First, I would like to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry for not uploading any new chapters in such a very long time. But that's about to change, because I have finally gotten my own PC. I'm going to be uploading more frequently than ever, and the chapters will even longer as I have pretty much an unlimited amount of time to work on them, instead of a measly five hours at the library. And if you're thinking 'five hours is more than enough time to write a 1,000 word chapter,' you've clearly never written a 1,000 word chapter. And most of these chapters weren't even 1,000 words, but like I said, expect much longer chapters now. (All of them 1,000+ words) I also want to say thank you to everyone who was stuck with me. Thank you to everyone out of the 50,000 people (as of right now) who have clicked on this story and have stayed with it, always reading the latest chapters, supporting me with reviews and ratings, and overall making this one of the most popular Luffy x Nami fan fictions on this website. Without all of you, I wouldn't have the will to go on writing this. Enjoy.

Nami stared into the large suticase on her bed, in which she'd packed most of her things. She stoof like that for nearly five minutes, and then just collapsed, crying uncontrollably. She kept trying to tell herself it was the right thing for her to leave, that she couldn't raise a baby in the dangerous enviroment of a ship.

But she didn't want to leave. This ship was her home, and even thinking about leaving it made her cry.

Robin came in suddenly, and Nami looked up.

"Nami?" Robin said worriedly. "Are you okay?" Then she saw the suitcase. "What is all this?"

Nami didn't know what to say. "I-I ca-can't . . ." she choked out

Robin sat down by Nami. "You can't what?"

Nami stopped crying and tried to compose herself. "I can't raise a baby on a pirate ship," she said in a tone that was barely audible.

"What do you mean . . . ?" Robin asked, fearing the answer.

"Robin, I'm pregnant with Luffy's baby," Nami whispered.

Robin wasn't sure how to respond to this. She'd never thought Nami would have a child, and certainly not by Luffy.

"Is that what all this is for?" Robin gestured toward the suitcase. "You're leaving?"

Nami slowly nodded her head, fighting back tears.

"Does Luffy know?" Robin asked.

"He knows that I'm pregnant," Nami said, "but not that I'm leaving. I haven't told him yet."

"Are you going to ask him to go with you?"

"No. I can't ask him to abandon his dream for this."

"But it's his child. He has to take responsibility for that."

"Still. It would just be selfish to ask him."

Robin frowned. "And it would be selfish of him to not go with you."

Nami got angry at that. "Who'll be the captain of this ship? Who'll keep this crew together? I will not take Luffy's dream away from him."

"Alright." Robin sighed. "Do what you will." She left the room, leaving Nami alone again.


Luffy was in his usual seat atop the lion head, staring into the distance. He'd been like that for nearly the entire day, and the rest of the crew were starting to worry about him. He'd been thinking very hard, which was definitely unusual for him. He'd been thinking about his and Nami's baby, if they were going to tell the crew Nami was pregnant, and other things along those lines.

Without Luffy and Nami being very active as captain and navigator, the Thousand Sunny had really just been drifting in the sea, and no one was really doing anything except lounging around. The crew could tell something was up between Luffy and Nami, but they were beginning to wonder if it was more than just a simple argument or fight.

Luffy stared into the sea until it was time for dinner, at which time he hopped down and headed into the kitchen, where he snatched a piece of cooked chicken and proceeded to the dining room, where everyone else was already sitting.

There was a bit of a hush when he walked in, but Luffy paid no attention and sat down by Nami, and the volume quickly escalated back to its normal state.

Nami was very tempted to tell Luffy about her plan to leave the crew and raise the baby elsewhere, but she was actually afraid he would want to leave as well once she told him, so she refrained from telling him.

But then a thought struck her like a lightning bolt: she had a bounty. Why hadn't she thought of that before? She couldn't live in a normal city without being hunted by Marines and bounty hunters. She could probably defeat most of them, but she would have to keep jumping from place to place to avoid all of the trouble, and that would get so tiring after a while.

Nami was beginning to think that staying on the ship would be better than moving to new cities every week, and that it would also be safer for the child.


After dinner, Luffy approached Nami in the hall.

"Nami," he said, tapping her on the shoulder.

Nami turned around. "Hmm?"

"I'm sorry I've been . . . distant from you lately. I'm just . . . really confused about a lot of things." Luffy looked at the ground.

Nami hugged him. "It's fine, Luffy," she said quietly. "I know how you feel."

Luffy took Nami up to the lion head, and they talked for what seemed like hours, before drifitng off underneath a blanket of stars.


The next week, Luffy and Nami were much closer together, talking, laughing, and being intimate again. The rest of the crew were happy to see this, and the entire ship became more lively as a result of all this.

Nami talked to Robin and said she was abandoning her idea to leave the crew and the ship, and Robin seemed happy about that.

Nami was still feeling a bit strange, but Chopper had said that was just because of the physical and emotional changes she was going through due to her pregnancy, and that it would pass as time went on. She wasn't throwing up as much, but she still woke up with morning sickness a lot.

Luffy was certainly feeling higher in spirits, and he started messing around with Chopper and Franky, stealing food from the kitchen, and overall just being Luffy.