#also how he took charge when luffy was carrying nami up the mountain and made sure luffy understood that he couldn’t fight w her on his back

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idk sanji’s kinda eating rn 🤭

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Stillwater - Chapter 12

Stillwater [Archive of Our Own, FanFiction.Net, Mibba]

Characters: Original Female Character, Monkey D. Luffy, Rorona Zoro, Vinsmoke Sanji, Nami, Usopp, Tony Tony Chopper, Nefeltari Vivi

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"We build as only children know to build

We made a way where there's a will

No slowing down or standing still

Innocent and reckless

"How did we get so old and never notice

How did we gain the world and lose the moment

Rise and fall, the tide surrounds us

And drowns us all"

-Hands Like Houses

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“What a shame. Already over? Well that was disappointing wasn’t it?” Zoro said, sticking three swords in the ground. I had to assume they were stolen. They most certainly weren’t his. Wado, Kitetsu and Yubashiri were currently at my hip.

Bodies littered the ground around Zoro, and the people of Big Horn were staring at him in awe. Clearly, Zoro had taken all of these men out, but considering their lack of skill, I wasn’t particularly impressed. In fact, I was rather irritated.

“Right, Zoro! That was a good job, just like I told you to do! Yeah!”

“What about what I told you to do?” I asked, Usopp coming up behind him, still on the horse that Dalton had nabbed from Cocoa Weed.

I had made it to the Merry only to find the ship seemingly abandoned. I was confused at first, because I was sure that Kitetsu was there. A short search revealed the sword, its two companions, Zoro’s shoes, coat, shirt, socks and haramaki on deck, but not their owner.

I was worried. Where the hell was he? What the hell had happened? Had Wapol’s men gotten him and Carue? I was still thinking these questions over, when a thunderous sound caught my attention. There wasn’t a storm brewing. The sky was cloudy, but they were regular snow clouds. There was no sign of thunder snow. I trained my eyes on the island. An avalanche was coming down the mountain, a massive one considering I could recognize it, despite being as far away as I was. There wasn’t a doubt in my mind that Sanji and Luffy were the cause of it.

They caused it. They could handle it. I wouldn’t have been able to catch up to them anyways.

I wasn’t sure how far away was far enough, but I knew that I was probably far enough away to be safe. After all, I was on the ship. Fortunately for me, and the horse the snow hadn’t reached us. It did make things more difficult, because now there were no tracks for me to look for.

I had to find Zoro, and the only idea I had was to seek out his very presence, which was faint in comparison to that damn sword.

I would’ve liked to have trained more, to have practiced, but that wasn’t an option. I closed my eyes and did everything in my power to push out that dam demon sword and to lock onto Zoro. Kitetsu was madness. It was anger and blood lust and violence, but Zoro wasn’t. Zoro was determination, pride, and honor.

The second I was able to lock onto him, I was moving again back to Big Horn, stopping only to fish a half frozen Carue out of the river.

“You,” I started, pointedly looking at Zoro. “You are supposed to be watching the Merry with Carue, and yet I found your stuff on the Merry without you and the duck half frozen in the river.”

My words snapped Zoro out of his boasting, Usopp out of his lying and Vivi out of her amazement.

“Carue!” she cried, rushing over, and hugging the duck. “Oh my goodness! What happened to you?

“He’s alive,” I told her. “Cold, but alive.”

I looked at Usopp. “You two are supposed to be in Gyasta. Why are you in Big Horn?”

“The avalanche,” he answered.

“The doctor,” I reminded him. “Nami. That didn’t just go away, and where is Dalton?” I asked, realizing that he was missing from this scenario.

“He was shot and buried under the avalanche. We have to find him.” That brought the crowd back into it, their shock becoming worry and concern for their de facto leader.

I shook my head. “Hopeless the whole lot of you.” I tossed my bag full or Zoro’s stuff at him. “Get dressed.”

I closed my eyes and once again, opened my mind, trying to sense out Dalton’s devil fruit this time instead of Zoro.

“Don’t just sit there! Do something!”  someone yelled at me.

“I am,” I growled out, trying to focus. I had managed with Zoro. I could do it again. It was just frustrating that it took so long and that it required so much concentration, even though he couldn’t be that far away.

“Mira-“ Vivi said. She was treading carefully, trying not to upset me.

I put a hand up to stop her. “Got ya.” I stood up and walked over to the patch of snow, where I knew Dalton was and started digging, revealing his face after a moment.

“Yo!” I called, beckoning the others over. Immediately, they got to work, helping me dig the big man out.

“This is horrible! I don’t feel a heartbeat!” a man yelled.

“Damn it!” I swore. No way of telling how long his heart had been stopped, how much damage it had done. ‘I should’ve been faster.’

I moved to start CPR. I didn’t know what good it could really do. Even if I could keep his blood pumping, there was no doctor to try to fix the damage. There was no chance that he would make it up the mountain in this condition.

“He’s too large. A tiny girl like you isn’t strong enough to-“

I ignored the person speaking, starting the chest compressions with ease.

“No! Dalton! Please wake up! Please Dalton! You have to!” Vivi cried, taking his large hand in her much smaller one.

Everyone around us, just looked on sadly.

“Vivi. Mira,” Usopp said gently.

“No,” I said sternly. I could still feel that devil fruit. Until it disappeared, he wasn’t dead.

“You can’t die! Dalton please!”

“Don’t worry. He’s not dead.”

I glanced towards the voice, seeing Wapol’s private doctors standing there.

“The 20 MDs?!”

“He will be, if we don’t act soon. He has severe frost bite,” another said.

“We can begin treatment immediately, if you’ll let us.”

“Hey what do you know, there are doctors here. That’s funny. I thought I heard that there weren’t any in this country,” Zoro noted.

Usopp filled Zoro in. “There are a few doctors, but these guys are the 20 MDs. They work exclusively for Wapol, so that makes them bad doctors.”

“That’s right! We can’t trust any of you! Traitors! You expect us to leave Dalton with you? You surrendered to Wapol without a fight and turned your backs on us.”

“Wapol probably sent you here to kill Dalton.”

“Please, if you want to save him, just do as I say.”

“They’re cowards,” I said, still doing compressions. “That doesn’t make them bad doctors. It just means that they’re more motivated by fear than anything.” I looked up at the 20 MDs. “I don’t know your intentions. Maybe you’ve had a change of heart and are finally doing the right thing. I don’t care. You’re going to save him. If you don’t, I’m going to make the rest of what will be your short existence an absolute hell.”

“The 20 of us are still doctors. Even though we were forced against our will to serve only Wapol, we’ve always worked to advance our medical research for the benefit of all the patients in this country. It was all because of a certain quack, who taught us never to give up. We can’t afford to lose any more men like him.”

“Then quit standing there, and get to work,” I barked.

The doctors immediately got to work, one of them taking over for me. I stepped back and took a deep breath. I looked around at all the people gathered, staring.

“See about unburying one of these houses,” I ordered the crowd. “Dalton’s going to need some place warm and a bed to rest in. I’ll watch the doctors.”

They all seemed hesitant at first, but Zoro and Usopp took charge, leading the digging effort, getting the people doing something.

Vivi stayed at first, but I urged her to go check on Carue.

I wasn’t a doctor. I couldn’t say that I fully understood what it was that the 20 MDs were doing. I couldn’t trust what I was seeing, due to my limited knowledge, but neither could the others. Unlike them, I could handle this. I could watch as the doctors treated Dalton. I wasn’t close to the man. I hadn’t been out right wronged by the doctors. I had no reason to trust them sure, but I also didn’t have that need for revenge that the others did. I wasn’t like Vivi, so emotionally involved at this point, you would’ve thought that she’d dealt with Wapol’s tyranny firsthand as opposed through the stories of others.

They managed to stabilize him, just as the crowd managed to clear a path to the door of someone’s home. I helped carry Dalton, setting him on the bed in the home. The doctors were then able to perform the more delicate procedures necessary to save Dalton. It took hours, but at long last they were done. Now the only thing we could do was wait for him to wake up.

A few of the villagers came inside to wait. They watched as the doctors continued to monitor Dalton. It was a tense atmosphere, but that tension was released, when Dalton opened his eyes.

“It’s a miracle!”

“He’s awake!”

I stood there while the doctors did a few tests and once overs. Dalton wasn’t fully there yet, having just woken up, but according to the doctors everything looked good.

With Dalton awake, my watch was over. I popped off of the wall that I had been leaning against and stretched, heading out, while everyone crowded around Dalton. Once outside, I took a deep breath the freezing air helping to clear that last but of tension out of my body. Then I went looking for Vivi, Zoro and Usopp. Carue was in the house in another room, wrapped in blankets sitting near a fire.

“You’re worried about Nami, and Luffy, and Sanji and Dalton. And everything that’s going on in Alabasta.”

I followed the sound of Usopp’s voice. “Vivi, can’t you see it? You’re carrying too many burdens on your shoulders. Calm down. You don’t need to go up there at all. You know why? Cause those three are fine. That’s Luffy, and Sanji and Nami up there. I have faith in them.”

“Thanks a lot. You’re full of wisdom, Usopp,” Vivi complimented the sniper.

“No. He’s full of crap,” Zoro argued. “He’s just afraid to go up that mountain.”

I found them standing between two houses by a fence, just a few down from where Dalton was being treated. Zoro was poking Usopp, whose legs were shaking with fear, in the forehead repeatedly.

“Agh! I heard there were things like yetis and huge man-eating bunnies up there! I don’t want to get eaten!”

“Then say so at the start coward.”

I rolled my eyes, but laughed. “Zoro, leave Usopp alone. It was a nice sentiment, even if it was just because he’s scared.”

“Mira, how’s Dalton?” Vivi asked.

“He was just waking up, when I left,” I told them.

“That’s a relief,” Vivi said.

“He’s a tough one. He’ll be fine.”

The door to the house opened, and Dalton came stumbling out.

“It’s Dalton!”

“Thank goodness!”

“What is that idiot doing?” I asked.

“Can someone please tell me who this guy is?” Zoro asked.

“Dalton, please listen to reason.”

“Get out of my way. We can’t let Wapol retake the castle. We can’t.”

“So that’s where you’re heading? The castle?” Vivi asked.

“In your condition?” Usopp added.

“My country is far more important,” Dalton said. “HE CANNOT SUCCEED! I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN! NOT NOW NOT EVER WAPOL MUST PERISH!”

“But you’re not strong enough to fight them in your condition sir.”

“And the rest of us are no fight for them either.”

“I’m going to settle this thing once and for all. I’ll stop Wapol, even if it kills me.”

“Got admire his determination and his dedication to his country,” I said. “But I put forth entirely too much effort in to keeping him alive to let him go and kill himself.”

Usopp moved first walking over and stepping in Dalton’s path. I watched on, curious as to what he was gonna do. Dalton was a brave warrior, something that we knew Usopp admired. It was interesting to see that his approach was. I doubted he was going to try to talk Dalton out of it. This kind of heroic endeavor was just the kind of thing that Usopp loved.

Not surprisingly, Usopp was on Dalton’s side. What as surprising was that Usopp planned to carry Dalton up the mountain.

“Oh this is gonna be sad,” I said.

“Embarrassing,” Zoro added.

It was. The thought was nice, but Usopp just wasn’t strong enough to carry Dalton. He gave it a good try though.

“Alright, go help him,” I said to Zoro. “You’re the only one, who can carry him without dragging him on the ground.”

I could lift Dalton. It would be easy. I just wasn’t tall enough to carry him without dragging his feet and considering that he had frostbite that probably wasn’t the best idea.

Zoro shook his head, walking over and lifting Dalton up on his shoulder.

“Are you gonna sit there and whine or are you coming with us?” Zoro asked Usopp.

I hurried over, catching up with them.

Usopp was yelling at Zoro about stealing his thunder, hitting and kicking him.

“Boys, play nice,” I scolded, trying to hide my amusement.

“Hey! Hold up. There’s an easier way up to the castle,” someone called out. “Instead of walking, take the rope way.”

“The rope way? That’s impossible. There hasn’t been one connected to Wapol’s castle in a while.”

“Someone must’ve just recently reconnected one, because I just saw it. There was a rope going from the castle to a big white tree outside of Gyasta.”

‘Of course, where we should’ve headed to begin with.’

We along with a number of the Drum Island residents headed to Gyasta. At the base of the rope was a gondola, which Vivi, Usopp, Zoro, Dalton, myself and roughly a dozen men crowded into. It was entirely too crowd, resulting in it being slow moving, but it was at least moving.

Dalton was seething, where he sat.

“You need to settle down. You’re just going to worsen your condition, if you keep behaving like this,” I said.

My words were ignored. He continued to rant and rave. I understood he was upset, but he was going to die, if he didn’t settle down.

I finally understood why I was ignored, when he pulled multiple sticks of dynamite out of his jacket.

“When we get up there, everyone take cover. There are going to be explosions, once I get inside.”

I was the only one still paying attention to the top of the mountain, the smoke that had started to come from it along with a few loud crashes. ‘Captain made it,’ I thought, grinning. “Dalton, when we get up there. You are going to sit down and take it easy,” I told him.

“Wapol-“ he started.

“Luffy!” I shot back. “Our captain is up there. Our navigator. Our cook. That’s what Wapol ran into, when he came up here to reclaim that castle.”

Everyone started looking up at the castle like I was.

“She’s right,” Usopp said, sounding smug. “You brought that dynamite to blow up Wapol, but there isn’t going to be any Wapol to blow up.”

“I know he doesn’t look like much, but I’m willing to put the fate of my own country in Luffy’s hands. You should have faith that he will protect yours,” Vivi said.

“But he doesn’t know-“

I smiled back at Vivi and Dalton. “That bastard ate part of our ship, tried to eat Luffy, and if he’s up there, has likely threatened Nami and Sanji.”

“Luffy’s gonna kick his ass,” Zoro said.

The people of Drum just looked at us, probably thinking that we were mad. I didn’t blame them. If I had been in their position, I’d have my doubts to. I turned, keeping my eyes trained on the mountain top.

Sure enough, a few moments later, what looked to be a much thinner Wapol rocketed overhead.

“Atta boy, Luffy,” I praised.

We made it to the top, Zoro, Usopp and I getting off and going ahead to scout out the area. We didn’t know, who else was with Wapol or even for sure if the guy that had been launched off the island even was Wapol.

Usopp, who had declared that he was going to go ahead and brave whatever dangers there would be, was cowering behind Zoro by the time we reach the top of the staircase that led from the gondola bay to the outside world.

“Hey! What the hell are you doing?” Zoro asked, swatting at Usopp, trying to get him to release his leg.

“Just watching your back.”

‘Idiots,’ I thought fondly.

The view from up here was gorgeous.

A familiar scream caused me to spin around and Zoro and Usopp to stop bickering. Luffy had rocketed himself towards us… Because of course he did.

“LUFFY!” the other two screamed in panic.

They dove out of the way of our captain. I braced myself, digging my feet into the ground as much as I could, but with the snow it was difficult. I caught Luffy around the torso, the impact caused me to slide back roughly twenty feet, before coming to a stop.

Luffy started laughing. “Nice catch, Mira!”

“Thanks, Captain,” I responded, chuckling.

“Why’d you do that, you moron?!” Zoro raged.

I set Luffy back on his feet, and stood up properly, dusting the snow off of myself.

“I didn’t recognize you,” Luffy explained. “I thought you were more of Big Mouth’s guards ready to fight. I’m surprised you came up here. Well not you Zoro, Mira, but Usopp, aren’t you usually scared of doing stuff like climbing mountains?”

“HAHAHAHA! Yeah right,” Usopp scoffed. “Whenever there’s a towering peak in front of me, I climb it, but let me tell you scaling that mountain hand over hand was no picnic.”

“Actually, we took a rope way car,” Vivi explained, causing Usopp to topple over. “Nami and Sanji are they alright?”

“Yeah! Both of them are just fine.”

“Thank goodness.”

“I knew you had it all under control.”

“So what was that you were doing on top of the castle a few minutes ago?” Zoro asked.

“Beating the crap out of the king,” Luffy said.

“Dalton,” I greeted, seeing him exit the stairwell. “You’re just in time.”

“You mean that person I saw flying through the air was actually Wapol?” Dalton asked, disbelief clear on his face. “You beat him?”

“Yep. I sure did.”

“And his two henchmen what happened to them?”

“Well the reindeer beat him up.”

“But those two? A reindeer?” Dalton was still struggling to accept it.

“Reindeer?” I asked.  “Another zoan?”

“Hey Usopp, I made a new friend. You gotta meet him. Get this. He’s a reindeer.”

‘Leave it to Luffy.’

Dalton notice something in the trees. I followed his gaze to wear a little reindeer was standing. I think it was trying to hide, but it was backwards. I had thought that, when Luffy said a reindeer he had found a human that had eaten the ox ox fruit, model reindeer, but based on his appeared this appeared to be a reindeer that had eaten a human human fruit.

I wasn’t thinking about that at the time though that came later, because my first thought, which tumbled out of my mouth on its own was, “So freaking cute.”

Dalton bowed to the reindeer, thanking it for helping the country. The rest of the people of Drum finally made their way over to us. They all looked at the reindeer.

“What? What is that strange creature behind that tree?”

“It almost looks like a reindeer.”

“No. You’re wrong. It’s a monster.”

Humans. Ignorant creatures. Afraid of what they didn’t know of what they didn’t understand.

“No! Don’t shoot him!” Dalton ordered.

Something finally registered in Usopp’s head, because he screamed, eyes nearly popping out of his head. “It’s a yeti! Somebody shoot it!”

The words of the people upset the reindeer, who sped off into the forest, crying.

I spun around and knocked Usopp upside the head, at the same time as Luffy.

“You jerk face!” Luffy yelled. “He’s not a yeti, you idiot! He’s my new friend!”

“You coward! He wasn’t hurting you! Don’t go screaming fire until you know something’s a threat!”

You’d figure that after Little Garden Usopp would’ve realized that things weren’t always what they seemed, but no. Fear controlled him more than anything else.

“You scared him so bad he ran away,” Luffy continued.

“If you could kill Dorry and Broggy would you have just shot them on sight? You wouldn’t have a master then would you?”

“You’re right. You’re right. I’m sorry.”

“It’s not us that you need to say sorry to,” Luffy said.

Usopp slumped in defeat.

“I’m gonna go get him, so that you can apologize.” With that Luffy took off after the reindeer.

“I never seen Mira get this mad. Way to go Usopp,” Zoro jabbed.

“I’m not mad,” I corrected. “I’m annoyed that a crewmate of mine would behave in such a manner. I know what it’s like to be afraid. I also know what it’s like to be the thing that people are afraid of. It hurts, especially, when you know that the only reason people are still afraid of you is because they won’t give you a chance.”

I glared at the villagers, who looked appropriately sheepish.

“The doctor is here right? We need to get Dalton to her.”

“The girl’s right,” a voice called out.

The villagers gasped. “Doctor Kureha?!”

“Yeah. Good to see you too. Now be useful and get the injured guy to the medical ward.”

“I recognize you! You’re that damn old hag from before!” Zoro yelled.

You would think that seeing a woman dressed like she’s twenty, despite probably being seven times that, would be a dead giveaway that she was sensitive to the whole age thing, but apparently not to Zoro. Kureha brought her fist down on top of his head, knocking him to the ground. I could see the goose egg forming.

“You had that one coming,” I told him.

I shook my head. “Someone keep his feet from dragging,” I said, hoisting Dalton up over my shoulder.

The villagers were all still.

“I’d do what the girl says, or you’re going to be in pain like this man here,” Kureha said.

That got them all moving, lifting Dalton’s feet as we headed to the medical ward.

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Stability - 1

Fanfiction: Stability Story Summary: It wasn’t because he was self-conscious or ashamed. No, it was because he was afraid. His greatest fear was being alone after all. Characters: Luffy, Zoro, Chopper, Nami, Ace, Sabo, Law Pairing: Eventual LawLu Rating: T Warnings: Swearing, AU/UA, canon-typical violence, angst A/N: Okay, so first off: This is an AU (Or UA) where Luffy is trans. (FTM) It’s fairly ‘different’ from my usual set up where there are a lot of changes in PoV’s. So, that being said, there will be some disphoria/mentions of it.

It’s something I’ve really wanted to write for awhile. It’s a self-indulgent fanfiction for me. (Yay, happy belated birthday to me!) And, also for Luffy’s birthday! (Because of course this needs to end happy) So, here’s my dual birthday present :D

.xxx. = Time/scene skip

.+++. = PoV change

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Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3

For one that slept as often as Luffy did, it wasn’t hard for Zoro to notice the few tendencies that Luffy had.

There was the fact that Luffy, without fail, would sleep on his stomach. The closest exception to this rule was when the captain was tightly holding a pillow, half on his stomach and half on his side.

And, thinking about it, usually when Luffy was laying down it was on his stomach.

There were other unusual tendencies that Luffy had.

That, for a guy who hardly had any respect for other people’s personal space, he seemed to be… well…

Zoro wouldn’t say that he was self-conscious but, Luffy never changed in front of anybody. His baths were even taken alone even though he was an anchor. (Granted, he always asked for somebody to be outside the door in case he did drown. Just asked them to knock on the door to check in on him every few minutes.)

Abnormalities aside, his captain was his captain. They all had their quirks.

.xxx.

Cocoyasi Island, really, was the first time that Luffy had any major medical treatment. Sure, he had a few bandages here and there, had to inhale some anti-venom, but nothing serious.

He could hear some arguing going on in the room next to his. Luffy was protesting, while the doctor of the village was only protesting back. Zoro couldn’t admit he could understand what was saying, but eventually it seemed that Luffy had been subdued by the doctor by the lack of response from Luffy. And the fact that the doctor left to grab Nami (who was waiting for her turn to be attended to due to what she had done to the tattoo on her shoulder) and bring her into the room.

Why? Well, eventually Zoro had learned just the reasoning when they had returned to the Going Merry.

Apparently Luffy had injured his ribs while fighting Arlong, and his bandages needed changing. Of course, the doctor didn’t trust Luffy’s capabilities to ensure the bandages were properly or consistently wrapped. (Neither would Zoro. Luffy was like him in that aspect.) And it seemed that Nami was in charge of that. (And his too.)

(Why Nami, well, probably because of Luffy’s protests and Nami was the closest person around that could properly move.)

So every morning, Luffy would pop on over to Nami, who would change his bandages. And, then, Luffy would push Zoro on into the same room, telling him it was his turn.

And while Luffy’s morning visits with Nami would continue after they had healed, Zoro thought nothing of it. Luffy just probably liked to bug Nami in the mornings. (Or, as Luffy would put it: talk to.)

.xxx.

It was Vivi that brought these visits up.

Why? He had no clue. It was just the norm on the ship that Luffy would go bouncing on over to see Nami whenever he woke up. That Luffy tended to ask Nami now to stand watch whenever he took a bath.

Vivi had asked around; wondering if their captain and their navigator were in any sort of relationship.

(This, of course, was denied by all of them. Of course not – no, that couldn’t be.)

It made them all wonder though: could it be?

Of course, the Merry being a small ship, Nami had found out the very next day.

She denied the claims, and by process of elimination, found out that it was Vivi, of all people, to raise those speculations.

The two of them soon went off alone to talk about it.

(Whatever became of that conversation, Zoro would never know. But regardless, Vivi had stopped asking questions. 

.xxx.

When Nami got sick, things were rocky.

They were all out of sorts. Worrying for Nami, all sleeping by her. Vivi was sleeping by her side, head and arms resting on the bed. Luffy paced and did everything that he could think of to help.

Eventually they ended up at the Drum Kingdom.

Eventually they met Dr. Kureha and Chopper.

Eventually shit hit the fan.

.+++.

Nami woke up to an accusing gaze.

“Stupid, stupid girl.”

An old woman was staring down at her.

“You weren’t walking around with your stomach exposed on a prehistoric island, were you?”

The doctor, as she introduced herself as, explained the nature of her condition. And how she should continue to rest for another three days. But there was something else in her eyes.

“Your idiotic captain and cook are alright. I had to treat them for frostbite and hypothermia and their injuries but-”

(Nami remembered. She remembered Nako ushering her into Luffy’s room. She remembered that pained, fearful, meek look on Luffy’s face. She remembered. Remembered seeing as Luffy…)

She had sharply inhaled.

Before she received a slap to her face.

“Stupid girl!” There was some muttering under her breath as the doctor shook her head before continuing. “…I figured that it was you. That job could have only been done by somebody else – the way that it was wrapped. At least it appeared to have been done in professional manner, even if sloppy. Did somebody instruct you?”

Nami rubbed at her face – feeling a mixture of both shame and anger. Shame at her incapability of not being able to do it while she was sick, and anger at this doctor’s judgement.

“What do you know about it!” She yelled back.

(She cared desperately for her friends. Luffy… he had saved her village. Had saved her. Of course she would do anything for her friends and their happiness. Vivi too… she couldn’t just stay here for another three days! They had to get to Alabasta!)

Her fists were clenched. “Do you even know what he’s going through? The pain in his eyes… that fear. He was afraid, you know? Afraid that I’d reject him…” Nami shook her head. “And the doctor in my village showed me what to do. He takes it off at night, you know? The last few days… he might not have been. Because I’ve been the only one to do it. I���m… the only one that knows…”

(Luffy made her promise. Not to tell them. Not that she would have anyway. It wasn’t hers to tell.)

There was a sigh from the old woman, and she lit a smoke.

“Well, I’m glad to hear that his body has some rest. Even though his body is made of rubber, it’s still not good to be constantly…” She shook her head.

A little creature ran through the room. Quickly followed by her crewmates.

“Take him. He can help the two of you. My little reindeer…”

.+++.

Humans really were hard to understand. It was when he first started treating the strawhat man, taking off those drenched, cold clothes. But the moment that Doctorine had screeched at him to separate the strawhat from his crewmate was really when he had gotten confused.

But he took the blond-haired man to another room, and continued treating that man instead, hearing Doctorine mutter expletives to the frost-bitten, hypothermic boy.

It wasn’t until after that he had been informed of the situation at hand.

Apparently Doctorine had noticed something that not even he had. (Sure, he noticed a few abnormalities, but he figured it was just the fact that the strawhat had been carrying the orange-haired girl for so long…) Perhaps it was the fact that he mentioned that the captain had smelled funny that was what tipped her off.

Or maybe it was just because she had far more experience than he did.

So when he was finished with the blond man, he knocked on the door and Doctorine had let him in.

“Chopper, the reason I had you take that man to another room was…”

And Choppers eyes grew wide as Doctorine explained. And he understood – far more than he would have thought. He understood this person wrapped in blankets laying in bed. Well. Maybe. Doctorine also said she wasn’t too sure, and she couldn’t be until they woke up. But the signs were there, and she hadn’t wanted to risk anything.

So all they could do was wait.

.xxx.

It was the blond haired man that woke up first. Demanding to know about Nami. And then followed a bit later by inquiring to know about Luffy.

His own name was Sanji, and he had an explosive personality.

So Doctorine explained about Nami and that she was being treated. But also was careful in choosing her wording about Luffy – this guy’s captain.

They didn’t know the details yet after all.

(One thing Chopper quickly realised was the difference in the way that Sanji referred to Nami over Luffy. It made him further believe that Doctorine was right.)

“So that bastard’s alright? Damn fool, dragging both of us up the mountain. I told him to leave me.”

With a nod, Doctorine had left to go check up on Luffy.

Yes, it was a good thing they separated those two.

.xxx.

The first thing out of Luffy’s mouth was: Nami.

And then it was a shriek, demanding to know where they had put his clothes.

“Drying. We wrapped you in blankets to keep you warm, as they were soaking wet.” Doctorine said in her no-nonsense voice. And then she lifted her leg, slamming it down on the table next to the bed before letting the roll of bandages fall from her hand. “But first things first, could you care to tell me just why these bandages are days old? You don’t seem to have any injuries to your ribs.”

“It’s the Grand Line.” Luffy said, looking to the side and stuck out his lips. “Not a lot of time on our hands.”

Doctorine sighed.

(This guy was bad at lying.)

“While it’s obvious you’ve eaten a devil fruit, that doesn’t mean you are invincible!”

Chopper got out of there before Doctorine started her scolding screaming fests.

.xxx.

“There. That should do it.”

Chopper had taken over what had been Nami’s job until now. Sure, she did a relatively decent job but… Not to mention he was the doctor on the ship. This was his job to ensure the well being of his crewmates, whether it be mental or physical.

He looked up at his captain after a moment of silence. “…Have you considered telling them Luffy?”

(It fell quiet again.)

“Nami knows and I know, and we don’t hate you.” He placed his hand on Luffy’s bare shoulder. “Nami seems to understand, and… I really understand. Neither of us thinks of you differently. And, hey.” Now Chopper was laughing. “If they can accept me, a monster of all things, then certainly they’ll all be fine with it!”

Luffy looked at him now.

“They will find out eventually Luffy. It’s better to tell them yourself and with your own words then let them find out by accident or necessity. Like Nami and I.”

To be honest, Chopper was surprised that Luffy nodded.

.+++.

Luffy was sitting beside Nami and Chopper. He called everybody over.

“H-Hey, guys. I gotta tell you something…”

(What had made Luffy look like this? Never had he seen his captain look so meek or scared.)

Nami was squeezing Luffy’s shoulder. Chopper was rubbing his back. And Luffy was fisting his pants.

“I-I mean… it’s better for you guys to hear it from me, then to find out. Chopper said that.”

Nervous… Luffy was nervous.

“Just spit it out already Luffy. I gotta make breakfast.”

…Stupid cook, couldn’t he read the atmosphere?

“Food?”

Luffy had perked right up at the mention of food.

(Huh, okay, maybe he wasn’t that stupid.)

Luffy was calmer now, still tense, but not as much as before. He took a deep breath.

“I’m not really a guy.”

Nami shook her head and squeezed Luffy’s shoulder. “...Luffy…”

Not really a guy?

“I mean… I am but… I wasn’t born one.” Now, Luffy was hugging himself. “If that makes any sense. I’m sorry I didn’t tell any of you, but I thought you would all…”

Zoro sighed. That’s what this was all about? He shook his head and moved over to ruffle Luffy’s hair. “You’re my captain Luffy. The man who’s going to be the Pirate King, right?”

Luffy beamed up at him.

Then Usopp moved over, a hand being placed on Luffy’s other shoulder. “Who gives a damn about that? Luffy is Luffy, and if he’s a guy, then he’s a guy.”

Vivi was smiling down at them, giving all of them thumbs up.

And they all looked over at Sanji.

“That’s it? Stupid shitheads interrupting breakfast. Nami~ Vivi~ What did you want special?”

And their captain was laughing.

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green bull will kill ussop which will lead to sanji fighting green bull and possibly killing him

ussops death  its been foreshadowied here:

usopp is the fourth person to be a part of the crew(this includes luffy ) and in japan the number four is associated with death for the Japanese word for “four” sounds like the word for “death”(shi)(pronunciation)

en . wikipedia . org/wiki/Japanese_numerals#Basic_numbering_in_Japanese “The 4th division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, Thatch, was the only commander who met an unfortunate end before the present story. He was murdered by Marshall D. Teach because Thatch had found the one Devil Fruit Teach desired most- the Dark-Dark Fruit. PX-4 was the first of the Pacifista to be destroyed.” tvtropes . org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourIsDeath en . wikipedia . org/wiki/Japanese_superstitions

more reasoning on ussop being the straw hat who dies

He's considered by Oda to be "the weakest" member of the crew at every point of the story. Only Chopper dying instead would match the feeling of needless cruelty that Usopp dying would bring.

He's one of the original members of the crew from East Blue, at this point basically counts as a day one.

He's split from the crew once before and had to reestablish his loyalty, making his connection to the crew rather deep compared to the other members.

His bounty has surpassed Sanji's and has the title of "God" on his wanted poster. His reputation has been increasing constantly.

He's the ONLY Straw Hat that can die and still achieve his dream. Becoming a brave warrior of the sea doesn't require that he be alive to enjoy his new reputation, only that people remember him as such. Every single other Straw Hat requires them to live to accomplish their goals.

also who will kill him  well ussops  inspiration (besides pinnochio and aesop ) is  tengu  

about Tengu Legend in Japan. Tengu is expressed as a shooting star/comet. The shooting star came from East. there are some ranks of Tengu. White Wolf Tengu is the lowest. when wolf spends many years, it will get a god power and become a white wolf tengu. the white wolf tengu’s job is carrying people to climb a mountain.

represents the white wolf

god power etc

en . wikipedia .  org/wiki/Tengu

tengu is a shinto god that  long nose and crow like features the tengu is known for playing tricks and deceiving people they also only help those they find worthy and hate people who use knowledge or authority to gain status or fame this fits ussop the tengu uses star attacks too. tengus are at their stronget when theyre made whenver ussop gets angry in a fight he has shown to have amazing strength they also use magic associated with trickery (good at tricking people  and the forest just like ussop I mean after ussops time on that island during the timeskip ussop got alot of of plants to use in his attacks. and ussop is good at trickery like the trick he did on mr.4 in baroqu works and miss merry chirstmas during their fight or him

star attacks by ussop  along with attacks that relate to celestial objects which shooting stars are

Ketchup Boshi (ケチャップ星 Kechappu Boshi?, literally meaning “Ketchup Star”)

Hokaku Boshi (捕獲星 Hokaku Boshi?, literally meaning “Capture Star”):,

Zombie Shoten Salt Ball (ゾンビ昇天塩玉（ソルトボール） Zonbi Shōten Soruto Bōru?, literally meaning “Zombie-Purifying Salt Ball”):

Namari Boshi (鉛星 Namari Boshi?, literally meaning “Lead Star”):

Kayaku Boshi (火薬星 Kayaku Boshi?, literally meaning “Gunpowder Star”)

Sanren Kayaku Boshi (三連火薬星 Sanren Kyaku Boshi?, literally meaning “Triple Gunpowder Star”):

Kayaku Hoshi Boshi (火薬星星 Kyaku Hoshi Boshi?, literally meaning “Gunpowder Star Star”)

Rolling Kayaku Boshi (回転（ローリング）火薬星 Rōringu Kyaku Boshi?, literally meaning “Rolling Gunpowder Star”)

Tamago Boshi (卵星 Tamago Boshi?, literally meaning “Egg Star)

Kemuri Boshi (煙星 Kemuri Boshi?, literally meaning “Smoke Star”)

Kaen Boshi (火炎星 Kaen Boshi?, literally meaning “Flame Star”)

Shinsen Tamago Boshi (新鮮卵星 Shinsen Tamago Boshi?, literally meaning “Fresh Egg Star”) Tokusei Tabasco Boshi (特製タバスコ星 Tokusei Tobasuko Boshi?, literally meaning “Deluxe Tabasco Star”)  

Akahebi Boshi (赤蛇星 Akahebi Boshi?, literally meaning “Red Snake Star”)

Sakuretsu Saboten Boshi (炸裂サボテン星 Sakuretsu Saboten Boshi?, literally meaning “Exploding Cactus Star”):

Hi no Tori Boshi/Fire Bird Star ,  Himawari Boshi (向日葵星 Himawari Boshi?, literally meaning “Sunflower Star”)  , Cho Kemuri Boshi (超煙星 Chō Kemuri Boshi?, literally meaning “Super Smoke Star”):   Kamakiri Ryūsei (カマキリ流星 Kamakiri Ryūsei?, literally meaning “Praying Mantis Meteor”)Atlas Suisei (アトラス彗星 Atlas Suisei?, literally meaning “Atlas Comet”)    (post time skip Totsugeki Ryuseigun (突撃流星群 Totsugeki Ryūseigun?, literally meaning “Charging Meteor Shower”) ,   Bagworm (蓑虫星（バグワーム） Baguwāmu?, literally meaning “Bagworm Star”) Midori Boshi: Sargasso (緑星・サルガッソ Midori Boshi: Sarugasso?, literally meaning “Green Star: Sargasso”) )

onepiece . wikia . com/wiki/Usopp%27s_Arsenal/Kabuto check out the list of all sections and you will see how many star based/celestial based  attacks he has

Kinemon once called Usopp “ a Tengu”

so as we know that ussops associated withthe tengu (which goes down to the names of alot of his attacks being associated with stars/celestial objects and him using plants  for a tengu is a forest being. nad its quite likely that green bulls powers revolve around nature for so far each of the named admirals have nicknames where the color is associated with their element. akainu( red dog) uses magma which is associated with color red. aokjii ( blue pheasant ) uses ice associated with blue, kizaru ( yellowpheasant  )uses light which is associated with  the color yellow . and fujitora ( purple tiger)  has a gravity-based ability which is a force of nature. Gravity is associated with the color purple in Japanese media. Mega Man's gravity suit is purple for example. so it only fits for green bulls power to be associated with the color green

In Japan, green signifies eternal life. Green is the colour of fertility and growth in traditional Japanese culture. As the colour of nature, the Japanese word for green, midori, is also the word for vegetation. In addition, the colour green represents youth and vitality, and the energy of growth. Green can also represent eternity, since evergreen trees never lose their leaves or stop growing.

 and exist in/be related to the natural world like the others. I mean light, magma, ice, and gravity are all things that exist in the world and are involved in making it which fits since they work for the WORLD government. so it fits for green bulls ability to fit that trend while relating to the color green like have a paramecia plant manipulating power (

. or a zoan mythical zoan DF  like the yokai . wikia . com/wiki/Jubokko  or some other plant yokai

yokai . wikia . com/wiki/Category:Plant

to have powers relating plants  

and 

there was a coverpage where akainu shown taking care of a plant so it fits for the new admiral chosent by akainu to have plant abilitys plants can be very dangerous look at popgreens for example  and green bull could utilize popgreens with his plant df               

and ussops currently utilizing plants  and is inspired by  a forest spirit so it fits for ussops final opponent the person who kills him be someone with a plant related ability that would be green bull and this will lead to the sanji vs. green bull 

I mean there had been 2times where sanji specifically came in to rescue ussopp from death/fought someone who did something specifically to ussopp (specifically fought for ussopp bon clay where he took back the goggles from bon clay who had taken it  after beating bon clay up some more and second with jabra where jabra was nearly killed (each got worse damage for usopp) as time went onso it would be fitting if the third time sanji fought a guy for usopps sake was to avenge his death after sanji failed to get to usopp in time to keep usopp from dying   like if sanj iwent to usoppp and  walked in to green bull standing  over usopps corpse or green bull hitting ussop with the finishing blow and killing ussop infront of sanji with sanji getting there too late since sanji has a number motifs of 3  

“Bonus: 2 + 0 + 1 + 6 = 9 / 3 = 3″

porche-chan . tumblr . com/post/138515824861/porche-chan-bonus-2-0-1-6-9-3-3#notes

His name (三時 san-ji? ) can mean “three o'clock” or “three o'clock snack”. This points to a wider theme in Sanji’s character, revolving around the number 3:Sanji is  the third-strongest member of the Straw Hat Pirates.Sanji usually fights the third strongest member of the villain group the Straw Hats face during the story arcs. The exceptions to this rule are in Punk Hazard and Dressrosa as Sanji fought Vergo and Donquixote Doflamingo, opponents far stronger than the ones Zoro fought. It’s fair to note in Zou, Sanji also defeated Sheepshead the strongest Beasts Pirates member left on Zou after Jack left to rescue Doflamingo. sanji is the third strongest of the monster trio. and the third man to join luffys crew and usopp is a member of the weakling trio in fact he is the third strongest of the weakling trio ( the weakest) like how sanji is the third strongest of the monster trio )

and sanji specializes in observational haki and its likely that ussop will specialize in observational haki given thats the haki ussop first awakened and is most fitting for ussop since he’s the sniper

and sanji has a close relationship to ussop

“You know what’s more amazing here than the fact that Sanji seriously kicked his captain’s rubbery ass? He almost hurt Nami by kicking Luffy right toward her direction. Nami was threatened enough to actually scream, not just dodge out of Luffy’s way. Sanji doesn’t apologize to Nami - hell, I bet he didn’t even realize that he almost hurt her. This really shows the heat of the moment, as well as how much Sanji was upset over Luffy’s words to Usopp”. “sunnyul. tumblr . com/post/145669021863/you-know-whats-more-amazing-here-than-the-fact#notes it would fitting  for he ended up going  go against people who have harmed usopp two times before but each time the damage to usopp grown and the motivation for  the fight relating to ussop  increased with the first time with bon clay bon clay had beaten up and stole his goggles and sanji wanted to get them back for ussop   with the second time usopp almost died  and sanji interfered to save ussop so the third time  usopp will die by green bulls hands  and sanji will fight green bull his killer to avenge him. (it doesn’t have to be immediate it can be at end of story) heck ussop could die because he sacrificed himself for sanji and

it fits for sanji to fight green bull since sanjis nickname is black leg which is the name of a disease thats fatal to bull

www . merckvetmanual .com/mvm/generalized_conditions/clostridial_diseases/blackleg.html

(note that that sanji doesnt have to defeat ryokugyu/green bull the first time they fight/confront each other. after all zoro didnt defeat fujitora when they first confronted each other ( though I think zoro will end up fighting adn defeating fujitora)

(also  ryokugyu   in english translations  mean green bull for ryoku means green  so his color motif  is green and it just so happens that zoros color theme is green

and sanji and zoro are rivals so it would be especially fitting for sanji to fight green bull  who has zoros color theme plus zoro already has an admiral who he will end up fighting and beating in the form of fujitora who was based of a zatoichi  a fictional samurai (and his actor))

bulls and cows are cattles so sanji will kill ryokugyu or just defeat ryokugyu pluss cows/bulls are slaughtered and for their meat like people make beef and used for cooking Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle. Beef can be harvested from bulls, heifers or steers. Its acceptability as a food source varies in different parts of the world. en . wikipedia . org/wiki/Beef and theres another exotic type of dish called bull testicles / people eat the testicles of the bulls and snaji is a chef and has a tendency to make comments about cooking in his fighting so when he faces ryokugyu he could make a comment saying he will turn Ryokugyu into beef or make references to preparing beef in reference to  ryokugyu

so it fits for sanji in a sense to kill green bull since bulls are slaughtered for their meat and sanji can make a comment on that

not to mention that it would fit his epitaph

not to mention that sanji killing an admiral would fullfill what he promised kuma that the one who the marines would fear the most out of them

 would be him since he killed one of their "Greatest Military Powers". and it fits  with how black leg is a disease thats fatal to livestock like bulls ffor black leg sanji to be responsible adn directly kill green bull

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