In this universe, Nami joined the marines to prevent more pirates like Arlong from making people suffer. She now works alongside the G-5 under Smoker's orders.

Tashigi was watching the water from the stern of the ship when she heard a cry come out from behind her.

"Tashigi", the voice, belonging to one of Tashigi's shipmates, Nami, cried out again. Tashigi turned to face the voice and saw that the redhead was running towards where Tashigi was standing, an excited look on her face.

"What's wrong Nami?" Tashigi asked.

"I want you to come with me." Nami explained after reaching Tashigi. Nami grabbed her hand and pulled her aside to a part of the ship where no fellow marines were around so the two could talk in private.

Tashigi had not known Nami to act like this so while being pulled along she stopped herself and asked Nami a question. "You are acting a little different than normal Nami. You are not normally this excitable, did something good happen? Did Smoker finally give you the raise you have been asking for?"

Nami turned around, a small look of annoyance going over her face before she calmed down and smiled. "I wish he would have given me that raise, but no, I have the next best thing." Nami then looked around to make sure no one was looking then showed Tashigi a few cigars that Nami had taken out of her pocket.

"Are those?" Tashigi asked before Nami interrupted her.

"Yeah, they are Smoker's", Nami said a big grin on her face, "if he isn't going to give me a raise, I am going to start taking stuff from him, and well, I took these." Nami showed Tashigi the cigars, "and this", Nami said, before showing Tashigi a lighter that Tashigi recognized as belonging to Smoker. "I have seven of them, and well, that is too many for one delicate, beautiful girl such as myself to use by myself."

Tashigi looked at Nami wanting to correct her on the incorrect use of the term delicate, but stopped herself, deciding not to antagonize her crew mate, one who had just shown she still had some of her old cat burglar skills.

"So come on", Nami said, before handing Tashigi a cigar, "I know you want to try one." Nami then took a cigar in her mouth and lit the lighter. She brought the flame to the cigar and lit it. Nami puffed on the cigar and then took it out, having to cough. "Not that bad." Nami said to herself and Tashigi.

Tashigi looked at Nami and then stared at the cigar. She did have to admit that she had been curious why Smoker smoked them almost nonstop. He always seemed to be enjoying them too. She figured that it wouldn't hurt her to try one, so she brought it towards her mouth and Nami smiled. Nami lit the lighter and lit the cigar that was in Tashigi's mouth.

Maybe it was because Tashigi had been around Smoker longer, but she had a much easier time smoking the cigar than Nami. While Tashigi did cough, it was not as violent as Nami's, in fact Tashigi found the second puff she had almost neutral.

"Forgive me Smoker", Tashigi said to herself before taking another puff, almost liking that one.

The pair then sat and smoked the cigars in peace. Tashigi had taken to the cigar like a fish to water and was already playing around with it, trying, but failing, to make smoke rings, while Nami was just trying to minimize the amount of coughing she did with each puff. Nami hated to admit it, but Tashigi was a much better cigar smoker than she was, something that annoyed her a bit, considering she had been the one to steal the cigars in the first place.

With the pair of cigars almost spent, Nami got another idea looking at what Tashigi was wearing, a similar coat to their captain, Smoker. "I know, why don't you pretend to be Smoker." Nami said, before handing Tashigi another cigar. Tashigi, a bit lightheaded due to the cigar smoking she had done, agreed with this idea and put the new cigar in her mouth, next to the one she was already smoking. Nami lit it and soon, Tashigi had two lit cigars in her mouth.

This amount of smoke was way too much for Tashigi, however, and she took the pair out of her mouth and exhaled a ton of smoke, enough to make it look like she herself had the smoke powers. Nami laughed loudly at this, which caught the ear of someone nearby.

Tashigi, seeing her friend laughing, decided to play along. "You want a raise", Tashigi said, in a loud rough voice, meant to sound like Smoker, "I don't think so. You don't work hard enough as is, be lucky I haven't thrown you overboard, I think a Sea King would like a nice red-headed meal." Tashigi said, before taking a puff of both cigars and blowing the smoke out.

Nami started to laugh at her crew mate when the pair heard a voice behind them.

"Ahem", he cleared his throat. "What do we have here?"

Tashigi and Nami stared at each other, fear on their faces, as they slowly turned around and faced Smoker, their captain. Tashigi started to stammer, a look of pure horror on her face. Next to her, Nami was quiet, an equally fearful look on her face.

"I see the two of you love smoking, and not doing any work, so I don't think I will interrupt you", he explained before bopping Nami and then Tashigi on their heads. "Well, no, you two have such little work to do, I will make sure you have more to do, or I'll feed you to the Sea Kings, as you said."

Smoker then ordered Nami and Tashigi to move heavy boxes for the rest of the day. "I am not a horrible captain though", Smoker explained, before lighting a pair of cigars in his mouth, "since you two seem to enjoy smoking so much, you can smoke the whole time while doing your work."

Nami and Tashigi stared at each other, they were already a bit short of breath due to the smoking, having to do hard work on top of that might kill the pair of them.

"Get to it, NOW!" Smoker ordered. Nami and Tashigi ran off to start moving the boxes from the deck to under the deck. As they ran off, Smoker looked down at himself, "do I really sound like Tashigi made me sound?"

The work was long and hard for the pair, and the fact they had to do it with limited oxygen due to the cigars made it many times worse. While working, the pair finished the four remaining cigars that Nami had stolen, two each. The strange thing, at least to them, is that the work became a little easier as the day went along, their bodies slowly adjusting to the constant stream of cigar smoke into their bodies.

At the end of the day the two were in Nami's cabin and talking. While talking Nami went to remove a non-existent cigar from her mouth, a habit she had developed over the day.

"Heh, you don't have a cigar in your mouth Nami", Tashigi laughed, before taking a non-existent cigar out of her own mouth, the same habit having been pounded into her that day as well.

"You too", Nami said before laughing, a laugh that Tashigi soon joined.

"You know Nami", Tashigi began, "I kind of like cigars." Tashigi said to her crew mate.

Nami thought for a moment before answering, "I kind of liked them too." A grin then grew on Nami's face, "I could steal some more tomorrow."