Originally uploaded to AO3. I really like Luna still after so many years, and hope to write for them a bit more in the future as I rewatch One Piece! It'll hands down always be my favorite show.

She was a witch.

That's what they said.

The woman could map out any place with ease. She had an eye for the weather, and her predictions were precise, like magic. They were suspicious and dangerous.

It was for that, and her betrayal, that she was feared.

The whole village had scorned her once. A traitor, that's what she had been. She gallavanted around with those pirates, obsessed with their business, and not the people whose lives they tore asunder.

She had already lost the life she treasured most after all, right?

Her eyes held no remorse. Dark, round, and soulless, they purveyed any person that stood in her way. People were obstacles, and obstacles were easily cleared.

She was a witch.

So why was it that the storm that took her to the grand line, she had no inkling of predicting? Why was that boy so impossible to understand?

It was a mystery most found themselves involved in, as he all but assaulted the grandline, but Nami was troubled by it most of all.

She was a witch of the weather, the topography, and the seas, but not even her discerning eyes could tell what drove that vivacious storm to its brink. It was a hurricane the likes of which the world had never seen, and Nami was leading it right to Laugh Tale.

It was her own smirking secret as to why, but many could have their guess. If her magic could bring his dreams to fruition, then even for her, his victory would be worth its weight in gold.

Cat Burglar Nami would make that man a King.

"Are you ready, Luffy?"

The navigator's smile was darkened by her burning gaze. She wasn't alone. Luffy's eyes were barely visible under the shadows of his wide-brimmed hat, gleaming far darker than usual..

The knuckles in his clenched fists cracked, and Nami let her lips perk up.

Yep, he was ready all right.

Rows of bandits lined their path up to the tower, but a whole army of them wouldn't be enough to stop them now. Luffy cleared swaths of them at a time, yelling bloody murder as they exploded into dusty buildings. Nami did her part, meanwhile, electrifying groups of stragglers while stealing their keys in the aftermath. A good brawl couldn't keep her from earning a few Beli on the side, right?

They were a mismatched team, but that was kind of the point. Distractions didn't need to be balanced, just loud and showy. And while Luffy had the former, Nami had the latter, making them impeccable for this job.

It was only when the red signal from Usopp shot into the air that she and Luffy could relax and lay off the fireworks. The mission was over now: the rest of the team had rescued Chopper.

After a few minutes of fighting, the reindeer's shrill screams of relief could be heard from there as Zoro's group barrelled towards them. Small explosions littered their wake as they blew their way past Luffy and Nami, screaming victory into the air. "You guys got the rest?" Zoro questioned.

"Yeah!" Luffy said for her, stealing Nami's chance to protest, "Go on without us guys!"

Nami's aura turned dark. "Lu-ffy~" She crooned, fake smile filled with teeth. "Why did you tell them that WHEN I'M STILL HERE?"

The contact she made with her clima tact left a brilliant red bruise on his forehead, but Luffy did nothing but laugh apologetically. "It's fine! I got the rest anyways, you don't need to do anything!"

That wasn't entirely the issue, but it was true. Nami sighed, letting her captain off the hook for now. She did have many new keys to try out, so she supposed it couldn't be helped. She would've stayed behind anyway. "Fine," she said simply, clanking her clima-tact harshly against the ground. "When you're done you'll be helping me treasure hunt, got it?"

"Okayy~" Luffy responded in a sing-song tone, still in the midst of throwing pistol-like punches at the bandits. Nami sighed and sat down on a neighboring bench, suddenly exhausted. She was glad that his rage had died down, but the whole fiasco had left her drained. The fact that Chopper was safe and sound now and back aboard the Sunny was more than enough to ease the tide for both of them, but it only wore Nami out.

It wasn't hard to see that Luffy had the rest of the bandits handled. There were maybe ten to twenty men left, all screaming and cowering away from the strawhat's insanity, so it was only a matter of time before he finished and her and Luffy could go scavenging.

But then the winds of battle changed, and they were left with a much bigger mess than what they started with.

A horn in the distance startled them.

Nami jolted up from her position on the bench, tense and alert. There were suddenly triple the amount of bandits in the clearing, and a massive man making his way through them, fists raised and tattoos bulging over ripped muscles. Nami bristled, readying her weapon in front of her. What was another boss guy doing here? They had already beat up the main boss.

"I see you defeated my brother.." The new arrival spat. His eyes scoured between the two of them, sizing them up. "And with only two of you. He'd be so ashamed."

Nami didn't intend on telling him that it was 100% Luffy that did that, and that he downed him in probably less than a second no less. It simply wasn't in her interest, and telling him wouldn't change the fact that Luffy would likely do the same to him.

So she lowered her guard. With the way that horn had sounded, she had feared it might be the Marines, or another pirate group attacking them.. but if it was just the same caliber of bandits as before. This wouldn't even be worth her time.

A heavy breath left her frame, and she returned to a standing position, pointer finger lauded at her captain.

"Get them Luffy! Fight" she commanded, and Luffy gaped at her with fake-hurt.

"You're not gonna fight them with me?"

"Nope!" she said, even more resolutely, and sat back down on the bench with her legs crossed. "My strength is reserved for whatever treasure they have."

Luffy pouted for a moment or two, before the bandits started coming at him and he was forced to shift his focus. Nami didn't even have her eyes on the battle, but she could feel the new leader's stare on her form from where she sat in the shade. The scuffling went on for a while, with Luffy's occasional shouting and growling informing her that the battle was going well.

She let an eye peak open then, and noticed that the leader was sporting a rather demented smirk. It left the unwavering certainty in her gut that the man was plotting something,and it was definitely something neither of them would like.

Nami huffed out a sigh, picking up her clima tact.

"Ara?" Luffy said suddenly, looking down. He began to fall with whatever hit him, his eyes glazing over in sudden weakness. "Kairoseki..?"

The second leader laughed hard from his belly, ugly grin booming down on the fallen captain. "Can't do much without those rubber powers of yours, can you?" His grin widened over a golden molar. "Get him, boys." he ordered.

"Tch." Nami stood with a grimace. Thanks to her captain's obliviousness, it looked like she would be forced to work after all.

The whole hoard of troops dove onto the defenseless pirate, dogpiling him deep into the dirt as their leader laughed from afar. They didn't seem to notice, however, that the orange-haired navigator had walked right up to their brawl. They didn't look up when she leveled her staff at them either, nor when the clouds above them started to tingle in a peculiar way.

"Weather is sunny.." Nami began through gritted teeth. "With a slight chance of thunderstorms!"

A blinding pillar of light rained down from above, electrifying everything in its way. The whole mass of bandits writhed and screamed, their forms lighting up in a manner that would absolutely kill a human. Most of them remained only lightly charred, though, when the lightning finally let up.

Nami tsk'd and thrust her hand down into the mass of bodies, searching for something rubbery. When she found it, she pulled hard, and dragged her captain out of the pile by the back of the neck. "Alright Luffy, where's the Kairoseki at?" she asked, and the boy promptly pointed towards his foot.

Aha. A small chain handcuff, barely forced around his ankle despite its rickety state. It wouldn't have held him for very long if he were on his own, but adding a bunch of goons to the mix complicated things. Nami dug into her rung of newly-acclaimed keys until she found the right one, freeing the rubber boy's powers.

He roved one of his arms around in its sockets, his shoulder blade moving in rhythm with it. "Thanks Nami," he grinned, before looking at her curiously. "That was a tight spot! By the way.."

Nami returned his look of curiosity.

"How'd you keep me from getting hit by your lightning?" he asked, 100% genuine.

..100% genuine and 100% stupid.

Nam felt her temperature skyrocket. Really?

This innocent, stupid boy actually looked kind of fearful, as though he was genuinely concerned about taking Nami's lightning attacks head on.

Unfortunately, that was probably the only method Nami could use that wouldn't hurt him. Oblivious idiot.

" YOU -... " Nami began, but held back, "Do you honestly have no memory of fighting Eneru? Do you still not know how electricity works?! " She demanded, in such utter disbelief as she held her head in her hands. She released her face to scream in utter frustration " YOU LITERALLY BEAT HIM BECAUSE YOU'RE MADE OF RUBBER! "

Luffy shook his head with the most innocent "shishishi" she'd ever heard, his eyebrows pinching upwards adorably. "I still don't get it."

Nami swore, to whatever god above that preceded Eneru, that if he weren't so happy looking in that moment, she would've clocked him and dragged him back to the ship so she could finish him off herself.

She was tempted to commit some kind of violence, right then and there, when his eyes suddenly sparkled as some sort of realization seemed to hit him. "Ohh! Nami, is it magic? Is it a mystery power? Nami! You can do magic!"

Nami froze.

Magic?

She stared at him, and memories from their battle in Cocoyashi village began to surface all too quickly. She had been despised, shunned, even called a witch for being so untrustworthy. A single betrayal had led her people to despise her so.

Even though Luffy believed. He believed and believed, despite the fact that she betrayed them too. She had stabbed and she had plundered, he had stolen everything from them. But still he believed.

He believed in her enough to set her free, as though it were the most casual thing in the world.

Maybe it was that blind, beautiful belief that could conjure something as improbable as magic. It's why she held her clima tact today, having learned from literal wizards to bend the weather to her will.

Nami clenched her fists, but a smile forced its way onto her face regardless, strained, yet pure.

"Yeah.." she said then, clima tact brought closer to her chest. "For you captain, I might do magic." The words after held a little more weight, but still felt so light on her lips, as her smile widened. "I'd even become a Witch of the Seas."

Shi shi shi !

That was all she ever needed to hear.

The man sneaking up behind their dear captain didn't see it coming. The others didn't have to see to know. Nami knew, Luffy knew. The winds of battle had changed.

And Nami had them completely under her control.

"Thunder Tempo!" rang her yell. Crisp and deliberate, as the man twitched under a curtain of smoke and ash.

A witch's smile was definitely the best way to put it. A witch of the weather, and the sun she pulls the clouds away from.

"Shall we begin the raid?"