One Piece (Love Story) [Part Two]

Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety [Rewritten]

-Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety-

"Good name, that's exactly what it is" I snorted.

"A Sea Racoon" Usopp deadpanned as he corrected our captain.

"Hm?" Luffy hummed as he took notice of the object that was dangling from Nukky's neck. Carefully pulling it off, he handed it over to Nami for her to examine.

"A letter?" she questioned, unraveling the piece of paper and scanning its contents. "It seems like Sayo's instincts about that notebook were right on the mark" she grinned. "Luffy and everyone on your crew, I hope that you all are doing well—after we went our separate ways, Sayo and I went home and tried out the idea she had. Just like our father's formula said, we made several kinds of colored chemicals then we mixed them in the same order of the colors of the round rainbow" she read aloud, before gasping. "They made the gem after all!" she excitedly realized.

"Look! This is it!" Luffy exclaimed as the raccoon opened his mouth and dropped the gem spoken about in the letter in his hand.

"Amazing!" everyone awed as the captain held up the round gem for us to see.

"They say thanks for everything and good luck on your adventures" Nami concluded as she rolled the letter back up.

"Hey, Luffy, let me take a look at it" Usopp eagerly said as he approached the rubber man who was currently squatted down and examining the gem in his hands.

"Me too! Me too! Me too!" Chopper excitedly jumped around as we soon gathered around our captain in an attempt to get a closer look at the gem we had been gifted.

"Easy! That thing isn't a toy, you know!" Nami scolded, looking rather nervous with the way everyone was crowding around.

"She's right, Sayo and Lina worked really hard on making that gem" I nodded in agreement as Nukky turned back into a bird and flew away right as a dark cloud started to roll in.

"Ouch! It's more of that stupid candy rain!" Nami winced, hastily covering her head as hard candy suddenly started to pour from the sky—loudly clattering and bouncing against the deck of the ship as it did so.

"Ow!" I whined as well when I suddenly felt one hit my forehead the second I tilted my head back. Mindlessly rubbing the skin, I bent down and picked up one of the candies, curiously rolling it between my fingers as I examined it.

"Lucky me!" Luffy happily laughed as he opened his mouth wide in an attempt to catch some of the falling sweets. Shrugging my shoulders, I popped the candy I held into my mouth and rolled it around—silently listening to how it clinked against my teeth as my tongue swirled around it. Taking in the flavor.

"Hey, it's not that bad" I chuckled at the artificially fruity taste that coated my mouth before blinking as my head was suddenly turned to the side. My eyes soon widened at the sensation of a pair of lips firmly pressing against my own as a tongue pushed its way past my slightly parted lips. In an instant, my face exploded with color as my eyes screwed shut and a shiver trailed up my spine the moment I felt Zoro nudge his tongue against my own before he finally pulled back.

"You're right, not that bad" he hummed in thought as I now noted that the sweet that had once been in my mouth was now absent.

"H-hey! Thief!" I sputtered. "I thought you didn't like sweets!" I frowned, cheeks puffing up as I began to pout at the realization he had stolen my treat.

"I don't, but I like messing with you" he chuckled before pressing a kiss to my temple the minute I started pouting. "But if you want it back, then you're going have to steal it" he teasingly grinned, sticking his tongue out and showing the sweet sitting on it.