MY FIRST FANFIC! I have read a lot of Zona
Hope you enjoy this chapter …
Nami felt a heavy weight lifted of her shoulders. She managed to confess her dark secret and gain a kiss that she felt meant something, all in one day. She looked outside the window of the car. The day was beautiful. Oh I might as well. She took of her black cardigan and threw it next to her. She hadn't anything to hide now, so she let her bruises show. She then turned to look at the driver.
"Where we going?" she asked like a child, she was happy that she was going away and hopefully Arlong wouldn't find her. Shanks said he was going to help her and she trusted him. Shanks looked up at her through his windmorror and smiled, he liked seeing Nami happy.
"I am taking you to robins. She wont be there her mother will be. Nico Olivia she's called, a very nice lady. Also a FBI so don't worry you'll be under the safest protection… well you better be for the price I am paying them!" Shanks laughed at the end part. Nami just looked at him with amazed eyes.
"She works with her mum?" Nami asked still amazed. Shanks looked back into the mirror.
"Yeah, her mother was always going away when she was little, so Robin was left with her uncle but his wife always rejected her and put her last. She was like a slave in that house, always cleaning while her auntie and uncle went out with their own children. So Robin decided to get the same caree as her mother and as soon as she did her mother came back to the village for some investigation and found out about Robin's caree. So they decided to do business together. So now they work together." Shanks looked back onto the road leaving Nami alone to her thoughts. She felt a little sympathy for the woman. But she also felt happy and jealous. She was sympathetic towards her because she most certainly knew what it felt like to be rejected, it wasn't very nice. Happiness because she was pleased that Robin had actually managed to become in contact with her mother again and now she would have been happy with her. But she felt jealous because she wished it was that it was just as simple as that for her. She knew it couldn't have been easy for Robin. But it was even harder for her. All Nami knew was that Belle-mere loved the bones off of her. That gave Nami a sense of security for years of her life and still did. But she always wanted to know some of her adoptive mother's back story.
"Shanks?"
"Yeah" he replied without taking his eyes of the road in front of him.
How did you know Belle-mere?" she asked. The was a hint of desperation in her voice. She really wanted to know. Shanks sighed looking at the desperation in Nami's face then looking back at the empty road in front.
Flash back
"OI STOP THAT THEIF!" a bald man shouted and there was about a crowd of 7 or 8 people behind him. One thing the all had in common was that they were all catching one girl. The girl had long pink hair tied back, the sides of her head were shaven and she had a little fringe. On her right arm she had a blue tattoo of a shark. She ran fast gasping for breath. Her light brown eyes held nothing but determination. As she ran past a barn she felt something grip her wrist and pull her through the doors of a dark barn. Herself and the mystery person hid round the side and waited for the men to past which they did adventually. The girl then looked round and found no one. Just a dusty barn and hay on the floor. Who was that? Just before she could turn, the door shut.
"Whose there?" she asked firmly, showing no fear. She heard some one rubbing a match switch and followed the small fire to a candle. She watched as the mystery person lifted a candle to their face and revealed a tanned looking boy with red hair.
"Hi! I am Shanks." He said grinning. He sounded excited. The girl only looked awkwardly and returned the name. She pointed to herself holding a bag in one hand and started looking the boy up and down.
"The names Belle-mere," Shanks slowly placed himself on the floor and looked at the girl.
"You're not going to sit?" Belle-mere took that as an offer and sat opposite him. Shanks looked at how defensively Belle-mere was holding the bag tightly towards her chest.
He smiled and placed a bottle of beer in front of her.
"You know, people here are really quite friendly. Just give them back the money and they'll forgive you" he said followed by a large gulp of his own drink.
"NO!" she snapped gripping onto the money tighter. Shanks looked at her, his face turning serious.
"Why?" Belle-mere only frowned at this
"Because I-I am part of the Arlong gang." She said as if it was something she had to tell some one everyday.
"He'll never let me hear the end of it if he doesn't get his money." She continued. Shanks then smiled at her.
"You know if you told the guys they'd help."
"No! Arlong would only kill them and I won't allow any blood be spilled on my behalf. Never." she spat the whole sentence. Her mood then turned from hate to anger when she heard laughter coming out of Shanks' mouth. Does he seriously want to die at a young child, coz I'll do it for him! That's it Belle-mere had snapped
"Why you laughin eh?"
"Does he know you're her?" Belle-mere's frown disappeared and her face turned to confusion. What was his point? Instead of wondering belle-mere just answered the question.
"No."
"Then give us a chance! We'll get some weapons ready and when the time comes we'll fight" Shanks said with childish excite meant. But somewhere there was determination in his speech.
"You won't defeat him!" Belle-mere shouted furiously. Suddenly the door opened and Belle-mere braced herself as she laid eyes on the man who was chasing her halfway through the village.
"Let us try" was all he said …
End of flash back.
"She was then raised by our local chief officer. 4 years later she found you and your sister. Most of the village thought she was too young to adopt but she believed in herself and so did I. So she adopted you both. She raised you herself. And then Arlong had found her and the village did put up a fight for her … half of them died and Arlong over took their side of the village. You where only two. We managed to keep you out of his reach and Belle-mere had been doing something to keep him of our case. I'd been helping her. But then he gave her a choice to give her life and he'll leave us in peace. And she did. But he didn't keep his end of the del and also killed your sister in the process, we never actually knew what happened to you. Not until I got a message sating that Arlong was up to something, and then when I got a message for a new student named Nami, I had to do a little investigation. To this day the promise I made to Belle-mere has yet to be full filled..."
Shanks was basically daydreaming the road and then snapped out of it to take a look at Nami. She was staring down at the floor. Thinking through her thoughts and Shanks had left her to it. However he found it shocking that the girl looked up with a cat like smile on her face.
"So she was a hero then" she said with a thumbs up and a wink. Shanks only chuckled and looked back at the road.
"Aye. That she was"
Nami then looked back at the floor thinking about her mother. But the smile faded as bits of Belle-mere's and Nojiko's death came flooding back.
"Shanks?"
"Hm?"
"Belle-mere was telling me to-"
"I know Nami." Shanks cut off looking down him.
"What was that about?"
"Nami I –"Shanks were distracted by the view of another car driving at high speed towards them. He was about to pull over and move out of the way. But when his eyes unconsciously zoomed in. He noticed something.
"NAMI DUCK!" Before she could react there was a loud BANG and the car skidded landing on top of the right side of the car. It all happened in seconds and before Nami or Shanks knew it …. Darkness took over them…
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