A/N: Hey guys, I'm so sorry for not updating. I have been so busy, with everything. By the way, for those who remember I had problems with my love life in the previous chapter, I can inform I broke up with my old boyfriend and got together with the guy I have been in love with since I moved to this school a year ago :)

Enough about all that babble, on with the story.

and also i AM going to finish this story. Right now i only have the overall plot for this story, but not how the bet works out in the next two days of the story. and also feel free to tell me if this is too confusing or OOC or anything at all :) enjoy!

Part VII

Difficult love, difficult decisions

Nami sighed deeply and scouted the ocean. It was blank and still as if it had stopped arguing with the sun that was continuously tiring it out. For days there had been neither wind nor the sight of any clouds. Only teasing breezes touched Nami's red skin from time to time. She often foresaw their journey with a slight worry because of this stoned weather, but there was nothing she could do about it, and nothing to give her any hint of a change, so she let the captain take lead.

She had been hiding in the front part of the ship all morning, under her small trees with a new navigator book bought at their recent boring visit to a boring port. All morning she had let herself get fried, to rid herself from the rest of the crew. The new turn in hers and Zoro's relationship was still making her uncomfortable and confused.

She had been awake most of the night wondering. Is it very wrong not knowing what you want? She asked herself. Her eyes sped across the tiny letters in the book but nothing actually stayed inside her head once read. Her thoughts kept jumping back to the night before where she had ditched him. Back to thoughts she had been rethinking all night. But she would ignore it. She had done nothing wrong. She might be his slave and objected not when he asked her to do stuff for him, but she was not his whore. She had lost control the night before when they had kissed. She was not going to let that happen again. How could she be so stupid.

Don't fool yourself Nami. He's just like all the other men. Zoro's used to a life with many beautiful admirers before he became a pirate with the sea as his only love, why shouldn't he be just like all the other pirates out there.

She scowled at her bitter thoughts, but forced herself to concentrate on her reading instead of her feelings.

The sun was bright and the reflection on the sea was as bright as the sun itself. With nothing in the horizon neither land nor weather change, everything was very drowsy. And Nami too. Only a few moments after the book hit the deck floor with a light bump as her mind drifted into the dream world.

Without wanting too, she had fallen asleep in the burning sun. Hot breezes flew through the orange hair lifting hit slightly lying it down again. She only slept lightly remixing dreams with reality. She felt cold suddenly even though she knew she was lying in the warm sun just under her sour tangerines. Flashes of Zoro shocked her every other second making her believe he was just in front of her, hence waking up slightly to confirm she was all alone on the deck. Next she was in a long twisting corridor running away. She kept looking back over her shoulder to find out what was haunting her but no answers came to aid her. Bewildered she fell into darkness as footsteps, which sounded like they came from very far away, rang clear in her ears as they came closer and closer.

'Nami...' she heard a loud intense whisper directly into her ear. Darkness disappeared in a split second and she was back on the flying lamb under the shiny sun. She gasped at the shock of the loud whisper and the restless dream and stared confused into Usopp's wide eyes, clearly frightened by Nami's reaction to his whisper.

'Uh... sorry, I didn't mean to startle you... I tried not to talk to loud and wake you up gently, but you know it's certainly not like back in...'

Usopp's words had already converted into a soft mumble as Nami tried to understand the very intense and frightening dream. In a split second, the thoughts circling the dream took her back to her mum and the tangerine field.

'Nami... are you all right?'

Usopp's words were starting to make some sense again. She looked at him.

'Uhm... yes I'm fine. Sorry I just had a very weird dream just now. So what's up? Lunch already?'

'Nah, just carrying the message that Zoro's looking for ya.'

Nami frowned.

'Flying lamb is small, he really needed a messenger?' She asked, getting up from underneath the bushes fixing her skirt.

'Uh.. well you'll know why when you find them.' He mumbled and nodded thoughtfully before jumping happily away. Nami went through the small ships kitchen to reach the backside of the ship. She paused at the sight of Zoro, Ruffy, Sanji and Robin lying in the sun dressed in almost nothing. She held her hand to shade her eyes from the piercing sun slowly closing and opening her eyes still stressed from the dream before.

'Hey Nami! Get the cocktails from the kitchen will ya sweetie?' Zoro yelled when he saw her.

Sweetie? Did he just call me Sweetie? She stared at them for a while before stalking back to the kitchen. He was clearly unaffected. How could she even think he would be? If she was going to survive the next two days she simply had to ignore all his coming comments. She collected the drinks made ready on the table and headed outside again to join the others.

'My love Nami, is Zoro treating you alright? I mean with that bet thing you have going on there.' Sanji asked looking worried and hopelessly in love.

'Bed thing?' Robin asked silently keeping her eyes closed a slight giggle playing behind her lips. Nami stared at Zoro, but he was just smiling with his eyes closed aswell.

Ignore it

Nami kept thinking.

'I'll live with the BET thing, thank you very much.' She said calmly not wanting to give anyone any bait to tease her any further. Zoro cracked an eye open catching Nami's angry eyes.

'Aw man I'd really like some message Nami, maybe on my head.' Zoro said lazily.

Nami sighed and tried to look like she didn't care about the commands. She sat down next to Zoro's head and started nuzzling his hair. Soon Zoro was fast asleep like a baby. She stared at his peaceful face. She didn't know whether to punch it with a big axe or take it into her arms.

His hair was soft and a small smile was playing on his lips. Nami cursed the butterflies in her stomach. There were yet no consequences for last night when she had left him sleeping alone. Without noticing it, Zoro had laid his head on her lap staring up at her, obviously enjoying the situation to the fullest. She couldn't help bursting into a smile grinning at him. She punched him lightly on the shoulder, broke their eye contact and gazed dreamily into the horizon. But the feelings dwelling up inside her were soon tamed as she spotted an incoming change in the weather. In a shriek of glee she jumped up letting go of Zoro's head, which bumped hard to the floor.

'Guys! High breeze with intense haste incoming! Degrees will be dropping about 5 or 6 degrees Celsius within about 7 minutes!' She almost yelled so fast nobody understood.

'Hoist the sails!' She continued happily.

'Hey I'm the captain Nami!' Ruffy said suddenly at the sound of a command uttered by somebody that wasn't he. Everybody stared at Ruffy for a second.

'Uhm... Nami what did you say was going to happen now?' He frowned. Everybody laughed and lazily got up from the burning decks.

A/N: wow it feels weird writing with Robin in the story like nothing has happened, because I started this story before the books with mr. Iceberg.

btw, should this story be romance/humor or romance/drama? i mean for the rating, not the story! the story itself has many genres already.

Suggestions, questions, constructive critique is very welcome in a review! Thanks for reading