Chapter 43: Amazon Lily.......

Luffy rubbed the back of his neck, still doing the best he could to conceal his nether regions. " Would any of you happen to have any spare clothes? Or maybe my clothes? " He questioned the women as they once again went back to murmuring. Luffy sighed in annoyance to their antics.

One of the locals then cautiously stepped forward and pushed some clothes on the ground to him within his cage. The man looked down to see the clothes being offered to him and picked them up and began to change in front of the girls as they all looked on in fascination and a few of them taking down notes. " Man! What is that hanging mushroom like thing between your legs? " One of the women asked.

Luffy started to laugh nervously, " Oh you don't need to worry about that, it's uh a man thing!" He responded and accelerated the process.

" What about that sack! Can we touch it? " Another questioned as Luffy did his best to prevent a nose bleed.

" Ummm I don't think so, um uh. . ." Luffy tried to speak as all of the women continued to analyze him. " Look, the man is getting flustered, perhaps it was something we did? " One of the women said to another as the other just shrugged. Seeing this new drama Kurumi started laughing without reservation.

Luffy just shook his head as he continued to get dressed, he put on his pants and his shoes before he was about to put on his shirt and noticed that there was no shirt to put on. He then looked through the pile of clothing and only saw some rough clothe instead of his cloak and shirt, with all of the items he was carrying missing. The captain of the Devil Dragon Pirates then rushed to the bars of his cage where all of the women were and questioned them, " Where is my shirt and cloak!? "

" We gave it to the Snake Princess! " They all chorused as Luffy facepalmed.

Luffy looked up from his palm with an angered look and responded to the women, " I don't give a damn if you gave it to the Snake Princess! I want it back! And I want it back now! " He tried his best to act angry.

Each one of the women were taken aback by his distaste that he voiced against the Snake Princess, and stumbled back away from the cage in shock.

To them no one dared speak ill of the Snake Princess and what the man in front of them was doing at this moment was going against everything they had ever come to know. They all readied their arrows and took aim. " No one dare to speak ill of our Snake Princess! " Voiced a short blond haired woman.

He passed through the door easily and just as the women's arrows were shot at him, he jumped up and then landed on the building behind the crowd of women, shocking them that he was able to escape so easily.

He then stood there, shirtless, as they all took aim at him once again. Seeing this, Luffy just waved his hands and all the arrows were stopped in front of him in mid air.

" W-what is this power! " One of the women spoke with absolute shock and started backing away.

Another bared the same facial expression before speaking just after, " Do all men posses such abilities? "

"Nope! I'm one of a kind ladies! Now tell me, where is the Snake Princess? " Luffy questioned the women as they began to attack him once again.

He sighed as he raised his arm towards the group and uttered, " Shackles. " Before long each one of them was unable to move and all of their arrows had fallen onto the ground away from them.

" Where is the Snake Princess! I don't want to hurt you guys, so tell me. " Luffy asked as each of them struggled for freedom instead of answering him.

The group that Luffy had before him were unresponsive, he was about to try and say something but a few new women wearing white cloaks stepped into the picture.

Each one of them had their arrows drawn back, ready to fire, but chose to talk instead, " Man! Your presence on this island has been heard by many, and the Snake Princess would like to see you for herself! Come with us and we will bring you to her! " One of them spoke as Luffy smiled and jumped down beside them.

" Well it's about time; anyway sorry guys! " He spoke back to the group he had restricted with his abilities as they were all let go from his hold.

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Minutes Later. . .

After walking through the village with the Kuja Pirates and being escorted into Boa Hancock's palace, Luffy had been brought to a room with a lot of decorative snake ornaments that were spread across the walls and that were placed on all the edges of the room.

One of the members of the Kuja walked to his side and spoke to him, "Wait here, the Snake Princess will be out shortly." After speaking the Kuja retreated to outside of the room, leaving Luffy alone.

Then he started to get irritated, when he found no sign of anyone coming even after such a long time. " You know what I've had enough! I'm not waiting any longer to get my things! I need to get a move on to somewhere else. So like it or not, the Snake Princess is about to get a visitor in that room of hers! " Luffy shouted angrily.