A/N: Apologies for not updating for over a month and a half, all I can say is Assessments Suck. This may be the longest chapter yet so I hope that makes up for the long wait. I wrote this while taking a break from cramming info into my head for an exam so I'm not sure how good it is, please feel free to let me know with a review,
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Nami was still processing what had happened. This seemed to be something that she would have to get used to now she had officially joined this weird bunch of pirates, as the crazy ideas, challenges an insanely unbelievable accomplishments appeared to be something that would continue in their path to wherever they would end up.

They had done it, accomplished the one thing she had been working toward for eight years, they had freed her village. Maybe not in the way that she had thought it would happed but they did it, together. That fact alone would have been enough to need time to be able to process but how they had done it, all of her crew working together, for her, was what had left her truly bemused.

Thinking back on her first impressions on this crew, when it was just two weird guys in a tiny boat that didn't quite look seaworthy that she was sure she would just use and move on from, there was no way she would have though this could have happened in a million years.

Back then she would have laughed at the thought of two "pirates" fighting so hard for her after she had "betrayed" them, stealing their ship and leaving them stranded.

Okay, so maybe, she might have had some slight understanding that Luffy was an idiot who would do things for incomprehensible reasons but Zoro's actions at the Park she would have had no idea. Well, maybe she had seen little clues that he could, the understanding between the two for instance, but to do such a crazy thing for her benefit, no never.

Nami remembered her first reaction when she had realised just how badly Zoro had been wounded before the fight with the fishmen, she could not understand how he was able to stand, let alone fight for her and for Luffy. But she guessed now that may have been the key to it. Luffy was in trouble and unable to do anything for his crew, so Zoro stood up and did what he could in his place. Hadn't she seen it before in other places, in other fights they had seen together, Luffy wasn't able to take a fight or was dealing with something else so Zoro took care of it. It seemed that this was true even when he was so injured a normal person wouldn't be able to move.

Her head began to hurt from thinking it over for too long. So for now she began turning her mind away from the past to the future. Now that they had more crew members she guessed they should start working out their ranks on the crew amongst themselves if they were to get very far without turning on themselves in confusion. She had some clues as to the basic gist of who should have what position but she would have to see what the new guy was like first. And really did they need to do this all verbally.