Luffy twitched as he lay in an unconscious state of mind. A car drove past them, though pulling over, to see the commotion. They pulled over on the opposite side of the road that the Sunny was parked on, as they were coming from the opposing direction. Chopper looked over as the back door of the limousine was opened, and a man with his green hair slicked back, and in a tight black suit with a green lined cape stepped out.
"Sanji!" Chopper immediately exclaimed, upon noticing the swirl of his eyebrow.
"I'm not Sanji," the man began speaking, before noticing Nami, "Hot!"
"It isn't Sanji, Chopper, but he sure acts like him." Nami replied, as she was gripping Luffy's near lifeless hand.
"Do you have any medicine with you?" Chopper exclaimed, rushing over to the man, before being halted by the raise of his hand.
"Medicine?" he asked.
"Yes, our friend ate a poisonous fish, and we need an antidote right away!" Chopper exclaimed, raising his hands as he explained.
"For that idiot?" he laughed, "Go ask someone else!"
"But there is no one else!" Brook yelled at him.
"It's not my proble-" he was cut off by someone hitting him on the head.
"Yonji, be quiet, will you." A pretty pink haired woman, with her hair covering her right eye, had hit him on the head. "What's the problem?" she asked, walking over to the doctor teen.
"Our friend has eaten a poisonous fish and-" Chopper was explaining again, and she nodded, silencing him.
She made her way over to the unconscious boy, her tight pink dress flowing slightly under the broad butterfly-esque purple cape she wore. She knelt by Luffy, shooing Nami away in the process, and rested her hand against his face, "Was the fish in a purple hue?"
"Yes!" Nami replied, holding up a picture on her phone on the attributes of the fish.
The woman looked at the picture, before licking her lips, "My favorite." she smiled, and collapsed her lips onto Luffy's.
"W-What are you doing?" Nami yelled a bright blush appearing on her cheeks.
"Don't do that! You'll die!" Chopper announced, rushing over to stop her.
The woman's cheeks sucked in as she began to consume the poison from one mouth to her own. She gulped lightly, and continued to use the boy's mouth as a straw. She pulled her lips away from his, finally, Luffy collapsing back on the ground, and she licked her lips. "That was delicious."
"You… you just sucked the poison out of him!" Chopper exclaimed, rushing over, "How? Are you okay? Do you want me to examine you?"
"No, no, no," she replied, with a light smile, "I'm Reiju, Sanji's sister, Poison Pink." she smiled, "That really was delicious." She noticed the boy's look to her, than the black haired adult unconscious on the grass. "The fish was luckily not far down his esophagus, so it was easy to get out, though I recommend using this to finish the job." She smiled, and dug into the cleavage of her dress, to pull out a small vile.
"An antidote?" Chopper asked, catching it, after she threw it to him.
"It should help." she smiled.
Luffy sat up, and rubbed his head, "What happened?" he asked.
"Oh! Luffy!" Nami cried, and rushed over to him, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," Luffy replied, looking around him. He noticed Reiju standing looking at him, with the smile he gives to meat printed on her face, "Sanji?" he asked, also appearing to notice her swirled eyebrow.
"No, but I am his sister." she smiled.
"She saved you, Luffy!" Chopper cried, as he hugged his friend.
"Saved? Why? What happened?" Luffy asked, looking around.
"You idiot!" Nami cried hitting his head, her blush still present on her cheeks.
"Where are you going, straw hat boy?" Reiju asked, as she turned to leave.
"Straw hat boy?" Nami repeated, looking at Luffy, noticing his straw hat clinging to his neck.
"We're gonna save Sanji." Luffy replied, as Chopper used a needle to give him a shot of the antidote.
"Save?" Reiju repeated, "I'm afraid that might not be possible, cause we're on our way to his wedding, now." she turned and began her walk back to their limo, "I hope you don't come." she had a frown on her face as she got in, after her brother.
They drove off, and Luffy glanced around him again, "What happened?"
"You really don't remember anything, Luffy?" Chopper cried, removing the needle.
"I remember eating that fish…" he trailed off, before his eyes seemed to sparkle, "Is there anymore? It was really good!"
"That's what got you into this mess, you idiot!" Nami cried, hitting him over the head, again.
After they had successfully gotten back on the correct route, and Nami was back behind the wheel, Luffy decided to speak, "Nami…"
She glanced over at him, waiting for him to continue, but he didn't. He just looked at his hands. She sighed, and Brook leaned over the console, connecting his phone to bluetooth so they could listen to music. Chopper was ecstatic about it, and so was Carrot. Pekoms groaned in the back, and Pedro was standing, with his head out the sunroof. Brook corrected the audio to play in the back, so they could jam out to it, and leave Luffy to his thoughts. He didn't think much, so when he did, they wanted him to have enough time doing so.
It wasn't until Nami had gotten back onto the original route, finally, about an hour later, that she heard noise coming from Luffy's general direction, other than the music blasting behind her. She glanced over at him, and his eyes were squeezed shut as if he waited for her to hit him over the head. He opened one eye and peeked at her, as she glanced over at him every once in a while, so she stayed on the road. "Luffy, did you say something?" she asked.
"What? You didn't hear me?" Luffy asked, it was a break in between songs, and she could finally hear him clearly.
She decided to pause the music, "Sorry Brook," she mumbled, and looked back at the road, "No, I couldn't."
"Oh," Luffy sighed, a frown etched on his face.
"Was it important?" Nami asked.
Luffy smiled at her, as if to hide his hurt expression, though it wasn't going well, and shook his head. He opened his squinted eyes, and asked, "How long till we get there, now?"
Nami glanced at the gps, "It's saying around four to five days."
"Okay." Luffy smiled, and played the music again, before Nami jolted down the volume.
"Hey!" Luffy, Chopper, Brook, and Carrot yelled at her.
"I've been listening to this music for an hour, okay, I don't want to hear more of it!" She called back to them.
"Nami, you're no fun." Luffy pouted, and crossed his arms, slouching in the chair.
"Slouching is bad for your back, Luffy, sit up straight."
"No." Luffy replied, and shook his head, "Not until you turn back on the music, and let us listen to it."
"I'm not gonna do that." Nami growled at him, before noticing the clouds getting closer than before, as she drove.
Luffy slouched more, sliding in his seat, so that his knees were on the ground, the lap belt across his chest, and the shoulder belt not even on him, "Then I'm not gonna sit up straight."
"It's gonna storm." Nami mumbled, and sighed, "That's not what we need right now."
Luffy slid out of his seatbelt, and raised his head, "Nami, you're ignoring me."
Nami sighed, and turned up the air, so it was blasting into Luffy's hair.
"Nami, don't do that!" Chopper yelled at her, "Luffy's ears still haven't fully healed."
"It feels good though, Chopper!" Luffy replied, closing his eyes.
"That much air blasted in your ears, isn't good for them to heal, Luffy. It took a while for them to heal fully last time, because you did stupid things like this!" Chopper yelled at him.
"Fine, fine." Luffy replied, and stretched an arm over to fix the fan speed, "But it felt good."
"Thank you," Chopper smiled, satisfied. He then looked at his friend sternly, "Don't get all messed up in Tottoland, Luffy."
"Not gonna happen." Luffy replied, sitting back into his seat, "We're just gonna get Sanji, and get out,"
Chopper looked satisfied, before leaning back into Brook as he decided to play some games since Nami wasn't letting them listen to music. Carrot was leaning over the seat to watch. Luffy looked over at Nami, and crossed his legs in the seat, his back to the door. She was looking at the road, intently. He turned his head, to see water droplets beginning to pelt his windshield. He looked back at Pedro, as he closed the sunroof, and sat back down in his seat, securing the seatbelt around him. Pekoms was sitting up now, and began a conversation with the man in front of him. Luffy felt a little left out, so he turned his attention back to Nami.
"Nami," he stated, she didn't turn to face him. "Naami." he received no response from her again, "Naamiii." he dragged out the vowels, speaking a little louder than before. Getting a little irritated by her ignorance of him, he leaned over the console and yelled in her ear, "Nami!"
She jerked her head back, and looked over at him, her nose touching his, "Luffy!"
He giggled, "I'm bored."
She turned to face the road again, a blush on her cheeks, "Talk to Brook or Chopper."
"Can't." Luffy shrugged, and rested his head on her shoulder, "They're busy."
She flinched, as his ear touched her sleeveless shoulder, "Then Pedro, or Carrot."
"Also busy," Luffy replied, and sighed, before tilting his head slightly to look at her, "besides, I wanted to talk with you."
The car swerved, and Luffy fell off her shoulder, Nami shrieked, as he caught himself before he landed in her lap, "Luffy!" She yelled trying to fix the car on the rainy road. One of Luffy's hands gripped on the dashboard, and the other on her head.
He looked up at her, "Nami, be careful!"
Nami's blush subsided slightly, as she gripped the steering wheel tightly, "What do you mean, with me?"
Luffy pushed himself in an upright position back in his seat, putting as little force as possible to her head, "I wanted to talk with you."
"Yeah, why?"
"Do I need a reason?" Luffy asked, tilting his head.
Nami raised her eyebrows, before shaking her head, "No, not really," she glanced over at him briefly, to catch his smile, "What do you wanna talk about?"
"Don't know, thought you'd have an idea." Luffy replied, holding onto his ankles, and rocking back and forth in his seat.
"I don't-" Nami corrected herself, "Is your job fun?"
"My job?" Luffy asked, she nodded in return, "Of course it's fun, Nami, is your job fun?"
"Yeah, it is." She smirked, so it isn't a job he doesn't like. She decided to chance it, some more, "What was the last fun thing you did?"
"The last fun thing I did…" Luffy repeated, his face frowning in thought, "At my job?"
"Of course!"
"Well, I-" He cut himself off, and a stern expression adorned his features, "Wait, if I tell you, am I telling you what my job is?" he asked.
"No, not at all." Nami replied, with a smile.
"Oh, okay then," he smiled, and Nami felt a little bad for deceiving him, his innocence and gullibility were too much, but she also wanted to figure out what his job was. "I think that the most fun thing I did on my job had to have been when we-" Chopper slapped a hand over his mouth, earning Nami's frown.
"Luffy! I thought you didn't tell her yet!" Chopper whispered.
"I didn't tell her." Luffy mumbled against the teen's hand.
"Then why are you telling her your job?" Chopper whispered again.
"I'm not. She said if I tell her the fun thing that happened a few days ago, then I'm not telling her my job." Luffy pouted as Chopper removed his hand.
"But that 'fun thing that happened' is your job, Luffy."
"Oh." Luffy's eyebrows raised, and his eyes widened, he slammed a fist into his palm, "Makes sense." Chopper retracted back into his seat, satisfied that he had stopped his friend from revealing something he hadn't planned on yet.
Nami, however, was severely disappointed in Chopper's sudden interference, she decided to change the subject, "Why'd you decide to move to Sabaody, anyway?"
Luffy smiled, and he giggled, "My friends are here, why else!"
"Where were you living before that?" Nami asked.
Luffy tilted his head in confusion, "I though Usopp had told you when we first met," he mumbled, then turned his body, so his back was against the backrest of the seat, "If I tell you…" he trailed off, and turned his head, "How long have you lived there?"
Nami glanced over at him, not expecting that question, "I've lived there for over two years."
"Two years!" Luffy exclaimed, "That's a long time!"
"Not really, Luffy," Nami sighed.
"So, where'd you live before that?" Luffy asked, leaning over the console.
"Cocoyashi," Nami responded, before regretting that she didn't play his game of not telling.
"Coconut?" Luffy asked, and sat back in his seat, "Sounds familiar."
Nami's eyes widened, and she looked over at him, "Have you been there?" He looked over at her, and she turned to face the road again.
"Maybe, it sounds like a place I beat some bastard up at." Luffy replied, and frowned.
"It's a small town," Nami replied, "How long ago did you beat the guy up, maybe I had met you before?"
Luffy looked over at her, "Well, it was before Ace…" he trailed off, "Over two years ago, then." He looked at the ceiling.
"Ace?" Nami mumbled, then shook it off for the time being, "Then maybe we did meet!"
"Hmm," Luffy shook his head, "I don't know, I was only there because someone stole my car, and I beat up some other guy, I didn't really even go inside the town itself."
"Stole your car?" Nami asked.
"Yeah, we only recently got Merry, too," he shrugged, "Don't worry, we got her back, alright! There wasn't even a scratch on her!" he smiled.
"Merry looked like Mini Merry, right?"
"Yeah, kind of, I mean…" he glanced back at Chopper, "Oi, Chopper, does Mini Merry look like Merry?"
Chopper looked up from Brook's phone, "A little, Mini Merry is smaller than Merry, and it's a bike instead of a car, also it's colors are slightly different," Chopper explained, "But the figurehead is the same!"
Luffy nodded, and turned back to Nami, "Yeah, it looked like it."
"I see," she voiced, before recalling a similar sounding car she had used to get back to Arlong before he got mad at her. The owners had left the keys in the ignition, so she just decided to use it for the time being. That car wasn't yellow though, and she didn't remember seeing a lamb head on it.
"Did you see Going Merry?" Luffy asked, leaning over the console again, practically in her ear.
"Maybe," Nami replied, "Who stole the car?"
Luffy frowned, "I don't know, I didn't get a good look at her. Zoro went after her with Usopp though, I wanted to be her friend."
Nami laughed, "She stole your car, and you wanted to be her friend!"
"Yeah, she seemed nice when she took it, she even told Zoro's old friends that she'd return it!" Luffy defended himself.
Nami laughed, as the rain pelted the windshield, the wipers constantly wiping the water off, only to be repeated again, "She was probably lying to them, Luffy!"
"But she was hurt when I got there, I don't think she was lying." Luffy frowned, folding his arms.
"Hurt?" Nami asked, ceasing her laughs for the time-being.
"Yeah, some girl tried telling us why, but I didn't really wanna hear it." Luffy explained, he sighed, "I really wanted to be her friend, too."
"Didn't you see her again?" Nami asked.
"Well," he thought to himself, "After I beat up the bastard, I wanted to go down to her, she still had my hat, but then Zoro got it for me, and said we had to leave, cause they were coming." he frowned again, "I never went back to the town, so…" he shrugged, "Maybe if I go back, she'll be my friend, though!" he laughed.
Nami's eyes were wide, "You gave her your hat?" she looked over at him, her attention on the hat that adorned his neck, "That one?"
Luffy looked at her as if she were stupid, "Yeah, this one, what other one?"
"Nothing, it's just the person, who freed me from my ex, had given me his hat to wear while he beat the guy up." Nami explained, looking at the road again, the sun setting, if the rain weren't making it impossible to see the red hues.
"Wow!" Luffy's eyes were wide, "This guy seems nice!"
"He was," Nami smiled, remembering how he yelled to be her friend. She had never had real friends before so his words felt more meaningful than they probably would to someone else, "I wish I could meet him again."
"Maybe you will!" Luffy giggled, and he sat back into his seat, and closed his eyes.
Nami sighed, his story seemed almost parallel to hers. If Luffy had been the man that saved her, and not the guy from the ice cream shop, she'd be perfectly fine with it, after all, this guy beside her, she knew, but she didn't know the guy from the shop. She frowned, maybe the boy who saved her wasn't the guy from the shop, after all. He did have similar sunglasses, but he also was more cheerful, and fun. He seemed like the kind of guy who was a complete dork, but was lovable like that anyway. The man from the shop was too serious. If anything, Luffy matched the boy who saved her two years ago, than the man in the shop did.
After the sun had set, she pulled into a rest stop, not wanting to waste money on a hotel, she glanced at the gas gauge and noticed it nearly empty. The rain still poured onto them, and she looked over across the street as a gas station, its lights were still on, so she assumed they were still open. She looked over at Luffy, as he lay on top of his buckled seat belt, sleeping soundly. She didn't want to spend her own money on his gas, she glanced behind her, and noticed Pedro sleeping against the window, Chopper leaning into Brook, and Carrot using the singer's afro as a pillow as they slept. Pekoms was sleeping as well. It was just like last night, she held in a giggle.
"Luffy," She whispered, and he didn't respond, "you awake?" The silence told her he wasn't, and she whispered, "I'm gonna use your card on the gas, okay?" she asked, only to be met with sleepy mumbles of meat.
She pulled out of the rest stop, and drove across the street to the gas station. She pulled into one of the pumps, and looked over at Luffy, gulping lightly, as she leaned over the console to him.