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Pinwheel
a quizzical look
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Luffy is a little biased toward the color, but he thinks Nami looks good in red. He doesn't really care either way; she wears lots of clothes and lots of colors and he'll never understand why girls change outfits so many times, anyway, or why they like to be so clean all the time... but most of his favorite things are red. The band in his hat, meat, parts of the Sunny, that awesome fish Usopp caught that they're going to eat for dinner. Nami's eyes are kind of red sometimes - a dark red, like wood - when the light hits them right.
...Can that be one of his favorite things?
Looking at Nami when she's looking at him?
She catches him doing it one time, when she comes out of the girls' cabin wearing a short red-and-black striped vest over a black collared shirt, and shoots him a quizzical look as she tugs on the bottom hem. "What are you staring at?"
Luffy grins. "You look nice."
The comment catches Nami off guard - Luffy knows it does because he watches her eyebrows slant together, like he's said something suspicious - is it suspicious to tell her she looks nice? He's learned the hard way not to tell her she looks scary and nice is the opposite of that, right? Maybe that's something she charges for and now he owes her more money. He usually walks right into that, anyway, she charges for the weirdest stuff. As quickly as the look crosses her face, though, it vanishes.
Nami smiles, one shoulder popping up in a shrug as she turns away, "Of course I look nice!"
Her whole face lights up in that brief second and Luffy thinks, abruptly, of that old guy with the scars and the pinwheel, and the promise that he made. Suddenly - again, maybe - Nami's smile is one of his favorite things, too, and that's fine. Even if he owes her money for it.
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-BobTAC