Nami's Dark Little Secret

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Warning: Ummm mature content...I think it's still just Lime content.

Dun Dun Dun today's double feature One Piece presentation is about to begin. *Applause*...

Chapter 10: Curse of the El Dorado Part II

Blood...

It was everywhere.

Screams...

The screams of his victims.

Pleasure...

The pleasure that filled his dark, twisted heart as he tortured and killed his prey.

Luffy woke up with a start falling face first out of his hammock. He then continued to just lie on the ground where he had fallen for several minutes since he didn't feel like moving...

His body was covered in a light sheen of sweat and he was trembling.

There it was again...that same nightmare.

But if it was just a bad dream why did it feel so real? Luffy wondered.

Luffy shook his head, not one to dwell on such serious things, and stood up. He decided he would go up on deck for a breath of fresh air. The last thing he wanted was for his nakama to find him trembling on the floor and to become worried about him. He had to deal with this, whatever this was, on his own.

Once on deck Luffy sighed as he ran a hand through his sweaty hair. The soft breeze felt good against his heated skin and it calmed him. He walked over to the bow of the ship and took a seat on his favorite spot on the ram's head. He looked out over the black sea that fascinated and terrified him at the same time. To want to be the Pirate King, to rule the four corners of the Grand Line...and to not be able to swim. It would make many fall over on the ground laughing. But Luffy wasn't going to let something like that get in the way of his dream anyways. There was far too much at stake. His dream had become their dream or at least a way to his nakama's own dreams.

Fate had tied the lives of himself and his nakama together. They had all joined together for the sake of making their dreams come true. Zoro...to become the greatest swordsman in the world. Ussop...to become a great warrior of the sea. Sanji...to find the legendary All Blue. And then there was Nami...she wanted to draw a map of the entire world including the Grand Line. Such a map would be worth a fortune once she completed it but Luffy was sure she knew that. Nami...his thoughts seemed to be drifting to her more and more lately.

She had saved him this time. Brought him back from that...Mystery Place. But what scared him the most wasn't the near death experience but what he had learned there. Yes, he could learn. He may be a bit simple minded and overly carefree at times, but Luffy had been noticing things lately. Times...instances…where he couldn't remember what had happened from point A to B. Sure he was forgetful but never like this. There were large gaps in his memory, times when he had just blacked out. This really worried him. Especially since the last time when he had woken up from one of these blackouts was to find himself touching Nami, and to see tears in her eyes. Just what had he been doing? He still wondered. Nami had tried to reassure him that he hadn't hurt her but...if he hadn't 'woken up' would he have hurt her?

Thoughts like these had begun to trouble him ever since his battle against Captain Blood, which everyone told him he had won. But then, why was it that he couldn't remember that battle? What he had done?

Luffy got the feeling that he did remember though. It was his nightmares...those flashes of gruesome images of a battle fought...and won. That had to be it. But as he replayed the images of his nightmares in his mind he couldn't help but still feel like he was an outsider in all this, an observer, that he, Monkey D. Luffy hadn't really done any of those things.

But then again...there was an answer for all this.

One that Luffy didn't want to think about.

Luffy's last thought before he had left the Living World and found himself in that 'Mystery Place' had been about his dream of finding One Piece. And then suddenly he was there. He had finally made it to the end of the Grand Line. But there was something...a voice in his head that seemed strangely familiar. It was calling him. He had followed it until he came to that strange 'Mystery Tree'. He wished he'd never have laid eyes on that tree before. It had talked to him...about himself...and about certain truths that Luffy didn't want to admit to himself just yet.

But it wasn't really like the Tree had found Luffy...Luffy had found it. Deep in his heart he had wanted answers and he got them whether or not they were the answers Luffy had wanted to hear. Luffy only half understood what was wrong with him, however, and the bit he did understand freaked him out. He decided it was all just a dream anyways. And that Mystery Place wasn't really a real place and that what happened there didn't mean anything. He decided to just ignore it, to go with the flow like he always did, but the nightmares wouldn't leave him alone nor would his guilty conscious.

It was almost too much for such a carefree guy like Luffy to handle. There was simply too much weight to be put on his shoulders. Luffy's first instinct was to just forget about it, but even so he knew that could be pretty dangerous in itself. He decided instead he would just try to be careful, and to not have any more blackouts. Maybe he should stop sleeping altogether. 'That could work…I wonder if Sanji would make me the coffee I need.' He began to think. There had to be a way to stop this...a Mystery Cure! If only he were smarter he would figure it out.

He sighed heavily.

If only he was as smart as Nami then maybe he could figure it out. There she was again filling his thoughts. But at the same time he didn't want her to leave his mind...he thought back to those strange feelings she was causing him that he had never felt before. He liked those feelings. He had liked the feeling of his hand inside of her. He liked being near her, close enough to smell her intoxicating scent of tangerines. He liked the way she had pressed her lips against his and how they had...what was it called again? Ki…su? Something. Whatever it was it had been great.

As he thought about Nami and these strange feelings he suddenly had for her a certain part of his body began to react to these thoughts. Luffy looked down at himself in wonder at his hardened manhood. Why had it done that now of all times? Was this related to the feelings that Nami stirred up inside of him? Nami...she had shown him how to make this pain of his turn into pleasure. Luffy reached his hand down and slid it inside of his pants and began to stroke his throbbing member. It felt soooo good. Luffy gasped at the sensation. He pictured Nami in his mind as he pleasured himself and his pleasure increased. He remembered again the feeling of his fingers inside of her....and something seemed to click in Luffy's naïve mind.

Inside of her...

"Nami..." Luffy moaned.

"Luffy?" Came Nami's voice suddenly, so suddenly Luffy almost thought he had imagined a voice to go alone with the mental image he had of her in his mind. His head snapped around and there she was. He blushed and immediately felt embarrassed and ashamed at what he had been doing. But before Luffy could react Nami smiled, a disarming smile that made Luffy's worries go away.

"Luffy...here let me help you." Nami cooed as she hopped up next to him and took a seat besides him on the ram's head. She then unzipped his pants and pulled out his member. "Let me taste you...." Nami said as she lowered her mouth over him. Luffy groaned at this new sensation and relaxed beneath her gentle touch. She began to caress him with her lips and tongue until he was totally at her mercy. He had never ever felt so much raw pleasure before. Finally, it was too much for Luffy and he came into her mouth. Nami licked her lips in a feral manner as she eyed him suggestively. She ran her hands underneath Luffy's shirt over his boyish chest and felt the underlying muscles there. Luffy just remained very still, not really sure if he should do anything, and not wanting to make a mistake.

Nami began to kiss his neck, and she breathed into his ear. "Let me eat you." She bit down on his ear hard enough to hurt.

"Nami?" Luffy questioned back in confusion. This was really so…unlike her. Was he dreaming again? Was this another one of those weird blackouts of his?

Nami looked back at him with a strange look in her eyes...actually Luffy found that he recognized that look. It was a look he often times got on his face right before sinking his teeth into a nice piece of meat. This got him immensely worried...Nami didn't really want to eat him did she?! Gulp.

"Ack! Nami?! What are you-?"

"Resistance is futile." Nami purred. "Let me taste you...let me eat you. I hunger for your flesh...you must sate this hunger that I have roiling within me!" She cried as she launched herself at Luffy while sinking her teeth hard into his neck as if she planned to literally take an actual bite out of him.

"Nami!" Luffy quickly pushed her off of him before she could manage to do much damage. "What's gotten into you?" She'd turned into some kind of a wild animal. He decided he needed to find the rest of his nakama right away. Something was horribly wrong. "Oi! OI! Zoro! Sanji! Ussop! Get your butts on deck NOW!" Luffy cried as he backed away from Nami that was still stalking her prey while crawling forward on her arms in an eerie manner.

This had to be some sort of nightmare...

"Ugh! What is it? Do you realize how early in the morning it is?" Came Zoro's groggy and slightly pissed off voice.

"Don't expect me to make you some sort of midnight snack." Sanji chimed in soon after.

"Huh? What's Nami doing?" Ussop questioned as he watched Nami getting ready to pounce Luffy.

"That's why I called you guys you out here! I think Nami...Nami wants to eat me!" Luffy exclaimed worriedly with as much seriousness as he could muster, a slight blush on his cheeks.

Ussop stifled a laugh before all three young men broke out into unabashed laughter.

"Guys! I'm serious here! She really wants to-" Luffy was cut short as Nami removed her bo from between her cleavage and swinging it low managed to trip Luffy up so that he fell flat onto his back. Nami wasted no time in pouncing onto him so that she was soon straddling him.

"Wow I think Nami really IS trying to eat Luffy!" Ussop exclaimed, beginning to panic and looking like he wanted to run away.

Zoro looked at Nami with concern before going over to her and pulling her off of Luffy roughly by gathering a hand full of her orange hair. She struggled like a wildcat, clawing at his strong arms.

"How dare you treat a lady that way, you shitty bastard?!" Sanji growled as he prepared to attack Zoro. He was about to attack but found himself being restrained by Ussop from behind.

"Calm down Sanji...I think Nami's been possessed or something." Ussop wisely suggested.

"Nami's what?! Nami-sannnn!!!!" Sanji began to bawl dramatically.

"Pull yourself together man! I can't hold her much longer." Zoro told them. "I'll need your help to get her to her room where we can tie her down or something."

Sanji sniffled and blew his nose on a handkerchief. "Right. Anything for my Nami-san."

The pirates all helped to drag Nami down to her room by force. Luffy lagged behind them, somewhat reluctant to make Nami do anything she didn't want to do. Soon the guys were debating whether or not they should tie Nami down to her chair or to her bed.

"You're such a pervert, love cook." Zoro was complaining. "A chair makes just a good a bed as a real one."

"I'm just saying Nami-san would be a lot more comfortable if she was tied to the bed."

They both looked at Ussop waiting for his input.

"Consider me neutral." Ussop waved his hands before him in a dismissing gesture. "I'm Switzerland in this mess." Ussop turned to Luffy who was hanging back in the doorway. "Oi, Luffy? What do you think? You're the captain, say something."

"Huh?" Luffy's attention seemed to come back to reality. "What is it?"

"They're arguing about whether or not to tie Nami down to her bed or to a chair."

Luffy scratched his head, "The bed. It's really late and she needs to get some sleep." He decided innocently.

"See, my Nami-swaannn needs her beauty sleep." Sanji glared at Zoro in triumph.

The guys then went about the strange process of forcing Nami down onto the bed and tying her down. Ussop found himself having to restrain Luffy a couple of times from reflexively attacking either Zoro or Sanji since Luffy easily forgot why they had to do such a strange thing in the first place.

Seeing them do that to Nami though had filled Luffy with a strong intent to kill for some reason. Luffy shrugged.

Finally the deed was done and they all gathered around Nami's bed while trying to figure out what was wrong with her.

"You think it's some sort of disease that's making her delusional?" Zoro prompted.

"But even so what could have caused it...and so suddenly?" Sanji was thinking aloud.

"Maybe we should try and find a doctor." Luffy suggested.

All eyes turned on him wide-eyed with surprise since Luffy had made such a logical and mature suggestion.

"Luffy's right. Nami needs a doctor, badly. Whether she's demon possessed or has some strange disease - she needs help, professional help." Ussop nodded to himself.

Nami was staring back at the guys with a strange look on her face before she suddenly smiled. "Aww come on guys, untie me. Let me taste you...let me eat you~. I won't hurt you...too much. I promise~ Onegai~" She finished in a sing-song tone.

"Oh I like this Nami-san too!" Sanji beamed as his eyes became two hearts. "Let's untie her!"

BONK

"Baka!" Ussop bonked Sanji over the head. "She'll literally eat you. Geesh."

Luffy looked back at Nami with a concerned expression on his face. Just what could have caused this? Was this someone's doing? Maybe it was The Seven? Those bastards! They would pay if they were somehow responsible for this! Luffy sighed, he was at a loss of what to do when it wasn't something as simple as beating the shit out of someone. He felt helpless and hated it. At least he had his nakama to help him get through this...

ooo

It happened one of the nights that Sanji went down alone to give Nami her supper. Luffy and the others had stayed behind in the kitchen eating their own dinners. And although normally nothing could disturb Luffy long enough to take his attention away from his precious meat - this time something did. It had already been thirty minutes and Sanji still wasn't back from Nami's room when usually Sanji was back in less than twenty, which meant that something was wrong.

Luffy had a bad feeling about this and remembered the way Sanji had wanted Nami tied to the bed in the first place...and how he had liked the way she had been behaving. 'Sanji wouldn't try anything strange would he?' Luffy wondered. Luffy decided he should go and check on them. Zoro's eyes followed Luffy curiously as he left his meal half finished.

Luffy couldn't hear anything unusual as he stood just outside of Nami's bedroom door, but he still had this nagging feeling, and so instead of making his presence known Luffy decided to open the door a crack to peer inside...

And everything seemed normal enough...

Sanji was swirling a glass of red wine as if transfixed by its contents. He then turned his attention back to Nami, who was struggling sensually against her bonds and giving Sanji a suggestive stare while doing so. "Nami-san...please don't look at me like that. It makes me so...hungry."

Sanji stood up from his chair and walked over to Nami's bedside. He then leaned over her and suddenly reached down to rip her blouse open, buttons flying into the air and dropping to the floor. Nami was wearing a lacy pink and orange bra. Sanji leaned his head over Nami's chest, and began to run his tongue down between her cleave until he was suddenly opening his mouth as if he would take a bite of her flesh-

And then Sanji was biting down.

Luffy was too shocked to move at first at the sight of what was happening before him, but quickly got over his stunned stupor as soon as he heard Nami whimper in pain.

"SANJI!!!!" Luffy's face mirrored the extreme anger he felt. "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER NOW! GOMU GOMU NO PISTOL!" Luffy sent a punch flying at Sanji, which hit him square in the jaw, and sent the love cook flying backwards into Nami's bookcase. The heavily bound books fell out of the case with several hitting Sanji directly on his head. The slightly dazed Sanji tried to stand, but Luffy wasn't through with him yet. In a blind rage, Luffy was suddenly upon Sanji and with both hands wrapped around the cook's neck. Luffy began to squeeze Sanji's throat, cutting of his air supply until the sounds of Sanji coughing and choking could be heard as he struggled for breath.

Luffy didn't really see anything before him, he just felt the rage of having seen Sanji touching Nami like that. Before him wasn't his friend...but his enemy. Logic seemed to evade him. And then there was this other feeling that seemed to be bubbling up from deep inside of himself at his own hateful actions:

Pleasure.

Luffy surprisingly found that he was enjoying how the stupid love cook was writing in pain while in his own powerful grasp. It was as if there was this glass that had been filling up every time Sanji had been flirting with Nami, a glass that had been filling up with negative emotions towards Sanji, and it was this glass, which suddenly seemed to be overflowing. 'Bastard love cook…he's finally getting what he deserves…he's always trying to touch my Nami…flirting with her…when she's my woman! The love cook should die don't you think?'

'Die? Do I really want Sanji to…to die?' Luffy found that he was questioning his own thoughts.

"Luffy!" Came Zoro's angry voice as he stood in the doorway. "What the fuck are you doing?"

Luffy blinked back down at his struggling friend. Sanji's eyes were glowing red, his incisors had lengthened, and even though Sanji was inches away from death this gleam of hunger wouldn't seem to leave the cook's eyes.

This man in his grasp wasn't Sanji. He wasn't the cook and person he had befriended and asked to join his crew. There was something wrong with him...he had been affected by something just like Nami. Sanji was not a villain but a victim. A crewmate that needed the aid of his Captain.

As soon as Luffy realized this it was like he had received a punch to his guts for his hasty actions.

Luffy immediately let go of Sanji, startled, so that the cook fell to the ground in a lifeless heap.

'What have I done…Sanji…no…' Luffy looked down at his friend, his nakama. 'That wasn't me…was it?'

He turned to look back at Zoro with eyes filled with sorrow and regret. "Zoro...I didn't mean for it to go this far. I don't know what came over me. But just seeing him...touching Nami like that...I lost myself." Luffy hung his head in shame.

Zoro approached Luffy and Luffy flinched when Zoro stood barely a foot away from. He was expecting Zoro to throw a punch at him. He deserved to be punched after all. Instead Zoro placed a hand on Luffy's shoulder and squeezed it slightly. "Don't beat yourself up about it, Captain. If I had seen Sanji doing something inappropriate to Nami I probably would have reacted the same way. Sometimes when it comes to such things: matters of the heart, or people's emotions, it's very hard to see reason or act logically. At any rate, it seems Sanji's also become like Nami. We had better restrain him too, so that he won't be a threat anyone, including himself."

"Right." Luffy hung his head. He was glad that Zoro was still with him. He had already lost two of his nakama now to this...curse or whatever it was.

With Zoro's help Luffy had Sanji tied up in their sleeping quarters in no time. Once Sanji regained consciousness he immediately began babbling in an eerily similar fashion to Nami: "Let me taste you...let me eat you~."

"What the hell do you think is going on?" Luffy asked Zoro, while watching Sanji struggle against his bonds.

"Beats me." Zoro shrugged. "But whatever it is we better hurry to the next island as soon as possible and get help."

"Yea..." Luffy was agreeing when suddenly Ussop burst through the door to their cabin.

"Zoro! Luffy! There's trouble!" Ussop declared.

The three of them quickly ran up on deck to find that the ship was no longer moving, it was dead in the water. The sails weren't filled with wind and the air around them was completely stagnant.

"Are we in the Calm Belt?" Luffy wondered aloud.

"Baka...we're no where near that place." Ussop scolded him. "But...just the same I have no idea why the wind died down so suddenly. And it's been like this for the past five hours."

"FIVE HOURS!" Luffy exclaimed. "What are we going to do?! Nami and Sanji need help! We need to get to an island as soon as possible!"

"Luffy, chill out. Ussop - is there no logical explanation for this?" Zoro questioned calmly.

"Well....perhaps if a storm were approaching us, but as you can see it's sunny blue skies overhead. This...is a fluke." Ussop sighed.

"Well, then there's nothing we can do except wait." Zoro took this opportunity to sit down against the railing where he was snoring within seconds.

Luffy and Ussop both felt a trickle of sweat form on their brows.

ooo

15 days later...

"MEAT!!!!!!" Luffy moaned from his sprawled out position up on deck, his tongue hanging out of his parched mouth.

"There isn't any." Zoro reminded for the 100th time.

"Meaaaatttt!!!!!"

"How much longer do you think we can last out here without any food or water? This is crazy." Ussop complained from his cross-legged position next to Luffy. "Damn, when is the wind ever going to return?"

"Meaaattttt!!!!!"

"Luffy will you cut it out already. We're all starving here, but there just isn't anything we can do about it." Zoro huffed.

"Arggghhhhhh!!!" Luffy moaned out instead.

"Nothing we can do..." Zoro was mumbling to himself as his hand went down to one of his sword's hilts. "Nothing...we'll probably end up starving out here. And the hunger...I'm so hungry. I could eat...anything." Zoro quickly unsheathed Kuina's sword and raised it over his head, a wild gleam in his eye. "I can eat it! I won't die out here like this! I promised her I'd become the world's greatest swordsman! It can't end here!"

Luffy and Ussop quickly turned their eyes towards Zoro in shock to see that he had his sword raised and that it was positioned to come down upon his own leg.

"Zoro don't do it!" Ussop cried out in horror.

"Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" Luffy cried as his hand shot out and grabbed the sword's hilt stopping it inches away from Zoro's thigh just in time. Luffy then got up and came over to his nakama with worry-filled eyes. "Zoro...don't lose your cool now. We're all counting on you."

But Zoro's grip had not loosened from his sword's hilt. "Hungry...so hungry...Let me taste you...LET ME EAT YOU!" Zoro suddenly cried as he unsheathed his other sword and attacked Luffy. Luffy was forced to let go of his hold on Zoro's sword and quickly jumped backwards out of the way as Zoro slashed out with his sword in a horizontal cut.

"Shit!" Ussop cried jumping to his feet. "Now even Zoro's gone bonkers! What is the world coming to?!"

With both of his hands now free Zoro unsheathed his third and final sword before placing it between his teeth. He smiled in a feral manner, and got into a fighting stance. "You will sate my hunger, Captain." Zoro sneered with a fierce gleam in his now red eyes. Zoro then positioned his swords in front of him mimicking a bull's horns.

"Zoro...not you too." Luffy said grimly as he got into his own fighting stance.

"Bull Needles!" Zoro cried as he charged Luffy.

"Gomu Gomu no-" Luffy was about to let lose his Gatling gun attack but suddenly his two arms had been pinned behind him. He turned around to see that it was Ussop, who gave Luffy an evil smile in return. "No Ussop!"

Zoro's attack was unhindered and he hit Luffy dead on, his two sword's piercing Luffy's chest and exiting out his back.

Luffy's head fell back as his body was hit with the powerful attack and he coughed up a great deal of blood.

Zoro removed his two swords from Luffy as the Captain's limp body fell to the ground twitching.

Ussop and Zoro laughed gleefully as they approached the fallen Luffy. "Let us taste you...let us eat you." They chanted as they approached.

"Dammit guys..." Luffy coughed. "How can I get through this without you?"

This made Ussop and Zoro break out into even louder, bellowing laughter.

"What a fool this one is," Ussop was saying. "You won't need things like nakama in the afterlife, rubber boy." Ussop was taking out his slingshot and preparing to unleash one of his own attacks upon Luffy.

Luffy closed his eyes against the pain in his chest. "Nami...what would you do?" He wondered aloud.

"Let's end his misery shall we?" Zoro smirked raising his gleaming swords. "It's dinner time!"

ooo

When was the last time he had shed tears? 'Shanks...'

Luffy sat up on his favorite spot on the ram's head once again while looking out across the dead sea. There was an unfamiliar wetness on his face. Luffy clenched his fists out of frustration. If only the wind would come. He had to get his friends help as soon as possible before...he fell to this curse as well. First Nami...then Sanji. And now Zoro and Ussop. Now...he was the only one left. He was alone.

Luffy couldn't navigate...he couldn't cook...he couldn't wield swords...and he couldn't even man the cannons. He was lost without his crew.

How was he supposed to figure out a way out of this mess all on his own? He wasn't the 'smart one'. The one who usually came up with some clever strategy to get through something like this was Nami. He knew Nami would think of something...that she would have been able to pinpoint just what the hell was wrong with the crew, and what had caused this, and what needed to be done. She would have saved them all, but she wasn't herself right now. None of them were. So it was all up to him.

Luffy couldn't fail them. His nails had pierced the palms of his hands now and they bled.

He had to think...

Think...think...think...

His brain hurt. Luffy gripped the sides of his head with his hands. He really wasn't cut out for this sort of thing.

He thought back to what had happened earlier, hoping there might be some kind of clue...

Flashback...

'What would Nami do?' Luffy thought as Ussop and Zoro were almost upon him. She'd probably think of some way to turn their own attacks against them. That's it! Luffy waited for just the right moment when both of their attacks flew through the air towards him to use the last of his strength.

"Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" He yelled as his hand shot out and wrapped itself around the main mast. Luffy then went flying forward out of harm's way. He grinned and looked back to see that Ussop's attack had hit Zoro while Zoro's attack had hit Ussop. His two nakama were now on the ground bleeding and unconscious. The smile quickly fell from Luffy's face. Suddenly victory didn't taste so sweet.

Luffy had bandaged his crewmates as best he could before restraining them below deck along with the others. He then took care of his own wounds to the best of his ability but couldn't seem to figure out how to make the blood stop gushing out from his chest wounds. How was one supposed to treat such a wound anyways? Luffy was simply at a lose. Maybe they should have invited Chopper to come along with him and his crew...

Luffy hung his head in defeat. Was this the end of the Straw Hat pirates? Due to the inability of the ship's own Captain to come up with a solution to such a problem - would the greatest enemy they had ever faced end up being starvation?!

He shook his head. No, he couldn't let Nami die, not like this. 'Maybe I can give Nami some of my blood…that could possibly nourish her…'

Now that's a stupid idea. Came a harsh voice.

Luffy looked around frantically thinking maybe one of his crew had gotten free, but there was nobody there. He relaxed again.

This is no time to be relaxing, idiot.

"Huh? Who said that?" Luffy asked aloud, standing up and looking around him.

Hmmm well although its presumptuous for me to introduce myself like this - I'm the beautiful, powerful-

"How come you sound like Nami?" Luffy questioned walking towards the sound of the voice. He found himself standing in front of the door to Nami's room, the navigation room. His hand reached out to the doorknob and his hand rested there...hesitating.

There's nothing to be afraid of...

"I'm not afraid." Luffy opened the door to Nami's room and walked inside. His eyes darted over to Nami's bed where she was tucked snugly under the covers and fast asleep.

Now come over here and let me speak to you.

Luffy's eyes widened as he heard Nami's voice but saw that her lips weren't moving and that she was still asleep. "How are you speaking to me like this Nami?"

Dimwit, come over the wardrobe...and open the doors.

Luffy shrugged and did as he was told. He opened the wardrobe, which revealed a gigantic mirror. But as he looked back at the reflection he was surprised when instead of seeing his own face looking back at him he saw...Nami's. Or at least it looked like Nami but there was something different about her. She was dressed in a black leather ensemble which consisted of a black bikini top, a daringly short skirt, and matching knee-high boots. The outfit left very little to the imagination. Luffy was also surprised that this vision of Nami was wearing heavy makeup when the Nami he knew never wore makeup. Nami had on bright red lipstick and had even painted a beauty mark by the corner of her mouth.

This vision of Nami also seemed to be a bit younger than his current navigator by a year or so. Also Luffy's eyes were drawn to the tattoo on Nami's arm...it was no longer the pinwheel and tangerine but Arlong's Mark. The very same one Luffy remembered that Nami had stabbed repeatedly over and over again while crying Arlong's name. How he had hated seeing her hurt herself and even more so hated Arlong for having made his navigator cry. 'That bastard! Just remembering makes me want to kill him all over again…'

Luffy's eyes then traveled up from Nami's tempting cleavage to her neck that sported a black choker and then up to her eyes, which were shielded by a pair of black sunglasses.

Just then the strange reflection of Nami decided to remove her sunglasses so that she would be able to look Luffy directly in his eyes. As she did so Luffy didn't fail to notice that she was sporting a black eye.

Well, kudos for following my instructions so well, dimwit. Now...you're probably wondering who I am-

"You're Nami...but why are you trapped in the mirror?! And why are you still sleeping over there?" Luffy asked frantically.

'He really is an idiot! I can use this to my advantage I suppose...' The Nami from the mirror world thought to herself.

You're right Luffy, it is me, Nami. I can't speak to you normally because of what has happened. That's why I decided to reach out to you this way. I have a lot to tell you Luffy...

"Nami..." Luffy appeared to be on the brink of tears. He was so glad that he wasn't alone anymore.

First I think you should know the story behind all this...how it all began. It's because of the treasure Nami, err, I mean the treasure I stole from Greed's ship. It brought along with it a curse, the very same curse that befell Greed's own crew and destroyed them. It may be easier if I show you... Nami decided upon seeing Luffy's blank expression.

Nami's image faded away much like a mirage does and was replaced with...

There was Greed's ship, the El Dorado, its Jolly Roger consisting of a skull with gold coins for eyes. It was pulling into an island's small cove where it anchored. The crew soon disembarked lowering small boats and made their way ashore. Once there Greed was seen taking out a treasure map. He then led his crew onwards into the island's dense forest. They soon approached a set of ancient ruins and just as Captain Greed and his men were about to make their way inside they were blocked by small group of dark-skinned islanders.

The islanders all wore loincloths, and feathered headdresses. They were wielding deadly looking spears and their expressions of barely concealed hatred were even more scary due to their white, battle, face paint.

One man stood in front of the others. He appeared to be a man of some importance, a chief perhaps, Luffy thought, looking at his ornate feathered headdress and long, red, wool cape that fell from his broad shoulders with a matching feathered neckline. The chief was fat, his belly hanging over the edge of his loincloth. He wore a necklace made of bones and held a staff which had a small bird's skull on the end, the beak of which was long and sharp. When he raised the staff and let it hit the ground the sound of rattling bones was heard commanding his men's silence.

"Captain Greed...fancy meeting you here. You do realize none have ever entered my domain and left in one piece. What business could you possibly have here?" The plump chieftain questioned with a smile revealing pointed teeth that had been filed into that shape.

Greed, however, did not answer, and instead reached for his belt and pulled out his pistol. He then pointed it at the chieftain and simply said. "I'm here for your treasure." There was a loud report and a puff of smoke filled the air as Greed pulled the trigger. When the air cleared Greed frowned to see that one of the Chief's followers had stepped in front of the bullet's path. "Damn you..."

"My men are very loyal. Let's see how far your men's loyalty lies when under such dire circumstances." The Chief smiled viciously as he waved his staff through the air and pointed it towards Greed's crew. "Dinner is served, everyone."

The Chief's men stepped forward, spears raised, licking their chops and revealing that they too had rows of pointed teeth. Greed's men took a step back.

"You fools! Do not hesitate! Hold them off here while I get the treasure we have come for!" Greed commanded as he made an exit for himself by blasting away another of the chieftain's men.

Now the image in the mirror followed Greed as he made his way past several booby traps using clues in the map to do so until he finally made it to the main chamber room where in the center was a raised dais. On this dais was a pedestal on which was a large ruby skull with emeralds for eyes. Greed was salivating as he looked back at the skull, his eyes gleaming with his lust for the treasure before him. He quickly stepped up and took the skull from its place and tucked it away in his jacket. The world's largest ruby was now his.

The mirror's image went back to Greed's men and showed that they had all been defeated at the hands of the Chief's men. Greed made his way to the entrance of the ruins and upon seeing his fallen men decided to throw a small smoke bomb towards the islanders. Their vision temporarily blinded Greed used this opportunity to secretly make his escape.

Next it was shown that Greed had made it onboard of the El Dorado and soon the ship was under way...

The next images shown by the mirror were images from a few days later...

Some of Greed's men had suddenly become crazed and instilled with an insatiable hunger, and they attacked their nakama and tried to sink their teeth into them. These men were killed straight away or made to walk the plank.

The mirror fast forwarded through time to show what happened several days later. It showed that the El Dorado had come to a complete standstill in the water.

The mirror then showed scenes from an indefinite number of days past - Greed's entire crew consisting of his men and a few whores were now in danger of starving to death by the looks of their emaciated forms. Luffy was then shown how more and more of the crew became crazed and had to be killed in order to be put out of their misery, or to not become a threat to the rest of the crew or themselves.

But soon more of the crew was infected than those who were still unaffected by the skull's curse. Luffy was shown how many had lost their sanity and were gnawing on their owns limbs until some had gone even so far as to cut off their own arms or legs in order to eat them.

Some of the crew were shown ganging up to attack on those left behind who were still normal. Easily overpowered these men fell tragically, and were then consumed by those who were once their nakama...

Luffy sunk to his knees and retched at these images.

Greed was shown in his cabin holding his ruby skull and stroking it. "My precious...my lovely treasure...." His eyes were crazed from lack of sleep. He was the only sane one remaining onboard at this point. The last one not to be affected by the curse of the island chief's treasure.

Luffy almost sympathized with seeing him this way until...

The doors to Greed's cabin opened and a little blonde-haired girl rushed in. She was panting and short of breath. Her eyes darted around the room until they rested upon the Captain. "Captain..." She said as she approached, her voice thick with emotion, she was on the verge of tears. "All of them...they're all gone now. We're the only ones left."

"Is that so...?" Captain Greed continued to stroke the ruby skull while ignoring the girl.

"What are we going to do Captain?" The girl came up to him and tugged at his sleeve.

"We?" Greed murmured. "You're hungry aren't you? You hunger for it...flesh. Her sweet, innocent flesh. How I hunger for it!" Greed suddenly turned upon the girl attacking her.

She cried out as Greed's teeth sunk into the delicate flesh of her neck.

The mirror's image faded and turned to black.

But it was obvious what had happened to the girl and the fate that she had met.

Luffy was still on the floor as the image changed back into the strange vision of Nami.

'So that's what happened…' It was Nami's cursed treasure which had caused them all to change...to crave human flesh...to become...cannibals.

Nami looked back at him with softened eyes. Now you know the truth. But more importantly is what's to be done. The only way to break this curse upon your nakama is to take them to Skull Isle and return the Cannibal King's treasure to him.

Luffy looked up at Nami, "But how can we get there? There's no wind..."

Luffy...it isn't like you to be so unoptimistic. You're a rubber man aren't you? An extraordinary human. I'm sure you can think of some crazy and unexpected way to get us through this. I believe in you.

Luffy looked back at her with a helpless expression on his face.

Nami sighed. Alright, alright, just don't look at me that way. Well...if there is no wind to power the ship an alternate source of power must be found - that's all. Perhaps if a flock of birds comes by or better yet...a Sea King. Yes, that's it! You will lure a Sea King to the ship and then tame the beast into lending us its power to take the ship to Skull Isle!

Luffy frowned. "But how am I supposed to lure one here? We don't have any food left."

Nami sighed heavily. Idiot! Same way you would lure a shark - blood.

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Luffy quickly went up on deck and using a cutlass he cut a deep gash into his arm and held it over the starboard side of the ship. Deep red drops of Luffy's blood dropped into the calm sea below.

Now all Luffy had to do was wait...

He didn't have to wait very long however as suddenly the waves around the Going Merry began to become choppy and just as suddenly a giant...dog? Came out of the ocean. The front half of the creature was certainly dog-like with huge floppy ears and a long salivating tongue. The rest of the beast was a fishtail. The creature eyed Luffy like a doggy bone, and his eyes followed wherever Luffy walked on deck.

Before the sea-dog could get any closer to him, Luffy went on the offensive. "Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" He yelled as his fist shot up and gave the sea-dog a harsh uppercut. The sea-dog was winded by the blow and fell backwards upon the waves with a gigantic splash.

Luffy smirked triumphantly.

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"WHOOO!!!!! SUGGEEE!" Luffy cried from his place atop the sea-dog's head. The sea-dog had quickly been brought into submission by Luffy and was currently tied up to the ship while happily taking its new master towards Skull Isle. The sea-dog didn't seem to mind having been beaten much since it seemed to respect Luffy's unusual strength. "You're such a good boy, Randy!" Hey, a dog had to have a name right?

Randy was making good time as it pulled the Going Merry through the water at a tremendous pace. Soon...soon they would be there and he'd be able to save her. Luffy wondered why his thoughts immediately went to his beautiful, orange-haired navigator. He almost felt bad that he was so biased on whom he wanted to save first. He wondered why that was exactly and felt bad again for being so selfish. He should care about his crew equally after all. Was there something about Nami that made her more special to him than the others? Luffy wondered. Was their a word to describe this feeling he held in his heart for her?

Whatever it was it made his heart ache when he thought of her current state. He hated seeing Nami like this. It unnerved him. Luffy had gone to Nami's room earlier in order to give her company, but he found he couldn't take it for very long. The strange way she was acting and the strange way she looked at him just wasn't right...Luffy shivered.

"Luffy," Nami whined as she tugged at her bonds. "I'm sooo hungry can't you please feed me something? Anything?" She added with a note of suggestiveness to her tone.

"I'm sorry Nami we're out of food."

"You know what I want...can't you give me one of the others...for me Luffy."

Luffy thought he almost hesitated with his answer. "You know I can't do that! Nami...please."

"Oh but Luffy....don't you want me to be happy...don't you care about me? Luffy...please...untie me...I can do so much for you if you do. I'll do anything you want Luffy so just please let me go." She wiggled her hips suggestively at him. "You know you want to Luffy...let me taste you again neh?"

Luffy could feel that his body was reacting to her words and suggestive body language despite himself, and decided he had better leave before...something happened that he would regret. "I'm sorry Nami..." He said before leaving her alone.

Luffy shook his head to clear his mind of such lewd thoughts. Now was certainly not the time to be thinking of all these strange new desires that Nami was instilling in him. He would think about all that later - after he had managed to cure the others of their flesh-lust. Then Luffy spotted something on the horizon...there! Luffy squinted his eyes to see an island. There it was up ahead - Skull Isle!

"GIMA! ISLAND! ISLAND!" Luffy grinned. Finally it seemed he was doing something right.

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To be continued...

By Sophia Hughlette

Author of the anime-style novel Shinigami Boy

AN: I tweaked this chappy here and there and am pleased how this version turned out. Let me know what you thought of my double feature presentation lol! Oh, and I hope you enjoyed the introspective look into Luffy's mind. I think I might have more of that. Thanks for reading!