Hey, well here is the second chapter, I can't promise that all chapters will come out as soon as this one did, but I can try. It all depends on homework. Anyways, I wanted to thank everyone for reviewing, and I hope to hear from all of you (and new people too) again after you read this chapter. All right, well I hope you enjoy, now on with the story.

Trusting Trust

Chapter 2- Question's and Answers

By: Kieri Norou

The Usually cheerful, happy go lucky, 'nothing can get us down' Mugiwara crew had come to a dark standstill. Floating there in place on the now black sea you could feel the tension rising off the small boat, even the shining stars above did nothing to mediate the pain, the normally strong crew was feeling. Everyone's thoughts were quiet as they sat around the wooden dinning table waiting for Chopper's latest update on their precious navigators health.

Everyone had been stunned, as they had reached the room below deck. To find Nami so destructive was completely new. She had never shown them this side of her anger, usually; she would either take it out on the crew's heads or just slam the door and start working furiously on her maps. But now, as they had looked around the room, the treasured maps were scattered and torn. Some lay underneath the broken bedside lamp while others that hadn't been close enough to Nami's reach lie dripping in the ink she'd thrown across the room, effectively blackening her surroundings.

It now seemed eerily silent, as the struggling had come to an end when Chopper had been able to inject a sedative into the frightened girl. When they had arrived the small doctor had pleaded for their help, he had needed someone to restrain her, before she caused any more damage to herself. It soon became apparent that someone to hold her was not going to be enough as she'd effectively thrown off both Sanji and Zoro. Ussop had tried to calm her down, however he found himself lying a few feet away with a bloody nose. When the crew had enlisted their captains help he had either chosen to ignore them or not to care, for he just stood there watching to room be destroyed. Finally, Robin had used her ability to contain the thrashing girl. Why she hadn't just done this in the first place was beyond everyone's understanding.

Not a word was spoken between the Nakama as the only sound was of Sanji blowing out the poisonous smoke from his cigarette, finally, after what seemed like hours the small head of the doctor poked it's way into the cabin. Everyone turned to stare at him, at first it seemed they didn't even recognize him, but as he nervously made his way into the cabin, sound was given back to the crew. Both Ussop and Sanji were the first up right in the poor doctors face, Sanji, trying to shake his answers out of the frightened humanoid reindeer.

"What happened, why couldn't my Nami-san see? What did that jerk do to her?" Sanji's arms kept tight hold of Chopper as he pleaded for answers, Ussop right behind him asking the same things. However, Chopper's abuse was halted as Robin's extra arms guided him to the floor.

"Don't you think that it might be easier for the Mr. Doctor to answer if he is not at risk of receiving brain damage?" Robin settled her gentle smile on the shaken doctor and kneeling down to his height she reassured him, "Go on, we would all like to hear what has happened to the Miss. Navigator."

Somewhat calmed down by Robin's rescue Chopper looked around the room, Sanji and Ussop were both still towering above him looking impatient for the answers, Zoro was off sitting against a wall with his swords nestled against his shoulder, his eyes boring into the doctor's, Robin had seated herself on one of the benches surrounding the wooden table, her legs crossed and her face placed certainly in her hand, not far from her was Luffy, still facing the other direction, his face intent on something he had in his hands. Chopper, deciding that he had better start the explanations took a deep breath, preparing himself before he revealed the less than satisfying news.

"I'm afraid that Nami is, well…." This was going to be harder then he had thought… he'd never had to deal with giving bad news's that was always something he was happy to leave to Doctorine. At the glares he was getting from the blond cook, he continued, "She's blind… I'm not really sure if there's a cure yet."

Everyone in the room had known what Nami had screeched earlier that night, however, all of them had just tried to pass it off as something that didn't matter. Now though, it was all too real, how were they supposed to respond to that kind of news? The only one seemingly unaffected by this news was the sidetracked captain. Chopper wondered silently just what exactly was so interesting about the paper Luffy held in his hands. The first to come out of the shock brought to them was Robin who calculated her words carefully before voicing anything. "What do you mean, Mr. Doctor, your not sure if there's a cure?"

Looking up at the mature archeologist, Chopper had been expecting that question. "Well, I took a look in Nami's eyes, but with the supplies I have now, there's only so much I can do, I can't get a good look at what might be the cause of this blindness without more up to date medical supplies. I thought to ask Nami what it might have been, but once I did get her calmed down enough to ask, she couldn't remember much about anything that happened today, most likely a side effect of the concussion she has." Chopper took a deep breath, knowing that what he was going to say next would not go over well. "For now, the only thing I can do is give her medicine for the headaches… but even that might be risky, because I don't know what effects that will have on whatever has entered her retina's."

No one said a word, there really was nothing they could say, finally Chopper broke the tense atmosphere by asking Sanji for some tea that he could bring to Nami, it would help calm her nerves. Agreeing, the stunned cook went to work on the order. "Oi, Chopper, so the only reason you don't know of a cure yet, is because you don't know the cause, right?" the long-nosed gunman was trying to make sense of everything, and maybe find some way around the bad news. Nodding his answer Chopper was looking at the ground, he felt bad for letting his Nakama down, there was nothing he could do right now. "So, if we were to get you better equipment, you might be able to find out what exactly were dealing with, right?"

Looking up at the thinking man, Chopper once again nodded, "yeah, if I knew what got into her eyes, I might be able to find the cure, it might take a while, but it would be possible." Everyone seemed to be happy with this new development, and feeling as if he shouldn't get everyone's hopes falsely up the sad reindeer continued, "but, it could go either way, if I find out what it is, there's also the chance that there may not be a cure. There are just some things that can't be cured after the damage is done." His last statement sent a solemn feeling throughout the cabin.

Having heard enough Zoro stood from his perch and stretched his arms out. Everyone watched him carefully, Sanji's eyes trained on him as he walked over to Chopper delivering the hot tea. The swordsmen was known for being rather unpredictable in situations like these, and it was always a wonder what his input would be. Looking at the rest of the crew Zoro gave a rather disgruntled glare at all of their faces staring intently at him. "Listen, no matter the outcome, what we have to do now is obvious." At everyone's confused looks the famous swordsmen sighed in utter frustration "We have to get to the next port so Chopper can buy his supplies." Everyone's eyes filled with understanding and soon they were now all staring at their captain waiting for the order.

Luffy, however, was still just studying the parchment in front of him, "Oi, Luffy, take this more seriously." Ussop's call didn't seem to bother the oblivious captain any as he just gave them all a wave, seemingly allowing the ship to set sail. Deciding to ignore their captain's odd behavior, the crew went out preparing the ship for the next port. They didn't really care that it was the middle of the night; it wasn't likely that any of them would be sleeping anyway.

As gentle waves splashed against the steadily sailing Going Merry, Robin, the crew's newest member carefully watched the log-pose for any clue as to where they were going, she was a bit nervous but like with all of her emotions she was doing a good job of hiding it from the still somewhat shocked crew. It had been decided that until they could get Nami's sight back the archeologist would be the one to guide the crew to the next Island. She hadn't been too happy with the decision, for it was a far cry from her usual job of sitting and reading her treasured books, however, she had agreed seeing as she was the only one besides Nami that had even the slightest clue as to how to get from one place to the other. Not far from her Sanji was talking to Ussop about just how many supplies they had left, again, this was something that their faithful navigator usually took care of, but now, with them coming to a port for the first time in weeks, they would need to restock without the help of Nami.

Hurriedly scurrying around Chopper was trying to be the best help that he could, running from Nami's side to the deck every few minutes. This whole ordeal put him on edge, and even though he had given the crew some hope, his instincts told him that it might not be possible to cure this at all. The effects of whatever had happened to their navigator had worked too quickly, too unusually. He had thought that perhaps it was oil, but soon ruled that out, as the swelling around her eyes would not have been a side effect of oil. Along with the negative signs Nami had developed a small fever, that was for the most part non-dangerous but something Chopper was watching closely non-the-less. He'd never seen anything like this while he worked along side Doctorine, and it scared Chopper that his crew was depending on him to take care of Nami when he really had no practice in what he was doing. Sighing as he stopped outside on the deck Chopper's keen eyes noticed that his captain wasn't at his usual perch atop the lamb head, wondering where the ever-bouncy captain was Chopper was just about to go look for him when Robin called him over.

Inside the Cabin, Zoro was watching intently as his captain sat at the table… the same place he'd been sitting all night, still looking at that same piece of paper. Finally coming to the conclusion that it just wasn't normal for someone of Luffy's nature to sit so long, Zoro decided to see what exactly Luffy was doing. "Oi, what do you have there? You've been staring at it this whole time." Coming to stand over the hunched form of the Mugiwara captain, Zoro's eyes scrunched as he tried to make out the remnants of what seemed to be a very black and torn map. Confused Zoro tried to understand what Luffy could possibly want with that. After voicing his questions Luffy just seemed to ignore him. Finally, after another 20 minutes of the captain sitting and staring at the map the swordsmen decided to just leave him be.

"Neh, Zoro." The call stopped the tall 19-year-old right before he was about to turn the slightly rusted knob to the outside world. Facing the black haired boy that had finally acknowledged something other than that paper, Zoro was caught off guard by the irregular serious look painted on his captain's face. "Nami's dream is to draw a map of the world, right?" Luffy's eyes were once again on the parchment. At Zoro's slight grunt of agreement, he continued, "So, why did she hurt this map tonight?"

Luffy's question caught the swordsman by surprise, had his captain been thinking about that all night? Letting a sideways sliver of a smile grace his handsome face Zoro couldn't help but be amazed by his friends seemingly innocent mind. "It was a mistake, she was just scared and did some stuff that she didn't mean to." At the perplexed look on Luffy's face, Zoro was about to try again when the red-vested boy interrupted him.

"She was scared?" The question sounded so naïve, so innocent that Zoro actually thought for a moment that the guy in front of him didn't have a clue as to what was going on. Waiting for the 17 year old to clear things up Zoro was loosing patients when Luffy finally fallowed up with his earlier statement. "Why?"

It was official… Zoro lost all memory as to why he trusted Luffy so much… how could he have not been paying attention? Did he not hear Nami's desperate question about her sight? Taking a deep breath the green haired man tried to calm his nerves. "Luffy… Nami can't see." Looking at his captain Zoro was proud to see that it looked as if he was actually getting through to him. "Something that bastard did to her, made her loose her sight. She's blind." Eyes widening Zoro wondered if perhaps his captain didn't understand what it meant to be blind. After asking his question, Luffy gave him a curt nod. Good, so he did know what it meant. Zoro was relieved that he didn't have to try and explain it, if anything he'd just hand the situation over to Sanji, or maybe Chopper would be better suited for that job.

"But, Nami's not blind." The statement sent Zoro right out of his mind and back into reality. Giving the peculiar boy a questioning look, Luffy proved his hypothesis. "Ace told me that when your blind you either have a dog or a special walking stick, Nami doesn't have either of those, so she's not blind." Luffy's observation promptly led to Zoro falling to the ground.

"LUFFY!" A now very agitated Zoro couldn't help but smack his somewhat slow, naive, friend over the head. " That's not what makes a blind person blind… that's what helps the blind live their lives." Blowing out air filled with frustration Zoro backed away from the wide eyed boy, "I'll go get Chopper, to explain it too you." Before stepping out the door the swordsman tried to make the well-meaning boy understand. "Nami's blind Luffy, and right now were doing everything in our power to change that, that's all there is too it." With that final statement Zoro left to go find the needed doctor.

Luffy stood there for a bit, the black piece of paper still clutched in his hands. His wide eyes slowly taking in the new information he had just learned. When his mind finally came to terms with what had been said he left the cabin and went unnoticed by the rest of the crew down to Nami's private room. Walking down the narrow hallway he wasn't really sure what he was doing, but now that he understood at least partially what was going on, he didn't feel he could just sit up in the cabin any longer. Perhaps his childlike curiosity wanted to see if what Zoro had said was true, or maybe he just wanted to see what a blind person looked like. Whatever the reason, once he made it to the small wooden room he was met with silence.

Hey all, Thank-you sooo much for all the wonderful review's I really appreciate them. I hope you enjoyed this chapter it was somewhat of filler, but a necessary one at that. I think my hardest thing with this fic is going to be keeping the characters in character. I really don't like it when people are OOC, cuz the characters are just so great. Now, obviously, I wont be able to keep them perfectly in character but I want to keep them just a sliver away from perfection. So if you have any complaints about OOC please, please, tell me and I'll do my best to fix it. Please do Review, I love review's and as always Criticism is welcomed.

Have a great day

Kieri Norou