With the Music Inside

Five ----

After they had gone, only then did I really know the feeling of being left behind. But I understood what Atlas had really meant. That happiness was from being around people that hadn't raised me. Like I had been able to step out of the house I had been raised in for the first time. But the one thing he forgot was that, while I was in this new place, he had been next to me. After I had watched the droog ship go, and I had smothered the little bit of bitterness I had for what Atlas had done, I walked back down the line of docks and to where the dock started and stood on one of the posts and played softly. Several people threw small price coins at the foot of the post. I left them there for the birds to play with.

It wasn't until I heard a bit of laughter that I looked up to where, now standing stock still and stone faced, was Monkey Luffy. There was a red headed girl next to him that I took to be Nami. "Blue!" I had to smile.

"Hope that offer is still up Luffy?" He smiles and nods like mad. Nami sighs and turns around.

"Where you going Nami," Luffy asks looking at her. Nami growls.

"To get food for another person, now that there is another of us!" Luffy laughs.

"Okay Nami!" He looks back at me a laughs. "So what changed your mind?"

"Atlas." He looked a little confused but by the solemn look on my face he seemed to know not to ask again. "So, that was Nami," I ask in a little voice. He looks at her back and then at the ground where she had dropped the food she had been carrying.

"Yep. Mind giving me a hand?" I shake my head and pick up one of the bags. "Come on. Ship's this way." I follow him as he danced ahead of me and then all in one motion throws the bag of food over the side of the ship.

"Luffy! Damnit, don't do that again!" A head of green hair sticks over the side and glares down at Luffy as he lifts himself over and then reaches down to take the bag from me and then again to help me over. The man on the deck seemed to be a little interested in me but didn't really know how to ask. Lucky for me, Luffy seemed to notice my discomfort for the situation.

"Oh yeah. This is Blue guys. She's gonna be coming along." The guy nods and then I noticed the other one on the front deck, leaning on the railing and then the other one whose head was barely sticking out of the galley. Luffy picks up the bags and then runs across the deck to the galley. "Food." The blond nods and perching the cigarette on his lips takes the bag and disappears back inside. The one of the upper deck just shrugs and disappears over the side of the railing again.

"That was pointless," The guy with green hair says looking at Luffy's back blankly as he talked to the cook. Then he looks at me. "Wouldn't happen to know here Nami is, would you?" I shake my head.

"She went back into town," I say quietly. He nods and looks away.

"So… you're Blue?" I nod.

"Blue Song." He nods.

"Nice. Roronoa Zoro." I shake the hand he had out quickly and then put my hand back in my pocket. "So why'd Luffy pick you up?" I look up at him with a small 'hu'. He shakes his head. "Luffy only picks people up with things he needs, to he thinks he needs to get to the Grand Line, so why you?"

"Blue play the piccolo," Luffy says suddenly right next to him. Zoro jumps and looks at him with a sharp eye.

"Damnit Luffy!" Luffy laughs that same laugh that he did the first time I met him and smile wide. "Plays the piccolo? That's not your style," Zoro says when he had caught his breath from the scare.

"Yeah, but when she plays… it's really pretty." I shake my head and sit up on the railing. Zoro looks at me and shakes his head before heading off toward the back of the ship.

"Whatever you say Luffy." I look at Zoro and then back at Luffy. Luffy shakes his head.

"You'll get used to him." I nod.

"He's different, but yes, I think I will." Luffy laughs again and then looks to the front deck where that other guy had been. He looks back at me seeing the rail empty.

"Sanji is the cook. He was the one in the galley. And then Usopp is kinda the storyteller, but he was the one of the front railing. I think you'll like him." I nod. I had felt a different kind of song from both of the men. Usopp and Zoro. Sanji was a little odd as far as his song went. And Luffy's song I was still trying to decipher.

"Hey Luffy!" He walks over to the rail next to me and catches the bag of food that was thrown at him. "Nice," Nami yells up and looks at me. I lean down and take her hand, helping her up. She jumps over the rail and smiles at me. "I think, I missed your name."

"Blue Song." Nami nods and looks at Luffy.

"Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to take that bag to the galley?" Luffy jumps, salutes and runs over to the galley again. Nami shakes her head. "He's such a nut." She looks at me then and nods to the back end of the ship. "Come on, I'll show you where you can board up." I nod once and follow her. Nami's song I knew in a second. It reminded me exactly of Anex's song, with a little of Gloria's spunk in there. Anex was tied down, making her song a little slower. Nami wasn't you could hear that in her voice, she was free on most counts. She leads me down a small corridor and opens a door. There was a bed and a desk on one side that was covered with maps and book. The other desk and bed next to it seemed empty compared to it. "Granted you can bunk with me or, I think the room with Luffy is open."

"This is fine." Nami smiles.

"That's what I thought. Obviously you can have that side," She says motioning to the empty side. I nod

"Don't take this the wrong way," She looks at me and shakes her head.

"What?"

"I don't sleep too much." She nods with a small 'ohh'. I smile back and Nami laughs a little.

"Well when you do, there it is." I smile and nod thanks. Nami yawns and nods back down the corridor. "Come on. Let's go see what the men are doing." I nod and follow her back down. "I'll tell you one thing Blue." I look at her back. "I have nothing against men, but having you, another girl around is going to be so much better."

"How so?"

"It just gets a little weird when you even hint at some 'girl' things." I nod again.

"I understand." Nami smiles.

"I just think that in all, this is going to be a little but more fun."