One Piece (Love Story) [Part Two]

Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety [Rewritten]

-Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety-

"Good name, that's exactly what it is" I snorted.

"A Sea Racoon" Usopp deadpanned as he corrected our captain.

"Hm?" Luffy hummed as he took notice of the object that was dangling from Nukky's neck. Carefully pulling it off, he handed it over to Nami for her to examine.

"A letter?" she questioned, unraveling the piece of paper and scanning its contents. "It seems like Sayo's instincts about that notebook were right on the mark" she grinned. "Luffy and everyone on your crew, I hope that you all are doing well—after we went our separate ways, Sayo and I went home and tried out the idea she had. Just like our father's formula said, we made several kinds of colored chemicals then we mixed them in the same order of the colors of the round rainbow" she read aloud, before gasping. "They made the gem after all!"

"Look! This is it!" Luffy exclaimed exclaimed the second the raccoon had opened its mouth and dropped the gem spoken about in the letter in his hand.

"Amazing!" everyone awed as the captain held up the round gem for all of us to see.

"They say thanks for everything and good luck on your adventures" Nami concluded as she rolled the letter back up.

"Hey, Luffy, let me take a look at it" Usopp said as he eagerly approached the rubber man who was currently squatted down and examining the gem in his hands.

"Me too! Me too! Me too!" Chopper excitedly jumped around as we all soon gathered around our captain in an attempt to get a closer look at the gem we had been gifted.

"Easy—that thing isn't a toy, you know!" Nami scolded, looking rather nervous with the way everyone was crowding around.

"She's right, Sayo and Lina worked really hard on making that gem" I nodded in agreement as Nukky turned back into a bird and flew away just as a dark cloud started to roll in.

"Ouch! It's more of that stupid candy rain!" Nami winced as she hastily covered her head as hard candy started to pour from the sky, loudly clattering and bouncing against the deck of the ship as it did so.

"Ow!" I whined as well when I suddenly felt one hit my forehead the second I tilted my head upwards. Mindlessly rubbing the skin, I soon bent down and picked up one of the candies—rolling it between my fingers in curiosity.

"Lucky me!" Luffy happily laughed as he opened his mouth wide in an attempt to catch some of the falling sweets. Shrugging my shoulders, I popped the candy I held into my mouth and rolled it around. Silently listening to how it clinked against my teeth while my tongue swirled around it, taking in the flavor.

"Not bad" I chuckled at the artificially fruity taste that coated my mouth before perking up when my head was suddenly turned to the side. My eyes widened for but a moment at the sensation of a pair of lips suddenly pressing against my own as a tongue pushed its way past my slightly parted lips. In an instant did my face explode in color as my eyes screwed shut and a shiver trailed up my spine the moment I felt Zoro nudge his tongue against my own before he finally pulled back.

"You're right, not that bad" he hummed in thought as I now noted that the sweet that I had once been in my mouth was now absent.

"H-hey, thief!" I sputtered. "I thought you didn't like sweets!" I frowned, my cheeks puffing up as I began to huff and puff at the realization he had stolen my treat.

"I don't, but I like messing with you" he chuckled before pressing a kiss to my temple the minute I started pouting.

"Oops, I dropped the gem" Luffy suddenly said, catching everyone's attention.