A/N: This seemed to include a little more of my head-canon on Nami than I expected it to when I started writing it (she might have also taken over a little), but what can you do. Also, I had wanted to put another chapter between Robin and this one but then I realised that there is a ridiculously short time between Alabasta and Jaya in manga canon and couldn't think of anything to put there. I'm currently rereading to try and plan some more chapters out, Robin's was the last from my last planning session.
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Maybe it was everything that had lead up to that point that had lead Nami to explode so much at the incident in that stupid, cheap bar. She pondered on the idea as she sat in the girls' room trying to calm down a little.

A room that until recently had been shared with the first female friend that she remembered having (Nojiko didn't count, sister before friend), and now shared with the woman who had stood to harm that friend. How quickly she had let go of her suspicions after ten long years where her suspicious nature had kept her safe, allowing her fondness of money and jewels to overpower them.

What was it that lead her to do this. Was it the fact that Luffy said she was a good person, had she subconsciously learnt that Luffy had a much stronger ability to judge people on their ship than she did in most situations? Or had she subconsciously realised that Zoro would remain suspicious no matter what anyone said until whoever it was that had stepped foot on their ship had proven themselves?

Or was it that she trusted the two of them to react quickly enough to stop anyone from harming the crew if it came down to it?

Whatever it was, her reaction to Robin had caused her to hold a low level of frustration at herself since she had realised what she had done. It was added to the baseline frustration she always held about the fact that they couldn't seem to travel anywhere for long without something ridiculous happening.

For example, their log pose pointing upwards. Or a massive old wreck of a ship falling from the sky. Or a random salvage pirate crew possibly attacking them.

That level had skyrocketed after the events that had happened in that stupid excuse for a town.

She had only followed them in the first place to make sure they actually remembered to ask for the information they needed, but walking with them may have made her a little nostalgic for the time it had just been the three of them in those two tiny, barely sea-worthy boats held together with only a few badly tied ropes. The first time she had felt like she could have had friends since the bastard had shown up.

Even though she knew that they probably wouldn't take the promise she dragged out of them about not fighting seriously, she made them make it anyway. She just wanted to make sure they didn't destroy anything until they had what they needed.

She knew from a quick glance at him at the time, that Zoro had felt the same way as she had about the insult those jerks had given their Captain and the rest of the crew. But she had verbally held them all back. Even if it was only by reminding herself that they needed the village standing to get information.

Then at the bar, when that jerk had first attacked Luffy, Zoro had reacted so fast she didn't remember seeing him move. Sword out, threatening him. Retorting to her attempt to stop him that they had started it and he was only defending. She knew he was going to fight, and probably bring the entire building down on their heads.

So, she had done the only thing she could to get the information before she need to get out of the way. And the entire bar had laughed at her, at them.

At this Luffy had stood up, and said one of the most confusing things that she had ever heard from him, and she had heard some weird things come out of her Captain's mouth.

He had told them that they weren't going to fight.

And Zoro hadn't even questioned it. Just re-sheathed his favourite sword and stood there.

Why would they have done that? These jerks obviously didn't have any information they needed, and even if only one of them had fought they wouldn't have even had to break a sweat to take them all out.

But instead they just stood there and took a beating. Standing back up after every time they were knocked down. Why?

The after she had dragged them both out of the bar after the insults and the stupidity those jerks threw around without knowing a single thing about their crew, they had just stood up and acted as if nothing happened. Being annoyingly cryptic about what they both seemed to know about the weird cherry pie guy as they did.

Maybe she would have just calmed down quickly when they got back to the ship, surrounded by those that understood the truth of their crew. But instead the two idiots insisted in denying that anything had happened. Like it was not even worth wasting breath on explaining what had happened.

She would certainly like them to explain what had happened, because she felt like she was missing something important that explained the entire series of events. And Nami liked to know as much information she could in order to plan for every eventuality should this come back to haunt them.

Also, she didn't like being confused, especially when she had thought she had finally been able to understand exactly what kinds of choices her boys would make in any situation.

On reflection, she figured that she could be forgiven for finally exploding, considering everything.


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