Halli Hello Hall Oils!
Um ... so first of all a sorry to you guys that I haven't got in touch for so long ... I was pretty much on hold with the writing ... well ... hopefully this one is not to be yawned at now ... .
-> Lets`s go!

It was now well past midnight. It was actually agreed that these pirates should be pulled over the lid today, but under the circumstances ...
So it happened that the entire crew, with the exception of Robin and Cathrin, gathered again on the Flying Lamb and spent the night there.
Zorro and Akiko had nothing more to say to each other. Or rather: she had let him down. Akiko had told him that she needed distance, that she needed time to think first. And that his help was really of no use to her!
Now she had been standing alone on deck for a while, thinking. That she had to admit that she was in love with Zorro, it was almost as if she had her hand in the fire.It was already clear to her that she had hurt Zorro with this rebuff and maybe all was lost now! But what else could she have done? Just "I love you - handle it!" say? Then she could have kissed him right away !!
"OK, everything fine?!"
"Luffy ..." Luffy grinned at her. Why hadn't she noticed him? "You can see!", She replied sullenly to his question.
"And why?"
"Man, because I ... because we ... because I and Zorro ..." she broke off. There was no point in explaining it to him. She didn't quite understand it herself!
"You can see the stars well today!" Said Luffy suddenly.
"Oh no! Is that so important now ??" she yelled at him. First the guy wants to know something and then he doesn't care anymore !!
"They look like Lysop's nose!" He grinned.
"I don't care!" She yelled again. Silence. Luffy continued to look up at the sky. Finally Akiko looked up too. "You're right!", she said after a while. (* ^^" *)
"And like Nami when she's angry!" Akiko laughed.
"That's right! If you connect them with them, you'll have choppers in the sky !!"
"Cool !!" She didn't know why, but it was kind of liberating to be nonsense with Luffy!
"This is Sanji!"
"Bullshit! It's not Sanji, it's you!"
"Really now?"
"Clear!"
"Coooool !!!"
The two laughed and continued to read the stars. "Tell me, why did you cry earlier?" He asked her again.
“Well then ??!” At some point she ended up in the trap because of that! "I didn't cry!"
"Yes you did!", Luffy contradicted her.
"I have not!"
"Sure, of course!"
"No!"
"Man, it's not that bad! It doesn't matter!"
"Really now?"
"Sure, of course!"
"You repeat yourself," she remarked.
“Maybe.” Silence. "Do you want to tell me now?" Akiko sighed.
"You won't give up anyway ..." Luffy nodded. She gave him a headbutt. "That was a statement!""Come on!"
"Zorro and I just got a bit in the hair! No more!"
"Is that why you cry?"
"This is really too complicated!"
"For me?" Akiko looked at him in surprise.
"N-no, it wasn't meant like that ..." she stammered.
"I suppose it was!" Replied Luffy. "Just because I'm perhaps not as smart and quick in thinking as you are, that doesn't mean that I don't understand anything about that!"
"Wow ..." she exclaimed. She was really not used to that from Luffy! That he sounds so serious ...
“Where are Cathrin and Robin anyway?” Akiko thought for a moment. Right! She had completely forgotten that now! They hadn't seen them since yesterday morning and had actually planned to look for them!
"Luffy, are you coming?" She asked him. "We have to find her!" Luffy tilted her head again.
"Huh? Now?"
"Nah, tomorrow!" She snapped at him. "When did you think ??"
"In about ten hours."
"RUFFY !!""What? I'm tired!" A growl echoed through the night. Akiko looked at him blankly. But he always chose the most suitable moments to get hungry. "And I'm hungry!"
"You are really impossible!", She said and put her hands on her hips, which was of little use, because Luffy stormed towards the kitchen towards the refrigerator. Leaning against the door frame, Akiko watched the whole action.
Your captain was really a rarity! Strange up to your ears, but still the best captain you can have! "But just great!", She finished her sentence and turned around.
Luffy was probably right: Robin can do it! And Cathrin was with her, so she wasn't defenseless either!
Besides, she needed sleep! In fact, very urgently! Akiko went to her and Nami's bunk below deck and went to bed.
In fact, it didn't take long and she fell asleep ...

Nami paced the deck of the Flying Lamb and considered.It was early morning and Robin and Cathrin had still not shown up. She was getting really worried about her.
Zorro came on deck too, yawned and stretched.
"Morning!" He muttered, rubbing his eyes.
"Morning!", Nami replied and crossed his arms.
"Is something that you are in such a bad mood ?!"
"YES!" She yelled. "Better go wake Akiko and the others than annoy me!" Zorro leaned against the railing demonstrating.
"Forget it!"
"Stubborn donkey!"
"So what?!"
"Nothing 'so what!'! March off !!", Nami commanded and kicked Zorro in the ass. Grumbling, he made his way back down below deck.
He went quietly into Akiko's bunk. She slept soundly.
Zorro stepped closer and crouched down next to her. He could clearly see the trail of tears on her cheek.
Her words yesterday had been hurtful. Pretty much. He didn't let it show, but it really hurt.He had thought that she was finally trusting him; and then that ...
"Hey Akiko, wake up!" Zorro gently stroked her cheek. She was instantly wide awake and looked straight into his eyes.
"W-w-what's going on all of a sudden ?!"
“Breakfast is on!” Zorro got up again and went outside. He left a somewhat perplexed Akiko behind.
It wasn't as if the two of them stopped talking to each other. Just not as openly as in the past.
"Do you think of Akiko?", Sanji asked him with a slightly ambiguous undertone and put fresh omelettes on the table.
"You don't care, right?" He growled and sat down.
"No! When it comes to Akiko-chan, I don't care!"
"I thought you like Nami?", It came from Akiko, who sat down next to Zorro. Sanji had turned bright red and Zorro had had a fit of laughter on his face when she had cut that out. "It's like that."The young cook couldn't say anything about it, as much as he was pushed in the forehead ... (* aaaalles klaaar ... ^^ "*)
Buckled, he made his way into the kitchen.
"Man, how can you be so happy? Robin and Cathrin are still not back here and you're doing such nonsense!" Akiko complained and took one of the hot omelettes that were still steaming.
"They'll be fine!"
"That's what Luffy said too!"
"Then why don't you just believe him?"
"Because I'm naturally suspicious!"
"Well I mean that too!" Akiko glared at Zorro. "More or less!" He added hastily.
"I just don't feel comfortable thinking about the two of them," she said and her gaze went rigid.
"If you now start again with the number that is I-am-to-blame for everything, then I guarantee you those were your last words!" Surprised, she looked at Zorro, who looked her straight in the eye. "Akiko, finally realize that you are not responsible for everything that happens around you!I get scared that after my death you will melt into self-pity! Rely on others! "
"I can't do that!" She shouted angrily and jumped up. "You can see what comes out of it: Hardly one minute you don't pay attention, the next catastrophe is imminent!"
"We're here for you Akiko-chan, you know that very well !!"
"And stop challenging your death!" She continued undeterred, nudging his chest with her index finger. "You know very well that I can't take it!"
"Are you even listening to me?"
"No!"
"Arrogant goat!"
"I don't care! I'm used to you !!"
"Oh yes? Please, do what you want, but don't come crawling to me if you feel bad again!"
“Before that, Sanji doesn't have a crush on Nami anymore!” Zorro grumbled something and left her alone. There was no point in arguing with her!
After he had finished eating and removed the dishes, he decided to look for the two missing people.No matter how much he argued with Akiko, he still didn't want her to worry any more than she already was.

"Strange ...", Cathrin mumbled while walking through the city with Robin and Esther, the latter walking a few meters further ahead.
"What's weird ?!" asked Robin.
"Nothing nothing !!" said Cathrin quickly. "Nothing!"
The two had been allowed to spend the night at their friend's home and were now inside the port city
“Well, here we are!” Esther had stood next to the entrance of a small side street. "You have to go through there now! Then you'll come back to your ship without meeting the pirates Miss Robin!" Skeptically, she looked at the grinning girl and then at the side street.
Finally she thanked her and started walking.
Cathrin hurried after her.
"I still have to do something, Esther!", She said to her friend. "Please let Grandpa know, will you?" with that she was gone.Esther watched them go a little longer and then turned to go.
She walked through the busy streets of the port city of Hanura and peeked into a few shop windows here and there.
She went on, using smaller side streets and alleys, until she finally came to the uncomfortable part of Hanura.
“Excuse me?” Startled, she turned around. In front of her was a young man who looked rather confused.
"Y-yes ??"
"Have you happened to see a black-haired woman with a girl the same age as you ?! Robin and Cathrin!"
A shiver ran down Esther's spine. She didn't think twice and nodded.
"Yes I have."
"And where did you go ?!"
"You just have to take the next side street on the right and then straight ahead!"
“Thank you!” The young man immediately set off.
Esther bowed her head. This guy must have belonged to Robin's gang of pirates too. However, once he reached the goal he was heading towards, he wouldn't be there much longer ..."Man, where is Zorro