Nami Tells Another Lie

The Fight Between Species Draws Near

What did I do? How did I mess up so much? What? Was killing those mermen too much for the fabric of space and time? What?

"TAKE THAT BACK! SAY ONE MORE WORD AND YOU'LL REGRET IT!" Luffy was shaking Johnny down, but Johnny didn't say any different. He kept saying that she killed Usopp.

Wait…Nami didn't kill Usopp. She faked the whole thing right? Yeah…that's it. She…stabbed her hand and faked his death. Whew…good…I'm forgetting the important details.

"Say what you will, but I saw her kill Usopp!" Johnny persisted.

I looked at Zoro; he had a look of complete shock on his face. Sanji was just smoking his cigarette.

"SHUT UP! NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD NAMI HURT HER FRIENDS!" Luffy yelled at him.

"What was that about friends Luffy?" I heard Nami say. We all turned and saw Nami holding her staff. She had a look of disgust on her face.

"Nami!" Luffy said, dropping Johnny.

"What are you doing here?" She said rudely.

"What do you mean? Were here to bring you back." Luffy tried to coax her.

She turned him down and basically told us to get the hell out of dodge (references.)

"Enough Nami, where is Usopp?" Zoro said firmly.

She sneered. "With the fishes."

"CUT THE CRAP!" Zoro yelled and charged at her. If Sanji hadn't had blocked his slash, she would've been mince meat.

"You're pretty clueless aren't you?" Sanji said.

"This isn't the time for your bullshit chivalry." I said, giving her on of my Death Stares. She was trying to look away, avoiding my gaze. She felt my glare once; she probably didn't want to feel it again.

"So Nami, is Usopp really dead." I said, intensifying my stare.

"Umm…well…" She was mumbling.

She seemed to fake some courage, and once again told us, "If you want to live, you'll leave this island, NOW!"

I could hear all the emotions in her tone. The anger, the fear, the seriousness. Ok not really, I knew what she meant. I watched the anime after all.

Luffy, surprisingly (not to me though), dropped to the ground and closed his eyes.

"Uhhh…Luffy?" Johnny asked him.

"Sleepy…" He said.

"Now of all times?" I said.

He said that he won't get in her business, but won't leave either. What a fickle person.

Nami clanged her fists in anger and yelled, "FINE! JUST GO AHEAD AND DIE!"

And with that, she ran off.

Well our situation hasn't gotten any better from what I've seen. Michael stated.

Just shut up. I'm tired, I want to take a nap.

A few hours had pasted since Nami confronted us. Johnny and Yozaku had ditched us, chicken-shit bastards. Luffy was asleep, Zoro was as well, I was close to it, and Sanji was just staring off into space smoking.

"Hey Sanji, you know Nami really didn't kill Usopp, right?" I asked him.

He let out another puff of smoke. "Yeah, how could you tell?"

"Well the whole defending her from Zoro after she said I killed Usopp had to mean something. Your stupid chivalry can't possibly extend to that degree."

"Hey! It is not stupid! It just shows the depth of my love…" He trailed of and went all girly.

"Oh really. So if a hot chick walked up to you, told you she killed 50 men for no reason, slapped your mother for good measure, and killed a puppy with her bare hands right in front of you, you would even hit her?"

He stared at me for a moment and shook his head. "I mustn't hurt a woman under any means."

"Well that's going to suck when you get killed by a female pirate out in the open sea."

"Ahhh…a fate I must suffer for the good of women." He acted all dramatic.

"Your such an idiot." I heard Zoro say.

"What? Who you calling an idiot?" Sanji yelled back at him.

"Both of you!" He yelled back.

"HEY!" I yelled.

Sanji was about to kick Zoro, I was about to punch Zoro, and Zoro was about to whack us with his sword, when all of a sudden…Usopp intercepted our attacks.

-BAM-

-SMACK-

-WHACK-

Oh…he did not look good. Oh well, at least he's alive.

He was on the ground, bruised and bleeding, making strange sounds as the three of us were staring at him.

"It's ok, he's dead anyway. He probably didn't even feel it."

The three of us laughed.

Luffy woke him up and Usopp explained the whole situation. The terms of his "death," Arlong Park, etc.

"So…we need to destroy Arlong's playground." I stated.

"Hold on! Should we find out why Nami is with them in the first place?" Usopp said.

"I think she can do that for us." I said, pointing down the path.

Nojiko was standing there, right where I was pointing.

"Who's that?" Luffy asked.

"Nami's big sister." Usopp told us.

"NAMI'S SISTER?" Sanji started with hearts in his eyes before I smacked him upside the head and knocked him out of his trance. She may not be her blood sister…but she still…looked…pretty hot. Tan skin, purple hair (Tommy Pickle?) and a more grown up body…

NO! NO! Nami is better! You love NAMI! FOCUS!

Nojiko basically told us to scram to, but also offered to tell us Nami's story. Luffy decided to walk off, Zoro passed out by a tree, and I politely declined.

"Hey! Why not? Don't you want to know about Nami?" Sanji complained at me.

As I walked down the road, I stated, "I know the story, not much point to hearing it another time." And with that, I stepped down the path.

What are you doing? Michael asked me.

Remember, those Marines are going to take Nami's money if I don't stop them. I told him.

Ok…wait…I TOLD YOU…

CAN IT! This is MY WORLD NOW! I will do what ever the FUCK I want! GOT IT?

…Heh…I see you've finally taken some initiative. Just be careful. He warned me.

Yeah yeah, I know.

I wandered around the island for a while. I was piecing together the whole flashback of Nami childhood as I went along.

Bellemere was…a marine and she found Nojiko and Nami abandoned when they were kids. Something…oh yeah, she decided to raise them together. Nami and Nojiko grew up and…they lived a peaceful life? Sure they were poor but they live peacefully. Then Arlong showed up, killed Bellemere for only paying enough for her kids tribute, and Nami made a 100,000,000 berri deal for the village. That's the just of it, right?

Well, that's all I could remember, and a few images of Nami as a kid. Plus Arlong and that saw-sword, kinda over-kill but hey it's not my taste.

-BANG-

A gunshot, the scene of Bellemere getting killed by Arlong, Nami being carried away by the fishmen flashed in my mind.

Anger rose to my face. He is EXACTLY the kind of guy I hate. Hurting others for no good reason. My hands were trembling with anger.

I then saw scenes of that rat marine breaking into Nami's treasure. The marines digging up the gold, Nami struggling to stop them, rat-bastard smiling greedily.

I increased my pace when the flashes were over. I must stop them!

I was to late…

I wound the place dug up, Nami in tears, Nojiko on the ground unconscious, and that pinwheel guy treating her. There was an empty box in the ground.

I stood behind the old man and asked, "Which way did they go?"

He was startled by my presence. "Who…"

I grabbed his collar, and said with my Death Stare on, "WHERE DID THEY GO?"

He pointed in some direction. I walked over to Nami and patted her on the head. She looked up, with a mixture on anger and sadness on her face.

"I'll get your treasure back. Wait a moment."

Then I flash stepped down the path.

A god hour down I found the Marines with about 10 big bags of treasure. That Rat-bastard was laughing as he walked down the path ahead of them.

I decided to do something about this.

I pulled out my gun, glove form, and dispatched all 15 of the Marines with a fury of bazooka punches, leaving the rat. Their souls floated to the ground as I flash stepped right behind him. The instant he looked behind and saw me glaring at him with all his men gone…

Let's just say that his face: priceless.

"WHA! WHO? WHAT?"

I elbowed him in the face and grabbed him by the throat.

"You want to be a corrupt, lying, scheming son of a bitch, be my guest. But don't be a marine while doing it. And this next punch…"

I whined back my fist and gave him a punch so hard he went flying.

"IS FOR NAMI! YOU RAT-BASTARD!"

I collected all the bags of money and put them in one big carrier bag I found lying on the ground. The bag looked like it was going to burst; I guess it would having 93,000,000 berris worth of treasure. I heaved it onto my back, gathered my souls, and walked down the path.

The bag felt surprisingly light, either that or I was strong. I could keep it over my shoulder with one hand as I swallowed down my 15 new souls.

21 down, 79 to go.

I continued down the path until I got to the town. It was completely abandoned. Don't know why. Luffy was just standing there, staring at something. I looked further and saw Nami, on her knees, crying her eyes out. I tapped Luffy on the shoulder and told him to stay quiet. I moved him out of the way as I walked toward her.

She raised a knife above her head just before I got to her. She was screaming Arlong's name over and over in anguish as she stabbed her arm over and over again. I finally stopped her arm. She jerked back, but I wouldn't let go. She finally snapped her head back at me, anger and tears in her eyes, and looked at me. Her anger quickly changed to surprise and shock.

What I could understand, she saw me; a 6'2 scary looking guy, holding a bag that was the size of a double-queen sized bed, towering over her.

"There are better ways of removing a tattoo." I said calmly to her.

"How…why…" She shuttered.

"I think this covers my debt."

"Uh…yes." She slightly smiled. She reached for the bag, but I refused to get it to her.

"This money shouldn't go to you." I said.

"What? After…I gave 8 years of my life so I could get that money! I need that money!"

I sat her down, and I dropped the bag. I got close to her face and said, "You got this money for you VILLAGE, Nami. But no, you won't use it to buy your village back. We are going to TAKE your village back from Arlong, and this money will help them rebuild there town, their island. Does that sound good?"

She was forming tears in her eyes. "You can't. He can't be beaten. He…he…" She was crying.

"Because he killed your mom?"

She stared at me, like how could I know that?

"Your mom gave her life so you could be happy. Are you happy right now? No matter what happens, Arlong wouldn't let this town, or you, go free. You would stay here, drawing maps as his slave. Would that make you happy?"

She looked away, trying to hold in her tears.

"I have three reasons to go up to that smug bastard and drive him off this island." I said.

She looked back at me.

"Reason #1: For hurting and murdering countless people for no good reason."

She looked at me more intensely.

"Reason #2: For bullying entire islands out of their hard earned money."

I waited for a few moments until she asked, "And…the third reason? Did he call you boy?"

"Nope." I said smiling. She seemed confused.

"Because he made you cry. I can't let him get away with letting the girl I love cry."

Her eyes were wide, her cheeks blushed. She seemed really surprised by what I said.

"So Nami, do you want our help?"

She began crying again, and nodded. I released her hand and looked back at Luffy.

"Luffy! Nami wants our help!"

Luffy was standing there, cracking his knuckles. Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp were standing there as well, all set up in their cool guy poses.

"RIGHT!" They all said. They are calmly walked forward past Nami. Luffy took off his hat and put it on Nami's head as he passed. I smiled at her as she was still in tears, and joined them in the line.

For the next 10 minutes, I felt so cool. I was walking, in a line, with my favorite anime characters, ready to go kick some ass. I felt so BAD ASS!

We went through the crowd of villagers who were armed to the teeth. I saw the pinwheel guy look at me and said something to the other guys; probably it's that scary guy who threatened me.

We stood at the gate of the park, where Johnny and Yozaku were waiting. They stepped out of the way as Luffy pulled back his fist and punched the door down.

-BAM-

The door crumbled under his hands. He was all that was left in a pile of ruble and dust.

Arlong and his crew stared at us as Luffy said in a death serious tone, "Now, which one of you is Arlong?"