Authors Note: So I decided that instead of finishing this story on Chapter 12, I think it was, I will now be fleshing out all loose ends. You'll realize what I mean in the next few chapters but it will still tie into the story. Thanks to my friend "davidjoker" for this story request again.

And thanks for all your support. I really appreciate all of you. Without further ado, please enjoy the chapter and drop me a review!

This chapter takes place directly after the events of the last chapter. (It doesn't stay so serious. I'm just saiyan! O.K. that was meowsy. Sorry, this was finished at like 5am haha. Enjoy)

(Luffy)

"Life is so fucked" I said after storming through my front door, slamming it behind me and dropping my bags to the floor of my apartment.

The bags landed with a thump as I stood silent in the middle of my living room, unsure as to what to do next. Normally, I'd try to help Nami. I'd let my friends help too. Helping people was supposed to be as easy and seamless as breathing. Usually. So why was now different?

I'd find that Arlong bastard, kick his teeth in and save Nami from her future with that asshole. But she wanted that future, didn't she? With every conflicting thought in my head, the empty feeling in my chest only worsened.

Did Nami want this? Or was she silently wishing for someone to set her free? Why would she stay with him in that case? Who would?

Or maybe I'm just hoping that she's not happy with him when really, they're laughing together as we speak because they 'got us'. They got me at least. With their little game of seduction and treachery.

I couldn't figure out which scenario made more sense. I was angry and heartbroken and I knew my mind was clouded by this and yet, I couldn't weather the storm. I couldn't think clearly and the many failed attempts only left me more confused.

"I need to sleep" I thought to myself as I walked to my bedroom and landed on the bed face first. Without removing my clothes, I laid there in the silent darkness waiting for sleep to take me.

But when it never did, I found myself repeating every encounter I'd had with that orange haired devil. The insomnia began with flashes of our first conversation in school until the bus ride home. I found myself replaying the senior trip most frequently as it was when I truly got to know her. Or at least, I got to know her façade. There was also the amusement park, and the trial of courage. The Ferris wheel and that dazzling smile she let me see that first night.

"Maybe that smile wasn't even real?" I fearfully thought before feeling the sharpest pain in my chest yet. The idea of such a mesmerizing feature being fake sickened me. But it also made me even more confused.

"This was my fault. Right? Or her fault? Was it possible that it was Arlong's? Maybe she's also a victim of his. Maybe she didn't want any of this? Or maybe that's just what I wanted to be the case?"

These questions kept repeating in my mind causing my night to be sleepless and strangely food deprived. Eventually, it was time for school but I wasn't looking forward to it at all.

"I'm not going" I muttered to myself as I looked around the room exhausted. "I need sleep but I can't shut my mind up. This is intense" I thought to myself before the metaphoric lightbulb of ideas went off.

Looking at my wooden nightstand with a smile of relief, I got out of bed and walked up to it. "Thanks for the sleep" I shouted similar to when I give thanks for food before slamming my head against it hard. The table split in half making me remember that I've trained with wooden boards before.

"Shit!" I complained remembering I was still bruised from the senior trip and I now needed a new nightstand. "All better" I said while seeing stars from the blow. Luckily now, and to my solace, I suddenly wasn't able to think about anything clearly.

"I hope this isn't permanent damage" I chuckled to myself before falling backwards onto my bed and passing out.

Flashback Dream: February 14th –Valentine's Day

"I'll never understand why everyone gets all worked up today" Zoro stated as he and his friends watched a crowd of people with emanating hearts create a circle around something. The schoolyard was bustling more than it should and it was obvious the atmosphere was different from a normal school day.

"Besides the fact that it's Valentine's Day, that exchange student from Lily Prep is here for the day. Everyone's freaking out because she's beautiful" Usopp pointed out making Franky grunt.

"She isn't that great looking."

"Who isn't?" Luffy asked confused since he clearly only heard one part of the conversation.

"Boa Hancock" Brook said answering his question.

"BOA HANCOCK!? WHERE?!" a random voice yelled before a crowd of people rushed past the group carrying away Chopper and Usopp.

"Holy crap. Oi let us down. OI!" yelled Usopp as he was carried away while Chopper just flailed his arms and cried frantically. By doing this, he almost got down from the sea of people before he saw a flash of blonde hair.

"BOA-CHWAN!" Sanji yelled as he joined the mob of students. He pushed through the people launching Chopper into the front of the mob once again. Usopp was now calling for his friends to help and yelling for Sanji to calm down. He just continued his blind, instinct driven sprint yelling, "She will be mine!"

Brook looked on laughing, realizing that the beauty's name could be used to his advantage. For now, he just offered a small "Yohoho" before turning to his animate friends.

Picking his nose, Luffy offered a bland "I'm bored" before walking away. No one knew where he was going but they didn't really care.

"So Zoro?" began Robin as she got the attention of the green haired swordsman.

"Huh? What is it?" he asked as he looked to her with curiosity.

Robin crossed her arms behind her back as she spoke to Zoro earnestly. "What do you think about Boa? Aren't you interested in her?" This caused a shocked blush to spread onto Zoro's face before it quickly turned into annoyance.

"That prissy, self-absorbed walking cupcake? Fuck no."

Robin chuckled at her friend's straight forward answer before smiling and walking away. "Good" she muttered.

Zoro watched as she left before turning to Brook and Franky, their only crew members still left around. Brook offered them a pervy look, "She's got nice boobs though."

Franky laughed at this while Zoro just nodded his head in silent agreement. "You're damn right she does" Franky responded before the three walked back towards the school chatting and laughing together.

Walking out of the lunchroom, Luffy's face was stuffed to the brim with chocolate chip cookies. "I love the school vending machines" he thought before bumping into someone causing him to swallow and choke on his food. He looked up while banging on his chest when he heard a feminine voice address him.

"Hey you, watch it. Don't you know who I am? Couldn't you see my dazzling beauty before you bumped into me? Or did it just blind you and so, you couldn't avoid hitting into me?" the black haired beauty known as Boa Hancock asked.

"Fine, behold!" she finished ending her rant with a weird pose that left her head tilted back with her chest pushed out, and her arm extended forward with her pointer finger pointed slightly.

She smirked as she assumed he would crumble like all the other teens in the school. Luffy just stared at her confused before he stuffed more cookies in his mouth, chomped on them a few times and then walked past her.

Boa was shocked to see an upside-down Luffy walking away without a word. It was as if everything she'd known was a lie. He was the first man to not crumble at her beauty's feet. And for some reason, she loved it. Her face heated up and she knew what she had to do.

Walking past what he deemed to be a really weird person, Luffy stopped in his tracks when he arrived at the top of the stairs. In the middle of the hallway was an orange haired girl listening to these two guys while they talked to her. Luffy decided to listen to what was going on so he threw some more cookies in his mouth and enjoyed the show.

"Hey baby. Be our valentine. We'll give you all the chocolate you want." "Yeah if you give us what we want" the two guys grinned looking down at the girl.

The orangette smirked. "I'll have to respectfully decline. But boy does that sound… terrible. Sorry guys but I've never been one to sugar coat things."

Luffy smiled through his stuffed face at her comment. His smile vanished however when one of the guys angrily grabbed the girl by her shoulders. "Oi bitch, you've got some mouth on you. Too bad you don't use it the right way."

Laughing, the second guy took a step closer. "We can teach you how to change that. Free of charge of course."

Luffy heard this and took a step forward ready to put this guy in his place before something unexpected happened.

Nami looked at both guys with a frown on her face. She settled her gaze on the guy grabbing her shoulders and with one graceful motion, she threw him over her shoulder and into the wall behind them. The second student took a step back in shock before the orangette took a step forward and landed a right straight on the man's nose causing it to bleed all while sending him flying down the hall.

"Pigs." She uttered shaking her punching arm's wrist. "As much as I love free things, I'd rather eat nails than accept."

Staring in awe, Luffy breathed out a quiet "What a punch." He realized he was staring because the girl had noticed him, sending an icy glare his way.

Luffy began to sweat from the tension but held his gaze none the less. He didn't move or say a word nor did she. This lasted maybe a minute before the girl stomped away with a childish "Hmpf."

He stayed silent for a minute before saying "Well that was heavy." He then emptied the rest of the cookies into his mouth, opened up another bag, began chewing and was on his way. He didn't get far when he heard the voice of his gym teacher call him angrily.

"Luffy! Is this your mess" Smoker yelled while pointing to the two bloody and crying students. They were probably crying because of their pride but Luffy found that the tears made the scene more enjoyable as the viewer.

Luffy turned around to face the man before going pale at the sight opposite him. Knowing Smoker would never believe him, Luffy offered the gym teacher an owl like stare and a few more giant chomps on his cookies before he turned around and sprinted out of the school.

Launching out of the front doors, he was greeted with the sight of all of his friends. They were standing there waiting patiently save for an annoyed looking Usopp.

"School ended 20 minutes ago. What happened?!" the long nosed teen scolded walking up to Luffy.

"Just got some cookies" he managed to spit between bites. Luffy ignored the rest of the teen's complaints while absentmindedly walking past him. The group was about to walk away and leave the complaining teen when they heard a woman's voice shout for them to wait.

"Wait!" Boa Hancock shouted as she ran up to them. Sanji couldn't keep his eyes off her bouncing cleavage and nearly had a nose bleed because of it. "You came for me my love" he yelled with heart shaped eyes before he was swatted down by Zoro.

"Luffy" she said out of breath and with a tint of red on her face. Everyone looked back and forth from the two in shock with Sanji looking like a ghost. Zoro was trying to hide his laughter when he noticed it but was unable to contain himself.

Luffy just stared owlishly at her with his face stuffed with cookies. He waited for her to continue as did the rest of the group. "Here, these are for you. Be my valentine!" she erupted causing Usopp to throw his hands up to defend himself.

Sanji was truly dying now since, in front of him was Boa holding out a box of chocolates to Luffy. It said 'My Love, Boa Hancock' showing that it was given to her as a gift that day from some guy but she didn't seem to mind nor did Luffy.

He swallowed what would normally choke a person while his eyes lit up with stars. "Chocolates! Thanks what's your face!" he shouted before digging in.

Everyone sweatdropped at his complete lack of subtlety. It's fine if he didn't know her name but don't announce it. "Dumbass" resonated in Franky, and Chopper's minds as they watched the scene unfold.

"So it's official then?! We're valentines!?" Boa celebrated earning a nod and a "Yeah" from Luffy. "My heart. Are those cupid's arrows I feel" she finished before spinning off over dramatically.

"Why you" cried Sanji as he fell to his knees in defeat. Zoro snickered at this while Brook turned to Luffy.

"You don't know who gave you the chocolates?"

Luffy looked to Brook with a mouth full of chocolate and, realizing it would be unsafe to swallow or talk in his current state, decided to just shake his head no.

"Her name" the afro teen began earning a cry from Usopp.

"Brook. No, stop it. I know what you're doing. It's not funny!"

"Is"

"Brook NO!" Usopp yelled as he lunged at Brook to stop him.

"BOA HANCKOCK" he shouted before he could be silenced. All the color drained from Usopp's face making him look like a dear in headlights as suddenly, a crowd of the exchange student's fan boys swarmed past the group carrying him and Chopper away.

"Why are you all still here? School's been over. Go home!" Usopp complained as he was dragged away by the crowd. "Why was I also swallowed up!" Chopper cried frantically as the pair disappeared into the distance.

"Yohohoh" Brook evilly laughed while the rest of the crew walked away as if nothing abnormal had happened.

"So Boa? That's a score Luffy" Zoro said nudging Luffy all the while looking at Sanji. Rubbing salt into the wound never felt so good.

Luffy just ate his hand-me-down choclates while the group walked home together. Before they separated, Robin walked next to Zoro and nudged him softly with her elbow. "Hey, you want some?" she asked as she showed him a heart shaped box of chocolates from her bag.

He looked at her hesitantly before responding. "Sure if you're sharing."

"No these are all for you. Happy Valentine's Day" Robin said handing him the box. He was shocked to say the least as a slight blush coated his cheeks. He cleared his throat and offered her a small "Thanks" before looking away awkwardly.

Robin just smiled at his shyness as she separated from the group to go home. Now all who remained were Zoro, Luffy, and Sanji. Zoro drew back to walk next to Luffy who was finished with his chocolate and was now back to his sixth bag of cookies.

"Hey Luffy. You think Robin likes me? She gave me Valentine's Day chocolates." Zoro said before Luffy swallowed his food.

"Definitely" he states simply before going back to his cookies. Zoro just looks off into the distance thinking about the situation before Sanji elbowed him in the side.

"Oi moss head. Get over yourself. She gave us all chocolates. Why ask him anyway. He's useless when it comes to love." Sanji said making Zoro look to Luffy who was aggressively eating his cookies. The chewing noises sounded like a wild animal feasting on an unlucky pray.

"For once, I have to agree with you" Zoro said sweatdroppng before he opened his box and popped one of the heart shaped candies into his mouth. Luffy took one to and stuffed it into his already full mouth causing Sanji to yell at him for being an animal.

That and something about it not being possible for him to even appreciate the taste. "Luffy why would you tell him that if you knew Robin gave you chocolate this morning. Dumbass!" the blonde continued to scold not realizing that Luffy tuned him out.

Zoro just silently kept walking as he every once and a while ate another piece. "Woman are so troublesome."

(Robin)

"I bet no one noticed that Zoro's chocolates were the only ones that were heart shaped." Robin evilly said to herself while walking home. She had a sadistic glint in her eye as she grinned to herself.

"Men are so oblivious."

Flashback Dream- Gym Class

The class was playing volleyball and the straw hat crew was dominating as usual. After spiking the ball and scoring, Luffy looked to the bench to see his favorite orangette stranger reading a book on topography.

Luffy noticed that whenever she read or spoke about navigation, a content smile was always on her face. But if she looked up from her book or was cut off from her mini lecture, her smile would fade and an annoyed look would find its way onto her face.

And as if on cue, a volleyball slammed onto the floor causing her to look up from her book. Her smile faded and she was once again annoyed. But this time, her eyes met Luffy's. He quickly looked back towards the game and assumed she did the same towards her book.

"Yo, if you're so interested in her, why don't you ever talk to her? You're always watching her so do something about it" Zoro said as he threw the ball up to serve.

"Then why don't you propose to Robin" Luffy retorted making Zoro stumble and miss the ball causing the serve to change sides. His face was flustered before he barked at Luffy.

"I think you missed a step, dumbass" he yelled as he looked to the girl's side of the gym to see that Robin hadn't heard his captain's comment.

"It's true Luffy. People date before they marry each other. Didn't you know that?" Chopper asked from the sideline as he too was reading a book except his was about medicine.

"I knew that" Luffy whined as he returned the opponents serve.

"Let's not avoid what green bean said though" Sanji began before he pointed to Luffy. "You're always watching her? Stalker much?" he asked before turning his head towards the girls side of the gym once again and smiling goofily.

He was snapped out of his gaze when the volleyball hit him in the head, bringing him back to reality and making Franky and Zoro laugh. "Look who's talking, pervert" Usopp pointed as he shook his head in disbelief.

"Ask to see her panties Luffy. I bet they're nice" Brook insisted making Franky laugh more and Chopper blush on the sidelines at the thought of the orange haired goddess's panties.

"Maybe one day I can talk to her" Luffy thought before he smiled. "They've scored enough." This kicked the crew into competitive mode. Usopp saved the ball while hitting it to Franky before he rolled on the floor. Franky set the ball to Luffy who jumped high and powered the ball towards three opponents with a monster spike.

"Shit!" "Get out of the way!" "We're gonna die!" the teens yelled before the ball hit each of them one after the other as if it were calculated. The loud noise caused Nami to look up from her book again and for some reason, she looked at Luffy instantly who was landing after his high jump.

He matched her stare when he looked up and offered her a small smile. "Maybe someday."

Author's Note 2: Okay so how does Luffy know what happened in flashbacks when he wasn't even always there!? I guess anime logic lol. So here's Chapter 7. Next chapter will be the backstory on Nami. Sorry for going Kishimoto on you all with these flashbacks. But hell, they serve their purpose.

Hope you enjoyed it and if so, drop me a review please. I appreciate all of you so much so thanks for everything! P.M me if you have to tell me anything. I'd love to hear from you! Till then, stick around for more stories!

Edited- 8/5/16