Hello once again, readers! I hope you enjoy the next chapter.
I just finished the anime series Lovely Complex (If you could call watching an anime series in a day "finishing") And I HIGHLY recommend it! It's actually the best romance anime I've watched so far! It's so cute, and funny, and the main boy character is shorter than the girl for a change!
But anyway, I'm getting off topic...I hope it's alright!
Several hours had passed since Chopper had dragged Luffy into his tent, and everyone except Nami was asleep. She had a fluffy pink bathrobe on and was sitting next to the dying fire eating the dinner she had missed. She may have seemed calm, but on the inside she was swarmed with questions.
What's Chopper telling him? Why did he freak out? These questions and many more.
Suddenly, Luffy's tent flap opened and Chopper crawled out, along with Luffy, who had a comically shocked face-fault. Nami cocked her head at Luffy's odd and stupid expression.
"What did you tell him Chopper?! He looks traumatized!"
Chopper stared up at Nami.
"I gave him 'The Talk'..." He replied.
"WHAAAAAT?!" Screamed Nami and she started smacking Luffy. "Come back Luffy! Don't let this ruin your childhood!"
Nami turned toward Chopper.
"How much did you tell him?!"
"Everything...And I mean everything..."
"HE'S JUST A KID!"
Chopper started yelling at Nami.
"HE'S NINETEEN! HE SHOULD'VE KNOWN THIS STUFF A LONG TIME AGO!"
"BUT HE'S JUST SO...INNOCENT! YOU'VE TRAUMATIZED HIM!"
"SO WHAT!? I ONLY TOLD HIM THAT STUFF TO PROTECT YOU NAMI!"
Nami stopped and looked at Chopper quizzically.
"Eh? What do you mean?"
Chopper's face became hidden with a shadow.
"Luffy is an oblivious idiot who doesn't know anything...But...His instinct is uncanny." Nami blinked.
"I'm just afraid, that if he carried on being so oblivious, that his instinct would take over and..."
Chopper didn't finish, knowing that Nami understood. Nami was shocked. Luffy and her weren't like that...They weren't even a couple yet! Nami glanced over at the frozen face-fault of Luffy's again and sighed..
"Thanks Chopper..But..." She paused. "Don't tell anyone else yet, alright?"
Chopper smiled cutely.
"Then try to be a little less obvious! Robin already has suspicions, I know because she asked me."
Nami narrowed her eyes and headed toward her tent..
"See ya, I'm going to bed."
Chopper flinched at her seriousness, and tugged on his cap nervously.
"I guess I should get Luffy to bed too..."
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"Usopp and Zoro STILL aren't back yet!?"
Shouted Nami to the frightened Straw Hats. Brook fell over...
"She's so scary my heart is stopping..."
"DON'T JOKE AROUND BROOK!" Yelled Nami to Brook and she gave Franky and Sanji an evil stare.
"Well!? Look for them for heaven's sake!" Franky and Sanji both saluted nervously and ran off into the direction.
Nami sat on a stool and massaged her temple.
"Geez, why am I so stressed? This isn't even the worst island we've been to!"
"Are you alright Nami?" Asked a voice that could only belong to Robin. Nami looked up and saw her standing there, obviously worried about her.
"Yeah...just a bit stressed I guess..."
Robin giggled.
"Luffy seems a bit shy today."
Nami's head shot up.
"What!? He woke up?!"
Robin covered her mouth with her hand and pointed behind Nami. Nami turned around and saw a blushing Luffy, peeking out from behind the trunk of a tree. When Nami noticed him he hid, still showing a little of his hair. Nami laughed.
"Cute..." She widened her eyes and turned back toward Robin, who was acting completely serious with a thought bubble of chibi-versions of Luffy and Nami surrounded by hearts and flowers.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Nami shouted. Robin giggled and glanced at Luffy, who was peeking at them again.
"Nami. I support you two." She said with a smile and walked away.
Nami stuck her chin out, pissed off, then loosened up and sat onto the ground. She glanced at her bracelet, remembering Nojiko.
"Nojiko...I could really use you right now..." She whispered, before she heard some soft footsteps from behind. She looked behind her and saw Luffy, who flinched and hid himself behind a nearby shrub.
"Luffy, I know you're there...Come here."
Luffy scuttled over to Nami at stood in front of her, looking down with a flushed face.
"Are you alright?" They both asked each other at the same time. They winced and looked away from each other. Luffy turned to the side and pulled his hat over his eyes.
"Nami?"
"What?"
"I just want you to know that I will never hurt you..." Nami looked back at Luffy with shining eyes.
"Lu-"
"I promise." He interrupted, then put his hands in his pockets and started to leave.
"H-hold on idiot!" Nami said with a choked tone in her voice. Luffy stopped, his back to her. Nami paused for a moment, then sprung up and hugged Luffy from the back, wrapping her arms around his stomach. She hugged hard, afraid that she would let go of him. Luffy looked back at her, and she started burying her face in his shirt.
"I just-I want you to still be the mindless kid I met back at Orange town..." She admitted. "But you've grown up so much...you're so strong and mature now. I just-"
Nami was interrupted by Luffy, who turned around suddenly and kissed her. It was short, and he let go staring into Nami's eyes seriously.
"I'm not a kid anymore Nami. I haven't been a kid since I left Windmill village."
He placed his hand lightly on her shoulder.
"If I were a kid then I couldn't protect my nakama."
Nami shut her eyes, tearing up. Luffy lowered his eyes, feeling bad about making Nami cry. He let go of Nami's shoulder and looked at his lap. They sat there in silence for a bit, before Nami spoke up.
"I know that you would never hurt me Luffy." She started. "You don't need to tell me that."
Luffy took his hat off and rubbed his head. Then looked up at Nami with a determined smirk.
"I love you Nami."
Nami's eyes widened at the remark. But she dried her eyes and pushed their foreheads together, grinning along with him.
"Me too."
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"Dammit! Where is that marimo?" Shouted Sanji who was running alongside Franky through the fields. Franky pulled out his radar and started trying to detect them.
"Curly-brow! Over here!"
Sanji gave an irk mark at Franky, but followed him and saw Usopp and Zoro, wandering with several bruises on their face, and some burns.
"OI! YOU STUPID MARIMO! YOU LONG-NOSED IDIOT! WHAT ARE YOU SHITTY MORONS DOING?!" Shouted Sanji.
Zoro and Usopp whirled around and saw the two men rushing toward them. Usopp started comically crying and clinged onto them both.
"Thank god you two! I couldn't stay much longer with this brutish maniac! Thank you! Thank yo-"
"GET OFF YOU CREEP." yelled both Franky and Sanji at the same time, making Usopp fly into a tree. Zoro crossed his arms.
"Usopp got us lost."
"LIKE HELL I'LL BELIEVE THAT!"
"YOU ASKING FOR A FIGHT CURLY-BROW?!"
"MOSS-HEAD!"
"NOSEBLEED!"
Sanji and Zoro's fire-aura started swirling around them and Franky sighed. He pulled Usopp out of the tree and swept him off.
"Let's go ahead back...Leave these two here for a while."
"Aye..."
Franky and Usopp headed back while Zoro and Sanji fought it out.
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"MY CLIMA-TACT!" Screamed Nami. Luffy, Chopper and Brook scuttled away from Nami, who was ammiting a dark aura. Luffy spoke softly from the side of his mouth.
"You left it at the battle-place, remember?"
Nami turned around with an obviously pissed expression that made Luffy hide behind Brook in fear.
"So. You're. Telling. Me. That. Those. Perverted. Animals. Have. My. Staff?"
Brook, Chopper, and Luffy started shaking and hugging each other in fear.
"Who called for me?!" Shouted Franky's familiar voice. Everyone's face lit up and they all ran toward them. They found very annoyed versions of Usopp and Franky.
"Oi, where are Sanji and Zoro?"
Franky and Usopp sweatdropped. Then waved their hands.
"No. No. Just forget about them for now. They're fine."
Robin looked up from her book and popped another thought bubble with a chibi Sanji and Zoro surrounded by hearts and flowers this time. Everyone twitched and stared at Robin. Usopp walked away.
"I'm gonna throw up..."
Franky and Chopper followed him.
"Me too..."
After that awkward moment everyone waited for Zoro and Sanji to arrive so that they could celebrate and eat dinner together. Luffy was complaining as always and smiled when Nami went by.
"Just be patient, alright?" Said Nami. Luffy nodded, pouting and hugged his knees on the ledge by the waterfall.
Nami laughed and walked away, then remembered that her Clima-Tact was missing, and steamed off comically.
Luffy looked back at Nami leaving and felt a different kind of weird feeling, and this one he didn't like so much. He tried to shake it off, and after a surprising amount of effort, it went away. He pulled his hat over his eyes and turned back to the water, muttering to himself,
"I promise I will never hurt you Nami..."
Oh my god, It actually kinda hurt me to write this chapter...LUFFY! WHAT'S GOING ON?! T.T *hugs Luffy*
Yeah, THANKS ONCE AGAIN FOR THE REVIEWS! They are getting nicer and nicer! :3 I'll try to keep y'all entertained!