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Chapter 5

Flashback

Nami's POV

As I walked through the precipitous cliff of Ilmania, Luffy and I were trying to cross the cliff to meet the others.

Step.

Step.

Step.

Suddenly…

'ARGH! LUFFY, HELP! AHHHHHHHHH!' I screamed, the part that I walked on started cracking, then, it cracked. Only my left hand grabbed on the un-fallen cliff. Help! Luffy! My heart silently prayed. I can't hold it any much longer! Help!

Just as I thought Luffy wasn't going to rescue for me, I saw a guy wearing straw-hat run toward me furiously.

'Nami! Hold on! Don't let go!' He shouted, But as he ran, the rocks he stepped on started falling also.

'Ahh!' Now I was really falling.

Luffy's hand grabbed me, but as he grabbed, he, too, fell down with her. He stretched his rubber arms and pulled me back the cliff, and he fell down himself.

Suddenly back to the cliff, I grabbed a hold of myself, realizing what Luffy had done for me. Looking down the cliff, I shuddered. 'LUFFY! LUFFY! ANSWER ME!'

Damn! I'm such an idiot! Only if I had never came here, then Luffy wouldn't…… Oh, if only…

'Luffy! Are you there?' I swallowed hard. No, Luffy just couldn't, he's not dead, I tried to convince myself, but somehow, I just wasn't sure. He couldn't, not the guy that had saved me from Arlong, or even Crocodile. A person such strong as that, killed because he fell off a cliff?

Luffy's POV

I fell, kept the promise, I didn't hurt Nami. But why, why didn't I just stretch my hand to the top of the cliff, that wouldn't lead to the position I'm in right now. Down the cliff, trying to climb up, knocked out, hung on the branch.

Climb. Climb. Fall.

Climb. Fall. Bleed. Knocked out. What was it, that made me gather my strength to climb up? My crew? No, it was something more than that. A little voice in my heart, calling my name. Who? Who's calling me?

As I climbed up and up, I did hear a voice, it wasn't a voice in my heart, it was a real voice.

'Luffy! Please answer me!' Nami called.

I gathered up my strength, I stretched up. It was Nami who was calling me!

'Luffy!'

'C'mon Nami, let's go…'

We started running, but the cliff we ran on started falling again.

'Hold tight! Gomu gomu…' we shot out. We landed uncertainly, I was on the ground, protecting Nami, and Nami was on top of me. Not knowing why, I hugged her close to me.

My nakamee… my navigator

'Luffy.' Her voice was as small as a pipsqueak.

My nakamee, mine! Mine! MINE!

'Luffy, LUFFY!

'I opened my eyes, saw Nami starring at me. Face to face. Red eyes, tears shimmering down her face.

Damn it, dam it, damn it! Didn't I promise Nojiko to never let Nami cry? Argh! I broke my promise!

Suddenly, she pushed herself away from my arms, and she ran away as I ran behind her. She ran all the way, non-stop, until she stepped into her room with Robin in the Going Merry. The others looked at her as her red eyes brimmed with tears when she came…

Back to Nami's POV

'Nami…?' Robin questioned me. And she came running in our room also.

I could hear Luffy's voice when he stepped on the deck, 'Nami!' he shouted. But the first team he earned when he came on the ship was a whack from Sanji's leg.

'Baka! What are you doing! Making Nami-san cry like that? I should've never let you alone with her. I mean, how can you be a man if you even let a lady cry! ……'

'Ms. Navigator, what happened?' Robin asked me.

I looked at Robin and turned away, then I cried on her…

End of Flashback

When Tashii saw that Nami glanced at her, she smiled. Then she went away.

'Mr… Mr…Swordsman… can I ask you, you a favor?' Tashii asked Zoro.

'Hmm…?'

'Will you promise to… to help me if I ask you something?'

It's so weird that Tashii asks for a favor from me. She can read minds. So I'll just find out what she wants, do it… Whatever.

'Okay. Spill it, as long as it has nothing to do with the idiot love cook.'

'Um... I know this is a little weird and hard to ask from you, but can you get Nami's feelings straight?'