Summary: Luffy and Nami are separated from the ship in the middle of an ice storm. Can Luffy and Nami survive on a supposed uninhabited island before it's too late? Read to find out!

o.o~0.0~O.O Ch. 13 - Sleep Deprivation O.O~0.0~o.o

Several things happened at once. First off, there was all silence as they all stared at one another before Chopper and Ussop were screaming out their names in an incredulous manner. Zoro was outright laughing his ass off while Robin was giggling uncontrollably.

"You guys!" Nami exclaimed, happy to see her crew again. "You're here! I'm glad you guys made it through that storm."

"Shouldn't this be the other way around?" Zoro asked, "And what the hell happened to you two?"

Nami blinked. "It's a long story," Nami said.

"These quills are in pretty deep," Chopper said, touching one on Nami's hiney. She yelped and scooted away from him.

"Chopper!" Nami exclaimed with tears running down her face, "That HURTS!"

"But they gotta' come out!" Chopper exclaimed, "And I didn't think to bring anything to numb you and I doubt you can move any more than are you are already."

Luffy, throughout this entire time, had been pouting pathetically with his butt in the air. Nami sniffled. "Stop moving!" Chopper said, getting irritated. Both of them kept squirming every time he reached for them, and it didn't help that he was born with hooves either. "Robin, can you hold them down?"

Nami looked up at Robin with begging eyes. "Sorry, Navigator-san, but this is for your own good," Robin said as she crossed her arms. Several arms appeared and held Nami and Luffy down, who were screaming and begging for anyone OTHER than their nakama to help.

"NAMI-SWAAAN!" Exclaimed an overly hyper Sanji. He enveloped Nami in a huge hug as she was being escorted into Chopper's infirmary. Nami winced several times over. "I'm so glad you're okay!"

Behind her, Luffy was scowling at Sanji. For some reason...he didn't like what Sanji was doing. His frown deepened when Sanji got down on one knee held her hand and proposed a rose to her. Nami smiled and thanked him, grabbed the rose, and went to the infirmary with Chopper where she and Luffy were then separated by a divider and Chopper was bandaging both of their bare butts. Luffy decided it might be best to just ignore the strange feeling and figure out what it meant later. Right now...his butt needed tending to.

After a good hour and a half, with their butts quill-free and thoroughly bandaged, Nami and Luffy carefully sat at the dinner table, eating as though they were half starved. Sanji had made an enormous meal just for them, but had also cooked a little extra for the rest of the crew. After a while of practically nonstop eating, and Luffy eighth plate of food (which was two plates more than usual), they all calmly sat around the table and chatted.

"What happened?" Sanji asked as he lit a cigarette.

"Well, first off," Nami said, thinking back to when her and Luffy had fallen over board, "we fell over board and I just happened to see Luffy. I barely managed to save him from drowning, but we were swept away by an underwater current. I think I black out from there. Then, me and Luffy woke up on shore. It was freezing! Do you know how hard it was trying to stay warm in a cave?"

Robin rose an eyebrow. She was distinctively aware of how cold the water below was. If anything...they would have had to get naked and huddled together in order to survive such temperatures. She continued staring as the two talked about the crazy adventures they had the entire week. How had they managed? In a cave? She could have sworn that Nami couldn't stand Luffy worth her life. What had changed?

Nami smiled and looked around. "Who knew being away for a week would be so...weird. It feels good to be back but it's kind of foreign now that we're back."

"Ah," Luffy agreed, staring wide eyed at everything. "I'm sleepy," he commented with a yawn, "I'm ready for a shower and bed time."

"I completely agree," Nami said, "you can go first." She rested her chin on her palm as Luffy stood with another yawn. Everyone watched their exchanges with one another. Normally, Nami would jump at the chance to be the first one in the bath - today...it was different. Luffy hadn't asked so many stupid questions and...it was just weird. In fact, Luffy barely even spoke. True, he told them about all of their adventures, but that was about it. He didn't say anything about what he specifically did to get in a certain situation or how he had come across it. He simply said it - blunt and straight to the point.

Nami went to her room and waited for Luffy to get out of the shower. When he was done, she went in and took her shower before going back to her room and attempting to get to sleep. Nami laid in her bed for what seemed to be like hours. Robin had gone to the aquarium room to read and she wouldn't be back until morning. That's when she usually slept - early mornings. She tossed and turned but couldn't seem to fall asleep.

Meanwhile, in the mens' quarters, Luffy was rocking in his hammock, attempting to fall asleep, but it wasn't quite working like he expected it to. He had gotten used to having Nami sleeping sleeping curled up on his side or on his chest, with him hanging onto her. And when they woke up in the tree this morning...he suddenly wondered when he could get to taste that fruity taste again.

The sun sunk lower and lower in the sky and before they knew it, they were both being called for dinner. With a groan and a grumble, the two stumbled into the dining room and joined everyone for dinner. "So, Nami, do you think the log pose has set yet?"

Nami glanced at Sanji before looking down at the log pose. It had been a while since she even looked at the thing. She wouldn't be surprised if it was completely waterlogged. She looked at it - it had a crack near the side of it, close to the band. "I'm not sure if my log pose will work anymore..."

"Yosh!" Luffy suddenly exclaimed, "Another adventure!"

"Ah," Sanji said with a nod, "the best we can do is stock up on as much as possible and then set sail."

"Cook-san is right," Robin said in agreement, "once we are completely stocked, we can set sail in a random direction. If we come across an island, we may as well pick up a new log pose."

"Ah," Zoro said, "and if we come across some random pirates, Nami can just go steal one."

Nami rolled her eyes. Of course the swordsman would throw the girl in harm's way. Why not? "But, Nami!" Luffy suddenly said, and everyone turned to look at him with curiousness invading their expressions, "I wanna explore some more!"

Nami blinked, "I kinda' do, too," Nami said, "we haven't exactly seen the entirety of the whole island, but I want to continue exploring so I know exactly what to put on my map."

Everyone simply stared at the two. Something...weird was going on. It wasn't really...noticeable, but it was just...weird. "Oh, and Luffy wants to make this place our vacation getaway."

"Ah!" Luffy exclaimed, "It's so much fun here! I wanna' come back again when we want a vacation!"

"Okay," Franky said, "but where would you stay? So far, we haven't come across any signs of human habitation, so how's this gonna' be possible?"

"Well," Nami said, "on the other side of the island, there's a place to dock, more or less. A little ways in there's a huge stretch of land that's surrounded by trees. It's completely hidden and me and Luffy just happened to stumble across it by chance. No one would ever know it's there unless they were purposefully looking for it. The only thing about it, though, is that it's completely covered in snow, which would make it pretty difficult to build anything there."

"There is nothing too difficult that I can't build!" Franky said. He was so full of himself, but no one doubted his abilities.

"Then it's settled," Robin said with a smile, "we'll stay longer than intended. We'll make these cabins that Captain-san wants us to make and also allow Navigator-san to explore a little while longer."

"Yosh!" Luffy said. Man...he was really pushing it. He was so tired...but he didn't want the others to know that. He couldn't sleep a wink and it had been difficult for him to even keep his eyes closed!

Of course, Nami wasn't any better. She idly wondered why it was that she couldn't sleep. Maybe it was because she had gotten used to sleeping in rough places? Like the cave and the tree? Well...maybe not so much the tree...but the cave and their make shift shelter they had from the storm that blew over yesterday.

"Well, I am going to go read a while," Robin said, "it has been a long time since I've read my book and I want to catch up."

"I'm going to wash dishes and then head to bed," Sanji said, clearing the table already.

"I'm going to bed," Zoro said as he stretched and stood, walking to the mens' quarters.

"I'm going to go draw what I already know of the island," Nami said, following Zoro out the door. "I'll head to bed a little later."

"Me and Brooke are gonna' go finish my project!" Franky said enthusiastically while dragging a laughing Brooke along with him.

"I think I'm going to go to bed, too," Chopper said with a yawn, following everyone out the door.

This, of course, left Luffy and Ussop at the table, with Sanji coming and going to clear it. "Ah!" Luffy exclaimed, just when Ussop was about to speak, "I forgot to tell Nami something!" He rushed out the door before Ussop could say a word.

Ussop hung his head in defeat. "I guess that leaves me to keep a look-out," he sighed and dejectedly walked to the mens' quarters to grab him a blanket to keep himself warm while up in the crow's nest.

With Franky and Brooke down below, Zoro and Chopper sleeping, Sanji heading to sleep, Ussop keeping watch, and Robin reading in the aquarium room, things were rather quiet. There was only that brief moment of the kitchen door slamming shut, signaling Sanji's exiting of the kitchen and heading straight toward the mens' quarters.

Luffy was knocking on the door to Nami's room and when she called a quick, "Come in," Luffy walked in and shut the door behind him. Nami looked up from her desk and saw that Luffy had come in.

"Luffy," Nami said in surprise, "what's wrong?"

Luffy had a pout on his face. "I couldn't sleep today..." he mumbled and walked over to Nami's bed. Nami had decided to have a desk in her room where she could work near her bed. There was another bed in the room for whenever Robin wanted to sleep, but Nami never saw her sleep in it, not even once.

"You know," Nami said, capping her ink and setting her quill pen down, "I couldn't either." Luffy plopped down and put his arms beneath his head and placed his hat over his face.

Nami watched him for a moment before she stood up and walked over to her light. She went ahead and locked the door before walking over to her bed. She laid down beside him, covering both of them up with the blanket before Nami curled up on his chest with a small smile on her face. She wondered briefly if this was why neither of them could sleep. Before she knew it, Luffy had wrapped both of his arms around Nami and the two were fast asleep.

Okay, so...not much happened this chapter. But I plan on making the next chapter a little more interesting. (Grins evilly) I just thought I'd make this chapter a bit...blah...mostly because I'm being lazy and I don't want to rush my chapters. (God knows everybody would hate me if the whole story was turned into crap, right?) So, yeah, taking my time...Maybe I'll make the next chapter longer...who knows? If anyone wants something special to happen...let me know! I'll be more than happy to make it happen. (Wiggles eyebrows) But anyway...

The little scene with Luffy, Sanji and Nami was actually thrown in there on a whim. I figured some good jealousy-like things would be nice to put in. Maybe you guys can figure out my plan for the next couple of chapters. ^_~

OH, can you finish this sentence?: It's not okay _. (Just thought of doing this for a little fun. It's fun seeing all the different sentences that can start out like this!)

Anyway...review please!