"You idiot!"

"Don't call me the idiot when you are the one who led me out here!"

"What are we going to do?!" The orange-haired navigator screeched into the night , her voice echoing off the trees surrounding them.

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It started with her having the urge for a quickie, that escalated quickly though. She wanted more and more as they continued. They kept moving farther and farther from the beach into the forest of palm trees around them. They went at it all day, before Nami knew it was sun was setting.

It wasn't like her to be so careless, especially on an island she knew next to nothing about. They were both hopelessly lost now because she felt like indulging herself in him. Zoro wasn't going to be of any help in this situation.

Nami pinched the bridge of her nose trying to map out the path they took here in her head. It was no easy task, she wasn't exactly paying attention to where they were going in that lustful haze. What they had done today wasn't anything she ever imagined herself capable of. It was like she was turning into a different person, wanting to be alone with Zoro like this. The Nami of two years ago would puke at the thought.

To make things stranger as angry as she was with herself about getting lost, she wasn't scared. Normally Nami would be quaking in her heels being stuck in a dark forest at night. It took Nami a long moment to think of why that might be.

Was it because she was with Zoro?

Her brown eyes looked up at the swordsman walking beside her. A tingling sensation started acting up in the pit of her stomach as she watched him through the darkness. This tingling wasn't like before, she had been fully satisfied sexually. So what the hell was it she was feeling and why didn't she know how to make it stop?

"Are we going the right way, Nami?" Zoro asked causing Nami to perk up out of her daydreaming. She opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. Was it because she didn't know where they were going or something else? "You're always so scared of the islands you visit. It makes me wonder why you want to travel the world."

"What...?" Zoro's words caught her by surprise, he thought she was scared. "I-I'm not."

"Why are you legs shaking then?" Nami's eyes widened realizing the her legs were indeed shaking. The navigator couldn't understand why that was happening, it wasn't cold tonight, she wasn't scared. Yet her legs were shaking violently, without her noticing too. Zoro crouched over in front of her. "I'll carry you."

Nami tapped the ends of her fingers together looking away from the man crouching. For some reason the thought of climbing on his back was scarier than the forest, not to mention humiliating. She still had her pride in tack, there was no way she'd-. When he growled for her to hurry up she immediately gave into his command falling onto his broad back.

"Just tell me where to go." Zoro told her with a sigh, he was just tired and wanted to go home. Her nails dug into his back, her face nuzzling inbetween his shoulder blades. Nami nodded her head quietly letting him know she understood.

They stayed like that for a while, Zoro giving her a piggyback ride as she pointed lazily in the direction he should go. As this continued the feeling in her stomach kept bothering her. It was getting worst, the feeling getting so intense it felt like her insides were twisting. Absentmindedly the girl spoke softly into his ear.

"So how was today?"

"What do you mean?" Zoro asked his own gruff voice lowered to a whisper. Nami felt his body tense against her when she asked him the question. Feeling frustrated Nami repeated the question once more. "What the hell do you want me to say?" Zoro answered again.

"Do you want to go back to the ship?" Nami asked anxiously not quite knowing where she was going with this. All she knew was the feeling inside her stomach was getting tighter almost hurting her.

"You know," Zoro began as Nami held her breath. "I've wanted to head back for a while now."

"Typical." Nami said in her usual bitchy tone causing Zoro to growl in annoyance. After that she was silent not asking him anymore weird questions. A few minutes later Zoro felt something dripping onto his back. He looked up at the sky squinting through his one good eye.

"Hey Nami," Zoro said trying to get her attention. "I thought you said it wasn't going to rain today."

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For once Zoro couldn't sleep.

That was weird considering how much energy he had spent with Nami today. He was wide awake laying next to his weights, his mind wandering off to strange places. Namely, Nami, she had been acting a little odd. Zoro just couldn't quite put his finger on it, what the hell was her problem.

Women were always a mystery to Zoro. He never had very many pleasant interactions with the women in his life, to the swordsman they were a whole other creature. Perhaps growing up the way he did with a little girl kicking the crap out of him made him feel this way.

Nami was different though. Never in his life had he met a woman so infuriating yet at the same time... Zoro couldn't figure out the word he was looking for, what exactly was Nami to him? She was nakama sure, she was a precious crew mate and his responsibility as the captain's right hand man. Besides that Zoro couldn't put into words how he felt about her.

Obnoxious, annoying, infuriating, greedy, vain witch... But there had to be something else, those words weren't the ones he needed to explain this... Fondness he had for the navigator. How embarrassing, the thought that he might have a soft spot for her of all people.

Zoro had to get out of the bird's nest. It was starting to feel cramped for some reason. On his way down he noticed someone standing on the deck. He wondered who would be out here this time of night. As he approached the person he knew he should have expected to see her.

"Why don't you sleep?" Zoro asked trying to suppress a yawn while approaching Nico Robin.

"After sleeping with one eye opened for a decade," Robin turned to look at him a small smirk on her face. "You find it hard to sleep once you finally find peace. I suppose you can say it comes naturally to only sleep two hours a night now." Being a man you loved sleep almost as much as his swords Zoro couldn't understand someone choosing to sleep so little.

"Go to bed." He grunted like the last time he found her up this late. Zoro was on his way past her heading toward the kitchen hoping to steal some food from Sanji's private stock when Robin stopped him. The swordsman froze hearing her speak to him.

"You sure were late coming back today." Robin mused out loud in a playful tone. "How do you manage that even when with a beautiful navigator?"

"I didn't get lost." Zoro growled turning back to the woman. He always hated being teased for getting lost, it was like they thought he was stupid or something! "It wasn't my fault. Nami's the one that has been acting so crazy."

"Has she?" Robin lifted herself to sit on the railing of the ship folding one leg over the other. "Here I thought these things were completely normal for a girl her age."

Zoro sucked his teeth turning his back on Robin to head to the kitchen. Zoro as always was very slow on the uptake, after he understood the weight her words carried he turned back around quickly. Zoro looked confused and a little angry as he took a few steps closer to Robin.

"You mean she told you?" Zoro asked in a hushed voice. Robin found his sudden urgency amusing, a small smirk tugged at the corners of her lips again.

"Told me?" Robin repeated with a chuckle. "Who do you think suggested this all to her?"

Again it took Zoro a minute to understand what Robin was implying. Suddenly the swordsman felt embarrassed, he looked away from the older woman. He rubbed the back of his head trying to think of something to say. What could he say to that?

"You mentioned she's been acting strange." Robin continued to prod him. "How so?"

"She was just being really quiet on the way back." Zoro shrugged still refusing to meet Robin's eyes. "She usually never shuts up it wasn't like her. On top of that when she was talking she just asked stupid questions."

"Oh my," Robin's hand hovered over her mouth hiding it so only her sharp eyes were staring right into him. "How insensitive. You're hopeless with women aren't you?"

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"That jerk..." Nami muttered bitterly into the pillow that was keeping her company tonight. His words cut through her like a sword, she was so bitter about that. How was it that she lost all control of the situation so quickly? Now here she was trying to fight back tears all over this moron.

Perhaps this idea wasn't so good of a plan after all. She was able to solve one problem but she had a whole other one now. This problem was a lot more serious than being horny. She had actually developed some real feelings for that big glorious moron. She clutched her pillow closer to her chest trying to forget how it felt when he touched her.

That was impossible however.

"Zoro..."

.oO To Be Continued Oo.