Jade: Yay! One Piece this morning rocked!
Ussop: Jade doesn't own One Piece.
Jade: Who even cares if there isn't a disclaimer? I've said I don't own it enough to kill my dreams of owning it… WAAAH! I'm never gonna own One Piece : (


Nami put a couple of handfuls of beli into her backpack ready for a trip into town. She hadn't been in town for so long, and she was happy about finally being able to use a bit of her gold, living out in the middle of nowhere tended to make the amount and value of her loot increase as she continued to steal, it just built up.

"WE'RE GOING TO GET SOME MEAT! WE'RE GOING TO GET SOME MEAT!" Luffy sang as he skipped around the camp.

"Come on Nami!" said Ussop.

"I'm going, I'm going" she replied, she looked around, "well? Let's go!"

She head off first taking the lead, Luffy and Ussop ran around like kids following behind her, Zoro took off before Sanji could even say 'wait for me Nami-swan!' which he did say anyway.

Zoro jogged to catch up with Nami who was leading the way through the trees. He slowed to her pace as he reached her side. Sanji was catching up fast.

"Come on Zoro think" he thought, "got to keep Sanji away."

"Race you to town" Zoro said as Sanji just caught up.

"You're on" Nami replied with a grin.

"Naaaaaamiiiiii-swaaaaan!" Sanji said as they took off ahead, he started to run but tripped over a tree root, "stupid marimo" he muttered.

Luffy and Ussop overtook him. He got up and ran to keep up with everyone; somehow he just knew he wasn't going to catch up to Nami.

Zoro and Nami were racing ahead, Zoro knew he could easily beat her but for some reason he pretended he just couldn't keep up. He stopped and put his hands on his knees pretending to be exhausted. Nami stopped and called back.

"Wanna call it quits?"

Zoro looked behind him and saw Sanji having trouble trying to get it through Luffy's head that he didn't want to play a game. They were a fair while back.

"Okay, okay, you win"

They still had a bit of a walk ahead of them but the running had substantially shortened the distance. Zoro and Nami walked side by side again.

"So, what do you think of the new guy?" Zoro asked.

"You're all new" she replied.

"I meant Sanji"

"I know you did, I was just messin with ya" she playfully pushed his shoulder.

"Well what do you think of him?"

"Why, are you jealous?" she laughed.

"No of course not! I was, just wondering."

"Then why didn't you ask about Ussop then?"

"Cause he's not a threat" he thought.

"Does he like me" Nami thought, "no, he wouldn't like me, he could have any girl he wants, he's a prince, he's cute, so why would he want me… did I say cute?"

Zoro was about to ask Nami what she thought of himself but Sanji came running up, looking flustered. He pushed himself into the closing gap between Zoro and Nami. Zoro was pushed aside.

"Urg, they messed up my hair," Sanji referred to Luffy and Ussop who were now leapfrogging their way along the track.

Nami laughed.

"Ah, a laugh sweeter then the song of a blue jay."

"Where the hell does he pull that sap from?" thought Zoro.

Zoro noticed Sanji about to raise and arm and put it on Nami's shoulder. But before he could, Zoro casually stepped in between Nami and him. Sanji got pushed back. He growled and looked at Zoro to see his hand rise behind his back and give him the finger.

O.O

Sanji simply stepped over to the other side of Nami and put his hand on her waist. Normally she would have hit someone for doing that but she let him pull her closer, she saw an opportunity in this.

"Time to see if Zoro really likes me or not." She thought, "this could turn out to be fun."

Zoro fell back and tried to think of a reason to make one of them stop so Sanji would let go. He put on his bandana because they were getting close to town and didn't want people to recognise him, also because he was about to take this situation very seriously.

Zoro went over to Luffy and Ussop, "Sanji said he wants to play now."

Out of all the different things Zoro could have done to Sanji, this was the worst, it would have been safer just to punch Sanji and knock him out.

Luffy and Ussop shouted in glee then ran up and tackled Sanji, and they accidentally knocked over Nami in the process. Zoro saw his moment. He ran up and helped Nami to her feet. Sanji was struggling to get up while Ussop sat on him and Luffy tickled him as they both shouted "WE WIN WE WIN WE WIN!" over and over.

Sanji would have trouble with them for a while. Zoro sighed with relief and walked along beside Nami, eventually he put his arm up on her furthest shoulder then smiled when she didn't pull away. The town was coming into view.

"You didn't happen to have anything to do with that back there?" she asked.

"I have absolutely no idea why they did it" He said.

But they both knew he was lying.


Ussop: Hey! Lying is my thing!
Jade: it's not really something to be proud of.
Ussop: well I can't do much else…
Sanji: Nami-swaaaaaan! –sniff- Why! –sob-
Jade: I know Zoro seems a bit OOC, but if it's NamixZoro he's going to have to be a little bit otherwise it just wouldn't happen...unfortunately

As a protest of wasting valuable typing time, I am not going to put a disclaimer next chapter! –shock horror- Take THAT you disclaimer hunters!

Hee hee hee, how rebellious of me… XD

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