Another idea that came from nowhere originally meant to be about fishing
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece.
Sometime before Water 7
The Straw hat pirates had been stuck on the small spring island for around 5 days and then suddenly Luffy's crew had changed. It all started one night after they'd come back from spending their own time in the big city.
-X-
Nami had arrived back with tears in her eyes, her hair was a mess and her clothes were in shreds her face had obvious been hit and she had a black eye. At on reaching the deck the entire crew had stared at her speechless at their beautiful navigator who was obviously upset.
Upon seeing the crew Nami had let out a loud sob and sprinted into her room and closing the door with a slam.
The crew exchanged worried looks and weren't sure how to break the awkward silence. Luffy for once genuinely appeared worried and quickly took action one of his nakama was in obvious pain.
"Sanji!" his tone and attitude didn't sound at all carefree now. "Get Nami some meat right now! She's obviously been hurt, meat will heal her."
The silence continued after Luffy's order and Sanji took a moment to light up a cigarette before answering. "Luffy… meat can't heal everything. Nami's obviously not just hurt physically. Chopper you should go see her your most likely to get a reason out of her, you do need to attend to her wounds."
Chopper nodded his agreement and went to get his medical supplies before going to see Nami.
Luffy was confused and upset he really hated seeing Nami cry and not just because of his promise. When his navigator was sad it felt like his world was breaking. He wondered what could possibly have caused Nami to be upset so he tried scoured his memory for some clue as to why she'd be so upset. Maybe it was her clothes? They had been torn in numerous places hadn't they? Luffy tried to remember exactly where let's see… her shirt was ripped open in the middle she'd been holding it closed but Luffy remembered the cloth overlap he had see. Also her skirt had partially torn at the top. Luffy remembered with a small smile the time his pants had a rip in the top they'd been a lot harder to keep up before they'd been sewed up properly again.
Luffy noticed the more inquisitive members of his crew were now right outside Nami's room and seemed to be listening. Luffy walked up to them and despite their Usopp's signal to keep quiet was about to talk when one of Robin's arms promptly covered Luffy's mouth. Now he was obliged to eavesdrop like the others.
-X-
Chopper carefully opened the door and closed it quickly behind and looked around the room for his patient
Nami was sitting in the middle of her bed with her knees up so she could rest her head on them and was crying silently into them. She looked up upon seeing Chopper and attempted to regain her composure.
"Chopper I'm not really hurt I'm fine can you just go away?" Nami said keeping her composure. Normally she'd have shouted at him but now… she didn't have the strength.
Chopper looked the girl up and down trying to figure out the sense of déjà vu he could have sworn he'd had a patient like this before. Chopper studied her injuries and posture with a critical eye and then he remembered where he'd seen these sorts of injuries and now he thought about it ripped clothing before.
"Nami… did someone… hurt you?" Chopper wasn't sure how to ask Dr Kureha had fear on her side when she'd asked with the small reindeer it was vice versa.
"It's…nothing Chopper I just feel down some stairs while coming back that's all now… leave!!" Nami said the last bit with more force. She didn't feel like explaining herself the sooner she forgot the better.
"Nami I...I think you were raped, weren't you Nami?" Chopper took refuge behind her desk at these last words. He was in human form but if Nami decided to throw things he could shrink.
"I don't want to talk about it Chopper, now just LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Chopper ducked the jar threw medical supplies at Nami and ran out the door.
When he was gone Nami collapsed into tears again she felt tainted and weak. Once that man had pinned her to the wall there was nothing she could do to stop him. He had ripped her shirt open and torn her dress while pulling it up for better access all the time his mates had cheered him on and then they'd left her in heap crying in the alley.
She wished they could just leave the island already but they had to wait for their Log Pose to set first. In the mean time she'd just stay in the cabin. She held herself tight pulled her sheets around her and sat in a corner waiting for sleep.
-X-
The crew was silent for dinner that night everyone felt the absence of Nami from the table and for once Luffy wasn't stealing food. Everyone felt bad for Nami especially Sanji but he was too much of a gentleman to question further until she was better.
Luffy was confused.
He gathered something bad had happened to his navigator but he wasn't quite sure what. Whatever it was it seemed pretty bad it had made his navigator cry. Maybe it was some really bad food she'd eaten before she fell down those stairs… Luffy decided he'd have to ask.
"Chopper what is a "raped"?" Luffy asked innocently
The table stilled and focused on Chopper to see how he'd respond to Luffy's ignorance.
Chopper looked up pleadingly for help from his friends. They all looked away explaining anything to Luffy was a tiring process.
Chopper looked back at Luffy and tried to gage Luffy's knowledge of genders and sex. He was pretty certain it was an almost blank slate.
"Never mind Luffy but rape is an action not an object that's all you should trouble yourself with." The crew sighed their captain didn't need to know it was better to have him ignorant knowing what had happened would be a burden when talking to Nami. Luffy was much better ignorant.
-X-
It had been to days since Nami was raped and she still hadn't come out of her room and talked to anyone. Robin had a hammock set up for her in the kitchen she'd said she thought Nami needed space at the moment.
Luffy was getting frustrated the rest of the crew seemed to have come to the agreement that Luffy wasn't to know what rape was. Luffy was beginning to hate whatever it was it had hurt his navigator a lot. Luffy hadn't seen Nami in two days and he felt her absence from his life. He found that weird and thoroughly disheartening. He knew he would feel so sad if anyone else was gone but there was something about Nami that made him want to make her happy and be with her as long as possible. Nami made his heart beat faster whenever she looked at him and when he wasn't near her he felt an aching feeling in his stomach.
Nami's absence was breaking his heart he had to know why she was now so sad and would talk or see them.
Luffy decided if his crew wouldn't tell him maybe someone in the city would. None of them had left the ship for days but now Luffy ran off. Sanji saw him run too late to stop him. "Stupid Luffy oh well I suppose it doesn't matter if he knows, he'd treat it like any other injury anyway.,," Sanji threw away the cigarette he'd been smoking and went to prepare some more food for Nami maybe his cooking would make her feel better.
-X-
Luffy wandered around the city aimlessly he trusted his instincts and luck they'd tell him who to ask he guessed half the people here wouldn't know either what rape was. Eventually he ended up at a middle school and it hit him. Of course I should have thought of this a teacher would know. Luffy ran into the big building it was a large school made of concrete and bricks it had many trophies, lockers and posters in it but Luffy hardly noticed he just ran blindly through it looking for the distinctive "face" that belonged to all good teachers.
Luffy heard a bell ring and various teenagers a bit younger than Luffy began emerging from classrooms. Luffy randomly picked a room people were coming out of and sure enough there was teacher. The captain grinned to himself I knew I'd find one in this school.
"Can I help you?" Said the teacher he was a man in his late 50's but still kept up a good appearance and had the air of someone whose time was important.
"Yeh you can actually" Luffy replied he was still staring at the man Luffy realised he had no hair. What a weirdo
The teacher began getting impatient. "With what then may I ask can I help you with?"
"What's rape?"
The teacher stared back in amazement this guy had to be at least 17 he looked directly at Luffy for once. He was amazed to find not a trace of sarcasm this young man in front of him genuinely had no idea what rape was. At that moment he lost his condescending attitude and took pity on Luffy. Someone who didn't know would only be asking if it somehow related to him. Poor guy one of his friends must have been raped and he doesn't know how to respond.
"Do you know what sex is?" The teacher asked he'd recently had to teach that to a bunch off sniggering 14 year old. Stupid syllabus as if the don't already know.
Luffy trawled through his memory bank he vaguely remembered something his mom had made him read on sex. He'd read the book but he hadn't really actually thought about anything it said… it'd been dinner time when he'd read it.
"Yeah I do"
"Well rape is when you do it with someone who doesn't want to this is very bad. Usually the one who's raped is mentally scarred and can take ages to recover."
Suddenly the idea of what rape was hit Luffy's mind and stayed lodged in there. He remembered Nami's attitude and her tears he now knew what really happened.
She hadn't fallen down any stairs at all!!
Someone raped Nami! Someone Raped my Nami!!
His brain had processed all the information and it forced him to realise something he loved Nami his brown eyed Navigator. The very idea of someone doing that to her made him want to kill anyone who even so much as looked the wrong way at her.
The teacher felt something inside the boy changed. The boy reached behind him and placed a straw hat on his head covering his eyes. The image sent a chill down his spine. He now recognised the boy, this boy was actually a pirate worth 100 000 000 beli and right now he looked worth every piece. The teacher could swear the very room changed its attitude. This carefree boy was suddenly an awakened Demon filled with rage who wanted vengeance. Straw hat Luffy walked out or the room it felt like a controlled cyclone had left it. Some poor bastard is screwed when that man finds him.
-X-
Zoro was the first to see Luffy walking back he could tell merely by Luffy's face that Egg head had been wrong it obviously did matter to Luffy.
"Oi Love cook, still sure it won't matter?" Zoro pointed at Luffy he was about to reach the docks.
"Crap, not good he better not do anything stupid Nami-san's having a hard time as it is without him ruining everything."
Luffy jumped onto the deck, it was a graceful elegant jump full of purpose Luffy kept on walking straight towards Nami's room without missing a beat.
Sanji stepped in the way. Luffy would only make things worse
"Sorry Captain but she needs more time by herself not even Chopper can see-"
"Move"
It wasn't loud or threatening but it held such power and force the Sanji automatically stepped out of the way before he could think. Luffy kept on walking.
Sanji heard a snigger from behind him. "Well done love cook you certainly are convincing."
Sanji turned with a vicious look he couldn't stand up to Luffy now but he wouldn't take shit from Zoro about this. "Shut it marimo I'd like to have seen you try!"
-X-
Nami sighed the Log Pose was finally set they could leave this accursed island and maybe she could put these memories behind her. She knew thing would be different though the crew would treat her differently. Even Luffy would treat her differently now and not for the better. She'd been so scared of seeing how Luffy would react to her being raped. If he cared for her he'd have tried to help but he seemed to just have accepted it and left it that. The rest of the crew seemed to be gradually confronting her about it but Luffy hadn't said a word to her. She recognised the hints with Sanji asking for where she was, Robin for what they looked like and even cowardly Usopp on if he could help.
She'd rejected them all this was something she could beat on her own she wouldn't let the others solve her problems for her. If she couldn't conquer her fear by herself then she didn't deserve being around Luffy who seemed to conquer his so easily. Nothing could change her mind.
Nami was still thinking these thoughts when the door slammed opened this jolted her back to reality.
Luffy was standing in the doorway his hat was already flying towards her and she automatically grabbed it. He continued to stand directly in the middle of the doorway Nami could almost feel his anger radiating from him.
"Nami tell me everything you know!" It wasn't a question
Instantly all her resolutions and strategies and goals melted away she couldn't resist telling him anything it all came out in a flood of information all she knew about what had happened. Fresh tears started travelling the lines that had been marked on her face but she didn't care it felt so good talking to Luffy even if it was about this. By the time she'd finished and looked back up he was gone…
Luffy followed the directions that Nami had given him and entered a bar not too far from the alley. He scanned the bar quickly with his eyes, the bar had gone silent on his entry Luffy was still radiating death.
"Not here" he said quietly before exiting. He then headed for the next closest bar Luffy right now had all the patience in the world and he knew what his victims would look like call it instinct.
The second bar was in better condition but the customers still went silent on his entry.
"Not here" Luffy exited again and headed for another it was a big city for an island it had over 3000 people but that was ok Luffy would find them…
-X-
Nami had emerged on deck the sun had set an hour ago but the crew was still there. They were overjoyed at seeing their navigator come outside for the first time in days. It was reassuring they treated her same as before but now with just a bit more care.
"Nami?" Usopp has sidled up next to her "where did Luffy go? He's been gone for 7 hours now"
"I don't know Usopp I think he's attempting to help me."
Usopp smiled "That sounds like Luffy might be a bit hard for him in a city this big though besides we'll help you through it, it'll be ok we're nakama and when Luffy returns he'll help too he loves you." Usopp realised what he'd just said and quickly shut his mouth.
"What? How do you know?" Nami hoped so much this was true. She hadn't realised it until she'd been raped but she'd fallen in love with Luffy somewhere along their adventures.
"You saw after he learned what happened to you!"
"He's known for the past 2 days!"
"Actually he didn't know he only learnt today just before he saw you and the mood he was in I'd prefer to take my chances against Enel then when he learnt what happened."
Nami went into shock he loves me; he actually loves me… thank god. Nami pulled the straw hat over her eyes and began to cry again but this time they were tears of joy.
-X-
Robin was in the crows nest when she saw it a building near the centre of the city had suddenly collapsed and a fire was ensuing.
Robin was a smart woman, Luffy was missing and something was destructive was occurring no doubt Luffy would be in the centre of it. Robin used her devil fruit power to see what was happening and as she switched her vision to her eye she caught a sight from hell.
Luffy was standing in the centre of the wreckage of a bar he was wreathed in smoke and fire and he was mercilessly slaughtering men. His right hand was holding a mace that he had picked up and was swinging it around at range like a toy. The men screamed and attempted to flee. One man made it about 10 blocks away and stopped to catch his breath Luffy's mace descended from the sky like some gods wrath and crushed the man in one go. Luffy still hadn't even moved from that centre spot he wasn't even looking it was as though he automatically knew where the men were and killed accordingly. Eventually there was 1 man left who didn't even move he just stared at Luffy in horror.
"WHAT THE FUCK DID WE DO TO YOU!!" he screamed at Luffy
Luffy grabbed him by sinking his left hands fingers into the mans stomach literally pulling the man to Luffy or have his stomach ripped out.
Luffy held him to the ground dropped his mace and started raising his right hand while twisting it. It rose higher and higher into the air like a pillar of justice. All the time it kept getting higher Luffy was calmly speaking to the man.
"First you looked at Nami, Second you hurt Nami and third, you HURT NAMI" Luffy's fist descended from the sky at the speed of a cannon aimed directly at the man's head.
-X-
Nami saw the pillar slowly rising out of the fire it got higher and higher all the time twisting and twisting. Then suddenly it stopped and was gone it took a few seconds for the sound to reach her ears but it was a dull crack the shuddered out from the ground. Luffy had cracked the islands bedrock and anything in between was… no longer there.
Thankyou Luffy
-X-
Luffy spent the next day in the ship's infirmary with Chopper scolding him about "overkill" how he should do that his arms was a wreck from everything it had hit in Luffy's scourge of his victims.
Throughout the entire day he insisted the injury was worth it.
Chopper rewarded Luffy's perseverance by making him stay the night and missing supper in the process.
-X-
Nami snuck into the infirmary later that night and just sat beside him. Luffy looked so peaceful asleep. On impulse she ran her hands through his short black hair. It felt so good just touching him. Luffy stayed deep asleep despite this. Nami decided to risk touching his bare skin she ran her thumb over his scar and traced his lips.
Still he didn't wake up.
Nami gave in she wanted to kiss him so bad and right now he just perfect. She leaned over gently and kissed him tenderly on the lips.
He didn't even grunt he still was sleeping.
She hugged him and sidled up next to him on his temporary bed and buried her head in his chest while lying down next to him. She loved her Captain so much she loved everything about him. His looks, his smell even his snoring. She wrapped her arms around him pulling him even closer to her. Luffy seemed to automatically respond and wrapped his arms around her.
"I love you Monkey D Luffy"
She smiled and kissed him again on the lips harder this time. She was surprised when he began kissing her back just as hard.
"I love you too Nami"
They shared one lat passionate kiss before they relaxed and went to sleep. Whatever the crew thought the next day they didn't care right now they were together.
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