Chapter Two - Galley Fun
Luffy ecks Nami
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Nami was brooding in the galley when Luffy came in. The night was late and he was definitely about to set off one of Sanji's Save-the-Meat traps.

"Nami, what's wrong?" Luffy said in a sort of OOC way.

"Nothing," Said Nami, "Nothing. Just the people around here. They seem to love our pairing more than all the other ones, even with all the yaoi that seems to be going on around here. We need to get more people into yaoi. You know how much money I get from filming you guys at it?"

Luffy said nothing, and proceeded to raid the fridge despite being caught in something sharp and pointy.

"But I love money more than you."

Luffy laughed. "And I love meat

Chapter Two - Money, money, money
Luffy ecks Nami
Word Count: 578
Pairing: Eneru x Carmen
Rating: Expensive
Disclaimer: Kanthia likes pie.

"Go apologize, tangerine-head."

"What?" Zoro only called her that name when he was seriously pissed. "What do I have to apologize for? He ate fifty beli."

"Nami," Usopp said softly, "He's your captain. At least tell him you're sorry for yelling so much at him. He'd appreciate knowing that his nakama don't hate him."

"I don't hate him. I just don't like it when he eats my money."

"Well, go and tell him." Zoro put his foot on Nami's backside and pushed her out the galley door, finding himself only moments later to have the same act repeated on him by a cook with a much heavier footprint saying something about a swan.

It was cold and dark and she wanted to go work on her maps or something, but Zoro wasn't going to let her back in any time soon after kicking her out like that. For all she knew, he could be raiding her secret wine stock right now. She'd better hurry.

Ah, what the hell. She searched for her captain for about two seconds, the exact amount of time it took her to walk up to the oddly shaped figurehead.

"Luffy?"

He turned around and a small smile danced on his face. "Nami?"

She smiled back, and began to climb up the sheep head. It was damn slippery and quite round as well.

Her hand slipped.

Luffy caught her, naturally, except that for Luffy catching things doesn't mean extending an arm figuratively. It means extending an arm literally. And the retraction is always painfully painful when your body is smashed into solid things like wooden sheep-heads.

"…Warai." He grinned and laughed, probably not realizing that he was apologizing for nearly crushing all of her bones.

She sighed at length. "It's okay. I…I'm sorry for yelling at you today. Just…don't come into my room unless I'm there, okay?" Her legs dangled off the end of the head, her eyes turned towards the shy stars poking their heads out. She could see her breath a little as night flew quietly across the sky and claimed dusk in her cool arms.

"Okay." Luffy's voice had a different edge to it. He was serious. There were times when it softly came creeping in, the seriousness, the kindness, the wisdom. She had sensed it before in Arlong Park and she could feel it now. She turned towards him, eyes brimming below the surface, heart beating a rough, beet-red rhythm, mouth burning to taste the wisdom for itself.

Except that Luffy was already halfway across the ship yelling something about meat and eating it. She smiled inwardly and filed the moment away, climbing down (slowly this time) to join her nakama in the galley with her mission complete.

Later that night she caught up with him.

"Why'd you eat my money, anyways?"

Luffy cocked his head. "You said you loved money, right?"

/owarai

LuNam is fun fun silly willy.
And, as a super special alternate ending thing:

Later that night she caught up with him.

"Why'd you eat my money, anyways?"

Luffy cocked his head. "I wanted to make sure they weren't poisonous."