Authors Note: If I haven't said that the crew members have spent a night somewhere it means that there still stuck in the day the crew split up. Confusing, I know. Sorry :(

Chapter 5

Questions in a Game of Chess

Nami snapped out of her daze when the sounds rushing water from the shower stopped. Nami stared eagerly at the door. A few minutes later, Tori came out with a towel wrapped around her head, covering her hair and wearing the same thing she wore yesterday. She was also holding her cap in her right hand. Tori blinked in surprise as she looked at Nami.

"Where's Luffy?" Tori asked openly to the navigator.

Nami currently had her head resting on her right hand. Her left arm resting a the kitchen counter top. Nami spoke back to Tori, "He went to go gets some eggs for breakfast."

Tori looked at Nami expectantly, it seemed like Nami still had something to say.

Finally Nami did ask Tori something, "You were wrong about how only members of the Shadow Crown know of it's existence."

Tori didn't look the least bit surprised when Nami said this. She had been expecting Nami to ask something like this. Tori sighed, she walked over to the kitchen counter top and sat on a stool, so that she was directly in Nami's eyesight. Tori then asked Nami a question with a slight smirk on her face, " And why do you say that?"

Nami frowned at Tori, it looked like Tori was mocking her. "When I first heard of the Shadow Crown, it was from a general telling a soldier after a robbery. Besides that they didn't even know I was listening." Tori smiled calmly at Nami. 'Man she just won't let it go, will she?'

Tori let out a yawn and responded to Nami, "hmmm, you must be talking about Sergeant Roku and his partner Zumo. I believe the Sergeant was recruiting a partner a few years back, that was when they first heard of you. Nami, Roku knew you were watching. He just didn't let it show. I also believe at the time he didn't know who you were, I guess he must of done some research on you and that's how they found out about you and your skills."

Nami was bewildered. She wondered out loud, "How could he have known……?" Tori let out another yawn, 'God what time is it?'. Tori took a glance at the clock, it read 8:07 before answering Nami's question. "Need I remind you that a lot of the Shadow Crown members are trained thieves and assassins?"

Nami looked down to the counter, 'This girl really knows how to make me feel bad…' Tori noticing Nami's down cast look decided to distract her from her thoughts. "Hey do you want to play a game?"

Nami's big eyes looked at Tori's before giving a small nod of approval.

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With Luffy

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Luffy gave a sigh of frustration. 'Where is the market in this town?' Luffy thought. As you can probably tell by now Luffy was lost. Luffy had found the alley where he and Nami had first met Tori. He then went down the alley. He found several paths, when he got out of the alley. Luffy decided he would take the path right next to him, it appeared to be the middle-left path.

Luffy hummed, he was in a relatively good mood this morning. After he did get into an argument with his navigator. Wait, that doesn't sound right. Luffy frowned, he was confused. Why would he be happy that he argued with his navigator? Woah! That didn't sound right either for some reason! First of all why would he be happy that he was arguing with Nami? Sure it was kind of playful argument but it was still an argument. Second, why does calling Nami his sound so strange yet…so good. He never had this feeling before when he called Nami his navigator, even if it was a little a while ago. Okay, okay, he hadn't called Nami his since well… a long time okay!

Luffy clutched his stomach, he must be really hungry if he feels so empty. Luffy stopped, he stared into oblivion. The feeling was gone, then his mind came back to earth and he thought 'Nami's going to kill me if I don't hurry up and get those eggs!' Then that light feeling in his stomach returned. It wasn't a bad feeling it was just unlike anything he had ever felt before.

Luffy decided he must be really hungry and sick! Luffy figured out that most of his thoughts gave him them that weird feeling. Know what the really weird thing was? All of his thoughts were perfectly normal! Like how he thought Nami must be lifting weights to get that killer uppercut! Or how Nami was always bossing him around! And like how Nami is really pretty and smart! … Okay that last one wasn't normal thought.

Luffy clapped his hands determination! "Yosh! I know what I'll do! I'll just stop thinking until I reach the market!"

So that's what Luffy did.

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Franky and Sanji

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"Hey, Franky we're back where we started from." The love-cook stated. Franky's vein on his forehead popped. "Of course you dumbass! You went the wrong way!" Franky was bending over with his hands on his knees. Chasing after that chef really gave him a workout. 'Love really can motivate people, I guess.' The cyborg thought to himself.

"Geesh, what's your problem?" Sanji said before lighting a cigarette. Suddenly Sanji eyes widen. His cigarette fell from his fingers. 'No way…' Were the cooks thoughts. Franky looked up finding Sanji staring at the bar they saw this afternoon. "Yo, Sanji what's wrong?" Asked the cyborg.

"It's… It's the bar where we…" Sanji stuttered, his eyes still wide. "Where we saved that beautiful lady!" His eyes suddenly changed into pink hearts. By now Franky had fallen over. "You can't be serious!?" Franky yelled outraged. To bad for Franky Sanji took that the wrong way.

"Of course I'm serious! Come on I'll show you!" Sanji ran across the town square over to the bar called The Mermaids Pearl. "Wait up! Dammit!" The cyborg yelled, with all this running he's going to need 5 cokes!

Sanji ran into the bar and went up to the counter. He found that he was looking at the back of what appeared to be a woman with long silver hair, like the one this afternoon.

"Hello miss! How would you like to-" Sanji suddenly shut his mouth when he found himself staring eye to eye with a man! The man looked surprised. Then he spoke trying to break the awkward silence.

"uh what would you like to drink?" Sanji's eyes had finally returned to his sockets. Sanji then spoke, "what happened to the girl that was here in the morning? She had long silver hair and blue eyes!" The man looked at Sanji as if he was crazy. "Sorry I don't know who your talking about. The Marines took control of the bar this morning. They said something about a top secret plan."

"Top secret plan?" The man spoke again, "yeah! It was really weird! The admiral came! I swear the woman is beautiful but she is scarier than hell!" 'Man this place is really weird…' Sanji thought. "oh okay. Thank-you, I'll be going now." The bar tender gave Sanji a goodbye wave before attending to his other customers.

Franky was outside waiting for Sanji. "Finally! I was about to leave without ya! Come on, there's this hotel down the road from here! And guess what!? They've got room service meaning we can get coke delivered to our rooms! How cool is that!?" Franky exclaimed.

Sanji merely shrugged his shoulders. Franky noticed his nakama was depressed. "Bad luck with the lady?" Franky said caringly. "You could say so." Sanji replied. Franky didn't inquire anymore, instead he offered, "Come on, I'll buy you a cola."

So the cyborg and the cook spent a night at Davy Jones' Bed & Breakfast.

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Nami and Tori

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The game Tori suggested to play was chess. It wasn't a game Nami was familiar with, so Tori had to explain all the rules. She decided since Nami had play before, she could be black and herself would be white.

It was completely silent in the room except for the small 'clacking' noises of the chess pieces against the wooden chess board. After they had both had five turns, Tori decided to ask a question. "So how did you hurt your arm?" Nami was staring at the board deciding where to move her bishop next. Nami looked up in surprise and muttered a small 'huh'. "Your arm?" Tori repeated, slightly annoyed.

Nami looked down at her bandaged arm. She had completely forgotten about it. She guess it was because it was hurting much and she mostly used her right arm during the day. Finally Nami did respond to Tori, "Uh I sprained my arm and got some glass shards stuck in it."

Nami then decided to move her castle up five squares and take one of Tori's pawns. "So how did you steer you boat in those strong currents with a sprained arm. Nami was very confused. 'How did she know I sprained my arm on the way here?' Tori smirked at Nami's reaction. She then moved her knight to take out Nami's bishop. 'She's starting to catch on.' Tori thought as Nami focused her attention on the game.

Whether Nami was getting the hang of chess or something else, only she and Tori know.

End of Chapter 5

Authors Notes: Bleh…. I was really sick this weekend (as in I was puking)! It was so unfair cause I kept getting headaches looking at the computer screen, cause it's all like bright… so yeah. So I've Sanji and Franky's explanation down, only Ussop and Choppers left!

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