| WARDING AWAY EVIL | MONKEY D. LUFFY
summary: when your adopted brother, black leg sanji, decided to leave baratie for the straw hat pirates, you followed because he made you. the only downside is, the strawhats only need one cook - so when you're not fighting, sanji thinks its funny to leave you in charge of fridge duty. pairing: strawhat! reader / luffy wc: 1.2k tags: f! reader, fluff, luffy is frickin fat, luffy sleepwalks to the fridge, luffy wants the food, sanji genuinely puts you to work
When Sanji decided to leave Baratie for the Going Merry, and then the Thousand Sunny later, you warned him that you shouldn't go with him. The Strawhats already had plenty of competent fighters - Sanji and Zoro at the time, but even Nami, now equipped with the Clima Takt, Usopp, Robin, Franky, Chopper, Brook - a whole crew of strong people. They didn't need a second kicker on the team.
Sanji couldn't give less of a damn. As his younger sister since he was taken in by Zeff, you were going where he went, whether you liked it or not. You would never admit to him that you were relieved he'd dragged you with him, but home was on the Thousand Sunny now.
Except you did have one qualm. The only thing you did on the team was fight - this was not the issue. The issue was that Sanji claimed you weren't doing enough, despite Nami and Robin's objections that you did plenty.
His solution was to put you on fridge duty. You wanted to read a book with Robin? Well, you can read it while you sit by the fridge. You wanted to draw the sea? You can draw it, by the fridge. You wanted to watch Zoro train? No, you're going to be by the fridge.
The reason for this was that you had a particularly greedy captain who would inhale food the moment he saw it. You would never forget the moment you visited Luffy in the infirmary after Alabasta and watched him inhale an entire cart of fruit in one bite and claim he was still hungry. You understood your brothers' qualms, and you wanted to appear useful, so you reluctantly agreed.
Not that you were really good at being in charge of the fridge. The issue - one that Sanji was entirely aware of - was that you had a huge, huge soft spot for Luffy. He'd wander into the kitchen, whining about being hungry right before Sanji was going to serve a meal, and promptly be kicked out by Sanji.
Despite that, you'd always sneak away from the fridge with a snack, and promptly bring it to Luffy, making sure to tide him over (for literally five minutes) until the meal was served. He'd grin in the same way he always did, laugh and ruffle your hair, and stuff his face right in front of you.
"Thank you, thank you! Wow, you're always so nice to me, mini-Sanji! Wow, this is so good. Your brother's a really good cook. Gee, thanks for bringing me this!" He'd always laugh at you, smile as bright as the sun, before complaining just seconds later that he was still hungry. You'd sneak off to bring him more food, but then he'd stop you. "No, wait, it's fine! I'll do my best to wait until Sanji calls us. Just sit by us, let's watch the ocean!"
You spent more time next to Luffy than anyone around, and that's why Sanji should've known better than to put you in charge of watching the fridge. Even though he knew you were absolutely not cut out for it, he kept telling you to do it for one sole reason.
He swore to god that the two of you were daft idiots in love with each other. Maybe he was crazy, but when Nami and Robin made the same observation, he knew there had to be some weight behind the thought.
There were many incidents where Sanji would wake up early to prepare breakfast, only to find the two of you tightly interlinked in front of the fridge. Both of you were always snoring soundly, not a care in the world, as Luffy sprawled his body over you and drooled on your shoulder. Your hand would rest on his back as if he was your blanket, holding him until your brother finally poked you awake and forced you to get up and haul Luffy back to his quarters. Sanji would check the fridge for ingredients - but of course, it was empty, and he could only blame himself.
Your captain would wake up a few hours later, and immediately go to stare at you in front of the fridge. "Hey. Why'd you move me?!" He'd ask, pointing at you.
You shook your head, pointing at your brother by the counter. "Blame him! He woke me up and made me lug you back."
"Sanji, food! I'm hungry!" Luffy would complain, and you'd sigh. He'd entirely forgotten what he was complaining about to begin with.
At a certain point, even Zoro of all people started noticing how close you were to the captain. He'd only sit next to you during mealtimes, and if Nami was already by you he'd wiggle in between your two bodies like that was something entirely normal to do, and steal off your plate.
Sanji knew everything was over the night that you were all eating dinner and you said you were still hungry. Instead of getting up and getting you another plate like usual, Luffy slid you a quarter of his plate.
The table fell silent, staring at the two of you.
"Hey, are you serious?" Zoro broke the silence, pointing at your plate. "His food. He gave you his food. Our captain gave you HIS food."
Nami dropped her fork, staring at the two of you, stammering out incomprehensible words.
"What?" Luffy shrugged, shoveling food into his mouth. "I can always steal from Zoro's plate."
"You can not!" The swordsman shouted, shoving his food in his mouth. "Get seconds from the love cook!"
"Well, yeah, I can do that too." Luffy smiled, slinging an arm over you. "She's my girlfriend! So it's normal for me to give her some food."
"Huh???" Sanji yelled, whipping around from the counter. "What the actual hell are you talking about?"
"Ace said that people become boyfriend girlfriend when they drool on each other." Luffy blinked. "I've been drooling on your sister since you started putting her on fridge duty."
"Luffy, literally none of what you just said is true." You butted in, eating the food he put on your plate. "That's not how people start dating. And you drool on me because you sleep like a pig, not because you like me!"
"Yes, I do." He refuted, swiping Usopp's food and ignoring his complaints. "I sleep on top of you and I drool on you because it's romantic."
"What kind of romanticism is that?!" Nami yelled, breaking her plate over Luffy's head.
"So you don't want to go out with me?" Luffy frowned at you, nursing the bump on his head.
Your ears flushed pink, and you averted his gaze. "Well, I didn't say that, I'm just saying the drooling thing isn't how it works."
Luffy stole Sanji's plate of food, ignoring the foot coming flying at his head, and stacked it on top of yours. "Here. More food. Do you want to be my girlfriend?"
You gaped at him, baffled, but accepting the plate anyways and picking your fork back up. "...Yes. I would."
"This is a very in-character way to ask for our captain." Robin nodded, politely dabbing at her mouth with a napkin.
"You guys are disgusting." Zoro frowned, Sanji nodding in the back. "You're both just going to steal our food now."
"That's your issue with this?" Usopp sighed. "I can't believe I'm still single when that's how Luffy asks people to go out with him."
"He drools on her and he thinks its cute." Nami murmured, picking at her plate. "I'm in disbelief."














