Sorry for the late update. I did get a question about if this followed the original storyline and they landed on a new island or its a different storyline altogether. The answer? A different storyline altogether. Hope I cleared up the confusion! Now on with the story!
Chapter 9. Questions and answers
Disclaimer: Yep, I don't own One Piece
Sanji nearly choked on his sake. "What do you mean 'It's about Nami'? Is Nami-san okay? I knew that boss of hers can't be trusted!" he started yelling in the middle of the restaurant.
"What no!" Luffy started freaking out. "No Nami is ok, I think…why? Do you know something I don't know?"
"I dunno, all I know is that she had dinner with her boss and this really hot woman last night?" Sanji explain.
"Hey I had ice cream with Nami last night!"exclaimed Luffy.
Now Sanji was confused. "Wait Nami-san was having dinner with her boss last night at my restaurant. Although she did leave early," Sanji explained to Luffy.
"Mmm that ice cream did taste good. I wonder if they're open now," Luffy said to himself clearly not listening.
"Listen to me when I'm talking to you baka!!" shouted Sanji as he kicked Luffy on the head.
"Ouch that hurt!" cried out Luffy as he rubbed his head.
Sanji sighed. "As I was saying Nami-san left the dinner with her boss around nine thirty last night. Did she meet you after that?"
Luffy scratched his head. "Yeah I think I met her after that. I was on to my third scoop when she came in I think," explained Luffy.
"Stop thinking about the ice cream baka!" Sanji shouted again. "Now what did you want to tell me about Nami-san?"
"Well, we were talking last night and…wait what did she say?" Luffy asked himself.
"It's amazing that she was able to actually have a conversation with you," Sanji said quietly to himself.
"Oh yeah!" exclaimed Luffy. "She said something about a mystery man that she liked. Do you know anything about him?" he asked.
Sanji looked up in surprise. 'Was Nami-san going to tell Luffy she liked him?' He shook his head. "No I don't know anything about it," he said. 'It's probably better for Nami-san to tell him herself.'
Luffy looked down disappointed. "Man I hoped you would know something about this guy."
"Why?" asked Sanji.
"Well I wanna see if this guy's any good. I mean if he's a jerk or not. If he is a jerk you can count on me to wish he was never born!" exclaimed Luffy.
Sanji looked at the determination in his face. He could see that Luffy did really care for Nami. And as much as it pained him to admit it, Luffy probably cared more for Nami then Sanji ever did.
"So do you think that maybe Robin would know who this guy is? Cause I really wanna find out who he is. Nami won't tell me," said Luffy.
"You know Luffy maybe if you were just patient she might tell you herself. It would probably mean more to her if you found out from her," explained Sanji.
Luffy cocked his head to one side. "Huh?"
"Baka!" exclaimed Sanji. "Basically what I mean is wait and she will tell you," he explained. "C'mon we better get going."
They headed out after paying the bill. "So have you given Nami your payment for the trip yet?" asked Sanji, hoping to change the subject.
"Yeah and she gave us the tickets too!" exclaimed Luffy. "I can't wait to go to Hawaii! All of the meat!"
"I can't wait to see all the babes! I bet they're all just waiting for me!" cried the excited Sanji.
"Hey Sanji how do you know that they're waiting for you?" asked the confused Luffy.
"Never mind Luffy," said Sanji clearly tired of the afternoon's events. He suddenly stopped walking. Luffy looked up to see why Sanji had stopped. When he saw a sign that said 'Baratie' he understood.
"Well this is my stop. See you tomorrow Luffy," Sanji waved as he walked inside. Luffy waved back and then he was off.
Sanji walked into his kitchen and inhaled the smell of seafood. Even though he now owned the restaurant he still could not contain his passion for cooking. He still was mostly found in his kitchen cooking with his chefs.
While dicing he thought about Luffy and Nami. Luffy was so idiotic and could barely pay attention to anything. Nami was so sensible and very smart. 'How can a girl like Nami-san be attracted to a buffoon like Luffy?' Sanji thought to himself. 'I guess opposites do attract.'
Nami and Robin's apartment
The girls were packing for their trip. After all it was only 2 days away but Nami was just really glad that she was going to be away from work. Her boss was being totally unreasonable lately because of all the late nights he was having with all of his 'Lady Friends' as he called them.
"So is everyone coming along?" asked Robin. Nami just stood there folding her clothes.
"Nami?" Robin asked again.
"Huh? What?" This time Nami spun around.
"Nami are you okay? You seem a bit distracted," Robin stated.
"Huh? No I'm fine, now what was it you were asking me?" Nami smiled and continued folding her clothes.
"Nami," Robin said quietly.
Nami dropped the clothes that she was folding. She sat down and put her hands on her face. She felt tears forming and could not suppress the feeling any longer.
Robin heard Nami weeping softly. She put down what she was doing and went over to comfort Nami.
"Why…does…he…have…to…be…such…an…idiot?" cried out Nami while she gasped for breath.
"Shhh," Robin quietly said to calm Nami down. It did work for a while but after a couple of minutes Nami was in tears again.
"Why?" cried out Nami again. This time Robin realized the question was directed to her.
"Nami you have to realize that Luffy is not the brightest person to fall in love with," stated Robin.
"Is this supposed to make me feel better?" asked Nami as she felt her temper rising.
"Well what I'm trying to say is that it's not wrong that you love him it's just you have to give him time and he will come around eventually. Hinting won't do much since Luffy is not really the king of subtleness, so you really must wait for the time to be right so you can tell him," said Robin.
Nami looked up at Robin. "Yeah you're right. Arigato Robin," Nami got up and wiped her face with a tissue. "I can't believe I'm going this crazy over a guy," she exclaimed.
Robin smiled. "Well we all have to go through it sometime."
2 Days Later
Nami stepped out of the cab and grabbed her bags and headed into the airport. She didn't get to travel with Robin because she had to finish up a couple of things at her office. She looked around but could see no one she knew there. The terminal that they were supposed to be at was 3. She hoped no one else had gotten lost.
'Of course the two most likely to get lost would be Zoro and Luffy, the ones that have no sense of direction what so ever,' thought Nami.
"Hey Zoro I found her!" cried out a familiar voice. "Oi Naaaaami!!"
Nami turned around as she heard her name being called. There she saw Luffy running up to her like a madman and Zoro walking behind and just shaking his head. She smiled.
"Wow, and here I was thinking that you two would be the last," said Nami as she chuckled to herself.
"Well we would have been but Luffy said that he wanted to be early. He kept on saying 'I don't want to keep Nami waiting, I can't keep Nami waiting'," explained Zoro with a bored tone. Luffy just grinned and nodded while Nami blushed.
After 20 minutes of waiting finally everyone had arrived. The girls got along with Kaya and the guys just 'hung out and looked cool' as Usopp put it.
"Could all passengers that are boarding flight 357 for Hawaii please proceed to gate C-15," a voice called out over the intercom.
"Hey guys that's us!" called out Nami. She felt a sudden rush of wind rush past her. She looked up.
"Woo hoo!!!" cried out Luffy as he ran towards a gate.
"BAKA!! That's the wrong gate!!!" cried out Nami as she chased after him. The rest of them walked but quickly so that they wouldn't lose them. Robin smiled to herself.
'Looks like this trip might reveal quite a few secrets,' thought Robin to herself as she walked with the rest of the gang.
Woo hoo! Finally they're off! Please review and I'll try to update sooner!
