A/N: This is an ongoing project for 30 kisses.

Not the owner, not making money, not looking for a suit.

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5. "hey, you know..."

"Hey, you know."

"Huh?" Sanji turned to look at her.

"I left the Log Pose on the ship." She was staring at her wrist, where the ship's bizarre compass was usually perched. "I took it off and put it in my desk drawer so it wouldn't get smashed up in the storm. Do you think someone will find it and be able to get the ship to the next island?"

There was silence as both of them contemplated this.

"Forget I asked."

They were lying back on the beach, in almost the exact same places that they'd woken just a few hours before. It had only taken them that short intervening time to circle the island and discover that not only was there no big booming town just on the other side, but there wasn't even a treasure to be found either. It was hard to say which Nami found more disappointing. The island itself was tiny, which would explain the reason why, if it was between their last island and their next as she supposed it must be, her Log Pose hadn't picked up on its magnetic field.

Still, she was grateful for its existence (albeit a bit grudgingly), because it truthfully had saved her life. And Sanji's. She supposed she should, ultimately, be grateful for that, too.

"Luffy and Zoro managed before you came along, right?" He was trying to cheer her up, but he wanted to add, "Though I can't imagine how." Neither of them could navigate their way successfully out of a paper bag.

"Not for long, and that wasn't the Grand Line." Nami sighed.

Sanji sighed, too. He had never imagined being stranded anywhere alone with Nami could possibly be so boring. There were certainly a few things he wouldn't mind doing, and, after all, he was her rescuer, so maybe--

"Don't even get any ideas."

Sanji was dumbfounded. Had he spoken out loud? No, he hadn't said anything. Then that meant--! "Ah, Miss Nami, our minds have become one! That is true love, and we--"

"No, you're just incredibly predictable." She shut him down quite abruptly with that one.

But Sanji never was one to take a kiss off personally. "Of course, Miss Nami. Someone as wonderful and brilliant as you could--"

Nami turned her back to him. She was simply too exhausted to be polite today.