Ch 2 Edited.
Nami woke up to the sound of the creaking ship as the waves hit the side of Sunny. It was around 6 in the morning and the sun was slowly rising from behind the horizon. The rays spilt orange onto the floor painting the room with its shimmering light. She glanced at Chopper on the foot of her bed, who was still sleeping soundly.
'He must have sneaked in here while I was asleep. He probably couldn't sleep because of all the fighting and last night,' she said in her mind, 'Wait…Last night! Luffy! '
The navigator quickly made her way out of her cabin as quietly as possible not to wake the sleeping reindeer. Slipping out of the covers, she tiptoed over to the door and out into the hall. The door clicked shut behind her as she let out the breath she was holding looking out across the deck where her destination lay. Her bare feet padded the wooden floor while she glided across the ship to the sickbay at the stern.
At the door of the infirmary she put her ear to the door but she didn't hear the usual snoring that she knew her captain usually emitted in his sleep, only a faint sound of heavy breathing. She cracked the door open to peek in a little and saw Luffy on the temporary bed. Nami walked closer to his side next to his sheets that were in a heap on the floor. His right arm hung lifelessly off the bed where a stream of blood ran across to his fingertips falling in consistent drops into a small puddle on the floor below. He must have opened his injuries in his movements while he was sleeping. Fortunately, the sleeves of the shirt were rolled up passed the injuries leaving the white cloth unblemished. As she scanned his body farther up she noticed that his face was slightly flushed and was covered in a thin layer of sweat; his breathing had already settled a little to a steady huff.
Suddenly he began to thrash around, his eyes still closed crying out with what little strength he had at the time.
"I will never let you!" he cried. "I won't be that…"
The last words came out to a whisper. Nami stared in awe and confusion for a moment before she noticed tears glistening down his cheeks. She looked down at his flailing legs and noticed that the harsh movements were opening the gash that Chopper had apparently stitched up. Some of his other injuries became irritated from the movement as red blotches began to form underneath the white bandages. Fidgeting in her spot, she panicked in her indecisive state to handle the situation. On pure instinct, Nami threw herself on his body and held down his limbs with her hands and weight.
"Shh, shh, Luffy please calm down," she whispered in his ear. As if on reaction to the sound of her voice, Luffy's body became still and nothing could be heard in the room except for the rhythmic pattern of their breathing.
She looked down at to make sure that the stitches were ripped open and noticed that his shorts were still off. Nami jumped off his body after noticing that she was basically straddling him the whole time.
"Get a hold of yourself Nami, they're off because the cloth would irritate the cut if it rubbed against them."
She looked down at Luffy's now peaceful sleeping form. Pulling up a chair, she decided it would be best to watch him incase another event happened. Gazing affectionately at the boy, she began to run her fingers through his raven colored hair. She suddenly heard a small laugh behind her and whipped her head around to find Robin standing in the doorway casually leaning on the doorframe.
"Robin! I was just checking up on him to see if he was awake and uh was just brushing the hair out of his face… and uh…umm how long have you been there?"
"Long enough." replied the archeologist.
"Please don't tell everyone what you saw! I was just worried about him you know and I bet anyone else would have done the same thing!" pleaded Nami.
Robin simply walked up to Luffy's bed and placed her hand on Luffy's hand. "Yes, I would have but that's because we all care about him. You on the other hand, it's obvious that you have more feelings for him than you are letting on," she whispered, "You don't have to hide them Navigator-san."
" I have no idea what you are talking about!" denied Nami standing up out of her chair. "I never had any feeling for this baka and never will!"
"Change is good sometimes, you just have to give it a chance." said Robin smiling at the younger girl.
Their conversation was cut short by the sound of someone running through the halls.
"Everyone! Wake up! There's something weird going on outside!" yelled Usopp.
Soon the door of the men's quarters opened with all the grouchy guys complaining about the noise. "Go on the deck! I think we made a wrong turn because there's a thick cloud of fog surrounding the ship," yelled Usopp automatically perking up the members as they ran out onto the deck. The marksman finally made it to the infirmary and found the two girls standing next to Luffy's bed.
"C'mon, Nami you need to navigate us through this!" he whispered not to wake the sleeping captain. The three ran though the kitchen to find Zoro, Sanji, Chopper, and Franky barely visible through the fog. As the ship floated through the cloud, the fog lightened a little so that the crew could see the surrounding water. A far as they could see, they were in a death trap where the water was sprinkled with sharp rock formations penetrating the surface. The eerie scenery was completely opposite of the orange sun Nami remembered rising a few minutes ago. Where had this sudden change in environment coming from?
"Ok guys! Put the sails away we don't want to rush threw these rocks too fast," she ordered the crew as they scrambled to their jobs.
As she scanned the waters from the side of her eye she saw a white figure standing on the rocks. She quickly turned her head but saw nothing and quickly dismissed it as just her imagination and began surveying again when she saw another rock formation ahead. Just before she could say anything the ship suddenly came to a halt. The rest of the crew members didn't notice anything as they were to busy tying up the sails and steering according to Nami's orders but the Navigator was staring straight at the white figure standing on the point of the rocks across the water from herself.
The shape of the figure's body was of a woman's as she wore a pure white strapless dress that fit tightly to her body and came down to her ankles. It was somewhat torn off diagonally to reveal part of right pale leg as the wind lightly blew on the thin cloth. Although her clothing choice in the middle of the ocean was marked as odd in the navigator's eyes, the thing that frightened her most was the white long veil that covered her face. Her disturbing appearance left Nami almost speechless. Her eyes widened with fear at the ghostly figure standing before her as her scream echoed across the water.