A/N
Well guys, what can I say? It's been an awesome year and we're coming to the end of 2010! I want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone that has supported me and a special thank you to all those who have reviewed my stories; if it wasn't for you guys I wouldn't be where I am right now and I most definitely wouldn't be writing this. You're all SUPERRR!

This will most likely be the last update this year, for any of my stories. Actually that's a lie, I may update Years can never break an unforgettable bond. However, just in case this is my last update of the year I just want to say I hope you guys have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Shadow Blackheart – To be honest I totally disagree with your review to Just Say No, that might seem a bit bias but I don't really care. I know Luffy seemed selfish; however that's how I wrote him. He was in despair, he was about to lose someone he loved, did you really expect him to be all sunshine and lollypops? He wasn't exactly going to say to her "Hi Nami I love you but you can do whatever you like". No of course he wasn't going to! He was going to be selfish; he was going to fight for her because he loved her and wanted to be with her!
Also, we don't know what Luffy would act like in love, in the anime he's just idiot Luffy whereas in my story I wanted to portray another side to him that we may not be able to see.
Anyhow, sorry if this seemed a bit angry but I was rather annoyed that I couldn't reply to you over PM.

Now I've got that off my chest, let's carry on. Hope you enjoy this!

End of Year special

You're such an idiot

Luffy's eyes sparkled at the sight in front of him and seconds after Chopper had the same expression on his face. The rest of them shook their heads and sighed; once again questioning why the hell they were following this idiot. Nami separately thought why the hell was she the girlfriend of an idiot; surely that doesn't reflect well on her does it?

"You'd thought maybe he would've learnt from last time at Enies Lobby." Zoro's monotone brought everyone out of their thoughts except for Luffy and Chopper who were still gawking at the sight in front of them.

Robin, who was sat next to Zoro, chuckled at the sight. "It's quite adorable though, don't you think?" Zoro frowned at her but all she offered in reply was a reassuring smile.

When Nami was about to reply to Robin, something along the lines of no and he was an idiot Luffy spoke before she had the chance too.

"No way! I thought Santa wasn't real... they're all liars in my village." Luffy mumbled off at the end and finished in a pout. Once again, everyone sighed and shook their heads.

Just moments ago the atmosphere in the galley was nice; everyone was talking, enjoying themselves and drinking. Zoro and Robin had been talking between the two of themselves; occasionally dropping a kiss when they thought no one was looking, Franky, Brook, Sanji and Chopper were talking and Nami and Luffy had been having a rather sweet moment. However, Nami should have known that it wouldn't last. So when Usopp- in all his brilliance- stepped in the galley wearing a Santa suit and saying 'Ho, Ho, Ho Merry Christmas' the atmosphere turned from calm to chaos as Luffy faulted over the table with Chopper just seconds behind and stood in front of him with stars in his eyes. Flash, that picture was taken, Nami shoot a quick glare at Robin. Did she really need to be reminded of Luffy being a complete idiot? Everyone could tell it was Usopp because since when did Santa have such a long nose, a good tan, be so stick thin and have black curly hair sticking out of his white hair? But of course Luffy would see past all of that and just see plain old Santa and not even bother to question where Usopp might have gone all of a sudden.

"Santa, you made it in time for the party! I'm Monkey D. Luffy; the captain, that's Sanji; he's a cook and he makes really good meat, that's Zoro; he's the first mate and next to him is his girlfriend Robin; she's really smart..." Luffy carried on with the introductions and everyone in the room except Luffy and Chopper shook their heads and under their breaths called him 'baka' for introducing him to people this 'Santa' already knew.

Nami turned to face Luffy and was about to tell him that it was Usopp but when she saw Luffy- the introductions had finished- sitting there on Usopp's knee whispering something in his ear she didn't quite have the heart to tell him, she wouldn't admit it to anyone but he looked incredibly sweet sitting there. Almost like a little child and it was Christmas after all... right? After this spectacle the crew started to return to their previous state, before Usopp came in, and started to party again and ignore the Ho, Ho, Ho-ing Usopp and carry on as if this was even partially normal.

However, Nami didn't quite get the chance to return to the party as 'Santa' came up to her and whispered in her ear. When Nami heard what he'd said her eyes widened and she looked at Luffy who wasn't looking at the pair... that's what he wanted?

Nami's eyes shifted towards the food table and when she saw what was wanted she slowly walked up to it. Taking the meat off the table her next destination came in sight, when she was walking over she saw Robin poised and ready to take the next picture. Great, there's another picture of her coming up, Nami thought as she walked passed Robin.

Nami came to a stop in front of Luffy who was avidly talking about the fact that Santa had showed up to Chopper. She nudged him on the arm to get his attention and when she did she bent down to his ear level, passed him the meat (which he quickly took) and whispered 'Happy Christmas' in his ear. Nami then took a deep breath and planted a long kiss on his cheek. Nami heard the click of once again another picture being taken of her and the captain, also along with the picture being taken were a couple of wolf whistles and leers from a few tipsy crew members.

When she pulled back from Luffy's cheek he grinned at her and said in his cheery voice, "Nami how'd you know what I wanted for Christmas?"

Idiot

The reason why Luffy is NEVER allowed anywhere near the Christmas decorations again or why he's never allowed to be left on Sunny by himself anymore

Luffy looked down at the bag in wonder, it was all so sparkly and it looked like a lot of fun. Sort of like a new adventure, an adventure to dress the ship with decorations. With that last thought Luffy picked up the bag and was off, no time to waste... it was Christmas in a matter of days.

To put it plainly, Luffy looked incredibly hyper. His head was moving from side to side at lightning speed, his eyes were darting around looking at everything almost at the same time and he was slightly jumping up and down in excitement; he was looking for the perfect places to put up the decorations. When Franky walked past Luffy he just raised an eyebrow but didn't think to question Luffy on why he had a black plastic bag in his hands, he just carried on walking thinking he was playing some stupid game with Usopp again. What a mistake that was.

No one was about when Luffy decided it was time for 'Operation decorate sunny', they were all in town. Another stupid mistake made, leaving Luffy alone on sunny with a mysterious black bag.

He went mad, one second he was standing there looking about and then in the next moment his arms were shooting everywhere and placing tinsel all around the railing, Sunny's head, in the tree, around the swing. Next was mistletoe, somehow Luffy had come up with the idea that if there was lots and lots of mistletoe everywhere then he would get to kiss Nami a lot... he obviously didn't think past that and see the negatives that could come from that idea. So he went around placing mistletoe in basically every door way and for some odd reason in the window sills. When that was done, from where no one will ever know, he got a tall, thick, green Christmas tree and he placed in the middle of the grassy deck. It just went on and on after that, decorations after decorations were being put in the oddest of places. So when it finally came to an end, Luffy happily sighed looked at his 'masterpiece' as he would call it and jumped off Sunny to go head into town to go look around for a while.

34'#

Nami and Sanji were walking back to Sunny together after being in town and stocking up on the food supply. As they were walking Nami's eyes narrowed as she looked ahead of her and tried to identify what the odd object was in the distance. After a few seconds of ignoring Sanji's gibberish, his attention was also caught on the same object and at the same time their eyes widened and they looked at each to say the same thought in their minds, "Sunny."

Their speed increased as they practically ran to see what on earth had happened to their poor beloved ship and upon reaching it they were both astounded. Bobbing in the water in front of them was a now rather tacky looking Sunny covered from head to foot in Christmas decorations. Nami sighed as she remembered just who had been on the ship last.

"Luffy... Hmm, well Franky's not going to be happy when he gets sight of what's happened to Sunny." Throughout the sentence Nami's voice turned from threatening to sympathetic as she thought about the soon to be blubbering Franky.

Just as she thought, when Franky had returned with the rest of the crew and he'd seen Sunny he hadn't known what emotion to show. Anger, confusion... but he chose to instead start crying and just to make matters worse Robin thought it'd be amusing to take a picture of this.

Nami didn't know whether Luffy planned it or not yet, but he didn't return with the rest of the crew and after waiting for him to return for an hour they all decided to move on and go on like nothing had really happened. But they soon came to realize they would be able to do that.

34'#

The first incident had included the mistletoe that Luffy had oh so cleverly put up. Sanji didn't usually think about anyone walking through the galley door so when he walked through it and was almost nose to nose with Zoro he wasn't impressed and to make matters worse; there was mistletoe above the pair of them. Both of them didn't look impressed when they saw the mistletoe and a second later both their faces were bright red when they realised what usually happened when two people were underneath it.

"Don't think I'm kissing you eyebrow. I don't swing that way, now get the hell outa my face."

"Oi, what makes you think I want to kiss you, Marimo."

A bright light cut off the argument about to occur and both their stunned faces turned to see Robin, with no regret at all, standing there with the camera. Both of them were flabbergasted but instantly snapped out of it when Robin turned and started to walk off. Zoro, sending Sanji one last death glare, was soon in hot pursuit of Robin to try and hopefully get her to delete the picture.

"Oi, woman..." His voice drifted off as he got further and further away from the galley.

Incident two: the Christmas tree. Upon getting on the ship, Usopp had investigated the tree and began to wonder where on earth Luffy could possibly get something so large so quickly. However, he soon concluded to just leave it down to Luffy and he could get anything if he really wanted it.

As he was about to walk away he heard Chopper yelling something at him and as he turned he saw Chopper trip and fall onto the tree. His face showed pure horror and his legs seemed to be suddenly paralyzed as he couldn't move them to run away from the tree rapidly coming closer and closer to squishing him like a hedgehog under a tyre. That was it, when his legs finally decided to respond to his brain screaming at them to run it was too late and the tree came down on him; instantly squashing him and most likely his nose on the spot.

Robin seemed to have perfect timing today, as she walked away from the galley where Sanji and Zoro had almost kissed, she came upon the sight of Usopp under the tree with only his arms and legs free as they rapidly kicked and swung about and just as icing on top of the cake Chopper was running around the tree in circles screaming about Usopp being squashed to death. Before offering her assistance she set up the camera to the perfect angle and took a picture, afterwards multiple hands appeared on deck and rolled the fallen tree off of Usopp.

Usopp dramatically sucked in a deep breath and as Chopper jumped on him crying he spoke, "I'm saved! Thank god, I was about to get my can't-get-stuck-under-trees-for-too-long disease."

Incident three: the tinsel. Upon getting on board, Nami hadn't honestly been too bothered about the decorations except for the fact that it looked tacky but never mind that, for Luffy, this isn't one of the most idiotic things he's ever done.

Nami's opinion however rapidly changed in seconds as soon as she got stuck in this situation. She had harmlessly been walking down the stairs near the railing about to check what the loud ruckus was but she didn't make it that far when she tripped on a bit tinsel left hanging off of the railing. She wouldn't have been as mad if she had just simply fallen over but of course things never worked out that way did they? Instead she fell over and to make it worse fell on one of the most perverse crew member on the ship; Brook. But because God just obviously hated her the tinsel unravelled itself from the railing and from the impact of falling on Brook wrapped itself around the pair of them.

"Yohohohohoho, this is quite the situation. But whilst we're here I might as well ask; may I see your panties, please? However, I have no eyes to see with... skull joke! Yohohoho."

Nami could actually feel her eyebrow twitch as Brook said the sentence and it went erratic as soon as she heard Brook's annoying skull joke and laugh. Nami tried to struggle to get free but it only seemed to get worse, it was like quick sand; the more you struggled the more you got stuck.

In the next second however, Nami's eyes turned huge in shock, her mouth feel open and her face turned completely a bright, vivid red like Santa's costume. For as she looked up, looking down at her was Robin with the camera already hovering over her face waiting for the right moment to take the rather humorous picture and this was certainly that right moment. Nami was blinded by the flash but when her eyes had adjusted again she found she was unwrapped from Brook and just lying on the floor looking up like a retard.

Her head flew from left to right quickly looking for the direction Robin had headed in, she saw her just a few steps in front of her already walking away, not bothering to stay at the scene any longer.

"Wait!" Nami's voice spoke out but it wasn't just hers that had said that same word. When she looked, next to her Usopp and Zoro had said the same thing and all three of them then gave each other strange looks; after all they had said the same thing to the same person at the same time. Just as all three of them were about to go chasing after Robin to try and persuade her to delete the picture a certain voice stopped them in their tracks.

"Hey guys." A cheery voice spoke to the three of them and as they turned they came to face with a smiling Captain, speaking as if nothing was wrong at all. Just to make matter worse he then said, "What do you guys think of the decorations, cool aren't they?"

Luffy missed the look Nami, Usopp and Zoro gave to each other. They then looked back at him with a demonic look on their faces; Luffy definitely didn't miss that. He gulped and started to take a few steps backwards but that wouldn't help him at all.

So there he sat; a beaten, bloodied Luffy tied up to the mast with tinsel. Yeah, the crew definitely learned that day not to let Luffy have decorations or to be left on the ship by himself again. Well, almost everyone except Robin who was quite pleased with the pictures that she had got that day.

Happy New Year

The straw hats were all outside, it was starting to get dark but that didn't matter; they were enjoying celebrating the end of one amazing year and the soon to be the start of a new one. But this time they weren't only going to party, oh no they had fireworks to celebrate the end of the year.

It was currently 11.30 and they were still partying hard, they had decided when it was starting to get nearer 12 then they would set of the fireworks off and after some deliberation or more like arguing they quickly decided they would not be letting Luffy near the fireworks.

"Luffy, I said no. Can't you possibly imagine what havoc you and fireworks together would cause?"

Nami's firm voice spoke out and when she said this the others nodded in approval, vaguely remembering what had happened when he'd gotten hold of the decorations... yeah they didn't need something like that happening again. Robin quickly cut the soon to be bickering off by mentioning that they should take a group picture together.

So there they all were; Robin's extra hands on the railing were holding the camera whilst the Straw hat crew all stood together. If you looked carefully you could see Zoro and Robin's hands were holding each other's and next to them were Luffy and Nami with Luffy who was not so discreetly trying to smother Nami but after a bonk on the head he settled for grinning like a hyper child, plonking his hat on Nami's head and wrapping his arms around her waist. Chopper sat on Zoro's shoulder and standing just in front of Chopper was Usopp. On the other side of Nami and Luffy were Franky and Brook, Brook was madly laughing and Franky was in his 'Supperrr pose'. Then there was Sanji standing there trying to look happy but was really glaring at Zoro and Luffy when he thought no one was looking, so when he went to smile quickly when Robin looked at him the picture was taken before anyone ruined it or moved. When everyone looked at the picture they laughed and thought about what an odd crew they were.

After all the fussing about where each of them would stand and then getting everyone to smile it was 11.50 which is when they decided to set off the fireworks. Franky set them up quickly in the middle of the grassy deck; he then stood back with the rest of the crew ready to enjoy the fireworks. He pressed a button on his remote and off they went, each of them 'ooh'd' and 'awed' at the pretty colours going off in the sky.

When it was over everyone was all smiles except Franky, "Only 14 fireworks when off, I'm sure there were 15..."

After a moment of speculating silence bulbs went off over everybody's heads, one was missing and who was the person that so desperately wanted to set off a firework? Luffy.

They turned to see Luffy away from the group and hunched over a firework working away to set it alight. When the fuse was set off moments after, everyone just sighed and accepted that he would be setting off a firework... it didn't seem too bad, he looked like he was doing a good job. However, when he just stood there looking at the firework that was about to go off in a matter of seconds Franky spoke up.

"Mugiwara, you're supposed to..." Franky's voice spoke out but immediately stopped when the firework went off and straight into Luffy's face. He shook his head and in a quiet voice spoke the rest of sentence he was previously going to say "...move away from the firework when you've set it alight."

Everyone stood there looking at the smoke around Luffy as soon as it started to clear they began to laugh, his face was fine but it was covered in black soot from where the firework exploded early. When he coughed and black dust came out, some fell to the floor laughing their hearts out and others had tears streaming down their faces. Robins hand sprouted out of the railing and picked up the camera again and took a picture of the whole scene.

The laughter cut out when they heard Choppers innocent voice call out, "6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1" Usopp and Brook at joined in and when the countdown finished the stunned Luffy from earlier shouted out, "HAPPY NEW YEAR!"

The crew started to cheer out in delight. Nami walked over to Luffy who was now standing but still had soot over his face, lifted one hand to place it on his cheek. She laughed silently at his face and whispered Happy New Year before leaning in to capture his also black lips into a kiss. When she pulled away she looked over at the crew who were still celebrating except for Robin, she was just lowering the camera from her face when Nami looked over. Ignoring Robin, Nami looked back at Luffy who was intently looking at her. He leaned his forehead against hers- Nami was pretty sure she now had black lips and an equally black forehead- and looking into her eyes he spoke softly to her, "This is gunna be a good year."

A/N
Whoooooo! I am done. Wow, I don't know whether you guys thought so or not but that was quite a lot of writing for me... I'm pretty sure this is my largest update so far for Photographs.
This was actually really fun to write, hope you guys had as much fun reading it as I did writing it. So what makes this an end of year special you ask? Well firstly, it's all Christmas/ New Year themed and also I plonked together what would have been three separate updates all together for you guys. I guess you could say this is my Christmas present to you guys.
I'd love to hear what you guys think of this, so drop me a review.

Hmm, I just realised... I pick on Sanji quite a lot, oh well it's so much fun not too! xD

Anyway, this is going to be my last update of 2010 so wishing you guys have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I'll see you guys in 2011!
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