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Okay guys i need your opinion, after the Louge town arc there will be a few I write them? or only one or two? or just stick to the main story and skip filler altogether?

Also starting in next January i will be writing some short one shots about the Assassins and how they fit into the world of One Piece. Templar's, Pre-cursors and Pieces of Eden will be covered.

If you would like to help write these or throw me ideas just let me know via PM, all are welcome.

As this is a FanFiction a particulate Assassin saying is appropriate. Remember Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Connor dragged the coffin filled with treasure back to Arlong Park on the way he met up with Usopp who was exhausted from a fight with Chew. Usopp helped carry the coffin once he was told what was in it. When they got back the crowd was still there Connor and Usopp placed the treasure by the outer wall and Usopp watched from a hole in the wall wile Connor climbed on top of the wall to get a better view. Arlong was staring Luffy down the bodies of Hatchi and Kuroobi did not go unnoticed.

Connor noticed Nami was in the crowd

"Hey Nami, guess what I found?" Connor called.

Nami turned to see Connor sitting on the wall; she was surprised to see him.

"Connor?" she gasped.

"I got your money back form the Marines," Connor boasted, with a smile.

"And I took down a Fishman all by myself," Usopp interrupted.

Nami stared at them, she was sure that no one would help her because of Arlong, but here were the weakest members of the crew fighting for her.

"What? Chew failed as well?" Arlong said surprised. "Why are you doing this? Don't you maggots realise how inferior you are to us Fishmen,"

"Hey Nami don't you think Arlongs a freaky fish guy?" Connor asked.

"I AM NOT A FREAKY FISH GUY!" Arlong yelled in anger, before Luffy burst out laughing.

Arlong charged at Luffy and began the fight, Luffy skilfully dodged Arlong's punches and bites but Arlong grabbed him and held him against a pillar, Luffy managed to just avoid getting his head bitten off by Arlong. Arlong continued to attack but Luffy was always just out of reach

"How dare you. You and your race are inferior humans can't do anything," Arlong said while attacking.

Luffy grabbed two swords off the ground and swang them wildly at Arlong "You're right I can't do anything on my own. I can't use swords,"

Arlong crushed the swords with his teeth and Luffy punched him in the face "I can't Navigate or cook," Luffy followed up with a kick sending Arlong into his throne destroying it. Arlong dived into the water and started shooting water drops at Luffy but they did not bounce off his rubber body, "I can't even lie and I can't use a second sight," Luffy claimed.

'He knows, how could he know? I never told him, I only told…Zoro' Connor thought, his eyes widened as he realised that Zoro must have told Luffy at some point.

'Second sight?' Usopp, Sanji and Nami wondered at the same time. Luffy had just listed everyone's skills but the only one that didn't fit was the second sight, the three of them looked towards Connor, he was staring at Luffy in shock.

'No way, Zeff once told me that people with a second sight are near impossible to beat,(1)' Sanji thought.

'That can't be right,' Nami thought.

'Was that what he was going to tell us?(2)' Usopp wondered.

'Sorry kid, I had to tell him,' Zoro thought.

"See you are useless, what can you do then?" Arlong goaded.

"I can defeat you and everyone else who threatens my friends," Luffy claimed.

The fight dragged on and Arlong continued to trade blows with Luffy; Luffy comically tried to attack Arlong with his own teeth but that plan failed rather quickly. Arlong pulled out a large zigzag sword and chased Luffy all the way up the tower into the top room. The fighting stopped and everyone below watched in anticipation for whatever came next.

"That room," Nami muttered.

All of a sudden the wall broke open and a desk came flying out.

Next came books, pens, rulers, and ink bottles and finally pieces of paper began floating down. Connor caught one and looked at it, it was a map; all the pieces of paper were maps. The destruction didn't stop because suddenly a long leg came out of the top of the tower and when it was brought down the tower collapsed on itself. When the dust cleared all that was left of Arlong park was a very large pile of rubble and Arlong could be seen crushed beneath it.

"Luffy" Nami whispered; she stared at the rubble praying that he was alright.

"Don't worry he's fine" Connor said.

Nami faced Connor "How do you know?"

Connor smirked, and at that moment Luffy appeared from the top of the wreckage. He was cleary badly hurt blood was coming out of his arms and fists, there were also bite marks on his hip and neck he was panting heavily to catch his breath.

"NAMI!" he yelled for the world to hear "YOU'RE MY NAKAMA!"

Nami stared at Luffy and nodded as she began to cry, she was finally free and had irreplaceable friends. It took a moment to sink in but the villagers began to cheer that Arlong had been defeated and his reign of terror was at an end. There excitement was cut short because Nezumi chose that moment to appear.

"That's enough all of you, drop your weapons and move aside. The credit for taking down Arlong and his crew go to me and all his treasures are now mine," Nezumi declared.

Zoro quickly showed him who was in charge and scolded him for ruining the good mood.

"Hey it's you, how'd you get untangled so fast?" Connor asked, as he came over.

"Y…Y…You" Nezumi stuttered when he saw Connor.

"You know him Kid?" Zoro asked.

"Yeah I left him and two other Marines in a very questionable position,"

"Uhh…how questionable?" Zoro asked almost afraid of the answer.

"The kind that could get a man kicked out of the Marines,"

Zoro paled he did not need that image, how would this kid know about that type of stuff anyway.

Nezumi turned a bright shade of red and quickly fled swearing that they'll regret defying him.

That night there was a massive celebration for Arlong's defeat, after the town doctor had treated everyone's wounds the straw hats joined in the celebration. Nami had asked the doctor to remove her Arlong pirates tattoo and replace it with a new one; Sanji and Usopp spoke to Luffy about the second sight thing he'd mentioned during his fight.

"Oi, Luffy what was that second sight thing you mentioned?" Sanji asked.

"Oh that Connor has a second sight. Pretty cool right," Luffy answered.

"WHAT?" Usopp and Sanji"s jaws dropped.

Zoro came up to them and joked "What, you mean you guys didn't know?"

Connor was then bombarded with questions about his second sight.

"Where'd you get it?"

"Is it a devil fruit power?"

"How does it work?"

"Can you teach it to others?"

"Why didn't you tell us about it?"

"Can you see through walls and into the ladies bathroom?"

Connor sighed and told the crew all he knew about his second sight including what the different colours meant; Sanji was disappointed that he could not see through walls.

Later Nami came up to Zoro and Connor and apologised for the way she had treated them but they forgave her and understood that she was in a no win situation, they were both glad that everything turned out fine. Nami spent the rest of the night reconnecting with the villagers.

The next day the villagers gave the straw hats everything they could spare for their journey, Supplies and food were loaded onto the Merry. Arlong was left trapped under the remains of his tower and was not happy about it. Nami had discovered a secret vault filled with cash; she counted up all the money along with her own savings, altogether it reached a grand total of 270 Million Beri.

The villages decided to give 20 million of it to the straw hats as that was the amount of Arlongs bounty. Johnny and Yokasu told Luffy that they'd claim the reward and give it back to the villagers.

Nojiko and Genzo asked for a tour of their ship, despite the small size of the Merry Usopp showed them around it with pride. Sanji got himself acquainted with the kitchen and quickly discovered Luffy's eating habits. Connor rehung the hammocks up in the men's quarters putting an extra one up for Sanji and helped put the supplies away.

They were ready to set sail in the early afternoon but Luffy wanted to stay another night to try a local specialty so the straw hats departure was delayed till the next morning.

That night Nami sat in front of her mother's grave, she was saddened that they were leaving but understood that they could not stay on the Island.

"Hey your friends will be leaving tomorrow," Nojiko said as she approached Nami.

"Yeah I heard," Nami responded sadly.

"Do you want to invite them to dinner?"

"No way Luffy would eat us out of our home," Nami joked.

"He can't be that bad,"

Nami gave her a look "Let's just say Sanji has his work cut out for him,"

"Ah okay no dinner then,"

"Nojiko, do you think that Mum would mind if I became a pirate?"

"Nope in fact I think she'd encourage it, why thinking of leaving?"

"Yes if Luffy will have me he still needs a navigator after all,"

The two sisters talked long into the night, they didn't notice that they were being watched.

Genzo had overheard Nami's and Nojiko's conversation, he hadn't meant to but he had. He was a little upset that Nami was joining another pirate crew but at least this time it was for herself not everyone else, after a while he headed back to the village. When he got there he made his way to the Merry and boarded it.

"STRAW HAT, GET OUT HERE!" Genzo yelled.

The crew came out to see Genzo on deck he had a very angry look on his face.

"Oi what are you yelling for?" Luffy asked.

"I want a private word with you," Genzo demanded.

Luffy nodded and told his crew to go back inside, which they did.

Luffy walked up to Genzo "So what do you want,"

"Nami's going to be a pirate" Genzo claimed. "She wants to travel with you, I know it will be dangerous and I accept that however…If you do anything to take her smile away I will hunt you down and no matter what sea you're in and I will kill you. Understand."

Luffy looked at the man in front of him, he could tell that he was deadly serious.

"I have no intention to take that away but I got it," Luffy nodded.

The next morning the Straw hats were ready to go, all of the villages had come out to see them off. Johnny and Yokasu had decided to part ways with them as they were bounty hunters, and wished Zoro luck with his journey.

"Don't become too infamous, or we'll have to hunt you down," Johnny joked.

"Heh I'd like to see you try," Zoro retorted back.

"Are we ready to go?" Sanji asked.

"Yup everything's on board," Usopp said.

"Hold on what about Nami-swan?" Sanji asked "she's not on board yet,"

"She's not coming," Zoro said plainly.

"What why not? Did any of you say something to her?"

"She has no reason to be a pirate anymore, don't you think she'd be a lot happier if she stayed here," Connor claimed.

"What about my happiness. If Nami-swan doesn't come with us then I lose 97.72% of my reason for being here," Sanji yelled back.

Nami suddenly approached the crowd first she was walking but then she charged into a run.

"CAST OFF, NOW!" she ordered.

"Oh here she is," Luffy said.

"Umm why is she running?" Usopp asked.

"Don't know but we better do as she says," Luffy said.

Zoro pulled the anchor up, Connor unfurled the sails and Usopp took the helm; the Merry began to sail away. On land the villagers tried to stop Nami from leaving without saying goodbye, but she just ran through the crowd zigzagging and skilfully dodging people, when he reached the edge of the dock she jumped off it and landed safely on the Merry.

The villagers and the crew looked at her with stunned expressions, Nami lifted her shirt and various wallets and purses fell out.

"YOU LITTLE THIEF, GET BACK HERE," the villagers cried when they realised that they'd been robbed.

"Bye everyone thanks for the cash," Nami called back waving, with a huge smile on her face.

"She hasn't changed at all," Usopp observed.

"Yeah who knows when she'll turn on us again," Zoro agreed.

Zoro and Usopp went to go join Luffy and Sanji, Connor was about to follow when he spied a grave on the top of a cliff; there was a redheaded woman(3) leaning over it watching them sail away with a sad yet content smile. Connor herd Luffy call his name and looked away for a second but when he looked back at the grave the woman was gone, shrugging it off he went to join the others.

(1) Zeff spent a good couple of years on the grand line before the start of the series, what Sanji is referring to here is Haki and not eagle vision/sense

(2) In a previous chapter Usopp over herd Connor debating to tell the crew something important.

(3) The red haired woman is the spirt of Namis mother who Arlong killed; in the anime she gave Nami a push out the door of her house to show that she approved of her choice to join Luffys crew. In my version she is watching her daughter start a new life.