#nothing more to say reiju i love you too girl

[hauntingblue]

JINBEEE I LOVE YOU!!!! JINBEEEEEEEEE

[penkura]

Sanji feels nothing but anxiety as he waits for the transponder snail to ring. He’s not felt like this since he first called Zeff to tell him about your marriage and pregnancy, and that was nearly three years ago. He’ll have to call him again soon, but for now, he’s practically glaring at the poor, sleeping snail on your shared bed.

After a few minutes of nothing, Sanji lets out a heavy sigh and falls backwards, putting an arm over his face. He feels annoyed, and still anxious, but also somewhat scared? Yeah, he thinks that’s right. Maybe it’s more worry than anything else, he’s not entirely sure. Luckily he doesn’t have to dwell on it, as your daughter, two-year-old Angel crawls over to him on your bed, starting to pull on his arm with little giggles and shouts of ‘dada’ to get his attention. Those cute little sounds and her precious smile calm Sanji down quickly, as he picks her up and gives her a tight hug, making Angel squeal out of her own happiness.

“There’s my pretty girl!”

“Dada,” Angel giggles again, wrapping her little arms around his neck to return the hug, “Dada!”

Her laughs get louder when he kisses her chubby cheeks, causing you to smile as you joined them both on your bed.

“I get the cutest view ever with the two of you,” the two give you bright smiles, making you laugh a bit before you look at the transponder snail, “Anything yet?”

Shaking his head, Sanji stays quiet while Angel babbles and pats his face with her chubby hands, another small squeal coming from her when he hugs her close, kissing the top of her blonde head. You lean over, kissing his cheek and laying your head on his shoulder.

“…maybe this was a bad idea. Maybe she doesn’t—”

“She does, Sanji. She wants to know how you’re doing and how your life has changed,” stroking Angel’s hair gets her to look up at you, her smile making you move to take her from Sanji, “She’ll be so glad to hear you’re happy.”

Before he can even say anything in response, the snail starts ringing and Sanji feels that anxiety come back, looking to you while you smile at him as you go to leave. This call deserves every bit of privacy as any other.

“You’ve got this, Sanji.”

He lets it ring for a moment longer after you leave, before finally picking it up with a shaky hand and a deep breath.

“…Reiju?”

+!+

“Have you noticed that she looks like mom?”

Sanji tries hard not to let too much emotion show while he continues to make some tea for Reiju, but he still nods just a bit. You hadn’t invited her to the Sunny for such emotionally charged talks, just to meet her niece, since she’s the only one left of Sanji’s family that he doesn’t mind talking to. You made sure he was okay with it before you did so, promising that if he said no, you’d drop the idea altogether. You just wanted Angel to meet her aunt like she had all your siblings and parents more recently, and after Sanji thought about it for a few days, he agreed that it would be fine, as long as word about her didn’t get back to the rest of them.

“I have. I tell her that she looks like [Y/N] though, I think she doesn’t believe me since everyone says she looks just like me,” Sanji laughs while giving Reiju her cup of tea, sitting across from her with his own, “She’ll make a face at me like she’s skeptical, but she’s still adorable when she does it.”

The image makes Reiju smile as she sips her tea, nodding. “She probably has the same pout you did at that age.”

“Hey, I did not—”

“How old is she now?”

“…she’ll be three on Valentine’s Day, about two weeks from now.”

“How cute,” nodding, Reiju rests her chin in her hand, just watching Sanji, the love on his face is visible, “And you said [Y/N] is pregnant again?”

“With a boy, yeah. One of our allies is a doctor and did a check-up when we saw him last. He said everything’s fine so far.”

“That’s wonderful, Sanji.”

The two are quiet for a few moments, Sanji’s still nervous about this. When Angel was born he’d sworn to not let anyone from his biological family or Germa learn about her, but then he heard you were talking with Reiju. It upset him greatly at first, even though you promised up and down you’d not told her anything about you two being married or Angel’s existence, you only spoke to her about mundane, every day things, very rarely in fact. It took a few days before he stopped being upset, after you explained that it was simply to get to know her better, you were leaving the more important life things for Sanji to tell Reiju if he ever chose to. You’d never take that from him or cross that line without his permission.

Sanji did apologize for not believing you at first after he finally spoke to Reiju himself and heard how surprised she was to know you two had gotten married and had a child, she really didn’t know. She loved getting pictures of Angel after that, so she could see her niece and get used to the idea of being an aunt, before you suggested to Sanji that either the three of you meet up with Reiju somewhere, or invite her onto the Sunny, so she could have a real meeting with your daughter. It still took nearly a year for Sanji to feel comfortable with that idea, before you even asked if it would be okay, he had been thinking about it anyway, but needed some time still.

You and Angel aren’t even on the ship right now, you’d taken her into the town of the island you’re docked at, to let Sanji have some time alone with Reiju, he had somethings to talk to her about anyway. You’ll be back soon, Sanji’s anxiety over the meeting getting worse as time goes by.

“Reiju,” his voice is quiet, but Reiju hums a but in response, noticing Sanji isn’t even looking at her, “I don’t…I don’t want any of them to know about this…”

“Sanji—”

“If anything happened to my wife or children, I…I’d—”

“Sanji, I’m not going to let anyone know,” Sanji only looks at her when Reiju sets her hand on his, trying to calm him before he lets his mind run too far, “Father and our brothers won’t find out, nobody will, I’ll make sure of that. You deserve your happiness.”

It becomes quiet again, Sanji clenching his jaw as he’s not sure what to say, before Reiju speaks again with a smile.

“Mom would be proud of you. If she could see you now, and see that little girl, she would be so proud of the person you’ve become, how wonderful of a father you are to Angel.”

Sanji has to fight not to cry, especially when he hears you and Angel outside the kitchen door, you telling her that he has to be there like he always is when you come back. He’s quick to wipe away any tears that come up and stand from his seat, putting on a smile when you open the door and Angel sees him, grinning brightly before running to him.

“Daddy!!”

“There’s my princess!” Sanji lifts her up into the air, making her laugh, before he hugs her, “Did you have a good time with mommy?”

“Mm-hm!! We got candy!”

“Did you get your favorite, my dear?”

Angel nods, starting to try and tell Sanji everything both of you did in town, Reiju watches and smiles while you sit at the table, hand on your pregnant belly.

“I was right. He is a good father to her.”

Smiling yourself, you nod while watching the two loves of your live talk, Angel eventually noticing Reiju and starting to shy away, hiding her face in Sanji’s shoulder. She still takes glances at Reiju which Sanji sees, his own smile softening as he brings her over.

“Angel, this is your aunt Reiju. She’s my big sister.”

“Hi there, Angel,” your daughter starts to open up a bit when Reiju gets to eye level with her, holding her hand out for her, “It’s nice to finally meet you, I’ve heard so much about you from your dad.”

Angel really does start taking to Reiju as the day goes on, letting her hold her and talk to her more, your daughter even telling her she couldn’t wait to be a big sister too. It feels like the day goes by far too quickly, and Angel almost throws a fit when Reiju says she needs to leave, holding onto her and refusing to let go for you. Sanji crouches down to her level, giving her a smile.

“Sweetheart, we have to let aunt Reiju go now. She needs to go home.”

“Can she come back…?”

“If your dad is okay with it,” Reiju smiles and looks from Angel to Sanji, “I’d love to come back and see you all. And meet that little boy once he’s born.”

For a moment Sanji doesn’t say anything, but he nods and smiles softly at Angel.

“Yeah, she can come back.”

The three of you see Reiju off, Angel waving goodbye the whole time. You take Sanji’s hand and lean up to kiss his cheek, which he easily leans into.

“I’m proud of you, Sanji.”

[baahsu]

Just wanting to share a AU, do you mind? (It's a ASL brothers x Fem!Sanji AU)

Sanji is the fourth child of the King Judge and Queen Sora, also the second princess. But, she was considered a "failure" for not having the same habilities than her siblings (like, special habilities from the Royal Family), and because nothing make her powers appear, when she and her brothers made 19 years, Judge send her to live in a temple on a village far from the kingdom (against Sora's wish, of course).

She don't mind this as least, like, now she don't have to stand Judge! (Ichiji, Niji and Yonji are good here) But the place is... lonely, so Sanji sometimes wishes some company.

The temple is to worship the Sun God (Nika Luffy), and the Fire Gods (Nika Sabo & Ace). They are knowed to be siblings and prank anyone, but also help the ones who need. Because of how much they make pranks, no one lived in the temple for a good amount of time, making things boring.

Until, in a day during the spring, a blonde girl who seems to be in her's 19 years, appear and start to live here, taking care of the temple. The brothers are amused by her beauty and unique personality, watching her without really appear.

They just do it for more-or-less 1 year, before finally talking to her. At this point, they already are totally in love with her and, well... Want her as their godness, but they know it's better make her fall in love with them first.

Sanji is scared, but also surprised. Suddendly, three god's are always around her and courting her?! It's strange, but she's quickly to accept the new reality. At time pass, she ends up falling in love with them too.

Some time after she makes 21 years, the ASL confess to her, and she accepts them! This make they so happy that they started dating, they all just hug her during hours.

The three god's start to live with her, being her boyfriends. Until Sora, Reiju and Ichiji comes, saying that Reiju will be the queen soon and she will can be back to the castle, but Sanji reject this, saying that she's happy here.

The idea of their girlfriend going away and possibly having to marry some prince make them jeaolus, they don't want someone marrying their girl! But Sanji says “no, I will not go away! I love you three!” and this makes them soo happy, that they want to turn her into their godness right now.

And she lets them, she lets them make her their wife, queen and godness. She lets them make her theirs, body and soul, the three fucking her all night without any break (yes, they want her carrying a baby from them, or at least full of their cum). Making her wake up the next day without walk, but as happy as ever.

Tbh I don't ship sanji with ace and sabo, but I like that after reiju were to become queen sanji wasn't pressured to go back and could do what they wanted

[oneprompt]

hihi im the same person who asked for the cat devil fruit rq could i have the same scenario (gender neutral or fem reader im ok w both) but with reiju and aokiji? ty<3!!

authors note : why of course you can request that , doll <3 i havent written for aokiji much , so , i hope this is enough ..

Kuzan Aokiji x F! Cat Devil Fruit! Reader Headcanons

- It's not a surprise that Aokiji would love cats, especially an s/o who can turn into one! He's a man who greatly appreciates the world of comfort and laziness, taking naps whenever he can. So, having an s/o who’s in the same wave length as him is definitely a plus, when it comes to dating.

- Expect a lot of cat related pick up lines and stuff.. Aokiji is a ladies man, he looooves ladies. So, he’s bound to have the perfect lines written down for every genre of girl. Not that he’ll be needing any of the other ones now ..... Anywho, Aokiji is the type of guy to say the dumbest stuff with the most confident smirk on his face. Whether thats calling you “purrfect” or explaining how he’s “kittened (smittened) by you.”

- Probably teases you over your devil fruit, especially infront of others. Especially if you’re trying to be serious, Aokiji will be sure to tease you. He’ll look at you, swatting his hand like he’s a kitty, maybe pair it with a meow. You want to be mad, but all you get is flustered. And Aokiji is just... He’s just too cute! You just... can’t get mad at him.

- Aokiji is probably super protective of you. You’re already such a cute little thing, and your devil fruit only amplifies that. He’s the type to assume you need protecting. Aokiji is aware of how strong zoan users can be, but with that model... he’s not very sure. He’ll want to help get you stronger. I mean, it’d ease his mind to know you’ll be safe, even if he’s not there. Aokij loves you too much to let anyone even land a scratch on you.

- Aokiji loooves petting you, regardless of if you’re in your full fledged cat form or just your normal self. He’ll pet your head, singing out praises about how beautiful you are, how much he wants you, how he loves you so. He loves the faces you make when you’re embarrassed, so so much. Something about seeing you all blushy makes him feel a ton of things.

- He lets you lay on his lap aaaall the time. It doesn’t matter if Aokiji is just lounging around, doing paper work, his lap is reserved just for you! If Aokiji is doing his work, that’ll be quickly discarded to the end of your shared bed. You’re too much for him to just ignore for some stupid paper work. Wouldn’t you agree?

Reiju x F! Cat Devil Fruit! Reader Headcanons

- Reiju is fascinated by you and your devil fruit. Unlike her brothers, she doesn’t care much for ways she can exploit a persons powers and what not. She just thinks its cute and a tad bit silly. She doesn’t know very much people, let alone zoan users. So, Reiju is always eager to learn new things about you.

- She’s the type to constantly take pictures of you. Even if you’re doing the most mundane things, Reiju is quick to snap a polaroid. Her big sister side slips out sometimes, making her smother you with endless praise and take such mom-like photos of you. Its odd... Who knew such a deadly woman could be such a softy?

- Reiju gives you lots and lots of kisses. She likes expressing her love through her lips, whether in the form of compliments or kisses. If you ever close up from all of her love, Reiju just finds that even more endearing. She just adores shy people!

- If you ever meet her brothers, Reiju is sure to give them a harsh kick in the head if they say anything mean to you. Blood won’t stop her from defending her precious Y/n! In fact, nothing stops her from doing so. If a person says something mean, she’ll whip a composed insult at them. Or if somebody is trying to hurt you, Reiju lets her germa blood course through her, throwing the upmost painful beatings the harassers way. Nobody gets away with hurting you, not on her watch!

- Reiju smothers you in gifts. Like, all the time. She’s from a background of money, so, buying gifts is always a treat. She’ll buy you new dresses, any cute accessories you’ve been wanting and even cat toys! Reiju doesn’t mean to tease when she buys these, but she can’t complain about the adorable reactions she gets from you, seeing you huff and puff. Reiju knows you’ll always be eager to play with new toys, even if you try to hide it.

- Reiju is grateful for your lazy nature, as it helps her explore a new lifestyle. She’s used to training, fighting, attending royalty events, all that jazz. So, to finally be able to lay down and relax without a single care in the world is nice. You remind her to take time for herself, to engage in some self care. And Reiju is eternally thankful you introduced her into this slow paced world. She likes it much better then the germa life she lived...

[darthchic]

Whole Cake Island Arc - 7.5/10?

Felt like rating and writing about this arc, just to get it straight in my head how I feel about it. 

I wanna give it a higher rating, just from the pure emotions it gave me, especially since Luffy and Sanji are my two favourite One Piece characters, and I’d never really appreciated their relationship this much until now, but I’m with a lot of other critics who were displeased with the torturingly (that a word?) slow pacing in certain chapters. That really hurt (probably still not as bad as Dressrosa’s pacing though). To be fair, the pacing was really only bad during some sections of the Seducing Wood chapters, and then during the chapters 871-886 (til they finally got that damn cake moving!) The Seducing Wood chapters were saved by the Sanji backstory/family reveals, that stuff was great, but I never really cared about the Luffy vs Cracker fight. For me, anime fights can be pretty hit or miss since a lot of the time you feel like you already know who’s going to win, and since this fight occurred quite early on in the arc, it was a foregone conclusion that Luffy was going to win. I mean, what, he’s gonna lose, die and not meet Sanji? Pffft! I just wasn’t invested, but the Sanji stuff = Awesome. Everything between Chapters 844-870, I really loved/enjoyed, but then all the running away, making the cake, running away, and still making that damn cake!!!! ….Feels like that could have been shortened down somewhat, just saying. And I’m pretty sure a lot of other fans got frustrated in the same way as well.

I wasn’t even comforted by the Luffy vs Katakuri fight. I don’t know why. I like Katakuri, really like him, emphasis on like, but I didn’t get into the major hype of his character. I couldn’t tell you why, but I do wish I loved him as much as other fans do. It’s not fair!!! T_T

But maybe this is why I’m not too bothered by the outcome of their fight either, lack of investment. People seemed really angry over the way the fight ended, but I was just glad that it didn’t drag out much longer. I am pretty happy though, after reading Chapter 902, that there’s an implication that Katakuri may have slightly let Luffy win. (Seriously, I really do like Katakuri, the guy’s cool and I respect the dude.) A part of me did want Luffy to either lose or have the fight end ambiguously cause there’s only so many times in fiction where you see this supremely badass character get super hyped up, made to seem undefeatable, only to have the protagonist beat them through sheer willpower or friendship. That’s something that turned a lot of people off ‘Fairy Tail’ after all. Oda can usually pull off these kinds of fights without us rolling our eyes, and the Luffy vs Katakuri was decent, I guess I’m saying that if I had a chance to change things, I would have the fight play out mostly the same but to have the victor be a mystery (and eventually revealed in a later chapter), just to avoid too much major salt. Or, have Katakuri about to win, having Luffy at his mercy, only to let him leave because he really does know (or hint to know) that Luffy will become Pirate King, and he doesn’t want to interfere with that particular awesome future! But only I’d probably be satisfied with that ending.

I do like, for the most part how the arc ended. I’ve seen some people say that there’s a lot of loose ends left, but the only one that really bugs me is the threat against Zeff’s life/The Baratie. Are we to assume that they’re safe now? I don’t know why. All the way back in Chapter 852(?) I was scratching my head when even Reiju was telling Sanji that he doesn’t need to worry about Zeff or the Baratie, but why not? Big Mom was the one threatening Zeff’s life, right? And as we’d seen from a later Chapter (860 I think?), even some small time criminal that had been invited to the Tea Party and couldn’t attend had his father’s decapitated head sent to him (the scene was made into an even bigger deal in the anime), so why did anyone think that Sanji, the groom, running away from the wedding, wouldn’t have to face repercussions? And especially now that he was involved in an assassination attempt on her life, why would the extremely petty Big Mom let this go? Like for real, this all bothers me!!! Maybe it will still get brought up, and result in Sanji going to see Zeff again? Telling him to go into hiding or something? If this little thread is picked up again in any way, I think I’d be happy, cause I clearly can’t just sweep this under the rug.

One other major thing that a lot of people seem pissed about this arc is Sanji himself. Of course it’s the usual shebang: “Sanji is Lanji”, “Sanji be taking more Ls!”, “Sanji didn’t do anthing this arc!”, “Sanji was useless”, and so on and so forth. It’s annoying yet also hilariously ironic. To me, I would not be surprised if Oda based Vinsmoke Judge and Sanji’s brothers on all the fans that constantly rag on Sanji’s character. Look at Chapter 899 for Gawd’s sake, Judge says things like, “Sanji is worthless!”, “Sanji is weak!”, “All he does is cook!”, “He’s good for nothing!” and I swear these are the exact negative things that people have been saying about him. And they can’t see the bloody irony! For me, this arc, or the year of Sanji, was a tribute to Sanji’s character/values, not his fighting ability. We already know he’s an awesome fighter, why does he need to prove this again? Besides, he’s a Love Cook first, a fighter second. If he were given the choice between never cooking or never fighting again, which do you think he’d choose?

And besides, I don’t understand why anyone thinks that Sanji did nothing useful. Or didn’t achieve any wins. Here’s a list: Saved his friends from Bege & Co. (This may have happened before the arc officially started, but I’m still counting it), Discovered he’s in fact the ‘Success’ of his family rather than the ‘failure’ that his shitty family (and shitty fans) labelled him, Using just his sheer ‘Sanji-ness’ to prevent a bloodthirsty girl from murdering him, Saving his family/abusers and proving he’s a better man than his father (which we already knew anyway), Pioneering a cake that stopped Big Mom from completely destroying the Sunny, killing his friends and killing islands of people, and thanks to him being awesome and saving his family in the first place, he and Luffy got away from the Big Mom Pirates with their lives. Germa couldn’t have had their moment and swooped in to save the day if he hadn’t swooped in and saved them to begin with. To me, it feels like Oda really wanted to show Sanji’s kindness and passion for cooking saving the day, instead of him just using brute force/fighting ability, which someone like Judge prized above all else, but it’s Sanji’s ‘weak and useless’ qualities that come in the most handy in the end. So again, just seeing these certain fans act like real-life versions of Judge…. You just gotta facepalm man. Well done you guys (you know the ones), you would make great best friends with a man whose chin looks like a set of testicles.

So yeah, it’s really frustration that brings the rating down for me on this arc, and also wishing a few things here and there were written a little differently. It’s definitely an arc that everyone has differing opinions about, it’s not a universally loved arc like ‘Ennies Lobby’ or ‘Marineford’, or even a rather hated one like the ‘Fishman Island” arc. I’m still hoping we’ll get more discussion between the Straw-Hats about the Sanji beating Luffy incident, and I wanna know if Sanji’s face has healed or if he’s still wearing that mask. Only time will tell. Well, perhaps around May-time will tell, since we are technically on break now, right?

[onepiecefeatstuff]

The Wedding |Sanami June Bride 2017|

Planning a wedding is never an easy task. Much less if it’s a wedding between well-known pirates. And if those pirates are Nami and Sanji, the perfectionist couple, well… It’s a challenge.

The first few months were just perfect. They agreed on everything, and they seemed to want the same thing. Sanji agreed to hold the ceremony in Nami’s village, Cocoyashi; and Nami insisted that Zeff should be in charge of the catering. They would have the best of their both worlds. They arranged the menu, the venue, the seating… Everything went beyond perfection.

However, as time passed by, the tension started growing. They wouldn’t have the blue and orange bouquet they wanted, and Nami had to give up and choose an orange-themed one: orange Asiatic lilies, yellow roses and hypericum berries. It was beautiful, but it wasn’t as perfect as she dreamed it to be. Of course, the disappointed face from her beloved fiancée was easy to detect to Sanji, and that painful expression stuck with him for months, even though Nami assured him she was fine.

“I know it’s fine” Sanji told her, placing his hand on her cheek for comfort “But it’s not perfect. And you deserve perfection.”

Nami let out a sad smile. “It’s just a bouquet. Everything else will be perfect, I guarantee.”

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t. There were lots of tiny details that went wrong, but just big enough for them to worry. Whether it was the dress, the tuxedo, the decoration or the ice sculpture that Franky intended to build them (although nobody asked for it); they were in constant tension. That tension intensified during the last weeks, and for the last days, they couldn’t even look at each other without arguing. The love bubble they rebuilt for the first months of wedding planning was falling apart.

“I’m telling you, Navy will be a much better color” Sanji said, extending a color palette of blue tones and pointing at the one he had mentioned.

“We won’t have Navy when we can have Admiral instead” Nami insisted, pointing at her color of choice.

“Navy? Admiral? Where?” Zoro asked, still confused by the whole situation.

“They’re arguing about freaking colors. They have been like this the whole morning” Franky informed him. “If you ask me, I would choose Cerulean.”

“No one asked for your opinion!” the couple yelled at the same time, and for the first time in the week, they laughed.

“Well, at least we know they’re meant to be” Usopp comented “But I still think those two colors look the same.”

“I like the one that Sanji doesn’t.” Zoro said, crossing his arms. “Just because.”

In the end, they chose Azure. With help from their respective mediators (Luffy and Robin), they survived without killing anyone. They wouldn’t kill each other, but the others weren’t as safe. When they finally got to Cocoyashi, Nojiko and Genzo were waiting in the port.

“Nami’s sister!” Luffy greeted her, with a big hug “And Nami’s weird man!”

Fortunately, Genzo didn’t hear that comment. He was too busy examining Sanji from head to toes.

“So you’re the man who’s marrying my d… My Nami.” He finally said, extending his hand. Sanji took it, and they shook hands.

“It’s an honor to meet you officially” Sanji said, with a truthful smile “I’m afraid the last time we saw each other we didn’t have much time for formalities.”

Genzo gave him a pat in the shoulder, and he declared himself satisfied. Sanji seemed like a good guy and he clearly had manners. He was almost good enough for his… Nami. The bride-to-be hugged both her sister and Genzo before running to the house, with Chopper carrying endless bags and boxes.

“Is that considered animal torture?” Usopp wondered, but no one dared to answer. Only Robin and Nojiko followed Nami and Chopper, because the navigator had specifically ordered that no one could go and disturb the peaceful rest she needed. Of course, she was so scary that not even Zoro argued.

“Okay folks, now it’s time to build a SUPER wedding venue!” Franky exclaimed, and gave a hand-five to Luffy. That enthusiasm soon passed on the rest, and they spent the day organizing tables and seats and leaving everything immaculate; and went to bed early. They had to rest before the big day.

At sunrise, Nami was already awake. She had never been the kind of person who sleeps a lot, that special power belonged to Zoro; but she knew better than to wake up that early. She was cursing herself for knowing better and still couldn’t help it but to stress. That tension was what woke her up, it was like a sudden shot of adrenaline took over her body. She couldn’t think straight, and she didn’t want to move because she didn’t want her friends to wake up too, but she suddenly felt the urge to pee.

She cursed herself over and over as she silently moved on her way to the bathroom. Why did she have to be so insecure? This wasn’t her. She wasn’t the nervous type, she was the furious one. Then why did her knees get so weak every time she thought about the wedding? It was her wedding, after all. There were no marines, no other pirates. Just people that loved and supported her. There was nothing to fear, right?

When she made her way to the bedroom again, she felt a strange presence. A whisper made her jump in surprise, as a shadow that she recognized perfectly came towards her.

“Robin” she whispered, feeling her muscles relaxing “You scared me to death!”

The archeologist just smiled in the dark “That would have been fun, wouldn’t it?” Nami supposed she was trying to make some joke, but her humor was usually too dark for her. Still, she let out a tiny smile.

“Did you forget to drink your midnight tea or what is it?” she asked her friend, pointing at the clock in the wall. It was five am.

“It’s my job as a bridesmaid to keep an eye on the bride” she just responded. “Are you doubting about the wedding? I’ve always thought that dress of yours is good for a runaway bride.”

“What? No!” Nami rushed to say, an octave higher than she wanted to sound. She lowered her tone again, afraid that it would wake up anyone else “I love Sanji, you know I do. And I want to marry him. It’s just…”

“Well if it’s not you or him, I don’t see any problem. It’s just irrational fear, don’t let it stop you.”

“It’s not that easy!” Nami complained “You don’t react to fear the way that I do. You are always so confident and fearless… I wish I could be like that.”

“If you were exactly like me, you wouldn’t have fallen in love with someone like Sanji. You complement each other, and like you said, you love him. And he loves you. The wedding is just another way to announce your love to everyone who cares about you.”

Nami took a deep breath. She knew Robin was right, and her words were such a good comfort. The knot in her stomach was putting less and less pressure, and she felt way more calm than just a few minutes ago. Everything had to be alright.

“Now since we have lots of time… Do you want to start preparing yourself? The others aren’t going to wake up for at least one more hour, but maybe you could use a shower to clear your thoughts.”

Nami smiled at Robin and gave her a big hug. “You really are an amazing maid of honor.”

“I take my job seriously. Now get in that shower and let me handle everything.”

For the first time in forever, Nami was the one following orders instead of being the one who made them. It was a silly, foolish command, but it kept her busy for a while; and she stopped stressing over things she couldn’t control. She could never change the fact that her mother wouldn’t be in her wedding, but she had Nojiko and amazing friends by her side. She couldn’t change Sanji’s family either, but she realized she didn’t need to. The Sunny was their home, and their nakamas were their true family. Although that didn’t stop her to invite Reiju, knowing that Sanji would be glad to see her.

Chaos came back to her mind a few minutes before the wedding. She was already dressed up, and looking at her reflection in the mirror, she knew she couldn’t have asked for more. It wasn’t the first wedding dress she wore, of that she was certain, but it was the best so far. It was, for the first time, her dress: the one she picked up, and not chosen by some imbecile who tried to take advantage of her. It made her feel like a princess. Her heart didn’t have any doubts… But the noise around was driving her crazy.

“You look so beautiful” her sister whispered in her ear, and the voice felt foreign to her. It was as if she wasn’t even there. Nojiko kept talking “Mom would have been really proud of who you’ve become, and she would be the first to cheer up today. She would have been the drunkest of them all, but that’s who she was, right?”

Suddenly, her voice cracked, and the two sisters found themselves wiping each other’s tears.

“Don’t you dare cry or you’ll ruin your makeup” Nojiko told Nami with a laugh. Nami wiped the rest of her tears and smiled.

“Okay” she said, looking at her reflection. “But I’m not doing it because you told me so.”

“I know, I know” Nojiko went along, giving her a pat on the shoulder. “Now get out there and be the best bride of them all, or else!”

“I’ve met scarier people than you, you know that right?” Nami teased her sister, and unwrinkled her dress.

“She’s talking about me” Reiju walked in, surprising the women in the room. She took the bouquet and handed it to Nami “Go and make my brother the happiest man on earth. He deserves it.”

Nami smiled and gave her a little hug “I know he does” she mouthed “But why is everyone pushing me to the entrance? I mean the music has not even started pla…” There wasn’t any time for her to finish that sentence since she had to eat her words, because the wedding march started to sound right after.

Now the girls were staring at her, and they looked like they were about to physically push her if she didn’t move soon. Nami put her hands up in a gesture of surrender and started to make her way to the aisle. Genzo was waiting for her, and she joined her on her march.

“Thanks for doing this” she told him, resting her head on his shoulder. “It really means a lot.”

“It’s my pleasure, my dear” Genzo told her, and let her go. They had already reached the aisle without her even noticing, and suddenly, she was facing Sanji. His soon-to-be-husband. It still didn’t feel real.

“You look gorgeous” Sanji mouthed, but he didn’t say it in his usual tone. He didn’t have heart eyes, he wasn’t trying to be flirty… He had the biggest smile on his mouth, and his eyes were shining like the blue sky.

“We are gathered here today to unite Sanji and Nami in a fusion…” Luffy started, trembling with the words. Maybe he wasn’t the best choice to officiate a wedding, but he was the captain after all. “In a fusion called marriage. It’s not like a real fusion for what Robin told me, so it’s not as amazing as everyone expects it to be. I’m sorry for that.”

“Cut the crap and hurry up” Nami pressured him, by giving him a discreet elbow.

“Okay” he grinned “As the captain of the best crew in the world, I now pronounce you…”

“We’ve got to say ‘I do’ first, Luffy” Sanji mumbled.

“Oh! I forgot about that!” Luffy exclaimed, making everyone laugh. “So Nami do you want to marry Sanji?”

“I do.” Nami pronounced, putting the ring in Sanji’s finger. She was smiling like a little girl, and Sanji had to correct himself: she wasn’t just gorgeous, she was radiant.

“And Sanji do you want to marry Nami?” Luffy asked him, bringing him back to earth. “That’s a silly question though, we all know he wants to.”

“It’s all I’ve ever wanted.” Sanji agreed with him, but Luffy wasn’t convinced with that answer. He couldn’t proceed until the exact words were said, so Sanji rushed to answer “I do.”

“I pronounce you husband and wife!��� he said with his big characteristic smile “Now you can kiss, but don’t make it too gross please. It’s already bad enough when you’re making out in the kitchen.”

If that was a normal situation, Nami would have smack him down. But with a ring in her finger and her whole life ahead of her, she couldn’t think of any response. She didn’t care, actually. The only thing she wanted to do was to kiss her husband, and that would make her life to make sense again.

“I’m the luckiest man that’s ever existed” Sanji said, getting closer to her “I’m sorry it wasn’t your dream wedding.

“Shut up and lift me over the ground” she told him with a laugh “It’s perfect. Now let’s make it gross.”

“Your wish is my command, my beloved wife” he said with a little reverie, and took her bridal style.

Luffy had to close his eyes when they kissed, but Usopp told him later that it was a very long and deep kiss, although he wouldn’t know when it ended since he had to close his eyes too when they started making out. Either way, it was a wedding to remember.

[monkeydluffy19920]

Chapter 862 re-reviewed

Somehow it just felt that I overreacted to yesterday’s newest chapter and didn’t think clearly enough while scribbling so decided to read the chapter again with patience and re-write the review again after a break. So here we go, take 2: 

There might be some old things but also something new in this re-review but anyways the chapter begins from inside the Capone (sounded so wrong) where Luffy is still fast asleep and the retrieval team is almost running out of time with their plan and the tension is real because Luffy is important part of the plan. Now after re-reading the chapter it’s almost mind blowing to see that when Jinbe tries to wake Luffy up he does not talk and question about leaving the plan but leaving Sanji. Not a minor detail but I have a feeling that this reflects to the fact that Jinbe knows after the Ace incident how much Luffy values his friends and uses this fact as a way to trying to wake him up instead of blaming him to ruin the plan or something (wow this sentence could’ve written simplier but I guess you know what I mean) Elsewhere Sanji is still wearing that ero kappa-face and having some difficulties to not to fall into the beauty trap and Pudding clearly is preparing for the assassination. The wedding cake is finally brought in front of everyone and the pair prepares to change their wedding wows.  Besides digging into the wedding cake with passion Big Mom has also other plans in her mind, to kill Vinsmokes and as we remember, only Reiju is aware of Pudding’s plan and preparing herself to die, I guess she unfortunately still thinks that she and they deserve it. “Somehow” BM made their table located so that they are quite  surrounded by Charlotte siblings of course so it’s harder for them to escape but still, doesn’t Judge really doubt anything? I mean he is a big name in underworld and even though I don’t know much about mafia stuff I bet the betrayals there are something that happens every once in a while so this is why I wonder that why Judge isn’t at least a bit doubtful but well he is so focused on his ambitions so maybe that’s why he is so trustful. Well, if you ask me, Sanji’s brothers are still douches which makes me want to see Luffy getting furiously mad at them because brotherhood for him is everything and seeing how badly Sanji has been treated would be a plausible excuse for that…

By the way what is that cake made of?! it can easily hold on 3 adult people and I’m not saying they are overweghted or anything but that’s still quite a lot to hold onto but well on the other hand since that cake is huge anyways it needs some supportive stuff :D And yup there they stand as cake toppings meanwhile the retrieval team is rushing to fulfill their plan. I am not now dropping this following comment just because I happen to be a huge sanami trash but still I bet that every single of them are in a great worry whether they will make it in time but somehow I could imagine Nami being the most worried one. Why I’m feeling like this is because she knows personally how it feels to see someone dear shot in front of their eyes and that’s why she would prefer ths plan to work before another close person is gone (traumas about Bellemere’s death must’ve haunted her ever since Sanji flashed that “don’t worry”-smile when they separated)

Then the unexpected happens and Katakuri foresees Pudding falling to the ground and the reason is exlpained immediately. Pudding finally reveals the third eye for the whole world and Sanji is flinched immediately BUT instead of getting disgusted he suddenly drops a compliment that eye and Katakuri’s prediction hit the nail on the top. Yup, all I can say is that even though Sanji has his ero kappa-side he also has this sensitive gentleman-side of his and it seems that Sanji really has some heart to give empathy even for those who have betrayed him and if this is the real Pudding we see now, he surely forgave woman’s lies again and like my mate @k-nico-robin said, if anyone was expecting a fight between Sanji and Pudding then it’s clear who won. Sanji beat a(nother) enemy of opposite sex with simple kindness which for me indicates that despite his ero-kappa-side he seriously has the heart of gold. 

To be honest I was all hyped up to see a epic attempt of murder by Pudding with her badass gun but it seemed that Sanji (accidentally?) hit her weak point pretty hard. I think my mate @pernanegra summed up this very well here. Pudding might’ve had psycho tendencies when she was a kid which were triggered because of the bullying  BUT whatever your past is just shedding tears doesn’t make you immediately a good and reliable person.  ( Hope you don’t mind that I quoted  your words) 

Also this plot twist and Pudding’s story is still really conflicting and my mate @cintanna​ brought really good points here. It indeed feels a bit confusing that a character that has waited so eagerly to murder someone and has no trouble on smiling in middle of a shooting incident or chases other kids with a stab as a kid would suddenly break down because of kindness of a man whom she’d barely known for days.  To be honest her memories makes me wonder what in the world is going on between Pudding and her mother. Pudding says her mother despised her because of her outlooks. This is rather odd because isn’t one of Big Mom’s dream is to have utopia without discrimination? Secondly it feels really conflicting to hear that Big Mom would despise her daughter because the yonko has her weird collection of animals and she did kind of “fell in love” with Brook and “adopted” him as her doll. People are now also discussing about how BM has gotten so many kids and she must’ve had lots of sex but there is also a possibility that she could have also just used some help of medication or other ways to reproduce (remember that Rouge carried Ace in her womb for 20 months). Anyways Pudding inherits from a three eye clan and another thing why Pudding’s speech keeps me on my toes is that we’ve seen how these two characters have interacted before, at least in my eyes Big Mom did not show any disgust towards the third eye or demanded her to cover it and 35th daughter of the Charlotte family was portrayed as Big Mom’s favorite (Big mom might be controllable for example when she chose the wedding dress for Puddin but still I don’t see tension between them but well I might be blind.  Then we shall also not forget Pudding’s DF, the ability to control memories and I tried to think whether this all has something to do with that and could it be that she has manipulated her own memories for the wedding day but this might be just overthinking and really really far fetched?  Also there is still a slight possibility that their mother-daughter- relationship is good but Pudding simply has become bored that Momma gives her the orders and she would like to do more desicions of her own. This is what’s been up in discussions as well the relationship between her and Lola that what if Pudding really wants to be free like her and breaking the plan without further warnings would be her escape route. 

Along with pernanegra’s thought my mate @namibean​ also brought a important thing up. Even if Pudding now appeared to be a fragile girl it still doesn’t mean everything is fixed (or swiped under the rug) between her and Sanji. I haven’t checked any forums because this chapter has for sure caused some shitstorm but I bet that there are some people who assume things are suddenly now more than alright and sugarcoated and they could even now become a dream pair but that’s not how the healthy relationships work in my opinion. People should not forget that Pudding has shot someone Sanji holds dear, his sister and also she lead the retrieval team to a trap which lead to further troubles. To be honest I don’t think those kind of things are easily forgivable with few tears and also the fact that she broke Sanji’s heart as well.  On top of that people tend to forget that Sanji never wanted marriage in first place so would he really just out of sudden turn his direction, just because he sees few tears? 

Yeah I will admit that I overreacted yesterday badly and I still am upset that if this is now the real Pudding then she kind of is slowly turning into a victim. I am definitely not  floccinaucinihilipilificating (yes that’s a official synonyme for underestimating, can you imagine xD?) Pudding’s past if she is speaking the truth because even common sense tells that bullying is never right and simply harms the person and in her case it could be her “weak spot”. Also if her mother didn’t depsise her it can still be possible that the others really did.

I can’t still say whether I am buying those tears or not because there are still too many gaps in that story that are mentioned above but anything can still happen. However, if this is now the truth then her story will remind too much of one other characters’ Sanji met in my opinion. In Dressrosa Sanji faced the similar pattern: meeting a damsel whom he falls in love with who later turns their back at him and then end up being good. Everything can still change but yeserday it really felt that Oda wasted great potential for her to become the greatest female villain written in the complete history of One Piece BUT like said, nothing is sure before she gets her introduction box. 

I still ponder whether this change of plot will affect on the rest of the retrieval team who came here to save only Sanji. This is a what if-scenario but it would be really hard for them if Pudding would beg for forgiveness from the others and what would be their reactions and aftermath? We are talking about a person who first mislead them and boldly told how she is going to shoot the groom an now she would be begging for forgiveness? 

This is why I personally doubt that Pudding would be even welcomed to join the Straw Hats. Things are simply so messed up and she is definitely partly to blame to because even if sh did betra her own family it still doesn’t erase everything she has done before.  BUT there is also one good aspect on this plot twist which @lovemizumikan​ brought up. If Pudding is speaking the truth now then it means that this is a valuable lession about the fact that no one should be discriminated because of their outlooks. I will salute Oda-sensei for this message even though otherwise I don’t agree with this since this character is already too conflicting. Before we move on I just want to add here one important thing. That even though me and many others are really disappointed in this twist of fate I really hope that no one gets attacked in their inbox for this because of this. I am referencing on the shipping wars because there is a serious troll problem among the fandom and in situations like this it wouldn’t be surprising if someone woud use their chance to beat the beaten so I hope that we can keep it civil !

Meawhile Pudding is crying because of Sanji’s pure kindness the rest of the Charlotte family are dumbfounded but making their move and Sanji barely dodges the bullet shot by Katakuri (that shooting reminded me from Mr 5 who shot his boogers like that) and gives a aggressive glare at the enemy. I kind of sense Katakuri vs Sanji battle but there are many others whom to fight with so won’t place my bets anywhere.  What I have to say I like a lot was that deadly glare Sanji gave. This is something I’ve been waiting for a lot, for him to slowly becoming his old self after all the unluck and misery. 

The gunshot brings chaos to everywhere because now Vinsmokes are aware of that it’s dangerous out there but also there are others who don’t know what they should do next and then Luffy makes the epic entrance he has ben hyping for, jumping out of the wedding cake ! ::DD (should kinda have known it was something like that because it’s Luffy ::DDddd)

… and so the war begins !

[monkeydluffy19920]

Late thoughts about chapter 853

So, after some waiting the newest chapter is out ! It was already couple of days ago and I wanted to write but was so tired and busy so here are some late thoughts about the chapter

First of all I’m kind of disappointed because I was expecting a epic battle of the “soul royals” but on the other hand it’s understandable choice from Oda to leave the main battle for later chapters. At least we can see our rock star being kept by BM and probably they didn’t fight at all, Momma wouldn’t be that cheery if they did right? 

Also, we don’t know yet if Brook managed with his task but I’ve seen some speculation that if he did success then he hid it inside his head. That would be very clever but also such a risk if BM found out that his head is openable and what would she do if she  also found the tone dial for Laboon?

I’m not sure what to think about BM, on the other she is kinda funny when she is acting like a giant kid with her overly happy atittude but on the other hand she is just crazy..  Wel anyways I’m kind of worried what’l happen to Brook because as we remember from chapter 847 Big Mom collects all kinds of creatures so our humming skeleton is now in danger to be added to ger crazy collection. It also seems like Prometheus, Zeus and Napoleon are party BM’s soul if I understood her (correct me if I’m wrong). 

Big Mom also flashed some informaton about her past. According to her comment she has been involved with the Pirate King Gol. D. Roger and apparentally isn’t happy about what happened. Talks about Roger using a strange power of “hearing all things” or to read raftels/poneglyphs made me think that if Luffy is kind of “parallel” to Roger then would it mean Luffy might have some kind of ability to do this as well? Well we know he was able to hear Sea Kings but reading poneglyphs is Robin’s ability so can it be that Luffy could do that to with the “Will of D.”? and if he could, would that make Robin’s “lifetime work and studying” and role among Straw Hats kind of into waste?  Well maybe I’m just exaggerating things and thinking too much so nevermind that. 

Pudding appears and meets Brook again. As I’ve complained a lot, we don’t know much about her yet but at least she is now in her “sweet girl”-self. It seems like she is heritage of some powerful tribe and Mama is waiting for her true powers to be revealed. I think there has been lots of talk about Pudding’s true power and there has also been lots of discussion that whether Pudding could be a sweet commander (here is one theory from OJ). It wouldn’t surprise if we found out how powerful Puddig actually is because she already showed much potential when she shot Reiju and edited her memories. What I wonder is though is that when she is being “nice Pudding” why does she always keeps her third eye hidden?

About Pudding in general who has caused again lots of talk. People want to still believe that she is good and yes, even though she is now pretty rotten to the core I still don’t count out the possibility that Pudding might change her side during or after the main battle of Whole Cake island (probably Straw hats form an alliance wih Vinsmokes to take BM down). The thing however is that Pudding already has let down not only Sanji but also the retrieval team and doesn’t show any signs of remorse. Therefore I am pretty sure it’s very hard for her to gain their broken trust back, especially if we think about the fact that Sanji happened to hear all the trash she was talking and that she also went to tell Luffy and Nami that someone is going to die in the tea party. 

Elsewhere Pedro keeps fighting against Viscount chick whom he slices easily and he drops some bombs around the enemies. Later he is dragged to mirror  world with Bropper’s team. They change the latest news with each other and start to look for the rest of the retrieval team with the help of the Carrot’s stylish caricature of their crew mates. It worked and mirrors start finally talk so tey cann move on ! (If we want some shipping perspective then we could think that Nami is looking at Sanji’s direction but so does Luffy, hehheh)

Then we have Luffy who is eager to find Sanji. It is kind of interesting how Luffy’s and Nami’s roles has been changing along this retrieval mission. First Nami was the one who pushed everyone forward but after they separated with Sanji with some hard feelings I think she kind of has “lost her battle spirit” and then we have Luffy who first took this case pretty easy going  but after their fight he started to become more determinated to bring him back where he really belongs.

I actually didn’t notice at the first time that it was Reiju who grabbed Luffy’s hand menwhile he was running around (only thought his hand got stuck into a door and Reiju helped him). Luffy is reckless and got men after him so Reiju did a good deed and helped him. This isn’t quite remarkble thing in general but I find it interesting that Luffy doesn’t pay attention if there is a woman with less clothing. Remember in last chapter when they were saved by the prison and Nami’s clothes were pretty much wrecked? Well Luffy didn’t care at all that her clothes were ripped off and even though she was probably changing near them he didn’t notice it or at least said a thing about it. Now he is facing Reiju who appears to wear only panties but the first thing Luffy sees is the bandaged wound. Maybe this isn’t the right time to talk about it but somehow these things make me become even more sure about the posibility that Luffy could actually be an asexual because of these things named above. (it would actually be interesting to see if there was another character like Zoro or Usopp meeting Sanji’s sister in same situation and how they would have reacted.  Chopper’s mind is still too innocent fo dirty thoughts so he is out of the counts)

They shortly discuss about the hostages and we know it’s the people from Baratie (since we saw Zeff’s pictue earlier) BUT what we don’t still know is Vito’s whisper that could be anything “ Actually we talked about this in OJ community and there wre guessings that what if the third threat has something to do with Nami? Again this topic is mentioned but one reason Sanji could be so stressed could be that maybe the Cocoyashi village would be under the knife (we know that at last is something from East Blue that could be linked to both Sanji and his other crew mates) but these are just guessings so nothing will be sure until more revealed. 

I must say that what I love about Luffy a lot beside his adorable smile and characteristics is that he is so unwavering when it comes down to trust in his nakamas. He warned Reiju about Pudding but now that he hears that they already know about her plans he becomes so relieved and doesn’t anymore search for him aimlessly. Even though this arc is far from over and nothing has been resolved actually he still trusts that the poneglyph is secured by Pedro and Brook and that Sanji is able to keep his promise with their help. 

It seems like Luffy will meet Sanji alone and that the importance of Nami’s comment about Luffy consuming energy more than average human (852) and that bento Sanji made in chapter 850 starts to become more and more significant. Because Sanji didn’t left the basket for Pudding so now it’s more possible that we see the moment we’ve been looking for, captain and cook meeting in that spot and Luffy getting fed by foods made by Sanji. This would and if if happens wil be very big moment for these two nakama :’)  

Sanji is now making some important desicions and it seems like he has made up his mind, telling tha he can’t go back anymore. I still despise Judge a lot and you can still see the hatred from his father who just thinks Sanji as a “sacrifice” of alliance, really annoying.... There are many interpretations about his words around the forums but I think he has decided to put an end to his all. Remeber his comment (from mangastream translations) back from chapter 843 “I’ll be the one... to take all this trash back to where they belong” and now he tells that there is no returning back. I think he wants to “finish what he has started” because he kind of needs to “make up” his mistakes (hurting Nami badly with rough words and hurting Luffy physically) for his crew mates. Also on OJ community it was really well written: Sanji is tired of running away from his problems. He got his freedom when Reiju offered him a chance to escape but did that erase anything? no, he has carried all these wounds for years and now he is facing similiar situation where he is again offered with an opportunity to leave behind. Now he has to choose whether to leave everything behind again with all the guilt of “killing his relatives”. (all the credits to fellow shipper who wrote this, hope you don’t mind I borrowed these thoughts !) 

(and ah I still love the following panel especially Nami’s expression  because it’s full of emotions !)  I find it very interesting choice from Oda that Sanji recalls Nami’s teary eyes, not that adorable smile she flashed when they met (but well he was in shock to see them back then) but still, this shows how much this slap of hers has affected him because he can’t forget that and how guilty he must feel after first giving her a fierce glare and then afterwards hurting her feelings deeply.    Then for Luffy there isn’t the one where he declares the hunger strike. Well he apparently thinks about the missing tooth but the main point is that he really regrets everything he did when he pushed his nakamas away.  

One interesting thing I forgot to mention in last review is that Oda has kept Nami and Luffy together as a team since they left from Zou but now that they got free from the prison they are now separated. It means that it’s very likely that Sanji will meet both of them separately which would be good because at least Nami and him will have to have a proper reconciliation. Of course Sanji and Luffy will have to talk things over too but somehow I have the feeling that it will be kind of easier because Sanji knows that Luffy forgives easily and of course he is ashamed to face his captain after all this turmoil.  Then when it comes down to Nami, I think that will require a lot from him as well. This is the very first time there is tension between these two so Sanji has to gather up some bravery and face also the woman he adores (and loves) a lot whom he hurt as well.  I’m looking forward to see how the reunions will be handled !