Kae Membrana: Luffy's so sensitive sometimes in this. A little boy who'd always been different and an outcast since he was born. So he felt like someone who he thought really liked him for him didn't... poor baby I love you I'm sorry.

Wishfull-star: Zoro deserves to be put on the bench for a little bit. Then he'll be more careful with his words and see how it feels to have a risk of Luffy not liking him anymore. But Luffy's always been very forgiving.

izzywolf22: Thank you! Gay strawhats for life. All of my ships for One piece are gay lol. Though it's mainly Ace/Marco and Zoro/Luffy and Law/Luffy. Lol ao3's second most shipped couple is Ace/Marco and they barely had any screentime together. The power of fan girls.

The four walked through the village, all of the citizens gathered, knowing something had happened, brandishing weapons. They didn't acknowledge them, or their clear will to fight for Nami's pain. She followed a bit behind, walking with Nojiko and Genzo, crying. Nobody protested the pirate crew taking care of this.

Luffy was walking with Zoro, and unconsciously took his hand, not even really noticing. Zoro said nothing, and held his hand loosely, too. Usopp asked, quietly, if Luffy had had enough medicine. "Yeah. It was a lot, but I don't feel sick," he replied just as quiet. Sanji didn't hear, so he didn't feel left out.

"No matter what, I'm still open. Even if it's not directly," Zoro said. Meaning he could just drip the blood in his mouth, not having him drink from him in the very intimate way. Luffy nodded, glad that was an option. It made him feel a bit like Zoro really didn't care about the drinking. Jonny and Yosaku had gone off when they weren't allowed inside. Now they were sitting outside of the gates or Arlong Park, the fismen's place and Nami's prison.

Zoro asked what the hell happened. "You're idiots," he scolded when the two said they'd challenged Arlong. They were beaten and bloody. "Well, we're here to now avenge three people, I guess." They weren't doing this for Nami's village. They were doing it for her, like they had for Usopp. It had never been about protecting his village, but Usopp and the princess he cared so much about.

They saved that place, but it wasn't their goal. It was the same with this, too. Luffy didn't ask if they were ready before he punched the gate in easily, throwing it into the water that was in the base. "Who's the one named Arlong?" Luffy asked in a simply angry voice.

He was surprised by the reaction of the fishmen. He expected them to challenge him, but he could see they all tensed at his presence. Their eyes widened, too. They looked… scared. He had only ever scared one sea creature, and that was the Lord of the Coast when he was older. Maybe these guys could feel the danger most animals did.

"Who's this brat?" Arlong asked furiously, not looking afraid like all the others. "Arlong, that's my name."

"I'm Luffy," Luffy said. His face was blank, hiding the anger for now. He didn't really like that there was an audience.

"Luffy. I see. And just what the hell are you?" Arlong asked. Luffy contemplated what he'd say. He settled with something accurate, but not completely. It could be interpreted differently.

He answered, "A monster." He walked forward, and it seemed the fishmen got over their fear mostly, and tried to stop him. He would rather not waste his strength on fodder pirates. Any other time, he would want to. But he didn't want to get too badly wounded. He was out of blood bags completely, and didn't know if he'd get any here. He would rather not drink from Zoro if it wasn't necessary.

When they came close, Luffy let out a low growl. He hadn't done it before but to scare Kuro's pirates away. With so many people watching, Luffy couldn't reveal much. Couldn't scare them too much. Then flinched, and Arlong demanded they be brave, not weaklings. Luffy mentally shrugged and slammed their heads together hard, but not as hard as he had with Krieg.

He wouldn't go easy on Arlong, though. For what he did to Nami. She didn't go into extreme detail, but Luffy knew enough. Knew Arlong was responsible for all of the pain she'd gone through these last ten years. Alone until she met Luffy.

Arlong glared more, narrowing his eyes. He didn't act shocked by Luffy's action, even though the others were. At least a little bit. "And what does a 'monster' want with me?" He didn't have a chance to react before Luffy slammed a fist in his cheek, punting him into the wall and off of his chair. Losing his composure.

Luffy stood in the same place, but his face showed fury. He couldn't hide it, and wasn't going to try anymore. "Ahhh! Arlong!?" his crew said. Luffy turned to glare at each and every one of them, making them back up. Zoro was snickering, watching this. He could hear the villagers mumbling in confusion.

Usopp called him crazy quietly. Sanji wondered why they were freaked out like that. "Luffy can be scary when he's mad," Usopp said vaguely.

He was paying more attention to his enemy though. "Don't you dare make my navigator cry!" he shouted furiously. When the fishmen charged, the other three fighters were there. Usopp was a fighter here. He was being brave for the sake of Nami. Sanji kicked some in the face.

"Jeez, running in there like that all alone," Sanji said with a sigh, not quite a scolding. Luffy replied he wasn't going to lose, not to worry. "Dumbass, when did I ever say I was worried about you!"

Luffy had a feeling about Sanji. He was dismissive to Luffy before, thought he was stupid. But seeing Luffy on his deathbed might have changed a bit. He hoped he wasn't worried about him, though. He didn't want one of his crew members to doubt his strength. He said, "I'm not dying. Don't think I'm weak." Sanji bit down on his cigarette.

"I'm not, idiot." He wasn't lying. Good. "You better not steal all the glory." Usopp, brave though he was, was scared. It wasn't shameful.

"I do-don't particularly mind e-either way, Luffy," he said, voice shaking. Luffy turned and smiled at him.

"I know you can do it!" Usopp's face went surprised, and he stayed quiet when Luffy turned back to his enemy. Their enemies. Nami's enemies. Arlong connected the dots. He realized they were all pirates, which was clear by now. That's how they were connected to Nami. "She's our navigator, never was yours."

Zoro said, "You don't deserve her, even if she's a witch."

"What did you just say?!" Sanji demanded. Usopp yelled at them to not fight right now. Luffy heard the villagers shocked over their strength, dealing with fishmen. It wasn't just Luffy they didn't know was human, which was a relief. Nami stayed silent, holding onto the Straw Hat on her head and biting her lip in worry. Jonny and Yosaku were touting their strength, which wasn't too annoying.

Zoro asked, "So your goal from the beginning was to get Nami, was it?"

Arlong laughed, "Shashasha! Just what could three measly humans and a freak do to us?" he mocked.

Zoro grinned. "I don't know, your men were pretty scared by our resident monster. A measly human, right? Heh, you all shit your pants," he mocked. He was good at pissing people off, truly. The other fishmen all looked angry and embarrassed. Luffy couldn't smell shit, so they didn't soil themselves.

"I can't smell any shit, so good for them I guess," Luffy said. This angered them, being talked down to like this. The octopus man was very angry, and shouted for the sea monster to come. The others were worried about whatever it was. Luffy didn't know what they were talking about.

Something must have happened while he was out. A sea king that looked like a cow surfaced. But it took one look at Luffy and seemed to pale, somehow. It dipped back in the water before swimming away. "Come back! What's wrong, Moomoo?!" the octopus called.

Even when Arlong threatened the sea cow, voice hard and intimidating, it shook its head and continued to swim away, surprising the fishmen. Maybe going against Arlong's orders like that was completely baffling. Arlong glared at Luffy. He needed to be killed first.

"You won't kill me. I'm tough," Luffy replied casually. The anger was there, but it wasn't consuming him anymore. He was confident he and his crew were strong enough to beat them, without Luffy going berserk. Hopefully. He knew there was a large possibility that Sanji would learn on his fourth day of knowing Luffy, excluding the days of sailing where he was mysteriously dying without some miracle drug.

And he knew there was a big secret. Well, who knows? They would just have to see. Luffy easily broke a heavy chunk of stone and started spinning it around. "Let's get out of here!" Zoro shouted. Luffy embedded his feet into the ground to keep him steady. "Gomu gomu… pinwheel!" he roared as he spun and knocked everyone with the stone, throwing them around with screams. "I didn't come here to fight small fries! There's one person I want to beat up! You!" he pointed at Arlong.

"How excellent. I want to kill you, too," Arlong said, completely unafraid by Luffy. The other, stronger fishmen not harmed were ready to fight Luffy's crew. Sanji got mad at Luffy for almost hurting him while Zoro drew his single sword, grinning. Luffy hoped he didn't go too far and open his wound.

The enemy, confident leaders it seemed, were ready to fight them all. They were unafraid, but Zoro and Sanji were unafraid. Then Luffy realized he had a big problem, and looked down. He pulled his leg up, but was completely stuck. "Um, guys? I have a problem." But Sanji was talking about how to boil octopus, and was distracted.

They jumped out of the way as the octopus fishman spit ink at them, soaking Luffy but missing his crew. "Luffy, what are you doing?!"

"I can't see!" he shouted. He could hear and smell just fine, though. "I'm stuck, I can't move!" he cried out.

"What?"

"For god's sake."

"You're the one that did that to yourself!"

Hachi, the octopus one, as they heard his name said, crushed the ground around Luffy to try and throw them on him, but Sanji kicked it out of the way. "Nice one, Sanji!"

"Man, I chose to follow a dumbass captain."

"Yeah!" Luffy agreed.

Zoro seemed unimpressed and irritated. "I shoulda done that," Luffy heard him say under his breath.

"He's so amazing!" Usopp shouted.

"Tch," the swordsman mumbled.

Sanji continued, "But that's 100 times better than being on a crew that would ever hurt a lady." He was grinning, sounding very proud.

"For a human, you're not half-bad. But a pirate going around and spouting chivalrous bullshit… how half-assed," the fishman with fins on his forearms said. The one with buns on his head. Luffy's feet were still stuck as Usopp tried pulling them out. "C'mon, just go berserk already!" Usopp said in irritation. Luffy didn't reply. He didn't want to. He wanted to beat him with his own strength. And he didn't want to be weakened badly after he used it. Who knows when this fight would end?

A lot happened suddenly. Sanji was still talking with the fishmen, Zoro attacked Hachi when he attacked Luffy, who was still vulnerable and stuck in the ground, when Usopp accidentally let go and ran behind the wall, where he attacked one of the fishmen that was going to the villagers, who all help weapons. He was going to kill them all until Usopp attacked him.

But Luffy wasn't too distracted, and made a punch at Arlong. "I'm gonna kick your ass, stuck or not!" He shot it fast and hard, but it was grabbed easily by the long nosed fishman. Luffy wanted to break that nose in half. "Do you seriously think you can beat us?" Arlong taunted.

"Yeah! You bet I am! Let go of my hand, you idiot!" Luffy shouted, pulling at his arm. Zoro grinned, thinking Luffy would get a good punch in with his other arm, now that the guy was holding onto his left. But Arlong walked over and easily dug up the stone Luffy was trapped in. "Hey! What are you doing?!

"Why don't we play this game? Devil fruit users are said to be unable to swim, right? In this situation, even a non devil fruit user couldn't swim! Shahahaha!" he roared in confident amusement. Luffy was concerned now, but wouldn't show it. Instead, he threw a punch point blank into Arlong's face.

The fishman bit down on his arm with his sharp teeth, and then pulled away, Luffy seeing his mouth smoking. Had his blood burned him? Luffy had bled many times and had his brothers tough it. Nami touched it when repairing one of his shirts long ago, and they weren't burnt. Luffy took advantage of this and bit down on his arm hard to break the skin.

Like an animal, he ripped out what he was biting, but was finally thrown into the sea by a livid Arlong. At least Luffy had done some damage. But now he was sinking fast, and felt completely lethargic. Was he going to die? If anyone came down there, wouldn't they be hurt by the fishmen? Nami said they were strong in water, too. And to never fall in or they were dead. He covered his mouth as he landed at the bottom, far below the surface. He was glaring. He wouldn't die. He bent down, but couldn't do anything, couldn't try to dig himself out! He was completely stuck down there.

He felt and saw his contacts float away. He tried to reach them, but his arms were lethargic, and he couldn't catch them. Damn it! He lost the air in his mouth and lungs when he took the hands away. He was too weak to even keep his mouth shut. This was scary. He counted to his death, wanting to do something.

But without the air, he wasn't dying. Five minutes, not dead. But he was getting light headed, and his vision was blurring. He might not die, hopefully, but he was nearing unconsciousness, and it finally took him over. He didn't go berserk in there, even completely vulnerable, even knowing his crew was in danger.

He was helpless completely, weak and at the mercy of his devil fruit's side effect. His eyes slid shut completely, but he only breathed in a bit of water after he fell into the blackness.

He woke up when he was shot out of the water, Sanji destroying the rock and his neck being stretched up so long that it shot him high out of the water. He was in the air, "I'M BACK!" he shouted. The people below him either were happy he was back or annoyed that that happened either way.

Looking down, he saw a very injured Zoro, bleeding! "ZORO!" he shouted, grabbing his arms, and yanking him up. "Switch!" he shouted, pulling him into the ocean instead of in danger as he screamed as he landed in the ocean with a splash. There! Now he couldn't get hurt anymore. The water would clean his blood off, too. That was a good decision.

The crowd didn't seem to agree, though. Oh well. Luffy had his feet land on the ground in front of Arlong, and stretched his neck out, "gomu gomu BELL!" he roared when his forehead slammed against his enemy's. It didn't hurt him, he was rubber. But it definitely hurt Arlong.

Luffy landed and continued to attack, "Gum gum whip! Bullet! Gatling gun!" He unleashed attack after attack, knocking Arlong back, bloodying him. Luffy could see the skin around his mouth was bubbly with bad burns. Arlong was furious at him. "There's something on your mouth," he said. "Well, my warm up is over now."

"You shit human!" Arlong roared. "You'll wish you died peacefully in the sea!" Luffy started to stretch. He was happy he was saved. He didn't like being in the water. It sucked. It looked like he wasn't taking this seriously at all, even though he was. "Do you understand how angry I am?!"

Luffy nodded. "You look like someone stole all of your meat," he said simply, annoying the enemy pirate even further without even trying.

"The seething rage I feel when you hurt my brethren! My crew is being crushed by you pathetic insects!"

"You had no problem hurting Nami, did you? She worked for you, you acted like she was someone on your crew. Then you destroyed her and didn't care. You're the worst type of pirate captain," Luffy said, his voice cold and hard. Arlong narrowed his eyes.

Arlong seemed to be kind of moody. One moment he was furious, and the next he was talking normally. Though that was kind of how Luffy was, too. But he didn't realize that. "Do you know what the complete difference is between us?"

"Nose? Jaw? Webbed hands?"

"It's our race!" Arlong shouted, trying to chomp him with his jagged teeth, but Luffy dodged. Luffy said, "I'm used to being different! You're not special, stupid shark!" But he kept trying to bite Luffy, making him dodge each time. He could feel fatigue starting to set in. He had been very sick… he probably needed rest first and foremost. Well, it didn't matter. He lasted over a week before, a few minutes or maybe an hour would be nothing, do no harm but make him a bit uncomfortable.

He wouldn't drink from Zoro when he's so injured. His healing mattered more than Luffy's comfort. With Kuro, it was different. Luffy wasn't used to fighting a long battle. But he was sure he'd grown after going so long without blood. He could last longer, and not get weaker. He just had to make sure he didn't go berserk. Arlong grabbed onto his neck and tried to bite his head off, but Luffy grabbed his head and jerked it to the side to get it out of his reach. But the fishman bit a stone pillar instead.

Usopp laughed at him from the wall, thinking his teeth had broken. Luffy thought so too, so he was shocked when he was fine. The rubber teen got away. "Man, so freaky!"

"I don't want to hear that from you, freak," Arlong said, back to being calm. Then the guy went on a monologue about how his race was better than humans. Luffy was bored and unimpressed, starting to pick his nose in disinterest. Luffy pointed out he'd already said that a lot of times.

If there was one thing he was truly amazing at, it was annoying people without even trying.

"Besides, I don't gotta breathe underwater, swim, or bite through stone to break it," he said, lifting his fist.

"You are weak! You humans are pathetic, idiotic, weak race! What can you do?! You can't even save yourself from drowning!" Arlong shouted. Luffy grabbed two swords in front of him, holding them awkwardly in front of him as he replied.

"It's because I can't do anything that I need help!" he countered. "Shishishishi!" he ran forward and started to swing the swords around messily. Zoro would totally laugh at him. He continued to throw them around, trying to hit at all. He didn't have anything sharp, like Arlong's had teeth and nose. Well, that nose would be broken soon enough. He dropped a sword and slapped Arlong across the face.

Arlong said, "I don't have time to play around with you."

"But you've been doing that for a long time, now! You can't back out before the fight is over!"

"I'M NOT GOING TO BACK OUT, I'M GOING TO END THE FIGHT YOU IDITOIC HUMAN!" Luffy immediately punched him in the jaw, throwing him back after his remaining sword was broken. The shark's teeth shattered into pieces. All of the spectators cheered for this, but Luffy didn't think he brought him down like that.

Then he said, "Of course I don't know how to use swords, you dumbass! I don't know a thing about navigation either! I can't cook, and I can't lie either! I'm confident that I wouldn't be able to survive if other people aren't there to help me!" Luffy was being honest, it was how he felt and he was unashamed.

Arlong started to insult him by being honest. He really wasn't ashamed at being incompetent a lot. He wanted to be a good captain and good friend, though. But he felt he was good enough, he'd get better. And his crew did care about him. Even Sanji was freaking out about his whole incredible illness. Then Nami felt horribly guilty about it, feeling like she'd unintentionally killed him. But they cared about him like he cared about them.

He didn't counter all of Arlong's petty insults. They didn't hurt Luffy at all. Only when he demanded to know how someone so incompetant could even function as a captain. "What can you even do?!"

"I can beat you!" he heard everyone encourage or threaten him if he lost. He wouldn't be worried about them killing him because he wouldn't lose. Besides, Zoro wouldn't kill him, he was just saying that. But they had to know he heard them.

When Arlong's teeth grew back, Luffy exclaimed, "Ahh! His teeth grew back!"

"I am a shark after all! My teeth will grow back every time! And the new ones are always stronger than the last!" he said proudly, bragging.

"I thought your nose was the only interesting thing!" Luffy shouted. When Luffy punched his new teeth out, Arlong continued to talk. "No matter how many times! This gift was bestowed upon me by the heavens!" His teeth kept growing back. He seemed to be ignoring the burns to his mouth and gums.

"Whoa!" Luffy said.

"Now do you realize, how much superior fishmen are to humans?!" he yelled as he pulled out two pairs of teeth in his hands and started to try and snap them on Luffy's skin, very hard. It could definitely hurt him if they got him. But Luffy was really tired with Arlongs repetitive words. How many times would he say fishmen were better than humans? Luffy didn't think that was true at all.

He thought humans were very strong and had awesome potential. He had a slight advantage, but also a weakness. Everyone was like that. Luffy was not the strongest just because he wasn't fully human. Arlong's points were useless against him, so he should just shut up about it, really!

When one of his lunges very nearly almost caught his neck, Luffy grabbed the nearest fishman and used him as a shield. Pretty low of a tactic, but he didn't want to die! "Arlong… it hurts…" the guy whimpered as he bled from his captain's own teeth. Arlong looked guilty for a moment before the rage returned once again.

Luffy grinned. "Hmmm, that gives me a good idea."

"You used my crew as a shield you puny monster!" Luffy countered by pointing out he'd already done that to Luffy's crew. It was only fair that he did it back. He wasn't paying attention to what the others around him were saying anymore, focusing all his attention on his fight. It didn't matter what they said, his fight wouldn't change and wouldn't end based on something somebody said.

Arlong attacked again, Luffy just barely dodging each one. He was fighting too fast and being too loud for Luffy to really hear every move and breath. He had to focus on this, and couldn't divide his attention right now. He wished he could, but he wouldn't let himself be distracted by anything but staying alive and fighting back.

Arlong dropped one of his pairs of teeth when Luffy landed a good punch, and the teen took it without hesitation. He grinned, and stuck the teeth into his mouth. "Look, I have the same teeth as you now!"

"How long will you continue to insult me?!" Arlong shouted and punched Luffy's jaw. It was kind of hard to do things with the teeth in, but it was a good idea! He wasn't going to abandon it! Luffy said Arlong had been insulting him all this time, so he better shut up and stop complaining about that! But, unfortunately, it turned out that using the teeth made it more difficult to see, and it was hindering him as he got beaten around. But when the fishman grabbed him around the chest, Luffy bit down on his shoulder with all of his jaw strength. Which was strong. He needed to be able to bite through thick skin to drink, after all.

So even as Arlong tried to shake him off, crying out, Luffy held on tightly, digging them in until he ripped out some skin for the second time. Arlong's arm was still damaged from before, but he was ignoring the pain like Luffy had been as well. "How's that?!" Luffy shouted when he finally jumped off. "Your jaw's not so special, is it?!" he asked.

He ducked when another bite was aimed at him, and kicked upwards, slamming into his throat and knocking him off balance. Luffy went in to hit his bloody and injured shoulder, but his arm was bitten instead. Again, Luffy saw Arlong's mouth looking raw. It was like his blood was acidic. But the bite hurt. "Agh!" Luffy shouted before he turned them around and used his trapped arm to slam Arlong's head into the ground, hard enough to break the stone beneath him.

Luffy backed up and pulled the teeth embedded into his arm out, and then realized Arlong wasn't there anymore. He knew Alrong was underwater based on him being unable to smell or hear him. Water dulled scents significantly. They made it to Nami's village because it hadn't rained on their way, and Luffy kept leading them, even dying.

The monster boy waited for him to come out, and he came shooting out of the water, this attack named "Darts", he barely missed Luffy, who made it to the side before he was shot into the wall of the building, which had sustained little damage considering the fight happening just outside of its entrance. But he crashed into it, slamming against the wall and breaking it, leaving a big hole.

Over and over his nose got him, but he also dodged a lot. Then he went back into the water. Luffy refused to leave the area, finally responding to the spectators. He would not run away, would catch and break his nose. Best to rip it off with his teeth! Yeah, that would terrify him! He was definitely doing that. For sure.

He could hear Arlong planning to go for his heart, and stretched his fingers for a new move. This would be cool. "Gomu gomu shield!" His friends didn't see the potential in this move. Well, he'd show them. Arlong finally shot out of the water, but Luffy bounced out of the way, and used his new move to stretch them wide and catch the enemy. "Net! Time to go fishing! Shishishi!"

He grinned. "Followed by… Oh, is he dead?" he wondered with Arlong laying on the ground below him, his eyes white. He didn't seem to have noticed Luffy's red eyes. Luffy landed next to him, but saw his eyes had turned to slits. "You aren't the only one with scary eyes." He finally saw his eyes, and narrowed his.

But, he wasn't finished, wasn't fatally wounded. Luffy wished they could end it already, he was tired. And cranky. He pushed Luffy into the wall again, but he was fine, of course. Still annoyed. "Didn't hurt but he looks really cranky." But Luffy jumped out of the way when a sudden sword was in Arlong's hand. It was long, and with triangle blades. Like a saw of some sort!

"Wow, where'd that come from. Another shark ability!" Luffy shouted from the second story balcony. But Arlong jumped up, slicing, and Luffy ran inside further to get away. Nobody would see his fight anymore. Maybe he could really scare the guy. He crashed into a room full of stacks of paper. He landed on his butt, unable to help looking around curiously. "Papers?"

"They're not just papers. These are all the maps Nami has been drawing for us in the last eight years. For fishmen, obtaining data on the sea is easy, but using that data to map is not. Even if you search the whole world, you won't find anyone who can make maps as accurate as these! That girl is a genius."

"Ohh…"

"There is nothing more tragic than not using the talent she possesses!" Luffy wasn't paying attention when he saw a pen on the desk nearby. He had tunnel vision when he held it and saw and smelled the dried blood there. Caked in many layers. This pen had blood on it, Nami's blood. Dry though it may be, it was easy to smell her scent in here. He hated that it was mixed with the fishmen's scent.

"This pen has blood on it…" he dropped it when the blade came rushing at his head, and he gripped it with his fingers easily. Don't lose control, fight with normal strength. Don't lose energy! He chanted in his head, even as he felt anger course through him, building more and more by the second. But he wanted to stay in control this time.

Nobody was around to get hurt if he didn't finish it right this instant. He shattered the blade, furious. "Use?!" he demanded. "What do you think she is?" He felt his heart pounding in his chest. The fishman started touting Nami's navigation skills while once again putting humans down. When he said she was a cute little thing, Luffy felt disgusted.

"We'll have her continue to draw maps for us for the rest of her life! We'll feed her, buy her clothes. She'll never be in want for the rest of her life! In change, she'll draw maps for us." Luffy could imagine Nami hearing all this, and breaking into tears again. Maybe harming herself again.

He didn't want her to ever cry again. He didn't want Zoro to, he didn't want Usopp to, and he didn't want Sanji to. They would be happy on his ship, and he'd do anything to help them be happy, fulfil their dreams along with his.

Luffy finally cracked when Arlong bragged that she was his crew mate. But before he could do the final attack, he needed to do something else. He started destroying the room, breaking everything, ruining the maps, throwing the desk, the pen and all of the maps out of the building, into the water.

"The hell do you think you're doing?!" Arlong shouting in frantic fury at all of the maps he was losing. And he would never get replacements.

"Stop that!" Arlong shouted. He sounded more upset now than he did even when he harmed his own crew member. Luffy was right. He was selfish and didn't value his crew mates. At least, not as much as Luffy would think a good captain would. Your crew was your family. Like what Shanks told him so many times, showed him.

The fishman used his own blade to accidentally slice through a huge stack of the unharmed maps. "Ahh! My maps!" Luffy might have laughed if he wasn't so angry and focused on doing this. Erasing the pain Nami went through all these years.

That damn pen.

"Those maps took Nami years to make you bastard!"

"Yeah, and they'll never be replaced!" Luffy shouted back. Arlong went to bite down on his neck, which would make him lose a lot of blood. Luffy used all his strength he knew from those times he went berserk, but he kept himself in control. He ripped off Arlong's nose, from the middle to the tip, and twisted his hands, breaking the wrists before he kicked him in the nuts so hard he grunted.

Luffy kicked him in the face, in the already hurt nose. He scratched at the severe burns on his mouth, and punched his teeth in. He kicked him in the throat, making him cough up blood. "No- human can do this!"

"Then it's lucky I'm not!" Luffy shouted, and punched him as hard as he could in the gut, throwing him out of the building. He gasped a bit, shaking as he let all of his strength fade away, leaving him exhausted. "I won't let this room exist anymore. Then… maybe I can take a break," he said to himself.

He could hear the people below shocked at the state Arlong was in, bloody, bruised and deformed in multiple ways. But Luffy just destroyed the rest of the room. Once it was done, he did want to destroy the whole building, but he'd defeated Arlong, freed Nami. Now he just needed a little time to catch his breath. When he didn't come out immediately, with everyone very worried, shouting for him, he heard Nami climbing over the debris, shouting Luffy's name as she hurried up the stairs. She found Luffy on his back, bloody but alive. Looking exhausted.

"Luffy!" she came to kneel beside him. Luffy smiled sleepily.

"You're our friend, and our navigator." She cried and nodded. "I… need a little break. I managed… to not go crazy. But I lost my contacts in the water… I have no spare ones." She looked sad for him. "Well, maybe they'll think… I'm just weird."

Nami nodded, still sniffling. She put his hat on his chest, and he put his hands over it. "Do you need blood?" she asked.

"No, I'm okay for now. I'll be okay. I already… had so much. I need to get used to… this," he sighed, and fell asleep finally.

This chapter is probably the chapter with the most canon dialogue. Sorry about that. See you next week!