Pink and Gold Skies

You Can Read?

Koby was running around with Chopper on his shoulders, playing tag with Luffy, Usopp and Franky. Luffy kept stretching and Usopp kept yelling, "THATS CHEATING, LUFFFYYYYY!!!!"

It was around an hour or so before dinner that everyone tired themselves out, so they sat on the deck and fished.
"Hey, Koby! What do you do for fun when your not busy with Navy stuff?" Chopper asked him, and Usopp and Lufffy turned towards him.
"Oh- me?" Koby did a double take at the sudden question. For some reason, he had a feeling saying, "Oh, I collect articles with Luffy in them for fun" wasn't the smartest idea, so he said, "Oh, I mostly read or practice my moves on old Navy ships."
"Really? But aren't Navy ships harder than average? From what I hear, the keel and hull's are like steel!" Usopp leaned forward, looking oddly surprised for a man in such a high-caliber crew.
"Oh, um. Maybe? The Vice-Admiral trained us well, so we owe it all to him." Koby said with a weak smile and looked back out at sea.
"You did get stronger! Shishishishishi.." Luffy chortled, aggressively smacking Koby's back.
"Do you wanna check out our books here?" Tony Tony Chopper offered, a gleam in his eye.
"Really? That'd be great!" Koby nodded excitedly, and Luffy watched them with a frown. They had very Robin-ish looks in their eyes, and Luffy had a feeling Koby would be spirited away if he let Chopper.
"But thats boring!" Luffy snorted, and leaned backward over the railing, tilting his head towards the sea.
"I could read you an adventure book, if you'd like, Luffy-san." Koby offered, fiddling with his glasses.
"Hm..." Luffy thought. "If I listen to you read, will you play another game with me?"
"Of course. You can pick the book, Luffy-san." Koby smiled.
"Fine."
Usopp and Chopper gawked as Luffy and Koby headed for the library. Robin and Nami looked shocked to see Luffy grab a book from the shelf, and then pretended to busy themselves while casting sideway glances at them.
"This one." Luffy bounced around and ran upstairs again, sitting on the tree swing while Koby opened the book.
"The Rainbow Mist, huh?" Koby sat down against the tree and began to read to Luffy, pausing when he asked what some words meant, like nuclei, which the pirate then said nevermind when Koby tried to explain.
A while went by, and Usopp, Chopper, Nami, Zoro and Franky had gathered up on deck playing cards, but Luffy listened to Koby read with uncharacteristic patience. After they finished about one eighth of the book, Luffy started fidgeting, so Koby put a piece of paper in it and started playing a handshake game with Luffy that Helmeppo had taught him. Luffy got the hang of it fast, and beat Koby two out of three the first round.
After a while, Sanji popped his head out of the kitchen.  "NAMI-SSAAAAN!! ROBIN-CHWAAAAN!! I'VE COOKED ONLY THE BEST OF THE BEST BOUILLABAISSE FOR YOU!~ Oh, Koby. Has any of the chefs on your Navy ship made Bouillabaisse for you before? Its a delicious pasta." He turned and looked at Zoro, Franky, Luffy, Brook and Usopp.
"Foods on, morons."
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Sorry, I got a lil lazy w/ this. Not much motivation lately if im honest. Any tips, ships, or anything at all you wanna say, i'd love to hear it in the comments. And thanks for reading my boring little story this far 😋