"The lion and the fox were out together hunting, and together they managed to kill a donkey." The words were spoken by a dark skinned peculiar looking man, his hair was long and curly, his eyes round but what really stood out was his long nose as he spoke with a smirk around his mouth. "The lion though wanted to sleep before he ate, so he asked the fox whom was his underling. 'Keep watch on our prey! And don't you dare eat anything before I make it back.'"
In front of him sat the most beautiful young woman, long orange hair was falling down her back, she wore nothing but jeans and a bikini top revealing her lustrous body and the tattoo on her right arm, yet right now her eyes were fully focused on the dark skinned man sitting right in front of her as the most radiant smile graced her lips as well.
"The fox waited, but the lion took a very long time to make it back and the fox was hungry. At last he had enough of waiting and finally ate the brain of the donkey. Later the lion came back and looked at their prey, then turned to the fox. 'Where's the brain?' The lion asked." The long nosed man smirked. "And the fox replied… Dear sir Lion. There was never any brain to begin with, if this donkey had had a brain it wouldn't have been caught by you!"
At that the orange haired woman smirked and then she chuckled. "Clever Usopp." she said amused. "How do you come up with this stuff?"
"I don't know." Usopp replied as he leaned over the bar table him and Nami was sitting by. "It's just my gift I suppose, I am running into a real problem these days though." he commented putting a finger on his glass of Sake. "The things we experience tends to be far more incredible than any stories I can come up with, so what am I supposed to do?" he questioned. "I just need to be extra clever don't I?" he asked in a large grin.
"Well get to it then." Nami smirked.
The Straw hat crew had decided to take a shore leave after a long travel around the new world where there had been nonstop action. Everyone seemed like they needed a break, and Nami and Usopp had taken the opportunity to retrieve by themselves and share a glass of sake at a bar with no one else around at the moment.
It was something they both appreciated quite a lot, they both loved everyone in their crew, how-ever there were certain things they could just only talk with each other about. And just the more casual down to earth company was sometimes just really nice.
"You should write a book or something!" Nami then stated.
"What me?" Usopp asked. "I can't do that! What would I write?! My stories aren't good enough to be written down!"
"Don't be so sure, i'm sure you could earn good money on childrens story books!" Nami stated.
"Wait children's stories?!" Usopp asked. "Is that what… HEY YOU JUST WANT TO EARN MONEY OFF OF ME!" he shouted and Nami grinned.
"I'll be your manager of course." Nami stated. "90 percent of the profit is mine!"
"That's way to much." Usopp stated in a eye roll.
"Well, it'll help you with the debt you owe me." Nami commented.
"As if I am ever going to be able to pay off the debt you claim I owe you." Usopp sighed deeply. "And you still haven't paid me back for the parts to your new clima tact." he commented. "In fact you haven't paid for any of your clima tacts."
"Now don't be so stingy." Nami pouted. "All right fine, i'll buy the next round! Hey ever here!" she waved at the bartender. "Fill us up!"
Usopp smirked amused then shook his head. "You just think your cute smile can get you out of anything, don't you?"
"Well it's working isn't it?" Nami asked sending Usopp the biggest puppy dog eyes imaginable.
"Hey that may work on Sanji, but I know you're not nearly as pathetic as those eyes wants people to believe." Usopp commented and Nami grinned as their glass's were being filled up.
"Of course not, i'm a straw hat!" Nami laughed. "And Luffy don't have weak Nakamas, not a single one." she stated.
That made Usopp blink then he smiled. "Heh, we've come a long way haven't we?" he asked.
"Sure have." Nami nodded. "We've become so much stronger! All of us!"
Usopp smiled as he looked down in his glass, his cheeks blushing slightly. "Yeah, it's hard to believe sometimes." he admitted. "All though Nami look... I erh, could you. Please not make fun of my stories?" he asked. "I know, they are useless out here at the new world but... back at Syrup, I think they meant something. Kaya really liked them, and the Usopp pirates. Back then... It was all I had and I... It wasn't much but it was something, I like to think they did something good."
"Usopp.." Nami breathed then put her hand on his forcing Usopp to look up. "You idiot, I weren't making fun of you at all! Have you any idea how much money it costs to publish a book?! I wouldn't say such a thing if I didn't think it would be worth it." she stated. "And I don't just mean the profit." she at last said taking her hand back before she picked up her sake glass and took a healthy drink.
"Heh." Usopp blushed deeply. "Thank you, it's going to be great the day I can tell Kaya about everything we've seen. And the Usopp pirates too, they are going to be amazed! We sure made it a long way huh?" he asked.
"Yes, we really have." Nami smiled amused. "I'm so glad we made it this far together."
"Me too." Usopp smiled and Nami picked up her glass raising it.
"To the strawhats!" she laughed and Usopp raised his own glass in return.
"To the Strawhats!" he replied and they both drank up.
Usopp and Nami had already spend a long time in the bar, drinking and talking, and they were going to spend even more. So much so as when they finally walked out they were both more than a little tipsy.
Usopp was worse off as he didn't have Nami's tolerance and thusly was almost hanging up against Nami whom was mumbling something about every single second of this was another thousand berries added to Usopp's debt, changes were though that she wouldn't remember that either as a red flush was covering her entire face as she stumbled towards the port with Usopp.
"Sanji is going to be so pissed." Usopp murmured. "He's going to kick me and say I did this on purpose. Nami help." he asked almost crying already.
"Oh screw him." Nami replied. "I can take care of myself." she stated just as she tumbled. "Oh whupsi."
"Nami don't do that, the ground is already sailing." Usopp replied. "Are we back on the ship already?" he asked slightly confused.
"No we are not on the ship you're just drunk." Nami replied in a drunken voice.
"Oh yeah that's right." Usopp nodded thoughtfully.
unbeknown to them though, two people were hiding in the shadow and both grinning.
"This is our lucky day." one commented. "That girl, she is going to be worth a fortune. i mean just look at those curves."
"She has a bounty." The other one commented. "And a rather high one at that. So does the guy."
"I might hand the guy in for a bounty then." The first shadow replied. "The girl though…. she'll be way more worth as a slave. That hair color to, that's very rare."
"Well you're the boss." The second replied. "Should I ready it?" he asked.
"Do it." The first one asked.
"AUW!" Usopp shouted as he slapped his neck.
"What is it?" Nami asked.
"Felt like I got a bee sting or something." Usopp groaned rubbing his neck then though his eyes widened as his fingers tied themselves around a little slim object and he pulled it out to hold it in front of his eyes. "Oh shit." he stated.
"Usopp?" Nami asked. "What is it?"
"Some kind of needle." Usopp stated. "Coated in… " he licked the needle but didn't get any further as Nami shouted as well.
"AUW!" and she grabbed her neck to.
"NAMI" Usopp shouted running to her as Nami pulled out her own needle and wide-eyed looked at it.
"Usopp…" Nami swallowed. "What is… I mean."
"It's." Usopp groaned holding his forehead. "And anesthetic" he stated as he eyes grew groggy. Then he fell to his knees. "Shit, we shouldn't have been so careless." he groaned.
"Usopp!" Nami shouted falling to her knees to. "Hey it's okay, we're close to the sunny we just need to." then her eyes grew heavy as well. "No." she shook her head. "Usopp…" she groaned reaching for him. "What's going to happen to us?"
"We'll be… fine…" Usopp groaned barely able to stay awake. "Luffy will… Will find us very quick. These guys don't know who they are dealing with." he groaned and then fell forward and down on the ground.
"USOPP!" Nami shouted, then her eyes to grew heavy and she tried to fight to fog clouding her head, but it was no use as she fell over Usopp's body, the last thing she saw being two shadowy figures towering over them, before everything faded to black.