*Disclaimer*

* This is my own original story but Im using characters based of the series "One Piece". All Characters, and rights to those characters, belong to Eichiro Oda and the Series "One Piece" *


A few hours after the talk with Luffy and Chopper...

"Land HOOOOO!" Franky shouted as he was on top of the main mast, looking at the upcoming island. Once everyone on the ship heard Franky, everyone ran in front of the ship to see what was ahead.

They could barely see than island from where they were at and was only visible by the dim lights of the island. They could make out the silhouette of the island, but it was still faint.

"Judging from where we are at and the distance from us to the island, were about 20 to 25 minutes away from the island." Nami said in a educated guess.

"Nami-Swaaannnn, what am I going to do for dinner?" Sanji asked.

"Well what do you think? Meat of course." Luffy said with a big grin, only to be kicked by Sanji soon after.

"Shut up! Your the one who ate all the damn meat!" Sanji said in a furious tone.

Annoying the events that transpired right now, Robin spoke.

"Sanji has a point. Were almost out of food, including meat, and we haven't eaten dinner." Robin stated.

"Well I was hoping that we would be able to get all the supplies we needed for the ship today, but it already too late in the night. I honestly don't have any ideas." Nami replied.

"Well what about we all go out somewhere to eat for tonight and we can pick up all the supplies for tomorrow?" Usopp offered.

"Sounds like a good idea to me, what do you guys think?" Luffy asked.

Everyone responded with a nod of approval, but Chopper soon yawned.

"Can we not go anywhere fancy though?" Chopper asked. "I'm a bit sleepy and I don't want to have to change into something nice or go where there will be a lot of noises and people."

"I agree with Chopper." Nami responded. "Can we just eat where there not a lot of people."

"Well I don't see a problem with that, so let's do that." Luffy replied in understatement.


20 minutes later...

"Guys, I can see the docks from here." Usopp stated.

"Alright. Everybody, get ready to land and Franky set the anchor." Luffy commanded

Once everyone followed Luffy orders, the soon set foot on the island. It took them a while for the crew to get off the ship though, because all of the crew members had to change their clothes into sweaters or jackets due to the cold. From where they could see though, many other ships were docked and it seemed the harbor was filled. They saw that there were many streets and alleys that they can go through to travel throughout the island. Along these roads and alleys, they could also see different shops, restaurants, businesses, etc throughout the island. Many people were walking among these streets but the atmosphere around them was quiet and peaceful.

"Quiet town, huh?" Zoro said as he observed the settings around him.

"Maybe the night and sleepiness is getting to everybody?" Chopper inquired.

"Guess so. I'm even starting to get tired as well." Nami commented.

"Well, let's get going everybody." Luffy said.


The crew was walking together through the silent town and all of them were just gazing at what this town had to offer. They could see the local residents still shopping and dining through this cold-breezing night and all of them looked extremely happy. As the crew was walking down the street, a poster on a wall caught Usopp's attention.

"Wait a minute guys, come look at this." Usopp said as he grabbed the poster off the wall. Usopp saw that the poster was actually a bounty poster and the contents of that poster were actually surprising. The picture shown was 4 kids wearing black robes, wearing a mask, and carrying paint buckets and brushes along with them. They seemed to be just a bunch of small-town troublemakers but the money for capturing them alive said other wise.

"Guys, look! These kids are worth 15,000!." Usopp said in shocked. Everyone was surprised also and huddled around Usopp to look at the wanted poster.

"I can't believe what I'm seeing, but then again, I don't have eyes. YOHOHOHO!" Brook laughed.

"What do you think they could have done?" Chopper asked.

"I don't know, but look at what they are called." Franky said, pointing to the Wanted poster's name.

"The Four Horsemen." Luffy said, reading off the poster.

"Why the hell would someone name some little kids the Four Horsemen." Zoro said in curiosity.

"I don't know, but what ever they did to receive this bounty must be bad." Robin responded.

As the crew was talking about the poster, Nami looked at the wall where Usopp originally got the poster. On the wall, Nami saw different wanted posters and flyers on the wall. Nami came up with the conclusion that this wall was used to let everyone know in town about certain events and information that is coming up. As she was looking upon the wall, she saw a map that showed everyone shop, business, hotel, and diner places around town.

"Guys, I found a map of the town Where should we go to eat?" Nami suggested. Everyone had saw the map and were thinking were to go. All the restaurants sounded good, but they didn't know which ones were crowded or not.

"Well, were at the center of town right now, and it seems the further we go down, the less people there are." Robin stated. " What about we go to Dugatti's Diner. It sounds interesting and the map says its just a little bit up north from here."

Having heard Robin suggestion, everyone agreed and started to head that way.


15 minutes later...

"Finally, were here! " Luffy exclaimed. " I feel like I've walked for ages."

"Idiot! You're over-exaggerating. Let's just see how this food compares to mine." Sanji commented.

"I bet your food is more shitty than what were going to eat now." Zoro responded.

"What did you say Marimo!?" Sanji exclaimed.

"You heard me, you ugly blonde!" Zoro said, butting heads with Sanji.

"That's it, here I come!" Sanji said, as he pushed Zoro through the door. Both were fighting in the restaurant and causing a ruckus and wouldn't stop. The rest of the crew members were telling both Sanji and Zoro to stop fighting, but they wouldn't listen. Soon enough, they both were fighting on the floor and wrestling among-est each other. They started to roll across the floor and were close to breaking tables and chairs. Nami was about to stop them, when someone else approached...

*Bang* *Bang*

"Stop it you hooligans or I'll hit you with this broom again!" A young little girl shouted. The crew saw the bumps on both Zoro and Sanji's head and couldn't help but laugh.

"Hahahah! You got your asses beat by a little kid!" Usopp exclaimed, wiping a tear from his eye. Having being already embarrassed enough, Zoro and Sanji walked back to the group with their heads down.

"Well aren't you kids a lively bunch?" A old man said from the kitchen door. " I assume you came here to eat?"

" You bet! I'm starving!" Luffy emphasized.

"Well alright then. You kids come and sit down at this table and Samantha will ask you all what you guys want to eat." The old man said as he walked back into the kitchen. The straw hats walked to the closest table to the kitchen. As everyone was walking to the table , Sanji was the only one who was running to the table. Once he reached the table he, pulled out two chair and started to say...

"Nami! Robin! Come sit by me please, you two can sit right here." He said with heart eyes. As Sanji was saying his sentence, some of the males already took some of there seats, one of them being Luffy. As Nami was reaching the table, she had seen an open space next to Luffy and wanted to take the seat next to Luffy to be close with him.

"It alright Sanji, I'll just take the seat by Luffy." Nami said.

Sanji soon had a sad face but Robin agreed to take the seat by Sanji and Sanji soon was happy. Everyone soon got settled in their seat and was reading the menu. Samantha, the little girl who hit Zoro and Sanji, soon approached the crew and asked everyone what they like to eat and drink. Everyone soon placed there orders and Samantha repeated the orders to everyone to make sure she got it all done.

"Alright, please wait patiently as we make your orders." Samantha said cheerfully. She soon walked into to the kitchen and everyone at the table was becoming social with each other. Everyone was laughing as they told jokes and tales from the past. Though considered as Pirates to the rest of the world, to the crew, the word "Pirate" had such more meaning. It even had deeper value when they spend their adventures of the sea with each other. All this cheerfulness was soon interrupted when the could hear Samantha yell at the Chef.

" I said that they want the meat done medium-rare, not medium-well!" Samantha said through the top of her lungs.

"Did you say something?" The old man said in a loud tone ( not as loud compared to Samantha). " Wait, let me turn on my hearing aid. Alright, can you repeat that."

"You stupid buffoon! MEDUIM-RARE, NOT MEDUIM-WELL!" Samantha exclaimed.

"Sorry, I'll fix it right away boss!" The chef said. The whole crew heard the conversation and both had a sweat drop go across there face. They soon saw the little girl walk out of the kitchen door with steam coming from her body, as her face was red and flourished with tree-like veins. Everyone was looking at her in astonishment (and not the good-type) as she was walking outside. But before she reached the doors, she caught the crew staring at her and soon her eyes manifested to balls of fire.

"What the hell are you looking at?!" Samantha said pissed. She soon ran back to the kitchen, where the crew soon heard a lot of metallic objects being moved. The answer to what it was, was soon answered as the angry-little girl came walking out with a tower full of forks and knives. With no words, but a only a face to show the anger, she started to throw them at the crew.

A tsunami of forks and knives were flying through the air, aimed for the crew.

"Oh, damn!" Zoro said as he saw the utensils being thrown.

As soon as Luffy saw the first utensil being thrown, he waved everyone to get down and reverted his attention to Nami. He quickly grabbed Nami and pulled her into the safety of his arms and hug/held her to make sure that she would not get cut or hit by the soon to by the projectiles. Once he had Nami in his arms, both got off the chair and was taking shelter behind Luffy chair, attempting to use the chair as a wall. However, as he was making the transition to grabbing Nami and taking cover, he got cut on the cheek by a knife.

Luffy soon curled his head on-top of Nami's head, as she was curling into Luffy, attempting not to get hit. As Samantha was throwing more plates upon the crew, Luffy could see through Nami hair that she was squinting her eyes in scariness and knew she was worried. Noticing this, he leaned down more towards Nami ears and spoke gentle words through this rampaging event to relieve her of her worriment.

"Nami, don't worry alright? I won't let you get hurt, I promise. I'll protect you no matter what." Luffy said gently to Nami's ear. Nami then turned around to the voice she heard only to see that bright smile she came to fall in love with. She soon smiled back to show Luffy that she was now better and Luffy was happy that she was no longer worried. A couple of seconds soon after, the crew saw that there was no longer utensils being thrown at them. All they saw was forks and knives all over the floor and the sound of a little girl trying to catch her breath.

The crew had no idea what was going to happen next since Samantha was just standing there, facing the floor as her hair was covering her face. It came as a shock and a surprise as Samantha soon revealed her face which was covered full of tears and negative emotions.

"All you people do is JUDGE! Each and every single person of this God-awful island is always judging me and just stare! I'm not a damn circus act!" Samantha exclaimed. She then ran outside, having her tears trailing behind her...


The chief soon ran out and started to shout. " Come back, Samantha! Come back!" He came back in the restaurant as he saw the crew got back up from the floor.

"Please forgive her! She has issues with the community and strangers due to personal reasons. She has anger issues and sometimes she goes on a rampage. Please forgive us!" The old-man said as he bowed in apologize.

"Don't worry about it Old man chef. It was our fault to stare at her to begin with. I don't know who she is or why she would do this, but she must have her reasons. It not a problem for us" Luffy said as he tried to relieve the guilt of the man. As he was talking though, Nami saw that on one side of Luffy cheek was cut and was bleeding.

"Luffy, did you get cut by the knife?" Nami said, feeling a bit guilty about it.

"I didn't realize that I did get cut. It was probably when one of the knifes hit me there, but I didn't feel any pain. Don't worry about it." Luffy replied.

"We have to stop it bleeding though. Mr, do you have by any chance a med kit." Nami asked to the Chef.

"Yea there is some in my office. Its behind the kitchen, you can go get it if you want. It the least I can do." The chef said.

"Thank you very much. Come on Luffy." Nami said, as he grabbed him by the hand to the office.

As Luffy and Nami were walking to the office to mend Luffy's cut, the chef was cleaning the glass of the floor and showing a face of guilt.

"I'm truly sorry for this. I never meant this to happen." The chef said, shedding tears. He soon was surprised when Robin came with a napkin to wipe the tears, showing a smile.

"It's alright. We should have minded our own business to begin with. Please forgive us also. Allow us to help you." Robin said with a smile. The old man soon saw the crew putting in effort to clean the mess and was happy that they were so nice. Everyone started to grab brooms and wipe the glass off the floor. Everyone was making an effort to clean the mess and was trying to make light of the situation.

" If you don't mind answering me, but what are her personal issues." Usopp asked. The old man was looking at Usopp in thought and only huffed in response.

"Sorry for aski-"

"Where do I even start?" The chef said, interrupting Usopp. " There been to many occurrences of pain for her, that it seems to cover her like a coat. I'm Samantha grandfather, and I've been with her ever since she was born. Her father died in a ship voyage during her mother's pregnancy and was sad for never having a father. When she was just a toddler, she would come back home from school crying to her mother and telling her how all the other kids were seen with there fathers but not her. They soon both cry, and it took an emotional toll."

"My daughter was a painter and was one of the best among-st this island, and Samantha picked up that talent easily." The old man said with a smile, reflecting about the past. "You should have seen the paintings they created together. They were so beautiful, it felt like the paint was moving on the canvas. Her mother found out that her painting was helping with her anger, so they drew everyday. Sometimes I had to close my shop cause there was paint all over my floor. yahahahaha!"

"But I guess the man up stairs had different plans. My daughter was soon gaining popularity in the art world and was invited to go to a far-away island to show her painting in a exhibition. Though my daughter knew Samantha wanted to go, she wanted to have something that Samantha would be proud of. But just as her husband, during the ship voyage, it was taken in by a storm and it was the last time I saw her." The old man said in sorrow.

"After that, Samantha lost herself. She would go around town painting on other people property and showing awful negative images. Many times I would have to pay people to not report her actions to the police. But since she can't paint anymore, she has more anger issues and more frequent outbursts." The old man said as he picked the last bit of the broken glass from the floor. "What about I start making your food, huh?"

As the events were unfolding with the chef and the crew, Luffy and Nami entered the office. The office was substanitally small with a few shelves, cabinets, a desk with a chair (chef's chair), and another 2 chairs that guests or visitors were suppose to sit on. The shelves were filled with books about art and foods. Along the desk, were pictures of Samantha, the customers,and the chef having a great time.

"Luffy, sit in the guest chair while I look for that med-kit." Nami said as she pointed to the chair. Luffy noddded and sat in the chair, all the while, observing the surroundings around him.

As he was doing that, Nami was looking for the med-kit through the shelves and cabinets. To her surprise, it was difficult for her to find it since the cabinets and shelves was disorganized. She had looked through all the shelves and cabinets that she had seen but could not find nothing. She sighed in frustration when she couldn't find the kit. However, she felt something fall upon her head as she was doing so, only to realize it was a few pieces of dust. She looked up only to see that there was an extra shelf that she could not see due to how high it was. She smiled as she could clearly the see the med kit up there.

However, that smile soon turned into frustration as she tried reaching for the med-kit. Even with her standing up on her toes, her fingers could not even touch the ledge of that particular shelf.

"Damn it, if only I could be taller." Nami said, as she was again attempting to grab the med-kit. She soon stopped once she felt a presence close to her and something on her back. She never turned to see what was it, only having her back faced towards this 'presence'. She did however look up from where she was standing to only see a hand stretch to the med-kit, grab it, and pull it back down.

"Here you go Nami." Luffy said. Nami turned around only to see that Luffy was extremely close to her, realizing that what she felt on her body was his chest. She started to blush at how close she was with Luffy. She could feel his breathing coming from him, see all the small textures of his face, and could even feel his hand touch hers due to how close they were.

"Um...Luffy..I need you to scoot back that I can patch the cut." Nami said. Luffy then started to smile and Nami then started to get confused.

"What with that smile?" Nami asked.

"Nothing, it just that it the first I ever seen you like this." Luffy said. Nami then quickly turned away, having blushed more, and covering her face. Luffy soon started to laugh at Nami's antics.

"What the hell are you laughing it at?" Nami said, as she was pulling at Luffy nose.

"It just funny the way you reacted." Luffy said, sounding a bit high-pitched. (A/N: Read the quote that Luffy said while pinching/holding your nose with your hand. You'll understand what I mean by high-pitch.) Nami huffed about it and pulled his nose further. Once she thought she pulled enough of his nose, she quickly let go of it, letting it snap-back right into his face, leaving a mark.

"Owww, what was that for?" Luffy said, rubbing his nose.

"That was because you were making fun of me! Sit back in the chair already that i can fix you up." Nami said, waving him to sit down. Both Nami and Luffy sat down on the two guest chairs, both of them scooting closer to each other so that Nami can heal it up. The cut on Luffy's cheek was not severe enough to cause a scar or big enough to leave a mark, but could leave an infection.

As Luffy was sitting there patiently, Nami was applying ointment to disinfect the cut. As she was doing so, she was re-calling the recent events of the incident and how Luffy was able to protect her. She could only feel guilt, feeling responsible for the injury.

"Hey, Luffy?" Nami said softly.

"Hmmm?" Luffy responded.

" I just want to say I'm sorry that I let you get hurt like this." Nami said.

" What do you mean? It's not like you threw the plates anyway." Luffy responded.

" I know, it's just that if you would have taken cover by yourself, you wouldn't have gotten that cut." Nami said.

" But it alri-"

"Luffy! Just please accept my apology! I usually don't say sorry to you and I feel I should at least feel sorry for this." Nami exclaimed while looking down, not able to look at Luffy directly.

"No." Luffy said. Nami quickly looked back up only to see Luffy smiling. "I'll always protect you no matter what. Even if I get hurt." Luffy was soon suprised, because Nami hugged him, nearly falling on the floor along with his chair.

"You idiot... thank you..." Nami said while smiling, feeling that her mistakes now and in the past that causes harm were forgiven. Luffy started to laugh at Nami, but also took the time to also wrap his arms around her and savour the moment. A couple seconds later however, they could the crew laughter at the dinner hall of the restaurant, and Nami realized the position they were in.

Moving her head off of Luffy shoulder and facing him in the same position, Nami started to speak. "Sorry Luffy, I didn't mean to-

"Nami. I want to ask you something." Luffy asked.

"What?" Nami responded.

"How do you feel about me?" Luffy asked.


Author Note:

Omg, it been so long since I posted. Please forgive me, but alot of stuff has been on my plate since summer started since I had to start writing essays and read books for classes for my second year of high school, and classes started a while ago. Ive been working on the story more now since now everything is back to normal and I can work on it daily. Ill post the next chapter in 2 weeks, and Im so sorry for leaving the cliff hanger, but hey, I got to get you hooked somehow right? And today the day when we all get to see Nami hug Luffy in the Anime! Im so excited! Please take care and be safe, Ill be back in two weeks. Stay Tuned and please leave a Review.