1.3 My Family and Friends
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece
The moment she was reborn in this world, Nami knows everything isn't going to be exactly the same as last time. This is different, since she knew 'everything' that is going to happen. After all, a small gesture can change everything like a domino. And by that, she tried to help her adopted family by (somehow) secretly working at a part-time job at the village bookshop (plus, a modus to read some of the old cartography books that aren't sold anymore, if there is one).
And another thing, she learns to expect the unexpected. Such as an unknown person suddenly sends her a blue 'pipe' on a very random day, when she is around 9 or 10 years old.
And that blue 'pipe' is her beloved weapon, Clima-Tact.
How this unknown person able to have her 'partner' when she was suppose to have it 10 years laternin the future, she doesn't know. But who cares? This 'pipe' is her reminder of her beloved friends, no, third family.
"Maybe an early meeting didn't sound like a bad idea…" she mumbles as she cleans her Clima-Tact one day.
"Maybe, after…"
She glances at a sketchbook near her. The owner of the bookshop gladly gives her the book for her hard-working spirit and her constant drawing maps and pictures at papers and end up losing them.
Ever since she gets back here, Nami got a liking for drawing. Not just maps, she like drawing sceneries, animals, peoples. She mostly draws, you know, islands outside East Blue (the one that no one in East Blue ever expected, so they mostly thought that is just one of her imaginations), her friends, her crew animal friends, etc.
She flips the papers, smiling proudly at her drawings.
Shanbody…
Her crewmates…
Her fishmen and mermaids friends…
Her friends…
Koala-san…
She stopped at a moment. Trying to remember about her small conversation with her captain's sister-in-law.
"When I was at the Sun Pirates's ship, Arlog-san spent the entire time objecting my presence at the ship. He always attempt to beat or kill me for being a human. Well, I can't blame him for that…" the older woman said with a giggle.
"But Arlong stated that as long as Nami was fed and well-clothed, she was happy at his final moments in his fight with me!" Luffy said. Giving a very confused face.
"Hmm… I guess I have left a long-term impression to him. I had little much to my name and what made me happy was the things that I had missed while being a slave." She thought.
"Such as?"
"Nice clothes and suitable meals."
She smiled at the memory. Maybe she can ask Hatchan, no, Hachi about her. There's a chance that they still remember her.
When the Fishman Pirates is heading to Cocoyashi village, Hachi saw an orange-hair girl (kind of remind him like Koala) sitting at a tree branch with a sketchbook on her hand. She stared at them for a moment before greeting them politely.
"Hello mister! What make you came to my humble village?" she asked with a smile on her face.
He froze, no human ever smiled at him like that except Rayleigh-san, Shaky-san, or Koala before. He rubbed his neck for a moment, not knowing how to answer the simple question because of the kind gesture the girl gave to him.
"Well…"
It happens so fast Nami couldn't believe it. She manage to befriend with Hachi, and Hachi somehow able to convince Arlog to not to took over the village. She was glad, and could never stop thanking Hachi for a whole day.
And now here she is on a dingy she stole (Of course she stole it, old habits die hard). With her knowledge of navigating and Clima-tact, she's ready to go back to her third family's side.
'Wait for me, Luffy' she thought.
Though she's quite guilty for only leaving a note back home tough.
I'm sorry if it is bad. I'm having a hard time drawing the scene and thinking about the scenario. It's still a part of chapter 1 after all.
And I kinda like Sabo/Koala by the way