#A moment of silence for Zoro who saved Luffy from incurring a lifetime of debt

[strawhatluffy01]

The jab at his chest was enough to pull Luffy from his visualizations of flying drumsticks, his arm rising to briskly wipe at the edges of his mouth.

"Huh. Apologize to food, as if Nami, that would be dumb."

It was one thing to apologize to her, since she did entrust them with safeguarding the gaudy-looking chest, and they did kind of fail at that, badly, but the Jura Raptors hardly deserved the same consideration. It was almost like Nami didn't listen to his retelling of the incident at all. How could it be his fault if the birds were the ones who high-jacked the treasure the Straw Hats stole first? If anything, they were the ones in the wrong and had to say sorry to the crew-

-then jump right into Sanji's pot so he could kook 'em good.

A palm bent down to pat at his stomach who was in agreement, totally ignorant of the red-head's dangerous aura, or the tick pulsing along her forehead. When Zoro's sleepy baritone added his two scents from where he lay propped up in the hallway, Luffy paused, then straightened from his slump with a laugh. "Oh....Yeah! Shihi! Good thinking Zoro!" His palm left his stomach to knock against the surface of the table instead, causing Nami's ink pots to shudder and quake dangerously. "It's been days, the log post had to pick out a good island by now! How much longer Nami! Are we close yet?"

@tangerine-tales @thegreatestswordsman-zoro

tangerine-tales:

"Luffy, for the last time, we cannot afford to buy meat right now—because SOMEONE thought it was a great idea to lose all our treasure on the last island! Care to explain how you managed to do that, Captain?"

Black eyes blinked at the navigator, once, twice; fully expecting her to just give in and add the extra supplies to their list like he wanted her to. When the wrinkles between her brows didn’t even out into acceptance, no matter how long he stared, he grumbled (or maybe it was just the pitiful wallow of his empty stomach) lip jutting out.

“But, Nami! I said I was sorry!”

If only it wasn’t so typical of her to still be mad over something that happened days ago- mad and stingy. Even now when it felt like his body was drying up and turning into a sea-sponge. “I’m starving. Why can’t you just buy it for me?” She always had Beli after all and used it for things that she already had lots of, like clothes and books. Maybe she could put it on that Zoro’s tab? Since it was the swordsman that suggested they take the detour that got them ambushed by the Jura. Those stupid birds were larger than some Sea-Kings and liked to hoard treasures and sun-bleached bones like dragons. At the thought of the giant birds, his eyes glazed over temporarily, his salivary glands causing spittle to generate at the corners of his mouth. Man, he bet they would have been really, really tasty. “This sucks. We should have stayed and punched them.”