Day 34: Lunch

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Yuffie bounced all the way through collecting her lunch, all the way to a good seat- one with a nice view of the whole cafeteria, which was something she'd been missing out on during the past day or so that she'd been stuck in the Institute- and hell, she even bounced into her seat.

A good mood? No, really?

Despite the occasional blip, talking to Sagara had been awesome. He was a fun guy; he wasn't a prude, didn't have a stick shoved so far up his ass it was poking out his eyeballs, and he'd actually had a conversation with her. One that hadn't revolved around doom, gloom or how much life sucked. If she could find other people like that and keep in touch with Sagara, maybe there was a little hope for this place.

After a quick gulp of pink lemonade, Yuffie settled to munching through her food and keeping an eye on the door.

[Waiting for Dean, I think? :x]

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"Yup, rowdy pirates! Nothing to worry about because nothing can bring us down!"

There was probably a good reason why the crew had never left Brook and Usopp alone together back on the ship - too much happy to handle! Not that either of them would complain, but Brook could just see Nami and maybe Franky if the jokes got out of hand clobbering them both. Especially if it was early morning!

"Archer-san's kind of mean sometimes... HE ATE CAKE RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME WHEN I DIDN'T GET ANY!" he exclaimed in an over dramatic yelp, but calmed right after, "But! He's good deep down. And he's a good fighter too! Last night would have been far more scary without him!" He paused in eating long enough to wave a hand. "And no! We can't a party when we can have a meety! Yohohohohoho!"

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"He ate your cake?!" Usopp stared. That was pretty cold--the cake had been good, too! "Or... they didn't give you cake? That's awful! They at least pretend to be nice guys during the day, why would they deny you cake?!"

Granted, being on a ship with Luffy meant bracing oneself for the incoming possibility that anything and everything even slightly edible would be stolen, and if you didn't want to starve to death you learned to eat fast, eat mean (booby trapped food or launched forks being the minor counter-attacks available) or just eat everything that came your way when you had the chance. Like say, bait. Granted, that had... turned out not so well later on...

Still, roommates weren't Luffy and really shouldn't be stingy with cake. They probably shouldn't trick each other into thinking the other is a commanding officer either, y'know. "At least he's a nice guy at heart! That's what I've met... mostly, a lot of really nice scary guys!" Actually, didn't that describe the crew pretty well? Except the girls. They were really nice scary women. Of course, then there were family-killing bastards, but this wasn't the right talk for lunch.

"We need to get more food before the next meety. And alcohol! I know there's gotta be alcohol somewhere around here." Usopp looked around suspiciously. "Or a way to make it. We have to corner Sanji, he probably knows how! Except he might want to do it some fancy way..."

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"Hm," Brook stopped to think of how to best word the terribly tragic situation, "I had cake - it would have been terrible if I'd not have gotten any! - but when Archer looked like he was getting possessed by his bat, it was scary, and I jumped up. My dinner went to the floor because of it, cake included. It was so sad! And when I asked if Archer-san would share, he shared everything but the cake! It was cruel!"

When Usopp tried to reason things out, Brook's jaw fell. "Nice and scary shouldn't go together!" he exclaimed, then paused at a realization, "But then a Gentlemen Skeleton shouldn't go together either! Yohohoho! Oh! Or Zoro-san! He's nice and scary!"

He sipped at his glass, face now looking as though it had seen the harsher side of a food fight. "I know Archer-san knows where to get food. He did last night, and gave me some meat for Luffy-san."

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"Yeah... I've raided the kitchen a bunch of times, but getting something that'll stay long enough for Luffy to get the chance to eat it..." Usopp gave this serious consideration, and took another chicken nugget as though Brook's face weren't fully decorated. Food was important stuff, yes sir. "You know what would be great? If we could make, you know, a portable kitchen for Sanji! Improvise a grill and things!" Usopp lit up at the thought of it. After all, Brook had the tools of his trade, Usopp had an improvised slingshot, and Luffy had his hat. In fact, ways to improvise a device like that were floating up quickly; it shouldn't be too hard, although it might have to be just open flame cooking and nothing fancy.

But that wasn't the primary job here, right? Weapons. Weapons, then... he wondered if Sanji'd fit his boots. Sanji was kind of taller, but he really ought to offer. "There's some nice people who're mean too, though, or I mean you'd think they were nice except they go around eating human brains or whatever." Usopp let out a helpless shrug, as if to say Brain-eaters, what can you do? "So y'know, just be careful at night, but I guess that's obvious anyway! It's good your roommate's decent, I hope he doesn't get possessed by his bat again." Was that a baseball bat or a flying-type bat? Did it really matter?

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"Food vanishes like magic with him! Yohohoho." Not that Brook was one to talk. Where Luffy was a magician making the white rabbit disappear, Brook was a the general leading his teeth troops into battle! The wreckage of the remained on his face as a testimony to that. Thankfully Usopp wasn't as mean as Zoro, or Sanji, or Nami, or Franky, or... well, or nearly everyone else when it came to correcting him on manners! "But Sanji-san makes it all reappear again, so that's good."

He was about to comment on the portable kitchen following removing the cup from his lips, but by that time, Usopp had gone off on another subject that easily set Brook on edge. "Ehhhhhh?! Human brains!?!" Brook shivered at the very thought and almost thanked God that he didn't have a brain. Except he did! "I don't want my brain eaten, I just got it back!" he shrieked and clapped his hands to his Afro, unable to even reach his scalp for the repellent nature of the curls.

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More like food being sucked up by a vacuum. Usopp had started to notice that Brook still hadn't wiped his face clean... either by using a napkin or by eating the food there. That was a little odd. Well, whatever, Usopp'd seen worse. "As long as the food keeps coming back, that's the important thing!"

And it was one of the nicer aspects of Landel's... they were always fed. Even if he could go for more fish on the menu. You never knew what you had until it was gone! Speaking of menus, Usopp shook his head again. "Of course you don't want your brain to be eaten! Nobody wants to get their brain eaten! That's why I said folks like that are bad news! But don't worry, I haven't had any trouble with them so far. They're probably intimidated by my superior intellect and are afraid my brain would overcome them!"

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"No food would be bad! Just like brain eating! Yohohohoho! Of course if it was put in font of Luffy-san and called food, he'd eat a brain right up!" He laughed more, then thought a came to him, "I wonder how Sanji-san would cook a brain...?"

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Usopp finally paled a bit at that (although it was pretty hard to tell on his skin) and considered. "Sa.... Sanji does take advantage... of everything... so probably... we've already eaten brains in something, and it was just so delicious we didn't know."

He quickly added, "But not human brains! Human brains is where we'd have to draw the line!" Besides, probably the only viable sources on the ship were Nami and Robin anyway and Sanji wouldn't mess with them.

Though Luffy would definitely eat a brain if they put it in front of him on a plate. There was just no arguing with that.