Author Notes: Well, here is the next chapter. I'm quite disappointed that there was no new One Piece this week, but the Naruto chapter was good, so I was happy. Enough about me, lets get on with the chapter!
Luffy Wakes Up, "Who are you?"
Nami stared at Luffy in shock as she tried to recollect herself from what Luffy just said to
her. Chopper was too staring at Luffy in shock and looked back at Nami to see if she knew what was going on. Luffy looked from Chopper then to Nami and furrowed his eyebrows at them for taking a while to answer him.
"Who are you?" Luffy asked again, which snapped them awake and looked at Luffy before slowly walking toward him. Luffy watched as they moved forward step by step, but just looked at them with the same face that he had when he first woke up.
"Luffy, don't you remember us?" Nami finally answered as she came to a halt in front of the bed as she stared at Luffy with a concerned face.
"Nope." Luffy answered her plainly which made the pain in Nami's chest appear again. She didn't bother grabbing for it, so that she didn't worry Chopper who jumped up to the bed and stood in front of Luffy.
"Nami, I think he lost his memory." Chopper answered after a few minutes of looking over at Luffy.
"You mean he might have amnesia?" Nami asked the reindeer, who nodded in reply.
"Nami, we need to tell the others, can you go get them while I stay here?" Nami nodded her head slowly before turning to head out of the room. She took one last glimpse of Luffy before running toward the lobby.
"What are you, a raccoon?" Luffy asked suddenly.
"I'm a reindeer! Can't you see the antlers!"
Nami ran down the stairs and stopped at a halt at the lobby and searched for the others. She couldn't find them anywhere in the lobby, so she headed over to the dining hall. When she entered she saw the crew all look at her from her sudden entrance.
"Good morning, Nami-swan!" Sanji greeted her in his love state.
Robin noticed the look of concern on Nami's face and walked over to her from her seat on the table. "Nami-chan, is there something wrong?" The crew all looked at Robin at her questioned and then toward Nami.
"Robin, Luffy woke up." The crew all stared at Nami and then all looked at each other.
"Okay, so what? If he's up then that's good." Zoro told her.
"No, it's not that. Luffy, he... he doesn't remember anything!" At this Zoro stood up and the crew gaped at her in shock.
"Oi, what do you mean he doesn't remember anything?" Zoro asked.
"Don't raise your voice at Nami-swan, you green horse shit!" Sanji yelled over to Zoro, who ignored him. Zoro didn't wait for an answer as he ran past Nami and began running up the stairs.
"Nami-chan, did captain-san really lose his memory?" Robin asked her.
She nodded her head, "Un, when Luffy woke up, he asked me and Chopper who we were." Robin just stared at her as did the others.
"If Luffy doesn't remember anything, then what the hell are we supposed to do with the next round!?" Usopp panicked.
"That is troublesome. Plus since Mugiwara is awake he has to fight in the next round, and there is no way Tatsuo would change that unless Mugiwara is still unconscience." Franky added crossing his arms.
"This is most unfortunate." Brook said as he took out a violin and began playing a sad tune. The crew then hit Brooke right on the skull giving him some bruises.
"THIS IS NO TIME FOR YOUR STUPID SONGS!" They all shouted at Brooke who just laughed his trademark Yoho silently.
"I think we should go see him now." Robin suggested.
"Aa!" They all replied as they followed Nami upstairs.
Zoro barged through a door and shouted Luffy's name, but found himself yelling at nothing, but a mop. "Damn it, I thought this was the room, maybe it's to the right." Zoro wondered out loud as he turned to his left and walked the opposite direction of what he said.
Nami and the others arrived in front of the men's hotel room and opened the door to see Luffy poking Chopper's antlers. Luffy turned to look at the crew who stared at him until he asked. "Who are you people?"
The crew besides Nami and Chopper all gasped and stared wide eyed at Luffy. "Oi Luffy, don't you remember us at all?" Usopp asked walking toward him.
"Nope!" Luffy plainly told him. The crew couldn't believe that there captain couldn't even remember any one of them. The man who they all had huge respect for and who would do anything for his nakama, couldn't even remember those nakama. "Why are you all staring at me like that?"
"Baka! Were looking at you like this because our captain can't even remember us!" Sanji yelled at Luffy who didn't flinch at his outburst.
"Your talking about me?" Luffy asked pointing a finger at himself.
"No shit, you rubber idiot!" Luffy looked at Sanji even more confused at the name Sanji gave him.
"What the hell are you people talking about? Why did you call me a rubber idiot?" Luffy asked the two questions as he crossed his arms.
"So, it seems he can't even remember that he ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi." Robin spoke and walked toward Nami. "Nami-chan, why don't you show Captain-san his Straw Hat?" Robin suggested as she pointed to Luffy's Straw Hat on Nami's head. "It might jog some parts of his memory."
"Un, it worth a shot." Nami agreed as she took off Luffy's Straw Hat and walked over to Luffy. "Here Luffy, do you remember this?" Nami asked as she gave Luffy his Straw Hat. Luffy took the hat and stared at it for a few minutes, but then sighed and tossed the hat away. The crew made noises as they watched Luffy toss the hat away as it landed on the floor behind Nami.
"Nope, I never seen that hat in my life!" Luffy told them.
"Luffy doesn't even remember the most important treasure to him." Usopp proclaimed. Nami stood still and stared at Luffy in shock at Luffy's actions. She then turned around and began walking toward the hat that Luffy tossed. She kneeled down and grabbed the hat with her hand. She stayed like that for a while causing the crew looked at her back with worried expressions.
"Nami-san?" Sanji called out to her. He watched as she stood up and placed the hat on her head before running past him and the crew and running out the room. Her eyes were concealed by the hat, so they weren't able to tell her expression. They had their guesses, but weren't sure which one was the right one. Just then Zoro entered the room and looked at everyone.
"Oi, why did Nami just run out of here?" Zoro asked, but received a glare from Sanji, who marched right into his face.
"Oi you shit head, where the hell were you? Did you get lost again?" Sanji yelled at Zoro.
"What was that gay cook?" Zoro barked back.
"Oi, could you two cut it out! We have a bigger problem!" Franky told them.
Sanji and Zoro looked at Franky and decided to stop arguing and focus on the problem. Zoro then turned toward to Luffy who just stared at everyone blankly. "So it's true then, he can't remember any of us." Zoro asked the crew.
"Aa, not only that, but it seems he can't even remember his own treasure." Usopp answered him, as Zoro looked at Usopp with a furrowed eyebrow.
"What are you talking about?" Zoro asked.
"Well, when we gave him his Straw Hat, he-he tossed it like nothing." Usopp told him as Zoro made a noise and then stared at Luffy wide eyed.
"He can't even remember the most important thing in his life." Zoro spoke.
"Ee, and then Nami-chan ran off." Robin answered as she turned toward the door, Nami went through. The room then was quiet, only the noise of sobs from Chopper was heard.
Nami ran down the hallway and she wasn't sure where she was going, but she didn't want to be in the room. Lenalee was walking down the hallway, when she saw Nami running past her and she noticed tears flying off her face as she past her. "Nami-san?"
Nami didn't notice that she passed Lenalee and continued to run, until she arrived at a room that was open and ran inside. She looked around and noticed the doors to the balcony opened and headed toward it. She arrived at the balcony and stared at the site that she saw. She saw the whole hotel garden and the many fountains in it. She walked over to the railing and then she felt a tear drop onto her hand that was on the railing. Nami cried and tried not to remember what Luffy did to his treasures Straw Hat. The same hat that he put on her head when he went to save her from Arlong. The same hat that he gave to her during his fight with Enel. The same hat that only she was able to wear from the rest of the nakama.
"Why? Why can't he remember us? He never got hit in the head, so why can't he remember us or even his treasure?" Nami asked those questions out loud as she continued to cry and sob.
"If you want him to get his memory back, I could help him." Nami jumped in surprise at the voice and quickly turned around to see Tatsuo standing right behind her.
"What are you doing here?" Nami asked as she wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Well, I noticed you running into my room, so I wanted to know what you wanted from me?" Tatsuo answered as Nami stared at him.
"Oh gomen, I didn't know." Nami apologized.
"It's alright, it was probably not a good idea to leave my door open." Tatsuo chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.
"You said, you could help him?" Tatsuo nodded as he walked toward the railing and looked at the garden down below.
"During the last round I noticed something during your match, your captain seemed to not act as he usually did." Tatsuo explained. "I seen this happened with many people from your world, but none of them were able to beat this challenge and thus were erased from your world."
"Well, what is it?" Nami asked.
"It seems, your captain has something inside him, probably due to the devil fruit inside of him." Nami stared at Roy in shock at what he said.
"What are you talking about? How does this have to do with him losing his memory?" Nami asked.
"That same thing that is inside him, is messing with his body. The other pirates who came here before you also had the same symptom as your captain does now. First is memory loss and then he starts to turning into it." Tatsuo explained.
"It?" Nami asked not sure who this 'it' was.
"From what I seen from the other pirates, this 'it' is the Devil of the Fruit." Nami gasped and stared at Tatsuo in surprise.
"The Devil of the Fruit?"
Zoro: The Devil of the Fruit?
Nami: Ee, that's what Tatsuo said. Do you know anything about this devil thing Robin?
Robin: No, I never heard of it.
Chopper: So what's going to happen to Luffy?
Nami: He told me that if we don't help Luffy soon, this devil will take over his body and the Luffy we all know will be gone.
Everyone: Eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh?
Next Chapter: The Devil of the Fruit?, The Search for Luffy's Memory