Howdy! Thanks to everyone for the feedback! THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY!
*koff koff* Anyway, I'm starting to amp up the "romance" bit as you can see in this chapter. I know, I enjoy a bit of action too, but it's supposed to be a LUNA, have you forgotten?!
"Dammit!" Breathed out Franky, plopping down on a stool near the Sunny. "Even with my super radar, I couldn't find those bastards!"
Suddenly, Franky appeared on the ground with a dark aura around him.
"I'm useless today...Useless..."
"If we didn't find them maybe somebody else did..." Commented Chopper softly. Suddenly they heard a mixture of haunting-sounding singing and swooning. Chopper rushed over to them, tugging nervously on his blue cap.
"Did you guys find them? Robin?"
Robin shook her head, expertly blocking out the obvious annoyance that was occurring beside her.
Chopper sighed and plopped cross-legged on the grass. Robin glanced over in Franky's direction, slightly amused by his depression.
"Shouldn't Mr. Robot get to work on the Sunny?" Robin asked passively. Chopper lifted his eyes and ran steaming toward him.
"FRANKY YOU BUM! GET TO WORK! IDIOT!"
Robin giggled at the reindeer hitting Franky over the head, but then she heard something. From behind her. She turned around and saw a disfigured looking figure in the distance.
"Everyone, who's that?"
Sanji and Brook looked up from their spell and Chopper glanced behind him. Robin squinted for a moment before widening her eyes.
"It's Luffy."
"What?" Robin and Chopper rushed over and saw a very weak and worn Nami carrying the wounded and unconscious Luffy on her back. Nami collapsed onto her knees, and dropped Luffy on the ground. Robin kneeled next to her while Chopper checked out Luffy.
"Nami! What happened to you two?!" Robin asked concerned. Nami was panting, and couldn't answer. Robin blinked.
"Sanji-kun, please come here." Demanded Robin. Sanji whirled over in a hurricane of hearts, but stopped when he noticed the condition Nami was in.
"Nami-San. Did you find them? Why is Luffy so badly injured?"
"Leave her alone for right now." Snapped Chopper. "She needs treatment too. I just need to stop the bleeding on Luffy first." Brook and Franky motioned for them, and they left Chopper to his work.
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An hour later, Luffy had been moved to inside Chopper's tent and Nami was resting in hers. Nami awoke to activity outside.
"Huh? What?" She winced painfully, and noticed that she had a bandage around her head. Why do I need a bandage? She thought, until she touched it and winced. Maybe I cut it when I fell down. She crawled out of the tent and saw everyone sitting around the fire tensely. It was turning night. She stood and walked toward them.
"Nami!" Jumped everyone. They all smiled at her happily, and Sanji of course freaked out. Nami giggled, but then noticed some of the crew were missing.
"Oi, where are the others?" She asked Robin.
"Well, Chopper is in his tent operating on Luffy..."
"OPERATING!?" Shouted Nami. Franky and Brook glanced at each other and Robin looked at her sympathetically.
"He has to get the shrapnel from the bullets out Nami..." She said tortly. She noticed that the rest of them were worried about the outcome too.
"And what about the other two?"
"You mean Usopp and Zoro?"
Sanji lit a cigarette. "The Marimo and the idiot haven't come back yet..."
"Oh god...They got lost didn't they..." Nami facepalmed. "Stupid idiots."
They were interrupted by Chopper, who walked out of the tent seriously. His fur was blood-stained.
"Chopper!" Nami exclaimed, running over to him. "Is he alright?!"
"Aa." Replied Chopper. "But he lost a lot of blood...He'll need to rest for a while."
Nami sighed in relief and the others loosened up and smiled. Nami winked at Sanji.
"He'll get better faster if you give him meat you know!"
Sanji contained his excitement over Nami winking at him and grinned.
"On it Nami-San!"
"Thank you Mr. Reindeer...I'm not sure what we'd do without you."
"T-that doesn't make me happy Robin, you asshole!"
Everyone laughed and Sanji started cooking dinner.
Only one person was absent from dinner. Nami had sneaked away and crawled inside Chopper's tent flap, holding a plate filled with meat. There she saw a heavily bandaged and quite pale Luffy. Aside from that, however, he was softly smiling in his sleep, breathing steadily.
Nami smiled in sympathy and lay down the plate.
"Luffy..." No answer of course. "You're such an idiot, making us worry like that." Nami sighed and sat up, kneeling right beside the sleeping boy. She stared at him for a moment, then crossed her arms.
"You owe me 1,000,000 Beli for carrying you all those miles! You'd better pay!"
She paused, looking shyly over at a corner. Then Nami rubbed her neck.
"Alright, since you're hurt I'll make it 100,000..." Another pause.
"Fine...you don't have to pay I guess..."
Just then, Luffy's hand lay onto hers. Nami raised her eyebrows in shock and glanced at his eyes, which were starting to open.
"Nami?" He questioned, squinting over at her sleepily. Nami stared at him, watching his eyes slowly come back to life. He frowned, still dopey from the pain-reliever.
"Why'd you do something like that Nami? You hurt yourself..."
Nami scoffed.
"Look at you moron, you look like a mummy..."
She coughed, staring at the floor shyly. There was his kindness again. I wish I could hit myself over the head... Her thoughts were interrupted by Luffy sitting up suddenly, knocking over a couple liquid bottles.
"Luffy! What-"
"I'm bored...I want to go play with Usopp."
"Usopp's not back yet..."
Luffy raised his eyebrows, the color coming back into his cheeks.
"Then Chopper?"
"He'd just yell at you."
Luffy pouted and lay back down, wincing from his back hitting the ground.
"Then I guess you are the only one left." He grinned.
"Yeah." Nami wagged her finger. "But we stay here. Don't get outta this tent until Chopper says so, alright?"
"Aw..."
"ALRIGHT?"
"Alright..."
Luffy suddenly grabbed Nami's hand and put it to his chest. Nami was surprised by this gesture. Instinct, she decided again. She blushed softly and scooted closer to him, and gently lay his head on her lap.
"Is that more comfortable than lying on the ground?"
Luffy closed his eyes and laughed.
"Shishishi! Your lap is warm!" As if this was the most amusing thing in the world. Nami laughed along with him, and started stroking his messy, yet surprisingly soft hair. After a silent five minutes, Nami remembered something.
"Oh! Luffy! I forgot, I brought you some meat!" Nami started to get up when Luffy placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Stay here...I'll eat the meat later." He said happily. Nami gaped at him for a second, and blinked.
"Wha-"
"This feels nicer than eating meat." Luffy added, acting as if this wasn't a big deal. Nami stopped, then laughed.
"So you really can restrain yourself, can't you?"
"What do you mean? I'm very restrainablelele!" Luffy said defensibly.
"Do you even know what that means?"
"No."
"Exactly!"
Suddenly, Luffy wrapped his left arm around Nami's neck and scooted up so he was sitting on her lap. He rested his head on her shoulder, causing Nami to blush.
"Luffy..." She began. "How do you know how to act like this if you don't even know what love is?"
Luffy glanced up at Nami, smiling.
"I don't know. My body just kinda moves on it's own."
Just then the tent flap opened and an innocent, and very confused reindeer stared at them with a shocked expression on his face. Nami's face was nearly identical, and a question mark popped out of Luffy's head.
Chopper looked at Nami, looked at Luffy cuddled up on her, Nami, Luffy, Nami, Luffy, until he stopped.
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING?!" Exclaimed Chopper, which made Nami accidentally drop Luffy onto the ground. Luffy rubbed his head.
"Oi! Nami! Why'd you go and do that for?"
"Luffy!?" Chopper turned toward Luffy with a stern expression on his face. "What were you two doing?"
"Oh...well...we were just..."
"I asked Luffy Nami!" Snapped Chopper, extremely unlike him. Nami shut up, wondering why Chopper was so frazzled over this.
"Oh! Nami came in to give me meat and I woke up and we were talking about stuff!" Laughed Luffy. "Then Nami was being nice so I sat on her!"
Ignorance is bliss...Nami thought in her mind. Nevertheless, Chopper grabbed Luffy by the ear and pulled him out of the tent.
"Ow! Chopper! Why are you...OW! My side hurts again! Chopper!"
Nami just sat inside the tent, utterly embarrassed about the situation. She knew that she would've had to tell them about Luffy sooner or later, but she didn't expect Chopper to freak out like that...
"Ok...Luffy...listen. Since you were never taught this stuff, I'm going to have to tell you some things..."
"What things?"
Chopper closed his eyes and sighed.
"Luffy...You "like" Nami, right?"
"Well yeah...But I'm having that weird "Love" feeling too."
"Yeah...that thing...Listen. You need to know a couple things before I'll let you out of here..."
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"Dammit Usopp! You got us lost!"
"No, YOU got us lost! I was following YOU!"
*rustle*
"W-what was that?!"
"Stay behind me Usopp, something is gonna die..."
What's Chopper going to say to Luffy?! Whats will happen to Zoro and Usopp? Is Luffy and Nami's relationship just too sudden for the others to handle? Find out, on the next...
NAMI WHAT'S LOVE!
Yeah, I hoped you guys liked it...I know a lot of you really enjoyed the action chapters, but this is a romance after all...but don't fret, there still WILL be action!
