I do not own One Piece

A strange new feeling

A Promise


Luffy got to the room and opened the door, walked over to the bed and placed Nami down. Then he sat in the chair, looking up at the ceiling for a while, just thinking. After a while Nami asked if he could bring her to the bathroom, so he did, then he set her gently down on the bed again and used the bathroom himself. He shut the lights off and began to lie at the foot of the bed.

"Luffy….I thought we agreed that you would sleep in the bed…" Nami said to him.

"Oh…ah…yea, that's right." He said nervously as he got in the bed, this time lying on his back, a bit closer to Nami, but not to close. He remembered how he had woken up that morning.

Nami turned to her side looking at him. Then she got an idea. "It's really cold." She said in a complaining tone. It was a bit chilly after all, even with the covers.

"Want me to get you some more blankets?" he asked.

Nami sighed at his response, "No….how about this?" She grinned as she scooted herself over to his side so they were touching and laid her head a few inches away from him, she felt the warmth of his body immediately and tingled.

"See that's better." she said before smiling and closing her eyes. Luffy didn't say anything; he blushed and looked at her for a minute, but ended up closing his eyes, dozing off to sleep.

xxxxxx

In the middle of the night Luffy woke up to find Nami exactly where she was when he had closed his eyes. He smiled and turned himself so he was on his side facing her, they were no longer touching. After a few minutes of staring at her, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

About fifteen minutes after that, Nami woke up. She noticed that they were no longer touching. She frowned a bit, thinking, 'Why doesn't he like to be close to me??', then she smiled. She pulled herself so that they were chest to chest, almost there whole bodies touching the other besides their heads, she then felt him wrap an arm around her like the night before and she smiled again and closed her eyes.

xxxxxx

Nami woke up first this time and giggled to herself because she was so close to Luffy which caused her to blush. She looked at him for a while before he slowly opened his eyes to meet her gaze. Then he 

realized how close he was to her and blushed, backing off and turning around. After a minute he got up and went to the bathroom in silence. Nami didn't understand, it was like he was afraid or something. She frowned to herself. 'Guess I'll try and stand…'

She sat up and put her feet on the floor, trying to stand up, she succeeded, but it was a big strain. She wasn't ready to walk much on her own yet. She smiled at the notion that Luffy would have to carry her more.

"Oh, Nami…you can stand today." He said with a smile as he walked out of the bathroom. Seeming to be ignoring what he had just woken up to.

"Ahh….kind of, I can stand and walk a bit, but it's difficult…" she said with a frown.

"So I guess I'm carrying you still." He said as he walked over to her with a grin.

"Guess so." She replied as a blush stained her cheeks.

"Sheesh, you seem to be getting an awful lot of heat strokes lately." He said as he chuckled at her.

"Luffy…." She said as she gently hit his chest and smiled. He picked her up quickly the way he had on the ship and now he blushed. She didn't say anything, but she smiled at him. He brought her to the bathroom and waited outside. When she opened the door he knelt down to let her get on his back, then he headed down to the lobby. They had breakfast with the crew, as everyone was about to go their separate ways Luffy whispered into Nami's ear. She nodded and chuckled.

"So….does anyone want to go sledding?" he asked with a big grin on his face.

"Oh…I'll go." Said and excited Chopper.

"Yea me too." stated Ussop.

"I think I'll pass." grumbled Zoro.

"As will I." said Robin. It was now just Sanji and Franky who hadn't answered. Nami didn't care if Franky came, but Sanji, 'I hope he doesn't want to come, he'd get pissed if Luffy just looked at me…and I can't stand him…'

"I would love to go sledding with Nami-swa…" 'Oh great…' Nami said in her head as he started but then realized he was cut off at the end.

"Cook-kun, would you like to go for a walk to the library with me?" asked Robin while smiling at Nami.

'Thank god…I love you Robin!!' Nami thought to herself.

"Of course Robin-chwannnn." exclaimed Sanji with his heart eyes. 'But why did she do that, I know she wouldn't really want to bring Sanji along…' then she blushed, remembering her comment on the ship about Luffy being cute. 'Does she know how much I….' she trailed off.

She smiled at Robin to tell her thank you and she nodded back. "What about you Franky?" asked Ussop.

"I'm gonna go do some more work at the ship, I'll catch you later." He said as he headed off.

"Okay, see ya." Ussop replied.

"Well then, let's get going." stated Luffy in excitement as he let Nami get on his back.

They had rented some sleds from a winter sports place and headed to a big hill he had seen the other day. He grinned as he was climbing it with Nami on his back and pulling the sled with one hand. Nami was glad she could finally do something other than sleep. Then they all finally got to the top, it was a good ten minute hike. Ussop and Chopper had already headed down on their sleds letting out cries from the speed, but they were having a blast.

Luffy set the sled down and knelt down to let Nami off. He sat at the back of the sled and held out a hand to help Nami on. She sat down right in front of him in between his legs and laid on him so her back was firm against his chest; they both blushed as he gently pushed off. He wrapped an arm around her stomach to make sure she didn't fall off. She was grabbing onto Luffy's pant legs tightly. Luffy was chuckling from finally doing something exciting, Nami was happy that Luffy was having fun. They had gone almost the entire way down perfectly until they hit a bump and fell off. Luffy grabbed Nami so that she would land on top of him. Once they got up and wiped the snow off they both started laughing. Then Nami just looked into his eyes for the longest time.

"Ah…well, do you want to go again?" He asked a little nervous.

"Un…that was fun." She said with a big smile.

He carried her back up and slid back down, they did this a few more times before they headed back for lunch. Ussop and Chopper had decided to stay awhile longer. They finally got back to town and Nami poked Luffy's head.

"Hey, why don't you take me out on another date?" she asked with a giggle. Luffy blushed but agreed and took her to a restaurant in town for some lunch.

After they finished, he paid the bill and walked out with her on his back, she had put her chin on his shoulder again, he felt a tingle go up his spine and he smiled.

"So…how was our second date?" he asked sarcastically.

"It was….decent." she replied with a grin. He just looked back at her with pursed lips and turned away.

xxxxxx

The crew decided to spend the evening together; Nami had drunk a little too much. "Oi, Luffy, Nami doesn't look to good." said a basically drunk Zoro.

"Aa, neither do you." said Ussop.

"Maybe you should take navigator-san to your room." suggested Robin as she was about to head to hers, Sanji was already passed out; Luffy, Robin, Ussop, and Chopper had only drank a small amount. Franky was also passed out on the bar floor.

"Aa, that's probably a good idea." Luffy replied.

"See you at breakfast Luffy." said Chopper.

"Aa, night."

"Night." said all the coherent people.

Luffy made his way up to the room and sighed, he didn't like it when people got drunk, it dampened their judgment. Nami had been singing the whole way up, squirming around in his arms; he brought her to the toilet and told her to go to the bathroom. She started to almost inaudibly call his name so he entered and brought her over to the bed.

Luffy turned the lights off and got in on the other side. He had closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep when he felt hands going over his chest.

"Nami?"

"Luffy, you feel good." She mumbled.

"Yea…thanks." He said a bit irritated.

"Why don't you take your shirt off so we can take a peek." She giggled.

"I don't think that's a good idea." He said.

"Why, you don't like me." She asked getting upset.

"That's not it, your drunk." He said as he got out of the bed to lie on the floor.

"So what….I still want to feel you, and I know you want to feel me." She said in a seductive voice.

"Nami, I don't think you would normally want to do that."

"Sure I would." She yelled at him.

"Nami just go to sleep." He said as he lay down on the ground.

"No, kiss me…Baka." She yelled as she began to take off her shirt.

"Nami, put your shirt back on." He told her.

"I don't want to, you should take yours off."

"Nami….you should really get some rest."

She began to crawl over the bed as she took of her pants. "Come on Luffy, you know you want this." She said in the same seductive voice as she turned around and swayed her rear at him.

"Nami put your clothes back on and go to sleep."

"No, you get up here now, or, or, I'll never talk to you again." She said getting more and more upset.

He didn't respond, he refused to, and then he heard Nami start crying. After a while it stopped and he sat up to see her breathing had settled, she was finally asleep. He sighed and lay down to get some rest himself.

xxxxxx

Nami woke up to a splitting headache and looked around, 'Where is Luffy?' she thought to herself. Then she began to remember last night, 'Ghaa….Nami….you idiot…' she thought as she began to pout. 'What if Luffy's mad at me??' She looked to her left and on the nightstand was a little dish with a glass of water and some pain relievers with a note.

You should take these…I went to breakfast, didn't want to wake you; I'll bring you some food when I'm done. -Luffy

She sighed, put her shirt and pants back on, took the pills and lay down. She thought about how she acted last night and blushed, but then she frowned, 'What if I had been with someone else, like Sanji, he would have come onto me right away, I would have….' She shivered at the thought. She closed her eyes, not knowing how much time had passed as she was daydreaming, so she sat up. Next thing she knew the door opened and Luffy walked in with a bag in his hand.

"Feeling better?" he asked with a smile.

"U…un…Luffy, about last…." She started.

"Don't worry about it." He said as he sat down on the bed next to her, taking the food container out and handing it to her, still warm.

She took it from him, "Arigato…but Luffy, it's not something I shouldn't worry about, I'm sorry."

"Like I said, you shouldn't be, it's not entirely your fault."

"Yes it is, I drank way too much…and I promise to not drink that much ever again." She said feeling guilty, the thing was, she actually meant it. She really liked Luffy, and if she continued drinking like that, everything could be ruined with him and the crew if she did something stupid while drunk. She would still drink, but only in moderation.

"I was curious, why do you always drink so little?" she asked him.

"Well, it's not that I can't drink, for some reason I can hold alcohol very easily, so can Ace so it must be a family thing…but, I don't see why I should drink, yea sometimes it tastes good, but I don't have a real 

need for it." He said. Then she thought about it, he was right, there is no real reason to. It helps some people cope with sadness, to forget about things, to have fun, and other stuff like that, but you can do all that stuff without drinking. Then she smiled at him.

"Anyways, thank you for not going along with me." She said as she blushed.

"Ah….no problem, I really care about you and wouldn't want you to regret anything."

"Well, I appreciate it." Then there was a slight pause.

"So, can we walk at all today?" he asked, grin returning to his face.

"Let's see." She said. She got up and walked around a bit, but was having trouble and fell on her butt. She looked up at Luffy who was chuckling and she pouted.

"It's not funny." She huffed.

"Sorry…" he said as he held out a hand to pull her up. "Guess I'm gonna need to carry you around still."

"Looks like it." She said as she smiled. She got on his back and he headed down stairs to the lobby.

"So what are we doing today?" she asked.

"Well, I wasn't sure if you would want to, but the other day I signed out a room at the spa, I thought it might help you get better quicker." He replied. Nami looked at him wide eyed and parted lips. Luffy looked back cautiously from not having heard a response.

"Gomen Nami, it was a stupid idea." He said as he turned his head.

"No, no…its fine." She said as she started to smile.

"Okay then, we have the room for the whole day, so whenever you want to go…"

"Let's go now." She said as she grinned. He smiled and walked into the spa area, looking for the room he had signed out. Finding it, he opened the door with the key he was given and entered, the door automatically locked when it closed.

"This place looks nice." Luffy said in amazement, it was an all marble room, with a huge Jacuzzi in the center, a large shower, a steam room, and massage tables.

"Aa…it is." Nami replied, also looking around at the room.

Luffy noticed that there was no changing room, and the shower had no curtains or anything, it was just a shower head in the wall with a slight curvature in the floor leading to a drain.

"Ummm….where do we change??" he asked. There were garments on a table near the Jacuzzi compliments of the hotel, but nowhere to change.

"I don't know…" she replied, also looking around.

"Ah….whatever." He set her down on the Jacuzzi's edge and picked up the swimsuit that was there for him. "Um…could you turn around?" he asked as he blushed.

"Sure." She said, also blushing.

When he noticed that she was turned, he took his clothes off and put on the swimsuit. He allowed her to do the same. He looked at her when she said she was done and blushed at the sight of her.

"Umm…I think I'll just go relax in the steam room." He said.

"I'll join you." She said with a giggle. Luffy was nervous, he had never been alone with Nami in her swimsuit before. They entered the steam room and sat down, Nami on the other side of Luffy.

"Nami…why did you go to lunch with me but not Sanji?" he asked her.

"Um…well…I guess I would just rather be with you than him." She replied nervously.

They looked at each other for a while, Nami noticed his muscular body and blushed, Luffy was noticing her skin and how beautiful it looked, he was also gazing at her curves before he put his head on the wall and closed his eyes.

He got up after about fifteen minutes and walked out, holding Nami's hand for support.

"Well, that was nice." He said. She nodded in agreement.

"Come over here." She said while pulling on his hand. She brought him to the massage tables and she got on one. She undid her swimsuit to expose her entire back with no obstructions. Luffy spotted the side of her breast and blushed.

"Rub my back." She said.

Luffy didn't say anything, but cautiously put his hands on her back and started to gently rub. Nami felt a tingle as he touched her. He then began to do it with a bit more force and movement of his hands. Eventually he was at her lower back, right at her waist line and rubbed his hands with a good amount of pressure all the way up her sides to her shoulders and started to massage them. 'That feels so good…' she thought to herself. After a good twenty minutes he had finished and Nami strapped her swimsuit again and sat up. She still had the tingling sensation from his hands rubbing on her back.

She smiled at him, "Arigato Luffy, that felt great."

"Ah…no problem." he said with a grin.

She walked over to the Jacuzzi and slowly let herself slide in. "You coming in?" she questioned him.

"Ugh….devil fruit…" he reminded her.

"So, you can sit on the seat, that should leave you with a good portion of your body out of the water." She said as she smiled up at him.

"Well, I guess that would be fine, just don't try and drown me." He said as he chuckled.

She giggled, "Why would I do that."

"Who knows." Then they both started laughing. He sat down and was immediately greeted by the jets of hot water on his lower back.

"Aghhahha." He exclaimed in more of a pleased moan at the feeling as he slowly leaned his head back on the edge and closed his eyes. "By the way Nami, this is what I was smiling about when I walked in the room the other night." He said with a slight grin.

"Arigato, Luffy…" she whispered, she felt really strange at that moment.

While his eyes were closed Nami snuck closer over to him, just a few inches away, and closed her eyes. They had fallen asleep and time had flown by. Luffy woke up about twenty minutes before they were supposed to meet for dinner. He looked over to a clock and noticed the time.

"Oh shit." Luffy said in a medium volume.

He got up quickly and stumbled over to the shower to rinse off; he was weakened from the waist down from sitting in the water, so he was stumbling the whole way. He then quickly changed back into his normal clothes and want over to Nami.

"Nami…" he whispered as he gently pushed her shoulder.

She woke up and blinked a few times. "What is it?" she asked sleepily.

"You need to hurry up and rinse off, we only have fifteen minutes until we need to meet with the others." He explained.

"Ugh…." She lazily walked over to the shower and rinsed off, she then walked back to her cloths as Luffy turned away, she blushed as she put her clothes on. Then she grinned and hopped onto Luffy's back. He gasped not really expecting it but then chuckled and made his way to the lobby.

xxxxxx

Everyone was sitting around the table waiting for the food to come. It took a while longer than expected, but it finally came and it was great. When everyone was finished they all stared to talk.

"So how was everyone's day?" asked Robin.

"I met tons of beautiful girls and got some of their addressed." Sanji exclaimed in his love state.

"Oh yea?" Zoro butted in.

"Yea…see." He pulled a bunch of papers from his coat pocket and threw them on the table.

Zoro grabbed one and started cracking up. "Yea, some addresses…37 beat it lane."

"673 NO PERVES DRIVE." added Ussop as he looked at one of the papers. The whole table started laughing except for Sanji who was on the floor crying.

"Um…me, Franky, and Chopper went sledding." explained Ussop.

"Aa…that was fun." said Chopper as he chuckled.

"It was Supaaaa." said Franky in his star pose.

"I met some guys in an alleyway that weren't very friendly so I taught them a lesson or two." Said Zoro with a grin, apparently he had some fun.

"Navigator-san?" asked Robin.

"Hmmm?"

"What did you and captain-kun do today?" she asked with a grin.

"Oh….ah…well, we went to the spa." she said, a bit nervously but she looked at Luffy and smiled, he was grinning at her.

"WHAT!! OI LUFFY, YOU BASTARD, ILL KICK YOUR ASS FOR THIS!!" exclaimed Sanji.

"Nani??" Luffy questioned him.

"How dare you violate Nami-san at her weakest!!"

"Oi, I never said anything like that, we went to the spa and relaxed…that's it." She said to him a bit frustrated.

"Hai…Nami-swannn." he said with his love eyes. She only glared at him until she turned back to Luffy who was also looking at her.

"Sounds like it was fun." added Robin.

"Aa…It was." said Luffy.

"Nami, do you think you'll be able to walk on your own tomorrow?" asked Chopper.

"Ugh….I don't know." she replied looking a bit sad.

"What's wrong?" asked Ussop.

"Oh…ah, nothing." She said as she managed a smile for him.

"I think ill head off to my room then." said Robin as she stood up.

"I'll come with you my beautiful Robin-chwann." Exclaimed Sanji as he twirled behind her.

"Yea, I'm tired." said Ussop.

The rest of the crew said their goodnights and left, Luffy walked over to Nami and held out his hand. She stood up and he picked her up the way he does when the crew isn't around (Like back on the ship). She blushed and wrapped her arms around his neck. He started to head for the room. After a few minutes he made it to their floor.

When he was at the door he stopped and opened it, but didn't enter, Nami had been staring at him for a while. He noticed it out of the corner of his eye around the fourth floor. He turned to her and started looking into her eyes. He started getting a strange feeling, and at the same time, Nami had gotten it too. He began to slowly move his head closer to hers; she felt her body heat up as she blushed. He was less than an inch away when she closed her eyes; he did the same as their lips met. Nami felt paralyzed, Luffy pulled away and opened his eyes quickly; he tilted his head down so she couldn't see his eyes as he blushed.

"G…gomen Nami….it was…" he started but never finished, he headed for the bed and set her down. Then he entered the bathroom. She couldn't move, she continued to blush as she closed her eyes and smiled, 'Where did that come from??' she asked herself. She stumbled over to the door to wait for him to finish up. He was standing at the sink, 'What the hell was that…you idiot, why would you do that??' Then he shut the sink off and walked over to the door, almost walking into Nami.

"Oh Nami, ugh, sorry about that." He said, she knew he wasn't referring to the kiss. But her heart was pounding at the sight of him. She entered the bathroom and closed the door behind her; she took a deep breath and walked for the door to use the toilet. When she was done, she walked over to the bed and saw Luffy under the covers turned to the wall. She frowned as she got in bed as well.

Luffy turned over to look at her, "Nami, I'm really sorry about before; I don't know wh….."

He was cut off by Nami's lips; it was the same type of kiss he had given her. She pulled away and turned so she was facing away from him. "Now you can't be sorry…were even." she said as she giggled and moved her feet so they were touching his. He was blushing intensely, still shocked by what she just did, he didn't move, and just closed his eyes, smiling.


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And I apologize for the delayed update, I said I would post one every to every other day, but I went on a little vacation, so...sorry.