Part 1

Being the two who are often left alone on the ship while the others explore the new and dangerous islands, Nami and Usopp over time got to know each other better, sharing stories from their childhoods and talking about the goals they wish to accomplish in the future. They would also share weapon and upgrade ideas, since the both of them felt like they were the weakest links on the crew. Nami was still using the weapon that Usopp gave her and he would often apply newer and better upgrades to it. He would also upgrade his own weapon and Nami would sometimes help him brainstorm new ideas. As they communicated and spent more time together, Usopp couldn't help but to think of Nami in a new way. He was a grown man after all and Nami was a beautiful woman. He didn't have this problem before, but it's become a growing issue where he would catch himself not just looking at her chest and body curves, especially when she would wear so little, and getting a little jealous when Sanji would show affections for Nami. Everyone could tell however that Nami never seemed interested in Sanji, or in anyone really. She seemed like she viewed everyone as friends. This made Usopp feel better and worse about the idea of his feelings, because he was worried that even if he told her how he felt, that she would probably not be as open with him as she has been lately. In a way, Usopp saw himself as the goofy, nerdy guy, and Nami was the cheerleader captain type of girl. There was no way he could ever have a chance. So because of this feeling he kept his mouth shut and tried to keep things the way they are between them. Soon though, he would get a chance to make things different, showing a side of himself, with bravery and loyalty to his friends and crew, that would hopefully make Nami see Usopp in a new light.

Being left alone once again, Nami and Usopp were in the cabin of the ship, while the others had left to explore this new island they found. Strangely, the island had strange looking trees and plants that could be seen from the shore and the first thought that crossed Sanji's mind was the type of animals that could be out there. Usopp and Nami had an agreeing thought, that these could be dangerous, as well as the possible presence of other people on this island. They volunteered to stay at the ship instead of exploring, so now they were alone once again, but this time Nami had one of her maps in front of her, and she was carefully drawing on it, mapping out the part of the new island that she could see so far. Once she got word from the others that it was safe, then she would explore some herself to properly draw the map. Usopp sat next to her, watching her hand carefully draw lines and dots on the sheet of paper. His eyes wandered from her hands to her shoulders and her hair, which he could smell her shampoo from. She always had a sweet smell he noticed, and the smell made him dizzy almost. It was in a good way however, for he would have to step back sometimes to keep his thoughts pure. He knew she took a shower recently and her hair was even still wet and dripping a little on her back, which had a lower cut, similar to the front. As the water droplets crept down her shoulder blades, Usopp couldn't help but to sigh. Nami stopped drawing and turned to look at him. She had a concerned look on her face.

"Is everything okay? You've seemed down lately. You can talk about it if you want."

Usopp just shook his head.

"Nah I'm doing fine. Just wondering what weird adventure we're going to run into next."

Usopp hated lying to Nami, for they would often share their personal thoughts as well. But this was something that he felt could damage their friendship, so he figured it would be better to just brush it off onto something else. Nami nodded her head and looked back at her map.

"Yeah I can understand where you are coming from. It almost seems like everytime we think we can relax, someone else comes along who wants to fights us, kill us, or rob us. Sometimes I wish we could just all spend time together without another bad guy sailing over the horizon."

Nami leaned back in her chair, seeming like her thoughts were wandering, and without meaning to, she was rocking back and forth slightly. One rock back however was too far and she began to fall. She managed to get out a yelp, before Usopp thought fast and caught her, the chair falling backwards. Usopp quickly stood Nami on her feet and quickly wanted to hide his blushing face. Nami laughed nervously.

"Thanks for the catch. Man that was close. I really need to break that habit huh?"

She bent over and picked up the chair, placing it upright and stretching her body. Usopp looked back to her to nervously laugh himself and try to avert his eyes from her cleavage and body shape.

"Would you like some tea or something?"

Usopp wanted to change the direction of the subject somewhat, and also wanted to be helpful. Nami smiled back at him and nodded.

"Sure. Thank you."

Usopp smiled and turned around to walk out of the door. Before he got to the door however, he heard some voices out on the deck. He stopped in his tracks and listened. Nami walked up behind Usopp and noticed the way he stopped.

"Usopp? What's-"

Usopp put his hand over Nami's mouth, stopping her from talking. He whispered to her very softly.

"I heard voices just now. It doesn't sound like it's one of our crew either."

Nami's eyes widened and she crept closer to the door as well, both of them putting their ears to the door. They could in fact hear talking that definitely wasn't one of the straw hats.

"This boat is amazing! For it to be this big and flashy thay have to have massive amounts of treasure."

"And the morons just left it here unguarded? We should just take the whole thing."

Nami and Usopp looked at each other with some curiosity and fear. Those voices were from men they had never heard before. They sat there in silence wondering what to do. Nami finally whispered herself.

"Well we are supposed to be here to guard the ship. We should just bust out and attack them with everything we got. We can't just let them try to take my treasure."

Usopp could see the fire in Nami's eyes over the idea of someone touching her treasure. He couldn't lie though. He was terrified, because who knew how many of them was out there, how strong they were, or what devil fruit powers any of them could have. He was sure it was other pirates, because Marines would have been wondering about the location of the pirates, not so much the treasure. He knew he couldn't stop her, or would want her to fight alone, so Usopp pulled out his newest upgraded slingshot, with several tabasco stars and was ready to fight. Nami got her elemental rod ready. At the same time they threw the door open and announced themselves.

"No one is touching my treasure!"

"We have an army of 800 pirates and we will take all of you down!"

They froze in their tracks however, because the pirates in front of them were unlike any pirates they had seen thus far. Each member, which there were about 20 of them, were big, strong, and almost evil looking men, who almost all instantly had their eyes on Nami. This lit a fire in Usopp's chest, who then stood in front of her. Nami seemed confused and couldn't help but to ask.

"Usopp? I can fight for myself. We've been through this."

"It's not about that Nami. I have a bad feeling. You need to run now. I can hold them off, while you get the others."

"No way! I'm not just going to leave you here. We got this."

Nami started up her elemental rod, churning clouds in the air above the other pirates. Usopp pulled back several of his bullets at once, but before they got an attack off, one of the pirate men started laughing out loud.

"You have got to be kidding! A dork and a broad? You can't be the people that own this entire ship."

Nami and Usopp shouldn't have, but they stopped their attacks.

"Alright men, just kill the dork and take the woman. We got ways we can use her."

Usopp launched his first attack, hitting several of the men in the face with the tabasco stars, stopping them in their tracks and making them double over in pain, covering their faces. Nami's clouds churned into storm clouds, releasing lightning bolts which struck a large quantity of the men, hurting them and sending them to the ground. Sadly, there were still more men than anticipated and Usopp and Nami were overwhelmed. Several of the men grabbed Nami, while some others overpowered Usopp, punching him and kicking him once he was on the ground. The men that had Nami, were laughing disgustingly and Nami began attempting to punch and kick the men away from her, but with no success. One of the men even punched her in the mouth, making her face swell and bruise, and cutting her lip. Usopp felt a rage boiling inside of him and he also started trying to fight back, but the men were too strong. The same pirate from before, who we could assume was the captain, started laughing again.

"Aww… Did we hurt your woman? Don't worry. My men will try to be gentle."

He laughed again and the men that were holding Nami began groping her on her chest and rear end, making her scream and curse.

"Get your fucking hands off of me!"

Nami started kicking again, hitting one of the men in the face, but this made him angry. He grabbed one of Nami's arms, and twisted it, breaking her forearm. She screamed in pain.

"Nami! Let her go you bastards!"

Usopp managed to stand after punching one guy in the face and even spit in anothers.

"Please just let her go! Kill me if you have to!"

Nami looked towards Usopp.

"No you idiot! You shouldn't die over this!"

"I won't let them do that to you!"

As he said this one of the men kicked Usopp in the ribs, making him cough up blood. Nami had tears running down her face and the men holding her started tearing at her clothing, ripping off her shirt. She still tried to fight off the men, but was becoming weak from struggling.

"Please don't hurt him anymore!"

Usopp coughed up more blood, but managed to reach into one of his pockets, where he had a bomb in his hand. He pushed the button on it.

"Die you bastard!"

Usopp threw the bomb towards the presumed captain, and it exploded at his feet, blowing his flesh, knees down completely apart, while also releasing a smoke screen. The captain was howling in pain and on the ground, and the smoke made the men disoriented. The men holding Nami dropped her and before she could hit the ground, Usopp had made his way to her and caught her, bolting for the side of the boat. He jumped over, holding onto Nami, and they both landed in the water. Usopp swam with Nami to shore and stumbling in pain, he still ran holding onto her. He glanced at Nami's face and seeing the tear streaks made his blood boil. They were going to pay for this. Thankfully it wasn't that much running, before some familiar faces appeared. Usopp saw them first and gently sat Nami down, taking off his shirt and putting it around her, so he could cover up her revealed body. She looked up at Usopp, still tears streaming down her cheek.

"Thank you Usopp. I'm sorry I didn't run-."

Usopp cut her words off by putting his hand on her head.

"Don't apologize Nami. I will make them pay for this."

Usopp had a very dark tone in his voice, one that Nami hasn't heard before. At that time, Frankie, Sanji, Zoro, Robin, Chopper and Brook, came running towards them, with shocked looks on their faces. Robin Immediately bent down to Nami and Nami began crying on her shoulder. Sanji and Frankie look pissed.

"What the hell happened?"

Sanji threw an accusatory look at Usopp and before he could answer Nami spoke up between sobs.

"We got attacked by some rogue pirates and we tried to fight. They were too strong. I'd be worse if Usopp hadn't saved me."

Nami leaned to Robin, who had her arms around Nami. Robin was very intuitive and seeing the condition that Nami was in, as well as her clothing, she could guess what might have happened. Chopper immediately started looking over them both.

"How bad are you guys hurt?"

"One of the bastards broke Nami's arm. They were trying to hurt her worse."

He didn't want to say the word rape, because he was sure that's what they were planning to do to her and he would die before he'd allow that to happen. He also didn't want her to feel more embarrassed, so he kept talking.

"They kicked me around a bit but I'm better off than their captain. I used one of my new bombs to blow his legs apart. We'll have a hell of a mess to clean after we take care of the rest."

Usopp still had this dark tone that caught the others off guard. Chopper pulled the backpack off of his back and started rummaging around for medical supplies. Usopp looked around and had to ask.

"Where is Luffy?"

Zoro answered this question.

"He saw some kind of new rabbit looking thing and we lost him because he went off chasing it. I'm sure he will be alright. But the guys on our ship won't be."

Zoro started drawing his sword and him, Sanji, Frankie, Robin and Brook started towards the ship. Usopp began walking with them.

"Wait Usopp! You got injured too and need medical attention. Let the others handle it!"

Chopper stood there staring at Usopp's back, waiting for his answer.

"No. I'm going to make sure that some of them at least die. Especially the bastards that hit her and broke her arm."

The group that were walking to the ship, got there in time to see several of the pirates gathered around the captain, who was still on the deck of the ship, bleeding out from his knees. When the group got onto the ship, Usopp pointed at the group specifically, who had their hands on Nami.

"You are all dead."

The team started with those that touched Nami and beat them senseless. Zoro and Brook, with their sword fighting styles, sliced up several pirates like paper. Robin used her devil fruit powers and grabbed several men, breaking their backs in her hold. Sanji used his foot fighting style to kick and fling pirates off of the ship. Frankie was fighting with his guns and fists, pummeling the rest of the pirates. Usopp finally stepped up to the captain, who laid helplessly on the deck, still bleeding. Usopp gave him a maliciously dark look, and stomped on one of his bloody knees. The pirate cried out in pain.

"You crazy bastard! You blew off my fucking legs!"

Usopp reached into his back pocket, pulling out a weapon that he had built and modified himself. It was a pistol. He aimed it at the captain's head and stared at him for a moment.

"Usopp don't! I know you're mad but that might be going too far!"

Brook stepped forward towards Usopp, placing a hand on his shoulder. Usopp looked to Brook quickly and just stared back at him.

"I don't care. He gets what he deserves."

With that, Usopp pulls the trigger, blasting a quarter sized hole into the captain's forehead, blasting his brains out across the deck below. Several members gasped, like Brook, Frankie and Robin, but Zoro and Sanji stay quiet. They have all seem their share of death and this was the official first time that Usopp had straight up killed someone in front of them. Usopp felt some part of himself twinge with guilt, but when he remembered Nami's crying face, marked with horror with the men touching her, along with the laughter of the captain, his rage silenced the guilt. He put his gun away and walked back off the ship. The group on the ship began clearing off the beaten men, pushing the dead ones into the water and the live ones onto the shore. Usopp made his way back to Nami and sat on the ground next to her. Her tears were dried on her cheeks and Chopper was working diligently and had already put a splint on her arm. He was grinding herbs in a mortar and pestle, and looked at Usopp as he sat down. Chopper brought Usopp a few capsules.

"Take these. They should immediately help with the pain and I'll check you over once I'm done with Nami."

Usopp stayed quiet for right now, still feeling the flicks of rage from before. He tried focusing his breathing. While he was deep breathing Nami looked at him, and couldn't help but to bring her eyes onto his chest and stomach, which other than being in good fitness, was currently covered in blood spots and bruises. She was worried that his ribs could be broken. Nami reached out her hand and touched one of Usopps. He looked at her hand in his and felt like he could start blushing. He looked at Nami and she gave him a weak smile.

"Thank you."

Seeing Nami's smile as well as touching her hand, brought a peace to Usopp that he has been longing for. He still felt rattled from the battle, but he felt good about avenging Nami.

About a week passed and the group was finished cleaning the ship and ready to sail. Luffy had finally made his way back to the ship as well, where the group informed him of what happened. He was annoyed of course, knowing that he missed a fight. Nami meanwhile still had a cast on her arm and Usopp had been bandaged up around his torso. They were both on strict orders from Chopper to take their medicines and rest. Usopp however for the most part just sat next to Nami's bed, talking to her and keeping watch while she rested. The ordeal they went through, especially with the fear and possibility of perverted actions from the men who attacked, caused Nami to have nightmares and to have trouble falling asleep on her own. Usopp in a way blamed himself, because he felt like if he was stronger he could have been able to win on his own and that she wouldn't have gone through the ordeal. Nami tried to reassure him, thanking him for his bravery and diligence. This really made Nami think about the fact that Usopp has been by her side since the incident, watching over her and helping her with everything. He even said that he would die for her and stopped the men from taking advantage of her. They had this conversation often.

"You don't need to blame yourself. Those guys were just insanely strong and came out of nowhere. Even if I got hurt, I still didn't want to leave you alone to fight on your own. Besides, you ended up saving me, making me the weakest person of all."

Usopp shook his head.

"I just need to be stronger so that I can protect you better. I never want to let something like that happen again."

Usopp thought about his words and this made him blush. If Nami was as smart as he thought she was, that right there would almost be a confession of feelings. He wasn't sure if she caught on and he was hoping that this didn't make her uncomfortable. Nami just smiled and even blushed a little herself.

"Oh stop. I need to get stronger too."

Nami was just lying back in bed, but she did her best to sit up and gestured to Usopp to come closer. Usopp leaned closer to her, thinking she wanted to tell him something. Nami gave Usopp a quick peck on the cheek and whispered to him.

"Thank you for saving me."

Usopp's face went as red as an apple and he quickly sat back down. This made Nami giggle. She lied back down in bed and closed her eyes, relaxing her arm and body. Usopp still stayed by her side, still blushing, and wondering what could be next in the future of their friendship and how it might transform into something more.