After dinner time, the full on hostility from earlier returned. "Im not scared of any one of you. If you want to get your ass handed to you, then catch me outside; how about that?" Kid threatened, reminding me of someone, though I couldn't exactly put my finger on who, as the members of the Glare Guys took his fighting invitation, and went outside. The entire group was composed of Kid himself, Katakuri, Law, and Ace initially, but then it just grew in membership when Kid said another thing, as he went out of the room.
"(Y/n) is going to be my girl, and I am going to prove it in this fight. A real man would fight to the death over what he wants, and not back out like some punk ass bitch." He stated, as my brows rose as high as they could, while the majority of the guys at that instantly went into killer mode. Speaking of which- said Killer wasn't here. As of late, he was to be in charge of wire tapping very important lines, which was a good thing, but also a bad thing, because Kid as of late had free reign to just be... well, Kid.
This hostility was not new for them... but did this have to happen at dinner time?...
"I-I ask that you guys stop this nonsense at once! If you guys hurt each other because of me... I won't forgive you!!" I went to outright yell, again, attempting to stop this insanity, but despite my stern words, it seems as if the guys didn't even hear what I just said.
'This is baadd... bad bad bad...'
"H-hey Hawkins... you don't foresee anyone dying here, do you?..." I questioned the blond worriedly, who wasn't taking part in this insanity. "No. This is but a mere childish quarrel..." He explained, as Drake, who also wasn't taking part in this, went to sigh. "What did you do to them, (y/n)?" He questioned me, as I gawked at him. "What do you mean 'What did you do to them' ?! None of you guys ever heard me once say from my mouth; 'Oh, sure, beat each other up to a pulp to prove your affection to me!~' , its stupid and dangerous!" I stomped my feet, as the two went to agree with me. Welp, at least they had enough sense to not engage in this stupidity. B-but then again, that's assuming they even liked me in that way...
But wait a minute... what about that time with the dolls hugging up on me?
Or that time when I got kissed in the neck by a dinosaur?
'My head hurts...' I sighed, going to decide to lean against the wall.
"They are acting like a bunch of little boys, wouldn't you agree, (y/n)-yoi?" Marco asked me with that typical lazy smile of his, as he went to slide right next to me. Honestly, if I wasn't so amused by his antics, I would probably be easily taken in by his charms; who knew the phoenix had such strong game?
"Well, compared to how old you probably are, the majority of them most likely are little boys in comparison..." I replied back, as he chuckled at that, not even seeming bothered a bit by what I just said. Honestly, I wish I had his temperament; it'd be so amazing to be so nonchalant about everything.
"Exactly my point! I am not like these little boys, you see. I'd treat you like the princess that you are." He flirted, going to hold one of my hands, as Hawkins was just chilling in the background, while Drake had his usual frown.
"Chance of success.... 0%..." Hawkins said unexpectedly, which caused me to almost bust a rib in laughter, since it was totally unprecedented. Did he really just give the stats on Marco's chance of wooing me over with his lines? O-oh my goodness... this is too good!
"Basil Hawkins the magician, correct? I heard that your cards are never wrong!" Marco folded his arms, still as chill as ice, as he went to smirk at him. "That's quite the unfortunate statistic you got there... maybe if you switched gears, and went after another woman, you'd have a higher chance of success!" He roasted, as Hawkins, for the first time ever, looked quite irritated by his words. It was a whimsical sight to see, since he usually was so poker faced.
However, it only lasted for a mere second, before he returned to being stone faced. "That statistic was targeted at you, Marco the phoenix. If you had enough intelligence to know what context clues were, you would have known that." Hawkins snapped back, as I had to hold in the urge to go 'OOOOHHHHH!' . What the heck was going on with this day? This heat must be driving everybody to the edge!
"Heh, at least I had enough intelligence to not tattoo my face; that's just a bad look." He retorted back, as a fist was then directed at him, which he blocked with ease. "If it's a fight you're looking for, I'd be most happy to oblige." Hawkins told him lowly, as Marco shook his head. "I am not going to stoop that low for you. I am much better than that." The blond burned back. I knew the flames were in his nature, being a phoenix, but dammmnnn! This pineapple had comebacks for days!
"Hawkins, calm yourself! We already have enough going on as it is." Drake told him, as he went to point towards an ongoing brawl, that included a bunch of pissed off pirates fighting each other off. I am surprised they weren't breaking the ship with how hard they were going at each other.
However, it was only a matter of time before they did, and that would be very bad!
"G-GUYS, STOP IT! FIGHTING OVER ME LIKE THIS MAKES ME DESIRE YOU EVEN LESS! " I shouted, trying to put this into terms they'd understand.
Thankfully, this attempt worked, as the guys instantly stopped fighting at that, all of them going to look at me like I just lost my head.
"Then how shall we settle this?" Kid questioned me with a smirk, as I just wanted to bang my head against the wall.
"H-how about trying to win me over the right way! You all should take a page out of Marco's book! You see, what he did to attempt to win me over was this thing called flirting, instead of fighting people off like a barbarian! It's not very tough, i'd admit, but it would get any girl's attention; right ladies?" I turned to Nami and Robin, desperately requesting their backup, as they went to nod.
"That's right! Just all of you fighting like a bunch of children is so unattractive!" Nami sighed, as Robin went to fold her arms, going to give them a disapproving frown. "You all should be ashamed, acting like a bunch of rowdy kids." She pointed out, as the fighters went to gasp in shock at their words. I went to give the two gals a very thankful smile, before proceeding on with wrangling these guys. If this insanity was to go down, I'd prefer if nobody died in the process!
"I-I can flirt too, (y/n)-swaann!" Sanji swooned to me, before going to skip on over, and take the hand that Marco was holding, before from thin air, he procured a rose for me, with none of the thorns on it's stems, thankfully.
"My love for you, is like a river,
Like a summer breeze, that makes my soul shiver,
One look from you, is more precious than gold,"
Sanji very sweetly said to me, his look being very tender and full of love, which honestly took me aback. D-dang it, me, get a hold of yourself! Don't get swept away in his river of love!
"Let's go get some barbecue, and get busy~"
I was taken even more aback by that sentence, not thinking that Sanji was the type to say something like that.
When I really paid full attention though, I noticed that Luffy was now in his place, having his hair parted in the same way as Sanji's, and impersonating him.
Of course I cracked up laughing after that.
"O-oi! That's NOT what I was about to say!" Sanji whined, glaring angrily at his captain, who went to look at him absentmindedly. "It wasn't? But I thought that's what you'd say! Who doesn't love meat?" Luffy grinned, practically drooling at the thought, as Sanji kicked him away from me. "You moron! I was going to say-"
"Just one look from your eyes, and im sold." Drake finished, which was quite unexpected, I'd admit, as everyone seemed to be thinking the same thing, as they went to all turn their heads to him.
"Y-you know the ending to the poem?..." Nami questioned him in shock, as Drake went to blush at all the attention being directed at him, as he huffed, and folded his arms, going to avert his steely gaze elsewhere. "T-that wasn't suppose to be said..." He whispered more to himself than to us, as Sanji glared at him.
"T-that's not it, either! Let me finish what I was saying!" He complained, as Kid went to simply push him aside. "You had your chance, weird brows; now it's my turn!" He grinned, as Sanji had a few choice words to say to him, as Kid went to stroke my face. He was waayy taller than me, so it made for a real awkward moment.
"I am not the type of man to say what I feel. I rather just show you, instead~" He purred to me, as my cheeks turned into the same color as his hair, as Katakuri went to then shove him away from me.
"I am not comfortable with you being that close to her, considering what happened last time..." He murmured, before he then directed his gaze to me. At the drop of a hat, his scowl went to turn into a relaxed gaze at seeing me. If I thought Kid was tall compared to me, Katakuri had made me feel like a hobbit in comparison!
"I think I have shown more than anyone here how much I love you. All I can really do now is continue to show you that affection." He told me softly, as I went to internally awe at that, as Sabo went to slide on next.
"Heh heh, I am not quite comfortable with you being this close to her, either, for the same reason! N-no offense!" He quickly added, as Katakuri went to slowly nod at that. "I understand..." Sabo then went to turn to me, his face lighting up more redder than the very color red!
"U-um, I-I wasn't meant to be t-taking part in this! I-I was j-just looking out for you!" He awkwardly told me, his voice cracking a bit as he spoke, as I rose my brow at him. With a reaction like that, not even Phoenix Wright could defend him!
"If you're not taking part in this, then move along, cus' I am!" Ace smiled, going to push the blond aside, as he looked at me with an intense gaze.
"....(y/n), you're so hot that even my flame-flame fruit can't compare!" He told me, as I went to giggle at that with a blush.
"You all are ridiculous..." Zoro commented, which caused a whole argument, as I went to sigh; you can't stop all the chaos!
"Thanks for saving the Thousand Sunny, (y/n)! I owe ya one!" Franky told me, looking a bit battered up, as I went to nod to him. "No problem! I didn't want anyone to hurt the Sunny, either!" I grinned, as Law then approached me, seeming to be biting on his lip.
"I-I hate cheesy crap like this, so I won't even bother... just know that I can get your heart, (y/n)-ya." He told me, as I hummed; was that intentionally or unintentionally corny?
A seagull had then went to fly overhead, though it was no seagull I ever seen; it was pure black. It went to drop what looked like a letter in my hands, before flying away, as I went to open this weird letter. Hey, this day was already strange, so eh....