Author's Note: Hello! Welcome to my entries. Yes, these were all drabbles written for a LiveJournal community called 15pairings, which is wonderful! You select a fandom, pick a theme set, and write a different drabble for each theme, each using a different couple. It's brilliant!

And you've stumbled upon mine. Let it be known that before each drabble I will list the couple and specific rating, so as not to give anyone an unwanted surprise. Please, read and review!

Theme: "we are going to change"
Couple: Luffy/Nami
Rating: T

We Are Going To Change

"Luffy," the orange-haired navigator cooed at her captain, "don't you want to join me in private?" She was leaning her arms on a table, thrusting her chest out as if the breasts were not obvious enough, and parting her lips in a very practiced pout. And all because Robin had said, earlier with a small laugh, that the captain was completely incapable of being seduced.

Nami took up the challenge, and had already used the tried-and-true method of pretending to drop an item, only to bend over and pick it up in a suggestive manner; this did nothing to Luffy, but had been enough for Sanji to need immediate doctoral attention from Chopper. She had attempted every suggestive comment she knew (that she assumed Luffy would understand), and although Zoro had walked away with a frown--for a reason she couldn't quite grasp--still, nothing had gotten through to the captain.

Now he was staring blankly at her face, blinking with a piece of food hanging out the corner of his mouth. He swallowed the food and said, "Why would I need to talk to you in private, Nami?"

Robin smiled into her book, and Nami hung her head, plopping back into her seat across from Luffy. She sighed and shook her head, muttering to herself. Cutting her eyes back up at the captain, she asked, "Don't you know anything about romance?"

"Sure," he answered in a moment, returning to eating. "I know about stuff like you hear in songs and stories."

Defeated, Nami moped back to her room and shut the door.

He would never change.

--

Robin had watch duty that night, so Nami was alone in the room set aside for the female members of the crew. She didn't mind sleeping there alone, and was startled out of a half-dream state when she heard the door creak open. She sat up in the bed and stared as the dark figure approached her, then sat on the end of the bed and spoke.

"I'm not so stupid," it said, and she let out a breath when she realized it was Luffy.

"I never said you were stupid," she replied.

He chewed his bottom lip and then looked at her. "I mean, I know about stuff. I'm just not like Sanji. But I notice you... that's what you wanted, right? You wanted me to notice?"

She stared at him for a long time in the dark room, watching him hold his hat in his hands and fidget nervously. He glanced at her and swallowed, and when he stood to leave she put a hand on his arm to stop him.

"So what would your reaction be to..." She didn't finish the sentence, but instead unbuttoned her pajama top swiftly and looked up at him again.

His reaction was what she would have expected from any man...except for him. But he was different--gentle, not very romantic, but instinctive, as if he were going about normal business there in the dark.

In the moonlight afterward, she wondered if this would change anything.

--

Some time later, she looked at herself in the mirror and sickened to notice she was showing. The belly was rounding out, becoming stretched and growing fatter even though she forced herself to go without food as often as Sanji would allow. They didn't know, but they would soon. She told Robin first, then Luffy.

He was confused at first; either he had forgotten the night ever even happened, or no one had ever told him that the stork doesn't bring babies. As she patiently explained it to him, however, the weight of what she was telling him suddenly fell on him; she witnessed the very moment it happened. The half-smile on his face vanished, and his wide bright eyes dimmed slightly. His countenance stopped looking like a child, and all in that single instant, the captain grew up and the navigator had to find the maternal core within her being that had been hidden for so long.

"We are going to change," she said softly, and he nodded in agreement.

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