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Hey! Just one quick thing I want to add in.

For a while, Luffy is going to be OOC. He has no memory he's gonna act a little different. Not permanent, or is it gonna be? :D

So I hope you enjoy this chapter!

(P.S Does anyone else just read FF on their phone. I find it impossible to read it on a desktop- ihavenoideawhy. Was just wondering if anyone else has this strange habit thing? I can't be the only one- right?)

Chapter 2

Silence filled the small patients room as Nami struggled to find any words. Luffy's words kept repeating in her mind, leaving her speechless. Clenching her fists, she tried her best to remain calm.

"A-are you okay?"

His words were whispered, completely unlike how her captain would normally speak -did he stutter? - as he tried his best to keep his voice down; not wanting to startle the girl further.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to make you upset."

Swallowing her tears again, Nami inwardly shivered. Standing up from the place she was sat, she slowly backed her way to the wall. Pushing all her weight towards the door as she ran out of it, gaining speed as she ran down the corridors of the ship to find someone- anyone to re-assure her and tell her what Luffy had just said wasn't true.

Spinning around the corner, she crashed harshly into the long-nosed shooter- laying beside him on the ground as she cried out his name. "U-Usopp!"

The said man grumbled under his breath, holding his palm up to his forehead as he sighed, momentarily shaking his head. Yawning, he turned to face Nami with his previous sulking actions disappearing instantly as he saw the navigator shaking.

Reaching his hand out to her shoulder, Usopp questioned her; his nerves peeking as drips of water fell from her eyes. "Nami? What's the matter? What happened?"

Holding her hand up to her quivering mouth, she shook her head; grabbing a hold of her companions hand and rushing him down to the infirmary as she ignored the questions which were being yelled behind her.

Slowing her pace down as they reached the outside of the said room, Usopp grabbed her by the shoulders, forcing the navigator to halt in her steps and face Usopp straight on.

"Nami! Calm down, what's wrong?!" He asked, gently taking away his grip on her shoulders.

Nami returned his stare, biting down on her lip as she searched her mind; asking herself the same question.

Who would believe her?

The thought itself seemed incredibly far-fetched and impossible, so it wasn't mad at all for her to question whether her fellow crewmates would believe her. After all, she could hardly believe it herself.

Something terrible had happened to Luffy.

Bringing her mouth open slightly, she began to whisper out her words. "Luffy. It's Luffy."

"Luffy?" Usopp raised his eyebrow, bringing his gaze towards the door placed behind the duo. Tilting his head, he re-asked his question, this time more curious. "Is he okay?"

Hearing no response from Nami as she gazed to the side, Usopp gulped, pushing past her to face the door to the infirmary; hesitantly opening the door. Slowly peeking his way inside the room, he tensed up.

It was quiet, for one. But that alone wasn't enough for Usopp to see why Nami was so troubled. Stepping forward to fully see the room, he stared questionably at the bed with confusion, looking back to Nami as all his nerves relaxed. "So Luffy bailed on you-ey? I wouldn't take it personally. Knowing him he probably smelt Sanji's cooking and ran off. I'm glad after yesterday that he seems back to norm-"

Cutting Usopp off from his words, Nami turned fully towards the door. "What?"

Stepping inside the room, she turned to face the bed where her Captain previously was, only to see that the space was empty.

Gulping at the sight, she slowly turned around to face Usopp, gulping down her words. "This is bad."

Watching as the highly-emotional girl ran out of the room hastily, Luffy sat there, unknowing of what to do.

...Did he say something wrong?

He had only answered the truth, he had no reason to lie. But the girl didn't seem to take it very well.

"She's weird." He said to himself, looking around the room. He quickly frowned, his eyes unable to find anything that he recognised.

Where am I? Placing his hand onto the table, he brought himself up from the floor, standing up with a wobble at the feet. The room was pretty basic, having nothing of interest to the teen.

Looking back towards the bed, Luffy tilted his head to side. "I feel asleep here?"

Trying to think back on anything hurt his head - it hurt real bad - so he decided to just leave that thought for later. After taking another scan of the room, the teen sighed.

He had decided. Staying in this room was boring, he had to leave it.

Slowly pushing the door open, Luffy smiled; happy to see that the girl hadn't locked him in after her outburst. Glancing outside in what appeared to be a corridor, he quickly concluded there was nobody around, before timidly taking a step outside the room.

Walking slowly down the lighted hall, Luffy tensed at the quietness which surrounded him, feeling uneasy. "It's so quiet." He seemed to whisper to himself, before his eyes widened slightly, hearing faint chatter coming distantly in front of him.

Looking directly to the side, he chose to quickly hide beside the shadowed corner of some boxes, peeking around to see the loud-speaking people pass him. Luffy raised his eyes slightly, recocgnizing the girl he was with before who was now accompanied by a man with a long nose?

"Shishi..." Letting out a tiny chuckle at the sight of such a ridiculous looking man, he instantly placed his hand over his mouth; trying his best to remain silent and let the duo pass.

Stepping out from his hiding space, he returned to exploring the corridors, trying to find an exit to the building he was in.

"Eh?" He questioned to himself. Building? Was he completely sure that was right? For some reason, that word didn't sit with him right.

Looking down on the floor below, he couldn't mistake that the floor was ever so slightly shaking, causing his steps to sometimes mis-guide. Shaking the thought to the side for now, he continued to walk down the narrow corridor; turning around a corner to be met with the sight of green.

Tensing at the sight of the green being a living person, Luffy stumbled backwards before the green started to talk to him.

"Luffy?"

Recognizing the name being the first thing the orange-haired girl had called him, Luffy looked up to face the green; gulping as he saw an undoubtedly fierce looking man staring at him with confusion.

Sending his hand up with a forced smile, Luffy choked past his words as he closed his eyes. "Ah, do you know where the exit to this place is?"

"...Huh?"

Peeking his eyes open once more, he twitched as the man sent him a look, easily telling he didn't have a clue what he was talking about. Noting to himself that this would be the best time to leave, Luffy side-stepped around the person, his gaze not leaving the green haired man.

Fastening his pace, his thoughts turned immediately to how to get away from the man as quickly as he could. Hearing the green haired man shout out to him once more, he peeked over his shoulder briefly; letting out a weak laugh. "You know what, it's fine. I can find it myself."

Before Luffy could realize it, the man was back at his side; his -eye? he has one eye?- narrowing at him. "There's something up with you." The man said to him in a emotionless tone; skipping out the threat that Luffy was subconsciously hearing.

"No, I'm fine." Luffy gulped, re-taking his steps back.

The man quickly noted this, showing confusion still written over his face. Seeing that Luffy was feeling threatened, he also leaned closer towards the wall behind him as he raised an eyebrow, opening his mouth.

Before the man had said anything, a shout interrupted his phantom words; leaving the two to look instantly towards the source of the noise. Taking this as an easy distraction, Luffy turned the other way; starting to lightly step his way down the corridor and towards a lightened door.

"O-Oi!" A shout from the man was directed at the now running Luffy, who when he looked back, was accompanied by the mikan-colored girl and the long nosed man.

"Leave me alone, you weirdos!" Shouting at the top of his breathe back at the trio, Luffy burst through the lighted door, only to be left with his sight blurred by steam which surrounded the room. Hearing someone else muttering something in the room, Luffy poked his head around the corner; only to have his eyes widened at the sight of...

...is that a skeleton?

"Luffy-san! How great it is to see you! I didn't know you had woken up already." The said skeleton proclaimed, one hand?- on the towel surrounding his ??, the other patting the space beside him.

Stumbling backwards with his mouth agape; Luffy was speechless.

Hearing the door to the steamed room burst open, Luffy tried his best to wake up from his shock; frantically looking everywhere for another exit. Seeing his flailing, the skeleton once again spoke, causing shivers (or was it excitement?) to send down Luffy's spine.

"Are you trying to find a place to hide Luffy-san?" The skeleton asked. Luffy immediately looked towards the boned figure with curiosity, before slowly nodding. Clapping it's hands together, the skeleton laughed. "Well why didn't you say so!" Standing up from where it was sitting, the skeleton lifted up the seat below him up, ushering for the boy to hide there.

Raising an eyebrow, Luffy slowly walked over to the skeleton's seat; not even bothering to ask why the seat lifted up in the first place.

He had a lot more things to worry about. Such as hiding from the insane trio which was now searching for him.

Quickly climbing into the seats empty area, Luffy was surrounded by darkness as the skeleton sat on top; hiding the secret place completely.

Biting his lip, Luffy frowned. Nothing about his situation made sense, and thinking about it was painful. Was the skeleton a zombie? - why is he with zombies?

"Am I zombie?" He questioned to himself, nearly missing the sounds of a frantic girl; shaking the skeleton above.

Listening in on her words, Luffy was once again left speechless.

"Brook you have to listen to me. Something, something terrible has happened to Luffy."

"Something terrible you say?" The skeleton replied with a hint of concern.

A different voice entered now, Luffy quickly recognizing it as the green man he previously encountered. "She hasn't said yet. All she keeps repeating is that something bad has happened."

Another voice hit the air, this time being unrecognizable to Luffy. "Y-Yeah. Nami, do you mind telling us why we're chasing Luffy?"

Hearing a deep sigh, the girl seemingly thought for a second before answering the question on everyone's mind. "...He didn't recognize me."

With the words said, Luffy's stomach churned, his mind confused to why she would think differently.

It had certainly been the first time they had met, was he supposed to say otherwise?

The un-recognizable voice returned, but this time was tainted with shock. "...What?"

Luffy suddenly jumped, the pressure of someone suddenly hitting the seats above. Peeking his eye's through the thin lines; Luffy was met with the sight of the girl, her body timidly shaking. Furrowing his eyebrow, Luffy frowned.

The way that the girl looked, it turned something in his stomach. He certainly didn't like the sight of the girl being upset.

"He didn't recognize you?" The green man asked, to which the girl replied with a gentle nod.

A yell was suddenly heard from the unrecognizable voice, stutters filtering his words. "O-Oi! D-Don't glare a-at me like that! I have n-nothing to do with this! I-I swear-"

Leaning her weight off of the seat, light started to flicker through the gaps once more. "I know." The girl replied, though her voice was still tinted with disappointment. "Luffy could never lie to save a life."

Twitching at how she used past tense, Luffy silently growled; crossing his arms over his chest.

"If he didn't recognize you, it explains why he looked so frightened when I ran into him." The man stated, causing Luffy to grumble under his breathe.

He wasn't afraid. Just wary.

"Eh?! Luffy was frightened to see you?" The unrecognizable voice exclaimed, causing the girl to nod once more.

"He was the one who woke me up. He wasn't acting the way he normally does. He was just sitting there, staring off into space. When I asked him what was wrong,"

Her voice started to break, the girl now sitting down a few feet away from Luffy. "-he told me he didn't know who 'this Luffy' was! So I asked him if he recognized me, and well. You know the rest."

Finishing her explanation, the steamed room began to grow eerily quiet.

Luffy remained there, bringing his knees closer up to his chin; recalling the memory the girl had just proclaimed with a scowl growing on his lips.

The green haired man finally spoke up, shattering the silence in the room with an irritated voice. "Well, we aren't going to find him standing here sulking."

Instantly, Luffy's heartbeat quickened.

Silently praying, Luffy begged for the boned figure above to stay quiet, hoping that he will keep silent above him hiding beneath hi-

"Ah. You see, you needn't worry about finding him. Luffy-san's been here the whole time."

-or maybe not.

"What?!" The girl stood up from where she was sitting, surprise obviously whisking throughout her voice.

"That's impossible! There's nowhere to hide in this place, not where we couldn't spot him anyway!"

Laughing interrupted the girl's anger, the skeleton slowly getting up from the seat. "You see, that's where you're wrong Nami-san! Franky had this installed for Sanji back when-"

Tuning out the rest of the skeleton's words, Luffy sighed; lifting up his hand to raise the seat above him, his eyes wincing at the beams of light which altered his sight.

Two pairs of eyes instantly settled on him, the other glare coming from the one-eyed green man. Turning around to glance at the skeleton, he sighed.

"I don't think you understand hiding." He grumbled under his breath, only to be met with more alerted stares from the trio.

The first to speak was the long-nosed man, which Luffy guessed was the unrecognizable voice earlier. "Hey! Luffy, it's great that you're here! So can you just tell us that all Nami had said right then was w-"

"She's telling the truth." He bluntly stated, ignoring the flickers of pain which showed in the five pupils staring at him.

Holding his hand up to his chin, Luffy's eyes darted everywhere, trying his hardest to name the place he was in; but ultimately failing. Returning his gaze onto the people which where present in the room with him again, he lowered his head. "I have no idea where I am or who any of you people are."

Silence regained the rooms composure; the green haired man closing his eye and making his towards the steamed door. "It would be best to gather everyone then, I'm sure they'll want to know what's going on."

Luffy's senses peaked at this, turning around to face the girl. "Everyone?"

Seeing the boys obliviousness, she sent him a forced smile as she made her way also towards the door. "Your crew, Luffy."

"Crew?" He mumbled to himself, furrowing his eyebrows.

"That's right." She responded, lightly taking a hold of the door handle, glancing over her shoulder to the boy. "You're the Captain of this ship after all."

"...Huh?"

Opening the door with a click, it swooned out;bringing fresh air against the skin of both Luffy and the girl. Scanning his eyes at the scenery of the outside, the girl blocked his vision, before he spotted a vast flag flutter in the wind behind.

"Mhm." She mumbled out, stepping outside the room. "You're the Captain of the Strawhat Pirates, and this is your ship."

"WHAT?!"

Luffy leaned back slightly, grateful that he wasn't the one speaking for the time being.

A muddled row of seven, unique people stood before him; the girl who he had now acknowledged as Nami standing by his side, explaining his as-unique situation.

Deciding to describe all of them individually in his mind he was able to tell each person from the other. Though honestly, their looks themselves would catch the attention of anyone.

At first, there was the one eyed guy, who he had actually heard named 'Zoro'. He appeared to be moody most of the time he had spent with him, though seeing the reactions of his moodiness on the other people of this ship, he tipped it off as being a general thing.

Secondly there was goggled long-nose, who seemed to be afraid of plenty of things. Though he didn't seem to mind the Cyborg or the talking Reindeer when they both entered the room; which left Luffy the only one to be surprised. However, he had heard Nami call the man a liar when he proclaimed that he was one of the strongest men in the seas, which immediately shone to Luffy, being overwhelmed by being in the presence of someone so strong. Still, the man had an essence to him which Luffy seemed to cling too, one that only a friend would have.

There was also Sanji, the self-proclaimed 'ladies man' of the group (to which Nami quickly denied). It didn't take long to notice the way he would swoon at both of the ladies on the ship; showing the men a cold shoulder.

Still, when Nami had said he was the cook of the ship, for some unknown reason Luffy suddenly didn't mind the man.

Luffy didn't have to put any specifics on the walking/talking Reindeer, simply bewildered by the fact that there was a reindeer on this ship, and he was walking and talking. Seeing the Reindeer for the first time, Luffy noted his uneasiness when he appeared before him before he was subjected to a rant of complaint's which included:

"Luffy?! What are you doing here?!"

"You're supposed to be in bed!"

"I've been so worried about you!"

He had repeated himself telling the Reindeer that he was fine; that he was feeling even better than he had beforehand. Relieved, it seemed that the Reindeer believed him for now. Honestly, he didn't have to heart to tell him then and there he had no idea who the little guy was.

Then there was the other woman, 'Robin-Chwan' if he remembers Sanji saying so correctly. She seemed to be silent most of the time he had spent with her; occasionally sending him a gentle smile if he were to look her way. Though having her there seemed right. Feeling like if she were to have been placed anywhere different from here, that this crew would be lost, somehow including himself.

Shaking away that thought with grimace, Luffy continued to gaze at the people before him, his eyes practically shining at the sight of the Cyborg standing out amongst the crowd. He had yet to know the name of the said Cyborg, but settled with the name 'The Suupeer Robot' for now.

And finally, there was the Skeleton. Growing more accustomed to the sight of the Skeleton, Luffy actually started to enjoy his presence; not being slightly fazed about the fact that he had forgotten who the said Skeleton was. Instead, he would sing Luffy different tunes while they waited for everyone to arrive, calming him of his nerves for a few seconds.

Though those nerves instantly came back when at Nami had mentioned that Luffy had slight amnesia, sighing as she mumbled under her breath. "That's the only thing I can think to call it anyway."

The Reindeer shuddered at this, suddenly running his way over to where Luffy had sat. Staring at the center of Luffy's eyes, the Reindeer's lip wobbled. "Is it true?" Gulping down any other type of explanation he could make up on the spot, Luffy nodded slowly; just about catching the started looks which surrounded him.

The Reindeer's lip shook more, before tears started to stream out of his eyes. Taken aback by the Reindeer's actions, Luffy's eyes softened, slightly feeling the guilt surround him for not remembering the animal; that is if they have telling the truth this whole time. The animal started to mumble various apologetic words, sinking his face into Luffy's chest as he stumbled back.

"So it's true? You seriously remember nothing?" Sanji asked with disbelief, taking Luffy's thoughts away from his guilt and onto his memories.

He had to remember something. Where had he been before he had woken up in the infirmary?

His eyes glazed over, the thoughts spiraling in and out of his head as he subconsciously raised his hand to the tips of his hair; a sudden but extremely noticeable intense pain ringing throughout his mind.

Sensing that his Captain was in pain, the Reindeer stopped the mixture of words which were falling from his mouth, staring at Luffy with concern.

"Luffy?" Stepping back slightly when groans started to voice from Luffy's mouth, he instantly faced the others behind him, all of them quickly rushing over to their Captain's side.

Shaking slightly, an excruciating pain suddenly ripped down the middle of Luffy's chest, causing the boy to peer down; his eyes widening at the sight of bandages which were previously not there before.

Looking back up at his crew around him, he was met with worried faces; all seeming to try to calm Luffy back down. Distantly, he had started to hear various people shout of his name, though a blurred ring blocked out most of their words.

Glancing once more down at his chest, he was still met with the bandages, though this time, a line of red seeped through it.

Starting to shake again once more, Luffy let out a daunting scream from his lips, feeling the ringing noise starting the dye down as his voice became weaker.

...

A sudden gush of fresh air hit his face, before a more frightening hand reached out to his shoulder unexpectedly, immediately waking Luffy from his daze.

Bringing his head upwards towards the face which was now in front of him, Luffy felt all the air around him suddenly disappear; staring obliviously into a broad blue features of a man?- who he didn't recognize.

"Luffy-san! You need to calm down!- you're still injured."

Slowly taking his sight away from from the man, Luffy gulped; staring at his surroundings.

Where he was expecting to be met with the sight of a wooden structure- he was now faced with endless signs of a jungle.

Stuttering out his words, Luffy inwardly collapsed. "W-what?"

Taadaaa.T'is done. And I am shattered. *sneezes into bed*

It's hard writing as Luffy, cause you wanna keep it simple but not cause you wanna describe stuff and asdghjkl;

And I had to do the long intro of the Straw-hats, because they will be needed later. I know all of you know them word for word but it had to be done.

Anyways.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter though, and once again, thankyou to all the people that favorite-d, followed and most importantly reviewed. I appreciate it hugely.

See you all next month!

-KayaaHiko