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Author's note: I do not own One Piece~!
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Here is the update! Sorry if it has taken me so long though! Please do enjoy!.
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CHAPTER 3: UNDERCOVER
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This is the hundredth time Nami looked up the wall clock. Dusk is already nearing and the road back home will be dark again and this waiting makes Nami feel like she's being tortured as this bad feeling that bothers her keeps on growing in every second that pass. 'I have to get back home now.' She demanded. She smirked as she thought of something.
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"Tell me what happened kid.." Smoker looked at him in the eye while he lights his already used cigar. Luffy returned his gaze and Smoker was taken aback by the seriousness in the boy's eyes.
"They are making fun of Nami.."
Smoker raised his eyebrow.
"They said they would take Nami away.." Luffy gnarled at Smoker.
Luffy exhaled to release his anger out of his aching body while Smoker just stares at him while he does this. In a snap, Luffy beamed Smoker with his brightest smile and immediately pouted his cheeks at his savior.
"You see, I can only remember some that happened." Luffy pointed.
Smoker just nods for him to continue.
"Well, I turned around and I was punched right in the middle of my face. I woke up and I saw I was already lying on the floor. I thought I had suddenly fallen asleep like Ace used to do but then I saw men standing around me. Then they asked me where Nami is.." Luffy stared at his dirty hands as he remembered everything they told about Nami.
"Where's the whore?" A man clad in knee length shorts and a floral beach shirt crouched in front of Luffy.
"Who?" Luffy grinned.
"YOUR SLUTTY SISTER YOU IDIOT!" The man suddenly kicked his gut.
"OI Arlong! Leave us with some body parts to torture 'kay?" Crocodile told him nonchalantly.
"TCH." Was Arlong's only reply.
Then Doflamingo carried Luffy aloft.
"I really miss your sister's moans and the way her body moves with me..yummy.." Doflamingo smiled lustfully. Black Beard grunted in disgust at the perverted thug he is working with. Luffy clenched his fist tightly.
He knew Nami don't do bad things. He knew Nami is good even though she has worked before in a 'dirty restaurant', how Ace described it when Luffy persist on visiting Nami on her work. He knew her sister is very kind even if she is so grumpy. He will never trust these men's words. But he can't seem to control the boiling of his blood at every assault they throw at his sister.
"Ah! Ah! Ah~~! Doflamingo Ah~!" Doflamingo falsely mimicked Nami's voice.
Luffy is shaking with anger.
"If your sister failed to pay us this time, we will be forced to take her with us no matter what." Crocodile said with a smug look on his face.
He looked at Luffy and smirked evily, "Do you unders—" But before he could finish he was thrown down in the floor by a powerful punch. He looked up while brushing his already swollen face and saw Luffy standing tall in front of him and trembling with anger, he looked at Crocodile with fierce gaze, "Don't you lay a finger on Nami or you'll die." He growled.
"Ace died to free us from this debt so don't you dare tell my sister your lies!" Luffy is now panting heavily ready to attack. "So.. Who are you to tell me that?" Crocodile smirked at him, Luffy advanced forward to punch the smirk away from that man's face but before he can hit the jawline, he was grabbed by a pair of strong arms and immediately he felt his whole body fly in midair as he was being tossed up in the air and was smashed back down to the wooden floor.
Luffy felt something broke on his back and the pain was unbearable but when he saw Doflamingo's ankles near his face, he reached his mouth forward and bite it.
"ARGH!" the victim cried out so loud that some of the houses nearby opened their lights to peek outside to see where that scream came from.
"Quiet down your big mouth Doffy!" Black Beard teased.
"DON'T..YOU..EVER CALL ME BY THAT NAME INFRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE!" Doflamingo hissed.
"Yeah yeah!" Black beard just shrugged him off.
They all turned around to look at Luffy and was surprised to see Arlong was on his way to stomping the boy's arms off.
But even so, they didn't stop their fellow thug.
And with that, follows a boy's piercing cry of pain as he tries his best to kick their asses for continuing to assault Nami and by again informing him that they will take his sister away from him.
"And then..Hey I am hungry!" Luffy chuckled without finishing the story of what happened before.
Smoker just sighed but before he can leave the room, a frequency coming from the two way radio walkie talkie that was tied to his metal belt, echoed throughout the old shack.
"Should we proceed to the premises Chief? Over." A deep manly voice can be heard in the radio.
Smoker grabbed his radio, "Yes." After that conversation in the radio, suddenly ambulance and police cars came out of nowhere like it was just there out in the desert waiting for Smoker's advice.
"WOOOAH! I WANT ONE TOO!" Luffy again is expectedly amazed by what he witnessed.
" Don't worry, I'll give you one.." Smoker patted his head.
The police cars and ambulance parked themselves just outside the shack. One muscular man with green hair went towards Smoker with great respect as he talks to Luffy's savior.
Luffy was confused; he knew that he has seen this man before. Is he Nami's co-worker in the diner? "Nah! He must be someone who copies Zoro." He shrugged. Another man came in.
"Law..Give me some of the spare walkie talkie." Smoker commanded him.
In a second Law went back with a box. Smoker went towards Luffy.
"Hey, this is the walkie talkie.. Use it wisely.." Though Smoker knew the boy will never use it that wisely because the moment he was gone out of Luffy's sight, a frequency was heard from everyone's walkie talkie.
"OI! EVERYONE!HAHAHAHAHA! SHISHISHISHI~! GRANDPA SMOKER! HELLO? GRANDPA SMOKER?"
Everyone tried their best to contain and resist from laughing. Smoker just frowned at the wrong decision he had as a vein popped on his head.
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Nami , even though it's not yet time to go home from work, she went straight to the door nonchalantly. She walked fashionably towards the door when a big pair of hands placed itself on her shoulder blades. She smirked and looked at her manager acting like she is apologetic to him.
"What do you think are you doing?" Sef began.
"Going out to get some fresh air.. "She shrugged like it was the most obvious thing in the world." Do I have to report to you everything I do?"
He glared at her while still holding her firmly at her exact spot.
"Okay, hand it over." Sef frowned at her when he noticed she's not going to cooperate with him this time.
"What?"
"If you don't hand it over, I will have no choice but to make you work over time for THAT." He challenged.
Nami was amazed that Sef really know his employees so well.
Nami acted angry at him and growled furiously at him as she reaches something in her pockets. He smirked when he guessed right that she had stolen money from his diner again.
"Get out now!" Sef raised his voice at her.
She exited the diner and smirked at herself. She walked hastily like she was angry at Sef, pretending that she was angry but when she taught she's away from observing eyes, she ran as fast as she can worry evident at every step she makes. 'I must see if Luffy is doing fine..I must see him now..'
Nami remembers that lately , for the couple of months, Luffy began having some bruises all over his body and everytime she asks him about it, he would laugh so hard and in the process making her laugh too and forget about Luffy's bruises. He would sometimes tell her he was beaten by a cockroach. Sometimes he would tell her he was beaten by a stag beetle which will make him gain a lot of punches in the head from her.
But this time, she would like to know the truth. She will definitely know now. She will make him speak. He has been a bad liar all this time she knew he is lying at her. It was so obvious but she didn't do something about it because she was so busy with work that is why she is so furious now. She hates herself.
She ran as fast as she can. Her orange locks flew aimlessly with the hot wind that kissed her cheeks.
Abruptly she went to a halt as she saw three police cars was approaching her but they just went pass her. It seems like they have been to a house near theirs. She hurriedly ran and as their house where visible, she was dead shocked to see police and ambulance lights rotating endlessly near their house. She even thought that the police cars and ambulance was parked in front of old Robin and old Franky's house but she was wrong and this is the time that she didn't want to be wrong.
She ran towards their house. She saw Zoro and Smoker, with her ex-boyfriend Law, talking to one another in a professional manner she doesn't quite fathom. But she didn't mind them as she ran inside the house to look for Luffy but she was nowhere to be found.
Smoker went inside the house too and he heard someone whispering.
"Lu..Luffy?" Nami's voice is weakening.
"He's in the ambulance." He informed her abruptly. She turned her attention to him and mouthed him thank you as she dashed pass him.
When she reached the ambulance, there he is, her laughing brother with Law tending his injuries.
Luffy looked up and saw Nami. He smiled at her.
"OI! NAMI! GRANDPA SMOKER GAVE ME—" But before he can finish, he was surprised when Nami launched herself forward to him to hug him tightly. It pained physically as he heard some bones crack again but seeing his sister safe and sound gave back his strength and the more reason to smile and chuckle endlessly.
Nami pushed herself away from him and Luffy saw she was crying. "YOU IDIOT! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE AGAIN?"
Luffy grinned at her.
"DON'T YOU KNOW IT IS BAD TO MAKE YOUR SISTER WORRY?" Nami punched Luffy on the treated shoulder making him react in pain.
"Nami-ya! I suggest you don't do that!" Law's sweat dropped.
Nami just growled at him like a lioness who doesn't want to get tamed.
Law jolted back in defeat but still act coolly in front of them.
Smoker motioned for Law to come over. Zoro and Smoker with Law were huddled close in one corner.
"Why do you think those thugs came here?"
"I don't really know.. We still didn't gain any useful info around the people of this town. They are quite…shy." Law informed his superior.
"What bothers me is that they decide to do this together."
"What I know is that Doflamingo, Black Beard and Crocodile prefer to work alone.." Zoro informed them.
The trio is now in deep thought.
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Luffy was sleeping in the bedroom with his arms and legs all over the bed and his hand clutching his new walkie talkie toy.
Nami just stood beside him and leaned closer to him to kiss him a goodnight sleep. She went to grab a blanket to cover her from the shrilling cold. She also covered Luffy with two blankets.
She went to the kitchen to grab some drink but something caught her eyes.
Smoker was still outside their house sitting on the shack's porch.
She slowly opened the door and saw that there are still some police car parked a few blocks away from them and some roaming around the neighborhood.
She sat on her knees while positioning herself just behind the man who save Luffy.
"Why are you here?" He asked.
"Thank you Smoker.." With that both of their hearts melted. She is never a grateful person so saying that is very new and light to her and in his case, he never heard someone thank him that way.
He tensed up when he felt a pair of hands grazed upon his shoulder.
Nami laid her blanket on his shoulder so he could keep warm.
Smoker waited for her to get inside the house but her small hands where still firmly placed on his shoulder some act he isn't used to.
He was about to speak but suddenly, something soft leaned on his back. He looked over his shoulder and saw a sleeping Nami leaning against him.
He stared at her so long and turned back his gaze on open desert.
"No one should thank me. I am just doing my job."
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Author's note/s:
Hey guys~! Sorry for the late update~! Thank you for all the reviews and all the follows and favorites! I hope to hear from you guys! Leave a review/ comment on what you think about Chapter 3! Hehe!
Next chapter will be…sweet?
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