Can I Have Some?

“Can I have some, Zoro?”

Luffy sat on the floors while he watched Zoro inflate balloons with a helium tank.

The straw-hat pirate crew prepared a party in the ship’s main quarters, later in the night. Even though of being pirates, they do like to take a rest from their day job: finding the legendary treasure, One Piece.

Zoro looked puzzled. “Huh?”

The young captain repeated. “I said: ‘Can I have some?’.”

“Oh. If you want a balloon, you can help yourself…”

“No, Zoro! I do like balloons, but I was talking about the thing you are inflating with them.”

He pointed to the helium tank.

The eyes of the green-haired swordsman widened. “Are you serious, Luffy?”

“Sure I am! I want to be big and full like those balloons over there!”

Anybody who has met Monkey D Luffy in person for the first time will learn that you do not judge a book by its cover. He might look just like an ordinary 17 year old teenage boy on the outside, but he is unique in fact.

Long ago, he had eaten a cursed fruit called the ‘gum gum fruit’. This special fruit gives its eater the power to have a rubber-like body at the cost of not being able to swim in sea water again.

“Zoro, give me some helium, please.”

Zoro frowned. “You’re kidding me? By the way, I thought you could use your gum gum balloon technique anytime you have wanted to become a human balloon.”

“Normally I use it in serious situations, and even in these cases I have to hold the air in my lungs, so it does not last long because I need my lungs to
breathe. I did manage a way to swallow the air in my belly so I can breathe normally, but the drawback is that it takes a long time to do it.”

“And your point is…?”

“I like the feeling of having a full belly… So please, Zoro, do it as a favor to me: I want to know how it feels like to be a balloon!”

Zoro stared at Luffy. “I am not sure…”

He begged with puppy dog eyes. “Please? You know it will make me very happy!”

“Well, gee…”

“Pretty please with sugar on top?”

The swordsman did not say another word.

By then, Luffy started to pout.

Wait, Zoro thought to himself, if Luffy says that he likes to have a full belly, and that despite Luffy's gluttony, the food we have needs to be rationed, so I guess it's not bad to waste on something that is not vital for our survival. After all, I am his first mate: I must obey his orders even if they are weird.

He put his hand on Luffy’s shoulder. “Alright, Luffy, you can have as much as you want!”

The captain smiled. “Really, do you mean it?”

“Sure, go for it, if it’s that you have wished for.”

Luffy hugged his best friend. “Thanks a million, Zoro! You are the best!”

The rubber man approached the helium tank. With a devilish smile, he puts his lips against the tank’s nozzle as he then turned the knob to open the valve.

The gas flowed inside him as it started to expand his stomach.
It felt cold, but he liked it. Luffy continued to suck on the nozzle as a creature being deprived of food for a long time. His flesh squeaked as it stretched outward at a reasonable pace, and by then, he looked more than nine months pregnant.

Sure enough, it did not take long until his vest went being under stress because of his abdomen ‘outgrowing’ it.

Luffy stroked his growing, expanding belly, while Zoro looked at him with intrigued eyes.

He really has a big appetite, the swordsman ponders, but at least it will not make him permanently fat: air is not rich like meat.

Ping! Luffy’s vest started to unbutton: it could not stand anymore pressure from his swelling chest. He continued swallowing the helium.

I really like this, Luffy thought to himself, but I am not close enough. I want to be fuller and rounder! I still feel hungry.

He continued gobbling on his light snack, as he pocked at his inflating rubber flesh that have gotten tauter as time goes by.

Ping! Another button got undone. The young boy felt relaxed as he loses more the grip of gravity on him. In his mind, he liked the idea of being light and full at the same time.

Zoro giggled as he teased. “Whoa, for a balloon boy, you are sure very hungry!”

Luffy made a slight smile as he saw his whole midsection growing more spherical, just like the balloon he hopes to become.

More, he thought on, I want more!

Ping! The final vest button unbuttoned itself. The rubber man felt drunk from sipping this wonderful fluid, but he still did not meet satisfaction.

I am almost there, he repeated in his mind.

By now, he appeared more stuffed from the last time he engorged himself with food (he really has an oral fixation problem).

He finally felt no more air coming into his mouth.

The young pirate captain bounced away from the tank, noticing of it being empty. “I’m done… Boy, I feel really full now.”

Luffy sat down on the floor, with a smile on his face. He patted his full rubber belly with contentment as he started to feel drowsy.

“Wow! Look at me, Zoro! My belly is really huge: my personal best in years!”

Zoro would have scowled Luffy on doing something stupid like this, but he smiled back instead. He knew that a special friend’s smile worth more than all the gold in the world.

The swordsman sat down with his best friend. “So, how do you feel now, Luffy?”

“It’s wonderful! I am in heaven.”

“I know it was a crazy idea of yours, but if it makes you happy, I am OK with it.”

“Thank you, Zoro.”

The two friends snuggled in against one another. In moments, Zoro fell asleep on Luffy’s distended body. The rubber man then caught Morpheus’s sleep spell too.