A/N: I must thank one of my wonderful reviewers for pointing out Yumi's disappearance. And yes, I have noticed that too, but I haven't really thought about it until now. And yes, she did disappear for some chapters... heh, heh...

Crowd: gasp

But have no fear! For she didn't vanish off the face of the earth! She's back, right here, right now, in this chapter! Now that I'm done talking to myself, I'll let you people get on with your lives, and read this chapter! :D

Chapter Ten

Nami walked onto the ship, carrying with her, the 100,000 beli that he asked for. She threw it onto the ground in front of him, where he then picked it up. "Good job Nami-san," said Lt. Heiki, putting a smile on his face. She tried to not look at the rest of her nakama who were standing before her; she did all she could to avoid eye contact with them. "Now, I have all of the Mugiwara no Kaizoku... except for one." In the next instant, he drew his sword, as if ready to attack. "...But I only have one more to capture, until I get promoted to vice admiral." He cast his eyes upon her, looking at her like she was worth nothing.

"Wait, what are you talking about?" she said faking a small laugh.

"Oh, me? Nothing; nothing, except that you're the next on my capture list," he answered, smoothly.

"How about you end of the deal!?" asked Nami with a somewhat angry tone.

"Oh, but aren't you the one who was going to betray me?" he said, raising his eyebrows. "Anyways, but you don't need to worry about anything. I"ll keep them alive; but you have to die after you finish your end of our deal."

"But that wasn't it! This wasn't our deal! I can't be captured; because I have to-"

"Shut up Nami!" he yelled, cutting her off. "Because if you keep talking, it'll cost your life." He lifted of his sword and pointed it to her neck. She stood, frozen, waiting for the perfect moment to attack.

It was when he turned around that she drew out her clima-tact and knocked the sword out of his hand. "So, you think that you can win, now that my sword was hit into the ocean? Well, too bad for you," he said, violently throwing a punch to her stomach. "Now, get me a new sword!"

"Nami!!" yelled her captain, trying to get free from the chains, and the soldier grasping onto his wrists.

She fell to her knees, coughing up blood. For an moment, she stood still, but she wiped the blood from the mouth and slowly got up to her feet.

He held one arm around her shoulder and held his sword to her neck, once again. "I'm not going to kill you here and now, but I'm not letting you go. But if you want, we can have your funeral now. So, if you want to die now, I will-"

Nami hit the sword away, once again and blew him away with a cyclone tempo. "I can't believe I ever trusted you!!"

"Your asking for death!" he yelled, running up to her, his sword above his head, intending to swing and hit her.

She held up an impact dial to block the sword. He was astonished. "Don't even think of using that!"

Off to the side were the commander, soldiers and Mugiwara no Kaizoku. They were all closely watching the battle between the two of them, when all of a sudden, the commander held up a gun to Yumi's head, saying, "Use the impact, and she dies."

While Nami was distracted by the commander, Lt. Heiki found it a good time to attack. He punched her forehead, with much furry, causing her to fall and drop the dial. As she was kneeling, the lieutenant pick up the dial and held it to her back.

"Nami! Look out!!" yelled Usopp.

"Nami-san!!"

She turned a little and screamed in pain as he shot the dial's power at her side. She fell down as all her nakama shouted. She lay there clenching the wound on her left side. Blood soaked through her shit. And by this time, the commander put the gun down.

Tears ran down, from her eyes, down her face. 'Damn you Heiki I was so close. Now everyone...them... even you... everyone is going to die...' thoughts of doubt ran through her head. She didn't know what to believe. If everyone was going to live, or die. She didn't want to believe that death was the answer, but she just gave up, lost faith, gave in.

"Nami, you can't give up yet. I don't know what's going on, but you can't give up yet. We're all depending on you, as you are depending on all of us. Don't give up hope, because if you do, everything else will be lost." She turned to see that it was Yumi who was speaking these words.

It was a surprise to see that this girl, the one who chose death over life, the one who couldn't trust pirates, was now telling her that she needed to win this battle; that she was depending on her.

She remained there for another moment, 'No! Their not going to die! I will find a way to save them, and a way to kill you!'

She reached for the clima-tact, but as she had her hand on it, Lt. Heiki lifted his foot and crushed her hand. She let out a cry of pain, as her nakama yelled out her name.

He lifted his foot as she lay there. Her vision was fading. Everything was turning into blurs of color. Then rain began to fall.

She let out her other hand and grabbed her clima-tact, and slowly stood up. "So, ya still have the strength to stand. But whether to not you or not you can fight is the real question," he tested.

"Well, how about we find out?" she said, under her heavy breath.

"Oh, we'll find that out in less than an instant," he said, running over to her and clenching her neck. "Now, I'll say this one more time. Do you want to die now, or after you kill the pirate species?"

"Well, how about I say: I won't die!" she said, sending a swing to his head, which he easily evaded.

"Oh, but that isn't an option," he said, hitting the back of her head, knocking her unconscious. "Looks like an instant was just too much of an expectation."

"N-Nami!" yelled Yumi and Luffy in unison.

"Nami-san!!" followed Sanji.

"What should we do know, sir?" asked the commander.

"Throw them back in prison. And Nami? Throw here there too. We can just let he die"

No one spoke after that. Everyone was silent. The only things which made a sound were the waves that hit the shore. Everything just seemed to stop. It was if the world stopped turning, or the clock stopped ticking...

A/N: Poor, poor Nami...