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Chapter 2: Blindfolds and Bad Ideas

"You, my friend, should be glad there's no current in the calm belt. I was able to find you fairly easily."

Margaret leaned on the rail of The Sunny, watching Luffy cough up the last of the sea water from his lungs. He shakily sat up from the puddle of water surrounding him and smiled weakly at her.

"Sorry 'bout that. It probably would've been easier for you to get back to the ship too if I didn't get so weak in the water. I could've used my rocket."

He felt exhausted just talking that small amount. It usually took a few minutes before he started feeling normal again after being in the ocean. He stood up with some effort and groaned, dizziness kicking in. He blinked and muttered, "Stood up too fast."

Margaret chuckled and handed his hat to him.

"You know, this same thing happened the first time I saw you," she pointed out teasingly. She smiled at the memory of him trying to build a raft to get back to his crew. "I'm glad everything worked out for you guys in the end."

Luffy grinned despite the current aching in his head. That smash against Sunny hadn't treated him well.

"Shishishi! Thanks, Margaret. I'm glad you decided to save me again this time."

She nodded and tucked a stray strand of wet hair behind her ear.

He's still the same moron from before…

"Ah! There's no wind here is there," he remembered, looking down at his wet clothes and shrugged. "Can't be helped then."

He wobbled slowly towards the stairs to the main deck, lazily pulling off his shirt as he went. When he noticed Margaret wasn't following, he turned around.

"Aren't you coming? I have to show you my ship!" he called, starting down the stairs. Margaret hesitated, then ran after him until she caught up.

Franky was in heaven. Normally girls weren't the thing that really occupied his mind, but this was different.

The three women he was in the company of at the moment were all specialty ship-wrights on Amazon Lily. He now knew they were riding on the only actual ship that went in and out of the mysterious island, but they were all on equal ground with him as far as knowledge of craft.

The skinny one with grey eyes was clearly the one in charge, but her subordinates were active in the conversation they kept, and they were all pleasantly bouncing ideas off of each other and having a grand old time. Franky lifted his sun glasses and took a long gulp from the fancy long stemmed glass of cola he held. The women all smiled when he sighed contentedly and shook his head.

"It's been a while since I've talked to other ship-wrights. I don't meet many women that find this stuff interesting, either."

The brunette chuckled. "Well, for most of us this is our first time interacting with men, so we're just excited to get to talk about all the new technology being developed. That mechanism you showed us, for instance. The Coup De Burst? It's absolutely fascinating!"

Her friend with the blonde ponytail nodded vigorously. "Do you think you could show us how it works once we get to the island? We have cola in stock, but we'd have to visit the market first." They both scooted closer to him, batting their eyelashes, "Please?"

Franky scratched his head and laughed loudly.

"Hahaha! Of course! I suppose you won't get another chance to see it after we leave. It is one of a kind."

The leader's eyes glistened. "You've got us all excited now. What do you say we take a trip to the bow so we can explain our use of the Yuda? We should be getting close to the island, so we should start readying things anyway."

"Sounds SUUUPAAA~!" Franky posed for the women and they all giggled and clapped. "Franky-san's so funny!"

The party got up and headed out the door, chattering eagerly as they went. Robin perked up when she heard them approaching from her chair just outside. She looked towards Sunny, then back at Franky.

"Er…Franky-san?"

"OOOOOOOI~! NICO ROOOOBIIIIIIIIN~! Fine weather, eh? No wind must be nice for reading!" Franky didn't wait for a reply and headed up the stairs with the three Kuja beauties. Robin blinked and went back to her book.

Must be he finished talking with Senchou already...

Ok. So…maybe in hind sight this was a bad idea. But…I definitely wasn't expecting THIS to happen…

"Hey, Margaret, where's Franky?"

"Er…uh…about that…"

"Why are you all stuttery and stuff?"

"Well…you…" Margaret was currently having a hard time responding to the naked man in front of her. "…You wanna…put on some pants?"

Luffy looked down at himself, apparently still unashamed to be nude in front of others. He looked back up and shrugged.

"Nami started laundry earlier and never dried my favorite ones, so I have to do it myself. Besides," he dropped his wet outfit in a basket in the corner of the laundry room and turned back to her with a confident grin and his hands on his hips, "it's not like you haven't seen 'it' before."

Margaret blushed furiously as he turned to put his washed pants in the dryer. He probably hadn't meant to tease her, but he also wasn't aware of the changes she'd gone through. Also…now…

Uh oh…

She felt that familiar feeling in the pit of her stomach. It had been bothering her since she had first seen him get on the ship, but now that he was here with her in the flesh…

That thing…it's drooling again.

She struggled to not panic at the realization of what was happening. Maybe he wouldn't notice if she acted natural. He was right, after all. She had seen 'that thing' the first time he'd come to them. It wasn't really a big deal.

Still…

She glanced at his back, now turned to her as he struggled to pick a button to press on the dryer. She couldn't help staring a little bit. It wasn't everyday she got to see a man. And naked, at that. They were completely different from women! Who could blame her for being a little curious?

Now I'm just making excuses.

Luffy finally decided on a button and made a victorious whooping noise when the machine started.

"Yosh! Now we can tour the ship! We should find Franky on our way around, so we better get started!"

The overly excited rubber man ran out of the laundry room and tumbled onto the grassy deck. Margaret watched him jump around like a kid, then yell at her as he went over to the swing. She nodded that she could see him as he attempted to do some stupid stunt on it before she finished climbing down the stairs to where he was. She paused on the last step and eyed the sack between his legs, memories of her past unsuccessful attempts to see its contents giving rise to an idea. She smiled as he waved to her, care free and innocent.

I can see you very well from here…

Hancock was furious. What's worse, it showed in her face.

Her regular crew members watched as she tore through the ship, apparently looking for something. It was hard to admire her perfectly sculpted legs when she was bouncing in and out of rooms, her frustration with not finding what she was looking for becoming increasingly obvious. Rindou quirked an eyebrow and looked over at Daisy, who was currently failing at suppressing her uncouth giggling.

Ran whispered in her ear, "What do you think is the matter with Hebihime-sama?"

Rindou shrugged. "I'm not sure. Perhaps it has something to do with Luffy-san. If it's anything we need to know about, she'll tell us once we reach land. The island should be close by now."

Hancock had almost given up looking when she spotted a blur of green as she ran across the deck.

That bastard…

There, lounging casually at the base of the mast as if he had not a care in the world, was Zoro. The snake princess felt her blood boil when he opened his mouth to yawn, her feet moving of their own accord toward the unsuspecting swordsman. He opened his good eye to look up, murderous intent almost visibly oozing out of her. He grimaced.

"What the hell do you want?"

Hancock had been asked by countless men if she would marry them, bear their children, even simply be their mistress. All of them had been pigs, ignorant to just how inferior they all were to her, constantly over stepping their boundaries and asking for death. The anger that followed these encounters was usually answered with her unmerciful use of the Merrow-Merrow ability. She never regretted using it. It helped her calm down, helped her keep wrinkles off her face. It generally saved her the trouble of throwing a complete temper tantrum.

Staring at her like she was the most disgusting thing on the planet though, was a man she was unable to kill. For love, she must endure. That was the only thing keeping her from squashing this moron's head like a bug. So instead of turning him to stone, she figured she'd play with his mind a little. The raven haired bombshell leaned far enough into his face that he could see his own reflection in her eyes. He also had a nice view of her breasts, but she pretended she didn't see him staring.

"I've come to explain the terms for which you now work for me."

"…What are you talking about."

Hancock pointed a finger at his forehead. "Shut up for a minute and let me talk. I just got back from negotiating with your clever little navigator. We've worked out a deal."

Zoro opened his mouth like he was going to speak but she lightly slapped him. She glared at his shocked face before continuing.

"I'm to pay her 500,000,000 beri to keep this a secret from Luffy. Even though you and I know it was nothing even remotely close to what she thinks we were doing, it is also true that I am extremely beautiful and am the epitome of every man's fantasy."

Zoro gave her an 'are you kidding me' look, but she decided to let it pass. "It would break Luffy's heart if he heard that I had been seen with another man, regardless of reason. He gets very jealous."

This woman is a fucking lunatic.

Zoro pushed her hand out of his face and settled back against the mast. "I don't see how that has anything to do with me."

"She also told me to tell you how much you owe."

"Wait, what? Why do I owe HER anything?"

Hancock stood up straight again and smoothed her hair back. "Of course it's so Luffy doesn't find out and kill you. You of all people should know how beastly he gets when angry."

Zoro waved her off. "Yeah. Right. Ordeal of love." He thought of Sanji and rolled his eyes.

Stupid. Nami just wants another excuse to suck the life out of me.

"Well, spill it. How much do I owe her?"

"300,000,000."

"WHAT? THAT'S TOO MUCH! I DIDN'T EVEN DO ANYTHING TO YOU!"

"She told me she'd accept an alternative."

"An…an alternative? What are you…"

Hancock smirked and studied her nails. "Your navigator thought it would be in your best interest to hear me out. It seems you already owe her some money, and she told me she adds interest for every day you haven't paid her back."

Zoro sank at the memory of all the debt he'd wrung up being played by Nami. "Yeah, you could say that."

"So I told her I would pay your share as well. So you don't have to pay extra." Zoro snapped to attention at this, an incredulous look on his face. Hancock laughed inwardly.

"But, in exchange, you work for me until you leave the island."

She watched his face turn from that of a suspicious hopeful, to just suspicious. He started to walk away. She shook her head as if she were hurt by his cold answer.

"My oh my, that pride of yours will be your downfall someday."

"I don't need your help. I can get money just fine."

"Sounds to me like you just don't like me."

Zoro turned around, his one eye half hooded. "Woman, you're insane. If you weren't so beautiful on the outside you'd be at a loss. I don't care to spend any more time with you."

He had turned around about half way when he felt a violent tug on his robe, and suddenly he found himself face to face with her again, their height difference meaning he was currently held in the air by her fist. The anger in her electrifying blue eyes was truly terrifying. Zoro felt a trickle of sweat start to run down his neck.

S-scary…

"Listen, you little punk. I'm making you quite the generous offer here. I pay all of the debt you owe that wretched woman, tax free, give you room and board, LET YOU LIVE, and as an added bonus, you'll have the privilege of training with one of the seven warlords. Get the picture?"

She was sick of his face, so she threw him back to the floor. He caught himself and wobbled a little to get back on balance. He glared up at her. "What makes you think I need to train with you?" Hancock had begun to walk away, but she turned back around to face him.

"A swordsman of your caliber doesn't stop training. I'm the only person on the island besides Luffy who will be a match for you, whether you choose to accept that or not." With that, the snake princess spun on her heels back towards her room. Zoro was left standing there, feeling sort of confused.

Brooke and company had watched the entire scene from far away, wondering what was being said.

"Um…did Zoro-san…just get dumped? That's something I never thought I'd live to see…though, I'm already dead…and I have no eyes to see…YOHOHOHOHOHOHO~"

"So…you're saying Franky never actually needed to talk to me?"

Luffy and Margaret sat in the boys' room after just finishing the tour of the ship. Luffy had been confused as to why they hadn't seen Franky since they'd boarded, so she'd finally had to tell him the truth. She smiled meekly from the bunk beneath his.

"Yeah. He's not even on the ship."

Luffy frowned in confusion and let his face fall over the side so he could see her. "So…why trick me?" he asked.

Being made of rubber, his neck naturally started to stretch further than he thought. From Margaret's perspective it looked funny so she giggled. His pout didn't help.

She shrugged. "Um, well, I suppose I just wanted to be able to see you for awhile. It's been so long and all…" She looked to him for acceptance and received it. He smiled widely.

"Shishishi! Well why didn't you say so? We could've been doing more fun stuff instead of just looking for Franky you dork!" He grabbed the side of the top bunk and flipped down so he was sitting next to her. His closeness surprised her. He still wasn't one to consider personal space.

"Hey! So, whaddya wanna do? You're the one who brought me here, right?" He looked at her with big innocent eyes and she almost caved.

I can't tell him…he'll think it's weird.

She gulped. His nudity had been forgotten on the tour of the ship, but now that 'it' was within reach, she knew she couldn't give up. Not yet.

"H-hey, Luffy! Wanna play a game while we wait for your clothes to dry?" she asked a bit nervously. His eyes lit up, just like she knew they would.

"GAME? WHAT KIND!"

"Uh, um, well, we used to play it on the island when we were kids. It's called 'Come and Go'. Have you heard of it?"

He tilted his head to the side and scratched under his hat. "I don't think so. How do you play?"

"Well, usually it's played with more people, but generally what happens is one person is designated to find everyone else once they've hidden. The one person is blind folded, so when the blind folded person yells 'coming' everyone around has to yell 'go', and eventually they're caught."

Luffy grinned enthusiastically. "Sounds interesting! I wanna be the guy that gets blind folded!"

I was hoping you'd say that...

She watched as he ran to his locker to the right of the beds and chucked stuff out looking for blindfold material. He pouted after a few minutes, apparently having no luck finding something.

"Hey…Margaret? You got anything?" he asked. She shook her head and he made his way back over to her. He perked up when he noticed her outfit. She was confused until he pointed at her top. "That would be good, wouldn't it?" She looked at him in horror.

"What? I can't take this off, you'll see my…" She started to blush uncontrollably. He blinked and put his hands on his hips.

"What's there to be embarrassed about? I'm already naked. Honestly, girls are too weird. Nami always freaks out when someone sees her boobs. What's the big deal anyway? I have them too, see?"

As if to prove a point, he desperately tried to squeeze his pecs together to make cleavage. Margaret couldn't help but laugh. He laughed with her.

"There's no reason to be embarrassed. I wanna play the game! Here, I won't even look if that helps…" He looked away and told her to put it over his eyes when she was ready. She nodded and removed the cloth, feeling the reality of what was happening as her breasts were set free.

This is too weird…

She cautiously made her way over to him and stood behind, making sure to tie it securely. She moved so she was in front of him and saw the eager smile on his face.

"Can you see anything through it?"

"Nope!"

"Ok. Then I need you to count to ten so I can hide."

"Yosh!"

"And you can't stop counting, no matter what happens, Luffy."

"Yosh!"

"I MEAN it. No matter what. Just keep counting."

"Yosh! Let's START ALREADY!"

Satisfied that he understood, she slowly knelt down so she was eye level with the sack between his legs. She looked up warily.

"Ok, Luffy. You can start."

"Ok! Ooone~…"

Margaret had just started to reach out tentatively towards his groin, when she felt his knee come up and hit her in the face. From underneath the blindfold, Luffy realized he'd just kicked his friend and began to panic. Without removing the blind fold first, he moved forward to try to find her and see if she was ok. Unfortunately, she had simply fallen backwards instead of out of the way, and he tripped on her legs and fell on top of her.

"LUFFY! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"

"I DON'T KNOW! YOU DIDN'T SAY I COULDN'T MOVE AS I COUNTED!"

"NORMAL PEOPLE WOULD JUST KIND OF ASSUME THAT WAS A STIPULATION!"

Margaret was in a panic. Her face was throbbing from the kick, and she could feel Luffy on top of her. Naked. With no clothes on. She could also see through her disheveled hair that his face had landed nicely between her breasts.

WHAT THE HELL KIND OF SITUATION IS THIS.

"LUFFY! GET OFF OF ME YOU MORON!"

"I'M TRYING BUT IT'S HARD WHEN YOU HAVE A BLIND FOLD ON."

"USE YOUR BRAIN AND-"

She felt a warm hand on her left breast. So much for avoiding the inevitable.

The blonde gasped at the contact. Luffy immediately removed it, hoping she wouldn't punch him like he knew Nami probably would have.

"I'M SORRY! DID I HURT YOU? OH- Wait…"

Mid sentence he realized something else was amiss. He lifted his head up from her cleavage and moved his knee where it currently sat.

It's…it's…wet…

He carefully put his hands on the floor around them and lifted himself up to a kneeling position. He tentatively lifted part of the blind fold to look down at his knees. He was now straddling one of her legs, and his left knee was in a rather…awkward place.

"M-Margaret…"

"W-what?"

"I…I think you peed a little."

"…What?"

Margaret carefully pushed herself up so she was face to face with him on the floor, the blindfold bikini top still half covering his face. The one eye looking back at her showed horror.

"W-well, your…your thing is leaking. I…I think I might've broke it."

Margaret looked down at what Luffy was talking about and her whole face immediately turned cherry red. It wasn't really custom to wear undergarments on Amazon Lily, and nobody ever really gave it a second thought. Seeing how Luffy's knee was now resting in her 'special place' though, she could see how underwear would've been a good idea. It had started to get wet when she'd first seen him naked, but having him see just how turned on she was was enormously embarrassing. She looked down at the floor, since there was nudity pretty much everywhere else in her line of vision.

"It's…it's not what you think…"

Luffy removed the blindfold completely and stared at her confused. "It's not pee?"

"Well, no. It doesn't smell like pee in here does it?"

Luffy sniffed, as if to test that out. "Hm. You're right. Then what is it…AH! WAIT! I know…"

He pointed at his manhood and grinned understandingly. "Sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, this thing is standing up. I don't know why it happens, but sometimes it leaks stuff like yours does."

Margaret blinked incredulously. "It…it does?"

Luffy laughed as if she were stupid.

"Shishishi! Yeah! So maybe your brain took a nap or something and decided that thing needed to leak!"

He scratched his head in thought. "It's weird though. Yours isn't the same as mine. It's not…out."

"O-out?"

"Yeah, you know…like, you don't have this…" He patted his junk to prove his point. It shifted against her leg and Margaret looked away, embarrassment not keen on leaving her. Luffy looked from his own to hers and frowned.

"Why don't girls have one too…"

"Well, it might be because men and women are separate. See?" Margaret offered, pointing to her chest and his, from her groin to his. "It would be unequal. Women are…out…on top, men are out on bottom. It would be unbalanced otherwise."

Luffy nodded slowly like he understood. "I…I guess that makes sense."

They continued to stare at each other, Luffy not moving from his position on her leg and Margaret's eyes still focused on the infamous family jewels she so longed to touch. Luffy broke the silence first.

"…I wanna touch it," he muttered with determination. Almost as if he had thought it through and had come to the decision that he would touch her crotch or die trying. Margaret's eyes bulged out.

"You WHAT?"

"You want to too, right?" he asked. He had read her mind, apparently. She hid her blush with her bangs.

"Well..t-that is…"

Luffy laughed loudly, saying, "It's fine, right? I've never seen a girl's 'thing' before, and I guess girls from Amazon Lily don't see a lot of guy parts. It's just touching. It's just…interesting…" He tilted his head way to the side so he could stare at her womanhood from a different angle. Margaret slapped him, irritated.

"You can't look at it like that. It's…it's embarrassing."

Luffy pouted. "I already told you didn't I? I don't care, so you shouldn't care. It's just skin."

"Y-yeah, but…the skin there…it's…sensitive." She looked away and Luffy thought about this. He blanched.

"Yeah…that's true. My balls are pretty…sensitive." He gulped at every memory he had of his precious kintama narrowly escaping sharp kicks from his tyrannical navigator. He shivered and placed his hands on Margaret's shoulder's.

"Margaret, look at me. T-this is important," he said seriously. She looked up at him, the low fearful voice he was speaking in grabbing her attention.

"A man's balls…they're very sensitive…they hurt really easily." He narrowed his eyes at her. "Promise me you won't hurt them. We're friends, right? I'll…I'll be gentle with yours, too."

She nodded in acknowledgement, not really knowing what to say. He turned his attention back to her legs and moved a tentative finger to the outer lips of her womanhood. She froze and Luffy looked at her for reassurance. "Did…did that hurt?" He sounded genuinely scared that he'd hurt her.

Margaret looked at him, part of her starting to realize that this was probably, subconsciously, what she'd wanted all along. She had fantasized about him (often in the buff) dozens of times over the past few months. Why, though?

He was, on the one hand, the only man she had ever seen before becoming a member of the Kuja pirate crew. And yet, she knew in the back of her mind that he was just a very special person to her. But, did special mean having to envision his face every time she touched herself? No, no, that could not be normal.

She felt him gently poking the flesh of her vulva, and was perhaps a bit inspired to test out her own imagination's creations. She stared at him, mumbling to himself about how it was soft, his eyes concentrating fully on what he was doing. It honestly wasn't even half of what she wanted. She realized that now; she wanted…something. And, apparently it was something only he could give her.

"Lu-Luffy…can you…touch it more?"

Luffy looked at her and blinked. "Well, if I touch it more, won't it hurt? And that stuff is still there…"

"N-no…it actually…feels really good when it's touched." She knew her face was red already, but it felt weird to ask someone something like that. Luffy perked up.

"Ah! So, if it feels good when I touch it, maybe I didn't break it, right? Um…here…" He shifted like he was going to move from straddling her leg. When he went to move his knee though, it caressed the tender skin and made her shiver. Luffy noticed her reaction and scratched his head as he settled between her legs.

"I don't get it. It didn't hurt when I did that?"

Margaret shook her head. "I think it depends on where you touch it and how hard. Your knee just kind of…stroked it." She laid back on the floor and breathed deeply, memorizing the feeling. "It felt really nice."

I wanna do it…I wanna touch myself…

Luffy stared at her, all naked and sweaty and breathing heavily. A small thought came to his mind, an instinctual de ja vu, if you will. Deep inside of him, something started to surface, albeit a bit slower than it should have been. He wasn't a blusher, but…he felt a little feverish all of a sudden. He shook his head and went back to the task at hand.

"So…you want me to touch you more?"

He watched her eyes, hooded and carnivorous, looking up at him from her compromising position on the floor. He gulped, maybe noticing for the first time just how intimate it was to be naked with other people; namely girls. His member finally took the opportunity to make up for his social retardation and twitch a little. He felt it and shifted his legs, still not fully catching on. The gears were a little less dusty now, though.

Margaret arched casually towards the ceiling and let her body relax against the floor boards. She smiled and breathed, "Yeah, Luffy. I want you to touch me a lot more."

"I can't trust you in this environment, Sanji. It's an entire island of girls. Do you want to almost die like you did on Fishman Island?"

Sanji shook his head groggily.

Chopper had been lecturing him about being a pervert since he woke up from his Hancock induced coma, and it was starting to get on his nerves. He wasn't even a pervert, really. He just took special care to appreciate the glory that was a woman's body. He was trying to remember what the snake princess looked like, but he knew Chopper wouldn't like it if he started bleeding again. The little reindeer was busy putting together some 'secret weapon', or so he called it.

"Usually Usopp's the one to make these kinds of things, but he's not around and I can't lock you in here forever. This will have to do until we get to the island at least." Chopper finished working on his masterpiece and stood back, admiring his work. Sanji looked over his shoulder and frowned.

"What the hell is that?"

Chopper huffed. "Be grateful, Sanji. This device will help train you to slowly get back to your normal woman doting self instead of the all out disgusting lech you've become."

Sanji picked it up and examined it, a little peeved at Chopper's description of his evolution into a sex maniac. Nobody seemed to understand what it was like being a guy like him and having no women to dote on for two whole years. Well, fuck all of them.

"Chopper, this is a silver serving tray with a handle duct taped to the back."

"I know. Smart huh? I got the idea from that story about the guy who killed Medusa by looking at her in the reflection of his shield. It's generally the same concept, except you won't be beheading anyone, and knowing you it'll be hard to resist looking at women directly." Chopper moved to clean up his supplies. Sanji attached the device to his arm, thoroughly amused.

"So I can't look at women directly for a while? This actually might come in handy. If I just carry drinks around on it and then use it to look at women, I won't die of a nosebleed. Good thinking, Chopper."

Chopper did his happy dance. "Asshole! Praise doesn't make me happy at all!"

They both looked up when Usopp opened the door and walked in. He looked noticeably more miserable than usual. Chopper ran to him.

"U-USOPP! Are you ok? You look awful, what's the matter?"

Usopp didn't answer right away. His eyes were hidden from view behind his hat and he still had one hand on the door handle. Sanji and Chopper tensed when it looked like he was going to speak.

"Have…have you guys ever, you know…questioned your sexuality?"

Sanji and Chopper stared at him, neither of them knowing what to say. After a couple beats, Usopp started to laugh loudly. Perhaps too loud.

"HAHAHAHAHA got ya! I was just kidding! Psh, of COURSE neither of you have hahaha you should've seen your FACES! HAHAHAHAHA" He laughed his way out the door. He then went and stood at the rail, staring mysteriously off into the distance and questioning life, more specifically his own.
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