Be Mine

Lover's Cruise

The crew all ate with the same energy like always. Luffy, Usopp and Chopper acting ridiculous along with Franky. With the news of Zoro and Luka following the lover's cruise they thought to celebrate, that was some good news and they all felt like they will get Zoro back.

"Tell us more about lover's cruise." Nami says to the waiters and everyone stops fooling around and listens, well all except Luffy who just continued to eat. In the back Zeff plays with the triplets who seem to take a liking to him immediately.

"There are four islands you pass before the last one. The first island is filled with romantic spots. A beach to walk on, more restaurants, theaters, I think there's an amusement park, photo booths and other activities couples would do on a date. Even our restaurant has become a go to for couples on lover's cruise." The twin with pink hair says.

"The island is full of couples all trying everything." The twin with blue hair interrupts.

"Everything?" Agnes asks curious.

"A rational couple would only do the things that interest them as a date but there are some who think that the more that they do the stronger the love." The blue hair twin says.

"What about the next island?" Nami asks.

"It might be easier to think of these islands as stages of a couples path to marriage." The pink hair twin says.

"What do you mean?" Nami asks.

"Well the first step in a relationship is dating, getting to know each other. To see if you're compatible with each other. Then there's the next stage just being together and that is different for every couple before they move on the the next stage which is move in together. Most couples come with groups and they are separated by gender. With the next stage is share a room. Then there the obvious ending, getting married and having kids."

"So the last island is full of hospitals?" Usopp asks sarcastically.

"No. The last island is called Honey's Moon. The second to last island is full of hotels and churches for couples to get married and they spent the next island being together. It's like a resort. You'll find a lot of married couples but there are some who aren't married."

"It sounds like the island are close to each other." Nami peculates.

"They're not. It's like any other trip in between islands on the grand line. They might be further apart than normal. That's why it's perfect to test a couples love to each other, when a couple goes through some tough experiences they either fall deeper in love or they fall out of love."

"What type of tough experiences are you talking about?" Usopp asks.

"Just your regular hardships you faced on the grandline. There's the weather, other pirates and even bandit's. The second island is actually just full of activities that test a couples love."

"Like what?" Agnes wonders.

"There are test to see how a couple handles being handcuffed together, three legged races. There's this one that one partner gets tied and the other is blindfolded and the blindfolded one has to feed the hand cuffed one. Most couples rage quiet and break up during that one."

"That doesn't sound bad." Usopp says.

"That's what everyone thought who played it. But the one whose handcuffed always gets mad at the one who's blindfolded for not listening to their instructions."

"Can't the one being blindfolded just sit there with their arm extended and the hand cuffed on just goes forward and eat?" Nami says.

"That's against the rules because that's to easy. The handcuffed one is the one who has to sit still while the blindfolded one has to feed them."

"Are there any other fun games like that on the island?" Chopper asks.

"Yes. Almost the whole island is full of them."

"Do you think Luka has gotten to the first island?" Riku questions.

"No, from when they left it should take a few days if there's wind."

"If there's wind?" Nami wonders.

"Yes on the way to the first island there are times where the wind just stops and some people get stranded on the spot till the wind picks up again."

"If they are stranded do you think we could catch up to them?" Riku asks the waiter.

"Maybe. And if you don't you might catch them on the first island."

"How could you tell?" Riku questions.

"When Luka was here he asked for the Lover's Cruise start menu, it includes chocolates, flowers, a card even a stuffed animal included with the full course meal. He wanted everything to say that they are a couple, no doubt in my mind he would try all the date spots on the first island and half the island is full of date spots. He won't be able to get through them in one day."

"Are there couples who just pass to get to the last island." Agnes asks.

"Yes, there some couples who are already engaged who go through this just to say they have."

"You seem to know a lot about this route, why?" Robin interigates.

"The Tortoise, this restaurant sail from the start to the end of the lover's cruise, so we've seen the islands."

"Why?" Robin asks.

"It brings in a lot of customers. We're not the only restaurant that does it either there's a lot of others that sail their restaurants through this route. There is this one restaurant that we usually see by now."

"What do you mean?" Robin wonders.

"That restaurant, The Orchard sails further way from the start of lover's cruise route beginning and sails back we usually see it pass by as it returns to the beginning."

"Why do they that?" The archaeologist asks another question.

"As you can see we don't have a lot of pirates." The crew look around the room to see he is correct. Not a single pirate in sight. "It's not like we can't fight it's just there are always couples coming by. The Orchard wants more than just couples as customers."

"Pirates don't sail this route?" Nami comes in to the conversation.

"Well on the three point log pose you can choose the route you want to go. We do get pirates but after they learn which this route is they choose a different point to follow. There is not really much of an adventure following the route that lovers take."

"Waiter!" A lady across the room yells.

"Excuse me." The twin with blue hair says before he walks away.

"So what do you think?" Riku asks Nami.

"I think after we finish our meal we'll set sail. If what he said is true we might be able to catch Luka and get Zoro by the end of this week maybe next." After saying that they all just enjoy their meal. Sanji actually felt happy in a while. Done with their meal they are about to pay when the owner says not to worry about it. Sanji says bye to Zeff and he says bye to the triplets who he played with the whole time. The straw hats set sail in order to get Zoro back. Sanji goes to take a shower and maybe take a nap leaving the triplets in the others hand.