"And that's how I, the legendary Captain Usopp, saved the land of flying teapots and gained an unlimited supply of tea!"
The long-nosed sniper finished his tale with a flourish, to the amazement of Luffy and Chopper who let out excited exclamations. Usopp had decided to provide some entertainment during the trio's otherwise slow fishing session, owing to the warm weather that discouraged most of the fish from travelling close to the surface of the ocean. They sat on the starboard railing, with Jinbe at the wheel and a sleeping Zoro at the opposite railing as their only companions on the sunlit, grassy deck of the Sunny.
"Well, even if none of that was true, that was really cool Usopp!" Luffy laughed, dusting off his blue shorts.
Usopp gave an overdramatic gasp of shock. "How could you say that Luffy? Do you not have trust in me?" He slapped a hand over his chest to add to the effect.
Luffy tilted his head to the right. "Where's all the tea then?"
"Why I left it all in Syrup Village of course, and Kaya is taking good care of it", the sniper boasted. "You just know don't know because you were busy training with Rayleigh!"
"Yeah Luffy, there's no way that stuff didn't happen!" Chopper claimed indignantly, waving his little hooves in the air.
The captain continued to chuckle as he got off the railing. He liked Usopp's stories, but even his naiveté didn't match up to Chopper's. Luffy looked at the bucket of fish they had been able to catch, a step down from the usual three buckets they were able to accumulate on an average day. He frowned in slight disappointment, but he knew from an earlier kitchen raid (which had earned him a good old kick from Sanji) that they had enough food for the next two weeks, and they would reach Elbaf at least a week before then.
"Well, I'm gonna go for now, got bored of fishing", Luffy waved at his friends.
"Oi oi, where do you think you're going?" Said friends raised their hands in protest.
"To go find Nami!" Luffy grinned in mischief.
"See, I told you Chopper. Our navigator has cast a deadly spell on our captain, luring him away with no effort!" Usopp gestured wildly.
"Ehh?! Oh no Luffy, I got to find a cure for you then!" The doctor panicked.
"It's fine, I just wanna spend some time with her, that's all. Maybe she'll let me eat a tangerine", Luffy chuckled
"Oh boy, good luck with that. Alright Chopper, since we don't want to get killed by Nami like Luffy does, let's hand this bucket over to Sanji and then move below deck to the Usopp Factory!" Usopp hit his palm with a fist.
"Okay! What cool new things did you make?" The reindeer's eyes sparkled with interest.
As the duo walked away, Luffy did a quick scan of the ship with his haki. Aside from Zoro and Jinbe, Brook was composing a song in the men's quarters, Robin and Franky were in the latter's workshop, Sanji was busy preparing lunch in the kitchen and the woman Luffy sought was in her new, expanded tangerine grove. Using the mast, the captain stretched his arms and flung himself in the direction of his destination. He always enjoyed leaping around the ship, enjoying the ocean breeze on his face. It reminded him of freedom, something he felt he had gained more of after defeating Kaido, freeing Wano and cementing himself as an Emperor of the Sea with his newfound power, although he didn't really care about the title. Besides being the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, only the title of Pirate King truly mattered to him when it came to status. It was in the land of samurai too where he and Nami had taken the next step in their relationship, during the spectacular week-long celebrations after the raid. Luffy had learned a number of things about women and romance since then thanks to her and though he didn't fully understand all of it just yet, he found that he greatly enjoyed spending time with her and learning more and more about her. They hadn't yet revealed anything to the rest of the crew, but one day they would - Nami had to bargain with Luffy using meat to get him to abandon his moral of "no secrets in the crew" just this once, temporarily.
The captain landed at the edge of the grove and walked inside after noticing her high-heeled sandals next to his landing spot, searching for his navigator amongst the green leaves and tangerines bathed in warm sunlight. Nami, clad in an orange bikini top and a short denim skirt, was busy gathering her prized fruits in a small basket, intending to hand them over to Sanji to refill his stock. The navigator jumped in surprise when she felt the captain's straw hat being placed on her head, followed by a pair of rubbery arms wrapping around her bare midriff and a warm breath on her neck, while hearing the rubber man's signature chuckle.
"Yo! Shishishi", Luffy rested his chin on Nami's right shoulder with a wide, sunny grin.
She pulled on his nose. "Don't scare me like that, idiot", letting it snap back in place, garnering a little yelp from him. Nonetheless, she was unable to keep the smile from her face and turned her head to kiss him on the cheek; Nami loved Luffy dearly and loved his company too. She couldn't believe it had taken her so long to figure out her real feelings for him after so many wonderful memories with him, all the times he had driven her crazy as well as made her smile and laugh. Well, better late than never.
"Came looking for tangerines?" She asked with an amused smirk.
"Yup, and you too!" Luffy nuzzled the juncture between Nami's neck and shoulder, prying a small giggle out of her. He smiled at that; her laughs were always lovely to listen to, as opposed to her yells when he did something stupid.
"Well, I'm flattered. As a reward, you can have two tangerines, maybe even three", she winked as she stepped away from his embrace and sat against the small wooden stump at the back of the grove, furthest away from unwelcome eyes. She parted her legs and gestured to her chest, inviting Luffy to rest himself against her.
With a pleased "shishishi", he kicked off his sandals, bounded over to his lover and enthusiastically snuggled up to her, laying the back of his head between her breasts. Nami wrapped her arms around Luffy's shoulders while smoothing down his red cardigan and peered down at his grinning face, placing another kiss on his head.
"What if I told you this will cost you?" She cheekily whispered. It was quite the sight to see Luffy's expression transition from delight to comical horror in an instant, and Nami couldn't hold back an amused snort at that.
"No way! I shouldn't be charged for this! I'm your boyhood- no, buoyance- uh, boy-"
"Boyfriend."
"Yeah that!"
She chuckled again. "Don't worry captain, I was just kidding. Want to know how much your fine would have been otherwise though?"
"Oh, how much?"
"Four billion~"
"Eh?! That's crazy, I could never pay that off!" The captain exclaimed.
"Well you don't have to, since that's your bounty after all", Nami smiled fondly.
A moment passed before a look of realization manifested on Luffy's face. "Oh I see, shishishi!"
"Wow, you really have become faster over here", the navigator tapped her lover's forehead with a knuckle teasingly, chuckling at the adorable pout on his face.
"How rude! I learn things every day, you know!" He protested, folding his arms across his scarred chest while looking up at the orange-haired woman.
"Is that so? Do you know about saline density then?"
"Saliden City? Nope, never been there."
Nami couldn't help but laugh out loud at her captain's innocent answer. "Looks like you've got some way to go then", humouring his misunderstanding. Luffy grinned, always up for a challenge being the determined man he was. He sighed in contentment as he relaxed further in Nami's embrace, enjoying the moment of comfortable silence between them and listening to the seagulls squawking in the air. The sight of orange grabbed his attention and he grinned, an idea occurring to him. Nami felt a tug on a thick column of her hair and looked down to see Luffy using it as a moustache.
"Look at me, I've become the tangerine man!" He laughed childishly.
"You better not get any snot in my hair, or that's a 20,000 beli fine", she quipped, a smile tugging at her lips despite herself.
"Shishisi, I won't. Also, your boobs are real comfortable, you know", he casually remarked.
The navigator went red in the face. "Well, t-thanks I guess", she muttered in embarrassment. "Don't say stuff like that out loud though, otherwise you won't get to rest like this. Well, definitely not for anyone else to hear at least."
"Oh I won't then, I really like them", Luffy snuggled further into her chest. "Also, are you excited about Elbaf?"
The corners of Nami's lips quirked upwards at the rapid shift in discussion topics. "Of course, it's the country Usopp has always wanted to visit, I get to map another part of the world and I'm sure we'll be safe there no matter what, with you and the others being so strong now."
"Hmm? You're strong too", the rubber man stated seriously. "We all grew and became way stronger in Wano."
"Yeah, you're right", Nami conceded. Even though she hadn't been able to take down Ulti for hurting sweet, little Tama, she had been able to take down a few of those gigantic Numbers in Onigashima on her own later on. "You most of all though, you've become a real Emperor after all!"
"Eh, I want to be the Pirate King. Emperor of the Sea isn't really enough", Luffy replied, scratching his chin.
Nami laughed lightly while adjusting the straw hat on her head. "Well of course, only the best is good enough", she rubbed her nose against his hair, earning a chuckle from him.
The pair continued to talk about anything that interested them, from what they would do in Elbaf as a crew to the pranks that Luffy had lined up for their crew members. Nami even agreed to participate in a few of them, provided they didn't go too far; she had discovered that she too possessed a mischievous side not long ago when they were still in Wano and frankly, replacing Zoro's weights with balloons or placing a bucket of water over the door of Usopp's workshop sounded irresistibly funny. The captain and navigator were happy as they could be, enjoying each other's company in the comfortable warmth of the latter's precious tangerine grove.
"Alright, that really is the last tangerine you get for now", Nami fed her captain the last piece of the fifth tangerine she had rewarded him with. She hadn't been able to stop herself from going over the allotted quota, not after the puppy eyes that Luffy had directed at her after the third tangerine.
Luffy pouted at her firm decision. "Well, just gotta find something else to eat then."
At that moment, he became properly aware of Nami's body for the first time that day and turned around in her arms, holding himself up on his forearms in the grass. She glanced at him quizzically before noticing the hunger in his eyes, and her face promptly flushed red. However, she wasn't going to let herself be swept up so easily by the very evident lust radiating from Luffy, akin to his usual hunger for food but with more intimacy to it.
"Could it be me that you're looking for?" The navigator flashed a seductive smirk at him.
At her bold invitation, Luffy grinned and leaned forwards to clumsily press his lips against hers, enjoying the feeling of her soft skin. He hesitantly cupped her cheek with his right hand, while Nami entangled her fingers in his hair, encouraging him to keep going. He roughly prodded her lips with his tongue and she gladly allowed him to enter, meeting his tongue with her own. The rubber man had been disastrously bad at kissing initially (seriously, clacking teeth four times in a row did not make for a good experience) and while he still wasn't an expert at it, he had improved by leaps and bounds and Nami found that she rather liked his imperfection at it. She too had no experience before Luffy, but her talks with Nojiko and Robin (along with the romance novels she read on occasion) provided enough prior guidance to not be anywhere near as terrible as him to begin with. At least he hadn't been totally clueless; he had revealed that Makino had taught him the basics of romance and even sex as he grew older.
After several moments, they parted for air with a string of saliva still connecting their lips. Even Luffy sported an obvious blush on his face as he panted slightly, mind having partially melted from the kiss. His girlfriend was in a similar state, cupping his face while gazing lustfully with hazy, brown eyes.
"Your tangerines tasted really good and… you taste really good too", he murmured, running his tongue over his lips. Nami felt the heat that had begun to pool in her stomach grow hotter, fuelled by her desire for the man before her.
"I'm glad you enjoy my taste", she pecked his lips briefly, feeling flattered by the way Luffy tried chasing her lips as she leaned back.
The man briefly burrowed into her chest again, pressing a sloppy kiss in the dip between her breasts before tracing a wet trail with his tongue down to her navel. Her breath hitched as she felt him delve into her belly button and she gave a hum of contentment as she ran her fingers through his hair again, enjoying the clumsy yet intimate caress of his lips and tongue all over her toned stomach while his palms lay flat on her bare back, holding her up. Luffy had learned very quickly what gave Nami pleasure and found she tasted delicious everywhere, even though they had only had such an encounter once before in Wano. Despite the amount of fumbling and uncertain exploration both had gone through, they had had an unforgettable night on the last day of the celebrations. Neither had revealed what had transpired between them to the rest of the crew, at Nami's vehement request.
The captain adjusted himself to lie on his stomach before her and tilted his head back to lean his chin right above her crotch. "Can I taste more of you?" He asked, completely straightforward with a tinge of desire.
As if the navigator's face hadn't been red enough already, she adopted an even deeper shade of maroon at his bold question. "B-but Luffy, we're out in the open! We could get caught out here", she whispered frantically, clasping her cheeks to try and collect herself.
"It's fine, I can detect any of the others approaching with my haki, remember?" The man grinned up at her boyishly. "Besides, we haven't done this kind of stuff since Wano and I really want to do it now", he put his shoulders beneath Nami's luscious thighs and wrapped his left arm around one of them, while gripping her skirt with the other hand.
As much as she didn't want to admit it, the orange-haired woman felt a thrill at the idea of having sex out in the open while doing their best to not get caught, wanting this just as much as the black-haired man before her. Unable to find words to utter at present, she quickly nodded to give permission to Luffy to proceed.
With an excited grin, he pressed another sloppy kiss to his navigator's belly before moving further down her body. Lifting up her skirt to her navel, he briefly gazed at the orange bikini bottoms she wore and the wet spot on them, before untying the string on her right hip. As he slowly peeled them off from her core, discarding them in the grass, he heard a quiet gasp and looked up to see Nami flushed with embarrassment yet with blatant desire shining through her eyes. She took a glance at his eyes and nodded again, resting her hands in his hair and giving him a gentle push towards her soaked pink folds.
Luffy wrapped both arms around her thighs and planted his face between them roughly, plunging his tongue into her core. Nami gave a gasp, followed by a great moan at the pleasure running through her nerves. She quickly slapped her hands over her mouth, remembering that she needed to be quiet. Looking down at her lover, she saw him grin briefly up at her before diving back to continue his feast. The rough movements of his tongue between her folds had Nami panting with need, as she tried to suppress her moans as best as possible. Suddenly she felt her clitoris being sucked on and rolled around in Luffy's mouth, and jolted at the tremendous amount of pleasure that coursed through her while moaning deeply. He dropped his mouth to focus on her folds again, successfully yet unintentionally teasing her.
"More…" She begged as she pulled down her bikini top to expose her large, creamy breasts. Luffy looked up to see his navigator twisting her left nipple while gripping onto his hair with her right hand. She had gone completely pink in the face while biting on her lower lip, had a light sheen of sweat forming on her skin and looked absolutely stunning with the sunlight filtering through the leaves of the closest tangerine bush, lighting up her copper waves like fire. The captain found it a real mystery how he hadn't understood the beauty of women until Nami had shown him that night in Wano, before resuming his duty to lick and suck away at her pussy. He was hungry and would continue to enjoy his meal. He moved his hands to cup her supple bottom and pressed his face closer to her, sinking his fingers into her bare flesh while increasing the intensity of his ministrations.
"Ah! Yes…!" Nami moaned as softly as she could, pausing the attention to her breasts to grab Luffy's hair with both hands. She pulled on his hair, causing Luffy to hum right into her wetness and amplify the pleasure she left. "Oh Luffy, I'm so close!" She panted, her breathing becoming more frantic as she edged closer to her climax.
The rubber man focused on her clit and wrapped his mouth around it, relentlessly flicking it with his tongue while his lower lip continued to push against her wetness, his upper lip getting tickled by the trimmed ginger patch of hair above it. He had quickly learned that the small pink protrusion at the top of her pussy gave her the best possible feeling – just as quickly as he had learned advanced conqueror's haki while fighting Kaido - and Luffy really wanted her to crest that peak of pleasure. He wanted it now. Nami nearly screamed as the pleasure was raised tenfold and her mouth hung open as she threw her head back in rapture against the stump to direct her lustful gaze at the sky. She looked back down to press Luffy impossibly closer, rocking her hips against his face and letting her panting and gasping grow faster and louder.
"I'm- I'm cumming!" Nami bit into her left hand and muffled a loud moan as pleasure rippled through her body, shaking her to the core. It was quite possibly the best orgasm she had ever experienced and she couldn't believe how incredibly good Luffy had become with his technique, his inexperienced roughness only serving to heighten the desire she felt.
As Nami came back down from heaven and continued to shudder in the aftermath of her mind-blowing climax, Luffy gently lapped up the rest of the juices that had not entered his mouth from around her core. He instinctively pressed one last kiss to her clit, feeling her shudder again with a small moan, and looked up to see pure euphoria written in his lover's expression.
The navigator met his eyes and matched the wide smile on his face with her own hazy one. She gestured to Luffy to raise himself back to her, wanting to kiss him senseless. As he made his way up, he wrapped his lips around Nami's perfect, pink right nipple and suckled on her breast while squeezing the other, drawing another heated moan from her. He then switched and started sucking on the other nipple, humming when he felt Nami tangle her fingers in his hair and gently pull him closer to her large mounds. Finally, he let her breast go with a wet pop and met her lips, letting her taste herself as their tongues caressed each other's, something she found rather erotic and enjoyable.
"Hah… oh my god, Luffy…" Nami breathed quietly as she drew away from the kiss, stirring up a sense of pride within the captain. "S-So... how did I... how did I taste?" She asked with a sigh of delight as he sucked and nipped at her throat.
"Awesome! The taste is strange, but just as good as meat!" Luffy pulled away to give a sunny grin to his navigator.
"Silly... Hah... I'm glad. That was… way too damn good…" She continued to pant as her chest heaved, smiling fondly at her lover while wrapping her arms around his neck.
The man leaned in with his signature grin and rubbed his nose against hers. "Shishishi, that's great. I wanted to make you feel good 'cause you deserve it Nami, as the best navigator in the world", he laughed, embracing her warmly and causing her heart to melt just a bit more in appreciation. "I also learned another new thing, you know."
"Oh, and what could that be?" Nami smirked, despite the red and pink still present in her visage.
"Your boobs are kinda like tangerines, really tasty", the captain stated eagerly, stretching his arms around her torso to cup both of Nami's breasts and rub her stiff buds with his palms as he fondled them. She felt another tingle of pleasure as he did so, while chuckling at his silly observation. It was so like Luffy to compare her to food.
"Luffy~", she purred his name, fully intent on returning such wonderful pleasure to him. She pushed him back onto his bottom and kneeled between his legs to kiss him again. She carefully took off Luffy's treasured hat and placed it off to the side, followed up by untying her bikini top and unclipping her skirt to let both drop to the ground, leaving her completely naked. She moved her hands to the tent in Luffy's shorts. As she brushed up against his concealed length with her right hand, she untied his yellow sash with her left and felt Luffy grunt against her lips at the brief contact through his shorts.
Nami instructed her captain to lie parallel to the stump to keep them as best hidden as possible, not before removing his shirt from his muscular form. She openly ogled his broad and built torso, feeling drool build up in her mouth as the desire to run her hands and lips all over him began to overcome her. While she hated the idea of Luffy going through any kind of pain or torture, she was secretly glad at what the prison in Udon had allowed him to build. Dimly aware of Luffy taking in her own beautiful, naked form with equal desire, Nami leaned over him to press another heated kiss to his lips and then began shifting downwards, orange waves of hair draping over his form.
She nipped and suckled at his throat while caressing his chest, enjoying both the grunt from him and the feeling of his inexperienced hands roaming roughly over her back, waist, hips and ass. Her ministrations continued on his torso; she kissed and licked the centre of his large cross-shaped scar – a loving gesture that brought out widened eyes and a genuine smile from Luffy through the haze of lust he felt – while tracing his abs. Nami was running purely on instinct and desire, the desire to make her captain feel good and loved overpowering her mind. She could not care anymore whether the rest of the crew found them or not; making love to Luffy was far more important at the moment. While roving her lips and tongue over his abs, she unzipped his shorts and then leaned back to pull them off, gesturing for him to raise his hips and legs slightly to facilitate her task.
Nami was surprised to find that her captain wasn't wearing boxers and directed a raised eyebrow at him. It took him a moment, but he understood what her curiosity was about.
"Oh, I'm not wearing them 'cause I thought it was too warm today", he confirmed and indeed, he had become as sweaty as his navigator while he had eaten her out.
Nami snorted and moved back up towards his face, pressing her soft generous chest against his hard one, enjoying the feeling of his abs against her softer stomach. She kissed him with all the love she could muster, delving her left hand into his hair while caressing his cheek. Moaning into his lips after feeling her ass being squeezed by firm hands, she became very aware of the throbbing length sandwiched between their stomachs and resolved to bestow pleasure like her captain had never felt before.
Nami rolled to Luffy's right side, feeling the grass below her and draping her right leg over his own. She pressed her body to his side and slowly trailed her hand down from his chest, until it came to rest over his dick. She grabbed it gently, yet firmly and peered up at Luffy's face to gauge his reaction. He was starting to breath harder than before, anticipating the pleasure coming his way and met Nami's eyes. He broke out into a reassuring toothy smile and after remembering her earlier gesture, nodded to allow her to continue. She felt warmth in her heart as she shifted her head down from his shoulder to his chest, taking a moment to prepare herself. Reading about what to do to please your partner was one thing, actually doing it was something else entirely. Taking a deep breath, Nami remembered that it was just Luffy and dispelled her nervousness, and began to stroke his length while licking his right nipple.
Luffy huffed out a breath as the pleasure began surging through him and brought his right hand up to run it through his lover's long hair, gripping it lightly in an attempt to anchor himself. The sweat proved to be a good lubricant, allowing Nami to stroke faster while she enjoyed the salty taste of his skin as she sucked on and traced around his nipple with her lips. She felt her captain burying his face in her hair and the deep moan of pleasure against her scalp when she brushed his glans, giving her great confidence in her ability to please him.
Spurred on by that newfound confidence, Nami lifted herself up from his side and shifted downwards to lie on her stomach between his legs, getting an intimate view of his dick and "family jewels". She had never given oral pleasure before, but she decided it was time to find out how good she was at it. Despite her inner nervousness, she smirked naughtily at a sweating Luffy, his hair sticking to his forehead. He had leant up on his elbows to get a better look at the navigator and found himself entranced by her beautiful back, her perfect ass and her shapely legs. Most of all, he loved her face and suddenly felt a primal urge to see his throbbing member between those lovely lips. Being the greedy yet caring man he was, Luffy lightly grasped her hair and gently moved her head closer to his crotch.
Nami began by licking his frenulum before closing her lips around the tip. She felt emboldened by the sigh of pleasure from Luffy and moved her mouth down his length, taking in as much of the large member as she could while placing her hands on his hips. The captain choked out in surprise seeing his bold navigator enveloping his entire length; it was an incredible sight and one he wished to see more of. The unusual amount of thinking he did was washed away from his mind by the feeling of her tongue swirling around his dick, and he involuntarily let out a low moan at the immense pleasure he felt. Nami slid her mouth off and ran her tongue up the underside of his length before taking his length into her mouth again. At the same time, she began fondling his balls – being careful not to squeeze too hard - while caressing his abs with the other hand. Giving into her instincts, she began bobbing her head on his dick, picking up the pace and increasing the pleasure she was giving to Luffy. He had begun to pant out grunts periodically with the occasional moan interspersed in the haze of ecstasy. He loved the blowjob he was receiving, she loved giving it to him and she loved his unique taste.
Luffy brushed Nami's hair out of her face as she continued to work him, using both her hand and her tongue while still fondling his balls. Suddenly, she dropped her lips to his balls and fondled one of them with her mouth, using her hand to stroke his dick at a frenzied pace. He let out a muffled moan as he covered his mouth. She looked into his eyes and realized he was close to his end.
"Nami, I- something's happening... l-like last time", he panted and she immediately responded by enveloping his tip once more with her lips and sucking at his glans, running her tongue all over it. That proved to be the last straw as Luffy exploded with a drawn-out moan and released himself inside his navigator's mouth, revelling in the bliss he felt as both his hips and length jolted. Nami diligently took everything he had to offer and swallowed it all after taking her lips off his tip. The taste of his semen was bitter but she didn't mind, as it was her lover's load after all and she also felt far too turned on to be bothered regardless. She sat up with a wide, content smile, looking at her exhilarated captain panting with his gaze directed skywards, mouth hung open.
"So... how good was I, hmm?" Nami crawled up towards Luffy and gently pushed him onto his back, pressing her soft body against his hard one again. She loved seeing the stupefied look on his face, confirming to her that she had succeeded at blowing his mind, but wanted to hear it from him anyway.
"That was... Hah... Amazing, Nami... Hah..." Luffy breathed heavily, trying to get himself under control. The orange-haired woman giggled before lowering her face to kiss him, her hair forming a curtain around his head. The kiss was long, sweet and wholesome and they enjoyed feeling each other's bodies with their hands while their tongues slowly danced together between their lips. Luffy suddenly pushed himself up and adjusted Nami to let her sit in his lap comfortably.
"Shishishi, you're really amazing Nami!" He nuzzled his nose against hers, leaning their sweaty foreheads together. She was overcome by a swell of affection and began placing butterfly kisses all over his face while cupping his cheeks. He smiled, enjoying the love he felt in her kisses. She still smelled like tangerines and money despite her sweat, and Luffy concluded it was definitely one of his favourite scents in the world.
"I love you, Luffy", Nami whispered affectionately, pressing a last, short kiss to his lips before tucking her head into the crook of his neck.
"Mmm, love you too, Nami", he responded, hugging her and pulling her form closer to him. He loved how soft she felt in his embrace, the feeling of her cheek against his collarbone and the hand gently caressing the scar on his chest. He couldn't quite explain it, but the care that Nami showed towards the greatest mark of his failure touched him in a very special way. He kissed her forehead, feeling incredibly grateful to the redheaded beauty and felt his heart being warmed further by the smile and kiss she pressed to his skin.
They sat together naked under the sun in the tangerine grove, enjoying the peacefulness and the comfortable silence that pervaded their surroundings. Usually, Luffy itched to talk to break prolonged silences, but he was perfectly content to simply rest his face against his navigator's fiery hair and caress her back this time. Another quick check with his haki told him that Brook had joined Jinbe by the bow of the Sunny, Usopp and Chopper were talking to Sanji in the kitchen, Robin and Franky were still in the latter's workshop and Zoro was still snoozing away at the port-side railing.
"Oi Nami", Luffy broke the silence anyway, wanting to let the woman in his arms know about the current status of the crew. "The others are all still busy and they haven't noticed us."
"Honestly, that's really surprising", Nami nuzzled her cheek against her captain's warm skin. "It felt like we were loud enough to alert someone's attention."
"Hmmm, guess we weren't! We're pretty good at this", Luffy chuckled softly, joined by his navigator in his amusement. "Oh, you still got your log pose on, you sure it won't get broken?" He spotted the valuable tool on her right wrist as she continued feeling his scar.
"Of course it won't, and what kind of navigator would I be if I didn't have it at the ready at all times?" She stuck her tongue out at Luffy, which he met with a grin.
Struck by the realization they hadn't completed the final act, Nami dropped the same hand to her captain's half-limp length and began stroking it again to full mast, smiling at the hitch in his breath while he peered down at his crotch with widened eyes. She grinned back at him and leant upwards.
"We have still haven't had actual sex yet, you know", whispering against his lips and stroking his cheek, letting her desire be known. "I'll charge you a 200,000 beli fine with 500% interest if you leave me hanging now", she cheekily pecked him and continued to pump his dick. She brought his right hand to her core, brushing his fingers against her folds.
"O-Oh yeah, we didn't do that", Luffy replied, getting the gist of what Nami wanted as he began rubbing her wetness on his own, accidentally sliding a finger inside her.
"Mmm, I like that. But let's do something even better~", she encouraged. She stopped fondling Luffy's balls and lifted herself from his lap to lay down beside the stump. She raised her arms to invite her captain to position himself above her, a gesture he took a moment to understand before moving himself. He braced himself on his forearms above her with his knees on either side of her body, a look of very rare nervousness of on his face.
"Now, here comes the final part, just like how we finished last time", she gently pulled his body down to hers with her arms around her shoulders, before reaching down with her right hand and grabbing his member, feeling him instinctively stiffen in anticipation. She leant her face upwards and brushed a kiss against her lover's lips, to assure him that everything would be fine. Luffy huffed out a breath, the warm air wafting on Nami's face and he gave his usual toothy smile, nodding to let her know he was okay and she rewarded him with a smile of her own.
"One last thing though, don't use your powers on your... thing", she quickly told him, going red in embarrassment. In a softer tone, "I'm... I'm not ready for that just yet anyway."
Luffy tilted his head before chuckling. "That's okay, I didn't even think about doing that. You're pretty pervy Nami, shishishi!"
"You don't get to say that, Mr. 'I want to taste more of you'", she pinched his nose with mock irritation and smirked at the silly frown on his face. Not wanting the mood to be ruined, she locked lips and tongues with him and stroked his length for a few moments, satisfied by the grunt he let out.
She positioned him carefully before her wet entrance and tilted her hips upwards to meet the tip of his length, humming lightly at the contact. Luffy immediately understood and grabbed Nami's hips before driving his own down to hers in one quick movement, penetrating her for the second time ever.
The navigator purred in contentment, glad and relieved to finally feel her captain's length within her again and the warm, full feeling that came with it. He wrapped his arms around her back, lifting her up ever so slightly to cradle her above the grass and the two made eye contact. Nami smiled, raising a hand to trace the scar on his cheek and kissed him again.
"Take me then, captain."
Needing no further encouragement, Luffy grinned in response and pulled his throbbing erection back before slamming back into his navigator. They both saw stars as their hips collided with wet smacks and their lips met, tongues interlocking. He began to speed up his thrusts as Nami's walls clenched around him, her own hips rocking to match his pace and increase the pleasure they both felt. Under the bright sun and the wide blue sky, hidden away in the strong scent of tangerines from the rest of the world, Luffy and Nami made love to each other and kept their lips locked, swallowing each other's grunts and moans before they could leak out and separating briefly only for oxygen. The rubber man's instincts were excellent in any situation and this was no different, as he took notice of a particularly loud moan when he struck Nami at a certain angle with his dick deep within her, and began thrusting in that direction to keep hitting the sweet spot.
Breaking off another kiss for much needed air, the navigator proceeded to bite down on her lover's shoulder to muffle her mewls of pleasure while he grunted into her neck. Sweat-slicked bodies moved frantically against each other; Nami's breasts and hard nipples rubbed against Luffy's sturdy chest. She scratched his back with her nails and locked her legs around his hips, intending to keep him in place and not let him pull out; she had somehow remembered through the overpowering haze of lust that today was a safe day. Luffy groaned in pure bliss at the feeling of her nails on his back and hugged her tighter, burrowed his face further into her neck and quickened his thrusts. He erratically kissed and licked her neck, eager to taste her and determined to satisfy her the best that he could.
Drunk on pleasure, Nami barely managed to moan out, "I'm close... Faster, Luffy...!"
He clenched a fist in her hair as he felt the familiar knot in his abdomen indicating that he was close too. What had Nami called it earlier, "cumming"?
"I'm close too, gonna cum...!" Luffy panted, trying to keep his voice down.
The two smashed their lips against together, once again stifling their moans and groans and he pounded faster and faster into her.
Nami screamed Luffy's name into his mouth and was flooded with ecstasy as she gushed over his hard length, her abdomen and hips twitching and shuddering as she came, hard. Her orgasm was drawn out by Luffy meeting his own climax, enjoying the feeling of hot, sticky fluids flowing into her as he groaned her name against her lips.
The captain and navigator parted, panting heavily and feeling their warm breaths billowing against each other's faces. The rubber man gently rocked his length into her a few more times, both of them sighing in contentment from the pleasant feeling caused by his movements, before he finally pulled out. He rolled over to his left to lie on the grass, ignoring the sting of the scratches against the small green blades, and he pulled his lover to rest on top of him.
The couple felt their heartbeats slowing down to a normal rhythm as they caught their breaths. The orange-haired woman in particular could hardly move, feeling a dull yet very pleasant ache in between her legs as a result of their coupling. She rested her cheek against her lover's chest, one arm around his waist and on a whim, she shifted slightly to press a kiss to the center of his scar once more.
Luffy raised his head to gaze at the navigator in gratitude, tightening his embrace around her. In response, she gazed back at him and smiled, shifting herself upwards to kiss him on the lips. He let his fingers linger on her tattoo, a reminder of where she came from and what she had set out to do, as he caressed her. The sight of Nami's flushed, sweaty face, her damp hair sticking to her forehead, her breasts pressed against his chest and the beautiful, satisfied smile adorning her face all made for an enchanting sight to behold.
"Luffy... that was the best I've ever felt in my life!" She beamed radiantly down at him after raising herself on her arms resting on his broad chest.
"Really? Shishishi, that's great! So, even better than in Wano?" He grinned back at her.
"Oh yeah, way better", she confirmed. "That was just our first time after all, we were both inexperienced", she continued as she traced his cheek scar lightly with a fingernail.
"Yeah, I felt amazing too. We gotta do this more often!" Luffy huffed out with a stately nod. Nami giggled at his gesture and pecked him on the nose.
"Of course we will, although not right now as I'm very sweaty and quite tired", she sighed, resting her head in the crook of her captain's neck.
"Oh yeah, what should we do? Kinda gross if we just wore our clothes again."
A lightbulb lit up in Nami's head. "Do you see my Clima-Tact to the side? Bring it over here, I can use Mirage Tempo to hide us and we can both go to the bathhouse to shower and clean ourselves up", she explained as she sat up, moving herself off of Luffy to gather up her bikini and skirt. He did the same with his own clothes and hat before stretching his arm to retrieve the Clima-Tact.
The pair looked at each other as they sat naked side by side in the grass with their clothes in hand. Happiness bubbled up in them and they both burst out laughing in pure joy, leaning on each other's shoulders as they basked in their mirth.
"Ah Luffy, I really love you!" She proudly declared as her laughter died down.
"Shishishi, same! Love you too, Nami!" He ditched what he was holding to hug her back to his chest and nuzzled her sweaty, pink cheek with his nose in response. She giggled at his innocent affection before yelping as he suddenly tugged her down with him to the ground. She broke into full-blown laughter when Luffy wrapped his stretchy arms several times around her and tickled her stomach while blowing raspberries into her neck mischievously.
"Wait, hahaha! S-Stop, we need to be quiet, haha...!" Nami gasped with mirth. Her captain slowed his relentless tickling to a halt with a chuckle and she turned in his rubbery arms, kissing him again and smiling against his lips. She settled in his arms and reflected on how much she loved Luffy, his skin against her skin, the warmth radiating from him and the sense of complete safety and security she felt in his embrace; she was almost lulled into a peaceful slumber, feeling her lover breathing softly into her hair. After a few moments though, she became aware of his growing hardness against her thigh and blushed looking up at his sweaty eager face, feeling her own arousal intensifying in the form of trickling wetness on her thighs. However, as much as she now wanted to do it again, it was too risky continuing outside where the others could eventually catch them.
"Luffy, let's go to the bathhouse first, okay? I don't want to get caught like this by the others", Nami whispered.
"Hmm, okay. Makes sense. We're doing it again though, right?" Luffy unwrapped his arms, sitting up to grab his clothes and hat again.
"Since I changed my mind, of course silly. Just not out here though", the young woman stood up, straightening her frazzled hair.
After dusting off grass from her body, she caught Luffy simply staring at her perfect, naked form and she smirked down at him.
"Hey, you'll get this view plenty of times from now on, don't get greedy~", she chided him teasingly as she picked up her clothes and Clima-Tact and offered him a hand to stand. To her surprise, he looked like he was deep in thought when he stood up. His expression served as a decent enough distraction to keep her attention away from his delectable torso and what lay below it anyway.
"Wait a minute, you're the greedy one right?"
"Who cares about that?!" She comically yelled and gave him a conk on the head. He merely laughed in response and she pouted, although she let herself relax when he hugged her from behind and nuzzled his face in her neck again. However, when he started squeezing one of her breasts with his free hand and she felt his erection grow larger against her ass, she quickly remembered what they needed to do before they got carried away again - although she was very tempted to let him have his way with her right then and there.
"Wait Luffy, I need to cast Mirage Tempo so we can head to the bathhouse, okay? Don't distract me for now", she admonished him.
He pouted but nodded, understanding that she was making the right choice. He relied on her a lot for her smart decisions after all.
Nami swung her Clima-Tact around them to cast a bubble of cool air around them to hide them from sight. As they walked out of the grove towards the library, they heard the call for lunch.
"Nami-swaaan, Robin-chwaaan, lunch is served for my beautiful mademoiselles! Rest of you shitheads, food's ready!"
Luffy nearly made a break to jump off the upper deck, but Nami grabbed his arm just in time.
"Idiot, we're both sweaty and naked. We need to go shower first", she kept her voice low as she glared at the rubber man.
He whined but once again went along with her decision. It was rather exciting for both of them to be travelling across the ship while naked, even if they were invisible and it was only a short distance. They quickly entered the library and upon confirming no one was in there, Nami swung her Clima-Tact again to dispel the bubble of air.
"We should try that again some time, going around naked while invisible", she whispered, feeling rather bold and shameless.
"If it means we get to have that thing again-"
"Sex."
"Yeah that, then definitely! Shishishi!"
The navigator shook her head with a fond smile and walked up to embrace Luffy, kissing him deeply and pressing her bare body against his, intending to give a him a teaser of what was to come in the shower. He was about to secure his arms around her when she stepped away, a teasing smirk present on her face despite her complexion of red; the captain was too mesmerized by the navigator's beauty to even pout at the interruption. She beckoned him with a finger and went up the ladder first, making it a point to give Luffy a good view as they ascended into the bathhouse. She giggled when she heard a delighted "Oooh!" from her dear rubber idiot.
Unbeknownst to them as they entered, a pair of dark eyes disappeared from a nearby bookshelf in a small flurry of petals.
EXTRA:
After giving each other "grandma hair" with shampoo, laughing together and having another quick round of sex (Nami discovered she loved being taken from behind), she and Luffy hurriedly finished showering, dried each other off and arrived at lunch well past the usual time.
"Sanji, meat!" Luffy called out as he walked into the dining room, black coat swishing behind him with Nami, dressed in a simple blouse and shorts, at his side.
"Oi shitty rubber, where were you? And what were you doing with Nami-san? He didn't hurt you, right Nami-swaaan?"
"Oi Luffy, it's been more than two hours since me and Chopper last saw you!
"Oh yeah Nami, I haven't seen you for a while either! I was going to give you the medicine you asked for!"
"Huh? Medicine?" Luffy turned to the young woman with a quizzical look. Her cheeks were tinged with red.
"Don't mind it for now, I'll tell you later, okay? Nothing's wrong with me, I promise", she reassured quietly with a smile.
The captain frowned in concern but nodded, trusting his navigator.
Zoro merely grunted and turned back to his food. However, Robin, Franky, Brook and Jinbe all had noticeably knowing looks on their faces (or at least as close you could get with the musician's lack of a face) and they didn't escape the navigator's attention. As she assuaged Sanji, Usopp and Chopper's worries, Nami and Luffy next to each other at the table and while he quickly dug in and made to do battle for his crewmates' food with his rubbery, thieving arms, she peered suspiciously at the eldest members of the crew. Robin and Franky in particular gave identical knowing smiles and it infuriated the orange-haired woman, that they knew something she didn't.
"Nami-san, did you prepare the tangerines for the stock?" Sanji reminded her.
She smacked her forehead as she remembered, having been too caught up by Luffy and their activities earlier. "Oh yes, I left the basket in my grove by accident, I'll go get them", she stood to make her way out.
"Ah, please don't trouble yourself Nami-swan! Leave it to your knight to fetch them himself!" The cook twirled away with hearts in his eyes.
"Hmph, gross ero-cook as always", Zoro muttered as he popped a rice ball into his mouth before his captain could get his rubbery fingers on it.
The sounds of Luffy, Usopp and Chopper's yelling along with the discussion between the older members of the crew faded into the background as Nami racked her brain. She was forgetting something else besides her basket of tangerines, quite uncharacteristic of her. She and Luffy had picked up all their clothes, surely they hadn't left anything behind? With a flash of horror and the sudden feeling of the floor below her bare feet, she remembered that they had left their footwear behind and right on cue, a strangled yell of anger echoed from outside to signal that Sanji had come across the forgotten items.
The rest of the crew looked up in confusion before the cook burst into the kitchen seconds later, holding up the two pairs of sandals. Steam practically vented out of the blond-haired man's nostrils in rage.
"Luffy! What is the meaning of this? Why were your sandals outside Nami-san's tangerine grove?" Sanji demanded, shaking the captain's offending items in his face.
Luffy laughed as he took his footwear. "Oh yeah, Nami and I just had sex in the grove and it was amaz-"
His voice was muffled as Nami desperately tried slapping a hand over his mouth but it was too late. Pin drop silence reigned over the dining room. Sanji's cigarette dropped to the floor as his jaws fell open and his eyes widened, the other members of the crew - besides the four oldest - wearing similar expressions of shock. Robin smiled, Franky grinned, Brook sipped his tea and Jinbe drank his water.
"N-Nami-san...? Is this... is this true?" Sanji whimpered at the navigator after partially recovering from the shock. Her frantic movement had not escaped his notice.
She cast a withering glare at Luffy, causing him to sweat and cower in fear, and looked around the rest of the room before sighing in resignation. The crew would find out eventually and it looked like four of them already knew anyway. She bet it was Robin with her intrusive Devil Fruit ability.
"Yes, it is. Luffy and I have been together since the celebrations in Wano and we were planning to tell you all when the time was right", she rubbed her temples, not wanting to deal with this.
A moment passed before chaos descended upon the room.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO! Nami-swaaaan!"
"No way, she really did cast a spell on Luffy!"
"Ah! What do we do, Usopp?!"
"You two look radiant in your after-glow, yohohoho!"
"SUPER technique, Luffy!"
"You did rather well to keep the noise down Luffy-kun, Nami."
While Nami grabbed Luffy's ear and yelled at him about revealing private matters so casually, Zoro laughed at his rival's miserable state and Robin chuckled, feeling happy for the captain and navigator. She turned towards the cyborg beside her and winked when she caught his attention. Franky gave a grin and a firm nod in response.
"Since Luffy-bro and Nami-sis have announced they're a couple, we have an announcement too", he stood up while holding Robin's hand as she got up too. "Robin and I are together as well!"
Another round of silence took the room. Nami joined the others in dropping their jaws and widening their eyes. Sanji's cigarette fell out a second time, Luffy's mouth formed into an 'o' shape, Brook sipped some more tea and Jinbe drank some more water.
"R-Robin-chan... you too...?" A heartbroken cook whimpered, breaking the silence.
"Yes, since Dressrosa", she smiled serenely. "I'd say we did a better job of keeping our secret", she glanced teasingly at a startled navigator and a confused captain.
The room broke into an encore of chaos.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO! This is too much for my poor heart...!"
"How did I never notice? We live in the same room Robin!"
"Oi Franky, you're like me! We both have girlfriends!"
"WHAT?! Franky, you've been roped in by a woman too?!"
"Ah! I have to give both Nami and Robin contraception then!"
"About time you told the others, yohohoho!"
"Comes as no surprise, but congratulations anyway."
Zoro was absolutely beside himself with laughter at the sobbing cook slumped on the ground.
"SHUT UP MARIMO! Shitty rubber, shitty cyborg... lucky bastards!"
Luffy and Franky laughed and high-fived each other. Nami sighed in grudging amusement while Robin chuckled at the chaos in the room.
"The recent announcements have touched my heart, if I had one! To celebrate, I shall play a song for this special occasion, for the two happy couples on board!" Brook pulled out his violin with a flourish and began to fill the room with his musical wonder.
As the rest of the crew began to sing and dance along - a certain trio goofing off with chopsticks in their nostrils - Sanji picked himself up with a smile, truly happy for the two couples. He had suspected for a while the special bonds that existed between them: how Luffy would seek out Nami more often, how she gave him fond smiles when he wasn't looking, how Franky presented most of his handy inventions to Robin, how she would frequently help him in the workshop with many additional hands. Sanji caught a knowing smirk from Zoro and flipped him off in return, unable to keep the grin off his face.
It was a happy day and as the crew celebrated two blossoming romances, they travelled ever onwards, to Elbaf and eventually to Laugh Tale.
FIN