TNST
A Heavy Mistake
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece.
The crew was a little intimated by the nose, it was like rattling their nerves but the sight to see was that Luffy had shock and horror in his eyes and all the color left his skin.
"We shouldn't be here, not in a time like this..." the Pirate King muttered which were confusing to the Strawhats.
"Why dear?" Nami asked only for her husband to grab her arm and went in another direction when more doors with the same mutters behind them; it was like the doors multiplied and were honing on their kill which were the intruders.
"Guys! Don't touch the doors!" Luffy suddenly shouted which was very hard to understand since they are surrounded by doors.
"But where should we go if doors are in every direction!?" Zoro shouted and the crew agreed.
While Luffy was thinking of an answer, he noticed that there nothing in his hands! Nami was almost touching one of the doors!
"Don't! It could be the real door!" Luffy shouted to his wife so she hesitated and ran away towards her husband.
"So, only one of these doors we shouldn't touch!?" Usopp asked hoping to understand the situation and Luffy nodded. Then they begin to try and find a way to avoid the real door;
"How about your Haki, Luffy?" Chopper asked but Luffy shook his head,
"This was never used to examine on non-living things and doors are no different! Here it is completely useless!" Luffy shouted that made the crew silent for a while until,
"WHAT!"
The doors won't stop turning in a circle around the intruders, it was imitating to some while scary to others. The sight was tiring them out and they don't have any idea which one to avoid. That is, until it finally ended in a way they never wanted;
Nami was being scared as usual and hiding behind her husband while he was talking to the rest of the crew about it. Then she heard a voice;
"Come...come...queen of the seas...come..."
Nami didn't think she should until the voice turned into something she recognized; her sisters. She approached the door were it came from when Luffy noticed it,
"Nami be careful!"
Whatever she heard it or not, she touched the door and everything went back to the tunnel. The crew was both confused and relieved that the nightmare was over but their captain was neither,
"Nami...how could you?"
Luffy spoke in a manner like he was angry and in disbelief at his wife's actions which began to scare everyone.
"Luffy, were you blind?" Zoro asked clearly in disbelief himself, "Nami freed us from that trap!"
"For what price? Because that trap..." Luffy spoke in another tone that most wise people speak in, "was the door that Nami touched!"
"Huh?"
"'sigh', guys, that door unleashed the Saceris from their prison!"
"HUH!?"
After a very quiet and long trip, the Strawhats and Eneru had emerged from the tunnel with sad and disgruntled looks on their faces; Nami was beside herself cursing her stupidity that would had made the nineteen year old Luffy look like a wise pirate. Her husband had given her some time to think of the situation so Nami can absorb everything and then he can talk to her about it. So far, Nami had been banging on her head since.
In the city, the pile of minions had disappeared but the pirates didn't pay any attention to it. All they thought about was Eneru's near death experience, their captain's description of the Saceris and the strength of the small minion army from earlier. After rebuilding the camp they made before first into the tunnel, the pirates actually started to speak and Luffy went to his wife.
She seemed to be somewhere else in her mind since she didn't sense her husband as he sat next to her. He sighed,
"It wasn't your fault, you know…"
"Yes it was! I am the one that found that other room! I am the one that opened the doorway to the moon! I am the one that caused the trap to spring! It is my entire fault~MMPH!"
Nami was interrupted from her self-blaming when Luffy kissed her on the lips, she felt like her sunken heart was shining like gold and she cried happily. Then Luffy broke the kiss while facing his wife with caring eyes,
"Nami," Luffy began to speak finally, "I was just like you; always running ahead with no plan, no way of knowing what will happen to me or you guys, always setting off traps like this and what happens? We all live and go on, and that is what happened back there."
Nami still didn't feel good but then a thought came to her mind; what if that history is only repeating to show how I was alike to Luffy? She smiled,
"Luffy, will the others forgive me for what I did?"
"They say forgiveness needs to be earned and not bought." Luffy answered, "So, all I have to say is: whether or not everyone forgives you, I will still love you the way you are."
Nami felt like a light was shining through the darkness of guilt and self-hate that lies in her heart so she just hugged Luffy who hugged her back,
"Thank you Luffy, for being my friend, my captain, my teacher and my husband."
Luffy didn't say a word, just brushed Nami's orange hair the way she likes it; she knew it was her husband's way of showing appreciation.
As Nami nervously walked where the rest of the crew was away from where she and Luffy were to camp. She does feel better from the words of advice from her husband but still it was her mess so she is the only one to clean it up.
"Um…" Nami finally said grabbing the crew's attention and at the same time, receiving angry glares at her; this is probably what Luffy sees all the time. "I just what to say that I am sorry…"
"You don't need to Miss Navigator," Robin said with a combo of understanding and resistance in her voice, "what we want is to know why you came with a dark figure?"
Nami was confused, turned around and indeed a figure was there and he began to speak,
"I am not here to make things worst but my time is nearly up so I challenge you all to one last battle." The pirates didn't say another word as the stranger continued, "Once this battle is over, you will have a better chance in a war that is to come. My name is Ol D. Tom warriors!"
End of Chapter 52
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