Chapter 5: They're Tolerable

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Your bad feeling came true, since Grount had come on the ship you had close to 6-10 patients a day with most of them having to stay in sick bay overnight. Garp had attempted to get on your ass about you missing training but when he saw the mess that was his medical bay he promptly shut up and walked out.

You still ran every morning adding 5 laps each day. Your goal was to run the 300 laps in 90 minutes 30 minutes for each set of 100. Right now you were stuck at 210, and it was taking you two hours. You'd consulted with medical journals and nutritional books. But now you were hitting a wall, you'd never been a very physical person so you weren't sure what else you should try.

You were in the middle of trying to write a schedule for yourself when Grount bursted in the room, his right arm popped out of socket. Koby trailing behind him.

"Get the hell away from me Koby!"

"I'm sorry Grount. You said you wanted us to have 'no holds bar.' I truly wasn't trying to do that to you. But I slipped."

"Shut up! Hey doc fix me up so I can go back to kicking the recruits' asses!"

You sighed and guided him to one of the cots that was empty.

"I have patients sleeping please keep your voice down, we're not at a fight club."

"Just fix me dammit!"

"Grount! Sorry Y/N-San."

"Your name is Y/N?" You nodded your head. "Suits you." He said so nonchalantly without any kind of real emotion or attachment that it didn't bother you to receive the compliment.

"Thank you. Now sit." He sat you straddled his legs for leverage. Causing him to blush just a tad. "On the count on three. One." You popped it into place.

"Shit!! What the hell??! You said on the count of three!!"

"You would've stiffened up, causing me to break your arm." You went to get a sling and guided his arm in it. "No more sparring for today or for the rest of the week. You are to take it easy."

"Bullshit!" You shrugged your shoulders.

"Fine you can try but you'll be weaker than everyone else. Even Garp the Hero needs time to recover. We need our better soldiers at their strongest when pirates strike." He blinked at you as did Koby. "It's your life do with it what you will, I will write my recommendations you can choose to follow them or ignore them up to you."

Silence, and then laughter. This jerk was laughing.

"I like you! Your straightforward and don't mince words. Later Y/N." And then he walked out with a wide eyed Koby chasing after him.

"What a weird day." You muttered than proceeded to check on your other patients.

——Koby's POV——

<Dinnertime>

"What's the matter with you Koby?" Helmeppo asked glancing at his friend.

"Nothing..." Koby mumbled. And went back to staring at Grount and Y/N-San again. When Y/N-San had come into the cafeteria Grount had waves her over and invited you to join them. She had refused, and went to sit somewhere else. Before Koby could say that she preferred to be alone but Grount went to talk to her anyway, leaving his food at their table. He'd been there for five minutes.

"I don't know why you're so upset. She's not even looking at him and it looks like he's doing most of the talking." Helmeppo was enjoying teasing his friend.

"I'm not upset."

"Uh-huh sure you're not."

Before Koby said something back Grount came back smiling. It annoyed Koby to no end, and he didn't know why.

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