One Piece Fan Fiction ❯ Ruby's Story ❯ Chapter 2
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: valeries26 
Anime/Manga: One Piece Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Fantasy / Comedy / Adventure / Action | Type: Self Insertion | Uploaded On: 06.10.2012 | Pages: 3 | Words: 6.8K | Visits: 309 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: One Piece Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Fantasy / Comedy / Adventure / Action | Type: Self Insertion | Uploaded On: 06.10.2012 | Pages: 3 | Words: 6.8K | Visits: 309 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I don’t own One Piece, I do own Ruby and her family.
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Ruby looked down at the shirt. It was sticking to her like a second skin and outlined her boobs. Her nipples were hard little nubs. She blushed deep red as she bend down, crushing her knees to her chest. She couldn’t look up at the men. She heard footsteps and saw Sanji, Usopp, Zoro, and Luffy hit the deck, clutching some part of their head. Luffy was whining about something, Sanji had a heart eye with a heart shape eyebrow, Zoro was glaring at the other woman on the ship and Usopp was crying. Ruby felt a towel being wrapped her shoulders. She looked up. Nami had a pitiful look in her eyes. Ruby suddenly, felt like she did not need this woman’s pity.
Ruby stood up, dropping her towel to her left hand and walked to the panel. She climbed down and headed to the bedroom. The entire time, she held her head high.
Ruby stretched as she woke. She formed a small smile on her lips, thinking about the dream she had. It was about ending up in the world of One Piece. She had slipped onto the Going Marry and she had talked with both the cook - Sanji and the Captain - Luffy. She had also become their newest nakama. She rolled back over and fell out of bed. She hit the floor with a thud.
“Son of a biscuit eater!” she cursed. She pushed herself from the floor holding her chin. She blinked in the sunlight that shone directly in her face. She heard a scream of surprise and shock before she got hit again. This is in the back of the head and she face plated on the floor again. She groaned. “It’s too earlier in the morning to hit me, people.” Ruby looked at who her hit. She felt her jaw again. It was not a dream, not at all.
Nami was standing beside her, beat red. The door to their bedroom flew open and stood in the doorway were Sanji, Zoro, and Luffy. They turned red. Ruby had a bad feeling about this, but she looked down and saw bare skin. It was her turn to beat red. Suddenly, Ruby stood up and turned, facing the trio of men.
“GET OUT!” Ruby screamed while Nami screamed something in the native language. The men fled the doorway, possible heading back up to the deck. Ruby turned to the corner of the room where her book bag lay. She walked over, unzipped it, and peered inside.
A red towel was cramped in to the bag with a two piece swim suit. The contexts of the bag were a typical college student’s bag. She had two spiral bound notebooks with a pencil, pan, and a yellow highlighter attached to one of the notebooks. Two thick and heavy textbooks that looked brand new - thanks to her credit card. The laptop that every college should have - it helps out a lot when you have papers due and the professors won’t allow you write it out on paper - and it’s power cord was neatly wrapped together- another don’t forget.
Ruby grabbed her two piece swim suit, one of the large textbooks that read ‘Elementary Japanese’ and got dressed. Ruby suddenly got hit in the head for the third time this morning. After setting the textbook down, she reached up and grabbed a white t-shirt and a blue skirt. She looked up at Nami, but the woman left already. She shrugged and slipped into the clothes. She put the textbook and left the women’s quarters, heading upstairs.
Luffy was sitting on the ram’s head, looking out to the sea and Zoro was lifting a weights. Ruby felt her jaw dropped and she stared at the weight. She could not believe Zoro at the moment, lifting four or five of the round weights that weight almost between 100 to 500 pounds each.
The door for the kitchen swung open and Sanji came out. He wore basically the same thing he did the previous day. He opened his mouth then he caught sight of Ruby and his eye flew to the shape of a heart and started spring out and in.
“Ruby-chwan!” Sanji called out. That caught everyone attention on deck. Zoro stopped at what he was doing, to Ruby’s much disappointment. Luffy spun around and cheered. “Your breakfast is ready, belle.”
“Thank you, Sanji,” Ruby replied. She headed up the stairs to the kitchen. Sanji called out something and Luffy cheered. Ruby walked between the kitchen building and the railing when a stretchy arm whizzed past. She turned her head and her eyes flew wide. Luffy was sailing toward her. She held up of textbook and stepped her left foot back to balance her weight with his. Luffy crashed into her. They went flying back into the kitchen wall.
When the dust settled, Luffy’s head popped up from the pile of broken wood. Suddenly, he went flying out of the kitchen. The crew followed the captain’s progress through air until he hit the white railing then turned to see Ruby climbing out of the pile, growling.
“That hurt, BAKA!” Ruby yelled. Her hair has small pieces of wood tangled in places, her clothes was dusty. She had some blood traveling down her right side of her face.
“Oi!” Sanji cried out and walked over to the captain. “BAKA!” He began to yell at Luffy while stomping on him. Ruby bent down, grabbed the textbook and walked over to the table. She slipped into her seat between Nami and Usopp and grabbed the plate that housed pancakes. She tossed a few on there and set the plate down before grabbing a few sausage rolls and a spoon full of scrambled eggs. She reached again for some toast, jam, and milk. She spread the jam over her toast and poured herself a glass of milk.
Ruby’s actions spurred the crew to grab what they want before the bottomless pit got a hold of it. Ruby opened the textbook on her lap, reading as she ate. Sanji let Luffy up and he attacked the leftover food. He was reaching and grabbing food from everyone plates except for Ruby. Ruby meanwhile was engrossed in learning the language of Japanese.
‘The day was boring’ Ruby thought half way through the day as she finished working on the end of chapter problems. She learned various foods, and greeting between friends and not friends. She was planning to practice during lunch with the crew. Ruby looked up as Sanji walked out of the dining room. “Lunch, Sanji-chan?” Ruby spoke in their language for the first time. Sanji started his noodle dance, Usopp accidentally dropped his invitation, Zoro paused in his afternoon workout and Luffy spun his head her way. Nami looked impressed.
“Hai, Ruby-chwan.” Sanji purred. Ruby grabbed Nami’s hand and raced up the stairs to get there before the captain did. The rest of the crew snapped out of their stupor and followed the women’s example. Luffy blinked in surprise and realized that Ruby had said something about lunch being done.
“Oi!” Luffy yelled. Everyone heard him and laughed. Lunch was uneventful. Luffy again stole food from everyone’s plate except for Ruby’s. The crew noticed this, but Ruby didn’t.
Nothing really happen till that night when Nami had noticed something, everybody was in an uproar. Sanji noticed Ruby’s confusion and translated for her.
“We are spending the night on a Mirror ball island,” Sanji said. Ruby punched the air while giving a squeal of excitement.
“Finally I get shop for some clothes,” Ruby cheered. Sanji’s eye went to a heart and he did his noodle dance. Ruby started to inch away from him slowly. Sanji was not a bad guy, but just when he did that, it unnerved her and made her want to hide. On top of that, it was alright if he did every once in a while, but around her, it happen too often. Ruby saw Zoro working out, using weights again. She sighed. ‘Did that man ever stop working out?’ She thought as she started to wonder over to him, but saw Luffy sitting on the ram’s head again. She headed in that direction instead. “Luffy-chan,” Ruby said as she began to climb on to the ram’s head. He turn to face her. “Why you haven’t talk to me since last night?”
“I don’t want everyone knowing I was able to talk in different languages.” Luffy explained. Ruby nodded.
“Do you how to speak English?” Ruby asked as she sat down beside him.
“Yup,” Luffy said. “That’s one of the languages of the world government and the highest royals.”
“Really,” Ruby said with surprise in her voice, “How come?”
“I think it’s because the royals are too stringy with certain knowledge in the world,” Luffy said, looked to the ocean. “People in the new world speak English, too.”
Ruby’s attention was caught at the phase “New World”. She had heard of it while watching One Piece, but she had no real knowledge of the place. She knew about what year it was here, 1142 or something like that. She knew it was not her world’s past. She already read the history book for the world history class.
“What is the new world?” Ruby asked.
“I don’t know,” Luffy admitted. He tilted his head to the side. He stared forward. Ruby giggled and also stared forward. They were slowly approaching an island with huge speakers that seemed to be built in to the side of a mountain. Ruby sat there speechless and awed the beauty of golden speakers.
“We are here,” Ruby muttered. She knew something will happen on this island. She forgot what though. It was something about Jango and dancing. She did know one thing thought. Tonight was going to be fun as Luffy helped her to stand and held her hand as she hopped down from the ram’s head.
Night had fallen as the Straw Hat Pirates stepped on to land. Nami was chatting about something. Ruby knew from the anime and magna, Nami was thinking of ways to steal gold from people. They stood together, looking up and down the street when a strange man went running pass them.
He wore dark, lime green pants, white shirt, and a long blue trench coat with gold trimming. He had heart shaped sunglasses that covered his eyes. A matching blue hat sat upon his head. He had a beard that reminded Ruby of the Kings of Ancient Egypt, but this man had it in two different colors, red and black. His hair was a dark blond. Jango.
That was Ruby saw of him before he raced by. Following him were men in white, loose, tank tops with blue designs on it. They all were wearing blue pants and pair of shiny black shoes--- Marines.
She heard Luffy said a name and Usopp replied with a comment. Nami said something while walking away. Ruby had a bad feeling about this and slowly began to walk as she kept an eye on the Marines that just ran passed. She noticed one of them stopped and reached into his jacket, pulling out a paper. He looked at it then turned around to view Luffy. He shouted a word that Ruby knew had to mean “Straw-Hat!” The Marines lost interest in chasing Jango and decided that Straw-hat Pirates was less of a chase.
“Run!” Ruby screamed as she twisted around and started to run away from the marines. Everyone made a comment except for Ruby and she was too busy running to understand them. She fell in line behind Sanji and in front of Zoro as Nami lead them away from the Marines that were giving chase. Ruby was silently cursing her luck the entire time. They were not even on the Mirror ball Island for an hour and Luffy’s reputation already was getting them into trouble. Nami lead up stairs and around tight corners till they came to dead stop at a drop off. Luffy was not paying attention and pushed them off. Nami flew off first, followed by Sanji, Ruby and Zoro before Usopp and Luffy followed.
Ruby saw they were going to land on a huge mirror ball like the one back home on New Years’ Eve countdown. She winced as she heard Luffy cry out “Gum Gum no Fuusen!” she groaned as she felt her body shoot forward and she followed Nami, Sanji and Usopp, hitting the huge ball before she saw Zoro land on his feet. They all shoot to their feet and tried to run up the ball. Luffy hit the ball. Ruby never felt so like a bug before now. She knew she had to grab Luffy’s shirt before he flew away.
Luffy bounced off the ball. The ball swung in the opposite direction of Luffy and Ruby grabbed a hold of Luffy’s red vest. Ruby reached out to Zoro. He grabbed her hand and the crew formed a chain as they flew through the air.
“One!” Someone yelled in a microphone while swinging a ring. “Two!” Ruby and the crew bounced off of Luffy. “Jango!”
‘Huh,’ Ruby first though, but when music started to blast from the speakers. She felt her body started to dance as if she was a puppet. She looked at the others and saw they were having the same problem. Ruby led the way dancing back to the ship. She did leap, twirls, and bunch of dancing moves she had seen back home while the crew followed her example. Ruby wished she could stop to actually run as she heard the roof where the huge ball was attached at broke apart. She knew the roof will fall in at any moment. It did as they were climbing abroad the ship. One by one, they fell to the deck, panting.
Seagulls flew over head as Ruby lay back, enjoying her sunbath. She just got done with chapter 3 of her Japanese textbook. Sanji had supplied her with a cold drink of lemonade as she went over what she had learned in her head. She was interrupted by Nami.
“..Raised the price…!” Ruby looked up to see Nami was talking to a seagull with a brown purse around its neck. “Don’t you think that’s a little too high? Why you….” Nami raised her right hand, a coin in between her index and thumb as her deposit it in the brown purse. “…….price is raised, I won’t buy…..?” She continued talking to the seagull. Ruby giggled as she saw the seagull flew off.
“….Newspaper,” Usopp said while he worked on one of his inventions.
“But…you…it……”Nami replied, throwing her hands up in the air. Ruby noticed what Nami was wearing today. She wore a dark blue-green shirt with a blue skirt with a white strip going down the side. Ruby picked up her lemonade, wishing, not for the first time in short time she was with the crew, she could understand Japanese.
“…you don’t……..buy your….Arlong….” Usopp said as he poured some hot sauce into a small red ball. Ruby stretched her arms and sat up. She saw Usopp turn around to Nami. “…why……..yen?”
“Dummy!” Nami spun, pointed her figure at Usopp and said something too fast for Ruby to understand. “I don’t………it’s……myself.̶ 1; Usopp and Nami turned away from each other. Ruby shook her head, watched as Usopp took a sniff from the small, red ball and giggled at Usopp expression while Nami continue to talk. “I can’t go……, can I?”
Usopp twisted his upper body around as Nami threw her arms in the air. Ruby knew she had a grin on her face and Usopp raised his hand.
“Oi…..down,” Usopp said, “I’m ……..my Hissatsu Tabasco-Boshi…!”
Ruby stood up, smiled at nothing, but the two’s conversation. She really enjoyed the company of everyone in the crew. She began to walk down the stair when a crash caused her to spin around like a top. She saw something flew in Usopp eyes and a second later, he started screaming and running around the deck. Flames shot out of his eyes.
Ruby looked for reason why Usopp was running around like his head cut off. Monkey D. Luffy was sitting on the same spot as Usopp was a minute ago. He was making a face, like a kid denied candy, at Sanji.
“What!…..one?” He argued. He had his hand on the deck and pouted.
Sanji made a reply and Ruby rolled her eyes. One thing, she quickly learn - Luffy was always hungry. She had witnessed the bottomless pit in action before. He stole everyone’s food except hers, she had began to noticed after the first three meals that she had with the crew.
Ruby jerked her attention back to Sanji and Luffy. “….Nami-san’s…….” he continued. “I won’t…..you……..it!” Ruby thought there was going to be a fight between the captain and the cook when Sanji’s eye transformed into a heart. “Nami-san!” Sanji said something else that Ruby could not understand. She turned around and headed down the stairs.
“Thank you, Sanji-kun,” Ruby heard Nami said.
‘Poor guy,’ Ruby thought as she held the railing going down the stairs. She strolled across the middle of the deck before settling down at the bottom of the mast. She opened her textbook, getting ready to read chapter 4.
Ten minutes later, Ruby tried to focus on the textbook, but it was not working. The noise on the back deck was not distracting her, but what was? She looked up at the sky and try to picture what she need. A picture of her kendo sword flashed through her mind. She smiled. Yup, that was exactly what she needed right now, but some green haired idiot destroyed it. She turned her head to glare at Zoro who was snoring away.
“Baka!” She muttered.
“Wwwwwhhhhhhhaaaaaatttttt!?” Ruby nearly jumped out of her skin at the cry. She rushed to her feet, dropping her book and she rushed up the stairs.
“What happen? “ Ruby asked and she saw Sanji, Luffy, Nami, and Usopp was staring a brown paper on the deck. She slowly walked over to it. She bent over and picked it up.
It was a wanted poster, she noticed immediately. Luffy was grinning at the person who photographed this. Ruby saw Usopp in the background, looking the opposite direction. She read under Luffy’s picture: Dead or Alive, Monkey D. Luffy, $30,000,000. There was a bunch of small print of the bounty and in the bottom right corner Marine was stamped in huge capital letters. She realized Luffy, her captain, had a bounty on his straw-hat head.
Luffy ripped the wanted poster from Ruby’s hands and started laughing. He held it up. Usopp looked at it and saw he had the back of his head in the background. He stepped aside and cried out “30,000,000!”
Luffy repeated the number and added “Yeah.” Ruby smiled at Luffy. He had not stopped laughing, yet.
“….it…!” Usopp pointed to the wanted poster. “…my back is…..Damn, I….it…” He clasped his hands together and made an excited face or that’s what Ruby thought it was. His eyes were squinted up and his mouth was a funny smile that she remember on Ronald McDonald’s face a few times.
“What!?” Sanji run to the wanted poster and looked at it. Ruby just shook her head. “They don’t…..my….they…..?” His eye scanned the photo for something, “Oi, where, where? I don’t see you.”
Usopp’s index figure went to the bottom left corner and pointed at the back of his head, “Seee?”
He grinned at Sanji who walked over by the railing and put his arms on his knees. Ruby thought Sanji looked like he was ready to kill the marksman because of his antics.
“It’s…..back….your head.” Sanji said. “It doesn’t…”
“Hey….don’t be….” Usopp said. “….you could…one…me…you….”
Ruby was starting to get a headache. She could not understand half of what they were saying. She turned around. She pouted all the way back the mast and sat down. She picked up the textbook and started studying some more. She could hear the boys cheering about going to the Grand line.
Ruby tuned them out as she started to read and practice the words from the chapter 4. She only started practicing the chapter’s vocabulary when Luffy and Usopp ran to the starboard side of the ship. She slowly stood up.
A battered ship was sailing by. It was repaired together from what looked like old spare wood. The captain’s quarters were actually a different color from the ship. It was a pale blue. The sail had a marine design on it.
Ruby saw the marines on board on the sad excuse for a ship. One of them had what look like pink hair. He wore a white suit with a black pin strip design that looked very familiar and it didn’t sit well with her gut feeling. The pink haired man recognized Luffy who was sitting on the railing. It took a few second for the image of the pink hair man to sink into Ruby’s skull…..Fullbody. The pink hair man was Iron Fist Fullbody.
Ruby knew the last time the straw-hat pirates saw this fellow when Luffy was at the restaurant, trying to get Sanji to join their crew. Sanji had put Fullbody in a hand grip or was it a face grip that drew blood. She also knew the next time she knew Fullbody ever come into the picture was later after Nico Robin joined the crew. It was really weird to see this man now, but of course Ruby watched the dubbed version of One Piece until the dubbed version ran out and she continued the series by watching it subbed. Back home, they were still not down the series and last she knew that they were up to season 10 with Ace’s trail and manga translation after Ace’s death and something about Whitebeard. It was so sad to read about Ace’s death….and she was going to bail her eyes out when she sees it in person after all Portgas D. Ace was her favorite One Piece. Ruby jerked herself of her muses.
Ruby mused Fullbody must be in shock from his expression. He stood there with his mouth open and his eyes wide. She watched him as the Going Merry sailed on past. Luffy and Usopp also watched. Luffy said something. Usopp replied. Ruby said nothing. She hated not knowing what everyone was talking about.
Ruby watched as Fullbody put his left foot on the side of his ship and yelled “We are not….Are you idiot’s….? How could you….Fullbody… “Iron Fist”?” Fullbody had his left fist raise, showing why he was called iron fist in the first place.
“Ah…..ossan,” Luffy said, pointed over at the marine vessel. “Are you….? Do you..us…you?”
Ruby watched as Fullbody seem to shake with anger.
“Stop….” Fullbody said. “….placed you…my hands.” Using his right hand, he thrust forward the wanted poster of Luffy. “Monkey D. Luffy.” Ruby waited for some happy reaction from her captain. “You are……” Fullbody pointed at the poster.
“…My….looks good!” Ruby was not disappointed as Luffy once again admired the wanted poster.
“And….back…my head looks good…” Usopp butted in with a huge grin.
Fullbody said something that Ruby took as “Dead or Alive” because the index figure of Fullbody’s left hand was pointed the words. He straighten and spread his arms wide, looking at his crew, yelling something that sounded like had the word “cannon” in it. Ruby saw one of the marines prepared to aim at the Going Merry. Her eye shot toward the captain. Usopp looked like he was going to have a heart attack while Luffy was….Luffy. Usopp backed up and Ruby looked around for something like a hard stick to use. She heard a click of a sword hilt being lifted off the deck.
“This is not good.” Ruby heard somebody say, probably Usopp.
“Alright!….I’ll bounce it right back.” Luffy said, excitedly as he grabbed his left arm with his right hand, preparing to defend the ship.
“Luffy, I’ll handle it,” Zoro said. Ruby turned her gaze the hot swordsman….since when did she think Zoro was hot?….There was time to think about that later as Luffy looked at Zoro. Usopp’s hand fell on Luffy’s left arm.
“Right, right. You Stand back.” Usopp said and Ruby frowned. Luffy was drugged back by Usopp.
“Why? Why?” Luffy asked.
“Don’t get involved.” Usopp tried to explain as Zoro looked at the duo. “Hey, this way, this way…”
Ruby slowly backed away from the swordsman toward Luffy and Usopp. Her sky blue eyes watched Zoro. Fullbody put out his left hand with his thumb sticking out.
“Sink them,” He ordered as he flipped his wrist over. His thumb was pointing down. The cannon fired. The cannon ball flew toward Zoro. He drew his sword and hit the cannon ball in half. The two pieces of the ball flew over his bent back. Ruby felt her jaw dropped as she watched the two halves soared over the railing and flew into the water with a splash. Ruby snapped her eyes back over to Zoro and saw Usopp had the same expression she had while Luffy has his left hand blocking out the sun to see how far the two halves went to.
Ruby turned her attention onto Zoro. He still had his sword drawn while his right hand held the sheath. He stared over at the Marine ship. The marines were coping Usopp’s expression of shock; bulging eyes and dropped jaws. Fullbody looked shock also.
“No way, that’s…..” Ruby heard one of the marines say. Zoro slowly sheathed his sword. His head turned to view the Marines.
“You shouldn’t….people…..” Zoro said. Ruby wished for the millionth time of the day she knew the language, already because whatever it was, it caused Fullbody to sweat and back a few paces.
“How many…can you….?” Fullbody shouted with his iron fist up clenching. Ruby heard the cannon re-aiming or get re-loaded.
“Er…not good,” Luffy said. Ruby tried not to panic and tried to control her breathing. She had hoped they were not going to run into any trouble until they run in with the young girl who was helping that dragon. She felt pale and sick to her stomach.
“Not good?” Usopp shouted at Luffy. The cannon fired.
Black smoked erupted from the cannon and once the smoke cleared, Ruby saw the cannon had back fired. Fullbody was covered in black suit and his crew looked dazed.
“See?….had….it.” Luffy explained.
“Yeah, that’s……not good.” Usopp agreed. There was creaking noise before the marine ship crushed into the Going Merry and grind the two railing together. Fullbody had dusted off his suit and slammed his left foot on the railing.
“…you…” He said. “Do not look down……..” he jumped into the air. “We’ll…you….” His small marine crew looked stupid for a moment until Fullbody ordered them. “..go…” The crew rose their swords and rushed over to the Going Merry. Ruby groaned.
Three of the men came at Ruby. Ruby looked at the three. It was going to be her first fight…..Ruby lost her thoughts as one of them ran at her. She decided to call him idiot A. His sword was raised over his head and swing down. Ruby twisted her body away from the flying sword and delivered a round house kick to the side of his face. He looked dazed as the idiot B rushed at her. Ruby used the idiot A’s sword to block B’s. A began to struggle with her over the sword. She looked at him before raising her right elbow to hit him in the jaw. He let go of the sword and Ruby took full of it. She blocked the idiot C who finally decided to join the fight.
Ruby swung her sword like she was taught to do. She blocked another sword attack from B then delivered a kick to his stomach region and he fell back a few paces. C rushed at her and she spun out his way, tripping him in the process. Ruby turned to find A was standing back up and she smirked at him with the sword in her hand. She faked to go at him and he walked back till he hit the railings separating him from the marine ship. She walked toward him and he fell over backwards.
“Ruby!” She spun around, sliding into a defense position and block what could have been a killing blow if Zoro had not ward her. Metal clang against metal and Ruby grabbed the B idiot’s arms and placed a foot in the stomach as she rolled back on to her back and kicked the marine into his ship. C idiot rushed at her and she jumped to her feet. Ruby grabbed a hold of C wrists and used her body weight and strength, she full body toss him on to the marine ship. Ruby looked at the sword she had barrowed before she tossed over the marines.
Ruby relaxed a bit as she backed up, panting. That was excellent! She mused. She could now study. She had used up all the energy that was building up in her body. She felt lighter and happier.
Ruby heard Fullbody scream suddenly. She turned her gaze on the pink haired man and giggled at what she saw standing in front of him. Sanji in a pink apron, holding a frying pan. She wasn’t close enough to hear what was said. Fullbody continue to scream out of fright and back up away from the blond cook. Fullbody yelled something and Ruby saw all the marines that landed in the marine ship, jump up and drive overboard. Fullbody turned his back to Sanji as he tried to escape. He jumped over the Going Marry’s railing and his ship’s railing before driving head first into the sea.
Ruby burst out laughing. Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji talked for a moment. Everyone could hear Nami saying “You guys are….”
“RUBY-CHAN!” Sanji cooed before jumping over the railing and ran to hold Ruby’s hand. “Are you alright….?”
“Hai, Sanji-chan,” Ruby said, sweat dropping. “I’m fine.” Sanji started to do the noodle dance. “Sanji-chan, is food done?”
“Hai, Hai,” Sanji said. Luffy and Ruby looked at each other. Ruby slowly turned and walked away to the kitchen. Luffy did the same. Ruby sat down and began to pile some food on her plate as everyone else filed in. Luffy entered last. They all begin to eat.
After lunch, Nami had everyone gather up on the front deck. Luffy was sitting by the ram’s head. Usopp and Sanji were standing a few feet a part. Zoro was lend against the railing while Ruby sat on.
“We’re getting…..to…Grand Line,” Nami said. “….go through Reverse Mountain..”
“That’s a pain in the ass,” Zoro commented. “Can’t we…go…there….?”
“Nope,” Sanji answered. “Old man…its….to get….Grand Line.”
Usopp turned to look at Sanji and said “Why’s that?”
“It’s…..” Sanji said. Usopp wasn’t happy with that answer.
“That why I….! Why?” Usopp lend forward a bit and rested his hands on his hips.
“I don’t know……that.” Sanji turned to looked at Usopp.
“The reason is….” Nami said, looking up the two bickering boys.
“OK! I got it!” Luffy yelled a moment later, pointing his figure out a head of him. “Lets go….through…..” That comment made Nami looked like she was ready to blow up at someone…possible the captain.
“Are you…listening…me?” Nami cried out, turning to Luffy.
Luffy put his figure down, saying “Because won’t it be…..It’ll….be….that way.” Nami started to grind her teeth together before putting a hand to her forehead, closing her eyes. Ruby knew that gesture well. It was a clear sign of a headache or a temper flaring.
“Argh…Trying to…to you….me….” Nami said a moment later. Luffy lend forward, pulling his arms up.
“But what’s…..is, we should stop at….buy…..”Luffy said. He repeat a word twice and Ruby looked at Sanji who translated for her.
‘Meat?’ Ruby thought, ‘His body needs the meat for his metabolism and carbohydrates----no, no, iron possible.’
Nami pointed to an island and said “On this….there is…..city…Lougetown.”
Luffy repeat the city’s name and Ruby knew Smoker was going to be introduced into the picture soon with the childhood friend look-a-like of Zoro’s. “Are they….for meat?”
“It’s…. ‘The town of the Beginning and the end.” Zoro spoke up. “..I’ve heard.” Luffy raised his head slightly at this.
“It’s the place where…..Gold Roger, was…” Nami said. “And…the place where he was….”
Everybody had a strange look upon their face as they took in the knowledge except for Ruby who looked tried.
“The city where the…….” Luffy said, amazed. His navigator turned to go look at him.
“Wanna go?”
“Yeah, I want to see it. The man who owned One piece. The man who had everything in the world. The place where he was……….” Luffy was dazed.
“That’s…stop,” Nami said. Ruby swung her body around and hopped down from the railing. She landed in a crunch and walked to the mast as everyone except for Zoro filed down the stairs. She sat down and yawned. Ruby looked down, opened the book, and blinked.
Nami was shaking her. Ruby blinked and rubbed her eyes. She looked around and saw it was night time. She looked back at Nami.
“Ruby-chan, bed time,” Nami said softly like a mother would say to her child. Ruby dimly nodded and slowly caught up. She lost her footing a bit and felt someone caught her.
“I’ll…..her.” Someone said. Ruby thought it sounded like Zoro and felt like him too. She could feel warmth coming from the man’s body and the hard muscles were, surprisely, soft to her. ‘Na…’ Ruby thought dreamily, ‘I’m too tired.’
“Thank you, Zoro.” She heard Nami say.
Ruby was off to dreamland before they reached the panel that lead down to the living quarters. She was dimly aware that Zoro had sat her down in her hammock. She just rolled over to her side. She felt a blanket being put over her and she drifted off to sleep as she thought she felt someone place a kiss on her cheek.
Ruby came upon deck the next morning as the crew started to set sail. She rose her head to see Sanji and Usopp run across the wood attach to the sail before they climb down. She watched as Luffy came out of the anchor room and noticed that Zoro hooked the anchor to the railing. Ruby climbed the stairs.
“Good morning, Nami-san,” Sanji said as Nami walked out of the kitchen. “Ruby-chwan.” Ruby saw his eye heart changed into a heart. “You look…..”
“Good morning, Sanji-kun.” Nami said as she put her arms on the railing.
“Good morning, Sanji-kun,” Ruby said as she watched Sanji not moving. She pointed to the kitchen. Sanji blinked, turned to the kitchen and realized what he should be doing.
“Hai,” She heard Sanji muttered. “Thank you, Ruby-chan.” He walked into the kitchen. Ruby turned to Nami.
“Who put me to bed last night?” Ruby asked as she stood beside Nami.
“Zoro,” Nami said. “I was gonna to ….you, but Zoro ….you to bed.” Ruby nodded while her eyes landed on the swordsman’s back as Luffy started to bug him about playing tag. Ruby often found herself wondering about him for a couple days now. He seemed…..different from the others…more like anti-social almost. He treated her different, she defiantly knew that by his interaction with Nami - there was almost no interaction between the two.
“Hmmm…” Ruby said as Usopp joined Luffy in bugging Zoro. Suddenly, Zoro twisted around and Luffy and Usopp jumped away from him. The two immature men ran away after Usopp made a comment that made Zoro glare at him. He went out Usopp who ran around the deck. Ruby glanced at Nami whom had a distant look in her eyes. She elbowed her. “What’s up?”
Nami looked at her and shook her head. Ruby frowned at her. Sanji came out as Nami opened her mouth. Ruby glanced at Sanji as Nami took a breath and Ruby shift her right foot against Nami’s leg and stared at Sanji. Nami closed her mouth.
“Nami-san, breakfast is served.” Sanji said, coming out of the kitchen while he wiping his hands and a grin on his face. He stepped forward to the railing and yelled that breakfast was ready to the men playing tag. Usopp and Luffy cheered. Zoro was still yelling at the two immature men.
“He said that to me,…back then,” Ruby heard Nami say. She looked at her with a puzzled expression.
“What is that, Nami-san?” Sanji heard what Nami said. Nami stood up and looked at Sanji.
“Oh, nothing.” Nami said, with a smile. She turned away, heading into the kitchen. “Ah. I’m…hungry.”
Ruby looked at Nami’s back, thinking as Luffy ran behind her, heading to the kitchen. Ruby saw both Nami and Luffy sit down across from one another. Luffy started eating immediately while Nami took her napkin and spread it across her lap.
“…..What do you….happen to Buggy?” Nami asked as she looked down at her food. Ruby wondered if she should not go into the kitchen or not as she stepped in there and sat down beside Nami.
Luffy looked up at her. “Buggy?” he said around a mouthful of meat. Ruby copied what Nami did and pour herself some Orange Juice, listening to what this conversation will bring out. “Oh! That Buggy.” he said, swallowing his food and Nami took a spoonful to her lips and swallowed. “…knows,….he’s…in the……” He lifted his fork full of meat.
Ruby picked her glass of Orange Juice and drunk it. She looked at the table and grabbed some eggs, toast, and pancakes. She prepared the food how she liked it. Silence fell between Nami and Luffy again.
“It’s hard to say,” Zoro said, walking in with Usopp on his heels. Ruby looked up to see Zoro holding Usopp by the nose. “When it comes to …., they’ll……” Usopp manage to get away.
“Is that…?” Luffy said, looking at his first mate.
“Bastard, what’s your…..?!” Usopp said, covering his nose. He sounded like he was in pain. “You started it!” Zoro sat down beside Ruby who turned slightly pink.
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Ruby looked down at the shirt. It was sticking to her like a second skin and outlined her boobs. Her nipples were hard little nubs. She blushed deep red as she bend down, crushing her knees to her chest. She couldn’t look up at the men. She heard footsteps and saw Sanji, Usopp, Zoro, and Luffy hit the deck, clutching some part of their head. Luffy was whining about something, Sanji had a heart eye with a heart shape eyebrow, Zoro was glaring at the other woman on the ship and Usopp was crying. Ruby felt a towel being wrapped her shoulders. She looked up. Nami had a pitiful look in her eyes. Ruby suddenly, felt like she did not need this woman’s pity.
Ruby stood up, dropping her towel to her left hand and walked to the panel. She climbed down and headed to the bedroom. The entire time, she held her head high.
Ruby stretched as she woke. She formed a small smile on her lips, thinking about the dream she had. It was about ending up in the world of One Piece. She had slipped onto the Going Marry and she had talked with both the cook - Sanji and the Captain - Luffy. She had also become their newest nakama. She rolled back over and fell out of bed. She hit the floor with a thud.
“Son of a biscuit eater!” she cursed. She pushed herself from the floor holding her chin. She blinked in the sunlight that shone directly in her face. She heard a scream of surprise and shock before she got hit again. This is in the back of the head and she face plated on the floor again. She groaned. “It’s too earlier in the morning to hit me, people.” Ruby looked at who her hit. She felt her jaw again. It was not a dream, not at all.
Nami was standing beside her, beat red. The door to their bedroom flew open and stood in the doorway were Sanji, Zoro, and Luffy. They turned red. Ruby had a bad feeling about this, but she looked down and saw bare skin. It was her turn to beat red. Suddenly, Ruby stood up and turned, facing the trio of men.
“GET OUT!” Ruby screamed while Nami screamed something in the native language. The men fled the doorway, possible heading back up to the deck. Ruby turned to the corner of the room where her book bag lay. She walked over, unzipped it, and peered inside.
A red towel was cramped in to the bag with a two piece swim suit. The contexts of the bag were a typical college student’s bag. She had two spiral bound notebooks with a pencil, pan, and a yellow highlighter attached to one of the notebooks. Two thick and heavy textbooks that looked brand new - thanks to her credit card. The laptop that every college should have - it helps out a lot when you have papers due and the professors won’t allow you write it out on paper - and it’s power cord was neatly wrapped together- another don’t forget.
Ruby grabbed her two piece swim suit, one of the large textbooks that read ‘Elementary Japanese’ and got dressed. Ruby suddenly got hit in the head for the third time this morning. After setting the textbook down, she reached up and grabbed a white t-shirt and a blue skirt. She looked up at Nami, but the woman left already. She shrugged and slipped into the clothes. She put the textbook and left the women’s quarters, heading upstairs.
Luffy was sitting on the ram’s head, looking out to the sea and Zoro was lifting a weights. Ruby felt her jaw dropped and she stared at the weight. She could not believe Zoro at the moment, lifting four or five of the round weights that weight almost between 100 to 500 pounds each.
The door for the kitchen swung open and Sanji came out. He wore basically the same thing he did the previous day. He opened his mouth then he caught sight of Ruby and his eye flew to the shape of a heart and started spring out and in.
“Ruby-chwan!” Sanji called out. That caught everyone attention on deck. Zoro stopped at what he was doing, to Ruby’s much disappointment. Luffy spun around and cheered. “Your breakfast is ready, belle.”
“Thank you, Sanji,” Ruby replied. She headed up the stairs to the kitchen. Sanji called out something and Luffy cheered. Ruby walked between the kitchen building and the railing when a stretchy arm whizzed past. She turned her head and her eyes flew wide. Luffy was sailing toward her. She held up of textbook and stepped her left foot back to balance her weight with his. Luffy crashed into her. They went flying back into the kitchen wall.
When the dust settled, Luffy’s head popped up from the pile of broken wood. Suddenly, he went flying out of the kitchen. The crew followed the captain’s progress through air until he hit the white railing then turned to see Ruby climbing out of the pile, growling.
“That hurt, BAKA!” Ruby yelled. Her hair has small pieces of wood tangled in places, her clothes was dusty. She had some blood traveling down her right side of her face.
“Oi!” Sanji cried out and walked over to the captain. “BAKA!” He began to yell at Luffy while stomping on him. Ruby bent down, grabbed the textbook and walked over to the table. She slipped into her seat between Nami and Usopp and grabbed the plate that housed pancakes. She tossed a few on there and set the plate down before grabbing a few sausage rolls and a spoon full of scrambled eggs. She reached again for some toast, jam, and milk. She spread the jam over her toast and poured herself a glass of milk.
Ruby’s actions spurred the crew to grab what they want before the bottomless pit got a hold of it. Ruby opened the textbook on her lap, reading as she ate. Sanji let Luffy up and he attacked the leftover food. He was reaching and grabbing food from everyone plates except for Ruby. Ruby meanwhile was engrossed in learning the language of Japanese.
‘The day was boring’ Ruby thought half way through the day as she finished working on the end of chapter problems. She learned various foods, and greeting between friends and not friends. She was planning to practice during lunch with the crew. Ruby looked up as Sanji walked out of the dining room. “Lunch, Sanji-chan?” Ruby spoke in their language for the first time. Sanji started his noodle dance, Usopp accidentally dropped his invitation, Zoro paused in his afternoon workout and Luffy spun his head her way. Nami looked impressed.
“Hai, Ruby-chwan.” Sanji purred. Ruby grabbed Nami’s hand and raced up the stairs to get there before the captain did. The rest of the crew snapped out of their stupor and followed the women’s example. Luffy blinked in surprise and realized that Ruby had said something about lunch being done.
“Oi!” Luffy yelled. Everyone heard him and laughed. Lunch was uneventful. Luffy again stole food from everyone’s plate except for Ruby’s. The crew noticed this, but Ruby didn’t.
Nothing really happen till that night when Nami had noticed something, everybody was in an uproar. Sanji noticed Ruby’s confusion and translated for her.
“We are spending the night on a Mirror ball island,” Sanji said. Ruby punched the air while giving a squeal of excitement.
“Finally I get shop for some clothes,” Ruby cheered. Sanji’s eye went to a heart and he did his noodle dance. Ruby started to inch away from him slowly. Sanji was not a bad guy, but just when he did that, it unnerved her and made her want to hide. On top of that, it was alright if he did every once in a while, but around her, it happen too often. Ruby saw Zoro working out, using weights again. She sighed. ‘Did that man ever stop working out?’ She thought as she started to wonder over to him, but saw Luffy sitting on the ram’s head again. She headed in that direction instead. “Luffy-chan,” Ruby said as she began to climb on to the ram’s head. He turn to face her. “Why you haven’t talk to me since last night?”
“I don’t want everyone knowing I was able to talk in different languages.” Luffy explained. Ruby nodded.
“Do you how to speak English?” Ruby asked as she sat down beside him.
“Yup,” Luffy said. “That’s one of the languages of the world government and the highest royals.”
“Really,” Ruby said with surprise in her voice, “How come?”
“I think it’s because the royals are too stringy with certain knowledge in the world,” Luffy said, looked to the ocean. “People in the new world speak English, too.”
Ruby’s attention was caught at the phase “New World”. She had heard of it while watching One Piece, but she had no real knowledge of the place. She knew about what year it was here, 1142 or something like that. She knew it was not her world’s past. She already read the history book for the world history class.
“What is the new world?” Ruby asked.
“I don’t know,” Luffy admitted. He tilted his head to the side. He stared forward. Ruby giggled and also stared forward. They were slowly approaching an island with huge speakers that seemed to be built in to the side of a mountain. Ruby sat there speechless and awed the beauty of golden speakers.
“We are here,” Ruby muttered. She knew something will happen on this island. She forgot what though. It was something about Jango and dancing. She did know one thing thought. Tonight was going to be fun as Luffy helped her to stand and held her hand as she hopped down from the ram’s head.
Night had fallen as the Straw Hat Pirates stepped on to land. Nami was chatting about something. Ruby knew from the anime and magna, Nami was thinking of ways to steal gold from people. They stood together, looking up and down the street when a strange man went running pass them.
He wore dark, lime green pants, white shirt, and a long blue trench coat with gold trimming. He had heart shaped sunglasses that covered his eyes. A matching blue hat sat upon his head. He had a beard that reminded Ruby of the Kings of Ancient Egypt, but this man had it in two different colors, red and black. His hair was a dark blond. Jango.
That was Ruby saw of him before he raced by. Following him were men in white, loose, tank tops with blue designs on it. They all were wearing blue pants and pair of shiny black shoes--- Marines.
She heard Luffy said a name and Usopp replied with a comment. Nami said something while walking away. Ruby had a bad feeling about this and slowly began to walk as she kept an eye on the Marines that just ran passed. She noticed one of them stopped and reached into his jacket, pulling out a paper. He looked at it then turned around to view Luffy. He shouted a word that Ruby knew had to mean “Straw-Hat!” The Marines lost interest in chasing Jango and decided that Straw-hat Pirates was less of a chase.
“Run!” Ruby screamed as she twisted around and started to run away from the marines. Everyone made a comment except for Ruby and she was too busy running to understand them. She fell in line behind Sanji and in front of Zoro as Nami lead them away from the Marines that were giving chase. Ruby was silently cursing her luck the entire time. They were not even on the Mirror ball Island for an hour and Luffy’s reputation already was getting them into trouble. Nami lead up stairs and around tight corners till they came to dead stop at a drop off. Luffy was not paying attention and pushed them off. Nami flew off first, followed by Sanji, Ruby and Zoro before Usopp and Luffy followed.
Ruby saw they were going to land on a huge mirror ball like the one back home on New Years’ Eve countdown. She winced as she heard Luffy cry out “Gum Gum no Fuusen!” she groaned as she felt her body shoot forward and she followed Nami, Sanji and Usopp, hitting the huge ball before she saw Zoro land on his feet. They all shoot to their feet and tried to run up the ball. Luffy hit the ball. Ruby never felt so like a bug before now. She knew she had to grab Luffy’s shirt before he flew away.
Luffy bounced off the ball. The ball swung in the opposite direction of Luffy and Ruby grabbed a hold of Luffy’s red vest. Ruby reached out to Zoro. He grabbed her hand and the crew formed a chain as they flew through the air.
“One!” Someone yelled in a microphone while swinging a ring. “Two!” Ruby and the crew bounced off of Luffy. “Jango!”
‘Huh,’ Ruby first though, but when music started to blast from the speakers. She felt her body started to dance as if she was a puppet. She looked at the others and saw they were having the same problem. Ruby led the way dancing back to the ship. She did leap, twirls, and bunch of dancing moves she had seen back home while the crew followed her example. Ruby wished she could stop to actually run as she heard the roof where the huge ball was attached at broke apart. She knew the roof will fall in at any moment. It did as they were climbing abroad the ship. One by one, they fell to the deck, panting.
Seagulls flew over head as Ruby lay back, enjoying her sunbath. She just got done with chapter 3 of her Japanese textbook. Sanji had supplied her with a cold drink of lemonade as she went over what she had learned in her head. She was interrupted by Nami.
“..Raised the price…!” Ruby looked up to see Nami was talking to a seagull with a brown purse around its neck. “Don’t you think that’s a little too high? Why you….” Nami raised her right hand, a coin in between her index and thumb as her deposit it in the brown purse. “…….price is raised, I won’t buy…..?” She continued talking to the seagull. Ruby giggled as she saw the seagull flew off.
“….Newspaper,” Usopp said while he worked on one of his inventions.
“But…you…it……”Nami replied, throwing her hands up in the air. Ruby noticed what Nami was wearing today. She wore a dark blue-green shirt with a blue skirt with a white strip going down the side. Ruby picked up her lemonade, wishing, not for the first time in short time she was with the crew, she could understand Japanese.
“…you don’t……..buy your….Arlong….” Usopp said as he poured some hot sauce into a small red ball. Ruby stretched her arms and sat up. She saw Usopp turn around to Nami. “…why……..yen?”
“Dummy!” Nami spun, pointed her figure at Usopp and said something too fast for Ruby to understand. “I don’t………it’s……myself.̶ 1; Usopp and Nami turned away from each other. Ruby shook her head, watched as Usopp took a sniff from the small, red ball and giggled at Usopp expression while Nami continue to talk. “I can’t go……, can I?”
Usopp twisted his upper body around as Nami threw her arms in the air. Ruby knew she had a grin on her face and Usopp raised his hand.
“Oi…..down,” Usopp said, “I’m ……..my Hissatsu Tabasco-Boshi…!”
Ruby stood up, smiled at nothing, but the two’s conversation. She really enjoyed the company of everyone in the crew. She began to walk down the stair when a crash caused her to spin around like a top. She saw something flew in Usopp eyes and a second later, he started screaming and running around the deck. Flames shot out of his eyes.
Ruby looked for reason why Usopp was running around like his head cut off. Monkey D. Luffy was sitting on the same spot as Usopp was a minute ago. He was making a face, like a kid denied candy, at Sanji.
“What!…..one?” He argued. He had his hand on the deck and pouted.
Sanji made a reply and Ruby rolled her eyes. One thing, she quickly learn - Luffy was always hungry. She had witnessed the bottomless pit in action before. He stole everyone’s food except hers, she had began to noticed after the first three meals that she had with the crew.
Ruby jerked her attention back to Sanji and Luffy. “….Nami-san’s…….” he continued. “I won’t…..you……..it!” Ruby thought there was going to be a fight between the captain and the cook when Sanji’s eye transformed into a heart. “Nami-san!” Sanji said something else that Ruby could not understand. She turned around and headed down the stairs.
“Thank you, Sanji-kun,” Ruby heard Nami said.
‘Poor guy,’ Ruby thought as she held the railing going down the stairs. She strolled across the middle of the deck before settling down at the bottom of the mast. She opened her textbook, getting ready to read chapter 4.
Ten minutes later, Ruby tried to focus on the textbook, but it was not working. The noise on the back deck was not distracting her, but what was? She looked up at the sky and try to picture what she need. A picture of her kendo sword flashed through her mind. She smiled. Yup, that was exactly what she needed right now, but some green haired idiot destroyed it. She turned her head to glare at Zoro who was snoring away.
“Baka!” She muttered.
“Wwwwwhhhhhhhaaaaaatttttt!?” Ruby nearly jumped out of her skin at the cry. She rushed to her feet, dropping her book and she rushed up the stairs.
“What happen? “ Ruby asked and she saw Sanji, Luffy, Nami, and Usopp was staring a brown paper on the deck. She slowly walked over to it. She bent over and picked it up.
It was a wanted poster, she noticed immediately. Luffy was grinning at the person who photographed this. Ruby saw Usopp in the background, looking the opposite direction. She read under Luffy’s picture: Dead or Alive, Monkey D. Luffy, $30,000,000. There was a bunch of small print of the bounty and in the bottom right corner Marine was stamped in huge capital letters. She realized Luffy, her captain, had a bounty on his straw-hat head.
Luffy ripped the wanted poster from Ruby’s hands and started laughing. He held it up. Usopp looked at it and saw he had the back of his head in the background. He stepped aside and cried out “30,000,000!”
Luffy repeated the number and added “Yeah.” Ruby smiled at Luffy. He had not stopped laughing, yet.
“….it…!” Usopp pointed to the wanted poster. “…my back is…..Damn, I….it…” He clasped his hands together and made an excited face or that’s what Ruby thought it was. His eyes were squinted up and his mouth was a funny smile that she remember on Ronald McDonald’s face a few times.
“What!?” Sanji run to the wanted poster and looked at it. Ruby just shook her head. “They don’t…..my….they…..?” His eye scanned the photo for something, “Oi, where, where? I don’t see you.”
Usopp’s index figure went to the bottom left corner and pointed at the back of his head, “Seee?”
He grinned at Sanji who walked over by the railing and put his arms on his knees. Ruby thought Sanji looked like he was ready to kill the marksman because of his antics.
“It’s…..back….your head.” Sanji said. “It doesn’t…”
“Hey….don’t be….” Usopp said. “….you could…one…me…you….”
Ruby was starting to get a headache. She could not understand half of what they were saying. She turned around. She pouted all the way back the mast and sat down. She picked up the textbook and started studying some more. She could hear the boys cheering about going to the Grand line.
Ruby tuned them out as she started to read and practice the words from the chapter 4. She only started practicing the chapter’s vocabulary when Luffy and Usopp ran to the starboard side of the ship. She slowly stood up.
A battered ship was sailing by. It was repaired together from what looked like old spare wood. The captain’s quarters were actually a different color from the ship. It was a pale blue. The sail had a marine design on it.
Ruby saw the marines on board on the sad excuse for a ship. One of them had what look like pink hair. He wore a white suit with a black pin strip design that looked very familiar and it didn’t sit well with her gut feeling. The pink haired man recognized Luffy who was sitting on the railing. It took a few second for the image of the pink hair man to sink into Ruby’s skull…..Fullbody. The pink hair man was Iron Fist Fullbody.
Ruby knew the last time the straw-hat pirates saw this fellow when Luffy was at the restaurant, trying to get Sanji to join their crew. Sanji had put Fullbody in a hand grip or was it a face grip that drew blood. She also knew the next time she knew Fullbody ever come into the picture was later after Nico Robin joined the crew. It was really weird to see this man now, but of course Ruby watched the dubbed version of One Piece until the dubbed version ran out and she continued the series by watching it subbed. Back home, they were still not down the series and last she knew that they were up to season 10 with Ace’s trail and manga translation after Ace’s death and something about Whitebeard. It was so sad to read about Ace’s death….and she was going to bail her eyes out when she sees it in person after all Portgas D. Ace was her favorite One Piece. Ruby jerked herself of her muses.
Ruby mused Fullbody must be in shock from his expression. He stood there with his mouth open and his eyes wide. She watched him as the Going Merry sailed on past. Luffy and Usopp also watched. Luffy said something. Usopp replied. Ruby said nothing. She hated not knowing what everyone was talking about.
Ruby watched as Fullbody put his left foot on the side of his ship and yelled “We are not….Are you idiot’s….? How could you….Fullbody… “Iron Fist”?” Fullbody had his left fist raise, showing why he was called iron fist in the first place.
“Ah…..ossan,” Luffy said, pointed over at the marine vessel. “Are you….? Do you..us…you?”
Ruby watched as Fullbody seem to shake with anger.
“Stop….” Fullbody said. “….placed you…my hands.” Using his right hand, he thrust forward the wanted poster of Luffy. “Monkey D. Luffy.” Ruby waited for some happy reaction from her captain. “You are……” Fullbody pointed at the poster.
“…My….looks good!” Ruby was not disappointed as Luffy once again admired the wanted poster.
“And….back…my head looks good…” Usopp butted in with a huge grin.
Fullbody said something that Ruby took as “Dead or Alive” because the index figure of Fullbody’s left hand was pointed the words. He straighten and spread his arms wide, looking at his crew, yelling something that sounded like had the word “cannon” in it. Ruby saw one of the marines prepared to aim at the Going Merry. Her eye shot toward the captain. Usopp looked like he was going to have a heart attack while Luffy was….Luffy. Usopp backed up and Ruby looked around for something like a hard stick to use. She heard a click of a sword hilt being lifted off the deck.
“This is not good.” Ruby heard somebody say, probably Usopp.
“Alright!….I’ll bounce it right back.” Luffy said, excitedly as he grabbed his left arm with his right hand, preparing to defend the ship.
“Luffy, I’ll handle it,” Zoro said. Ruby turned her gaze the hot swordsman….since when did she think Zoro was hot?….There was time to think about that later as Luffy looked at Zoro. Usopp’s hand fell on Luffy’s left arm.
“Right, right. You Stand back.” Usopp said and Ruby frowned. Luffy was drugged back by Usopp.
“Why? Why?” Luffy asked.
“Don’t get involved.” Usopp tried to explain as Zoro looked at the duo. “Hey, this way, this way…”
Ruby slowly backed away from the swordsman toward Luffy and Usopp. Her sky blue eyes watched Zoro. Fullbody put out his left hand with his thumb sticking out.
“Sink them,” He ordered as he flipped his wrist over. His thumb was pointing down. The cannon fired. The cannon ball flew toward Zoro. He drew his sword and hit the cannon ball in half. The two pieces of the ball flew over his bent back. Ruby felt her jaw dropped as she watched the two halves soared over the railing and flew into the water with a splash. Ruby snapped her eyes back over to Zoro and saw Usopp had the same expression she had while Luffy has his left hand blocking out the sun to see how far the two halves went to.
Ruby turned her attention onto Zoro. He still had his sword drawn while his right hand held the sheath. He stared over at the Marine ship. The marines were coping Usopp’s expression of shock; bulging eyes and dropped jaws. Fullbody looked shock also.
“No way, that’s…..” Ruby heard one of the marines say. Zoro slowly sheathed his sword. His head turned to view the Marines.
“You shouldn’t….people…..” Zoro said. Ruby wished for the millionth time of the day she knew the language, already because whatever it was, it caused Fullbody to sweat and back a few paces.
“How many…can you….?” Fullbody shouted with his iron fist up clenching. Ruby heard the cannon re-aiming or get re-loaded.
“Er…not good,” Luffy said. Ruby tried not to panic and tried to control her breathing. She had hoped they were not going to run into any trouble until they run in with the young girl who was helping that dragon. She felt pale and sick to her stomach.
“Not good?” Usopp shouted at Luffy. The cannon fired.
Black smoked erupted from the cannon and once the smoke cleared, Ruby saw the cannon had back fired. Fullbody was covered in black suit and his crew looked dazed.
“See?….had….it.” Luffy explained.
“Yeah, that’s……not good.” Usopp agreed. There was creaking noise before the marine ship crushed into the Going Merry and grind the two railing together. Fullbody had dusted off his suit and slammed his left foot on the railing.
“…you…” He said. “Do not look down……..” he jumped into the air. “We’ll…you….” His small marine crew looked stupid for a moment until Fullbody ordered them. “..go…” The crew rose their swords and rushed over to the Going Merry. Ruby groaned.
Three of the men came at Ruby. Ruby looked at the three. It was going to be her first fight…..Ruby lost her thoughts as one of them ran at her. She decided to call him idiot A. His sword was raised over his head and swing down. Ruby twisted her body away from the flying sword and delivered a round house kick to the side of his face. He looked dazed as the idiot B rushed at her. Ruby used the idiot A’s sword to block B’s. A began to struggle with her over the sword. She looked at him before raising her right elbow to hit him in the jaw. He let go of the sword and Ruby took full of it. She blocked the idiot C who finally decided to join the fight.
Ruby swung her sword like she was taught to do. She blocked another sword attack from B then delivered a kick to his stomach region and he fell back a few paces. C rushed at her and she spun out his way, tripping him in the process. Ruby turned to find A was standing back up and she smirked at him with the sword in her hand. She faked to go at him and he walked back till he hit the railings separating him from the marine ship. She walked toward him and he fell over backwards.
“Ruby!” She spun around, sliding into a defense position and block what could have been a killing blow if Zoro had not ward her. Metal clang against metal and Ruby grabbed the B idiot’s arms and placed a foot in the stomach as she rolled back on to her back and kicked the marine into his ship. C idiot rushed at her and she jumped to her feet. Ruby grabbed a hold of C wrists and used her body weight and strength, she full body toss him on to the marine ship. Ruby looked at the sword she had barrowed before she tossed over the marines.
Ruby relaxed a bit as she backed up, panting. That was excellent! She mused. She could now study. She had used up all the energy that was building up in her body. She felt lighter and happier.
Ruby heard Fullbody scream suddenly. She turned her gaze on the pink haired man and giggled at what she saw standing in front of him. Sanji in a pink apron, holding a frying pan. She wasn’t close enough to hear what was said. Fullbody continue to scream out of fright and back up away from the blond cook. Fullbody yelled something and Ruby saw all the marines that landed in the marine ship, jump up and drive overboard. Fullbody turned his back to Sanji as he tried to escape. He jumped over the Going Marry’s railing and his ship’s railing before driving head first into the sea.
Ruby burst out laughing. Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji talked for a moment. Everyone could hear Nami saying “You guys are….”
“RUBY-CHAN!” Sanji cooed before jumping over the railing and ran to hold Ruby’s hand. “Are you alright….?”
“Hai, Sanji-chan,” Ruby said, sweat dropping. “I’m fine.” Sanji started to do the noodle dance. “Sanji-chan, is food done?”
“Hai, Hai,” Sanji said. Luffy and Ruby looked at each other. Ruby slowly turned and walked away to the kitchen. Luffy did the same. Ruby sat down and began to pile some food on her plate as everyone else filed in. Luffy entered last. They all begin to eat.
After lunch, Nami had everyone gather up on the front deck. Luffy was sitting by the ram’s head. Usopp and Sanji were standing a few feet a part. Zoro was lend against the railing while Ruby sat on.
“We’re getting…..to…Grand Line,” Nami said. “….go through Reverse Mountain..”
“That’s a pain in the ass,” Zoro commented. “Can’t we…go…there….?”
“Nope,” Sanji answered. “Old man…its….to get….Grand Line.”
Usopp turned to look at Sanji and said “Why’s that?”
“It’s…..” Sanji said. Usopp wasn’t happy with that answer.
“That why I….! Why?” Usopp lend forward a bit and rested his hands on his hips.
“I don’t know……that.” Sanji turned to looked at Usopp.
“The reason is….” Nami said, looking up the two bickering boys.
“OK! I got it!” Luffy yelled a moment later, pointing his figure out a head of him. “Lets go….through…..” That comment made Nami looked like she was ready to blow up at someone…possible the captain.
“Are you…listening…me?” Nami cried out, turning to Luffy.
Luffy put his figure down, saying “Because won’t it be…..It’ll….be….that way.” Nami started to grind her teeth together before putting a hand to her forehead, closing her eyes. Ruby knew that gesture well. It was a clear sign of a headache or a temper flaring.
“Argh…Trying to…to you….me….” Nami said a moment later. Luffy lend forward, pulling his arms up.
“But what’s…..is, we should stop at….buy…..”Luffy said. He repeat a word twice and Ruby looked at Sanji who translated for her.
‘Meat?’ Ruby thought, ‘His body needs the meat for his metabolism and carbohydrates----no, no, iron possible.’
Nami pointed to an island and said “On this….there is…..city…Lougetown.”
Luffy repeat the city’s name and Ruby knew Smoker was going to be introduced into the picture soon with the childhood friend look-a-like of Zoro’s. “Are they….for meat?”
“It’s…. ‘The town of the Beginning and the end.” Zoro spoke up. “..I’ve heard.” Luffy raised his head slightly at this.
“It’s the place where…..Gold Roger, was…” Nami said. “And…the place where he was….”
Everybody had a strange look upon their face as they took in the knowledge except for Ruby who looked tried.
“The city where the…….” Luffy said, amazed. His navigator turned to go look at him.
“Wanna go?”
“Yeah, I want to see it. The man who owned One piece. The man who had everything in the world. The place where he was……….” Luffy was dazed.
“That’s…stop,” Nami said. Ruby swung her body around and hopped down from the railing. She landed in a crunch and walked to the mast as everyone except for Zoro filed down the stairs. She sat down and yawned. Ruby looked down, opened the book, and blinked.
Nami was shaking her. Ruby blinked and rubbed her eyes. She looked around and saw it was night time. She looked back at Nami.
“Ruby-chan, bed time,” Nami said softly like a mother would say to her child. Ruby dimly nodded and slowly caught up. She lost her footing a bit and felt someone caught her.
“I’ll…..her.” Someone said. Ruby thought it sounded like Zoro and felt like him too. She could feel warmth coming from the man’s body and the hard muscles were, surprisely, soft to her. ‘Na…’ Ruby thought dreamily, ‘I’m too tired.’
“Thank you, Zoro.” She heard Nami say.
Ruby was off to dreamland before they reached the panel that lead down to the living quarters. She was dimly aware that Zoro had sat her down in her hammock. She just rolled over to her side. She felt a blanket being put over her and she drifted off to sleep as she thought she felt someone place a kiss on her cheek.
Ruby came upon deck the next morning as the crew started to set sail. She rose her head to see Sanji and Usopp run across the wood attach to the sail before they climb down. She watched as Luffy came out of the anchor room and noticed that Zoro hooked the anchor to the railing. Ruby climbed the stairs.
“Good morning, Nami-san,” Sanji said as Nami walked out of the kitchen. “Ruby-chwan.” Ruby saw his eye heart changed into a heart. “You look…..”
“Good morning, Sanji-kun.” Nami said as she put her arms on the railing.
“Good morning, Sanji-kun,” Ruby said as she watched Sanji not moving. She pointed to the kitchen. Sanji blinked, turned to the kitchen and realized what he should be doing.
“Hai,” She heard Sanji muttered. “Thank you, Ruby-chan.” He walked into the kitchen. Ruby turned to Nami.
“Who put me to bed last night?” Ruby asked as she stood beside Nami.
“Zoro,” Nami said. “I was gonna to ….you, but Zoro ….you to bed.” Ruby nodded while her eyes landed on the swordsman’s back as Luffy started to bug him about playing tag. Ruby often found herself wondering about him for a couple days now. He seemed…..different from the others…more like anti-social almost. He treated her different, she defiantly knew that by his interaction with Nami - there was almost no interaction between the two.
“Hmmm…” Ruby said as Usopp joined Luffy in bugging Zoro. Suddenly, Zoro twisted around and Luffy and Usopp jumped away from him. The two immature men ran away after Usopp made a comment that made Zoro glare at him. He went out Usopp who ran around the deck. Ruby glanced at Nami whom had a distant look in her eyes. She elbowed her. “What’s up?”
Nami looked at her and shook her head. Ruby frowned at her. Sanji came out as Nami opened her mouth. Ruby glanced at Sanji as Nami took a breath and Ruby shift her right foot against Nami’s leg and stared at Sanji. Nami closed her mouth.
“Nami-san, breakfast is served.” Sanji said, coming out of the kitchen while he wiping his hands and a grin on his face. He stepped forward to the railing and yelled that breakfast was ready to the men playing tag. Usopp and Luffy cheered. Zoro was still yelling at the two immature men.
“He said that to me,…back then,” Ruby heard Nami say. She looked at her with a puzzled expression.
“What is that, Nami-san?” Sanji heard what Nami said. Nami stood up and looked at Sanji.
“Oh, nothing.” Nami said, with a smile. She turned away, heading into the kitchen. “Ah. I’m…hungry.”
Ruby looked at Nami’s back, thinking as Luffy ran behind her, heading to the kitchen. Ruby saw both Nami and Luffy sit down across from one another. Luffy started eating immediately while Nami took her napkin and spread it across her lap.
“…..What do you….happen to Buggy?” Nami asked as she looked down at her food. Ruby wondered if she should not go into the kitchen or not as she stepped in there and sat down beside Nami.
Luffy looked up at her. “Buggy?” he said around a mouthful of meat. Ruby copied what Nami did and pour herself some Orange Juice, listening to what this conversation will bring out. “Oh! That Buggy.” he said, swallowing his food and Nami took a spoonful to her lips and swallowed. “…knows,….he’s…in the……” He lifted his fork full of meat.
Ruby picked her glass of Orange Juice and drunk it. She looked at the table and grabbed some eggs, toast, and pancakes. She prepared the food how she liked it. Silence fell between Nami and Luffy again.
“It’s hard to say,” Zoro said, walking in with Usopp on his heels. Ruby looked up to see Zoro holding Usopp by the nose. “When it comes to …., they’ll……” Usopp manage to get away.
“Is that…?” Luffy said, looking at his first mate.
“Bastard, what’s your…..?!” Usopp said, covering his nose. He sounded like he was in pain. “You started it!” Zoro sat down beside Ruby who turned slightly pink.
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I hope you enjoyed this chapter.