A/N O_O By god, I've updated when I said I would!
I was inspired by the song How to save a life by The Fray, I highly recommended this song. It's beautiful. I don't own the song though and of course it mentions on my profile I don't own one piece either, life sucks ey?
Enjoy the story :D End of A/N

How to Save a Life

It was a nice day, however being on the Grand Line that always changed and today it changed in a matter of minutes. No one was really paying attention so when two marine ships were rapidly catching up it was too late to get away. In the next few seconds cannons being fired filled the air and the shouts of marines getting ready to board soon joined as well.

As they boarded they were met by the sight of the straw hat crew ready in fighting stances, waiting for the fight to fully begin. When a command to attack was sounded a full blown fight began, bodies were snapped, cut, kicked, shot at, electrocuted and punched. However, today the marines seemed to be on the ball as they had called for backup and soon the Thousand Sunny ship was flooded with marines.

The monster trio of the straw hats were holding their own just fine and having quite a lot of fun beating the marines into a bloody mess. The others were also holding off the marines just as well, however, two people in particular didn't enjoy this experience as much as the others did; Usopp and Nami.

"Usopp, you were supposed to be keeping watch! What the hell happened?" Nami practically screamed whilst hitting a marine that had gotten too close over the head.

"I was... t-they just c-came out of n-n-nowhere!" Usopp tried to say firmly but couldn't keep the quivering and stuttering out of his speech.

Nami then directly turned to him, her anger getting the better of her and shouted "Well obviously you weren't doing a very good job then were you? And ships don't just appear-..."

That was Nami's vital mistake though; turning her back. She didn't have a chance to finish her sentence as a small knife was thrusted through her back. The colour completely drained from her face and her once angry eyes turned wide with shock and a hint of pain. Usopp's face filled with absolute horror at seeing one of his nakama stabbed. Nami's elbow, in a show of reflexes, quickly came up and hit the nervous marine that had just stabbed her straight in the face. The only thing to leave Usopp's mouth after this display was Luffy's name.

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Luffy was thoroughly amused by this all, he was happy to have something finally happen; he was beginning to get bored. Sure it was a nice day but nothing was happening. Slowly but surely the marines were becoming less and less until he saw another flood come aboard. Giving a quick glimpse around at his crew he saw they were all holding off alright so without another worry he catapulted straight into another flood of marines. Just as he was about to finish of a marine he heard Usopp screech his name in horror, alarmed he turned round in the direction of the shout.

It all seemed to happen in slow motion, as his head turned he saw Usopp. However, Usopp wasn't looking at him and as Luffy followed his line of sight he was met by something from his worst nightmare; his girlfriend slowly dropping to her knees with a loud thud, a glassy look on her face from shock and a big blood patch on her stomach from where a knife was lodged in her back.

The other straw hats had all stopped after hearing Usopp's cry; they all couldn't believe their eyes and every single one of them cringed as Nami slowly brought her arm up towards her back, slowly grasped the knife and pulled it out. As the knife dropped to the deck time suddenly seemed to speed up again, all straw hats took immediate action. Chopper in a flash of lightening was by Nami's side examining her back and all the other straw hats had formed a spacious circle around the two making sure no marines would interfere. From inside the circle bone chilling screams could be heard, there was no saving the marines now.

Chopper changed into his heavy point and, as delicately as he could, picked Nami up to take her into his infirmary. As Luffy looked back his face filled with worry for Nami, for as chopper had picked her up she had looked lifeless, her body literally hung and the only way you could tell she was alive was for the fact that her chest was slowly moving up and down.

As he looked back towards the marines a few of them took a few steps away from the rubber captain, his face had darkened and by the look on his face, he meant business.

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After Nami was taken away in a matter of minutes the deed was done and no marines were left. The deck was clean, almost. No one had the heart to touch the pool of blood or the knife that had, just 10 minutes ago, been lodged into the navigators back. It was eerily silent as the crew waited outside the infirmary and the only thing that could be heard were the waves calmly crashing against the ship.

A while later, the crew were still sitting outside in silence, patiently waiting for someone to step outside of the infirmary and as the door slowly opened and a small, somewhat bloody, Chopper stepped outside with a tiny smile on his face everyone let out a breath they didn't know they were holding.

"She's going to be fine, nothing vital was touched. You can all go see her if you like, she's awake."

As they stepped inside they were faced with the navigator that had half lidded eyes and a soft smile painted on her face. Everyone had come in and started to speak with her, except one. Luffy was standing outside the group surrounding Nami, thoughts speeding through his mind a million miles an hour. She was stabbed. A pool of blood...her blood. Hanging lifelessly. And the last thought that wouldn't leave him alone, which kept on repeating again and again, that was nagging at him; I could've lost her.

He didn't know how long he had been standing there, trapped within his thoughts, but as he started coming out of them he realised everyone was leaving, telling the navigator to get better. Soon it was just him and Nami. He approached her and they just stared at each other, I could have lost her.

Without a word uttered Luffy bent down and pulled Nami into one of the most desperate kisses she'd ever experienced. His hands ran up her arms, up her neck until they reached the sides of her face, his hands stayed there making sure she couldn't pull away from the kiss. She kissed him back, hard, slowly lifting her arms to come and wrap around his neck, silently telling him that she wasn't going anywhere. As they pulled away from each other they were both breathless from the intense kiss, Luffy rested his forehead against Nami's with his eyes closed just happy that she was going to be okay. Luffy gave Nami one last kiss on the lips before softly whispering to her, "I love you."

Nami gasped and her eyes shot open "..."

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A picture you ask? There was no picture taken, as no one would soon forget this day; the day the straw hats almost lost their Navigator and for Luffy, the day he almost had his heart ripped out.

A/N Yes, yes I know, many people have done this plot before but I don't really care, I wanted to do my own version of it :D This is a huge difference to my other stories... a lot darker, I guess I wanted to show another side of me really :/
I'd like to know what you guys think of this please :)

Hope you enjoyed this, 'till next time
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