji snapped.

"Well, does it work on even people with Devil Fruit powers?" Nami asked skeptically.

"I don't see why it shouldn't!" Usopp said.

"Let's try it out!" Chopper advised excitedly.

"Alright," Nami nodded, "Luffy, put the Life Jacket on."

"Woohooo!!" Luffy threw his fists in the air as Usopp handed him the vest. He had it on in a matter of seconds, "Whoooa, I feel like a marshmallow!!" His eyes suddenly widened as if he had an epiphany. A drop of drool started to run out the side of his mouth.

Zoro and Sanji punched him in the back of the head before he could even move, "Don't even think about eating the freakin' jacket, you idiot!!!"

"Okay guys, let's do this," Usopp said seriously. The crew clamored by the railing as Luffy hoisted himself up on it.

"I already don't like this…" Zoro muttered, crossing his arms.

"It's alright," Nami waved off his apprehensiveness, "If he ends up sinking, we can go save him."

"By 'we', you mean me, don't you?" His gaze narrowed.

"Yup!" She smiled merrily back at him before turning her attention back to Luffy, who looked as excited as a little kid who was about to be given chocolate.

Usopp sucked in a breath of air, "You ready Luffy?"

He nodded, suddenly serious, "Yosh."

The crew watched nervously as he launched himself off the railing off the Sunny and flew down to the water. Was he actually going to float?! Could this really be the answer to all of their problems?!? Every pair of eyes was on Luffy as he hit the surface of the water…

BOOOM!!!

"HOLY SHI-" Sanji yelled, letting the cigarette fall out of his mouth as he and the rest of the crew watched a giant hose of water shoot Luffy up a hundred feet in the air the second he touched the surface of the water.

"AAAAAAAAH!!!!" Luffy flailed around furiously as he began to fall back down to earth, stretching out his arms and winding them around the mast of the sunny. He pulled himself over there rapidly, clinging to the mast with wide eyes and a thudding heart.

"What the hell happened to the Life Jacket?!?" Usopp yelled, leaning over the railing and letting his mouth fall open as he saw what looked like a flurry of orange snow falling into the ocean.

The StrawHats all allowed for their mouths to fall open as they saw what was left of the item fall into the ocean.

"T-The sea… Shredded it…" Zoro stammered unbelievingly.

"Usopp," Luffy said, still looking out onto the sea with a panicky expression, "That's not a Life Jacket. That's a Death Jacket."

Author's Note:

The idea for this one solely came from the question: "What would happen if Luffy wore a Life Jacket??"

I figured that they had all never heard of a Life Jacket before when it was brought up. XD And as for the sea's violent destruction of the poor orange thing, I thought that would be fitting for a Devil Fruit user: they can't swim, and if they use a Life Jacket, the sea blows them up and minces the jacket.

R&R please! I'll try and respond to all of your reviews- much like dandy wonderous does, but I may not get to all of them if I get more than expected. XP

Hope you enjoyed this little Mugiwara shenanigan! I'll put more up soon!