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Everyone was safly back on the ship. Thanks Dragon. I thought, really tempted to shout it loud enough he would actually hear me. But that would give too much away. The others wouldn't know anything about Luffy's father until after they saved Robin from the world goverment and right before they get their eighth member, Franky, and their new ship.
Nami noticed teh lighthouse adn Sanji brought out the barrel. Everyone said their goals. "Come on Ren." Nami urged me. I rolled my eyes but put my foot next to hers.
"To find myself." I said. Than we all smashed the barrel. What was the point of all that?
"What do you mean to find yourself?" Nami asked as we finally broke away from the storm.
I sighed. "I've always looked like you. Since I've been traveling with you guys it seems like I've become less Ren and more Nami's doppelganger, both figurtivly and pyshically. I feel like my indivuality is slowly slipping away." I explained to her runing a hand through my hair.
"Is that all you're worried about?" Zoro asked coming up behind Nami. I gave him the evil eye and crossed my arms.
"Zoro's right. You're nothing like Nami... Except that you look like her." Luffy said his mouth full of meat. I giggled. Barely escaping a bad situation with his life and he's already stuffing his face.
"I think what Luffy is trying to say is we don't see you as Nami's doppelganger. We see you for who you are. Ren." Sanji explained.
"We also see you as the crazy spooky know-it-all." Usopp cut in. Well that could have been a sweet moment. I stuck my toungue out at him.
"I don't know everything Usopp. One my head would be a lot bigger if I did. And two I only know a... baseline of events." I said trying to choice my words carefully. I couldn't give it all away now.
"So you know the future?" Luffy asked.
"Yes and no." I answered, now to explain. "I know the names of certain people and places. The future is not always set in stone, therefore no one can truly know it." I continued. That would one throw them off the trail, if only for a little bit and two keep them from asking me questions. And it was completly true. Just by being transported from my world to this one I had changed some things. Therefore the only constants I could count on from the books wolud be the major islands they landed on ad the important noteworthy people they met, pretty much the stuff that made up the arcs.
"Ren join my crew!" Luffy shouted. It wasn't a question but I was going to answer it anyway.
"No." I told him. Luffy wouldn't take no for an answer but for now he would just have to deal with it.
"Why not?" The boys demanded. Nami just stood there looking thoughful like.
"Ren?" She asked.
"Yea?" I asked, showing her that she had gained my attention.
"Is that a no never or a no not yet?" She asked with her usual caculating look. Man that girl could see right through me, couldn't she? I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly.
"Am I that transperant?" I countered. Nami grinned with triumpt.
"I don't get it." Luffy spoke up.
"Ren's saying she won't join our crew right not, well her pride won't let her join, but she will join us eventually." Nami explained.
"When's eventually?" Luffy asked his head cocked to the side.
"I don't know. Maybe sometime soon." I answered even though I didn't want to get his hopes up.
"Yay!" Luffy cheered before he tackeled me.
"Luffy, I kinda need air to breath." I told the excited rubber boy. He got off me.
ZORO
As everyone went to their rooms I pulled Nami aside. "What do you mean her pride won't let her join?" I asked.
Nami shrugged. "I don't know. It's like I can feel what Ren feels but I can't see her reasons." She told me. "Don't worry. You're not the only one wondering. I'm honestly concerned for her." She continued looking at the door Ren had disappeared through.
"Why?" I questioned.
"She's been quiet since our fight and yet she told me that wasn't what was bugging her. And when I saw her today she was so gloomy." Nami explained crossing her arms a lot like Ren did. Almost like she was hugging herself, trying to keep from falling apart.
"Yeah. I know what you mean. She hardly wanted to talk to me today. The most words I heard her say today was a rant directed towards a marine girl." I told her. Nami glaired at me.
"What were you doing with a marine girl?" She asked.
"Nothing, back to the topic at hand." I reminded her.
"Oh yeah." She muttered thinking about what I had said. She than turned back to me in shock. "Really? Out of all of us I thought you would be the one she would spill her guts to." She said.
"Why?" I asked with a raise eyebrow.
"Earlier when she was lost in thought I asked her what she was thinking about and she shadi you." Nami answered.
The plot thickens...