ZoLu Imagines II 🏖

7 Minutes in Heaven | 1 🚪

It was a boring Monday afternoon for the Strawhat pirates within their Thousand Sunny Go.

Having no plans on which Island to travel to, the crewmates and their Captain had no idea what to do other than to mope around.

In the midst of their crisis created by such a lazy day, someone finally came up with a game that raised interest in their Captain who agreed on playing.

"Wait... I've never played this before, how does it go again?" Luffy questioned, readjusting his straw hat on his head.

Given that it was Sanji's idea, he explained how the game worked.

"It's called "Seven Minutes in Heaven" and how it works is, you spin this bottle." He held an empty beer bottle in his hand, spinning it to demonstrate with further details.

"If it lands on you, then the person who's at the end of the bottle is your partner. For example: If the bottle lands on me and Nami-san is my partner, we... Nami-san is... My partner... PARTNER-" Sanji's eyes went blank as he skyrocketed to the ceiling with a massive nosebleed.

Nami rolled her eyes at the hopeless romantic man and finished explaining how the game went.

"After the bottle lands on you and the other person, you have to get inside of the closet and stay there for seven minutes.

When the seven minutes are over, you both come back out and then someone else spins the bottle. That's how it goes." She concluded.

"Ooooh!! Sounds fun. Let's play!" Luffy smiled, staring down at the bottle with excitement.

The game commenced with an easy start. Given that Luffy was their Captain, the crewmates allowed him to go first.

On the first spin, the bottle was rotating so fast, it was hard to tell who it was going to land on. Zoro eyed Luffy, smirking at him as his expression remained unnoticed by the younger who was too immersed in the game.

The Swordsman was confident that the bottle would land on him since he was the closest to the Captain, but surprisingly, it didn't.

"M...Me?" Usopp pointed at himself while Luffy shrugged, walking off with his close friend, opening the closet door behind them.

"Have fun boys! But not too much." Nami and Franky started to tease them as a joke, making Luffy and Usopp giggle.

"HA! Seven minutes with Luffy in a closet? Good luck. I wouldn't even last one minute." Zoro stated, crossing his arms.

Closing the door behind them, Luffy looked around the closet. Everything was rather empty and wastefully spacious from the interior.

Unlike most closets that have little to no light within them, this one was equipped with lighting from the inside which made things less awkward for the boys.

"So... What do we do now?" Luffy asked, turning over to face Usopp who was equally as clueless as he was.

In the midst of their boredom, Usopp conjured up a brilliant plan, whispering it into Luffy's ear. All that could be heard from the two were contagious giggles that were silent enough for them to mask.

"Let's do it! You're so bad, Usopp. Shishishi..." Luffy chuckled, cutely.

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"Are they alive in there?" It had been three minutes since Luffy and Usopp locked each other up in the closet, and their silence was growing suspicious to their friends.

Shortly after they left, Zoro walked away for a moment for personal reasons. However, just as he walked by the closet, Usopp's naughty scheme began.

"Ohhh yeahh!!"

"NGH!" Zoro's ear was stunned by the shocking noises that penetrated them, alerting him.

Sounds ranging from moans to a persistent bang against the door made their prank so obvious, all that the rest of the players could do was laugh loudly.

Sanji quickly searched for a pair of earplugs to put within Chopper's ears to block out the sounds for him.

Luffy was tempted to break character when Usopp held his stomach and fell to his knees, biting down on his lips to not ruin their prank.

"Psst, watch this..." Puffing his cheeks with air, Usopp pressed his hands against his mouth while everything went silent for a moment.

"Two minutes left, Usopp! Luffy!" Nami called out, jumping when strange noise emitted from within the closet.

A loud clapping was enough to make everyone burst out laughing, while some hid their faces to block out the secondhand embarrassment they felt for their Captain and Sniper.

"USOOOOOOOPP HAMMER!!!!!!" Usopp banged roughly against the door while Luffy moaned loudly, and shamelessly.

"H-HARDER!! H-A..HAHA.. HARDER!" Eventually, the comedic duo broke character and ended up making everybody laugh along with them.

"Your seven minutes are up, fools! Come out!" Nami announced, smiling.

Luffy and Usopp opened the door and the first person they met was Zoro, standing there with an undeniable look of jealously as if he had been robbed of his swords.

The Captain kept on smiling, walking back to where everyone was seated and gathered up in a circle.

"It's my turn to spin, give me the bottle... I know just who I'll make it land on." Whispering the final words of his sentence to himself, Zoro grabbed ahold of the beer bottle and spun at it.

The Strawhats eyed one another in silence while Sanji placed both of his hands together with his eyes closed.

"Sanji-kun, what are you doing?" Nami asked, looking at the man, to which he replied: "Praying that the bottle doesn't land on me."

Seconds later, after an intense round of spinning... The bottle finally stopped.

"Let's go." Zoro grabbed Luffy's hand, walking away with him towards the closet at a speedy pace, only to be stopped by a voice coming from behind them.

"Hey cheater, get your ass back here!" The Swordsman gulped.

"Yeah, Zoro! The bottle didn't land on me." Luffy chuckled, walking away like before, to sit down once more.

"You're right, it landed on me." Tears streamed down Sanji's face as he fell to his knees.

"GOD, DID I NOT PRAY ENOUGH? WHY ME?" The Cook dramatically cried out, raising his arms to the sky.

"Shut up, dumbass... Just get in the damn closet with me already."

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