Authors Note: Finally some LuNa action! Sorry for any and all mistakes! Oh yeah I think this story qualifies as an AU cause I made some stuff up!

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece!

Chapter 8

Spur of the Moment

"Hey." The ex-marine broke the silence. Nami looked up from the board to Tori's face. Tori taking this as a sign to continue asked, " What's with Luffy and his straw hat?" Nami gave Tori a curious look before answering, "A friend of his lent it to him." Nami gave a vague answer. She still didn't trust the black haired girl.

Tori then added almost casually, " So he would protect it with his life?" A suspicious look was now plastered on Nami's face. "Yes." Nami had long ago decided not say anything more than necessary.

"Would he choose it over you?"

Nami's eyes widen with shock. Nami's mouth went dry. How could she answer something like that? Sure Luffy loved all his nakama but he loved his hat as well.

Just which did he love more?

The hat or them?

Nami searched her mind of what to say but there was nothing she could say. For once she didn't have a quick retort, a clever excuse to dodge the question or an answer.

" I….don't know."

Nami berated herself. How could she not know the answer. Of course Luffy loved his crew more than his hat! Right?

Tori raised an eyebrow at Nami's answer but left her alone in her thoughts. Tori moved a castle across the board.

Nami's mind told her that he would choose them. It was only common sense. They were people, the hat was…well a hat. Still uncertainty washed over Nami. Nami hung her head low in shame. How could she possibly think that when he was her captain? When he was Luffy?

Tori noted how Nami's head dipped down a little. Tori watched how Nami's hand moved the white bishop. Before Nami was certain, focused and passionate. Nami had been determined to beat her.

Now it seemed like she didn't care that she had just given Tori a path to her king. Tori let out a sigh. 'She seems to have very little faith in her captain…….No that's not it, she seems like the type of person that has to see it to believe it.'

A while ago something like this would have been easy answer but Nami had seen how wild Luffy got when his hat was touched. Luffy always made sure his hat was safe before going into a serous battle. Just when had ever done that with them?

"Oi, Luffy! Just how many more stairs do we have to go up?" A strong voice boomed through walls. Nami looked at the door, 'Zoro?' Tori looked at Nami in confusion but that soon pasted. Tori leaned back into her chair, 'So another crewmate I suppose.'

A boy's giggle vibrated through the room.

What the hell was this building made of? Paper?

Soon the padding sounds of sandals reached the door. The door swung wide open revealing the Straw Hats captain, the first mate and archeologist. Luffy greeted Nami with a grin "Hey Nami! I found Robin and Zoro!" Zoro gave a small nod to Nami while Robin smiled and waved as well.

"Yeah, I can see." Nami stated almost disbelieving.

Hey, spending 3 hours with a person you thought was out to capture you and your friends, did things to you!

"Man am I hungry! So were is that shitty cook?" Zoro said patting his stomach. Robin nodded in agreement, " Have you guys seen Cook-san or anyone else?"

Luffy then began listing all the people he saw today " Well I haven't seen Sanji but I did see this guy with a crooked eye, oh and a lady with a moustache-" Nami cut Luffy's speech short by clamping her hand over his mouth.

Immediately he stop. Shivers crawled up and down his spine like spiders and a gut wrenching feeling exploded in him. Luffy felt his hands begin to sweat. Luffy rubbed his hands up and down the sides of his shorts while Nami explained that they hadn't seen anyone from the crew.

Nami kept her hand on Luffy mouth out of experience. Usually Luffy would continue talking even with Nami's hand over his mouth.

Tori was watching Luffy unusual behavior. Who knew rubber stored so much sweat? Unless..

Of course there was only one reliable explanation for this behavior!

Hormones!

Luffy of course knew what was going on, after all he was as dumb as everyone thought he was. He was just a little naïve at times. Also he had experience it before.

Back when he was fourteen he had a crush on an older women. She was the most beautiful women he had ever seen. One day he gathered his courage and went up to talk to the women. His palms got sweaty and he was paralyzed to the spot. The women was looking at him expectantly but all he could do was stare with his mouth wide open. The women eventually walked away, not caring that she broke poor Luffy's heart. Luffy being Luffy bounced back rather quickly and he was after all only attracted to her body.

Thoughts began swarming in Luffy's mind. He shut his eyes tightly to try and get rid of the thoughts. The chatter of his crewmates dulled in his mind. Luffy's eyes popped open suddenly. He stared at Nami, his hand began to reach out to touch her.

Tori was watching Luffy, ignoring the chatter of the swordsman, navigator and archeologist. She saw Luffy reach out to touch Nami but he pulled his back immediately. His hands turned into fists clenched against his side. 'Is this really just hormones?' Tori wondered.

Luffy wanted so badly to touch Nami, as if he was desperate. Luffy then saw his whole crew before him and he pulled his hand back. 'No.' He told himself. To him Nami was now untouchable.

Nami finally sensing Luffy discomfort, looked at his face with her hand still covering his mouth. Nami saw Luffy staring at her face. The expressions on his face were at first uncomfortable but quickly changed into….fear?

Luffy eye's met Nami's brown eyes. Fear spread through out his entire body. Luffy panicked. 'Why is she looking at me like that?' Whirled through his mind. Luffy ripped his face away from Nami's hand.

"I gotta..a go! Bye!" Luffy said as ran out the door jumped down the many stairs of the building to the first floor. Nami ran out behind, she looked down over the railing to see Luffy's retreating form out the front doors.

"Luffy!" Nami yelled. She immediately started to go down the stairs before a hand stopped. Tori wasn't looking at Nami but the doors Luffy ran out.

She then said quietly, "He has some things to think about now. He'll come back, just wait for him."

For once Nami listened to the mysterious girl. The two walked back inside to Tori's apartment.

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With Luffy

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Luffy ran through the crowds, never stopping. He slid through the crowd. He didn't care where he was going just as long as it was somewhere else than where Nami was. He ran past a group of caravans pulled by horses. Luffy didn't notice but on the caravan were fancy gold letters spelling :

Torikusuta Circus

Luffy eventually ran to the outskirts of the town. There were lots of hills and from what Luffy could tell there waves crashing just in front of them. Luffy now began walking slowly to the hill. The grass was pointing and colored yellow from the lack of rain. Luffy stood on the round point of the hill. He stared in awe of what was before him. It was the coral wall.

When they arrived Luffy didn't really care about the coral wall but now when there was nothing around him, he truly did concentrate. The wall was all different colors. Ranging from turquoises to the lightest pink. Little dots shined on the wall, they also were different colors.

Luffy finally adverted his eyes from the wall to the right of him. At first all he saw was a jungle but then as he looked higher, he saw tall buildings in the very distance. Luffy put his hat back on ,since it had fallen off as he was running, to keep the glaring sun out of his eyes.

'So that must be where all the Marine ships are.' Luffy thought remembering his conversation with his crew the day they arrived on the island. Luffy crouched down on his knees, giving the far away city one last glance before lying down. Luffy placed his hat over his face. Luffy had no intention of sleeping, just if someone did pass by they would hopefully not disturb him.

His crew. What happened to Franky, Sanji, Ussop and Chopper? Were they okay? Thoughts like these flew around in Luffy's head. Luffy gave up with his questions, how could his mind answer what it did not know?

Instead he began thinking about Nami and those few moments before he bolted out the door. Absent mindedly, Luffy licked his lips, remembering how his lips skimmed across her hand as he turned away.

Luffy then sat up, frustrated he thought 'Dammit what's wrong with me!?' Thinking back to the time he had a crush on that women he thought, 'It didn't hurt this much when she left!' He knew this time it was completely different. He had left not her.

'How can I even feel this way about Nami? She has nothing in common with the other lady!' Even Luffy knew that was wrong. Nami was even better than the other women.

Nami had everything that men (except for odd one) wanted in a women. She was beautiful, smart, had a fun personality and of course was older (even if it was by one year to Luffy).

'Still she's even more. She's funny, feisty, strong, caring, quick to anger, cour-' Luffy stopped his thought. Most guys didn't like having a girl that's feisty (in the angry sense ;)

and gets angry easily. But for some reason Luffy loved that. It was always a fun to see what she would do even if it did usually end up with him and a black eye. And sometimes he would even fight back a little. It was so much fun to see her eyes sparkle with electricity.

Luffy promptly fell/laid back down with a 'thump'. He pulled the sides of his hat down, so the hat was pressing into his face. Luffy then remembered what Makino had told him about love.

"Makino, how will I know when I am in love?"

Luffy had come up with this question when he saw a man proposing to a women. The man had said he was in love with the women. Luffy smiled he was about eight years old when he walked into her bar in the middle and asked that question.

'Am I in love with Nami?'

"When they make so frustrated that you just want to kiss them."

Luffy pulled the hat down harder.

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With Nami & Others

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The three crewmates of Luffy sat down on the couch with worried expressions. Robin had tried reading her new books but she so worried she couldn't concentrate. Zoro had his arms cross and was tapping his foot against the wood floor. Nami was slouching a bit and fiddling with her thumbs.

Tori was sitting at the counter watching the worried crew. She sighed tiredly and glanced at the clock. She read 2:03. It had been half an hour since Luffy had left. Tori stood up and stretched. 'Its getting late, I really need to get going.' Tori thought.

"Okay, I'm going out for a bit, if you guys leave can you lock the door?" The pirates nodded before Tori walked out the door.

Nami soon stood up after Tori left. "I'm going to look for Luffy, what about you guys?" Nami asked as Robin and Zoro stood up.

"Yeah, I'll look for Luffy as well." Zoro said while resting a hand on one of his swords. Robin smiled as spoke, "I guess I'll have to look with you then so we won't have to look for two crewmates."

Zoro frowned at joke made at him he said nothing but "humph" and crossed his arms. Robin and Nami smiled at his behavior knowing that that was Zoro special way of giving into the ladies.

"Alright then! I'll go north while you two go south." Nami directed to her friends.

Nami went ahead of Robin and Zoro because they were locking the apartment. Nami looked at the street in front of her. It wasn't really busy after this was the slum part of the town. The road in front of her was huge. Off to the side were millions of tiny little alleys. Nami figured Luffy would have just gone straight ahead so she went straight too. Nami walked along the road avoided all the nasty looking people. Eventually the street began to gain more people. She looked at the shops and they seemed relatively fancy, so she wasn't in the slums any more explaining sudden crowd of people.

She swerved her way through the crowd. From what she could everyone was lining up in front of a big red caravan. Not interested in what was happening Nami pressed on. Eventually the buildings stopped. Beyond them were hills and a jungle off to the side. Nami walked out to the slope of the hill. Nami looked curiously at what appeared to be a red ribbon in the grass. As Nami got closer to the hill she began to hear a loud noise. It sounded like snoring?

Nami was a little bit shocked at first but then relaxed. She smiled at the sleeping form of her captain. His hat had fallen off his face, it was now just to the side of his head. Unconsciously Nami twirled a black bang (part of his fringe) in her finger. She then slid her hand through his hair. She felt his head move a little and suddenly she realized what she was doing and pulled her hand away.

Luffy began stirring, his eyelids twitched a little before opening. He had a dreamy expression on his face as he looked at Nami. Then as if he realized he wasn't dreaming anymore his eyes lit up with happiness.

"Nami, you're here!" Luffy said with his big boyish grin. Nami was surprised he did greet her loudly like he usually does. His voice was calm but happy none the less. Nami figuring he was just happy calmed as well.

"Yeah, I am." Nami said with a smile of her own. Luffy remember what had happened before but just thought 'Screw that I'm gonna show Nami the wall!'

Luff got up and offered Nami his hand. Nami unsure of whether to accept held back a little but soon gave in. After all right now they were just acting on the spur of the moment. Right?

Luffy pulled Nami up by hand, happy that she had accepted. Now that Nami stood up right Luffy spoke to her, "Nami check out the coral wall!" Luffy pointed out to the see. Nami took a step back in awe.

"Luffy it's amazing!" Nami exclaimed. It really was amazing. All the colors contrasting with each other and the glitter of different shades was amazing!

"Yeah, I know! That's why I showed ya!" Luffy said happily. Well he couldn't really show it to her, could he? After it was in front them but hey it's all spur of the moment.

Luffy then discovered he couldn't feel any straw on his head. Luffy then crouched down to grab his hat. Nami watched him place it on his head. Then that same question haunted her again.

Just which did he love more?

The hat or them?

Nami then decided she would just ask Luffy straight out. After all seeing is believing and they were acting on the spur of the moment.

"Luffy if you had a choice between saving your hat or the crew, who would you choose?" Nami asked seriously. Luffy's smile disappeared into a straight line. Then after a few seconds he replied, equally serous "I would save the crew." Nami breathed out a sigh of relief but then Luffy continued, "Then I would go get my hat!" Luffy was smiling while saying the last sentence.

Nami shook her head in frustration, taking this as a sign she wasn't happy Luffy stopped smiling.

"No, Luffy if you could only save the hat or the crew." Nami said almost tiredly. "But I-" Luffy started but was roughly cut of by Nami.

"No buts Luffy! Just a straight answer!" Nami said staring into Luffy's eyes. Luffy stared back then without thinking he replied,

"You."

It was just the spur of the moment.

Right?

End of Chapter

Authors Note: I finally had a straight 2 hours to write this!

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