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The Straw Hat Captain had been feeling nausea. And it was genuine nice weather out to. Not to mention how many times he had thrown up and passed out in the middle on the deck, halls rooms, etc.
Robin was eying Sanji like he was the cause of it, which he wasn't! Sanji would never make him feel sick like this! Only good, like a few nights ago.
Okay, off topic. Luffy had been feeling like shit for a week now and so far, he has not been caught by Chopper. Sure, they would get suspicious and he has a feeling Robin knows what's going on.
And add on to the fact he had asked for Iva to alter his hormones just so he could make kids. Yes, he did that. Maybe that was the reason? He isn't even sure.
Ugh, he's just going to go over to Chopper and trust him to help. He feels like such a burden to, why is he feeling that? He's the captain! He shouldn't feel like this! Luffy felt his eyes stinging again, oh no; here come the water works.
Picking up his pace, he barely doesn't notice Usopp giving him a hand wave before rushing pass; avoiding on bumping into him. Usopp might've gotten angry if he did, wait what? Since when did he think this way?
The captain breathed out, ignoring the concerned calls from the sharpshooter and continued to make his way to Chopper's med bay.
Knocking on the wooden door, "Come in!"
"Chopper?" Luffy twisted the knob, opening it a little; only a bit to peak his head in. His voice uncharacteristically quiet, the reindeer immediately takes a mental note of that.
"There's...something wrong."
Chopper can't wrap his mind over that possibility.
Luffy? With a kid? Currently going through something called mood swings? Fragile emotions? He's also teary-eyed?
"Chopper?" Luffy mumbled, the hito-hito no mi user turned from his desk to face his captain.
"Luffy, I'm going to need to get Sanji present here." It was common knowledge amongst the Straw Hats that the Cook and Captain have been intimate since the events in Alabasta. So, of course; Sanji had every right to overlook Luffy's health just as Luffy can with his.
Which Luffy had already did; surprisingly, Sanji was banned from having more than three cigarettes' a week. Honestly, the poor man's face was contorted in horror but what right did he have to go against his lover and captain's orders?
"Sure." The young captain visibly brightened at the thought of the blond cook.
"Luffy, carrying a child is a big responsibility. Are you willing to keep them? After all they weren't planned."
It had been months after he became Pirate King, months after the Great War.
"I... I want to keep them; I don't know why I feel this way but... I feel..." His tan hand rested on his abdomen protectively, soon his stomach would become large and not like the way he did it as a joke. No. It'll be because he was carrying a living, breathing human inside him.
He remembered how Sanji looked like he fell in love with him again, he had also wanted to keep the kid but didn't know how Luffy would react since he was the one who was pregnant with the kid.
"Well, that settles it. You're now both.... erm..." Even if he was just recalling these events, the way Chopper was fidgeting in his seat to think of parental titles for them was really funny to watch.
"I'll be Mom, Sanji is Dad." The answer, to him, was simple enough. The mothers were the one who carried the kids after the father had sired them. However, both of his nakama had their eyes comically bugging out. He wasn't even using his devil fruit!
"O-okay, then it's official! Congratulations, Luffy! Sanji!"
"Oh, I just know you're going to love adventures. It's okay if you wanna be an archeologist or a swordsman or even a cook. I'll support you either way, just know that!" Chopper said talking to the kid was common among mothers, Usopp, who had a hand on his heart, walked across the other side of the deck. It was so cute hearing that from his usually headstrong and barbaric captain!
Nami was fantasizing of buying the baby tons and tons of baby clothes. Robin happily volunteering to babysit, Usopp and Franky close behind her. Zoro was... Lecturing Sanji? And the blond man reluctantly listens since the swordsman made sense at least. Jinbei went ahead to inform his brothers (Sanji felt a chill of fear down his spine) and Brook was still crying about how far their relationship had come.
Luffy was having a kid.
To top it off, it was Sanji’s. The kid’s going to have two overpowered lineages behind them, the possibility of them inheriting Luffy’s conqueror’s haki and Sanji’s sharp observation is highly likely. And due to the pregnancy hormones, Chopper was bat-shit protective.
Usopp and Franky weren’t even allowed to show their newest and practically dangerous creation.
That was how bad it was.
“Mh... Chopper’s acting all weird, now that I’ve got you but it isn’t really bad...” Luffy smiles gently and caresses his abdomen, he’ll never get tired of doing this. Just the fact he was carrying human life was heavy enough but right now, he can’t feel that type of weight. It felt so light and he couldn’t be happier.
“I wonder who you’d like better... Uncle Sabo or Ace? Maybe Uncle Usopp? What about Aunt Nami?” The mentioned names of the crewmates lost their footing but stayed on their feet nonetheless, Robin let him use the fancy chair she uses to take sun bathes with Nami. Umbrella under him and cool drinks beside him and on the table, although he wasn’t really dealing well with the fact he was being protected .
“I’m sorry... WHAT?!” Ace shrieked and dropped his sake cup. Jinbei chuckled at the reaction. It was only natural, even with how the world and Grandline’s unnatural weather and geography. Two males conceiving a child was not possible. It was not how the world worked but... The world did have a hormone-hormone no mi user.
“I- Oh yeah... Iva...” Ace’s back hits the cool wood of the mini-Moby's deck, processing on why Luffy would begin to ask the okama such a favor in the first place.
“I assume you’ve read the papers about Sanji-san and Luffy-kun's relationship?” And Ace wants to burn something... Particularly, someone now.
“Yes... Jinbei, don’t need to remind me...” The fishman sweat dropped at the steam coming off of Ace’s shoulders, protectiveness already roaring in him.
“He’s bearing his child, you know?” Ace stares up at the blue sky, Luffy; his younger brother, the young Pirate King, the warrior of liberation. Was having a child, a baby...
A life. He was creating life within him. Ace felt something wet fall down the side of his face.
“Oh, Ace. Are you crying?” Deuce teased, although in disbelief himself. Seeing his captain and Division commander tearing up was a sight to behold. Also, the pirate king was having a kid?! Oh, he thinks he saw everything in this world already.
Ace wasn’t even paying attention to Deuce. Jinbei’s words repeating in his head; ‘ He’s bearing his child, you know?’ It was- Ace was repeating himself over and over.
“Holy shit, Jinbei. I’m a uncle.”