Haruta had to stay in the sick bay for three days before she was finally allowed to leave. If it wasn't for her scary sisters, the nurses, she would have left after one day. But since her sisters insisted she stayed a bit longer because of her head injury.
During her time in the sickbay, no one was allowed to take Luffy's straw hat away. She felt responsible to give the hat back herself. Also, she wanted to give her little brother a piece of her mind for worrying her.
From what she heard, he was kidnapped by unknown bandits and nearly raped by the bandit boss if Marco and Namur didn't show up at the moment they did. Well, the story also included that Luffy did fight back as much as he could even in sea stone handcuffs (something that did make her proud to a certain degree, but she wouldn't tell him that).
But back to the hat. A few of her brothers suggested that they took the hat and brought it back to Luffy. But with the help of pouting and whining, the hat stayed with her. She did feel a bit bad to use her brothers' weakness against them, but it was for her own personal feelings. If she didn't give back the hat herself, she would still feel guilty a bit for not being more careful.
Fortunately for her was also, that the only person, who was immune to that special behavior of her, didn't come. Haruta was sure, that Marco wouldn't leave without the hat of his...
Well, what exactly was Luffy to her older brother? She did hear and see him worried to a certain degree a lot, but never like he was a few days ago except during the Paramount war for their father. That was understandable.
Marco had been the longest time with Oyaji. Oyaji was the one who gave the blonde a place to call home.
So the boy, their youngest unofficial brother, had to be important to Marco, too. It would be around the same importance as Oyaji. But what relationship was that?
She looked at the hat in her hand like it knew the answer. If it could talk and see, it would be probably able to answer as it was rare to see Luffy without his hat. His promise to become a great pirate, no not just great. Her little brother would be the pirate king.
Haruta shook her head with a slight smile. She should focus on finding out, what was going on between Luffy and Marco.
There a few facts that she knew. It didn't matter what kind of relationship it was, but it was two-sided as Luffy mentioned Marco separately from the crew as he listed his important persons. The blonde was very protective of the boy going as far to attack a low bandit with his talons for planning to rape Luffy. It made Haruta shiver in fear when she thought about it. That was one step away from getting Marco really mad. The man was mostly lucky that their ship was on the other side of the island so he wouldn't end up as katana training dummy.
She had to force her thoughts back to the topic. It would have been easier to find out if Luffy also stayed in the sickbay.
But he didn't have any injuries, so he could sleep in his bed in Marco's room. She envied him a bit that he didn't have to deal with her sisters.
She sighed and looked in front of her. Marco's door. When she had left the sickbay, she had asked Izo, if he had seen Luffy. The cross-dresser told her that the boy was fishing with Namur in the morning and wanted to sleep in the afternoon, so he would most likely be in Marco's room.
She pondered if she should knock thus waking Luffy up if the boy still slept or if she should risk getting scolded by Marco, if he was in his room, but could wake up Luffy less softly. A grin ghosted across her face.
Getting scold was nothing new, so the decision was quickly made.
She opened the door silently and peaked carefully into the room.
