Kinda make'n it up as I went along. Nothing super special, I'm not even sure if I favor Luffy-Nami, but it works, not like Vivi could fill the position or something. I hadn't finished Enies Lobby when I started writing this.
Luffy smiled brightly, leaning against the rail of their ship, watching a pod of sea king dolphins traveling along side their ship. Chopper was equally excited, jumping up and down on the rail, Zoro keeping an eye on him. Nami looked up from her book as did Robin, and glanced at the shimmering splashes made by the sea kings and moon light. Sanji opened the door from the kitchen, carrying their meals.
"Nami-swan! ? Robin-chwan! ? your meals are ready!" Sanji said in his normally excited voice in the presents of the only two female crew members.
"Oh, thank you Sanji-kun." Nami replied, taking her and Robin's plate, and placing them on the table between them.
"Oi, shitheads, your food is ready." Sanji scornfully spoke to the men, almost throwing their plates on the table outside.
"OOH! MESHI!" Luffy exclaimed enthusiastically, rushing to the table, taking a bite of his food before he was even sitting. Zoro and Chopper joined him quickly, followed by Usopp. "Sanji! This is delicious!" Luffy called out loudly, enjoying the flavors of the meal. Over the last few days, Luffy seemed to have started savoring his food more.
"Ha ha ha," Sanji lightened up, sitting next to both of the beautiful women. "I see you've started noticing my culinary skills a bit more."
Luffy nodded dramatically, taking another bite off his plate. He chewed it slowly, his gaze suddenly settling on Nami. She was happily twisting her fork on her plate, gathering pasta on it, only to eat it. He stopped chewing, completely intrigued by watching her chew her own food.
"Luffy, you okay?" Usopp nudged him, breaking his small trance on the woman. He nodded again, commencing to chew his food, and taking another bite of the meat on his plate.
The meals had gotten rather quiet lately, and the pattern of this calming atmosphere continued. Luffy continued to sneak glances at the two ladies, getting a curious nudge from Usopp every so often.
"Luffy, this isn't like you, why have you been so quiet during meals?" Usopp inquired, quite worried about this new, well behaved Luffy.
"What, I'm not allowed to enjoy the food Sanji makes to its fullest potential?" Luffy countered, quite intelligently, taking a rather aggressive bite out of the ham on a bone. He got up, carrying his plate with him to the top deck.
"Maybe he's realizing that he can't always be playful Usopp?" Chopper suggested, nibbling on some broccoli. Zoro grunted audibly at his comment.
"Hardly, our Captain seems to have some things on his mind, he has been quite distracted lately." Zoro started, looking up at everyone, at this point Nami and Robin had looked up from their books, and Sanji wasn't ogling either one of them. "You wouldn't believe what I saw him doing."
"Wh-wha-what wa-was he d-doing?!"Chopper asked nervously, completely frightened by Zoro's sudden change in tone. Nami's brow rose in curiosity, Usopp's eyes large with fright.
"Reading."
The entire group grew silent.
"Surely you're mistaken?" Robin jokingly incurred.
"Maybe it was a naughty book?" Usopp suggested.
"Nope. One of Nami's books, 'History of Mapping'"
Once again, the table grew silent.
Everyone finished their meals quietly, cleaning up after themselves. Robin did the dishes, Zoro wiped everything down. Chopper yawned, receiving a look from Robin, persuading him to go to bed. Usopp sat the table, tapping it lightly. He was determined to figure out what's on Luffy's mind.
"I think he finally felt the need to mature, don't you think?" Robin spoke, starting the conversation that was on everyone's mind.
"But why would that make him read a history book?" Usopp inquired.
"I was recently reading it, and I told him about some of it when he asked me about it. Maybe it just interested him." Nami suggested.
"Gol D. Rodger was quite a scholar himself, maybe after hearing that he could read and write poneglyph, he wanted to educate himself. He probably felt inspired." Robin suggested, tracing her fingers lightly on a book cover.
"I think you all are just making this more complicated than it needs to be." Zoro countered. "It leads to one thing. Hormones."
Nami busted out in laughter, Robin also giggled quietly. Sanji's eyebrow twitched.
"Hormones…?" Usopp inquired.
"Puh-lease! He has the attention span of a sea king. Like he even knows what hormones were, much less pay attention to them."
As Nami ended her sentence, the door opened, their Captained entered the small room. He started laughing, having been listening to their conversation. "Ho-ho, so is really that strange that I've been reading a few books here and there recently?" The new and seemingly enlightened Luffy laughed, smiling as usual.
"Lu-Luffy, you haven't been listening, have you?" Usopp questioned, hoping not to have offended him in anyway. Luffy just laughed again, throwing his plate in the sink, and sitting at the table with everyone else.
"You guys sound a bit worried, what have I done? Am I growing up too fast for you all?"
"Alright, where's the real Luffy, this must be a marine is disguise." Nami confused, leaned over the table to grab his cheek and stretch it out.
"Nami!" Luffy whined, giving her a rather large grin. He gazed at her cleavage for a split moment, then looked over at Zoro.
"Well, one thing is for sure, at least Zoro was wrong in his assumption." Sanji completely relieved, releasing the smoke from his mouth. "Luffy probably still can't tell the difference between a girl and a boy." He laughed slightly, looking over at Nami and Robin.
"Are you guys saying I'm not capable of being attracted to a woman?" He grinned rather largely, looking over at Sanji, "you'd be proven wrong pretty quickly if you were in my brain right now."
"EH?!" The majority of the room exclaimed.
"Luffy? Claiming to be a pervert? Quick, go look outside and tell us if the forecast change to flaming balls of death." Usopp said to Nami. She nodded, actually getting up to check outside.
"Oi, Nami, sit down," Zoro commanded, "all children grow up eventually. just some take longer than others." He said, grinning to Luffy. He smiled back, thinking that everyone was acting funny.
"I don't believe him. I think he's bluffing." Nami stated.
"You think he's bluffing about being a pervert? What's so weird about a healthy teenage boy enjoying the female body a bit?" Robin concurred, stating a pretty blunt thing.
"Who said I was interested in women?" Luffy snickered, receiving some very questionable looks. He burst out in laughter, "I kid, I kid!"
"That's just weird though." the navigator ignored their captain's last joke. "Could you even imagine Luffy taking some girl a date or something? It couldn't actually happen." Nami justified, "I don't think there's a girl in existence that'd consider it."
"I dunno, Vivi took a real liking to him." Zoro pointed out.
Nami's face was in disbelief. She got up from her seat and left the room to the deck.
"Nami-swan! what's the matter?" Sanji asked just before she left the room. "Look what you've done, you've gone upset her you shithead." He got up from his seat, and started walking to the door. Sanji he turned to find Luffy's hand around his elbow.
"Let me talk to her." Luffy ordered, Sanji following his captain's orders, took a seat at the table. Luffy walked out the door into the fresh ocean spray, looking around for Nami. 'She must be on the top deck.'
He followed the stairs up to find Nami grumbling towards the western moon. He touched her shoulder lightly, alarming her a bit. "Is it really so terrible that I might be growing up or something?" He giggled a little, causing her look up at him.
"It's not terrible, but the thought of you not being, well…you. That's what's unusual."
"What, do you think I'm going to start thinking everything through, and stop doing foolish things, and start staying a safe distance from the water?" he joked. He placed his hat on her head like he did in Arlong Park. "Stop being such a selfish baby." He gave her a sudden hug, holding her tightly, resting his chin on her head.
"Luffy!" She protested, "You owe me 1,000 beli for this."
"I owe you for trying to cheer you up?" He laughed in her ear, whispering "I'm captain of this ship, future Pirate King, if anything, you should be paying me little missy."
She shivered feeling his warm breath on her ear. She shyly hugged him back. "You're a jerk. And I still don't think that you out everyone on this crew, excluding Chopper of course, could be a pervert."
"So you wouldn't believe me if I told you that I took a nice long glance at your plump cleavage earlier when you grabbed my cheek?" He smiled, pulling away to look at her.
She looked down bashfully, "As if, you're just making that up."
"Well, if you say so…" He grinned, sliding his hands down her back, landing on her butt. 'If she won't believe me…'
She looked straight at him as soon as his hands had gone down too far south. "And what do you think you're doing?" She balled her hands in a fists, and swung at him.
"Too slow!" He taunted, having dodged her strike appearing behind her, once again wearing his hat. He grabbed her waist and pulled her closely to himself again. "You see, I can't have you say that I'm not capable of being perverse like everyone on the ship, can I? It's kinda a low blow to me being a man." He slid his hands up her stomach right underneath her breasts.
"You wouldn't dare Luffy."
"I might." He slid his hands up just a bit, bumping her chest.
"A-a-as i-if." Nami stuttered, starting to consider the fact that their Captain might have realized he had a penis and two members of his crew did not. Well done Luffy!
He slid his hands up, giving her breasts a slight squeeze. She gasped at the sudden gesture, not sure how to react. He chuckled in her ear. "They're so warm and plump." He smiled against her hair, pushing them together. He peered at her visible cleavage, and then released her breasts, just hugging her once again. "I think I'm ready for bed. Good night Nami." He spoke, saying 'good night' softly in her ear softly.
He released her body, and walked away. "Don't stay out here too late." He reminded as he turned to walk down the stairs.
Nami stood still for a moment, her only apparent movement was her sway from the sea. She suddenly held her hands to her face, realizing how hard she must have been blushing. "Th-that j-jerk!" She whispered aloud. "I-I have never ever been s-so humiliated!" She stuttered, completely in shock at her captain's action. She could feel her lips tug into a small grin. 'I'm going to kill him!'
Shh, I'm taking my time.
Mia-san, in and out!