AUTHOR'S NOTE: I have reached the latest episode of One Piece anime, on my second run mind you. I've also read all the fics about Ace and Luffy here. Now I'm bored. Although I have quiet a few stories to update, I really find no motivation to write about them now, so I won't even try. It'll only suck. This is just to kill boredom. Yet, of course, it'll go the way I want.

WARNING: I do not read the manga. Don't plan to until One Piece is finished. Probably lots of gramatical errors, but I don't really care so... IT WILL NOT FOLLOW ANY EPISODE STORYLINE, BUT WILL BE SET AS... uhh... SOMETHING LIKE A MOVIE. I guess.

DISCLAIMER: Oda Eiichiro owns One Piece. What I own is HALF PIECE TWICE, this FANFICTION.


HALF PIECE TWICE

first mine


"LUFFYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"

"LUUUUUUUUUUUUFFYYYYYY!"

Nami's hair was fluttering and wet over the intense rays of the sun. She was soaked and floating over clear waters, lazily hovering above her were seagulls as if guarding her. Her hands were tied and so were her feet. Keeping her afloat was only her gained skill of swimming like a mermaid she learned from Camie.

"GET ME OUTTA HEEEEERE!" with one last shout Nami struggled to loosen the rope in her hands. A little ways on the footbridge from the shore were male pirates ready to take her on. They were gusty and rough from the looks of it, judging from the clothes they wear.

"Anyone with the guts to face my captain's wrath, feel free to swim with me!" she threatened, eyes sharp and beaming with sureness.

ooooooooooooooo

A little ways off the shore the usual trio surveyed around in search of their ship and missing nakama. The forest was healthy and beautiful, so as the animals living there. Few though ran off at the sight of a straw hat covered man ready to eat them alive. The weather was unusually cool despite the scorching summer season they passed through on the way here, but unusual is common sense along Grand Line.

Luffy's head turned abruptly, so fast Sanji could've sworn he heard his neck snap, "Nami?" much as his neck-bones were cracking, Luffy uttered her name quite low despite the distress in his voice.

"Ahhh?" Zoro shrugged, "Namiiii?"

"Nwaaaami-swaaaaan?! Where? Where is she senchou?!" Sanji twirled, thrilled at the thought of finding the navigator at the first few minutes of searching. If few hours really felt like few minutes to some people...

"Aho..." Zoro had such a smug look in his face as he insulted the cook over and over in his head.

Their captain, however, was unusually quiet despite the situation at hand, situation meaning Zoro and Sanji fighting again.

"Naa... hold onto this for a minute." Luffy stared back at the direction where he thought he heard Nami call for him. He furrowed his brows and gaited in a stance to stretch his limbs.

"Eh, chotto-" Sanji had no choice but to take what his captain had handed him. It was very, very important after all.

"Oi Luffy, where the hell do you plan on shooting away to?" Zoro's irate look never left his face as he sheathed his katana.

"I heard Nami! I'm gonna go!" Luffy inhaled a large one, "SANJIIIIIII!"

"Nanda?!"

"I'll be back for that!" and off he goes "-rockettooooo-"

"Nani, kore ka?" Zoro pointed at the huge drumstick Sanji was holding. He needn't even ask. His open frown only turned into a deep, deep sigh.

"The hell do we do now?" Sanji was calm, lighting his cigar. He kept the drumstick in his pocket as if enormous chickens automatically shrinks themselves when cooked.

"He didn't say follow..." Zoro just yawned away and got back to looking for the rest of the crew.

"Ma naa. He did say he'll be back." they were always fighting and all, but really in times like this, about the things their captain does, it mainly ends up in an agreement with ease.

"For food"

oooooooooooooooo

"Chotto~~~" heaved Usopp. He was hiding behind the largely stationed bushes along the shoreline, a little ways from where the gang were well... ganging on Nami. He wasn't hiding there because he was scared, hell no. He was so sure his manliness could take them all on in a breeze, like a lil' beetle in bliss. He did drop a sweat with that last played pun though. "Brief me again on why we're not helping her? Tsuka, how'd she even get herself in that situation?"

"Ara..." Robin simply smiled, "to watch how Senchou-san will rescue her of course." Robin was aware of how her captain feels about their navigator getting into trouble, especially concerning other men. Although she had concluded that she's probably the only one aware of that, perhaps a few more but well... surely not the two in question. "She was unconscious after all, maybe she'd even need a hand to get back to Sunny" she added in turn to answer Usopp's last question.

"Haa... naruhodo." Usopp looked straight ahead as he nodded in agreement, though his eyes said otherwise.

"It'll be fun." smiles Robin.

ooooooooooooooooo

"Look at how fuckly shaped this babe is!" a man yelled wildly, like a maniac ready to prawn on its prey.

"Idiot! What the hell is fuckly?!"

Another man laughed, "I guess that would be a woman like her!"

Nami looked at them irately, she gritted her teeth but waited patiently for her captain. She knew he would come.

"But man... How the fuck did that sissy kid of a captain get his hands on such fine crew like this bitch?"

"Her navigation skills are also priced throughout the New World." this man added in a sincere way. Much to his knowledge, her reasons for sailing with a rookie was a blur to him. Nami could set sail with any of the Yonkou if she wanted to. No one in any oceans would deny a skill like her.

Nami closed her eyes. She breathe slowly, trying to calm her pounding heart. "Get a load of this! I heard that puny captain got shitloads of gold from Sorajima. Ain't that why the Cat Burglar joined, ya think?"

Nami had no care about any insult given to her, no, not if she heard insults for her captain along with it. She will not stand for it and keep quiet. As she was about to look up and shoot down the man with her own words, she saw red mixing with the blue around her.

"Try saying that again now."

She heard his voice, much unlike to his usual jolly tone. He spoke like a man with a death sentence to render. Nami saw the rouge man's teeth cracking off his jaw as her captain's hand tightened its grip. "Luffy!" Nami unconsciously breathe.

Luffy was mad. Hell, he was so ready to just crash the man's jaw like that and maybe do the same to the rest of the man's gang. He knew they were pirates anyway. A pirate picking a fight with another pirate could only end in a painful way.

But really, he wasn't so sure entirely about his reason for this anger swelling inside. He knew he's pissed for having his nakama insulted like that. But that wasn't it entirely. And it bugged him, getting him pissed even more. Luffy knew they'd have, yes, shitloads of gold since entering Grand Line. Although most of the time they just end up losing them all. But really now, why would someone join a crew headed for a dangerous journey just because there're chances of obtaining gold along the way?

Oh... luffy's murderous expression softened for a brief moment with that thought as he wondered. But no wait! Was that really it? He battled with himself in his mind but couldn't get the answer. So what else to do? Maybe act like a pirate once in a while and just blow off the steam on this gang of shitheads.

If people think he's still the pure hearted youngster he was then, whoa, they're in for big surprises. Yeah, sure, he's still wet behind the ears, whatever. But not with how to handle situations like this anymore. The moment he entered the New World, he knew going easy on people would get them all killed one day.

Though he doesn't really kill, often, they're sure to get it in a painful way. Luffy stretched his arm further up and threw the man far off the sea. "TSUGIIIII!" he shouted as he took on a fighting stance.

"Yaroudomo!" yelled a man who seemed to be the strongest one. "Get the girl onboard and take her to the Boss! She's our new navigator!" he took an axe and smirked at Luffy, "the rest follow my lead! You wouldn't mind a 400 million pocket money, would you?"

"NOOOOO/YEAHHH!" the men left all cried in unison. As if they could actually take the Straw Hat's captain's head.

"Your new navigator...?" Luffy looked down and asked.

"Luffy..." Nami watched from where she was. She knew it was taboo to say stuff like taking away his nakama from him. Luffy hated it. He would never again go through the hell of losing his nakama.

As herds of cows ran to attack Luffy, ah... men, he stayed quiet with his head down. Some of the memories from Sabaody passed through his mind so swiftly it was almost disappointing. What really got to him is he couldn't find an answer as to why it especially ticked him whenever his navigator was claimed by some random people he knew no shit about. It added to the already blazing inferno from the earlier question like cooking oil on a roasting pig.

The dead man's words repeated in Luffy's mind... Get the girl... take her... our new navigator... and yes, this was it. He left his blood rush to his head and as soon as the enemies took the last step to cut him into pieces, Luffy shouted... no, he roared.

"NAMI IS MIIIIIIIIINE!"

ooooooooooooooooo

Robin smiled oh so knowingly as Usopp's eyes bulged out dangerously. His lips stretched to the length of his nose and he just had to swear he heard fireworks along that roar. But both of them knew the lion probably doesn't even know why he'd said that.

ooooooooooooooooo

"YOU RUBBY BASTARD!" burning eyes was shooting down at Luffy from the sea where Sunny was. "I'll cook you alive you hear?!"

"Sanjiiiiii" Chopper had to be in form of a man to even try and attempt on stopping Sanji from jumping off ship and swimming to shore just to land a devil's kick on Luffy. "Calm doooown!"

"Nwaaaaaaaami-swaaaaaaaannnnnn!"

"Ah." Franky stared blankly at the man Luffy threw off to sea. "He's sinking down..."

Zoro sighed with a "d'fuck..." expression. "Hottoke," he said. He looked at the direction of the shore, though it wasn't very clear if he was actually watching Luffy and Nami. Or maybe just surveying around the bushes.

"Zoro... STRICT!" Brook screeched in such a high pitch Franky's sunglasses suffered a crack.

ooooooooooooooooo

"Luffy..." Nami was astonished. She felt a rush of emotions racing from her stomach to her chest, building up as if shouting praises for finally letting loose. My how thankful she was about the cool weather, else her flushing cheeks would have no excuse to have turned red.

"Ah." Luffy straightened himself and adjusted his hat. "They're all down." he looked at the crowed of unconscious men splattered around the shore as he picked his nose.

Nami felt a vein pop in her forehead, "LUFFY!" she yelled, "hurry up and untie me!"

Luffy immediately shot his head up and ran towards her, "Nami!" he said in quite a panic, "I'm coming now! Mattero yo!"

Nami felt more veins popping. "BAKA! What are you doing? I'm afloat deep sea water!" but before she could protest more, Luffy was already drowning while still desperately trying to swim towards Nami. "Ahhh mou!"

"Ahhhhh" came a strangely noted tone of voice from the bushes, "Luffyyyy, Namiiiii!" Usopp ran off to shore. He didn't pay mind to getting his shoes wet but just charged into the water to get both his captain and mate off waters.

"Oh look," Robin also came out the bushes and smiled, "Cook-san's came to pick us up." she was also strangely happy of the fact that it was Sanji who came with mini-Merry.


AUTHOR'S NOTE: Doodles