"Careful!"
"I AM being careful! Stop sitting so close! I can't focus with your face there!"
Luffy stuck her bottom lip out as she shrunk back slightly so her face wasn't quite touching her precious.
Nami, still in denial that she was ever going to become part of a pirate crew, reeked with agitation as the younger woman continued to fidget with an unbelievable level of paranoia over the current activity taking place onboard.
Delicately threading the needle through the straw, Nami's shoulders tensed as the captain let out a hiss of concern.
Popping out her vertebrae and shoulders Nami leant backwards onto the railing of the boat raising a single brow at Luffy.
"If you can't watch in silence don't watch at all 'cause frankly you're making this a hell of a lot more difficult than it is."
The pitiful whine of a response, "But I don't want it to get hurt..." was shrugged off by the rather hard hearted navigator.
"Too bad. If you don't want me to do it you can do it yourself!"
"WHAT? NO, no way! How on earth do you fix a hat!"
The panic that consumed Luffy was enough for Zoro to finally wake up from his 'nap'.
"What you yellin bout Moron?"
Running his hand down his face Zoro understood completely the irritation his newest crewmate was suffering.
Luffy, he had quickly come to realise, was more than a handful at the best of times, and if this hat was her 'treasure' then it was unlikely that Nami would be able to patch it back together without Luffy's nervously vibrating body catching the boat on fire.
He hadn't believed it was possible to set something alight without a match or flame before, but with Luffy anything imaginable and even the unimaginable appeared to becoming a reality.
"Luffy, give Nami a break the more you sit there watching the longer it's gonna take and the worse the jobs gonna be."
Nami's indignant glare was lost on Zoro, at least she knew how to fix a hat, he'd probably slice it to shreds as his way of 'fixing' it.
Luffy also missed the deathly gaze sent her way when she started to refute what she really knew to be true.
"But..."
Not giving her a chance to come up with any type of excuse, especially not one of her ridiculously complex, confusing arguments that usually lead him to being so baffled that he just ended up agreeing to whatever the hell she wanted.
"Why don't you just have a look and see if there's an island coming up or somethin"
Pausing for the first time since Nami had been given possession of her hat, Luffy allowed this new suggestion to sink through her first layer, the second...third...
"Land! Land! Land! I wonder where we'll end up next hopeful someplace cool with a big forest! Oh! And someone to join the crew!"
Appearing at the top of the admittedly very short mast, of their yet to be upsized travel vessel, Luffy scanned the horizon intently looking for even the tiniest speck that would indicate a new adventure.
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...
...
"LAND!"
"DONE!"
The two cries came simultaneously and with equal pleasure as Nami finally rid herself of a task she never wished to be responsible for again, and Luffy zeroed in on a new place to explore and discover.
Jumping back down to the boats' floor Luffy swiped her hat out of Nami's hands offering less of a 'thanks' than Nami believed she deserved.
"Com'on let's go! Let's go! Let's go!"
Luffy darted around the small boat in a new overflow of energy from her seemingly endless supply, grinning with face that Nami wasn't quite sure she trusted.
In fact Nami felt it was about time she high-tailed it back home, buried her treasure and found the next sucker that she could use to steal from.
Matching Luffy's grin with her own, Nami steered the ships towards the spotted island with a devious 'Aye-aye Captian'.
Hey everyone, I have exams starting next week so chapters may not come for a few weeks but I'll do my best to get them up regularly :)