Jade: YAY! I love you all my reviewers! No one has flamed yet :D I'm so happy –wipes away tear- I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!
Luffy: Gold Roger did own One piece, I will own One Piece, and Jade never has or never will own One Piece.
Jade: ouch, harsh…


Recap

"Take these four to the courtyard." Marc told a guard who immediately obeyed.

Zoro watched them disappear around the corner before he entered the castle.

End recap

They all followed the guard silently. When they reached the courtyard the guard left and returned to his post. They were left alone in the large empty garden. Nami sat down on a pine bench, looking at the ground, she wasdeep in her thoughts. Luffy went over to the apple tree and climbed up and sat on one of the branches. Ussop took a seat beside Nami, just staring straight ahead, and Sanji didn't even move.

Sanji felt awful, he felt, guilty. He silently made a vow to himself to always try to be nakama, even in the toughest situations. Luffy lay back on the tree branch, hands behind his head. He reached up and picked an apple hanging above him.

He took a bite out of it, "Urgh, bitter" he said, but he still ate it.

Nami spoke quietly, still looking at the ground, "how can you not be worried?"

"There isn't anything much to worry about, and I don't want to spend my time worrying either." Luffy replied.

Nami looked up at him, shocked, "Can't you feel that something is wrong? Something bad is going to happen, I can just feel it! How can you ignore that feeling!"

"I always have that feeling…" Ussop murmured, but no one listened.

"Something bad is always going to happen," Luffy said, "if I'm not fretting a couple of days before it happens, why should I fret a couple of hours before it happens? I didn't freak then, I won't freak now. Besides, everything will work out."

"You didn't fret a couple of days ago because you didn't know anthing was going to happen a couple of days later!" she argued.

Luffy shrugged it off. Ignoring what she said. He didn't want to argue.

Sanji still didn't move.

Nami growled and stormed over to the other side of the courtyard and sat on the grass, leaning against the wall, watching the clouds pass by.

Not long after she left, Ussop followed. He stood in front of Nami looking down at her, his shadow blocking the light of the sun from her face.

"Nami" he said softly, his eyebrows knotted with curiosity, "what's wrong?" he sat down beside her.

"He's probably the only person who doesn't know what's wrong" she mused.

He opened his mouth to speak again but she hushed him. "It's Zoro," she began, "I, I really like him but he doesn't like me." She closed her eyes, the sun was hurting them, making them water, "I was stupid, I tried to find out if he liked me by pretending to like Sanji but it backfired, now Sanji is upset and Zoro is angry."

Ussop spoke, "Nami, it can't all be your fault, Sanji is rather enthusiastic with the whole love issue and it's not a new site to see Zoro mad."

"No, Ussop, it is my fault," he started to interrupt but she continued, "I was so focused on my own curiosity that I didn't notice when I hurt my nakama… oh look at me now, we've only known each other for a couple of days and I'm already saying we're nakama."

"You don't have to be life long friends to be nakama, if there is such thing as love at first sight then there has to be friends at first sight as well." Ussop said.

A yell echoed around the courtyard. Nami gasped and looked up. Sanji still hadn't moved, Luffy had sat up and Ussop was pushing himself back against the wall in fright. Another roar echoed around the courtyard, this one louder and longer then the last. No one moved. Then Zoro appeared around the corner, she couldn't really see from this distance but it looked like he was crying.


Ussop: Who would've guessed that I'd be the one to talk to Nami... I MEAN, -cough-, a typical act of kindness by me!
Jade: Poor Zoro.
Luffy: Poor Jade.
Jade: O.o …?
Lufyy: You will never own One Piece.
Jade: SHUTUP! –punches him in the nose- …whups, heh heh heh… :P

Just because I love my reviewers sooo much, I am going to name everyone that has reviewed so far to this date :D

-ahem- in no particular order…

Shironami--------------------I wuv u
Mirathin ---------------------I wuv u
Coste aka. the reviewer -----I wuv u
ravenrogue19 ---------------I wuv u
Rin the Terrible--------------I wuv u
legendary sword-------------I wuv u
Takahane -------------------I wuv u
LiLAnimeJutsu --------------I wuv u
SkieLoon -------------------I wuv u