Author Notes: Here is the next chapter and Nami almost spills out her confession about Luffy, read to see what happens! Enjoy!

The Celebratory Feast, Nami's Close Confessions

The walk back to the hotel was a quiet and exhausting one for the Straw Hats who fought in the first round. Luffy was being carried by Chopper in his human form. Followed by Zoro and the rest of the crew, while Nami was walking alone all the way in the back. Sanji wanted to stop and wait for Nami, but was stopped by Robin and he of course gladly began to follow the raven hair beauty.

Nami slowly walked in the back with Luffy's Straw Hat still laying on her head as she began to think back at what Chopper told the crew about gear Second and Luffy's condition. 'Why didn't Luffy ever tell us? Is he afraid of how we would react?' Nami thought back to the match as she played the part where Allen/14th stabbed Luffy with his sword. It still gave her goose bumps as she tried to forget, but she just couldn't.

The crew finally arrived at the hotel front door and walked inside to see members of Team Exorcist sitting in the lobby chatting with each other as well as eating the food that was prepared for them. Usopp and Chopper began to drool over the food that they witnessed and then their stomachs growled signaling their hunger for the food. Usopp then ran ahead of everyone else and began to dig into the food and took advantage of it, since Luffy was not conscience to steal any of his food.

Chopper too wanted to run and dig in, but remembered that he was still carrying Luffy. He decided to first put Luffy in his room and let him rest and ran up the stairs to their room. Once he arrived in front of the door he entered and placed Luffy onto the bed and began a thorough check on his injuries. When he found no signs of any infections and diseases, he quietly tucked Luffy in and quietly walked out of the room, to let Luffy rest. He closed the door behind him and walked down the hallway and then down the stairs to the lobby.

When he arrived at the lobby he saw Usopp, Brook and Franky chatting with fellow exorcist and eating gladly off the plates since Luffy was not around to steal from them as he normally does. He saw Zoro snoring in his sleep in the corner of the lobby and Sanji talking to the chef, who had a look of amazement, which gave Chopper the idea that Sanji was telling him many dishes the chef could try. Robin was quietly reading a book she found in the hotel library and sitting on one of the couches.

He then saw Nami who was sitting alone on one of the couches with her legs up to her chest and had her head placed on her knees. Chopper gave her a look a of worry and silently whispered her name, "Nami..." Chopper then decided to try to see if he can somehow help Nami in someway. Nami picked her head up slightly when she heard someone's footstep coming closer and sighed when she saw Chopper. "Nami is something wrong?" The little reindeer asked her, concern in his voice.

"Ee, I'm just a little tired from my match." She smiled reassuringly at the ship's doctor.

"Are you sure? Ever since I told you about Luffy's condition you have been acting differently." Nami stopped smiling and placed her head on her knees and closed her eyes.

"Don't worry Chopper, I'm just tired, I promise you I'll return to normal tomorrow." Nami told Chopper not opening her eyes. She then heard footsteps and assumed that Chopper was walking away due to the sound of the footsteps getting quieter. She sighed and stood up from the couch and began to walk upstairs to get some rest, until she heard her name being called. She turned her head to the direction of the voice and saw Lenalee waving at her and motioning her to come and have a chat with her. Nami nodded and walked over to where Lenalee was sitting and sat next to her.

"Congratulations Nami." Lenalee told Nami.

"Arigatou, I'm sorry if we ruined the reason why you were in this tournament to begin with." Nami apologized.

"Don't be, Tatsuo-san gave us the item he promised us as a reward for actually participating in the tournament. He also says that we could stay and watch the remaining rounds and cheer for you guys." Lenalee smiled as she took a drink from her cup of coffee.

"That was nice of him." Nami said as she smiled at her new friend.

"Aa, it was." Lenalee smiled back. However, as fast as the smile came, it disappeared.

"What's wrong?" Nami asked noticing her smile disappear.

"I just want to say sorry for what happened in the final match between Allen-kun and Luffy-san." Lenalee told her, which made Nami slightly frown.

"Don't worry about it." Lenalee looked at Nami in shock as she saw her looking down to the floor with a smile on her face.

"Can I ask you something?" Lenalee asked Nami causing Nami to look up at her.

"Hai? What is it?" Nami questioned wondering what Lenalee wanted to know.

"What is Luffy-san to you?" The question caused Nami to look at her friend in shock and Nami felt like falling off the couch.

"What Luffy is to me?" Nami whispered repeating the question. Lenalee watched as Nami released the breath she didn't know she was holding and began to breath at a quicker pace.

"I guess Luffy is someone I can depend on. He helped me in so many ways, that I probably can't return. He saved me from many people and monsters. I guess you can call him my knight in shining in armor." She chuckled at the thought, "I guess I really li-" Nami started, but then stopped when she heard a door opened and both Nami and Lenalee turned around to see Sanji and the hotel chef come out of the kitchen with a huge platter of food on a long table that was pulled and pushed by many of the chef's assistants and waiters. They all stopped in front of everybody and Sanji cleared his throat.

"Sorry to keep everyone waiting, but it's time for our Celebratory Feast!" Sanji shouted as he and the other waiters picked up the dish covers to reveal the most delicious food anyone of them every saw.

"Oh my Kami! That looks to good to be true!" One of the exorcist proclaimed as he drooled all over the floor. Some exorcist agreed and then charged for the food and the party began. Everyone began to eat the delicious food that was prepared by Sanji and Usopp began to sing one of his many songs, which some people oddly danced and singed along too. Zoro who was supposedly sleeping heard from someone about the ale that they had and he got up to grab a keg full and sat down with Usopp and the gang and began to drink mug after mug.

Sanji began to twirl in his love state and approached Nami and Lenalee, who were had the look of enjoyment as they watched everyone party. "Nami-san, Lenalee-chan care to dine with me along with the many dishes that I only prepared for you two lovely ladies." Sanji said to the two as he held one of his special dishes in his hand.

"Arigatou Sanji-kun!" They both told him, which made him very happy, but did not make one person very happy. Behind Sanji, Komui gave him a deathly glare, which made Sanji turn around to look at Lenalee's overprotective brother.

"What do you want?" Sanji said.

"HOW DARE YOU TALK TO MY SWEET LENALEE LIKE THAT!! KOMURIN XII ATTACK!!" Komui ordered his new designed Komurin robot. However, as soon as the Komurin saw Sanji and his death glare, he quickly hid behind Komui in fear.

"AAAAHHHHHH! MY PRECIOUS KOMURIN! HOW DARE YOU SCARE MY PRECIOUS KOMURIN!!" Komui shouted at Sanji. However, Komui soon found himself alongside his Komurin XII on the floor knocked out by Sanji's kicks.

"Now since we got that interruption out of the way, would you ladies like anything else?" Sanji asked.

"No thank you." They told him, which shattered Sanji's dreams for the night.

"Anyway, Nami what were you going to say?" Lenalee asked returning to the other conversation.

"Oh nothing." Nami replied.

Zoro was drinking another mug, with Franky beside him having a conversation with Brook. Zoro then noticed Robin walking toward his way and sat down next to him giving her a confused looked, while he drank another mug of ale. Robin ignored his look of confusion and continued reading her book. "Is there any particular reason your sitting next to me?" Zoro asked.

"Why? Does me sitting here bother you?" Robin responded not taking her eyes off the book.

'This women...' Zoro thought as he gave her a glare, which she ignored.

"Excuse me, but are you Roronoa Zoro by any chance?" Zoro turned his gaze away from Robin and looked at the man who was standing in front of Zoro.

"It's common courtesy to give me your name first before me telling you." Zoro replied.

"Your right, pardon for my lack of manners. My name is Himura, Kenshin Himura." Replied the man, which caused Robin, Franky and Brook to look at the man in front of Zoro.

"Kenshin Himura, huh?" Zoro whispered his name and taking another drink. It took him a while until he remembered where he heard the name before and spat out the ale he had in his mouth.

After he stopped choking from the shock, he stared in shock at the man in front him and he whispered silently his name, "Kenshin Himura, the Battousai, the man slayer!"


Zoro: This man is Kenshin Himura, the one they call Battousai the man slayer.

Robin: Yes this is the man that is the captain of our next opponent.

Franky: He doesn't look that strong.

Zoro: No, your wrong. I sense a powerful aura coming from him, he is very dangerous.

Brook: Aa, I feel the same aura, wait I can't feel anything! Skull Joke! Yohohohoho!

Franky: This isn't a time for your Skull Jokes!

Next Chapter: Team Kenshin Arrives, The Worlds Strongest Meets the Battousai