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Chapter Three

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It wasn't long before the anchored pirate ship noticed the Thousand Sunny. Like many sailors and pirates before them, this crew had headed to the Summer Island Cyclone with the intent of sailing into its eye and gaining world fame. Upon reaching it, however, their captain's nerve had given out. The man was currently in his quarters, having an inner dispute over whether to go forward or turn the ship around. He was in no mood for it when a crew member rushed in to give him news of an approaching rival ship.

"Wah!" Usopp hollered as a cannon ball exploded in the water a short distance from the Sunny. "They're firing at us!"

"No matter what you do, don't sink them!" Nami ordered. "We have to board that ship!"

Another cannonball hurtled towards them, this time on a direct course for impact. Luffy hopped into the air and repelled it with a "Gomu Gomu no Fuusen!"

"Everyone, get to the helm!" Nami shouted, running up next to Luffy at the lion's head. "We're going to jump onto that ship as soon as we get close enough!"

"…I'm against this, you know!" Franky huffed as he shot a cannon ball out of the sky with his gun arm. "We just became the Exposed Lions! If we start wearing clothes again so soon, what does that say about our dedication!?

"The only one of us dedicated to being a pervert is you!" Nami snapped. "I've had more than enough of this! We're taking their clothes and putting an end to this stupidity right now!"

After ten minutes of the enemy pirates firing on the Thousand Sunny and the Straw Hats defending it, the two ships got close enough for their crews to see one another. From the enemy ship came the immediate shout,

"UWAH! THEY'RE NAKED!"

Nami clenched her teeth as she stood behind the lion's head, glaring ahead at the clothed pirates. The rest of the crew stood around her, Zoro, Luffy, and Franky blasting the incoming cannonballs away while Usopp steered the ship and Brooke, Sanji, and Chopper stood poised for battle. The cyborg, sniper, skeleton, and cook were regularly alternating their focus between the enemy ship and Nami, who was again forgetting to cover herself. Robin crossed her arms over her chest in preparation for battle, but watched the males of her crew with a bad premonition.

"None of them are wearing any clothes!" a pirate on the enemy ship hollered. "What the hell is wrong with them!?"

"Who the hell goes to battle naked!?" shouted another pirate.

"They must be perverts!"

"Damn perverted bastards!"

"Put some pants on, you bastards!"

"This is it…!" Nami exclaimed. "We're almost at jumping distance!"

Slanting his eyes, Zoro raised his sword and began to clear his mind.

The captain of the enemy ship stepped up to its helm. When he caught sight of the nude crew, he immediately stepped back in surprise.

"Wha…!?" he burst out.

His shock passed after a few seconds, quickly turning to rage.

"Those vermin!" he roared, pulling out a gun. "They're making fun of me!"

The enemy captain ran up to the rail of his ship and began firing at the Thousand Sunny while shouting.

"How dare you take light of me!" he bellowed. "You think I'm scared, don't you!? Just because I've been waiting at the rim of the cyclone for two days, you think I'm scared!"

"C-Captain, please calm yourself!" exclaimed one of his crew. "I-I don't think they're making fun of yo-"

"I'm not scared, damn it!" the pirate captain thundered as he pulled out another gun and began firing it along with the first. "I'm going to enter it eventually! I'm just being cautious! Cautious! Where the hell do you get off ridiculing a cautious man!? Am I so pathetic in your eyes that you won't even dress yourselves before me!"

"What's that guy yelling about?" Luffy asked, confused.

"Just ignore him!" Nami ordered. "We're in jumping distance now! Go!"

What happened next happened fast.

Franky, who had stared at Nami just a little too long before turning around, failed to sight an approaching cannonball, which sped past him and blew up on the deck. The explosion knocked Robin into the similarly distracted Brooke and Sanji, causing the three to tumble to the floor in a pile. Jarred at being torn from his view of Nami by the explosion, Usopp staggered sideways, accidentally spinning the steering wheel. The ship thus tottered and Nami fell onto her back behind Zoro, who, having been directing all his concentration into his katana in preparation for a "Thirty Six Pound Cannon," was more than startled to see Nami's lower privates reflected in it.

"BWAH!" the swordsman bellowed as his concentration broke and he released his flying sword strike into the Thousand Sunny's deck, slicing off half the helm and causing the anchor, part of the lion's head, and Luffy to plunge into the sea.

"Ahhhhh!" the Straw Hat captain hollered before hitting the water.

The Sunny lurched from side to side as it passed by the enemy ship. A few of the enemy pirates boarded the vessel, including the captain.

"Shit!" Zoro cursed as he recomposed himself and ran to the side of the boat, scanning the water for Luffy. "That was disgraceful…!"

Nami stood up and noticed the enemy pirates running towards them. "They boarded us! Hurry and get them!"

Robin was pinned to the ground between Brooke and Sanji, who had now completely lost their minds.

"YOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!" Brooke boomed from beneath Robin as blood jetted out his nose socket. Robin's attempts to get up were hindered by Sanji, who lay on her back in a near coma of happiness, his legs and arms tangled around hers and Brooke's.

The shock of this sight had been more than enough to burst Usopp's hemorrhoid, forcing the painfully aroused sniper onto his stomach. Chopper ran over to help him.

"We've been boarded!" Robin shouted to Sanji as she struggled to get out from under him. "Sanji! You have to get up!"

"RO-RO-RO-RO-ROOOOOOOBIN-CHUWAAAAN~!" exclaimed Sanji, already deaf to words. The cook tightened his arms around Robin's nude chest, hugging her as blood gushed from his nose.

"Sa-Sanji!" Robin shouted again, trying to push herself up but failing.

Franky stared at the scene, his eyes glued in place. He couldn't look away, even when an enemy pirate reached him and broke a sword over his head.

"Uwah! What's this guy made of!?"

Nami yelled, "What are you all doing!? We're being attacked!"

Zoro raced forward and cut through a number of the oncoming pirates, knocking them off the ship. He ran for the railing.

"I'm going to get Luffy!" he announced, preparing to jump overboard. "Turn the ship around!"

"No! Wait!" Nami shouted. "I'll get him! Just take care of these pirates!"

Dozens more of the pirates jumped onto the Sunny as it finished passing their ship.

"…Fine!" Zoro agreed, turning around to face them while Nami dove overboard.

"Y-You bastards!" the enemy captain yelled, staring at Sanji, Robin, and Brooke. "You're even screwing each other! How far will you go to insult me!?"

"UWAAAAAAAAH!" bellowed a group of pirates running towards Zoro. "Die, pervert!"

Zoro sliced through them at lightning speed, the force from his slashes launching them all into the ocean.

"And what in the hell is this!" the enraged pirate captain roared further, turning to Usopp, who was again squirting blood out his rear as Chopper tried to help him onto his shoulder. "Are you saying I'm so pitiful I make you defecate blood!?"

"Damn that guy's loud…!" Zoro muttered, knocking another pirate into the sea.

"O-Oh!" Franky shouted as he snapped out of his daze, finally noticing his crew's situation. "T-This is bad!"

The cyborg faced an approaching pirate trio, puffed out his chest, then blew a burst of fire at them. "Fresh Fire!"

"Uwaah!" the pirates hollered as they caught on flame.

"Take that!" Franky bellowed, shooting his arms into the air as the burning men jumped off the side of the ship yelling. "Behold the power of the Exposed Lions!"

"That bastard! He exposing himself to us!" fumed another pirate, shooting at Franky.

"How long…" seethed the pirate captain, his face growing red with anger. "HOW LONG DO YOU INTEND ON MOCKING ME!?"

The captain began shooting in random directions, putting holes in the deck and doors of the ship. Meanwhile, Robin remained trapped. She had attempted to use her ability to get Sanji off her, but her arms were too tangled for her to make the necessary hand gesture, especially now that Brooke had joined Sanji in hugging her.

"Sanji, Brooke! You have to snap of it!" she exclaimed. "We could get shot at any moment!"

But the cook and skeleton were too far gone to hear her. Due to the circumstances of their upbringings and coinciding lives at sea, neither had ever bonded with a woman before. The suppressed, carnal urges they had built up over the years as a result were now causing them to lose themselves.

"A woman's skin!" Brooke hollered as he clung onto Robin, rubbing his skeletal hands over her back. "A woman's chest! A woman's…! YOHO!"

"MEEEEEELORIIIIIINE~!" Sanji cheered, nudging his cheek against Robin's neck and puckering his lips as he sniffed her hair.

"I-I can truly feel again!" Brooke cried, tears pouring out of his eye holes. "I am alive once more! YOHO~! YOHOHO!"

Steam shot out of Chopper's nose as the tense human-reindeer hauled Usopp to the medical room, punching an attacking pirate out of his way.

"GET OFF OUR SHIP!" he bellowed. "THIS IS A SHIP FOR TRUE MEN ONLY!"

Chopper tossed Usopp onto the medical room's bed then slammed the door closed.

"I AM A MAN!" he roared, turning to face the pirates and stamping his foot. "I HAVE THE MOST MEAT!"

"Uwah!" two approaching pirates yelled. "That monster-pervert's flashing us too! He showing off!"

"Y-You'd even make fun of my…!" the pirate captain yelled, ceasing fire as he turned to stare at Chopper. "W-What the hell's your problem!? Y-You've got no right to degrade me like this…! I'm captain of an entire crew! I've killed hundreds of men…!"

He started to cry, wiping his eyes with his gun hand.

"Captain!" shouted one of his crewmates. "Please, pull yourself together!"

"I'm not a coward…! Damn it!"

"Strong Right!" Franky shouted, firing his fist into a cluster of pirates.

"Wah!" he heard Nami's shout from below. "One of you…! Pull me up! I've got Luffy! Hurry!"

"Oh! Girly!" Franky exclaimed.

He hastily grabbed a lifeline off the railing and tossed it overboard. "Grab this! I'll yank you up!"

Nami grabbed the rope as she struggled to keep her energy-sapped captain above water. Panting, she tied the rope around her wrist and Luffy's arm. She had needed to swim fast in order to get Luffy to the ship before it drifted away, so she was nearly out of energy.

"Why didn't you turn the ship around!?" she yelled up. "What are you all doing up there!? You should have beaten them by now!"

"Ssssssuuuuper!" Franky bellowed as he gave the rope one powerful tug, wrenching Nami and Luffy out of the water and over the railing.

"Kyaa!" Nami yelped as she managed to land on her feet, stumbling to keep her balance. Luffy smashed into the deck beside her.

"Kill them all, damn it!" the enemy captain howled to his crew, most of whom were rushing at Zoro in waves and subsequently getting blown off into the sea. "These bastards…! I won't forgive them! I won't ever forgive them!"

The captain suddenly noticed Nami and gasped. "Y-Your taunting knows no bounds…!" he exclaimed, clenching his teeth and blushing furiously. "Y-You know about my bad luck with women, so you're goading me! You're saying, "This is what you'll never have," aren't you!? That's it, isn't it!? Damn you!"

Nami looked around her in dismay. None of what she was seeing made any sense. This didn't seem like her nakama at all. Chopper was shouting at the sky, Usopp was gone, Franky was staring at her and…

"ROBIN!" she shrieked as she saw her struggling friend being straddled and fondled by the two 'gentlemen' of the crew. "Brooke! Sanji-kun! What are you doing!"

She heard a loud crashing sound to her side and turned to see Franky, who had just been assaulted over the head by a metal bat. The cyborg didn't seem to notice this, however, since he was continuing to stare at her. Nami felt a rage start to bubble up.

"WAKE UP!" she demanded, slamming her knee into the cyborg's once again stiff privates.

"GWOAH!" Franky clamored, clutching his stones and dropping to the floor.

Suddenly, the enemy pirate captain ran into Nami, yelling "Arrrrrg!". Before she could react, he had grabbed her shoulders and buried his face in her cleavage.

"E-EH! W-WHA-!" Nami gasped, taking a second to realize what was happening. "Kyaaaaaa!"

"Damn it! Damn it!" the pirate captain flared, rubbing his face against her breasts. "What do you expect from me!? I'm just a man! What man doesn't get scared sometimes!? What man doesn't want the comfort of a woman!? Stop pulling at my tender heart strings!"

"Ahhhhh! AHHHHH!" Nami screamed, trying to push the strange, bearded man off of her. "HELP!"

Her crew was too preoccupied to notice; Sanji and Brooke were in a different plane of reality, Robin was caught in their reality, Usopp was unconscious, Chopper was asserting his manliness to the sky, Franky was doubled over in pain and Zoro was busy finishing off the last of his attackers. Unable to free herself from the man's grasp, Nami could only scream as he continued to delve into her chest while yelling, "Damn it! Damn it!" over and over again. Nor could she do anything to stop him when he reached around and grabbed one of her buttocks, squeezing it.

"No! Nooooo! HELP!" she hollered desperately.

The world started to become hazy.

'Why is this happening?' she thought between screams. 'Why is everyone acting like this? Where is all this idiocy coming from?'

"GUWAAAAAAAAAH!" came Luffy's sudden bellow as the Straw Hat captain, rejuvenated, bolted to his feet and shot his arms up. One of his fists collided into the enemy captain's stomach, blasting the man off Nami and into the air.

"GEHRGH!" the bearded pirate belched as his body rose, then fell over the side of the ship.

Luffy huffed, straightening out his hat. "That surprised me…! That stupid Zoro! He needs to look what he's…Huh? Who was that?"

"Hah…! Hah…!" Nami gasped, covering her chest.

At about the same moment, a cloud of people flew by overhead, blown away by Zoro's final attack.

"I think those were the last ones…!" Zoro called out as the defeated pirates splashed into the ocean.

"Oh! Already?" Luffy asked, then glanced at Chopper, who had stopped yelling and was now just staring at the sky with his arms up. "Eh? Chopper, what are you doing?"

"I…!" Nami breathed, a tear forming in her eye.

Zoro walked up next to Chopper and took a look at his face. "…He's passed out…" The swordsman announced, at the same time looking away at something else that caught his attention. "Huh? –GAH! What are you three doing!"

"Ooooooooo hoo hoo~!" Sanji was giggling in mad ecstasy as he continued to lay naked on the bare-bottomed Robin, squeezing her chest and nudging his nose against her neck.

"I can feel it!" Brooke joyfully exclaimed. "My Bone! I can feel it!"

Partly due to her unconditional love for her nakama and partly due to her shock at what was happening, Robin was finding herself at a loss for words.

"U-Um…" she muttered while again trying and failing to push herself up onto her hands.

Luffy saw the odd sight as well and frowned. "What are you guys-"

"I'VE HAD ENOUGH!" Nami suddenly screamed, hitting the rail of the ship with her fist. "STOP THIS NOW!"

She clenched her teeth and glared at Sanji and Brooke, resisting the urge to cry.

"Idiots! What do you think you're doing! Get off Robin!"

"AH…!" Luffy suddenly exclaimed, looking up. "Hey, Nami!"

"Shut up!" Nami ordered, rubbing her eye as a tear escaped it. "This is stopping now! We're turning around and taking those stupid pirates' clothes and then we're leav-"

*FWOOSH*

Nami was cut off as a tremendous wind suddenly collided with the ship, knocking her, Luffy, Zoro, and Chopper to the floor.

"Wah!"

The Sunny immediately began to move up and down at jogging speeds as it went over a series of giant waves.

"E-Eh!" Nami shouted, looking up. "AH! No! The hurricane!"

In their distraction, the Straw Hats had allowed themselves to drift further towards the cyclone and, to Nami's dismay, were now being sucked into it.

"The wheel!" Nami clamored, crawling as fast as she could towards the steering wheel as the ship's rocking got rougher and rougher.

She was too late. With a loud splash, the Thousand Sunny was lifted out of the water and into the air by the spinning winds.

"NOOOOOO!" Nami shrieked as the ship tilted. She fell back against the galley door.

Chopper collided into the wall next to her, waking up with a start. "AH! WHAT'S GOING ON!"

"Uwah!" Luffy bellowed, slinging his rubber arm around the mast to hold himself in place.

Zoro stabbed the deck with his sword and held onto it to keep his balance.

The ship wobbled in the air for a few seconds as it picked up speed. And then it was off.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" Luffy yelled as he was suddenly blasted with wind. He began to fly backwards, but was caught by his arm.

"D-Damn…!" Zoro exclaimed, gaping out over the side of the ship while struggling to keep his hold on his lodged sword. "We're rising!"

The ship rattled again and began to move faster as it flew through the air. The wind got louder.

"QUICK!" Nami shouted at the top of her lungs. "Luffy! Zoro! Do exactly as I tell you!"

"Huh!?" Zoro shouted back.

"Wah!" let out Luffy as he struggled to look at Nami while the wind beat him around like a flag.

"Zoro! Turn the steering wheel ninety degrees port! Luffy! Raise the main sail!"

"What the hell are you talking about!?" Zoro bellowed. "We're in the air! What good will-"

"DO IT!"

Though confused, the captain and swordsman followed their orders; Zoro used his sword like an ice pick and climbed his way up to the helm while Luffy stretched his unoccupied arm up to the sail rope. They turned the wheel and raised the sail at the same time. The ship immediately began to spin.

"GEH!" Luffy yelped as he was whipped around even faster.

Nami stared ahead of her in horror as she clasped the door handle along with Chopper, trying to stay in place. A minute passed, the wind getting stronger and stronger along the way, and then Nami screamed,

"Luffy! Lower the sail now!"

Luffy could barely hear her over the winds, but, with a "Waaaah!" he stretched his arm back up and pulled the sail down. The ship's path of travel suddenly changed, curving inward.

Nami squeezed her eyes shut. 'This is our only hope! With the ship's path changed, it might…!'

The Sunny began to dart inward and at the same time a number of strange, colorful gusts of wind hit it. The gusts formed a sphere of swirling air around the ship. Within seconds the powerful gusts tore each crew member from their respective holds, sucking them into the surrounding currents.

Zoro covered his face with his arms as he flew towards the crow's nest, but just before hitting it he was pulled into a current of wind surrounding it. He began spinning around the nest.

Chopper was vacuumed into another current of air, this one circling the main mast. "I-I AM A MAN!" he bellowed as he flew away.

Another wind current picked up Luffy and Nami and at first shot them into one another, causing a collision that, had Luffy not been made of rubber, would have likely killed one of them. They were then sucked up together into a ribbon of air circling the entire ship.

Franky, still clutching his groin in agony, was blown to the bow where he began jetting back and forth over the deck in a figure eight. "OW OW OW OW OW!"

And, still connected due to the skeleton and cook's unwillingness to let go, Brooke, Sanji and Robin flew around the whole ship in circles, Sanji continuing to exclaim, "Oooooooo hoo hoo~!"

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Bright sunlight shined down on the Thousand Sunny as it drifted peacefully across still water. The Straw Hat crew lay scattered about the ship, some of them unconscious, some of them too exhausted to move. Those who were awake had no idea how much time had passed.

"Uh…Ugh…" Zoro muttered, slapping his head as he lay on the deck, squinting up at the sky.

Sanji and Brooke had finally been separated from Robin and were each lodged into something: Sanji was stuck in the main sail, while Brooke was stuck in a window in the crow's nest. Chopper lounged face down in the grass. Franky hung over the rail at the bow, puking into the water. Robin lay on the grass as well, a hand resting over her eyes. Luffy and Nami were near the lion's head, Nami lying on top of Luffy.

The door to the medical room creaked open and a pale faced Usopp slithered out on his stomach, wheezing. "Help…!". Ten syringes were sticking out of his bottom. He passed out after a few seconds, collapsing over the deck.

Zoro slowly rose to his feet and stumbled, grabbing the railing to keep himself steady. He was extremely dizzy.

"D-Damn…" he mumbled. "What the hell…happened…?"

The swordsman looked out over the still water and saw a giant wall of wind in the distance. He noticed they were surrounded by it. "This must be…the eye…?"

Slowly, a few other members of the crew got to their feet and steadied themselves. Robin forced herself up and leaned against a door. Chopper dizzily stood up, spitting out pieces of grass. Franky, having emptied the contents of his stomach, leaned against the rail, panting.

"W-Where are we…?" Chopper asked, looking around.

Robin wrapped her arms around herself and glanced around as well. "Is…this the eye of the hurricane…?" she questioned.

"The eye…?" Franky asked, stumbling over to the ship's center. "We're in the eye of that hurricane…!?"

"It seems that way..." Zoro stated, looking up. He squinted as the sunlight shined down on his face, then his eyes widened for a moment and he rubbed them. "That thing must have really shook me up…It looks like there're three suns…"

The other three conscious crewmates looked up as well. They all saw the same thing: three suns standing high in the sky, forming a triangle.

"What the…!" Franky exclaimed. "There ARE three suns!"

The four of them heard a moan resonate from the helm.

"Nami…!" Robin immediately shouted, racing over to the voice's source.

Franky looked towards Zoro. "How did we get here…!"

Zoro looked wearily between the distant inner walls of the hurricane and the triangle of suns. "…We got drawn into that cyclone. When we were getting thrown around in it, Nami told us to move the steering wheel and raise the sails...That must have somehow gotten us in here."

"So then…We really made it to the eye!" Franky gasped. "We…We did what no other men could do! It must be because of our Pride! The hurricane acknowledged the might of our pantless pride and let us through!"

Zoro ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. "How are we going to get out of this…?"

"E-Everyone…!" came Robin's sudden shout. "This is bad…!"

"Hnn!" Franky vociferated.

Zoro, Franky, and Chopper immediately rushed over to Robin, each of them stumbling along the way as they struggled to retain their balance.

"U-UWHOA!" Franky bellowed when he reached them.

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Nami slowly raised herself up, moaning as she wiped her soaked eyes with her forearm. Of all the Straw Hats, she had received the brunt of the gusts' assault. She had been slammed into Luffy, then whipped around the ship for what must have been hours. Hours and hours…

The drenched, naked navigator got to a sitting position and removed her arm from across her eyes. She squinted as she drearily took in her surroundings. Robin was next to her and had just shouted something…Franky, Zoro, and Chopper were running up to her…Franky shouted something...She didn't care what it was. In the past day she had been stripped, harassed, and violated…

"No…more…" she mumbled, at the same time glancing down and noticing Luffy.

The captain was wide awake, staring at her with his jaw dropped. Nami glanced down further and noticed she was sitting on his crotch.

"…Oh…" she breathed, still not fully awake. A drop from her soaked hair fell onto Luffy.

"Na…! Nami!" she heard Luffy shout in a strange tone. At the same moment, she felt something stiff poking her in her…

"Kyaaaaaaaaaaa!" she abruptly shrieked, slamming her hand into Luffy's face and rolling off him as she grasped reality.

"W-WOW!" Franky remarked, gaping at them.

Nami quickly retreated on her hands until her back hit the railing. She stared at Luffy in horror as her memory of their time in the air together rushed back to her. She had latched onto him the whole time they were being whipped around the ship. When the winds began to pull them apart, she panicked and clutched onto him in any way she could…She was sure her breasts and…inner thighs had been pushed up against his face more than once, and she was pretty sure that more than once she had wound up touching and grabbing his…

"Why…" she muttered, slumping against the rail and blushing a bright red as humiliation took her over, "Why is this happening to me…?"

"Gh-!" Luffy vocalized between clenched teeth while he continued to stare at Nami, sweating. An immensely powerful emotion was welling up inside of him and he was struggling to decide what to make of it.

"…Luffy, can you stand?" Zoro questioned.

Luffy didn't respond.

"What's wrong?" asked Chopper, glancing between Luffy and Nami.

Robin looked down at the deck floor nervously. "There was always a risk of this happening...Males will inevitably start to act differently around females in a situation like this…Not even Luffy is exempt from that… "

"What do you mean?" Franky asked skeptically, eyeing Robin. "Luffy's definitely not the pervert type, if that what you're saying. He has other strong characteristics to make up for his lack of perversions."

"I might have agreed with you a few minutes ago, but now…"

Franky stomped his foot in confusion. "I don't see what you're talking about! He just looks SUPER surprised to me!"

Robin sighed slightly. "When I arrived, he was stroking Nami's hair."

"WHAT!?"

Chopper suddenly pointed out over the sea and shouted, "Hey! What's that over there!?"

The crew turned to see a large spot of bright, sparkling lights hovering over the water in the distance. The ship, and all the water in the area seemed to be slowly spiraling inward towards it.

"Whoa!" Franky exclaimed, leaning forward on the railing. "What is that!? It's just hovering there!"

"A mirage…?" theorized Zoro.

"Those lights, and those three suns and everything else in this area likely has to do with the strange weather conditions." Robin stated, turning to Nami. "Our navigator is the most likely one to be able to explain these things. Nami, are you-"

"Gh-!" Luffy suddenly mumbled again, gaining everyone's attention. He began to rise to his feet, frowning as he glanced between Nami and the deck.

Chopper staggered over to help him. "Luffy! Are you all right?"

"Yeah…" Luffy muttered in reply, finally looking away from Nami and at his crew mates, his frown deepening even more. "Hmmm…"

"What is it?" asked Franky, Zoro, and Chopper together.

Luffy slowly crossed his arms over his chest and looked down.

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Sexual urges had never affected Luffy much. He did get them occasionally, but they weren't strong enough to make him do anything he wouldn't normally do. Adventures, meat, and goliath beetles had always been much higher on his list of interests. Whether he was surrounded by beautiful women, embraced by one, or even exposed to by the most beautiful woman in the world, he had always remained unfazed. He had a natural ability to keep his wits about him (however poor those wits were) in situations where most men would be overcome by lust. His self control was truly befitting of a man who would one day conquer the Grand Line. And it was a testament to this incredible self control of his that it took something this extreme to finally shake him.

"I've been thinking weird things." The Straw Hat captain announced to his crew. "And when I was asleep a little while ago, I had weird dreams."

"What do you mean?" asked Zoro.

"Nami." Luffy answered.

"Huh?"

Luffy took a breath, then started speaking really fast. "When I woke up a while ago, I was really hungry so I started to get up but then I saw Nami was sleeping on me and I didn't feel like getting up anymore. And then I saw this cloud in the sky that looked like a giant pig and I started to get hungry again, but then I looked at Nami and I thought, "This is better than roast pig." And then I saw those mystery lights over there and I started to want to go explore them, but then Nami moved around on me and I got a weird feeling and I thought, "I'd rather explore this mystery."

The men stared at him.

"Then the dreams!" He went on. "In the first dream, I gave Nami the biggest, tastiest Sea King in the whole world and I let her eat the whole thing! I didn't even have any of it myself! And then I had another dream where I went on an adventure with Nami on an island of meat and we fought takoyaki monsters who shot lasers and after we beat them we cried because they were too rotten to eat and then I had this dream that Nami and me were both really old and we had just come back from an adventure and there was this goliath beetle flying around the place who looked like me when I was a kid except he had orange hair and he called me grandpa and-"

"Hey, hey, hold on!" Franky shouted, putting his hands up in front of him. "Do you understand what you're saying!?"

"And do you really think you should be saying it?" asked Zoro. "It's still a while before we reach the end of the Grand Line. Don't you think now isn't the time for this kind of thing?"

Nami had lifted her head now and was staring at Luffy.

Luffy continued to frown in confusion. "What are you talking about?"

"Well…Eh, from what you've just said it seems pretty obvious you're in love with her." Franky stated, scratching his head.

Luffy's frown disappeared. "Oh, so it is love. I had thought of that but I wasn't sure. But I don't think I have time for something like that…"

"Ehm…Did you hear your own words?" Franky questioned. "You sounded like you wanted to marry her and grow old together."

"EHHHHHHH!?" Luffy immediately boomed. "Marry Nami!? I want to do that!?"

Franky blinked a few times as he continued to stare in wonder at his distraught captain. Luffy's shock seemed to disappear after a few moments.

"…So I want to marry Nami." He stated in realization, pounding his fist over his palm. "…I'm pretty brave."

He faced downward for a moment in thought, then nodded with a "Hmm." and walked over to where Nami sat. He sat down in front of her cross-legged.

"Okay, it makes sense now." He announced to the navigator as she continued to stare at him. "I'm definitely in love with you. Nami, do you want to get married?"