Yosaku and Johnny
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It was a calm day at sea as the Straw Hat Pirates sailed on their brand new ship the Going Merry with their new Nakama, Usopp. "IT'S FINISHED!" announced Luffy as he held up a badly drawn pirate flag and showed it to the others. "LUFFY'S PIRATE FLAG!"
Y/N, Zoro, Nami, and Usopp just stared at the crudely drawn skull and crossbones which had an equally badly drawn straw hat on its head. "Hahaha! I already had an emblem thought up," laughed Luffy, who was excited about his new flag.
"Well, he is a little low on in terms of painting talent," commented Usopp.
"Maybe it's supposed to be abstract," Nami suggested, trying to be positive.
"Well... a pirate flag is supposed to inspire terror," Zoro said, "and that's pretty scary."
"Luffy, if you make that flag our symbol, I'm going on strike," Y/N threatened.
"And I'll be the first to join him," added Zoro.
"What? You don't like it?" asked Luffy.
"Your painting stinks!" Usopp blurted, "Here let me try."
Usopp then set to work on what he thought the pirate flag should look like. "That's not our emblem," Luffy and Zoro scolded Usopp, then they whacked him on the back of the head. WHAP! Usopp had painted a profile view of a skull with a long nose and a slingshot was one of the crossbones. It was more like a pirate flag for Usopp's Pirate Crew.
"Usopp, try your hand at painting Luffy's idea," suggested Y/N.
Usopp eventually conceded and painted another flag, this one was a skull and crossbones that had a big toothy grin and a Luffy's signature straw hat on its head, this was real symbol of the Straw Hat Pirates. (A/N: Anyone who doesn't know what this looks like has obviously never seen the One Piece Logo before.)
"Good, I like it," commented Nami as she looked over Usopp's flag.
"Really?" Usopp asked, pleased that his work had met their approval.
"It looks completely different from Luffy's," pointed out Zoro, which of course could only be a good thing, since Luffy's flag sucked.
"Great!" exclaimed Luffy, "Now lets paint it on the sail too!"
"I've been drawing things on walls since I was little," bragged Usopp, "I'm a man of many talents."
"Then use those talents to paint it on the sail," instructed Y/N, he attempted to walk off but Nami gave him a look the promised a lot of pain if he didn't help out.
With that the Straw Hat Pirates worked on painting the sail but they all made sure not to let Luffy touch a paint brush.
"Finally, the Going Merry is complete," announced Usopp once they had finished then he promptly collapsed to the deck. A larger version of their flag had been painted on the main sail making the Going Merry was an official pirate ship. "I'm beat." Next to Usopp, Zoro was sleeping against the mast while Y/N and Nami were standing together staring up at the skull and crossbones they had just painted.
"I can't believe you made me paint," complained Y/N as he tossed his paint brush to the side... but it didn't land on the ground.
"Y/N..." said Nami as calmly as she could.
Y/N turned to look at her and saw a splatter of black paint on the front of Nami's pink shirt. Y/N's eye widened and he slowly started backing away. "Uh... oops..."
Nami glared at Y/N then reached down and grabbed the bucket of white paint. There was still some left.
"Nami, it was an accident," said Y/N as Nami continued to advance on him with the paint bucket. Usopp wisely decided not to get caught in between the two of them and ran for his life.
