TNST
The Next Step
"Would it be great for you and Luffy to be married even after everything?"
Alvida, 'The Emperor of Clowns'
Nami, despite that many adventures she had, remembered that question and felt like she should be more than just Luffy's girlfriend in order for him to not regret himself over a future that didn't happen again (This is several weeks since the two had become boyfriend and girlfriend in case you want to know). She did remember that Zoro and Robin are working on completing their marriage so she wanted to be what she assumed to be in Luffy's bad future. She finished the map that she was working on and went to find Luffy; he was in their room all alone thinking about something,
"Luffy?" Luffy turned to see Nami enter his room so he smiled,
"What's up, Catstar?" Nami blushed but she was able to keep her focus,
"Can I ask you something?"
"Fire away."
Nami felt like she placing salt in the wounds of Luffy by asking but she can still hope that Luffy will appreciate,
"Will you feel more at ease...if you and I were...uh, you know…married?" Nami managed to ask and noticed that Luffy was silent, his hat covering his face. She felt like she really did hurt him, by what happened with his first wife, so she was about to leave when,
"Yes." Nami turned to Luffy,
"What?"
"Yes, marrying you will ease my pain. Thank you for asking this." Nami was really taken that her boyfriend was not even going to hold a grudge against her so she just smiled and dove in to hug him. He hugged her back gently and smoothly combined through her hair making her giggle and hug Luffy tighter. Yet, in all the romance, there was this something that threatens to ruin it; pirates cannot easily marry without catching the attention of the Navy.
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Nami felt like her hopes were crushed and that her chance to help her captain was slithering away like snakes. But the one thing you should know about Luffy is that he was never the type to let something like this stop him.
"Nami..."
"Yes Luffy?"
"This is going to be painful so I like to really know if you want to be my wife."
Nami never thought that what Luffy is thinking was painful but it was a good thing that he did tell her that; she always knew that love hurts and she indeed want Luffy as her husband.
"Yes Luffy, I do." Luffy smiled and Nami prepared herself if the 'pain' her boyfriend was talking about was worse than she originally thought. Luffy began by kissing Nami which she got deeper in, then he had his right hand hold Nami's left with his left hand holding Nami's right with fingers intersecting. Then something happened in their minds; they were one! Inside this one-mind of Luffy and Nami, they were acting a wedding mainly the exchange of vows,
"Nami, do you take me as your husband?"
"…I do. And Luffy, d-do you take m-me as your wife?"
"I do."
With that done, something was forming on Nami's and Luffy's fingers. Luffy seemed to be right that it was painful because Nami was shaking in a manner of so and even Luffy was twitching. As the couple ended their kiss, they gasped for breath and noticed that wedding rings seemed to have come into being among their fingers! Nami didn't have any words left, she was married to Luffy without causing any unnecessary trouble; just her style.
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Nami just stared at her ring of proof that she was now a wife until Luffy kissed her on the forehead, making her snap back to reality. She felt a little embarrassed that she had to wake up from a trance by the one she always hit on the head. Luffy placed his hand on her cheek that seemed to cheer her up; being wife and husband is more than just cuddling and kissing and the married couple knew that.
For a few days, the crew noticed that Nami had been more gleeful whenever she is eating or working. They know that Nami had moved into Luffy's room but it seems that they are even closer. One even thought that the two were wife & husband but everyone else tried their best to deny it because it will upset Sanji, who is already down in the dumps since Nami became engaged to Luffy and not him.
Every time they try and confront Nami to ask some questions, she will just shrug it off and go back to her business. It has going on for since she had that private moment with the captain in his room. Even Sanji was predicted to hate the idea of the captain married to the navigator, what was surprising was that Zoro was feeling like he should feel the same about Robin; after all, he is to be married to her during some time in the future.
Maybe that was what the married captain and navigator sensed, because one day the two were in the library working on a book of sorts; they were writing down the same experience they went through and they wanted Zoro and Robin to find it and read it. It seems that Fate was being nice to them because it had Zoro work out late and that Robin to stay up to finish a novel.
Then they were finally finished but for some reason, they didn't want to fall asleep and Fate was enjoying it. Zoro noticed that the instruction book on new sword techniques wasn't there so he went to the library to see if it was there instead; Robin was also going there to place her novel away and Fate had them all enter the same place at the same time from different doors,
"Oh!" They all said in unison, "What are you doing here? I like to know the same thing!"
It sure was annoying that everyone was talking at the same time so they just signed and went on with their business and the same book that Luffy and Nami were working on fell out of the shelf in their presence; they sure were wondering what it was. The cover said,
For Zoro and Robin,
Now is the time.
The couple was confused that a book for them will fall out when they were the only ones in the area. They read it to find what their captain & navigator wanted them to know and tried it out; it was indeed painful but the result wasn't anyone hurt, just finally married. Zoro and Robin all knew that waiting was over and that their captain and navigator did what they call 'a good deed of today'.
Back in the captain's room, Luffy and Nami were sleeping together but they still sensed the event that has taken place and smiled. Zoro and Robin also went to bed; the latter wanted the former to sleep with her because they were just married tonight. What they didn't know was that Sanji was listening to everything that happened tonight and was double down in the dumps that all the women were taken before him,
"Nami-swam…Robin-chan...why...why?" He said in defeat of love. Everyone else? They all decided that they should make a secret because it was what the married couples' wish; but all secrets can't stay hidden forever and that one day everything will be known and threatened.
End of Chapter 28
*Hello everyone! Here is the next chapter to The New Strawhats! Personally, this is one of my favorite chapters in the entire story so i hope you are satisfied with it too. Have a nice day!*
