Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece!

The Beginning

It had only been a few weeks since the Enies Lobby incident everyone saw their wanted poster updated with massive bounties, and Franky had just built their new ship all was running smoothly.

After managing to run away from Garp thanks to the abilities of their new ship the Straw Hat crew found it self with some spare time to relax.

Robin sat still looking at the sea as the beautiful orange sunset covered the Thousand Sunny, she felt the warm light hitting her while the wind blew her hair gently, after all that happened it didn't seem real! It was like she was still in those kairoseki handcuffs being dragged around to her death. But she knew it was over, all the pain and suffering, all the darkness, all the mistrust had been replaced with light, a light that could only be described as happiness.

She finally felt like she belonged somewhere, it was a place like no other, a place where she could laugh without the fear of being betrayed, almost... No! Truly like a family.

Although she feared this peace might not last long, she felt like something was encircling her, suffocating her, but it was not evil. No, it was something warm, but still she didn't know how to deal with a situation such as this.

Without her noticing her eyes were already set on the source of that situation.

"Hahaha!" Luffy laughed after pulling a prank on Franky with the help of Chopper and Ussop.

"Ah! The beach feels so... WAIT! Who swapped my cola bottles!!" Franky yelled over and over again looking for his stolen cola bottles.

With a grin plastered on his face Luffy was walking towards the kitchen where he would ask Sanji to make him some food, he was starving! But his eyes met with a curious situation along the way.

There she was, looking at him but not like she used to, this time it was like her eyes pierced right through him seeing not only him but his very soul, it was not the kind of eyes he had ever seen glancing at him so he was rather curious about what was happening, though his curiosity wouldn't be satisfied. Once their eyes met she looked weird, if she wasn't Robin Luffy might actually think she was... embarrassed.

As soon as she realised he was looking strangely at her she pretended to resume the reading of her book.

Why did that keep happening she wondered... During the last few days she found herself looking at him several times with fiery intensity... She didn't want to think that way but... No! There was no way that was possible, it was just admiration, yeah admiration...

She first started noticing the young captain when out of nowhere he appeared in all of his might challenging the World Government after beating one of the invincible CP9 members Blueno to save her, but she had dismissed it as the rush of the moment... Ever since that moment her mind had become dazed when she looked at his face. She needed to do something, maybe Nami could help her, she was a woman so she would know what to do in this kind of situation besides she had been with Luffy almost since the beginning of his journey maybe she could tell her if it was normal for everyone to feel that way about him, he was a great captain after all, might be a total disaster sometimes but would protect everyone with his last breath

When she finally stopped thinking about this new development she noticed it was already night time.

"Robin-chwan!!" she heard an all too familiar voice calling her, she frowned at his care free attitude

"Something the matter?"

"No not at all." said Robin smiling. She really need to rest and forget about this huge headache she developed.

"Alright then... Oh! That's right! Dinner is served, might I invite you to taste my delicious cooking?" he attempted to cheer her up.

"Sorry but I think I'm going to bed early today, I'm feeling too tired" she answered honestly.

"Oh... I see, well good night..."

"Good night cook-san" and as soon as he left she just fell on her bed grabbing a cushion close to her and started wondering how to approach Nami the next morning.

Author's Notes: Well this is my first story ever I hope this is a good start even though I'm not what you'd call a perfect English writer I hope I didn't make too many errors! So, tell me what you think and what I should change to become better.