A/N I've wanted to do this for a while but never really had much inspiration for it... that is until my friend gave me the JLS CD and I listened to the song Outta This World.

Enjoy :D

P.s I almost forgot this and it's quite important for you to know just as well XD This chapter takes place before Unexpected.

The face of an idiot with a crush

Anyone with eyes... or eye sockets in Brooks's case, could see Luffy's lingering eyes and the wanting look within them. He'd had 'the look' any male had when they held a serious crush for a female. For months now the each crew member, one by one, had seen this expression on the teenagers face and soon realized just what this look meant; the young Captain had a crush.

Franky, after this discovery, had taken it upon himself to try and talk to Luffy about this, seeing as he is 'well experienced in love' as he would claim. No one really believed him, however no one dared question this; fearing the answer they would get.

To put it nicely, it hadn't exactly gone very well.

It was late afternoon and the shipwright had found Luffy sitting on the figure head, just looking over the sea. He looked quite calm. Doing a quick scan on the deck, Franky found not many people were within hearing distance and decided now would be the opportune moment to bring up the young boys crush.

Waltzing over he caught Luffy's attention and the boy cracked a big smile for his nakama as he got down from where he was sitting and stood in front of Franky eager to know what he wanted.

"Mugiwara, there's a process to when a boy becomes a man..." Luffy's face instantly dropped from happy to downright confused, however, the blue haired man ignored this and carried on with his well planned speech. "... It's when he finds love. It can be with a female or male, although I'd find that a bit weird in your case as she isn't exactly male. Anyway, to get to this step you have to admit your feelings and this can be done with a romantic song, flowers..."

This is when Luffy had stopped listening. What's he on about? Steps...? Why am I walking up the stairs to become a man? Wait, he said I'm not a man? This guy's an idiot, it's obvious I'm a man. Maybe I should show him what's in my trousers, maybe that'll prove to him I'm a man...

A loud wail and a puddle of water by Luffy's feet brought him out of his confusion and back to the man in front of him. He was blubbering things along the lines of 'so proud of you' and something about 'becoming a man.'

Luffy offered him a confused smile that Franky misunderstood for a 'thank you' smile so with a strong clap on the back the weird blue haired man strutted off across the deck saying things along the way like 'My jobs done' and so on.

Even after the 'successful' chat, more months went by and all Luffy did was look like a love struck puppy with no idea what to do... or he had no idea what was going on. In Luffy's case, it was most likely the second one. The majority of the crew just wanted to slap the Captain around the head so he could see realization or get a better candidate to talk to him. However, wisdom from Robin soon stopped anyone else from saying anything to the oblivious (or idiotic, it's debatable) Captain.

Today was no different. Usopp was animatedly talking to the Luffy, or lying, no one really paid attention anymore. Luffy had been paying attention but all that attention was soon diverted as Nami walked past, making her way to the galley to most likely ask Sanji to make her a refreshing drink. Of course Usopp didn't fail to notice Luffy's current diversion and waved a hand in front of his face trying to snap him out of it.

However, it was useless and soon Usopp was starting to feel sick from seeing his love struck face so he promptly left him standing there looking like a drooling idiot. Due to Luffy's state he didn't notice Usopp's quick leave and continued his gawking at Nami as she made her way across the grassy deck. His eyes had turned glassy and his mouth was apart slightly where a pool of drool was threatening to dribble out.

Luffy's feet automatically started moving on their own without his acknowledgement, his destination; Nami. With much skill and pure dumb luck he managed to make it down the stairs without tripping over. As he walked along, from the floor, Zoro cracked open an eye at the sudden noise and gave him a once over before shaking his head and closing his eye again. His feet carried on without pausing for a moment, stepping over objects just left about with grace.

His grace soon came to an abrupt halt as he collided face first with the mast. Smack. Click. Flash.

34'#

What amused Robin the most is that when Nami was sticking some of the newly taken photos into the book she was completely oblivious as to why Luffy had walked straight into the mast and she never did ask about what happened?

The reactions of a navigator with a crush

Everyone knew for a fact that Nami took great pride in her mikan trees and that when she's trimming them you should leave her the hell alone, well that is unless you want to die... or are simply an idiot. So yes, this is where Luffy comes in.

Her full attention was set on clipping off dead leaves and pointless vines, sometimes pulling off mikan's that were ready then placing them in her basket. This was usually how the routine was, snip, move, snip, squeeze, and pull and so on. Sometimes the breeze would blow and run through her short orange locks, refreshing her a little as the sun blazed down.

It was abnormally quiet on the top of the deck, the crew had retreated to rooms to escape from the strong heat of the day all except for Nami. Occasionally Sanji would flounce on up and top up her drink for her, sometimes leaving a snack to 'keep her going'.

Nami's eyes were focused as she reached up high and angled her wrist at a difficult angle so she could snip off a dead leaf. She'd have to get the step ladder soon. Her snipping was stopped as she suddenly felt something drop on her shoulder and let out a long breath along her neck. She stiffened and then with reflexes that would make even a ninja jealous, she lifted a balled up hand and brought her fist to the object laying on her shoulder then swiftly turned around to see the soon-to-be pummelled object.

Except when she did turn the expression of shock and fear dropped to from her face and instead anger replaced it.

"What did you think you were doing! You scared the shit out of me! Are you trying to give me a heart attack and kill me off?" Luffy was currently on the floor with a big angry red mark marred over his face as he mumbled incoherent words. "Well it's your fault for sneaking up on me, I would say maybe you won't do it next time, but I'm pretty sure you will."

Luffy reluctantly lifted himself off the floor as Nami asked, "What do you want anyway?"

Luffy replied with a comical red mark over his face, which to Nami did look quite humorous and she found it quite hard to stop from laughing. "Well, everyone's inside and you looked kind of lonely over here by yourself, then Sanji said he wouldn't feed me until dinner but that's agesss away, so I needed to pass time." Luffy finished his mini speech with a smile.

Nami's mind went blank for a few seconds before she realized she'd said nothing and Luffy was starting to look at her as if she was retarded... "Okay, so what do you want me to do?"

Luffy's perky reply was, " Come do something fun with me"

Turning around she started snipping again and then after a few seconds silence she replied, "Can't. I'm doing this at the moment."

"Oh.." Was Luffy's flat reply until he instantly brightened up, "I can help you with the trees"

Nami turned in a flash and was in Luffy's personal space dangerously pointing the clippers in his face, "You can help, but you're not allowed to touch the trees without my permission or eat any of the mikans... understood?"

Luffy's simply reply was a nervous nod as he eyed both the threatening look from Nami and the rather sharp clippers pointed at his face; the only thing his rubber skin won't protect him from.

From the untrained eye people would think this was a normal type of friendship and that would be it, nothing more to it. However, Zoro and Robin had personal experience, so when they saw Luffy in the mikan grove... alive... with Nami on his shoulder so she could reach up to higher branches and then handing down mikans for him to put in the basket both of them smiled. Finally it looked like progress was being made.

Robin couldn't resist taking a picture from afar of this.

A little push is always needed

It was any day now that it was going to happen, the crew was sure of it. They couldn't be any closer than they already were without being together romantically. If he was bored the first person he would go to find is Nami, if she needed help with the mikans the person she would hunt out is Luffy and then of course Luffy would have a tendency to stare to which Nami usually caught him and waved whilst trying to hide her blush. It seemed like a never-ending game of flirting to everyone else but Nami and Luffy, and they were all getting sick of it.

Zoro was the one at the moment who was sick of it as Luffy and Nami were quietly talking over by the swing whilst, Nami slowly pushing herself back and forth with Luffy sitting down by the trunk of the tree. Luffy must have said something as Nami let out a loud giggle that made Zoro's eyebrow twitch in annoyance. Was it really that hard for a guy to get some sleep?

"OI! Why don't ya go flirt somewhere else, somewhere that's away from me so that I can sleep and not hear you're whispering and giggling."

That caught both Luffy and Nami's attention, making Nami go very red whereas Luffy tried to play it dumb and pretend he didn't understand but not even he could hide the tinge of red that invaded his cheeks. At the same time both of them looked at each other quickly muttering a bye and was off, both in different directions.

Zoro smiled as peace was restored.

"My, my, that was rather cruel." Zoro's face instantly dropped as he heard the seductive voice of Nico Robin.

"What'ya want me to do? Go giggle with them as they flirt or sit here and vomit over the sickening display?"

Robin only offered a small chuckle as she walked away, fully aware of the swordsman's eyes on her.

34'#

"NAMI AND LUFFY KISSING IN A TREE, K.I.S.S.I.N.G!" The only two crazy enough to do that on that ship was Chopper and Usopp.

"... Luffy... WHY ARE YOU JOINING IN! It's about you as well, baka." Nami had temporarily forgotten about Usopp and Chopper teasing them and had instead focused her attention on Luffy. The idiot had gotten caught up in the moment and the song and had ended up joining in with both his friends. Much to the distress of Nami.

"Uhhhh... it was fun?"

When she was done with them all that was left was three idiots on the floor, bumps and bruises decorating them.

She's the devil

Somehow Nami had managed to get Luffy whipped already and they weren't even together? It amazed everyone and after a suggestion from an unhelpful green haired moss ball, some were now seriously wondering if she was truly the devil, and if so, she should seriously deserve a bigger bounty.

From a distance away you could just about see two people walking towards the ship, one was an orange haired woman, she was slim and tall. Whereas the other was an ebony haired male with a straw hat, he was a bit taller than the orange haired companion but the question was, why did he look so much chunkier than when he'd left?

This soon started to attract some attention from the members of Sunny. As they neared you could distinctly hear the loud calls from Luffy and the occasional strict voice from Nami telling him not to be such a baka.

Just then almost everyone's mouth dropped as Nami and Luffy neared, however what made everyone so stunned is that Luffy was holding every bag Nami had. Also it appeared as if Luffy had no bumps or bruises over him... which meant he willingly took them?

Almost all the boys occupying the ship had the same thought as knowing smiles crossed there faces, whipped. However, one of the males looked like a gaping fish at the sight in front of him.

Sanji.

He didn't know what to say, he could only stand there and open and close his mouth as no words came out whilst Luffy acted like a moron but still continued holding her bags. Who knew he had it in him?

Even when Robin called down to them to get Nami and Luffy to look up at her as she took a picture he still held the bags without a worry and just smiled up along with Nami.

Amazing... Nami had to be the devil for sure.

A/N I will be editing previous chapters soon as I've come to realize that there are sooo many typos and a lot of punctuation I need to add in.

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